The queen must start from the head

Chapter 10
"System, you're being naughty again." Mu Lian muttered, and then went on to study her "Must-Have for Headmaster" products.

This product is actually a 4D printing device tailored for the head of the sect. There are many buildings dedicated to sects. As long as she chooses an open space and puts this thing down, a complete sect can be successfully established. rise.

It's just...she doesn't even have the money to buy the land now!
But counting the time, today happened to be the day when she entrusted the prefect of Tianhai City to help her sell the four pieces of embroidery.If these pieces of embroidery are sold successfully, she will have money.But will the money be enough?
Mu Lian decided to set a small goal for herself, first to earn money for one square kilometer of land.

So she waved to Zhou Jing, who was sitting on her right hand embroidering cats and peonies, "Xiao Shuang, go to my room and bring all the things I embroidered recently, and take a box of marbles and five boxes of soap. "

Soap and marbles were one of the first goods that Mu Lian exchanged from the system.When she entered the city for the first time before, she wanted to inquire about the market conditions of these items. Later, because she took out the embroidery, many people gathered to watch, so these two items were never brought out.

Right now, she is very likely to ask the prefect to help her point out a treasured land of geomantic omen, establish a sect, and bring some small gifts like this to the door, which is a little gesture.

After Xiao Shuang brought the things, Mu Lian tidied up and went out.

A few days ago, shopkeeper Lin sent someone to deliver a carriage to her, saying that he had accepted her "Sunrise Mountain Journey" but hadn't paid a penny, and always felt uneasy.

Will Mu Lian refuse the carriage delivered to her door?What's more, someone obviously stuffed 100 taels of silver under the carpet in the car?So this carriage became her means of transportation when traveling far away.

As for the driver, it was Zhou Wu's family——Wu Mei.

After getting in the car, Mu Lian chatted with Wu Mei.

"Sister Mei, I heard from Gemini that you quarreled with the villagers yesterday, did something happen?"

Wu Mei thought for a while and replied, "It's nothing. It's just that some people in the village want to send their children to you to learn crafts, and they want me to be a lobbyist among them. Girl, you didn't say anything about it. How could I?" At the request of those people? The people I rejected were not angry. They pointed and scolded me in front of me, saying that I am promising now, and my tail is up to the sky. I am not easy to deal with, and I drove them all back when I got mad .”

"Sister Mei is mighty!" Mu Lian smiled and gave her a thumbs up.

"That's not much of a skill, girl, please don't praise me." Wu Mei waved her hands again and again, but there was a smile on her face.She knew that people in the village were rumoring that she hugged Mu Lian's thick leg, saying that she had grown up.Some villagers didn't care about this, but some villagers said that the grapes were sour when they couldn't eat grapes, and they kept making rumors behind them.

For these latter people, she dealt with them mercilessly, so as to teach them that her reputation as a widow of the Zhou family definitely did not fall from the world.

"By the way, Miss Mei, have you ever heard of any families in the village whose husbands beat their wives all year round?"

As soon as these words came out, the smile on Wu Mei's face disappeared, and gradually a trace of sadness appeared.

"Actually, I once had a sister who was five years older than me. When I was young, she loved me the most. When she was 16 years old, my parents betrothed her to the son of a landlord in a neighboring village. , but that person had a bad temper and beat my sister at every turn. Every time I went to visit her in a neighboring village, her face was covered with scars. Later, when my sister was pregnant, he still beat my sister, sometimes It will get worse, until the child in my sister's womb is beaten and aborted, but he said it was my sister's fault. Later, my sister became pregnant again, and the birth was difficult..." Wu Mei said here, her eyes were full of tears. It turned red, and there was a hint of resentment in his voice.

"At the most critical juncture, that man, he actually asked the doctor to keep the young but not the old! In the end... but he failed to save both... and my sister died. On the day my sister was buried, I was like Crying like crazy, my father slapped me several times and called me 'disgraceful'. He didn't know that the night before, I hid behind the crack of the door and saw him get out of the hands of the murderer with my own eyes. I took two taels of silver. In my father's eyes, my sister's life is only worth those two taels of silver..."

When she said this, Wu Mei's voice was choked up, and tears were streaming down her face.

Hearing this, Mu Lian's heart was also very heavy. Although she guessed that women's status in this era was low, obeying their father at home and obeying their husband when married, she didn't want her life to be trampled on like a straw.

She stretched out her hand and put it on Wu Mei's shoulder, comforting her silently.

After a while, after Wu Mei calmed down, she said, "Sister Mei, I have an idea. I want to help those women who have the same fate as your sister get rid of their husbands and regain their freedom. I also have the same idea." Ability to do it. Are you willing to trust me and help me?"

Wu Mei was stunned for a moment when she heard the words, she looked deeply at Mu Lian, the latter's eyes showed firmness like a mountain, she couldn't help but nodded heavily.

"Then, let's act together! I have a plan...".

The voices of Mu Lian and Wu Mei were gradually blown away in the wind.

Shallow carriage ruts were left on the ground scorched by the sun.

The carriage was still moving fast, and the hot summer wind was blowing on the faces of Mu Lian and Wu Mei, but it was still not as hot as the burning blood in their hearts at this moment.No one knew that the earliest germination of the sect that would affect the entire Northern Qi country and even the Eastern Continent in the future bloomed on this ordinary carriage.

After entering the city, Mu Lian did not expect that everything would go so smoothly.

First of all, the four embroideries, namely "Red Plum Blossoming Pitt", "Lady with Hairpins", "Spring Cold Materials" and "Lonely Fishing in the Cold River", have all been bought. Turn off the display device, take out the embroidery and hand it over to the prefect, who will then hand it over.

Some of them want to buy it along with the mysterious display device that prevents anyone from approaching.Mu Lian didn't know whether it was the buyer's request or the eunuch's temptation to her, so she chose to decline politely, because she still wanted to keep this thing for use.

The second is the issue of site selection for sect enclosures.

In fact, behind Heshui Village, there is a large area of ​​uneven, mountainous land connected with stretches of forest. When Wu Mei's husband went hunting in the mountains, he fell into a trap and died, and it was in this forest.

Besides Heshui Village, there are two other villages near the foot of the mountain, Qingyuan Village and Huangyun Village.If someone connects the three villages into a line, they will be found as three points on a "V" shape, and the mountain forest is sandwiched in the middle.

"Master Taishou, this mountain forest is not small, so I'm afraid the cost is not low, right?" Mu Lian looked away from the map spread out on the table by the other party.According to her estimates, if she really wants to buy the land circled by the other party, the small goal she set for herself will probably be multiplied by more than ten times.

The prefect smiled when he heard the words, "Of course others can't afford this piece of land, and they can't buy this piece of land, but you can't be sure if it's Miss Mu."

"Oh, what's the eunuch's explanation?"

"Miss Mu, I'm telling you the truth. The name of your Su embroidery works has spread to the imperial capital, and many people in the imperial city want to see your works but they can't get them. The four embroidery works you exhibited earlier were bought. It was also done by people from the imperial city. Not only that, but yesterday the queen of the palace also sent someone to me, wanting to ask for some pieces of Su embroidery. But the four pieces of embroidery before have been ordered long ago, and I How can we conjure up embroidery?" The prefect stretched his hands helplessly when he said this.

After hearing this, Mu Lian pursed her lips and said with a smile, "The prefect said so frankly, aren't you afraid that I, Mu Lian, will raise the price and blackmail you?
The prefect shook his head, "I believe Miss Mu in your character."

Is this putting a high hat on her?But this time I came here to buy land, and I even planned to bleed a lot.Judging from my previous experience with the prefect, although this person is a bit scheming, he is still generally trustworthy.

After Mu Lian thought about it in her heart, she had already made a decision.

It's just that when she took out more than a dozen pieces of brand-new embroidery, a box of marbles and five boxes of soap from the small bamboo basket she carried with her, the prefect kept staring at her basket, her eyes almost straightened.

"Your Majesty, don't look at it, there is nothing in it." Mu Lian saw that he was staring at her basket all the time, so she had to turn the basket upside down and buckle it on the table, but nothing was poured out, it was empty.

The prefect reluctantly withdrew his gaze.

"What is this?" He stretched out his hand to pick up a piece of soap, put it under the tip of his nose and sniffed gently, and suddenly a mysterious fragrance filled his nasal cavity, which made him feel refreshed Feel.

He said with a determined expression, "What kind of precious spice is this? The smell is sweet but not greasy, and it smells refreshing...".

Mu Lian opened her mouth, but didn't answer.

The prefect opened the box of marbles very curiously. The moment he opened the lid, he saw colorful lights coming at him. When he saw the contents clearly, he was shocked.

"This, this is colored glaze! There are lifelike birds, sun, moon and stars inside. How did these things get in? I have lived half my life in vain, but I have never seen such a wonderful workmanship! Miss Mu... How can I be so worthy of your trust, to show such a treasure for me to appreciate? I... I really feel ashamed!"

When the prefect said this, his face was flushed to the neck, obviously there might be something hidden in what he said to Mu Lian earlier.Seeing Mu Lian treating him without reservation now, compared with the two, he naturally has a guilty conscience.

At this moment, Mu Lian didn't know what to say. Can she say that these things are actually worthless little things, and they were just given to you, the prefect, as small gifts?
Of course, this cannot be said directly.

"This thing is called soap. It is used to wipe the body when bathing, and then wash it off. It is very durable. As for this thing, it is not made of colored glaze, but made of glass, so it is called a glass ball..." Waiting for Mu Lian After introducing these things to the prefect and emphasizing that these things were given to him, the prefect was ecstatic.

In his opinion, the things Mu Lian brought out were good things that he had never heard of or seen before.Now that the other party treats him so sincerely, he can't hide anything anymore.

"Miss Mu, I have three things to tell you, please listen carefully."

"Mu Lian, I am willing to listen with all my ears."

(End of this chapter)