Chapter 52 Stealing the Dowry and Buying the Secret Recipe
Lan Yunyi helped Huang Yuee into the shop. She held on carefully, but she heard Huang Yuee's sighs coming from her ears.
"Sister Yue'e, why are you sighing? If you sigh too much, the children born will no longer be beautiful. What if you follow Feng Xiao?"
Lan Yunyi helped her sit on a chair and saw her holding her waist with one hand and looking sad with her big belly.
"When I met you, this child was born with a blessed life. The five hundred taels were originally yours, but you insisted on giving me two hundred taels. I kept the one hundred taels after my overwhelming recommendation, and let Feng Xiao
I took it to buy a house, but he said my house was uncomfortable and he felt uneasy."
"What am I worried about? Isn't it you? Your fifth brother who killed a thousand swords has the nerve to come and cause trouble in front of you, but you can't be soft-hearted! You can't even think about returning to Lan Mansion!"
Huang Yuee looked up at her, carefully watching Lan Yunyi's expression, for fear that she would feel uncomfortable.
"They are already strangers, what fifth brother? I will never be angry with them again, and I will never go back."
Lan Yunyi shook her hand and raised a smile at her.
"By the way, if Lan Wanru buys our Sushan secret recipe from Feng Xiao, you ask Feng Xiao to ask her for a thousand taels and say that she won't sell it for a penny less." Lan Yunyi seemed to have expected something and was confident.
's opening.
"Hiss—a thousand taels??" Huang Yuee took a breath, a little stunned.
She and her eighteen generations of ancestors have worked for a hundred years, and they have never seen so much money!
"You even want to sell Sushan's secret recipe? Will she buy it? What did we sell if she bought it? I don't think we can sell this unique thing!" Huang Yuee objected.
"Sushan uses simple materials. If she is willing to study it, she can research it in half a day. We are strictly guarding her right now. She can't see Sushan, and she is so anxious that she is dizzy. I really wish she bought it."
"What's more, the strange thing about Sushan is not the cooking method, but the ice."
Lan Yunyi explained, her voice paused slightly on the word "bing".
Huang Yuee finally understood her plan, and her eyes lit up when she smiled.
"That's right! It's ice! The heat has killed many people this year, and the ice reserves in Beijing are so small that those who have ice at home are reluctant to use it to open a shop. Our business in Sushan is so prosperous that everyone is jealous. I'm afraid next year it will be full
The streets are so messed up! It’s better to cheat her hard than this.”
"Oh, little girl, you have such a bad mind!" Huang Yuee nodded her head with a smile, her face full of praise.
Lan Yunyi listened to her words, the smile on her lips did not fade, but her eyes became wandering, as if she had returned to her previous life.
Bad?
This evil, this hatred, she paid for it with her life.
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The pot of gardenias that was moved to the yard has disappeared: my young lady has been unconscious for so long, and only the second young master came to see her for a while. The fourth and fifth young masters who usually love her are also missing at the moment. The second young lady's shop business
Prosperous, almost making money every day...
The pot of gardenia in the yard is the lifeblood of the lady!
If several young masters discover that the young lady's illness is fake, they will not only blame and punish her, but they will also be unable to control Lan Yunyi in the future.
Without the love and care of the young master, how can the young lady live in the Lan Mansion and find a good marriage?
Without Lan Wanru, Qiaodie seemed to have lost her backbone. Looking at the unconscious Lan Wanru on the hospital bed, she felt anxious like an ant on a hot pot.
I don’t know if the Bodhisattva she was thinking about appeared in her heart.
Suddenly, Lan Wanru's fingers on the quilt moved.
"Miss? Are you awake?" Qiaodie was surprised and happy when she saw it, and threw herself next to Lan Wanru's bed.
Lan Wanru held her sore forehead with one hand and opened her eyes weakly: "Qiaodie..."
"Miss, you're finally awake!" Fortunately, Qiaodie's voice still contained a hint of crying.
"How's Lan Yunyi's shop? Has it closed down?" Lan Wanru's voice was hoarse and her breath was a little unsteady, but she was thinking about Lan Yunyi's shop.
"It didn't... it didn't go bankrupt. The profit on the second day was even better than the first. I heard that the ladies from the Duke's family were looking for her to discuss business..." Qiaodie replied with a bitter face.
When Lan Wanru interrupted her, she forgot to tell Lan Wanru that the pot of gardenia in the yard was missing.
"What? The Duke's office is looking for her to discuss business?" Lan Wanru's voice suddenly rose a few pitches,
What she could originally rely on was the connections and power of the Lan Mansion. If she took advantage of the Duke's Mansion, wouldn't it be possible for her to fall on her own head?
Concubine Zhen in the palace is very favored by His Majesty. I heard that Concubine Zhen and the old lady of the Duke's Mansion have similar interests and are very close friends.
Then Lan Yunyi is about to get involved with the royal family...
Thinking of this, her fingertips trembled, and her originally bloodless face turned pale.
"What business are we talking about? Is it the legendary Sushan Mountain?" Lan Wanru's eyes were full of hatred.
"I don't know, I have sent people to inquire, but there has been no result." Qiaodie's voice was soft, with a hint of crisis.
"No! We can't sit still and wait for death. We must rush ahead of Lan Yunyi and get on this line! I must make my Wufangzhai a royal offering!"
Lan Wanru calmed down, thought for a while, and then spoke slowly: "Go find Feng Xiao. Didn't he sell us the secret recipe for pastry last time? Since he said that Sushan's secret recipe can be obtained,
Then let’s go buy it.”
Lan Wanru said, her eyes a little more determined.
"The secret recipe for buying Sushan?!" Qiaodie's pupils trembled, "But we have no money left. When you were unconscious, the shop had little business and only made a total of fifty taels of silver. We also owed money to the gambling house.
…”
Lan Wanru took a deep breath. Because of the compound interest, she now owed the gambling house three hundred taels of silver. This money was imminent. If she didn't pay back the money, those people who licked blood with the tip of a knife would come to her door.
"You said - Lan Yunyi's dowry should have a lot of cash, right?" Lan Wanru slowly raised her eyes and looked at Qiaodie.
Just a quick look in his eyes and he understood it immediately.
But she still had some hesitation in her heart: "There will probably be five hundred taels of silver in cash. After all, the young master respects etiquette and will never embarrass the Lan family. But if he moved the second lady's dowry and was discovered, it would be a serious crime!
"
Lan Wanru was also confused, but she quickly convinced herself.
"Feng Xiao likes gambling and has short eyelids."
"I gave him five hundred taels last time to drag him into this muddy water. This time I will give him another two hundred taels at most. I will give him another three hundred taels back to the gambling house. When Lan Yunyi gets married, my shop will definitely be
If you can collect so much money and make up for it, no one will find out."
Lan Wanru seemed to be saying it to herself, but also to Qiaodie, as if she wanted to firm up her own ideas.