This was an incredible sleep, and I slept until noon the next day.
By the time Luo Jiuli woke up, washed up, and finished eating, it was already late.
There was a thick stack of silver notes on the table. Luo Jiuli counted them and found a total of fifty thousand taels.
"Have people from Prince An's Mansion been here?"
On the side, Chunrong replied while packing her things:
"Well, I came here early in the morning before dawn, so sneaky and shady."
Luo Jiuli sneered.
"A slap of fifty thousand taels. I wonder if Princess An can remember this lesson."
The master and servant were talking, and outside the door, they saw two servants following the housekeeper. The servant came in carrying a wooden box in his hand.
Luo Jiuli was surprised.
"What's this?"
"Go back to Miss Second, this is what Qin Wu's guard from the Ninth Prince's Palace sent here. He said yes and what kind of pot it is."
"pot?"
Luo Jiuli thought for a while.
“Copper hotpot.”
"Yes, yes, that's what Qin Wu said."
The butler nodded repeatedly.
Luo Jiuli was in a great mood when he heard that the copper hot pot was coming out.
"Quick, open it and take a look."
The two servants had already opened the wooden box, and inside it was a pot with smooth, clear patterns and a unique shape.
Luo Jiuli surrounded the wooden box and carefully looked at the copper hotpot inside.
"It looks like, it really looks like."
"Miss, what is this for?"
The housekeeper felt strange, not only about the pot he had never seen before, but also about the weird mind of his own lady.
"For shabu-shabu."
"Butler, do we have any ready-made carbon in our house?"
The butler nodded.
"Yes, it will be stored every year."
"That's good."
Luo Jiuli nodded, asked Chunrong to prepare pen and ink, wrote most of the paper eloquently, and then handed the paper to the housekeeper.
"Send someone to prepare the ingredients according to the ingredients written on the paper."
The housekeeper took the paper and looked down at it.
"yes."
Immediately, he took two servants out of Fuquyuan.
Within half a cup of tea, Luo Jiuli also left the Duke's Mansion with Chun Rong.
Qin Wuyi, who was following him in the dark, saw that the carriage from the Duke's Palace was going in the direction of the Ninth Prince's Palace, and he couldn't help but shudder.
The prince left the capital early in the morning and went to Liyang. I am afraid that he has already passed the capital boundary.
When the prince was leaving, he specially asked him to return to his residence and asked him to follow the second lady closely during this period to ensure the safety of the second lady.
But now that the second young lady is going to the Ninth Prince’s Mansion, is it possible—
At the entrance of Jiuwang Mansion, the housekeeper had been waiting for a long time.
Early this morning, before dawn, the prince told him to wait patiently at the door of the mansion for Miss Luo Er to arrive, and there was no way he could tell Miss Luo Er the whereabouts of the prince.
Sure enough! He waited from the sunrise to the middle of the sun, and finally waited until the second lady arrived.
"Miss Luo Er."
The butler descended the steps and showed great respect.
"Where is the prince?"
Luo Jiuli opened the curtain and was about to get out of the car.
The housekeeper said hurriedly:
"The prince has received the emperor's order and has gone to the capital to do some work."
"Going to Beijing on business?"
Luo Jiuli frowned and said subconsciously.
"Your Majesty, are you avoiding me on purpose?"
The housekeeper swallowed inexplicably.
"What are you talking about, Miss Second? It's really the Emperor's will. Your Majesty took Qin Yin and left the capital before dawn."
"In such a hurry? Leaving Beijing before dawn?"
"yes."
The housekeeper nodded hurriedly.
"Then, did the prince leave a message for me?"
Luo Jiuli asked again without giving up. She didn't believe that with Xiao Mingxuan's astuteness, he wouldn't know that she was interested in what happened last night.
The butler nodded.
"The prince asked his subordinates to tell the second young lady, please eat well and sleep well these few days, and don't think wildly."
Luo Jiuli lowered his eyes slightly and thought to himself, it seems that Xiao Mingxuan did know what she was thinking, so he left such a sentence.
But he didn't tell her to come back and tell her the truth, which made her feel a little disappointed.
"Okay then, I'll go back home first."
The butler salutes.
"Congratulations to the second lady."
The carriage creaked and left the Nine Princes' Mansion in a moment.
After the carriage left, the housekeeper turned around and returned to the house. In the dark, Qin Wu breathed an inexplicable sigh of relief.
When Luo Jiuli returned to Fuquyuan, it happened that the Duke's wife also came to look for her.
"Mother."
Luo Jiuli stepped forward and held his mother's arm.
"Are you out of the house?"
The Duke's wife looked at her.
"Um."
Luo Jiuli nodded.
The Duke's wife noticed the disappointment on her face in a subtle way. She originally wanted to ask, but her mind changed slightly. Since she didn't say anything, as a mother, there was no reason to force her to say it.
"Mom has something to tell you."
Luo Jiuli nodded and poured a cup of tea himself.
Mrs. Guogong signaled to Aunt Xu who was beside her. Aunt Xu understood and stepped forward. Only then did Luo Jiuli notice that Aunt Xu was holding a small lacquered red wooden box in her hand.
Aunt Xu placed the small wooden box and the key in front of Luo Jiuli.
"Mother, what is this?"
Luo Jiuli looked at the two things in front of him with some confusion.
The Duke of Guo said:
"Didn't you tell your mother before that you wanted to open a restaurant? Here are the title deeds and house deeds of a shop facing the street in the inner city. It happened that the renter had something to do at home and returned the rent, and my mother wanted to take it back to you.
It is used for opening a restaurant, and it saves you the trouble of looking for shops everywhere."
Luo Jiuli was startled and looked at his mother in disbelief.
She thought that she had thoroughly understood the inside and outside of the Duke's palace, and that her father had no extra gold or silver except for the salary and the emperor's reward.
Co-author, the real rich man in the Duke's mansion is not her father, but her mother.
Thinking about it, if such a large government government really relied on her father's salary, the whole family would not be able to drink from the northwest wind.
However, what Luo Jiuli doesn't know is that the housekeeper in the house only controls the small expenses of going in and out of the house, while the real large income and expenditure are in the hands of the mistress of the house.
"Mom, the shops facing the streets in the inner city are making a lot of money every day, but the renters just want to back out?"
As he said that, he looked at Aunt Xu.
"Aunt Xu, please tell the truth. Is it because the store was abandoned voluntarily or because mother gave me extra compensation?"
Aunt Xu glanced at her second young lady in embarrassment, and then at the frowning wife.
"Second Miss, since Madam knew that Second Miss took Chun Rong to find the shop, she has already started to take back the shop."
This was very clear, and it could be regarded as an answer to Luo Jiuli's question.
"Mother."
Luo Jiuli was moved from the bottom of his heart.
"Silly boy, the beloved son of his parents has a far-reaching plan. Now you have learned a lesson and learned a lesson, and your mother can trust you and leave everything to you."
Luo Jiuli shook his head and held his mother's hand.
"Mom, that shop is in the inner city and faces the street. I can't take it because it's so expensive. Mother should keep it for my eldest brother so that my second brother can get married in the future."
Upon hearing this, the Duke's wife's face changed slightly and she held her hand hard.
"Jiu'er, you still care about what Mrs. Hu and the others say, don't you?"