At the beginning, his wife came to him, and he became rich by selling kidney treasures.

"Don't be angry, don't be angry."

"I'm just playing a little joke on you."

Seeing that Wen Yan was already a little angry, Ren Hao stopped joking.

He walked up to the peddler and handed him a tael of silver.

"Sir, I'm running a small business and I can't find change." The peddler took the change with a worried look on his face and searched his pockets thoroughly but still couldn't find enough change.

"No need to change the price. Just sell me all the remaining wontons in your basket." Ren Hao said after taking a look at the basket.

"That's not enough money." The vendor said honestly.

"If the change is not enough, just consider it as the money I will buy for this young master to buy a few bowls of wontons next time." Ren Hao waved his hand and asked Cai Lun to take all the wontons in the basket back to the mansion as their midnight snack.

The money had already been paid, but Ren Hao saw Wen Yan still standing at the door, so he asked, "Wen Yan, I've paid for you, why are you still lingering at the door of my house?"

"You don't think that I came to you tonight just to ask you to pay these three copper coins." Wen Yan rolled her eyes at Ren Hao.

"Then what do you want from me?" Ren Hao was startled and looked up at the dark sky.

He didn't care about Wen Yan's identity and immediately started to speak nonsense: "Princess, you came to me in the middle of the night, you don't want to marry me, do you?"

"If that's the case, that's absolutely not possible." Ren Hao acted like a princess and told her to respect herself.

"You stinking idiot, stop being so self-righteous!!!" Wen Yan was so angry that she kicked Ren Hao.

Ren Hao did not dodge and let Wen Yan kick him on the leg. He said with a nonchalant look: "Why am I so self-righteous? You did not sleep in the palace in the middle of the night, but came to me alone. Isn't this a promise of marriage?"

"Promise your sister!!!"

"I came to see you tonight because of something. If you dare to talk nonsense again, I will report to my royal brother tomorrow and have him put you in jail!!!" Wen Yan was so angry that she brought out her big name identity to intimidate Ren Hao.

"Okay, okay, then what is the matter that you want to talk to me about?" Ren Hao suddenly became serious. After all, he still had to give the emperor some face.

"Do you think this doorway is a suitable place to talk?" Wen Yan rolled her eyes at Ren Hao, feeling that he had no demeanor at all.

Ren Hao curled his lips and stretched out his hand to make a gesture of invitation: "Princess, please enter the mansion."

Humph.

"That's better." Wen Yan entered the mansion first, and Ren Hao followed closely and closed the door.

Ren Hao led Wen Yan into the main room, and Wen Yan sat cross-legged in the main seat without hesitation.

Ren Hao sat cross-legged on the steps and asked Wen Yan: "Can you speak now?"

"Now the ancient Han treasury is empty, and the borders are in urgent need of food and supplies. I would like to ask you for help." Wen Yan looked at Ren Hao expectantly.

Ren Hao almost spit out a mouthful of tea.

"Wen Yan, are you mistaken?"

"Why are you asking me for money when the treasury is empty? I'm not the Minister of Revenue."

"Although you are not the Minister of Revenue, have you told Wuming that if I am short of money, I can just come to you directly?" Wen Yan did not pretend to be revealing and looked like asking Ren Hao to hurry up and get the money.

"It's true what I told Wuming, but your lack of money and the national treasury lacking money are two completely different concepts." Ren Hao was speechless.

Wen Yan started playing the emotional card again.

"If the Ministry of Revenue had a solution, or if the ministers in the court were willing to pay, I would not have come to you, and would not have let Wuming intercept us halfway." Wen Yan sighed and began to talk about her royal brother who had not eaten or drunk anything for two days because of the empty treasury.

The ministers in the court said they were more loyal than each other, but when asked to take out part of their family property to replenish the national treasury, they all started to cry poor and try to show how honest they were.

At this time, ancient Han was facing internal and external troubles.

The power in the court is held equally by the prime minister's family. On the surface, they seem to check and balance each other, but as long as they have common interests, they will work together secretly.

As for the military power, more than half of it fell into the hands of the Xu family, leaving the emperor with only half.

Now the treasury is empty and can't allocate food and wages. If the emperor loses the remaining half of the military power, what kind of emperor is he? He is just a complete decoration.

"Ren Hao, I have been hiding a secret in my heart. Actually, I..."

Just when Wen Yan was getting excited and wanted to tell the secret in her heart in exchange for Ren Hao's help, Ren Hao's snoring could be heard.

"It smells so good..."

Ren Hao tilted his head, drooling, and mumbling constantly.

“Ren Hao!!!”

"Are you listening to what I'm saying?" Wen Yan slammed the table in anger, thinking that she had just been talking nonsense.

"Ah, I...of course I was listening. What were you talking about just now?" Ren Hao came to his senses and quickly wiped the saliva from the corner of his mouth.

"I said you are a big shabby!!!"

"The biggest idiot in the world." Wen Yan said angrily.

"Wen Yan, don't be angry. I was just trying to find a solution for you. As I was thinking... I couldn't help but fall asleep." Ren Hao couldn't help but yawn. This unconcealed ugly appearance made Wen Yan frown.

"You've been sleeping for so long, have you figured out a solution?"

"If you can't think of it, I will ask my royal brother tomorrow and ask him to grant you eternal sleep." Wen Yan glared angrily.

"I've almost figured it out, but I'm a little hungry now. Let's go eat something first." Ren Hao stood up and stretched. After all, eating is the most important thing in the world.

"You..." Wen Yan was so angry that she wanted to explode, but her stomach started to growl.

As a last resort, Wen Yan had to follow Ren Hao into the kitchen.

After Ren Hao lit the oil lamp in the kitchen, he used the firewood in the stove with the fire starter in his hand and added a bucket of well water into the pot.

Then he searched through the drawers and cabinets in the room for a long time and found a piece of venison left over from the night before, a piece of tofu, and some vegetables.

"Don't just stand there, cut the tofu and venison into pieces." Ren Hao handed the kitchen knife to Wen Yan, and started looking for spices in the room again.

In the end, he only found a handful of peppercorns, magnolias, cinnamon, and ginger.

Ren Hao threw all the spices he found into the pot and added half a can of coarse salt into the pot.

Wen Yan, who had just finished cutting vegetables, asked in confusion: "What are you going to do?"

"I'm going to make a dish that you've never eaten before." Ren Hao threw all the chopped venison into the pot.

When he fell asleep after listening to Wen Yan's long speech, he happened to dream that he was eating spicy hot pot.

Unfortunately, Wen Yan woke me up just as I started eating.

The first thing he did after waking up was to try some hotpot, even if the flavor wasn't complete as long as it was somewhat similar.