Locked: God is the matchmaker, neither you nor I can escape

"Come on, everyone, don't be polite, let's eat." Hua Feifan called on everyone to start eating. As the host, he was the first to start eating.

After he started eating, others also started to move, especially Hua Muyu's friends, who really treated this place as their own home and put food into the pot without anyone telling them what to do.

"Wow~ The taste of this hotpot is richer and more overbearing than that of Lu's hotpot restaurant. I like it!" The young man exclaimed sincerely while laughing.

Seeing the mutton soup, Zhong Jing drank half a bowl of it out of habit: "This mutton soup doesn't smell at all, and it's very fresh. It's really good! My brother-in-law's cooking skills are just as Murong praised, amazing!"

"Thank you." Xin Ye smiled gently.

"We call you brother-in-law, do you mind?"

"You are all my good friends. Calling me your brother-in-law is a recognition of me. I am very happy."

Xin Ye sincerely thought so. Even though he seemed older than all of them, he could call his second brother, who was four or five years younger than him, without blushing or getting nervous. How much more could he call them?

Moreover, it is just a title. Compared with calling him Brother Li or Young Master Li, brother-in-law is more intimate, proving that he has been completely integrated into the Hua family and gained more people's recognition of his identity as the son-in-law of the Hua family.

The tenderness of tofu, the refreshing and smooth sweet potato noodles, the sweetness of sweet potatoes...

The combination of fresh food and hotpot made them deeply impressed by this hotpot meal, and they were even more looking forward to the tofu pudding he would make later.

However, the soybeans need to be soaked for at least six hours before being ground into tofu, so they will not be available this afternoon. Therefore, Xin Ye suggested waiting for the grocery store to deliver the soybeans, and then he would invite everyone to come and help make tofu pudding for tasting.

Regardless of whether they had time to come that day, they would definitely agree today. How could they miss out on something delicious? Especially something new and fresh that they had never tasted before?

No wonder the Hua family members are full of praise for this son-in-law. Just based on his ability to constantly create so many fresh foods, these things can be used in the restaurant opened by the Hua family, or in another shop, and they will surely make a lot of money.

So what if he was born in the countryside? His value is immeasurable, whether as a provider of money-making prescriptions or as a doctor with superb medical skills.

In the evening, Hua Muchin came back from a busy day and was stunned to see that dinner was just a bowl of noodles and a plate of fried sweet potatoes.

"Is this...is our dinner tonight too simple?"

Chen Youyou slurped the sweet potato noodles and replied, "There are some vegetables left over from lunch. If you want to eat them, just put them in the soup pot and cook them."

They were too full from the hotpot at noon, so they all chose to have something light in the evening. Seeing that there was mutton soup, Xin Ye suggested making sweet potato noodles. If they didn't want noodles, they could have some fish fillet porridge.

Everyone has been choosing to eat sweet potato noodles, and people haven’t gotten tired of it yet, so that’s the scene that Hua Muchin saw when he came back.

Hua Muyu blabbered about the hotpot they had at noon, which made Hua Muxin grit his teeth. He worked hard outside doing business, but his brother was at home eating delicious food prepared by his brother-in-law. At this moment, he was jealous.

Upon learning that Xin Ye was going to make tofu pudding in a few days, Hua Muchin said that he would not go out at that time, so please remember to notify him to go together.

The hotpot meal at noon successfully won the hearts of several guests. As the saying goes, one should be grateful to the guest who has eaten his food. Whenever others asked them about the son-in-law of the Hua family, or accidentally heard them talking about Xin Ye and saying bad things about him, they would speak up and say a few fair words for Xin Ye.

Huacheng was getting lively because of the wedding of Xin Ye and Yan Yiyi, and there was also a small stir in the capital because of them.

Lord Feng and Ren Huaimin successfully harvested the corn, and under Yan Yiyi's instructions, they dried and preserved the corn, and brought it back to the capital along with the last season's sweet potatoes to report.

Mu Jiasong was shocked when he learned that the young couple in Dashan Village had discovered new food. He took the corn in his hand and studied it carefully.

"How do you eat this?" Mu Jiasong wanted to taste it first and then report to the emperor.

He already understood the value of corn. One corn seed can produce a large bag of corn like this. The planting cycle is similar to that of sweet potatoes, and it is a drought-resistant crop. For the people living in the border areas, it is another food crop.

Ren Huaimin: "Reporting to the Lord, according to the Li family's brother, when corn is fresh, it can be directly steamed and eaten like sweet potatoes, or it can be boiled into bone soup, fried with meat slices, etc. It can be eaten as a staple food or as a vegetable.

Dried corn can be used to make corn syrup, corn porridge, or ground into corn powder and used like flour to make various pasta dishes.

However, there wasn’t much corn. From a small plot of land, we only harvested about 100 kilograms. We left 50 kilograms for the Li family as seeds, and brought the remaining half back. If we want to try different ways of eating it, we won’t have much seeds to test planting next year.”

"I understand what you mean. Let's make the simplest corn syrup. I have to taste it before I can report to the emperor." Mu Jiasong paused and asked, "It takes 50 kilograms of seeds to plant one acre of land?"

Ren Huaimin understood what he meant and explained, "No, half of the seeds were sent to his father-in-law and mother-in-law by Brother Li."

Mu Jiasong: You are quite filial. But, can’t you wait until next year when you plant more crops to show your filial piety?

Lord Feng saw that Mu Jiasong frowned slightly and knew that he was worried about the few corn seeds, but the seeds were originally discovered by others, and being able to offer most of them as a tribute was already very kind.

Besides, who are the father-in-law and mother-in-law of the young man from the Li family? If he doesn’t buy something special to honor them, can they accept him as a son-in-law from the countryside?

"Sir, in fact, the wife of the Li family's young master, Yan, her parents are the head of the Hua family in Shacheng."

Hearing this, Mu Jiasong's pupils widened slightly, and he was quite surprised: "Is this...really!?"

"It's almost certain. The specific information is probably on the way and will be confirmed in a few days." Lord Feng added, "It's like this. After I learned that Yan was the eldest daughter of the Hua family in Shacheng, I immediately arranged for my subordinates to go to Shacheng to investigate.

My father has received basically confirmed news not long ago, but the couple has not yet arrived in Sand City. There is a 1% chance that it will be confirmed after they return to Hua Mansion, so the news should be on the way."

Mu Jiasong's face darkened. They had reported Yan's affairs before, but they didn't expect there would be such twists and turns. The eldest daughter of the Hua family was actually frustrated and fell into the countryside, and married a country man in a daze.

If Yan's identity was true, it would only be a reward of some silver. The Hua family was not short of silver at all, and these rewards from the court would become a joke.

The next day, after the morning court session, Mu Jiasong followed the emperor to the imperial study. The other officials naturally knew that the Minister of Agriculture must have some new news to report to the emperor.

They are not stupid. The agricultural officer who was sent to Dashan Village two days ago has returned to Beijing. Just now, Lord Mu reported in the morning court that Dashan Village had a bumper harvest of sweet potatoes in the last season.

The territory of Zhao State was very vast, and the sweet potatoes grown experimentally in Guyang County and the capital city were distributed as seeds to other areas of Zhao State for planting the following year. All the people could eat sweet potatoes to their heart's content after the summer of next year.

As Beijing officials, they could only have a taste of it.

The topic has gone off track, ugh!

Logically speaking, Lord Mu had already made detailed plans for the sweet potato harvest and arrangements for the spring, and the emperor agreed on the spot, so there was no need for him to follow the emperor to the imperial study.

The last time Lord Mu went to the Imperial Study in this manner was when he came to report the sweet potato issue from Guyang County. This shows that the two agricultural officials on duty in Dashan Village should have made other gains.

This time, they didn't think there was anything to be jealous of. If they could find more new food, they could satisfy their own appetites and solve the livelihood problems of the people at the same time. They would not take credit for this. They didn't want to be targeted by Mu Jiasong. That old guy was not so easy to deal with.

Even though the prime minister had put forward a scapegoat for obstructing Hongshu from submitting a memorial, Mu Jiasong would not buy it. As a human being, he would not bother with the dog for not being able to control the dog, but would only settle the score with the dog's owner.

Look, in the past six months, whenever the Prime Minister did something wrong, Mu Jiasong would find fault with him. It wasn't a serious crime, but it would make him lose face, so naturally the Prime Minister would fight back unwillingly.

But those people were not Mu Jiasong's dogs at all. Whether they were corrupt or took bribes, or were idle and idle, whether Mu Jiasong killed them or exiled them, the most he would be charged with was a crime of lax governance.

The prime minister is different. Those who are loose in the Mu family are his running dogs. The dogs he has raised for many years, if they are killed by him one day, the prime minister will not be able to find such an easy-to-use and obedient dog for a while. Isn’t this a bit passive?

With the case of the Prime Minister, it is no big deal. They will not confront Mu Jiasong. He has the support of the emperor behind him. As long as it is not a major incident of usurping the throne, Mu Jiasong will not get into trouble.

It's not worth it to fight with such a tough guy.

Moreover, Mu Jiasong is in charge of the Sinong Temple. His power is neither big nor small, and the benefits are average. It is really not worth targeting him, unless you have an irreconcilable feud with Mu Jiasong. Otherwise, if you go against him, you won't make anything if you win, but you will lose your head if you lose, so it's a loss no matter how you look at it.

Instead of spending the time and energy to plot against him, it would be better to plot against several other powerful departments, such as the Ministry of Personnel, the Ministry of War, and the Ministry of Revenue.

Mu Jiasong, who was watched by the ministers as he left, had already arrived at the imperial study with the emperor. He sat down lazily. Eunuch Fu quickly arranged for someone to serve tea and snacks to the emperor and Mu Jiasong.

"Has my cousin had his breakfast yet?"

"Not yet. Hehe, I am shamelessly coming to the emperor's place to eat for free."

The emperor gave Eunuch Fu a look, and Eunuch Fu understood and went to make the arrangements. At this time, there were only the two of them in the imperial study.

Mu Jiasong stood up and took the memorial out of his sleeve and handed it to the emperor. The emperor took it, opened it and examined it carefully. The content of the memorial was Lord Feng and Ren Huaimin's ideas on the cultivation of corn and water spinach and the estimated value of theirs.

The emperor's pupils slightly dilated, he put down the memorial and looked at Mu Jiasong: "Have you found new grain and vegetable seeds again!?"

"Let's not talk about corn. They sent people to check on the water spinach in the nearby villages. Some villages did have a lot of wild water spinach. The villagers said that they cut it and chopped it up to feed the chickens and pigs. There was no problem for the animals to eat it.

But they had never eaten water spinach, so they didn't dare to eat it.

The Li family couple are a brave couple. They dared to try it themselves. But it’s no wonder they dared to eat anything, because the Li family’s daughter-in-law, Yan, has a great background. "

"Oh? Have you found out Yan's identity?" The emperor was quite surprised.

"Yes, Yan is most likely the eldest daughter of the Hua family in Shacheng, Yan Yiyi." Mu Jiasong added, "We will have to wait for some time for the specific information, and the news from the spies is still on the way.

The eldest daughter of the Hua family is an orphan picked up by Hua Feifan, the head of the Hua family. She was originally raised as an apprentice, but later his wife also fell in love with this little girl and adopted her as her adopted daughter, becoming the eldest daughter of the Hua family.

Regardless of whether Yan is the biological child of the Hua family or not, the love she receives from the Hua family is witnessed by the people of the entire Sand City. "

The imperial court never interfered with the martial arts sects, especially since the emperor ascended the throne after experiencing a rebellion and his position was not yet stable, so he had no time to care about managing the affairs of the martial arts world.

As long as the people in the martial arts world act according to the laws of the Zhao Kingdom, he will not take action for the time being. As for the several famous families in the martial arts world, with the emperor's current power, he does not intend to intervene for the time being, otherwise, if there is a commotion over there, he will lose his throne.

Therefore, the information the emperor knew was very one-sided, mostly about major events, and he would not pay attention to what was happening in their backyard. He did not have the extra energy to find out the specific identity of the eldest daughter of the Hua family, especially since she was already married. If he rashly found out too many things, it would attract the attention of the head of the Hua family and cause Hua Man Ge to come to the court to stir up trouble, and he would not be able to suppress it.

The late emperor might have reached some agreement with the leader of the martial arts world, so that the martial arts world and the imperial court could live in harmony. However, when the late emperor was in power, he was quite wary of him when he was still the crown prince, and his death was so sudden.

If he had not been the crown prince, he could have inherited the throne legitimately, and if he had not been the victorious party in that rebellion and restored order, otherwise who would be the emperor now?

As a result, he now knows very little about the affairs of the underworld, and has no spare energy to investigate what is happening there, so he is in a very passive position.

After this incident, the emperor felt it necessary to investigate the relationships in the martial arts world. It seemed that cooperation with Hua Man Ge was not a bad idea. He did not need to know the private affairs of each sect. He only needed to understand the basic information of the large and small sects in the martial arts world, as well as the relationship network between their sects. Hua Man Ge would surely not refuse this business.

It’s this price… We can talk about it, but it’s probably a bit difficult for my own private bank to bear this expense.

"Uncle cousin, have you asked your people to find out the news about other people in the Hua Mansion?"

“Yes, it’s not difficult to find out things that are out there. For example, the eldest son of the Hua family has passed the imperial examination and may take part in the spring imperial examination next year.

The second young master of the Hua family is in charge of managing the Hua family's assets, and the third young master of the Hua family is still studying in the academy in Shacheng.

The Hua family is very mysterious, and there is very little information that can be obtained. I am worried that if I find out too much, my identity will be exposed, causing a conflict between the court and the Hua family, so I will ask him to find out more."

The emperor thought about it and agreed. After all, Sand City was the Hua family’s territory, and the Hua family would definitely notice any disturbance.