Mu Yangling opened his eyes, got up from the couch, yawned, and asked, "Is the fourth master back?"

After Qi Haoran went to Beijing for three days, and after seeing all the people who should be seen, the sage summoned Qi Haoran.

"I came back, but I was called to the front by the master."

Mu Yangling thought for a while and said, "Then I'll go to my sister-in-law's place to see."

Mu Yangling was refreshed after taking a nap, twisted his waist twice, felt his body stretched out, and took Lichun to Zhaode Hall.

Li Jinghua had been pregnant for three months, but the clothes she was wearing at this time were so thick that she couldn't tell that she was pregnant. She woke up from a nap, and was leaning on the couch in a daze. When she saw Mu Yangling coming in, she waved her hand to call someone. He came over and said, "I was about to tell you that our expenses are separate from the government's, but we can also ask the fourth uncle to go to the account room to pay, but I'm afraid it will be another trouble, so I think it's better to just take it from us. from the dowry."

Both Li Jinghua and Mu Yangling have a lot of dowry, so they only need to be responsible for the meals of their three masters, and the rest are public accounts. They can still afford it for a little bit of money.

Mu Yangling smiled and said, "Where can I ask for my sister-in-law's dowry, brother Haoran already gave me the money."

Mu Yangling turned his head and asked Lichun to go back and fetch the small box from the bedside table, which was given to her by Qi Haoran last night, and she was drowsy and forgot.

"Brother Haoran means that the small kitchen in my sister-in-law's yard and the people we brought from Jingzhao Mansion are all supported by our own money, don't worry, brother Zijin is in the capital, and we won't need our dowry no matter what. "

Li Jinghua glanced at Mu Yangling speechlessly, and whispered, "Then you can't always rely on Zijin, honestly, how much money did you take from him?"

Mu Yangling blinked and said: "If you don't take it from him, do you have to send it from the big brother, and then the big brother Zijin will send it to the big brother from here? After turning around, the money has to come from Zijin."

Li Jinghua was speechless for a while. Seeing Mu Yangling's righteous appearance, he couldn't help feeling sympathy for Fan Zijin. This was regarded as a bank.

Li Jinghua didn't know that Qi Xiuyuan's goal was not the general, but the supreme position.

The rhythm of this inevitable rebellion requires a lot of money, and the source of their money, apart from his own cooperation with others, is from Fan Zijin.

Fan Zijin didn't know that Qi Xiuyuan was going to rebel, and he let Qi Haoran spend all his money. Now that he knows, the money on his body was left to the two brothers of the Qi family.

When Li Jinghua said this, Mu Yangling felt that it was not good, so he said, "It doesn't matter, before we came, the big brother gave Haoran a lot of money, which should be enough for us to use for a while."

Mu Yangling tilted his head and said: "But we can't just sit and eat, the Qi family hasn't split up yet, the parents are here, and the children are not allowed to have private property. , why don't we use our dowry money to buy some? It's more promising, and it's convenient to do things in the future."

Li Jinghua also said the same, and said cheerfully: "Zhuangzi is the safest, but the money is the fastest from the shops, but the fields of the shops in Lin'an are expensive. I don't know if we can buy good ones."

Mu Yangling thought that she had always wanted to find a place with a warm climate to try her seeds, so she sat up straight and said, "I won't buy a shop, I'm going to buy a Zhuangzi just outside Lin'an City, a little further away. It doesn't matter, it's best to have enough fields, and then let someone clean up Zhuangzi, and we can live in Zhuangzi for a while when we are bored."

Li Jinghua nodded with a smile, "So I'll ask people to go out and ask to see if there are any suitable Zhuangzi and shops."

You can't always ask Qi Haoran and Fan Zijin to help with everything. Now that her baby is stable, Li Jinghua plans to slowly integrate into the capital.

As the Chinese New Year is approaching, there are quite a few shops selling lands. The shops are good, but Zhuangzi is hard to buy. Land in the south of the Yangtze River is expensive, and the capital of Lin'an is even more expensive.

In Xingzhou Prefecture, one mu of high-quality land costs five taels of silver, and here, one mu of high-quality land costs twelve to fifteen taels, depending on the distance from Lin'an City and the soil and water conditions.

Their people went out for two days and asked if the Zhuangzi was very far away, or the asking price was very high, and the land was too small to make a piece at all. How to build the Zhuangzi?

Qi Haoran and Fan Zijin also helped to inquire, but they didn't help to find a suitable one for the time being. In terms of shops, Li Jinghua took a fancy to two at once. The price and location were suitable. She wanted one to be given to Mu Yangling. But Mu Yangling couldn't do business, she didn't have any good idea to take it, so she refused, she felt that she should be more practical in farming.

But they didn't have the time to worry about this soon, because the emperor issued a decree that the whole family could attend the annual banquet on the twenty-ninth day of the new year.

The imperial palace holds annual banquets on the 29th every year. Ministers of the third rank and above and their families can enter the palace for banquets. In addition to these courtiers, various dignitaries such as kings, dukes, princes, and uncles enfeoffed by the imperial court also participate. They will also be invited, and it is the first time that the Qi family can participate in such a palace banquet.

Because Qi Feng has always been the fourth rank, and goes to the first rank every year, Qi Xiuyuan is the second rank, and he has reached the conditions as early as a few years ago, but he is not in the capital, and he has not married, and Qi Feng is ashamed no matter how big his face is Entering the palace as a son.

And this year Li Jinghua came back, but she was pregnant, both she and Qi Haoran and Mu Yangling tended to ask for leave for her. Qi Haoran also entered the palace early for the leave slip, but the emperor not only did not approve , and also called the rest of the Qi family.

These other people are naturally Qi Feng and Wu, but Wu really wants to bring his two daughters-in-law and son, but they have no official positions, and Qi Feng will not allow it.

But this was enough for them to be excited. Early on, Mrs Wu had someone come in to make new clothes and jewelry for her.

Li Jinghua also helped guide Lichun to prepare suitable clothes and jewelry for Mu Yangling, and also mentioned some etiquette things.

Her face was indifferent, but she was actually a little apprehensive. Although she was young, it was her first time entering the palace. It was inevitable to be nervous, but in front of the more ignorant Mu Yangling, she could only hold on. , at least the momentum can not be weak.

Instead, Mu Yangling smiled to reassure her and said, "We'll just have to eat at that time. The Empress should not embarrass us."

Li Jinghua gave a strong laugh and said, "The empress will naturally not embarrass us, A Ling, you must follow me when you enter the palace, and we must not get separated."