Chapter 59
I don't know if it's because the princess and princess tolerated Su Nianjin's "arrogance", the servants of the Four Princes' Mansion treated the people in Luoqiu Courtyard a lot better.
No, it didn't take much effort for Wanxiang to find out what she wanted.
"Master, the slave maid heard from the purchasing steward that the princess cut the use of the palace a few days ago, and even unsubscribed from the original order of several sets of jewelry and a batch of ice cubes." Wan Xiang returned to Luoqiu Courtyard with a confused face, things were going so smoothly that she couldn't believe it.
"Oh?" Su Nianjin was a little unsure whether the Four Princes' Mansion was really short of silver or whether Long Zeyan wanted to take the opportunity to test her, "It may be that you suddenly don't like the predetermined jewelry, but it's so hot this day, and the dog days haven't arrived yet, so the princess will withdraw the ice cubes, which is a bit unreasonable." "After all, consumables like ice cubes are used in a fixed number, and if they are not needed, the princess will not book them in advance.
"Master, what are you going to do?" Wan Xiang looked at Su Nianjin's expression and knew that she had an idea.
"This is not Quzhou City, and the management of ice cubes is relatively strict, so we have nowhere to start." Expensive supplies like ice cubes, which cost a lot of manpower and financial resources and had to be prepared from late autumn, Su Nianjin really couldn't think of a way for a while.
"What does the master mean to start with the jewelry that the princess has booked?" Wanxiang was a little puzzled, "Although there are not a few sets of jewelry, but the princess's clothes seem to be piled up with silver, no, to be precise, some can't be bought with silver, and it is difficult for the master to start from this aspect, right?" ”
Su Nianjin shook her head, "Didn't you just say that the princess had cut the use of the palace?" Let's start with that. ”
"How?" Nightshade looked dazed.
"The palace is short of silver now, and we can't open it up in a short time, so we can only throttle." Su Nianjin had a plan in his heart, "Tomorrow, let's dress up and secretly follow the steward of the palace to find out." Let's see how much the palace spends on daily purchases, and whether you can "save" some of it. ”
"Is that possible? There should be shops that come and go all the time, and there shouldn't be much moisture in it, right? Wan Xiang said worriedly, "Besides, the palace is so tightly managed, can we quietly get out of the mansion?" ”
"We can leave the house openly!" The corners of Su Nianjin's mouth curved, no matter whether this matter was Long Zeyan pretending to be a maze to test himself, he should be very short of silver. Also, the emperor punished him, and the entourage in front of him, who hated him, disappeared for several days and didn't know what task to do. It's just that the expression of the fourth prince in the study just now was really a little bluffing, and he thought that he didn't need himself!
Or was he so confused by his skin that he couldn't figure out what he really thought?
On the second day, Su Nianjin and Wanxiang dressed up as old women, and swaggered out of the house with the purchasing steward.
"Master, what you said before is right, there is really no one to stop us!" Wan Xiang was a little surprised, the porter and the guards of the palace seemed to treat them as air, and didn't even ask them, "Why is this?" ”
"What else? Naturally, the master spoke! Su Nianjin's eyes kept staring at the purchasing steward, "Let's go, let's move quickly, don't lose it!" ”
Not far behind Su Nianjin, Song Yuheng looked at the direction Su Nianjin left and was stunned, "Master, what are you looking at?" ”
"Le Yan, I seem to hear Nian Jin's voice!" However, because the voice was too small, Song Yuheng couldn't find out the source of the sound, and could only judge a general direction.
Although Le Yan didn't understand why the master thought that Miss Su was still alive, it was obviously he who personally found her body from the ruins. But the master finally cheered up, and Le Yan didn't want to hit him, "Miss Su looks like a country and a city, if she is really in this crowd, she must be the focus of attention and cause a sensation, the master should have heard it wrong, right?" ”
"Really?" Song Yuheng didn't believe it, and finally heard a voice similar to Su Nianjin, and he stubbornly thought that he had heard it correctly.
"Master, the eldest young master has sent a letter urging me several times, let's go back to the Song Mansion first to report the safety of the eldest young master!" Le Yan persuaded him, "Lord Hou and Mrs. They have been in the capital a month early, and they are all looking forward to you going to see the emperor's new reward of Jingyuan Mansion." ”
Under the back and forth of Song Yuyao, the eldest young master of the Song family, the emperor's attitude towards the Jingyuan Marquis Mansion improved a little, allowing them to return to Beijing, not to mention, and rewarding a mansion to show his favor. After seeing the holy decree, the Marquis of Jingyuan immediately asked his subordinates to pack their bags and couldn't wait to move his family into the capital.
Song Yuheng was dissatisfied with Mrs. Song's unauthorized decision to withdraw from his marriage with Su Nianjin, and he had a deep grudge against Mrs. Song, so he did not go on the road with the Song family.
He first went to the Su family's grave to worship, and then went to the Su house, which was already in ruins, to stay for a while (the Su house was guarded by Song Yuheng before, so it is still the appearance after being burned), and I don't know what he found in the ruins this time, his spirit was lifted, and he insisted that Su Nianjin was still alive.
"You go back to the house to report your safety, saying that I am still a little depressed, and I want to go around the capital first to relieve my mood." Song Yuheng didn't want to miss any clues, so he decided to find out whose voice he had just heard.
"Will your subordinates go with you?" Le Yan was a little uneasy.
"No, I can do it myself." Song Yuheng shook his head, what if there were too many people and scared Nian Jin away? "Remember, you are not allowed to reveal the fact that Nian Jin is still alive, especially the people in the house!"
As soon as Song Yuheng finished speaking, he chased in the direction from which the rushing voice came. God, I'm willing to trade half of my life for Nian Jin to be alive, please, let me find her, okay?
Su Nianjin didn't know that Song Yuheng found out that she was not dead, and was still looking for her. After she and Wanxiang followed the steward of the Four Princes' Mansion to run around the capital for a long time, they finally figured out where the daily expenses of the Four Princes Mansion were spent.
"Master, there must be something wrong with this purchase, obviously the same quality of grain, oil, rice, noodles and meat and vegetables, he chooses the most expensive one to buy!" Wanxiang was a little dumbfounded, "It seems that the silver in the palace is not silver, and this heart is too dark!" ”
"Buying is a fat shortage, the palace is more strictly reviewed, if you don't scrape some oil and water outside, it will not be so easy to enter the palace, but it can be understood." The situation was not bad from what she expected, and Su Nianjin already had confidence in her heart. "I remember that Gan Ji, who had dealings with our Su family firm before, did a lot of business in the capital, right?"