Ren Qingxin's pretty face was slightly startled, and she subconsciously glanced at the purse embroidered with several exquisite orchids on the little cutie's waist.
"Ah? Yue'er, you shouldn't be short of money, right?
Originally, my aunt thought that your father already liked money enough. I never expected that you actually liked money even more than your father. "
The little cutie gently opened her purse, looked down at the banknotes inside, looked up at Ren Qingxin's pretty face and sighed sadly.
"Hey, little aunt, there's nothing I can do about it, Yue'er. I'm really scared of being poor before!"
"Cough...cough cough cough."
Ren Qingxin coughed when she heard the little cutie's pitiful tone.
In one breath, he almost didn't come up.
"Yue'er, are you kidding me?
You know, what was your previous identity?
She was not only the only little princess of the Jin Kingdom at the time, but also one of the apples of Liu Mingzhi, the Duke of Dalong Ding.
At the same time, you are also a good granddaughter of Liu Zhian, the richest man in Dalong Jiangnan.
By the way, the then Turkic Princess Wanyan Yanyu was a biological sister of your mother and your biological aunt, Yue'er.
With these identities superimposed together, Yue'er, you can be said to be the favorite of countless people!
To put it bluntly, among people of the same age as you.
When it comes to the dignity of birth, you, Liu Luoyue, are the first, and absolutely no one dares to be the second.
Now you actually tell your aunt that you were afraid of poverty before?
Yue'er, to be honest, this joke is not funny at all. "
When Ren Qingxin said these words, his tone was full of envy, jealousy and hatred.
Listening to Ren Qingxin's pretense of envy, the little cutie pressed her pretty nose angrily, her beautiful eyes erratic and laughed.
"Hehehe, oh, little aunt, you don't know.
No matter where you are, it’s just your background, but it still doesn’t stop you from having money to spend! "
Ren Qingxin breathed out angrily and tapped the little cutie's forehead with her finger.
"Yue'er, don't think that my aunt doesn't know anything.
As far as I know, you have never had any money in your wallet since you were a child.
At the very least, there are at least several thousand taels of banknotes!
Yue'er, do you know what a few thousand taels of silver notes mean to ordinary people? "
The little cutie nodded with a smile and gathered her purse casually.
"Hehehe, it's not like I've never been out before, girl, so of course I know."
"Hey, you know, you still know?
Not to mention ordinary people, even those who were appointed by the imperial court at that time, few officials could easily carry thousands of taels of silver notes in their wallets.
Of course, my aunt was only talking about things on the surface.
My aunt doesn't know how much money those officials carry with them in private. "
“Oh, my little aunt, I understand what you’ve said these past few months.
However, Yue'er just likes money!
how? Don’t you like money, aunt? "
Ren Qingxin's pretty face froze, and she sighed sadly and shrugged her shoulders at the little cutie.
"Hey, little aunt, I'm not a melon boy, so maybe I don't like Qian Sa.
It's a pity that my little aunt, I don't have Yue'er, so your life will be at risk. "
The little cutie jumped up behind Ren Qingxin nimbly, put his hands on her shoulders and kneaded her gently with a smile.
"Oh, my aunt, why are you so frustrated?
If you are short of money to spend, just ask my stinky dad for it!
Based on your relationship with my stinky dad, auntie, he shouldn't be too stingy to you.
There is no problem with a few thousand taels, but there should be no problem with a few hundred taels. "
When Ren Qingxin heard the little cutie's narrow tone, she seemed to think of something in the past. She immediately angrily took out some melon seeds from the cutie's hand and started to knock them gently.
"Ask your father? Do you want a few hundred taels of silver?
Come on, your aunt and I can just think about this kind of thing.
There are some things that you don't know, Yue'er.
Back then, my aunt and I had been your father's servant outside Penglai Restaurant for so long, and he agreed to give me some wages every month. "
The little cutie raised her eyebrows and asked curiously: "What next?"
"As a result, until the day your aunt and I left the capital and returned to Shu, your father still owed me more than twenty taels of silver in wages and didn't pay me!
Every time I ask for it, your dad says I’ll give it to you next time, and I’ll give it to you next time.
I've waited until now for your aunt, but I haven't waited for your father to pay off the wages he owed me. "
"Huh? Just over twenty taels?"
"Yue'er, what do you mean it's just more than twenty taels.
These more than twenty taels of silver are five months' wages for your aunt and me! "
"Well, if you tell me that, little aunt, more than twenty taels of silver is indeed a lot."
"Huh~ As the saying goes, there is only the wrong name, not the wrong nickname.
No wonder people in the capital used to say that your father didn’t want to criticize... ahem... don’t want such a shameless Sir Liu!
He actually gave your aunt twenty taels of silver as wages. I'm so greedy. Do you think he still wants to be embarrassed? "
The little cutie looked at Ren Qingxin's angry expression and chuckled with her cherry lips.
Compared with his stinky father, when it comes to evil intentions, he is still far behind.
Tsk, tsk, tsk, I don’t know when I will grow up to the level of my stinky dad.
Grandpa, he hasn't been to the capital for so long, so he should have saved a lot of money.
During the days when he lived at home, as his granddaughter, he had to take good care of his old man.
Um! You must serve him well.
There is no way, who makes me famous for filial piety!
Ren Qingxin didn't hear the cutie's answer for a long time, and subconsciously looked up at her.
She saw the sly smile on the little cutie's pretty face, and asked with a strange expression: "Yue'er, what are you thinking about?"
"Ah? Ah! What did I think about?"
"Really? Then why does the smile on your face look so...um...so weird?"
In fact, Ren Qingxin originally wanted to say why the smile on your face looks so sinister.
But when the words came to her lips, she suddenly thought that it seemed inappropriate to say so.
So, he quickly changed his words.
The little cutie straightened her body and waved her hands with a smile.
"Really? Is Yue'er's smile weird?"
Ren Qingxin knocked a melon seed with her mouth slightly open and shook her head gently.
"Yue'er, if you say no, then there won't be any."
"Little aunt."
"Huh? What's wrong?"
"When do you think you, my little aunt, will be replaced by my little aunt?"
Ren Qingxin's body trembled slightly, and she silently glanced sideways in the direction of the side hall, shaking her head a few times with confusion in her eyes.
"Yue'er, what my aunt said doesn't count!"
When the little cutie heard Ren Qingxin's disappointed tone, she suddenly realized that she seemed to have said something that she shouldn't have said.
The little cutie quickly adjusted her cloak and pulled Ren Qingxin up from the bench with a smile on her face.
"Little aunt, let's go to the palace first to see how Yue'er's sister-in-law Jingyao is doing."
"Okay, it's time to go take a look."
Ren Qingxin glanced at the direction of the side hall and let the little cutie pull her towards the main hall in front.
In the side hall of the East Palace.
Young Master Liu put down the teapot in his hand, picked up the tongs on the side and walked towards the stove a few steps away.
"Old man, father-in-law, if you feel cold, come and sit by the stove."
"No, after a few cups of tea, I'm already sweating, not to mention getting cold!"
"Nephew, I am as cold as your father."
"Do you want to eat the roasted sweet potatoes?"
Liu Zhi'an and Qi Run quickly put down their teacups and nodded with smiles on their faces.
"I have to eat it. Let's have two."
"Same here, I'll come with two."
Young Master Liu looked back at Liu Zhi'an, glanced at Qi Run and the two brothers, and picked up a few washed sweet potatoes from the copper basin next to him with a smile, and put them on top of the stove.
"Old man, father-in-law, given your current situation, it's not like you two can't afford delicacies from the mountains and seas.
Is this the expression I get when I hear about roasted sweet potatoes? "
"Why not? Don't you, the king of a country, and His Highness Chengzhi, the second prince of the current dynasty, also like to eat roasted sweet potatoes?"
"Zhi'er, you've never been hungry!
I still remember that it was a natural disaster that occurred during the Xuande period when Emperor Ruizhong was in power.
Half of my country, the dragon, was affected by natural disasters, including floods and droughts.
Many of my Dalong people have almost no income due to natural disasters.
That year, you don’t know how many people there were...
Hey, it’s been decades ago, so it’s okay not to mention it, or not to mention it. "
"Father-in-law, what you said is biased.
My son-in-law, it is not as easy as you think. I have also suffered from hunger.
I remember back then, when my son-in-law led my Dalong soldiers to conquer the east and west, and fight in the north and south.
Often because of the shortage of food and grass, my hungry stomach growls.
Just say that when my son-in-law conquered the countries in the Western Regions, you don't know how he and the hundreds of thousands of soldiers suffered. "
"Zhi'er, the shortage of food and grass will eventually come to an end.
Have you ever chewed tree bark? Have you ever eaten grass roots?
Even, you have seen people who are very hungry, exchanging with each other...
well! "
As Qi Run spoke, he suddenly let out a long sigh and put the teacup in his hand on the table.
"Zhi'er, there are many things you haven't seen with your own eyes!
The scenes you saw when you went to Qingzhou for disaster relief were just small scenes.
When the locust plague broke out in Qingzhou, you were able to carry out disaster relief quickly and effectively because the national treasury could still mobilize some food for disaster relief.
However, you have never seen what the world is like when there is no food in the national treasury to provide disaster relief.
Some scenes are far more cruel than those recorded in the book! "
Listening to Qi Runkang's impassioned tone, Liu Mingzhi couldn't help but recall the contents he had seen in some files when he was still the Minister of Household Affairs.
yes! Some scenes are far more cruel than the resting situations recorded in the book!
"Bastard, what your father-in-law said just now has been restrained.
You don’t know that back then, even I and your mother had to live on a simple diet for half a year.
I occasionally tell you that I admire your father-in-law Li Zheng very much.
Those words were not my compliments, but I really admired him very much.
To put it bluntly, it was a natural disaster.
In other words, your father-in-law, Li Zheng, is in charge of the world, but if another person sits on that chair.
Perhaps, I, Dalong, have already changed dynasties! "
Liu Mingzhi breathed out a deep thought. He didn't know what he thought of. He didn't say anything. He just silently toyed with the burning briquettes with a pair of tongs.
It took about half a cup of tea.
Qi Yun, the third princess, the queen and her sisters, as well as Liu Yiyi, Liu Yaoyao, Liu Chengfeng, Liu Chengzhi and their brothers and sisters, all walked into the hall with smiles on their faces.
"Husband."
"Husband."
"Husband, my sisters have brought our grandson and granddaughter over."
"father."
When Liu Mingzhi heard everyone's greetings, he immediately put down the poker in his hand and turned around with a smile.
Liu Zhi'an quickly put down the tea cup in his hand and walked over happily.
"Come on, let me see my second great-grandson and eldest great-granddaughter first."
"Dad, please."
"Okay, okay, which one of these two is a boy? Which one is a girl?"
"Dad, you are holding a boy, and your daughter-in-law is holding a girl."
Liu Zhi'an nodded happily and looked up at Liu Chengzhi.
"Chengzhi."
"Hey, Grandpa?"
"Silly boy, when you have some free time, don't forget to go home and offer some sticks of incense to the ancestors of our Liu family!"
"Yes, my grandson knows."
"In-laws, you should also come and take a look."
"I'm coming."
Qi Ya looked at the husband coming over and quickly handed over the swaddling clothes in his hand.
"Husband, take a look, this is our first granddaughter!"
Liu Dashaodan smiled and nodded, carefully holding the baby in his arms.
Looking at the little guy with big eyes in his arms who was neither crying nor fussing, the smile on Young Master Liu's face became even stronger.
"My good granddaughter, what a good granddaughter!"
"Husband, this child's eyes don't look like Chengzhi or Jingyao, but they are somewhat similar to Sister He Shu!"
"Sister Ya, no, no, my sister thinks she is more like Jing Yao."
Liu Zhian held the swaddle in his arms and happily handed it to Young Master Liu.
"You little bastard, don't just look after your granddaughter, take a look at your grandson too."
Young Master Liu quickly freed up his hand and took the other baby into his arms.
Liu Zhi'an stroked his gray beard and said cheerfully: "You bastard, this kid's appearance is extraordinary!"
As soon as he was born, there was already a heroic spirit between his eyebrows! "
Liu Mingzhi looked at his infant grandson, nodded with a smile, and didn't answer anything.
"Chengzhi."
"The child is here."
"Girl Jingyao, have you two decided on a name for your child?"
"Reply to Dad, Hai'er and Jingyao didn't know before whether the child would be a son or a daughter.
Therefore, after some discussion, the couple of us prepared one in advance.
Who would have thought that Jingyao, who was so tidy, would give birth to a pair of twins all at once. "
"Oh? What are their names?"
“The boy’s name was inspired by his elder brother, his son is called Liu Chenyu.
Therefore, Haier and Jingyao took the name Chenshuo. "
"Liu Chenshuo?"
"Yes, Liu Chenshuo."
As soon as Liu Chengzhi finished speaking, his expression became nervous.
"Dad, what do you think of this name?"
"Where's my daughter?"
"Liu Qinglu."
Liu Mingzhi pursed his lips and raised his eyes to look at the wind and snow outside the palace door, which had been falling for a long time but had not diminished at all.
"Liu Qinglu, Liu Qinglu."
"Dad, isn't this a bad name?"
"It's not a bad thing. My father just thinks it's more appropriate to change it to Qingxue."
"Qingxue, Liu Qingxue."
