Opening a branch, this is an idea that Yin Lingyuan has long had, and Yin Anlu mentioned in the letter that she had two solutions to the problem of vegetable supply.

One is transportation, she wants to run an ancient logistics system, not only to transport their own vegetables and vegetables, but also to help people send various objects, but transportation has one of the biggest drawbacks - the transportation is underdeveloped, you must know that Tianqi's national strength has been considered to be at its peak, and the pipeline to all parts of the country is basically sound, but it is the fastest horse, from the imperial capital to Jinling, it will take about five days, the timeliness can not meet the requirements at all, and the vegetables have not yet been transported to rot. And there is no guarantee of safety, and if you encounter a bandit or robber, I am afraid that you will lose both people and money.

The second way is to plant it yourself, which county has opened a cyclamen building, just buy a field near the county, find someone to take care of it, and the vegetables planted are exclusively for their own restaurant. But ordinary vegetables are no different from others, Yin Lingyuan wants them to plant spiritual vegetables, and the spiritual spring water must not be transported out, so she will provide seeds, all the seedlings and seeds planted by her own vegetables and vegetables are left by the spirit vegetables of Yinghua Palace, all of them are only planted for one season, and after harvesting, she will provide new spiritual vegetable seeds for replanting.

In this way, although it is not as good as the spiritual vegetables she grows directly here, it is also more delicious and attractive than ordinary vegetables and vegetables.

Yin Anlu didn't know the secret of what kind of dish his sister had, but he understood the truth that if he shouldn't ask, he didn't ask, and their brothers and sisters were connected by blood, and no one would harm anyone.

Since Yin Lingyuan was so sure that she could grow different vegetables with her seeds, Yin Anlu believed her.

He planned to open a cyclamen building in Zhili Province near the imperial capital first, so he had to take advantage of the arrival of spring to buy fields and personnel.

Now that it has entered the wax moon, there is not much time left, Yin Anlu must rush to Zhili in person to make preparations before opening the store, and he is a little relieved before leaving.

He didn't find the source of the rumors outside the palace for the time being, but the family was about to fall out because of this rumor.

Especially the stepmother Yu took the opportunity to put forward the idea of sending Yu Miaorui into the palace and giving birth to a child for Yin Lingyuan. Even if Yin Lingyuan didn't like the emperor, he felt disgusted.

However, Yin Sheng has not agreed, his father means to find some good doctors to diagnose her and regulate her body, but looking at the meaning of the second brother in the letter, I am afraid that if Yin Lingyuan has not been able to give birth to children, it will be a matter of time before Yin Sheng compromises.

After all, he has already tasted the sweetness of a favorite concubine's daughter, if Yin Lingyuan is really as the rumors say, she is sick and unable to give birth, then after a few years, she will be older, and it will be a matter of time before she falls out of favor.

Yin Anlu finally said in the letter that now that he is gone, no one can persuade his father to make plans in advance.

Yin Lingyuan finished reading the letter, slowly folded it and handed it to Hanlu.

Han Lu saw that her expression was different, and couldn't help asking: "What's wrong, Miss, but what difficulties has the second young master encountered?" ”

"See for yourself." Yin Lingyuan pointed to the letter, most of the letters from home have been read by Hanlu, and she has nothing to avoid at the moment, so she slowly looks at it when she opens the letter.

Hanlu doesn't have much literacy, but even guessing with a blind can also look at a rough idea.

"Lord and Madame, how can this be...... So ......" Han Green was angry and resentful, and couldn't find the words to describe it for a while, but felt that his young lady was extremely aggrieved, "What do they think of you?" ”

"The water spilled by the married daughter, in their eyes, I am just a tool for them to enjoy glory and wealth", Yin Lingyuan sneered, "But if they want to fiddle with the tools at will, it depends on whether they have the ability to do so." ”

Let's not talk about whether Yu Miaorui has the ability to be favored, that is, the Yu family is just a lady of a five-grade official, and she is not qualified to enter the palace at all, she can't see Yin Lingyuan, and there is no other way to find it, Yin Lingyuan doesn't even look at it when she writes a letter, how can she send Yu Miaorui into the palace?

Since entering the lunar month, the Yin family's family letters are written by the Yu family one after another, Hanlu knows that his master will not read it, and he will help to see it at first, but looking at it, each one is to persuade her to take Yu Miaorui into the palace, until later even the master spoke, let Yin Lingyuan think about the overall situation.

Hanlu really couldn't stand it, so he simply stopped watching it.

By the end of the year, all the palaces were busy, Yinghua Palace was dotted up and down, Yin Ling's ears were temporarily clean, and he finally had the leisure to sit down and drink tea and enjoy the snow.

The greenhouse was re-erected as early as the beginning of autumn, and now she sits in it, inviting three or five friends, while enjoying the warm temperature, while admiring the goose feathers and snow outside.

"I haven't seen such a big snow for many years", Concubine He gently drank the milk tea that exuded a faint fragrance, and said leisurely, "Ruixue is a good omen." ”

"I've never seen such a big snow when I'm at home before," said the concubine, "It's really beautiful, especially in the warm pavilion of the kite, through the glass, there is a different taste." ”

Yin Lingyuan raised her head and watched the snowflakes fall on the transparent glass top, as if someone sprinkled white petals from a high place, you thought it would fall, but in fact, it was already blocked by a layer of glass, this feeling is very peculiar, she was about to send two words of emotion, Leng Buding A handsome face suddenly appeared between the glass top and her face, Yin Lingkite was used to someone's sudden appearance, blinking his eyes, and did not move at all: "You blocked me from enjoying the snow." ”

Yu Ze turned his head, followed her line of sight to look at the top of the glass, and said coldly: "This snow, I'm afraid it's going to fall for a while." ”

"You'll still look at the celestial statues", Yin Lingyuan turned his head to look at him.

Yu Ze was noncommittal and did not speak again.

Facts have proved that Yu Ze does look at the sky, the snow has been falling for three days, and there is still no sign of stopping, the snow on the palace road must be cleaned every once in a while, otherwise it will quickly accumulate a thick layer, and in places such as the Imperial Garden, the snow on the ground has not reached the ankles.

Many branches in the palace were crushed by the snow, and the sky and the earth were white and dazzling, and the people in the palace had long lost their interest in appreciating the snow before, and they closed their doors one after another, so as not to walk on the road and be hit by the falling snow somewhere.

Yin Lingyuan looked at the glazed roof of the greenhouse and rejoiced, but it was made in the shape of a spire at that time, and there was no snow, otherwise I was afraid that it would be crushed.

The heavy snow did not stop on the fifth day, and finally the bad news came from outside the palace, many residents' houses were crushed by the heavy snow, and people were buried alive under the ruins of the houses and the heavy snow before they had time to flee.

More people were displaced, and although they were lucky enough to escape, their houses collapsed, there were no clothes to keep warm, no food to eat, and in this snow, people slowly froze to death and starved to death.

This rare snow has finally turned into a natural disaster.

A large number of displaced people poured into the imperial capital, and heavy snow fell in the north, and the disaster in various places will only be more serious than in the capital, and the people are homeless, and their first reaction is to flee to the imperial capital.

The ruined temple on the outskirts of Beijing has long been crowded with people, and Yin of Jingzhao Mansion is worried that the influx of too many displaced people will lead to unstable public order, so he has no choice but to close the city gate.

Yin Lingyuan sent people to inquire every day, and finally learned that Yin Anlu had returned safely the day before the Spring Festival, and he was relieved.

Tomorrow is Chinese New Year's Eve, but the palace has no intention of celebrating the festival, the snow is still falling, and the noble concubine leads the female relatives of the harem to kneel every day, praying for mercy from the heavens and ending this disaster as soon as possible.

Qi Ye reopened the court, and he was busy with disaster relief every day, earlier this year, the south had already suffered a disaster, and now the north has suffered another snow disaster, and there is a shortage of money and food for a while.

The harem is a matter of decency, and they have been frugal and spend their expenses.

The heavy snow did not gradually stop until the 10th day of the first lunar month, and on the 15th day, the sky that had been overcast for more than a month finally saw the sun again.

Although the snow has stopped, the relief is still busy, the displaced people outside the city cannot be ignored, the houses of the people whose doors have been collapsed need to be rebuilt, and temporary relief materials such as tents, cotton clothes, and quilts are in urgent need of supplies.

Heavy snow has been falling for nearly a month, making it difficult to travel on official roads and slow progress in disaster relief.

Yin Lingyuan heard Yin Anlu say in the letter that he had seen and heard along the way back, and there were already people who had changed their children and eaten, and there were not a few people who broke their heads and bled for a mouthful of food.

Hunger and cold, the more you can't eat, the more you can't resist the cold.

Yin Lingyuan asked herself a little compassionately, in her previous life, she would also donate a few hundred yuan as much as she could, but now she can do more, and naturally she is not willing to see these people starve to death in vain.

She discussed with Yin Anlu that she wanted to open a porridge shack at the gate of the city in the name of the cyclamen building, and give porridge to these fleeing people every day, so that they would not starve to death.

Yin Anlu agreed, take out 30% of the income of the cyclamen building to start a porridge shed at the city gate to relieve the refugees, but there are many displaced people, and there are more rich and unkind people who take the opportunity to make a fortune in the country, and raise the price of rice, one price a day, although the cyclamen building is quite profitable, but it can't support it for too long.

After all, a person's power is limited, and there is no way to do it.

Yin Lingyuan took out another 3,000 taels of silver from his private room and gave it to Yin Anlu to use as a porridge shed, hoping to support it for a little longer.

In the harem, Yin Lingyuan no longer has to accompany everyone to kneel and pray for blessings every day, everyone gathers in the palace of the concubine and listens to her. What the concubine means is that each palace will take out some silver taels, and the big guys will get together to give it to the emperor, which can be regarded as a contribution to the relief of refugees.

"This palace will set an example and take out a thousand taels." After the concubine finished speaking, she looked at everyone.

Concubine Yi was the first to respond: "The previous dynasty was busy with disaster relief, and the harem should make a contribution to share the emperor's worries, so the concubine will take eight hundred taels." ”

Although Concubine Rong was a little unhappy, she didn't dare to have any objections at this time, and followed up with eight hundred taels.

Further down, such as Xian Concubine He Concubine and others, they all took six hundred taels.

Yin Lingyuan is the head of Jieyu, weighing the amount of donations from everyone, and estimating that it is appropriate for her level to take out four or five hundred taels, so she said: "The concubine is willing to take out five hundred taels." ”

Who knew that the words fell, so I heard Concubine Rong sneer: "Yu Jieyu is quite wealthy, why did she take five hundred taels out, isn't it too stingy?" ”