Chapter 98 Collecting Money Again
After a while, she spoke directly: "Your Majesty, please listen to the new piece I practiced. It sounds so beautiful."
"no need"
Ji Yunqing was very excited: "But Your Majesty, this is a piece of music I composed just for you on a whim. I guarantee you have never heard of it before."
Doesn't that mean it's even more unpleasant?
King Zhao didn't want to torture himself, so he refused again: "My beloved concubine just needs to sit here and accompany me, there is no need to do those things."
"Okay," Ji Yunqing lowered her head in disappointment, "I was thinking that when the child is born in the future, we mother and daughter can create new music together and play it for the prince."
Wouldn't that be doubly unpleasant?
King Zhao followed her thoughts and felt suffocated.
"No, how did my concubine know that this baby was a girl?"
King Zhao wanted a son, a healthy son, even if he couldn't play the piano.
Last time in the palace, my father had asked him about the number of children in the family, and the result was not very satisfactory.
Even though he later told his father that he had two children during the Mid-Autumn Festival, it did not change his father's opinion of his small number of offspring.
Hearing this question, Ji Yunqing's eyes lit up, thinking that this question hit the nail on the head.
"Your Majesty, I don't know, but I would venture to guess that Your Majesty would definitely like to have a son.
Then I would definitely think, what if it's a daughter and she feels that we don't welcome her? So, the prince hopes for a son, and I hope for a daughter, and I take the child's thoughts into consideration in every way. "
After listening to it, King Zhao found it very interesting.
"But..." Ji Yunqing glanced at King Zhao secretly and passed on the blame in advance: "It was the prince who put the child in my belly. The prince should know the gender of the child, right?"
King Zhao: “…”
Should the King know this?
He was puzzled: "Shouldn't we see if your belly is doing well?"
This is the mainstream view at present. Whether the baby is a boy or a girl depends entirely on the woman's belly. If the belly is fertile, it will be a boy. If the belly is not fertile, it will be a girl.
Ji Yunqing didn't indulge him at all and cruelly revealed the truth: "My Lord, what are you saying?"
She raised her delicate chin, pointed toward the door, and then said, "Your Highness, you know how to grow vegetables, right? If you grow an eggplant, can it produce cucumbers?
The same goes for the time when you took advantage of the dark night and stuffed your seed into me...
King Zhao covered her mouth and gritted his teeth: "No need to explain in detail, I understand"
Finally, Ji Yunqing was released, but he still said firmly: "What grows in the land depends on what you plant."
King Zhao: “…”
I have to say that although Ji's words seem to be nonsense, they actually make sense.
King Zhao thought about it carefully and felt that this truth should be told to his second brother. His second brother and his second sister-in-law had given birth to three daughters in a row. It was said that his second brother now had a very bad attitude towards his second sister-in-law.
He should give some advice to his second brother.
"Ji, I didn't expect you to be so smart, not bad"
King Zhao felt that Ji Shi was not stupid and had a flexible mind.
Upon hearing this praise, Ji Yunqing's heart skipped a beat.
No, if you think she is smart, then you think the child she gave birth to will be smart. Since the child is smart, maybe she will take him away. Then what is the point of her playing?
She shook her head repeatedly, "No, no, no, I'm not smart, I'm very stupid, I've been called a stupid beauty since I was a child."
King Zhao: "Don't feel inferior. I will make my own judgment on whether you are smart or not."
Oh no, I really found his shining point.
Ji Yunqing made a prompt decision and asked for money: "My Lord, you see I am so smart, do you want to give me some reward?"
Unexpectedly, King Zhao readily agreed: "Okay!"
Why is it so simple?
At this moment, Ji Yunqing wished that King Zhao was a stingy and mean subordinate, because that would make him think that she was greedy, vain, and money-loving, and that the child she gave birth to would also be greedy for money.
King Zhao casually took out a piece of silver from his pocket and said, "Here, here are two thousand taels of silver. I give it to you."
Two thousand taels of silver!
Ji Yunqing's eyes instantly glued to the banknotes, and he said with sparkling eyes: "Thank you, Your Majesty"
Then he reached out and took it.
The silver note that he had been eyeing shrank back, leaving Ji Yunqing with nothing.
She raised her head and looked at Prince Zhao: "Your Majesty..."
King Zhao looked at her and said meaningfully, "Before you were alone, I gave you one thousand taels. Now there are two of us, so naturally it will be two thousand taels. So from now on..."
In an instant, a new way to get rich was found.
Ji Yunqing couldn't contain his surprise and said, "If I give birth to twenty children, that would be..."
She lowered her head and stretched out her chubby fingers to count: "One child is one thousand taels, then two children are two thousand taels, three children are three thousand taels, ..., ten children is ten thousand taels? That's so much?"
His tone became more and more excited: "Then twenty children would be - two hundred thousand taels? Oh my God!"
King Zhao was silent. Isn't this wrong?
Ji Yunqing was so excited that he could hardly breathe, and his face was flushed.
"No, no, it's not two hundred thousand taels. Add my one thousand taels, that's the total of two hundred thousand taels plus one thousand taels!"
King Zhao: ...My goodness, Ji's ability to calculate accounts will not be passed on to his children, right?
He began to worry and decided to hire an arithmetic teacher for his child as soon as possible.
Ji Yunqing was so shocked that he couldn't even close his mouth. What a huge sum of money!
She murmured, "This is just the beginning. When the children grow up, they will have to get married. Dowries for daughters should be prepared early, and betrothal gifts for sons should not be less.
Let me think, how much silver should be the betrothal gift for a son? Damn it, why can't I remember it? "
Ji Yunqing couldn't remember, but King Zhao knew it very well. For one son, the number would be at least 50,000 to 100,000, and if it was more, the number would be countless.
If this is really twenty...
King Zhao calmed down instantly. He couldn’t afford to have a baby. He really couldn’t afford it.
Looking at Ji again, he thought, forget it, it would be enough to just let Ji give birth to this child and raise him well, there was no need to make things too difficult for her.
After King Zhao left, Ji Yunqing sat on the chair with empty eyes.
She had tried very hard to act stupid today, but she didn't know whether King Zhao believed her or not.
It’s better to believe it.
She looked at the two thousand taels of silver notes she had just received: "Hehe, men are still the most pleasing when they are given money!"
The next day, Ji Yunqing had just finished his meal and was about to go for his routine walk in the yard when he heard the voice of an unfamiliar maid talking at the gate of the yard.
She stopped silently and listened carefully.
"It's Miss Ai Ye, why are you here?"
Ai Ye?
Isn’t this the maid in the princess’ courtyard?
Ji Yunqing was shocked.
No way, right?
Don't tell her that the aura of the jinx that brought Prince Zhao to her place is still there. Besides, not every time Prince Zhao comes, something bad will happen in the mansion.
Who's in trouble again?
There's no need to trouble her over this, right?