guessed that Zhou Lu might have arranged a stand-in to return to the Zhou family, but Yan Yan had a new question that he couldn't figure out, since he planned to let the Zhou family come to take the seeds, why bother to send the previous two women to come, not to mention it, it was easy to expose his identity.

Or is his purpose to imply to Yan Yan that his true identity is unspeakably precious, so he wants to win Yan Yan's support?

And the reason why he was so sure that Yan Yan would not refuse him was because he knew Yan Yan's origin and thought that they were the same kind, or did he want to blackmail her with this?

Yan Yan didn't have an answer when he thought about it, but the secret guard sent by the emperor to track down the two women lost news again.

To be exact, this time it was the two women who escaped under the noses of a few secret guards, and those dark guards were still alive, but they did not come back, but rushed directly to Bingzhou to explore the truth of that Zhou Lu.

As a result, the problem is becoming more and more complex.

Because of this problem, Yan Yan didn't think about it a little, and soon he lost a lot of weight.

Lu You quickly discovered Yan Yan's abnormality, although Yan Yan also dreamed in the past, he rarely spoke in his dreams, but in recent days, Yan Yan would always wake up in the middle of the night, and he was usually awakened by nightmares.

Thinking of Yan Yan's emaciation again, Lu You was anxious.

Early this morning, Yan Yan woke up and found that Lu You did not go to duty, but leaned on the kang to read.

"Husband, you...

Before Yan Yan's words could be asked, Lu You touched her head, "Lady, I'm resting today, the two of us haven't gone shopping for a long time, why don't I accompany you to the street today." ”

"Okay, I haven't been to the bookstore for a few days, so let's go to the bookstore." Yan Yan was interested when he heard it.

After getting up and changing clothes, Yan Yan accompanied Lu Jin to frolic for a while, and after eating, he and Lu You got into the carriage, and the two went to the silk village first, two days ago, Qingbi came to the house and said that the two Zhou family stewards took away all the inventory of the embroidery village, and the silk village was also emptied a lot, so Yan Yan wanted to see what supplies needed to be added, and at the same time, she also wanted to see what clothes the Zhou family mainly liked.

Judging from the clothes sent by the two women, although the level of brocade in the north is not as high as that in the south, and the colors are not as complicated as those in the south, two brocades in the clothes sent by the two people use a lot of gold thread and gold leaf, which are even more luxurious than those given to Yan Yan in the palace, and it is absolutely impossible for them to come from ordinary official eunuchs, let alone merchants' homes.

Therefore, Yan Yancai is a little strange, since the other party can get such a beautiful woven gold brocade, there is no reason to buy clothes from the capital, right?

From the silk shop, Yan Yan heard that the two stewards had taken away the high-end brocade and silk from the south in the shop, and the other party did not ask for the ordinary silk without any pattern, saying that it was in the north.

"What does that mean?" Lu You didn't understand why Yan Yan wanted to make this trip.

"I want to see if it's a normal businessman." Yan Yan replied.

If the other party is to take care of her business, she should buy all the things in her store, but at this glance, the other party wants all the high-end clothes with colors shipped from the Jiangnan area, which shows that the other party is a real businessman, these clothes can not only be sold, but also may be used as samples for their weavers to study.

Also, they bought all the finished products of the embroidery village, in addition to making money, they should also take a fancy to these embroidery skills.

It seems that Zhou Lu's move is quite far, he is paving the way for sitting in that position in the future, he wants not only to sit in that position, but also to sit firmly in that position, and want to win the strength of all families to be a good emperor who works hard, maybe in a few years it will be possible to merge the territory of these countries into a new territory.

Thinking of this, Yan Yan was a little conflicted.

If this Zhou Lu really has the ability to merge the Mongolian, Jurchen, Western Xia, Great Zhou and other territories into one family, this should be a good thing for the people, right?

At least they don't have to go through decades of war, and maybe they can raise their productivity to a new historical height, so that the people can live a life without worrying about food and clothing in advance.

"Lady, let's go to the bookstore." Lu You saw that Yan Yan was distracted again, and hurriedly pushed her out of the shop.

The two did not get into the carriage, but walked around the shops on the street, it was almost the end of the year, although the business of each family was better than usual, but there was still a gap compared with previous years, Yan Yan's restaurant was the best example, in the past, there were hundreds and eighteen thousand yuan per month, but now it is almost half.

However, the business of the cake shop is not very obvious, and it may be faced with the daughters and children of wealthy families, whose quality of life has not been affected.

There are not many people in the bookstore, Yan Yan went straight to the used book stall after entering, because every year there are bankrupt businessmen or officials who have an accident to take out the collection of books at home and sell them, if you are lucky, you can find some manuscripts or something, and there may be rare books, but the price is different.

In fact, what Yan Yan really wanted to find was to see if there could be any other hand-copied notes left by her predecessors, in addition to the notes of Western missionaries, she had to find a source for her knowledge.

Not to mention, Yan Yan's luck was good, she found two manuscripts of Western missionaries, which recorded the missionary's travels in the Great Zhou in Chinese characters, with various customs, customs and customs, including food, architecture, medical care, clothing, customs, totems, and even the types of crops, which is simply an encyclopedia.

Yan Yan picked out the two manuscripts and handed them to Qingyu, who was waiting on the side, and was about to get another manuscript when he heard a familiar voice from behind, and turned his head to see that it was actually Chen Chen.

Chen Chen should be pregnant, although it is not very obvious, but Yan Yan saw that her waist was a lot thicker, and the other party's walking posture was not right, but in this environment, Yan Yan couldn't ask the other party for verification, but Yan Yan saw a little that her complexion was not very good, and she didn't have the joy of being a mother.

Thinking of the scene when she came to Mingyuan to make trouble before getting married, Yan Yan guessed that most of the other party had not yet gotten out of the emotional predicament, thinking of this, Yan Yan felt a little sorry for Xu Yu.

To Yan Yan's surprise, Chen Chen was a little surprised to see her, and he had to pull Yan Yan to find a place to drink tea.

Actually, drinking tea is fake, Yan Yan guessed that the other party wanted to find out whether Zhou Lu's news was true, after all, it was impossible for the Zhou family's steward to come to the capital without going to Jinyang Mansion.

Because Yan Yan also wanted to know what the two stewards said in Jinyang Mansion and what was the main purpose of coming to the capital this time, Yan Yan agreed to Chen Chen's invitation, and the two went to the teahouse opposite to sit down, while Lu You remained in the bookstore.