TCN: Mei Gongqing

Chapter 175

Mei Gongqing 175

In chapter 174, Ah Rong and Wang Hong attend a welcoming banquet at the Prince of Nan'yang Estate. The Prince of Nan'yang tries to curry her favors and sends Zhang Xiang to bring treasures to her after the banquet ends. Zhang Xiang then reminds her they are acquainted through her cousin Chen Sanlang, and asks if he can serve her. She becomes disappointed that she had once wanted to marry this man. He looks like a righteous person but he readily works for someone like the Nan'yang Prince and readily submits to a scandalous woman like her. Which means he wouldn't hesitate to use her (give her away) to advance himself if they were to marry back then. She dismissed him and then asks Wang Hong's retainer to buy properties in Mo'yang with the money the Nan'yang Prince has just sent. We pick up in chapter 175.

Chapter 175: Meeting Murong Again

After the Wang servants received Chen Rong's order, they turned to look at their master.

Wang Hong was still quietly looking at Chen Rong at this time. He withdrew his gaze and carelessly nodded.

With his consent, what happened next followed the natural course. They left the same day with three hundred boxes of money.

Chen Rong met up with her servants who had stayed behind in Nan'yang. As she expected, the land and stores she bought had steadily increased by more than ten times since the Hu retreated.

She knew this was just the beginning. In her memory, properties in Nan'yang would increase another ten-fold in a decade. Her initial purchases would eventually be worth a hundred times more.

If nothing unexpected were to happen, she would never need to worry about money anymore.

Wang Hong was nowhere to be seen the next several days. Chen Rong reckoned the brat must have left to investigate the truth behind Moyang's siege.

Along with his disappearance went also the majority of the Wang guards. Besides the servants who left to buy land in Mo'yang, only ten remained with Chen Rong at this moment.

Nan'yang was still full of songs and merriment.

Chen Rong quietly listened to the lyrics in the distance from her carriage. She looked at the sunset sky and said, "Let's visit the Chen estate."

"Aye."

The Chen estate used to be filled with streams of people coming and going. Now it was terribly deserted. Right, the masters weren't here and the servants were only looking after the houses, so it couldn't be as lively as it had been.

After Chen Rong announced her identity to the doorman, her carriage drove to the courtyard where she once lived.

The gate wasn't closed.

Chen Rong stepped down, pushed the heavy gate and went inside.

Despite being tidied, the courtyard was vacant. The grass in the corner had grown knee-length.

Chen Rong stood dazedly for a while. The house in Ping flashed before her eyes, then it morphed into Ran Min's house from her previous life. By the time she shook herself, Chen Wei and Chen Qian seemed to be sitting in the courtyard laughing and teasing.

Chen Rong closed her eyes and sighed, "What's not ours will never be ours."

The guards followed her in when they saw her enter. She waved her hand and quietly said, "Leave me alone for a while."

"Aye."

When she got to the steps, she reached out and pushed the door to the main hall.

When it opened with a sway, Chen Rong's foggy eyes saw Nurse Ping's smiling face. She blinked again to see it was only a dangling cobweb.