The villain prince is three and a half years old

"What a coincidence, the paper is here with me." Ning Yuanzhong rummaged through his collection and took out the cellophane.

He didn't want to give it away for free, but put forward a condition: "I have glass wood and glass rice. I originally thought they were really ugly, but now it seems that they should be firewood, rice, oil and salt. Do you have the latter two?"

Ning Wenhuan didn't have any, but Yan Nanque had a glass oil bottle, and Ning Chengrui had a glass salt pile - he hadn't recognized what it was at first!

Ning Wenhuan didn't have what the two of them needed, so he could only exchange them based on quantity. He sold two incomplete glass dolls, exchanged them for a pile of glass salt from Ning Chengrui, and then exchanged cellophane with Ning Yuanzhong, and now he had all the pens, ink, paper, and inkstone!

Ning Yuanzhong exchanged the oil bottle with Yan Nanque, and now all the necessities were in place!

The princes were all satisfied with what they got. They returned to the table to admire their own sets and explore whether they could make other sets from the existing glass dolls.

This is another important function of the concept of "a set". If it is too difficult for one person to find a complete set, it will force them to exchange with others, thus strengthening the social gameplay.

Collect + exchange, at least during this one month in the Summer Resort, you don’t have to worry about the princes and princesses getting bored!

Even if there are still people who are pure-hearted and can ignore these four desires, then the Ninth Prince still has a trick up his sleeve!

Xia Jing took out a glass ruler and placed it on the table: "I'm thirsty, someone can pour me a cup of tea, this is for him."

Ning Chengrui was about to agree when Ning Gaoxiang rushed out the door. A moment later, he returned with a cup of tea and handed it to Xia Jing, who happily accepted the glass ruler. He felt like he had earned it.

This is the final function of the glass doll—to serve as a general equivalent, that is, currency.

Chapter 221 The First Fraud Case in the Villa

The harem is almost a place isolated from the world. Copper coins, which are the most commonly used by the people, are basically nowhere to be seen in the harem. Only silver coins exist, and their uses are extremely narrow. They are basically only used to reward servants and buy snacks in the imperial kitchen.

This resulted in the princes and princesses having extremely low knowledge of currency.

In addition, scholars admire the fragrance of ink and the smell of money. How can the noble princes and princesses be tainted by vulgar silver and money?

Therefore, the market economy in the harem was far lower than that in the outside world, and silver and copper coins were not currencies recognized by the princes and princesses. The evidence was that silver could not buy the labor of the princes and princesses.

But glass dolls can.

For the sake of glass dolls, the princes were willing to sell even their own labor, let alone other things? Isn't this the currency recognized by the princes and princesses?

The first person to apply the monetary properties of the glass doll was General Coal.

The black cat uses glass dolls to hire princesses to believe in Meow Meow.

“…The princes.”

A slight voice came into Xia Jing's ears. Xia Jing raised his head and found that Qi Ruhai was already standing on the podium, while the princes below were still discussing what kind of combinations could be made from the glass dolls.

This free combination is also one of the charms of the set.

"Your Highnesses, class is about to start!" Qi Ruhai shouted again at the top of his voice.

Still no one pays attention to him.

It wasn't that the princes were being naughty, they were just too excited to notice him. It was different from when they were in the study.

Qi Ruhai looked at the Ninth Prince for help.

The Ninth Prince stood up and gave Qi Ruhai some instructions with the purpose of promoting glass dolls.

"Master Qi, do you have this?" Xia Jing took out a glass doll.

"Your Majesty has given me a few." Qi Ruhai put his hand into his sleeve. Emperor Kangning had given him another one in the morning, and he happened to be carrying it with him.

He took out the glass doll and held it in his hand. Xia Jing took a look at it and was a little surprised.

This is actually a rare doll! It's in the shape of a seal, which the princes call a "monster." They call any animal they don't recognize a monster.

"Does the Ninth Prince want this? The rest is in my room." Qi Ruhai thought the little prince wanted it, so he handed it to him.

Xia Jing shook his head. These were all his own releases; he had plenty in his box. He'd only taken Ning Gaoxiang's items as a sample for the new gameplay.

He said, "Master Qi, just treat this as a big red flower. Just tell them that as long as no one whispers in class, you can keep it and let the brothers decide who to give it to."

The glass doll cannot be awarded directly to an individual, but must be awarded collectively. If it is awarded to an individual who performs well, the other princes will know that they will not receive the reward and will act badly, or even retaliate and cause trouble.

The red flower system can ensure that the princes do not give up, or at least do not retaliate. It relies on complex rules and influence, and it is too troublesome to build a new system.

Besides, we're already at the Summer Resort, so you'd better not be so arrogant.

Let the princes have fun happily and help the Ninth Prince complete the task of a happy summer vacation.

"I understand." Qi Ruhai's eyes lit up and he knocked his head with his wrist.

He also knew that the princes liked it, but he didn't expect to use this method.

He couldn't think of the reasons. First, he felt that the princes were too noble to be controlled in this way. Second, he also felt that the glass dolls were rare and wanted to take them back to amuse his grandson.

Taking it out now, I feel a little sad.

But compared to the happiness of his grandson, the education of the princes is more important.

Xia Jing saw the reluctance in his eyes and taught him the secret of "reimbursement": "Master Qi, remember to tell Father about this after class."

As long as Emperor Kangning is told, he will have to pay for Qi Ruhai's expenses. This is his duty.

Emperor Kang Ning shouldn't be so far as to not ask for reimbursement, right?

Xia Jing overestimated Emperor Kangning's face.

……

Emperor Kangning was originally willing.

Every morning, he would walk from Nanmu Hall to the front study, and he would pick up more than ten glass dolls. He would keep a few exquisite or interesting ones and distribute the rest to the ministers. Xu Zhongde and Nanny Mao also got a few.

Giving Qi Ruhai one more every day would not be a problem.

But this willingness was destroyed by the new news.

……

After class, the princes packed up their things and all thought of going to the princesses' school to exchange sets of glass dolls with them.

Among them, Ning Yuanzhong, Ning Wenhuan and Yan Nanque are very moral and willing to exchange at a fair price.

But Ning Gaoxiang and Ning Chengrui were different. They ran fast and arrived at the Western Academy before Ning Yuanzhong, Ning Wenhuan, and Yan Nanque. They took advantage of the information gap and tricked the princesses into giving them the suits.

The three princesses fell for it. Princesses Taoxiang and Xiaoxiang felt something was wrong and refused after only one of them was changed.

Ning Zhuzhu suffered the most. She didn't have many glass dolls, but she had a surprisingly large number of sets—seven in total, four of which were complete sets, representing the four domestic animals: pigs, horses, cows, and sheep!

Ning Gaoxiang was responsible for deceiving people, and Ning Chengrui was responsible for taking out the dolls. They only used ten glass dolls to trick seven sets of pieces from Ning Zhuzhu!

Ning Chengrui took a complete set of pigs, horses, cows and sheep, and Ning Gaoxiang took three sets of parts - a table, a chair, and a mirror.

Although he didn't know how to combine these three items, Ning Gaoxiang was very sure that they could become a set, with the first two being furniture and the last one being dressing tools.

After getting the things, Ning Gaoxiang and Ning Chengrui immediately fled.

Before leaving, Ning Gaoxiang wanted to ask Ning Sisi for it, but Princess Nian'er scared him away with a slingshot.

When Ning Yuanzhong and the others arrived, the princesses finally knew about the suit, but there was no trace of the two princes!

Ning Zhuzhu was looking at the new glass doll with joy, but when she realized that she had been cheated, she sat down on the ground and burst into tears.

No matter how the palace maids tried to coax her, it was useless. The female official who was a teacher in the school had not left yet. She heard the noise and rushed over. After listening to the whole process, she was at a loss whether to laugh or cry.

She had no choice but to tell Eunuch Xu about the matter, and Eunuch Xu told Emperor Kangning.

Emperor Kangning summoned Ning Zhuzhu.

"Why are you crying? Tell me what happened!" Emperor Kang Ning still hadn't figured out the whole story. He only knew that Ning Chengrui and Ning Gaoxiang had conspired to deceive Ning Zhuzhu.

Ning Zhuzhu choked up and said, "They exchanged my glass toys for glass toys."

Emperor Kangning frowned. What was there to cry about over a toy? It was as if he had said nothing. If the Ninth Prince were here, he would surely be able to get to the point in one sentence!

Suppressing his own aversion to stupidity, he pressed on, "Is it the quantity that's the problem?"

"They exchanged ten for my seven." Ning Zhuzhu replied.

Ten for seven, what's so unfair about that!

Xu Zhongde saw Emperor Kangning's impatience and explained, "I just heard from the Seventh Princess that the Seventh and Eighth Princes exchanged ten mismatched glass dolls for the Ninth Princess' seven sets."

Emperor Kang Ning was stunned when he heard this: "What do you mean by not a set? What do you mean by a set?"

Ning Zhuzhu wiped her tears and said, "It was four of us together. My third sister said they took the cook's set. It was me, Xiao Ma, Xiao Niu, and... and... I forgot the remaining one."

Emperor Kangning took a moment to react and realized that Ning Zhuzhu was talking about the four domestic animals: pigs, horses, cows, and sheep.

He looked at the fat princess, recalled the girl saying "it's me", and couldn't help laughing out loud.

After laughing, he pondered the words "four domestic animals" and "set", and gradually he lost his smile.

He thought back to what he had picked up these days. It seemed that there were rice, millet, sorghum, wheat, beans and other grains in it, which symbolized a good harvest and had excellent meaning.

However, he disliked these five glass dolls because they were not unique or exquisite enough, so he distributed them among his ministers.

Can we ask the ministers to return it now?