Concubine Zhao's face turned livid with anger, and she wished she could rush up and scratch Jiang Rong to death.
He took a deep breath, suppressed the anger in his heart, and said with a kind smile on his face:
"Since ancient times, we have married virtuous wives and kept concubines and sex. You are indeed born beautiful."
The implication is that Jiang Rong is only worthy of being a concubine.
Jiang Rong smiled softly: "Thank you for the compliment, Concubine Zhao. But I think this old saying is not necessarily correct. For example, the second half of the sentence -"
She paused just in time, stared at Concubine Zhao, and smiled without saying a word.
Isn’t your concubine beautiful?
Jade couldn't hold back and laughed.
"You, you..." Concubine Zhao was so angry that she couldn't speak.
This simple sentence means that no matter what she says, Jiang Rong can always reply to her, "You are ugly."
You are so ugly.
She was so angry!
"The first half of the sentence makes sense. The Queen Mother granted us a marriage because she found me to be virtuous and elegant, worthy of being the Crown Prince's wife." Jiang Rong said calmly:
"In comparison, beauty is the least worth mentioning advantage of the little girl. But I don't know why Concubine Zhao can only see this. Maybe she is particularly concerned about the things she doesn't have."
……
Concubine Zhao was helped out by the maid.
She was so angry that she almost fainted.
There were little stars in Jadeite's eyes, "Prince Princess, what you said is so good!"
"It's just a few words of truth." Jiang Rong said lightly. Such a small confrontation was a waste of water.
Thinking of Xie Lingxi writing a letter to herself, Jiang Rong could not suppress the smile on her lips:
"If a letter from the Crown Prince arrives, submit it to me immediately!"
"yes!"
……
As the morning dynasty ended, news spread throughout the capital that Xie Lingxi had summoned talented people in Qingzhou in order to write a letter to Jiang Rong.
As a playboy whom everyone is very familiar with, it is reasonable for him to do this.
On the contrary, more people began to speculate about what was written in that love letter, and what kind of appearance the second young lady of the Jiang family had that could enchant the Prince of the North.
When Jiang Rong was in her boudoir, she rarely went out, and few people knew her appearance.
The rumors spread more and more, and eventually Jiang Rong gained the title of the most beautiful woman in the capital.
……
Concubine Zhao returned to the yard and threw a Ru kiln tea set angrily.
"I'm so angry. This little vixen, relying on her beauty, actually humiliated me like this!" Concubine Zhao was furious.
"Madam, something big is about to happen, she will be arrested soon!" Mammy comforted:
"This girl is nothing but sharp-tongued. You can drive her away soon."
"Indeed. It's useless to be clever. She's still young when she fights with me!" Concubine Zhao remembered her plan and smiled again.
Her eyes fell on Qing Jing, and she felt a little depressed.
She is indeed not beautiful, but she is not ugly either. It’s just that it can’t be compared with Jiang Rong…
When Jiang Rong goes to jail, she will definitely scratch her face!
……
On the evening of the next day, Jiang Rong finally received this letter that had attracted much attention from thousands of miles away.
Jiang Rong opened the envelope...
A thin page, two simple sentences.
"Meet Xin'an."
"I have arrived in Qingzhou and will go to Ningshan tomorrow."
"What kind of love letter did you think the prince gathered a group of talented people to write? With his uneducated level, he can write this..." Yingxia held a lamp aside and was greatly disappointed when she saw the letter.
Jiang Rong snorted coldly, "Disrespectful to the Crown Prince, slap me!"
Yingxia knew that she had made a mistake, so she blamed herself for being too quick to talk. He knelt down hurriedly, raised his hand and slapped himself.
"Prince Concubine, although the words are simple, the Crown Prince has a deep friendship for you, which can be learned from the world..." Feicui quickly helped his master to say good things.
Jiang Rong smiled lightly, "I understand. The simplicity and the deliberate piling of rhetoric are just superficial. The true deep feelings are hidden in these simplest words."
"Your Majesty asked me how I was doing and cared about me."
"He also knows that I care about him and informed me that he has arrived safely."
"The most sincere feelings don't have so many tricks. It's just that he is thinking of you, and he also knows that you are thinking of him. My heart is the same as yours, and we just send greetings to each other."
Little stars appeared in Jade's eyes again, "Prince Princess, you are so amazing, you know everything!"
She couldn't understand anything from these two simple sentences.
The Crown Princess is still awesome!
"The prince and I have a good understanding." Jiang Rong took the letter back into the envelope with satisfaction and put it into a delicate brocade box.
I received a love letter from my husband today, so happy!
"Prince Princess, there is also this scroll, which was sent with the letter." Jade presented another scroll.
Jiang Rong opened the scroll, and a simple "Red Bean Picture" appeared in front of his eyes.
"This is... the "Red Bean Picture" by the former painting sage..." Jiang Rong was proficient in calligraphy and painting, and he recognized it at a glance. It was an ancient painting worth thousands of gold.
Ying Xia was also shocked and said flatteringly, "The Crown Prince really has a deep love for the Crown Princess. Knowing that the Crown Princess likes calligraphy and painting, I specially give you this ancient painting."
"Do you know that the red beans on the exquisite dice make you miss me deeply?" Jiang Rong stared at the ancient painting in a daze, his thin lips curled up:
"Jade, hang the painting in my room."
Husband, I receive your lovesickness!
I miss you too, hehe.
……
Capital City, Uncle Zhongyi's Mansion.
"Is it done?" Chang asked nervously.
The steward presented a heavy box: "It's done!"
Mrs. Chang hurriedly opened the box and saw a box full of banknotes, all in denominations of one thousand taels.
"Amitabha, Bodhisattva bless you." Mrs. Chang breathed a sigh of relief with a smile on her face:
"The little business I had before was really a small business. Private salt is the real huge profit."
After taking over the Xie family's property, she tried to make some money from various businesses of the Xie family...
But she soon discovered that the accounting management of the Xie family industry was very strict, interlocking and orderly, so how could it be possible for people to take advantage of loopholes easily.
If the accounts were really messed up, the Xie family industry would have been ruined long ago...
Chang was almost disappointed. At this moment, she finally found a flaw!
Xie's salt.
Salt in Daxia was prohibited from being sold privately, but was owned by the government. If you want to sell salt, you need to get an official salt certificate...
The reason why the Xie family is so rich is that since the founding of the country, the royal family gave a salt mine to the Xie family and gave them the right to sell official salt.
The accounts of salt shop sales are watched by all parties, making it difficult to manipulate them.
But she can steal salt from the salt mine and sell it...
Now that she's in charge, it's not difficult...
You only need to arrange some of your own people among the guards patrolling the salt field, and when your own people take turns guarding, you can quietly transport the salt out.
However, this amount of salt is not found in the entire salt shop’s accounts, and it cannot be found no matter how hard it is checked...
In the past few days, she had stolen a boatload of salt and sold it to a private salt dealer.
"I hope we can cooperate again!" the steward said.
Mrs. Chang smiled happily, "Buy, sell, sell! In a few days, we will prepare five more ships!"
In the first transaction, she was afraid that the private salt dealers would take advantage of them, so she didn't dare to sell more.
Now that I have seen money, the natural thing is to sell Xie's salt to earn her small treasury!
