Chapter 38: Dowry
Sure enough, when Qian heard what she said, his face darkened. Lu Qingyuan next to him was also so angry that he wrung his handkerchief, and his silver teeth were about to be crushed.
"Cough, Yang'er, these are all dowry gifts from the Mingwang Mansion, you can take a look, and then hand them over to your mother for safekeeping!" Lu Jue spoke at the right time, and was refuted as soon as his voice fell.
"No!" Yuan Quanquan looked directly at Lu Jue, and said with some amusement, "My dowry, why do you want others to keep it for me?" ”
Lu Jue was choked for a moment, glared and said, "What are these words!" Is your mother someone else? If you don't keep it for your mother, do you still want to keep it yourself? ”
Yuan Quanquan really smiled this time, "What's wrong with this?" Since it's a dowry for me, isn't it natural for me to keep it myself? ”
"You ......" Lu Jue was so angry that he stood up from his position, because there were outsiders there, it was inconvenient to get angry, and he forcibly suppressed the anger in his heart, "You are going to marry into the palace in half a month, and these dowry gifts should have been collected by your own mother for you, but your mother has passed away, and according to the rules, your mother-in-law will keep it on your behalf, do you have any opinion on this?" ”
"Yes, I have an opinion." Yuan Quanquan found an empty chair to sit on, took a leisurely sip of tea, and then spoke slowly, "Although my biological mother is gone, I am now an adult and have the ability to keep these things by myself, so I don't have to worry about my mother." Besides, my mother is in charge of the entire Prime Minister's Mansion, and there are a lot of things on weekdays, which is already busy enough, as a daughter, how can I dare to trouble my mother with this matter again! So, I'd better keep these things myself, so I don't have to worry about my mother. ”
These words are reasonable and sincere, and there is nothing wrong with them, so that people can't find fault with them.
However, some people are jealous of her and want to pick bones in eggs.
Lu Qingyuan's face was full of malice, and the words he spoke were prickly: "Heh, I have never heard of the dowry being collected by myself since ancient times, unless it is the absence of my parents." Why, you are so insistent on taking these things into your own hands, do you want to curse your father? ”
This is really far-fetched, and Yuan Quanquan wants to laugh again.
If she wants to swallow these dowry gifts given to her by King Ming, she will say directly, why do you have to beat around the bush like this? These people are so funny.
Yuan Quanquan glanced at Yan Jiu, who had been standing next to him as a wood, and asked with a smile: "Flame Guard, let me ask you, this is the dowry gift given to me by the prince, right?" ”
Yan Jiu replied honestly: "That's naturally. ”
Yuan Quanquan asked again: "That means that this is my thing, and I ...... It's the future princess Ming, the dignified princess, won't she even have the right to keep her own things, right? ”
Yan Jiu glanced at her and was very embarrassed: "Naturally not." You are the future princess of Ming, and as long as it belongs to you, you can dispose of it with full power. ”
Yuan Quanquan nodded with satisfaction, and turned his head to look at Lu Jue and Qian, "Did you hear that?" I am the future princess of Ming, and I have the right to dispose of my own things. Therefore, I will handle these dowry gifts myself, so I won't worry about you. ”
Without waiting for the others to speak, he waved his hand and issued an order very heroically: "Go, carry all these things to my yard." ”
As soon as Yan Jiu raised his arm, the mahogany boxes were covered one by one, and under the leadership of Xiao Zhi, they were carried to the small courtyard where the Yuan Circle was located in the north.
Although Lu Jue was angry, he was powerless to refute, so he had to sit on the chair and blow his beard and stare at him.
But Qian and Lu Qingyuan were so angry that their faces turned black, and their eyes stared at the Yuan Circle with resentment, eager to poke a hole in her body with their eyes.
Yuan Quanquan turned a blind eye, got up with a smile, saluted Lu Jue and the Qian family, and then turned around and left the front hall in a good mood and returned to her small courtyard.
Her small courtyard was small, and when these twenty-five large boxes were brought in, the originally empty courtyard immediately became crowded.
Yan Jiu stood in the courtyard, saw Yuan Quanquan coming back, stepped forward and said, "Miss Lu, all the things are here, and my subordinates will go back to resume their lives and say goodbye." ”
Yuan Quanquan smiled and waved his hand: "Mmmm, the flame guards have worked hard, go slowly!" ”
After Yan Jiu and the people carrying the boxes all left, Yuan Quanquan walked to the center of these boxes and opened one of them, all kinds of pearl necklaces, agate jade, jewelry. Even if the Yuan Quanquan doesn't understand jewelry, it can be seen that these things are valuable and good.
Xiao Zhi also looked straight when she came over, her mouth opened wide in amazement, and she was reluctant to move her eyes for a long time, "Miss...... How much are these things worth? ”
Yuan Huanhuan picked up a pearl necklace, looked at it in his hand, and put it back, "I don't know, it should be worth a lot of money." ”
Raising her eyes to look at the boxes in the courtyard, Yuan Quanquan suddenly became worried, where is she going to put so many things?
At most, she could put half of the room down, but where was she going to put the other half? You can't bury it in the yard, can you?
Sitting on a box, Yuan Quanquan rested his cheek with one hand, and began to think about what to do with her personal possessions.
After thinking about it for a long time, I suddenly had a flash of inspiration, haha, there is!
Yuan Quanquan beckoned Xiao Zhi to him and asked her, "Xiao Zhi, do you know which money bank in the capital is the best?" ”
Xiao Zhi wondered: "Qian Zhuang? The young lady asked Qian Zhuang what to do? ”
"Oh, don't ask, just tell me which is the best and most trustworthy money bank in the city."
Xiao Zhi couldn't guess her young lady's thoughts, so she replied honestly: "Well, if you want to say the best money bank, it must be Cai Ji Money Bank." ”
"Cai Ji Qian Zhuang?"
"Well, Cai Ji Qian Zhuang is the largest and oldest money village in the capital, there are semicolons all over the country, their money village has the most reputation, and it has a good reputation in our Dasheng Dynasty."
After pondering for a while, Yuan Quanquan made a decision: "Okay, that's it." ”
Xiao Zhi was still confused: "Miss, what are you going to do?" ”
Yuan Quanquan smiled and pointed to the mahogany boxes all over the yard: "Of course it's to exchange these things for money!" ”
Xiao Zhi's eyes immediately widened: "What? ”
Yuan Quanquan got down from the box, ignored her astonishment, clapped his hands and said, "Xiao Zhi, you are watching these things at home, I'll go out." ”
"Miss, what are you going to do?"
Yuan Quanquan didn't answer, and he walked out of the courtyard without looking back, and ran out of the Xiangfu as soon as he slipped through the smoke.
walked out of the Prime Minister's Mansion, casually found someone and asked the location of Cai Ji Qianzhuang, and the Yuan Circle quickly found a place.
It didn't take long for the Yuan Circle to come out of the bank. And that night, a group of people appeared at the back door of the Prime Minister's Mansion, and dozens of large boxes were transported out of the door.
"Miss, is this really okay?"
"Oh, what's not to do? These things were originally given to me, didn't Yan Jiu say it, I can dispose of it at will. ”
"But you can't ...... it"
"Oh, why do you talk so much, little girl? Alright, it's done, go back to sleep! ”
After a few moments, tranquility was restored.
The second yen circle slept until three poles of the sun, woke up and ate lunch directly, and took Xiaozhi to the street after a break after lunch.
I went to Cai Ji Money Village first, and Yuan Quanquan pulled all her dowry gifts into the money bank yesterday and exchanged them for cash deposits, and after doing some follow-up things at this time, she wandered around the street.
After shopping for most of the afternoon, Yuan Quanquan suddenly met an acquaintance who was not an acquaintance on the street.
It was Murong Zhen, whom he had just met yesterday.
Yuan Quanquan's eyes lit up, and he jumped towards the other party.
"Hey, Murong catches the head, it's a coincidence!"
Murong Zhen was still dressed in a crimson fast catcher suit, followed by two fast catchers in a hurry. Suddenly, a person jumped out in front of him to block the way, and he was startled, and he looked at it to see who it was.
"Miss Lu Er?" Murong Zhen was stunned for a moment.
Yuan Quanquan looked at him with a smile, and chatted with him naturally: "Why are you going?" ”
Yesterday's meeting with the Yuan Circle made Murong Zhen really curious about this Miss Lu Er, but at this time, he had something to do, so he didn't have the time to chat with her, so he simply replied: "I have official business to do, and I am not with him." Then he hurried away, looking really anxious.
Yuan Quanquan looked at the other party's distant figure and muttered: "Do you want to handle the case?" ”
Anyway, it's okay to be idle, but the Yuan Circle suddenly became interested, and as soon as he pulled Xiao Zhi, he followed excitedly, "Xiao Zhi, let's go, let's go and have a look." ”
Xiao Zhi hurriedly stopped her: "Miss, this is not appropriate, right?" ”
"If there's anything wrong, let's follow quietly and watch from a distance, and it won't hinder them."
After speaking, he didn't care about Xiao Zhi, and followed the three Murong Zhen in front of him.
followed Murong Zhen all the way to the north of the city, Yuan Quanquan hid behind a stall selling umbrellas, and looked at Murong Zhen and the others into a ...... A brothel?
Drunken Red House, the name of which is known at a glance is the name of a store dedicated to a certain industry.
Going to a brothel to solve a case?
The Yuan Circle is really too boring, and she really wants to find something exciting to add some color to her undisturbed life, plus she has been in ancient times for so long, this kind of place where people who travel must come, she really hasn't been to it once.
Let's take this opportunity to go in and have a good time today.
Looking down at the outfit on his body, Yuan Quanquan thought about it for a while, looked up and glanced around the street, and fixed his eyes on the ready-to-wear store across the street.
A quarter of an hour later, two young men with clear eyebrows walked out of the ready-to-wear store.
Xiao Zhi tugged at the men's clothes on her body, with a tangled face: "Miss, why do we have to dress like this?" ”
Yuan Quanquan bought a folding fan from a roadside vendor, brushed it open, and said with a smile: "Naturally, I want to be a prostitute." ”
"Oh...... What, what? When the sluggish Xiao Zhi heard the word "prostitute", she almost bit her tongue and stared at the Yuan Circle with wide eyes, "Miss, let's ...... We're going to prostitutes...... Yes! ”
Yuan Quanquan retracted the fan, leaned over and whispered: "From now on, you have to call me Gongzi, remember!" ”
"But it's a little ...... Childe, let's go to prostitution...... What do you do in that kind of place? This...... That's really not right! Touching the beaten head, Xiao Zhi pouted and whispered.
"Right! Childe, I'll take care of it. Okay, no more nonsense, let's go! ”
Ignoring Xiao Zhi's entanglement, Yuan Quanquan raised the folding fan in a dashing manner, put one hand behind his back, and swaggered towards the drunken red mansion not far away.
And when she just stepped into the door of the drunken red mansion, a dark shadow flashed around the corner across the street.