C132 You Ask Yourself to Come down
C132 You Ask Yourself to Come down
"Boss Lin, the ingredients in our Hall of Longan Hall are honest and honest. Those who have come to buy medicine all agree on it." The manager of Long An Hall praised as he gave a thumbs up.
Xu Yanlin grabbed a handful of mountain medicine, the medicine was good, but he was not here to buy medicine, how could he say anything good and buy all of the ingredients back?
"It's really quite good." Xu Yanlin sincerely praised her.
"Boss Lin, you can rest assured that nothing will happen to you if you purchase the ingredients from our Long An Palace." The manager continued to boast.
"Then bring me some." Xu Yanlin thought for a while, and felt that since he was disguised as a medicine merchant, buying some herbs would arouse some suspicions, and so he bought some back.
Mu Chen followed behind him pretending to be a guard as the shopkeeper finished wrapping up the medicinal ingredients. Xu Yanlin then let Mu Chen carry them, while acted like he was a big boss, and asked the shopkeeper if they had any good thousand year ginseng and a snow lotus in Tianshan.
Long An Hall was only a small medicine shop, and the thousand years old ginseng and snow lotuses that Xu Yanlin had talked about were both rare and valuable, but they really didn't have any.
After exiting Long An Hall, Xu Yanlin went to the Shen Family's Bao An Hall, and they met Liu Er there.
In the beginning, Xu Yanlin did not recognize him. After all, it was dark that night and they were hiding inside the warehouse.
It was only later on that he recognized his voice and recognized him.
"Liu Er, take these herbs and dry them in the sun." A person with a similar identity to an acolyte passed a pile of ingredients to Liu Er.
"Okay, Bro Pillar." He carried the medicinal ingredients to the back.
Xu Yanlin leaned on the counter and chatted with the shopkeeper, purposely glanced at Liu Er, revealing the carefree look of a young master from a rich family, and asked: "shopkeeper, who is that? "He looks pretty handsome?"
Upon hearing that, the shopkeeper immediately defined him as a lustful young master who was forced by his family to do business. Actually, he had no experience. To put it bluntly, he was just a noob in the mall.
Thinking of this, the shopkeeper's smile became even more radiant. This kind of young master was the best to fool around with, he would definitely be able to earn a good sum of money.
"That's the duo from our Baoan Hall. His name is Yang Liu. He's hard at work, but he's nimble at work. He's just been working a bit too hard. He's lost both his parents since he was young …"
The shopkeeper, Bara, had told Xu Yanlin a lot of things about Yang Liu, and had even explained them clearly to his eighteen generations of ancestors. Xu Yanlin was a little confused listening to him.
He didn't know that in his heart, the shopkeeper had already determined that he had taken a fancy to the willow tree. He planned to find out where his residence was later and send the willow tree over to him at night.
"Manager's memory is pretty good." It was just a small employee, yet he could clearly remember all eighteen generations of the other party's ancestors. He spoke as if he had spoken countless times.
Xu Yanlin did not take this matter to heart. He looked at the few medicinal herbs, bought a few more to compare, and left.
Once he returned back to the inn, Xu Yanlin couldn't help but ask, "These medicine shops don't seem to have any problems?"
"You can't even put on a show on the surface, what kind of business is that?"
Xu Yanlin took out the medicinal ingredients he had bought today, and compared them, he discovered that the Qiao Family and Shen Family s were slightly better in comparison. Although the other medicine stores were good medicines, the quality of the Qiao Family and Shen Family s were better.
"The Qiao and Shen Family's medicinal ingredients are all excellent." Xu Yanlin frowned, if the Shen Family did not fake the military ointment, then what about the military ointment?
Xu Yanlin was conflicted for a moment. He could not think of a reason, and just as he was about to call Mu Chen down to eat, he saw that Mu Chen was writing something.
"What are you doing?"
"Write home." He missed his wife and children and feared they would worry about him.
Xu Yanlin immediately said, "I should also write to Wen Rui to report that I am safe."
He had actually been thinking of him ever since he left the capital. Although after his marriage, he still chased after him and hit him, but he truly treated him well, even though he was just a careless person, he still cooked for him in the kitchen, helped him take care of the house, filial piety to his parents, and even helped him advise when he was in trouble.
The more he thought, the more nostalgic he felt in his heart. Xu Yanlin quickly sat down and snatched the brush from Mu Chen's hands, then began to write a letter. He had to tell his teacher how much he missed him, so he did not need to worry.
Mu Chen's letter was very simple. With just a few words, he reported Mu Chen's safety, so he was not angry that Xu Yanlin had snatched his pen away. He put the letter into an envelope and planned to send it tomorrow.
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On the third day after Mu Chen left, the Old Lady Mu personally went to visit Shen Jingli.
The Old Lady was a first-class wife and also Mu Chen's biological grandmother. Even if Shen Jingli did not want to see her, he would not dare to kick her out.
"Madam, the fact that Old Lady has personally come is likely to be bad for Madam's reputation." As a member of the younger generation, if word were to spread out that she had to pay a visit to his elders instead of meeting them immediately, others would surely say that her wife was arrogant, inexperienced, and unfilial.
Seeing Jin Yu changing her clothes for Shen Jingli, she thought in her heart that Old Lady would definitely be angry at Madam later on.
"Jin Yu, how old are you? Let him go to the Western Palace to inform the Third Old Lady, saying that the Old Lady has come to the Residence. "
"This servant will go immediately." Jin Yu immediately understood what Shen Jingli meant, and rushed out after throwing down the things.
Shen Jingli looked in the mirror and confirmed that he was not wearing any inappropriate clothes. Then, he rushed to the door to welcome them.
The Old Lady Mu came over because Mu Yu sent someone to inform him. Since the last time Mu Chen helped Mu Yu to solve a case, Mu Yu had gotten familiar with him unilaterally, and even talked about the embarrassing events of when Mu Chen was young.
Shen Jingli felt that this big brother of his was a little above average as he generously gave him 20% of the shares of the Purple Bamboo Association as well as 50 mu of land.
Even though Mu Yu had become the Prince, he had very little private property, and all the assets of the Marquis Zhen Yuan Mansion were in the hands of the Old Lady and his mother.
Marquis Zhen Yuan Mansion's carriage stopped outside the door, and the servant hurriedly took a stool and placed it down, then helped Old Lady and the others off the carriage.
When Old Lady Mu saw Shen Jingli wearing County Prince robes standing at the door, she was instantly enraged.
She smashed her walking stick onto the ground, glared at Shen Jingli and scolded: "How dare you, you didn't even kneel down when you saw me."
Shen Jingli found it funny. He was the County Prince, even if she was a first class lady, he shouldn't need to kneel down and greet her.
"Greetings Old Lady." Although he felt that Old Lady Mu was a little overbearing, but the other party was after all an elder, so he had to be courteous, or else he would be easily caught red-handed.
"You even know how to bow. After returning to the capital for more than a year, you still haven't come to the Marquis Zhen Yuan Mansion to pay a visit. I thought this twin of yours really didn't know how to bow …" Old Lady Mu snorted, "Why aren't you inviting me in?"
Dehui County Lord loved Marquis Yuan. Ignoring his legal wife, he took the initiative to marry into the house of the Marquis as his legal wife and had always been flattering the Old Lady. He didn't have the slightest bit of County Owner's temper, so the Old Lady Mu kept her word in Marquis Zhen Yuan Mansion.
On the account that he was an old man, Shen Jingli did not bother with her and invited her in. When she passed by him, Dehui County Lord glared at him viciously, his eyes filled with killing intent.
Upon entering the hall, the Old Lady Mu immediately launched an attack, "I had someone call you back to the house of the Marquis a few days ago, why didn't you go back?"
If she allowed him to enter, that would already be a great honor to him. Yet, he still shamelessly allowed her to enter.
Old Lady Mu felt that Shen Jingli had purposely humiliated her. She, a dignified Old Lady of the Marquis Zhen Yuan Mansion, had actually been humiliated by a country bumpkin.
Being nice was human nature, especially someone like the Old Lady, who had worked hard for the first half of her life and had been famous for the latter half of her life, she especially wanted to be respected and respected by others. If you follow her wishes, agree with her, praise her, and if she's happy, then she won't look for trouble, but if you insist on going against her, then she will dislike you even more.
"Before Zi An left the capital, he told me not to go out casually."
"Still dare to quibble." Old Lady was so angry that her heart almost burst out of her chest. She turned to the mama beside him and said, "Slap him."
That wet nurse's speed was extremely fast, she rushed over, and swung two palms at Shen Jingli with all her might, causing Shen Jingli's face to immediately turn red and swollen.
Nanny Jin felt her heart ache, and said, "My wife, what did you do wrong? There's no need to be so heartless. "
When the mama who beat people heard this, without waiting for Old Lady to speak, she stretched out her hand and slapped Nanny Jin a few times. As for Old Lady Mu and Dehui County Lord, they coldly watched, but didn't say anything to stop her.
Nanny Jin was beaten until she was bleeding at the corner of her mouth. His cheeks were swollen to the point where they looked slightly bloody.
Shen Jingli was beaten senseless, his head was spinning, he raised his head to look at Old Lady Mu, only to see a sneer at the corner of his lips.
"How dare a lowly double speak in front of me." Old Lady Mu's words revealed her nobility, and she belittled Shen Jingli, "Our Mu Family will not admit you as a wife, so how can a pair be the principal wife? I will definitely not let you go onto the family tree.
Shen Jingli was too lazy to laugh at her. He could only hate the fact that he didn't have a recording pen, so he couldn't let Old Lady hear what he had said. Gemini couldn't be an official wife, so he really hoped that Gemini of Marquis Zhen Yuan Mansion could only marry someone else as a concubine.
"Based on your background, if you stay by Zi An's side, you will at most become a concubine. Once Zi An finishes his business and returns, you can invite him to step down." Old Lady Mu thought she had given enough face.
Shen Jingli once again experienced the power of the Old Lady Mu, didn't she also say this to Mu Chen's mother back then? That her status was low and that she wasn't worthy of her son?
"I feel that the young lady of the Zuo Xiang family is not bad, she is more suited to be Zi An's wife than you. As for you …" Old Lady looked at him carefully, and said with disdain, "With your looks, you don't even qualify to be a concubine. But seeing that you have a son, I can only reluctantly let you be a concubine."
To take him as a concubine, or to just force him to do so?
Old Lady's head is not light, is he stupid? Would she listen to her, leave her a proper wife, and become her concubine?
When Third Old Lady Mu came over, sshe just so happened to hear what Old Lady Mu said. Then, he saw Shen Jingli's red and swollen face and felt his face sink.
"Sister-in-law, what nonsense are you spouting? Jinglee was personally bestowed by the Emperor to the County Prince, and was Zi An's principal wife. Which family would let their principal wife invite a concubine to be their concubine? Do you still want face? " Third Old Lady Mu felt that her sister-in-law had really been kicked by a donkey in the head and was not at all sane.
If the Patriarch and a few other Elders found out about this, they might even use their clan's laws to punish her. Her Mu Family was also a large clan with hundreds of years of history, and her roots in the capital were deep.