old queen

Chapter 94

That's about the same, he didn't expect his younger brother to be really willing to be the regent.There was a very faint smile on his pale face, Long Che waved his hand, and said softly: "Okay, it's fine, you step back!"

"Yes, my younger brother will leave." Long Yu said, and hurriedly withdrew, and ran away!
Long Yu left, Mingxi came forward again, held up the medicine bowl, and said in a low voice: "Your Majesty, it's time to drink the medicine."

The smell is so pungent, one can imagine that drinking this medicine must be miserable, he really wants to wave the medicine bowl aside!But this is just thinking about it in my heart, and I have to drink the medicine.Stretching out his hand and taking the medicine bowl, Long Che frowned, held his breath, closed his eyes, raised his head, gulped down the bitter medicine in a few mouthfuls.

"Your Majesty, candied fruit!" Fully cooperating with his actions, Mingxi hurriedly delivered a stack full of fragrant candied fruit the moment the edge of the bowl left his thin lips.

Long Che casually grabbed a handful and rubbed it into his mouth.The bitter taste of the medicine and the sweetness of the candied fruit were neutralized, and he felt much more comfortable.

Taking the empty bowl from his hand and putting it aside, Ming Xi came over, waited on him to lie on the bed, covered him with a quilt, and said softly: "Your Majesty, after drinking the medicine, you should rest for a while!"

"En", Long Che nodded, and said in a low voice, "You all step back! I want to be quiet."

"Yes." Mingxi said, leading all the people in the inner hall to retreat.

"Cough, cough, cough..." The crowd receded, and another itch flooded their throats.Lying on the bed, pressing his coughing chest, Long Che still couldn't figure it out.Why?How could this be?Two people, in the same situation, why in the end, only he fell down, but she was fine, and could continue to run and dance in the cold palace?He refuses to accept it!He refuses to accept it!Anyway, it's normal for her to lie on the bed with him for a few days, right?
Resentment hovered in his heart and shouted, but he couldn't resist the surging sleepiness.His eyes darkened, he slowly closed his eyes, and soon fell into a sweet dreamland.

Drowsy, it seemed that someone appeared on the bedside, pressed his forehead with one hand, and sighed softly: "Really, why did you fall ill so easily? I'll just say you're a white beheaded bitch!"

"I don't...cough cough, I'm not!" Feeling dissatisfied in his heart, he immediately stretched out his hand and grabbed the soft bird, he cried in a low voice.

"Tch, why don't you say no?" A low laugh sounded in his ear, the hand was pulled out from his palm, he put his hand into the quilt, patted his shoulder, and whispered, "You still Get well and get well!"

"Hmm." A pat on the shoulder made him feel more at ease, and Long Che let out a groan, and fell asleep again.

A few days later, with the help of traditional Chinese medicine, Long Che's condition gradually improved, and everyone in the palace let out a long breath, and everything gradually returned to the normal track of the past.Mu Mingchun was also relieved, so he sneaked out of the palace again and came to his dance pavilion.

After inspecting the front and back of the dance studio, everything is fine, and the girls will be safe and well, so she felt relieved, and went back to her special room to sit, planning to wait for Mu Mingqiu and Wan Chengming to finish their work later. After listening to their work report, I went to the street for a few laps, and by the way, I went back to find some delicious food for the children.

However, when she walked forward, a person followed her and followed her to the place where she temporarily lived.

"Madam, I want to redeem myself." Li Qingwan lowered her eyes and said softly as she put a thick stack of banknotes on the coffee table beside her.

Mu Mingchun was taken aback by her words. "Here, is it [-] taels?" After she realized it, she pointed to the stack of bank notes and asked in disbelief.

Li Qingwan nodded. "That's right. If you don't believe me, you can order it."

Mu Mingchun shook his head: "No need." She was too lazy to do anything, and, on her own territory, she was not afraid of her playing tricks on her.

"Ma'am, you said that as long as I return you a hundred times the money for selling my body, you will let me redeem my body. And now, twenty thousand taels are already here..." Li Qingwan said again, raising her eyes and stealing a glance at her.This time, there was an unavoidable tremor in her voice, as if her thin body tensed up.

My heart trembled slightly, but Mu Mingchun still nodded slightly. "Yes." She said it was correct, but... oh, I feel a little depressed.She never thought that things would progress so quickly!Her dance studio has only been open for less than half a year!

"You also said that when I redeemed myself, you would free me from slavery. Here is your wording." Hearing what she said, Li Qingwan not only did not feel relieved, but her voice became even more tense.With trembling hands, he took out a note with bright red fingerprints from his cuff and put it on a pile of banknotes.

Seeing the written evidence, Mu Mingchun's face darkened slightly.Looking up at her, she pondered: "Don't worry, I always keep my word. Since I said that I would release you from slavery, now that you have given me the money for the ransom according to the rules, then tomorrow I will order someone to do it. If there are no accidents, you will be able to regain your freedom the day after tomorrow."

Finally, Li Qingwan breathed a sigh of relief when she got her affirmative answer. A relieved smile appeared on her pretty face, and she said softly, "Okay, then I'll wait for the good news from Madam." Then he put away the papers again, turned around and left lightly. up.

After Li Qingwan left, Mu Mingchun's heart agitated by her could not calm down for a long time.She rested her chin in one hand and stared at the stack of banknotes on the table. After much deliberation, she couldn't understand: Where did this girl get so much money?Twenty thousand taels!This is not a small amount, a number that many ordinary people will never earn in their lifetime!

Knock knock knock, when she was thinking, someone knocked on the door panel three times suddenly, Mu Mingqiu came in at some time, smiled at her, and called softly: "Eldest sister."

Mu Mingchun came back to his senses, and when he saw that it was her, he nodded slightly and snorted desperately. "Ok."

"Just now, a dozen girls came to my place and asked for redemption." His eyes circled around the bank note beside her, and he looked away, but he didn't ask her about it, Mu Mingqiu said to himself.

There was another small shock in my heart.Mu Mingchun raised his head, looking a little confused: "Really? Why are they all so rich?"

"Sister, haven't you calculated it?" Frowning, Mu Mingqiu looked at her in surprise, as if he couldn't understand her confusion.

Mu Mingchun shook his head and nodded again, and said innocently: "I counted, but it's not like you don't know, I'm a math idiot." So...

Uh... well!Mu Mingqiu was helpless. "Then I'll do the calculations for you one by one." Sitting down beside her, Mu Mingqiu said slowly, "It's your order. There will be 50 guests for one performance in the dance studio, and each person will receive 99 taels of cash. But , since they come to the dance studio to have fun, naturally most of them are rich and leisurely people, and the guests are very generous, and they pay 100 taels or more. Let's take 100 taels, which is 5000 taels. This is one. Second, the table and chair fee is ten taels per person, so it is 500 taels, 500 taels, right? Third, the tea fee is an average of ten taels per person, which is considered a high-end consumption here. , the price is more than ten times higher than outside, but there are people who are taken advantage of willingly pay for it, there is no way, as the political center and economic center of the country, there are more rich people here, and they don't care about this little money at all. For this item, just count 800 taels, which is 300 taels. In addition, the reward silver received for each performance, counting, is also a few hundred taels. All of them add up to at least 7000 taels Two. According to the rules you set, we get half of the money, and the other half is distributed to the girls, and the money is calculated according to their ability and contribution. It is taken for granted that Li Qingwan gets the most, and there are thousands of taels every time! After doing the math, the dance shop opened three times a month, and she earned almost 3000 taels. Adding in the gifts that those sons and pals secretly ordered people to give her, converted into silver taels, there were hundreds of taels a month. Calculated, she earns nearly 4000 taels a month. This is only open, as for the secret, I can't say."

"Ah? It turns out that she has earned so much money!" She wasn't ignorant, but she was taken aback.Listening to Mu Mingqiu's explanation, white silver coins were flying around in front of his eyes, Mu Mingchun's eyes widened with an incredible expression.She remembered that at first she did a rough calculation in private, and the final result was that Li Qingwan's monthly income was 400 taels... Now, after being reminded by Mu Mingqiu, she realized that she didn't know When did you miss a zero, a crucial zero!She was ashamed, and there was a little heat on her pretty face, which made her feel very uncomfortable.

"Yes!" Mu Mingqiu nodded, and said again, "Li Qingwan is an oiran, and she puts in the most effort every time she performs, so the money she gets is naturally several times or even dozens of times higher than others. However, it can also be seen from her that, The money that other girls get every month is definitely not too little. In addition, compared to Li Qingwan, we didn't pay much money when we bought them. Today, if they can save enough money to redeem themselves, it is not enough for them. strange."

"That's it!" Mu Mingchun nodded.After being ordered by her, the doubts in her heart dissipated.However, the doubts dissipated, but the depressed heart did not see any improvement, and on the contrary, there was a tendency to become more depressed.She knew that she was sad.The oiran resigned, but the new oiran has not yet been trained. It is at this time that the oiran is not ready, and the guests will not wait for them to regain their strength just because they understand their current situation.So, what to do now?
"Sister, if you don't want to let them go, you don't have to let them go." Seeing her gloomy expression and knowing what she was thinking, Mu Mingqiu said softly.

Mu Mingchun shook his head, and said firmly: "Let go, why not let go? Their hearts are no longer with me, so what's the use of me forcing them to stay?"

(End of this chapter)