After a pause, Song Yaoyao continued:
"But be quick about it. I'm not a patient person. I'll give you fifteen minutes to think it over.
If you still haven't chosen after fifteen minutes, I'll take that to mean you value money more than your life!"
"You..."
"Duke Qi, enough with the 'you.' You've said that word far too many times today.
You'd better hurry up and decide!"
Madam Qi sat to one side without saying a word.
Princess Jiahe's presence was so overwhelming that she couldn't get a word in.
That was two hundred thousand taels of silver. It pained her, too!
But wasn't this all her husband's fault? Couldn't he have done a cleaner job instead of leaving such a glaring handle for someone to seize?
They had known Princess Jiahe was formidable, but they had never known exactly how formidable!
Today, she had finally seen it for herself!
Madam Qi looked at Song Qingyu and Yuan Jibai. Both were badly injured. No wonder Princess Jiahe was so angry!
If someone had beaten the people she cared about most into this state, she would have been angry, too.
Now Princess Jiahe had given them two choices. Between their silver and their lives, was there even a choice to make?
Yet Duke Qi seemed to still be thinking it over. There really was something wrong with his head. Did something like this even require deliberation?
No wonder he had fathered a son like Qi Boxun!
After silently grumbling, Madam Qi had no choice but to step forward and persuade him:
"My lord, does something like this even require a choice?
Why not simply give Princess Jiahe two hundred thousand taels of silver?
My lord, lose some money to ward off disaster!"
Duke Qi leaned closer and whispered:
"I know which