Beating Mandarin Ducks with a Stick

Guangling in April is the season of late spring.

Standing on the banks of the Taohua River, looking around, the not-so-high Taohua Mountain opposite is green, and the barren farmland nearby is even more green and grassy, and there are even many unknown flowers blooming in it.

Li Chen'an spent more than an hour here, walking around both sides of the stream, and finally chose a location against the mountain.

The main reason is that it is easier to dig the wine cellar here.

In addition, in the future, once the winemaking workshop is repaired and the outer wall is built, Taohuaxi can also become a natural barrier.

After all, safety comes first.

After all, this is the first real industry that he came to this world.

Although the biggest boss is the girl next to him, but sooner or later, this girl will be his own.

Zhongli Ruoshui beside him was also walking with him like this. She didn't know what he was looking at, but she felt that walking like this was good, very peaceful, and very reassuring.

There was also a pleasure she had never had before.

She really hoped to stay by this person's side for the rest of her life.

Just like grandma and grandpa.

After surveying the terrain here, the two got into the carriage again and headed towards Peach Blossom Villa.

When the two walked into the main courtyard of the villa along the Taolin path, there was a person sitting in the pavilion in the main courtyard.

a woman!

A middle-aged woman dressed in gorgeous clothes and extremely exquisite accessories.

Zhongli Ruoshui's heart tightened, and he tugged on Li Chenan's sleeve, and the two stood a foot apart in front of the lady.

A servant girl bowed and stood beside the lady, holding a tray in her hand.

Another maid carefully picked up a jar from the tray, and carefully placed it in front of the woman. When she lifted the lid of the jar, she saw a gust of hot air curling up.

"Ma'am, the freshly stewed bird's nest has added a little fritillary from Shuzhou. The shopkeeper of Huichuntang said that it has the effect of clearing away heat, nourishing the lungs, relieving cough and reducing phlegm. Madam, please try it while it's hot."

"Well, leave it alone..."

The middle-aged woman only raised her head to look at Zhongli Ruoshui and Li Chenan at this moment, she ignored the dissatisfaction on Zhongli Ruoshui's face at the moment, her gaze fell on Li Chenan's face, and she just glanced at it.

She withdrew her gaze, frowned slightly, raised her sleeve with one hand and stretched out three fingers to pinch the spoon in the jar.

After gently stirring the jar twice, he spoke

"This is a bird's nest sent from Annan. It sells for ten taels of silver in Annan."

"Annan is more than three thousand miles away from Guangling, and sent to Guangling for a lamp of twenty taels of silver."

"Shuzhou is the most famous fritillary in the world. It is collected in the deep mountains and sent to Guangling is worth two liang of silver."

"I heard that you opened a small tavern in the alley of Erjinggou, selling that kind of Huapingchun... I heard that your wine sells for two hundred Wen a tael, and if you buy ten catties a day, you earn nearly twenty taels of silver."

"Compared to ordinary people, it's not bad, but it's worth the can of bird's nest soup in front of my wife!"

She raised her head, looked at Li Chenan again, narrowed her eyes slightly, and her gaze became a little sharp.

However, Li Chenan still stood with a smile on his face, and even looked at her like this.

Without Zhongli Ruoshui's introduction, he could guess that this lady should be Zhongli Ruoshui's mother.

"mother...!"

Zhongli Ruoshui was a little anxious, she stomped her feet, "What are you talking about?"

"Why did you come to my Peach Blossom Villa?"

Mrs. Zhongli glanced at Zhongli Ruoshui, "Mother won't come again... I'm afraid you really found a good son-in-law for our Zhongli Mansion!"

Li Chenan was startled, then turned to look at Zhongli Ruoshui.

Zhongli Ruoshui curled her lips and didn't have time to explain to Li Chenan. She took a step forward and stared at her mother.

"This is my business!"

"Grandma said a long time ago that I am in charge of my affairs!"

"Father has never objected to this, why do you need to interfere?"

Mrs. Zhongli raised her eyebrows, "What? Do you really think you've grown up? Do you really think you've grown wings?"

"You were born by me and I can't control you anymore?"

"What kind of existence is Zhongli Mansion? Can a poor boy like him step in?"

Mrs. Zhongli's voice became louder and her emotions gradually became agitated.

"What's wrong with you learning from your grandma? Why did you have to learn her paranoid temperament?"

"Isn't it enough that you made a joke about choosing your son-in-law based on literature at Huaping Lake? How dare you bring a man back!"

"There are countless men in the world, and there are countless good men! But what about him?"

Mrs. Zhongli pointed at Li Chenan, "What kind of person is he?"

"Kicked out of the house by the Li family, he owed a whole lot of gambling debts to the gambling house, and his father helped him pay it off!"

"You keep saying that he has changed a lot, in my opinion, it's all a joke!"

"What's the difference between selling steamed cakes and straw cakes?"

"What's the difference between earning two taels of silver a day and earning twenty taels of silver?"

"You tell me that Zhongli's mansion is short of money or something?"

Mrs. Zhongli took a deep breath, leaned back on the chair, looked at Li Chenan, her eyes were full of warnings, "Don't pester my daughter anymore!"

"To tell you the truth, you are not worthy!"

"This person, they all hope to be able to climb a big tree, and hope that they can climb up this tree, but few people think that such a tree can be climbed by ordinary people?"

"Don't weigh yourself how much you weigh? Don't you worry about falling from that tree and falling to your death?"

"Sell your wine well. Zhongli Mansion also purchases a lot of wine every month. Whoever buys it will buy it. You can even sell it to Zhongli Mansion at a higher price. Earn more money as soon as possible, and find a winemaker as soon as possible. A woman who matches your identity."

"My daughter is going to enter the palace in the future. When you see her in the future, you have to kneel on the ground and call her your mother!"

Zhongli Ruoshui was about to speak, but Li Chenan stepped forward and grabbed her.

There was no trace of frustration on his face after being hit, and there was still that warm smile on his face.

He now knows some things, for example, the girl beside her is Zhongli Ruoshui, the third lady of Zhongli Mansion.

He didn't complain that she concealed her identity, and even felt that this was the kindness of this girl.

Because the threshold of Zhongli Mansion is really high, enough to scare off many teenagers.

It's just that her worry was a bit superfluous, in Li Chen'an's eyes, that threshold didn't exist.

He felt that this girl was the only one he had loved since he came to this world, so he would not allow anyone to take away his love.

He looked at Zhongli Ruoshui who had teardrops rolling in his eyes with aggrieved face, and just casually stretched out a hand to hold her hand.

Under Mrs. Zhongli's shocked gaze, he raised his other hand to wipe away the tears from the corners of Zhongli Ruoshui's eyes.

"Don't cry, if you cry, you will turn into a little tabby cat, but it won't look good."

Zhongli Ruoshui burst out laughing, and glared at Li Chenan, thinking that this guy is still in the mood to joke at this moment.

"Ma'am," Li Chenan looked at Mrs. Zhongli, and said calmly, "Actually...you are not worthy to be her mother!"