The villain and the powerful official secretly read the diary and broke my plot every day

"Drink some hot water."

When Gu Yanqing came back after boiling the water, Jiang Jiang was sitting obediently on the chair in the small room, staring blankly.

Seeing Gu Yanqing's figure, Jiang Jiang immediately smiled and thanked him: "Master Yan, thank you so much today."

"We are friends, you're welcome."

Gu Yanqing smiled and handed the cup of water to Jiang Jiang.

The water was a little hot, so Jiang Jiang didn't drink it immediately. She looked up at the man in front of her. His hair and shoulders were wet.

"How about you go change clothes first?"

Jiang Jiang suggested.

Gu Yanqing was stunned for a moment, but did not move.

"Um...how about I go over there first?" Jiang Jiang then remembered that this room was too small. There was so little space and not even a screen.

Changing clothes is a bit inconvenient.

As Jiang Jiang spoke, she had already turned around, facing the door with her back to Gu Yanqing.

After a few breaths, there was indeed a slight noise behind her, the sound of changing clothes.

Jiang Jiang stared at the gate, silently muttering in his heart -

I don't look back, I don't want to look.

I don't look back, I don't want to look.

"All right."

When Jiang Jiang recited it silently for the tenth time, Gu Yanqing had changed his clothes and appeared in front of her again.

Jiang Jiang leaned sideways to look at the robe on Gu Yanqing. It was the same robe that Gu Yanqing was wearing when they first met.

Hey.

He was indeed so poor that he couldn't even afford new clothes.

"Is there anything wrong with my clothes?" Seeing Jiang Jiang staring at her clothes, Gu Yanqing was a little confused.

This bookstore and this room were carefully decorated by him, so there should be no flaws.

Is there something wrong with this dress?

"Nothing, you look nice in it."

Jiang Jiang flashed a big smile at Gu Yanqing, then changed the subject: "By the way, how much do you make every month in this bookstore? I see you buy so many medicinal herbs. Is there any money left after buying the medicine?"

"The bookstore business has been bad recently, and I haven't copied many books by hand, so I don't make much money every month. But in my spare time, I can help others write letters home, or do other odd jobs. All together, I can earn about three or four taels of silver a month, which is enough for me to spend. As for medicinal herbs... I only buy some medicine and boil it myself when my old illness comes back." Gu Yanqing had already thought of his words and answered fluently.

More than three taels of silver a month is an ordinary income in the capital. No wonder he lives such a poor life alone.

"Life in the capital is indeed not easy. You don't plan to return to Hezhou? Then...what about your family?"

Jiang Jiang spoke hesitantly. She had never known the details of this Mr. Yan, so she took the opportunity to find out.

"I have no relatives in Hezhou..."

Gu Yanqing lowered his eyes and his voice became low: "I will never go back."

He is... an orphan?

No family or reason?

Somehow, Jiang Jiang thought of himself in his previous life——

In her previous life, she studied hard and worked hard just to live a decent life.

Of course, due to her limited IQ, she did not get into a 985 university, nor did she become an enviable academic master or elite.

But that's reality, isn't it?

In this world, most people are mediocre.

Just like Master Yan in front of us, he left his hometown, failed the exams many times, and finally had to live in the capital, making a living by copying books.

At this moment, Jiang Jiang seemed to have found a resonance in Master Yan.

She rolled her eyes and suddenly said, "How about you help me work in the future and I'll support you... er, I mean I'll pay you wages, how about that?"

"Help you? What for?" Gu Yanqing looked at her suspiciously when he heard Jiang Jiang's words.

"I have a lot of big businesses, but I'm still short of manpower." Jiang Jiang said mysteriously in a low voice, as if he was afraid of being overheard.

Jiang Jiang had thought about this before. She couldn't just sit there and do nothing with her more than one thousand taels of silver. She had to find a way to make money.

Recently, she had been filtering the plot of this novel world over and over in her mind. She originally wanted to find more spoilers to write in her diary to earn rewards, but she accidentally discovered a new business opportunity through Jiang Jiang.

It doesn’t matter if the heroine’s business empire is gone.

As a woman holding a script, there is always a chance to get the wool from the plot master.

In the original plot, on the seventh day of the eighth month in the third year of Jianping, a drought thunder will strike the city of Sanfeng in the north of Zhongzhou, and that terrifying thunder will happen to strike the warehouse of the largest trading company in Sanfeng City, which is full of this year's newly harvested cotton!

The lightning caused a fire and all the cotton in the warehouse was burned.

The cotton production of Sanfeng City accounts for 60% of the total production of the entire Qingyun Kingdom. After the incident in Sanfeng City, cotton prices soared across the country. At the highest point, the increase was nearly ten times the original price!

In the capital of Qingyun Kingdom, winter comes at the end of October every year. Winter is long and cold, and people need warm clothes. Ordinary people may not be able to afford cotton and can only wear clothes made of double-layered clothes or silk cotton. However, the rich and officials need to buy many new cotton clothes every year, especially the soldiers on the border. Cotton clothes are their indispensable military supplies.

Liu Cheng'an will lead the Liu family army back to the border to garrison in September this year, but winter cotton clothes have become a big problem.

The Imperial Astronomical Bureau defined drought thunder as an ominous sign, believing that the new policies implemented by Emperor Jianping and Gu Yanqing had caused the displeasure of the heavens, and that many in the court would seize the opportunity to cause trouble...

On the one hand, the nobles sold cotton at high prices and made a fortune.

On the other hand, Emperor Jianping and Gu Yanqing spent a large amount of silver from the national treasury to purchase cotton to make warm cotton clothes for the soldiers.

Gu Yanqing had clearly tried his best, but in the end, he was still labeled a traitor.

This was also a turning point in the conflict between him and the aristocratic group in the court.

When seeing this plot, Jiang Jiang expressed that she felt very sympathetic towards Gu Yanqing.

Gu Xiang is so miserable in this novel world——

He did all the hard work. In Gu Yanqing's short life, he spent 90% of his time serving the country and the people.

Only that last 10% did he want to do something for his sister.

He is not a saint, he also has selfish desires.

However, it was because of this selfishness that he became a person despised by the whole world.

At the end of the story, everyone only remembers that the hero and heroine were happily together, while the villain's family died a miserable death.

In this world, no one remembers how much effort Gu Yanqing had put into this dynasty and the people of this country...

Jiang Jiang's eyes were complicated. She put away her messy thoughts and looked up at the person in front of her: "How about it, are you willing to come over and help me?"

Jiang Jiang's current thoughts were very simple. She couldn't stop the divine thunder from falling from the sky, nor did she have the ability to communicate and warn the people of Sanfeng City, thousands of miles away, in advance. She also didn't want to be caught as a monster by others.

She just wanted to take the opportunity to make a little money. Since the price of cotton will soar in the future, she can start buying last year's cotton stock now!

Cotton is a luxury product in this era and is unaffordable for the general public. However, as the weather gradually warms up in spring, the price of cotton that was not sold last year will gradually drop with temperature changes and the arrival of new cotton. This is a great time to buy at the bottom.

Of course, to harvest cotton in the capital, you need manpower and someone who is familiar with the prices in the capital.

But now there is no one available around Jiang Jiang.

Maybe, we can give this person in front of us a try?