Meiyuan is the most famous opera troupe in Shangjing today, and even the Queen Mother in the palace loves to listen to their plays.
Not only that, but the owner of the plum garden has a pair of daughters with dragon and phoenix fetuses. They are fifteen years old. They are all good-looking and have a good singing voice. Countless talents and beauties in the city fall in love with them.
The sister and brother's play is hard to find, and the ticket price is even higher.
After a play was sung, there was no one on the stage, but the people in the seats were still reluctant to leave and stared at it.
Among these adults, the smallest audience is Yun Xiaoan.
She sat on the raised stool with her legs crossed, her hands resting on it, her chin dragged, and she stared at the stage with everyone.
Ah, sister Mei is so pretty, and brother Mei is also very beautiful.
It was not until the guys from the Meiyuan came to clear the field that Yun Xiaoan reluctantly left the Meiyuan with the crowd.
Outside the park, Yun Xiaoan was holding her empty money jar, her white and tender face wrinkled into a ball.
The little man has already realized a truth early on, and that is—
Money is really worthless.
No wonder my mother has so much money, and she is still making money.
She just went in with more than one hundred taels of silver, bought the front seat, and ordered the best sweet fruit tea and the most fragrant pastries.
At the end of the scene, Yun Xiaoan replaced the remaining silver taels with flowers and threw them to her favorite brother Mei and sister Mei.
Now, Yun Xiaoan has become an empty Yun Xiaoan, the poorest person in the family.
The results of a month's hard work to make money fell short in one afternoon.
But for the good-looking brothers and sisters, it's worth it!
Yun Xiaoan stood on the street where people came and went, listening to all directions, and began to think about how to make money for the next month's theater.
Pedestrians walked in twos and threes, floating over to talk.
"Have you heard? Someone dug up gold in the maple forest outside the city!"
"Really or not? There will be no pie in the sky, don't let people be deceived."
"Some people like to cheat and play, but there are always fools who believe it and really go for gold."
"It's hard to say, what if it's true?"
"It's true, why don't you dig?"
"… "
Yun Xiaoan held the empty money jar, blinked and blinked again.
Got it!
Yun Xiaoan didn't say a word, ran home immediately, took out a pen and paper, and wrote more than 20 letters in one go, asking her grandfather Yuan to help her 'friends'.
In the letter, she sincerely invites her little friends to go to the maple forest outside the city tomorrow afternoon to dig for gold together.
Everyone is blessed.
In the afternoon of the second day, Yun Xiaoan held a shovel and looked forward to it outside the maple forest early.
She asked the steward Yuan on the side: "Grandpa Yuan, how many people do you think will come?"
Yuan Guanshi waited for a while, thought for a while, and said with a serious face: "Little Miss, this old slave can't guess."
His little miss sent a total of 24 letters, and Yuan Steward thought, although these children are small, but they have been deceived by the little lady so many times, they should have a better memory.
It is possible that no one will come today.
But maybe, Lin Congchong, the young master of Lin Feng and Lin Shangshu's family, may come.
After all, this child has no heart and no memory.
Sure enough, after a while, Lin Congchong with a shovel ran over.
Yun Xiaoan's eyes lit up: "Lin Chongchong, you're finally here! I've been waiting for you for a long time!"
Lin Congchong: "Xiao An! Is there really gold here?"
Yun Xiaoan: "Of course there is! I overheard it from my father. You know, my father is the prime minister, there is nothing he doesn't know about."
The family's father Lin Feng admired Wu Xiang very much, and Lin Congchong no longer doubted when he heard the words: "Then let's go dig!"
He recently wanted to buy the famous Changsheng general in the cricket world, but he was very short of money.
The parents in the family would not give him money to buy crickets, they would only beat his ass to bloom, and he could only rely on himself.
Yun Xiaoan straightened her waist and said mysteriously, "Chongchong, let's wait, it's easier to dig when there are more people."
Lin Congchong: "??"
He scratched his head and didn't quite understand.
If there is gold to dig here, isn't it better to dig with fewer people? How can there be more people to dig
The two waited for a while, and the prince came.
Yun Xiaoan's eyes lit up again: "Brother Prince, you are finally here! I have been waiting for you for a long time!"
When the current queen was still in her boudoir, she was a famous cold beauty in the upper capital.
The prince has seven appearances as a queen, and he was alienated at a young age. He didn't say anything, just nodded.
Lin Congchong looked at the prince and asked, "Your Highness, why didn't you bring a shovel? What will you use to dig for gold later?"
Qi Chengxiu said succinctly: "You dig, I won't rob."
Beside him, Yun Xiaoan was still standing on tiptoe and looking forward.
Qi Chengxiu didn't want to stand here and wait. After thinking about it, he said, "No one will come."
He and Lin Congchong are the ones who will come to send money to Wu Yunan.
He was spending money to hide from his father, and as for Lin Congchong... it didn't matter, it had nothing to do with him.
Yun Xiaoan could only accept the fact that the other 22 little friends became smarter.
Alas, those twenty-two little friends are no longer available. It seems that she is going to make another batch of new little friends.
Yun Xiaoan waved his hand: "Let's go, let's dig for gold!"
Lin Congchong followed excitedly and dug a pit with Yun Xiaoan.
The prince found a place to sit under a tree, took out a book and read it, enjoying a moment of purity.
An hour later, Lin Congchong threw down the shovel: "There's no gold here! I'm going home!"
Yun Xiaoan said solemnly: "No! Here it is! Lin Chongchong, you can't give up like this, you have to learn to persevere!"
Lin Congchong: "But I'm tired and hungry. I want to go home for dinner."
Yun Xiaoan: "You have to dig gold before you can go home. If you can't dig it, you can't go back."
Lin Congchong opened his mouth, always feeling that this scene seemed familiar: "What if I have to go back?"
Yun Xiaoan threatened: "Then I will tell your parents where you hid the crickets."
Lin Congchong looked terrified: "No way!!" Cricket is his life.
He remembered that it had happened a few times before.
Lin Congchong could only continue digging, digging and digging to find the prince: "His Royal Highness, what should I do?"
The prince put down the book and looked at Lin Congchong.
Lin Congchong approached: "I don't have any money on me."
The prince didn't speak, and still looked at Lin Congchong.
Lin Congchong frowned: "Your Highness, I will pay you back. Could you lend me a little."
The prince thought for a while: "You don't have to pay it back, you will go back to the palace with me later."
The food in the womb was better than that at home, so Lin Congchong immediately patted his chest with his feet: "Don't worry, Your Highness, I, Lin Congchong, are bound by my duty!"
The prince gave Lin Congchong a tael of silver from his arms, and then he himself took out a tael of silver.
Lin Congchong dug two pits and buried the silver in them.
Seeing this, Yun Xiaoan flew over by himself, and said something in his mouth: "Maybe there is gold here."
Sure enough, she dug up two taels of silver.
Although it is not gold, she is satisfied!
The prince was able to bring Lin Congchong back to the palace.
The emperor, who was looking for the prince in the afternoon, found no one, and came over again before dinner.
This time the prince is here, not only the prince, but also Lin Congchong.
When the two children saw the emperor, they were going to salute him. The emperor asked them to waive the salute, sit aside, and asked kindly, "Chengxiu, where did you go out of the palace this afternoon?"
Lin Congchong ate the good dim sum, and said very familiarly: "Your Majesty, this minister and His Highness went to the Maple Leaf Forest to dig for gold!"
The emperor was stunned for a moment, but just as he was about to ask, Lin Congchong said again: "Yun Xiaoan told us that there is gold in the Maple Leaf Forest. The minister and His Highness passed by! But the Maple Leaf Forest has no gold at all!"
The emperor wanted to speak again.
Lin Congchong whispered: "Yun Xiaoan is lying to us again, Your Majesty, Dad told me that you are the most powerful person in the world, and everyone must listen to you. Your Majesty, can you find Yun? Xiao An, take back two taels of silver from the minister and His Highness? Your Majesty…”
Emperor:"… … "
It didn't take long for the emperor, who couldn't get in a word, and left in a huff.
Lin Congchong was the kind of child that the emperor disliked the most. He talked a lot and didn't focus on it. He didn't really approve of Lin Congchong being his son's companion.
But the prince liked it very much and insisted on Lin Congchong.
The emperor sighed and diverted to the empress to complain.
*
Wu Weian received his monthly salary, he touched the slightly bulging bag of silver coins, and the corner of his lips never smiled.
Just in time, Yun Xiaoan jumped out of the carriage with the money jar: "Daddy!"
Wu Weian stopped and waited for his daughter to approach.
He looked down and saw two taels of silver in the money jar.
There was a play in Meiyuan this afternoon, Wu Weian knew what happened without even thinking about it.
He clicked his tongue and weighed the money bag in his hand: "Yun An, do you know how much Dad has here?"
Yun Xiaoan's eyes fell on the purse: "Dad, have you paid your monthly salary? How much?"
Wu Weian threw the money bag and put it in his arms: "Don't ask children about adults. It's more than two taels of silver anyway."
Yun Xiaoan was holding her precious money jar and was very angry: "I'm still young now, when I'm as big as you, I'll definitely be richer than you!"
Wu Weian shrugged: "I hope."
The father and daughter were quarreling with each other. Just as the two entered the gate, the three carriages slowly stopped, and Ji Yunxi walked down from the carriage at the head.
Yun Xiaoan ran back: "Mother! Dad, he has paid a monthly salary!"
Lin Chongchong told her that as soon as his father paid the monthly salary, his mother would take it away.
Yun Xiaoan thought that her father's monthly salary should also be taken away by her mother. Otherwise, why would her father have no money in his pocket the next day after each monthly payment
After she reminded her, she waited for her mother to quickly take away her father's monthly salary, so that her father could no longer show off in front of her!
But Ji Yunxi heard only a faint sound.
Ji Yunxi didn't like Xiangye Wu's monthly salary.
In other homes, the wife confiscated her husband's private money because she didn't want her husband to go out and spend money indiscriminately.
As far as she knew, over the years, Wu Xiangye's monthly salary had been deposited underground by him.
flower? That is impossible. Wu Xiangye never pays for himself when he is outside, and now many people are rushing to pay for him.
Yun Xiao'an, who was waiting for her mother to receive her father's monthly salary, did not wait for the scene she wanted to see, but only waited for the guards in the house to carry the boxes from the carriage.
Yun Xiaoan asked curiously, "Mother, what are those?"
Ji Yunxi reached out and took a dead leaf from her daughter's hair accessory: "Silver."
Yun Xiaoan's eyes widened: "This, how much is this, mother."
Ji Yunxi said in a casual tone, "Ten thousand taels."
Yun Xiaoan: "!!"
"..." Mr. Wu, who followed him back, silently put the money bag back into his pocket.
-
After dinner, Yun Xiaoan circled in the yard.
While going around in circles, she thought, how can she make money to be as rich as her mother
Many people say that her mother is so rich, why does she have to make money everywhere.
That's because those people don't understand that only their own money is theirs and can be spent casually.
Just like her mother's money, she can buy delicious and drinkable food, but she can't go to the plum garden to listen to the opera and throw flowers to the good-looking brothers and sisters.
Because of this, my father will be angry, my mother will be angry, and she will be kicked out of the house.
But the money she earned by herself, her parents don't care how she uses it.
Going around, Yun Xiaoan saw Wu Weian coming here, holding the bag of monthly salary that he just got today.
Yun Xiaoan fell to the ground at once, hiding among the trees.
She wanted to know, if her mother didn't look down on her father's monthly salary, where did the father's monthly salary go
Wu Weian came to a jungle in the backyard, and when he heard the sound of tiptoe footsteps behind him, he lowered his eyebrows, pondered for a moment, continued to walk forward, and reached out to carry away a bush.
This is the entrance to the underground vault.
Wu Weian flashed into it, and came out calmly after a while, covering the grass again.
Yun Xiaoan covered her mouth and crouched behind a tree. After Wu Weian left, she immediately ran over.
She removed the cover of the entrance, lay there, stuck her head out and looked down.
At night, it was pitch dark inside, and nothing could be seen clearly, which made people feel a little scared for no reason.
Yun Xiaoan bit her lip, lay there quietly and thought about it, and finally covered the grass back.
This matter needs to be discussed in the long run, and she has to find help.
-
In the afternoon of the second day, when the sun was at its fullest, the three children appeared in the jungle.
The tallest boy has a cold face, the shorter boy has a stubborn head, and the other girl is smart and playful.
Lin Congchong: "Yun Anan, let me tell you, you lied to me and His Highness yesterday. I told the Emperor last night that if you lie to me and His Highness again today, the Emperor will punish you for imprisonment!"
Yun Xiaoan didn't care at all.
The prince's elder brother's mother likes her very much, and the prince's elder brother's father likes the prince's elder brother's mother very much.
Then the prince's brother's father will not put her in confinement.
What's more, her uncle is still here.
Yun Xiaoan: "I didn't lie to you, how could I lie to you, Lin Congchong, you are my best friend! There is really a treasure here! I live here, can I not be clear?"
Lin Congchong looked at His Royal Highness.
His Royal Highness: "Look."
He was curious about what Wu Xiang was hiding at home.
Yun Xiaoan walked over and used her arms to move the grass-covered stones away.
Over the years, she has not practiced martial arts in vain.
Yun Xiaoan clapped his hands and gave Lin Congchong a wink.
Lin Congchong: "Why?"
Yun Xiaoan: "Lin Chongchong, you go first!"
Lin Congchong looked at the dark passage and was a little scared: "I don't want it."
Yun Xiaoan: "What should I do then? Do you want to let the prince's brother get off first?"
Lin Congchong looked at the prince, and the prince looked back quietly, expressing his agreement with Yun Xiaoan's statement.
Lin Congchong couldn't, looked at the scorching sun above his head, and jumped down with his eyes closed.
Yun Xiaoan lay there and looked at it, and asked, "Lin Chongchong, how's it going!"
Lin Congchong looked around: "It's so dark, Yun Anan, come down quickly!"
Yun Xiaoan looked at the prince and blinked: "Brother Prince..."
The prince had a headache: "I see."
Wu Xiang knew his weakness that he didn't like nagging, and Yun Xiaoan also knew it.
He jumped off.
Yun Xiaoan lay there and waited for a while. After seeing that the two little friends were all right, she jumped down.
It was dark below, and she took out the night pearl she was carrying.
Lin Congchong: "You have a night pearl, why didn't you give it to me earlier?"
Yun Xiaoan: "What if you break it? This is my mother's, I borrowed it secretly, and I have to put it back in a while. Lin Chongchong, hurry up and hurry up."
Lin Congchong had no choice but to open the way ahead.
Before taking a few steps, he stepped on the trap, and before everyone could react, he was hung in the air by a fishing net.
Lin Congchong shouted in fear: "Yun An'an, let me down quickly!"
Yun Xiaoan blinked: "It's too high, I can't reach it."
Lin Congchong: "Then what to do!"
Yun Xiao'an: "Don't worry, my brother and I will go to the front to take a look first, and I will call Grandpa Yuan to let you down later."
Lin Congchong: "?!"
Yun Xiaoan and the prince continued to move forward.
The prince looked at the person following behind and pointed to the night pearl in her hand: "Give it to me."
Yun Xiaoan hid Ye Mingzhu behind her back and was reluctant.
Such a valuable thing is still in your own hands.
It's like she never let her daddy keep the money for her.
Prince: "If it's broken, two more."
Yun Xiaoan quickly handed Ye Mingzhu to the prince, and sincerely prayed that the prince's brother would break.
The prince held it steady.
The mechanism here is not complicated, the prince took Yun Xiaoan to bypass it and continued to move forward.
Lin Congchong shouted that he was tired, so he closed his eyes and planned to take a nap in the fishing net.
After calming down and not being afraid, this fishing net is quite comfortable to sleep.
The prince was apprenticed to Wu Weian. Although he is still young now, Wu Weian's organization here was also set up for these five-six-seven-year-old children, and it went smoothly all the way.
Just when there was not much distance from Shimen, Yun Xiaoan, who was behind, suddenly fell towards the prince, aiming at the night pearl in the prince's hand.
The prince frowned, holding Ye Mingzhu in his hand to avoid it.
It's a pity that he did avoid Wu Yunan, but he stepped on the trap by mistake and was hanged like Lin Congchong.
Prince: "..."
Yun Xiaoan looked at the fishing net above, said a few words of concern 'anxiously', took it out of his arms, took out a night pearl, and went forward alone.
Just kidding, how can outsiders come and go in the treasure house of her Wu family
Not long after, Yun Xiaoan left and returned.
When she passed the prince: "Brother prince, I'll find someone to let you down."
The prince threw a knife from the fishing net: "Cutting the thread."
Yun Xiaoan picked up the knife, touched the gem at the handle of the knife, looked at the line used to raise the fishing net, and tried to tiptoe: "Brother Prince, I can't reach it."
Prince: "Yesterday Wu Xiang taught me Qinggong, and told me that your Qinggong is better than mine."
Yun Xiaoan: "...Okay."
Before she cut the line, she knew that she was guilty, and said: "But brother prince, you can't settle accounts with me after you come down!"
Prince: "..."
The prince had a lot of things he wanted to say in his heart, but in the end he was too lazy to say: "I see."
Only then did Yun Xiaoan let the prince down, and forced the prince to sign a contract on the spot.
After that, Lin Congchong was also forced to sign.
That is, if the two of them leak this Wu family treasure, they will have to pay Wu Yunan 100,000 taels of gold.
-
The disgraced three people quietly walked around to the front yard. Seeing that they were about to leave the gate of Wu's house, Wu Weian appeared suddenly: "Stop."
As soon as Yun Xiaoan stopped, she hid behind the prince and Lin Congchong without saying a word, her small eyes flickering, looking at the sky and the earth, but not her father.
Wu Weian appeared quickly, and as soon as he stretched out his hands, the prince and Lin Congchong were picked up by him.
Without saying a word, the prince took out all the money on his body, a total of three taels of silver.
He has learned to be smart in the past two years, and when he comes to see Yun Xiaoan or Wu Xiang, he will never carry more than fifty taels of silver on him.
The servants in the imperial palace are still very surprised, why does His Highness ask them to exchange one hundred taels of silver for one tael of broken silver every time.
Wu Weian put down the prince intact, and quietly put the three taels of silver in the prince's hand into his arms.
The prince straightened his clothes and was about to leave the Wu residence.
Yun Xiaoan grabbed him and watched eagerly.
The prince opened Yun Xiaoan's fingers one by one and left without showing any mercy.
Lin Congchong began to touch his body, but he didn't bring a single copper plate today.
Wu Weian directly threw Lin Congchong into the grass beside him. Lin Congchong clutched his pi and ran away with oil on the soles of his feet.
Over there, Yun Xiaoan had already taken the opportunity to run to the corner, but was still picked up by Wu Weian from behind by the back collar.
Wu Weian sneered: "You can do it, Yun Xiaoan."
Yun Xiaoan was lifted up in midair, but she didn't struggle, she stood upright, she laughed, and said sweetly, "Daddy, why are you back?"
Wu Weian: "Come back and catch the mouse."
Yun Xiaoan blinked, saw Ji Yunxi passing by, and hurriedly shouted, "Mother, Daddy is going to hit me!!"
Ji Yunxi glanced at it, ignored it, and passed by.
Yun Xiaoan: quq
"It's useless, your mother has always helped you or not." Wu Weian smiled grimly at his daughter, "After the mouse is caught, do you know what to do first?"
Yun Xiaoan shook her head obediently.
Wu Weian: "Shake it first."
Holding his daughter's collar, he was shaking in mid-air.
Gold fell from Yun Xiaoan's pockets and arms one after another.
She stuffed all the places where she could put gold.
After the gold was shaken, Yun Xiaoan's face turned pale.
Wu Weian threw his daughter into the grass far away, and Yun Xiaoan groaned while clutching his fart.
But when she saw what Wu Weian was doing, she got up without a word, ran over as fast as she could, and went to grab her money jar: "Two taels of silver are mine!"
"Your father accepts the punishment for trespassing in the vault." Wu Weian pocketed two taels of silver with a clear face, hugged him a pile of gold, and left briskly.
Yun Xiaoan: "!!!"