Liu Yuqin looked down on those people of low status and threw the album aside.

"They are just toads wanting to eat swan flesh." Liu Yuqin said directly.

"..." When the matchmaker heard this, she really wanted to say that Liu Yuqin was pregnant, so how could others value Liu Yuqin so much.

If Liu Yuqin had been more capable, she could have lived directly in the Marquis's residence, and then others would have wanted to marry her. Even if Liu Yuqin was pregnant, others would have wanted to marry her. But since she didn't live in the Marquis's residence, then there's no need to blame them. In matters like marriage, people are looking for some benefits. What benefits could others gain from marrying someone like Liu Yuqin?

Others thought that they would not be able to gain any benefits, and they might even have to help Liu Yuqin raise children in the future, so they were not so happy.

Most of those men had been married before, but even so, their social status was not very high. It was easy for men to remarry, but not so easy for women.

After the matchmaker left, Liu Yuqin complained to Aunt Qing.

"Who are you looking for?" Liu Yuqin said.

"It's okay, take your time." Aunt Qing also wanted Liu Yuqin to decide on a partner as soon as possible, but those families were not good, so she couldn't force her daughter.

Liu Yuqin is pregnant, this is no secret, and how many men in the world are willing to raise another man's child?

"You say that, how long will it take for this to happen?" Liu Yuqin said irritably. "Don't wait until the baby is born and still not know which family is best."

Liu Yuqin was afraid that if she kept waiting, the good man would be with someone else.

"Let's wait and see." Aunt Qing had no choice. Liu Yuqin did not live in the Marquis' Mansion, and the Marquis' Mansion did not care about Liu Yuqin's remarriage.

It wasn't that Concubine Qing didn't want to go to the Marquis' Mansion, but she was no longer a member of the Liu family, and the relationship was severed. Father Liu also gave her a letter of release as a concubine, which meant that she had no relationship with the Marquis of Jingning Mansion, and people like them couldn't go to the Marquis' Mansion.

They went, but couldn't get in.

When Aunt Qing looked at Liu Yuqin, she thought her daughter was pretty and should marry into a good family.

But it's not a solution to always do this, so Aunt Qing wondered whether she should send someone to go and talk to Father Liu in person.

When a servant mentioned Liu Yuqin's affairs in front of Liu's father, that person also talked about what happened to Aunt Qing in the past. Liu's father looked at the servant coldly.

That afternoon, the slave was sold.

Aunt Qing stared at the Marquis of Jingning's mansion. She hadn't expected the servant to be sold off like that. She had originally thought that Father Liu still had some affection for her, but she was wrong. Father Liu had never doted on her in the first place. The Marquis's mansion only had a few concubines, and Father Liu would occasionally visit her, sometimes not even once a month.

At that time, Aunt Qing said that it was Liu's mother who was on guard against her, and Liu's mother did not allow Liu's father to visit the concubines too often.

Aunt Qing made all kinds of excuses for herself, and Mother Liu was only being nice to them on the surface.

"Your stepmother is really a piece of shit." Aunt Qing said to Liu Yuqin, "Someone said a few words to your father, and that person was sold out."

"You've known for a long time that they're worthless," Liu Yuqin said. "They just wish we wouldn't live well."

Liu Yuqin felt annoyed when she thought about this matter. Her father was always like this.

The Rongning Temple was built on a mountain in the northwest, and local officials also came.

Local officials had already reported this matter to the emperor.

The emperor did not stop her. He did not take the credit for Liu Yulian's failure and made it known to everyone. He wanted to let everyone know his attitude and Liu Yulian would not fight for the throne.

If he wanted to fight for the throne, why would he give so many good things to the court?

Now that the imperial court is strong, it will be difficult for those people to rebel.

The emperor naturally earned his reputation, and people said he was a wise ruler. When he first ascended the throne, he wanted to ensure that the common people had enough to eat, and that there were fewer beggars and orphans in the world.

Now, the emperor has achieved his wish. The emperor naturally does not mind letting Liu Yulian gain some fame. Those people built ancestral halls and temples for Liu Yulian and worshipped her, that's all.

Liu Yulian is indeed powerful, and her children will also benefit from it. But in the future, that may not be the case.

By then, the people will no longer be hungry. It will be very difficult for Liu Yulian's descendants to take out good things to make the people happy and then use this as an excuse to rebel.

Many dynasties have changed because of famine. When famines are less common, people's lives become better, and everyone wants to live in peace.

In this case, anti-corruption becomes the focus.

Liu Yanqing came over with his daughter in his arms. The ancestral hall was built quite magnificently. There was a temple keeper there, and there were special people taking care of it.

"There are so many people." Liu Yanqing sighed.

"Of course there are a lot of people." Lin Xiaowan said, "They have all benefited tangibly. Didn't you see that their faces are all quite rosy?"

If a person eats too much, his face will look ugly.

Some families have little land and cannot produce that much food. With the culture medium, they can produce more food.

This year, the court also introduced a soil improvement liquid that can lock in some nutrients in the soil and slowly improve the soil.

With soil improvement liquid, those barren lands will be easier to cultivate.

Because the people grew a lot of grain and earned a lot of money, they tried the soil improver. Even though the soil improver would slowly improve the soil, the harvest in the first one or two years was not particularly large, but it was higher than the original wasteland.

When the common people heard that it was developed by Princess Rongning, they were happy to use it. If it was developed by someone else, they would not dare to use it, fearing that it was fake.

There were people selling fake culture medium on the market, and some people bought it just to get a bargain. Even before the harvest, the crops in the fields were showing few flowers.

Liu Yanqing saw those people kneeling down seriously, and he was thinking whether he should kneel down too.

"Why are you still standing here?" An enthusiastic old lady saw Liu Yanqing and the others standing there and asked, "Have you bought incense? If not, there are some free ones in the ancestral hall. They were all prepared by everyone."

They came when people nearby were building an ancestral hall.

On the day the ancestral hall was unveiled, some people came from far away. Princess Rongning herself had developed the culture medium nearby, and some people went to Shiyuan Village and rented houses there, believing it to be a good place.

This has led to the fact that the imperial court has not recently exiled anyone to Shiyuan Village, and the number of exiles near Shiyuan Village is not as large as before.

"We'll go in a while." Lin Xiaowan said.

Lin Xiaowan thought it didn’t matter whether they bowed or not, it still felt a bit awkward.

However, Liu Yanqing directly put his daughter into Lin Xiaowan's arms, and then he went to light incense and kneel down to worship. He didn't feel awkward at all, and he knelt down properly, as if he was very pious.

"..." Lin Xiaowan was shocked. She had a deeper understanding of how shameless her husband was.

Lin Xiaowan thought that she didn't know enough about Liu Yanqing. Maybe she would see more in the future. She didn't know what to say to her husband.

If people from other families were here, Lin Xiaowan thought that they would not kneel there like Liu Yanqing.

"Come." Liu Yanqing waved to Lin Xiaowan, asking her to come over and see how powerful her aunt is. He wondered if his wish would come true.

The stone statue is huge, more than two meters high, almost three meters, and it bears a striking resemblance to Liu Yulian. Many people here have seen Liu Yulian, including the people who carved the statue. The stonemasons also let people take a look; they wanted the statue to resemble her as closely as possible.

After Liu Yanqing and his companions came out of the Rongning Temple, Liu Yanqing wondered whether Liu Yulian knew about this matter. It should be that the Rongning Temple was not built only in their place.

"Tell me, does my younger sister know?" Liu Yanqing stretched out his hand to claim his daughter, but Lin Xiaowan didn't let him hold her.

Lin Xiaowan was worried that Liu Yanqing couldn't hold the child, so it would be better for her to hold the child herself.

"Didn't you write it in the letter?" Lin Xiaowan asked.

"Aren't you afraid that if you write it, she won't allow it to be built?" Liu Yanqing said, "My little sister is so young, maybe she thinks it shouldn't be built."

"..." Lin Xiaowan's mouth twitched slightly. She really hadn't thought of this reason.

Liu Yanqing looked at his daughter and felt that she might not be as capable as his younger sister.

"Wait, little sister...she should know." Liu Yanqing said, "Even if I don't tell her, someone else will tell her. I don't know if it's because the ancestral hall here was built faster, or somewhere else."

"I don't know." Lin Xiaowan didn't try to inquire about these things.

In the capital, Father Liu's expression looked a little strange. When Mother Liu saw Father Liu like this, she felt puzzled.

"What's wrong? Didn't you go fishing?" asked Liu's mother.

"I went for a walk with some friends." Father Liu had a complicated expression. "A shrine was built on the mountain in the eastern suburbs."

"Really?" Mother Liu was not clear about this. She had been to the temple, but she had not seen the buildings under construction.

"It was built for Sister Lian." Father Liu said.

"What?" Liu's mother was shocked.

"The emperor has given special permission." Father Liu had no idea about this matter. If he knew, he would definitely... definitely stop it, such as going to the palace to see the emperor and telling him that it was unnecessary.

After all, Liu Yulian is so young, and if this ancestral temple is built, Liu Yulian's reputation will be even greater.

Liu's father was simply worried about his daughter's reputation being too great, so he hadn't considered that the emperor would allow those people to build a shrine for Liu Yulian. He hadn't heard any relevant news. No one in the court refuted it, and no one said anything. How could he possibly know?

"That's fine," said Liu's mother. "It's not like we built it ourselves. If you hadn't told me, I wouldn't have known about it, and I don't know if my son knows about it either."

"You can ask your daughter-in-law, not necessarily your son." The emperor thought that Princess Zhaoyang was a daughter of the royal family and should know something.

"Okay, I'll go ask." said Liu's mother.

When Liu's mother arrived at the courtyard where Princess Zhaoyang lived, she saw Princess Zhaoyang and asked about her daughter-in-law.

"I really didn't know about this." Princess Zhaoyang said, "They didn't tell me either."

"I don't know anything." Mother Liu originally thought that Princess Zhaoyang knew.

"My little sister isn't home yet. She went to the beach." Princess Zhaoyang chuckled. "Just treat it as a surprise."

What does it mean to just treat it as a surprise? Mother Liu didn't think it was that surprising. She just thought that it would be a bit awkward to watch those people kneel down and worship Rong Ning's statue in the future.

However, those who went to kneel down should be ordinary people. At least when Princess Rongning was still alive, it was unlikely that those dignitaries would go to kneel down.

Liu's mother still felt strange, but he was still very happy.

Liu Yulian was enjoying the breeze on the beach. She wore wooden clogs instead of cloth shoes. She wasn't particularly particular; she didn't bind her feet. Foot binding wasn't a common practice in the Daliang Dynasty, though some families did have their daughters' feet bound.

He Xiyuan accompanied Liu Yulian. He wanted to see more things and gain some experience.

"The third prince helped that man get the money. He also said that he would give his maid to that man as his wife, but that man didn't dare to accept it." He Xiyuan knew this because the third prince told him.

The Third Prince didn't dare to talk to Liu Yulian, perhaps because he thought Liu Yulian was a woman and that men and women shouldn't be too close to each other, so he had to avoid suspicion.

"He also gave her a maid?" Liu Yulian was shocked.

"Yes." He Xiyuan said.

"It's not agreed. The maids around the prince also eat well and live well. If such a person goes to a fishing village, how can she endure the hardship?" Liu Yulian did not think this was a good marriage. "It's right not to. With the money, you can talk about other marriages."

"The maids in wealthy families are indeed different." He Xiyuan nodded.

"Yes, some maids in wealthy families marry better than the daughters of minor officials," Liu Yulian said, "especially the maids around the masters. These maids can read and know a lot, and some even help the masters with the accounts."

Liu Yulian thought of the Dream of the Red Chamber. The maid in the Dream of the Red Chamber was very powerful. Xiren was originally sold to the Rongguo Mansion. Later, Xiren's family had a lot of money.

"The maidservant around the Third Prince...that's true." He Xiyuan thought about it and felt that what Liu Yulian said was correct. "The Third Prince has always been quite tolerant of those around him."

It is very normal for people around the third prince to get more silver.

"It's okay to walk around here, but you can't walk too much." Liu Yulian said, "It's too humid."

Liu Yulian felt that she had a lot of problems. After coming here, she felt that she was not used to this or that.

When Liu Yulian and He Xiyuan returned to the town, Miss Duan Wu ran over crying.

Liu Yulian had no choice but to let He Xiyuan go back first, and she would meet Miss Duan Wu first.

"What's wrong?" Liu Yulian asked.

"It's okay." Miss Duan Wu said, "I just can't control my tears. I'll be fine after crying for a while."

Miss Duan Wu didn't want to hold back her tears; it would be very uncomfortable. She just wanted to cry. If she felt uncomfortable, she would stay in town for a day or two and then go back to work.

Miss Duan Wu knew that she couldn't keep crying. If she kept crying and ran all the way to the town, then she would not be able to work anymore.

"Let's chat." Liu Yulian said.

Liu Yulian brought Miss Duan Wu into the house, and Miss Duan Wu wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes with a handkerchief.

"I didn't do my job well, so they should blame me." Miss Duan Wu understood this. She was originally a rich lady in the boudoir, and she had never done those things.

Sometimes Miss Duan Wu would get blisters on her hands after doing the slightest thing.

"It will get better slowly." Miss Duan Wu said, "I really don't blame them. I still have things to learn."

"Yes." Liu Yulian nodded, "Indeed."

"Did the princess also encounter various difficulties when she was in the northwest?" asked Miss Duan Wu.

"Well... of course there is." Liu Yulian told the truth. She just used a cheat and didn't encounter any major problems.

This also has to do with the court's willingness to believe in her. If the court did not believe in her, she would not be able to promote those things.

"The most important thing is to have strength. As long as you have strength, live in a good era, and the people above you are willing to trust you, then it's good." Liu Yulian said, "Now is good. You didn't learn so much before, so you need to learn more now. I don't understand those things here either."

"They don't dare to say anything about you." said Miss Duan Wu.

"That's right. I'm the director of the research institute. Of course, they can't say anything about me openly. Maybe someone is talking about me behind my back. It's not certain. Everyone has weaknesses. I'm not good at these things, so they can say that about me." Liu Yulian consoled her. "When it comes to research, we're all ordinary people."

Liu Yulian didn't intend to put on airs in front of those people. Since she was already like that, then Miss Duan Wu couldn't be too arrogant either.

"Yes, that's right." Miss Duan Wu understood. "It's just that sometimes I still feel a little aggrieved. Maybe it's because I didn't suffer so much at home, so I can't stand it."

Miss Duan Wu knew that she had many shortcomings, and it was impossible for her not to do those things, so she could only adapt slowly.

"They laugh at me, but later on, they won't have the chance to laugh at me." Miss Duan Wu couldn't give up easily. She had to do her research here and study those things thoroughly. "I'm not going to talk to you anymore. I'm going back first. I have to go out again soon."

Miss Duan Wu needs to go out and talk to some people nearby to learn about the local customs and practices.

"Go ahead." Liu Yulian said.

In the capital, Su Qiuya had already spoken with Liu Yanbo, and she openly drank the medicine to regulate her body. Fortunately, Liu Yanbo was still on her side, but she didn't know if Liu Yanbo would change in the future.

"I'll do it." Liu Yanbo personally boiled the medicine and brought it to Su Qiuya. "Medicine is three-quarters poison. If you feel better, you don't need to continue drinking it."

"It's impossible to feel better. I have to wait for the doctor to tell me not to drink it anymore." Su Qiuya picked up the bowl of medicine.

"Isn't medicinal food good too?" Liu Yanbo said, "Medicinal food tastes better, right?"

"I don't have time to make medicinal food. I still have to take medicine when it's time to take it." Su Qiuya said, "I can't just think about eating medicinal food. If you buy it outside, it's expensive, so don't buy it."

"Then I'll learn." Liu Yanbo thought the medicine was too bitter. When he saw Su Qiuya frowning when she drank the medicine, he wanted Su Qiuya not to drink such a bitter medicine.

But if Su Qiuya doesn't take the medicine, how can she regulate her body?

Su Qiuya was reluctant to add sugar, saying that it would affect the efficacy of the medicine, but she just drank it.

"What are you learning?" Su Qiuya looked at Liu Yanbo, "Don't you have to teach those people normally? It's okay, just drink for a year or two."

"That was a very long time," Liu Yanbo said. "It was very hard."

Liu Yanbo thought he had to think of a way to make medicinal food. His cooking skills were not that good, so he could only give it a try.