Rebirth and Marriage: I am the Mistress of the Palace

Yuan Zheng deliberately kept him in suspense: "Secret!"

Xiao Qingyuan glared at him in dissatisfaction: "Are you going to tell me or not?"

"Oh, don't be anxious. Just listening to me, you won't be deeply touched. Later, I will take you to meet Liu Nanshi, and you will know that marrying her is a curse, not a blessing!"

Xiao Qingyuan's face was full of doubt: "Is this true? If she really has a problem, wouldn't Gu Qianhan know? Would Madam Gu not know?"

"What's the big deal? She just pretends to be good in front of them! How many women in the capital don't pretend? Otherwise, Qingyuan, you wouldn't look down on all of them, right?"

"That does make some sense."

When Xiao Qingyuan thought about the possibility that Liu Nanshi might have some unknown problem, his mood improved: "Then it's settled, we help Gu Qianhan marry Liu Nanshi! After all, we were good brothers before, and now that we are married, we should help him get married too, so that he can also live a good life with a wife to take care of him!"

Yuan Zheng burst into laughter: "Yes, yes, the prince is absolutely right! We can't let him be alone!"

"Then how exactly can we help? I'm afraid Gu Qianhan won't trust the two of us!"

"It's definitely not going to work if we help openly. Gu Qianhan is so scheming and smart that he can be worth ten of us. We can just do it covertly."

"What do you mean?"

"After the New Year, the palace will definitely hold a Spring Banquet, and Gu Qianhan and Liu Nanshi will definitely go. We can use a little trick to make them appear in the same room in disheveled clothes, and then find some people to watch, and this thing will be done for sure!"

"Isn't this...not good?"

"What's wrong with this? We are here to help Gu Qianhan get married, so what's wrong with using some tricks?"

Xiao Qingyuan hesitated for a moment, and finally nodded: "Okay, I'll do as you say!"

Yuan Zheng rubbed his hands excitedly. He was so happy that he could trip up Gu Qianhan!

"Qingyuan, I'm happy today. Let's go to Wanhua Tower together. I heard that there are a group of new people coming to Wanhua Tower, and they are all pretty and tender!"

Xiao Qingyuan was stunned: "Didn't you tell your wife that you were no longer going to Wanhua Tower? Why are you going again?"

"Oh, that's just words to coax women, why do you take it seriously? You still have to go, just don't let her know, okay?"

"If you want to go, go by yourself. I don't have money, so I won't go."

"No, let's go together. I'll pay for your share. You don't have to spend a penny, okay?"

"You have so much silver? Didn't you say that your wife is in charge of all the silver in your family?"

"Tsk, am I that stupid? Just because I said I'd give her everything, did I really give it all to her? And when I need to spend money, I have to beg her for it humbly? That would be so frustrating!"

Yuan Zheng pulled out a stack of banknotes from his bosom and said proudly, "Of course we men have to have some private money! My wife doesn't know how much property my grandfather gave my mother as a dowry, so I can just give her a few million taels to manage, and I'll keep the rest for myself!"

"I had already arranged this before I got married. I have deposited money in all the major banks. When I need money, I can just ask someone to go and get it.

"Oh, by the way, I have already deposited 100,000 taels in the restaurant, not to mention Wanhua Tower. I have deposited 500,000 taels there directly, which is enough for me to play for a while!"

"How about it, Qingyuan, am I prepared enough for a rainy day?"

Xiao Qingyuan couldn't help but admire Yuan Zheng. In fact, he used to look down on Yuan Zheng and felt that he was too money-minded and too dissolute. But now he felt that this playboy Yuan Zheng was actually quite clever and he even knew how to hide his own money!

Xiao Qingyuan couldn't help but reflect on himself, why didn't he hide some private money?

If he had hidden it, he wouldn't have been unable to even afford a lychee, and would not have had to endure the humiliation and look for Yuan Zheng to find a way to make money.

"By the way, Yuan Zheng, the lychees you promised me just now..."

"a piece of cake!"

Yuan Zheng called the shopkeeper over: "Go, get all the frozen lychees from the ice cellar, pack them for the prince, and take them away!"

The shopkeeper looked embarrassed and said, "Sir, all the frozen lychees here are sold out."

"What?! How is this possible? Didn't they sell out after the Chinese New Year in previous years?"

"It was the Crown Princess of Prince Xiao who sent someone to buy them. The waiter and I picked out the best ones and had the Crown Princess' maid buy them all."

Yuan Zheng immediately understood the key point in the shopkeeper's words: "So, there are still some missing?"

"Yes, there are some, but... the rest doesn't look very good, and the taste may not be satisfactory either."

"Stop talking nonsense, bring the rest here!"

Yuan Zheng rudely ordered the shopkeeper to get the inferior ones. Anyway, he wasn't going to eat them. Wasn't it for Xiao Qingyuan's maid? Why would a maid eat such good food?

The fact that she was given inferior lychees to eat was all thanks to Xiao Qingyuan!

However, when the shopkeeper really brought the remaining defective products, Yuan Zheng was dumbfounded.

He picked up a frozen lychee and asked in a lost voice, "What is this? Why is it as black as charcoal?"

"Sir, didn't I tell you that the rest didn't look very good...you were the one who insisted that I take it."

"Even if you don't look good, you can't be this dark, right?"

"There's nothing we can do. Although these lychees were shipped here sealed with wax and covered with ice, Lingnan is too far away from the capital, so most of them were rotten when they were shipped here. How can we find fresh ones now?"

Yuan Zheng looked unhappy. He pushed aside the ice and picked and chose for a long time before finally finding a lychee that was still red. "Qingyuan, why don't you take this back and let your maid try it?"

Xiao Qingyuan frowned: "This one is also half black, can it still be eaten?"

"Of course it can. Isn't half of it still red? And the black part is just the outer shell. The lychees are frozen, so they won't go bad. Peel off the shell and the flesh inside must still be good! It's just... it just doesn't look that good!"

After Yuan Zheng finished speaking, he handed the lychee to the shopkeeper: "Pack this lychee and give it to the prince when he returns!"

"Yes."

The shopkeeper responded, took the lychees, wrapped them in gold paper, put them in a brocade box, and handed it to Xiao Qingyuan.

Xiao Qingyuan took the brocade box hesitantly. Is this lychee really edible? He has seen the ones that Shen Wantang bought back. All of them were red, with no black ones.

He hesitated for a long time, but finally decided to take the litchi back, so that Huayi would know that he always cared about her and loved her.

If the lychees are rotten, just don't eat them.

He stood up and was about to leave with the brocade box in his hand, but was stopped by Yuan Zheng: "Qingyuan, don't rush home yet. Lizhi will ask your servant to take her back to the palace. You have to come with me to Wanhua Tower! The beauties are still waiting for us!"