Ji Zhang refused without hesitation: "Impossible, I will not let you go. To tell you the truth, I have married a new wife, she is the Prime Minister's daughter, and she is already five months pregnant."
"Are you afraid that I will bring Yun Yuan here?" Ji Huai looked at the flickering candlelight and sneered, "I misjudged you. She is so unlucky to marry you." His voice was low and cold, filled with anger, and he felt sorry for Yun Yuan.
Ji Zhang sat there quietly without responding to Ji Huai's words. After a long time, he slowly spoke.
"I do this so that we can have a better life in the future. When we meet her later, she will understand me."
Ji Huai sneered: "You continue to be so self-righteous. With Yun Yuan's looks, she can have any man she wants. Even if you go to her in the future, she won't want you."
Ji Zhang said, "You don't understand. The current emperor has no children, and he intends to adopt a child from the royal family to raise in the palace as his eldest grandson. And as everyone knows, Prince Su is the closest to the emperor."
"So you want to compete with your brothers?"
Ji Zhang: "I didn't have such thoughts originally, but who made them give birth to daughters? No one would be indifferent to the throne. If my son becomes the crown prince, then I will be his biological father. From now on, my bloodline will be the most noble people in the Yuan Dynasty, completely changing the family line!"
Ji Huai: "I think you are crazy."
Ji Zhang said, "What is a man's life for? It's nothing more than power and beauty. If the two must be compared, power is definitely more important. As long as you have power, beauties will naturally come to you. They will even do everything they can to curry your favor. Without power, you will have nothing."
Ji Huai: "What about Yun Yuan? Is she one of the many beauties you want? Don't forget that you were just a poor scholar when she married you."
Ji Zhang: "Of course she is different. I will go back and find her later."
Ji Huai smiled and didn't burst his dream. "Then I wish you success."
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As spring passed and summer came, Yun Yuan gave birth to a son.
Far away in the Su Wang Mansion in the capital, Yuan Qi'an's wife, Zhou, also gave birth to a son prematurely, who was born a month earlier than Yun Yuan's son.
Ji Zhang was overjoyed. Late at night, he took some food and wine to the prison to find Ji Huai to celebrate, but he did not see him.
He quickly called over the prison guard: "Uncle Wu, where is Ji Huairen?"
The person who called Wu Bo was the one who brought Ji Zhang back. He was one of the guards of the palace, and Ji Zhang trusted him very much.
Uncle Wu was very surprised when he heard that Ji Huai was missing.
The secret prison was left behind by King Su and had been abandoned for many years. He happened to have the key, so he gave the right to use the secret prison to Ji Zhang.
The two men searched the secret cell and confirmed that Ji Huai was nowhere to be found. They returned to the place where Ji Huai was imprisoned and found that a hole had been violently knocked in the wall blocking the straw bed, just enough for an adult male to get in. The two men went through the hole in the wall to the next room and saw the scene in front of them clearly. Ji Zhang's face turned black.
They saw a hole dug in the ground, with freshly dug soil piled next to it, just lying there without any cover, but they didn't discover it until now!
Ji Zhang moved forward with difficulty along the secret passage. When he saw the light again, he found himself in an abandoned stable in the palace. He finally believed that Ji Huai had really run away.
He didn't dare to look for someone openly, so he could only ask Wu Bo to look for him secretly. Because he was afraid that his secret would be discovered, Ji Zhang lost ten pounds in a month, which made Princess Su very distressed.
Although nothing happened during this period, Ji Zhang did not relax his vigilance and asked Wu Bo to go to Qingcheng to find out the whereabouts of Ji Huai and Yun Yuan.
Yun Yuan was coming to the capital with Mu Xingzhi at this time. When she was in the fifth month of her pregnancy, Yan Xiaoman was released and wanted to make money by selling soap.
Yun Yuan used the same trick again. Huai Shang Restaurant gave soap to customers for free. As long as the consumption in the last month was more than ten taels, they could register to receive a bar of beautifully shaped soap for free, or they could buy one bar for one tael of silver.
Compared with the rough handmade soap made by Yan Xiaoman, the soap given away by the restaurant not only has various patterns, but also different colors and fragrances. It became popular throughout Qingcheng as soon as it was launched.
The purchase restriction that Yan Xiaoman came up with so confidently seemed like a joke, and she was outdone by Yun Yuan again.
In fact, the soap made by Yan Xiaoman is much better than those made from soapnut soap powder. As long as she doesn't compete with Yun Yuan and focuses on the mid- and low-end market, she can also make a lot of money. However, after the previous incidents, the people of Qingcheng have been secretly comparing her with Yun Yuan. Yan Xiaoman couldn't bear to hear others say that she was not as good as Yun Yuan, so she changed track again.
The weather was getting colder at that time, and she thought of the hot pot that was very popular in winter in her previous life. She decided to make the hot pot base and open a hot pot restaurant of her own.
Having experienced failure in her previous business ventures, she was particularly attentive this time, and finally she concocted a hot pot base that she thought was quite good.
As a result, just two days after opening, Huai Shang Restaurant had hot pot, spicy hot pot base, tomato hot pot base, mushroom hot pot base, etc., and even a specially made mandarin duck iron pot, and once again made a lot of money.
Yan Xiaoman secretly went there to eat once and came back in a bad mood, but this time she did not close the store because she had no money to spend, so she just let it go if she couldn't compete.
Even so, her shop did not last long, because the hot pot base that she could make could also be made by others. Soon, there were many hot pot restaurants on the street. Although their hot pot bases could not compare with the hot pot base of Huai Shang Restaurant, they easily squeezed out Yan Xiaoman.
The reason why Yun Yuan’s hot pot base is irreplaceable is that she added a small amount of spiritual spring water to it. Not only does it taste more delicious, but it also won’t cause internal heat. It is also good for the body if eaten for a long time.
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