Ch. 192 - The Entangled Heart Forever and Love for a Hundred Years
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On the second day of November, in the east living room of Rongguo Mansion.
Big Master Jia has golden presbyopic glasses on his nose, his round body leans forward slightly, his two fat and short arms lean on the desk, and his neck stuck out like a turtle. He stared at an emerald fan on the table with burning eyes.
"It’s good stuff, really good stuff!"
For a long time, he shook his head and straightened his waist, carefully closed the fan, and put it into the box.
He then was like an addict and threw his whole body into the armchair with a muddy face full of intoxication.
This fan was valuable only because of its material. Besides, it has the authentic work of Cai Xiang, a famous calligrapher of the Northern Song Dynasty. So it took Master Jia 1,700 taels of silver to bring this baby home.
Redemption of the treasure of the collateral before and paying off half of the accumulated debt [the other half of the creditor's identity is not high enough, and Master Jia is ”too lazy to pay back” the debt]. After buying this treasure fan, Jia She's 7,000 silver taels from selling his daughter have now gone more than 80%, and the rest was just over 1,000 silver taels.
But Jia She didn't think he had anything to worry about. Since Sun Shaozu was willing to give 7,000 taels of silver to marry his daughter in Rongguo Mansion, another 10,000 or 8,000 taels of silver would not be a problem.
Yes~
In fact, Master Jia never thought of repenting the marriage.
How would he be willing to give away such a rich son-in-law who was so willing to take out real gold and silver for others? The reason for pretending was just to increase the price!
Ordinarily, Sun Shaozong was fooled away the day before yesterday. Sun Shaozu should also come to his door in person these two days. By then, would he open his mouth directly, or would he drag it slowly?
These two options…
It was really hard to choose!
"Master, Master!"
Master Jia was in deep thought when he saw the housekeeper, Zhou Rui, burst in from outside. He was out of breath and said, "Master, outside... people are coming... coming outside..."
"People coming?!"
Jia She jumped up from his chair and said, "Why are you here? Why don't you invite them in?"
In recent days, he closed the door and waited for the Sun family to come. So when Zhou Rui came to report, he thought that Sun Shaozu must have arrived.
Unexpectedly, Zhou Rui was ordered to go out, but soon he brought in a middle-aged man dressed as a housekeeper.
Sun Shaozu unexpectedly only sent a housekeeper?
Jia She was a little unhappy. When he met the housekeeper, he held his head high and did not have any sense of awe. He was even more unhappy. He thought that the Big Master would be his future son-in-law. How dare a small housekeeper be so rude?!
So he didn't wait for the housekeeper to open his mouth, and then he asked in a loud and vicious voice, "Why didn't your Big Master come here in person?"
The housekeeper was stunned at first, then gave a defiant bow and said with a sneer, "My Prince is busy with official business, so it is not convenient for me to respect you."
"Prince?"
When Jia She was a little dumbfounded, he blurted out, "Which Prince?"
"Who else could it be?"
The housekeeper arched his hand toward the sky and said proudly, "It is the old man, Prince Zhongshun…
"Prince... Prince Zhongshun?!"
Jia She's tongue was crisp at once. He hurriedly lowered the posture of his ”dignity.” He bent over, smiled, and said, "It’s a misunderstanding, this is a big misunderstanding! If I knew that you are the Chief sent from the Prince's Residence, I would not dare to say such nonsense!"
"I see."
The servant sneered, pointed his nostrils at Jia She, and said, "I still wanted to report to the Prince to ask him to come and visit in person. It seems that General Jia doesn't need it anymore."
"No need, you naturally don’t have to!"
Jia She shook his head like a rattle and leaned his shoulder to flatter him, "Please take a seat, sir. Where are you, Zhou Rui? Hurry! Make a pot of good tribute tea for the Lord!"
Although the chief official of the Royal Residence was only a grade five official position, he was the first confidant of the Princes, and offending him was like offending the Prince himself. Hence, Jia She put his figure low.
However, the Chief didn't mean to sit down. He still said proudly, "I can't afford the tribute tea. Let's talk about the important matter first. The Prince heard yesterday that you received the dowry gift of 10,000 silver taels from Commander Sun of the patrol camp, and wanted to match your daughter from your family to him."
"My Prince loves being lively and has some friendship with both sides, so he specially sent two congratulatory gifts to me."
As he spoke, he waved to the door, and immediately someone sent in two snack boxes.
The chief official pointed at the snacks and said, "A box of ”Entangled Heart Forever” is for your house. The box of ”Love for a Hundred Years” is for you to send to the Sun Family."
When Jia She heard this, he was dumbfounded. Prince Zhongshun only received some money. Was it necessary to intervene in such private matters personally?
How would he know that it was Sun Shaozu’s business route with an annual profit of more than 100,000 silver taels that was valued by Prince Zhongshun?
"Why?"
Seeing that Jia She was dumbfounded and didn't mean to go forward to take the snack, the Chief Official raised his eyebrows again and said unhappily, "Is there anything wrong with the reward from the Prince?"
"How is that possible?"
Jia She then came to his senses and rushed forward to take it in person. He tried to pretend to be grateful and tearful and said, "I'm too happy. I don't know what to do for a moment!"
"That's good."
The Chief Official arched his hand and said, "Since that is the case, I will not bother you. I will only ask for a glass of wine when the family has fixed the date of the marriage."
The date of the marriage?
Even the time limit for marriage has been set!
Is he marrying his daughter, or is Prince Zhongshun going to marry his daughter?!
After seeing the Chief Official leave, Jia She became angry. He suddenly held up the two boxes of snacks but hesitated for a while, but he didn’t dare to fall to the ground after all.
He had no choice but to carefully put the snack next to his valuable fan and then picked up the pen, ink, paper, and inkstone on the table. He smashed them in a flurry, and he finally fell on the chair, panting like a cow.
However, the Chief Official was outspoken and full of confidence when he spoke. In addition to Jia She's fierce reaction, there was something fishy about it, which could not be concealed from the slaves nearby.
So it took only half a day, and the news that General Jia sold his daughter to Commander Sun of the patrol camp for 10,000 taels of silver spread at once.
Jia Yingchun, the concerned party, naturally got the news.
However, she just became more speechless, as if she had evolved from two pieces of wood to two stones.