"In just two days, the price of grain in the capital has risen by 70% and is about to double."
"I can still buy a little stalk rice, but brown rice, beans, and wheat are all out of stock today. The grain store in the city said that we won't be able to buy them until the day after tomorrow at the earliest."
"I heard that our house doesn't have much food in stock. The kitchen has changed from steaming rice to rice porridge these past two days. It's okay for me to go hungry for two days. But you haven't been in good health since you finished your confinement, so you can't stand going hungry... You see, should we take some money and buy some rice and flour in private to store?"
In the Qifeng Courtyard of the Jinyang Marquis' Mansion, Cui Tao lowered her voice and asked Xue Linglong. Since returning to the Marquis of Jinyang's Mansion, Xue Linglong has only kept Cui Tao as her personal servant.
Of the three "Tao" who followed her at the beginning, only Cui Tao is left now. Xue Linglong didn't trust others, and usually didn't allow other servants in the mansion to get close to her.
"I still have two thousand taels of silver in my dressing box. Use it to buy some rice and flour and send it to..."
Xue Linglong was speechless for a moment. Neither the Jinyang Marquis Mansion nor the Xue family was a place where she could feel at ease. The land deeds and house deeds she had in her hands had already been sold one after another in the past two years.
Now there are only a few silver bills left to be kept in the bottom of the box.
In this vast world, there is no place she can trust.
For a moment, Xue Linglong couldn't help but feel sad.
After thinking for a moment, he gritted his teeth and took off the jade bracelet on his wrist. "Pawn this. Use the money from the pawn to buy a small courtyard not far from Xuanwu Street. It doesn't have to be too big, and the house doesn't have to be old or new. As long as there is a cellar in the courtyard to store things, it will be fine."
"Twenty percent of the food we bought will be transported back to the mansion, and the remaining eighty percent will be stored in that cellar. I'll give you two days off to prepare these. Can you do it?"
Among the three peaches, Xiutao was meticulous, Bitao was bold, but Cuitao was the most comprehensive one. Xue Linglong felt at ease leaving things to her.
Sometimes she even wondered, if she had brought Xiutao or Bitao with her, and let Cuitao accompany the little girl, the little girl would not have been lost by the Xue family.
But it's just a thought. There is no medicine for regret in the world.
If she could really go back to the past, she would never hand the little girl over to the Xue family and enter the palace alone.
No, earlier, perhaps she should not have left the Marquis of Jinyang's Mansion and become the disciple of the Second Prince.
But whether in the dream or in the current situation, the Second Prince is clearly the next emperor, and her choice is not wrong...
The only thing wrong is timing and luck.
Perhaps, she should just stay in the Marquis of Jinyang's Mansion and secretly recommend herself to become the Second Prince's aide.
One wrong step, all wrong.
What exactly makes everything different from what it was in the dream?
This prevented her from continuing the trajectory in her dream and successfully running businesses that incorporated modern ideas, thus attracting the attention of the Second Prince's followers.
It's a shop under Wei Yunlan's control...
Everything started to change from the moment Wei Yunlan and Chen Feng divorced, and she was directly promoted from a concubine to the Crown Prince's wife.
Xue Linglong sat in front of the mirror, frowning as she looked at her blurry reflection in the bronze mirror.
Then her eyes fell on the almost half-empty makeup box in front of the mirror.
This makeup box was left by her at the Marquis of Jinyang's mansion. Apart from the silver bills, the jewellery inside was inconvenient to carry with her when she left, so she only took a few items she had bought herself. As for the ones that Chen Feng had given her over the years she had been with him, she kept them all.
But now that I'm back, my makeup box is much emptier.
At first glance, you can see that nearly half are missing, and what is missing are those with good water content and sufficient weight!
It goes without saying where the remaining ones went.
It was nothing more than being sold off by that spineless wimp, Shen Feng!
How did life become like this...
Xue Linglong felt as if there was a gust of air stuck in her chest, unable to go up or down. The happier you are in your dreams, the more frustrated you feel in reality.
She even felt a little regretful that she did not step forward to stop Wei Yunlan when she decided to divorce and leave the Marquis' Mansion.
If at that time, she had left Wei Yunlan in the Marquis' Mansion, would everything continue as in the dream?
As soon as this thought came to her mind, Xue Linglong couldn't help but feel dazed for a moment.
Then something suddenly flashed through my mind.
The details that she had not noticed in her dream were suddenly remembered by her.
She lowered her head and her eyes fell on the half-empty makeup box.
In her dreams, she never seemed to worry about losing her jewelry, not because she and Chen Feng had a harmonious relationship in her dreams, nor because she was surrounded by servants in her dreams.
Rather, in the dream, I did not store those valuables in a place where others could reach them...
So, where do you keep things in your dreams?
Xue Linglong frowned, and there seemed to be a little pain between her eyebrows.
I tried hard to remember the scenes that I missed in my dream, but those fragmented scenes were like sand through my fingers, and I couldn't grasp them no matter how hard I tried.
"What did you ask Cui Tao to do outside the house?" Chen Feng entered the main room of Qifeng Courtyard at some point, looked at Xue Linglong who was sitting in a daze in front of the dressing table, and asked suspiciously.
Xue Linglong came back to her senses, and the stinging pain between her eyebrows subsided a little.
Although she was a little tired, she still managed to cheer herself up and made up an excuse: "I heard that the pawnbroker in the south of the city brought in a group of young children and pretty maids from outside. I asked Cuitao to ask around and see if she could find the whereabouts of that girl, Bitao and Xiutao."
Her brows were full of bitterness at this moment, and she really looked a bit like a mother who was worried about the whereabouts of her daughter.
Although Shen Feng felt that she was too eager and came too late, he did not doubt her any more and asked, "If there is a batch of supplies that needs to be concealed and transferred thousands of miles away, do you have a way?"
Xue Linglong frowned again subconsciously when she heard that.
If she was so powerful, why would she ask Cuitao to buy a house with a cellar to store food?
But as soon as she thought of this, she was stunned.
In the dream, it seemed that he had indeed secretly transported a batch of arms to the northern border for the second prince.
How did I do it in the dream?
Xue Linglong's eyebrows were revealed, and her expression changed again and again, while Chen Feng stared at her intently.
Don't miss any expression on her face.
When he saw Xue Linglong's face darken and she answered him "there is no way", a hint of disappointment flashed across Shen Feng's eyes.
This life is different from the previous life. In the previous life, Xue Linglong clearly had a way to transport military equipment for the second prince.
Although we don't know what that "magical power" is exactly, it is certain that she can make a large amount of supplies disappear and then appear somewhere else. It’s just like the “world up their sleeves” that only gods have in mythological stories.
In this life, she clearly also has this kind of "magical power".
The things that disappeared from the Marquis's mansion warehouse and the warehouse where Wei Yunlan's dowry was completely destroyed after a fire are the best proof.
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