The Prodigal Son of Zhenguan

Liu Niang and Xiao Tao were working on small stools, while Shi Tou went to carry materials and do some manual labor. Even Liu Niang's son Tie Zhu sat beside Liu Niang and helped her.

The eggs collected could not be made today. They had to be cleaned first, including the jars where the eggs were placed before.

After the first batch of eggs were taken out and sent away, the diligent Liu Niang washed the jars that afternoon. With good weather, they were dry in half a day.

After the eggs were washed, they had to be dried before they could be wrapped in lime.

The people working in the yard listened to Li Fu's instructions, wearing masks sewn by Xiao Tao and gloves made of sheepskin.

Therefore, the people in the yard looked strange.

But it was not possible without such protection.

Lime, rice husks or straw chaff, or even wood foam from the carpenter's house, could be mixed in according to the proportion, and alkali and salt were added, and cold water was added in batches.

Then coat the surface of the egg evenly with these mixed things and put them in the jar.

After the jar is filled and sealed, Shitou moves the jar to the utility room.

Now all the messy things in the house have been sorted out, and some useless rags have been thrown away. Unlike before, even though the things were tattered, they were reluctant to throw them away, and they were all sorted, always thinking that they could be used one day.

Now the place is not big, and we have to make room for things that make money, so these rags can't be kept.

Those who were able to be kept in the house by Lao Zhao at the beginning all knew how to live, especially Liu Niang. She had a child by herself and understood the hardships of life. Most of the things in the utility room were picked up by her.

However, she could really find out what was useful on weekdays.

A broken home is worth a fortune, that's the truth.

But now there is no need to be so frugal, the house has really started to make money.

If you need any tools in the future, just ask the carpenter or the ironworker to make new ones.

I have money! I use new ones!

How should I put it? I am confident when I make money.

"When the workshop is built in the future, there will be someone special to do this." Xiao Tao said, "It's really tiring to sit here and do this for the whole afternoon."

"It's nothing. You are the servant of the husband. You can't do these rough jobs. For me, this is much easier than the work in the kitchen." Liu Niang smiled.

Sometimes Shitou and Lao Zhao are very busy. In the kitchen, she even chops firewood. After years of hard work, Liu Niang has a lot of strength.

As for this kind of work, sitting here and moving your hands is nothing to her.

Liu Niang is strong and can do the work as well as a big man.

"But now it is indeed different from before. Before, my husband always made money by selling some things. Now we have such a serious business in our house. This income is long-term and stable." Liu Niang said with a smile.

In the past, she always felt that if she relied on selling things in the house to make money, the house would fail sooner or later.

Now, I didn't expect that it would really turn around.

Just yesterday, Shitou brought back so much money.

There are not many people in the house, only the housekeeper Lao Zhao, the guard Shitou, the cook Liu Niang, and Xiao Tao who serves Li Fu, and a child Tiezhu.

Therefore, if there is something going on at home, they also know it and will sit together to discuss it.

In the past, Li Fu couldn't come up with ideas, so they had to live with the house.

Now that Li Fu can be the master of the house and has ideas, they are much more relaxed and relieved.

Whatever my husband says, they do it.

Li Fu was also worried about a problem. He had met Li Yuan and had established a relationship with him.

Then... when would Li Er take the throne?

After Li Er took the throne, the old man would become the emperor emeritus...

Although it was said that the emperor emeritus would live out his days in the palace, in fact, wasn't it also a disguised form of house arrest? Otherwise, how could Li Yuan be so bored at this age and have children?

At that time, it was said that when he went to Chang'an, he would visit Banzhengfang, but Li Fu knew that Li Yuan lived in the palace. Even if he went to Banzhengfang, it was just an empty shell.

So, he didn't plan to go to Banzhengfang to find Li Yuan.

If Li Yuan wanted to explore his identity, he would find a chance to come to Zhuangzi again.

But if Li Yuan became the emperor emeritus, would he be liquidated by Li Er?

Speaking of the crown prince and the King of Qin, Li Er had a broader mind.

How to say it? As for Wei Zheng, if there was another emperor, he would have died eight hundred times.

And the prince, with Wei Zheng as his subordinate, gave him advice.Strategies, but he listened to them but didn't use them.

Wei Zheng asked him to make plans early to deal with the King of Qin, but he kept dragging his feet.

Wei Zheng asked him to be more decisive, otherwise the two would fight in the future and cause trouble.

The prince still didn't take action.

As a result, when he wanted to take action, it was too late.

Li Fu was thinking about many things. As long as the Turkic army was at the gates of the city, he didn't dare to develop his manor well, didn't dare to build any large-scale workshops in the manor, and didn't even dare to make money on a large scale.

And he couldn't move all these businesses to Chang'an City.

That would be like sending a piece of barbecue directly to the mouth of a hungry wolf.

Now, he can only plan carefully, take one step at a time, and develop everything within a controllable range, otherwise, he has no sense of security at all.

In the palace, Li Yuan met with Li Xiaogong in private again and asked about the house in Banzhengfang.

Li Xiaogong briefly explained the situation.

"Is that so? Then I will pick a place at random, and you can help to clean it up. These two days, arrange one day to go to Jingyang County again." Li Yuan said.

He was actually impatient to know whether Li Fu was the son of his third brother.

But in the past two days, the court had many affairs, and the open and secret struggles between the prince and the King of Qin were getting more and more intense. He was really upset, but there was nothing he could do.

Both of them were his sons, and they were all flesh and blood. How could he give them up?

Half of the Li family's world was conquered by the King of Qin. This was a fact. There was no doubt that the King of Qin had made great contributions, but the prince had always been by his side. The government affairs in the court and the supplies in the army were all arranged and raised by the prince, and the prince's contributions were also great.

But there can only be one position of the prince.

Li Yuan, as a father, was not a biased father. Over the years, he felt that the prince had done a good job, but he also felt guilty towards the King of Qin who had made great contributions, so he gave many privileges to the King of Qin's Palace.

Whether it was the King of Qin or the officials in the King of Qin's Palace, they were also controlled by these powers.