Chapter 55: Twenty taels of silver
Chu Yuntian is a very arrogant person, which is completely different from his cold-hearted younger brother.
Because he knew that this matter was just a misunderstanding, Chu Yuntian left after apologizing happily, but he didn't stay too long.
It's just that after Chu Yuntian came in, Bai Lichen's face was obviously a little more gloomy.
The aura around him made Danqing dare not step forward, and secretly hoped that Mu Qing would not continue to do these things to anger Bai Lichen.
Mu Qing didn't have such a plan, and after telling Xin'er to send Chu Yuntian away, he also got up and prepared to go back to the room.
Who knew that Bailichen's dull voice sounded behind him.
"What do you mean by this, being so intimate with a man in front of your husband?"
Even Bai Lichen himself didn't notice that the words he said had a strong sense of vinegar, as if he was very jealous because of Chu Yuntian's relationship.
Intimacy?
Mu Qing's eyebrows raised slightly, she felt that what she said was a little unreasonable, she just said a few words to Chu Yuntian, and she said it in front of this Bailichen, which became intimate?
"What the third prince said makes no sense." Mu Qing pretended to be a little aggrieved, and even touched his non-existent tears, "When I talked to Danqing, the attendant of His Royal Highness the Third Prince, wasn't he closer than General Chu, why didn't the Third Prince say it was intimate at that time." ”
Hearing this, Danqing's body trembled, and he almost lost half his life.
"The slave is terrified, master, the slave ......" he knelt on the ground.
How could Bai Lichen not hear that this was Mu Qing sarcastically saying what he said, and waved his hand to signal Danqing to get up.
"Didn't we make it clear about the previous matter?"
"To make it clear, it's just to make it clear, the appearance of this person today is no different from the appearance of the prince to me back then."
Mu Qing felt that her identity was not as good as Bailichen, but the relationship between the two was not a master and servant, and she was not anyone's private property.
Since becoming the third imperial concubine, Mu Qing thinks that he has never done anything to be sorry for Bai Lichen, and even brought back the jade pendant in order to avoid suspicion.
"I think I've never done anything to be sorry for Your Highness, and I ask Your Highness not to speak coldly to me because of your own speculation, if Your Highness really hates me, just find an excuse to send me away."
Mu Qing can see that as long as Bai Lichen finds a reason to send herself away and give a large sum of silver, she will naturally not have a word of complaint.
The reason why he is now involved in this imperial power struggle is because of Bailichen's relationship.
After saying this, he turned around and left the lobby, Bai Lichen wanted to say something, but in the end he didn't say anything.
"Your Highness...... The Third Imperial Concubine and General Chu should have nothing to do with each other, you must have misunderstood. ”
Danqing sees it clearly as an outsider, and he doesn't understand why his master can't understand it every time.
Hearing Danqing's words, he just closed his eyes slightly.
Bai Lichen has always been very calm and self-controlled, but every time he encounters something about Mu Qing, he always seems to be overly impulsive and uncalm.
Because of the endless cold war and disputes, the relationship between Bai Lichen and Mu Qing fell to the freezing point, and the two of them hardly talked much.
Mu Qing put all his thoughts on the shop.
The business of this jewelry shop is getting better and better, because the things sold in the Muqing shop are very good and cheap, so naturally many people come to buy them, and there are many old customers.
Today is the day when Mu Qing usually goes to the shop, but today she saw this person who would not appear here according to common sense, it was the maid cuckoo beside Mu Wan, and the cuckoo carefully chose something inside.
Recently, Mu Qing not only makes some ordinary jewelry to put in the shop, but also uses some more expensive materials to make some jewelry in order to open up the sales of those high-ranking ladies.
It attracted everyone to compete for it, and it became a small trend in the capital for a while, although it was not as popular as the jewelry of Mochizuki Pavilion among those high-status ladies.
Thinking about it, the Mu family is just a four-grade Shangshu, and Mu Wan's status is not surprising that he would want the jewelry here.
It's just that the owner of this shop is Mu Qing, and this matter is already known to everyone, Mu Wan must not have this face to come directly, so she sent her maid to sneak in.
"Ahem."
Mu Qing deliberately made a coughing sound, and sure enough, when the cuckoo saw Mu Qing's face, his frightened hands trembled, and the hairpin in his hand almost didn't catch it.
"See, I've seen the three imperial concubines."
The cuckoo reluctantly saluted her, and then the expression on his face was extremely entangled.
In the past, when Mu Qing was at home, although she was a second lady, her food and clothing were not as good as her eldest lady's maid, so even she was able to bully this so-called young lady.
Now that the sparrow has become a phoenix, she is still a little maid, but she can't be presumptuous.
"What's the matter, looking at me is the same as seeing any monster, can I still eat you?"
Mu Qing looked at the cuckoo in front of her with a smile, she didn't have such a trembling face when she bullied herself.
"Niangniang, she was scared, the most ruthless thing that bullied Niangniang was this cuckoo, in the winter before, she also deliberately soaked Niangniang's charcoal fire in water, and the mother got a cold."
Xin'er is most unaccustomed to people like cuckoos, so she doesn't have a good face when she looks at cuckoos, and she deliberately said what she had done before in front of cuckoos, which made cuckoo's face even paler.
"The third imperial concubine Niangniang, the slave maid was really confused for a while, and asked the maid to spare the slave maid, today the eldest lady wants the slave maid to buy jewelry, Niangniang, your jewelry is exquisite, many noble girls who play with the eldest lady have this hairpin, only the eldest lady has not ......"
Du Juan bit his lip, secretly hating himself for deliberately taking over this errand in order to please Mu Wan, but he didn't expect to meet Mu Qing so coincidentally, and now it can be regarded as the end.
"It's okay, this business, I naturally still have to do it, how can there be any reason not to do business, the past things, I will write off with you, after all, what this slave does, sometimes it is not all the meaning of the slave, are you right."
"Yes, yes, what the Third Imperial Concubine said is true!" His eyes lit up, and he understood the meaning of Mu Qing's words, and the cuckoo nodded busily, betraying his master.
"It's Miss Mu Wan who can't see Miss Mu Qing, so she frequently instructs the slave to do those things, and the slave really didn't mean it......"
Mu Qing heard that the cuckoo in front of her was just deceiving her, but she still didn't say anything, and only picked up the ruby hairpin that Mu Wan wanted.
Although this hairpin is made of rubies, but the number on it is not much, at most five taels of silver can be bought, the cuckoo has followed his master for many years, and naturally he can see the value of this hairpin, and immediately wants to pay for it.
But Mu Qing playfully pushed the silver back.
"This hairpin, but it's one of the best-looking hairpins in our shop, if my sister likes it, I naturally can't cut my love, but ......what is the price?"
The cuckoo looked a little embarrassed, and now Mu Wan came out and gave her a small amount of silver, so she thought about buying a hairpin to go back, which went to five taels of silver, and she could secretly take some of it, but if Mu Qing's price was too high......
"Since my sister likes it, how about twenty taels of silver."
Mu Qing looked at the cuckoo with a smile and tripled the price of the hairpin in his hand.
"What, twenty taels of silver! Third Imperial Concubine Niangniang, you, you can't deceive the slave like this! ”
The cuckoo's eyes widened.
"Bold, it's already your blessing that the Three Imperial Concubines are willing to sell you this hairpin, who gave you the courage to say these disrespectful words to the Three Imperial Concubines here!"
Xin'er was a lot angry in the hands of the cuckoo, and now she naturally wants to raise her eyebrows.
The cuckoo was deflated and did not dare to resist.
"However, I said that the twenty taels of silver, but this money does not have to be given to me......"
Mu Qing blinked and gently placed the hairpin in Du Juan's hand.
"As long as you are sensible, obedient, and understand the current situation, I believe you will make the right judgment."
At first, she didn't react, she was slightly surprised, and soon Du Juan's face showed a look of ecstasy, and she called out 'Thank you Third Imperial Concubine Niangniang' and returned to the Mu family.
"Miss, you might as well not sell that hairpin to the eldest lady, and let the eldest lady be embarrassed in front of those noble girls!"
Xin'er was very dissatisfied and snorted coldly at the back of the cuckoo leaving.
"Okay, this money is not earned, and I am not stupid, if it weren't for the fact that this cuckoo is a person who will come to things, I will not give up the twenty taels of silver to win her over." Mu Qing counted his own losses today, and sighed secretly in his heart, "If it is an honest maid like you who comes today, I will already have these twenty taels." ”
"Miss is joking with the slave again!"
Her heart flushed, obviously a little unconvinced.
The master and servant talked for a while, and when they saw that there was nothing unusual in the shop, they returned to the Three Princes' Mansion, what she didn't know was that a few guards guarding the door had already reported this scene to their own general.
Chu Xuanling put down the military book in his hand.
Since he came back from the expedition, he felt very strange, this Mu Qing was originally such a timid and cowardly person, but how could he do such a thing now.
If it weren't for the fact that he didn't believe in the ghosts and gods at all, I'm afraid he would have thought that Mu Qing had been possessed by those unclean things.
"In that case, just keep looking at the shop, as long as you ensure the safety of the shop, you don't have to interfere in other things."
"Yes."
The person who bowed down answered, and went down respectfully.