Pampered Poisonous Royal Wife - Chapter 148
Yu Yi had never seen Chief Steward Qin reveal such an expression before. He couldn't help but be curious in his heart, "Chief Steward Qin, what happened?"
Supervisor Qin glanced at Yu Yi in annoyance and suddenly became spirited: "After you give these two letters to the prince, what expression does he have?"
"The prince's expression?" Yu Yi rubbed his head and thought for a long time. "You've served the Prince for so many years. His face has always been so cold. What kind of expression can it possibly have?"
Steward Qin had originally been full of anticipation, but now he impatiently waved his hand. "Scram! You're just like that kid Yu Heng, you're useless all day."
"Who said it? Before he became a eunuch, he praised me?"
"That's because his eyes are blurry from age. Hurry up and move aside. Don't stay here, just looking at you makes your heart ache."
Yu Yi rubbed his nose and went straight to the kitchen. It was said that there was still quite a lot of ginger tea in the kitchen, so he had to hurry and have a taste. He had been running back and forth between Ziling City and western Guangdong for the past few days, but he had never seen ginger tea before.
Steward Qin sighed for a long time. He could only shake his head and sigh, "There's no need to rush. There's no need to rush. We should consider this matter from a longer perspective."
After a period of time, Mu Yunyao had completely quietened down and focused on embroidering the Emperor's annual gift. The papers that he had found from various places with the title of 'Fortune and Peace' had already been piled up with several boxes. Even with Mu Yunyao's meticulous efforts, she had spent a great deal of effort to arrange these papers.
On this day, Mu Yunyao had just finished her breakfast when Jinlan came over to report, "Miss, Manager Qin has arrived."
"Send him in."
As the weather grew colder, Steward Qin changed into a thicker armor and wore a brown and blue hat. He smiled and said gently, "Greetings, Lady Mu."
"There is no need for Steward Qin to be so courteous. Please take a seat quickly. A cup of tea will be served by Jinlan."
When the tea was served, Steward Qin took a sip and praised, "They all use the same kind of water and make the same kind of tea, but I always feel that the tea here is a little easier to drink."
Mu Yunyao couldn't help but chuckle, "Then I must reward Jinlan in the future. Her skills in brewing tea have improved."
"Indeed, I should reward him well." Steward Qin sized up Jin Lan, who was in both the forward and backward positions, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart. Miss Mu's method of training others was something that others couldn't match up to, and more than half a year ago, he had seen Jin Lan's appearance when he had just arrived here.
Jin Lan hurriedly bowed from the side. "Many thanks, Miss. Many thanks, Steward Qin. I will work hard in the future." When she finished speaking and saw Steward Qin smile without saying a word, she couldn't help but raise her head and look at Mu Yunyao. Seeing her nod slightly, she saluted and left.
Steward Qin then started on his business, "Miss Mu, that batch of ginger tea that we sent last time was of great help to the prince, so I thought of frying another batch to send over."
"Steward Qin should have seen it. Right now, I'm busy embroidering an annual gift to the emperor. My energy is limited, so I don't have the time to take care of it. You can handle the matter of stir-frying ginger tea yourself." The first time he had sent Jiang Cha to the Titan was for a favor. The next time he would give it to her, it was for free. Her silver taels were used for big things, so she naturally could not spend it all on him.
Supervisor Qin naturally couldn't see through Mu Yunyao's plans. Seeing that she directly refused, he didn't think too much into it: "Since that's the case, then I'll do it myself. I just need to borrow a person from the young lady to use it."
"Lend it to someone?" Chief Steward Qin is talking about the same name as last time when he helped you buy grain? "
"That's right, we have to send more ginger tea this time, so we need to buy more grains. We would like him to help us out a bit."
"No problem. I will get six taels to notify him and have him go directly to Supervisor Qin."
"Alright, many thanks Miss Mu. There's one other thing. It's getting colder and colder right now, so I was wondering if I could take a break and fix up the Garden of Embroidery with some drapes and such."
Mu Yunyao suddenly understood. "I've been busy these past few days with embroidery and had almost forgotten about this matter. From tomorrow onwards, I'll close the Embroidery Garden for three days to rearrange the scenery of the garden."
"Isn't three days too short?" Could it be done in such a hurry?
"Manager Qin, rest assured. Before, when I was fixing up the beautiful scenery of the embroidered garden, I had already carefully considered how Dong Ri would defend against the wind. Moreover, the curtains were already prepared beforehand.
"That would be the best. The girl's thoughts are truly admirable." Steward Qin knew that Mu Yunyao's time was tight at the moment, so after saying a few more words to make her pay attention to her body, he stood up to take his leave.
After Mu Yunyao told him about the matter for six taels of silver, she completely tossed the matter to the back of her mind. Ten days later, Steward Qin came to express his gratitude, saying that they were all meticulous and that the quality of the rice grains they bought were of excellent quality, and the price was slightly lower than that of the other grain merchants by ten percent. A series of praises went on for about a quarter of an hour, and before he left, he even left a red seal, hoping that Mu Yunyao would hand it over to him.
After he left, just as Mu Yunyao was about to tell Jin Lan to call for six taels of silver, she saw him walk in with a box.
"It was just nice that you came. Just now, Steward Qin sent a red envelope saying that he wanted to thank you for your consideration. Take your time and hand it over to him."
After he finished bowing, he stood up and brought the box in front of Mu Yunyao with a stiff expression.
Recalling Supervisor Qin's continuous praises, a smile still appeared on Mu Yunyao's face. "What's this?" As she spoke, she opened the box, and the smile on her face froze.
Inside the box was a neatly placed stack of banknotes. He took them up and roughly counted them. The banknote was worth at least twenty thousand taels of silver.
"Where did all this silver come from?"
"Reporting to Master, we earned it in name."
Mu Yunyao was truly shocked, "He earned it?" His first thought was to secretly deduct the money that Steward Qin had asked him to buy food. However, when he thought of Steward Qin's praises just now, he felt that it wasn't like that. After all, Supervisor Qin was not someone who could be fooled easily. The quality and price of the grains were the most important.
Liu Chang nodded. "According to your instructions, we were all ordered to collect grains. After hearing about the uses of the grains, he bought more and sold them to Supervisor Qin."
At the time, they had asked Qi Ming to go buy grain, but the harvest was just over, and the new grains were much cheaper. Now that it was winter, the prices had naturally risen a lot, and these twenty thousand taels of silver were the difference.
Mu Yunyao thought for a moment, and after she figured out the crux of the matter, she couldn't help but laugh out loud, "This fellow is really a talent. Bring him here some other time, I want to see what this smart person looks like."