Back and forth: I brought supplies to help the impoverished prince

Chapter 127: Secret Operation 1

Just as he was about to go out, Mu Qingchen accidentally tore the corner of his clothes. He seemed to be relieved and said to Qiao Shinian apologetically: "Sorry, wait for me in the corridor for a while, I will come after changing clothes."

"It's okay." Qiao Shinian looked at the delicate branches and nodded.

After Mu Qingchen left, Qiao Shinian looked at the tender branches and couldn't help but put his sleeves on the low branches, wanting to try whether such branches could really tear his clothes.

Yingzhu followed behind Qiao Shinian. Seeing Qiao Shinian's action, she immediately pulled up her sleeve with lightning speed, lowered her head and said in fear: "Miss, please be careful. The branch just now scratched the prince's clothes, which was our fault. If your clothes are scratched again, we will not be able to escape punishment."

Qiao Shinian looked at Yingzhu's panic and apologized quickly: "Oh, sorry, sorry. I'll pay attention. I'll go to the corridor and wait for him to come back."

Yingzhu nodded, followed Qiao Shinian obediently, turned her head to look somewhere, and stretched out her hand to signal for the pot of flowers to be taken away.

How could she let Qiao Shinian discover her master's little thoughts! As a servant, it is very important to share the master's worries, otherwise it would be a dereliction of duty for them.

"Have you been in the palace for many years? When did you come here to work?" Qiao Shinian was bored and asked Yingzhu, who looked very young.

Yingzhu replied respectfully: "My lady, I have been following the prince for eleven years. As for the work you are talking about, I don't understand."

"Hmm..., work is... going to work? No, you don't understand it. Let me think about it. I'll change it so that you can understand it." Qiao Shinian pursed her lips and frowned as she thought about how to say work in ancient times. After thinking for a long time, she suddenly realized, "Oh, you have already said when you came. How old are you now?"

"To answer your question, young lady, I am nineteen years old this year," Yingzhu replied.

"He hired child laborers." Qiao Shinian looked at Yingzhu and asked curiously, "What can you do at the age of eight? Do you have to do a lot of work? Do you have to give your monthly salary to your parents?"

"I just do some cleaning work. There are many people in the mansion, so the work I do is not much. As for the monthly salary, it is saved by me. I have no parents." Yingzhu was still respectful and answered every question.

Qiao Shinian nodded, then suddenly remembered something and asked, "Let me ask you a private question. You don't have to tell me if you don't want to. Um, how much do you get paid every month?"

"I make fifteen taels of silver every month, and the prince sometimes gives me some rewards." Yingzhu didn't understand why Qiao Shinian asked this, but she answered truthfully because she could see that the prince liked this girl very much.

Qiao Shinian's eyes widened, and he turned around in shock: "Oh my god, so much money. Then what I gave to those palace maids and eunuchs was too little, they wouldn't be dissatisfied, right? No, no, ordinary palace servants don't seem to have such high salaries."

She turned around and looked around, then touched her empty wallet and felt how poor she was.

"I never thought that one day I would feel so poor that I couldn't even afford to eat. It turns out that there is no harm without comparison. I have to work harder."

"What are you talking about?" Mu Qingchen's voice appeared behind her.

Qiao Shinian quickly turned around and said, "Oh, I just pulled her aside to chat. You can't blame her, and you can't deduct her monthly salary."

Mu Qingchen didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He reached out and nodded Qiao Shinian's head: "I'm not an unreasonable person. Why do you say such things?"

"You're afraid that I'll get her into trouble!" Qiao Shinian distanced himself from him and explained, "What if she gossips about me and you think she's broken the rules or something and punish her? That would be so unfair to her."

"Okay, let's go." Mu Qingchen smiled helplessly.

"Where is Qingyu?" Sitting in the carriage, Qiao Shinian found that Yingzhu, a girl who looked very quiet, was driving the carriage.

Mu Qingchen opened the car window, leaving Qiao Shinian with a view of the outside. "I don't usually pay attention to women's jewelry, so I asked Qingyu to find out. He will come to find us after we get off the car."

"Oh." Qiao Shinian nodded. Although he was looking at the scene outside the car, his peripheral vision was secretly observing Mu Qingchen.

Compared with before, he looked a little different. The hair crown on his head had changed, and there was a jade pendant and a patterned gold ball containing incense pills around his waist.

There seemed to be no change in the clothes he wore. It was the same white clothes he always wore, with the patterns embroidered with silver thread. It seemed that he had changed his shoes as well.

Qiao Shinian didn't pay much attention to the shoes Mu Qingchen was wearing just now. After all, who would observe what shoes others wear.

However, compared to the previous clothes, this one makes him look a bit more youthful. With a fan at hand, he looks quite elegant.

After getting off the car on the busy street, Qiao Shinian stood beside Mu Qingchen and stretched out his hand to block the glaring sun.

Mu Qingchen opened the fan and held it above her head, saying gently, "Wait a little longer, he should be back soon."

Qiao Shinian put his hand down and said a little embarrassedly: "Well, if you, a prince, hold up a fan for me, people will gossip about you. I can do it myself."

After saying that, he stretched out his hand tentatively to take the fan, but he took Mu Qingchen's hand without loosening it at all. He looked at the people on the street and said, "No one is looking at us, you don't have to worry about it."

Seeing that he insisted, Qiao Shinian stopped talking, but she was secretly anxious in her heart. Why didn't the jade come back? She could go to the store to have a look, and if the price was not right, she could leave.

"Your Highness, I've already found out." Just as Qiao Shinian turned around and prepared to speak his mind, Qingyu trotted over to the two of them and said, "There are five shops in the inner city. The prices are basically within Miss Qiao's budget, and the workmanship is pretty good. There are more than ten shops in the outer city, big and small, all of which have a good reputation."

Qiao Shinian looked at Qingyu in surprise and even admiration: "You found them all in just a short while? This is amazing."

Qingyu coughed lightly and looked at Mu Qingchen: "This is because the prince has trained us well on weekdays and made us familiar with every corner of the capital. This is how we can find the store that the girl wants in a short time."

Mu Qingchen nodded with satisfaction.

"Let's go, let's take a good look this time." Qiao Shinian was still somewhat excited.

Mu Qingchen smiled and nodded, then handed the fan in his hand to Qiao Shinian: "If it's hot, fan us."

"okay."

Turning around, Mu Qingchen gave Qingyu a look of praise.

Qingyu showed a look that said, "This is what I should do." He knew that the prince would give him a reward this month, which was enough for him to customize many beautiful hair crowns.