novelhk Chapter 166: Carrying incense burners
Chapter 166: Carrying incense burners
Lying back on the bed in the bedroom again, I felt a sense of relief that everything was settled and a sense of nervous excitement after extreme fatigue.
Just when they were about to turn off the lights and take a rest, the skinny guy came in carrying a heavy bag.
"Oh, I almost forgot about these things." Zhou Chang had just sent Xinxian and Xinmu away, and now he came up personally to catch the "ding ding bang bang" on the skinny monkey's shoulder.
There were not only bowls and plates looted from the imperial kitchen, but most importantly, there were more than a dozen incense burners of various sizes.
The skinny monkey dropped the food on the ground and finished his job, but he was in no hurry to leave: "Your Highness, it's this hour, do you want to eat something?"
"Now?" Zhou Chang glanced out the window. The moon was already setting.
The skinny monkey pouted: "If we go to bed at this hour, we will miss breakfast. It is better to eat first and then go to bed. There are still a few plates of snacks left from the imperial kitchen that we brought back in the car. Your Highness, why don't you just make do with them..."
"No need. Since you can eat, just eat it all by yourself." Zhou Chang was tired, sleepy, and excited, and had no appetite at all.
The skinny monkey didn't try to persuade him any further and retreated.
Zhou Chang then closed the doors and windows tightly, not wanting to waste even a minute, and "carried" all the palace items, big and small, from his bag over one by one.
Due to my poor condition, the operation took me more than half an hour. When I looked up again, it was already bright outside.
"Ding, congratulations, the transaction is successful, and the total commission is thirty-two thousand taels." The viewpoint system reports the number and displays the information at the same time.
The incense burner is worth quite a bit of money, but it’s a drop in the bucket.
Zhou Chang hasn't looked at the system information for a long time. It was also because he had the impression that he owed too much "loan" that he subconsciously avoided it. Now he has to take a closer look.
[Level: Upper Nine-Three]
【Commission: -7,949,600 taels】
【Order: 220】
"How much is this? I still owe seven or eight million?" Zhou Chang had given up long ago as he couldn't figure out how to count such a long string of numbers.
Viewpoint System: "It's 7,949,660 taels."
"Okay," Zhou Chang followed the principle of "too many lice don't bite, too many debts don't worry", and didn't intend to take it to heart. He just asked, "Why are the orders increasing instead of decreasing?"
Viewpoint System still gives the same answer: "The order will remain valid unless the customer cancels it."
Before he finished speaking, a detailed list of 220 orders was scrolling in front of Zhou Chang.
Zhou Chang staggered and waved his sleeves: "In short, most of these orders are destined to be unfulfilled. You'd better persuade the customers in the plane to cancel them as soon as possible."
The list disappeared, but there was no response from the viewpoint system.
After finishing the "live streaming sales", Zhou Chang fell back on the bed. It was almost dawn when she was about to go to sleep.
As soon as I closed my eyes, Yuan Qi's face always appeared in my mind.
No, this was not her consciousness.
Zhou Chang couldn't fall asleep, so she opened her eyes again and stared at the bed curtain above her head. She could clearly tell that it was Prince Yi Fengming's consciousness, but the longer time passed, the more confused she became.
Ever since he knew that Yuan Qi had been waiting outside the palace wall for three days and three nights, Zhou Chang thought it was her who had an indescribable feeling in his heart. But now, after careful consideration, he realized that the feeling came from Prince Yi Fengming.
This is not a good sign.
"Make money, make money, make money... Your mission is to make money," Zhou Chang chanted, thinking of his previous identities, all of which were able to implant her ideas to a certain extent, "Bring goods, bring goods, bring goods, my mission is to bring goods through live broadcasting, we both get what we need, and live in peace..."
Zhou Chang kept repeating these words as a hypnotic spell, and before he knew it, he fell into a deep sleep.
This sleep was so dark that I didn’t know whether it was day or moon.
"What time is it now?" Zhou Chang opened his eyes and the sun was hanging in the sky.
"Your Highness has slept for a whole day and a whole night," the skinny monkey said, chewing something as he came up to help Zhou Chang put on his shoes. "Your Highness, are you hungry or thirsty? Xinxian, Xinmu and the others are following Aunt Jing to prepare dinner for your Highness. We know that your Highness has worked hard these days and deserves a good meal."
"One day and one night?" Zhou Chang was in a hurry to get off the ground, "Then Yaoyuefang..."
The skinny monkey was not in a hurry. He went to the Eight Immortals Table and poured Zhou Chang another cup of warm water. "Your Highness, rinse your mouth first. The matter of Yaoyuefang will not be ruined. Someone from the Yuan family came this morning to inform us that everything is ready and they are just waiting for Your Highness to come with the imperial guards."
"Mr. Zhong, go find Mr. Zhong, no..." Zhou Chang was very familiar with Yaoyuefang and had no interest in going there, so he thought of Zhong Yu. However, he immediately remembered that Zhong Yu might still be recovering from illness. "Forget it, Mr. Zhong is still recovering from illness, Monkey, you should go there first."
"Slave?" The thin monkey was taking out half a large oily pancake wrapped in brown paper from his arms, "Does the prince want me to go to Yaoyuefang?"
"First, you go and invite the commander-in-chief of the Imperial Guards, Sun Chuliang, on my behalf. Tell him that I am sick due to overwork these days, but I don't want to disturb the joy of my brothers in the Imperial Guards, so I ask the commander-in-chief to go on my behalf." Zhou Chang thought that such an occasion was neither suitable for her nor something she liked, so she might as well avoid it if possible.
The skinny monkey bit the oil cake fiercely and said, "I don't want to go. What's the point of me going to Yaoyuefang? Madam Wang is making oil cakes for the palace. I just ate one and a half and it's not enough to fill my teeth. If I miss this village, there will be no such shop anymore."
Zhou Chang rolled his eyes: "You are throwing away the watermelon to pick up sesame seeds. Is there a lack of delicacies in Yaoyuefang?"
"Ah, yes..." The skinny monkey finally reacted and stuffed the remaining pancake into his mouth with two bites, smiling and mumbling, "Then I'll go right away."
Zhou Chang shook his head and watched the skinny monkey hop away.
Not long after the skinny monkey left, Aunt Jing brought in Xinxian and Xinmu, and brought in some freshly prepared food.
Zhou Chang felt hungry as soon as he smelled the skinny monkey pancake, and his appetite was whetted.
This was the first "safe" meal I had in a few days.
Although the food in the imperial palace's kitchen is delicious, I have gotten used to life in Prince Yi's mansion since some time ago.
Habit is a powerful force. Even if one has simple food and drink, one will feel that a nest of gold or silver is not as good as one's own doghouse.
As it was getting dark after dinner, Zhou Chang thought of the ten thousand taels of silver that were still kept in his study.
Small silver ingots worth ten thousand taels were placed in the middle of the study, like tempting silver dumplings, making people want to take a bite of them one by one.
"With so much silver, Your Majesty, don't forget the whole roasted lamb I mentioned before." The skinny monkey suddenly appeared with a pout.
"Huh? Why did you come back so soon? Shouldn't you be at Yaoyuefang now?" Zhou Chang asked curiously.
The skinny monkey was so angry that his watermelon belly looked even rounder: "Your Highness said that this is not a proper place to eat. But the imperial guards are very grateful to Your Highness."
"Forget it, it's fine as long as they wake up." Zhou Chang didn't care, as long as he fulfilled his promise, "As for the roasted whole lamb, I naturally didn't forget it, but now I have money but it's useless. The entertainment ban is still there. I will definitely compensate you later."
The thin monkey then took out another oil cake from his arms, chewed it, and asked casually: "Your Majesty, should this silver be put into the treasury?"
"Treasure house?" Zhou Chang stood up and stretched his numb legs. At the same time, he learned what the so-called "treasure house" was from Prince Yi's memory.
If she wasn't one with Prince Yi Fengming now, she would have laughed out loud. Such a concealed place could be called a treasure house.
Zhou Chang's words of leniency to King Yi were actually words of leniency to himself: "No need, just leave it here, no one will think of it, and no one will care about it."
It was said to be ten thousand taels of silver, but it was not as much as she had imagined.
There was just a large wooden box in front of him. It was difficult for two people to carry it, but it was easy for four people to carry it.
However, she regretted her decision within a few days. "If you weren't ugly, you would be pretty.