Happiness System

"Is the person sitting in this car a scholar from Mo Nan?"

Before the car came to a complete stop, a familiar voice was heard. Mu Jingheng lifted the car curtain and called out, "Yuan Bao!"

Yuanbao is Ning Liancheng's servant. He has been waiting outside the city for six or seven days.

After his master received the letter from Mo Nan, he asked him to pick them up two days earlier. But as he waited, he became more and more anxious, fearing that they might have an accident on the road.

In the past few days, whenever he saw someone coming from the south of the desert, he would have to ask them about it. If a convoy had not checked information with him the day before yesterday and said that there was no accident, the strange small convoy they met on the road was probably the person Yuanbao was waiting for, Ning Liancheng might have already sent people to look for that person along the road to the south of the desert.

The people in the caravan had an impression of them, mainly because they saw a rare combination of a large carriage inn, bodyguards, women, children and young people.

When they arrived, the escort agency's chef was wiping his sweat and waving a large iron spatula to cook. When they left, he was still resting. He didn't look like a traveler, but rather like a young man from a wealthy family taking his family out for an autumn outing.

"Oh my, my Master Mu, I've finally been waiting for you!" Yuanbao shed tears in his heart. This Master Mu is harder to wait for than the lover he thinks about day and night!

Kyoto was a bustling city, and as the sun was about to set, there were quite a few carriages lined up to enter the city.

When he saw Yuanbao, he knew that he had a place to stay for the night. As there were many of them and they didn't plan to spend money to use the special passage, Mu Jingheng simply got off the carriage to talk to him.

There were many guards at the city gate, but it still took them nearly two quarters of an hour to enter the city when it was their turn.

Mu Jingheng got on the carriage and said with a smile, "Ziheng and Nanny Li have chosen a small three-story house in the east city for us, and they have also found a cook and servants for us. Zhuoqi and Zhongxia's families will live in our house first, and the others will find a suitable house for them after they find one."

"Rich in the east and noble in the west, this house won't let me add all the dividends from the rouge shop in the past two years into it, right?" Qin Yunxi was slightly surprised, but felt that Nanny Li should not be so unreliable.

Seeing her miserly look, Mu Jingheng smiled and coughed before saying, "Yuanbao said that the house cost six thousand taels of silver. The location is only average, on the edge of the inner city. This year's dividend is still short of eight hundred taels to buy the house, which can be offset with next year's dividend."

Qin Yunxi was even more surprised. She widened her eyes and asked, "Six thousand taels? Did I misremember it? It was almost the end of the year when Nanny returned to Kyoto. It took some time to set up the shop and find craftsmen. We opened it half a month before the New Year. Then we got one thousand taels the following year, and nearly three thousand taels last year. It's not even the end of the year yet, and we already have more than five thousand taels?"

"Madam, didn't you tell me? Last year, I developed several new formulas, and you opened a branch at the end of the year. It's normal that the dividends have doubled." Mu Jingheng was also a little surprised. He thought his wife knew about it.

"No!" She could say that the only thing Li Ma had missing from writing to her was the women's precepts and virtues, and she didn't say much else!

This time she has come to my doorstep. Will Nanny Li come and teach me in person when she is bored?

Thinking about it, she smiled and said, "Oh, that's good now. Nanny Li has expanded the rouge shop. We can earn money just by sitting at home. We were worried about the high prices in Kyoto before."

Mu Jingheng looked at her with a smile and said, "Yes, my lady, don't worry about money anymore. I won't accept any more embroidery work after I finish it. This time when we come to Kyoto, we can only enjoy the scenery during lunch. My lady, please take good care of your eyes. In the future, your husband will take you to travel all over this beautiful country, visit the beautiful scenery praised by celebrities, and taste all the delicacies in the world!"

"Okay, husband, you must keep your word. I'm waiting for that day!"

"a man of his words!"

Yuanbao escorted them to the house, gathered the servants together, and told everyone that the master had returned home.

There were not many people, just a cook, two old women in charge of washing and sweeping, a gardener, a gatekeeper and errand boy, and a small steward.

The young steward is the son of the head steward of Ning Liancheng. He has been working beside his father since he was a child and is a capable person. They have just arrived in Beijing and need such talents.

Yuanbao didn't stay long. He handed the person over to the steward and hurried back to Ning Mansion to report.

"Master, you must be exhausted from the long journey. How about I take you to rest first? I will bring the food to you in the courtyard after the kitchen is ready?"

Seeing Yuanbao leave, the steward asked respectfully.

Mu Jingheng nodded in agreement and asked him to settle the guests.

The steward had long known that two of the master's classmates with whom he had a good relationship and their families would be coming to Kyoto with him. Although he didn't know how the master would arrange it, he had made preparations and had already cleaned up the guest rooms.

As they were close to Kyoto, they had no plans to stay in an inn. At noon, they did not cook in Anza as usual, but instead chose a restaurant in a small town to eat something casually, and then continued to rush to Kyoto, for fear of missing the time to enter the city.

At this moment, everyone was really tired, and they were not outsiders, so there was no need to be so particular.

The right thing to do is for everyone to settle down, eat something to fill their stomachs, take a bath to relieve fatigue, and then go to bed early!

Qin Yunxi was fine, with Chun Xing serving her. After taking a bath, she ate a few bites quickly and then went to bed.

Both the Cao and Li families had pregnant women and young children, so even if the steward arranged two maids to help, it was still inevitable that things would be a bit chaotic.

Zhong Lin stroked her belly and sighed, "It didn't matter on the way, but now that we stopped, we became busy. You see, in Mo Nan, we have mother and mother-in-law to help us. You usually just study, and I just take care of the shop. The family and the children are all taken care of by the two elders...

Now that we're in Kyoto, I'm really worried. What do you think about us finding a bigger yard and buying a maid to do the housework? Otherwise, I'm really worried that I won't be able to take good care of my stomach, and I won't be able to take care of you and my eldest son."

Cao Yu originally wanted to say that it was unnecessary, as they didn't know what the situation would be like in the imperial examination next spring. If they failed, they would most likely have to return to Mo Nan, and it might be difficult for the maid to deal with them.

But looking at his son sleeping soundly and his wife looking haggard beside him, he couldn't say anything, especially since his wife's belly was getting heavier and heavier...

And if nothing unexpected happens, the three of them will probably start to get busy, whether they are going out to expand their network or studying under a master, and they probably won't be able to take care of their family.

"Then let's buy two servants! Thank you for your hard work following me. Tomorrow I will ask the housekeeper where there is a reliable brokerage firm. But we have to find a house first before buying people. You will have to work hard for a few more days!"

Seeing her husband fall silent, Zhong Lin knew that he must disagree, and she couldn't help feeling disappointed. However, she didn't expect to hear his affirmative voice suddenly in her ears.

What a surprise!

Over there, Wan Fangfang and Li Hua also started chatting at night.

"Husband, the Mu family's house is really big! Although it was dark just now, I could vaguely see that this house is great!

What do you think about us renting a bigger house this time?

Zhong Lin and I have agreed to do business together. Do you think we should rent a house together or one next door?"

"There's no rush for this. I'll discuss it with Zhuo Qi tomorrow after I've asked the housekeeper and seen Ziheng again. Madam, don't worry about it. Go to bed early, or your son will make trouble for you again tomorrow morning!"

Li Hua knew very well that he could not live with the Cao family.

His wife is not as capable as Qin Yunxi nor has a better family background than Zhong Lin, but they grew up together and have a deep affection for each other, which is deeper than that of ordinary couples, and they also have two lovely children...

He is satisfied!

The next day, a few people wanted to send a letter to visit the Ning family, but they didn't expect that Ning Liancheng and his newlywed wife had arrived early!

"Mr. Ning got married?" Qin Yunxi was confused, thinking that she had heard it wrong and that Mu Jingheng did not say it.

"Maybe Chun Xing heard it wrongly. Is it a fiancée? Ziheng's family has arranged a fiancée for him." Mu Jingheng was not sure either.

But Chun Xing replied with certainty: "Master, Madam, it was Young Master Ning and his wife. I heard the housekeeper call them Young Master and Young Madam with my own ears!"

The couple looked at each other in silence.

Finally, Qin Yunxi said, "Mr. Ning may have considered that Mo Nan is too far away and we don't have time to attend the wedding banquet, so he didn't send us an invitation, but Mr. Ning has helped us a lot, so we still have to send him this gift.

My husband said that we can use the pair of heart-shaped pendants and the silver hairpin with butterfly-shaped flowers as gifts. How about that?"

"Of course it's excellent!"

Mu Jingheng asked Chun Xing to find the things and take them with her, then he took Qin Yunxi out.

It turns out that the Heart-shaped Pendant was designed by themselves and then made by craftsmen. The jade was mined from ore that a caravan brought back from a jade mine in a neighboring country across thousands of miles.

Mu Jingheng rarely took the time to take Qin Yunxi out for a stroll. Seeing that the shop was bustling and someone said that many of the things inside were items from foreign countries and were very rare, they went over to take a look.

They didn't like other things, but they became interested in the jade mines that were said to make people rich overnight.

They spent ten taels of silver to buy two stones from the low-quality area, and were laughed at for being crazy about money. Unfortunately, they were afraid that all their money would be wasted. They wanted to get rich overnight and then go back to collect more silver to try their luck in the middle-quality area!

But when the ore was mined, the prices of both products increased!

Perhaps because they were dressed in ordinary clothes and some people took advantage of them and thought they did not know the value of jade, they wanted to spend 100 taels to buy two pieces of jade, but they were exposed on the spot.

In the end, the price of the jade rose to three thousand six hundred taels, but they still refused to sell it.

They planned to find a craftsman to make a few pieces of jewelry themselves, which was much more cost-effective than buying them at a silver shop. Besides, after they moved to Kyoto and even after Mu Jingheng became an official, they would need some valuable things to decorate their appearance.

They also designed the silver jewelry themselves, sold some of it to the "Jinyuan" Silver Shop, and asked the shop to make some of it for their use.

Not to mention that the similar silver jewelry they designed was already selling for more than one hundred taels per set at the Jinyuan Silver Shop. Just the Tongxin Pendants, a pair of the same grade at the Silver Shop would cost at least three hundred taels or more.

It's not rude to give any of these two things to someone as a gift!