Madam An was carried all the way to the carriage by An Yongyuan. An Yongyuan had amazing arm strength, and in the army only Feng Shuo could fight him. There was no way Madam An could break free.
The grievances and sadness of many days burst out all at once, and Mrs. An Shao choked up and sobbed on his shoulder.
As soon as they got on the carriage, the first thing Madam An said was: "General, since you don't believe me and don't want to see me again, why did you come here today? Why not let me die in this lake and give the An family a clean slate!"
An Yongyuan held her with one hand, not allowing her to struggle at all. His jawline was tightly clenched, as if he was suppressing his anger. He ordered the driver in a deep voice, "Go back home."
The two masters were still quarreling, and Madam An Shao's maid did not dare to go inside, so she sat outside the carriage with the coachman.
The carriage drove away on a muddy official road.
Madam An wanted to struggle, but An Yongyuan easily restrained her. The scar on his face made him look fierce, and there were faint bloodshot eyes, which made people dare not look directly at him. He said, "Don't make trouble."
Madam An Shao looked at this familiar face and burst into tears. "General, do you think I am acting? You don't want to see me, and you don't even want to come back for Grandmother's birthday. In this life, I had no choice of being born, becoming an actor, or being bought. If the general hadn't saved me, and let me kill myself, my life would be over."
"The general has been kind to me, and I will remember the general's kindness in my life. If you just dislike me, I know that I am of low status and would never dare to blame the general, but I have never done anything to let the general down. You can scold me for being ungrateful or shameless, but I really want to live a good life with the general. The only thing I have done with the Lu family is that letter. I want to completely draw a line between myself and the Lu family..."
Madam An Shao said these heartfelt words, and she did not dare to stop for a moment, for fear that An Yongyuan would be disgusted by listening to them and leave before she finished speaking. "I am a living person, I know who treats me well, and I am also greedy, I want to follow the general for the rest of my life, support my husband and raise children..."
Thinking of the unborn child, Mrs. An Shao subconsciously touched her flat belly and her tears flowed even more violently.
"I know I was fooling around today, but General, you will only come back today. After today, it will be difficult for me to see you. At first, I just wanted to use this method to see you and say a few words from the bottom of my heart, but when I stood by the Yanhu Lake, I thought, I might as well jump off. After I married the general, I have enjoyed enough happiness, and I should be content. After I leave, the general will marry another beautiful woman, and they will surely live a happy life... Hmm..."
Before Mrs. An could finish her words, someone covered her mouth with force. An Yongyuan's hand was so strong that it hurt Mrs. An's mouth and nose.
There were more bloodshot in his eyes than before. At first glance, his eyes looked bloodshot, like a vicious beast.
Every word that Madam An Shao said was like a knife cutting into his heart.
An Yongyuan said: "If I had known that you were from the Lu family, I would never have stopped you from hanging yourself after you came out of the bandit's den."
When Mrs. An Shao heard him say this, her shoulders trembled and she cried silently. Her eyes had completely dimmed, leaving only a dead despair.
—In the end, he refused to forgive her and did not believe her. He felt that the encounter with the bandits was deliberately arranged for him to have an intersection with her.
Mrs. An Shao's heart ached so much that she was a little numb. An Yongyuan wiped the tears from her face bit by bit. His fingertips were rough and had big cracks on them, which hurt her cheeks a little. But she didn't say a word, and her tears just kept falling like beads from a broken string.
She still remembered that when he rescued her from the bandits and she was about to commit suicide, he stopped her, fearing that she would commit suicide again, and deliberately said, "An is ugly, and it is not easy to find a wife. If you don't mind, you can marry An."
Now it seems that the source of all these mistakes started from that time.
Madam An Shao cried for too long, her eyes were red and swollen, and she forced a smile, revealing a bitter smile: "I am sorry for you."
An Yongyuan hugged her tightly, and the scar on his face looked a little hideous because of the tense muscles: "But there is no such thing as knowing in advance, Yunniang, you are now my wife, An Yongyuan."
Mrs. An Shao's eyes were so dry that she couldn't shed tears, but when she heard the words "She is my, An Yongyuan's wife", she still choked up.
An Yongyuan wiped away the tears from her eyes: "I was wrong before, but we still have a long time to live, Yunniang, let's live a good life."
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Jiang Yanyi and his companions were worried about something unexpected happening, so they drove their carriage to catch up with the An family's car. When they arrived at an intersection, they saw Madam An's maid.
The maid was stamping her feet in the cold on the roadside, but when she saw their carriage, she smiled instantly: "Miss Chu, we've finally got you!"
Hearing her voice, Jiang Yanyi lifted the carriage curtain and asked her, "Why are you here alone? Where is your young mistress?"
Although the maid was shivering from the cold, she couldn't hide the smile on her face: "The general has taken his wife back to the mansion, and asked me to wait for you here. She said thank you today and will visit you again another day."
Chu Shubao and Chu Jiabao were also a little worried at first, but when they heard the maid's words, they immediately squeezed their heads out from under the carriage curtain and asked the maid, "Have your young mistress and your general reconciled?"
The maid grinned with joy and nodded vigorously.
Chu Shubao quickly clasped her hands together and chanted, "It's really the Bodhisattva's blessing, everyone is happy, everyone is happy!"
Jiang Yanyi was relieved to get this answer. She said to the maid, "Get in the car and we will take you back to the city."
The maid said no, "Thank you very much for your kindness, Miss Chu. I will just go to the intersection ahead and stop a bullock cart to go back."
Chu Shubao said, "It's icy and snowy here, and few people come to Yanhu. You don't know how long you'll have to wait to stop the ox cart. Come on up, it's just on the way anyway."
The maid thanked him repeatedly before getting on the carriage.
Although there were a few accidents on the first day of Ruyi Tower's opening, fortunately the results were good and business was booming.
In the past, Jiang Yanyi only knew how to spend money like water, but the good business in the next few days made her realize for the first time what it meant to "make money like water". The lobby on the first floor was used exclusively for banquets, and when it was not available, as the restaurant became more and more famous, the tables and chairs on the second floor for receiving ordinary guests were not enough.
Jiang Yanyi ordered another batch of tables and chairs, and set aside a space on the unused third floor to temporarily entertain guests when business was good.
Madam An Shao didn’t have many close friends in Xizhou, but because Jiang Yanyi helped her last time, she became close to Jiang Yanyi and would come to Ruyi Tower to find Jiang Yanyi whenever she had free time.
Jiang Yanyi learned from her that An Yongyuan took advantage of Madam An's illness to reorganize the servants in the mansion and promoted many of her confidants. Now all the servants in the An family have seen the attitude of their master, and no one dares to disrespect Madam An anymore.
However, Mrs. An would deliberately make things difficult for her daughter-in-law from time to time, and even insisted that Mrs. An wash her mattress with cold water in the cold weather.
Mrs. An Shao was soft-hearted, but she was also smart in her own way. She fell seriously ill the same day she washed the mattress.
When An Yongyuan returned home and saw his wife bedridden, he flew into a rage. Not only did he forbid Madam An Shao to serve him, claiming that Madam An had fallen into the water and caught a cold and needed to recuperate, he even forbade Madam An Shao to serve him in the morning and evening, which really made Madam An very angry.
Chu Shubao and her sister would occasionally sigh when listening to these family stories, saying that although An Yongyuan looked fierce and ferocious, he was actually a caring person, and they only hoped that they could choose a husband like him in the future.
Laba Festival is here in a blink of an eye. As the saying goes, “After Laba Festival, it’s the New Year.” There are more and more people selling New Year goods on the streets.
The Xizhou government office spread the word that starting from Laba Festival until the Lantern Festival after the New Year, three large buckets of porridge would be distributed in the south of the city every day.
The method Jiang Yanyi had thought of before worked. Once there was one person praising Feng Shuo, there was a second one. People who had fled from the south told about the tragedy in the south and compared it with the poor people in Xizhou City who could still get porridge from the government and ordinary people who could spend a good and peaceful New Year. The praise for Feng Shuo soon caused an uproar among the people.
However, what followed was an increasing number of people fleeing famine. Even though the entry and exit of Xizhou City was strictly controlled, the number of people in the city continued to increase.
It was already difficult to transport grain and grass from Xizhou, which had to rely on water transport from Yuzhou. Fan Wei and the King of Xinyang had an internal conflict, and now the south could not contain too many troops of the court, so the court began to concentrate its firepower on attacking Yuzhou and the grain route downstream of Yuzhou.
There was no sign in Xizhou City yet, but Jiang Yanyi could clearly feel that the war was getting closer and closer.
Feng Shuo discussed with his staff until late at night every day, and Jiang Yanyi couldn't remember how long it had been since he last saw him.
The business of Ruyilou was on the right track, and the business of the noodle shop also exceeded Jiang Yanyi's imagination.
Instant noodles sold very well among the caravans outside the Great Wall. Bing Shao even suggested that Jiang Yanyi expand the noodle shop, but was rejected by Jiang Yanyi.
Chu Changping tipped off Jiang Yanyi that the government would soon strictly control the flow of grain in and out, and grain entering the city could only be sold to the people in the city and could no longer be exported.
The current deadlock in Xizhou is that Xizhou is supported by Feng Shuo's other two fiefdoms, Yuzhou and Hengzhou. Food and fodder are the lifeline of Xizhou, as is silver.
The longer the war lasts, the more money will be spent.
The three major provinces would definitely not be able to outcompete the entire treasury of the Daxuan Dynasty, so after Feng Shuo rebelled, he had been occupying Xizhou and did not directly fight the imperial court.
Prince Xinyang and Fan Wei did not care about fame. When they had no money or food, they would just fight and rob wherever they could. But Feng Shuo could not do that.
Jiang Yanyi pondered for several days but still couldn't come up with a way to make a lot of money quickly.
Seeing how worried she was, Aunt Guo comforted her, "The prince's staff will advise you on the war, don't worry yourself to death."
Jiang Yanyi sighed, "The noodle shop business cannot be expanded to other places. We cannot receive big orders and cannot make much money. Aunt, what kind of business in Xizhou can make a fortune?"
Aunt Guo said with a smile: "It's not good to grow crops here, and raising cattle and sheep will also lack grass in winter. If you want to make a fortune, you have to find someone willing to buy the mud in this land."
These words really woke me up.
Jiang Yanyi changed his previous depressed attitude, picked up a beautiful glazed porcelain bowl on the table, and couldn't help but said: "Yes, Xizhou has a porcelain kiln. The grain business cannot be done outside, but porcelain can!"
If it is difficult to sell to the south, you can also buy from small countries outside the Great Wall and form an economic chain with these small countries. Money and grain can be exchanged from these small countries through trade. Xizhou can then break away from Yuzhou and Hengzhou and support itself, and the court's control over Yuzhou and the grain routes below Yuzhou will no longer be effective.
Jiang Yanyi went to find Feng Shuo that day and told him his idea.
There was a pile of official documents on Feng Shuo's desk. It was obvious that he had not had a good rest in recent days, and obvious fatigue could be seen between his brows.
"It's a good idea, but there's not enough time." Feng Shuo leaned back in the armchair, showing a rare bit of leisure. He pulled Jiang Yanyi over familiarly and held her on his lap.
The door of the study was not closed properly, and Jiang Yanyi looked up frequently: "Don't be so frivolous, I'm here to talk to you about serious matters."
Feng Shuo buried his head in her neck and gently rubbed her fair neck with the tip of his nose: "Just hug for a while, why are you not serious?"
His nose felt cold, and the skin on Jiang Yanyi's neck was sensitive, so he shuddered and grabbed his collar tightly: "Don't."
Seeing her reaction, Feng Shuo's eyes darkened instantly, and his hands unconsciously pinched her waist, and said in a hoarse voice: "Be good."
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Gu Xiao was reborn as the child bride of Shen Xihe, the protagonist of the imperial examination novel, who died young.
According to the plot of the original book, she would steal the money the male protagonist needed to take the exam and run away, but was caught on the spot and kicked out of the house, and unfortunately fell off a cliff and died without a complete body.
In the future, Shen Xihe will pass the imperial examination, be promoted to a higher position, bring honor to his family, and marry a kind-hearted heroine.
Gu Xiao arrived at the scene of the theft and saw people outside the door waiting to catch her.
Gu Xiao reluctantly put two coins into her purse, muttering to herself, "I will definitely save enough for my husband's tuition!"
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Under the pretext of saving up tuition for Shen Xihe, Gu Xiao has secretly saved a lot of money, just waiting for the day to pack up and leave.
But the Shen family's attitude gradually changed.
Partial mother-in-law: "I treat Xiaoxiao as my own daughter."
Two sisters-in-law: "Marry Xiaoxiao, the Shen family's ancestral graves will be filled with smoke."
Even Shen Xihe would secretly give Gu Xiao money, "Buy yourself some food."
Small theater:
Shen Xihe disliked this child bride very much and didn't even want her to deliver lunch at noon, so he told Zhou to let his nephew do it instead.
But I have long been accustomed to the daily extra meals and warm reminders.
Until one day, the person who delivered the meal really turned out to be his nephew.
Shen Xihe looked at him for a long time and said in disbelief: "Why is it you? Are you alone? Where is your aunt?"
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Gu Xiao brings meals to Shen Xihe every day.
It is more than ten miles from Shangyang Village to Guangning County. If she couldn't sell things along the way, she would have not wanted to go there long ago.
Later, her mother-in-law told her that there was no need to send her meals, and she could go to the county town whenever she wanted. It would be too hot at noon and they wouldn’t suffer that.
Gu Xiao agreed without saying a word.
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