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Let's say Mrs. An was carried all the way into the carriage by An Yongyuan. His arms were amazing, and Feng Shuo was the only one who could fight against him in the army. How could Mrs. An break free.

Many days of grievances and sadness erupted in one brain, and Mrs. An Shao choked up on his shoulder and couldn't help herself.

After getting into the carriage, Mrs. An's first words were: "The general doesn't believe me, and he doesn't want to see me again. Why are you here today? Why don't you let me die in this lake? The lintel of Anjia is clean!"

An Yongyuan held her down with one hand, in a posture that did not allow her to struggle at all, his jaw line was tense, as if he was holding back his anger, he commanded the driver in a deep voice: "Go back to the house."

The two masters were still fighting, and Mrs. An's maid did not dare to go inside, so she sat outside the carriage with the coachman.

The carriage drove away on a muddy official road.

Mrs. An still wanted to struggle, but An Yongyuan restrained her easily. The scar on his face looked fierce, and there were faint bloodshot eyes, which made people dare not look directly at her. He said: "Don't make trouble. .”

Madam An Shao looked at this familiar face, tears streaming down her face: "Does the general think I'm just acting? You don't want to see me, and you don't even want to come back for grandma's birthday. There is no choice to be an actor, nor to be bought by others. If the general hadn't saved me at the beginning, and let me finish him with a knife, he would be dead in this life."

"The general has kindness to me. I have been thinking of the general all my life. If you just dislike me, I know that my status is low, and I dare not blame the general, but I really have never done it. I'm sorry. About the general. Whether you call me dissatisfied or shameless, I really want to live a good life with the general. The only thing I have ever had with the Lu family is that letter. I want to break up with the Lu family completely Clear the boundaries..."

Mrs. An Shao said these heartfelt words, and she didn't dare to stop for a moment, for fear that An Yongyuan would hate hearing this and leave before she finished speaking, "I am a living person, I know who treats me well, I I'm also greedy, wanting to be with the general for the rest of my life, be a husband and a child..."

Thinking of the unborn child, Mrs. An subconsciously "touched" her flat stomach, and her tears flowed even more fiercely.

"I know I was messing around today, but you will only come back today, General. After today, I will find it difficult to see you. At first, I just wanted to use this method to meet you and tell you A few heartfelt words, but when I was standing on the edge of Yanhu Lake, I thought, just jump down. After I marry the general, I have enjoyed enough happiness and I should be content. Wait. After I go, the general will marry another beautiful "wife", and life will surely be peaceful and beautiful... um..."

Before Mrs. An could finish her sentence, someone covered her mouth forcefully. An Yongyuan's hand was so strong that it hurt Mrs. An's mouth and nose.

There were more bloodshot eyes in his eyes than before, at first glance, he could only feel that his eyes were scarlet, like an evil beast.

Every word Mrs. An Shao said pierced his heart like a knife.

An Yongyuan said: "If I had known that you were from the Lu family, and you were about to hang yourself when you came out of the bandit den, I would never have stopped you."

Hearing what he said, Mrs. An's shoulders trembled, she cried silently, her eyes had completely dimmed, leaving only ashes of despair.

——After all, he refused to forgive her, and he didn't believe her. He felt that when he met the bandit, it was deliberately arranged to have an intersection with him.

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

She still remembers to this day that when she was rescued from bandits by him, and when she was almost humiliated and wanted to commit suicide, 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 the girl doesn't mind, you can... Marry An as his wife."

Now it seems that the source of all these mistakes began at that time.

Mrs. An Shao cried for too long, her eyes were so red and swollen, she forced a grin, and showed a wry smile: "I am sorry for you."

An Yongyuan hugged her very tightly, and the scar on his face looked a bit hideous because of the tense muscles: "But no one in this world knew it earlier, Yun Niang, you are now my An Yongyuan's wife."

Mrs. An's eyes were so dry that she could not shed tears, but she still choked up when she heard the phrase "I am An Yongyuan's wife".

An Yongyuan wiped the teardrops from the corners of her eyes: "I was wrong in the past, but the days to come will be long, Yunniang, let's live well."

***

Worried about any accident, Jiang Yanyi and his group drove the carriage to chase An's car, and when they reached an intersection, they saw Mrs. An's maid.

The servant girl was stomping her feet in the cold on the side of the road, and when she saw their carriage, she instantly smiled and said, "Miss Chu, we'll be waiting for you!"

Jiang Yanyi lifted the curtain of the car and asked her, "Why are you here alone? Where's your young wife?"

Although the servant girl was shivering from the cold, the smile on her face disappeared: "The general took his wife back to the mansion, and specially asked me to wait for you here, and said thank you today, and I will visit you another day."

Chu Shubao and Chu Jiabao were also a little worried at first, but when they heard the maid's words, they squeezed their heads out from under the curtain of the car in an instant, and asked the maid, "Your young lady and your general are reconciled?"

The maid grinned happily and nodded vigorously.

Chu Shubao hurriedly put his hands together and muttered: "It's really a blessing from the Bodhisattva, everyone is happy, everyone is happy!"

Jiang Yanyi also breathed a sigh of relief when she got this answer, she said to the maid: "Get in the car, we will take you back to the city."

The maid hurriedly said no, "Thank you, Miss Chu, for your kindness. I'll go to the front intersection and stop a bullock cart to go back."

Chu Shubao said: "It's a world of ice and snow, and there are few people coming to Yanhu Lake. You don't know how long you have to wait to stop the bullock cart. Come up, anyway, it's just on the way."

The maid thanked her repeatedly, and then got into the carriage.

*

On the first day of Ruyi Building's opening, although there were a few accidents, fortunately, the results were good and the business was booming.

In the past, Jiang Yanyi only knew that spending money was like running water, but the good business in the next few days made her realize what "making money like running water" was for the first time.The lobby on the first floor was used exclusively for banquets, and when there was no space available, as the restaurant became more and more famous, there were not enough tables and chairs on the second floor for ordinary guests.

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

Madam An Shao didn't have any close friends in Xizhou, because she was close to Jiang Yanyi when Jiang Yanyi helped her last time, so she came to Ruyi Building to find Jiang Yanyi when she was free.

Jiang Yanyi learned from her that An Yongyuan took advantage of Mrs. An's recuperation to rectify the house servants inside and out, and promoted her many confidantes. Now the entire An family's servants can clearly see the master's attitude No one dared to despise Mrs. An anymore.

It's just that Mrs. An deliberately made things difficult for her daughter-in-law from time to time, and even insisted on Mrs. An's washing her mattress with cold water in cold weather.

Mrs. An Shao is soft-tempered, but she also has her own cleverness. She fell seriously ill the day after washing the mattress.

An Yongyuan returned home and saw that his wife was sick, so he lost his temper. He not only refused to let Mrs. An go to serve Mrs. An on the grounds that Mrs. An had fallen into the water and caught the cold, and her body needed to be recuperated. Even the province's greetings were avoided, but it made Mrs. An very angry.

Sister Chu Shubao listened to the short stories of these parents, and occasionally said something with emotion, saying that An Yongyuan looked fierce, but he was a loving person, and she only hoped that in the future, the picker could pick such a man.

In a blink of an eye, it is Laba. As the saying goes, "After Laba is the New Year", there are more and more people selling New Year's goods on the streets and alleys.

The government office of Xizhou released rumors that from the Laba Festival to the Lantern Festival after the next year, three barrels of porridge will be served in the south of the city every day.

The method Jiang Yanyi had thought before worked. Once there is one person who praises Feng Shuo, there will be a second one. People who escaped from the south will talk about the tragedy in the south, and compare it to the poor people in Xizhou City who can still receive the government. Ordinary people can live a good year with peace of mind by drinking porridge. The praise of Feng Shuo soon caused an uproar among the people.

It's just that what followed was more and more people fleeing famine. Even though the entry and exit of Xizhou City was strictly controlled, the number of people in the city was still increasing day by day.

Grain and grass in Xizhou is already difficult, and it all depends on transporting it by water from Yuzhou.Fan Wei and King Xinyang had an internal strife, and now the south could not contain too many troops from the imperial court, so the imperial court began to concentrate their firepower to attack Yuzhou and the grain roads in the lower reaches of Yuzhou.

There were no signs in Xizhou City yet, but Jiang Yanyi clearly felt that the battle was getting closer.

Feng Shuo discussed with his staff until late at night every day, and Jiang Yanyi couldn't remember how long he hadn't seen him.

Ruyilou's business is on the right track, and the noodle shop's business is beyond Jiang Yanyi's imagination.

The instant noodles sold very well in the caravans outside the customs. Bing Shao even suggested that Jiang Yanyi expand the noodle shop, but Jiang Yanyi vetoed it.

Chu Changping let Jiang Yanyi know that the government will strictly control the entry and exit of grain in the near future, and the grain entering the city can only be sold to the people in the city and cannot be exported.

The deadlock in Xizhou now lies in that Xizhou is supported by the other two fiefdoms of Fengshuo, Yuzhou and Hengzhou. Grain and grass are the lifeblood of Xizhou, and so is silver.

The longer the battle lasts, the more silver is spent.

The treasury of the three major state capitals and the entire Xuan Dynasty must not be exhausted, so after the rebellion of Feng Shuo, they have been entrenched in Xizhou and did not directly fight with the imperial court.

King Xinyang and Fan Wei don't want fame, they have no money and food, they can fight and grab it wherever they want, but Feng Shuo can't.

Jiang Yanyi thought hard for several days, but still couldn't come up with a way to make a lot of money as soon as possible.

Aunt Guo saw that she was very worried, and comforted her: "For the war, the prince's aides will come up with ideas, don't worry about your own health."

Jiang Yanyi sighed: "The noodle shop's business can't be done outside, it can't take big orders, and it can't make a lot of money. Auntie, do you think the business in Xizhou can make a fortune?"

Aunt Guo laughed and said: "The crops in this place are not good, and the cattle and sheep are raised. The cattle and sheep also lack grass in winter. If you want to make money, unless someone is willing to buy the mud in this field."

These words really awakened the dreamer.

Jiang Yanyi changed his previous attitude, picked up a beautifully glazed porcelain bowl on the table, and couldn't help but be overjoyed: "Yes, there are porcelain kilns in Xizhou, grain business can't be done outside, porcelain can!"

It is not easy to sell in the south, and you can also buy small countries outside the customs. Use these small countries to form an economic chain, and money and food can be exchanged from these small countries through trade. Xizhou can support itself without Yuzhou and Hengzhou. And the grain road clamping below Yuzhou will not work.

Jiang Yanyi went to find Feng Shuo that day and told him what he thought.

There was a high stack of official documents piled up in front of Feng Shuo's desk. He obviously hadn't had a good rest recently, and obvious fatigue could be seen between his brows.

"The idea is good, but the time is too late." Feng Shuo leaned back on the grand master's chair, rarely showing a bit of idleness, he pulled Jiang Yanyi past him with his familiarity, and hugged him into his lap.

The door of the study room was not closed, and Jiang Yanyi looked up frequently: "Don't be serious, I'm here to tell you something serious."

Feng Shuo buried his head on her shoulder and neck, and gently rubbed her tender neck with the tip of his nose: "Just hug her for a while, why are you so unreasonable?"

His nose was cold, and the skin on Jiang Yanyi's neck was sensitive, so he flinched immediately, and grabbed his shirt tightly: "Don't."

Seeing her reaction, Feng Shuo's eyes darkened instantly, his hands unconsciously tightened her waist, and said in a hoarse voice, "Excellent."