Chapter 283
After Chen Wu and his friends left, Yuan Kang immediately reminded the servants who followed him, including a group of guards: "You must not disclose any of the matter today after you go out."
The servants were not stupid and understood in their hearts that if they were found out in the palace, the second prince would be scolded, and the servants who followed him would be miserable. These people had been in the palace for a long time and had known what to say and what not to say.
After seeing Yuankang off, Mu Yun finally breathed a sigh of relief. She felt that this day was even more tiring than doing a rough day when she was a little maid in Duke Cheng's Mansion.
After Wen Tingzhou came back in the evening, Mu Yun briefly told him about what happened in the Liuli Shop during the day. Then she covered her chest and said, "The second prince is young, fortunately he is generous and wise, otherwise this matter would not be good today. I really didn't expect that Princess Xihua would be so domineering in her behavior and dare to do such a clever and robbery."
Wen Tingzhou frowned and said, "When did the Chen family make your idea of a dowry shop? Why haven't you heard from me about this before?"
Hearing this, Mu Yun realized that he seemed to have let it go, and hurriedly chuckled, "The manager of the eldest princess Xihua's mansion came once, and he wanted to spend some money to put the glass shop through such a little bit of meaning. I originally thought that as long as the price they gave was about the same, it would be fine to sell the eldest princess mansion. Who knew that the price they gave was really too unreasonable, so I didn't agree. I thought that even if this matter was over, I didn't expect that their family would be so bold."
Wen Tingzhou sneered: "The Chen family relies on the power of Princess Xihua to do things that bully others and take advantage of their power. If you can say words like "unliked", it seems that they must have given very little money?"
Mu Yun sighed lightly: "Isn't it very rare? Their family actually said they only gave 8,000 taels of silver, and they wanted to take over the shop, the glass workshop and the masters behind them."
If possible, Mu Yun would not want to fight against the royal family. However, the price offered by the Chen family is really too despised. Not to mention the workshop, this shop alone can be worth more than 10,000 taels of silver at the current market price. If the workshop and those masters included, it would cost at least 40,000 taels to 50,000 taels.
After saying that, she sighed again: "Oh~ The Empress in the Palace is still there. These people are so arrogant. Do you think the Empress will definitely decline?"
Wen Tingzhou patted her on the shoulder and said, "This world will never lack those snobs who take the blame, so you don't have to take them too seriously. I guess they only know these private methods, but they dare not directly face the Empress on the surface. Fortunately, we are leaving soon, and there will always be a few years when we don't have to pay attention to these villains' faces."
Mu Yun reached out and held Wen Tingzhou's hand: "I'm not worried about us. Now that person wants to use you, I won't make our family shameless. I'm just worried about the Empress. What is the place in the palace? It's just a turbulent place with open and hidden guns. Although the Empress has the eldest prince, the second prince and the third prince are there, Your Majesty will have more children in the future. Moreover, those palace ladies have guessed Your Majesty's thoughts, but they don't know how to treat the Empress slowly. And those palace concubines, who are better to meet?"
Wen Tingzhou sighed after hearing Mu Yun's words: "You are just worrying now. We can't do anything in the palace at all. However, you also said that as long as the eldest prince and the two princes below are there, and the Empress Dowager is watching, those palace ladies will restrain themselves even if they are neglected. What we can do now is to go to Minhai to build some achievements to add some support to the Empress."
Alas~ Mu Yun sighed and nodded, "Now, this is the only way."
As she said that, she remembered another thing and looked up and asked, "In the past two days, several close friends have come to inquire. You have just been promoted to first-class and are about to set off. Everyone is thinking of seeing you off."
Wen Tingzhou pondered for a moment, then shook his head and said, "Forget it, the time is wrong now. I will leave early the next morning, and some official duties have not been handed over, so I really don't have time to do these."
Mu Yun echoed: "I think so too. Now our family is better to be low-key. But there are many of the people who come and go and have your colleagues. I don't know how to make decisions by myself, so I will ask you for your opinion."
When Duke Cheng left, Mu Yun could clearly feel that these people had less time to move with him. Just waiting for Wen Tingzhou's order to get promoted, some people came to give gifts and show their goodwill, which really made Mu Yun dislike it.
If you want to follow Mu Yun's temperament in his previous life, she would be lazy to see him like a villain who was tempted by the flames and possessed power. But now it is not his previous life, and the world is like this. Mu Yun has been living here for so many years and has long been used to wearing hypocritical masks and people of all kinds of people.
Fortunately, such days are about to end soon. When we arrive in the Minhai, the sky is high and the emperor is far away. With her imperial edict level, people who don’t want to meet don’t have to force themselves and can do whatever they want. Thinking about it, she feels comfortable days are right in front of her!
Early on the morning of the third day, Wen Tingzhou took some loyal servants and went into battle lightly. Before the sky was dawn, he left the capital quietly. As soon as the news came out, the people who wanted to give gifts again were disappointed.
Mu Yun didn't have time to care whether those people were disappointed or not. Although the servants were cleaning up when they went to Minhai, what to bring, what to take, what to take, and what to keep the servants behind. These are things that she had to worry about in person. She didn't feel at ease to let the little maid do some precious gold, silver and fines. She took a few maids to clean up carefully before she felt relieved.
In addition, there must be great differences in diet when traveling one or two thousand miles. Mu Yun followed the trend in his previous life to Xiamen, Fujian, but the logistics was so developed at that time. After she went there, she had not studied the local diet seriously. Apart from all kinds of fish balls and seafood, Mu Yun really couldn't remember what special food there was in Minhai...
But I can't help it. On such a long way, I guess all foods will be broken. In addition to some pickled vegetables, dried vegetables, seasonings and other items, Mu Yun picked up a few jars of spicy cabbage and various pickles made from his home. It just so happened that it was the clear and refreshing season. Mei Yuan's father was very dedicated and specially sent Mu Yun a variety of dried vegetables, dried vegetables that had just been dried, and dried apples and dried autumn pears and other dried fruits.
The things that Mei Yuan’s father gave were exactly what Mu Yun’s appetite, so it made people give Manager Sun a heavy reward. It was just that he was too worried, so Mu Yun only asked the maid to deal with one of the people, and all the rest were distributed to several close families.
Knowing that they were leaving, everyone was bound to give him gifts. Especially Mu Yun's family and several close families, he felt a lot of sadness. Originally, Madam Yun was worried that her son-in-law would leave early, and Mu Yun would be a little unsafe on the road. Later, she learned that Wen Tingzhou's second cousin also wanted to follow him to Minhai, so she felt a little relieved. After all, no matter how capable Wen Sui was, she had not started a family and had a career. In the old man's heart, those who had not started a family were children who had not grown up.
Madam Yun has always regarded Wen Sui as a child, and always feels that he is not as steadily as older people. She is also Wen Tingzhou's cousin, and she is much better than the Wen family, so she naturally has a little more concern for Yun Fan. Knowing that he and his wife and children are also following Mu Yun on the road, she has a little less worries in her heart.
But no matter how worried she was, Madam Yun could not say anything to let her daughter leave. Lin had never married or born in her life. Although she had never experienced these things herself, she was at least so old and had enough knowledge. She knew that no matter how good the couple left, she would gradually become distant after a long time. If she really stopped Mu Yun, she would have harmed Mu Yun for the rest of her life.
In this way, Mu Yun, with the reluctance and concern of his relatives, and with his two sons, daughters, Yulan and others, took his two sons, daughters, and others, and then said goodbye to everyone on the journey to the Fujian Sea.
The group first took a carriage to Jinzhou Port, and then transferred to the official boat to Minhai. Yunfan, Wen Sui and others were doing food and daily life along the way, which was indeed very appropriate. After all, Muyun is still a first-class imperial edict now, and it was too late to curry favor with officials from all over the way, so naturally there was no intention of making things difficult for those who could not wait long.
The journey was long, and the official boat headed south. It could be said that it had passed by most of the Dayuan Dynasty's coastline, and naturally passed many prosperous ports on the way. If Mu Yun had the opportunity to pass through so many places in his previous life, he naturally couldn't help but go down and take a walk. However, now she was just thinking about rushing the road as soon as possible so that she could reach the Minhai as soon as possible. Therefore, except for necessary stops along the way, she did not have much interest in browsing the scenery.
In fact, it was not just her. This time, she went south to the south, in addition to her relatives, there were also families of Wen Tingzhou's subordinates. Bai Han's wife Mei, another deputy general Wei Shan's wife Long, and several soldiers' families all followed Mu Yun on this official boat. Fortunately, the official boat was large enough, three floors high and more than twenty rooms, so there were not too crowded people of all sizes, large and small.
The thoughts of all the women are the same as Mu Yun. They all want to arrive at Minhai as soon as possible and see their husbands as soon as possible. Therefore, even if the many ports and wharfs that are docking look extremely prosperous and lively, no one has asked to go and take a look.
Of course, some people may have this idea, but if you didn't say it at that time, Mu Yun naturally pretended not to know. Anyway, she had never seen any good things in her previous life? Besides, Shanghai-Ronggang is the most prosperous sea trade port in the Dayuan Dynasty. When you get there, there is nothing good things? Why bother to waste time on the road? If something happens again, wouldn't it be even more heartbreaking?
Everyone has the same thoughts, so the official boat is moving fast all the way. In addition, the weather is beautiful, and there are no major storms along the way. It can be said that it is smooth sailing. Although it is a bit like a thousand miles a day, it is normal to walk hundreds of miles a day. Fortunately, the official boat is big and stable enough. Although everyone was a little uncomfortable with the water life at the beginning, they got used to it after a long time. Bored, a few female family gathered together to play horse mahjong, drink tea and chat, and the time was also exhausted very quickly.
At the beginning, Mu Yun was worried that several children would be seasick and sick as they were young and weak, and they were worried about what would happen on the way. Unexpectedly, several children were all well adaptable, especially the little monkey and Xiao Donggua had never had any seasickness. They were jumping around and full of energy along the way. They ran up and down the boat every day, and often ran to the deck to play.
The boat was still a bit bumpy, and Mu Yun was afraid that they would hurt their eyes when reading books on the boat, so he did not ask them to read books and read or something. So they played on the boat, but sent a wet nurse and others to watch them well. Even they talked with the boatman, sailor, etc., and played with Mu Yun did not stop them. As boys, they should see more of the world. Now they finally have such an opportunity. What can they learn by blindly holding them in the house?
Chapter completed!