A concubine enters the mansion? Reborn, three matchmakers and six engagements to marry the Prime Min

Jade took out an envelope from her arms and handed it to Su Qingyu, saying: "The third young master asked me to give this to the lady. He said that he has found so much for the time being and he will continue to investigate in detail."

"There is one more thing. I went to the capital with the Second Young Master. The Second Young Master asked me to tell Miss that the Lin family has raised a total of 1.5 million dan of grain and has already entered the capital and stored it."

Su Qingyu nodded, and it was half a million stones more than she expected.

She opened a letter from her third cousin Lin Wuchen, which contained the details of the Cheng family's exile.

At that time, Cheng Rujin's grandfather Cheng Xuewen was the governor of Fujian, and his father Cheng Yu was the eldest son of Cheng. Gu Ruoyun, the head grandmother, was in charge of all the trivial matters in the inner house.

In the summer of the twelfth year of Xuande's reign, Fujian was flooded and the people were in dire straits. The imperial court allocated money for disaster relief and ordered Cheng Xuewen to purchase food on the spot in Jiangnan for disaster relief.

Originally, things were going smoothly, and the victims were almost settled. Chen Zheng, the Minister of Household Affairs at that time, suddenly made an unannounced visit to Jiangnan and found that the grain raised by the Cheng family was all low-grade grain, but the prices quoted for second-grade grain were quoted.

Before Chen Zheng could conduct a detailed investigation, Su Chengye, a doctor of the Ministry of Revenue who was then exiled to Fujian, presented detailed evidence, directly confirming the Cheng family's guilt of embezzling disaster relief funds.

Chen Zheng made a prompt decision and wrote to the emperor to sentence the entire Cheng family to exile.

Because of this achievement, Su Chengye was transferred to the Xuanfu to manage military rations, and within a year he was transferred back to Beijing.

He was able to plead for Gu Ruoyun's mother and daughter because of his great contribution to the Cheng family.

Su Qingyu vaguely remembered that Gu Ruoyun entered the house half a year after the Cheng family's accident. She should have given birth to a child in that half year.

According to Su Chengye, the concubine Mo Yu was conceived in Fujian and gave birth to the child in Xuanfu, which coincided with Gu Ruoyun's time.

She remembered what Yuetao said again, that Su Chengye seemed to have something in Gu Ruoyun's hands. Could it be that there is some inside story about what happened in Fujian back then?

Seeing that Su Qingyu was in a daze, Feicui stood aside quietly without disturbing her, but her mind was thinking about the scene she saw when she went to Beijing today, and she always felt that something was a little strange.

"Jade, you've been running all the way. I'm fine here. You can go back and rest." Su Qingyu's words brought Jade back from his thoughts.

She said, "Miss, today I went home and passed by our store in the west of the city, and I found a new grain store opened nearby called Zhou's Grain Store."

"I felt something was wrong, so I went to look at other shops. Next to each shop, there was a Zhou's Food Store."

Su Qingyu was stunned, why no one came back to her about such a big matter.

"Now send someone to find Lin Sheng and ask what's going on."

As soon as she finished speaking, Pearl opened the brocade curtain and walked in, "Miss, shopkeeper Lin Sheng wants to see you."

Su Qingyu asked Jade to go back and rest, while she took Pearl to the study room in the outer courtyard to meet Lin Sheng.

In the study, Lin Sheng was pacing the floor anxiously.

As soon as Su Qingyu entered the door, he said eagerly: "Miss, several of our shops have opened a grain store called Zhou's Grain Store. I suspect this was opened specifically for our shop."

"Have you checked? Who is the boss? When are they going to open for business?" Su Qingyu sat down at the main seat and signaled Lin Sheng not to worry, sat down and spoke slowly.

After Lin Sheng sat down, he took the tea handed over by Pearl and whispered: "Before I came to see the lady, I sent someone to check. Now I only know that this shop is related to the Zhou family."

"Which Zhou's Trading Company makes medicinal materials?" Su Qingyu asked.

"Yes, that's the Zhou family. The people who are renovating the shop these days are all the Zhou family. I originally thought it was going to open a medicine store, but they put up a plaque today, and I found out that it was opening a food store."

Su Qingyu's green fingers subconsciously tapped the tabletop of the desk, and after thinking for a moment, she said: "No matter who is behind it, we are doing our business."

"It doesn't matter how much money you make these days, but you must keep an eye on your warehouse and shop so that no one is behind you."

Lin Sheng said: "The second young master said that 1.5 million shi of grain has come to Beijing. If our business is affected at this time..."

Su Qingyu waved her hand, "I have my own plan for the 1.5 million stone. Don't worry, tell me if anything happens."

After Lin Sheng left, Su Qingyu sat alone in the study, recalling the disaster in her previous life. Suddenly I thought of Mr. Yan, and I didn't know if he could escape.

The next morning, Su Qingyu taught Su Shunci how to read accounts in the study as usual. Pearl came in with a letter and handed it to Su Qingyu, "Miss, this is sent by shopkeeper Lin Sheng."

Su Qingyu opened the letter and started reading. Lin Sheng said in the letter that Zhou's grain store opened today, and the price of all grains was lower than their store, even close to the cost price.

For a whole morning, their grain store didn't sell a pound of grain. Lin Sheng asked Su Qingyu what to do and whether he should follow the price reduction.

Su Qingyu frowned slightly, it was impossible to reduce the price.

She thought about it and wrote a reply, instructing Lin Sheng not to lower the price but to arrange for people to buy grain from Zhou's Grain Store. The more the better, but they had to hide it from others.

After writing the letter, Su Qingyu told Pearl, "Send the letter in person and ask Lin Sheng to do what I said in the letter."

An hour later, Pearl came back from delivering the letter and quietly said to Su Qingyu: "Miss, I saw Lu Ru next to my cousin's wife at the Zhou's Grain Shop. She was talking to the shopkeeper inside, and she seemed to be very familiar with her. Looks like."

"Later, the slave pretended to be buying rice and went in to inquire about it. The waiter casually said that the girl just now was the girl who was embarrassed by the boss."

Su Qingyu raised her eyebrows slightly, "Oh? Then this is really interesting."

If that shop was related to Gu Ruoyun, it was specifically targeted at her. They probably wanted to dominate the market with low prices, bring down the original Su's Grain Store, and then replace it.

A smile appeared on Su Qingyu's lips. She was thinking that one and a half million stones was not enough, so Gu Ruoyun came to give her a gift.

Early the next morning, Su Qingyu went to Songhe Hall to pay her respects to the old lady.

As soon as she entered Songhe Hall, Gu Ruoyun came with Cheng Rujin and Su Yuanche.

Gu Ruoyun couldn't hide the joy on his face, and even looked faintly proud when looking at Su Qingyu.

Su Qingyu's 50% guess in her mind increased to 80% at this time. The Zhou's Grain Store should be the work of Gu Ruoyun. She just didn't know if other people from the Su family were involved.

When the old lady saw Su Yuanche coming, she quickly put her grandson in her arms and told Aunt Yuan, "Go bring a bowl of sugared cheese. Yuan Che likes to eat it."

"Give my cousin another bowl of hot almond tea."

Su Qingyu stood aside with an unchanged expression. The old lady had been indifferent to her these days and she was not given any share of food or drink.

Of course, she only came to say hello every day to maintain her superficial filial piety.

Soon the almond tea was handed to Cheng Rujin's hand. Cheng Rujin took the almond tea and was about to drink it when she suddenly frowned. Then she put down the small celadon bowl and ran out.

Su Qingyu looked incomprehensible as she listened to the sound of retching coming from outside.