Chapter 470: To borrow, or not to borrow
He is the prince of a dignified country, how can he be embarrassed to open this mouth.
Isn't the prince afraid that others will know and laugh at him and gossip?
He Chu Ao is just a small official in the imperial court, while the crown prince is the future king of a country.
What's more, his daughter also has a marriage contract with the crown prince and is about to get married.
Under such a relationship, the prince actually asked him to borrow money, which is really unbelievable and unheard of!
Besides, thinking that he had been insulted and paid such a big price, and finally bought an invitation to have the opportunity to participate in today's auction, the prince was so cheeky to borrow money from him.
The prince himself asked him to borrow money, and he looked at him with such a calculating expression, thinking that the amount must not be too small.
If you can't buy what you like because you lent your money to the prince, isn't it for nothing?
But the prince has already spoken in person, how can he escape this matter?
Could it be that he directly rejected the prince and told him that he was unwilling to lend him money?
In such a situation, he couldn't refuse!
Borrow, he is uncomfortable, and his wife will definitely not forgive him when he returns home.
After all, this is the money, but he and his wife have planned all the savings up to now, if it weren't for the fact that they were going to participate in this auction, the lady would not have handed it all over to him!
When he returned, he would let his wife know that not only had he bought nothing, but that he had not yet bought the money......
The consequences are that I am afraid that life is better than death.
But if you don't borrow it, the prince, who is more noble than him but has such a small belly, will definitely find a way to take revenge on him and disgust him, which will only make him more uncomfortable.
Moreover, the holy decree has been issued, and his daughter is about to marry the crown prince and become the prince's side concubine.
At this time, he offended the prince, how could his daughter have a good life when she got married?
In this way, he does not borrow, nor does he borrow.
Now I am not Zhu Bajie looking in the mirror, and I am not a person inside and out?
At this moment, Chu Ao regretted that he had sworn so much just now.
He can really help with borrowing money, after all, the prince knows that he has money!
But this busy, let's be honest......
He didn't want to help at all!
But now that the prince has opened his mouth to him, what should he do!
Suddenly, Chu Ao's eyes rolled, and then he covered his chest and kept pumping, and his whole face was full of pain.
In this way, he frightened the prince who was standing aside waiting for his answer.
Even the people standing near him were disturbed by his actions and cast puzzled glances at him.
Fortunately, Chu Ao and the prince stood closely, and the two of them spoke very lowly, and the people next to them could only see Chu Ao holding his chest with a painful expression, but they didn't know what the prince and Chu Ao were talking about.
At this time, the auction of this Qiong Liquid Essence had officially begun, and they didn't care what these two people were talking about sneakily!
And the prince looked at Chu Ao like this, and for a moment he couldn't figure out what was going on.
Could it be that this old guy is pretending to be sick in order to escape borrowing money for himself?
But he looks too real like this, and he doesn't look like he's pretending!
Moreover, if Chu Ao, an old guy, pretended to be sick, he only needed to send an imperial doctor to diagnose and treat him to find out the clues.
If he really had the courage to pretend to be sick in front of him and deceive himself to avoid lending him money, once he found out, he would have to go around without Chu Ao being able to eat.
Although he has not officially ascended the throne yet, for Chu Ao, he will soon be the emperor of the White Tiger Country, and at that time, the crime of bullying the monarch is not a joke!
With the two of them having been in contact for so long, Chu Ao must also know what price he would pay if he dared to deceive himself.
Besides, he didn't want to avoid this matter and didn't participate in this auction today, right?
Unless he's right on the ground right now and he's been carried out of the Starlight Auction House.
Otherwise, as long as Chu Ao wants to stay and continue to participate in the auction, no matter how he pretends to be sick, he will get better in the end.
Otherwise, how could he continue to participate in the auction?
For a while, the prince looked at Chu Ao's untrue but extremely painful appearance and didn't know how to react.
Actually, Chu Ao really didn't pretend to be sick.
It's just that he released the tremendous pain he endured today.
You must know that since they were injured by Chu Qianli with a palm yesterday, Chu Ao and his wife have felt a burning pain all over their bodies.
The feeling of pain was not so strong when he was first injured, and he just thought that Chu Qianli was just a fist embroidered leg and beat himself out of some skin wounds.
But the more time passed, the more he felt that something was wrong.
He had obviously taken a pill to heal his wounds and relieve pain, but the pain became more and more obvious and intense, so that he could barely bear it in the end.
It wasn't until sunrise this morning that he gritted his teeth and took a bath in ice water to relieve himself.
Before that, he felt like his whole body was going to be burned!
After taking a cold shower, he hurried to the auction.
At first, he didn't want others to see that he was injured, after all, for him, it was really a loss of face to be injured by Chu Qianli's little slut!
So even though the effect of the cold shower had worn off, he was in pain again, but he tried not to show it.
But at this time, he didn't care about these things......
Tell the truth, maybe the prince will save him a little money to buy healing pills.
After all, he had already eaten the healing pill that his father had collected for a long time yesterday.
If he couldn't buy the pill today, Chu Ao believed that this injury would kill him just by hurting!
The prince can't afford to waste his life just to borrow money!
So thinking of this, Chu Ao didn't care about face and no longer suppressed himself.
He gasped a few times hard, and said bitterly: "His Royal Highness the Prince, cough cough, the old minister really wants to lend money to His Royal Highness the Prince, as long as the old minister has it, let alone borrow, even if it is given to the prince, it doesn't matter!" It's just that the prince, you don't know, the money that the old minister brought on him today is really life-saving! ”
"Oh?"
Hearing this, the prince immediately narrowed his eyes, and uttered a distrustful syllable in an unkind tone, just waiting for Chu Ao to continue to explain.
In fact, no matter how Chu Ao answered, the prince didn't care, because no matter what high-sounding reasons Chu Ao said, the prince only felt that he was trying to perfunctory himself and was unwilling to borrow money.
After all, it's just a matter of borrowing or not borrowing a word, and it is too much of a coincidence that he chose to make such a look of dying or alive at this time!
But the prince still decided to listen to Chu Ao's explanation, he thought in his heart that if Chu Ao's explanation was a little perfunctory or made him hear any flaws, he would definitely make Chu Ao pay for his stupidity and stinginess!