At the beginning, I was a rich female prisoner

Yu Tinghai was very satisfied when he heard this. It had been a long time since he saw his parents so happy. After eating two bowls of chicken soup, he felt much more energetic and said goodbye to the two elders.

He took Yu Yunxin back to the study and told her what happened in the palace.

"The emperor was very happy when he saw the jade carving of Nanling County's harvest that you asked Mu Yihe to carve. Lord Li Zhangsi also praised you a lot in front of the emperor. There will be rewards and additional titles from the palace tomorrow." Yu Tinghai said.

Yu Yunxin was now curious about the affairs of Canglan City, so she asked, "What about Canglan City and Prince Yi?"

"When the emperor saw Prince Yi, he was shocked to see his disfigured face and unconsciousness. He confirmed Prince Yi's identity and asked Lord Ye from the Imperial Administration to go to Canglan City to investigate. As for that cart of official silver, the silver was not from Dacheng, but from the silver mine in Xiliang. The reason why there was a horizontal line on it was that the foundry master of the Ministry of Works said that the method of refining silver in Xiliang was different from that in Dacheng, which led to the horizontal line." Yu Tinghai did not hide anything and told Yu Yunxin about what happened in the palace.

"The people of Xiliang, they secretly replaced Prince Yi with a fake one, but didn't Princess Yi, the Princess and the Prince know about it?" Yu Yunxin asked.

"Princess Yi and her children have returned to the Liu family in Chengzhou. The head of the Liu family died suddenly, so Princess Yi brought her children back home to attend the funeral. In order to help her brother take the position of head of the Liu family, she transferred many capable guards around Prince Yi. Prince Yi was originally going to accompany them, but was held back by the side branches of the Liu family. Princess Yi and Princess Ling and the young prince are not as good as she at telling Prince Yi's affairs. Now only the emperor, I, and the people from Shura Gate know about this." Yu Tinghai continued.

"So the Liu family might be in trouble too?" Yu Yunxin asked.

"The Emperor sent the Shadow Guard to investigate the Liu family. You don't have to worry about Canglan City. What I'm most worried about now is the Shura Clan!" Yu Yunxinhai said, looking at Yu Yunxin: "Have you met their Hades Lord?"

"He doesn't wear a mask every time we meet, but his men are also very skilled in martial arts," said Yu Yunxin.

"Indeed, from last year when Minister Li came to this year, several officials and their children who escaped punishment from the Ministry of Justice broke the law and escaped punishment from the Ministry of Justice and Jingzhao Yin, and then the people of Shura Gate punished them, either by sending the criminals to the palace or directly looting the officials' mansions, leaving all their silver, money, and jewelry in a pile of white paper. Shura Gate is too bold, and the emperor is also very troubled, so he asked me to intervene in this matter."

Yu Yunxin was shocked when she heard what Yu Tinghai said about Shura Sect. Now the officials in the capital are in a panic because of Shura Sect. Some officials involved have begun to act low-key, fearing that they will be targeted by Shura Sect if they are not careful.

After leaving the study, Yu Yunxin went straight back to her own courtyard. She could no longer interfere in the affairs of Canglan City and Liu family's Shura Sect. After all, a month in Ling Pavilion was already a headache for her. Without the harassment of the Lord of the Underworld, she slept soundly all night and her inner strength increased.

She was woken up by the little dog knocking on the window early in the morning. Looking at the five little ones lying in the corridor, she knew that they were exhausted these days. After absorbing some spiritual power with purple crystal jade, she prepared some unsalted chicken and rabbit meat for the five little ones. These were all made from her medicinal diet to increase internal strength, and they were also prepared for them.

Xiaobei and Bobolele are of decent size, but Xiaoha and Xiaola are too big and can only be hidden in her attic. It seems that she needs to prepare a manor for them.

After breakfast, Yu Yunxin took her grandparents to visit the capital. Yu Yunxin felt at ease with Chunyu taking care of the two elderly people. She began to choose a suitable jewelry shop, but she decided it would be better to discuss it with Pang Jinhua. After she had selected a few shops, she sent someone to give Pang Jinhua the right to choose these shops.

She looked at several buildings to use as theaters, but none of them caught her eye. However, her eldest cousin's wife opened Xingxin Textile, which was in a very good location. It was a three-story building with various cloth dolls on the first floor and wool and rabbit hair on the second floor, and it also taught women to knit sweaters. The wool yarn on the second floor also sold very well.

The third floor is for home textiles. If you buy a lot, there is a slide on the third floor where you can directly send the selected home textiles from the third floor to the carriage. It is very convenient. This should be a good idea that Li Wan came up with.

At noon, I accompanied my parents to eat at Zuixianju. The dishes at Zuixianju were very delicious, including the fatty but not greasy Eight Treasure Duck, and the roasted venison was very special.

I didn’t expect that I would get to eat the roasted venison today, which is only available once a month at Zuixianju. Yes, the ingredients for the roasted venison are only available at Zuixianju.

"Xin'er, this is my first time coming to the second floor of Zuixianju. I didn't expect that I could eat roasted venison thanks to Xin'er." Old Mrs. Yu said while eating roasted venison.

"Grandma and grandpa, you have worked hard all your lives. Now that I have returned to Beijing, I should help father to honor you. In the future, whenever there is something delicious, you two will be included." Yu Yunxin said as she toasted the two elders with a glass of tea instead of wine, which made the two elders very happy.

"Yes! Old man and old lady, our princess has built a small town in Nanling County! There are so many delicious foods there. I have asked the chef in the mansion to cook for you, old man and old lady these days, and I guarantee you won't get tired of it." Chunyu said while cooking mutton for the two elders.

"That's great. From now on, we two old people can eat delicious food without going out. It's great." said old man Yu.

"Yes, you see, it's great that Xin'er took us to have dinner at Zuixianju, the most difficult restaurant to enter in Beijing, on the first day she returned home!" Old Mrs. Yu echoed.

Yu Yunxin thought about it and decided to find something for the two elders to do so that they could enjoy the good years in Beijing.

As soon as she got out of Zuixianju and got on the carriage, Qiu Shuang saw Eunuch Hu who was delivering the imperial edict from the palace. There was also the prince sitting in the sedan chair at the end of the team. He was wearing a bright yellow robe and looked at the people around him with his sword-like eyebrows slightly raised.

"Isn't this Eunuch Hu and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince? Could it be that the princess is giving you a reward? Let's hurry back home!" Qiu Shuang said.

Yu Yunxin saw Hu Man and the prince passing by in the alley, and wondered why she had forgotten about this matter today, so she immediately asked the driver to take a shortcut back home.

Fortunately, they met the prince and eunuch Hu as soon as they got off the carriage and arrived outside the mansion.

Seeing this, Eunuch Hu smiled at Yu Yunxin and said, "Princess, you came out in such a hurry to receive the emperor's order. The emperor has given you a lot of good things this time!"

The prince smiled as he looked at Yu Yunxin who was standing outside the mansion.

When Yu Yunxuan walked out of the door and saw the prince actually smiling at Yu Yunxin, her heart was filled with envy and jealousy.

Hu Man looked at everyone in the Yu Mansion, except Yu Tinghai who was still working in the Ministry of Justice. Everyone nodded in unison, and immediately took out the imperial edict. Everyone in the Yu Mansion knelt down when they saw the imperial edict.

The content is the same as last time, about the second crop of rice and the jade from the southern Yunnan border that increased the national strength of Dacheng. The emperor was very happy and specially conferred the title of a second-rank princess on her. The title remained unchanged, with a fief of 3,000 households, which could be inherited for three generations, a princess mansion from her mother's side, and a thousand-acre estate outside the capital.

This is a place where every inch of land is worth a lot of money. Having a mansion and a manor here is more valuable than gold and silver. Not to mention the 3,000 households in the fiefdom, 3,000 households have to pay taxes to her every year. Just thinking about it makes me laugh even if I dream. Financial freedom is guaranteed.

There were also twenty carts of various silks, satins, gold, silver and jewelry.

When everyone heard that the fief of 3,000 households was inherited for three generations, they were all shocked. Only Wang Yuanxiang and Yu Yunxuan showed their fierceness to her. They clenched their fists tightly while listening to the eunuch Hu read the imperial edict.

Wang Yuanxiang wondered why Yu Yunxin, that girl, could have a fief of 3,000 households. It was just a second crop of rice! Why wasn't it her own daughter, Yu Yunxuan?

When Yu Yunxin kowtowed to thank the emperor and received the imperial edict, she was helped up by the prince who was standing beside her.

"Congratulations, Sister Xin'er! Can I come into the mansion to ask for favor?"

"It has brought great honor to our Yu Mansion that Your Highness the Crown Prince and Eunuch Hu can come together. Your Highness the Crown Prince, please come in!" When Old Man Yu saw that Yu Yunxin did not respond, he immediately invited the Crown Prince and Eunuch Hu into the mansion.

This time, Yu Yunxin still did not let Wang Yuanxiang's people touch the rewards. Instead, she asked Chunyu to bring the maids of Yayun Garden and the people in the palace to deliver the rewarded gold, silver and jewelry to Yayun Garden.

Old Man Yu asked Yu Yunxin to personally make tea and pour tea for His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.

The old man was experienced and could tell that the prince's eyes had never left his Xin'er from the moment he entered the mansion to the living room.

"What kind of tea is this that Sister Xin'er brewed? It's very special!" The prince asked Yu Yunxin.

"It's tea from the tea garden I bought in Nanling County." Yu Yunxin replied.

"Master Li told me that you built a small town over there and you also went to the border of Southern Dian Kingdom. I heard from my father that the jade and stones that were sent as tribute by Southern Dian Kingdom this time were all your credit." The prince said while sipping tea.

"Your Highness, my sister went to the Southern Dian Kingdom in person. My God, there are only southern barbarians there. How could a girl like you go to the enemy country like that?" Yu Yunxuan, who was standing aside, finally couldn't bear it anymore and spoke up.

"Your Highness the Crown Prince, you see, although our Yunxuan is not a legitimate daughter, she never goes out and embarrasses herself." Wang Yuanxiang said immediately after hearing it.

"Shut up! As a concubine and a concubine's daughter, what qualifications do you have to speak here?" Old Mrs. Yu could not help but scold Wang Yuanxiang.

"Your Highness the Crown Prince, we have made a fool of ourselves in the Yu family." Old Man Yu immediately comforted the Crown Prince.

“Princess Xingguo was not afraid of small things and risked her life to go to the border of Southern Dian Kingdom and built a nine-seat formation tower in Shangyang County of Nanling County. Did I say she went to the enemy country? She brought people from the martial arts world and the female disciples of Yanyu Manor to secretly resist several sneak attacks by the Southern Dian barbarians, saving the people on the border of Nanling from several family destruction. It was the regent of Southern Dian Kingdom who suffered several losses under the tower before he agreed to trade jade with us, Dacheng. How can you women in the backyards of the capital be compared with Princess Xingguo?” The prince glared at Yu Yunxuan and Wang Yuanxiang.

Yu Yunxin didn't say much when she heard that her grandfather and Mu Zhongye said this in the military newspaper for her reputation. Now whenever Yu Yunxuan and Wang Yuanxiang opened their mouths, they would say she was wrong. She smiled and said, "Your Highness, I am a princess appointed by the emperor himself, and I am also a member of Shangyang County in Nanling County. I have seen too many people living a difficult life. If their homes are occupied by the southern barbarians, how will the villagers live in the future! So I just used a formation to protect their homes. It's nothing. I didn't expect that my grandfather would..."

Before Yu Yunxin could finish her words, the prince interrupted her and said, "I know that sister Xin'er has just returned to the capital, and your concubine is still with Concubine Wang. Don't think that I don't know that Concubine Wang is behind the slander of the legitimate daughter of the Yu family."

"What! Wang Yuanxiang, how dare you slander the legitimate daughter of our Yu family behind her back? We, old couple, have given you several thousand taels of pension money, but we didn't expect you to be so ungrateful." Upon hearing this, Old Yu immediately picked up his walking stick and wanted to hit Wang Yuanxiang.

Chun Yu stopped her, "Madam, please don't be angry. Our princess's reputation is not afraid of these fabricated rumors."

"Two elders, I would like to talk to Xin'er alone. Is it convenient?" The prince asked Old Man Yu.

When Old Master Yu heard this, he immediately told Wang Yuanxiang and her daughter to get out of the living room. The two elders said, "Your Highness, that's our dining room. We are hard of hearing and can't hear anything behind the screen."

In feudal ancient times, it was not allowed for women to meet men alone. However, if there were elders watching from a distance, no one would gossip.

Eunuch Hu was very tactful and drank a cup of tea before leaving. Qiu Shuang also stuffed a silver note of one thousand taels into his pocket before he left, which made Eunuch Hu very satisfied.

"Don't worry, I will definitely speak well of you when I return. I didn't expect that you are also very sensible."

Behind the screen in the restaurant, the prince looked at Yu Yunxin and said, "Don't worry, sister Xin'er. I will protect you after we return to the capital. When you reach the age of marriage, I will ask my father to grant us a marriage."

Before Yun Xin could react after the prince finished speaking, he kissed her on the forehead and left without any more movements.

She was just about to say that she didn't like the prince, but the prince had already left the living room and was stopped by the two elders.

The two elders looked at her and smiled, "Our Xin'er is so lucky. She will be the Crown Princess in the future."

"Grandma and grandpa, I haven't agreed yet!" Yu Yunxin replied.

"Xin'er, although our Yu family was born in fishermen's families, there's nothing wrong with our descendants being stronger than the previous generation. Your cousin will also depend on you for care. When your cousin passes the imperial examination, our Yu family will be able to hold our heads high." Old Mrs. Yu said excitedly.

"Yes, Xin'er, you are now the Princess of Xingguo with a fief of three thousand. I think only the prince is worthy of you. Just listen to your grandfather!" Old Man Yu also said happily.

"Grandpa and grandma, aren't you hard of hearing? How did you hear what Taozi said? Don't go out and tell anyone about it!" Yu Yunxin said helplessly to the two elders.

"Don't worry! We are your grandparents and we won't say anything nonsense." said Old Man Yu.

But what she didn't expect was that she told Yu Linshan about this matter when Yu Linshan returned home for dinner.

Oh my god! She had met some family.

"Yes, our Xin'er and the prince are a perfect match in terms of talent and appearance. I think in the whole Dacheng, only the prince is worthy of our Xin'er." Yu Linshan said while eating.

"Brother, let's eat quickly!" Yu Yunxin didn't want to hear this.

But Wang Yuanxiang and her daughter heard this. Yu Yunxuan returned to her yard and started smashing things. "Why? Yu Yunxin is a princess with a fief of 3,000 and the future crown princess. Why? Why? Grandparents think about her as soon as she comes back, and everyone likes her. I am only two months later than her. Why can't I enjoy the happiness of being a legitimate daughter?"

As he was about to smash the vase in his hand, he was stopped by Wang Yuanxiang.

He snatched the vase and said, "Don't worry, I won't let that little bitch become the Crown Princess. I have an idea."

As Wang Yuanxiang spoke, she put her mouth close to Yu Yunxuan's ear and said something.

"Yu Yunxuan said excitedly, mother, is it true? That's great! I will be the Crown Princess in the future." Yu Yunxuan said excitedly after hearing Wang Yuanxiang's whisper.

"Although your mother is the concubine of the Yu family, even Yu Yunxin's mother is no match for Concubine Wang in terms of means." Wang Yuanxiang glanced in the direction of Yayun Garden with disdain.