All-round way to money

In order to eat, Chu Ran really sold his strength.

I can wait for others, but I really can't wait for chili.After getting half a bag of chili, every night I cook it with the same spicy taste, and I feel almost tasteless when I eat it.I know that for breastfeeding children, I can't eat spicy food, and children are easy to get angry, but I just want to.

Xiao Yu made her grind hard, first built a row of low adobe houses on the Zhuangzi, with earthworms on them, and then planted pepper seeds in flower pots, put them outside during the day, and moved them back to the house at night, so that in autumn In the future, you can burn the ground dragon at night, and put it outside to bask in the sun at noon during the day.Two months later, it will become a harvest.Fearing that these were not enough, they arranged for people to go to the south. The temperature in the south is high, so they can be planted in different seasons.

Chu Ran also sent a letter to the hometown of Chujia Village, and asked the old village head to arrange people to go to Lingshan with the seeds.There is no shortage of good hunters in the Chu family village. Find a few people to bring seeds to the south of the Five Ridges, buy land and hire people to plant them locally, and there will be harvest in half a year.

The Empress Empress gave birth to her first son at the end of June. This is a great joy for the Daqi Kingdom. The emperor finally has someone to succeed him.The Empress Dowager laughed from ear to ear every day, whether she should say it or not, the Emperor has been treating the Empress Dowager for so many years, so he really couldn't find fault with it.So the Empress Dowager treats the emperor the same as the newly born King Ning, and sometimes she has to favor the emperor a bit.This is also normal, the more you are not close, the more you should pay attention to it.The emperor was tossing about today's big banquet and tomorrow's small banquet, showing how excited he is.

As for the queen, I don't know what Chu Ran did to her heart, but she felt that Chu Ran was good. When the prince was born, Chu Ran's son Ning Hui was about to pass a hundred days. good.She wished she could raise her children like Chu Ran raised her children everywhere.Even let Chu Ran write down the menu for what to eat during the confinement period, so that I can eat according to it.That's okay, people's bodies are different, Chu Ran followed the menu, but also told the imperial doctor to watch the increase or decrease, the two of them have really different physiques.Fortunately, the queen saw her right, and the queen was willing to listen to what she said.So I listened.The imperial physicians really have two brushes, and they take good care of the queen's body, and even the wet nurses are warming up with medicine.Chu Ran also made a milk paste, added spirit rain water, which was the same as what his own children ate, and after being tested by the imperial doctor, he gave it to the little prince.Everything to eat has to go through the hands of the imperial physician, and everything to wear is simply made by Chu Ran.I don't really use the Shangyi Bureau to get in.

With such a heavy burden, Chu Ran was also cautious. Xiao Yu even asked the emperor for someone, and was only responsible for watching the things made for the little prince and the process of transporting them back and forth.Prevent everything you can.That's it for a clear heart.

The queen has to feed the little prince herself, and the emperor has to visit it once or twice a day. Most of the time, he stays in the queen's palace at night, which annoys the queen very much.I always persuaded him to go to the harem more often. The prince and the princess don’t dislike him. This person is so good at seeing each other. The emperor thinks that the queen has given birth to him a son. In the palaces of other concubines, he also felt that the queen was virtuous and generous, with the demeanor of a royal mother, and eight times out of ten times she was so cheap, she stayed in the queen's palace.Even if the queen had to get up several times at night to take care of the little prince, he couldn't do anything but cover the quilt and just chat, and he was happy.

It's actually good for him.Xiao Yu can often see the emperor. When Chu Ran wondered why the concubine had never given birth, he told Chu Ran that the emperor's complexion looked like he was going to kill him suddenly, that is, he was so anxious to have no son. .I used to be busy fighting for the throne with King Li, and when I got it, the dynasty was unstable just before I ascended the throne, and when I stabilized, I found out that I don't have a son yet. I'm [-], so I don't need to be in a hurry.But no matter how young or how good the body is, it can't hold up to such a build. Its own energy is limited, the more you use it, the less it becomes, and the more you use it, the more useless it becomes.I vaguely heard that for a while I often stayed in the Queen's Palace, which probably saved a lot of seeds. Didn't the Queen get pregnant later on?It is good for him to stay in the queen's palace so often now.

No, after autumn, shortly after the Little Prince's Hundred Days Banquet, two more concubines in the harem reported that they were pregnant.

The queen is also happy, she is not stupid, no one else has children except her, that is even more troublesome.With someone sharing the firepower, it doesn't have to be all the attention on her son.The eldest son must still receive the most attention, but the most and the only one are two different things.

The emperor felt that the queen was really Wangfu, and he felt that the queen was even better.To other concubines, they are all indifferent.No more drafts.Although people are not at the level of Tang Zong and Han Wu, he can be his emperor by doing his duty and being diligent, so that he can be a good conservative king.

The palace was quiet, and Chu Ran and his wife were much more relaxed, so they didn't follow the other side to hang their hearts.You can concentrate on your career, er, catering.

After winter, a mission came from the northern border. Together with the northern border mission, a huge caravan from Qi State brought back hundreds of carts of sheepskin wool, frozen mutton, and some beef.There are tens of thousands of live sheep, which are driven into the pass by hundreds of herdsmen.

The caravan is a large caravan composed of the eight largest merchants in the Qi State. They have been away for a year. When they left, they took away dozens of carts of salt, tea and sugar, and several of them were the brine that Chu Ran prepared. Meat pack.People from Honglu Temple in casual clothes followed in the caravan, the purpose was to see what the situation in the northern border was like, and then play it by ear.It took me a year to go on this trip, and all the things have been exchanged. The reason why I waited until the beginning of winter to return was to freeze the meat.Otherwise, only furs and live sheep can be brought back.

"There are still [-] sheep and [-] cows that have not been brought back. The cows haven't grown up yet, and they will have to grow for another year. The wool will be given to [-] sheep next year..." Xiao Yu went to court for an unprecedented time, and After talking with the leaders of the eight major caravans, he came back and told Chu Ran what he had gained from this business.

"So many? Are there so many cattle and sheep in the north?"

"Not now, but in the future. Isn't what they are good at is grazing. In the future, good grazing can earn gold and silver, salt, tea, sugar, and grain. Why do you want to rob them? I have to use this method to get them from Pull it off on horseback."

"But, wouldn't excessive grazing destroy vegetation? If the grassland is destroyed, there will be sandstorms..."

Xiao Yu asked Chu Ran to talk, "It's just that people in Daqi Kingdom eat mutton and beef every day, how much can they consume in a year? The current grassland is more than twice as big as you think..."

Oh oh oh, I see, the consumption power is limited, and it is not to the extent that it can damage the environment.

Think about it too.Chu Ran thought of Chu Family Village.There are three to four hundred families in the Chujia Village, who have lived in the col for more than 100 years. They have been hunting in the surrounding mountains, reclaiming land and planting fruit trees around the village, and collecting herbs in the mountains. All the firewood they burn all year round comes from the mountains. cut tree.But for more than 100 years, the mountain is still the same mountain, neither bald nor barren.It's just that the large beasts entered the village to destroy them, and were driven into the mountains, and they didn't go down the mountain much.To put it bluntly, the consumption is not as fast as the growth.

I get it.

"Productivity is so far behind that it can't damage the environment."

more or less.

When the high-yielding crops of corn and sweet potatoes come back, there will be enough arable land.

Fine.

Chu Ran was quite convinced of Xiao Yu, she believed him when he said so.

"Then there's no need to travel so far to buy beef and mutton. Our family can only eat as much as we can feed ourselves."

"When the pepper planting area expands, can you resist opening a hot pot restaurant?"

Well, she couldn't bear it.

But before that, the prescription must be researched first.

This winter, Chu Ran's key research object was that house of peppers that didn't grow so well in Zhuangzi.Because of the region, this spicy taste is not the same as the taste she has eaten before.

The big kitchen of the palace was in trouble.She doesn't toss in the small kitchen, the smell is too pungent, the yard is full of spicy smell, afraid of choking the children.Just toss with the chef in the big kitchen, fry the ingredients with butter, fry the ingredients with lard, and adjust the ratio of seasonings.Every day, the kitchen is so messed up that people choke their noses and eyes run down together, and then they have to taste the meat and vegetables cooked with the soup made by the princess's stir-fry once a day.Although it is good to be able to eat meat every day, but the taste is almost painful to the tongue.My intestines and stomach hurt, and I have to go to the toilet all the time.It's too much to suffer.If the concubine didn't eat it herself, they would all think that something was done to dissatisfy the concubine, and they would poison them to death.

After a few days of tossing around, the servants in the kitchen tried to escape one by one.There are only a few who feel the pain unbearably, and at the same time feel that the smell is strong. Suffering is uncomfortable, but enjoyable.And there is that dish that has been fried with chili, the taste is different from the original, and it is more fragrant.

Chu Ran is also slowly adjusting.The people here used to spice it up with pepper and pepper, and their bodies are still not tolerant to chili.Have to come a little bit.It's good to develop the feeling of taste buds slowly.

"Princess, please see Mrs. Mu." On this day, Aunt Chu Ran came, too lazy to bother with the kitchen, and played with Ning Xin, the little meat ball, Ning Hui in Linfu Residence. Climb forward a couple of times.Ning Xin took her various puppets and teased him to grab them.Chu Ran was watching from the side, holding a book of strange stories from the sea in his hand, reading it as a novel of ghosts, Qiuyu came in and reported that Mu Wanru had come to ask for an audience.

This is a rare guest, Xiao Yu has gone out of the house and is not at home, she should know that she came here at this time, she came here on purpose.

"Let her in." Chu Ran wanted to see what she wanted to do.

What do you want to do?

"Can I speak to you alone?"

Ok?

What are you talking about?

"Eight years ago, my sisters and I were boating on Yanming Lake. I met the prince, who was the second prince at that time, was also swimming in the lake. I played a song "Phoenix Seeking Phoenix". Missing, everyone said that the prince would never come back, and asked me to marry someone else. I don't believe it, I believe that the prince will come back to marry me, and I am willing to wait. Later, the emperor ascended the throne, bestowed the title of King Ning, and gave this Zuo Ning Palace, I don’t want a title, I don’t want a wedding, I moved here to help him guard the house, just to let the prince know that someone is waiting for him at home. Later, the prince really came back, but he also brought you back I don't ask for anything, as long as he is good, I am satisfied. As long as I can be by the prince's side, even if it is a maid, I am willing. But why are you so overbearing? Why don't you even give me a little time to be with him? My lord? Why? Is it only you who have a lord in your heart? Don’t I? According to the principle of first come first, that’s me first, why do you want to dominate the lord?” He complained of his grievance with tears all over his face.

The acting skills are not bad, but, sister, your white lotus is not popular now.

Chu Ran was unmoved, "Wait a minute, let me ask first, you went to the lake eight years ago? Did you kiss Prince Ning at that time?" After asking, Mu Wanru was stunned for a moment, and then said, "Don't say Panic, you also said that there are your sisters present, and the prince must not be rafting on the lake alone, there are many witnesses."

Mu Wanru frowned, bit her lip and replied: "Although I haven't been engaged yet, at that time the Empress Dowager and the Empress Dowager had already introduced me to the palace to meet me, and the Emperor also revealed his intention to marry me."

"So, before you got married, you played with the strange man Qin Xiao, and your mind was connected? It seems that I have to ask Mrs. Mu, isn't your Mu family always known as the scholarly family, and the etiquette heir to the family? Just teach it Daughter like this?"

Mu Wanru just acted like Xizi holding her heart, her face was pale, and she was on the verge of falling, and she played Lin Daiyu again, "We are not what you said at all. Anyway, I am sincere with the prince, and I am also Princess Ning, the prince It is also my husband, you are an overbearing prince, it is against women's morals..."

Chu Ran smiled, "Women's morality? When I first went to Linfuyuan to do tricks in front of me, did I tell you that if you have the ability, you will grab it, and I want the prince to find a way to go What? Did I tie the prince’s trouser belt with him wherever he went, or sent him to the house to prevent him from going out? You come to tell me that you are affectionate and righteous, what do you mean? Let me pull it for you Is a pimp a matchmaker? What are you pretending in your head? You just said that you are also a princess, and you know that you are too, which means you still know that I am a princess and the prince is my husband. Do you think I am Reincarnation of a Bodhisattva? You have to send your husband to someone else's quilt? Virtue? Hehe, we are married by a bright matchmaker, and we have worshiped our ancestors. I have children for him, filial piety to his mother, brother and sister-in-law, and support the family. Tell me, which woman's morality have I violated?"

"You are jealous!"

"I'm jealous? What are you jealous of? I'm jealous that the prince doesn't even want to see you, or that you can't block anyone with all your efforts? Or that you stay alone in an empty house and a widow? Or I'm jealous that you don't know how to choose a path for you and you don't go away." , You are wrong to be a princess, you have to stay in the palace and destroy my happy family of three? Jealousy? Can you say it?"

"Your words and deeds are vulgar, you don't know the rules, and you have completely disgraced the palace."

"You really have no right to comment on my words and deeds. Whether you understand the rules or not, you have to let someone who can stand my rules say it. As for embarrassing the palace? Then where did you draw the conclusion? Who said it, can you point it out and let me hear it?"

……

"As long as you don't dominate the prince, the prince will definitely come to me..."

"I'm not bullying. When did I become bullying? Don't talk about it with me here. It's useless. The two children in my room are too idle. Go play by yourself and don't bother me. I'll take these later Come and talk to me about shit, don't blame me for being rude, I'll show you face." A habitual problem.

After scolding, it doesn't matter whether she is crying to death or crying to death, whatever she loves, Chu Ran goes straight back to the yard.

When Xiao Yu came back from the entertainment, he entered the room, and with a snap, he looked up and saw that the lady was staring at him with eyebrows and eyes raised after she patted the table.

What's going on here?

what happened?

"Before you got engaged, did you play a duet with Qin Xiao? Did you connect with others?"

What the hell is the piano and Xiao ensemble?Still connected?who?

Besides, he hadn't come yet at that time, okay?

After tossing and turning in memory for a long time, Xiao Yu suddenly realized, "Ah, that time. It wasn't me at all. Xiao was the third child. At that time, we were with my uncle's cousins ​​and a few royal family members. Swimming in the lake. On March [-]rd, Yanming Lake has the best scenery around the capital. Most of the children in the capital and the ladies in the boudoir go there to swim in the lake. It’s irrelevant. At that time, there was a piano sound on a ship, so far away, I couldn’t hear any tunes. The third son showed off that he could play. Besides, it wasn’t Feng Qiuhuang, it was the general. Ling. How could it be that I played the qin xiao with her? Is there something wrong?"

Uh……

Then this Miss Mu can make up her mind.

Question: Why did she choose the second prince YY for the royal family on that boat?Could it be because the news that the emperor was going to give her a marriage came out later, and then he thought that the second prince knew that she was deliberately teasing her on the boat?How confident should she be in her piano skills?Do you feel that people will be astonished as soon as they hear it, and no one can play it except Miss Mu?

Ouch, my brain hurts.

"Is she the legendary love brain?"

Xiao Yu snorted, "It's crazy."

Then the next day, Lord Ning suddenly began to work hard and began to go to court.I didn't see the laziness of the envoys from the northern border who went to the court twice before they went to the court, and then they went to the court, not because they were mascots and didn't talk, nor did they participate in everything, so they got into a fight with Prime Minister Mu .When Prime Minister Mu spoke, he would speak, and if Prime Minister Mu did not speak, he would not speak. If Prime Minister Mu agreed, he would oppose it, and if Prime Minister Mu opposed it, he would agree.He made it clear that he was against Prime Minister Mu for no reason.Prime Minister Mu went down to the Prince Ning's Mansion to ask for an audience. Seeing that it was him, he was not even allowed to enter the gate.He can't block people on the road.I want his daughter to be an intermediary to mediate, and his daughter will never see the prince.Later, he simply asked the court why the prince was against him everywhere. He was very frank, so he said, you don't know how to teach your daughter, but you do some unreliable things and bully his wife. He can't be the chief assistant, don't let him trap the emperor, he has to save his brother...

The emperor sat on it and listened to their fight, almost without laughing.

He has been on the throne for two years, and the government has been very stable. It is time to make some changes. The former emperor's old team is not completely unusable, but the chief assistant who does not quite agree with his ideas should be replaced.He revealed a little bit of meaning to General Ning. Originally, he wanted to let General Ning take the lead. It is normal for civil and military competition.I don't know if it was General Ning who told King Ning, of course it is most appropriate for him to come forward, because he was too lazy to push back before.It can be regarded as doing something serious.But he found it for this reason...

The results certainly won't be out anytime soon.In order to let his lazy brother go to court more, the emperor had to delay for a few more days.

Anyway, Ning Hui will leave, and he can speak fluently.It's another autumn of the year.Chu Ran's Yunlai Hot Pot Restaurant opened in the most prosperous area of ​​Fangshi Street, and the spectacle of the battle between King Ning and Prime Minister Mu's "Weng-in-law" is still being staged in the court every day.

"My lord, I invite you to leave the palace and go to Dabaoguo Temple to clean up." Mu Wanru forced her to death regardless, broke into Linfu residence, knelt in the yard and shouted.

Do this trick again?

That kind of trick can be used twice.

"Then let's go." Xiao Yu still didn't show up, and Chu Ran asked Qiuyu to pass on the message.

The day she left the mansion was the day Prime Minister Mu became official.

If it weren't for his honesty as an official, it would not be easy for him to get out of the way.

In the end, Mu Wanru didn't go to the temple to clean up. If you are not sincere, don't disturb the quietness of the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas.The palace officially issued a funeral for her, and Princess Mu died of illness.The clothes tomb built according to the princess, of course, has not entered the mausoleum of the prince, and will not be buried together in the future, it is not shabby enough.Then Prime Minister Mu returned home with a Qingni sedan chair in the convoy, which said the prime minister's "adopted daughter". After accepting a foster daughter, of course she will keep her by her side.

Finally, there were no boring people in the palace. Chu Ran and Xiao Yu soon moved to the main courtyard, and Dongkua courtyard was refurbished and turned into a guest courtyard.The family rarely passes by.

Prime Minister Mu first retired from his old age and returned to his hometown, and then King Ning complained of illness and never went to court again.General Ning also used his old age as an excuse to take sick leave. With the gradual emergence of talented scholars in the new department, the personnel in the court changed, and a new scene gradually emerged.

In Prince Ning's mansion, the pattern in his hometown county was restored again. The female lead outside and the male lead inside. Chu Ran worked outside to earn money to support the family.The prince reads and writes at home to engage in personal hobbies and raise his children.

No one felt that something was wrong, everyone could get used to it.

Twenty years later, a new emperor came to the throne again, and the prosperity of the capital more than doubled.The common people are familiar with the two who will go shopping in the street eight out of ten days, and they are no different from the neighbors next door.Only the envoys of the vassal states in Shangjing or merchants from other places would be curious, who are those two people who are sitting in a wheelchair and pushing the other?Why do shopkeepers and small vendors on the street love to give them things?If they still refused to give more, the family would just give a little, and the taste was gone. Behind the two of them, someone pushed a cart with tofu on it, and delivered it from house to house.what does it mean?Is barter still popular in Beijing?That is not equivalent.Also called the prince and princess?What prince?What princess?Is it so amazing?

Ahhhhhhhhhhhh, so it's Princess Ning.It's the Goddess of Wealth!Oh my god, I met the real grandma of the God of Fortune!It turns out that the grandma of the God of Wealth looks so much better than the statue...