Jin is located on the border of Zhou State, adjacent to Zhao State.The state of Zhao has strong national strength, and has always coveted the land of Jin, and there have been constant frictions at the border.

At the end of last year, there was almost a big war.As long as there is Zhao Guo, even if the land of Jin is still rich, it is still a hot potato, and it is not easy to gain a firm foothold.Unexpectedly, after Chen Ning entered the Jin territory, he personally led the army to quell the chaos, which severely dampened the morale of the Zhao army, greatly demonstrated his military talents, and the border chaos seemed to subside.

When the news spread to Shangjing, everyone reacted differently.

The common people were naturally delighted at this thing that raised the prestige of the state of Zhou. Although it was the same on the surface, there were hidden worries behind the scenes.

Zhou Emperor Chen Qian assigned Chen Ning to Jin out of selfishness. Jin is a land of fish and rice, which is an advantage alone, but being bordered by Zhao State has become a coveted disadvantage.The chaos at the border, large and small, has lasted for decades, and this is not an overnight grievance.Not to mention the land of Jin, even the state of Zhou was overwhelmed by the state of Zhao in many matters. Even though Chen Ning had some skills in leading troops to fight, he couldn't do anything else, so he handed over the land of Jin It was the emperor's deliberate plan to get it into his hands.

In addition, Chen Ning also married a male wife, and the future has been cut off. It is a good result to live a life of wealth and prosperity in the fief.

Song Guogong personally pushed Xie Yan out at that time, and what he promised to the emperor was that this son has nothing to do. Unexpectedly, after Xie Yan entered Jindi, several measures have greatly changed the style of Jindi, and the prosperity is not what it used to be.The reason why Chen Ning dared to fight against Zhao Bing at the border was also related to this.

A place that was originally in a deadlock had a change that the emperor worried about because of the so-called good-for-nothing Xie Yan, which was beyond everyone's expectations.

The emperor was furious at Song Guogong for this, and even secretly doubted the loyalty of Song Guogong's mansion, Song Guogong couldn't argue with it.

If the land of Jin is allowed to go unchecked, it may become a serious problem for the Zhou State in less than ten years, and the imperial power will change hands.The emperor still cared about the friendship with Chen Ning, but he was murderous towards Xie Yan.As long as Xie Yan is gone, there is nothing wrong with letting Chen Ning and Zhao Jun at the border check each other.

In order to prevent Xie Yan from implicating the Duke's mansion in the future, and to dispel the emperor's suspicion, Duke Song wished that Xie Yan would die soon.

It's just that if this matter is put in the open, the royal family can't take advantage of it, and it is easy to be pinched, so they can only act secretly.

There was a thunderstorm accompanied by a sudden rain. Passers-by covered their heads with their hands and walked hurriedly. An oil-paper umbrella passed through the narrow alley at the back door of the palace. The person holding the umbrella paused and stopped at the back door of the palace. The guard said a few words.After being released, he entered the verandah of the palace, the visitor put away his umbrella and stopped smiling, and went to Qingqiu courtyard with a serious face.

Not to mention the inside and outside of the palace, even the inside of a palace is divided into several worlds.

In the Qingqiu courtyard, Xie Yan stood with his hands behind his back, standing by the window watching the rapid rain.After listening to what the person said, he waved his hand to send the person away, and went to the inner room by himself.

Except for the rain, there was almost no sound in the yard.

There are also lively places.

In Fanglan Courtyard, Aunt Zhao was holding her breath.

In the morning at Lin Miao's place, she was far beyond what she expected before she went. Not only did she not get angry with Lin Miao, but she was played with by him and Xue Niang.

Aunt Zhao has not been favored by Chen Ning for two months, and naturally she is not as good-looking in front of her servants. Although she still has enough food and clothing, she is far from the bird's nest that Aunt Zhao boasts about every day.She was not willing to eat the few liang of high-grade bird's nests she kept in her hand, but now she was going to give it to Lin Miao, which inevitably made her feel distressed and angry.

But this has to be given away, otherwise not only will she be angry, but she will lose face. Aunt Zhao has been in pain for a long time, and she still has to slap her swollen face to pretend to be fat, so she sent two taels of bird's nest to Lin Miao.

She was angry, but Lin Miao was beaming.

Bi Ru stared at the bird's nest fondly for a long time, planning to give his young master some to nourish his body every day.

Lin Miao didn't have this plan at all, he thought he was holding money when he took the bird's nest.Let him eat?Thanks to that, Lin Miao herself is not willing to eat.

He asked, for example, to put away the bird's nest, and when the weather cleared up tomorrow, he would go out of the house to find a pharmacy or something to sell the bird's nest.

Bi Ru was very distressed when she heard this, but she couldn't resist Lin Miao's intentions, so she could only pout her lips and put away the bird's nest, then turned to the kitchen to watch the mother-in-law cook.

Lin Miao was thinking about his future in the room.

He originally thought that Lin Miao was someone who had been forgotten all over the world, and Chen Ning was not short of Yingying and Yanyan, so it was not difficult to say goodbye, but Chen Ning would not let him go.

Lin Miao sighed. If this wasn't the palace, he would have left without saying goodbye. However, this is the territory of the king of the land, and the way he planned to die was very scary. Holding countless small knives, he was afraid that if he made a wrong step or said a wrong sentence, he would make the male protagonists unhappy.

It's okay to behead directly, but Ling Chi cut the body apart. Lin Miao felt pain all over his body just by imagining it, so he didn't dare to act rashly.

He lay on the small table and listened to the sound of rain outside the window. It was so difficult to be an ordinary coward in a feudal society.

However, the optimism in Lin Miao's character made him think that there is hope in the future.No matter how much bird's nest you get for selling it, it's always a good start.It's useless to say goodbye, so he won't go in front of the male protagonists, and let others do the thing of flying moths to the fire. He definitely has no intention of disturbing the emotional development of the male protagonists.

Let's relax a little more, Lin Miao feels that even if he really can't leave, he will take this small courtyard of the palace as his shelter and go outside to find ways to make money by himself. This is like working in Beijing and staying in the Forbidden City Similarly, the Forbidden City also provided him with board and lodging. Thinking about it from this perspective, it is actually okay.

After a long time, maybe Chen Ning will feel that he has suffered a disadvantage, and it will be too late to drive him away.

Thinking of this, Lin Miao laughed out loud and put her worries aside.

At this time, worrying about death is not very useful. It is better to take one step at a time, eat well, drink well and stay in good health.

Xue Niang saw Chen Ning's attitude towards Lin Miao that day, and she was still a little worried, but after following Aunt Zhao to Lin Miao's place, most of her worries disappeared.

Aunt Zhao is a fool who pretends to be smart, and Lin Miao is a fool with low vision and thick skin.There is no need to use any means at all, just letting King Jin look at his poor appearance should attract disgust, and there is no way to make a splash.

Lin Miao didn't care what the aunts thought of him, since she wasn't his wife anyway.

After waking up, it turned out to be a sunny day. After breakfast, Lin Miao took Bi Ru to go out to have a look.Fortunately, although he can't leave now, as a man, he has more freedom to go out than those aunts. Not only is there no one to stop him, but he also prepared a carriage.

Even though the horse was thin and old, and the paint on the carriage was old and faded, at least there was a driver for it.

Lin Miao sat in the car and looked out the window, looking at the flow of people coming and going on the street, everything was new.

When they arrived at the main street in the city, Lin Miao got out of the carriage and politely made an appointment with the driver to pick them up. The driver agreed and drove back first.

The main street runs through the capital of Jindi from east to west, and it is also the busiest place for business.At this moment, the time of day was about to pass, and there was a constant flow of people on the street, and the shops on both sides of the street were already open to welcome customers.

Lin Miao took Bi Ru to find a medicine shop, went in and asked the price of the bird's nest first.

The clerk brought out three kinds of bird's nests, with prices ranging from 50 taels to [-] taels. Lin Miao looked carefully and was sure that what Aunt Zhao gave was indeed a good one, so she took out the bird's nests to show her intentions.

The clerk didn't change his expression when he heard that he was not here to buy but to sell. He just put away the bird's nest in his shop first, invited Lin Miao aside and called the shopkeeper.

The shopkeeper greeted the guests with a smile on his face after he came out. After taking the bird's nest in Lin Miao's hand, he immediately gave the purchase price: "It is indeed top grade, 20 taels of silver."

The top-grade bird's nest brought out by the guy in front cost at least 50 taels in terms of weight. With such a sudden discount, the shopkeeper's expression remained unchanged. Lin Miao also admired his ability to do business.

"Say less than 40 taels." Lin Miao stretched out four fingers.

The shopkeeper still had a smiling face, and he shook his head and said, "I've accepted this, it's hard to say whether I can sell it or not, I can't lose money, let's do this, if the young master sincerely wants to sell, then I will buy it sincerely, and add five taels , a total of 25 taels, no more will be enough, if you think it’s not enough, you can go to another store to ask and come back.”

Lin Miao didn't know how to do it, so she planned to go to other shops to ask, so she nodded and said, "Then thank the shopkeeper first, and I'll take a look."

25 taels is already a lot, and you can rent a small courtyard in the capital to cover half a year's rent.Lin Miao went to several pharmacies, and none of the prices he got was higher than the first one. Bi Ru was already sweating profusely after following him, so she tried her best to let Lin Miao walk in the shade.

Lin Miao felt sorry for Bi Ru, so she stopped comparing and went back to sell the bird's nest.

25 taels of silver were quite heavy, so Lin Miao put them close to her body, leaving only five taels of silver hanging in her purse.

At noon, there are fewer people on the street, but there are more people in the restaurant.

Lin Miao took Bi Ru into a restaurant, there was a lot of noise downstairs, Bi Ru followed Lin Miao, and many men looked at her overtly and secretly.Lin Miao was a little displeased, and after thinking about how rare he was to have money, he simply took Bi Ru up to the private room on the second floor, separated from the outside world.

There are two windows in the private room, one facing the street and the other facing the canal pier.In the early years, the capital of Jindi was settled by canals, and outside the city walls were busy wharves. Since Xie Yan canceled several decrees that suppressed merchants, the number of merchant ships passing through the wharf has increased. There are countless merchant ships here, and there are countless workers just moving goods on the pier, and the lunch break is the busiest.

The food in the restaurant is not cheap, but it is rare to go out, and Lin Miao didn't want to make any fuss. He ordered two meat and two vegetables plus a soup. The waiter memorized the names of the dishes and walked out with a smile.

Lin Miao walked to the window following the sound, and when he pushed it out, he saw a row of men in open clothes standing in the distance near the city gate, who looked like workers working on the dock.

Near the city gate, there are quite a few hawkers selling everything. Most dock workers just buy two white flour steamed buns and eat them with some pickles. Although they are not tasty, they are cheap and satisfy hunger.

Like Lin Miao's restaurant, even if it's not a private room, it's a mixed environment downstairs. If you want to order a dish and a meal and want to be full, even if several people put together, it will take half a day for each person. The wages are not friendly to the dock workers from the surrounding villages and towns.

Bi Ru didn't know what Lin Miao was staring at, but when she came over to take a look, she immediately blushed, "My lord, what do you think they are doing?"

"Ah?" Lin Miao didn't know what Biru meant. It was normal for her to blush, but he was a man, why couldn't he read it?

But after thinking about it again, it is indeed a bit misleading for someone who likes men like the original owner to suddenly stare at a group of shirtless men. Lin Miao withdrew her gaze and said honestly, "I'm looking at money."

This time it was Bi Ru's turn to be puzzled: "Huh?"

Holding back her embarrassment, she glanced over there again, but saw nothing except a bunch of rough men, let alone money.

Lin Miao waved her hand and told her to go back to sit, while she stood by the bed and continued to observe.

Although the vendors near the city gate were under the sun, their business was really good. Some were sold alone, and some were sold by husband and wife together. Almost all of them were too busy to touch their hands.

And the dock workers in the shade also change from one wave to the next. It takes almost four or five minutes to have lunch, and they come and go in waves like this, and the endless stream is endless.

If you open a fast food restaurant in this area, there will definitely be no shortage of customers.

Lin Miao waited until the waiter from the restaurant came to serve the food, then closed the window and sat back where she was, still thinking about the feasibility of the deal.

The original owner has no special skills, and neither does Lin Miao. The knowledge and skills he learned in modern times are useless in this era. The only thing that is more similar is the research on eating.

The mother-in-law in the palace is quite skilled, but I don't know how the restaurant outside tastes like.

He looked at several restaurants before entering the restaurant, and this one had the most, and the taste would not be bad.

The little guy served the food, and boasted to Lin Miao: "Guest officer, please take your time. The food in our restaurant is not only the first in the city, but also the top three at least. The taste is absolutely worth mentioning." .”

When he said this, Lin Miao had expectations, but he was disappointed when he had expectations. Although the taste of the dishes in the entrance is not too bad, they are not delicious at all. Compared with the price of this dish, the price/performance ratio There are absolutely no three words.

Calculating the price and the flow of people in this store, I am afraid that the store can make a lot of money in a month.

Sure enough, no matter whether it is ancient or modern, as long as the location is selected and the catering industry is well positioned, it is a business that only makes money but not loses.

In order to thoroughly verify the feasibility, Lin Miao went to the city gate to walk around after eating and drinking.There is a restaurant over there, and the price is much cheaper than the one he ate at noon, but there are only a few workers who eat in the restaurant. Even if they eat there, it is two bowls of food for four people, but the rice is eaten. Four pots.Occupying a table costs less money, and Xiao Er's face is not good-looking.

Lin Miao originally planned to go around for a while longer, but looking at the sky, it was almost the time he had agreed with the driver, so he had to go back to the palace for another look.

On this trip, eating in the private room was more expensive, and it cost 24 Wen. Now Lin Miao still has 30, [-] Wen.In a dozen or so days, it will be next month, and when the monthly bill is added, it will be no problem to save [-] taels.

At that time, it will be enough to set up a small storefront to start a business. If you can succeed, you will have your own small business. It will be more justifiable to leave the palace, and you will have a lot of confidence.

Lin Miao was full of ambition, and went out many times in half a month, and inspected the situation of the south gate near the pier thoroughly.

There really aren't any big restaurants there, and the small vendors sell mostly noodles and steamed buns, and the rest are all kinds of convenient pickles.There will be a one-hour break at the pier at noon. If it is converted into the time Lin Miao is familiar with today, it will be from twelve o'clock to two o'clock in the afternoon.

The South City Gate area is outside the most prosperous business district, and the rent of the shop is much cheaper than in the city, but after all, the flow of people is also busy, especially the business of merchant ships coming and going, accommodation and food, so the rent is only relatively cheap.

Lin Miao went to the Yaren, but when she asked, her heart became cold.The rents of the small shops he was looking at were ten taels a month, and the rent was every six months. The little money in his hand was not enough to rent for half a year, let alone the capital of the subsequent business.

"It's only twelve months, and the inner city is close to the Jinwang Mansion. It takes dozens of months for such a shop. Compared with that, the business here is not much worse. If you don't rent it now, you will only have to increase the price in a while. portion." Yaren was not at all worried that Lin Miao would not rent it.

Poverty is the root of all evil. Lin Miao went out in high spirits and returned home dejected.

The small courtyard where he lived was in a remote location, outside the wall was the alley behind the palace, few people usually came here, it was very clean and peaceful.

After all, Biru was a little girl, and it was inconvenient for her to go out, so Lin Miao didn't let her follow her these few times, and went out by herself to run errands.

As soon as he got home, Bi Ru took him, pinched his waist and beat his legs, brought him tea and water, as if Lin Miao had gone on a long march.

When Lin Miao took a breath and was thinking about when he would be able to save enough for the rent of the shop, Bi Ru suddenly remembered, and said to Lin Miao with a smile on his face, "Master, I heard that Mrs. Qian said that the prince is back today."

Lin Miao had already forgotten about Chen Ning in the past half a month. When she suddenly heard his name, her heart skipped a beat and she almost choked on the tea in her mouth.

Bi Ru thought he was happy, but Lin Miao prayed that Chen Ning would not remember her.

I don't know if it was Lin Miao's prayer that worked, or Xueniang's tricks. Anyway, after Chen Ning came back for two days, he didn't think of Lin Miao. He was playing with Xueniang in his yard all the time. For a meal, I didn't even look at the other yards.As for the promise that Lin Miao would only be with him when he came back, Chen Ning had no memory at all.

Lin Miao felt that Chen Ning was really a big pig who said and forgot, but at the same time, he felt that he was really lucky, and only hoped that Chen Ning would go out again soon, so he would be at ease in the mansion.

Anyway, the courtyard where he is in is remote, and he has nothing to do with Xie Yan at ordinary times, and as long as he has nothing to do with Chen Ning, there will be no plot related to the male protagonists at all.

Counting the money again, a monthly case was issued at the beginning of this month. Lin Miao kept a little as a contingency, and made up a whole number with the deposit. A total of 30 taels of silver were put in the small cash box on the inside of his bed, and he slept every night. You have to open it before counting it, and you will be happy for a long time after counting it. This is all the funds for starting a future business. Lin Miao stared at the little ingots and thought they were cuter than the other.

On the head of the willows in the moon, Lin Miao lay in the dark curtain and counted out the happy events one by one with the corners of her lips curled up.

The environment is tough, but people have to look forward to it, or they will die of worry.

Although it was a bit hard to go out and run around, he had enough food, drink and exercise during this period of time, and his body felt a lot better, at least not the airs of the original sister Lin.

In addition, because he went out a lot, his skin became darker, with less makeup, and more sunshine that Lin Miao liked.

I heard that Chen Ning will only stay in the palace for five days this time, that means Chen Ning will leave in two days, so the happy and comfortable days will come soon.

Thinking of these things, Lin Miao slowly fell asleep, and did not notice the slight sound coming from the back of the tile above his head.

With the light of the morning light, women and girls in other courtyards have already woken up and started their busy day.The courtyard on Lin Miao's side was quiet. Biru and her mother-in-law didn't get up until the sun had illuminated the entire courtyard.

If there is a lazy master, the servants will be more blessed.The mothers-in-law who were still dissatisfied with coming here to work also looked at it now, and even thought it was not bad.Not to mention the work here, the master is easy to get along with, without the trembling feeling in other yards, and they don't have to avoid the master when they sit together doing needlework and chatting on weekdays.

After Biru finished washing up, she went to the kitchen to check what was going on in the morning. After guessing that it was almost time, she opened Lin Miao's room door, ready to wake him up.

Unlike in the past, Lin Miao slept a little deeply today, and his head was still a little groggy. When he was woken up by Biru, it took him a long time to open his eyes.

Maybe it was because he didn't sleep well last night. Lin Miao thought so, but he didn't take it seriously at first, but when he sat up, he glanced at the end of the bed, and suddenly the small cash box he had kept on the inside of the bed was thrown open At the end of the bed, all the cute little ingots inside were gone.

Lin Miao was startled, and quickly rubbed her eyes to take another look. The small cash box was still running naked.

He hurriedly bent down and fished the cash box into his arms. After looking inside and out several times, he realized the fact that the money in the cash box was really gone.

A thunderbolt from the blue sky hit Lin Miao's head. He looked under the bed and saw that the small lock that had locked the cash box was lying on the ground next to the bed, but it was torn apart.Lin Miao turned her pillow over and took out a key from a very invisible pocket on the side. It didn't look like someone had touched it.

There were still some incense flakes left on the edge of the bed. When I sniffed it with my fingertips, there was still a strange fragrance, which probably contained the ingredients of ecstasy, which explained why Lin Miao felt a little dizzy.

Based on these known conditions, one fact is very clear, Lin Miao's small treasury was stolen.

Lin Dongsong sat on the bed holding the cash box with a sad face. He had worked so hard for so long, who would have expected to return to the pre-liberation overnight.

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