NOVEL NEXT Chapter 19 Jia Mansion
Nalan Jue bid farewell to Master Mi Yuan, Su Xuexue and all the guests, returned to the house, and asked the maid Yan'er: "Yan'er, the wine boy who came with Master Mi Yuan today looks familiar to you. I always feel that he is there." Never seen before."
"Sir, I remember meeting you once when I accompanied you to buy roasted sweet potatoes at Miss Mao Xi's Guanyunqiao food stall, but today I heard him call Master Mi Yuan my teacher."
Nalan Jue recalled his childhood in Beidu, when his father sent him to the academy to learn calligraphy from Mi Yuan. His classmates were all princes, nobles and children of aristocratic families.
Mr. Mi has been living in seclusion in Nanshan for many years, and he only moved to Lihua Town in recent years. I have never heard that he has started teaching. If he can be called "teacher", he must have been taught by Mr. Mi in Beidu when he was young.
"Yan'er, next time you go to Mao Xi's shop to buy food, if you see him, find out for me where he came from. Nalan Mansion can no longer be involved in the battles in the palace."
The Nalan family has been engaged in shipping for generations. They were once responsible for grain transportation from the north to the south in the Huai Kingdom. Due to jealousy and frame-up in the northern capital, the shipping industry gradually declined. Later, my father passed away, leaving only his only son Nalan Jue. The family moved to Lihua Town. , relying on the cargo business at Nanzhou Wharf, it is quite peaceful.
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Late at night, in Prince Liang's Mansion. A green account book was burned in the candlelight. King Liang drank wine and muttered to himself: "This is the last one. In the end, it is just an illusion."
In the palace, in the Prince's Mansion in the East Palace, Eunuch Cao placed a plate of steamed sweet potatoes on the table.
"Your Highness, these are the sweet potatoes brought by King Jia from the south."
The prince picked up the sweet potato and ate it. It was sweet, glutinous, fragrant and soft. He has proposed to his father to cultivate sweet potatoes in the north as food to ward off famine during the lean years.
The case of grain greed finally involved King Liang. Although there was no substantial evidence, King Liang had lost his heart with his father. At this time, the prince suggested that his father cultivate sweet potatoes, a new crop, and received his majesty's approval. At present, King Liang's threat to the crown prince's position has been resolved.
However, his fifth brother Mu Zhiyuan had no intention of staying in the palace. Before leaving, he only wanted to take his mother's ashes away and returned to Lingnan, not even the royal palace in Beidu.
"Eunuch Cao, how is the matter I asked you to do?"
"Back to Your Highness, I have asked people to buy a house in Lihua Town. I will wait for the Fifth Prince to unveil the plaque of the palace after he moves in. All the old people in the palace have been properly arranged."
"Tell Butler Wang to take good care of Prince Jia. He is only eighteen years old. It is unbecoming to live alone in a poor garden in the countryside. No matter how much a member of the royal family lives in seclusion in the city, he must be given the dignity that a prince deserves."
"Old slave understands!"
"Wait a minute, tell Butler Wang that I don't care what methods he uses, I must drive King Jia to live in Jia's Mansion, and I don't care what else he wants to do!"
"No, I will resign, old slave."
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In Liujia Village, Butler Wang, along with two young men and four maids, invited Mu Zhiyuan to return home outside Luda Garden.
Mu Zhiyuan was chopping firewood with Lu Da in the courtyard and refused to pay attention.
"Your Majesty, the house in Jia Mansion has been purchased and we are waiting for you to come back to unveil it. If you don't come back, we will wait here."
Seeing Butler Wang's persistence, Lu Da said, "Mu Zhiyuan, if you don't leave, I guess the steward and the maids and boys will carry you away later. Won't you be in a state of embarrassment by then?"
"They dare?" Mu Zhiyuan shouted loudly outside the door, "I am staying well in Liujia Village. You can just go back to Beidu and don't bother me!"
"Your Majesty, the Crown Prince said that if you remain in seclusion in the city, you must not lose the dignity of the royal family."
"Brother promised me, I won't leave!"
"Then Prince, don't blame me..." Steward Wang was also a martial arts master. He subdued Mu Zhiyuan with one move and carried him out of Liujia Village.
The villagers and Mao Xi's family watching on the sidelines watched the excitement.
Fat Aunt: "I didn't expect that there would be a prince in Liujiacun. Isn't this Ah Shu's uncle?"
Xiaodouzi asked Mao Xi: "Sister, why was Brother Muyuan carried away?"
"Um, it seems... his vest fell off and he hid it from us for so long. It turns out he is a prince!" Mao Xi said to himself, with worry on his face.
Mu Zhiyuan left Liujiacun and returned to the palace. Under the supervision of Butler Wang, he unveiled the wooden plaque of the new palace.
Mu Zhiyuan was caught by Butler Wang several times when he tried to escape. He even went on a hunger strike, and Butler Wang stood in front of Mu Zhiyuan, holding his mother's urn and crying: "Mother, I'm sorry for your request..."
After several duels, it wasn't until he promised Butler Wang that he would no longer work as a waiter at Shu Xi's restaurant that he was allowed to go out.
He hadn't seen Mu for ten days in a row. He had been working at Liuxiang Snack Shop, and Mao Xi and his wife were extremely busy. One afternoon, he brought a woman to the shop.
"Ah Shu, I won't be able to come to your shop to help you in the future. This is my friend Lou Lan'er. She used to be a waiter in the Beisu area. She was asked to work as a waiter. One person can help two people, and she can also dance Hu dance to attract customers... …”
Lou Lan'er was originally an assassin from the Western Regions. She was saved by Mu Zhiyuan, and later lurked in Beidu Restaurant to spy on Mu Zhiyuan. She prefers the simple Lihua Town to the complicated Beidu.
"I'm not a restaurant here, there's no need to dance..." Shui Xi was busy cooking, and without saying much, she pulled Lou Lan'er into the store to help.
"Brother Muyuan, wait a minute! Are you really the prince?" Liu Mianxi was doubtful. She had never seen a prince in her life, she had only seen the boss in novels. Why did she feel that her temperament was different?
"I'm sorry for deceiving you before. You won't be angry with me, right?"
"Then you will live in Lihua Town from now on?"
"Ah."
"I'm not angry anymore, but you have to advertise my Liuxiang snacks."
"Advertising, what is advertising?"
"I'll tell you later, what did they ask you to complain about that day?"
"Mu Zhiyuan."
Mao Xi returned to the stove and continued to work. There were still two diners waiting for her to feed them.
"Brother Mu, no, Prince Mu, are you here to eat?" Mu Zhiyuan turned around to leave, and Mao Xi shouted to him.
"I won't go to the store. Leave a bowl of Liujiacun's rice for me later."
While Mao Xi fried chrysanthemum fish, he lowered his head and muttered: "Coming to my restaurant to eat is just to advertise for me. Forget it, wait until next time."
Early the next morning, Lou Lan'er arrived at the snack shop earlier than Shui Xi. When Shui Xi arrived, she had already built a simple stove with mud bricks at the door of the snack shop.
"Did you start building it last night?" Shui Xi was a little surprised, this technique is quite skillful.
"Miss Ah Shu, I made an oven and it will be ready to use in two days." Lou Lan'er's face was covered with mud and dust, her eyes were flowing, and her smile was as bright as a star.