I just want to live a good life

After sending Mu Yunyi away, Su Nuan returned to Duiyueju.

Bitao and Baozhu, who went to deliver flowers to Mr. Yue, have returned.

Seeing Su Nuan coming back, Bi Tao pointed at the several ingots of silver on the table with an excited look on her face and said, "Miss, Mr. Yue only accepted the orchids, and he refused to accept the eighty pots of roses. He said he was moving away soon and didn't need those roses. But he gave all the silver without missing a single ounce."

This is understandable. The original agreement between Mr. Yue and Mr. Su was that as long as the orchid was saved, he would continue the rose transaction, so today's transaction should not be cancelled just because he was leaving.

But Mr. Yue was going to leave the imperial city next month, and he really had no need to keep those roses, so he did not keep the flowers, but paid the money to Bitao.

Su Nuan was very happy to have successfully put the one hundred and eighty taels of silver into her pocket. Although she was considered very rich now, who would complain about having too much silver?

In fact, her life is already quite comfortable now, but Su Nuan thinks that she cannot be satisfied with the status quo. She is not sure how long this situation can last with Mu Yunting, especially after being threatened by the male fox, her sense of crisis has increased, so she has to earn more money to ensure her future life.

Another important reason why she was keen on making money was that she really didn't know what to do. It was too boring to just eat and sleep every day.

She has now found a new goal for herself, which is to make money with the Second Prince. In this way, while making money for herself, she can also solve the trouble of Mu Yunyi coming to the Prince's Mansion to borrow money. It can also be regarded as indirectly helping Mu Yunting. Then, in her "cooperation" relationship with Mu Yunting, her status will not be so humble.

Su Nuan's business started with renting a piece of land. The inspiration came from Hengsi Street, which was the most luxurious business district in the imperial city. What Su Nuan wanted to do was to create another business district in the imperial city, comparable to Hengsi Street, and then surpass Hengsi Street.

This ideal seemed a little unrealistic with only her and the six thousand taels of silver in her hand, but she didn't care. As for ideals, they should be set high. If they came true one day, she would be old enough to sit in a rocking chair and reminisce about them.

The land she chose was at the junction of the rich area and the poor area of ​​the imperial city. Of course, the poor here are only relative. The so-called poor in the imperial city refer to small businessmen and minor officials working in the imperial city. They are much richer than the farmers and hunters outside the city.

Su Nuan chose this place as the location for her future business district because the land here is relatively cheap. Her six thousand taels of silver can rent two streets.

The two streets outnumber Hengsi Street in number.

It is easy to rent land, but it is not so easy to attract investment.

A gathering of ordinary small businesses certainly cannot be called a business district. What Su Nuan needs to do is to invite several well-known shops in the imperial city to open branches in her own territory.

However, these shops have become big and powerful in the imperial city, and every shop is very arrogant. It is not that Su Nuan will invite people to come just because she wants them to.

Because of the investment promotion, Su Nuan couldn't eat or sleep well, and her lips were covered with blisters.

That morning, just after breakfast, a servant came to inform her that someone wanted to see her, and it was not just one person, but two people.

One is Mrs. Xia’s personal maid Dongqing, and the other is Mr. Yue’s cousin Yingshu.

Normally, someone of Ying Shu's status would have no chance to meet the Crown Prince's concubine, but because he happened to ask for an audience with Dong Qing, and was mistakenly identified as being together by the servant, he was able to see Su Nuan.

The two people had different purposes for meeting Su Nuan. In terms of closeness and the urgency of the matter, Su Nuan chose to meet Dong Qing first. Of course, if possible, she didn't want to meet Dong Qing, because she could probably guess the purpose of Dong Qing's request to see her.

Sure enough, when the two were alone, Dong Qing said, "Second Miss, Madam asked me to ask you how the matter that the eldest lady entrusted to you is going."

Su Nuan felt helpless about this. Ever since she refused to have breakfast with Mu Yunting that morning, she hadn't seen Mu Yunting for several days.

"His Highness has been busy lately. I haven't seen him for a few days."

"Madam, tell the second young lady to hurry up, otherwise...otherwise it will be bad when the eldest young lady shows she is pregnant."

"I understand." Su Nuan asked Dong Qing irritably, "Is there anything else?"

Dong Qing replied, "No, it's just that Madam can't eat or sleep well every day because of the eldest lady's matter. Second Miss, please help the eldest lady for Madam's sake."

"After all, the eldest lady is the second lady's biological sister. If the eldest lady's affair is made public, it will not only be the eldest lady who will be embarrassed, but also our general's mansion. Although the second lady has married into the prince's mansion, the general's mansion is your mother's family after all, and the second lady will be embarrassed at that time."

"The general also said that if the second young lady can help the eldest young lady, he will give the Red Princess Sword to the second young lady."

Obviously Dong Qing came this time not only to deliver a message for Mrs. Xia, but also to represent General Xia.

This Red Princess Sword is exactly General Xia’s collection. It was what the original Xia Qingyan had always wanted to get, so she had a deep impression of the Red Princess Sword in her memory. Su Nuan easily found the related memories.

A few days ago, Xia Lian wanted to marry Xia Qingyao to a centurion, but now he is willing to give up his treasured treasure for her. This 180-degree change in attitude cannot be said to have nothing to do with Su Nuan. She feels that she played a role in fueling the flames.

"Go back and tell the general and his wife that I understand the interests involved. I will do my best to do this. However, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is the nephew of Prince Yongping after all. He can only give opinions on other people's family affairs. His words carry limited weight. If you don't allow the general to go to the emperor to think of a solution."

Dong Qing said, "It's not that the general has not thought about it, but the matter between the eldest lady and Mr. Cui was brought to the attention of the emperor, and the emperor had a very bad impression of the eldest lady. The general thought it would be better not to let the emperor know about this, otherwise it might backfire."

Su Nuan hadn't thought of this until Dong Qing mentioned it. And it was only then that she understood Xia Qingyao's intention of asking her for help.

Prince Yongping must have known that Xia Qingyao wanted to marry Mu Yunshu and was willing to offend the crown prince. However, Prince Yongping had always been unwilling to let Xia Qingyao marry his son. On the one hand, it was because of her bad reputation, and on the other hand, he did not want to offend the emperor and the crown prince.

If the prince could come forward to match Xia Qingyao and Mu Yunshu, it would mean that he did not take Xia Qingyao's reluctance to marry him to heart and he did not mind. Naturally, the emperor would not have any objection, and Prince Yongping would not have to worry about offending the emperor and the prince. Then the only thing left would be the reputation issue, and Xia Qingyao had already prepared for this issue. She pushed everything onto Cui Shaoyuan and she had already been in the position of a victim.

After all, Xia Qingyao and Cui Shaoyuan only hugged and kissed in front of others, which could not compare to the fact that she was pregnant with Mu Yunshu's child.

Therefore, as long as Mu Yunting was willing to speak up for Xia Qingyao, her marriage to Mu Yunshu would be settled.

After thinking all this through, Su Nuan felt that she should help Xia Qingyao. Putting aside the grudge between her original body and her, she felt that being a sister to Xia Qingyao was much safer than being an enemy. This woman was very scheming, and she might need her help in the future.

So she said to Dong Qing, "I was inconsiderate just now. Since my father, mother and sister all think that His Royal Highness can help, I will definitely do my best to ask His Royal Highness."

After hearing Su Nuan say this, Dong Qing left with a happy look on his face.

But Su Nuan was worried. How could she make Mu Yunting willing to help?