The Eighth Prince looked at Zhao Yao helplessly and dotingly: "Say, what do you want me to do?" ”

Zhao Yao smiled embarrassedly: "Starling, can you lend me some money?" ”

The eighth prince thought that what Zhao Yao was asking for was a big deal, but he didn't expect it to be borrowing money, which made him slightly stunned, and then laughed: "How much do you want to borrow?" ”

Borrowing money was an excuse that Zhao Yao thought of temporarily, and he didn't think clearly about how much money to borrow.

"Starling, I don't know how much money I need to be enough."

The Eighth Prince was amused by Zhao Yao's words, and he said helplessly: "You don't know how much money you want yourself?" Are you borrowing money to buy something? ”

"Starling, I want to buy something, but I can't tell you what to buy for the time being." Zhao Yao thought for a while and said, "Starling, you can lend me two times first." "It's not too much and it's not too much.

"What can you buy with two dollars?" The Eighth Prince laughed and said, "I'll give you a piece of gold, which should be enough for you to buy something." ”

"A piece of gold?" Zhao Yao was shocked by the Eighth Prince's generosity.

The eighth prince glanced at Yu Hai, and Yu Hai understood. After a while, he took out a piece of gold and handed it to Zhao Yao.

"Your Highness the Tenth, please accept it."

"Starling, this ...... It's too much, I can't use gold to buy things. "When did the starling become so angry, as soon as he made a move, it was a piece of gold." Starling, I can't afford it. ”

"You don't have to pay it back, this piece of gold is for you." The Eighth Prince smiled, "If you don't have any money in the future, tell me directly." ”

"Starling, when did you become so rich?" It seems that Starling has done a lot of business in private and has made a lot of money.

The eighth prince said with an unchanged face: "The prince's brother gave it." ”

Zhao Yao pretended to be very surprised: "Is the prince's brother so generous?" ”

"I privately helped the prince's brother take care of some property, and the prince's brother gave me some money." The Eighth Prince smiled and said, "This is the salary that the prince's brother gave me." ”

Zhao Yao nodded as if he didn't understand: "So that's the case, then you must have helped Brother Prince take care of it very well." "With the starling's ability and means, I'm afraid to help the prince's brother take care of a lot of industries. It is estimated that part of the money earned by the prince's brother from these industries went into the starling's money bag.

"I didn't live up to the expectations of the prince's brother." The eighth prince was afraid that Zhao Yao would buy things indiscriminately, so he told him, "I'll give you money, don't buy some messy things." “

"Messy stuff?" Zhao Yao blinked suspiciously, "Starling, what is the mess?" "How did he think there was something in the starling's words.

Seeing Zhao Yao's blank expression, the eighth prince was slightly stunned, and then shook his head and said, "It's nothing, you can buy whatever you want." ”

"Starling, then I'm not polite to accept it." Zhao Yao stood up and made a big gift to the Eighth Prince, "Thank you for the money." ”

When the eighth prince saw Zhao Yao hurriedly put the gold into his arms, his eyes were full of smiles.

"Don't worry, if the gold is given to you, I won't regret it, let alone snatch it back."

Zhao Yao's careful thinking was seen through, and he smiled at the eighth prince flatteringly: "Starling, I know you still have something to do, so I won't bother you, I'll go back first." With that, he saluted the Eighth Prince again, and then left the Eighth Prince's house in a hurry.

"Your Highness, why did you suddenly ask Your Highness Eighth to borrow money, and you are not short of money?" Tong Xi said puzzledly, "Didn't the second master give you a lot of money every time, and you didn't spend it all." "In the past few years, the second master has given His Royal Highness a lot of money.

"I'm afraid that the starling will be suspicious, so I just found an excuse to borrow money." Zhao Yao took out a piece of gold from his arms, threw it into the air gently, and then reached out to catch it. "I didn't expect the starling to be so generous." He had to think about what to buy. If you don't buy something, starlings will definitely be suspicious.

"Your Highness, it seems that Your Highness is very rich now."

"Buy a parrot and give it to Starling." If you want to know about the affairs of the Southern Wei Dynasty, no one knows better than the starling. But if you want to know about the Southern Wei Dynasty from the starling, it is simply impossible. You can only learn from Starling in other ways.

"Your Highness, do you want to send a parrot to His Highness Eight?" Tongxi said disapprovingly, "Your Highness, parrots are very noisy, Your Highness Eighth definitely doesn't like it, you might as well send the Eagle Falcon to Your Highness Eight." ”

"Then buy an eagle falcon and give it to the starling, so that it will be convenient to send a letter to the starling in the future." In the future, you can also know what the starling is doing through the eagle falcon, and if the starling is in danger, he can also help the starling as soon as possible. Of course, the most important thing is to figure out the affairs of the Southern Wei Dynasty.

He really didn't want to spy on the starling with birds, but the Southern Wei was too mysterious and powerful, and he had to figure out the purpose of the Southern Wei in case the Southern Wei people were unfavorable to the starling.

"Your Highness, Your Highness is about to become an adult, where do you think Your Highness's fief will be?" Tongxi was a little worried in his heart, His Royal Highness was not liked by the emperor, maybe the emperor would give the place where birds don't poop to His Royal Highness as a fief.

"My father doesn't like starlings, so he won't give starlings any good places. However, with the means of starling, he will definitely make the prince's brother beg his father and keep him in the capital. "If the starling wants to compete for the throne, he will not leave the capital easily, let alone the prince's brother. Besides, with the trust and reuse of the prince's brother in the starling, he will not let the starling leave him.

"Your Highness, it's better for Your Eighth Highness to stay with His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."

Zhao Yao didn't say anything more about it, and when he returned to his house, he wrote a letter to his second uncle, asking his second uncle to help him buy an eagle falcon from the Western Regions.

After a while, Tongxi walked in and said respectfully to Zhao Yao: "Your Highness, the hot water is boiling, go and take a bath." ”

"Okay, go take a shower." Zhao Yao went to the ear room next door, and when he undressed, the gold given to him by the Eighth Prince fell out of his arms.

Tongxi squatted down and picked up the gold that the Eighth Prince had given to Zhao Yao.

"Your Highness, the slave will help you put it away."

"Wait." Zhao Yao hurriedly stretched out his hand to Tongxi, "You give me the gold." ”

Tongxi put the gold into Zhao Yao's palm.

Zhao Yao lowered his head and stared at the gold in his palm.

Tongxi saw that Zhao Yao had been staring at the gold, and asked curiously: "Your Highness, what are you doing staring at the gold, is there anything wrong with this gold?" ”

"Tongxi, don't you think the gold that Starling gave me is a little different?"

Tongxi carefully looked at the gold in Zhao Yao's hand and didn't find anything different.

"Your Highness, the slave is clumsy."

"Go and get the gold that my father gave me before."

"Slave and maid, go get it." Tongxi quickly took a piece of gold that the emperor had given to Zhao Yao before, "Your Highness, the gold you wanted." ”

The gold that the Great Zhou Emperor rewarded Zhao Yao was the gold refined by the Great Zhou treasury, and the five words "Great Zhou Gold Ingot" were engraved at the bottom of the gold.

Zhao Yao compared the gold ingots of the Great Zhou with the gold given to him by the Eighth Prince, and then asked Tongxi to shine a candle on them.

"You see, the gold ingots of Da Zhou are brighter than the gold given to me by the starling, and the gold given to me by the starling is darker."

Hearing Zhao Yao say this, Tongxi found that this was really the case.

"Your Highness, why is the gold given to you by His Royal Highness the Eighth Prince darker, is the gold given to you by the Eighth Emperor fake?"

"No, the gold that the starling gave me is real." Zhao Yao instructed Tongxi again, "You go and take a piece of the gold that the second uncle gave me before." ”

"Yes."

He Lianfang gave Zhao Yao a lot of gold before.

Zhao Yao compared the gold given to him by He Lianfang with the gold given to him by the Eighth Prince, and it was as he thought.

Tongxi also found out, and asked with a shocked face: "Your Highness, the gold given to you by the second uncle is as dark as the gold given to you by the Eighth Highness. ”

"The gold that my second uncle gave me is the gold of Annan, and the gold that my father rewarded me is from Da Zhou." Zhao Yao said with a serious expression, "The gold of Annan is darker than the gold of Great Zhou. ”

"Your Highness, why is that?" Tongxi asked with a puzzled face, "Shouldn't gold be the same?" ”

"The technology is different, the technology of refining gold in the Great Zhou is higher than that of Annan, so the gold refined in the Great Zhou is brighter than the gold in Annan." Zhao Yao didn't know much about refining gold, so he guessed, "The craftsmen of the Great Zhou should have added something when refining gold, so the gold should be brighter." ”

"I see." Tongxi patted Zhao Yao's ass and said, "Your Highness, you know a lot. ”

"Starlings have the gold of the kingdom of Annam." Zhao Yao narrowed his eyes slightly and said, "The starling brother just said that this gold was given to him by the prince's brother, which means that the prince's brother has the gold of Annan. "It's not strange that the starling brother has the gold of Annan, but it is a little intriguing that the prince's brother has the gold of Annan.

"Your Highness, is there anything wrong with His Royal Highness the Crown Prince having the gold of Annan?" Tongxi didn't quite understand what Zhao Yao meant, "Don't you also have the gold of Annan?" ”

"It's not strange for me to have it, but it's a little weird for the prince's brother to have it." Zhao Yao said thoughtfully, "It seems that in the past few years, the relationship between the prince's brother and the prince of Zhenguo has been very close to the royal family of Annan. "The word [intimacy], Zhao Yao wants it very seriously.

Zhao Yao had a bold guess in his heart. In order to get the throne, the eldest prince of Annan secretly colluded with the prince's brother and them. In order to get the help of the prince's brother, the eldest prince privately "honored" a lot of things to the prince's brother, and gold was one of them.

Although Zhao Yao and He Lianfang had long guessed that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and His Royal Highness the Acting King would contact the princes of Annan Kingdom in private, how did they hook up together, Zhao Yao did not investigate, nor did they send someone to keep an eye on them.

If Zhao Yao and the others stared at the crown prince and the people who acted for the king, it would be easy to be discovered, and then their people in the Annan Kingdom would be exposed.

Tongxi's expression instantly became gossipy, and his eyes sparkled and said, "Your Highness, do you mean that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has a leg with Annan?" ”

"More than one leg." With the ambitions and means of the prince of Zhenguo, I am afraid that there will be deeper purposes, such as using the gold of Annan to raise soldiers or forge weapons, or to buy people. "There is also a starling, he must also have an ulterior relationship with the royal family of Annan."

It's one shift tonight, and it's too late for the second shift.

Old iron, the Dragon Boat Festival is healthy.

Finally, at the end of the month, I still have the cheekiness to ask for a monthly pass!