Traveling through ancient times: daily life on the run

Chapter 374: Pawns Will Be Abandoned

Zhu Jinyou returned to the carriage and asked the maid beside him to call Concubine Wan.

However, Concubine Wan was the first to complain, saying that she went out for a walk in the morning and accidentally saw Miss Luo Hong. She stammered and said that Miss Luo Hong said she was His Highness's person. She tried her best to explain, but Miss Luo Hong didn't listen to her explanation at all, and even ridiculed her for being a servant of the Emperor and a mere pawn in His Highness's hands!

After she finished speaking, she stole another glance at Zhu Jinyou and found that his face was still expressionless. She pretended to be aggrieved and continued, "Lian'er told Miss Luo'er that she had nothing to do with His Highness. It was she who insisted on suspecting His Highness. She must have misunderstood that Lian'er was His Highness's woman."

After hearing this, Zhu Jinyou couldn't help laughing out loud thinking about Luo Yu imitating her speaking posture.

Miss Luo Yu has really learned well, no, she has surpassed her teacher.

Lian Yun looked at him in surprise. Why did he still find it funny when she said such a wronged thing?

After a long while, Zhu Jinyou finally said patiently, "Ms. Luo Yu is a smart woman. Don't say anything to her. You can't beat her."

"Your Highness, do you mean that you only believe what Miss Luo Yu says is true?"

"She should be suspicious of you. If she didn't doubt you at all, why would I be interested in such an unintelligent woman?"

Lian Yun was speechless.

She had once been described by His Highness as a clever girl, but now, she knew that her intelligence was nothing compared to His Highness's, and that His Highness needed a more capable woman to help him.

Thinking this way, she finally let it go. She was a chess piece, so wasn't the girl named Luo Yu also a chess piece? There was no distinction between noble and lowly chess pieces; after they were used up, they would be discarded anyway.

***

After the team moved forward, they stopped and walked for five days and four nights and finally arrived at a wasteland ten kilometers away from Shanzhou City.

Seeing the loess flying all over the sky, Luo Yu and Qin Bingrui's eyes lit up. To them, the ground was full of treasures!

Unfortunately, the main goal now is to defend the country. We have to wait until the country is peaceful and the people are safe before we can think about how to develop rapidly.

When they arrived at Shanzhou City, Luo Yu and Xia Liang asked the Flying Tigers to go into the city to stock up on food for the journey. They had been eating steamed buns so much these days that they were almost getting sick, so they decided to go into the city to have something hot to eat.

The city of Shanzhou was more lively than they had imagined. Although the city was not big, everyone was simple and honest, and their clothing was slightly different from that of the people in the Central Plains, or in other words, their clothing was more open and distinctive.

After looking around for a while, Xia Liang said to Luo Yu, "I've discovered that, apart from the capital and a few surrounding cities, other places really have different cultures and clothing. Look at the girls here, they're wearing skirts and showing their legs!"

"Don't you think this is a good thing? The open-minded people here prove that there is an enlightened official here."

"Miss Luo Yu is absolutely right. Not only is there an enlightened official here, but also one of my royal brothers, Prince Fu, has his fiefdom here."

Xia Liang glanced at Prince Ning behind him and muttered softly, "Why are you everywhere?"

Song Si gave Miss Xia a fatal look. This girl was really fearless and dared to mutter in front of anyone.

"The title of Prince of Fortune sounds good. It brings with it a feeling of good fortune." Luo Yu asked with a smile, "I wonder what kind of person your Highness's brother is?"

"Oh, do you want to go with me to his house?"

Luo Yu thought about it and realized that they only had two and a half hours to go out. The things he wanted to buy were not enough time to go anywhere else, so he smiled and politely declined.

While Zhu Jinyou was meeting his brother, Luo Yu secretly asked Xia Liang, "Did you take everything with you?"

Xia Liang patted one of his big bags and said with a smile: "Sister, you can trust me to do the job."

It turned out that the two of them had some vanishing cream and lip balm, and had secretly found a reliable person to repackage them. The climate in northern Shaanxi was dry, and the morning and evening breezes were already cold in mid-July, which wasn't very good for the skin. If they sold these things to local wealthy merchants, along with the traditional production methods, wouldn't they make a fortune? At least they would have a source of military pay. Previously, supporting the Flying Tigers was barely enough to keep them afloat, but now with an army of over ten thousand, Luo Hong was exhausted.

The money in the national treasury cannot be spent casually, and it must be recorded. The key point is that the Wangzhou Army is not a regular army, so the accounts cannot be recorded casually. All the silver that Luo Yu had saved was spent.

"Sister, have you ever thought about binding all the supplies in this world to the program? No one over there will use them anyway, so why not get some gold here to spend?"

"No, that would lead to severe inflation."

"When we develop resources, there won't be inflation."

"There's no time to think about this now. Let's go and cheat first. No, let's discuss new business first."

Outside the city gate, the wind blew, and it felt like being rubbed by sand on my face.

Luo Yu covered his head and face with a piece of plain silk, looking very much like a local.

Xia Liang followed her example, found a headscarf to cover herself, asked the accompanying guards to watch the horses, and went to the most prosperous place in the city with Luo Yu.

After some inquiries, it was found that the richest families in Shanzhou were the Liao, Qiao and Tian families. Needless to say, the Qiao family had businesses in almost every big city in the north. Luo Yu visited several big shops and was very satisfied.

It’s just strange that the Qiao family doesn’t have a rouge and powder shop.

Xia Liang bought a few large meat buns and ate them while asking Luo Yu, "Sister, the Qiao family doesn't sell rouge and powder. Why don't we go to the Liao family? I think their rouge shop is pretty good. Let's go see what they have first."

Luo Yu didn't think so. He had heard that the Qiao family was the richest. If he sold it to them, it would allow them to carry forward their fine craftsmanship! Most importantly, they could definitely afford a high price. If they had a good product, they would definitely be able to make it big.

"They don't have a shop, so why not just let them open one right away?"

"But we only have so much stuff. Isn't it a bit exaggerated to open a shop?"

Luo Yu smiled mysteriously. Such a big family could develop the product in less than a month. Opening a shop was no big deal. Instead, they could sell the products to those small shops selling rouge and powder. Maybe the other party would not dare to ask for a high price!

Now, she must find a way to persuade one of the big managers of the Qiao family.

After searching for a while, they only found the largest garment shop of the Qiao family, where all the people coming in and out were nobles.

Luo Yu asked Xia Liang to hide the buns, because no one with money would eat buns on the road.

Fortunately, the two girls were wearing clothes of high-quality materials and styles. Anyone with a discerning eye could tell that the two girls were distinguished guests, and they were warmly welcomed into the store.

Xia Liang looked at the room full of gorgeous clothes and exclaimed in amazement. Unfortunately, she was so poor that she only had five taels of silver on her. She wondered if she could buy even a sleeve of this dress.

"Sister, if I had known earlier, I would have asked His Highness not to leave. At least let him buy you some nice clothes!"

"The box of clothes I brought with me were all given by him. It would be inappropriate to ask more."

Xia Liang snorted with disdain. If she didn't know how thick-skinned Sister Luo Yu was, she would have almost believed it.