Harem Daily Life

Chapter 465 What are you doing here at 3 o'clock in the morning?

"Miss, Mr. Yin was too rude to you today. How could he speak to you like that?" The maid's voice could be heard faintly. Jiang Yingying put her ear to the window sill and listened attentively.

"Humph, he just relied on knowing my secret. He found out that I am not really stupid, and he is anxious to use this method to marry into the Ningyuan Marquis Mansion, so he wants to control me." Miss Cai's voice came: "But if I don't help him with this, I'm afraid he won't let it go."

The maid said anxiously: "But how can we get the second prince out of the palace? The master is not a high-ranking official, and he has no insiders in the palace. It is harder than climbing to the sky to get a prince!"

The sound behind her died down, and Jiang Yingying listened carefully but didn't hear anything. She disappeared into the night only after the lights in the house were blown out.

As Jiang Yingying climbed into the backyard of Xiangman Garden, she felt a palm wind coming towards her. She dodged and the palm wind hit the tree, breaking the branches with a loud noise in the silent night.

She didn't see clearly who attacked her, so she could only take the attack.

"Okay, okay, it's me!" Qi Yizheng's familiar voice came. Jiang Yingying withdrew her hand in time, took two steps back, and said angrily: "What are you doing in the backyard in the middle of the night?"

Qi Yizheng also stopped: "If I hadn't come, how would I know that you actually ran away? Tell me, where did you go to do such a bad thing in the dead of night?"

Jiang Yingying, who was wearing a nightgown and had sweat all over her face, rolled her eyes at him and went back to her room angrily. Qi Yizheng touched his nose and followed him shamelessly.

"Hey, are you annoying? It's so late and I need to rest. General Qi, could you please not disturb me at this time?" Jiang Yingying glared at Qi Yizheng unhappily like an annoyed little beast.

Qi Yizheng reached into his arms, took out a bottle of wine and shook it in front of Jiang Yingying: "Isn't this a new bottle of fine wine? I thought you might not have had it, so I brought it here to share with you. Who knew that I would wait and wait but never see you, and you would come back so late."

As he spoke, he put down the wine in a familiar manner and asked dissatisfiedly, "Where's the food?"

Jiang Yingying looked at the pot of wine and swallowed her saliva. She thought that she was indeed hungry after working so hard, so she might as well eat a little, otherwise she would be too hungry to sleep.

"Wait, I'll get it." Jiang Yingying was about to go to the shop in front to find something to eat, but just as she was about to leave, she turned back and said, "We agreed that I don't have any money. You give the boss money tomorrow."

After saying this, he did not leave, waiting for Qi Yizheng's agreement.

Qi Yizheng choked: "I provide the wine and you provide the food, isn't that fair? You actually want me to treat you all?" Qi Yizheng, who was diligent and frugal, refused.

Jiang Yingying closed the door and clasped her arms together: "At worst, I won't eat, I'll just drink."

Qi Yizheng: “…”

"Okay, okay, I'll pay. I'll pay, okay? Go get it, go get it."

Jiang Yingying raised her eyebrows, then opened the door and walked away briskly. Not long after, a large plate of stewed food was placed on the table, including pig's trotters, duck feet, rabbit heads, dried tofu, bean curd skin, red sausage, duck neck, chicken feet, peanuts, and lotus root slices, which were full and appetizing.

Qi Yizheng filled the glasses with wine, and the two clinked their glasses together before beginning to enjoy this late-night delicacy.

"You haven't told me yet. Where have you been so late at night?" Qi Yizheng asked while chewing a pig's trotter.

Jiang Yingying thought that she had almost gotten the news, so she might as well tell him about it and ask him to send it to the palace tomorrow. So she told him everything about how she had helped Concubine Tao and gone to the Cai family to get information in the past few days.

"That Miss Cai was just pretending. She fooled everyone and now she is trying to blackmail the Ningyuan Marquis's Mansion. It was also her doing that the Marquis's wife scared the carriage. By the way, the person who helped her was named Yin, which is a very rare surname. I remember it very clearly after I heard it."

Qi Yizheng narrowed his eyes. He had been investigating the descendants of the Yin family recently, and there had been no progress for several days. Unexpectedly, he stumbled upon this clue tonight.

He perked up instantly: "Have you seen the man surnamed Yin in the past few days? How old is he and what does he look like?"

Jiang Yingying shook her head: "I always go to the inner house late at night, and I don't see anyone. I eavesdropped on everything. Oh, by the way, the man surnamed Yin met Miss Cai today, and it seems that they had some unpleasantness. Maybe he lives in the Cai family."

Jiang Yingying thought that a lady from a wealthy family generally seldom went out, and now that Miss Cai was pretending to be stupid, she would definitely not go out easily. If she was going to meet someone, she would probably meet them at home, so she made this guess.

Qi Yizheng nodded, thinking that her guess had some basis: "I understand, I will find a way to find out. When I go to the palace tomorrow, I will report the matter of the Cai family to the queen."

Jiang Yingying reminded, "Then don't forget to ask the queen to protect the second prince. I heard from Miss Cai that Yin used her pretending to be stupid as an excuse to ask her to help get the second prince out of the palace."

Qi Yizheng sneered: "They simply overestimate their own capabilities."

Jiang Yingying woke up the next day with a severe headache. There were still some untied bones on the table and the wine bottle was empty. She looked at the time and slapped her head hard - she overslept again!

"Drinking will delay work, drinking will delay work! If I oversleep, my wages will be deducted. The money I worked so hard to earn is gone again, wuwuwuwuwu..." She was getting dressed while fetching water to wash up. It was almost an hour late!

As soon as she arrived at the front yard, she went to Madam Qi with red cheeks to apologize.

"Okay, Yi Zheng told me that you were very tired last night and asked you to sleep a little longer. You've been helping the Empress and it's hard work, so go and get busy." Madam Qi did not blame her.

Jiang Yingying nodded, and prepared to make the stewed food with embarrassment, but then she thought of something and stopped and said, "By the way, Boss, General Qi ate a lot of food last night. I put it all in the account. Remember to ask him for the money."

Madam Qi asked suspiciously, "Ah? But he said that you two should each take half. I have already given his share to me, and I have already recorded your share in the account book."

Jiang Yingying: "..."

She clenched her fists tightly and blamed herself for not being careful last night and letting the man pay first!

Men’s words are deceiving, she would never be fooled again even if she is beaten to death!

"Okay, now you owe me fifteen taels in total. Go to the kitchen and help. The guests will be here soon." Madam Qi urged.

Seeing Jiang Yingying's frustrated look, and remembering her brother's stingy look, Madam Qi shook her head in amusement and turned to check the placement of the goods.

Qi Yizheng came to the palace and entrusted a eunuch to ask Concubine Tao to meet him.

Tao Yanyan has been waiting anxiously these days. Madam Gu has already come to urge him once. If no news is delivered to Ningyuan Marquis' Mansion today, she is afraid that Madam Gu will have to come to the palace again tomorrow.

As soon as she heard that Qi Yi wanted to see him, she went to the side hall of the Qinzheng Palace to meet him in person.

"Sure enough, there is something wrong with Miss Cai." Tao Yanyan pondered for a moment: "What can we find out about the descendants of the Yin family?"

Tao Yanyan thought that the person who passed the note to Jin'an that day must be the descendant of the Yin family.