Mingmen Family

Chapter 251
After returning from the teahouse, Ye Yaming put the matter aside and went to the tea garden in Baiteng County to teach Sun An how to make artificial black tea.

On the contrary, Ye Chongming and Qi Zhipei were worried for a while, and they didn't feel relieved until half a month later when the people from the Ministry of Internal Affairs finished shopping and Xiao Lizi returned to the capital with them.

The pace of life in this era is inherently slow, and the efficiency of the imperial court is not flattering. Ye Yaming thought that the matter of black tea would not come to fruition until the Chinese New Year.

Unexpectedly, when she taught her apprentices to be able to make black tea by herself, people from the capital came.In addition to several officials from the household department, there were actually Lu Guanyi and several servants.

Qi Zhipei received the notification from the officers and soldiers at the gate of the city, and hurried to meet him, and sent someone to notify the Ye family in his busy schedule.

At this moment Ye Yaming was still on the mountain in Baiteng County, Ye Chongming immediately asked someone to go to the mountain to invite Ye Yaming.

Fortunately, since Ye Yaming "learned" to ride a horse, she doesn't like riding a carriage very much, and often rides down the mountain by herself.

So in less than half a day, Ye Yaming rode back to Ye's house with a group of people.

When the porter saw her, he rushed up to meet her. While taking her rope, he reported: "Girl, the imperial court has arrived. They and Mr. Lu are waiting for you in the hall. They said they want to make an announcement."

Bai Rui and the others were shocked when they heard this, and they all looked at Ye Yaming.

Ye Yaming asked: "When did they come to Lin'an? And when did they come to our house?"

The concierge was a smart man, knowing that the third girl would be back soon, he made a special effort to inquire about the situation.

He said: "Their group arrived at noon. Master Qi treated them to a meal, and then came to our house. It shouldn't be a bad thing to look at the appearance of Sir Qi, the old man, and Mr. Lu."

Ye Yaming nodded, raised her hand towards Lue as a gesture, then entered the gate, and walked directly towards the study.

Lue took out money to give a reward to the porter, while Bairui quickly stepped forward and grabbed Ye Yaming: "Girl, do you want to go back to the room to freshen up and change clothes?"

Ye Yaming looked down at himself, shook his head and said, "No need."

The reason why there is an idiom in ancient times, "the wind and dust servants", is because the roads are all dirt roads, and the dust is extremely heavy.If riding a horse is not at the forefront, it is a typical "eating dirt", and the whole body will be dusty after riding for half an hour.

Because of this, when she went to Huizhou, she developed a habit of wrapping her hair up before riding a horse, and wearing a homemade mask and a dust cover.After getting off the horse, untie the turban and overalls, take off the mask, wipe your face with a wet handkerchief, pat your trousers and shoes, and you will be a good man again.

There is no way, it is impossible to change several sets of clothes a day when you are away from home.

Later, when she rode a horse, she basically dressed like this.

At this moment, she felt that her image was fine.It will take a while to walk to her yard from here, and it will take at least 20 minutes to wash and change clothes, and then walk back.

Presumably those court officials were impatient to wait so long.

She said: "When you get to the shade of the tree over there, you can take care of it for me."

In the shade of the tree, Bai Rui wetted the handkerchief and wiped Ye Yaming's face, then patted her back and forth to see if there was nothing wrong, then Ye Yaming went into the front yard.

The news of Ye Yaming's return has been sent to the front yard by another porter.

As soon as Ye Yaming came in, he saw an incense table in the yard, and seven or eight people were standing in front of the corridor of the main room, talking and laughing.In the left and right wing rooms, there are still the female family members of the Ye family.

Ye Jiaxing was already waiting for her at the door, and when he saw her come in, he motioned, "Come quickly to receive the order, I'll wait for you."

Ye Yaming followed him down the corridor and walked to the steps of the main house.

The group of people who were talking saw Ye Yaming, who was dressed in a red riding suit and looked heroic.

Ye Jiaxing saluted upwards: "My lords, sister-in-law Ye Yaming has arrived."

"Is this Miss Ye San?" The leader, an old man in his fifties, looked at Ye Yaming with great interest and asked Ye Chongming.

"It's Ye Yaming, the old third granddaughter."

"Little girl Ye Yaming, I have met all the adults." Ye Yaming bowed to everyone.

The old man nodded and ordered loudly: "Set up the incense table."

Immediately, someone stepped forward to light incense candles, and someone called the Ye family's women and children to the yard.

After a while, the young and old of the Ye family knelt on the ground in front of the incense case, and Ye Yaming knelt down to the front at the official's signal.

It seems that this imperial decree is related to her, not to the Ye family.Is it a marriage?

While Ye Yaming was thinking, he saw a tall figure walking up to her and knelt down beside her. Ye Yaming turned his head and saw a tall and handsome man. Who else could it be but Lu Guanyi?

Lu Guanyi also turned his head.

But before Ye Yaming could see his face clearly, a shrill voice sounded from above, and she quickly lowered her head to listen carefully to the content of the imperial decree.

"By God's blessing, the emperor's edict said: I heard that Ye's daughter, Ya Ming, is both talented and beautiful, respectful and sensitive, and I hereby refer to her marriage to Lu Guanyi, the son of Marquis Xuanwu. Another order is to choose an auspicious day to get married. Hereby."

Sure enough, this is a concise and clear decree referring to marriage.

After thinking for a while, Ye Yaming knew the intention of the court.

The imperial court wants to discuss the black tea business with the Ye family.If the Ye family is purely a merchant, or if there is clear evidence of cooperation between the Ye family and Lu Guanyi and Qi Ji, it will be easy to handle.

The status of merchants is low, so it is natural that the court will do what they say; the cooperation with Lu and Qi is on the surface, as Lu Guanyi and Qi Zhipei, as court officials, naturally have to give up profits for the court, otherwise they will be impeached by the censor.

However, their business is a collusion between the government and businessmen, and the contract they signed was not reported to the government at all, and the court could not produce any evidence that Lu Guanyi and Qi Ji were involved in this business.

Lu Guanyi participated in the border negotiations and knew the importance of the Ye family's dark tea to stabilize the border.Therefore, the Ye family may be instructed by the Lu family and the Qi family to raise the price and conditions.

On the other hand, the imperial court wanted to lower the price and take advantage of the Ye family, but they had to take into account the Xuanwuhou Mansion and the crown prince standing behind the Ye family.

Therefore, the situation of the Ye family is very difficult for officials who want to successfully obtain black tea at a low price and manipulate the Ye family.

The breakthrough point was her marriage to Lu Guanyi.The two are already engaged, so the emperor will issue another imperial decree to bestow marriage, making her directly the daughter-in-law of the Lu family.In this way, as the natal family of the family members of the imperial court officials, the Ye family became active in the negotiations and became passive. They had to worry about Lu Guanyi's future at all times, and did not dare to raise the price or negotiate conditions.

Wanting to understand this point, Ye Yaming had to say that the imperial court was really a thief.

Here, she calmly analyzed the pros and cons, thanked her calmly, and accepted the imperial edict together with Lu Guanyi. Except for a few people who knew about it and Ye Hongchang who guessed the inside story, everyone else was almost dumbfounded.

(End of this chapter)