Ye Youlan's daily life of traveling through time

Chen Xiaoling smiled: "Ye Youlan, you are really smart."

"Don't worry, the store will keep statistics. Anyone who mentions your name will get a 15% discount. We'll give you a commission based on sales. Everyone will make money if we can, and it would be a waste if we don't."

Qin Yurou sighed and said, "My family's silk shop is about to close. Youlan, could you lend me your brain and help me think of some way to revive it?"

Ye Youlan asked Qin Yurou solemnly, "Is that silk shop owned by the Li family or the Qin family?"

Everyone looked at Ye Youlan in confusion. What's the difference?

"If it's from the Qin family, I'll find a way. If it's from the Li family, I'll pretend I don't know."

"why?"

Ye Youlan answered seriously, "Li Da has plotted against my father several times. Last time, he even had a fight with my father, causing him to lose three months' salary."

Qin Yurou defended her: "Li Zong's father even lost two teeth!"

Everyone laughed, thinking that as long as the conflicts among the elders did not affect their friendship, it was fine.

Qin Yurou didn't mention it again, and everyone knew that the silk shop belonged to the Li family.

The sisters chatted and laughed all afternoon before leaving.

When Ye Youlan went back to her room to lie down and rest, Xiaomei came in and told her that Uncle Zhong, the manager of the country farm, had come and brought a lot of scented tea. Because it was the New Year, she almost forgot about it.

Ye Youlan thought of this, she got up and went to the front hall, where she saw several loads of scented tea. She went forward, touched it and smelled it, and it was very fragrant and clean.

She asked Uncle Zhong what the approximate cost was from picking to making scented tea.

Uncle Zhong said it was about ten taels of silver.

Ye Youlan asked Xiaomei to give twenty taels of silver to Uncle Zhong.

Uncle Zhong waved his hand quickly: "Princess, have you forgotten? You gave me twenty taels of silver last time, and it hasn't been used up yet."

"Uncle Zhong, take this money and double their wages. Put the remaining profits in the farm's account and give it to Mother at the end of the year. Also, remind them to keep the petals intact next time they pick them, so that the scented tea they brew will look good. The farm is so big, you can plant some hawthorn trees and pepper trees, and raise some chickens and ducks under the trees!"

Uncle Zhong went back happily.

Xiaomei asked the princess, there is so much scented tea that no matter how many people there are in the palace, they can’t drink it all!

Ye Youlan asked Xiaomei to ask someone to go to the market to buy some rock sugar, wolfberry and hawthorn slices, and then asked the embroiderer to sew some tea bags, embroidering some flowers on the kudzu with colored threads, embroidering roses for rose tea and chrysanthemums for chrysanthemum tea, and then put rock sugar, wolfberry, hawthorn and flower tea in each tea bag, and send them to restaurants, teahouses and rouge and powder shops, each bag costing 500 wen, and then advertised them in the Beijing Women's Tabloid.

Xiaomei happily went to make arrangements.

Ye Youlan was no longer sleepy at this time. Seeing that the Seventh Prince had not returned, she went to the desk to draw again. She cut the rice paper into the size of A4 paper, divided it into four grids, and made a simple drawing every day to record her life. The content of one month was enough to bind into a book, which she put in the cabinet under the dressing table, and put the key in a corner of the wardrobe.

Li Zong returned with a promotion, and for several days he treated his colleagues to meals and drinks, boasting about his work in the Chubei disaster relief effort. Chen Suxiao asked if he could be transferred to the Ministry of Works next time. Spring was about to begin, and they needed talent like him for new water conservancy projects, field leveling, and drainage canal renovations.

Li Zong quickly waved his hands: "The Hanlin Academy also needs me."

Zhao Biao asked Li Zong, "Before the Seventh Prince arrived, you couldn't advance. But once he arrived, the situation changed. What does this mean? It means the Seventh Prince is more powerful."

Li Zong said awkwardly, "Of course the Seventh Prince is powerful. He offered tens of thousands of taels of silver to buy grain at a high price. If I had that much money, I could do the same. Compared to him, what I lack is silver."

"However, I heard that it was the princess who proposed purchasing grain at a high price. The princess is really smart."

Li Zong was surprised: "The princess went there too? How come I didn't know?"

Chen Su smiled: "Do I need to tell you where the princess is going?"

Everyone laughed, and Li Zong felt a little embarrassed. He had never known that the princess had gone with the Seventh Prince. Even after he came back, Qin Yurou did not mention it. It turned out that the package that Yurou brought was brought by Ye Youlan. He thought that Yurou had asked someone to deliver it alone.

He felt a little uncomfortable. If Ye Youlan could go with the Seventh Prince, why couldn't Qin Yurou? Was taking care of the affairs of the mansion more important than him?

Li Zong returned home slightly drunk and went to the Buddhist temple to pay his respects to his mother. Madam Li seemed indifferent and said that as long as he returned safely, she would be glad and asked him to go back and rest.

Li Zong suddenly felt aggrieved. He sat down on the ground and looked up at Madam Li: "Mother, I've been in Chubei for two months, and you haven't written me a single letter. Am I still your biological son?"

Madam Li sneered, "Your father has a woman outside. You clearly know this, but have you ever spoken up for me? I live a miserable life in this house every day. Have you ever cared about me? Did you write me a letter when you went to Chubei? I love you because you are my son, and I hate you because you are Li Da's son."

Li Zong stared at his mother blankly, as if he were a stranger. He suddenly understood a question that had puzzled him for a long time. That was why his mother treated him differently from childhood to adulthood, sometimes good and sometimes bad, sometimes gentle and kind, and sometimes cold and ruthless. It was because his mother did not like his father, and even hated him.

He went to the Prime Minister's residence, where the Prime Minister and his wife supported each other, while his own father and mother were strangers like neighbors, and sometimes even like enemies. He had approached Ye Youlan before, not only to please her, but also because he liked the family atmosphere of the Ye family.

Li Zong stood up and sat on a chair nearby: "Mom, you hate father, then why did you marry him, and why did you give birth to me?"

Madam Li was unable to answer. This was a lifelong shame for her. She had come to the palace with good intentions to accompany the Queen, a friend who was just a handkerchief. She had never expected that she would be framed by the Queen and lose her innocence without even knowing that the Emperor had feelings for her.

When the late emperor arranged for her to marry Li Da, she felt extremely guilty towards Li Da. She humbly tried to please Li Da and even chose a concubine for him. It was not until the birth of her child that she learned the truth: the person who slandered her innocence was Li Da. She collapsed!

She had gone crazy and made a fuss, and tried to compromise, but in the end she could not deceive herself. The Li Mansion was a prison to her. She lived to see her good sister, the high and mighty empress dowager, fall from the altar and be punished.

The half jade pendant in her hand was actually customized by the empress dowager before she entered the palace. It was said that if the two had children in the future, they could become relatives, and the jade pendant would be a token of trust.

It was she who asked someone to throw a rat into Li Da's concubine's room, and it was she who asked someone to spread the news that Li Da slept with her personal maid Qiuhong. She once thought of poisoning Li Da to death, so that they would die together, but she was unwilling to see the empress dowager being punished.

Mrs. Li's face was calm. "I hope you won't be as selfish as your father. You should treat Yu Rou well. I don't want the tragedy between your father and me to be repeated between you and Yu Rou."