Chapter 704 Male and female marriages are irrelevant
After agreeing with Mr. Shang on how to proceed, Bai Ling devoted all his time to searching.
In order to cover Bai Ling's tracks, Shangguan Yu would accompany "Bai Ling" every day to look for business opportunities, but in fact it was Jian Qiu who pretended to be one.
The Ninth Prince seemed to be aware of the couple's actions, but he never stopped them. Instead, he secretly helped them cover up.
"Hey, I see that you often come in and out of the palace. Are you a guard of the palace?" The girl stayed in the Ninth Prince's Mansion for several days, but she never saw the Ninth Prince. On the contrary, she often saw him, and finally couldn't help but ask.
"What are you doing here?" The Ninth Prince looked at the girl's bright eyes and couldn't help but look at her a few more times.
The Ninth Prince had the intention of apologizing for pushing the girl away that day.
But the girl really couldn't speak, and as soon as she opened her mouth, she could arouse the anger of the Ninth Prince.
"We are all acquaintances. I have something to ask you. Can you spare some time? I'll treat... I'll treat you to treat me to dinner." The girl wanted to say treat her, but she thought about her purse and gave up her generosity.
Opportunity.
"What does 'I treat you to treat me to a meal' mean?" The Ninth Prince was confused and had a headache.
"That's right, I allow you to treat me to dinner. But I am more polite, so I used the word "please." The girl firmly refused to say that she had no money.
"We don't even know who the other person is, so we're not familiar enough to treat each other, right?" The Ninth Prince rarely had the patience to tease a woman.
For some reason, the Ninth Prince, who didn't like women being near him, didn't feel disgusted with girls.
Maybe it's because the girl doesn't want to rely on him, or maybe the girl's lively and smart look is much cuter than the shy and pretentious lady.
"Your name is Jiu Ye, and my name is Xiao Ning. Now we have officially met each other. As a man, shouldn't you be more gentleman and treat guests?" The girl Xiao Ning stretched out her hand out of habit.
Seeing that the Ninth Prince did not respond, he took the initiative to hold his hand and shook it gently twice.
"We have shaken hands, are we friends? It's just a meal. Uncle, don't be so stingy." Xiao Ning said coquettishly.
"Don't call me uncle!" The Ninth Prince gritted his teeth, glared at Xiao Ning fiercely, and walked ahead.
"Hehe, uncle, please wait for me!" Xiao Ning followed happily.
Xiao Ning, who originally said she had something to ask, entered the restaurant, started ordering food, and then buried herself in eating, completely forgetting the purpose of her visit.
The Ninth Prince looked at Xiao Ning wolfing down the food with a look of disgust. He probably had a lot of free time today, so he had the patience to wait.
After burping loudly after eating, Xiao Ning took the sweat towel handed over by the Ninth Prince with a satisfied expression and wiped her oily mouth.
"The Duan family and his wife, won't they provide you with food?" Ninth Prince asked with a frown, not thinking that Bai Ling and his wife would take a nap like that.
"I'm embarrassed to eat enough. I have a big appetite. It's already good to have a place to live. What if I eat too much and get rejected? And I don't have much money. After they leave, it will be
It’s my capital to settle down and live my life.” Xiao Ning said seriously.
The ninth prince twitched the corners of his mouth angrily. Was he dissatisfied with the fact that the money he gave him was too little, and did he say he was poor?
However, the Ninth Prince had a beard, so Xiao Ning couldn't see such micro-expressions.
"I really didn't realize that you are sometimes thin-skinned." The Ninth Prince snorted.
"Don't say that. I'm a girl, so I'm naturally thin-skinned." Xiao Ning chuckled, walked closer to the Ninth Prince, and asked mysteriously: "You work as an errand in the Ninth Prince's Mansion, so you must know the Ninth Prince, right?"
The Ninth Prince looked at Xiao Ning suspiciously and said yes.
"That's the Ninth Prince. Isn't he a fierce-looking man who cries when people see him and howls when ghosts see him?"
"Did he have a broken leg or hand?"
"Is there something wrong with your brain?"
Xiao Ning asked several questions in succession, but she didn't realize that the Ninth Prince was brewing anger.
"Who did you listen to?"
"You guessed it." Xiao Ning said matter-of-factly: "It is impossible for a person who comes out of the battlefield to look gentle. Isn't it that he is very tall and strong like a bear?"
Xiao Ning said and made a strong posture.
The Ninth Prince's face became a little ugly again. He just grew a beard just to portray the image of a tough guy. Why did he look like a bear?
"That's sheer nonsense! Can't you find someone to inquire first before making any guesses?" the Ninth Prince said angrily.
"Why are you angry? Judging from the silver you gave me last time, your master must be very stingy. Besides, I am not familiar with this place. Even if I want to inquire, I have to have some connections, otherwise I will not be given to you.
For this crime, you will be thrown into jail!" Xiao Ning said aggrievedly.
"Humph!" The Ninth Prince turned away angrily.
If you say he is stingy, who will get the points?
The Ninth Prince's salary is limited, and he is not good at running a business.
The money that the Ninth Prince's Mansion used to provide relief to disabled soldiers and their families every year used up all the income from the Ninth Prince's fiefdom.
If it weren't for the occasional crackdown on bandits, the money collected from the bandits' dens could be kept for their own use, and the Ninth Prince's Mansion might not be able to afford even the servants.
It is no exaggeration to say that the bag of silver given to Xiao Ning last time was enough for the Ninth Prince to spend for a month.
Because in the capital, when the Ninth Prince went out, people would treat him to guests. The emperor knew that he was poor, so he continued to reward him, and the Queen Mother also provided supplements.
"Forget it, I won't argue with you about this, you should tell me about the Ninth Prince. Needless to say, his heroic deeds on the battlefield, I have heard about them a long time ago. I just want to ask how others are doing,
Are you good-looking? Do you have any special hobbies, such as hitting women?" Xiao Ning asked back to the topic.
"Why are you asking these questions? Do you want to marry him?" The Ninth Prince raised his eyebrows and looked at Xiao Ning.
She has a delicate appearance and a slightly baby-fat face, and her appearance can only be regarded as average.
However, the Ninth Prince, who was used to seeing beauties, would at most give Xiao Ning a score that was barely ugly.
"I just didn't want to marry him, so I escaped from the palace. Who knew that I was so incompetent that I was brought to the Western Han Dynasty by a kidnapper, so I just wanted to drop by to see if he could marry me. If it's okay, I would be a little aggrieved.
You're married. You can't go back to Beichen Country anyway, so you have to find a long-term meal ticket for yourself."
Xiao Ning said, bringing the snacks in front of her and eating them in small bites.
"Are you the princess of Beichen Kingdom?" The Ninth Prince looked at Xiao Ning and asked.
"Well, Princess Ning Xin." Xiao Ning didn't mean to make fun of her, and directly revealed her identity, "You should tell me quickly. If the Ninth Prince cannot marry me, I have to think of other ways out. I can't just sit back and settle for nothing."
Touching the money bag at her waist, Xiao Ning frowned.
"Then you'd better make plans early." Ninth Prince said with disdain: "There are so many beauties who want to marry Ninth Prince, and even a girl like you would be too ugly. Besides, Ninth Prince can't handle this marriage.
I never agreed to it, it was entirely the two emperors who wanted to marry each other."
"Isn't that just right?" Xiao Ning looked at Master Jiu with bright eyes, and said very seriously: "Anyway, he doesn't want to marry, and I don't want to marry, so I might as well pretend to get married. After a few years, I will bring the dowry.
Let’s go, it doesn’t matter whether men marry women or not, wouldn’t everyone be happy?”
The more Xiao Ning talked about it, the more he felt that his idea was really great.
He simply stopped eating snacks, sat down next to the Ninth Prince, shook his arm and said: "Uncle, can you help me introduce the Ninth Prince to me? If this thing is done, when I marry into the Ninth Prince's Mansion,
I will reward you with ten thousand taels of silver!"
Xiao Ning said boldly, which actually made Master Jiu's eyes light up, with a calculating look in his eyes. (To be continued)