When Jiang Qingqing came out of the Princess's Mansion, the sun was already setting.

She did not go back in a carriage, but simply walked back to the princess's mansion.

But when she walked into the main hall, she saw Jiang Chen, who had not been seen for several days, sitting in the main seat, pressing his temple with a tired look on his face.

Jiang Chen has been running between Qizhen and Kyoto these days, and he looks exhausted and tired.

"Gan Yuan, go to the central hall, clean the room, and prepare some hot water and a set of clothes for my brother. Gan Lin, go to the kitchen and ask someone to make some chicken soup."

After Jiang Qingqing told the two people to go down, she walked into the front hall.

"elder brother."

The girl's clear voice sounded, and Jiang Chen raised his head. After he looked at his sister, his expression obviously eased a little.

"Let's put the serious business aside for later. Go take a hot bath and rest for a while. I'll wait for you in the warm room in the middle hall." Jiang Qingqing stretched out her hand, palm facing up towards Jiang Chen, and looked at him with a bright smile.

He didn't feel bothered at all by being entangled with Qi Zhen today.

This kind of atmosphere actually made Jiang Chen feel a little relieved.

He reached out and held his sister's hand, then let go after standing up, indicating that her hands were not washed and asked her to wash them later.

By the time Jiang Chen walked out of the clean room and came to the warm room refreshed, the chicken soup porridge had already been prepared on the table.

Jiang Qingqing pointed casually at the opposite side. She was breaking an orange in her hand.

Before Xiao Linting left, he specially picked a bunch of oranges for Gan Lin. If Gan Lin hadn't stopped him and said that peeled oranges would soon lose moisture, Xiao Linting would have peeled all the oranges piled high in the soil.

Looking at the oranges, Jiang Qingqing thought of Xiao Linting. She was staring at the oranges in a daze and didn't even notice that Jiang Chen had come out.

"Don't you hate eating fruits that need to be peeled? You won't eat any unpeeled fruits, but you eat a lot of peeled ones." Jiang Chen was a little surprised to see Jiang Qingqing distracted by an orange.

Jiang Qingqing broke off a slice of orange and put it in her mouth, speaking incoherently, "I like it, don't mind me."

Jiang Chen pursed his lips. He had heard this too many times and no longer felt hurt. He simply sat opposite Jiang Qingqing, ate half a bowl of chicken soup porridge, and after filling his stomach a little, he elegantly wiped the corners of his mouth with a handkerchief.

"Today, the Dali Temple has been investigating the situation in Qi Town all day. Finally, the results are out. There is no problem in other places in Qi Town, including the residential alleys. It is said that it was a misunderstanding in the memorial. Father demoted the Minister of Revenue who submitted the memorial."

Jiang Chen spoke in a deep voice about today's results.

Jiang Qingqing lowered her eyes and tore the white veins on the orange, listening with an indifferent expression.

Jiang Chen's next words were somewhat hesitant.

"The only place is still being investigated by the Dali Temple. The situation does not look optimistic."

Jiang Qingqing had guessed this a long time ago. She couldn't help but think of how the eldest princess had called that group of people old bastards today, and a self-deprecating smile appeared on the corner of her mouth.

"Are they still eyeing the fat piece of meat of Lin'an Pavilion? The daily net profit is as high as 1,000 taels of silver, which is several times higher than the annual salary of a civil servant."

Jiang Qingqing spoke coldly and helped Jiang Chen finish the rest of his words.

Jiang Chen stared at his sister in front of him in a daze. After a while, he said, "So you already know everything."

Jiang Qingqing shrugged, took another bite of the orange and shook her head.

"I don't know. I can only guess based on what happened in the previous court today and what the imperial aunt said. They think that Lin'an Pavilion is a mobile treasury. As long as they take over this treasury, they will have countless silver."

Jiang Qingqing curled her lips and sneered, "They look down on my plan back then."

Jiang Chen had long known that his sister was much more cunning than him. If Jiang Qingqing was not a girl, with such a clever and calculating mind, it would have been easy for her to become the crown prince.

Jiang Qingqing held her chin and looked at Jiang Chen in front of her, her eyebrows curved as she looked at him.

"I set up Lin'an Pavilion myself. I don't think I know much about its operation. Are you worried that if Lin'an Pavilion is really swallowed up by those old bastards, will we lose money?"

This is a question.

Jiang Chen nodded.

Jiang Qingqing smiled and said, "I had guessed that this day would come. They were so generous in giving us Ba Village because they were sure that Ba Village would not be a good place. So from the day I planned Ba Village, I was ready. When Ba Village becomes Qi Town and becomes bigger and stronger, they will definitely eat this piece of fat meat in an ugly way."

“So I had already kept a hand.”

Jiang Qingqing used her free hand to fiddle with the orange peel in front of her, and spoke in a relaxed and comfortable manner as if it had nothing to do with her.

"Lin'an Pavilion's main source of income has long since shifted. Although it seems that the first and third floors earn their profits from tea fees, in fact, these only make a few dozen taels of profit a day. The gambling house on the second floor, which seems to be the largest circulation of goods, switched from cash to chips as early as a month before my birthday."

"Speaking of the second floor, I did not do it right." Jiang Qingqing shrugged indifferently.

"I told everyone on the second floor of the gambling house that I was cheating so that they could only lose and not win. If they lost, they could buy chips to continue gambling. However, I had already laundered the money for buying chips by taking advantage of the flow of money from the tea and water purchases on the first and third floors."

Jiang Qingqing raised the end of her eyebrows and looked at Jiang Chen who was stunned in front of her, and she smiled slyly.

"In Lin'an Pavilion today, if the income from silver is interrupted even for a short time, the circulation will soon stop. As long as I withdraw the tea merchants I have acquired, the money will no longer circulate."

Hearing this, Jiang Chen clapped his hands with great emotion, "I never thought, sister, that you actually have such talent."

Jiang Qingqing waved her hands and sneered, "It's nothing. I was just forced to learn it by these people."

Jiang Chen restrained his expression, but still seriously confirmed one thing, "So, according to all your plans, if Lin'an Pavilion is really taken away, it will not affect us at all, and we can even leave a mess to them?"

"You can understand it that way. I threw out a sugar-coated bullet." Jiang Qingqing nodded.

When Jiang Chen heard the answer he wanted, he completely put his worries aside.

Qi Zhen’s matter has come to an end.

Jiang Chen then recalled the other things he had seen in Qi Town today, and said to Jiang Qingqing with a serious expression, "Do you know that the one who is cooperating with the Dali Temple to go to Lin'an Pavilion today is the eldest prince?"

Jiang Qingqing didn't respond, but only asked, "What's wrong with him?"