The Second Sister of a Farmer's Family's Path to Imperial Destiny

A simple horse-drawn carriage slowly drove into Guojia Village.

This was the time when all the villagers were sitting at the entrance of the village, picking vegetables and chatting.

"Who is this carriage for?"

"Should we go find the head of the village? Doesn't the head of the village have relatives in the county town?"

"Yes, yes, yes. I seem to remember that there was a cousin who married into the county magistrate's family."

The head of the village, his wife, was naturally here as well, and heard everyone talking about their family.

How could she not know where that so-called cousin was married? She was married to the county magistrate's clerk, so there was no way she could have such great power.

Looking at the wind chimes swaying in the carriage, I had a guess in my mind.

"Hey! Those are all old things. My cousin hasn't replied to my letter for a long time." The headman's wife tried to attract the villagers' attention to herself.

Sure enough, as soon as this sentence was uttered, everyone looked over.

"Even if the bones are broken, the tendons are still connected. We will definitely be able to keep in touch if anything happens in the future." Aunt Guo joked loudly.

"Hey, let's talk about this carriage. Have you heard of Rufangzhai? This carriage seems to belong to Rufangzhai."

When Aunt Guo heard this, she thought, isn’t this the restaurant that was co-operated with that dead girl? It’s really a sin that such wealth and honor could belong to that dead girl’s family.

"How could I not have heard of this!"

"It's just..."

"I heard that Guo Erya's family has cooperated with Rufangzhai, and recently..."

Aunt Guo’s face became increasingly darker.

……

"Boss, we're here." Xiaoyue was already familiar with the route, she had been here several times.

But this time, the carriage we rode in was really bumpy. I couldn’t imagine how bumpy it must have been for the shopkeeper sitting in the carriage.

Mo Feifei felt like vomiting from the shaking. To be honest, even the road back to her hometown was not so bumpy.

She walked down with Xiaoyue's help and stood up to calm herself down.

At this time, Sidan happened to come out and saw Mo Feifei standing at the door of his house. He asked, "Are you the owner of Rufangzhai?"

He had seen this shopkeeper before. When he was taken away by a beggar, it was this shopkeeper who helped him find his way back. The shopkeeper this time looked a little like he did back then, but his demeanor seemed even more extraordinary.

"That's right, I want to talk to your sister about something. Is your sister at home?" Mo Feifei took a break and felt much better.

Sidan nodded and led Mo Feifei into the house, but he still felt a little embarrassed to see the owner of such a big restaurant coming to his thatched hut, as if he was showing his shabby self to others.

Mo Feifei looked at the child in front of her. It seemed that the child had already reached the age to attend a private school. However, this farm family did not have much money to send the child to a private school, and they needed the child to help with work.

But there are only children in Guo Xin's family, no adults.

"Shopkeeper, my family is not well off, please make do with me." Sidan scratched his hands embarrassedly, his face had already turned red like a ripe red apple, "I'll go call my sister over."

"It's okay." Mo Feifei looked at the shabby tables and stools. The only relatively new things were the four beds and the newly made thick quilts.

This should be made of the warm cotton he bought after earning money here.

After all, it is important to survive the winter.

"Fei Fei? Why are you here?" Guo Xin looked at the woman standing in the room. Today she did not look like the owner of a restaurant. Her whole demeanor was elegant and luxurious.

"It's because the food you cook is so delicious. Someone asked me to discuss a business deal with you." Mo Feifei sat on the low stool with Guo Xin, took a sip of water, and her gorgeous clothes fell to the yellow ground.

Xiao Yue was stunned watching from the side. Since she followed the shopkeeper, she had never seen him adapt to the local customs so well. He really was willing to sacrifice himself for His Highness.

Guo Xin tilted his head to look at Mo Feifei, wondering what kind of business was worth Mo Feifei's trip to his place.

"You've been doing business with me for so long, I think you should have guessed that I'm not a lowly person, right?"

Guo Xin nodded. This was obvious at a glance, not to mention that she had specially dressed so luxuriously today and her demeanor was no longer reserved.

"As for me, I am also working for my master. I always present the food you sent to him. This time, the spicy rabbit meat really touched his heart, so he wants to invite you to be a cook in his house."

Mo Feifei looked at Guo Xin's expression and saw that Guo Xin looked calm, as if unmoved.

"If you agree to be a cook, you can name your own price."

It is impossible not to be tempted. The price is whatever you want, and you don’t have to worry about your livelihood. But living under someone else’s roof is not what you want after all, you have a whole family to support.

If I were alone, I would definitely go, but not now. We have a whole family here. I can't be a cook and bring the whole family to work for someone else in their mansion.

Although there are such situations, that would be selling oneself into slavery. There is no need for me to go this far.

"I'm sorry, Feifei, I really can't agree to this." Guo Xin looked at Mo Feifei in embarrassment.

"I didn't think you could agree to this condition." Mo Feifei smiled faintly, with some admiration in her eyes. If she bowed down and became a cook for a nobleman just for money, then she would not be the Guo Xin she knew.

"I have another idea here that I think you might be interested in."

"Then please tell me in detail, shopkeeper."

"The shopkeeper's brother should be old enough to be sent to a private school, right?"

Guo Xin was a little surprised. She didn't expect that Mo Feifei would even notice this. She just didn't know what conditions she offered.

"If Xin'er agrees to work as a cook in the master's house for two days out of ten, I will not only offer a monthly salary of twenty taels of silver, but I will also send your brother to the best private school in the area, all expenses covered."

Mo Feifei looked at Guo Xin steadily at this moment, with determination in her eyes. She didn't believe that Guo Xin would not be tempted by this condition. Being a scholar, farmer, merchant or artisan, and becoming an official through imperial examination is the dream of many people.

What's more, connections and money are both indispensable for the imperial examination, and being a cook already has both.

Guo Xin looked at Mo Feifei. Her conditions were indeed tempting. Although he had long thought of sending Sidan to a private school, he had no money and no connections, so he could not get into a good private school.

"Okay! I agree, but I don't know where your mansion is?"

"Suining City."

The distance is not too far, but I still need some time to clean up the house as I have a lot of things to do at home.

"Then Feifei, can you give me some time? I have been having a lot of things to do at home lately."

"Then give me another month." After Mo Feifei said that, she thought about the fact that she seemed to have sold out her taro chips before, and later she changed to buying taro with money. However, the price of taro chips made from taro seemed to double again, but Guo Xin seemed to have never come to talk to her.

Now that the deal has been finalized, I can also help her raise the price of taro chips.

"Xin'er, are you going to raise the price of these taro chips?"

"I was just thinking of talking to you about this in a few days." Guo Xin paused after she finished speaking. To be honest, she hadn't decided on the price yet, but since others had mentioned it, she couldn't just ignore it.

"It's like this. I'm charging ten coins per pound for taro slices, and the labor cost is one hundred coins a day. The cost is quite high."

As he spoke, he calculated in his mind that now on average he could harvest about a hundred pounds a day, and the taro alone would cost twenty cents, not including the labor costs.

"Fifty cents a pound, okay?"

Mo Feifei also calculated that this price was just right, and she didn't sell it by kilogram. At worst, she could sell fewer plates in the future and set a higher price. She would still make some profit.

"Okay! Then I'll go back and draw up a new contract and have Xiaoyue send it over."