Chapter 103 Cash
Su Qingqing naturally didn't care about the chaos in other people's homes. When the news reached the Prince's Mansion, Jixiang was squatting in the yard gnawing on a chicken leg.
"Your Highness, this is too good for the Third Miss of the Rong'an Marquisate. She humiliated you so much, but she was not punished at all. Only her father's salary was fined. That little salary is nothing to the Rong'an Marquisate."
Su Qingqing couldn't help laughing as she watched Jixiang teasing the ant. "So what do you think should be the punishment?"
"She must be punished to apologize to the queen, and she should also be fined some silver or something as compensation."
Su Qingqing just wanted to reach out and pinch Jixiang's face.
Aunt Xu laughed at one side, "Look at what you're saying. You don't act like you grew up serving your master. You've seen everything. Why do you keep talking about money?"
Jixiang tore off a piece of chicken leg meat, which attracted a group of ants to grab it. She muttered to herself, "What's wrong with talking about silver? Anyone who doesn't love silver is a bastard."
"You are becoming more and more disrespectful." Nanny Xu added tea to Su Qingqing's empty cup and glared at her.
Jixiang stuck out his tongue and continued playing with the ant.
Su Qingqing leaned comfortably on the beauty couch, "Then tell me, if they come to compensate, how much should they pay?"
Jixiang rolled his eyes and said, "Why not start at thirty thousand taels?"
Madam Xu laughed and said, "You really know how to ask for too much."
As they were talking, a little maid outside reported back, "Madam, Rong'an Marquis has come with the third young lady of the mansion and wants to see you."
Jixiang stopped playing with ants and stood up with the chicken leg in his mouth. "Hey, this is a mouth inlaid with gold and jade. People will come as soon as I mention it."
Su Qingqing didn't move, but lazily changed to a more comfortable position, "Let them in."
The maid received the order and turned around to lead people. In a moment, the Rong'an Marquis and his wife came forward with the third young lady of the mansion and her family, who were humble and submissive.
After paying respects, Rong'an Hou clasped his fists and bowed, "In the past, my daughter was ignorant and offended the queen, causing her to feel wronged. I have prepared a small gift, and I hope the queen will not despise it."
Just as the wife of Marquis Rong'an was about to step forward with the box in her hand, Su Qingqing glanced at Jixiang, who understood and said immediately, "Don't worry, open it and take a look first."
It looks like a proud little rooster.
Su Qingqing wanted to laugh at Jixiang's look.
The third young lady of the Rong'an Marquis's Mansion curled her lips in her heart, thinking that Su Qingqing was inferior to her in every way, but she had to step forward with her head lowered and opened the box in her mother's hand, revealing a set of ancient books inside.
"This is a set of music scores. I heard that it is the last work of Nan Yangzi, the music master of Zhao State. I don't know how it came here. I hope Your Majesty likes it."
Before Rong'an Hou's respectful voice fell, Su Qingqing sat up and waved her hand, "I am not interested in any music scores or chess scores."
Jixiang then said, "If you really want to apologize sincerely, you should bring something real, such as 100,000 taels of silver first, and then we can talk about other things. Our queen is not a petty person who insists on holding on to her mistakes. If you don't want to apologize, our queen won't force you to do it. Who are you trying to fool with such a rubbish?"
Nanny Xu stood at one side, feeling a little uneasy, always feeling that something was not quite right. But when she saw that Su Qingqing said nothing and looked as if she was indulging Jixiang, she also kept silent.
The three members of the Rong'an Marquis's family had obviously never seen such a scene before. They were all stunned and all looked at Jixiang.
It was as if he didn't understand what I was saying.
Jixiang curled his lips in disdain, "You are unwilling to pay but still want to ask for forgiveness for nothing? I have never heard of it."
Rong An Hou immediately said: "Your Majesty, you misunderstood. I was just thinking that this music score was..."
Jixiang interrupted him, "If it's a misunderstanding, then I've just made it clear to you. Is there anything you don't understand that you need me to explain?"
Marquis Rong'an looked at Su Qingqing in astonishment.
The maidservant in front of the Crown Princess is so arrogant, and the Crown Princess doesn't care?
The third young lady of Rong'an Marquis's Mansion sneered in her heart, just a thing like this wants to compete with her for the Crown Prince?
The prince is really obsessed and ignores her for such a woman.
Su Qingqing ignored the expressions of the three people in Rong'an Marquis's Mansion, yawned and stood up, "I'm sleepy."
Jixiang immediately turned around and helped Su Qingqing up, "I will help you go to bed."
After saying that, the master and servant ignored each other and turned back to the house.
The three members of Rong'an Marquis's family were left standing there dumbfounded.
Rong'an Hou has been the marquis for so many years, but he has never encountered such a shameful thing.
He turned around to look at the music score in the box. He had specially searched through all the boxes and drawers to find this music score. Isn't this music score more valuable than 100,000 taels of silver?
If he were asked to give away the music score, he would be willing to do so, but if he were asked to give away 100,000 taels of silver, he would be reluctant to do so.
While Rong'an Hou was stunned, Jixiang came out of the house again. He did not come over, but just stood in the corridor and said crisply: "Why don't you leave? Are you still waiting for dinner? Show you out!"
After saying this, Jixiang turned around and went back.
The butler Yu Liang, who was guarding outside the courtyard gate, stepped forward in a hurry and made a gesture of invitation, "My Lord."
Marquis Rong'an felt as if thunder was rolling over his head.
From the time I came in to the time I left, it took less than a cup of tea.
Just being driven away like that?
“This, this…”
This scene was completely beyond Rong'an Hou's expectations . He looked at Yu Liang almost for help.
Everyone knows that although Yu Liang is a servant, because of his relationship with the Empress Dowager, he is also considered half a master in the mansion.
Meeting the gaze of Rong'an Marquis, Yu Liang only had a respectful, polite but distant smile on his face, "My Lord, do you have anything else to say to the Queen? I'm afraid you have to wait until the Queen wakes up."
Rong An Hou let Yu Liang silence him without leaving any trace. He felt aggrieved but couldn't vent his anger, "Madam..."
Yu Liang interrupted Rong Anhou's words, "Your Majesty is the master, and I am the servant. I will execute whatever the master tells me to do. I dare not interfere with the master's words."
Yu Liang made his attitude very clear.
Although he is nominally the Queen Mother's man, he is actually the Third Prince's man. Now that the Third Prince has remained calm, he will not make any unnecessary moves to anger the Crown Princess, whose temper he has not yet figured out.
Could it be that just for leaking a message to Marquis Rong'an, he turned around and let Jixiang whip him?
He's not crazy.
Upon hearing this, Marquis Rong'an's face suddenly darkened and he walked away with a flick of his sleeves.
Yu Liang had a blank expression on his face and still maintained a respectful attitude as he walked it out.
Just as I reached the door, Rong Que came back from outside.
As soon as she saw Rong Que, the Third Miss of Rong'an Marquis's Mansion rushed over like a gust of wind, "Brother Crown Prince, I was wrong before. Please forgive me, I won't dare to do it again."
She walked forward and was about to hug Rong Que's arm.
Rong Que dodged backwards to avoid her and looked at Rong An Hou, "How did you find time to come here today, Lord Hou?"
The Third Miss of Rong'an Marquis's Mansion was avoided, and she was unwilling to accept it. She complained with tears in her eyes, "Before in the teahouse, I was wrong about my thoughts and wrongly accused the Crown Princess. My parents brought me here today to apologize to my sister.
It took us a lot of effort to find this Zhaoguo piano score.
I thought my sister would like this thing because she missed her country, but she didn't even look at it and asked us to give her 100,000 taels of silver first."
She spoke in a wronged tone, as if she had just been beaten.
