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

According to the owner of the butcher shop, Prince An personally led people to seal off the Jinlai Casino yesterday. Not only did they arrest people, they also carried out more than a dozen large boxes of silver from the cellar of the Jinlai Casino.

However, there was some chaos yesterday and several people from the gambling house escaped, so the officers were arresting people today.

"Jinlai Casino has always hurt people in the past. This time it's finally their turn to be unlucky. Everyone secretly says that they deserve it. Hey, Boss Li, you can't tell anyone what I just said. Otherwise, if this casino reopens one day, I will be the one who suffers."

Li Yu retracted his gaze and said with a smile: "Don't worry, I won't say anything nonsense."

*

After confirming the final amount of meat to be purchased with the butcher, Li Yu returned to the carriage.

Not far away, we saw another column of soldiers coming towards us.

Judging from their movements, they should also be related to Jinlai Casino.

Li Yu watched and wanted to know how Shangshu Huang felt now. After all, the gambling house he had worked so hard to run was gone.

There is also King Hui. Gambling houses were an important way for him to obtain gold and silver. Now that the gambling houses have been closed, he must be very angry.

Maybe Minister Huang should be blamed.

There was another thing that she was very concerned about, which was how to deal with the silver that Prince An had found.

I hope their final "destination" will not be the national treasury. After all, the Ministry of Revenue is in charge of the national treasury's money and grain, and now the highest-ranking official in the Ministry of Revenue is still Shangshu Huang.

When I have time, I will ask Princess Jianing.

*

In the residence of the Minister of Revenue.

Minister Huang had a gloomy look on his face.

Ji Shuo stood a few meters away and reported to him the situation outside.

Upon hearing that Prince An had almost captured the people, Minister Huang raised his arm and waved away all the utensils on the table.

"Really...really...I...I will never reconcile with Prince An from now on!"

Ji Shuo lowered his head with a look of disdain on his face.

His father-in-law is getting stupider and stupider. He always does wrong things recently and is really unusable.

However, he couldn't find a suitable backer at the moment, so he could only rely on him for now.

Taking a breath silently, Ji Shuo said: "This incident doesn't actually have that much impact on you, father-in-law. Don't be too angry, lest you hurt yourself."

Huang Shangshu was about to throw something at him, but when he heard his words, he stopped and stared at him, "What do you mean by that?"

Ji Shuo took a step forward and said slowly, "The silver seized from the gambling house is tens of thousands of taels. Such a large amount must belong to the national treasury in the end. Father-in-law, don't forget that you are in charge of the national treasury.

As for the gambling house being closed down, since the original one has been closed down, we can just find another shop and open another one."

Huang Shangshu suddenly realized that his headache and chest tightness were gone, "Your brain is really quick."

Ji Shuo smiled modestly, "It's because you taught me well, father-in-law."

The two of them were laughing smugly when they heard footsteps outside the study.

Ji Shuo took the initiative to open the door and found that it was the elder of the Huang family.

*

Although he is said to be a clan elder, he is actually only a few years older than Minister Huang and has a shifty look.

The clan elder first greeted Shangshu Huang and Ji Shuo, and then explained his purpose.

Unfortunately, it is related to the families of Huang Qingqing and Huang Jiaojiao.

"The two families are really outrageous. You are now under house arrest, but they seem to be unaware of it and have let Jiaojiao and Qingqing get engaged."

Minister Huang became annoyed whenever he heard the names of Huang Jiaojiao and Huang Qingqing. Neither of these two nieces gave him peace of mind.

With a snort, Huang Shangshu asked, "Who are they going to marry?"

The elder said two unfamiliar names, "Those two families are not very good. The father of the young master of the family that Jiaojiao is dating seems to have been in prison and offended the emperor."

Minister Huang was shocked: "...Is this true?"

The elder sighed, "That's what I heard."

Minister Huang slammed the table and said, "They are really rebellious. They even dared to find that family with a shady background."

In his original plan, even if Huang Qingqing and Huang Jiaojiao could not enter the palace to become imperial concubines, he planned to give them to officials in the court, either as wives or concubines.

As daughters of the Huang family, they must contribute to the family.

Minister Huang breathed heavily.

Seeing this, the elder of the clan continued, "Their minds are not clear. I am worried that they will do something that will bring trouble to the entire clan in the future. So I simply discussed with others and kicked them out of the family tree."

Huang Shangshu held his chest and said, "You did the right thing."

There is no use keeping such people in the clan.

*

The clan elder left quickly. Shangshu Huang was angry for a while, then he remembered that there was Ji Shuo in the room.

Waving his hand, he said, "You have a chance in the next two days to go to Prince Hui's Mansion and see what the prince thinks."

Just as Ji Shuo was about to respond, the door was pushed open from outside.

King Hui walked into the house with a cold face.

Minister Huang was surprised for a moment, then stood up and saluted.

King Hui looked at him coldly, "You did a good job, but the silver is gone for nothing."

Huang Shangshu was startled. "What silver is the prince talking about?"

King Hui: "What silver are you talking about? Of course it's the tens of thousands of taels of silver from the gambling house."

Huang Shangshu felt strange, "The silver should end up in the national treasury."

King Hui sneered, "Into the national treasury? Father directly asked the people in the general's mansion to take the silver away, saying that it would be transported to the southern border as military pay after the spring."

Huang Shangshu was shocked: "How could this be?"

King Hui said with a gloomy face: "It's all your fault. You are really more of a hindrance than a help!"

Maybe it was because he had been too angry that day, or because King Hui's words were too harsh, but Minister Huang rolled his eyes and fainted.

*

It was already the fourteenth day of the first lunar month when Li Yu learned about what happened in the Shangshu Mansion.

She was surprised to hear that Minister Huang fainted from anger.

But it’s really good news.

In addition to this, there was another piece of news, that is, Jin Yulou received the reward from Emperor Tianyuan as she wished.

I don’t know what Emperor Tianyuan was thinking. This time he didn’t give a plaque as a reward, but he issued an imperial decree to reward a set of golden kitchen utensils.

Not bad either.

In a blink of an eye, it is the Lantern Festival.

Although Han Zheng was not at home, Li Yu and the others still lived their life as usual.

We had dinner early in the evening and then watched the lanterns and fireworks.

In the meantime, they also guessed a few riddles and won a rabbit lantern.

On the 16th day of the first lunar month, hot pot restaurants and barbecue restaurants start business for the new year.

On the first day of work, Li Yu gave everyone red envelopes as usual.

Then everyone went to work efficiently.

The two stores were relatively late in opening after the Chinese New Year in Beijing, but because of their irreplaceability, they were packed on the first day.

Chen Jiu and his colleagues who were delivering hotpot were also very busy, running around pulling a horse-drawn carriage all day long.

Li Yu was at the barbecue restaurant in the morning and at the hot pot restaurant at noon.

After entertaining the guests, seeing that no one needed help, she cleaned the pig stomach and chicken that had been delivered in the morning.

With the start of the new year, the store has to add some new things, such as pork belly and chicken hotpot.

After that, the store had five kinds of soup bases: spicy hot pot, fragrant spicy hot pot, mushroom soup pot, clear soup pot and pork belly and chicken hot pot, which was not too few.

Of course, the barbecue restaurant will also add a grilled fish dish.

Jinyulou and the milk tea shop also added dishes. Jinyulou added salted duck and pork with sand in it, while the milk tea shop added fried chicken steak.

In addition, she will find time to visit Mr. Su's private residence again. This year, she will definitely plant a large number of roses in Beijing.

Li Yu had arranged her work for the next half month, but a few days later, Mr. Xiang asked her if she could go to Beizhou Prefecture.