Red Mansion Rebirth: Ghost Phoenix

"If you hadn't mentioned it, I would have really forgotten about this matter." Wang Xifeng smiled, "However, since the Crown Prince and the Crown Princess couldn't remember this person, why would I bother to bring her to the East Palace to cause trouble for the two masters?

“But now that Wu Liangyuan specifically mentioned it, I can’t continue to pretend I forgot.

"——Someone, go and tell the Crown Prince that Wu Liangyuan reminded us to go to Daming Palace to get Jia! Can the Crown Prince choose a suitable day and bring her back when you return to the East Palace?"

Jing Li agreed and turned to leave, and Wu Liangyuan couldn't stop him.

Wu Liangyuan was so angry that she stamped her feet and cried: "Wang! You framed me again!"

"Did I lead you to mention Jia Shi? You were the one who started the conversation, saying that others were harming you. Why don't you ask yourself who instigated you to come here to cause trouble?"

Having accomplished this, Wang Xifeng stood up contentedly and returned to the main hall.

Wu Liangyuan covered her face and fell on the bed crying. She was so angry that she didn't even eat dinner.

However, when the prince returned to the East Palace at night, he really brought Jia Yuanchun back with him, but incidentally, he also asked Qinghai to "scold" Wang Xifeng. The main idea was:

If you want to stir up trouble, just say so directly. There's no need to use the name of that fool Wu Liangyuan!

Wang Xifeng was speechless: "She was the one who brought it up. I didn't say a word more."

Qing Hai sighed, "The prince said that even if she said something out loud, if you don't want to take the opportunity to do something, then she won't even say it to Yichun Palace."

Wang Xifeng shut her mouth obediently.

Qinghai went back.

An'er was terrified as she listened to this. She looked at Qinghai's back and spoke with a trembling voice, "Liang Di, the prince is angry. Will he..."

"What kind of meeting?" Wang Xifeng regained her composure and pointed at Jing Li, "Lock him up first, and I'll deal with him tomorrow morning."

Jia Yuanchun, who was full of expectations, neither met the prince nor Wang Xifeng, and was locked up in an empty room again.

But this time, she no longer felt the despair she had in the Daming Palace.

Someone passed the message to her: Wang Liangdi promised her mother that she would protect her, but also warned her not to covet the prince anymore.

Jia Yuanchun has her own judgment on this: Wang Liangdi's so-called saving her should only be to save her life; but preventing her from dreaming about the prince seems to be just a formality.

——Newcomers are not welcome in any family’s backyard. It doesn’t matter if it’s her mother, Aunt Zhao, or the current empress, the crown princess, or the concubines and ladies.

It was just that the Crown Princess vomited blood that day, and he made it clear that it was the Queen who instigated him to plot against the Eastern Palace, so it was normal for the Crown Prince to hate him.

Now it all depends on how long she can stay in the Eastern Palace, what she does, and whether there is a chance for her to make the prince change his attitude.

In this matter, Wang Xifeng would definitely not only not help me, but would also do everything she could to obstruct me.

In the dark, Jia Yuanchun sat on a "bed" made of several old mattresses on the ground, deep in thought.

After the humiliation at the New Year's Eve banquet, she looked desperate and silent on the surface, but in her heart there was only perseverance.

The deep palace is a place where people are eaten. There are no people, only ferocious beasts.

Now that she has come in, she will naturally not develop those naive and childish so-called "goodness".

Jia Yuanchun raised her eyes and looked at the dim moonlight outside the window, her eyes were heavy and her lips were tightly closed.

Somewhere outside the window, a crow was calling.

The night became increasingly cold.

Ever since He Ke went to Princess Yongning's mansion, Wang Xifeng's life has become a little boring.

It is especially quiet at night.

So she added a little game for herself: calculating and checking accounts.

Taking the opportunity of managing the affairs of the rear palace of the Eastern Palace, she asked for all the account books of the Eastern Palace in the past ten years. Half of the room was filled with account books in a small side room next to the bedroom in the main palace.

She found an old accountant in the inner courtyard who taught her how to use an abacus. An'er and Ru'er naturally followed her to learn and practice together.

Then she slowly practiced with these account books - she didn't need anyone to teach her how to read the accounts. She knew what was a false account and what was a fake account. She even knew the selling prices of daily necessities on the market over the past ten years.

She has been playing with it for half a month now. Even though she is not yet proficient in the abacus, it is not much different from that of an ordinary accountant.

An'er and Ru'er also fought quite well.

So, she invented a new way to play: pick out mistakes in the account book with An'er and Ru'er, and whoever is lucky enough to pick it first will have to drink three more glasses of water the next morning.

——The weather is still cold, and if you drink more water you will have to go to the toilet more often, which is really inconvenient.

Today is the third day of this game. What the three people took out in order was the account book of the last year that the deposed prince lived in the East Palace.

"To say that the former deposed crown prince is really extravagant..." An'er looked at the account book in his hand and couldn't help but sneer in a low voice, "A regular meal, in the middle of summer, with ten hot dishes and eight cold dishes, a total of four hundred and sixty taels of silver...

"If he is not deposed, he alone will be able to empty the emperor's treasury!"

Wang Xifeng sneered, "He is just a fool, he has never known the suffering of the people! Even if the grocer told him that eggs cost ten taels of silver each, he would believe it!"

Ruer was shocked: "No way? Didn't they say that the former deposed prince often went out incognito with the emperor when he was a teenager? Even if he only bought a cake on the street, he should be able to guess that this price can't be true!"

"Just play dumb." Wang Xifeng flipped through the account book in her hand nonchalantly, "Anyway, the money will fall into the hands of his people. To win people's hearts..."

Suddenly, Wang Xifeng paused.

It may not necessarily be about winning people's hearts.

Perhaps it was just like this, transferring the money from one hand to the other, and receiving the money in secret - otherwise, how did he raise the private soldiers he used to rebel?

As Wang Xifeng thought about it more deeply, sweat slowly broke out on her forehead. She looked up and asked softly, "Who is outside today?"

Xia Shouzhong responded: "Today is my turn to be on duty."

"Come in." Wang Xifeng tied her long hair into a low bun.

An'er and Ru'er were dressed neatly.

Ruer walked over quickly and lifted the cotton door curtain for Xia Shouzhong.

"What do you want, Lady Liang?"

"An'er and I were going to check the accounts for fun, and we found this box, which is from ten years ago. Suddenly I remembered that these account books were moved from the inner workshop. Who was in charge of the accounts at that time?"

Wang Xifeng looked at Xia Shouzhong steadily.

As expected, Xia Shouzhong's expression gradually hardened. He lowered his head and quietly retracted his hands into his sleeves, probably clenching them into fists.

"The Zhongyun at that time is now the first-class general of Rongguo Mansion, the eldest master, Jia She."

Wang Xifeng took a deep breath quietly, lowered her voice, and asked again: "The former crown prince was deposed, but the account books of the inner quarters are still kept in such good condition. Has no one checked it?"

"I checked. Since nothing was found, I returned it to you." Xia Shouzhong lowered his eyes.

Wang Xifeng followed up his words and asked, "Who checked?"

Xia Shouzhong raised his eyes to look at her, with some doubts: "It was the Zongzheng Temple and the three judicial departments at that time..."