Transmigration: From Farmer To Empress
Chapter 1376 - 1383: Cai Lian’s Pain (7)

Chapter 1376: Chapter 1383: Cai Lian’s Pain (7)

Cai Wei heard the jealousy in the man’s words and couldn’t help but cry and laugh as she said, "When have I seen him often? It’s just once or half a time each month when we settle the accounts. What groundless jealousy are you harboring? Besides, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. In your eyes, I may be peerless, but in the eyes of others, I could just be a common woman obsessed with making money!"

Nangong Yi snorted: "If he truly regards you as a common woman, then so be it. But if he harbors any other thoughts, I won’t let him off."

Hearing this, Cai Wei rolled her eyes skyward and raising her hand she said, "Your Majesty, I assure you, Master Situ harbors no improper thoughts towards me, and I will always remain loyal to you, without any thoughts of straying."

"Hmpf, you do know what’s good for you!"

Nangong Yi snorted proudly and picked up a letter of appointment from the table and handed it to Cai Wei: "Seeing as how you’ve been behaving so well, I feel obliged to reward you!"

Cai Wei took the letter and saw that it granted her father the official position of a Fifth Rank Lecturer in the Hanlin Academy. She frowned and said, "Yi, what are you doing? While it’s true that one shouldn’t avoid talent in their own family, father has only been in the Hanlin Academy for a few months without any remarkable achievements. If you promote him from a Seventh Rank Editor to a Fifth Rank Lecturer, I’m afraid it might cause dissatisfaction among others. Perhaps we should forget about it!"

Nangong Yi, unconcerned, said: "Your father has been a diligent and humble Editor in the Hanlin Academy for several months, never arrogant despite being my father-in-law. Therefore, the position of a Hanlin Academy Lecturer is my reward to him, and also a gift for you. As for your mother, for the time being, she’ll be granted the title of a Fifth Rank Noble Lady. In the future, when your father gets promoted again, we’ll raise her title accordingly!"

Cai Wei said, "But what if an Imperial Historian submits a memorial impeaching him? You have only just ascended the throne, and your foundation is not yet solid; it’s better not to rush into promoting my family!"

Nangong Yi smiled profoundly and said, "My dear, rest assured, I have a good strategy that will shut everyone up and get them to wholeheartedly consent."

Cai Wei raised an eyebrow and asked, "What good strategy?"

Nangong Yi said: "It’s to pass on the method of using Arabic numerals for accounting that you’ve been using to your father. Have him teach everyone at the Hanlin Academy how to use it. This method is simple and practical, and it will certainly become widely popular. If no one in the entire Great Jin knows this method except for him alone, isn’t that enough reason for him to be promoted and ennobled?"

Teaching everyone knowledge is a good thing; it could promote social progress and also enable her father to get promoted and ennobled. Cai Wei was naturally pleased to see it happen. She happily agreed and decided to personally cook a delicious meal for the man to thank him.

The daughter-in-law on his legs disappeared into thin air, and Nangong Yi was momentarily stunned, then shook his head, amused, and continued reviewing accounts...

About one hour later, when it was almost dark, Cai Wei came out from Space, carrying a food box, and smilingly said to the man, "Come inside, dinner is ready!" After that, she walked towards the inner room.

Nangong Yi had been reviewing accounts all afternoon and was now starving. He put down the vermilion pen, got up, and followed Cai Wei to the inner room, only to see that Cai Wei had already placed the food box on the table and lifted the lid.

Inside the food box, there was a bowl of ham and fresh bamboo shoots soup, a dish of salt and oil stir-fried wolfberry sprouts, a bowl of marinated goose palm and duck letter, a dish of eggplant, four cream pine custard roll crisps, and two bowls of steaming green Qu fragrant paddy Japonica rice.

Nangong Yi washed his hands, came over, flipped his robe, and sat down at the table, laughing, "Thanks to Madam, I get to enjoy the delicacies of Gods and Immortals’ Land again today!"

Cai Wei passed a pair of ivory chopsticks to him and another bowl of Japonica rice, saying, "While the foods of Gods and Immortals’ Land are indeed fine, I’m not sure if they suit your taste!"

"My favorite food is the one you cook, my dear. How could it not suit my taste?"

The man was very familiar with Cai Wei’s cooking skills and held a deep affection for them. Initially, in Lingbei, they ate moldy stored food mixed with chaff. After she arrived, she brought fine flour, snow-white rice, and even occasionally bought hundreds of live pigs to improve everyone’s meals, benefiting him even more.

Beef jerky, hotpot, steamed fish, spicy hot pot – he would never forget the taste of each one. In those hard times, she was like a warm beam of light, not only bringing him brightness but also hope...

He reached out with chopsticks, took a bite of the delicious eggplant, and praised, "Madam’s cooking skills are great. Even the eggplant is so delicious, far better than the Royal Chef’s craftsmanship in the palace..."

Cai Wei laughed and adopting a modern advertising slogan, she said, "If it’s tasty, eat more of it!"

She then added more to his plate, and at that moment, she genuinely appreciated Cao Xueqin, the old author. If it weren’t for his detailed recipe for eggplant, she wouldn’t have been able to make it so delicious!

Besides the eggplant, her ham and fresh bamboo shoots soup were also much to the man’s liking, and the marinated goose palm and duck letter were just the right seasonal dish. The man ate a lot of every dish, almost twice as much as usual compared to the meals prepared by the Royal Chef...

Dinner ended in a warm and romantic atmosphere. After the meal, Nangong Yi went back to reviewing documents, while Cai Wei summoned Liu Xi, asking him to go to the Mu Mansion from the palace, to teach the Old Master arithmetic as quickly as possible...