The third day later, on December 1st.

Guan Zhiyue poked her head out of the bed and listened to the howling sound outside, feeling a chill in her heart.

Bilian pushed open the door and walked in. The moment the door opened, a blanket of white snow drifted in with the wind.

"Is it snowing?"

"Yes! Your Majesty, it's snowing heavily outside."

Guan Zhiyue searched through the original owner's memories and felt that it seemed to snow much earlier than usual this year.

"It seems like it snowed earlier this year than last year?"

Bilian added some more charcoal to the stove, walked to Guan Zhiyue's bedside, covered her with a thick quilt, and then said, "Yes."

"It started snowing on December 1st this year, and the snow is quite heavy; there's a thick layer of snow in our yard."

Guan Zhiyue smiled and said, "A timely snow promises a bumper harvest!"

Bilian agreed with Guan Zhiyue's words and said with a smile, "Your Majesty is truly insightful."

Guan Zhiyue smiled but didn't say anything. She really didn't want to leave this warm bed!

"By the way, are the palace maids' rooms warm?"

Bilian smiled and said, "Your Majesty, please rest assured! The servants in our palace are all warmly dressed. Although this is the first time they have spent the winter in the Cold Palace, they all say that this is the first time in all their years in the palace that they have felt that winter is not cold."

Guan Zhiyue nodded with satisfaction after hearing Bilian's words. As long as they felt warm, that was fine.

"What about inside your room?"

Upon hearing Guan Zhiyue's words, Bilian felt like crying. Her mistress was so kind; how could she have thought of them, her servants?

"Your Highness, don't worry, my room is warm too."

Guan Zhiyue felt relieved and wanted to get up to see the snow, but she didn't want to get up.

"Phew, it really is time to need courage to get out of bed."

"Your Majesty, what are you saying?"

Guan Zhiyue shook her head, jumped out of bed in one go, and quickly put on her clothes, but found that her room did not seem so cold and quiet.

"This room isn't too cold and desolate."

Bilian seemed to have thought of something and gently suggested, "Your Majesty, there is a kang (heated brick bed) in the next room. If you still feel too cold, you can go to sleep on the kang in the next room."

"kang?"

She was from the South and had never slept on a kang (heated brick bed), preferring to sleep in a bed. She smiled and declined Bilian's suggestion, without mentioning moving to another room to sleep.

"Okay, I understand. We don't need to do it now. Let's talk about it when it gets colder!"

Bilian said nothing more. Guan Zhiyue opened the window, and as soon as it was opened a little, the wind mixed with snowflakes rushed straight in.

"Your Majesty, are you alright?"

The wind and snow blurred Guan Zhiyue's vision, and she had forgotten to close the window. Seeing the open window, Bilian quickly ran over and braved the wind and snow to close the door and window.

Bilian looked at Guan Zhiyue, who had been blown into a white shape by the wind, and couldn't help but laugh, but still reached out to brush the snowflakes off her head and body.

Guan Zhiyue came to her senses and felt a slight chill, causing her to shiver involuntarily.

Bilian led Guan Zhiyue to the fireplace and had her sit down there.

"Your Majesty, the wind and snow are very strong now, so please don't open the windows."

Guan Zhiyue looked up at the paper window and murmured wistfully, "If only there were glass."

...

Here at Chengqian Palace.

"How is my brother? Have you arranged for the prescription for that glass?" Li Qishang braved the wind and snow to enter his brother's palace and saw Li Qiji still reviewing memorials.

Li Qiji's hand, which was reviewing memorials, trembled slightly, truly proving the saying, "His voice arrives before he does."

"It's freezing cold with wind and snow. Why aren't you staying in your palace? What are you doing coming all this way?"

Li Qishang walked over to a chair with a grin, sat down casually, and naturally picked up a cup of hot tea from the table and started drinking.

"I just wanted to see the results of that prescription, didn't I?"

Li Qiji was really having a headache. This guy really thought he was a god, didn't he?

He only got the recipe a few days ago, and he hasn't even found all the workers and the place yet. He hasn't even found all the raw materials mentioned in the recipe. How can he start making it? His brother is really in a hurry.

Li Qiji raised an eyebrow at his younger brother, whose somewhat carefree demeanor made him sigh in exasperation.

"We haven't even gathered all the materials yet, what's your rush? If it's successfully produced, you'll definitely get a share of the profits. Look how anxious you are!"

Upon hearing his brother's words, Li Qishang immediately rushed to his brother's side, his face full of fawning obsequiousness, truly displaying his sycophantic nature.

"Hehe, Your Majesty, this recipe was given to Qi Shang by Your Majesty's sister-in-law. You must share some with her."

Speaking of Li Qiji, one can't help but think of Guan Zhiyue, who is still in the cold palace. Looking at her younger brother in front of her, she couldn't help but tap him on the head with her pen and said something rather irritating.

"You're so good to your sister-in-law!"

Upon hearing this, Li Qishang sensed something was amiss and said in a different tone, "Who told her to be your wife, my brother's wife? She's my sister-in-law!"

"Of course I'll treat her well. Besides, isn't my sister-in-law also very good to our royal family?"

Li Qishang quickly steered the conversation towards the glass recipe, not wanting his brother to know that he and Yue'er had a beautiful memory together.

"Your Majesty, think about it. If my sister-in-law were to sell this glass formula for money, we would be at a huge loss. This is a priceless treasure! But look, she took the initiative to give it to us, the royal family. What does that mean? It means that she has a deep love for His Majesty."

Li Qishang was really going too far with his words; he never realized he could talk such nonsense.

After listening to his younger brother's words, Li Qiji grasped only the key point: 'She has feelings for him; she loves him?'

"Is that really what your sister-in-law said?" Li Qiji asked.

Li Qishang seemed a little confused. He immediately blurted out, "What did you say?"

"Say she loves me?"

Looking at his elder brother's eager eyes, Li Qishang really wanted to slap his own mouth. What the hell did he say? How was he going to explain himself? If he said no, would his elder brother cause trouble for Yue'er? If he said yes, would this cause trouble for Yue'er?

Li Qiji did not receive a reply from his younger brother, and his expression darkened even more, as if he felt that his brother had lied to him again.

Li Qishang stiffened his neck and said, "Of course it's true. My sister-in-law said that my brother is an incredibly handsome man, and that marrying you is the luckiest thing that has ever happened to her."

This overwhelming will to survive made Li Qishang apologize a thousand times to Guan Zhiyue in his heart, and even more so to his brother. He had gone too far in flattering her, and now his beloved Yue'er had to take the fall for him.

With great satisfaction, Li Qiji wrote with a flourish of his pen, "If this glasswork is successful, then give her 20%, you 30%, and the national treasury 50%."

Li Qishang said somewhat awkwardly, "Actually, I'll take 20%, you can give 30% to your sister-in-law."

Li Qiji thought for a moment and then nodded in agreement. So, despite being sold out, Guan Zhiyue received 30% of the profits from Liulichang. One wonders if Guan Zhiyue will beat Li Qishang up when she finds out later...