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

Li Yu had guessed it almost right. The woman knew she couldn't fool her, so she stammered a few times but no sound came out.

Li Yu: "You don't want to say it?"

The woman shook her head in panic: "I...I can't say."

The man said that if the situation is not right, you must not say anything.

As long as she didn't expose the man, she could get five taels of silver. Otherwise, she would get nothing and her whole family would be buried with her.

She didn't dare gamble with the lives of her family members.

The woman looked pitiful. If she were an ordinary person, Li Yu would definitely help her, but the woman was sent by someone who was plotting against her. In this case, she would not help. Moreover, the current situation was special, so she had to be extremely cautious.

*

Without giving the woman any more chances, Li Yu walked away.

The woman held the purse in her sleeve and stood there for a long time. Finally, she left Mingli Temple anxiously and walked straight to the woods behind the temple.

As she walked, she looked around, fearing that someone was following her.

At this time, a thin young man was standing in the woods.

He was wearing an indigo cloak and his face was wrapped in a piece of cloth of the same color, revealing only a pair of beautiful almond-shaped eyes.

"Sir." The woman stepped forward in a panic and fell to her knees in front of the man. "I didn't do what you asked me to do."

The man remained silent for a long time, and it was unclear whether he was angry or something.

A bird flew across the sky, and the man seemed to sigh, and said in a muffled voice: "What's going on? Didn't you do as I...I arranged?"

The woman burst into tears. "The lady you asked me to find was a smart person. She found the silver in my purse."

Man: “…” I should have waited until she finished the work before paying her. What a mistake.

"Forget it, go away." The man waved his hand and decided to go back and think of a solution.

The woman was stunned.

Seeing that she didn't move, the man said, "Go ahead, do you still want me to take you home?"

Woman: "Then...the silver."

Sir, don’t you want the silver back?

The man then remembered that he still had silver. "I gave you ten taels. Now you return five taels to me."

He didn't have much money, so he couldn't give it all to the woman at once.

Seeing that he was not going to take it all back, the woman was very excited. She took out five taels of silver with trembling hands and handed the purse and the remaining five taels of silver back to him.

The man took it and put it away, then told the woman not to tell anyone else what happened today, then left, shaking his sleeves.

*

not far away.

When Li Yu saw the man, he winked at Lu Xuan beside him. Lu Xuan understood and followed him swiftly.

Li Yu stood there and waited until the woman left before coming out with Han Xiaomei and Han Zheng.

Han Xiaomei is not stupid. Although she doesn't know what is going on, from the situation just now, she vaguely understands that someone is plotting against her second sister-in-law.

She stamped her foot angrily.

Li Yu held her back and comforted her: "It's okay, the woman didn't succeed."

Han Xiaomei pouted: "They are bad! Second sister-in-law, you must bring Brother Lu Xuan with you when you go out next time."

Li Yu: "I know, let's go back."

The three of them walked back together.

Passing by the gate of Mingli Temple, Li Yu saw that there was still porridge. Thinking that Han Xiaomei wanted to drink it, he asked her to go and wait in line.

She and Han Zheng were standing not far away waiting for her.

There was no one else around, so Li Yu asked, "Who do you think that man was?"

Han Zheng: "I think he is Vietnamese."

Li Yu shook her head: "I think she looks more like a Yue girl." She was shorter than Yue and not as strong as Yue.

Han Zheng guessed that he was of Vietnamese nationality, mainly because Vietnamese people also have a pair of almond-shaped eyes. He actually didn't pay much attention to his stature. Now that he thought about it carefully, the stature of the man just now was indeed somewhat different from that of a Vietnamese man.

"She actually got involved, sister-in-law, do you think the Yue siblings were ordered by King Hui to investigate us?"

"I don't know." Li Yu said, "The Vietnamese girl doesn't look like a smart person, but the Vietnamese are difficult to deal with. We need to find out more about them as soon as possible."

*

It took Lu Xuan more than half an hour to come back.

At that time, Li Yu was strolling on the road in front of Mingli Temple. She saw a porcelain cup and was bargaining with the shopkeeper.

Seeing Lu Xuan returning, she immediately put down her teacup, stood up and asked him how he was.

"That man is actually a girl." Lu Xuan said, "She is a girl from Yue."

Li Yu: "Did you follow her home?"

Lu Xuan: “Yes.”

"Is Yueji at home?"

"No, it was the woman who called out Yue's name after she entered the house that allowed me to determine her identity."

Li Yu nodded.

Lu Xuan: “What should we do?”

Li Yu thought for a moment and said, "Go to Yue's house tonight and watch for a while to see how Yue Ji's relationship with his sister is."

If Yue Ji values ​​this sister, she will have an extra bargaining chip to deal with Yue Ji in the future.

*

Beyond home.

Yue Xiang changed into her own clothes and sat in the main room with her legs crossed, drinking tea.

When Yue Ji returned home and saw his sister's behavior, he said, "Didn't you go to Mingli Temple?"

Yue Xiang: "Brother, please stop talking. It's a wasted trip today."

Yueji: “How do you say that?”

Yue Xiang then told Li Yu how he tried to place someone there, but was discovered by Li Yu.

"Fortunately, the woman was obedient and didn't give me away." At the end, Yue Xiang patted his chest.

Yue Ji's face suddenly turned gloomy.

He walked out of the house in two or three steps, stood in the yard and looked around. Seeing that there was no one, he quickly walked outside the door to look.

Yue Xiang followed him slowly, "Brother, what are you doing?"

Yue Ji lowered his voice and said, "Let me see if anyone is following you."

Yue Xiang said calmly: "I was very careful, and I disguised myself as a man."

Vietnamese: “…”

Yue Xiang: "Brother, I'll go to the hot pot restaurant tomorrow and help you find out about Boss Li when I get there."

Yue Ji: "...For now, you don't need to investigate her anymore."

Yue Xiang was puzzled, "Why?"

Yue Ji wanted to say that it was for her safety, but thinking of his sister's personality, he changed his mind and said, "The people I found have already found out the results. There is nothing wrong with Boss Li. She is just a friend of Princess Jianing, an ordinary country woman. I was overthinking it."

Yue Xiang didn't doubt him and said relaxedly: "That's what I said! I asked about her outside and no one said anything strange."

Yue Ji hummed, and then reminded worriedly: "But she has a good relationship with Princess Jianing, so don't go near her in the future, lest you offend Princess Jianing accidentally. She has a bad temper, and offending her will not do us any good."

Yue Xiang: “Okay.”

*

After making sure that Yue Xiang had heard his words to heart, Yue Ji decided to temporarily stop investigating Li Yu and then transferred all the useful people under his command back home to serve as guards.

What Yue Xiang did was too obvious. Boss Li might have already found out about her.

He had to do it for her safety.

If he had known this, he shouldn't have asked Yue Xiang to help him investigate, or in other words, he shouldn't have let her return to the capital.

*

Li Yu didn't know about Yue Ji's regret. That afternoon, she received a letter from Mr. Xiang, saying that all the seasonings had been bought and she could go to Hujiazhuang to make bacon at any time.

It is better to do things as soon as possible. Li Yu thought about it and went out to find Princess Jianing.

Hujiazhuang belongs to Prince An’s Mansion, and Princess Jianing has to go with her this time.