I was a queen in ancient times, no, a maid!

Lotus went to open the door, muttering to herself, "Taozi went out to ask questions, but it was too quick. He just went out and came back already."

"Young Master, who are you looking for?"

Hehua didn't recognize the person standing outside the door. At first glance, the person had a cold face and looked like someone who was not easy to mess with.

Changfeng's face looked really bad.

But look at the young lady in front of me, one foot is higher than the other, she looks pitiful.

"I'm here to tell your daughter that Kyoto is safe these days, so you should take a break from this business for a while."

The house was not big to begin with, and Cheng Yu could hear voices outside the door, "Brother Changfeng, why are you here?"

Changfeng snorted.

Cheng Yu frowned, "What did I do to make Brother Changfeng unhappy?"

Chang Feng said, "You are amazing. The prince came to see you, but you made him so angry that he vomited blood. He had to lie down for half a month before he recovered. You are so cruel that you didn't even go to see him."

Only then did Cheng Yu realize that she was the one who had done something to hurt the Crown Prince, and that was why Changfeng was angry with her.

"Brother Changfeng, this relationship cannot be forced. I just expressed my concerns, but the prince can't understand it."

"You can't blame me for this."

When he came, he was very angry. When he left, Cheng Yu stuffed him with several bags of food, including a big gift pack of braised food and several bags of cakes.

When he left, he was so happy that he couldn't stop smiling and showed his big white teeth.

Changfeng came on horseback quite quickly and returned just as quickly.

He took the things given by Cheng Yu and brought them to the prince.

"Master, look, these are all given to you by Miss Yu, but this stew is too spicy, it's not suitable for you to eat."

Zhao Shiyan is taking medicine and avoids meat, spicy and sour food.

"How is she?" Zhao Shiyan's face was pale, but his strength had been restored.

Chang Feng said, "It looks like he just came back from the shop. I didn't see many people along the way. I think business is not good, so he went back early."

"Miss Yu is quite smart. She sells braised meat in the shop and roasted sweet potatoes outside."

"My Lord, do you want to eat roasted sweet potatoes?"

Zhao Shiyan glanced over, and Changfeng immediately took out two roasted sweet potatoes and brought them to him.

"Miss Yu personally gave it to the subordinate and said, "Here you go."

Zhao Shiyan snorted, “She wouldn’t say such soft words.”

However, the roasted sweet potato tastes really good and fragrant, which whets everyone's appetite.

Some of the braised food was left behind, and the rest was taken away by Changfeng.

Zhao Shiyan tasted the remaining braised food and found it tasted really good. However, after eating it, he began to have abdominal pain.

People who don’t like spicy food or rarely eat spicy food will experience abdominal pain after eating spicy food.

But he didn't tell anyone and just endured it.

It was the maidservant beside her who noticed something was going on and rushed to the kitchen to make some sweet soup.

But behind his back, he cursed Cheng Yu, the braised food seller.

Cheng Yu didn't know that the prince would eat braised food. That was duck and chicken offal, which were not something that rich people would eat.

If she knew that the prince would eat it, she would specially make some spiced food.

***

Here, Taozi asked a few neighbors, then turned back home and told Cheng Yu.

All the neighbors have paid, so who would dare not pay when the official comes to their house?

"Mrs. Wang next door, Mrs. Wang in the front street, and Miss Hu who sells flower rolls in the back have all paid."

"Only Mr. Li's family didn't pay. No one dared to go to Mr. Li's family."

These days it’s better to have a scholar in the family. You don’t have to pay taxes and you can avoid some minor troubles.

Cheng Yu gave instructions, "Later or tomorrow, if someone comes to collect refugee money, just pay it directly."

Taozi said reluctantly in a low voice, "Two taels at a time, how many days does it take for us to earn two taels? This is not just once, if it really comes three times, that would be six taels."

Cheng Yu remembered that she had stockpiled some flour in order to make pastries. She bought the flour from outside as a cover-up. The pastries she made were basically made with refined flour from the system store.

If Cheng Yu can exchange the money she earned in ancient times in the modern system store, she can also make some money from it.

The price of grain in ancient times was not cheap and the prices were not uniform. Especially now, whenever a disaster occurs, the price of grain will rise.

But modern food prices are unified. Even if there are fluctuations, the fluctuations are small, one or two cents, and the highest is no more than three cents.

Even if you do business from modern times to ancient times, you can make some money.

"There is still a lot of unused flour in the storehouse at home. When the official comes, you can ask him if he wants to replace the silver with grain. If possible, move some away."

"By the way, put the extra ones away specially."

"Now that there is a snowstorm, food is precious."

Taozi said, "That's fine. Miss Yu is doing this because she really cares about the refugees. If these officials come to our house to ask for some food, we will give it to them."

"You ask for money right away, but who knows whose pocket the money will end up in."

Yes, that’s exactly what I said.

But the government is still doing this, collecting refugee money in the capital under the name of the government.

This is most likely true.

As a common citizen, she has no right to interfere in government affairs.

Changfeng came to deliver a message, saying that there was unrest in the city recently and asked her not to open the store for business. Business was not good during this period, so she just closed the store.

The days of leisure at home are really boring.

She didn't dare to enter the house in the system during the day and could only go in at night. The system needed to be updated recently, and the prompt said that she could connect to the Internet after the update.

This is what Cheng Yu has always dreamed of.

It’s good to be connected to the internet. You can watch TV series and watch live broadcasts.

This system was useless at first, but I didn't expect it to be so powerful later on.

Cheng Yu really loves the system now.

The more you disliked it at first, the more you love it now.

It turns out that a system that costs money is good, and the things it gives you have a high happiness index.

In a blink of an eye, it was the end of the year. The streets were bustling for a while during the New Year holidays. Cheng Yu and He Hua made small milk-flavored breads at home and sold them for a few days. Business was pretty good.

Thinking about the New Year, she was thinking about Sister Yan and her eldest daughter Zhao Rulan.

Cheng Yu specially baked some milk-flavored biscuits and steamed buns, and asked Taozi to drive to Prince Jing's Mansion.

Knowing that Cheng Yu had come, Zhao Rulan was very happy.

"Jinxi, don't be in a hurry to leave. I have thought of someone to prepare your grandmother's birthday banquet. I wanted to tell her but I was afraid you would look down on me. Now that you are here and she is here too, I will let Yu'er prepare a few dishes for you to try."

Yang Jinxi was Zhao Rulan's best friend, and the two had a good relationship in the boudoir.

Zhao Rulan lost contact with her after she got married.

Yang Jinxi is not young either, about the same age as Zhao Rulan, and is already twenty years old this year.

Yang Jinxi has a childhood sweetheart, a young general.

Unfortunately, he died on the battlefield and never returned. Yang Jinxi has been waiting for him until now and has never mentioned breaking off the engagement. The Yang family urged him to do so, but he was reluctant to do so because he only had one granddaughter and he loved her very much.

Yang Jinxi's grandmother was of noble status, the daughter of a prince.

In terms of relationship, she and Zhao Rulan are cousins.

This time it was Yang Jinxi's grandmother's birthday, and Yang Jinxi was worried about how to prepare the birthday banquet. He had eaten the food prepared by this famous chef in Kyoto every year, and he was kind of tired of it.

Yang Jinxi mentioned it casually, and Zhao Rulan didn't intend to call Cheng Yu specifically.

But just in time, Cheng Yu came.

Zhao Rulan just said this.

Yang Jinxi chuckled and said, "If you like it, it must be good. Then I will have lunch at your place today."

Zhao Rulan happily asked Dingxiang to call Cheng Yu in.

When Cheng Yu came to Yinlan Garden, she was talking to Zhu'er who came to pick her up.

"Give one portion of cakes and biscuits to Sister Yan, and one portion to the eldest girl. There are also some left. You can share them with everyone. I came here this time because I wanted to meet Sister Yan."

Zhu'er responded.

Just then, she heard Dingxiang calling her from a distance.

"Yu'er, hurry up, the eldest lady is calling you over."

"Sister Dingxiang, what did the young lady call me about? You look so anxious."

Dingxiang said with a smile that a distinguished guest had come to the eldest lady's room and said that he wanted to hold a birthday party for the old lady at home, and the eldest lady wanted you to go.

If this is done well, wouldn’t that mean you have met a noble person?