After traveling through time, she still led the villagers to make money as a county magistrate

Gu Niannian took Prince Qi's hand away and looked at Li Jing. "Can you tell me?"

Li Jing, "This meat recipe was taught to me by my mother."

Prince Qi walked around Li Jing and asked in confusion, "How old is your mother this year?"

Li Jing, "I'm exactly 40 years old this year."

Prince Qi asked, "How about you? How old are you this year?"

"Twenty-two," Li Jing answered truthfully.

Prince Qi looked at the man in front of him and said, "You look a bit like her, especially your eyebrows and eyes, but you are a little older, so the age doesn't match."

"Your Highness, Brother Li's mother doesn't look like the woman in the painting, she's just an ordinary woman. Brother Li doesn't look like his mother at all. But I heard Aunt Wang say that he looks more like his father." Seeing that the prince was about to suspect Aunt Wang, Gu Niannian hurriedly said

Prince Qi said, "It's okay. Let me see her first. If it's not her, I can ask her where she learned it. Then I can trace the origin and find her..."

Seeing that the meeting was unavoidable, Gu Niannian had no choice but to agree.

"Can these surrounding soldiers disperse? We still have to do business," Gu Niannian said.

"I have bought all the crispy pork belly today. We haven't seen each other for a long time. How about we recite poems together and get drunk together?" King Qi said generously with a big wave of his hand.

"Obedience is worse than respect, but I really can't drink much. Can I take Brother Li with me..." Gu Niannian had some memories about Gu Rujun's alcohol tolerance in her original memory, and she could not drink more than two taels of wine at all.

"Alas, when I first met Ranqing, my alcohol tolerance wasn't very good either, and she was basically the one who blocked my drinks. Now that there's no one blocking my drinks, my alcohol tolerance has improved..."

Seeing that Prince Qi always brought up Ye Ranqing no matter what he was discussing, Gu Niannian couldn't help but roll her eyes secretly, "If I had known this would happen, why did I do it in the first place?"

"Your Highness, do you have somewhere to go? If not, come with us to the yamen, and then tonight we'll go to Qingshan County's largest restaurant, Suji, for a drink. How about that?"

Prince Qi, "Why don't you invite me to your house? What am I going to the yamen with you for? To judge a case?"

Gu Niannian, "Of course not, it's just that my mother and I came here to take up the post. Now there is only my mother and a group of servants at home. It is really inconvenient, so I didn't invite you."

"Are you really still a child who hasn't been weaned? Would your father agree to take your old mother with you when you take up your post?"

"My mother was worried about me, so she came with me. Dad naturally agreed. He is not as devoted and infatuated as the prince. He has been looking for her for twenty years." Gu Niannian saw that the prince was laughing at him. It would be against her character not to return her.

Revenge! It’s better to take it on the spot to feel relieved, otherwise after a long time, no one will remember it.

"You!" Prince Qi pointed at Gu Niannian and said with a smile

"Okay! I'll go to the yamen with you, but you must remember to take me to meet County Magistrate Li's mother. I came here to find Ranqing, and I can't be led astray by you kids."

Gu Niannian, "Then we have to ask Brother Li to go back and tell him. After all, I'm just a woman and I need to prepare and dress up to meet the prince, so as not to scare him, right?"

"How about we go to Suji Restaurant tonight? It's the largest restaurant in Qingshan County."

Prince Qi: "You arrange it."

Gu Niannian, "Brother Li, the government office has granted you a day off today. Go back and tell Aunt Wang what happened and ask her to come to the government office for a visit, okay?"

Li Jing: "Yes"

……

When Li Jing got home, he went straight to the kitchen. At this time, the Queen Mother was usually cooking.

Seeing her son come back so early today, Li's mother was surprised and said, "Hey, why did you come back so early today? The food has just been cooked."

Li Jing sat by the stove, skillfully placing firewood on the fire. "Mom, your real name is Ye Ranqing, right?"

Mother Li paused while cooking, then laughed, "Who, whose name is this? You even forgot your mother's name, you really deserve a beating."

Li Jing said, "Mother, at first I couldn't believe I was Prince Qi's son. When he showed me the portrait, others might not have recognized it, but I was with you every day, so how could I not know it was you?"

The Queen Mother put the dishes on the plate and reached out to touch Li Jing's forehead. "You don't have a fever! Why are you talking nonsense? What about Prince Qi, what about the portrait? I don't understand a word you said!"

Li Jing took his hand away from his forehead and said, "Mom, tell me the truth. I just want to know the truth."

Mother Li, "What truth? The truth is that you are my son, and your father is just a butcher. He unfortunately died of illness when I was pregnant with you.

"What's the point of being a prince or not? Are you crazy or hysterical about wanting to be the prince's son?"

Li Jing: "Really not?"

"No, does your mother look like someone the prince would like?" Mother Li patted her face.

Li Jing, "Prince Qi wants to see you, are you willing to go?"

"Just meet him! You are already middle-aged and you are afraid of not meeting people. It's ok if you like your mother and me, then you can become the prince." Mother Li said with a smile

Li Jing said, "I don't want to be a prince. I want you to live the life you want."

Mother Li: "Okay, wait until I finish cooking and we finish eating, then I'll dress up."

……

"I heard that the prince wants to see me." Li's mother hurriedly walked into the yamen from outside.

When King Qi saw the visitor, he frowned with disgust and said, "Are you Li Jing's mother? Why are you dressed like this?"

It's not Qi Wang's fault for disliking her. Seeing Li's mother dressed in red and green, with her face painted like a monkey's butt, and a head full of pearl hairpins, she didn't look like a normal person at all.

"I heard that the prince wants to see me, so I have to dress up. I can't pollute the prince's eyes." Mother Li adjusted the hairpins on her head.

"Who taught you how to make crispy pork belly?" King Qi couldn't bear to look at the colorful woman in front of him, so he asked straight to the point.

If he knew that this person was Ye Ranqing, whom he had been thinking about, he would not be so disgusted.

Mother Li naturally saw the contempt in his eyes and felt a little lonely in her heart. It turned out that men are visual animals. As long as she was not that good-looking, he would not be willing to look at her again.

"How is crispy pork belly made? Your Highness asked how to make it. If you want to eat it, I will make it for you. It will definitely taste the same as that person's." Mother Li said as she came closer to Prince Qi.

King Qi was so frightened that he quickly stood up and backed away, "You woman, just stand there and don't move. If you move forward again, I will put you in jail."

Mother Li snorted and straightened up slightly. "Don't you want to know where the person who taught me how to make crispy pork belly is?"

"That's right, as long as you tell me, I will reward you handsomely." King Qi said, hiding behind a chair.

"Dead" Li's mother waved her handkerchief

"Dead?" Prince Qi fell to the floor.

"Your Highness, the dead cannot be resurrected, please accept my condolences." Gu Niannian hurried forward to support him.

"No, I don't believe it. Where is his grave? Take me there. If he's still alive, I want to see him alive. If he's still alive, I want to see his body." King Qi stumbled to his feet.

"The body has been cremated and the ashes have been scattered in the Qingshui River. If you want to look for it, go to the river!" Li's mother flicked the non-existent dust off her body.

Prince Qi took out the scroll, unfolded it, and handed it to Li's mother, asking, "Is this the person in the painting?"

Li's mother took the scroll and looked at it carefully, "It's this person, such a beautiful woman. This is the first time I see her, I will never forget her."

Prince Qi, "How did she die?"