Xiao Ruiyuan looked at Yan Junyu with eyes full of deep aning, coldly answering the original question, "I dispatched two Hidden Guards to secretly protect Yanyan, which is how I knew you went to Liu Yang Village today!"
After speaking, he didn’t even glance at the greatly changed expression of Yan Junyu and just walked out of the small pavilion. His purpose for coming here tonight had been achieved. Regardless of whether this young man had any designs on Yanyan, he must take precautions.
Yan Junyu’s face changed unpredictably, and by the ti he snapped back to reality wanting to get clarification, Xiao Ruiyuan was nowhere to be seen...
Receiving the tribute of fruit from Yan Junyu, how could Emperor Huian not know of Yan Junyu’s little sches? Initially intending to help him, after tasting the fresh and delicious fruits, he suddenly felt that the officials of the Agricultural Politics Departnt were taking their salaries without accomplishing any substantial work, even more eager to use his nephew’s achievent as a pretext to frankly reprimand them.
The following morning at the early court assembly, the entire staff of the Agricultural Politics Departnt was taphorically slapped in the face by the fresh fruits presented by Yan Junyu, yet not a single one of them could muster a rebuttal.
Outclassed in skill, they were genuinely convinced and admitted defeat.
Yan Junyu swaggered about victoriously, but he knew when enough was enough and didn’t pursue the matter further. However, Emperor Huian, citing his cultivation of rare fruit as a glory to Great Chu, gifted him five hundred taels of gold, a blatant slap in the face to the Agricultural Politics Departnt!
However, the Agricultural Politics Departnt could only swallow their tears. After all, the one dealing the blow was Emperor Huian, the ruler of the nation!
Having received an unexpected windfall, Yan Junyu didn’t have a clue what being low-key ant, boasting ostentatiously, especially in front of the Princes, reveling in their awkwardly constrained smiles, his heart swelling with pride.
He had plenty of gold and silver, indifferent to the five hundred taels of gold, but the honor was exceptionally rare. He didn’t believe Emperor Huian awarded him the gold under the pretext of chastising the Agricultural Politics Departnt, just to give him face.
The emperor of a vast nation, desiring a taste of fresh and uncommon fruits, yet having to import them from Barbarian Countries afar, was already a sha for Emperor Huian.
Otherwise, why would he allocate a large sum of Silver Coin from the Ministry of Revenue every year for the Agricultural Politics Departnt to transport fruit seedlings from distant lands to cultivate diligently, if not to regain the Imperial Family’s face, thereby intimidating those lesser countries with a display of their own capable people?
Thinking about the high-yielding rice soon to be harvested as ntioned by Mo Yan during their chat, the light in Yan Junyu’s eyes intensified. He could almost foresee the shock that the high-yielding rice, with potential yields of a thousand catties per mu, would bring to Great Chu and its neighboring countries once it was introduced!
Yan Junyu, having earned Emperor Huian’s praise and boasting so high-profiled, naturally made both the Agricultural Politics Departnt and others curious as to how he cultivated those rare fruit seedlings and made them bear fruit successfully.
Mo Yan’s collaboration with Yan Junyu was hardly a secret by now, and it didn’t take long for soone to trace it back to her. Learning that Mo Yan was just a poor farr’s daughter with nothing remarkable about her, and that her relationship with Yan Junyu was rely that of ordinary employnt—she had simply lucked into growing those fruit seedlings—people quickly dismissed her from their thoughts!
She was just a minor character, not worth the bother!
However, unbeknownst to them, all the dealings between the two had already been erased by Yan Junyu, and the scanty information people could dig up was what he had deliberately let out to mislead the public!
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When Mo Yan received the five hundred taels of gold sent by Yan Junyu, she had just finished asuring the land with officials sent by the Governnt!
That’s right, she bought land again!
This ti, she spent a full two thousand taels of Silver to buy all the barren hills suitable for planting trees in the vicinity. There were seventeen barren hills in total, covering as many as two thousand mu of land, directly connecting with the winery she had purchased earlier.
Mo Yan planned to use all seventeen barren hills for planting fruit trees to et the raw material needs for wine making once the winery was established. Otherwise, relying only on those two orchards, the annual fruit output would fall far short of the winery’s demand.
This was a massive project, not sothing that could be completed in one or two years. Mo Yan hadn’t planned to finish it all at once; the most important thing for now was to start building the winery.
Dismissing the Governnt officials with a red envelope, Mo Yan finally opened the large and heavy mahogany box sent by Yan Junyu. The mont the box was opened, the dazzling flashes of gold nearly blinded her.
"Wow, so much gold! Sister, it’s all gold!" Xin Er pounced on it, excitedly picking up a shiny gold ingot and shouting loudly to her sister.
Mo Yan was also startled. Even with her share of the profits from selling fruits, it wouldn’t amount to this much! This was an entire chest full of Gold!
Just then, Lixiu produced a letter from her sleeve, "Yanyan, this is from Young Master Yan’s envoy for you, take a look first!"
Upon hearing this, Mo Yan hurriedly took it and opened it. After reading the letter and looking at the gold, she waved her hand grandly and declared, "This gold was awarded by Noble people who bought the fruit; it’s ours from now on! Co, let’s go into the city for a shopping spree!"
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