I became a concubine in the palace and cured my master's hidden disease.

"You just said that several other princes came to pay New Year's greetings. Can you tell me the details?" Zhao Yuan frowned. It seemed that those people had not been idle during the time when he was away from home!

"In addition to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, there are also the Second Prince, the Fifth Prince, the Eighth Prince, and the Thirteenth Prince!"

"There are so many people coming! Is my milk tea so delicious?" Zhao Yuan narrowed his eyes. Why didn't he know why his milk tea was so popular?

"You seem to be hesitant to speak, is there anything else you want to report?"

"The Thirteenth Prince just came. He said he didn't mind, he just wanted Master Lin to play with him! He has gone to the Crescent Moon Courtyard." Chief Zhai said. In fact, he felt a little guilty in his heart, afraid that the prince would punish him.

"Thirteenth little thing, if you don't study well in the palace, I will report him to the Grand Tutor." Zhao Yuan shook his head in a light tone. He didn't have any prejudice against his thirteenth brother and had always been caring and tolerant towards him.

"Go to Xianyue Courtyard and don't tire Master Lin out!" Zhao Yuan said without raising his head while looking at the account book.

Manager Zhai wiped the nonexistent sweat from his forehead and sighed. He was furious just now and wanted to eat Master Lin, but now he turned around and showed concern again. He didn't know how to serve him anymore.

"Ayan, Ayan..."

Lin Yan was feeling depressed when a clear and familiar boy's voice came from afar.

"Oh my god! Why did this little ancestor come here again?" Lin Yan patted her face, the gloom was gone, and the corners of her mouth raised, just right!

"Ayan..."

"Thirteenth Prince, why did you skip class again?" Lin Yan joked with a smile as he walked out.

"Ayan, how can you say that to me! Today is the ten-day holiday. I studied hard and the young master praised me yesterday.

Let's not talk about this anymore. I didn't even sleep in to come play with you. What are we going to play today?" The Thirteenth Prince raised his little face and looked at Lin Yan with a look of seeking praise.

"Let me think..." Lin Yan pondered for a moment: "I don't want to play anything!"

"Ah! No, you must play with me!" The Thirteenth Prince was confused. He had been working so hard in the Shangshufang just to wait for this day, so how could he allow himself to be stood up by Lin Yan?

"Last time you promised to teach me how to be a bamboo man who can fight. How can you go back on your word and change your mind just like that?"

Old Thirteen, with his mouth pouted, sat down on the white marble steps of the Crescent Moon Courtyard with a sullen look on his face, not caring about his image, as if to say that if anyone wants to pass through this road, they must satisfy my request.

"Did I say that?" Lin Yan refused to admit it.

Zhao Yuan was looking at the account book in the study and listening to the report from Manager Xiong. He became more and more restless.

"Oh my god, she's so bold!" Zhao Yuan was so shocked that he drank all the water in the bowl without even noticing it. He picked up the empty bowl and started drinking.

Manager Xiong wanted to remind them, but he didn't dare to, so he could only worry.

Zhao Yuan tried hard to control his expression: "Well done! You can go down first!"

During the time he was away from the capital, the cake shop actually made money from all the wealthy circles in the capital. Custom-made cakes started at two hundred taels and there was no upper limit.

She also took part in Lao Ba's wedding banquet, and earned 50,000 taels from this alone.

I had thought that business would be booming only for those few days, but I didn't expect that in more than four months, the amount on the account would reach as much as one million taels.

The prince must have smelled something with his dog nose, and maybe the other brothers also smelled something, so one or two of them came to my house to pay New Year's greetings even though they knew they wouldn't be there on New Year's Day.

The New Year's greetings were fake, and the real purpose was to test A Yan's background.

It seemed that I had underestimated A Yan. No wonder she dared to put forward conditions to me and wanted to be my subordinate.

If the people in the Ministry of Revenue had abilities like hers, they would be extremely wealthy within three years.

It is indeed necessary to reposition Ayan and reconsider what the next step should be that will be most profitable for her.

"Are you sure?" Lin Yan was horrified.

Old Thirteen nodded vigorously, looking like he was willing to go through fire and water for fun.

So: he deceived the gatekeeper and quietly slipped along the wall into the courtyard outside Zhao Yuan's study.

Start working on the Xiangfei bamboo inside.

You know, this bunch of Xiangfei bamboo is Zhao Yuan’s treasure. The climate in the north is cold, and the heat-loving Xiangfei bamboo cannot survive the winter.

A rustling sound came into Zhao Yuan's ears. He didn't pay attention to it at first, but suddenly he saw his beloved Xiangfei bamboo swaying without wind and leaves falling.

Zhao Yuan put down the account book and jumped out of the window. He saw Old Thirteen struggling with a Xiangfei bamboo. There was only a little bit left, and he pulled the bamboo up.

"Do you need help?" Zhao Yuan asked coldly.

"Of course..." Old Thirteen replied in a panic. He turned around and saw: "Haha! Third brother! I didn't expect you to be at home."

"Fortunately I'm at home, otherwise when I come back, you would have destroyed them all!" Zhao Yuan's face turned pale. Is it easy for him to grow such a small amount of bamboo?

"I'll just take one! Can't you be so stingy?" As he was speaking, the Xiangfei bamboo that had been unable to be untied just now suddenly broke into pieces.

"Third brother, take your time! I'm leaving first!" Old Thirteen was quick-witted and grabbed the broken bamboo and ran away.

Zhao Yuan really wanted to slap him to death. You little bastard, you have brought trouble to my yard. You are not welcome to come here anymore.

"How do you guard the yard?" Zhao Yuan looked at Martin with a grim face.

Martin's legs trembled, and he knelt straight down: "The Thirteenth Prince said that he would never disturb you, he just wanted to stroll around the courtyard. I didn't expect that he would..."

"Go find Chief Steward Zhai to receive your punishment. Thirteenth Prince, where did you go with the bamboo?" Zhao Yuan asked.

"Crescent Moon Courtyard..." Martin responded tremblingly.

"Xianyue Courtyard..." Zhao Yuan frowned. There was no good thing going on if the two of them got together with A'Yan... He also walked towards Xianyue Courtyard.

"Ayan, I got it!" Old Thirteen shouted excitedly.

Plop, my feet slipped.

"Ouch! Your dog-eating-shit movements are too ungraceful. It's unbecoming of a prince." Lin Yan felt pain in his knees. He couldn't bear to look straight at it, so he grinned and tilted his head slightly.

Old Thirteen grimaced in pain, wanting to cry but unable to. "Here, considering that I paid so much, if it's not fun, I'll give you away."

"It has nothing to do with me. Since you said so, I'll give you one hundred taels. Otherwise, you can sue me! Anyway, the bamboo is in your hands now. I didn't move at all in my own yard." Lin Yan curled her lips. She was not someone who could be scared.

Old Thirteen felt wronged, wiped away the tears in his eyes, and took out a banknote from his pocket: "Here!"

"That's better!" Lin Yan put the banknotes into her sleeve without any hesitation.

"Axia, come here and cut the bamboo into one longer piece and eight shorter pieces, about this length!" Lin Yan instructed the maid and handed her the prepared dimensions.

“Be careful, if you break it, it will be gone.” Old Thirteen wiped his tears, rubbed his hands eagerly, and stared anxiously.

"Yes!"

Zhao Yuan looked at the crowd in the yard from afar. They were squatting in a circle with three layers inside and three layers outside. "What are they doing? Did they steal a bamboo from me?"

"Then drill a pair of small holes in these bamboo sections; put two copper plates on the bottom as feet; finally, use thread to string together the limbs, and the bamboo man is ready." Lin Yan directed, watching the bamboo man take shape.

"Aha!" Old Thirteen looked at the bamboo man in his hand and saw that he could move freely, and excitedly wanted to snatch it from Lin Yan's hand.

Lin Yan raised it high! "Let's make it clear first..."

The Thirteenth Elder kept nodding his head and ceding land and paying compensation. Zhao Yuan's face turned pale, then red, and then purple. He was no longer angry about the bamboo. He finally understood how Lin Yan earned tens of thousands of taels from the Eighth Elder.

"Does one need to be shameless to be invincible? Alas!" Zhao Yuan didn't expect Lin Yan to be so interesting in private. She was completely different from the person she was in front of him. He couldn't help but feel a little jealous of Old Thirteen.

Old Thirteen couldn't wait any longer and pounced on him. Zhao Yuan's face turned black and he hugged Lin Yan and moved her to a far place.

It was only then that everyone reacted, and except for the two main people, everyone else immediately scattered.

"Haha, Third Brother, have you finished your official business?" Old Thirteen touched his nose and approached Lin Yan.

Lin Yan stopped teasing him and threw the bamboo man over.

Old Thirteen had just received it and hadn't had time to play with it when Zhao Yuan coldly ordered, "Bring it here so I can see it!"

Old Thirteen had no choice but to take the old woman's small steps and handed it over reluctantly, his eyes following the movement of the bamboo man.

"Are there any other ways to play?" Zhao Yuan took the bamboo man in his hand and played with it for a while. It was indeed a rare and fun thing.

Lin Yan nodded: "Make a few more and put them on the stools with gaps. You can use the bamboo figures to fight each other! Just like the martial artists fighting on the stage."

Zhao Yuan frowned. This...

Lin Yan tightly grasped the banknotes in her sleeves and stepped back, back, and back again. She hoped that the duck in her hand would not fly away again!

As long as Zhao Yuan found out, he would be intercepted immediately. His ability to intercept was obvious to all.

Unfortunately, the opposite happened. Zhao Yuan stretched out his arms and Lin Yan was lifted up like a swallow.

Lin Yan could only stand there pitifully motionless.

The Thirteenth Old Man opened his mouth but said nothing in the end. After all, he had stolen this raw material from his third brother. If he had known this earlier, he would not have taken the trouble. There were plenty of them in the Prince's Mansion. He could just go there and grab one!

"Show me!" Zhao Yuan put the bamboo figure in his hand into Lin Yan's hand.

Lin Yan sighed in her heart, and nodded with a smile! "Hehehehe..." The bamboo man seemed to come alive in Lin Yan's hands, chopping, hitting, turning... He wielded the sword in a very professional manner

Old Thirteen couldn't help clapping and cheering as he stood aside, while Zhao Yuan was stunned!

"Fighting is more interesting!" Lin Yan shrugged and smiled. Not knowing who to give the bamboo man to, she hesitated for a moment, and finally gave it to Old Thirteen, and deliberately raised her eyebrows at him.

Old Thirteen was smart. As soon as he got it, he turned around and ran away: "Third brother, I have something to do. I will come to your house another day. A Yan, goodbye!" As soon as he finished speaking, he disappeared.

Lin Yan breathed a sigh of relief, turned around without hesitation and strode back into the house.

"Eh!"

Lin Yan was dragged up again. In order to keep her banknotes, she immediately flattered him: "Your Majesty, you are the most heroic and dignified person in the world."

Zhao Yuan just stared at her coldly. He wanted to be angry, but Lin Yan's praise made his already complicated mood even more complicated. It seemed that he really didn't understand her at all.

Lin Yan felt more and more frightened as Zhao Yuan stared at her. If she had known earlier, she would have killed her fellow Taoist rather than herself, so as to prevent Old Thirteen from escaping.

After thinking for a while, he said in a low voice: "That prince, there are three things that people cannot wait for!"

"Hmph! Weren't you having a lot of fun just now? Why are you so anxious now?" Zhao Yuan snorted coldly, but let go of his hand.

Lin Yan didn't say anything more. Now was not the time to continue negotiating, so she shut up and left quickly.

Zhao Yuan looked at the receding figure and smiled. Ah Yan was simply his great treasure!

He walked around the bathroom and hid the banknotes in his sleeves. He patted his chest and said, "It's not bad! I hope he doesn't know! I'll find a way to get out and hide all my savings in my own courtyard outside."

Zhai Zongguan helped him buy a small courtyard, and he bought a loyal and honest old widow to look after the house. He held his indenture in his hand, so he was not afraid that he would be unfaithful.

Zhao Yuanfan's mental illness is getting worse and worse, and he must find a way to leave as soon as possible. Otherwise, when his heart is broken, even if he leaves, his body and mind will be hurt, and then it will be a bit of a loss.

He lingered in the bathroom, listening to the noises in the room.

So quiet! Zhao Yuan should have left! Lin Yan was a little uncertain, so she would just wash her hands and play with them, washing her fingers one by one slowly, and then she started playing with them.

"Master, if you don't go out now, there will be no water in the bathroom." Green Tea said with a bitter face.

"Oh!" Lin Yan had no choice but to go out and face it.

Looking left and right, there was no sign of Zhao Yuan in the room. Lin Yan smiled and thought that if she had known this, she would not have stayed in the bathroom.

"Green Tea, go and find out where the prince has gone?" Lin Yan ordered.

"What do you want from me? Haven't you been trying to avoid me?" Zhao Yuan's voice sounded like a ghost from behind Lin Yan.

"Oh my god!" Lin Yan was startled. She jumped up suddenly and hit her legs on the stool.

"pain!"

"I am a thief with a guilty conscience, why should you be guilty?" Although Zhao Yuan said this, he walked over, picked up Lin Yan, and gently rubbed her legs.