Traveling to an ancient peasant family: I got rich by doing business

The Third Prince's wife deliberately wanted to embarrass the Crown Princess, and without giving the others a chance to speak, she continued with a curled lip corner: "This year, the Queen Mother asked the Crown Princess's sister-in-law to help prepare the palace banquet. The Crown Princess's sister-in-law probably wanted to make it different from previous years, so she specially sent Nanny Shi beside her to buy it. You should try it quickly to see if it tastes better than what the royal chef in the palace makes."

She was certain that the mooncakes outside the palace were not as good as those inside. How could the things made by ordinary people compare with those in the palace?

The Third Prince's wife was extremely determined in her thoughts and even urged people to eat, "Madam Jiang, you are older and have eaten a lot, so you must try this mooncake carefully."

Madam Taifu noticed her intention, chuckled twice, broke open the mooncake and took a bite.

"How is it?" asked the Third Prince's wife.

Madam Taifu chewed it in small bites, swallowed it and said slowly: "This is not a fresh meat mooncake, but the meat has a unique taste, I think it's good."

The Third Prince’s Consort: “…”

As if to prove that she was not lying, the wife of the Minister of War, who was sitting behind the Grand Tutor's wife, said, "I have also eaten the fresh meat mooncakes. Today's ones are indeed better. But are they really from Li Ji BBQ Restaurant? I've never heard of them selling them. Our family has only bought those with fruit and fresh meat fillings."

Everyone looked at the Crown Princess.

The Crown Princess had a dignified smile on her face: "I made this specially for you. It was actually a coincidence. I was out of the palace a few days ago and passed by Uncle An's house. I hadn't been there for a long time, so I went in and sat for a while. During the meal, Jianing took out this bacon mooncake. I ate it and thought it was delicious, so I sent someone to ask the boss of Li Ji BBQ Restaurant to buy some.

She was originally reluctant to sell this thing, but the nanny brought out Jianing's name, so she did this."

"The Crown Princess asked for too much. Li Yu did it until late at night." Princess Jianing, who had been sitting silently at the table, finally spoke. "Fortunately, the Crown Princess gave me the banknote, otherwise I would not be willing to do it!"

Princess An laughed and scolded: "We are all family members, and you still want money."

Princess Jianing: "I am a businessman. If my family doesn't want money, should I keep my shop open?"

As she spoke, Princess Jianing looked at the Third Prince's wife with a surprisingly gentle expression: "Third sister-in-law, I did the right thing, didn't I?"

The Third Prince's wife's eyes were complicated, "You did the right thing."

But the Prince's Mansion doesn't have much money, just a few mooncakes. Jianing actually asked the Crown Princess for money. Isn't she afraid that the Crown Princess will feel resentful?

There were rumors a few days ago that the Crown Prince and Prince An had a disagreement. Could it be true? After Jianing came here today, except for just now, she didn't seem to say a word to the Crown Princess.

After the palace banquet is over, she will have to talk to the third prince about it.

*

Glancing at the expression of the Third Prince's wife, Princess Jianing turned her head and curled her lips.

This person is scheming all day long, and I don't know where she gets so much energy.

She used to hate the princes fighting for the throne, but now she hopes it will end quickly so that there won't be so many people following her outside her house.

But today was okay. The mooncakes were liked by everyone, and Li Yu was not involved.

There were two main purposes for her conversation with the Crown Princess' sister-in-law. The most obvious one was to tell the Third Prince's wife that Li Yu was just a business partner with her and had nothing to do with the Eastern Palace. The other was to "implicitly" tell the Third Prince's wife that "the relationship between Prince An's Mansion and the Eastern Palace is not that good anymore."

Because the relationship between Prince An's Mansion and the Eastern Palace has always been good, after the Crown Prince and the Third Prince had been fighting fiercely in the past few months, they were often followed when they went out.

Her father was afraid that the Third Prince might become cruel and attack her and her mother one day, so he discussed with his brother the Crown Prince to change strategy.

He wanted to "turn against" the prince, and because of sadness and illness, he no longer participated in any court affairs.

The third prince will definitely not believe it at first, but as time goes by, he will slowly believe it.

Thinking of this, Princess Jianing sighed deeply.

I hope this palace banquet will end soon. She can’t stand it anymore and wants to go back to the palace quickly.

*

Li Yu's family was also eating.

Because it was her first Mid-Autumn Festival in the capital, she called Cheng, Pei Mingzhu, Madam Yan and others to her home.

Everyone set up a few tables in the yard and ate happily.

The dishes were decided by Li Yu and Madam Yan. Each table had eight hot dishes, two cold dishes and two soups.

Four of them were famous dishes from a restaurant in Beijing that were bought from outside, another four were made by the Cheng family members, and the remaining four were made by Li Yu.

There were so many dishes on the table, the aroma was so fragrant, and everyone was very satisfied with the meal.

In addition to the dishes, Li Yu also prepared fruits, moon cakes, and milk tea. After the meal, everyone talked together and laughter could be heard in the courtyard.

Madam Yan sat next to Li Yu, watching Han Xiaomei playing with Xiaonan and Ah Fu, while chatting with Li Yu casually: "If you were in the Censorate, you must be very busy today, arranging household affairs, preparing festival gifts, and dressing up to attend the banquet in the palace.

Now I don’t have to be busy with anything. I feel free and relaxed. That’s great, very good!

Have you prepared the Mid-Autumn Festival gifts? Han Zheng won the first place in the imperial examination this year. He should visit the chief and deputy examiners of the imperial examination and those in the Ministry of Rites. "

Li Yu: "I'm ready. Why don't you help me check if there's anything inappropriate, Madam Yan?"

Mrs. Yan gladly accepted the invitation.

The two of them walked into the house together. The people outside saw them, smiled, and continued talking.

Fang Erya's parents were a little nervous when they saw guests coming to their house today, fearing that they might not do a good job and cause dissatisfaction among the guests. However, they found that the guests were very approachable, so they relaxed a little bit like Madam Mu.

The Cheng family and their friends did not leave until the end of the hour of Wei. There was a lantern festival in the capital city in the evening, so Li Yu and his friends had dinner early and then went out to see the lanterns.

*

No matter how many times he has seen it, Li Yu is always amazed by the skills of the ancients in making lanterns.

The moving animal lanterns, lifelike lotus lanterns, and ordinary lanterns connected together made her feel like she had experienced a visual feast.

There were also chrysanthemums for sale at the lantern festival, and Li Yulin bought a few pots before going home, intending to put them in the yard.

Han Xiaomei likes rabbits, and Li Yu saw that she wanted one, so he also bought a few.

Han Zheng, Lu Xuan and Si'er didn't want to buy anything, so they followed the two of them to get things.

A few people followed the crowd, wandering aimlessly, and did not go home until midnight.

*

The next day, Li Yu put the gifts she had prepared in advance on the carriage, and she and Han Zheng delivered them to each family.

Because of the fruit-filled mooncakes and Han Zheng's identities, the doormen at each house treated them quite well, at least on the surface there was no problem.

The gift-giving lasted for the entire morning and half of the afternoon. By mid-afternoon, there was finally nothing else left in the carriage except Li Yu and Han Zheng.

"Let's go home!" Li Yu directed Fang's father who was driving outside.

Just as Mr. Fang was about to leave, he suddenly saw a distinguished person driving a carriage approaching from the corner ahead.

He hurriedly said, "Boss, there are people in front of us, should we get out of the way?"

Li Yu thought it was someone of high status, so when he opened the curtain, he saw that it was Xie Youlan, whom he hadn't seen for a long time.