Chapter 26 Go to burn incense
Ji Yunqing was very resolute and refused forcefully: "My Lord, I cannot be corrupted by wealth and power, nor can I bend by might."
"Are you really that courageous?"
King Zhao confirmed.
"Yes!" Ji Yunqing nodded vigorously. She was not the kind of person who loved money like her life.
King Zhao said regretfully: "Well, I was going to say that if you perform well, I will give you more money."
There is actually a bounty?
But Ji Yunqing is a man of integrity. He has already rejected it firmly, so he will not change his mind at will.
But she still couldn't help asking, "How much do you plan to reward me, Your Majesty?"
King Zhao glanced at her and smiled: "It's not much, just one thousand taels."
One, one thousand taels!
Ji Yunqing swallowed hard and quickly did the math in his mind.
Her monthly salary is ten taels of silver, which is one hundred taels or one thousand taels a year. This is ten years' salary!
Ten years! ! !
No, Ji Yunqing realized, it seems that a year has twelve months?
So, how many years' salary would this one thousand taels of silver be?
It's starting to get unclear.
If you add the money earned from performing arts, a somersault would earn you ten taels of silver, which would add up to a lot...
Oh my God! If she keeps flipping all night, won't she be rich?
However, Ji Yunqing closed his eyes and insisted on his bottom line: "Your Highness, I, Ji Fuguier, sell my body but not my art!"
King Zhao was completely speechless: "...Ji Fuguier, then you should sell yourself well and hold on to me and don't let go."
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When the clouds cleared and the rain stopped, King Zhao leaned over to the woman who was about to faint from exhaustion and whispered, "Fugui'er, you should practice your skills of selling your body more!"
Ji Yunqing rolled her eyes with difficulty. She really didn't have the strength to even move her fingers.
dog man!
When he woke up again, Ji Yunqing stood up subconsciously and found that King Zhao was gone.
When she got back, the man still had a conscience and didn't ask her to get up and help her put on clothes.
Xuancao came over and said softly, "Master, it's time to get up. While you were asleep, the prince sent someone to deliver 1,000 taels of silver and a jade pendant, but he did it quietly, so no one could tell anyone."
Ji Yunqing felt happy.
"He still has a conscience."
She took another look at the jade pendant. It was a similar emerald green, but both the jade material and the workmanship were much better than hers.
"Hemerocallis, can you help me with this... Never mind, I'll do it myself."
Ji Yunqing was halfway through her words when she remembered that the one she gave to King Zhao was made by herself, so she had to make a similar one herself as well.
This way they look like a couple.
Ji Yunqing is very good at taking King Zhao's feelings into consideration in such small details.
Since everyone in the palace was required to burn incense together, they didn't wait too long. They chose a time when King Zhao was free and went out.
King Zhao did not go with everyone else as he had some things to finish, so he ordered his personal guards to follow him. The princess took the lead and boarded the carriage with a group of female relatives.
The princess had a spacious carriage all by herself, while the others had ordinary carriages, but fortunately each person had one.
As for the concubine, she had her own carriage. Although it was not as big as the princess's, it was also very luxurious and comfortable.
Ji Yunqing followed at the back, carrying daylilies and hydrangeas behind her, waiting to get on the carriage.
As for the younger Hongxing and Hongdou, they stayed behind to look after the house.
They were not expected to do anything, as long as they didn't let anyone into the yard and there wasn't anything extra or missing.
Concubine Zhao, who was surrounded by several maids, glanced at the jade pendant worn on Ji Yunqing's waist.
The distance was a bit far so the patterns couldn't be seen clearly, but the color and size were correct, and she couldn't help but smile wider.
She knew that if a country bumpkin got such a jade pendant, how could he resist not wearing it?
Ji Yunqing felt uneasy when she looked at him, so he simply got on the carriage with his two maids.
Concubine Zhao was not annoyed. What was the point of fussing over someone she would soon never see again?
However, after she got on the carriage, she carefully confirmed again and again: "Su Yue, are you sure it's the jade pendant?"
This time when she went out to burn incense, the only person she brought with her was Bihe, who she brought from her mother's home, and the other was Suyue from the palace.
Su Yue nodded repeatedly, vowing, and the rice-sized beads on the ends of her hair moved along with the sound: "Master, rest assured, I peeked through the crack of the door that day, and it was that ugly cord!
This is such an ugly style, I guarantee that there is no other like it in the world!"
Concubine Zhao was finally relieved and covered her chest with a handkerchief: "That's good."
After finishing, she threw the handkerchief aside, changed it with a clean one, and then asked the two maids in the carriage to tidy up her clothes.
She had picked out this dress with great difficulty, so she couldn't let it get wrinkled.
The prince is here today, so she has to make sure she looks extremely exquisite so that the prince can see her at a glance.
Bihe really wanted to persuade her master not to be so impulsive. Looking at the embarrassing appearance of Concubine Ji, she knew that she was not capable of anything.
I really don’t know why the master is targeting her like that?
If this effort had been put into the prince, he might have been favored and given a new courtyard long ago.
Now the master's courtyard is so remote that not only does he have to get up so early to pay his respects, but in the future, as time goes by, there is no guarantee that the prince will not be willing to travel so far.
But she also knew that her master would not listen, so she could only shut up and work.
She talked too much, but the master didn't listen to her. Instead, he became annoyed with them and became closer to the eloquent Su Yue.
Isn’t this the fate of clear water?
When he first entered the mansion, the master was clearly closer to Bishui.
The carriage that Ji Yunqing was riding in was right in front of Concubine Zhao.
After all, she had entered the emperor's bed before Concubine Zhao, and was more favored than her.
But this doesn't make any practical sense.
Ji Yunqing leaned over the carriage window, quietly opened a corner, and looked outside at the street.
This was her first time, no, her second time going out.
The first time was when a sedan chair was delivered to the palace and Ji Yunqing sat in it. The sedan chair had a very small space and no windows at all.
So this time she could really see the outside world.
At the beginning, there was still some scenery. Even the stone lions at the doors of the wealthy families were majestic and majestic. But when you get to the place where ordinary people gather, it seems very ordinary.
Many of the clothes they wear have patches on them, which is normal.
After all, when Ji Yunqing was in modern times, if his clothes accidentally got a hole, he would still consider whether to mend them and continue wearing them, let alone in ancient times when productivity was backward.
The carriage moved forward all the way, and after a full hour, it finally arrived at the destination.
Ji Yunqing's legs were numb, and he was carefully helped down by Xuancao and Xiuqiu. He saw the princess talking to a monk.
The monk was in his forties, wearing a cassock and had a kind face.
"Dear donors, Amitabha, I have been welcoming you for a long time, please come in."
The princess also clasped her hands together and returned the greeting.