Chapter 202 – Ni Qing Is Angry

“I have sent a set of dessert to Lin Yue this morning. You have your share at the Ni mansion also. This is the spare for the emperor and the other. I never went back of my word!” Ni Qing is talking back to her brother about the whole ordeal of the dessert.

“How can you not send the sweet to my study? I feel left out like this,” Jin Yu is complaining to his wife regarding the dessert.

“Can you all stop complaining? I have served you all the dessert. Can you not eat it and be quiet to enjoy the food and give me the feedback,” Ni Qing is feeling angry inside her mind to get drilled by everyone.

In the same time, Xiao Nie is serving the last two set of dessert plate on the table and Wang is pouring the white dew tea.

Mo Feng is enjoying the fragrant smell of the tea that harvest in the morning. This is one of the rarest teas in the continent.

This time for enjoying the dessert of his wife, the emperor taken out his collection of tea to be pair with the pastry.

Ni Qing is whispering Xiao Nie to get her the secret new pastry from the pantry. She wants to pair it with the white dew tea.

Everyone devours the pastry as soon as it set on the table. Ni Qing is looking at their face who is showing satisfaction from the time they are chewing the food.

Xiao Nie is serving the secret plate of dessert as instructed by Ni Qing who share the plate with Mo Feng while enjoying the tea.

“Did you really create this cake from the rice?” Mo Feng is asking Ni Qing after finishing the first cake.

“Try the second one,” Ni Qing is pointing to the yellow cake next to the white cake. Mo Feng is getting the yellow cake and eat it straight away when the saltiness of the duck egg come inside his mouth.

“How it is?” Ni Qing is washing her mouth with the tea. Mo Feng is enjoying the cake before slowly drinking the tea.

“This unique taste is dancing in my mouth and really good to be pair with the tea. You are really genius to pair the ingredient to make my mind blow away,” Mo Feng is praising her skill to make every food to become the finest taste in this world.

Jin Yu and everyone else are taking the sweet on the plate in front of Mo Feng and Ni Qing. They are smiling after eating the sweet made by Ni Qing.

They are enjoying the breeze on the garden inside the palace with the finest tea and sweet on their table.

They are enjoying the bliss time due to the food in front of them and the nice tea that they enjoy with the scenery o the autumn.

“Now, we are talking business. Zhao Yu, I want you to put your money into my new build bank and I will invest it into several business. I want to inject the money to the society. Ni Sheng and Ah Yue need to put in the start up cost for my newly build business as usual. This time, your job as usual to find the customer to spend their money into our business,” Ni Qing is instructing them without any barrier.

“What is Lin Yue job in your business?” Jin Yue is asking out of curiosity.

“Ah… He is solemnly pouring his money into the business. He can’t find customer because of his sharp tongue as military man, and he can’t cook or serving customer. Ah do not worry about him, I will take the silver and gold myself,” Ni Qing is telling everyone on the table.

“Are you taking the money in the general Lin Yue house as you wish?” Zhao Yu is asking her with amusement about the revelation of the empress position in the general Lin house.

“I know exactly his amount of wealth. I also know about the whole Lin family wealth,” Ni Qing is drinking her tea after telling Zhao Yu the real condition of their household.

“How can? You are not their part of family. What happen if someone take the money from the Lin Family?” Zhao Yu is kept asking her about her position in the Lin family.

“no one dare to infiltrate the Lin Family. I am helping uncle to take care of their household account and daily operation. Ah Yue is too busy in the barrack, and he is recuperating. Uncle is busy guarding the west border with father. They are not going to come back to the capital as they are enjoying their retirement in the border,” Ni Qing is telling Zhao Yu about her position in the Lin Family.

“It means your position is their daughter-in-law as you are already taking care of their mansion,” Zhao Yu is trying to find out the whole situation.

“I am ex-daughter in-law. But I still hold a strong foot hold in their mansion. The benefit is I can use the money as I needed it,” Ni Qing is chuckled to tell her position in the Lin Household.

“I can pay for all your start up cost. Is your husband not capable to pay for all your business?” Jin Yu is making a complain about his wife position in the Lin family.

“How can you pay for all my business? What should you explain to the ministry in the court for the money? You are really petty sometimes,” Ni Qing is holding her husband hand and appeasing him.

“I do have some private funds save from my salary. How much do you need?” Jin Yu is telling her without even think about the consequences.

“I really do not know at this stage. I need to buy two store front and the start up capital cost. I probably need two case of gold ingots for my plan and another case just in case,” Ni Qing is making a quick rough calculation inside her head.

“Done. Wang, ask the finance minister to open my safe and take out three case of gold ingots to use for the empress project,” The emperor is instructing his loyal eunuch regarding the whole money situation.

“You still need to go through the finance minister, and it will be talk withing the whole ministry that the emperor taking out his personal saving for the empress business in the capital during economic turbulation.

“What do you mean?” Jin Yu did not accept the whole rejection from his wife.

“I mean that this whole project is a secret to help the economic to be normal and you want to open wide telling everyone about my plan. Do you understand about it?” Ni Qing is blatantly attacking Jin Yu for his idea to get the fund from the finance ministry.

“I am sorry, but I do not want you to use someone else money. You are the empress and my only wife,” Jin Yu is telling her about the whole objection of her idea of money source.

“this is not about using someone else money. I always use his money until now and you never raise any objection. Why should I come clean and let you know, and you are complaining about it now?” Ni Qing is telling him about her using Lin Yue money.

“I do not know about your position in the Lin family and your access to their wealth. If I know earlier than I will not allow you to do something like that. forget it and I will source the fund for you,” Jin Yu still did not accept defeat from his wife regarding the source of the fund.

“Fine. Do as you deemed fit into my plan,” Ni Qing did not argue with her husband.  She is standing up and going to the kitchen.

She is looking at the new renovation of the kitchen which supervise by XI Kai. As she can’t go to her kitchen in the tea house then she is building one inside her palace.

She is hoping by the end of today, it will be finished as she needs to do the mass production in the morning.

She is asking Wang Bo and Mr Zhou to come inside the palace tomorrow morning, and they will discuss the plan in detail.

This plan needs to be put on track as soon as possible. The longer this economic chaos happened in this city, the most person suffered is the small people.

The product will be laying around in the market and it will give a lot of small merchants to suffer. It will make their price to go down and it resulted into lower price margin.

If the merchant is not too strong in their capital then it will be not long for them to survive in this economic chaos.

As their kitchen is renovating into a bigger kitchen, they are not opening the meal for tonight. this time, Ni Qing and Jin Yu are having a quiet meal together.

“Can you let me run this country and I will solve the matter related to my people.. You just need to lay back and enjoy all the daily life,” Jin Yu is pleading to his wife to stay back and focus into her pregnancy.