She married a dying prince and she won three babies.

"I have a question for you." The princess was obviously angry.

Matron Zheng shuddered again, but remained silent.

At this time An Yi came in.

He is the leader of the prince's personal secret guards. He is usually in the open and is equivalent to a servant.

But everyone in the palace knew his identity and that he was a skilled martial artist.

"Your Highness, I found a packet of saffron in Madam Zheng's room, as well as several packets of other medicinal powders. I don't know what they are used for. We also found a lot of gold and silver jewelry." As he said this, he displayed all the things he had found one by one.

When Madam Zheng saw these things, she knew she couldn't escape today. She took out a pill from her bosom and stuffed it into her mouth. She did it so quickly that she took advantage of the moment when everyone's attention was distracted by those things.

When the prince saw this, he immediately slapped her hand, trying to knock her hand away, but it was too late.

Yu Yuanzheng immediately stepped forward and was about to pick her mouth, but Nanny Zheng struggled hard to prevent Yu Yuanzheng from succeeding.

The medicine has been taken.

After a while, the drug took effect, and Nanny Zheng screamed and bled from all seven orifices.

It happened too suddenly.

Yu Chaoyang screamed in fright.

The second old lady and the second wife also turned pale.

The maids serving in the hall were so frightened that they huddled together.

Yu Yuanzheng had seen many dead people and didn't feel anything.

An Yi went forward to take a look.

"My Lord, there's no more air."

"Butler Li, drag him out and throw him into the mass grave to feed the wild dogs." The prince ordered.

"Father, we can't feed wild dogs. They will be poisoned to death if they eat them." Yu Yuanzheng said this for environmental protection reasons.

As a result, the two old ladies and the others looked at her as if she were a monster.

"Humph, she wants to harm your mother, and you actually sympathize with her?" The second old lady scolded for no reason.

"I don't sympathize with her, but with the wild dog. The wild dog didn't harm my mother."

"Dig a hole and bury it." The prince ordered coldly again.

"Yes." Butler Li called two servants to take the body away, and arranged for a maid to wipe the floor ten times.

Only then did the princess step forward to check what An Yi had found.

I saw a lot of jewelry that looked familiar.

Picking up one of the jade bracelets, the princess was very familiar with the carvings on it. She had arranged for Jinxianglou to make it. Every year during the New Year and other festivals, she would ask the manager of Jinxianglou to custom-make a batch of jewelry to distribute to the female members of the family.

This seems to be for the second old lady.

"Second Madam, I remember this was a New Year gift during the Chinese New Year two years ago. How come it is in Madam Zheng's hands?" The princess picked up the bracelet and showed it to the Second Madam.

The Second Old Lady had long wanted to go up and take back the jewelry she had given to the old man. She knew the princess would definitely notice something was wrong.

It's been so long, and that old guy is still around.

"Princess, this old man is so dishonest that he actually dares to steal from me." The second old lady said as she walked over and snatched the things from the princess's hand.

The princess really wanted to roll her eyes. She was the only one who had no shame.

"Second son's wife, come and see if this old man has stolen anything from you?" The second old lady also called the second wife over to look at the pile of things together.

The Second Madam was really shameless enough to come and see.

She was quite embarrassed to take out a few small items from it.

"Princess, sister-in-law, this Madam Zheng is a member of your courtyard. I didn't expect that she would dare to do such a murderous thing under your nose." Then she put the things into her pocket.

"Do you all think I'm a fool? Nanny Zheng is the manager of my courtyard, so of course she will help me with some household matters. Aren't you using these things to bribe her to do things for you?" The princess was obviously angry.

"Mother, your daughter-in-law has something to say." Yu Yuanzheng spoke at this time.

"You say." The princess' tone was much better when talking to her daughter-in-law.

"Not long ago, wasn't I here with the Crown Prince's wife, calculating some account books? I found that the prices of many things were a bit high. Ten chickens cost two taels of silver.

I think I heard my mother say that live chickens usually cost around ten to twelve wen per jin. A chicken weighs five to six jin, so ten chickens wouldn't cost more than one liang of silver. So where did the extra liang of silver go?

Yu Yuanzheng's words made the second old lady and the second wife blush.

Isn't this clear? They used these jewels to bribe the stewards of the Princess's Court and then reap the benefits.

If the princess discovered the jewelry, she could say it was a reward from another master. But the same could not be said for silver.

These slaves who work directly in the mansion dare not openly embezzle their master's money. Once discovered, they will be beaten to death. They only dare to do so because they work for their master and have the master's protection.

In other words, Nanny Zheng accepted these benefits and asked some of her subordinates to manipulate prices, and the extra money was handed over to the second old lady or the second wife.

"Very good, very good. Madam Zhao, tomorrow you go out of the house and find out the prices of the commonly used items in the house again, and make a copy for me." The princess did not expect that she had been fooled like this for so many years.

Yu Yuanzheng truly envied the princess. Living in a royal palace, she knew nothing of the high cost of daily necessities. She took whatever the people below her said as her own. Fortunately, the palace was a royal palace, rich and wealthy, and could afford such a loss.

But after hearing what the princess said, the second wife was about to cry.

If she and the second old lady hadn't found a way to get some money from these servants who were doing purchasing, how would their second house survive?

"Your Highness, our Second Wife has to go begging. Big Brother, you can't just watch us starve." The Second Wife really cried and complained to the Prince. She called him both "Your Highness" and "Big Brother".

The original intention was to deal with the matter of saffron being planted in the princess's courtyard, but it turned out to be out of control.

"Why, second brother? I have already sent him to the military camp to work, but he is still not behaving himself?" The prince felt a headache when he thought of his disappointing second brother.

"We have spent less money in the past month or so, but we have so many concubines in the second house, and five illegitimate children, all of whom need money. How can the money in the public treasury be enough?" The second wife continued to cry.

"Send away all the concubines who have never given birth to children." The prince gave the order directly.

"Your Highness, you can't do that. My husband will beat my sister-in-law to death." The Second Lady didn't dare to do that.

"Princess, what do you think we should do about this?" The prince was not in a position to deal with the matter in his second brother's room, so he had to ask the princess for help.

"There's nothing I can do." The prince is difficult to deal with, but it's easy for her as his sister-in-law?

"How much profit do the several shops of your second branch make in a year?" asked the prince.

"We in the second house have only five shops, and each shop only makes an average profit of one hundred to two hundred taels, which is not even enough for my husband and Zifeng's pocket money." The second wife was helpless.

"How do you run your business? A shop only makes a profit of one or two hundred taels?" The prince really didn't expect that their second branch was so useless.

The shop managed by the princess always makes a profit of about 1,000 taels a month, but they only have this little.

"Then take back the shops of the second house and let the princess help you manage them. I will give you 300 taels per month for each shop." The prince made the decision directly.

"How can this be done? That is the property of the second house. No matter how bad it is, it cannot be handed over to the princess. When Zifeng gets married in the future, he will have to use one or two shops as a betrothal gift. When Ling'er also wants to get married, she will have to use a shop as a dowry." The second old lady was not happy.

"This is not possible, that is not possible. What do you want? Our first wife's monthly expenses are not as much as the second wife's." The prince was angry.

The second wife has two children and a concubine.

The prince's two concubines have never been allowed to have children, and they are still just maids until now.