The crown prince's favorite girl, she found another good match

Chapter 90
Li Baojia took a deep breath, took out two more sheets and said, "What now? Do you want to tell me?"

Mother Hong's eyes were shining and she shook her head: "This, it's really..."

Li Baojia took out a few more: "What about now?"

Mother Hong still shook her head. After doing this several times, the banknotes in front of her actually accumulated as much as 2000 taels.

Li Baojia was a little hesitant. She had almost used all the banknotes she had brought with her today. It seemed that this red mother was determined not to talk anymore. The temptation of money had no effect on her at all.

Zhou Jinan, who was next to him, saw that she was in trouble and knew that she must have run out of banknotes. He stretched his hand into his clothes and said, "I still have some here."

He also took out a stack of thick silver notes. Li Baojia felt that his heart was bleeding. The price of this questioning... was too high, right?

She was hesitantly reaching out to take it, but a hand stretched out from beside her to block her. She turned around and saw Zhao Yi smiling slightly but not smiling: "I'll do it."

Li Baojia took back her hand, but Zhao Yi had no intention of accepting the banknote. He turned to Mother Hong and picked up the stack of 2000 taels of banknotes again: "Don't tell me?"

Mother Hong shook her head firmly.

Zhao Yi sneered and took away five cards: "What about now?"

When Mother Hong saw that he had taken away five sheets, sweat broke out on her face, and her teeth trembled a little: "Master, this..."

Before she could finish speaking, Zhao Yi took away five more cards: "You still don't want to say anything now?"

Hong's mother almost stretched out her hand in a hurry. Seeing that she didn't speak, Zhao Yi stretched out his hand to pull out five more.

Mother Hong couldn't sit still this time, stood up and said hurriedly: "I said! I said! Don't take it away."

Zhao Yi put the remaining 1000 taels of silver notes on the table and said, "Tell me."

The man next to him, Li Baojia, was stunned by what he was doing.

The temptation a person receives when he gets something is far less unbearable than the pain when he loses it.

When it comes to controlling people's hearts, Zhao Yi is indeed much better than her. She only knows how to increase her chips foolishly.

Mother Hong pulled the veil and turned around to face the ladies behind her and said, "You guys go out first."

After all the ladies and servants had gone out, she closed the door and said with some hesitation: "You all know that this Pingcheng is only so big. If what I said... were found out, my business would not be easy to do. …”

Li Baojia said: "Don't worry, we won't tell anyone. Just rest assured and say it. Be more detailed."

Mother Hong nodded, glanced around furtively, and said, "I actually accompanied Qing Niang that day. Qing Niang was the lady who was taken away by the prefect."

"The guest that day was unusual. He seemed to really not want people to know about him. He came in the middle of the night. At that time, Qing Niang and I went in. The room was dark and it was scary to look at it."

"He took out 500 taels of silver notes and told about the habits of a girl. It is said that he saw it at the banquet. Because what he said was not detailed enough, we also had some difficulties and the time was short."

"But Qing Niang, she is one of the ladies here who is best at this imitation, and she is especially good at painting faces. After the man showed us the portrait, she learned about it that night."

Li Baojia glanced at him and said, "Get to the point. Can you see what that person looks like?"

This was all nonsense. She didn't want to hear how this young lady was good at imitation. She just wanted to know who was behind it.

Mother Hong said: "The room was too dark at that time, so I couldn't see his face clearly. I only vaguely remembered that he seemed to be quite tall, neither fat nor thin, and the fabric of his clothes looked good... Oh, that's right. , he seems to have a folding fan in his hand, and there seems to be two words written on it - Qingping, yes, those are the two words."

Li Baojia and Zhao Yi looked at each other.

Qingping?

Isn’t that Mr. Mei’s folding fan?

In other words, the person who came to see Qing Niang was Mr. Mei?Did Mei Mansion ask him to do this?

Li Baojia really didn't understand why Mei Mansion would do this. What would be the benefit to them?
Could it be that because of that account book, the sale of private salt was really related to them, so they wanted to get close to the prince of Jing'an Hou Mansion in advance?

If the Mei Mansion was involved in selling private salt and making weapons privately, this would be a guilty conscience.

Otherwise, there is absolutely no need to be so sneaky.

Li Baojia asked: "Did he only say this to you? Did he say anything else? How old does he sound by his voice?"

Mother Hong thought carefully about it for a while and said, "I don't want to say anything else. We have rules in this industry. We can't interfere too much. We just take the money and do things."

"As for age...the voice sounds like he must be in his twenties. Anyway, he looks very young."

As she was talking, two lights suddenly went out in the room, leaving only one in the corner. This sudden appearance startled Li Baojia.

Mother Hong was obviously frightened, and she quickly realized what she was doing. She fumbled around trying to light it up, while complaining: "It must be that the material of this batch of lamp oil is not good, and they dare to send us inferior goods. It’s really annoying that it disappears at every turn.”

"Next time, I must beat them hard and make it inconvenient for the young masters."

Li Baojia saw her lighting the lamp and quickly went over to help her light the other lamps. Soon the room became bright again.

Zhao Yi suddenly smiled and said: "You are very fast. You lit three lamps at once. Look at her lighting each one for such a long time."

Li Baojia turned to look at Mother Hong. Sure enough, she had just lit the lamp. Mother Hong saw them looking over and said with a smile: "Oh, my family is getting older now, so of course my hands and feet are not as nimble as those of young people. Look at you. You guys are all young and strong, so don't laugh at me, an old woman."

She smiled brightly, and the thick powder on her face was split by the wrinkles that squeezed together when she smiled.

To be fair, although you can't tell how old you are if you're wearing powder, you're probably around forty at most, so you don't look too old.

Li Baojia glanced at her and said nothing. Thinking that she had asked almost everything she needed to know, she said, "That's alright. Let's take the money and leave. We will pretend that we have never heard of what happened today."

Zhao Yi took out the banknote, and Hong's mother took it with bright eyes. She nodded and said, "Okay, okay, gentlemen, take your time. The slave family will not allow anyone to disturb your pleasure. If you need someone to take care of you, send someone to take care of you." Just shout, there are many girls here."

Li Baojia nodded disinterestedly, and Mother Hong withdrew with a beaming look on her face.

Li Baojia walked back and continued to watch the performance downstairs, while pouring himself a cup of tea and said: "So, the Mei family is very suspicious."

"Your Highness, think about it, if the Mei family is not guilty, why are they secretly making these tricks? You don't know what they want to do by placing people around you."

Zhao Yi said, "She was lying just now."

(End of this chapter)