The concubine was reborn, and the cold prince was made red in the face

Chapter 13 Gold Discovery
Zhang Rui hesitated for a moment and then said: "I walked around Mingyue Mountain yesterday afternoon and found that the mountain was a bit unusual."

"Unusual?" Zuo Xiangning was secretly shocked. She asked Panxia to go out and guard her, "Don't let anyone come in."

After Panxia went out, she asked Zhang Rui in a low voice: "What's so unusual?"

Zhang Rui was secretly surprised when he saw Zuo Xiangning acting so cautiously.

He lowered his voice and said: "On the east slope of Mingyue Mountain, under the tallest ginkgo tree, there was a pit. I jumped down to see what was the reason. As a result, I found that the mountain exposed in the pit was... Like a stone.”

"What is it?" Zuo Xiangning asked nervously.

"I think it's golden, but I'm not sure what it is." Zhang Rui rubbed his hands and said, "I'll ask you what you mean first."

Zuo Xiangning looked at the short Zhang Rui in front of her, with thick eyebrows and narrow eyes. She had no impression of him in her previous life.

She didn't know if he could be trusted, but since Jiang gave him to her, it was obvious that Jiang thought he was good.

"You may also know what Madam means," Zuo Xiangning said in a clear voice: "Your family will be my companions, sharing weal and woe with me."

"Old slave knows." Zhang Ruixin said confidently: "Four girls, don't worry, I didn't tell anyone what happened yesterday. I will report it to you as soon as possible."

Zuo Xiangning nodded and said, "Then tell me about Yueshan, what should we do next?"

"Before going down the mountain, I filled the hole with dead branches and rotten grass." Zhang Rui took out a paper bag from his body and handed it to Zuo Xiangning. "I scraped off some debris with a knife. I thought Find someone to show you what this is."

Zuo Xiangning opened the paper bag and looked at the golden powder, her heart beating uncontrollably.

Zuo Xiangning searched in her mind for a long time, but she couldn't think of anyone suitable. She could only ask with a headache: "Do you have anyone who knows this? If you find someone who is too thoughtful and loose-spoken, big trouble will easily happen. "

"I have a cousin who grew up with me and is now the second shopkeeper in a gold shop. I want to ask him. He is very strict." Zhang Rui said: "If this thing is really gold, what will the four The girl needs to plan more carefully, otherwise, I am afraid that you will not be able to keep it."

"I know." Zuo Xiangning nodded, "Let's do what you want first."

Zhang Rui said "yes" and was about to leave when he was stopped by Zuo Xiangning. She asked Panxia to give Zhang Rui ten taels of silver, "Hire a carriage back and forth. Don't be reluctant to spend the money."

"Thank you, Miss Four." Zhang Rui bowed respectfully to Zuo Xiangning, turned around, and strode away.

Zuo Xiangning looked at his back and said to Panxia, ​​"Let someone go to Pancui's house to see if something happened."

Pancui went home yesterday morning but didn't come back at night. Zuo Xiangning was still a little worried about her mother.

"Slave, I'll send someone to take a look soon." Panxia said.

Zuo Xiangning was worried about the news from Zhang Rui, and wrote two pages of large characters uneasily.

Suddenly there were urgent footsteps in the yard. Zuo Xiangning's pen tip paused, and a drop of thick ink appeared on the fine rice paper.

"Xiang Ning!" The person who came was not Zhang Rui, but her third brother Zuo Zimo.

Zuo Xiangning put down her brush and walked out of the study. She saw Zuo Zimo walking in hurriedly, "Why didn't third brother go to school again?" "Mr. Wen is on sick leave today." Zuo Zimo looked at Zuo Xiangning hesitantly.

"What's the matter with you?" Zuo Xiangning smiled and poured him a cup of tea.

"The eldest son of the Gu family came over just now and said that he wanted to buy the mountain you just bought. He was willing to pay 1000 taels of silver." Before Zuo Zimo could finish speaking, he noticed something was wrong with Zuo Xiangning's face. He hurriedly said: "I I said the mountain is yours and I have to discuss it with you.”

"Did he tell you the reason?" Zuo Xiangning didn't expect Gu Zhiqing to move so quickly.

"He said that because his mother was in poor health, he asked someone to see there was a spring on the mountain. He wanted to build a hot spring house for his mother to stay in occasionally." Zuo Zimo smiled and said carefully: "I think that mountain is quite big. How about we sell a piece of land to them and build them a small house?"

"No!" Zuo Xiangning pouted her lips and refused, "I told you, I don't like people from the Gu family."

"I know." Zuo Zimo said in embarrassment: "But as soon as Gu Zhiqing left, Crown Prince Zhongyuan Hou came over and actually wanted to buy the mountain, saying that the price was up to you."

"Prince Zhongyuan Hou?" Zuo Xiangning was slightly shocked, why did he come to participate?
"The prince is still waiting in my yard, what should I say?" Zuo Zimo said with a bitter face, "He is not easy to deal with. I'm afraid that I might not be able to get rid of him using the same rhetoric I used against the Gu family."

Zuo Xiangning was slightly confused. Could it be that Prince Zhongyuan also knew about the gold mine?
Then why was it the gold mine discovered by Gu Zhiqing in the previous life?He also achieved great success in front of the second prince.

"What should I do with the Prince of Zhongyuan?" Seeing Zuo Xiangning not speaking, Zuo Zimo urged, "What if he finds his father, and if his father agrees, can you still force him to say goodbye?"

Zuo Xiangning put aside the messy thoughts in her heart, frowned and said dissatisfied: "Why should he buy it and we have to sell it? Why is he so domineering?"

"His identity is on display there. The Ling family is a meritorious family and can be counted among the best in our entire capital."

"Why do you want to gain other people's ambition and destroy your own prestige?" Zuo Xiangning interrupted her third brother's eloquent words and said: "Anyway, I promise not to sell the mountain!"

"Then what should I do?" Zuo Zimo was anxiously thinking, "I can't just leave him there all the time, right? If he gets angry and rushes into the yard to find me, it will end badly!"

The more Zuo Xiangning listened, the angrier she became. She stood up suddenly and said in a cold voice: "Let's go, I'll go see him! I want to see how he can rob someone under the emperor's feet."

Zuo Xiangning said and walked out aggressively.

"Xiang Ning, what are you doing?" Zuo Zimo was stunned for a moment and hurriedly chased after her.

But Zuo Xiangning was like a gust of wind, leaving the chubby Zuo Zimo far behind.

When he arrived at Zuo Zimo's yard, he opened the curtain himself without waiting for the girl to open the curtain. He raised his legs and walked in. He saw a man sitting on the Taishi's chair and sipping tea with an elegant posture.

Ling Xiao put down the tea cup and looked up at the woman who walked in.

Her skin is as white as snow, as smooth as jade, her small cherry mouth is slightly red, and her watery almond eyes are indescribably delicate and charming.

She was wearing a pink skirt, with the simplest bun on her head, and only a pearl hairpin. The two strands of hair on her cheeks were blowing gently in the wind, adding a bit of seductive charm that was very inconsistent with her age. As beautiful as the wintersweet on the branches in the cold snow.

"I wonder if the prince is here to visit me, do you have any advice?" Zuo Xiangning said with a three-pointed tone.

(End of this chapter)