I became a concubine in the palace and cured my master's hidden disease.

Old Thirteen almost spit out the pearl milk tea in his mouth. He had heard that the Queen's top-grade golden snow bird's nest only cost one hundred taels per bowl.

If we talk about the best person who is good at robbing money, the third brother Zhao Yuan is second, and no one dares to claim to be the first. No wonder the emperor arranged him in the Ministry of Revenue.

The prince remained silent and stared at Zhao Yuan. He had never understood this brother of his from beginning to end.

His status is second only to the seventh brother, and he is more capable than himself, so he has always been his biggest potential threat.

It's a pity that someone has made him a wife-killer. He left the palace to build a mansion, and has been hovering between marrying a princess and having his princess die. It seems that he has no chance of becoming emperor.

But he seemed to be indifferent, still unperturbed, still drinking, still marrying his wife, respecting himself but not afraid of him, and doing his work as long as he could.

The emperor looked at him strangely, neither scolding him nor summoning him alone.

This concubine is also a peculiar one. According to my understanding, she is not competitive in the backyard, but she is favored by Zhao Yuan and has lived a stable life for half a year. Her actions outside just now also amazed me. I don't know whether she did it intentionally or unintentionally.

Let's wait and see. It's not easy to force it with Zhao Yuan since he's protecting him so much. The life of a doomed star is not worth using too many means at the moment.

"How about this, if you really want to rent it, just give me 115,000 taels of rent a year. The additional 5,000 taels is my congratulations on your good business." Prince Zhao Yun raised the corner of his mouth and said calmly.

"Okay, but I don't have any money right now, so I'll owe you the money first!" Zhao Yuan's face twitched. Who said the prince didn't have any schemes? Let them all come over and take a good look. What a bunch of blindly arrogant guys.

"It's not impossible to owe it. You just said that brothers should settle accounts clearly. Let's write an IOU first! It must be settled in full by the end of next year."

Zhao Yuan raised his eyebrows. Is this considered shooting himself in the foot? 115,000 taels can fill the hole of a few million taels in the Ministry of Revenue. It's hard to get off the tiger, so let's just do this for now!

With a wave of his hand, the servant Martin immediately presented the four treasures of the study. The table was cleared, and Zhao Yuan waved his hand and wrote an IOU fluently.

Old Thirteen watched the whole process with curiosity. Although he was very young, he knew that a dozen taels of silver were good, and hundreds of thousands of taels of silver were not a small amount. He would only have a budget of 500,000 taels of silver to build a mansion outside the palace.

I just thought that the third brother was good at making money, but now I think the prince is even better at making money.

"When you need it, I will tell my servants to clear out everything in the shop. Or if you need the original decoration, just move the goods out." After the prince waited for the ink on the paper to dry, he waved the IOU in the air, folded it with a smile and put it in his sleeve.

Although he was jealous of the 300,000 taels he earned today, he had more than 100,000 taels in his pocket the next moment, so it didn't matter whether the concubine wanted him or not.

But the more Zhao Yuan acted like this, the more curious he became. Apart from her exceptionally fair skin, she was not as pretty as his princess, nor as plump as his concubine.

The only thing that was better than his princess and concubine was that he had a tough life. Actually, it was hard to survive this month with so many people paying attention to him.

"Is the black pearl milk tea really delicious? Pack a portion for me and bring it back so that my beloved can have a taste. This will be considered as an advertisement for you. You don't have to thank me extra!" The prince felt refreshed and scooped a full spoonful with a thin white porcelain spoon and put it into his mouth.

"You guys got a bargain!" Zhao Yuan gritted his teeth and replied concisely. "Martin, ask the kitchen to prepare a few more for His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and send them to His Royal Highness's residence."

"No wonder your beauty and skin care costs are not low!" The prince was in a good mood and discussed business with Zhao Yuan.

"That's right!" Zhao Yuan was now forced to take the risk. He had to protect his concubine well, hoping that she would have some novel ideas and earn the money back.

"I believe you, one hundred thousand taels can be easily earned back in half a year. I wish you a prosperous business in advance! I still have a lot of things to do. Old Thirteen, take your time drinking, I'll go back to the palace first." The prince stood up contentedly.

Zhao Yuan and Old Thirteen saw him off respectfully.

……

"Third brother, can you let your concubine come out and play with me for a while?" Old Thirteen didn't care about the grudges and hatreds of the adults! His purpose of coming here was to find that concubine to play with.

"You little brat, since you said you are my concubine, why should I play with you?" Zhao Yuan felt that the milk tea tasted particularly refreshing and lingering.

"Because she's fun!" Old Thirteen would not give up until he achieved his goal. "Today, she took off all her jewelry in front of everyone to place a bet. It was so cool! If she can survive three months smoothly, you can earn 300,000 taels. Just thinking about it makes me full of energy!"

"If you don't want her to play with me here, just lend her to me for a few days and I'll take her back to the palace. But I can't guarantee that she can survive more than a month!"

"Her life is worthless. She is destined to be unlucky. Without me, a wife-killer, to suppress her, what would you do if she hurt you?" Zhao Yuan didn't expect that even this little Thirteen would be so good at settling accounts.

Old Thirteen's face wrinkled up: "This is really a problem! But..."

You have to know that medical conditions in ancient times were poor, and typhoid and colds could be fatal, so people were even more wary of the mysterious fate.

Zhao Yuan was not in a hurry, as the Thirteenth Child still had the mind of a child. But how many children born in the royal family were completely innocent?

"Shouldn't you ask your concubine what she thinks? Maybe she is bored too?" Old Thirteen opened his big round eyes, his long eyelashes fluttering, and his chubby face made people want to pinch it.

"Hmph!" Zhao Yuan instantly understood what Old Thirteen was thinking.

Lin Yan was a woman without any backing, but if she had a friend like Lao Shisan who was a prince, her status in the backyard would be raised to a higher level invisibly. Even a fool would know how to choose, and soon Lin Yan became a woman with a very clear mind.

Zhao Yuan thought about it and ordered his servant, "Call Aunt Lin over!" He planned to give her a formal status tomorrow when he had time. Plans can't change quickly, so let's do it now!

The attendant nodded and left immediately. With just a few words, Zhao Yuan raised Lin Yan's status from concubine to aunt, which made the people who had been serving her more worried.

Aunt Lin is now a legitimate half-mistress. Normally, there can be no aunt before the princess enters the palace, but the situation in the Rui Palace is special, and even if the new princess enters the palace, she has no say.

Lin Yan had no idea what happened in the flower hall. Her mind was now filled with the fact that Zhao Yuan had put the money she had worked so hard to come up with into his pocket.

Zhiye and Lucha saw that their master was in a bad mood and did not dare to disturb him. They just stood aside and served quietly.

After the servant came over to deliver the message, Zhiye and Green Tea looked at each other, and finally it was the careful Green Tea who stepped forward to tell her master about the matter.

Lin Yan really didn't want to go, but she had to bow her head under the eaves.

……

"Your Highness, you called me?" Lin Yan asked seriously.

"Well! Old Thirteen is very curious about you and wants you to play with him for a while. I have to go to the study for something." After Zhao Yuan gave his simple instructions, he got up and left.

"Okay!" Lin Yan didn't expect that she was called here for this purpose. It shouldn't be difficult to be a playmate for a nine-year-old child.

"Let's go and have a snowball fight!" Old Thirteen ran over, grabbed Lin Yan's hand and ran away. He had been waiting for a long time.

Lin Yan's motor skills were so poor that she almost fell down.

"Slow down, it's freezing cold and it's hard not to feel pain when you fall." Lin Yan had just finished speaking when a snowball hit her face. She turned pale in an instant.

"Hahahaha!"

Each of them took half of the field, built trenches, made bunkers, and fought. Lin Yan temporarily forgot all her troubles. Only when facing such a naughty child could she let go of her heart and soul and return to her cheerful personality in modern times.

……

After taking a hot bath, Lin Yan, who was suffering from back pain, lay on the couch: She was simply a little devil.

I thought I could easily take care of that brat, Old Thirteen, but I didn't expect that I would be beaten by the energetic and well-balanced Old Thirteen and I didn't have the strength to change my hands. I rolled and crawled in the snow and only hit him a few times.

Green Tea shrugged, she hadn't expected her master to have such a lively and cheerful side.

Zhao Yuan stood in the distance and observed secretly, and smiled knowingly. What she was going to face next was a test of life and death.

"Tomorrow, I must think of strategies and tactics first. I don't believe that I can't deal with a little brat like him." Lin Yan said to herself. She didn't expect Zhao Yuan to walk in quietly.

He made a gesture to silence the Green Tea and others who were serving him, and waved his hand to let them go.

"Tomorrow, I'm going to make a super-launching slingshot. Can you guys think of other weapons that can be launched over long distances?"

"Why are you all silent?" Lin Yan suddenly noticed that the room seemed to have become unusually quiet. She turned her head and saw Zhao Yuan looking at her with amusement on his face.

The eyes are wide open and the mouth is round.

"Haha!" Lin Yan smiled awkwardly, turned her head back quickly, and hurriedly got up from the couch to make way for him.

"I didn't expect you to be so good at having fun?" Zhao Yuan said jokingly. This woman was so cautious in front of him, and she was completely opposite to Old Thirteen when they were having fun. Why did he feel so uncomfortable?

Not knowing how to answer and not daring to tell the truth, Lin Yan chose to remain silent.

"Come here and change my clothes!" Zhao Yuan was a little annoyed and ready to be served like a boss.

"Yes!" It seemed that he was going to stay here tonight. Lin Yan could only bite the bullet and go forward to serve him. She hoped that this gentleman would be more normal today. If he found fault again, she would have no chance of sleeping tonight.

Ancient clothes were made up of layers and needed to be untied bit by bit.

Zhao Yuan felt that Lin Yan's fair and moist hands were simply setting fire to his body.

From the chest to the lower abdomen, from the waist to the back, point wherever you go.

Lin Yan had no idea of ​​Zhao Yuan's mental state at the moment. She was complaining in her mind about how ancient clothes were so difficult to take off. The collar and lapels were so tight that she even wanted to bite them open with her teeth.

His face got closer and closer, and one of them lost his balance and fell on top of her. Zhao Yuan couldn't hold back any longer, and stretched out his strong arms to hold her waist.

The slender and petite body pressed tightly against him. The tip of his nose was filled with the faint fragrance unique to women. He couldn't help but take a deep breath and hugged her tighter.

Lin Yan was stunned, and then... something was wrong, damn, this beast...

The little face looked at Zhao Yuan in horror. She was just changing his clothes, but it turned out that there really were such stud men in the world! Something strange had happened tonight.

First I felt embarrassed, then I wanted to stay as far away from him as possible. I had to keep my innocence, but I had no intention of really living with him. If I didn't die now, I would be tortured to death by his various nitpicking sooner or later.

She struggled to leave, but Zhao Yuan's strong arms held her slender waist firmly, preventing her from moving away at all.

Zhao Yuan grabbed her chin and said in a deep voice with obvious anger: "What's the matter? Are you disgusted with me?"

I was about to cry because of my own stupidity. I knew clearly that this was a feudal society, with male supremacy, and I had just experienced a life-and-death struggle during the day, and now it happened again.

She could only shake her head as innocently as possible to hide the disgust and displeasure in her eyes.

"Speak!" He growled. If she hadn't been restless and teasing him, would he have reacted?

For many years, his maids had changed his clothes for him every day. This was the first time something like this had happened. Was it his fault?

"Don't anger him!" Lin Yan's inner voice repeatedly warned herself. She stuttered, "This, the natural state, should have little to do with me!"

"You seem to know a lot?" Zhao Yuan gritted his teeth, full of hatred. He suddenly realized that he knew nothing about this woman. The Queen Mother only told him that she was doomed to be alone, and kept silent about other things about her.

How could I assume that this woman was innocent? How could someone who could eat so comfortably be an ordinary person?

I used to have some thoughts in my mind, but now I don’t have any. I don’t know why, but I just care so much about this.

His hand slid down her chin to her neck, and he found that there were still red marks on her fair and delicate neck left by his fingers, which was shocking to see.

He loosened his grip all of a sudden. He was so reckless that he forgot that she couldn't stand the force.

Lin Yan was trembling all over, thinking that she would die again. After waiting for a long time with no response, she quietly opened her eyes a little, and her eyes met Zhao Yuan's. She was so scared that she immediately closed her eyes again.

Zhao Yuan loosened his hand, patted Lin Yan's face, and said coldly: "Tell me, how did you know?"

Lin Yan was speechless. She had learned this in her health class, but she obviously couldn't tell the truth in front of her.

"When I was on duty in the palace, one night when I was passing through an archway with hanging flowers, I accidentally heard..." Lin Yan lowered her head and thought for a while, then gave a vague answer.

"Oh, who is so bold as to say such things in the palace?" Zhao Yuan lifted Lin Yan's chin forcefully and made her look into his eyes.