"Your Majesty, if we add another half, we will have to empty out the Manna Palace warehouse."
Aunt Wei had to remind Concubine Yu: "This is the dowry we added to the princess, and the Queen will definitely not be willing to lose to our Ganlu Palace. The Xian Concubine and the noble concubine, Shu Concubine and Liu Jie Yu, they all said that they have prepared a lot of things to add makeup to the princess."
"Can't it be empty?"
Concubine Yu took a pen and scratched out more than half of the gift book: "These are all for Sisi, and a few are left for her imperial brother."
Although Aunt Wei was Li Sixu's confidant, she was still dumbfounded by how much Concubine Yu doted on the princess.
Are you so determined that you want to empty out the entire warehouse of Manlu Palace and use it all to make a dowry for the princess?
Aunt Wei asked tentatively: "My queen, are you really not going to leave half of it for the little prince?"
"Didn't he leave a lot of things behind? His imperial sister is a daughter and has done many things to benefit the people of Li Tang Dynasty. As my son, shouldn't he make achievements and make more money for the family?"
Aunt Wei only hesitated for a moment, and Concubine Yu said earnestly: "Mom, you must know that money can never be kept. Where it comes from, there must be a place where it goes. Use it to accumulate blessings, and those who scatter it will accumulate blessings." The money will come back, but if you are too obsessed with holding it back, you won’t be able to hold it back.”
"Money is something external to the body. These are dead things left in the warehouse. It is better to take them and make the best use of them. If you like it, keep it. If you don't like it, you can convert it into money and use it on the blade. It can also contribute to the Tang Dynasty. Contribute to the maritime industry."
The imperial concubine must know that the princess recently sold part of the dowries sent to the princess mansion by the princes, princesses and Princess Yuzhen in order to raise money for the voyage.
So with a wave of her hand, the empress emptied out the storerooms of the Ganlu Palace in a free and easy manner, just to solve the princess's urgent need.
Her mother-in-law looks delicate and innocent, like a girl without any scheming, but she is actually a wonderful woman with great wisdom. It is no wonder that Sheng Chong has been enduring for a long time and has always been loved by the emperor.
Seeing Aunt Wei's deeply impressed look, Concubine Yu smiled: "Why are you looking at me like this?"
"I am trapped in this deep palace after all, and there is this little thing that binds me."
Concubine Yu teased the grinning little prince, and turned to Yaoyao, who was holding a brochure beside her: "So I don't want the children to be trapped in the Daming Palace. Sisi can go out for a walk and see all Li In the Tang Dynasty, there are rivers, lakes and seas, and I feel very happy about them."
"That's you, you little grinder!"
The little prince grinned and drooled. Concubine Yu reached out and pinched the little prince's cheek.
Aunt Wei was busy advising from the side: "Your Majesty pinched him again. No wonder the little prince keeps drooling. He must have been pinched by My Majesty."
Ever since the little prince was born, Yaoyao has always liked him the most. On weekdays, she scrambles to help Concubine Yu coax the little prince.
But at this moment, Concubine Yu started to pinch Prince Lin's face, while Yaoyuan was still holding a stack of gift books, looking like she was out of her mind.
Concubine Yu sighed in her heart, and then told Yaoyao in a gentle voice: "Go and show me whether the princess and her father have finished discussing the matter?"
"Yes, concubine!"
Only then did Yaoyao come to his senses and take the order to leave.
After she left, Concubine Yu teased the little prince: "This child came back from a trip to Prince Shou's Mansion yesterday, and something is wrong."
Nanny Wei also felt that Yaoyao had been absent-minded all day and looked a little sad.
"Since His Highness the Third Prince left the palace and established his palace, Prince Zhong's palace has not been in the palace to look for her for some days."
Aunt Wei grew up guarding Yuanyuan, so she naturally knew what she was thinking.
She asked Concubine Yu: "Yaoyao went to the Shou Prince's Mansion with your empress yesterday to watch the ceremony, but did you see the one next to the third prince?"
"That's it. Last night at Prince Shou's Mansion, when she left me, she probably went to see Li Jingzhong."
Concubine Yu sighed: "Things in this world are ultimately in a dilemma, just like I am trapped in this deep palace because of my master's order, just like this child from Yaoyao who abandoned her by blood and received a favor from her. But Li Jingzhong was able to purify her body and enter the palace."
"If Li Jingzhong hadn't been a little eunuch, I would have fulfilled Yaoyao's wishes long ago, prepared a generous dowry for her, and settled her well for the rest of her life."
Aunt Wei answered: "If this child has to be Li Jingzhong..."
Nanny Wei couldn't continue talking about the next words.
She considered that Li Jingzhong was someone close to the third prince, and being remotely involved with him would put Ganlu Palace in danger.
The harmony and balance in the harem are, after all, just appearances, with undercurrents surging behind them.
If someone breaks the balance of the Daming Palace, the peace and tranquility that their princesses finally gained from their busy dealings may be broken.
"You still underestimate people's hearts!"
Concubine Yu didn't expect it to be so complicated. Based on her understanding of Yuanyao, she judged: "Li Jingzhong was still a child at the beginning. He entered the palace in order to be able to cleanse himself from Yaoyao. This shows that this person can be cruel to her. In this way Even if a person is cleansed, his arrogance is still deep in his bones, how can he endure being a eunuch for the rest of his life?"
"Even if I try hard to make things perfect for him and Yaoyao, he still can't bear that Yaoyao marries him as a eunuch, can't bear that he can't give Yaoyao a life as a normal woman, and can't bear that he can't give Yaoyao a child."
"Mommy, Li Jingzhong can't cross this threshold!"
Li Sixu came out after discussing the matter with her father in the royal study, and got a bunch of things that her father had moved from his private treasury to reward her, in addition to the dowry.
As soon as they left the Xingqing Hall, they saw Li Sixu standing guard at the door, and Li Sixu went up to greet him.
Yaoyao looked at her pitifully: "Yaoyao has something to say to the princess."
Yaoyao was silent all the time. The two of them walked to a secluded pavilion next to Taiye Lake. She stopped and looked at Li Sixu with mist in her eyes.
"Yesterday at Prince Shou's Mansion, after Yaoyuan left, did brother Jingzhong meet the princess?"
Sure enough, it was because of this matter that Li Sixu felt that he could solve many difficult things, but this was the only one that left her powerless.
She just hummed and nodded, confirming Yuanyuan's guess.
Regarding Li Sixu's reaction, she was not surprised. She spoke with difficulty: "Does he want to leave Chang'an City? Is he interested in going sailing with the princess?"
Li Sixu sighed with regret in her heart.
Her remoteness doesn't mean she doesn't understand anything.
On the contrary, she was clear-minded.
Just as Li Jingzhong knows her very well, she is also the person who knows Li Jingzhong best in the world.
She guessed that Li Jingzhong would lure her there when he saw her, and she also guessed that Li Jingzhong was actually interested in leaving Chang'an City and sailing with her.
The world of emotions is both the simplest and the most complex thing in the world.
Not knowing how to comfort her for a moment, Li Sixu said warmly: "Yaoyao, I can keep him in Chang'an City for you."
I thought Yaoyao would be happy, but Yaoyao shook her head and flatly refused: "No!"
