After Wang Jinming left, Qi Yun took Xiao Tao out as well, leaving only Xiao Yibai and Mu Xiyue in the main hall.

Mu Xiyue held her cheek and asked with a playful smile: "Xiao Yibai, I only agreed to get along with you for a while. When did I become your fiancée?"

Xiao Yibai picked up the teapot and refilled Mu Xiyue's cup with tea. He chuckled and said, "I hope so. I've decided on you and I won't change my mind for the rest of my life, unless you don't want me anymore. Yueyue, are you a little moved by me?"

Mu Xiyue tilted her head and thought for a moment, then said, "It seems like there's a little bit. Keep working hard!"

Xiao Yibai suddenly smiled happily. He stood up and walked to Mu Xiyue with open arms. "Can I hug you? I've wanted to hug you for a long time."

Mu Xiyue was still sitting and didn't stand up. She leaned forward, put her arms around his waist, and buried her head in his chest.

"Your heartbeat is a little fast!"

Mu Xiyue was never pretentious. During these days of getting along with Xiao Yibai, she felt that he was very warm and caring. It was impossible for her not to be moved. She thought she really liked him.

Xiao Yibai hugged the person, feeling very satisfied. He didn't dare to act rashly. He just hugged her gently for a while and then let go. He squatted down and looked Mu Xiyue in the eye.

"Yueyue, thank you for giving me the chance."

On the morning of the second day, Mu Xiyue and Xiao Yibai were in a small town ten miles away from Yunyou City.

This small town was quite affluent, and the streets were bustling with activity. It was close to the capital, and the local architectural style and living habits were similar to those of the capital. Xiao Yibai took Mu Xiyue for a casual tour, and since it was close to the imperial city, there wouldn't be any major problems.

The case of Wang Jinming's nephew was being followed up by secret guards, so Xiao Yibai and Mu Xiyue stopped hanging around and continued on to the next place in the afternoon.

When it got dark, the group finally arrived at a place called Funiu Town, which was also under the jurisdiction of Yunyou City and was a day and a half's journey from Xitongzhou.

The secret guards had already found an inn in the town in advance, and the few of them could check in as soon as they arrived.

The secret guards who stayed in Yunyou City at night also arrived. Wang Jinming's nephew Li Zi had abducted women and even raped and killed several in recent years. In order to show Xiao Yibai that he would enforce the law impartially, Wang Jinming held a public trial of Li Zi, and Li Zi was sentenced to immediate execution.

Wang Jinming is still a capable person. How many officials are truly upright? As long as there is no major problem, Xiao Yibai will not remove him from his position, and the matter is settled.

Funiu Town is most famous for its porcelain. There is one official kiln and four private kilns in the town. Needless to say, the porcelain produced by the official kiln are all high-quality products. The price of porcelain from the official kiln is 20% higher than that from the private kilns of the same quality.

One of Mu Xiyue's four shops was a porcelain shop. She handed over those shops directly to the people assigned to her by Xiao Yibai. She was not good at doing business, but since porcelain was produced in abundance here, she wanted to learn about it.

On the second day, Xiao Yibai took her to visit all five porcelain kilns. Mu Xiyue felt that her brain capacity was too small and she really didn't know much about these business matters.

Coming out of the porcelain kiln, the two walked along the country road. Xiao Yibai chuckled, "You don't need to know so much. I asked Uncle Fu to find someone who is capable of helping you run the shop. You just need to look at the account book."

Mu Xiyue doesn't dwell on trivial matters, and she is too lazy to learn things she doesn't understand.

Suddenly, Mu Xiyue spotted a few plants in the grass beside the field that looked like rapeseed, the kind used for oil extraction today. Although Mu Xiyue had lived in the city in her previous life, her grandparents were from the countryside. Every spring, the most common sight in the countryside was rapeseed flowers, and she was very familiar with this plant.

It was already the end of April, and the wild rapeseed had already set seeds and matured. Mu Xiyue walked forward and carefully picked the ripe rapeseed and placed it on the handkerchief.

Xiao Yibai was confused, "Yueyue, what is this? What is it for?"

It's normal for a prince not to recognize these plants. "This is rapeseed. I didn't expect rapeseed to exist in this era. Do you use soybean oil or rapeseed oil for cooking in your palace?"

Mu Xiyue had never seen anyone growing rapeseed in Mujia Village, and there was no one selling rapeseed oil in the entire Yun'an County. She only knew that people of this era used either animal oil or soybean oil to cook, and soybean oil was extremely rare.

The people's land is basically used to grow crops, and very few people grow soybeans. Soybean oil is a luxury here, and only rich families use it. Moreover, not all rich families use soybean oil. One reason is that the price of soybean oil is high, and the other is that the amount of soybean oil is small.

Although Xiao Yibai never went into the kitchen, he knew what kind of oil was used for cooking in the palace, because soybean oil was the only edible vegetable oil in Tianqi Kingdom.

"Are you saying that this seed can be used to produce oil? Edible oil? As far as I know, no one in our Tianqi country grows rapeseed, and I've never heard of such a thing as rapeseed oil."

Mu Xiyue was also a little surprised. She thought that there was rapeseed here because people in this town grew rapeseed.

Modern soybean oil has advanced production technology and is essentially beany-free, but the soybean oil of this era had a strong beany smell. Back in Mujia Village, Mu Xiyue couldn't afford soybean oil and used lard for cooking. After arriving in Shangjing, she found soybean oil available in the Marquis' Mansion, but she found it unpalatable. However, consuming too much animal oil wasn't good for her health, either.

In her previous life, there was a rapeseed oil processing workshop in her grandfather's village. The aroma of the oil could be smelled a mile away, and the dishes cooked with it were also delicious. Now that she had discovered rapeseed, she couldn't let it go.

"Are you sure? I won't be mistaken. This is rapeseed. Hurry up and harvest these seeds. I will plant them on the farm next year. Rapeseed oil tastes much better than soybean oil." Mu Xiyue waved to Qiyun and Xiaotao who were far away from them and asked them to come over and harvest the rapeseed together.

Xiao Yibai blew a whistle and called out the six secret guards hiding in the dark, asking them to disperse and search together.

"Yueyue, does the Mujia Village where you used to live grow this kind of rapeseed?"

If you have seeds and want them, just go to Mujia Village and buy some, so you don’t have to look for them here and there.

Mu Xiyue answered casually, "No."

She wanted to say that this was the first time she saw it here, but she swallowed the words back. If it was the first time she saw it, how would she explain how she knew about this plant?

Xiao Yibai really wanted to ask her how she knew that this seed could be used to extract oil, but Mu Xiyue interrupted him before he could open his mouth.

"Xiao Yibai, don't ask me how I know this rapeseed. I don't want to lie to you, but I don't want to answer this question either."

Xiao Yibai was speechless. He knew that Mu Xiyue had a secret. "Okay, I won't ask. I'll wait for the day when you are willing to tell me."

There wasn't much wild rapeseed here. Ten people searched the fields within a two- to three-mile radius along the ridges of the fields, but they only managed to collect about two bowls of rapeseed. Mu Xiyue had grown Chinese cabbage in Mujia Village, so this amount of rapeseed should be enough to plant an acre of land! It looked like we wouldn't have rapeseed oil next year. The rapeseed we grew would have to be used as seed for the year after, so that we would definitely have rapeseed oil.

After returning to the inn in the town, Mu Xiyue put the rapeseed into the space. It seemed necessary to go out for a walk. Look, she found the rapeseed.

Mu Xiyue thought again that there were still many seeds of vegetables, fruits and melons collected during the end of the world in the space, but they were all mutated plants, and she didn't know if they could be grown here. After returning, she must try to grow them on the farm.

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