Translator: Dj2203
Editor: Dj2203
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The next morning, he saw a new small house in the yard that seemed to be made of wood and oil paper. Its shape was somewhat similar to the previous winter shed, but the style was a little more novel. Could it be that she had got something new that would help with planting?
Lu Huan raised the corner of his mouth and couldn’t suppress it for a long time.
He walked to the door of the next room, not knowing if she was still there, so he knocked on the door, but no one answered – did she go back to the underworld for something?
Lu Huan had made a pact with the spirit to slip a pear blossom into his hand whenever she appeared. So, although he felt a sense of loss when she wasn’t there, he didn’t feel the same anxiety as before. Instead, he felt a sense of peace, thinking she must have gone on a mission and would return.
He then pushed the door open and went in. The neatly made bed had not been touched, but there was an extra drawing on the desk, and the note he had put there last night was also taken out.
When Lu Huan saw the note, he remembered the shameful thing he had done. So he quickly walked to the table and burned the note with his ears red. Then, his eyes fell on the drawing –
The blueprint seemed to depict the principles of some building. Lu Huan picked it up, frowned, and looked at it carefully. The more he looked, the more surprised he became.
He always felt that the underworld from which the ghost beside him came seemed to be thousands of years ahead of the dynasty he was in.
Lu Huan could understand the principles behind the things she handed to him after careful consideration, but if she had not taken these things out, people of Lu Huan’s dynasty would never have imagined them. In short, they were all very novel things and concepts.
Just like the cold-proof shed last time, this new shed would definitely be very effective.
Lu Huan took into consideration that the Yan State was suffering from a frost disaster and was short of food, and since the ghost was not around anymore, he might as well take this opportunity to go to the farm.
So he put on his going-out cloak and went out.
The farm had been operating in an orderly manner under the leadership of Master Ding and the three others since Lu Huan made the arrangements last time.
All the chicken coops had been built and taking advantage of the poor market conditions in winter, they bought a lot of hens from other farms that could not lay eggs or laid very few eggs at low prices.
The farm now had nearly a thousand chickens in total, so more chicken coops had been built than originally planned, still with a capacity of sixty chickens per coop.
Other egg farms were now almost unable to produce eggs, but even in winter, the rich and powerful still needed to use eggs to cook dishes and even put them in soups.
Therefore, in recent days, almost all the eggs sold in the market had been produced by Lu Huan’s farm, which was equivalent to occupying the entire egg market during this cold winter.
He had specifically instructed Master Ding to arrange the workers and divide them into different vendors to sell the goods so that no one would notice in the market.
In addition, eggs were divided into different grades. The rich and powerful did not care about money and were very vain. When they saw eggs being divided into good and bad grades, they naturally spent more money to buy good eggs.
But in fact, the better eggs were just made smoother by the workers, wrapped in some cheap silk, and put into a box, but they were sold at ten times the price of ordinary eggs.
After earning money from the rich and powerful, he did not cheat the ordinary people. He smeared some eggs with mud and still sold them at the original price.
As for the leftover eggs, Lu Huan asked Changgong Wu to distribute them to refugees who were pregnant or had children at home.
In this way, the chicken coop ran in an orderly manner, and the silver bills in Lu Huan’s hand were like a snowball rolling up from a small piece of snow, increasing in number. In just a few dozen days, after deducting the expenses, he had more than 500 taels, adding to the original 250 taels.
This day, Lu Huan came to instruct the workers to build a new type of shed above the crops they planted.
Changgong Wu had been feeling melancholy since he had finished building the winter shed. One reason was that his benefactor had not come for a long time, and the other was that he was a carpenter by trade, and apart from helping the workers to turn the soil, he was of no use anymore.
But now – although he didn’t understand what the new shed was for, he had great trust in his benefactor and would do whatever Lu Huan asked him to do. Therefore, he quickly and excitedly started cutting wood to build a new shed as if he had received some important task.
After making these arrangements, Lu Huan left the small hut on the farm where Changgong Wu was stationed.
He was wearing a black cloak when he came and the same when he left. So most of the workers on the farm did not see him. Some of them saw him but did not know who he was. They just felt that the owner behind the farm was extremely mysterious.
At the same time, some rumors began to spread in the capital, saying that the young miracle doctor who had previously saved thousands of people in Yong’an Temple was now secretly helping refugees. Some people benefited from his kindness, and more eggs appeared at the doorsteps of poor families.
However, it was not easy to verify.
….
After Lu Huan returned from the farm and took off his cloak, the guard he had previously sent outside the yard came to report.
He told him that the old lady’s rheumatism had improved a lot and she could get out of bed and walk.
A table was set up in Mei’an Garden tonight to congratulate him on his victorious hunt in Qiuyan Mountain, and he was invited to come.
When reporting this, the servants next to the guards lowered their heads, secretly surprised.
In the past, illegitimate sons were not allowed to sit at the table at the old lady’s banquet, just like concubines were not allowed to sit at the table. But now, the old lady didn’t care about these things at all, and specifically asked them, the servants, to come and invite them –
Now, after these series of events, does the old lady regard the third young master as her legitimate grandson?
Fortunately, although the third young master was a cold person, he did not seem to be a vengeful person. In the past ten days, although he had gained power, he had not taken any revenge against the servants in the mansion who had looked down on others.
Of course, it was also possible that he simply didn’t take them seriously and was too lazy to bother…
But no matter what, the servants who had neglected him in the past were now in very complicated moods and were living in fear.
Some people were even eager to flatter him.
….
Naturally, Lady Ning and the brothers Lu Yu’an and Lu Wenxiu would also be present at the Old Madam’s banquet. Lu Huan didn’t particularly enjoy such occasions, but he could roughly guess what the Old Madam was thinking. Previously, Lu Wenxiu and Lu Yu’an had been constantly causing trouble for him, and the Old Madam had seen it all. She had arranged this banquet today to warn the brothers, so that they wouldn’t get in her way again.
Of course, Lu Huan knew exactly what was going on. Was the old lady’s behavior a sudden burst of compassion? Was she suddenly showing concern for him?
No, of course it can’t be.
The old lady only placed the stakes on him after the hunting incident in Qiuyan Mountain.
She wanted him to concentrate on entering the imperial court and naturally didn’t want to be distracted by his two stupid brothers.
In other words, the old lady just thought that she and him were in the same boat, and she was just doing her best to help him get out of some trouble.
Lu Huan had a cold expression on his face and didn’t say much. He just changed his clothes and followed the servants.
….
A day and a night had passed here, but Su Xi had just woken up.
Su Xi woke up. It was the weekend and the sun was shining through the window. She drowsily picked up her phone and heard a pop-up notification:
System: [Please accept Main Quest 7: Tomorrow at the banquet held in the palace for the Qiuyan Mountain Hunt, please help the protagonist resolve General Zhenyuan’s difficulties. Subsequently, assist the protagonist in improving their martial arts, military tactics, and physical strength, ultimately gaining General Zhenyuan’s invisible support.]
[Mission Difficulty: Nine Stars, Reward Coins: 500, Reward Points: 10.]
Su Xi woke up immediately when she saw it and subconsciously opened the game.
Gain the support of General Zhenyuan——?
She analyzed it briefly and found out that General Zhenyuan was a very strict person and was very harsh on the soldiers in the barracks, but because of this, he had a reputation for being tough and brave. Now he was nearly 70 years old, but he was alone and had no successor.
The old lady of the Ning Wang Mansion was his distant relative. Logically speaking, he should pay more attention to the Ning Wang Mansion and provide more support.
But he probably looked down on Ning Wang’s hopeless situation, so he also looked down on Lu Yu’an and others in Ning Wang’s mansion.
The cub’s background had not been revealed yet, and he was still a bast**d of Ning Wang’s Mansion, so he was looked down upon even more by him.
…He didn’t know how he would make things difficult for the cub tomorrow. It seemed that he had an important task to complete tomorrow.
But there was no rush today. Thinking of this, Su Xi switched the interface to where the cub was.
She saw him walking towards Mei’an Garden.
Previously, Su Xi had never seen what Mei’an Garden looked like because she couldn’t unlock it. But during the last hunting trip to Qiuyan Mountain, she completed the side quest of rescuing the second prince and had 2 points left, which allowed her to unlock another place.
Therefore, she directly chose to unlock Mei’an Garden.
Mei’an Garden was where the old lady lived. The scenery there was more beautiful than anywhere else in Ning Wang’s Mansion. The last heavy snow fell last night, and now the large plum trees in the entire yard were covered with fine white and crystal snowflakes. Looking around, it looked like a sea of plum blossoms covered in snow.
The boy was wearing a snow-white cloak and walking on the bluestone path, followed by a few servants. He looked like a nobleman.
But his brows were slightly furrowed, and he seemed to be thinking about something.
Su Xi searched for a long time but couldn’t find any pear trees, so she quickly switched the scene to Qiuyan Mountain and pulled a piece of pear blossoms from the pear tree the cub had waited under for her.
Oh, why not plum blossoms? Because it has to be pear blossoms.
The cub’s sense of ritual must be satisfied.
Then the interface switched back.
Lu Huan on the screen felt a gentle breeze blowing past him. He was slightly startled, his heart skipped a beat, and he subconsciously raised his head. The next second, his slightly clenched palm was opened, and a pear blossom was blown by the wind and landed on his palm.
“You’re here.” Lu Huan murmured softly.
His brows, which had been furrowed just now, suddenly relaxed, and a subtle and gentle smile appeared in his dark eyes.
It was as if a spring breeze suddenly came overnight, and thousands of pear trees blossomed.
The author has something to say:
The cub: Although the food was cold, I couldn’t help but eat it at night.
Su Xi (who came online again and found that the dishes were gone): …
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