Local officials in the fiefdom of the Daqi vassal were directly appointed by the court. The vassal king and the local officials monitored each other, and the relationship between the two was subtle.
She had already learned from Lin Jinglan about Emperor Zhaoxing's initial fear of being in a wrong position and Lin Jinglan's future plans.
The current Bi Zhifu in Changling Prefecture must be a member of Emperor Zhaoxing. Every move they make, Bi Zhifu, may also be reported to Emperor Zhaoxing.
"It's okay, he will be replaced soon."
At night, Lin Jinglan said this with determination.
In the magistrate's house, Magistrate Bi was talking to fellow magistrates from Changling Prefecture.
Magistrate Bi asked about Shen Zhiyao's actions in the past few days.
"Prince Rui went to take over the royal estates and was busy working on them all day."
"Princess Rui bought several farms in the city, and also bought some shops. The shops are in some cold areas in the west of the city. I heard that they will open soon."
Tongzhi will share the information he has found.
Magistrate Bi frowned, feeling that it was all useless information.
The tastes of people in Changling Prefecture are somewhat different from those in Tongfang County.
After Shen Zhiyao inquired for a few days, she decided what to sell in the shops she bought.
Milk tea, barbecue, egg-filled cakes, spicy soup, Malatang (sesame sauce version), mushroom soup pot... Of course, hot pot is indispensable.
Her shops are all on the same street, and she wants to turn that street into a food street.
At that time, because of the remote location, there were not many people when it opened.
She hired a lion dance team and had them beat gongs and drums to promote the event. She also found someone to make a mobile cart on which she placed several clay pots of milk tea with different flavors and some small bamboo tubes.
When following the lion dance team through the bustling streets, the milk tea is scooped into small bamboo tubes and distributed to people to taste.
After this, some people were attracted to the street of the shop.
Although these people went there for the milk tea, when they tasted other delicacies, especially mushroom soup pot and hot pot, they immediately fell in love with these two delicacies.
For a time, many people in Changling Prefecture knew that there were two novel delicacies.
Of course, on the street, you can gradually see boys, maids, or ordinary people carrying milk tea.
During the Dragon Boat Festival, Shen Zhiyao arranged for people to deliver milk tea to the riverside where the dragon boat race was held. After selling the milk tea to the crowd watching the dragon boat race, milk tea became completely popular in Changling Prefecture.
After the Dragon Boat Festival, it was Zhifu Bi's fiftieth birthday and he invited Shen Zhiyao and the others.
At the banquet, a scream suddenly sounded while the guests were drinking wine.
Immediately afterwards, the voice of shouting for help also reached everyone's ears.
Everyone went to the place where the sound came from and saw that a young man from a guest family had fallen into the water.
The young man didn't know how to drink water. When he was rescued by the boy, he was still in panic.
But everyone was either frightened or surprised, staring at him with different expressions.
To be precise, he was staring at the thing in his hand.
This young man is holding a skull in his left hand and a leg bone in his right hand.
"ah!"
After seeing what was in his hand, the young man screamed and threw the skull and leg bones away with a swish.
The skull rolled to the feet of Changling Prefecture Tongpan.
The young man explained that when he was drowning, he was scratching randomly at the bottom of the water, and he caught the skull and leg bones without realizing it.
Later, with the help of the judge, more than a dozen corpses were dug out from the bottom of the lake in Bi Zhifu's house, half of them male and half of them female. The autopsy showed that they were all fifteen or sixteen years old.
After so many corpses were dug up in public, Magistrate Bi couldn't hide it even if he wanted to.
Tongpan was responsible for supervising the prefect. On that day, Tongpan strongly requested Lin Jinglan to investigate the matter.
These corpses were finally discovered, and it turned out that Bi Zhifu had killed both men and women, and had killed many children of ordinary people over the years.
Moreover, this incident actually involved the sale of illegal salt by Zhifu Bi!
Selling illegal salt is a crime of beheading!
After Bi Zhifu's matter was brought to the capital by the general magistrate, Emperor Zhaoxing became furious.
Soon, Emperor Zhaoxing's verdict against Bi Zhifu came.
The whole family was copied and beheaded.
After the incident of Magistrate Bi was exposed, it became a hot topic of discussion after dinner in Changling Prefecture. It was not until the new magistrate took office that the topic of Magistrate Bi gradually faded away.
The new magistrate of Changling Prefecture is an official named Zhai.
After Magistrate Zhai took office, he came to visit Lin Jinglan. On the surface, it was a routine visit. He didn't stay long in Prince Rui's Mansion before Magistrate Zhai left.
However, when night fell, Magistrate Zhai appeared in the study of Prince Rui's Mansion, and Lin Jinglan chatted with him for a long time.
Lin Jinglan was busy with his affairs, and Shen Zhiyao, at Lin Suxin's request, took her with him to plant potatoes in the farm Shen Zhiyao bought.
After she was busy planting potatoes, when she was about to go to the shop to check the accounts, she saw no one in the huge palace.
Except for Butterfly Lan and Ye Nan who were following her.
Just as she was wondering and walking into the front hall with Phalaenopsis, a figure suddenly appeared.
"elder sister!"
"Crescent Moon! Why are you here?"
Shen Zhiyao didn't expect that the person who appeared was Shen Yueya.
"Hehe." Shen Yueya grinned, "Sister, have you forgotten what day today is?"
"What day?"
Shen Yueya: "Sister, it's your birthday."
When she was corresponding with her brother, he told her not to tell her sister about coming to Changling Prefecture, but to give her a surprise.
But what about my brother and brother-in-law?
As soon as Shen Yueya's doubts were over, Lin Jinglan, Shen Baiqiu and Lin Suxin walked in outside the front hall door.
Lin Jinglan also held a cake in her hand.
She really forgot that today is her birthday and she is already nineteen years old.
"Happy birthday Zhiyao."
"Happy birthday, sister."
"Happy birthday, sister."
"Happy birthday, princess."
Several blessings sounded.
After sending their blessings, Butterfly Lan and Ye Nan wisely stepped back, leaving time and space for their family.
After Shen Zhiyao, his younger brothers and sisters, and Lin Jinglan and Lin Suxin had dinner together, they took Shen Yueya around the capital of Changling Prefecture.
In the evening, Shen Zhiyao sat in front of the dressing table made by someone. When Lin Jinglan came in after taking a bath, she thought of the cake during the day and joked:
"How many days have you been learning cakes?"
During the day, after she knew that the cake was made by Lin Jinglan himself, she thought that no wonder she saw him coming from the direction of the big kitchen a few days ago.
Lin Jinglan said a little embarrassedly: "Three days."
"Am I a slow learner?"
He had privately asked Bai Qiu for some advice on what birthday gift to give Zhiyao.
Bai Qiu mentioned that she wanted to eat cake on her birthday.
He thought that he would make it for Zhiyao himself, so he tried to buy the production method from Yue Xiuyu.
After getting it, he tried to make the cake for three days while avoiding Zhiyao.
"Not slow." Shen Zhiyao shook his head, "You did a good job on today's cake. It looks good and tastes delicious."
Lin Jinglan felt a hint of joy in her heart: "As long as you like it."
After saying this, he placed the long sandalwood box he was holding on the empty space on Shen Zhiyao's dressing table.
"What is this?" Shen Zhiyao looked at the sandalwood box, curious.
"Birthday gift, open it and take a look."
Before Shen Zhiyao could speak, Lin Jinglan added, "The cake is just something I want to make for you, it is not a formal birthday gift."
Snap.
Shen Zhiyao unbuckled the box and opened the wooden box.
I saw a money tree made of gold lying in the wooden box.
The base is a gold Pixiu, the main branches are carved with copper coin patterns, and the leaves are decorated with some auspicious animals that symbolize peace and wealth.
I have to say that this gift was delivered to her heart.
Who doesn’t like attracting wealth and money coming from all directions?
"Why did you think of giving me this?"
Shen Zhiyao closed the lid of the wooden box.
"I thought you would like it, so I drew a pattern and found someone to make it." Lin Jinglan looked at her with burning eyes.
Meeting his gaze, Shen Zhiyao hooked her hand at him.
Lin Jinglan bent down.
Shen Zhiyao kissed his lips.
Lin Jinglan was slightly stunned.
Immediately, a dense throbbing emerged in his heart. Before Shen Zhiyao was about to evacuate, he chased after Shen Zhiyao, turning passivity into initiative.
The moonlight shines through the window lattice, casting a silver glow.
After a night of ups and downs, the shadow of the bed raised its bare hands.
