Rebirth of the Phoenix Princess novel Chapter 823

When Luo Qingyan returned to the mansion, he was holding a small oblong rosewood box. As soon as he returned to the bedroom, he put the box on Yun Shang's dresser, which caught Yun Shang's attention.

Yun Shang kept staring at the box. After a long time, she looked up at Luo Qingyan and asked softly, "What's this?" As asking, she stood up and walked to the dresser. She took the box in her hand and looked at it for a while. Then she turned to Luo Qingyan and asked, "Can I open it and have a look?"

Luo Qingyan looked a little embarrassed. He nodded stiffly and said, "It's for you."

"For me?" Yun Shang was a little surprised. It was not a special day. Why did Luo Qingyan give a gift to her? It must be a dagger, thought Yun Shang. Then she opened the box. To Yun Shang's surprise, there was a gold hairpin lying quietly in the box. The hairpin was a little special, with lotus flowers and lotus leaves on its head, which looked very vivid.

Yun Shang's face flushed as she saw the lotus. She stamped her feet and glared at Luo Qingyan. She shouldn't have let Luo Qingyan get what he wanted in the boat yesterday. Now he bought a gold hairpin with lotus pattern to remind her of the absurd thing yesterday.

Seeing the expression on Yun Shang's face, Luo Qingyan understood what she was thinking. He thought for a moment and smiled before walking to Yun Shang and put his arm around her shoulder, explaining in a rare good mood, "Well, it's like not what you think. It's just that I heard from my secret guard that you went to jewelry stores to look for a gold hairpin today. So I asked the craftsman of the Department of Jewelry in the Palace to make a hairpin for you. But when the craftsman asked me what pattern I wanted, I really had no idea, so I asked him to make a one with lotus pattern.

Yun Shang was at a loss whether to cry or to laugh. She snorted, put the hairpin back into the box and threw it back to the dresser.

On the second day, Yun Shang woke up early, but she didn't want to get up. She stayed in bed until noon and asked Qin Yi and Qian Zhuo to serve her up.

After washing up and changing her clothes, Yun Shang sat down in front of the bronze mirror. 'Til still go out to have a look in the city today. Make a simple bun for me.

Qin Yi replied. She combed her a bun many ordinary ladies often made. Then she took out a jade hairpin from the jewelry box and was about to inserted in the bun. After thinking for a while, Yun Shang picked up the rosewood box beside her, opened it, took out the gold hairpin, and handed it to Qin Yi. "Use this one."

Qin Yi glanced at the hairpin and said with a smile, "This hairpin is unique. I remember that Your Highness doesn't have such a hairpin..." Then she took the hairpin and put it on Yun Shang's head. But it seemed that she inserted it too hard that the tip of the hairpin went through the bun and stabbed her hand.

Qin Yi exclaimed. Seeing that Yun Shang was looking at her, she quickly adjust the hairpin before looking at her own hand, only to find that it was bleeding.

"Are you ok? There are some medicine for wound healing on the bookshelf over there. Go and apply some on it. It's hot these days. Don't let it fester." Seeing this, Yun Shang urged.

Qin Yi nodded with a smile and comforted Yun Shang in a soft voice, "It doesn't matter. I just didn't expect that this hairpin is so sharp. I didn't use more strength than usual..."

Yun Shang thought about it carefully and realized that Luo Qingyan might thought that the hairpin could be used as a weapon in a critical moment.

Qin Yi came over with the medicine. Yun Shang held her hand and check it carefully. The wound was a little deep. Yun Shang thought that it would be easy for her to kill someone with this.

Today, Yun Shang didn't stroll around as she did yesterday. She took a carriage directly to the Qianshui Pavilion. Many people in the Jin City knew that Yun Shang liked to buy jewelry in Qianshui Pavilion, so there was no need to hide.

When they arrived at Qianshui Pavilion, it was the Yiren who greeted the guests in it. Yun Shang took a look at the situation in the shop and found that it was the same as other jewelry shops, no gold and silver jewelry, only jade and gem ones.

"Your Highness, you are here. What would you like today?" She hurried to Yun Shang after greeting another guest with a smile.

Yun Shang smiled and asked, "Do you have any new cosmetics recently?"

Yi Ren replied in a hurry, "Your Highness, please go upstairs and wait for a moment. I'll bring all the cosmetics I've made recently to you."

Yun Shang nodded slightly and went upstairs with Qin Yi and Qian Zhuo.

Qian Yin was not upstairs, and so was Qian Shui.

After Yun Shang waited for a while upstairs, Yi Ren came up with some tea cakes. She smiled and said, "My sister and Sister Qian Yin have gone out today. They are not here. What can I do for you, your highness?"

Yun Shang smiled, "Have you made the special perfumed powders that could be used to track people?"

Yi Ren shook her head and said, "There are several ingredients of the perfumed powders that have to be bought from the State of Yelang. Now our state is in a war with the State of Yelang. So merchants of the State of Yelang refused to sell anything to us when they heard that we are from the State of Xia.

Yun Shang nodded slightly and asked, "Have the gold and silver jewelry in the shop been bought by someone form the Palace? Who did this?"

Yi Ren answered in a hurry, "A eunuch. His surname is Lai as he said. I tried to get close to him with the help of that many concubines are frequent costumers in our shop, but he was very cautious about his words and I failed to get any information from him.

"Did he bring any imperial edict or something?"

She turned to the attendant and asked, "How much is the bracelet?"

The attendant replied in a hurry, "Sixty-two taels of silver."

Yi Ren thought for a while and said, "Although some part of the silver is missing, it should be no less than sixty-two taels. You can go downstairs and weigh the silver. Anyway, it can be melted and cast into silver again without any loss.

The attendant replied and left.

Yun Shang frowned as if she was in a trance.

Qian Yin asked Yun Shang another question, but Yun Shang didn't answer for a long time. Then Qian Yin realized that Yun Shang didn't hear it at all. Qian Yin called out helplessly, "Your Highness..."

Yun Shang suddenly came to her senses, but she didn't answer Qian Yin's question. She said quickly, "Find a way to secretly inquire from the major banks that if there many people who came to them to exchange for cash."

Qian Yin nodded and asked curiously, "Why do you ask about it, Your Highness? Do you want to exchange for cash?"

Yun Shang shook her head and said coldly, "I've been wondering why that man bought so many jewelry. Generally speaking, only women liked jewelry. But when I heard Yi Ren say that the silver can be mold into a new one after melting, I suddenly have some wild guess."

"What is it?" Everyone looked at Yun Shang in a hurry.

Yun Shang sneered and continued, "Do you know that if someone want to rebel, the most difficult to find is not soldiers and food, but weapons. Accumulating weapons was extremely easy to attract attention, but without weapons, it was almost impossible for them to take any action. Just now, I understood why they only bought the jewelry made of gold, silver and copper.

"Because they want to melt the gold, silver and copper to produce weapons..."

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