After returning from the old lady, Lin Qing knew that Lin Qingyao and her daughter would be anxious and angry if they didn't get the money tonight, because Lin Qingyao and Shen had already paid a deposit for buying grain from Xue Ding, which was all their belongings now. For this, Shen even sold her few dowries. They originally wanted to force Nan Mingyu to take out the money tonight, but now Lin Qing had interfered, and not only did they waste a whole night, but they also didn't get the money.

Lin Qingye had just returned to his room and was sitting in front of the window to practice calligraphy. At this moment, the window was quietly opened and a head popped out. Yingxue smiled at Lin Qingye embarrassedly.

Lin Qing couldn't help but think Yingxue was cute when she saw her like this, so he laughed and said, "Xue'er, how come you learned to climb the window? It's cold outside, come in."

Ying Xue was not used to Lin Qingye's enthusiasm for a while. She blushed and said, "Miss, I won't come in. I will be the only one watching Lin Qingyao tonight. I will leave after I finish what I have to say."

Lin Qing also learned from Yingxue's report that Lin Qingyao had been in collusion with the Third Prince for a long time. Among the 100,000 dan of grain she ordered this time, 50,000 dan were promised to the Third Prince. It was for this reason that the Third Prince suggested to Lin Qingyao that she should also set up a porridge stall.

The third prince also promised to marry Lin Qingyao as his principal wife. If he ascended the throne of crown prince one day, she, Lin Qingyao, would be the crown princess and in the future the queen who would rule the country.

Tonight, Lin Qingyao and Shen Shi had originally persuaded the old lady to work with them to find a reason to abduct Lin Qingye and force Nan Mingyu to take out the money. Unexpectedly, Lin Qing did not play by the rules and disrupted their plans.

Normally, when Shen and Lin Qing needed money, they would just go to the housekeeper and withdraw silver. But now they needed to buy 100,000 dan of grain, which was too much money. Even such an extravagant marquisate could not spend so much money in two years.

Therefore, only Nan Mingyu could come up with such a large sum of money at the moment. Lin Qingyao and Shen were anxiously running around in the room. The deposit for the batch of grain had been paid, and they also agreed to pay the balance tomorrow morning.

If the final payment is not paid, not only will the grain not be delivered, but even the deposit will be wasted.

Lin Qing also started to think in his mind. Although the batch of grain had been taken away by Ye Tingxuanjie, he still had to find a way to make the mother and daughter bleed a little. He had to make them vomit up all the food they had eaten over the years, including the cost and interest. It would be hard to say when he would encounter such a good opportunity again.

Thinking of this, Lin Qing suddenly came up with a plan. She said to Yingxue, "Find Manager Zhang and bribe him. Then have someone take him and Shen to see the grain that the prince robbed. Tell Shen that you are willing to sell it to her at a low price and find a way to get Shen to buy it. Then send a message to your prince and ask him to find a way to delay the progress of the Third Prince and give Shen's mother and daughter a few days to raise money. After they raise the money to buy the grain from the prince, let the Third Prince let the refugees in."

After Lin Qing finished speaking, he turned to the table and picked up a plate of pastries to give to Yingxue. Then he turned around and saw Yingxue flying away without even looking back.

Lin Qing also smiled helplessly while holding the pastries, and then she remembered that she didn't seem to have eaten much today. She seemed to have not had a good rest since her rebirth. She felt that there was not enough time every day. She had too many regrets from her previous life that she wanted to make up for and too many things she wanted to do.

Lin Qingye sat down at the front of the desk again. She couldn't help but think of her mother, Nan Mingyu. She had a very miserable life in her previous life. She spent her entire life pursuing things that she could not get, such as the paternal love of her grandfather, the Duke of Zhenguo, the love of her father, the Marquis of Pingnan, and the recognition of the old lady of the Marquis's mansion. She lived for others all her life, but in the end, she ended up with a ruined reputation and beaten to death.

Lin Qingye wanted to change this status quo in this life, but if she wanted Nan Mingyu to leave the Marquis' Mansion intact, it would be unlikely unless her father, Marquis Pingnan, took the initiative to drive Nan Mingyu out.

Another way is to find a way to have all nine clans of the Pingnan Marquis' Mansion executed after she gets married. The nine clan calculation method of the current dynasty is four from the father's clan, three from the mother's clan, and two from the wife's clan. Therefore, as a concubine of the Pingnan Marquis' Mansion, Nan Mingyu is not within the scope of the nine clans.

But after all, everyone in the marquisate, except Shen, Lin Qingye, and Aunt Liu, were her relatives. Although she didn't have many feelings for them, she didn't want to kill them.

In the Marquis' Mansion, Lin Qingye only wants to cut Lin Qingyao into pieces. Thinking of Lin Qingyao, Lin Qingye becomes nervous again. Tonight will be the most crucial night for her to defeat Lin Qingyao and the Shen mother and daughter.

Tonight was destined to be a sleepless night. Not only Lin Qing couldn't sleep, but Lin Qingyao and her daughter in the South Courtyard were as anxious as ants on a hot pan.

In Shen's room in the South Courtyard, Shen was pacing back and forth anxiously. Lin Qingyao was sitting at the tea table beside her, stirring the handkerchief in her hand back and forth.

Lin Qingyao spoke first with an unhappy look on her face, "Mother, can you please stop walking around like this? It makes me dizzy."

Shen didn't mean to stop after hearing this. Instead, she walked faster. She said anxiously, "Yao'er, what should we do? Why don't you go find the Third Prince now? The Third Prince has always loved you the most. He is a prince, so how can he be less wealthy than Nan Mingyu? Go and ask him for money to fill this hole."

Lin Qingyao rolled her eyes after hearing this and said, "Mother, you really know how to tell jokes to your child. The Third Prince's money has long been used to extort refugees. If the Third Prince had money, he wouldn't have asked me to buy 50,000 dan of grain for him. Mother, you should sit down and think of a solution. Don't go back and forth like this. You can't get any money. It just makes me dizzy."

After hearing this, Shen sat down next to Lin Qingyao unwillingly and said, "Yao'er, the remaining balance is five million taels! You can't raise that much money even if you sell me! Those hundreds of thousands are almost all my savings."

Lin Qingyao couldn't help rubbing her forehead and said, "Mother, we have no way out this time. I must get in touch with the Third Prince no matter what. The Third Prince promised me that if I help him this time, he will ask the Emperor for permission to grant us a marriage. When the Third Prince is named Crown Prince, I will be the Crown Princess. Mother, you must help me this time. When your daughter ascends the throne of Queen, you will be the Queen's mother. You will be a First-Rank Lady, which is a supreme honor."

Shen was quickly brainwashed by Lin Qingyao's words. She made up her mind and said, "I still have two shops on West Street, two small houses on East Market, and some land deeds. No one knows about these things, but if we sell them all, we can only get more than one million, which is far from enough! We are in a hurry to sell them, so we can't avoid being forced to lower the price. I'm afraid it will be difficult to sell them at a good price."

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