I fought back after reselling my engagement

Su Zhen picked out a few fans with a hint of literary style, including folding fans and round fans. He picked up a total of twenty fans and paid ten taels of silver.

"One hundred coins is too cheap. I'll give you five hundred coins."

Aunt Mo did not refuse.

Last time, Su Zhen stuffed 30,000 taels of silver notes into her pocket, and Aunt Mo took over all of it. Every day when Hua's sister-in-law went to buy groceries, she would ask Aunt Mo for money.

The painter's nephews and nieces can only paint the siblings Dalang and Ling'er. It is strange to say that the painter has never had many children. Either there are two siblings or two brothers. There will not be more. This has been the case from generation to generation. If there are two brothers, they will not separate after they get married, because the nephews and nieces must be the only child of the two brothers.

Aunt Mo said: "Ling'er's engagement with the Dong family has been cancelled. My nephew's wife is spreading rumors that Ling'er has a crush on someone who is not the young master of the Dong family..."

Since they knew the truth, Uncle Mo and Uncle Mo have looked down on the Dong family. They used to think they lived a well-off life, but now they have more than 30,000 taels of silver in savings. Knowing that they are descendants of the immortal clan, they look down on them even more. It happened that Sister Hua talked about this with her family, and Sister Hua's sister-in-law spread the news so much that everyone in the streets knew about it.

The young master of the Dong family was arrogant. After hearing about it, he refused to marry Hua Ling'er, who had feelings for someone else, so he asked Mrs. Dong to bring a matchmaker to cancel the engagement.

Su Zhen asked: "Is Hua Ling'er still thinking about the scholar next door?"

"I put it aside a long time ago. I have high standards."

Aunt Mo guessed that Hua Ling had a crush on Hu Erlang, but she didn't want to point it out clearly, as it would be very embarrassing if she did.

Sister Hua didn't know and kept encouraging the brothers Hu Erlang and Hu Sanlang to pursue Su Zhen. She even said something like "neighboring brothers and sisters are a perfect match" and praised Su Zhen and the young master of the Hu family as a perfect match.

Once during a meal, Hua Linger heard this and slammed her chopsticks in anger: "I'm full——"

Aunt Mo asked, "How is Rong's family doing?"

Su Zhen was slightly surprised, thinking that it must be Hua Ling'er who told the family about this.

"Granny Rong doesn't trust people very much."

Aunt Mo said, "We have been neighbors for decades. If she didn't trust you, she wouldn't have let you live in Rong's house. The other day she even praised you for your thoughtfulness and gave her family a set of gold embroidery needles, saying they were rare treasures."

Mo Da's mother's family also has four gold pens, but he can't tell anyone about it. It's embarrassing.

Su Zhen said: "I found some time recently and I confronted her."

Aunt Mo nodded and thought this was a good idea.

"Miss Guan, are you going to have lunch at my house?"

Just as Aunt Mo asked, Sister Hua said, "Miss Guan's good neighbor, the second brother, is treating her to a delicious meal today. I guess Hu Erlang is looking for a delicious restaurant all over the street..."

There was a hint of envy in this tone.

Su Zhen smiled, "Auntie Mo, I have to go back. Maybe Second Brother Hu is already waiting for me outside Rong's house."

She left the Huaji Paper and Painting Shop and breathed a sigh of relief. When she arrived outside Rong's residence, she actually saw Hu Erlang and Hu Sanlang standing outside, "Brother Hu Er, Brother Hu San."

Fox Erlang said, "Let's go inside and talk."

The two knew that there were only girls in Rong's family, so they stood in the yard and handed three storage bags to Su Zhen.

Su Zhen asked: "Everything went well in the forest market today."

Fox Saburo replied, "Today's crowd is several times greater than last time. There are quite a few Taoists and Buddhists, all of whom are here to exchange for Jindan Pills. One Taoist used spirit stones to trade for five Jindan Pills, which almost caused public outrage. He paid 300,000 low-grade spirit stones for each one."

Su Zhen used his spiritual sense to scan and found a storage bag full of spirit stones.

She said, "Second brother and third brother, each take 100,000 low-grade spirit stones and keep them for the flower messenger."

She handed the bag to Fox Erlang, who did not refuse. He took the spirit stones into his storage bag and handed it to Fox Sanlang, who took it.

Hu Erlang said, "Shu Zhen, please teach me how to make the elixir when you have time."

He has wanted to learn alchemy for a long time. If he learns it, he can make some common pills.

"When we return to the forest, I will teach my second brother how to make pills."

Su Zhen took out a stack of communication talismans and said, "If you have anything, use the communication talismans to contact me. I'm going back to the house first."

Hu Sanlang said, "Sister Shuzhen, I'd like to invite you to watch a play and have a meal. There are three big teahouses with theaters in this city. The ones that are sung are not Quju or Peking opera, but Huangmei opera, Huagu opera, and Errenzhuan. They are quite interesting."

These are all local operas, but they look novel.

"Watch the Errenzhuan."

Su Zhen followed them out of Rong's house.

Hu Sanlang had recently visited all the interesting places in Wumeng City, and found the Errenzhuan Teahouse with ease. He booked a private room, and the three of them sat there drinking tea and watching the Errenzhuan.

Errenzhuan is a new local opera genre that emerged in Northern Liao after the rise of drama in Da Qi. It is quite popular in the north.

So many years have passed since the first play, and Su Zhen feels like he is in a different world.

She asked, "How many years of Dezhi are we in now?"

Just as Hu Sanlang was about to speak, he heard a man's sneer from the private room next door, "It is now the second year of the Hongguang reign."

Hu Sanlang said, "We are neither from the Great Qi nor from the Northern Liao, so why do we need to know the reign titles of the two countries?"

Su Zhen said slowly and in a low voice: "It has been 3,600 years since the Yuan Dynasty was sealed, and the world has changed dramatically..."

In the second year of the Hongguang reign, Emperor Dezhi either passed away or abdicated. According to the trajectory of his previous life, he should have been dead.

Hu Erlang's voice was gentle and pleasant. "Emperor Dezhi of Da Qi died of illness in the early winter of the year before last. It is said that before his death, he roared: Xiaojiu and Changle have caused great harm to Da Qi! After saying this, he spat out blood and passed away."

The royal family and noblemen of the Da Qi next door all had strange looks on their faces. Was this guy doing it on purpose?

Emperor Dezhi died of illness, but the only people who knew about his angry cries before his death were a few important officials, including the new emperor Hongguang, Concubine Yuan, Concubine Shu, and the Empress.

When he was seriously ill, he learned that Northern Liao had refined salt. He also received news from the Supervisory Guard that an immortal had taught Northern Liao the techniques of salt making and weaving. Now Northern Liao also wanted to build its own weaving workshop, and issued a national order that all sheepskin, cowhide, wool, and cow hair, as long as it was hair, was not allowed to be resold to the Central Plains by merchants.

Northern Liao learned the art of salt-making and mocked Da Qi for saying that salt was only eaten by unruly people. It sold salt at a sky-high price per pound and even ordered merchants to transport the salt out of Northern Liao, which meant collecting huge taxes.

But there are too many rich people in Da Qi, and even if the salt is ridiculously expensive, they will still spend a lot of money to buy it.

Northern Liao sold salt at a high price, while Great Qi sold glass and silk at a high price. However, the other party was unreasonable and said directly: "Why do I need your glass? Wait until we ask the immortals for advice, and we will get the secret recipe for glass making."

In the eyes of Bei Liao, this immortal is their Bei Liao immortal, because the immortal practices and lives in the snow-capped mountains and lives deep in the snow-capped mountains. The snow-capped mountains belong to Bei Liao, so the immortal naturally also belongs to Bei Liao.

"The immortal said that he could sense the secrets of heaven and that he would face the calamity. To meet the calamity, he transformed his soul into a reincarnation. In his last life, he was the princess of the Emperor of Da Qi—Jiaxing. When the princess was fifteen years old, she awakened her memory of being an immortal. She taught the cultivation techniques of cotton, sweet potatoes, and corn, and helped Da Qi develop glass, textile, and printing technologies. However, God protected Da Qi, but Da Qi did not protect itself, and set fire to a princess who was the reincarnation of an immortal and killed her."

Northern Liao deliberately passed the message to the seriously ill Emperor Dezhi.