"Your Highness! Sister Wanwan has clearly been wronged!" Jiang Shuying walked forward gracefully, holding a round fan.

As she bowed, the jade hairpins on her temples shone a cold light. "Wanwan invited us to her courtyard to play pitching pots, and she even took out a newly acquired Western Region gem box filled with exquisite jewelry."

She turned sideways to signal the young lady from the aristocratic family behind her. The daughter of the Zhao family held up the pearl earrings on her earlobe and said, "Wanwan saw me wearing a moon-white skirt today, so she specially picked out this pair of Dongzhu earrings for me, saying that they would make my complexion look even whiter."

The Shen family girl opened her palm, revealing a gilded ruby ​​ring gleaming in the candlelight. "Wanwan put this ring on me herself. The maids in her room were so busy preparing fruit and wine that they never left the courtyard."

Jiang Shuying took out a brocade box with a lotus pattern from her sleeve and opened it to reveal a pair of jade bracelets inside: "This is what Wanwan gave me."

She sneered, her eyes piercing the housekeeper who was slumped on the ground. "Some people, with their own evil intentions, want to throw dirty water on innocent people!"

The housekeeper trembled with fear and said, "No, I know nothing."

The princess looked at her and said, "You know my temper. I won't tolerate such things. Tell me now, or after being tortured. Think about your family..."

The housekeeper naturally knew the princess' temper. She collapsed to the ground and looked at Chuntao and said, "It was...she who did it."

The princess sneered and said, "Chun Tao? I didn't expect that you were the one who did this..."

Chun Tao fell to her knees and said, "Princess, it wasn't me. How could I do this? It wasn't me, Miss, please help me... I don't want to die!"

Song Tang sobbed:

"Chun Tao, I didn't expect you to betray me, wuwuwu...why did you do this to me?

Are you trying to hurt me on purpose? Woo woo woo…"

"No, it was you who asked me to do this. It was you who wanted to harm..." Chuntao wanted to tell the truth, but the nanny beside the eldest princess covered her mouth and pulled her out.

As he was speaking, there was a sudden sound of "slapping" from outside.

After a while, the nanny came in and said calmly, "Princess, the person is dead."

The eldest princess curled her lips and sneered, "This kind of traitor will only bring disaster if we keep him."

After she finished speaking, she turned to look at Song Tang and said in a cold tone, "You stay here tonight. I'll send someone to take you back to the Song family tomorrow."

Song Tang burst into tears:

"I don't want to go back to the Song family, aunt, I was wrong, and I don't know why it turned out like this.

Please give me another chance, I really like Brother Shen..."

Shen Tao got goosebumps all over his body: "No, I don't like you. When I think about last night, I feel that you are disgusting. Anyway, I will not marry you."

The princess sneered, "Send her back tonight! What a disgrace!"

"Don't... Princess, I will listen to you, please..."

The eldest princess smiled and said:

"Okay, go get some rest! These things are rewards for you.

Don't tell anyone about what happened tonight. Do you understand?"

All the noble ladies nodded. The eldest princess looked at Bai Wanwan, who sighed and said, "I'm not sure about my mouth, but if the princess lets me pick something from the store, maybe I can control it."

The eldest princess stared at her coldly and said, "Take her to Curry to choose..."

Shen Tao rubbed his hands together, smiling with his eyebrows curved: "Wanwan, I'll take you to have a look! I'm very familiar with my mother's private vault."

As he said this, he led the way. The eldest princess was so angry that she kept fanning him and said, "How could I raise such a cunning person?"

The nanny beside her hurried to smooth things over: "The young master is young and naive. He will calm down after he gets married."

The eldest princess snorted coldly: "We must find a strong wife to take care of him, so that he won't always betray us!"

Walk through the winding corridor and push open the carved wooden door, and the fragrance of aged camphor wood will hit you in the face.

Bai Wanwan's eyes suddenly opened up. On the sandalwood shelves covering the entire wall, jade bracelets were piled up like a mountain, agate beads were strung into curtains and hung in front of the window, and the gold and jade hairpins were swaying so brightly in the candlelight that it was impossible to open one's eyes.

In the corner, boxes of silk were piled up to the beams. There were indigo brocade, madder red Sichuan embroidery, moon-white soft smoke silk, and even chiffon, a tribute that was usually hard to come by, all rolled up into a ball and pressed at the bottom of the box.

"This, this is just one of them?" Bai Wanwan swallowed, her fingers unconsciously stroking the camphorwood box inlaid with mother-of-pearl beside her.

Shen Tao nodded proudly: "My mother has three warehouses that are bigger than this one!"

The nanny smiled so hard that even the wrinkles at the corners of her eyes were squeezed into folds: "Young lady, please take your pick. Whichever one you like, I will get it for you right away!"

Bai Wanwan frowned slightly and raised her hand to stop him: "Madam, wait a minute, I haven't taken a closer look yet!"

The nanny's face turned unhappy:

“Is it so difficult to pick something?

If you had more manners, you wouldn't have taken the initiative to go look for things in someone else's warehouse."

Shen Tao looked at her calmly and said:

"Who do you think you are?

You're just gossiping here, my mother hasn't even opened her mouth yet! Get out of my way."

Shen Tao said:

"Let me explain it to you! These things on the first floor are ordinary and are usually used to reward servants.

Come on, I'll take you upstairs to pick out some good stuff!"

Bai Wanwan followed him through a corridor filled with gold hairpins and silver bracelets. The jewelry was neatly stacked on the sandalwood shelves. The gold ones shone with warm light, and the silver ones looked cool white, looking very noble.

But Shen Tao didn't even turn his head, and pushed open the secret door in the corner, revealing a spiral wooden staircase.

As soon as she stepped onto the second floor, Bai Wanwan was enveloped by an indescribable fragrance, a mixture of floral scent and sandalwood, which smelled particularly comfortable.

Shen Tao took out a heavy copper key, inserted it into the outermost door lock and turned it. With a "click", the carved wooden door slowly opened.

The room was very bright. Every half meter on the wall there were fist-sized luminous pearls embedded, illuminating the entire room as if it were daytime.

Bai Wanwan looked up and saw a gilded chandelier as big as a millstone hanging in the middle, with nine golden dragons coiled on it.

There are dangling pearls in their mouths, and the dragon scales are made of gold foil pasted on piece by piece. It looks like it will come alive in the next second.

In the corner stood a rosewood cabinet taller than a person, filled with rows of white jade bowls. Each bowl was inlaid with gold edges, and the bottom of the bowl was engraved with dragon and phoenix patterns.

The most amazing thing is the pair of jade ruyi on the windowsill. They are emerald green all over and inlaid with rubies and sapphires. Even the auspicious cloud patterns on the ruyi heads are made of gold threads.

"These were all rewards from the palace. My mother kept them here and never touched them. But they are not good things!" Shen Tao said lightly.

Bai Wanwan was really speechless. Some people were really born in Rome!

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