The peasant girl has a private space, and her husband is handsome.

In Gu's Teahouse in Beijing.

Xu Ruoxuan was very happy to learn that Prime Minister Feng had been forced to contribute a thousand horses.

Master Su had previously said that teahouses were a mixed bag and a good place to gather information, and it was indeed true.

The teahouse waiter found out about Prime Minister Feng's horse farm on the outskirts of the capital and then passed the information on to Su Qianqian.

Prime Minister Feng himself often came to the teahouse, colluding with Vice Minister Luo of the Ministry of Works. They always spoke ill of Miss Su, which was really annoying.

Xu Ruoxian spat into the teapot before entering the private room to pour tea for Prime Minister Feng and Vice Minister Luo.

"Please have some tea, gentlemen."

This private room has a railing, from which you can see the entire teahouse lobby and hear the storyteller telling his tales.

You can also see people surrounding the ancient books.

Having visited many times, Prime Minister Feng knew that Xu Ruoxian and Xu Ruofeng were the owners of this teahouse. He then made a request: "Owners, could I take a look at the ancient books in your teahouse? There are too many people watching, and I can't squeeze in."

Xu Ruoxian thought to herself, "Prime Minister Feng has quite the nerve. He's the first customer to directly ask me for the ancient book. I'm sorry, sir, that ancient book can only be viewed from afar, not up close."

Prime Minister Feng was furious: "Young lady, you should think this through. I am the Prime Minister of the current dynasty."

In the entire capital, no shop owner, regardless of their profession, would dare refuse him! People would be scrambling to curry favor with him, yet the owner of Gu's Teahouse was so arrogant as to refuse him, the Prime Minister!

Xu Ruoxian has always been a feisty person, and she directly clashed with Prime Minister Feng.

"I don't care about your title of Prime Minister or anything like that. To tell you the truth, we have many officials as customers in our teahouse. Even the Grand Master of Ceremonies and the Grand Master of the Imperial Academy dare not touch that rare ancient book."

"And Censor Zhou is here too. I've heard that Censor Zhou is very skilled at supervising officials. Does Prime Minister Feng want Censor Zhou to impeach you?"

Prime Minister Feng glanced downstairs and indeed saw the Grand Master of Ceremonies and Imperial Censor Zhou.

He had no intention of provoking Censor Zhou. Everyone in the capital knew that Censor Zhou was like a leech, impossible to shake off once you were attached to him.

Being impeached by Censor Zhou was an especially disgusting thing.

Forget it, what a worthless ancient book, might as well not read it.

At this moment, the storyteller in the teahouse was recounting the heroic deeds of the White Tiger Female General.

Prime Minister Feng was displeased and began to nitpick: "What's wrong with your teahouse? How could you let that storyteller spout nonsense in public, practically worshipping that young girl from Qinghe County like a goddess?"

Vivian Hsu retorted, "She's already a goddess, why does she need to be praised?"

Prime Minister Feng was furious. Look, that little girl who knows how to fight has really led all the girls in the entire Great Qi astray.

If things are allowed to continue like this, I'm afraid that women will start to climb all over men and forget that men are their heaven.

Vice Minister Luo advised, "Your Excellency, do not get angry with these fools. The higher that girl is praised, the harder she will fall."

What Vivian Hsu finds most unacceptable is when someone insults Su Dongjia, saying, "Old man, who do you think fell badly? You fell badly, your whole family fell badly! Don't think you're so great just because you have white hair and are old."

Minister Luo was so angry that he blew his beard and glared. This little girl actually made a personal attack, mocking his age and daring to call his whole family ignorant fools.

"You, you, you, this young lady is truly ill-mannered. Do you know that insulting an official is a serious crime, punishable by imprisonment?"

Princess Zhaohua came out of another private room. "Oh, you're allowed to talk about others but not others, Minister Luo, you have quite the airs of an official."

Vice Minister Luo's face darkened. He had been rebuked by the Duke of Anguo in court, and then by the Duke of Anguo's daughter after court. It seemed that he was at odds with the Duke of Anguo's family.

"Greetings, Your Highness."

Vice Minister Luo originally intended to find a pretext to send Xu Ruoxuan to prison, but now that the princess was present, it would be bad if she complained to His Majesty that he was oppressing the people.

These are extraordinary times. With repeated defeats on the border, His Majesty the Emperor is already in a bad mood and may fly into a rage over the smallest things.

I can't drink this tea anymore.

Vice Minister Luo paid for the tea with great frustration and left with Prime Minister Feng.

Xu Ruoxian shouted at their retreating figures, "If I hear you insulting Miss Su again, I'll make you drink poison."

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Outside the gate of the Luo residence, Su Dachuan and his son were once again waiting for Luo Kang.

The ten taels of silver that Luo Kang had given them earlier were too little; Su Dachuan and his son had already spent it all.

Moreover, when they met Luo Kang for the second time, Luo Kang made a lot of excuses and refused to give them a single penny.

He lives a life of luxury in the Luo family mansion, while his elder brother and nephew suffer outside. It's really wrong of him.

We must get money from Luo Kang today.

As soon as Su Dachuan saw Luo Kang, he immediately stepped forward and called out, "Third Brother."

Luo Kang looked warily at the two gatekeepers of the Luo residence and ordered them, "Go in and close the gate properly. Don't say anything, or I'll have you sold off."

The two servants quickly ran inside the gate and closed it.

Luo Kang pulled Su Dachuan into a small alley to the left of the Luo residence and asked irritably, "Why are you here again? Are you here to ask for money again?"

Su Dachuan played the victim, saying, "Third brother, the cost of living in the capital is too high. The money you gave me last time was too little."

Luo Kang got angry, "I told you, don't call me third brother."

These two people in front of me are covered in filth; they don't even deserve to be related to me! If they really anger me, I'll make them disappear forever.

Su Dachuan looked down on Luo Kang when he saw his fierce expression.

Who are you being so fierce to! You're nothing but an imposter in the Luo family, yet you dare to look down on your own brother.

"Third brother, I'm your eldest brother, show me some respect."

"Third brother, let me tell you the truth, the Luo family's biological son is much more capable than you. His daughter is a renowned genius painter in the Great Qi Dynasty, and she can sell even a small painting for several thousand taels of silver."

Upon hearing this news, Luo Kang's face turned deathly pale.

He had assumed the person whose identity he had replaced was an illiterate peasant, but he never expected that person's daughter to be so capable. From this, he could infer that the person himself must have been quite capable as well, otherwise how could he have raised such an outstanding daughter?

Su Dachuan was a scoundrel. He threatened, "Third brother, if Minister Luo knew how capable his granddaughter was, he would definitely kick you, this imposter, out of the Luo family. If you don't pay me, I'll tell the truth to the Luo family, and then your wealth and glory will come to an end."

With trembling hands, Luo Kang pulled out a silver note worth one hundred taels and stuffed it into Su Dachuan's hand. "Here you go. You just wanted money, didn't you?"

Su Dachuan easily obtained one hundred taels of silver and felt that he could get more.

"A hundred taels is not enough to appease a beggar. I need a thousand taels, and I must have it within three days, or I will tell Minister Luo about your background."

Luo Kang didn't know how he got back to the Luo residence; he didn't even hear Vice Minister Luo calling him from behind.

Soon, Vice Minister Luo summoned all his sons and grandsons to his study.

He announced to the public, "From now on, you will not only learn literature, but also martial arts. I will spend money to hire a martial arts master to come to the mansion to teach you martial arts."

Thinking of that outstanding young girl from Qinghe County, Minister Luo was consumed by jealousy and thus desperately wanted to raise his own grandson and granddaughter to be successful.

"As descendants of the Luo family, we cannot be too weak. Even a teenage girl from Qinghe County was able to repel the rebel army of the Prince of Huainan. You must strive to improve yourselves and surpass that girl."

Upon hearing the words "Qinghe County," Luo Kang shuddered in fright, and the jade walnut he was playing with fell to the ground and shattered.

Fortunately, he discovered that Vice Minister Luo did not notice his unusual behavior.

Vice Minister Luo was seething with anger, with nowhere to vent it.

He was humiliated by the Duke of Anguo at the morning court session, and then he was insulted by a shopkeeper while having tea. Today was definitely the darkest moment of his life.

All of this is because that girl from Qinghe County is too outstanding.

Vice Minister Luo felt that what Duke Anguo said in the main hall today was a mockery of the Luo family's descendants for being useless.

"You all better live up to my expectations. From now on, get up at cockcrow every day to practice martial arts. Anyone who can't do that can get the hell out of the Luo mansion."

Luo Minggeng was heartbroken. He usually liked to sleep in late and would never get up before noon, but he could no longer sleep in late.