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Ling Feng thought for a moment and said, "After returning home from the New Year's Eve palace banquet, Madam Ding claimed to be ill and refused to go out. Her nephew, Ding Hui, was the apple of her elder brother and sister-in-law's eye. She brought him into the palace this time, but he is now gone. She can't explain this to her brother and sister-in-law, and she doesn't dare let Chen Qinghe know about it. Chen Qinghe still thinks that Ding Hui is studying in his own courtyard."

Chen Qinghe urged her to pack up Miss Zheng's dowry and send it to the Zheng family, but she absolutely refused to do it, and the two had a big argument about it.

Yun Jin sneered and said, "It's not like she can just refuse to pay. That dowry was left by Mengyao's mother, and she's been hoarding it for years. It's time for her to give it back."

"Miss is absolutely right." Ling Feng smiled as well. "Chen Qinghe's transfer to the Ministry of Personnel was originally a sure thing, but the Ministry of Personnel's approval document was suddenly suppressed these past two days."

He frantically inquired everywhere and learned that someone had passed on a message during the Ministry of Personnel's assessment, saying that he "neglected his family affairs and embezzled his first wife's dowry." Upon hearing this, Chen Qinghe knew that the Zheng family was behind it, and he was so frightened that he forced Ding to hand over the dowry list and the actual items that very night.

Ding tried to feign illness to delay, but this time Chen Qinghe didn't tolerate it at all. He directly summoned the steward and several old women, opened the storeroom in front of Ding, and began moving items out one by one according to the list. Ding was so angry that she jumped out of bed and cursed him, but he only said, "If you want me to lose my position, neither of us will have a good life."

"Has the dowry been handed over?" Yun Jin asked.

Ling Feng smiled and said, "It's been handed over. It was delivered to the Zheng family early this morning. Any damaged or lost items were replaced with silver."

Yun Jin snorted and said, "It seems that Lord Chen has amassed quite a fortune in Guangping Prefecture over the years."

She didn't dwell on the matter further, instead asking, "How are things at the First Prince's residence lately?"

Upon hearing this, Ling Feng lowered his voice and said, "The Crown Princess Consort took leave from the New Year's Eve palace banquet, saying only that she was feeling unwell. However, our people have found out that she has been taking medication to prevent miscarriage, so she should be pregnant."

Yun Jin paused, holding the teacup, and looked up, a hint of surprise flashing in her eyes.

She had only been helping Shen Qingyun recuperate for a little over a month when she suddenly became pregnant.

She paused for a moment, then asked, "What about Consort Zheng? How is her face? Is she behaving herself in the manor?"

Ling Feng's face showed a complicated expression: "I don't know what method was used to heal that Consort Zheng's face, but it was left with a scar, which can only be covered by applying thick powder every day."

But she didn't stop there. She somehow heard that the Crown Prince's wife was pregnant, and she secretly had her personal maid buy abortion pills from an outside pharmacy, intending to put them in the Crown Prince's wife's food.

Yun Jin's heart sank, and she hurriedly asked, "She didn't succeed, did she?"

"No, Miss, don't worry." Ling Feng quickly explained, "The Crown Prince's Consort never uses food prepared by outsiders. The Crown Prince also specially invited a royal physician to take care of her daily life in the mansion. The royal physician could smell the added ingredients before the food was even delivered to the Crown Prince's Consort."

The First Prince was furious and immediately arrested the maid for questioning. However, the maid insisted she had acted on her own initiative, and Consort Zheng also cried and wailed, claiming she knew nothing. Furthermore, considering she had given birth to the First Prince's eldest son and was the Emperor's eldest grandson, the First Prince ultimately didn't punish her, only disciplining the maid. Consort Zheng remained in the residence.

Yun Jin frowned after hearing this. Keeping the person in the manor was like keeping a seed of trouble. They hadn't succeeded this time, but there was no guarantee there wouldn't be a next time. It seemed she still had to go to the First Prince's residence herself.

Seeing her grave expression, Ling Feng changed the subject: "Miss, there's something else. These past two days, someone in court has submitted a memorial requesting His Majesty to appoint a Crown Prince, saying something like 'The Crown Prince is the foundation of the nation and cannot remain in vacancy for long.' His Majesty didn't say anything at the time, but his expression wasn't very good after the court session ended."

Yun Jin came to her senses and said sarcastically, "His Majesty is in his prime, why would he want to make an enemy for himself?"

Ling Feng nodded in agreement: "His Majesty does not want to establish a crown prince, so he has settled for second best and is preparing to confer titles of kings upon the adult princes. As for what kind of kings they will be conferred and when they will be conferred, there is no definite answer yet."

Yun Jin nodded, and was about to say something when footsteps came from the stairs.

The steward hurried up carrying a booklet, bowed to the two of them, and reported: "Master, Miss, regarding those two medicines, I had someone check all the branch stores, and only the medicine store in Jiangnan has some. It will take about seven days to get them over."

Yun Jin nodded: "Seven days it is. How much?"

Ling Feng waved his hand and laughed, "Miss, if we dared to ask you for money, that gentleman would tear down my Tingfeng Pavilion. You can just take it back and use it."

He turned to the manager and instructed, "Have the Jiangnan branch send it over as soon as possible."

Yun Jin didn't stand on ceremony with him, thanked him, and got up to leave Tingfeng Pavilion.

She glanced at the sky and saw that it was still early, so she went to the medicinal food shop instead.

Lan Qi had been keeping a close eye on things at the shop for the past two days. When he saw her arrive, he said excitedly, "Jin'er, you've finally come! If you hadn't come, I would have gone to the Yun residence to wait for you. Quickly, quickly, write down some recipes for medicinal dishes for me."

Yun Jin asked, somewhat amused and exasperated, "Uncle, didn't we agree to open on the eighth day of the lunar new year? Why isn't the menu ready yet?"

Lan Qi slapped his forehead in frustration: "We all thought medicinal cuisine was simple, and we even asked Doctor Liu from Weicaotang to help us write a few recipes based on your medicinal cuisine, but the dishes tasted like medicine. We couldn't even swallow them, let alone sell them."

Yun Jin chuckled; she had completely forgotten about that.

Doctors of this era were adept at prescribing medicine, but when it came to medicinal cuisine, they were indeed inferior to traditional Chinese medicine practitioners of later generations.

Fortunately, she already had medicinal diet recipes in her mind among the medical and poison prescriptions, so she took out a charcoal pencil and wrote down more than a dozen medicinal diet recipes.

There are stomach-nourishing soups for those with spleen and stomach deficiency and cold, four-ingredient black chicken soup for nourishing yin and moisturizing dryness, and several recipes for warming and tonifying kidney yang. Each recipe is carefully labeled with the dosage of medicinal materials and the cooking time.

Lan Qi looked at the prescription she had written down, and the corner of his mouth twitched involuntarily.

This girl is only sixteen after the New Year, but she writes about aphrodisiac medicinal diets without batting an eye.

However, upon further reflection, she realized that she was knowledgeable in medicine, so she felt relieved and quickly called over the chef in the kitchen, asking him to bring the recipe and make it for her to try.

After making the arrangements, he asked, "By the way, what are your plans for the beauty shop?"

Yun Jin thought for a moment and said, "Let's set the opening date for the sixteenth. I can make the items anytime, but we need to order a batch of porcelain vases. The shop's name must be engraved on the vases to prevent counterfeiting."

The two then discussed the shop's name and the style of the porcelain vase. Yun Jin drew a design with charcoal and gave it to Lan Qi, asking him to find a kiln to make it and send it to the Yun residence after it was finished.

Speaking of manpower, Lan Qi patted his chest and said, "Don't worry, I've already trained the staff for both shops in advance, so the opening will not be delayed."

While the two were discussing, the kitchen staff had already prepared the medicinal dishes one by one according to Yun Jin's newly written recipes.

Lan Qi tasted each dish one by one, his eyes growing brighter with each bite. He couldn't help but exclaim, "This is what medicinal cuisine should be! Delicious, so delicious! If all dishes tasted like this, it would be hard for this shop not to be a hit!"