Chapter 264 The Emperor’s Reward
Perhaps it was because he had been lying down for too long. When the emperor stood up, he felt dizzy and seemed about to faint. He closed his eyes and calmed down, and the dizziness felt better.
"Father, are you okay?" Murong Li asked while holding him tightly.
The emperor waved his hand and said, "Help me over."
Murong Li nodded and helped him sit on a chair. Su Yue quickly set the table for him. "Father, please have some soup before you eat."
As she spoke, she poured a bowl of soup and placed it in front of him.
This is a soup made with the thousand-year-old ginseng and pheasant in the space. It took me a whole morning to make it.
Whether it is ginseng or pheasant, after staying in the space for a long time, it will also have spiritual energy. Eating the soup made from it can replenish qi and blood very well.
The emperor now focuses on replenishing qi and blood.
The emperor looked at the bowl of orange soup with a strong aroma, smelled it, and it was really fragrant. He quickly scooped a spoonful and drank it. The soup looked oily, but it tasted not greasy in his mouth, and it had a strong ginseng flavor.
"Fourth brother's wife, there is ginseng in this, and the years of life are not short."
The emperor's eyes lit up and he asked in surprise. As an emperor, he had eaten countless ginsengs, but the ginsengs he had eaten only had a slight ginseng flavor, almost like eating white radish.
But this ginseng is different. It has a strong ginseng scent that is refreshing and invigorating, and it also has his favorite scent.
Su Yue nodded and said, "Yes, Father, this is what we dug up on the mountain in Yunwu Village. This ginseng is at least a thousand years old. Your body couldn't be replenished like this two days ago, so we can only use warming tonic.
Now that your body has recovered some of its vitality, you can slowly start replenishing it, so I stewed it today."
The emperor smiled and said, "You are so thoughtful. What reward does the fourth son's wife want?"
Su Yue blinked. This stingy emperor asked her for a reward just today. He didn't even reward them when they woke him up the day he came back. Now the sun is rising from the west today?
She smiled and said, "Father, you can give us anything you want. Shops, farms, anything will do."
They had just returned and had no property at all. It was not because they had no money to buy it, but because they had no time at all. They didn't even have time to go back to Anding Prefecture to take a look.
They were trapped in this palace by the emperor, one of them being his cook and the other his servant.
The emperor laughed heartily: "Hahaha... Fine, father will give you a few shops and farms. Come here."
The emperor laughed happily a few times. The fourth son's wife was really a wonderful person. She didn't want gold, silver or treasures, but only shops and farms, which saved him money.
He owned a lot of farms and shops, including those from Tutor Jun, Duke Rong's Mansion, and the Prince's Mansion. It didn't matter if he had too many farms and shops.
Those three people were all ruthless people. They took away all the property he had, which was more than the private property of the emperor.
It’s fine to give any seven or eight of the fourth brother’s children, as long as they don’t ask him for money.
"Your Majesty, what are your orders?"
The eunuch outside shouted and someone came in immediately. It turned out to be Eunuch Zhu Jiu.
"Huh? Why are you back, old man?"
When the emperor saw it was him, he asked in surprise.
Zhu Jiu fell to his knees with a plop, tears streaming down his face, and said, "Your Majesty, please forgive me. I came back today because I was really worried about you, so I came back on my own. Please punish me for coming back without permission."
The emperor waved his hand at him and said, "You are so old and still crying. Aren't you afraid that the Fourth Brother and the others will laugh at you? Get up quickly. I won't blame you. Go and get the deeds to the shops and farms, and let the Fourth Brother's wife pick a few."
The Ninth Eunuch blinked his eyes. Why did the emperor become so easy to talk to?
In the past, the emperor would not be satisfied unless he was beaten to the point of paralysis. Even though he was an old man by the emperor's side, the emperor would still do it.
He quickly kowtowed to the emperor and said, "Thank you, Your Majesty. I will get it right away."
He got up and ran away happily.
Su Yue glanced at the somewhat funny Ninth Eunuch, then turned to Murong Li and winked at him. She said that casually, and the emperor actually gave her a shop and a farm.
Murong Li smiled at her, meaning that she should be welcome.
The emperor was really generous today and gave them several shops and farms. Normally, it would be difficult to pick a hair from his hand.
I think it was the cement incident today and the thousand-year-old ginseng incident at noon that finally made him pull out a few hairs.
Su Yue understood Murong Li's meaning and smiled. It would be a waste if she didn't want the emperor's things.
In fact, even if Murong Li disagreed, she would still take it, because that was what she deserved.
When he moved things from the treasury, at least two-thirds of them were gone. Some of them were used in Northwest County, and there was also the one million taels of silver notes that Murong Li took yesterday.
It can be considered as helping him make the best use of it.
In fact, there are many land deeds in it, but how can she transfer those deeds? That would be a confession. She is not that stupid.
Moreover, given the emperor's temperament, he would have reissued the title deed as soon as possible after the theft. Who would dare not do that for his things?
Soon, the Ninth Eunuch brought a stack of land deeds and placed them in front of the emperor. The emperor then pushed the stack of deeds directly in front of Su Yue and said, "Take whichever one you like."
Su Yue looked at the pile of deeds, her eyes curved with a smile. She said, "Then I won't be polite. Father, please don't feel bad."
The emperor's mouth twitched. Can he take the deed away now?
Don't feel sad, he is feeling sad now.
But he didn't say anything, just looked at Su Yue with a smile, thinking in his heart, the fourth son's wife must not be too greedy and pick too many things.
In fact, Su Yue didn't pick and choose. She only took a few shops and two large farms above.
"Father, my daughter-in-law wants these. Please take a look."
Su Yue still placed the shop and farm she had taken in front of the emperor. The emperor took a glance at them and breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the aura of the place. Although the shop and farm she had taken were very large, the locations were not very good.
A shop like that is not even worthy of being used to reward ministers, but the fourth son's wife actually chose it.
As for the two farms, although they are large, they do not produce food and are short of water. They are located at the foot of the mountain and are not near a river.
He didn't know that Su Yue chose these two farms because they were very useful. She just thought that the farms were big. As for whether there was a lack of water, she didn't know and it didn't matter. She wanted to use these two farms to grow sweet potatoes.
Sweet potatoes don't require much water and are not picky about soil quality. As long as they are planted and there is no shortage of water, they will not die from dryness.
As long as the village is big enough, it will be fine.
She had cultivated a lot of sweet potatoes in her space, and she wanted to cultivate some more seeds so that she could popularize them in Xifeng Country.
(End of this chapter)
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