"Su Ming has met my little master..." Su Ming was about to kneel down when he saw Su Nianyun.
"Hey, don't kneel down." Su Nianyun hurriedly went to help him, "Brother Su Ming, didn't Uncle Cheng tell you?"
"I treat him as my uncle, and you are my brother. You don't need to use these false courtesy when you see me."
After helping Su Ming up, Su Nianyun looked at him carefully.
She remembered that when he was a child, he accompanied her out to collect medicinal herbs. When he was older, he went hunting with his father and brothers.
Su Ming has changed a lot from three years ago.
The childishness of the boy has completely disappeared, replaced by maturity and stability, and between his eyebrows, he looks more and more like Su Cheng.
Come to think of it, she was the only one who had lived in a miserable state for the past three years, and her people had suffered a lot.
"Little master..."
"Call me Nianyun!" Su Nianyun interrupted him, "This is the new name the Queen Mother gave me after she adopted me. Brother Su Ming, you can call me that too!"
"Nianyun."
Although it was just the beginning, Su Ming said it more smoothly than his father.
"Father said that you have no one you can trust in the capital, so I brought ten people here for you to control."
"That's great!" Su Nianyun stroked her hands. What she lacked most now was manpower.
In the past, she was afraid of being plotted against.
She didn't dare to use people from the Chen family.
She didn't dare to use anything that came out of the palace except the ones that the Queen Mother nodded at.
However, the Queen Mother was seriously ill and she did not dare to borrow help from the Queen Mother for fear of disturbing the Queen Mother and aggravating her condition.
There are only three people she trusts around her now, Nanny Liu, Chunhua, and Qiuyue. Although they are capable, it is not convenient for women in the back house to leave the house often.
But, when people from the tribe come, it will be different!
"Brother Su Ming, you came at the right time..."
Su Nianyun immediately whispered his plan to Su Ming.
"Is this...is it true?"
Su Ming's eyes widened in disbelief, "Nianyun, is this how you live in Beijing?"
Su Nianyun comforted him, "Brother Su Ming, you just came to the capital and you still don't understand. The rich and powerful families in this capital are crisscrossed. This is the most common and ordinary thing."
"Don't complain about me first, you must do what I say, you know?"
Looking at Su Nianyun's pleading eyes, Su Ming nodded gloomily, "I know!"
Soon, the troops coming out of the Mobei medicinal material store split into two groups.
Su Ming led the seven people eastward, while Su Nianyun returned to the Chen Mansion.
Not long after Su Nianyun entered the house, three strong but poorly dressed men knocked on the back door of Chen's house.
"What's wrong with you?"
"This steward," the leader asked, "does your government want to recruit helpers from nursing homes or menial jobs?"
"We three brothers have been reduced to this. We don't ask for wages, we just want a full meal!"
"Come with me. Butler Qin happens to be in the mansion today. It is up to Butler Qin to decide whether you are needed or not!"
Just when the concierge was leading people to see Butler Qin, Su Nianyun had already gone to the old lady's room with a large number of brocade boxes in her arms.
Before she even entered the door, she shouted excitedly, "Old madam, old madam, look, what good things have I discovered outside?"
It was past noon, and the old lady had just had lunch and was drinking tea.
Hearing Su Nianyun yell, he almost spit out a mouthful of tea.
"Princess, princess, you are shouting and running in the mansion, this is not appropriate..." Wen's mother hurriedly stopped Su Nianyun who was rushing in.
Su Nianyun didn't care about her, but rushed directly to the old lady.
"Old madam, take a look, I found something good outside."
The old lady was also a little unhappy, "Nianyun, even though you were born in Mobei, you still stayed in the palace for a few years."
"My dear princess, how can you yell so unruly? How did the Queen Mother teach you?"
Su Nianyun immediately lowered his eyes, and then a tear fell on the back of his hand holding the brocade box.
Seeing her like this, the old lady was even more upset. She couldn't help but Wen's mother kept saying these days that she felt that letting Su Nianyun out of the house every day made her wild.
"What do you look like? Did I wrong you?"
At this time, Nanny Liu and Chunhua were also panting and chasing after her.
"Princess, please walk slower. If you get something good, you don't have to rush to see the old lady. It's so rude..."
Only then did the old lady see that Nanny Liu and Chunhua were also holding several brocade boxes.
Offer treasure?
"Nianyun, what good things did you find on the street?" At this moment, the old lady's voice softened.
After being scolded, Su Nianyun didn't know how to speak.
It was Mother Liu who said, "Princess, you received a twenty-year-old wild ginseng. Weren't you very happy just now and said you wanted to show your respect to the old lady?"
"How come you didn't say anything when you saw the old lady?"
Aunt Liu and Chunhua came in late and did not see the scene where the old lady scolded Su Nianyun just now.
"Twenty years of... wild ginseng?" The old lady breathed heavily.
Ginseng is the king of herbs. The older the ginseng is, the higher its value is. The most precious among them is wild ginseng.
Wild ginseng can only be seen occasionally in remote mountains and old forests that are inaccessible to people. Wild ginseng that is twenty years old is a rare commodity!
The old lady looked at Su Nianyun excitedly, "Nianyun, have you really received twenty-year-old wild ginseng?"
Su Nianyun nodded aggrievedly, and then handed over the brocade box in his hand, "Old madam, I bought this specially to honor you!"
Without waiting for Wen's mother to do anything, the old lady took the brocade box and quickly opened it. A wild ginseng with many thick root nodes and a uniform body appeared in front of her eyes.
She tried to break off a small section of the roots with her hands, but the roots were so tight and solid that she could not break them off.
The old lady's face turned into a flower with a smile, "Nianyun, you really care about your mother!"
Su Nianyun said timidly, "Mother, are you not angry with me just now?"
"Angry, why should I be angry?" The old lady shook her head, "Why should I be angry?"
Then he looked at Aunt Wen, "It's Aunt Wen who wants to constrain you with the doctor's demands every day."
"You are from Mobei, so you should be like the free wind. Only then can you be worthy of the courtyard that your mother specially built for you, Tingfeng Courtyard, right?"
"Yes, mother," Su Nianyun was moved by the old lady's words, and she said emotionally, "I have always felt that my mother understands Nianyun the best..."
She swept away her disappointment and began to open other brocade boxes.
Su Nianyun bought all the fine jadeite necklaces from Cuibaozhai that Su Nianyun thought matched the old lady's temperament.
The brocade of Xianjin Pavilion, suitable for an older woman, was wrapped round by her...
After Su Nianyun introduced more than a dozen brocade boxes one by one, he sat down and took several sips of tea.
At this time, the old lady's eyes widened.
The shops that Su Nianyun went to were not ordinary shops at all.
Those places can easily cost a thousand taels, so they are not places that ordinary officials can afford to visit.
"Mother, look at these, do you still like them?"
After drinking tea, Su Nianyun cleared her throat and said, "If you are not satisfied with any of them, I will immediately send you a new batch."
"Satisfied, satisfied!" The old lady nodded hurriedly, "These are extremely valuable, how can I be dissatisfied."
"But... Nianyun, money is not spent like this. You..."
"Mother, don't worry, the Queen Mother has given me a lot of dowry."
Su Nianyun said confidently, "The Queen Mother said that as long as she doesn't squander it every day, the money can be spent until my grandson is born!"
When she mentioned her grandson, Su Nianyun couldn't help but blush with embarrassment.
Looking at her like this, everyone knew that she was thinking of her uncle.
"Okay, okay, you have to know it yourself..." At this time, the old lady no longer knew what to say.
The extravagant spending that the Queen Mother mentioned is completely different from the extravagant spending of ordinary people, right?
How much dowry did the Queen Mother give to Su Nianyun?
The old lady was distracted when Su Nianyun said, "Speaking of the Queen Mother, I haven't seen her for a few days. Mother, can I enter the palace to see the Queen Mother tomorrow?"
Thinking of the old lady who just scolded Su Nianyun for going out on the street and taking so many things from her, how could she continue to stop her.
Naturally, he nodded and said, "Go ahead. The Queen Mother is your adoptive mother. You should spend more time with her in the palace."
"I see you miss the Queen Mother so much, why not just stay in the palace for a few more days to accompany the Queen Mother. Anyway, there is nothing to do at home."