Ever since Su Qiuya and Liu Yanbo arrived in the capital, she had reopened her shop and devoted herself even more to researching new foods. The chefs in the wealthy families were all very good, having trained for years. Su Qiuya knew it would be difficult for her to rival them, so she continued to research.
Some of the dishes Su Qiuya developed were copied within a month of her creation. Su Qiuya was frustrated by this, as her creations were often too simple. After a quick glance and a few attempts at making them, they would figure out how to make them.
If you keep making the same food, people may not like it. Even if some people like a certain food, they may not always come to the store to eat it.
Su Qiuya built a simple oven in the yard. She wanted to make some flatbreads and spread some special sauces on them. She also made some snacks with goat's milk and cow's milk to make the guests like them.
"Let's make fish meal in a few days." Su Qiuya said.
Fish is relatively cheap. Even though there are various ways to eat fish now, the price of fish is not particularly expensive.
Su Qiuya thought that some people didn't have that much money, so they chose to eat fish. She wanted to reduce costs and also wanted to make the fish more delicious. Her shop already had a wide variety of food, including hot and sour noodles, fish noodles, and sweet potato noodles.
Su Qiuya doesn't specialize in one type of food, mainly because she doesn't like to make the same food all the time. She chooses a few to make every day, which can attract more customers.
"Okay," Liu Yanbo said, "Do you want to buy some fish?"
"Yes, don't you have a friend whose family is a fisherman?" Su Qiuya said, "You can ask them to send the fish to us, but we want live fish, not dead ones. We will pay the same price as the outside world."
Liu Yanbo is no longer arrogant. He has changed a lot now. He has also met many ordinary friends. His friends are not of high status, but they are also very hardworking and have their own things to do.
"Okay." Liu Yanbo nodded, "That's easy."
"We need to talk it over and sign the contract once we've agreed on something." Su Qiuya said, "You're friends, so we need a contract. Don't wait until later when problems arise to discuss these things. That would be bad."
Su Qiuya believes that when doing business, you should put everything down on paper, rather than just saying we are good friends. In the business world, there are no permanent friends, and you may become a competitor in the future.
"That's exactly what we should do." Liu Yanbo said, "Don't go to Second Sister's place recently. She's been making a fuss lately."
When Liu Yanbo thought of Liu Yuqin, he felt helpless.
The people of Jingning Marquis Mansion broke off their relationship with Liu Yuqin, and this was not something he could decide. Liu Yanbo knew that Liu Yuqin was very sad, and he also knew that it would be difficult for Liu Yuqin to get married again, but what could he do? He couldn't go to Jingning Marquis Mansion, and he couldn't force those people to recognize Liu Yuqin again.
Liu Yanbo knew he was abandoned by the Liu family, and he knew where he was wrong. But did Liu Yuqin know where she was wrong? Liu Yuqin only thought it was all because of Liu Yulian, and it had nothing to do with Liu Yulian.
Thinking carefully, Liu Yanbo didn't find that Liu Yulian had done anything wrong to them. It was them, the older brothers and sisters, who hadn't been so kind to Liu Yulian.
"Her marriage hasn't been decided yet." Su Qiuya thought Liu Yuqin just couldn't live without men. Liu Yuqin also wanted to marry a man of high status. "I heard that she fell on the street a few days ago, and happened to fall in front of a second-rank official."
The second-rank official's wife had just died some time ago, and Su Qiuya wondered whether Liu Yuqin had really fallen or just pretended to fall. The official held a high position, so even if he wanted to remarry, he would not have chosen Liu Yuqin.
For someone like Liu Yuqin, at most she could be someone's concubine.
Su Qiuya said this in front of Liu Yanbo so that Liu Yanbo could be mentally prepared.
"Others aren't stupid," Liu Yanbo said. "Regardless of whether that person intends to deal with Princess Rongning or the Marquis of Jingning's Mansion, he will never marry my second sister, nor will he take her as a concubine."
Liu Yanbo thought that anyone who could become a second-rank official couldn't be a fool. That person must have considered it. Liu Yuqin had a bad reputation outside. Liu Yuqin had been divorced twice, and those people must have known that there was something wrong with Liu Yuqin.
"Then her thoughts are in vain." Su Qiuya said.
"She can't force anyone to marry her in this state, so let her be." Liu Yanbo said, "She will eventually realize that everything she does now is in vain. Without the Marquis' Mansion, she is nothing."
Liu Yuqin herself was not a very capable person. She did not have the ability of Liu Yulian, nor was she as good at cooking as Su Qiuya. Liu Yuqin did not have much money. For a poor scholar, the money in her hands might be enough, but for a scholar with a little talent, there were also officials who would take a fancy to such people.
Even if those scholars are not favored by officials, they can work hard on their own. They don't have to marry a wife like Liu Yuqin.
Just as Liu Yanbo had said, Liu Yuqin hadn't been having a good time recently. She tried to get in touch with people of higher status, but she was no longer the daughter of a marquis, so some people stopped interacting with her. Even Madam Qin told her to avoid them.
"My eldest sister is also a person who forgets her principles when she sees profit." Liu Yuqin gritted her teeth.
Liu Yuqin stayed at home, and the more she thought about it, the angrier she became.
Fortunately, she thought her elder sister was nice to her. She thought her elder sister was disliked by Liu Yulian and her mother because of her. She thought her elder sister would stand on her side this time. Who knew that the wife of Young Master Qin was unwilling to see her more.
"It's so hard to see her," Liu Yuqin said. "It's the same with the others. They used to come right up to me, and if I didn't talk to them, they'd ask if I'd forgotten about them. Now, they just want to stay away from me. Even if I see them on the street from a distance, they still avoid me."
When the Jingning Marquis's Mansion was raided, Liu Yuqin was detained by the Mei family. She did not leave, so she did not feel much about other people's attitude towards her. When the Jingning Marquis's Mansion was restored, the Mei family let Liu Yuqin out, and those people naturally treated Liu Yuqin very well again.
"That's just how they are," Aunt Qing said. "For the time being, just stay home and wait for a while. It hasn't even been three months since the emperor passed away."
According to the regulations of the Daliang Dynasty, wedding banquets could only be held three months after the emperor's death, but funerals were not so particular.
Aunt Qing knew that Liu Yuqin wanted to surpass Liu Yulian, but she didn't have the final say on this matter. If possible, she would certainly hope to find a marquis or a prince for her daughter, so that her daughter could directly become a woman of high status.
Even if her daughter is not as strong as Liu Yulian, she still wants her daughter to not have to bow her head so much in front of Liu's mother.
But this is just what Aunt Qing thinks in her heart, it will never come true.
No one thought about whether Liu Yuqin could research anything. After all, if someone doesn't have the same father, then everyone can have the same brain.
Liu Yuqin was despised by others, as they were unwilling to marry a woman who had been divorced twice.
Meanwhile, Mrs. Huo was unable to leave the farm. She didn't dare to die; she was afraid. She was reborn, and she remembered that Liu Yulian had married a man with a scar on his face in her previous life. That man wasn't as handsome as He Xiyuan.
The man with the scar must not be He Xiyuan. He Xiyuan did not serve in the army all his life. He Xiyuan later returned to Beijing from the barracks. He Xiyuan went to take the imperial examination and did not continue in the barracks.
Mrs. Huo wanted He Xiyuan to know that Liu Yulian had married someone else in her previous life, so whether He Xiyuan would not like Liu Yulian as much.
No man likes his woman to have been used by another man, even in the so-called past life. Perhaps He Xiyuan would not be very happy, then He Xiyuan has a thorn in his heart. Given Liu Yulian's personality, the two of them could not live a happy life.
"As long as you deliver this letter, I will give you enough silver to ensure you a worry-free life for the rest of your life." Mrs. Huo said to a maid, "Your son will be able to find a good wife. You don't have to go and deliver the letter yourself, but you must see the letter reach He Xiyuan's hands with your own eyes."
Mrs. Huo had been at the manor for a long time, and she thought that if Liu Yulian hadn't researched so many things, she wouldn't have lived so poorly. She wouldn't have thought about how well the people in the Marquis of Jingning were doing now, and she would have lived a good life with Lord Ouyang at that time.
This is all because Liu Yulian is different from her previous life.
Mrs. Huo wrote a lot in the letter. She said that Liu Yulian was not like this in her previous life and that she was reborn. Liu Yulian did not like the general with the scar, so she chose He Xiyuan.
In short, Liu Yulian is not a very good woman.
When the letter arrived in He Xiyuan's hands, he was about to go find Liu Yulian. He read the contents of the letter and frowned. He couldn't keep this letter. Although he didn't know who wrote it, he was sure that if Liu Yulian had married a general with a scar on his face in her previous life, that general would have been him.
The letter claimed Sister Lian was different from her past life, but He Xiyuan could sense that Sister Lian was the same as she was in her childhood, the same person. The letter claimed Sister Lian had been reborn, but He Xiyuan couldn't sense it. He did hear that Sister Lian had fallen seriously ill while traveling to the northwest, and that when the Liu family split up, Sister Lian was still unconscious in her bed.
"Ha, who are you trying to fool?" After reading the letter, He Xiyuan knew that the writer had hidden a lot of things.
He Xiyuan didn't burn the letter. He wasn't afraid that the person would continue writing letters, nor was he afraid that the person would spread the contents of the letter. He Xiyuan didn't believe that anyone else had figured out Liu Yulian's past life. If someone else had figured it out, how would Liu Yulian know?
According to the letter, after being exiled, Liu Yulian became a complete village girl. A woman of advanced age marrying a general with a scar on his face, and the letter also implied that Liu Yulian married the general to climb the social ladder, so Liu Yulian shouldn't have known so much.
How could an ordinary person know so much? If there really was someone who was reborn, it should be the person who wrote the letter.
He Xiyuan did not go to find Liu Yulian, he turned around and went into the palace. He did not think that the person who wrote the letter did not do other things. Sister Lian was such a simple person, and Sister Lian should not be able to deal with such a dark person. He still had to let the emperor know.
Otherwise the emperor would find out through other channels later, which would be even more disadvantageous to Sister Lian.
In the imperial study, when the emperor saw the letter, he frowned.
"If it's a culture medium that someone else is researching, even a village girl can figure out how to prepare it. But what about the others?" the emperor asked. "What about the person who wrote the letter?"
The emperor had long known that someone would cause trouble for Liu Yulian. Before his death, the late emperor had repeatedly told the emperor not to be suspicious. Liu Yulian was truly talented. People like Liu Yulian were not the kind of people who would take other people's things for themselves. If a person was not good at this, how could he remember so many things?
How could the imperial court possibly disclose those formulas? Even if they did, there were no specific ratios, so how could anyone know them? Even if there were, what about the order in which the herbs were added to the culture medium?
The emperor did not foolishly think that Liu Yulian had plagiarized other people's work, and Liu Yulian did not claim that she had researched it all on her own. She also said that she was based on the work of her predecessors. It is also true that Liu Yulian read a lot of books when she was young.
Do those people think that Liu Yulian is still young, so no matter how many books Liu Yulian reads, it won’t be much more?
"I don't know." He Xiyuan said, "Maybe this person will write letters again in the future."
"Catch the person behind this." The emperor said calmly, but he still teased He Xiyuan, "Who is that ugly general with the scar?"
"It is undoubtedly me," He Xiyuan said. "I once thought that if my family disagreed, I would stay in the military camp and rise step by step. I can't give up Sister Lian. Even if my brother's legs don't heal, I can still have children. There is someone who can be the Crown Prince, so I am not needed."
"It's just your temper." Even though the emperor had a better relationship with He Xiyuan's brother, he still felt that He Xiyuan was no better than He Xichen. "If that person really had those things in his previous life, they should have been researched by Sister Lian. It's also possible that that person was reborn and Sister Lian researched them ahead of time. God will not treat kind-hearted people unfairly."
He Xiyuan thought that Liu Yulian had no secrets. There were so many people in the world who no longer had to go hungry. Those people could eat more and would not starve to death.
"That person must not like Sister Lian." He Xiyuan said, "It must be someone who has contact with the Jingning Marquis Mansion. That person must have lived in the northwest in his previous life."
"That's right," the emperor said. "If you have nothing else to do these few days, please keep an eye on Rongning. I'll also send a few people to secretly protect her to prevent any accidents."
The emperor was worried that Liu Yulian had been assassinated, so they would not be able to get so many good things. After all, no one could guarantee that there would not be such a stupid idiot. You know, the things Liu Yulian researched were not hidden, and everyone could benefit from it.
It's just that some powerful people might think it's better for Liu Yulian not to research those things. How can those powerful people care about what happens to ordinary people?
"Yes." He Xiyuan felt relieved when he heard the emperor say that. He was worried about his sister Lian.
Mrs. Huo had no idea that He Xiyuan had directly told the emperor about this matter. She thought that He Xiyuan could not possibly be so fond of Liu Yulian. In her previous life, Liu Yulian was very favored by the ugly general. The ugly general did not take concubines, so he treated Liu Yulian wholeheartedly.
Uncle Huo didn't know that the Huo family had done such a thing. If he knew, he would definitely be angry and he would never let the Huo family do such a thing.
It was already late when He Xiyuan left the palace, but he still went to the Jingning Marquis Mansion.
Liu Yulian didn't expect He Xiyuan to come to the Marquis' Mansion at this time, so she still went to the small gate to meet He Xiyuan.
"Why are you here so late?" Liu Yulian said, "It's already dark."
"I wanted to see you, so I came here." He Xiyuan said with a smile, "Let's go out and play tomorrow."
"We have to go to the farm tomorrow." Liu Yulian said.
"Then is it convenient for me to go with you?" He Xiyuan asked.
"It's convenient, yes." Liu Yulian nodded, "but it might not be that fun."
"How can it be boring with you here?" He Xiyuan chuckled. "I came here in a hurry today and didn't bring you any cakes. Tomorrow, I'll bring some cakes so you don't have to get up early to make them."
"Are the pastries I made not delicious?" Liu Yulian asked.
"No, I don't want you to be too tired." He Xiyuan reached out and touched Liu Yulian's cheek, "Sleep later and wake up naturally. Then we can go to the farm together."
"Then you can't come too early. If you come early and I'm not awake, you'll have to wait." Liu Yulian said.
"It's just a wait." He Xiyuan didn't mind waiting for Liu Yulian. "As long as you're willing to let me wait, I'll be happy."
"Okay." Liu Yulian smiled. "Go back early and rest early. We'll go together tomorrow."
"You go back first." He Xiyuan said.
He Xiyuan didn't tell Liu Yulian about the man hiding in the dark. He just knew about it. The emperor would send someone to investigate, so he didn't need to put so much pressure on Liu Yulian. Liu Yulian just needed to do her research happily, and he would handle those things for her.
He Xiyuan thought that he must have loved Sister Lian very much in his previous life, and his current life must be no worse than his previous life. He would definitely love Sister Lian more than his previous life and work hard to surpass his previous life self.
Otherwise, when Sister Lian finds out about his so-called past life, will she think that he doesn't love her enough in this life? You have to know that in his past life, he was the one who sacrificed his face for Sister Lian. Even if that scar was left on the battlefield, he still gave up literature and took up martial arts for Sister Lian.
"Sister Lian." When Liu Yulian turned around, He Xiyuan called Sister Lian again.
Liu Yulian turned around and looked at He Xiyuan, only to feel that He Xiyuan's eyes were too fiery.
"Go to bed early." He Xiyuan said.
"Okay." Liu Yulian's cheeks felt a little hot, and this time she really turned around and went back.
He Xiyuan watched Liu Yulian return. Perhaps in a few days, the person who wrote the letter would be found out. He Xiyuan thought that the person might not be very smart. If he was, he would have studied culture medium and figured out those things before Sister Lian.
But that person didn’t have that, which means that person’s brain is not that useful at all!
That person's brain is not that good. He dared to write such a letter. He is just jealous of Liu Yulian.
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