Chapter 206: The Prince's Embarrassment
Speaking of the prince on the other end, after he got the precautions for collecting duck feathers written by Han Qing from the queen, he began to plan.
When he ordered someone to take care of some things and was ready to leave, he was reminded by the little eunuch next to him that it was time to eat.
After a hurried lunch, he took a carriage with everyone to a Zhuangzi.
This Zhuangzi is a little far away from the capital, not because he is willing to take the near and far, but because this Zhuangzi is the queen's private property, and he is naturally guided by the queen when he comes here.
This Zhuangzi is full of ducks, if you talk about how the queen would let people raise so many ducks, it is naturally influenced by Han Qing. In a chat with Han Qing, she learned that Han Qing had deliberately found a few places in Zhuangzi to raise ducks and was not willing to stop, so she asked the reason. I learned that Han Qing raised ducks to supply the food city, and there was a situation where the supply exceeded the demand. She made a verbal agreement with Han Qing to supply him with ducks.
After all, it is a Zhuangzi who raises ducks, and no matter how much you pay attention to it, there will still be a fishy smell.
The crown prince frowned: "Steward Wang, can your duck feathers on weekdays be stored in Zhuangzi?" ”
Steward Wang looked confused: "Duck, duck feathers? ”
Prince: "It's duck feathers!" ”
The steward of the king has really heard it now, and what His Royal Highness the Crown Prince wants is duck feathers! "Back to His Royal Highness the Prince, if the ducks in the Zhuangzi are raised to a certain size, they will be sent out directly, and the duck feathers are naturally not in the Zhuangzi!"
Prince: "Where did you send it?" ”
Steward Wang: "Back to His Royal Highness the Prince, these ducks have been sent to the food city, oh, no, it should be said that it is a warehouse specially used by Princess Han to kill ducks!" ”
Prince: "Princess Han? ”
Steward Wang nodded.
The prince looked depressed: When it comes to the duck in this girl's hand, the duck feathers must have been collected by her!
It seems that Khan can only start with the existing ducks in Zhuangzi!
"Steward Wang, are there any ducks in Zhuangzi that can pluck their feathers now?"
The king steward didn't know why, and said in a half-shocked way: "Dial, pluck the hair?" Does Your Highness want to eat this fresh duck? ”
The prince was a little embarrassed by his appearance, "This prince wants the feathers on the duck!" ”
The steward of the king collected his emotions, "If Your Highness wants the feathers on those ducks, the villain will send someone to dial them!" Well, how much does Your Highness want? ”
Thinking of the amount of military cotton products, the prince said directly: "As many as there are, the more the better!" ”
The steward stammered: "Your Highness, Your Highness, there are tens of thousands of ducks in this village, are they all feathered?" ”
Prince: "Yes! It's all dialed! ”
Steward Wang's face was shocked, and he couldn't make a sound when he stood there.
The prince was really annoyed by him, "Why don't you go?" ”
The steward of the king said in a trembling heart: "Your Highness, Your Highness, if you pluck the feathers on the duck's body, the duck will definitely not survive, and this dead duck will definitely not be willing to ask for it when it is sent to the warehouse of Princess Han!" ”
Prince: ""
Steward Wang continued: "The ingredients required by Princess Han's food city are all fresh, and we have also considered killing the ducks and sending them over before, because dead ducks are easier to transport, and they would rather kill the ducks themselves and trouble some live ducks!" ”
Thinking that the duck feathers of tens of thousands of ducks must not be enough, I don't know how many they will need later, the number of these ducks is too large, and the duck meat must not be discarded casually, the prince has a headache: "Then these ducks can't be used for other purposes except to send them to Princess Han?" ”
Steward Wang shook his head honestly: "The ducks in Zhuangzi are all sent to Princess Han, even if you want to send them elsewhere, you can't accept so much elsewhere!" ”
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The crown prince frowned: "It seems that this matter still has to be discussed with Princess Han!" As he spoke, he said to the cronies next to him: "You quickly go to the Han Palace, and see if the Han princess has a way to buy these ducks!" ”
"Yes!" The man hurried away.
After the man left, the prince asked the king again: "How many duck feathers can these tens of thousands of ducks be collected?" ”
The king's steward had a black line: "Slave, slave doesn't know!" ”
Prince: "Forget it, he hasn't collected duck feathers either, so how much can he collect!"
Seeing that the prince stopped talking, the king steward was afraid of angering him, so he could only pick up the report he knew: "Your Highness, if Princess Han is asked to buy these ducks, I am afraid that more than half of the ducks will be kept." These ducks are raised in batches, and now there are about 40,000 ducks that have grown into them, and the next batch will grow up in ten days, about 20,000, and the next batch will be twenty days later, about 20,000 ducks. ”
The prince thought for a while and said, "What about the Zhuangzi in the other two places?" ”
Steward Wang said truthfully: "The total output of the other two Zhuangzi has only reached the current output of this Zhuangzi, but the other Zhuangzi have grown more ducks now, a total of about 60,000, the next batch of about 10,000, and the next batch will still be more than 10,000."
The journey from the capital to the frontier is long, and thinking of this time problem, the prince is a little anxious, "Can't you deal with it without a grown duck?" ”
The king steward said: "Let's not talk about whether Princess Han will accept these ducks or not, just in terms of the amount of fluff on the ducks that have not grown, it will be much less!" ”
The prince's heart seemed to be picked up, "There are duck keepers in other places"
Steward Wang: "Yes, yes, but the amount is not large, and some farmers in the nearby villages will raise some of them, some dozens, some hundreds, and even more, there are only a few people who have thousands of them!" ”
Prince: "Let's go, take me to see!" ”
"Yes"
When he arrived at a farmer's door, Steward Wang knocked on the door of the farmer's yard.
"It's the sister-in-law of the Zhu family at home!"
The woman who was called the sister-in-law of the Zhu family smiled and said, "It's the king who is in charge, but you have something?" "Everyone only knows that the king is the steward of the Zhuangzi, and they don't know who the master of the Zhuangzi is.
"Yes, yes, something, I'm here to ask if your ducks can be sold?"
The sister-in-law of the Zhu family shook her head: "I'm sorry, these ducks in my family have been set by Princess Han, but they can't be sold to others, isn't there tens of thousands of ducks in the village you manage, why do you still come to my house to collect ducks!" Aren't you competing for business with Princess Han? ”
Steward Wang: "No, no, no, there is no business, I, I, we" He didn't know what His Royal Highness the Crown Prince wanted these duck feathers to do, how to explain this to people?
The lost sister-in-law saw him spitting and spitting, and even felt that he had made an idea that he shouldn't fight, "Steward Wang, we can't control your business, but my duck has already signed with Princess Han and pressed his handprint, you better go to another house to have a look!" With that, she closed the courtyard door.
Steward Wang: "Sister-in-law of the Zhu family, Zhu family" After the words, he felt that there was no need to say it, looked at the prince, and said: "Your Highness, why don't you go to another place and ask?" ”
The prince nodded: "Yes! ”
After walking for a while, he came to the gate of another family's courtyard, and the king steward knocked on the door of the house.
"Brother Li, can you sell your ducks?"
The man surnamed Li glanced at Steward Wang: "Don't sell it!" ”
"Brother Li, I am sincere"
"You've got so many ducks there
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Come to me to buy ducks, who doesn't know that my ducks are sold to Princess Han, you want to grab business with Princess Han! ”
Steward Wang: ""
"You can go to another house, my ducks are not for sale anyway!"
Knock on the door of the third family: "Sister Wang, your ducks can be sold?" ”
"Don't sell it! I'm going to sell it to Princess Han! ”
"Me"
"You better go elsewhere to collect the ducks, my ducks can't be sold to you!"
The king steward wanted to cry without tears, and when he turned around and saw the prince's frowning brows, he didn't dare to gasp.
The prince said: "Keep looking!" ”
"Yes!"
Steward Wang continued to ask a few more families, and several families claimed that their ducks were to be sent to Princess Han to be sold, as before.
The next people are all some families who have a small number of ducks.
Knocking on the door, the king steward said, "Brother, do you have ducks to sell at home?" ”
"Yes!"
The king's steward and the crown prince were both bright-eyed, and finally met a man who was willing to sell ducks!
"Can you show us?"
"Okay, come in!" With that, the man opened the door.
The steward and the prince stepped into the courtyard.
There are a lot of ducks in the yard in front of you, and it seems that there are no less than a hundred.
But the messiness in the yard is really shocking, and the king said, "Why are all your ducks placed directly in the yard, no?"
Before he could finish speaking, a mischievous duck rattled and fluttered among the ducks.
Immediately, the surrounding ducks spread.
This spread startled the other ducks.
The sound of ducks suddenly sounded in the courtyard, and the prince wanted to escape from the courtyard.
God knows how uncomfortable it was for him to enter this yard and smell this unpleasant smell, and how could he stand it when he heard the sound of a hundred ducks chirping in unison!
At the moment when he flipped his legs, a frightened duck flew over his head, and he froze!
Right! Just stay!
He has been pampered since he was a child, not to mention being blown to the top of his head by a duck, even a live duck, he has never seen it a few times, and now he is flying to the top of his head by a duck, he has completely forgotten how to react!
In his daze, the duck that flew above his head left a mark and flew into the flock.
The prince only felt a chill on the back of his neck, and he subconsciously reached out and touched it.
A large puddle of duck poop stuck to his hands was disgusting
"This vomit, vomit, vomit" He was about to vomit in disgust.
He rushed out of the yard and ran under a tree, holding on to the trunk, and vomited wildly
The owner of the yard ran out: "I said that son, isn't it just a little duck, do you have such a big reaction!" ”
Steward Wang shouted, "Shut up! Do you know that "That's His Royal Highness the Crown Prince!"
The owner of the yard: "Know what?" I said, are you still buying this duck? ”
Steward Wang: ""
He looked at the prince helplessly, not daring to say anything.
The owner of the courtyard immediately understood that it was the person who was vomiting wildly who could call the shots, and took advantage of the gap when he stopped for a while, and asked, "That son, can you still buy it?" ”
The prince was really aggrieved, and was asked loudly by a rude coarse man, he didn't have the right to say no, who told him that he was so short of so many duck feathers! He gritted his teeth and said, "Buy!" The words fell, and there was another tumbling in the stomach
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