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Li Rong and Du Wei accompanied Li Yanfeng to buy a change of clothes.

Dewey teased Li Rong, "It's a good thing you didn't marry Lu Ruyi that day!"

"That's right!" But Li Rong was thinking something else entirely.

If they had married her, they wouldn't have needed to go through the trouble of keeping an eye on the Cheng family's descendants via the Lu family; they could have simply taken control of Lu Huan directly. It's just a pity that they weren't careful enough back then, and she got away.

Li Yanfeng was unaware of the relationship between Lu Ruyi and Lu Huan, and had absolutely no interest in it.

If it weren't for his superior, the General of Daning Prefecture, sending him here to handle some shady matters, he wouldn't have come to Yanjing City.

To avoid revealing his whereabouts, he couldn't stay in the Yanjing Guard's military camp, so he chose to stay at the Du family's house. But he never expected to be so unlucky, encountering bandits and losing his military tally.

Recalling the rumors circulating in the Rainbow Pavilion earlier, Li Yanfeng asked, "Is there still no news from the government office?"

Dewey sighed deeply: "Not yet."

At this moment, Lu Huan was leading Zhou Shi and Gao Manting up to the second floor of Baiweiju.

Thinking back to the menu she had just seen in the hall, Zhou felt a little uneasy.

After the waiter left, she lowered her voice and complained, "Eldest daughter-in-law, the dishes at Baiweiju are too expensive! A single boiled bok choy costs one tael of silver. Why don't they just go out and rob us!"

Lu Huan smiled slightly and comforted her, "Mother-in-law, don't you think about what season it is now? It's good enough to have fresh vegetables to eat."

I heard that the vegetables at Baiweiju all come from their owner's hot spring resort, and are only supplied to Baiweiju; you can't buy them even if you have the money!

Zhou curled her lip: "Even if I had money, I wouldn't eat this!"

Gao Manting, on the other hand, was completely captivated by the furnishings in the private room.

"Sister-in-law, this vase is so beautiful!"

Lu Huan glanced at it and said, "It looks like Song Dynasty porcelain. If it came from an official kiln, it might be more valuable."

She said no more.

In her previous life, Gao Manting was like this. Whenever she saw something she liked in Lu Huan's room or wanted to buy something outside, she would say it like this and wait for Lu Huan to give it to her.

In this life, Lu Huan will never fall for such a trick again, foolishly becoming a sucker delivered to her doorstep.

Gao Manting didn't get the reaction she expected, and the smile on her face faded a bit. She walked to Zhou Shi's side and said, "Mother, I'm missing a vase for arranging flowers in my room."

As he spoke, he gestured for Zhou to look at the porcelain vase from earlier.

Zhou's family had only ever been minor officials of no rank; they had never seen such a porcelain vase before.

She tilted her chin slightly towards the porcelain vase and asked, "Eldest daughter-in-law, where can I buy that porcelain vase?"

Lu Huan slowly picked up the teacup, concealing the sarcasm on her lips: "The Lu family doesn't deal in porcelain, so I really don't know. Perhaps we could ask the waiter later?"

Zhou didn't seem to care: "It's just a decoration, how expensive can it be?"

Unexpectedly, the slap in the face came too quickly.

The waiter replied with a smile, "Everything in the shop was personally selected by our owner. This Song Dynasty porcelain vase with crackle glaze was specially transported from the south by our owner; it costs two hundred taels of silver!"

Zhou was so frightened she almost dropped her teacup. Her hand trembled as she pointed at the vase: "Two hundred taels for a broken vase..."

“Mother-in-law, would you like to try this braised pork knuckle with rock sugar?” Lu Huan interrupted Zhou Shi in time to prevent her from saying anything even more unpleasant.

As the premier restaurant in Yanjing, Baiweiju's owners and waiters, though not arrogant or domineering, inevitably gossip about people behind their backs.

Zhou realized she had almost lost her composure, so she readily agreed, "I think it's a good idea."

Gao Manting also spoke up, "Mom, I want to eat glutinous rice lotus root!"

At first, Zhou complained that the dishes were too expensive, but when she heard Lu Huan say that she was treating, she became less reserved.

The three of them ordered four dishes and a soup, and ate until their bellies were round. If Lu Huan hadn't said they could pack the food in a food box to take home, Zhou Shi and Gao Manting probably would have stuffed themselves with all the food they ordered.

Underneath Gao Manting's gauze dress, her round little belly could be vaguely seen.

While the waiter went out to get the food box, Lu Huan said to Zhou Shi, "Mother-in-law, I would like to go to the city tomorrow."

"Didn't the Ni Chang Pavilion say they would deliver the clothes to our door?"

Lu Huan lowered his head and replied, "That's right. Tomorrow I'm going into town to renegotiate the leases for the shops I bought earlier. I have to go there myself for this."

Zhou felt obligated to pay for the meal, and considering that Lu Huan had spent a considerable amount of money on it, she reluctantly accepted it.

"Come on in! Let the boss come with you!"

"Do not worry!"

Having left early in the morning and spent most of the day on the move, both Zhou and Gao Manting were somewhat listless.

On the way back, the two were drowsy, and Lu Huan was happy not to have to deal with them. His consciousness was immersed in the space, tending to the crops within it.

The hundreds of sacks that Uncle Qin had sent earlier had already been used up; otherwise, Lu Huan could have harvested another batch.

In addition, there were nearly two thousand bolts of various linen and cotton cloth that had been collected from the Su family's silk shop and clothing store.

Piled up around the rice paddies, they look like a tall city wall from a distance.

Lu Huan planned to mix this batch of grain and cloth with Qin Hui's goods and sell them together. He just didn't know how his negotiations with the Prince of Yan were going.

Lu Huan returned to the warm west wing, as if she had caught the drowsiness from Zhou and the others.

She yawned and instructed He Niang, "I didn't sleep well last night, so I'm taking a nap now. How's everything going in the backyard? Tell them later that they don't need to say goodbye when they leave; they can just go straight back."

Oh, and give them the two taels of silver you have, along with a packet of biscuits.

"Just like yesterday, I know what I'm doing."

"Go ahead..."

Lu Huan burrowed into the warm quilt, leaving only the top of her head sticking out. She slowly drifted off to sleep, completely unaware of He Niang's reply.

With an expression that said, "I knew it," He Niang smiled and slowly withdrew.

Lu Huan felt like she hadn't slept long before a tickling sensation spread across her face. She turned her head, burying most of her face in the soft pillow, and weakly fanned herself with one hand, trying to shoo away the annoying little bug.

After changing his clothes, Gao Yan came out of the inner room and saw that Lu Huan still showed no signs of waking up, so he had no choice but to go over and pull her out of bed.

"Huan'er, it's time for dinner!"

"What do you want for dinner... I just got back... I'm not hungry yet..."

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Gao Yan couldn't help but laugh: "Huan'er, you didn't just get back, you've been sleeping for over an hour!"

"What!" Lu Huan squinted and looked outside. It was already a hazy gray outside the window. "Oh dear! How did I sleep for so long!"

Gao Yan leaned close to Lu Huan's ear, his voice low and tender: "You slept this afternoon, so you don't need to sleep tonight, right?"

"You...you're so embarrassing!"

Lu Huan's face, which was already rosy from sleeping, turned even redder after hearing Gao Yan's lewd words.