"I don't know either. The invitation was delivered three days ago, and he seemed very anxious. But no matter how I asked, she wouldn't say anything, only that she had to wait for you to return!"
Seeing Han Mo's surprised expression, Zhe Yourong also said with a smile.
"I don't think I have much interaction with her?"
Han Mo said, scratching his head in confusion.
He tried to recall the memories he had of his past self. Did this Yi An Jushi have any romantic entanglements with him?
However, upon closer thought, it seemed unlikely.
After this January, he would only be twenty years old. But Li Qingzhao at this time would be over thirty, wouldn't she? Was he being eaten by an old cow?
"What's with that expression? Do you have any romantic debts with her?"
"Cough—cough—cough—"
Before Zhe Yourong could finish speaking, Han Mo began to cough violently.
"Are you kidding me? Me and her?"
This simple sentence made Han Mo jump up as if his tail had been stepped on.
"I was just saying it casually. Why are you so agitated? However, I don't think you could have had any interaction with her before!"
"That's more like it. It's good that you still have some trust in me!"
After hearing Zhe Yourong's words, Han Mo finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"It's not that I trust you. It's just that your reputation before was too bad. Who in Bianliang doesn't know that the second son of the Han family is a loafer?"
Zhe Yourong chuckled again as she said this.
"Is that how you talk about your husband? It seems I really need to assert my authority tonight!"
"Oh, come on then…"
"Hmph, I!"
"Hee hee hee…"
Seeing Han Mo's frustrated look, Zhe Yourong giggled again.
"I won't argue with you. Just you wait and see how I deal with you in a few days!"
"Pfft, vulgar…"
Although Zhe Yourong had changed a lot after marriage, her tricks were no match for Han Mo's old rogue ways.
"You lie down first. I'll go to the backyard to take care of this Feng Yuanbao matter!"
After racking his brain for a long time, Han Mo still couldn't think of any connection he had with Li Qingzhao that would make her seek him out from afar.
So, he could only put this matter aside for now and deal with Feng Yuanbao's problem first.
Speaking of Lü Ying, Han Mo really missed his days in Neihuang County.
After all, it was the starting point of his career in officialdom.
"His matter is a bit troublesome. Be careful when you handle it!"
"Don't worry, I know what I'm doing!"
Han Mo smiled and said no more. He covered Zhe Yourong with the blanket, then closed the door and turned to walk towards the side room.
"Sir!"
Along the way, as soon as Han Mo entered the side room in the central courtyard, Feng Yuanbao was already kneeling on the ground, crying again.
"What exactly happened? Get up and speak! You said before that this matter also involved Lü Ying and Yue Fei. What's going on? Explain it clearly!"
"Sir, you don't know!"
As Feng Yuanbao spoke, he started crying profusely again.
"Speak quickly, don't play these games with me. What kind of man cries like this?"
Seeing the fat man start crying again, Han Mo couldn't stand it anymore and kicked him in the backside.
After being kicked, Feng Yuanbao quickly stopped crying and told him everything that had happened.
It turned out that about two months after Han Mo left, the "Northern Wind Mushrooms" grown by the people of Neihuang County, also known as oyster mushrooms in later generations, had begun to yield.
With the invitation from Liang Shicheng that Han Mo had obtained for them earlier, and Feng Yuanbao's tireless efforts to pave the way with money, he had managed to establish trade routes from Neihuang to Daming and Bianliang in less than seven days.
The initial profits were indeed very good. In the season of crisp autumn winds, being able to eat such delicious mushrooms was a supreme enjoyment for the nobles.
Feng Yuanbao made a fortune from this, and the lives of the people of Neihuang County also greatly improved.
After all, in previous years, after harvesting the autumn grains, they generally had no other agricultural work to do.
At this time, solely relying on these mushrooms, the wealth earned in less than two months was even more than their hard work for the entire year.
More importantly, due to the rules Han Mo had established earlier and Lü Ying's supervision, even if someone wanted to interfere, they couldn't.
However, after Han Mo went south, unexpected troubles arose along the way.
After Han Mo's hard work, Neihuang County finally welcomed a new county magistrate, Tong Hu.
On the first day of his new appointment, Magistrate Tong Hu completely disregarded all the rules Han Mo had established.
Not only did he impose heavy taxes on the mushrooms grown by the people, but he also arrested Feng Yuanbao on charges of tax evasion, and his family's property was confiscated by the government.
Even when Lü Ying tried to intercede, he was beaten away by that guy. Seeing that the people had lost their livelihoods again, Lü Ying had no choice but to write a letter to Daming Prefecture to seek help from Zhong Yanchong.
However, even after Zhong Yanchong arrived, he could only manage to get Feng Yuanbao out of prison.
As for Feng Yuanbao's confiscated property, even Zhong Yanchong couldn't do anything. In the end, he only managed to get the house back for him.
Originally, they thought that the matter would end here. Even Feng Yuanbao intended to accept his bad luck and return to his hometown with his mother.
But who knew that on the very night after Zhong Yanchong left, a group of strongmen appeared outside the Feng family's residence. These people were setting fires and killing people.
If Yue Fei hadn't happened to be nearby drinking with his brothers, his entire family would have been killed.
However, just as Yue Fei repelled those strongmen, Tong Hu, along with the yamen runners from the county office and 300 soldiers summoned from elsewhere, surrounded Yue Fei and his group. They accused Yue Fei of being an accomplice of the bandits and detained them all.
Lü Ying, who rushed to the scene, was about to plead for them when he was apprehended again by Tong Hu, who accused him of defying superiors and colluding with bandits.
"Why didn't you say anything about this earlier?"