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

Li Yu, Han Xiaomei and Han Zheng were sitting in the car, while Lu Xuan was sitting outside driving.

Li Yu asked them how they knew she would come back today.

"That's what Aunt Tian said." Han Xiaomei rushed to reply, "The people in Prince An's Mansion got the news yesterday, saying that you, my second sister-in-law, might come back today."

"So you went to wait at the city gate?" Li Yu touched Han Xiaomei's hand. Her hand was icy cold, and she must have waited for quite some time.

Han Xiaomei leaned against Li Yu and grinned: "Just wait a while, sister-in-law, I have learned how to cook these few days, I will cook for you when I get home."

Li Yu smiled helplessly: "You!"

After the two finished talking, Li Yu looked at Han Zheng, "Are you taking a day off today?"

Han Zheng: "Yes, sister-in-law, are you okay at the farm?"

Li Yu: "Not bad, just a little tired, but the work is finally done. Have you encountered any troubles in the court these days?"

Han Zheng: "Don't worry, sister-in-law, I am safe in the Hanlin Academy. But there are some things in the court that sister-in-law should know."

He was right. Li Yu nodded and said, "It's not convenient to be outside right now. Tell me everything when you get back."

Lu Xuan was driving outside. Li Yu lifted the car curtain and asked him if he had discovered any danger recently.

"Everything is safe inside and outside the mansion." Lu Xuan said, "Two days before you left, I found a stalker, but he only appeared three times and has not appeared in recent days."

Li Yu immediately had an idea in his mind.

That person should have been sent by King Hui. After watching for two days and finding that there was no problem, he withdrew.

In some ways, King Hui was quite difficult to deal with, and even their family was targeted.

Li Yu shook his head, hoping that the fight between King Hui and the Crown Prince would end as soon as possible.

*

When the carriage arrived home, heavy snow was falling and the ground was covered with a layer of white.

Li Yu looked at the sky and estimated that the snow would not stop for a while, so he asked Madam Mu to go to the hot pot restaurant and the barbecue restaurant to tell Madam Tian and Madam Yan that they would not be open tomorrow.

Madam Mu nodded and went out holding an umbrella.

Li Yu watched her disappearing figure and went back to the house to rest.

Ah Fu hadn't seen her for a long time, so he kept circling around her. Li Yu couldn't walk because of it, so she squatted down and played with it for a while.

*

When Madam Mu came back, Chen Jiu followed her.

Chen Jiulai brought her hot pot, saying that it was arranged by Nanny Tian. "Nanny said that it was cold today, and the boss must want to eat hot pot. It happened that I came to the inner city to deliver hot pot takeout to the Changqing Marquis's mansion, so I brought a portion for the boss."

Aunt Tian really understood her, and guessed it right. If the old wine didn't come, she would ask Father Fang to drive to the store to get it later.

Making way for Chen Jiu, Li Yu asked him to put the hot pot base into the kitchen.

Before Chen Jiu left, she called him and brought him two bags of snacks. "Buy some more on the way back later. Bring them back to your residence after work today, so you don't have to go out tomorrow when it snows heavily."

Chen Jiu took the snacks and thanked him repeatedly.

*

"Boss, I heard from Chen Jiu that you rented their place with your own money." After Chen Jiu left, Madam Mu walked up to Li Yu and said.

Li Yu nodded. "Chen Jiu and his friends were beggars before. They had no place to live when they worked for the store, so I rented a house for them near the store."

Madam Mu: "The boss is so generous!"

Li Yu smiled slightly, "It's nothing." She rented a house and paid wages to Chen Jiu and his friends, and Chen Jiu and his friends worked hard for her. They benefited from each other.

*

Chen Jiu brought a lot of things, so Li Yu divided the table into two in the evening, one for Fang's father and mother and Madam Mu.

She, Han Xiaomei, Han Zheng, Lu Xuan, and the four of them sat at a table.

The two guards Miao Da and Miao Er and Fang Erya were all working in the store and had not returned yet, so Li Yu did not make any arrangements for them.

After eating hotpot, Fang's mother and Madam Mu packed up their things, and Li Yu called Han Zheng to the study to talk.

There are many rooms in the main house, one of which became Han Zheng’s bedroom, and the other naturally became Han Zheng’s study, which is very convenient for reading or meeting guests.

As for the two side rooms next to the main house, one was turned into a storage room and the other one is still unused.

*

Li Yu sat on the chair, picked up a pair of scissors and trimmed the candle wick, then asked Han Zheng about his recent affairs.

"A few days ago, when the Crown Prince and King Hui were in court, they had an argument about military pay. The Crown Prince said that it was cold in winter and new warm clothes should be distributed to the soldiers because most of the people in the Ministry of Revenue were King Hui's men. As soon as the Crown Prince finished speaking, the Minister of Revenue came out to complain that there was no money in the treasury and asked the Crown Prince to find a way to solve the problem himself.

The prince was angry and asked where the money and grain in the national treasury had gone and whether they had been used for other purposes.

Prince Hui was probably afraid that the emperor would discover something, so he hurried out to speak for Minister Huang.

Then the two of them started arguing.”

Li Yu was silent. Based on her understanding of the prince, he would not lose his temper in front of Emperor Tianyuan, unless it was an act.

Princess Jianing said that the prince will take many actions in the future, some of which are to confuse King Hui, and some are real.

The quarrels were mostly intended to confuse King Hui.

Really... the prince's life... she felt that it was not as happy as hers.

"In the end, what was the final result?" Li Yu asked.

Han Zheng paused, "The Crown Prince and King Hui were both reprimanded. The Crown Prince was punished to write a few policy essays, and King Hui was asked to be confined to his house."

Li Yu: “…”

It sounds like Emperor Tianyuan is biased towards the prince.

*

After sighing a few times in his heart, Li Yu asked again: "How are you doing here? Have the prince's party members come to you?"

When she went to the East Palace to meet the prince, although she did not directly say that Han Zheng also stood on the prince's side, her meaning was very clear, and the prince must have seen it.

Han Zheng was about to talk about this, and immediately said, "I found someone. Bachelor Jiang from the Hanlin Academy is a member of the princeling party. He talked to me a few days ago."

Bachelor of Hanlin Academy?

The face of Jiang Xu, a student from the Imperial College, appeared in front of Li Yu's eyes. Bachelor Jiang from the Hanlin Academy was his father. He had a good temper and his father was not bad either. What's more, Bachelor Jiang was quite famous outside.

*

Han Zheng told Li Yu in detail what had happened in Beijing recently.

After listening to it, Li Yu analyzed a few sentences that he could, and kept the ones he couldn't analyze in his mind, waiting to ask when he met Mr. Su.

Thinking of Mr. Su, Li Yu immediately asked Han Zheng whether he had told him that they were now part of the Prince's Party.

"I've already told the master." Han Zheng raised his eyes, "The master said he had guessed that this day would come. Now that we have done it, we should do it well. He will protect us."

Li Yu suddenly fell silent. Mr. Su didn't want them to get involved in the court struggle, and now they had disappointed him.

*

The two talked until the end of the second watch, and Li Yu went back to the room to rest.

It snowed all night and didn't stop the next day. Li Yu got up and opened the door, only to find that the snow was above her ankles.

She suddenly felt a little worried. At this rate the snow was falling, if it didn't stop tonight, meat and vegetables in the capital would become more expensive in the next few days.

There is also the risk of snowstorms.

Hope the snow stops soon.

*

Perhaps God heard Li Yu's wish, and the snow really stopped in the afternoon.

By October 12, the snow had almost melted.

At the same time, the decoration of the first milk tea shop in Beijing has been completed and the shop is about to open.