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After that, Lu Huan never gave Gao Yan a kind look.

When she got out of the car, she didn't even wait for Gao Yan. Holding a box of pastries, she went straight into the backyard.

Just then, Zhou woke up from her afternoon nap. Lu Huan stepped forward and helped her get dressed and comb her hair, enjoying a rare moment of the pleasure of being a mother-in-law.

When she spoke, she adopted the air of a mother-in-law, asking in a affected tone, "Has the matter been settled?"

"Everything's taken care of." Lu Huan helped her to the warm kang bed by the window and opened the pastry box. "Mother-in-law, could you please decide which kinds of pastries to serve for your brother-in-law's birthday?"

Zhou's attention immediately shifted to the snacks.

The pastries in the box were exquisitely made, each one like a jewel on a display shelf, meticulously crafted by artisans, making it too beautiful to be disturbed.

The enticing aroma wafted into Zhou's nostrils, causing tears to well up in her eyes.

She picked up a piece of jujube cake. The thin, flaky crust contained a filling the size of a longan, and the crust was tinged with pink. At first glance, it looked like a large, blooming peony.

Out of the corner of her eye, Zhou saw Lu Huan looking at her expectantly. She coughed lightly, broke off a small half of the food, and stuffed it into Lu Huan's hand.

His tone was somewhat stiff: "You try some too, don't make a face like I didn't give you any."

Lu Huan smiled and thanked Zhou Shi, then put the pastry, which was smaller than her thumb, into her mouth. The sweet taste made Lu Huan squint her eyes.

It's true, what can relieve worries? Only sweets. If one piece isn't enough, then have another.

With this precedent, Zhou felt embarrassed to enjoy it all to herself, so she took out a wooden piece from the edge of the pastry box to distribute the pastries.

"Eldest daughter-in-law, you should try some too."

Lu Huan had previously asked Shi Gu to buy a box of eight kinds of pastries, each piece being only an inch square. She and Zhou Shi shared it, and each piece was just one bite.

Zhou finished the meal and was still somewhat unsatisfied.

"I haven't had Su Luozhai's pastries in a long time. I'm only doing this thanks to Zhongbao!"

Lu Huan felt disdain. She was clearly paying for it herself, so how did it become a matter of benefiting from Gao Zhongbao's generosity? She wiped her mouth with a handkerchief: "If my mother-in-law wants to eat something, I can just have my father-in-law buy it for you often. Why would I need to rely on my brother-in-law?"

"Hmph, rely on him? I'll be grateful if he doesn't cause me any trouble!" Zhou sneered, then continued, "Just prepare four kinds of snacks. Prepare plenty of them; such a small amount will be finished in two bites. How stingy!"

Lu Huan assumed she was referring to Su Luozhai and smiled in agreement.

As they reached the backyard gate, Gao Manting's complaining voice suddenly rang out from the main house: "Mom! Why didn't you wait for me when you were having your snacks? You didn't leave me any!"

After waiting for a while without hearing Zhou's reply, Lu Huan chuckled and did not linger in the backyard any longer.

That night, Lu Huan kept her word and truly did not let Gao Yan sleep on the kang (heated brick bed).

However, she didn't skimp on the fruit in the space and brought out a large plate of oranges.

Lu Huan nestled on the warm kang (heated brick bed), eating slightly chilled orange segments, feeling utterly content. She completely ignored Gao Yan sitting on a low stool beside her, feigning misery.

"Wife, can you really bear to let me sleep alone in bed? Aren't you afraid I'll be cold..."

Lu Huan fed herself another piece of meat: "If you're afraid of the cold, it means you're weak. Otherwise, next time you come to the city, let Doctor Luo check your pulse and see if you need to eat vegetarian food for a while."

"No, I'm fine! I don't want to be vegetarian! I like to eat meat!"

Gao Yan stuffed an orange into his arms and, like a gust of wind, disappeared into the inner room.

That night, Lu Huan slept soundly.

The very next evening, Gao Yan shamelessly came over.

No matter how much Lu Huan pushed him, he seemed to be glued to Lu Huan, refusing to let go no matter what she said.

Once the man began to snore steadily, Lu Huan opened her eyes, dipped her fingertip in a drop of sleeping pills, and dripped it into his mouth.

"Ayan? Are you asleep?" Lu Huan asked, playfully pinching his cheek. "You bad boy! You just like to bully me! I told you no, why won't you stop! Ouch—my back..."

Feeling uneasy, Lu Huan dripped another drop into his mouth, then wrapped herself in her clothes and entered the space.

I don't know why, but she's been really into oranges lately. Actually, she'd love to eat lemons, but they're too sour, so she only dares to use them to make tea.

She picked a lemon, and the moment she cut it open with a knife, a refreshing sour aroma filled the air, making Lu Huan's mouth water.

With a little force, she squeezed all the juice from half a lemon into the bowl, tasted it, and exclaimed, "Strange, why isn't it sour!"

Without thinking twice, she squeezed the remaining half in as well: "This tastes right!"

After a day and a half, Uncle Qin should be ready. Lu Huan didn't delay any longer and took out an invisibility talisman to stick on his body.

When she found the warehouse, she was almost stunned by the mountain of sacks inside.

"Where did Uncle Qin get so many sacks!" she muttered to herself before getting to work.

Because she was just an ordinary person with some but not much spiritual power, she couldn't do things remotely like in novels. She could only use her clumsy way of saying that she would carry a whole sack of burlap and put it into her spatial storage.

However, taking things out of the space is much easier; you just need to imagine what you want to throw out while you're in the space.

However, this inevitably leads to some mess.

Fortunately, the warehouse that Uncle Qin rented was large enough, with various colors of linen and cotton cloth piled up haphazardly into a small mountain.

She wasn't worried that these things would cause trouble for Uncle Qin.

Previously, Qin Bo had revealed to her that, through the connections of the Prince of Yan, they had recruited the eighteen guards of Yanzhou, including the Yanjing Guard, as well as the nine guards of Jinzhou, and the total number of bolts of cloth needed was no less than tens of thousands.

These fewer than two thousand bolts of cloth were barely noticeable when mixed in with the others.

Of course, Qin Hui couldn't handle the entire deal by himself. In addition to the Su family, he also gathered many small and medium-sized merchants to supply the goods.

As a result, only the Su family was dissatisfied. But it was all in vain, as the Su family was already preoccupied with the burglary at home and had no time to bother with Qin Hui.

This meant that the transaction between the Qin family and the Prince of Yan's mansion proceeded almost without any disruption.

Because everything went so smoothly, Qin Hui and the people from the Prince of Yan's mansion each sent people to the Su family to investigate. Only then did they discover that the Su family had been almost completely emptied out.

The head of the Su family secretly sold several shops just to compensate the customers of the silk shop for their losses, let alone make a comeback. After all this turmoil, the Su family was reduced to the state they had been in when they first arrived in Yanjing with their initial capital.

Of course, the Su family was not the only one to suffer such a blow.

After Lu Huan finished distributing the cloth and grain, he turned his attention to the Li family, the Miao family, and the Song family, whom he had not visited before.

Especially Song Zangmang, who had made things difficult for Lu Huan that day.