Chapter 1768: 065, It must be fate.
Wave after wave, wave after wave!
A few off-key tunes ca from the shaky sedan chair, making the palace attendants carrying it shiver in discomfort.
Inside the sedan chair, Lin Yuan lounged leisurely against Xia Zheng, one hand supporting her chin, the other swinging his jade pendant, humming tunes and thoroughly enjoying herself.
Xia Zheng’s face was full of black lines, his mouth twitched intensely, and he dug in his ears as he said, “I say, my dear wife, which half-baked musician did you find to compose this song? It’s just, too awful.”
Cough cough, cough cough!
Lin Yuan rolled her eyes fiercely, her chin-supporting hand bumping into his chest, and was quite pleased to continue humming wave after wave after hearing his muffled groan.
“Why are you so happy?”
Rubbing his chest, Xia Zheng curiously asked, “Is it possibly because you played matchmaker for Lu Chong?”
Matchmaking?
Lin Yuan’s lips tugged into a smile, she silently shook her head: “Matchmaking is a thankless task, I wouldn’t do it! I’m happy because those pearls got turned into silver, that’s why! Haha!”
Matchmaking is thankless?
Xia Zheng blinked, suddenly recalling the ugly matchmaker Little Peach who ca to the Lin Mansion to propose a match, wondering how that ugly girl got started on the matchmaker path.
To know, a big girl taking on matchmaking can’t even protect herself!
Unless she was too ugly, which allowed her to walk straightforwardly without being eliminated by others?
Shaking his head vigorously, Xia Zheng suddenly realized that his focus was sowhat off. Lin Yuan said she was happy because the string of pearls from He Lienuo turned into silver.
But…
“Speaking of which, I, as your husband, really think you are kind to that Lu Chong, such a string of pearls, and you actually sold it for only one hundred taels of silver! Tsk tsk, you know, at that ti I heard your words, I always thought the you in front of wasn’t you, but an imposter!”
“What do you an the in front of you isn’t… wait!”
Just about to cheekily use the jade pendant to hook Xia Zheng’s chin, Lin Yuan suddenly stopped smiling, sat up seriously, and asked wide-eyed, “What did you just say? Only sold for one hundred taels of silver? Could it be, I sold it too cheaply?”
Xia Zheng raised his brows: “Of course it’s cheap!”
“How much does it, roughly, actually worth?”
Lin Yuan felt herself going stiff, she indeed thought the pearls shouldn’t be cheap when she sold them, but thinking that it was unexpected wealth, she just casually sold them!
One hundred taels of silver, in her view, was not a small amount, although pearls were easy to get, in her understanding, she should at most have lost about eighty taels.
Just now seeing Xia Zheng’s expression, didn’t seem to be the case.
At this point, if Xia Zheng couldn’t tell Lin Yuan had no idea of the real value of the pearls, he’d be too foolish.
Thinking it over and over, Xia Zheng ultimately didn’t say the three words “a thousand taels.”
He shook three fingers in front of Lin Yuan, sowhat regretfully but also playfully: “About, three hundred taels!”
Ahhhh!
The sedan chair instantly let out a pig-slaughtering howl, the palace attendants carrying it imdiately went awry, desperately wishing they’d turn deaf!
This pig-like howl was still better than the wave after wave tune just now, truly, only Second Young Master Xia, known as the Little Tyrant, could endure Princess Pingxi!
The palace banquet this year didn’t go smoothly, especially for the Old Emperor and Empress Su, it could even be described as dispiriting.
Just after the banquet ended, the Old Emperor imdiately took Xia Yuan, Su Zhe, and others to discuss matters in secret, naturally the topic was Princess Cuiwei’s distant marriage to Xiliang.
Talking about this matter really infuriated the Old Emperor beyond asure. Su Zhe’s words at that ti were obviously indirectly rejecting He Lienuo’s proposal.
Yet Cuiwei, this girl, not knowing what got into her today, shockingly agreed against all odds.
Her casual words “I do,” without realizing would stir up such a ripple.
The Old Emperor’s face instantly aged ten years, making Xia Yuan feel sowhat guilty.
Princess Anle originally planned to talk to Empress Su, but hadn’t reached the Empress’ palace when she heard the Empress went straight to Princess Cuiwei’s chamber after the banquet.
“Ah!”
Princess Anle sighed and shook her head: “Let those two solve their mother-daughter knot themselves!”
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