EBE Chapter 108 The Prince Who Can't Support His Wife
Chapter 108 The Prince Who Can't Support His Wife
Aunt Jing looked at Zhou Chang with the eyes that looked good in everything about her own children: "How could Your Highness forget that at a palace banquet five years ago, His Royal Highness Prince Rong mentioned that he wanted to arrange a marriage for you. What did you say at that time?"
"What?" Even in the memories of his predecessor, Prince Yi, Zhou Chang did not notice anything out of the ordinary.
"You said you don't want to get married, but getting a wife costs money, and you need clothes and food to support her." Aunt Jing smiled tolerantly but helplessly.
"Did Aunt Jing hear it with her own ears?" Zhou Chang didn't believe it. At least, it was not in the memory of his predecessor, Prince Yi.
"How is that possible? Of course I heard this from the monkey. Monkeys, apart from being good at eating, will not exaggerate in these matters." Aunt Jing believed it without a doubt.
Zhou Chang frowned: "Doesn't Aunt Jing have something else to do?"
Aunt Jing had no intention of leaving.
"Please trouble Aunt Jing to deliver the clothes to the bedroom." Zhou Chang wanted to find an excuse to get rid of Aunt Jing.
"Speaking of the bedroom, there should be two people left in the prince's room." Aunt Jing continued to think.
Zhou Chang's patience has reached its limit.
These old men in Prince Yi’s Mansion were all supporting characters when the book was first written, but now, they are all debt collectors.
Aunt Jing sighed, "Alas, I have thought about it and decided to add two more people to the prince's room. The two maids who came to our palace last year can't stay in the kitchen all the time. They are ready-made candidates, and we don't have to spend any extra money."
The memories of Prince Yi Fengming automatically emerged.
The person Aunt Jing was talking about was a maidservant of Lord Meng, a doctor in the Water Department under the Ministry of Works. It was unknown how Lord Meng had offended Prince Duan, but he was later convicted and his property was confiscated, and his family members were reduced to official slaves and assigned to various mansions.
As for the two people who were assigned to Prince Yi's Mansion, Aunt Jing arranged them to serve in Prince Yi Fengming's bedroom from the beginning.
Prince Yi resolutely refused at the time, and even felt that having two more people in the palace would be of little use.
There was no other way, so Aunt Jing had to send the person to the kitchen to help Mother Wang in the kitchen.
Once Aunt Jing started talking, she couldn't stop: "I think they are both good. I wanted to keep them in the prince's room, but you refused. You said that our palace didn't have the spare money to buy them. They were ready-made candidates, but they were kept there for nothing. Girls are better than men anyway. No matter how easy it is for a skinny monkey to use them, it's still not good enough."
When the word "free living" was mentioned, Zhou Chang was finally moved. She had been busy for so long but still had no money. Increasing income and reducing expenditure should be carried out simultaneously.
Seeing that her prince remained silent, Aunt Jing took it as a sign of acquiescence: "It's settled. I will send it to the prince later."
"Uh..., still not..." Zhou Chang was still somewhat hesitant. He was used to using the skinny guy now, so he didn't lack two people.
Aunt Jing had already thrown away her handkerchief and smiled with satisfaction: "It's settled. I'll take my leave first."
Zhou Chang had no time to stop it, but he felt that Aunt Jing's "evil plan" had succeeded.
Whether sending clothes or talking about Yuan Qi were all pretexts, the real purpose was to stuff those two palace maids into the bedroom.
After sending Aunt Jing away one after another, Zhou Chang was exhausted.
As the golden crow set in the west, she could just wait for "lunch and dinner".
At this time, the thin monkey came to report again: "Your Majesty, there is a letter from the palace asking you to go to the imperial study to see the emperor after the morning court tomorrow."
"An audience? What did you talk about?" Zhou Chang asked.
The skinny monkey shook his head.
Zhou Chang thought about it and really couldn't praise the cooking skills of Wang Mama, the cook in Prince Yi's mansion: "Okay, then let's go to the palace early tomorrow, let's go to the imperial kitchen first, have a meal, and then go to the imperial study."
The skinny monkey jumps like a pig.
Early the next morning, Zhou Chang brought the skinny monkey into the palace again on the pretext of being summoned by the emperor.
The two men were familiar with the place and went to the imperial kitchen to "plunder" first, and then waited outside the imperial study.
An hour had passed and the Emperor had already left the court, but he was still not summoned.
"That's fine." Zhou Chang ate an orange to quench his thirst, resting his elbows on the stone table, enjoying the pleasant sunshine.
"Your Highness, over there." The skinny monkey suddenly reminded in a low voice.
Zhou Chang sat up and squinted his eyes to look over.
In the distance, Prince Duan walked over step by step, supported by two followers.
Prince Duan held his waist with one hand and supported his legs with the other, and looked like he was having a lot of trouble walking.
Zhou Chang found it funny and lazily stood up to greet him: "Hey, what's wrong, Brother Duan Wang?"
Prince Duan had not seen Zhou Chang at first, but when he saw him, his hawk-like eyes had big dark circles under them, but he still said nothing.
Zhou Chang was startled and wanted to get closer: "Hey, Brother Duan, how many nights of sleep did you have to suffer to be like this?"
Prince Duan rolled his eyes as usual, his expression of disdain unchanged, but he couldn't straighten his back, and he couldn't look at people with his chin raised, so he could only scold dryly: "Mind your own business."
"I didn't offend you today, did I?" Zhou Chang didn't bother to pay attention to him, but he ran into him out of curiosity.
At this moment, there was a light "pop" sound, and Prince Duan felt something falling on his forehead.
When I wiped it with my hand, it turned out to be a pile of bird droppings.
Zhou Chang had never dodged so quickly before, and he jumped far away with a "whoosh".
I wanted to laugh but held it back. I pretended to look up at the sky to hide the twitching of my mouth. A flock of crows were flying overhead.
"Damn it." Prince Duan cursed in a low voice and shook his hands to wipe off the bird droppings that had already been smeared on his hands.
The attendant behind him hurriedly took out a handkerchief to wipe it for him.
"Ouch..." Prince Duan was obviously in a very bad mood today. He wiped his forehead and hands with a handkerchief and then shook it, but he used too much force and pulled his waist.
Another attendant hurried forward to help him, but Prince Duan threw his sleeves in anger again, and finally couldn't help cursing: "What's the use of you servants?"
"And you dogs, you can't even clean the palace. Ouch..." Prince Duan pointed at the eunuch on duty outside the imperial study, but he twisted his waist because of his excessive movement.
The eunuchs outside the imperial study were obviously innocent and were the target of the anger. They didn't know what was going on and couldn't speak. They all lowered their heads even more.
The two attendants had no choice but to continue supporting Prince Duan: "Your Highness is right, who would have thought that there would be horse manure in the palace? It's all because of..."
"Asshole." Prince Duan glared at him and prepared to go up the stairs.
"What's wrong with Prince Duan's waist?" Zhou Chang found it particularly funny to see Prince Duan struggling to climb the stairs, and he couldn't help but ask.
Prince Duan did not answer, but another attendant could not help but explain: "It's all because of the horse manure that was not cleaned up in the west training ground. When the prince got off the carriage, he almost stepped on it, and he twisted his waist in order to dodge."
"Why are you talking so much?" Prince Duan shouted angrily.
The attendant quickly shut up and lowered his head.
"Oh, I thought that my brother was overworked, and I thought that my Four-flavor Medicine Shop had some good medicines, all of which were very tonic." Zhou Chang looked regretful, "I thought that my brother might be able to use them."
"You wait." Prince Duan was filled with anger and had no place to vent.
"What are you waiting for, Brother Duan, I didn't offend you today." Zhou Chang said innocently. But he also prayed for the wind to blow occasionally. "