Lin'er waved her hands in a panic: "Mommy, I don't have it...I don't know what's wrong with this thing...I...I..."
"I knew your hands and feet were unclean, but I didn't know you dared to reach out to your masters' things!" Nanny Zhang sneered.
"I really didn't steal it!" Lin'er was at a loss. Grandma Zhang's eyes frightened Lin'er.
Ming Lanruo suddenly reached out and picked up the pair of plain silver gourd earrings, with a surprised look on her face: "Aren't these the earrings I missed the day before yesterday?"
Aunt Zhang knew that she had taken away all the valuable things Ming Lanruo had on her body, leaving only a pair of worthless plain silver gourd earrings.
She sneered at Lin'er: "Why, you don't know how the princess's earrings got into your pocket?"
Lin'er blushed. She didn't have any jewelry to wear during the New Year, so she simply stole Ming Lanruo's.
She didn't dare to ask this woman for it, but she didn't expect that today it would become evidence of her crime!
"Old Zhong, tie up this dirty little girl and find someone to sell her out. Our palace cannot tolerate such dirty things!" Grandma Zhang looked at Lin'er's guilty look and yelled angrily.
The middle-aged servant outside the door rushed in with a rope and dragged Lin'er out of the door.
"Mom, please spare me, I really didn't take anything from you..." Lin'er turned pale and cried as she was forcefully dragged away.
Ming Lanruo put the silver gourd earrings into Grandma Zhang's hand with a grateful look on her face: "Thank you, Grandma, for upholding justice!"
How could Nanny Zhang appreciate such a thing? She stuffed it back with a smile: "I've wronged you and Xiao Xi."
Xiao Xi stuck out her little head and blinked: "Mommy, Xiao Xi is very hungry. Can I eat meat tomorrow?"
The smile on Mammy Zhang's face froze, and she said reluctantly: "Okay, it's almost New Year's Eve. Tomorrow I'll ask the old man from the kitchen to go out and cut up the meat and cook it. There's still a cage of steamed buns in the kitchen today.
, I will ask Tingting to send it to you later."
Tingting is the little girl who serves Grandma Zhang.
After Ming Lanruo thanked her with a smile, she led Xiao Xi out and back to her room.
Tingting later brought a basket of steamed buns, and Minglan wanted to stuff two of them for her.
The little girl shook her head and refused to take it: "The young master is still young and he is so thin. Princess, please give it to him!"
After saying that, she touched Xiao Xi's head pitifully and ran away quickly.
Xiao Xi patted the place she touched unhappily and muttered: "Tingting is grandma Zhang's niece. She has no shortage of delicious food. Why should mother give it to her?"
Ming Lanruo rubbed his cheek: "Little fool, I want to give it to her just because she is Nanny Zhang's niece. That child is not a bad person, and it is a good thing that it can be convenient for us in the future."
Xiao Xi'er seemed to understand, and stuffed a small bun into Ming Lanruo's mouth: "Mom, eat, there will be meat to eat on the 30th tomorrow!"
Ming Lanruo smiled and held Xiao Xi'er on her knees, her eyes complex and cold.
This dilapidated palace has not as many people as a village village.
It was not difficult for her to secretly get the ring in Aunt Zhang's dressing box, and it was also not difficult for her to put it into Lin'er's pocket by bumping into her.
However, even if they find a way to get rid of Lin'er, who has been bullying her and Xiao Xi, it will only make their mother and son's situation a little better recently.
What next?
Ming Lanruo sighed secretly, she had to think of something else.
Grandma Zhang was eating brown sugar cakes in the Nuan Pavilion. When she saw Lao Zhong come in, she took a handful of brown sugar cakes and threw them to Tingting and sent her out.
"When will Chunxiang Pavilion come to collect people?" Granny Zhang asked Lao Zhong to sit down.
Lao Zhong sat opposite Granny Zhang and threw a few brown sugar cakes into his mouth: "Tomorrow afternoon, the Madam of Chunxiang Pavilion will take Lin'er away with twenty taels of silver, handing over the money in one hand and handing over to the person in the other."
Grandma Zhang frowned and cursed unhappily: "The embroidered handkerchief made by Ming Lanruo can be sold for eighty taels, how can a living yellow flower girl only have 20 taels."
Lao Zhong smiled and said, "It's not because Lin'er has a low status and is just a girl. If you want Ming Lanruo to accept guests, it will cost you twenty taels a night!"
Grandma Zhang was stunned: "How can Ming Lanruo be so valuable if she has given birth to a child?"
Lao Zhong narrowed his eyes and smacked his mouth with an obscene look on his face: "What's wrong with giving birth? No matter how beautiful the baby in your brothel is, she is still a prostitute. It's rare for a princess to be a prostitute, not to mention she was so beautiful!"
"What's the matter, you're worried about a bitch who gave birth to a wild child?" Nanny Zhang frowned and reached out to twist his ears.
Lao Zhong hissed in pain, quickly stretched out his arms to hug her fat waist, and coaxed: "Oh, what I'm saying is that although she is a bitch, she is good-looking and can pick up customers and make us a lot of money. Otherwise, Ming Lanruo
With that little salary every year, how many bets can you make?"
Only then did Grandma Zhang let go of her hand angrily: "Humph, I'm sorry you don't dare to have other thoughts."
Aunt Zhang was fond of gambling, which made the palace's expenses extremely tight.
Lao Zhong lowered his head and rubbed his ears, his cloudy eyes flashed lustfully: "The princess is a whore, who among the rich would not want to have sex with her? We want to make a fortune!"
Minglan Ruona's figure and appearance are much more exciting than this old guy. When the time comes, he will also have a taste of her!
Nanny Zhang sat on his lap, a little hesitant: "Although she is a ghostly married princess and is imprisoned, she is on the royal jade plate and has passed the open road. Why can she do this? What if she is discovered?
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Lao Zhong smiled sinisterly: "What are you afraid of? After all, everyone in the capital knows that if Minglan is a bitch who got pregnant out of wedlock, it's natural that this little bitch can't stand the loneliness and hooks up with men for prostitution!"
Nanny Zhang's eyes also lit up: "Yes, she is a shameless prostitute. What does she have to do with the servants of our palace?"
Lao Zhong frowned: "But if we ask Ming Lanruo to work as a prostitute to make money, will she be willing? She is the daughter of the Ming family after all."
"Put some medicine to knock her out, let a man sleep with her, and then put that bastard Xiao Xi in our hands. How dare she refuse to accept guests? Besides, Ming Guogong has already severed ties with her!"
Aunt Zhang snorted disapprovingly.
She narrowed her slender and sinister eyes: "The direct daughter of the Ming family, and she has the status of a princess, will definitely be fetched at a good price. You ask Chunxiang Pavilion to secretly spread the word to a few wealthy people and raise the price!"
Lao Zhong patted his thigh and said excitedly: "Okay!"
The two came to an agreement and got on the kang passionately.
But the two of them didn't know that Tingting outside the door was holding a handful of brown sugar cakes and sitting sluggishly under the wall, her face turned pale as she listened.
The next day, on New Year's Eve, the snow became lighter, but the cold wind blew fiercely.
Ming Lanruo posted the velvet window grilles that she had carefully collected in previous years.
After being imprisoned for all these years, this is the only taste of the New Year.
The old man in the kitchen asked Tingting to bring a bowl of braised pork and a bowl of cabbage dumplings, which are the New Year's Eve dishes.
Xiao Xi'er held up a handful of peanuts and handed them to Tingting, saying in a sweet voice: "Sister Ting, here, Xiao Xi has been hiding these for a long time."
The little maid looked at the little baby with big cat-like eyes, and her eyes turned red inexplicably.
She touched his little head, turned to look at Ming Lanruo, and whispered: "Princess, Lin'er was sold to Chunxiang Pavilion."
Throwing these meaningless words, the little maid turned around and ran away.
Ming Lanruo looked at her back and couldn't help but be stunned.
It stands to reason that Lin'er is not a child born in the family, so if Nanny Zhang wants to sell her, she can only sell it to a man named Yazi to do cool labor, and she cannot be sold into a brothel!
How dare Grandma Zhang do this?
Tingting... why did you tell her this?!
Ming Lanruo tightened her palms holding the handkerchief. After all, she had lived two lifetimes and instinctively smelled the smell of danger.