She Only Cares About Cultivation
Chapter 334: [333] Tasty and Pretty Fisherman 184 (3 more updates)

Chapter 334: [333] Tasty and Pretty Fisherman 184 (3 more updates)

Tangyuan was well aware that her rush for quick success and immediate profits might cause some trouble for Shen Xiaoyu, but having lived in this life for six or seven years, she still felt she had achieved nothing. Unlike modern times, where she was constrained by others at every turn, some jobs were still unsuitable for women. That she could go to Beijing to do business was indeed thanks to Yan Qing’s good fortune.

In Port Town, it was because Zhang Quan was a good person that she was able to gather enough money for the journey to Beijing, along with some left over to buy fields and shops.

Money is a wonderful thing; without it, one can hardly take a step, and this was especially true in ancient times.

Whether one called it taking shortcuts by relying on Yan Qing’s influence, since she had such resources, there was no reason not to take advantage of them.

But because these things could not be produced in ancient times, she had to take such great risks to earn money.

She was very grateful to Yan Qing because he had never asked about her secret and had even taken the initiative to help her set up a fake production site in the suburbs.

Supposedly, it was for producing skincare products, but in reality, they were making the medicine pills based on the prescription she had given them before.

With experts controlling the area around the processing site—it could also be considered one of Yan Qing’s strongholds—and Xiaoyu’s prescriptions indeed being effective, he felt it was worth spending so much manpower and resources to guard the place. In doing so, they naturally incorporated Xiaoyu’s skincare products into the façade. With the scale of his processing site, it should be enough to cover their operations.

It was precisely because Yan Qing told her this, sending someone every day to deliver goods (for appearances, actually just delivering bottles), that Xiaoyu dared to do what she wanted without any worries about the future.

He had gone to such lengths to protect her; she would be lying if she said she wasn’t moved. Therefore, after she had made her feelings clear to him, she tacitly accepted their relationship.

Their affection was not the kind that was passionate or fiercely intense; they were not like that by nature, but rather it seemed a bit more like a matter of course.

Xiaoyu found that the type of person she sought in a relationship was always this straightforward type; they did not possess a romantic sentimentality, nor did they indulge in sweet nothings, but instead preferred to prove everything with practical actions. She felt there was nothing wrong with spending a lifetime with such people, at least they were without guile and deeply devoted.

After the Tasty and Pretty Fisherman’s shop had been busy for half a month, the Empress herself issued an invitation and sent a female official from her palace to personally escort Xiaoyu to stay in the palace for a few days. Since Xiaoyu had already been psychologically prepared, she didn’t panic this time and entered the palace very calmly, bringing a lot of nice things with her, planning to please her future mother-in-law thoroughly.

Heh, she was playing to the tune, vulgar as it might be.

Actually, the Empress wasn’t very old, around forty-five or forty-six, with some clear menopausal symptoms.

Recently, she hadn’t had much of an appetite and knew that her future daughter-in-law was an exceptionally skilled cook, so she invited Xiaoyu to the palace to test her culinary skills.

"Her Majesty has recently been feeling a chill in her back and her hands and feet are unusually cold," said the Empress. "With each passing day, the weather grows colder, and even though Changchun Palace has provided charcoal fires early, Her Majesty still sleeps restlessly, has a poor appetite, and has irregular menstrual cycles, sometimes absent, sometimes barely there,"

After getting the prescription opened by the Imperial Physician, Xiaoyu carefully studied it and felt that the prescribed tonics for enriching qi were quite good. Traditional Chinese Medicine is full of warming tonics, which are slow to take effect, suitable for health preservation, and could yield results through slow conditioning. The Empress must have called her over after learning from the Emperor that she was knowledgeable in prescriptions and wished to test her capabilities.