Mingmen Family

Chapter 368
Ye Yaming thought about it, and immediately turned worry into joy: "It's really possible. Then I'll send someone to tell my mother."

Now they moved to live in another courtyard, much closer to Ye's house.Unlike the original, separated by half a city.

On the second day, they went to a hunting place on the outskirts for the wealthy nobles and officials in Beijing.

After arriving at the place, everyone will choose a place that is a certain distance away from other tents to set up tents, so that they can walk through the door and take care of each other, and it is relatively safe.

To put it bluntly, this is a place for both socializing and having fun.Build tents by yourself instead of building houses, that is, if you don't set up a gate, it is convenient for each other to rush through the door.

Not long after Ye Yaming and the others arrived, a group of officials came with their family members. When they met, they naturally exchanged greetings, and then went to choose a place to set up their own tents.

The servants had just set up the tent, and Ye Yaming and Lu Guanyi were sitting in front of the tent drinking tea, when they saw an official in their thirties passing by seemingly casually.

"Oh, isn't this Mrs. Lu? It's a pleasure to meet you." The man looked at Ye Yaming again, "Is this Mrs. Lu? Hehe, the two of you are coming out to play too?"

"Master Liu also brought his family with him?"

"No, no, I'm here with two friends."

"Master Liu, why don't you sit down and have a cup of tea together?"

"Then I'm not impolite, just interrupt for a while." Master Liu sat down cheerfully.

The two exchanged a few words back and forth, Lord Liu said to Lu Guanyi in a low voice: "My uncle said that the task entrusted by the Lord has been completed. In addition to the fifth-rank imperial merchant, the emperor also intends to give his wife a formal title. The title of Yipin's 'Mrs. Tea'."

Ye Yaming looked at Lu Guanyi in surprise.

Lu Guanyi gave her a look back, then turned to thank Mr. Liu repeatedly.

When Mr. Liu left, he said to Ye Yaming: "I have always kept in mind the things you have memorized during this period of time. The uncle of Mr. Liu just now is Liu Shangshu from the Ministry of Officials. I have had a relationship with Mr. Liu before. He promised me a relationship, so I asked him to find out."

Speaking of this, he laughed: "I didn't expect the emperor to be so generous and give you a reward of the first grade."

Ye Yaming took a deep look at him and was moved: "Thank you."

The black tea was delivered to Chen Zhen in Lin'an. The deal with the imperial court seemed to be completed, but it was not. The transaction between Chen Zhen and Dajin had to be completed and the imperial court sold it at a high price and made a lot of money. Count success.

So she has been thinking about it all this time.

Although the quality of the tea was good, Dajin was short of tea, and the smuggled tea could not meet Dajin's needs due to the strict investigation by the court, and the price was too high.

But things are not conclusive, and it always makes people feel uneasy.

Besides, even if the tea transaction is successful, there are too many human factors in how the Ministry of Households grades the Ye family.Once it is determined as a lower-middle level, it will be difficult to upgrade again in the future.

Although Ye Yaming doesn't mix in the officialdom and wants to make the Ye family a top imperial businessman, she also has her own means: Madam diplomacy is a shortcut.

But she didn't want to beg someone for this matter, and she would fall into the shoes of others.Lu Guanyi is a third-rank official at a young age, which is enough to attract people's attention.If she keeps jumping up and down to become an important official of the Ye family, someone will impeach Lu Guanyi tomorrow, which will affect Lu Guanyi's future.

If the imperial court really wanted to treat the Ye family unfairly because of human factors, she would let the imperial court know how powerful she is - as long as the imperial court does not give corresponding treatment, they can only harvest 15 catties of tea every year, not even a catty more.

So even though she kept it in her heart, she didn't think of a way to fight for it herself, and she didn't ask Lu Guanyi to do it.

Unexpectedly, Lu Guanyi would settle this matter in private.

She asked: "Did you spend a lot of favors? I don't bother with this matter because I don't think it's necessary."

Lu Guanyi shook his head: "It didn't take any favors."

Seeing Ye Yaming looking at him in disbelief, he said: "Think about it, one is that my future is visible, even if I don't mention it, there are people who are willing to sell me this favor. Besides, the tea leaves from your family The quality is good and irreplaceable, you can still produce new teas that have never appeared every year, and there are many people who are willing to sell your favor.”

He raised his chin in the direction where Mr. Liu disappeared: "This lord took the initiative to find me at a banquet. After chatting for a while, he talked about it. I learned that his uncle is the Minister of the Ministry of Officials, so I asked him yelled at him, and..."

He smiled: "That's how it is done."

In fact, Liu Shu's nephew didn't need to come to talk, he also knew the conversation between the monarch and his ministers that day.

He belongs to the prince, and the prince has his own eyeliner in the palace.Moreover, the matter of Ye Family's tea leaves and Ye Yaming is not a secret, they were all said in front of the palace servants.

It's related to Lu Guanyi, it's good for the prince to sell the prince himself, so tell the prince about it.After the prince learned about it, he sold the favor to Lu Guanyi.

Presumably that old fox Yuan Zhengwei also knew this, so he was more active in promoting this matter than Liu Shu.

People are selling favors and selling them quietly, and they kill two birds with one stone.It's just a few words in front of the emperor, not only selling favors to the crown prince, but also selling him, Lu Guanyi, a big favor.

"Actually, I already knew about Yuan Chengxiang and Liu Shangshu speaking for us. But if the news from Chen Zhen's side doesn't come in a day, the matter will not be settled. It's useless to talk about it, so I didn't tell you. I didn't expect that Liu Heng couldn't hold his breath, and he insisted on finding an opportunity to sell it in front of you and me."

Ye Yaming laughed: "Very good. This shows that people are optimistic about you."

"No, I am optimistic about you as well as me." Lu Guanyi said seriously, "Maybe in the emperor's heart, you are much more important than me. I can replace you, but you cannot."

Ye Yaming shook her head: "Without you, I wouldn't dare to dance to the stage."

Lu Guanyi laughed: "Okay, let's achieve each other."

He grabbed Ye Yaming's hand and sighed: "If you have a wife like this, what more can a husband ask for?"

Ye Yaming gave him a white look: "Then you have to treat me better. Also, don't offend me."

She made a fierce look on purpose: "Otherwise, I want you to look good!"

Lu Guanyi laughed.

In front of a tent not far away, an official in purple heard laughter from afar, and was very envious when he saw the couple sitting there drinking tea.

He said to his friend: "Master Lu is really lucky. He has a good father, and he gets along with Madam Qin Se. The only regret is that this Madam came from a lower background."

The friend glanced at him: "If he marries a daughter from a family, can he still sit on the third-rank position?"

The purple-clothed official thought about it, nodded and said, "That's right."

Lu Guanyi really wants to marry a daughter of a family, not to mention Lu Guanyi himself, even Lu Zhongyong would not want to stay in his current position.

The emperor is most afraid of the family.

His friend said again: "Besides, his wife's ability to make tea is first-rate, regardless of her background in merchants. Opening a teahouse, how many contacts have been managed for him? Now she has done a big business with the imperial court, and the tea produced is sold to Da Jin. Because there is no reward for the issue of birth, maybe all the credit will fall on Mr. Lu in the future. Is such a woman better than that family's woman?"

The purple-clothed official sighed: "Oh, the more you talk, the more I envy Lu Da's life."

(End of this chapter)