When Luo Qingyan returned home, he held a carved rosewood box in his hand. It was a small long box with no idea what it contained. When he returned to the house, he put the box on Yun Shang's dressing table, but something happened.
caught Yun Shang's attention.
Yun Shang kept staring at the box for a while, then raised her head to look at Luo Qingyan, and asked softly: "What is this?" After saying that, she stood up and walked to the dressing table, holding the box in her hand and looking at it.
After a while, he turned around and looked at Luo Qingyan, "Can I open it and take a look?"
Luo Qingyan looked a little unnatural, nodded stiffly and said, "It's just for you."
"For me?" Yun Shang was a little surprised. This was not a special day. Why did Luo Qingyan give her something? It must be a dagger, Yun Shang thought. Then she opened the box, and there was something strange about it.
Hu Yunshang didn't expect that lying quietly in the box was a gold hairpin. The hairpin was a bit special. The head of the hairpin was made of lotus flowers and lotus leaves, which looked very lively.
When Yun Shang saw the lotus leaves and lotus flowers, her face suddenly turned red. She stamped her feet and glared at Luo Qingyan. She thought that Luo Qingyan should not have been allowed to succeed on that boat yesterday, and she even made a special trip to buy it.
She got a gold hairpin to remind her of yesterday’s absurdity.
Luo Qingyan understood what Yun Shang was thinking when he saw Yun Shang's expression. After pondering for a moment, he raised the corner of his mouth and smiled. He walked to Yun Shang and hugged Yun Shang's shoulders. He explained in a rare good mood: "Well
, this matter is not what you think. It’s just that when I was in the palace today, I heard the secret guard come to report that you went to many shops today and wanted to buy a gold hairpin. I asked the skills of the Treasure Pavilion in the palace to
I was busy working on a hairpin to give to you, but the craftsman asked me what pattern I wanted, and I really couldn't think of it, so I asked him to make this lotus flower one."
Hearing this, Yun Shang couldn't help but couldn't help but laugh or cry. She snorted and put the hairpin back into the box and threw it on the dressing table.
The next day, Yun Shang woke up early, but didn't really want to get up. She stayed in bed until noon, then called Qin Yi and Qian Zui to come in and help her get up.
After washing and changing her clothes, Yun Shang sat down in front of the bronze mirror and said, "I have to go out of the palace today to have a look. You can give me a simple bun as you like."
Qinyi responded and put on a hairpin that was commonly used by ordinary ladies. She also found a jade hairpin from the coffin and was about to put it on Yun Shang. Yun Shang thought for a while and picked up the red sandalwood hairpin beside her.
He opened the wooden box, took out the gold hairpin, handed it to Qin Yi and said, "Use this one."
Qin Yi glanced at the hairpin, took it, and then said with a smile: "This hairpin is quite unique. I remember, the princess doesn't have such a hairpin..." Then she took the hairpin and put it on Yun Shang's head.
She took off the hairpin, but accidentally applied a little too much force, and the tip of the hairpin passed through her hair and got stuck into Qinyi's hand.
Qin Yi exclaimed in surprise, and when she saw Yun Shang looking over, she quickly tied the hairpin in place, and then looked at her hand, only to find that it was already bleeding.
"Is it important? There is Jinchuang Medicine on the bookshelf over there. Go get some and apply some on it. It's hot today, don't let it fester." Yun Shang saw this and ordered quickly.
Qinyi smiled and nodded, comforting Yun Shang softly, "It's nothing. I just didn't expect that this hairpin is so sharp. It's just right that other hairpins usually use such a big force..."
Yun Shang thought about it carefully and understood. Even if Luo Qingyan was making a hairpin, he was still thinking about how to defend Yun Shang. This hairpin could be used as a weapon in critical moments.
Qin Yi applied Jinchuang Medicine and came over. Yun Shang took her hand and looked carefully. The wound was a bit deep. Fortunately, Qin Yi was just careless. If Yun Shang really used it, killing someone would be easy.
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When Yun Shang left the house today, she didn't wander around like she did yesterday. She went straight to Qianshui Yiren Pavilion in a carriage. Many people in Jincheng knew that Yun Shang liked to buy jewelry at Qianshui Yiren Pavilion, so there was no need to avoid it.
When they arrived at Qianshui Yiren Pavilion, the person who received the customers in the store was Yiren. Yun Shang looked at the situation in the store and found that it was no different from other jewelry stores. There were no gold and silver jewelry, only jade and precious stones.
"The princess is here, what do you want to choose today?" Yiren greeted the guest who was talking with a smile and hurriedly came over to greet her.
Yun Shang smiled and said: "Are there any new rouge gouache recently?"
The Yi Ren responded quickly: "The princess sat upstairs for a while, and the young lady immediately brought all the rouge and gouache she had made recently to let the princess take a look and see if she likes it."
Yun Shang nodded lightly and took Qin Yi and Qian Zui upstairs.
Qianyin is not upstairs, and neither is Qianshui.
Yun Shang waited upstairs for a while, and then Yi Ren came up with tea and said with a smile: "My sister and Sister Qianyin have something to go out to do today, and they are not here. What orders does the princess have?"
Yun Shang smiled and said, "Have you made any new scent powder that can track smell?"
Yi Ren shook his head and said: "There are several things in the fragrant powder that have to be purchased from Yelang Kingdom. Aren't we at war with Yelang Kingdom some time ago? Those merchants in Yelang Kingdom are usually very talkative.
He looked so loyal. After the war started, he heard that we belonged to the Xia Kingdom and refused to sell it to us."
Yun Shang nodded slightly and asked again: "The gold and silver jewelry in the store was taken away by people in the palace? Who did this?"
Yi Ren said quickly: "It's a father-in-law. He said his surname was Lai. His subordinates used the fact that many concubines in the palace had bought jewelry from us to get close to him, but he was really strict and couldn't say anything to get close to him.
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"Did he come with any purpose?"
Yiren shook her head: "No."
"No?" Yun Shang frowned, "Then why did all the merchants in Jincheng give him jewelry?"
"A few days ago, I talked about this matter with several shopkeepers nearby who also made jewelry. The man looked pale, had no beard, and spoke in a high-pitched voice. He also said that he was from the palace. Everyone believed him probably out of ten.
Okay, after all, who has nothing to do to make himself look like a chamberlain? In addition, he bought it with money, and he didn't ask us to lower the price at all. He is not selling to anyone. If he is really someone from the palace
"Buying so many things in my own store is a great honor for the businessman, and I am very happy." Yiren said quickly.
Yun Shang's brows tightened a little when she heard what she said, "In this case, you are not sure whether he is really the father-in-law in the palace?"
The beautiful woman nodded lightly.
Just as he was talking, Yun Shang heard Qian Yin's voice coming from outside. Then, the door was opened and Qian Yin walked in. Seeing Yun Shang in the room, a look of surprise flashed across his face before he smiled.
He got up, walked quickly to Yun Shang and said, "Why is the princess here?"
Yun Shang laughed after hearing this: "Why, I can't come?"
Qianyin quickly waved her hands and said "dare not" with a smile.
Yun Shang saw that there were still beads of sweat on her forehead, and asked with a smile: "Where have you been in this hot day?"
Qianyin twisted the teapot, poured herself a cup of tea, and drank a large cup of tea before she calmed down and responded: "I walked around in various shops. Recently, Xiao Ji's business has been quite good.
It's very good, but it makes me very busy. I had no choice but to pull up all the shallow water together."
Yun Shang laughed when he heard this, "If you are too busy, just tell me, and I will send some people from the secret guards to help you. Why put yourself through so much trouble."
Hearing this, Qianyin quickly said: "Some time ago, the princess moved all our hidden stakes in the Xia Kingdom to Huaiyin and Lingxi. How dare you ask for people? Now, do the secret guards have to be free? Princess
Can you send a few people to the servants to take care of them?"
Yun Shang raised her hand and knocked Qian Yin's head, "Qian Zui. Just go find Qian Zui and ask for someone."
Qianyin then smiled and thanked her.
The master and the servants were talking when they heard footsteps again. The footsteps were not light and they should not be from the secret guards. Qianyin walked to the door and looked, then turned around with a smile and said, "It's from the store."
Waiter."
The waiter in the shop walked to the door without walking in. He said to Yi Ren anxiously: "Shopkeeper, the customer downstairs brought a silver ingot with a missing corner to buy something. The younger one asked her to exchange it for another ingot. She
She said she didn't have it intact, but she still wanted to take the bracelet away."
"Show me the money." Yiren said softly.
The waiter hurriedly handed over the silver. The silver was an ingot worth one hundred taels. The protruding spot in the middle of the ingot was missing a large piece. No wonder the waiter was in trouble.
The lady turned her head and looked at the waiter, "How much is that bracelet?"
The waiter quickly responded: "Sixty taels of silver."
Yiren thought for a while and then said: "Although this silver is missing a piece, sixty taels should be enough. You go down and weigh the silver and calculate it according to the actual weight. Anyway, the silver was melted.
It can also be recast into silver taels, so there will be no shortage of taels."
The waiter in the shop quickly responded and backed away.
Yun Shang frowned, as if he was in a trance.
Qianyin asked Yun Chang another question. After not seeing Yun Chang's response for a long time, she realized that Yun Chang probably didn't listen at all and called out helplessly: "Princess..."
Yun Shang suddenly came back to her senses, but did not return to Qian Yin's question. She quickly said: "You can find a way to quietly ask the major banks whether there are many people exchanging banknotes for cash recently."
Qianyin nodded and said curiously: "Why is the princess asking about this? Could it be that she wants to exchange it for cash?"
Yun Shang shook her head, with a bit of coldness in her eyes, "I have been thinking before, what did that person do with so many jewelry? Logically speaking, jewelry is something that only women like. But just now I heard what Yi Ren said
It seems that the missing piece of silver can be re-melted into a new silver coin, but I suddenly had some very bold conjectures."
"What's your guess?" Everyone quickly looked at Yun Shang.
Yun Shang sneered before continuing: "You know, if you want to rebel, the most difficult thing to find is not soldiers, not food and grass, but weapons. Hoarding weapons is extremely easy to attract attention, but without weapons,
It's almost impossible to start an uprising. I just realized why all the jewelry that was purchased was gold, silver, and copper jewelry, but not the jade ones."
"Because they want to re-melt the gold, silver and copper on the jewelry to make weapons..." (To be continued)
