222: Siege the city step by step
Chu Jingyue was very tired of staying at the Duke's Mansion. Not long after lunch, he took Shen Qingxi back to Prince Liang's Mansion.
When Shen Qingxi came back, the Duke's Mansion gave her a car-load of welcome gifts!
The news spread throughout the entire imperial city in an instant. Who wouldn't say that the Duke's mansion was rich and powerful? He was so capable of handling this concubine's second lady!
Everyone is looking forward to the spectacular scene when the eldest daughter of the Duke's family gets married!
After returning to Prince Liang's Mansion, Chu Jingyue left Shen Qingxi and left.
Shen Qingxi was in a good mood today, but she didn't bother to ask about Chu Jingyue's whereabouts.
She took several maids with her and ordered the door-returning ceremony to be pushed into her yard.
I deliberately picked a time when there were many people and opened the box with great fanfare!
"Open all the boxes for me, Princess! Pick some and put them in the small warehouse, and then pick some and give them as rewards. Everyone present will have a share!"
Shen Qingxi was in high spirits, with a hint of arrogance in her eyebrows.
The servants were originally unconvinced, but when they heard about the last time, they all cheered!
"The princess is so generous!"
"That's right, thank you Princess Liang!"
"Thank you, Princess!"
…
Hearing the voices of thanks from all over the courtyard, Shen Qingxi felt extremely grateful.
The maid quickly opened the box. There were five large boxes in total. Shen Qingxi estimated that they should be very valuable.
After opening the first box, there were some ordinary pieces of cloth, silk and satin. There were probably more than twenty pieces of cloth in a full box.
Shen Qingxi looked a little disappointed, but so much silk and satin was still a large sum of money.
That makes sense...
"Keep driving."
Shen Qingxi looked at the four boxes behind her with a hint of uneasiness in her eyes.
The maid looked at her master's face and had no choice but to bite the bullet.
The second box contains some top noodles, which are all available in the market. A dozen of them are worth a few hundred taels.
Shen Qingxi's face was a little confused: "Open the next three boxes together!"
The maids did not dare to delay and opened the boxes one after another.
But in the end, the cash that came out of the five big boxes was only five or six hundred taels.
Shen Qingxi's face turned green!
Why is there such a big box of five or six hundred taels of cash!
That's because the boxes are all filled with broken silver! Outsiders can't tell that these five big boxes are worth at least tens of thousands of taels of silver or gold.
But I didn’t expect that all the things together were only worth two to three thousand taels of silver!
The servants all looked at each other in shock, and almost the entire servants of Prince Liang’s Mansion came!
Originally, there were only a dozen servants gathered here, but when they heard that the princess had a reward, everyone from the front hall to the backyard, including those who cleaned the house, helped in the kitchen, served tea and poured water, or did odd jobs, all came!
In total, there are nearly a hundred people...
Shen Qingxi was so angry that her head hurt.
"princess……"
The maids didn't know what to do. After all, the princess had already said before that the reward for the servants would be shared by everyone who saw it.
"reward."
Shen Qingxi's molars hurt from clenching her back teeth.
The maid had no choice but to reward all the servants as she said before.
However, Shen Qingxi had previously planned to reward each servant with one tael of silver. She thought that with so many homecoming gifts, she would reward dozens of servants with only a few dozen taels of silver.
However, these two taels of silver were a large sum of money to those servants.
At the moment, Shen Qingxi only has five or six hundred taels of cash, so she has to save some money...
It just so happened that the box contained broken silver, so what the servants got was only a few hundred cents per person.
Those people who were in high spirits waited for so long, and finally got only a few hundred coins. Some people's faces turned ugly for a while.
What's more, my heart is filled with contempt.
"Tch! If you can't afford it, don't reward her. I feel so shabby for her!"
"Who says it's not the case? In the afternoon, the whole imperial city was spreading rumors that Princess Liang had brought so many homecoming gifts!
That’s all the result!”
"Who knows if she is hiding it secretly?"
"It's just a waste of excitement."
"Okay, okay! If you don't say a few words, you will get hundreds of dollars in vain, right?"
…
A group of servants walked away muttering, and the courtyard instantly became quiet.
"princess……"
Several maids were too scared to move, and the princess's expression now seemed as if she wanted to eat them alive.
"Hurry up and move your things into the house!"
Shen Qingxi is almost dying of grief. Why put such a small amount in the private treasury?
Just put it in the house, no one will take it!
"yes."
The maids did not dare to neglect, and hurriedly carried the boxes into the house with great difficulty, and fearing that the princess would be angry, they placed the boxes next to the cabinet.
Shen Qingxi entered the house and didn't see those unsightly boxes, and she felt a little better. It's the so-called out of sight, out of mind.
In addition, in the private room on the top floor of the most prosperous flower building in the imperial city.
Chu Jingyue leaned slantedly on Shaoyao, sipping the wine in the cup carefully.
"It is said that all good wines are in the palace. In my opinion, only your peach blossom wine can be considered a real fine wine!
The mellow aroma in the mouth is endless and the aftertaste is endless..."
As Chu Jingyue spoke, he didn't know how to control his hands, and raised and lowered his hands on the peony.
Shaoyao also enjoyed it very much and did not stop Chu Jingyue.
"Your Majesty... I have the unique secret recipe for peach blossom wine.
If the prince wants to drink it, I can keep brewing it for you."
Shaoyao lowered his head and pressed towards Chu Jingyue...
The singers present twisted their voluptuous figures and wanted to take the opportunity to get closer to King Liang.
The King of Liang is high above. Anyone who climbs the high branch of King Liang can fly to the branch and become a phoenix!
Isn’t this how Oiran Peony got into Prince Liang’s Mansion?
How could Shaoyao not know what these people were planning?
So, when the singers and dancers swayed over, she lowered her head and kissed Chu Jingyue's lips.
The women had anger in their eyes, but they did not dare to say anything.
"Your Majesty...I've been looked down upon so much here. When will I be taken back again..."
Chapter completed!