Inside the Imperial Study
"Thirty cents?" Emperor Liang Ping was a little surprised and couldn't help but repeat it.
"Yes, Your Majesty, with only thirty cents, you can enter the house and see the true face of the Crown Prince's wife." Xu Hai covered his lips with his sleeves and laughed.
"Hahaha," Emperor Liang Ping also laughed, "This person is quite interesting. He can actually think of such a way to make money."
"That's right. If I could leave you, I would also like to spend thirty cents to go and see that girl! Now people are saying that the Duke's Mansion treated the future Crown Prince's wife harshly, and he has fallen to this point." It was like watching a monkey show and asking for tips. It seemed that the man also treated everyone else as a monkey show. He was really not presentable.
"What about Pei Che? Has he heard about it?" After Emperor Liang Ping finished laughing, he turned his attention to the other side of the public opinion.
"According to the news, Prince Pei had a conflict with his classmates yesterday and almost came to blows. The cause was due to this incident." Xu Hai has been having people pay attention to their every move. Although the emperor will not ask about it every day, he must be prepared. This is one of the reasons why he has been able to serve the emperor all the time.
"That's the nature of a young man!" Emperor Liang Ping smiled and shook his head. "In this way, wouldn't the good reputation he has accumulated over the years be ruined?"
Xu Hai nodded quickly: "That's right! In the past, when people mentioned Prince Pei, they all said that he was not only handsome, but also behaved like a gentleman, and was very popular in the Imperial College. But now, he has quarreled with his classmates over that man again and again. Now when people mention him, they can only sigh helplessly."
"Alas," Emperor Liang Ping also sighed and said hypocritically, "You said Pei Shijie has a great reputation throughout his life. If he knew about these things, what would his reaction be?"
Hearing him mention the late heir, Xu Hai considered for a moment and said cautiously: "I don't know, but if I were the late heir, I would be furious, right?"
Emperor Liang Ping shook his head and said, "You don't understand him. He is a person who will never get angry. I hated him for that." His calm demeanor made all of them look terrible. Whenever the late emperor saw him, he would sigh and say that he wanted his son to be like this.
Xu Hai didn't dare to say anything. Emperor Liang Ping was stunned for a while, then turned to talk about other things.
Pei Che expected the reactions of the people in the palace, and the reactions of the people outside the palace were exactly the same as he had expected.
The rumors spread again, and the whole city of Liangjing was talking about it. Some people even invited others to go see this man. It was no wonder they were curious, because this was the first time in Liangjing.
Taking advantage of the public opinion storm, the Jiang family shop also took advantage of the situation and made a lot of money. The shop was crowded with customers. At the end of each day, I don’t know how many discount coupons were issued, but very few people came to redeem them. I guess in the minds of these people, thirty cents is not worth mentioning at all, and they might just throw it away after taking it with them.
However, their handling of the discount coupons had nothing to do with Jiang Miao. After all, the money and goods had been exchanged, and he would not be held responsible. Jiang Miao seized this opportunity and extended the business hours from the morning to the afternoon. Every day he sat in the backyard like a mascot, waiting for those people to come over with a handful of copper coins to take a look at him.
No wonder people nowadays want to run internet celebrity stores. The profits brought by the celebrity effect are simply too tempting. If Jiang Miao was not afraid of losing his integrity, he would have wanted to hang a sign at the door to tell passers-by who didn't know that the male prince's wife, who was married by the emperor's decree, was in this store.
After the shop closed that day, Jiang Miao counted the money he made today, and then rolled over on the bed excitedly, which attracted Pei Mu's puzzled look. Jiang Miao lay on the bed, looked at Pei Mu and said, "Little Wood, do you know how much money we made these days?"
Pei Mu blinked and shook his head.
Jiang Miao stretched out three fingers: "Three hundred taels!" One fifth of the shop!
How much is three hundred taels? Pei Mu didn't know, he just knew it was a lot of money, so he curled his lips towards Jiang Miao.
"Alas, it's a pity that there are fewer and fewer people every day. Now those people should be used to it." Jiang Miao sighed sadly. On the first day, he was worried that this matter would affect Pei Che. But that night, he received a letter from Pei Che.
The letter said that since the news had been leaked, there was no need to hide it any longer. He felt that Jiang Miao's way of handling the matter was very good, so he told Jiang Miao not to worry, and that he would be responsible for whatever happened.
Jiang Miao thought about it, that's right, wasn't it because the person in the palace wanted to see them make a fool of themselves that he and Pei Che were granted marriage? Probably for that person in the palace, it was wrong for them to be well-behaved and honest. After figuring it out, he let go, after all, it wasn't to cheat people out of money, it was just to follow the current situation.
"Brother! I'm back!" Little Stone rushed in from outside, shouting. These past few days, Jiang Miao had been active at night and it was not convenient for him to go out in broad daylight to pick people up, so the task of picking people up was given to other people.
"You're back. I'll go cook. You and Xiao Mutou can write together. Let's eat here before going home." Jiang Miao touched Xiao Mutou's head and got up to cook.
After a quick dinner, Jiang Miao took the two children on the carriage that came to pick them up under the dim moonlight. Mingfeng Street was not very close to Yifeng Street, and the carriage took a while to get home. Jiang Miao took out the key, opened the side door, and took the two children home.
After returning home, Jiang Miao heard a knock on the door before his butt even touched the chair. He walked over to open the door while shouting "I'm coming."
"Auntie Liu, what do you want to talk to me about?" Jiang Miao asked.
"What's wrong?" Jiang Miao scratched his head. A few days ago, when she found out that he was the legendary male prince's consort, Aunt Liu had the same reaction. At that time, he explained for a long time before Aunt Liu and the others let go of their restraint and fear and continued to get along with him in a normal manner.
"Someone asked me to bring you a message, saying that your uncle asked you to remember to go home." Aunt Liu accepted the task, and she couldn't rest until she completed it. She kept an eye on Jiang Miao's movements, waiting for him to come back so that she could tell him the news.
"My second uncle?" Jiang Miao murmured. He looked at Aunt Liu and asked, "Did the person who delivered the message for my second uncle say who he was?"
Aunt Liu said, "He said he was your neighbor and that he was in town for some business. Oh, and he also said that this matter was urgent and that you'd better go back quickly. I thought that Qingming Festival was in two days, so it must be about this matter, right?"
"Thank you, Aunt Liu, for keeping you waiting for so long." Jiang Miao hurriedly expressed his gratitude.
Aunt Liu waved her hand and said generously: "Hey, this is nothing, we are neighbors, it's just a message, why should we thank you? If so, you help us make money, and we haven't thanked you yet!"
After Jiang Miao opened the shop, because the demand for oil paper bags was so great that he had no time to take care of it, he paid to hire someone in the yard who was free to cut the oil paper and glue the bags for him. He could easily earn a dozen or twenty coins a day, which was enough for the daily vegetable money, and he could even eat meat after saving for two days. This kind of work can be done while chatting, and it does not interfere with other things. It makes much more money than helping people wash clothes and mend clothes.
After Aunt Liu left, Jiang Miao felt a little strange. When his uncle and aunt came to preside over the engagement ceremony, he had clearly told them that he would go back on his own during the Qingming Festival. Why would they specially ask someone to bring a message
Because he was a little worried, Jiang Miao decided to go to the store early tomorrow morning to tell them about it, and then go home. He planned to leave the two little ones with the guards, and if there was nothing else, he would try to go and come back early.
When Jiang Miao talked to the two little boys, Xiao Shitou nodded happily, because he had to go to school anyway. Pei Mu was a little unhappy, because he still wanted to follow Jiang Miao.
Under normal circumstances, it would be okay to take him with you. But today's situation was rather strange, and he was afraid that if he took Pei Mu with him, he would be hard to deal with if something happened, so he could only persuade him gently and said that he would come back early.
Seeing Pei Mu still pouting, Little Stone suddenly suggested, "Why don't you go to school with me tomorrow?"
Pei Mu turned his head and looked at him, with some curiosity in his eyes. He used to go to pick up and drop off Xiao Shitou with Jiang Miao every day, and he had long been interested in going to school.
"Will Master Yu agree?" Jiang Miao was a little worried, fearing that he would be criticized.
Little Stone nodded affirmatively: "The teacher will definitely agree. The day before yesterday, Xiaopang's mother went out for something, so his brother went with Xiaopang. His brother is only three years old this year. He cried when the teacher was giving a lecture, but the teacher was not angry and gave him candy.
In Xiao Shitou's heart, Pei Mu is also his brother, so naturally he can go with him.
"Well, our little Mu Tou doesn't like to talk, so he will definitely not make any noise to disturb the teacher during class. But little Shi Tou, since you want to take him with you, you must take good care of him and don't let anyone bully him. Can you do that?" Jiang Miao said. He could see what Pei Mu was thinking. The child wanted to go with him.
Little Stone nodded vigorously: "Don't worry, brother! My classmates are all very nice and will never bully anyone."
"Then it's settled. It's getting late, let's go wash up and go to bed." Jiang Miao solved a problem and felt extremely relaxed in an instant.
The next morning, Jiang Miao went to the store first and then went home as planned yesterday. Several people in the store looked at his back, thinking that today's set meal might not be sold out because the other additional service of this set meal was not available today.
While on the way, Jiang Miao thought about many possible situations at home, and the more he thought about it, the more anxious he became. When he hurriedly arrived, he found many people standing outside the yard watching the excitement.
"Everyone, please make way and let me in." Jiang Miao shouted.
"Sanshui boy, you're back?" Someone noticed Jiang Miao and quickly stepped aside, then called out to others, asking them to move aside.
The others all shouted that Sanshui boy was back, and at the same time they stepped back a few steps to leave a path for Jiang Miao to enter.
Jiang Miao didn't have time to thank him and hurried into the yard. In the yard, two groups of people were confronting each other. On one side were the uncle and aunt of the Jiang family, and on the other side were middle-aged men and women whom Jiang Miao didn't know. They also brought an old woman dressed in fancy clothes. The head of the Jiang family stood between them, as if mediating something.
Jiang Miao had no idea what they were here for, but from the angry expressions of his uncle and aunt, he could tell that these people coming to his house was definitely not up to good purpose.
(End of this chapter)