Chapter 106

Mrs. An was carried to the carriage by An Yongyuan. He had amazing arm strength. Only Feng Shuo could fight him in the army. There was no way Mrs. An could escape.

The grievances and sadness of many days burst out all at once. Mrs. An choked on his shoulder and couldn't stop sobbing.

When they got on the carriage, Madam An's first words were: "The general doesn't believe me and doesn't want to see me again, so why did he come here today? Why not let me die in this lake and save the An family from a clean slate!"

An Yongyuan held her with one hand, not allowing her to struggle at all. His jawline was tightly drawn, as if he was suppressing his anger. He ordered the driver in a deep voice: "Go back home."

The two masters were still arguing, and Madam An's maid didn't dare to go inside, so she sat outside the carriage with the driver.

The carriage drove away on a muddy official road.

Madam An wanted to fight back, but An Yongyuan easily restrained her. The scar on his face made him look fierce, and bloodshot eyes made people dare not look him in the face. He said, "Don't make a fuss."

Madam An looked at this familiar face and tears fell. "General, do you think I am acting? You don't want to see me, and you don't even want to come back for your grandmother's birthday. In my life, I had no choice of being born, becoming an actor, or being bought. If the general hadn't saved me, I would have killed myself with a knife, and my life would have been over."

"The general has been kind to me, I have remembered the general's kindness all my life. If you just disliked me, I know that I am of low status and would never dare to blame the general, but I have never done anything to let the general down. You can scold me for being ungrateful or shameless, but I really want to live a good life with the general. The only thing I have done with the Lu family is that letter. I want to completely draw a line between me and the Lu family..."

Madam An Shao said these heartfelt words. She did not dare to stop for a moment, for fear that An Yongyuan would be disgusted with listening to these and leave before she finished. "I am a living person. I know who is good to me. I will also be greedy. I want to follow the general for the rest of my life, support my husband and raise children..."

Thinking of the unborn child, Madam An Shao subconsciously touched her flat abdomen, and her tears flowed even more fiercely.

"I know I was fooling around today, but General, you will only come back today. After today, it will be difficult for me to see you. At first, I just wanted to use this method to see you and say a few heartfelt words to you, but when I was standing by the Yanhu Lake, I thought, I might as well jump down. After I married the general, I have enjoyed more than enough happiness, and I should be content. After I leave, the general will marry a beautiful woman, and they will surely live a happy life... um..."

Before Mrs. An finished her words, someone covered her mouth with force. An Yongyuan's hand was so strong that it hurt Mrs. An's mouth and nose.

There were more bloodshot in his eyes than before. At first glance, his eyes looked bloodshot, like a beast.

Every word Mrs. An said was like a knife piercing his heart.

An Yongyuan said, "If I had known that you were from the Lu family, I would never have stopped you if you had come out of the thieves' den and wanted to hang yourself." When

Mrs. An heard him say this, her shoulders trembled and she cried silently. Her eyes had completely dimmed, leaving only a dead despair.

- In the end, he refused to forgive her, nor did he believe her. He felt that the encounter with the thieves was also deliberately arranged for her to have an intersection with him.

Mrs. An's heart was numb with pain. An Yongyuan wiped the tears from her face bit by bit. His fingertips were rough and there were big cracks, which hurt her cheeks a little, but she didn't say a word, but her tears kept falling like beads with a broken string.

She still remembers that when he saved her from the bandits and she was about to commit suicide due to humiliation, he stopped her, fearing that she would commit suicide again, and deliberately said: "An is ugly, and it is not easy to find a wife. If you don't mind, you can marry An."

Now it seems that the source of all the mistakes started from that time.

Madam An cried for too long, her eyes were red and swollen, and she forced a smile, revealing a bitter smile: "I am sorry for you."

An Yongyuan hugged her tightly, and the scar on his face looked a little bit ugly because of the tense muscles: "But there is no such thing as knowing it in advance, Yunniang, you are now my wife, An Yongyuan."

Madam An's eyes were so dry that she couldn't shed tears, but she still choked when she heard the words "my wife, An Yongyuan".

An Yongyuan wiped away the tears from her eyes: "I was wrong in the past, but there is still a long time to come, Yunniang, let's live a good life."

Jiang Yanyi and his group were worried about some accidents, so they drove the carriage to catch up with the An family's car. When they arrived at an intersection, they saw Madam An's maid.

The maid was stamping her feet due to the cold on the side of the road, but when she saw their carriage, she immediately broke into a smile: "Miss Chu, we've finally met you!"

Jiang Yanyi heard her voice, lifted the curtain and asked her: "Why are you here alone? Where's your young mistress?"

Although the maid was shivering due to the cold, she couldn't hide the smile on her face: "The general has gone to take his wife back home, and he asked me to wait for you here. He said thank you for today and he will visit you again another day."

Chu Shubao and Chu Jiabao were a little worried at first, but when they heard the maid's words, they immediately popped their heads out from under the curtain and asked the maid: "Has your young mistress reconciled with your general?"

The maid grinned with joy and nodded vigorously.

Chu Shubao quickly put her hands together and said, "It's the Bodhisattva's blessing, everyone is happy, everyone is happy!"

Jiang Yanyi was relieved to get this answer. She said to the maid, "Get on the carriage, we will take you back to the city."

The maid said, "Thank you for your kindness, Miss Chu. I will go to the intersection in front to pull a bullock cart back."

Chu Shubao said, "It's icy and snowy here, and there are not many people coming to Yanhu. I don't know how long you will have to wait for the bullock cart. Come on, it's just on the way anyway."

The maid thanked her repeatedly and got on the carriage.

Although there were several accidents on the first day of Ruyi Tower's opening, fortunately the results were good and the business was booming.

In the past, Jiang Yanyi only knew how to spend money like water, but the good business in the next few days made her realize what "making money like water" meant for the first time. The lobby on the first floor was used exclusively for banquets, so it was never used. As the restaurant became more and more famous, the tables and chairs on the second floor for receiving regular guests were no longer enough.

Jiang Yanyi ordered another batch of tables and chairs, and set aside a space on the unused third floor for temporary reception when business was good.

Madam An didn't have many close friends in Xizhou, but because of the last time Jiang Yanyi helped her, she became close to Jiang Yanyi, and would come to Ruyi Tower to find Jiang Yanyi when she was free.

Jiang Yanyi learned from her that An Yongyuan took advantage of Madam An's illness to reorganize the servants in the mansion and promoted many of her confidants. Now, all the servants in the An family have seen the master's attitude, and no one dares to look down on Madam An anymore.

However, Mrs. An would deliberately make things difficult for her daughter-in-law from time to time, and even insisted that Mrs. An wash her mattress with cold water in the cold weather.

Madam An was gentle, but she was also smart. She fell

seriously ill the day she finished washing the mattress. When An Yongyuan returned home and saw his wife was ill, he lost his temper. Not only did he not allow Madam An to serve Madam An anymore, but he also forbade her from paying her respects every morning and evening, which really made Madam An very angry.

Chu Shubao and her sister listened to these family gossips and occasionally sighed, saying that although An Yongyuan looked fierce and evil, he was a caring person. They only hoped that they could choose a husband like him in the future. It

was Laba Day in a blink of an eye. As the saying goes, "After Laba Day, it's the New Year." There were more people selling New Year goods on the streets.

The Xizhou government office spread the word that from the Laba Festival until the Lantern Festival after the Chinese New Year, three large buckets of porridge would be distributed in the south of the city every day.

Jiang Yanyi's previous method worked. When there was one person praising Feng Shuo, there was another. The people who fled from the south talked about the tragedy in the south, and compared it with the fact that the poor people in Xizhou City could still get porridge from the government, and ordinary people could spend a good New Year in peace. The praise for Feng Shuo soon set off an uproar among the people. However, what followed

was that more and more people fled from famine. Even though Xizhou City was strictly restricted in entering and leaving, the number of people in the city continued to increase.

It was difficult to obtain food in Xizhou, and it all relied on water transportation from Yuzhou. Fan Wei and Prince Xinyang had an internal conflict, and now the court could not tie up too many troops in the south, so the court began to concentrate its firepower on attacking Yuzhou and the grain routes downstream of Yuzhou.

There was no sign in Xizhou City yet, but Jiang Yanyi clearly felt that the war was getting closer and closer.

Feng Shuo discussed with his staff until late at night every day, and Jiang Yanyi could not remember how long he had not seen him.

The business of Ruyi Tower was on the right track, and the business of the noodle shop exceeded Jiang Yanyi's imagination.

Instant noodles sold very well in the caravans outside the pass. Bing Shao even suggested that Jiang Yanyi expand the noodle shop, but was rejected by Jiang Yanyi.

Chu Changping tipped off Jiang Yanyi that the government would strictly control the entry and exit of grain in the near future. The grain entering the city could only be sold to the people in the city and could no longer be exported.

The current stalemate in Xizhou is that Xizhou is supported by Feng Shuo's other two fiefdoms, Yuzhou and Hengzhou. Food and grass are the lifeblood of Xizhou, as is money.

The longer the war lasts, the more money will be spent.

The three major prefectures and the entire treasury of the Daxuan Dynasty will definitely not be able to outlast it, so after Feng Shuo rebelled, he has been occupying Xizhou and did not fight the court directly.

Prince Xinyang and Fan Wei don't care about reputation. When they have no money and no food, they will rob wherever they go, but Feng Shuo can't.

Jiang Yanyi pondered for several days, but still couldn't think of a way to make a lot of money as soon as possible.

Aunt Guo saw how worried she was and comforted her: "The prince's staff will give advice on the war, so don't worry yourself."

Jiang Yanyi sighed: "The noodle shop business can't be sold outside, we can't take big orders, and we can't make much money. Auntie, what business do you think can make a fortune in Xizhou?"

Aunt Guo said with a smile: "It's not good to grow crops here, and raising cattle and sheep will also lack grass in winter. If you want to make a fortune, someone must buy the mud in this field."

These words really woke Jiang Yanyi up.

Jiang Yanyi changed his previous sluggish attitude, picked up a beautiful glazed porcelain bowl on the table, and couldn't help but say: "Yes, Xizhou has a porcelain kiln. The grain business cannot be done outside, but porcelain can be done!"

If it is not easy to sell in the south, you can also buy it from small countries outside the Great Wall. Use these small countries to form an economic chain. Money and grain can be exchanged from these small countries through trade. Xizhou can break away from Yuzhou and Hengzhou to support itself, and the court's control over Yuzhou and the grain road below Yuzhou will not work.

Jiang Yanyi went to find Feng Shuo that day and told him his idea.

There was a pile of official documents in front of Feng Shuo's desk. He obviously didn't have a good rest recently, and obvious fatigue could be seen between his brows.

"It's a good idea, but we're running out of time." Feng Shuo leaned back against the armchair, showing a rare moment of leisure. He pulled Jiang Yanyi over and held her on his lap.

The door of the study was not closed properly, and Jiang Yanyi looked out frequently: "Don't be frivolous, I'm here to talk to you about serious matters."

Feng Shuo buried his head in her shoulder and gently rubbed her fair neck with his nose: "Just hugging for a while, how can you be frivolous?"

His nose was cold, and Jiang Yanyi's neck skin was sensitive. She shuddered immediately and grabbed his collar with her hands: "Don't."

Seeing her reaction, Feng Shuo's eyes darkened instantly, and his hands unconsciously pinched her waist, and he said in a hoarse voice: "You're a good person."