Ye Youlan's daily life of traveling through time

Ye Youlan sat at the table and asked him with a smile, "Are you tired? Why are you frowning? Drinking a bowl of mutton soup to warm yourself up now will make you feel better, right?"

The Seventh Prince took a sip and suddenly choked. Ye Youlan patted his back considerately: "Drink slowly, it's quite hot."

Li Zhi stretched out his hand to speak, but the Seventh Prince glared at him. Xiaomei pulled his sleeve and motioned him to go out.

When they got outside, Li Zhi said, "The prince doesn't like mutton. He ate enough of it at the front. He's going to vomit soon."

Xiaomei was surprised, her round eyes showing confusion: "If you don't like it, just say so. Why force yourself?"

"Didn't the princess ask him to drink it?"

Xiaomei shook her head, thinking that it would be a shame to try to save face.

As soon as he finished speaking, the Seventh Prince came out with a red face, walked quickly downstairs, and then the sound of him vomiting was heard.

"That's it. The princess loves mutton the most."

The Seventh Prince felt much better after vomiting, and then he called Li Zhi, saying that he wanted to take a shower.

Xiaomei called the waiter into the house to clean up, and after the waiter left, Xiaomei quickly opened the window to let in some fresh air.

Ye Youlan stopped him from opening the window in the middle of winter, saying, "Why are you trying to freeze me to death?"

Xiaomei walked around the room, sniffing hard to make sure there was no mutton smell. Then she closed the window and walked over to Ye Youlan and whispered, "The prince doesn't like mutton. He just went out to vomit and now he's going to take a bath. I guess he can't stand the smell of mutton."

Ye Youlan looked confused. He didn't even know that he didn't eat mutton.

"Li Zhi said that the prince got tired of eating mutton while fighting on the front lines."

Ye Youlan suddenly smiled. She raised her arm and smelled it, then asked Xiaomei to smell whether there was any mutton smell on her body.

Xiaomei advised her to take a bath as well.

"Then I will eat mutton when the prince is not at home."

Ye Youlan asked Xiaomei to go to the kitchen and ask for some rice porridge.

When the Seventh Prince re-entered the room, he found Ye Youlan and Xiaomei staring at a bowl of white porridge on the table.

Ye Youlan scooped up some food with a spoon and said, "This is porridge, how can it be called congee?"

Xiaomei frowned and said, "The cook said that the inn can't afford rice now. It's too expensive."

Seeing the Seventh Prince come in, Ye Youlan pushed the porridge in front of him and said, "Drink some rice porridge to nourish your stomach."

Xiaomei went out and closed the door.

Ye Youlan asked the Seventh Prince if he had gained anything from going out today?

The Seventh Prince said seriously, "The first step now is to solve the food problem. The government's surplus grain is only enough for three days of porridge. The price of rice in the market is too high for ordinary people to afford. Even if we don't have a way to buy food from other places, it will be very difficult."

Ye Youlan opened the wardrobe and took out a bundle full of banknotes.

The Seventh Prince asked her what she was doing?

Ye Youlan thought of a plot she had seen in a novel, which she could use.

"If we purchase large quantities of grain at high prices in the name of the government, the rice merchants will see that it's profitable and will find ways to transport grain from other places. Once they receive a certain amount, we will suddenly sell it at a low price, catching them off guard. Then the price of grain will naturally drop."

"Then you will have to pay a lot of silver. This is not a matter of a few hundred taels of silver."

Ye Youlan smiled and said, "I won't lose money. I'll buy it from the rice shop at a high price, and then resell it to the rice shop through middlemen. When the grain from other places comes in continuously, I'll decisively lower the price. I can achieve my goal with just a small fee. However, it will take a lot of money at the beginning, so I came prepared and brought tens of thousands of taels of silver notes. Don't stare at me, you said that all the money in the palace is mine."

The Seventh Prince's eyes were filled with surprise and admiration: "You are truly a female Zhuge Liang. I will listen to you."

Ye Youlan looked at him with a smile: "Since you listen to me, why don't you tell me the truth?"

What truth is the Seventh Prince wondering about?

"You obviously can't eat mutton, why are you trying to be brave?"

The Seventh Prince smiled sheepishly: "I know you like to eat, so I want to eat with you. Didn't you say that you wanted someone to eat, drink and have fun with you? If I can't even eat your favorite mutton, you will be very disappointed."

Ye Youlan was very touched: "In fact, companionship does not mean putting yourself at a disadvantage. We should seek common ground while reserving differences and be honest with each other. Do you understand?"

"I understand. I'm telling you the truth. I ate so much meat on the front lines that I vomited, so I eat lighter now."

Speaking of meat, Ye Youlan had an idea. She asked the Seventh Prince to offer a high reward for the prey, which was also one of the ways to replenish food.

The Seventh Prince asked Li Zhi to go to the county government office to arrange for the purchase of grain and prey at a high price.

Ye Youlan left a will asking Li Zhi to find a reliable accountant so that the money invested would not be wasted. She also asked him to give him the package that Yu Rou had given to Li Zong. She almost forgot about it.

Besides, Li Zong returned to the guest house in the county government office after a busy day. He fell asleep without even eating. He was still woken up by hunger in the middle of the night. He got up to pour tea, but there was not a drop of water in the teapot and only leftover pastries on the table.

He opened the window and felt a chill. He quickly closed it and went to the desk to write a letter to Qin Yuruo. He was hesitant to put pen to paper. He felt that he had a lot to say, but he didn't know what to write.

At this time, there was a knock on the door. He opened the door weakly and saw a servant holding a big bundle, saying that it was sent by his wife.

Li Zong held the bundle and tears fell involuntarily. He put the bundle on the table and opened it. Inside was a letter, a fifty-liang silver note, some cakes and a mink cloak.

Li Zong ate pastries while reading Qin Yurou's letter, which talked about some things in the mansion and reminded him to take care of his health and hoped that he would come back soon.

Li Zong calculated that the silver given by Yu Rou and his father added up to three hundred taels, but in this damn place, he had no time to spend the money, and there was nothing he could buy with the money.

After eating some cakes, he felt stronger. Seeing that his clothes were covered with mud, he rubbed them hard but couldn't get them off. He took out clean clothes from the closet and decided to take a shower.

When he came out, he found that the county government office was brightly lit at night and many people were busy. He was stunned and quickly stopped someone to ask what was going on?

"The Seventh Prince is buying food and prey at high prices. Everyone is cleaning the warehouse. The food will be stored at dawn tomorrow."

Li Zong shook his head slightly and said disdainfully, "It's impossible to buy food even at a high price in this heavy snow!"

The yamen runner ignored him and walked away. Li Zong went to the bathroom, but there was no hot water. He shouted a few times, but no one responded.

He was about to go back to his room in frustration when suddenly County Magistrate Zhang came from the corridor. Li Zong nodded slightly. In terms of official rank, he was still higher than the county magistrate, but he listened to his father's teachings and kept a low profile, so everyone here thought he was an attendant of Lord Zheng.