"If Your Majesty really wants to know, why not follow her and have a look?"
Cui Zhao'an glanced at the dirt Chu Wenzong had failed to brush off his backside and, for once, could not stop herself from laughing openly in front of him.
Chu Wenzong froze for a moment.
"An'er, it's been so long since you laughed like that in front of me."
The smile on Cui Zhao'an's face instantly stiffened. "If Your Majesty isn't going, I'll go on ahead."
"I'm going, I'm going. Let's go together."
Chu Wenzong suddenly felt that letting his daughter loosen up the soil in the Imperial Palace was perfectly fine.
Had he known this would earn him both a smile from his An'er and some money, why would he have needed his daughter? He would have done it himself.
All along the way, one of the imperial couple felt thoroughly awkward, while the other grinned like a lovesick fool.
When they arrived at Morning Dew Palace together, they saw chest after chest of treasure being carried out.
"Quick, quick, quick! Pick up the pace!!!"
Chu Lange stood outside the pit, directing everyone with delighted enthusiasm, while the eunuchs huffed and puffed as they hauled the chests.
The Princess had said that everyone who dug up treasure here today would be rewarded!
Chu Wenzong looked at the jewels, then at the direction the chests were being carried. It looked rather like the way to the Imperial Treasury. Was his daughter really this thoughtful?
A fond fatherly smile suddenly returned to Chu Wenzong's face. "Ge'er, where are you having these things taken?"
"Half goes to the Princess's Residence for safekeeping, and half goes to my good friend."
Chu Lange answered without even raising her head.
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*Oh, that direction is also close to the palace