Gourmet Girl: Becoming a Royal Merchant Started from Selling Buns

Su An blinked, still not coming back to his senses.

Is this over?

Is it that easy? ?

If she had known what Fu Zhun said, why would she have run around outside for most of the day?

She rubbed her aching legs and sighed, "I never thought these businessmen could bribe even the yamen runners. Money really makes the world go round!"

Hearing this, Fu Zhun looked at her, his expression softened, but he shook his head: "I'm afraid it's more than that."

"If you can bribe one, you can bribe the second. This is an internal matter of the county government. Let Lin Yong investigate it himself."

Su An thought of Lin Yong's busy and overwhelmed appearance, and sighed for him in his heart for two seconds.

Perhaps it was because the county magistrate was so impartial that he would spare no effort in investigating and verifying any case of a lost chicken or a theft of two taels of silver, so he was unaware that someone had infiltrated his area.

Su An didn't want to miss the satisfying scene of punishing the unscrupulous businessman, so he went to the county government office despite the pain in his legs.

"Sun Ming, you attempted murder in the street and led the charge in defying orders and arbitrarily raising grain prices. You are sentenced to immediate execution. Take him to the market and behead him in public!"

When she arrived, Lin Yong was dealing with Sun Ming.

Under normal circumstances, Sun Ming might not have needed to be executed if he was charged with attempted murder.

But the world is in chaos now, and Lin Yong is in urgent need of killing a chicken to scare the monkeys!

"As for the other grain merchants under your command, they have been faking compliance after the grain order was issued, selling inferior goods as good quality, and selling dog meat under the guise of sheep. Considering that they are first-time offenders, all their property will be confiscated and they will be punished with fifty strokes of the cane and executed immediately!"

The people surrounding outside cheered excitedly.

"Well done! These unscrupulous scum, who profited from their wealth without mercy, finally got their comeuppance!"

"Humph, they exploited us ordinary people, they deserved to die!"

Everyone was very excited and followed the team escorting Sun Ming, throwing rotten vegetable leaves at them.

Su An also felt that he had let out a lot of anger and felt very refreshed.

Lin Yong came down the hall and saw her, and hurried over: "Miss Su, please thank the prince on my behalf. Thanks to the prince for arresting these black-hearted merchants, the grain prices are finally under control."

Su An nodded, looked at Lin Yong's exhausted face, and asked with concern: "Why execute Sun Ming so soon? Did they find out all the spies?"

Mentioning this, Lin Yong's face turned much uglier, with a hint of ashenness.

When Sun Ming was brought here, he was covered in wounds and was terrified.

Without waiting for his interrogation, Sun Ming spilled all the information to save his life, and finally claimed that he knew the concubine in his house and asked him to show mercy!

He followed the clues and discovered that his concubine was in collusion with Sun Ming, and many servants in the mansion had been bribed!

"The spy has been identified. Bring him up!"

Lin Yong spoke, and a trembling woman and four or five yamen runners or servants were brought over in an orderly manner.

They were tied up and had cloth stuffed in their mouths, so they could only whimper and beg for mercy.

Especially the woman in the lead, she was born with the appearance of a beautiful girl from a small family. As soon as she was brought up, tears began to fall from her eyes, looking at Lin Yong intently.

Lin Yong simply glanced at her, then clenched his fist and looked away. "Alas! To be honest, this woman was once my concubine. I never thought she would have an affair with a dishonest businessman, repeatedly leaking government affairs, and this time, she almost harmed Miss Su."

"Bringing them here together to deal with them together is also a way to give Miss Su justice."

Su An was stunned for a moment, and looked at Lin Yong in surprise and disbelief.

This... Lin Yong can actually speak out this kind of private matter with a green head in a fair and just manner?

A man of God!

Just as she was wondering what Lin Yong would do, she heard him sternly shout, "Beat these traitors to death with clubs!"

As soon as he finished speaking, several inner hall runners raised their sticks and hit the man.

Because their mouths were blocked, the tied people couldn't even scream. They rolled on the ground with bloodshot eyes in pain.

The concubine was delicate and tender, and she cried with tears in her eyes and wanted to rush towards Lin Yong, but Lin Yong turned his back and didn't look at her, so the concubine was pulled back and hit hard with a few sticks until she fell silent.

This scene happened so quickly that Su An was completely stunned.

That concubine was so delicate, she must have been well taken care of. I didn't expect Lin Yong to actually beat her to death...

He is also a ruthless person!

The few who had died were quickly dragged away to clean up. Lin Yong said solemnly, "Clean up the place. Miss Su is making a fool of herself."

Su An sighed slightly and changed the subject to ask about the business: "I see that there are fewer refugees on the streets these days, but have they all been resettled?"

"Most of them were relocated to nearby villages, and some were taken over by the surrounding counties." Lin Yong's eyes showed relief when he said this.

"The remaining refugees in the city will be arranged to build a road in our Fuyou County. After all, Miss Su's food street has been so successful, and more people will come here in the future. The sooner the road is built, the sooner the county will prosper."

In the past, Lin Yong would never have dared to imagine such a thing, so his attitude towards Su An became much more respectful.

"We can officially start road construction once the batch of bluestone slabs arrive."

Bluestone!

Su An was shocked when he heard this. The mining, processing and transportation of bluestone slabs require a lot of manpower, material resources and financial resources. Although it looks exquisite and grand, it is undoubtedly a huge expense.

Lin Yong's willingness to invest is enough to show how much he values ​​the development of the food street, and it can be considered a long-term investment.

But perhaps there is a better option?

Su An's heart moved slightly, but he didn't rush to express his idea. Instead, he went home to study cement.

If it really works, it won’t be too late to talk about it then!

There is no cement in the modern sense here, but there are building materials with similar functions. Su An vaguely remembers mortar.

She rushed to the clinic and asked Fu Zhun to ask his men to help find some limestone, clay and sand.

"What new idea do you have?" Fu Zhun didn't understand, but he naturally agreed to her and sent out guards.

Zhou Li sighed with a worried look on his face, "Could it be that the young boss is tired of studying food and wants to switch to being a craftsman? No, my happiness for the rest of my life depends on the young boss!"

This was so ridiculous that Su An sneered and couldn't help kicking her. "An eighty-year-old mother drinking porridge is so shameless and vulgar!"

Zhou Li immediately dodged with a smug smile, but the next moment he received Fu Zhun's gloomy warning gaze.

He closed his mouth and walked away embarrassedly.

Didn’t he just want to create some tension for the prince? Didn’t he see that the small boss was getting bigger and bigger!

Su An winked and smiled, deliberately whetting Fu Zhun's appetite: "If you want to know about my new research, then I'll have to trouble Your Highness to find the materials for me."

Fu Zhun understood Su An's personality. Since he took the initiative to trouble him, he must be quite anxious.

He waved his hand and sent out the secret guards.

Clay and sand were easy to find, but limestone took some time to find, and was finally discovered at the foot of a mountain.

Su An couldn't wait to take the limestone to the kiln, calcine it at high temperature, and then start to think about it.

She fumbled around in the yard trying to figure out the right mix of cement, but found it was more difficult than she thought.

I tried several times in a row, but either I added too much water and the mortar became too thin and soft, or I couldn't mix it at all!

"Oh! What a long and arduous journey!" Su An's waist ached, and he collapsed on the ground exhausted, covered in dust.

When Fu Zhun came over, he saw her leaning on the ground, looking up at the sky sadly.

He was covered in dust, and his innocent little face was also covered in mud.

"What trouble did you encounter?"