Farm Girl Turns Everything Around: Sly Husband, Let's Farm-Chapter 1590 - 1589: Manor in the Capital City_1

Additionally, there was cow and sheep milk, produced in large quantities every day from five thousand sheep and five thousand cows, because Qiao Xiaomai would feed them Spiritual Spring water every five or six days. As a result, the quality of the milk was decent, but not particularly outstanding.

The business at the Extreme Flavor Residence had been poor these days, selling very little, so Qiao Xiaomai ended up sending the milk to the Military Camp, for the soldiers to drink.

Providing the soldiers with milk was certainly good, but it would have been better if the milk could be processed into dairy products and sold for money.

Making desserts with cow’s milk was a good choice, but given the average quality of the milk, if ordinary flour were to be mixed in, the quality of the milk would deteriorate even further.

After serious consideration, Qiao Xiaomai finally decided to make Milk Candy.

This could be stored for a longer time, allowing people to buy it and slowly consume it at home.

Having made her decision, Qiao Xiaomai became more diligent in visiting the pasture on the thousand acres of land, going every two days. Each visit, she would feed the cows and sheep Spiritual Spring water. Moreover, because this pasture was far away, Yang Wenxiao had the Divine Crossbow Team escort her. Anyone who approached her carriage on the road was shown no mercy and killed on the spot—the security was tighter than for Yang Wenxiao’s own travels.

She retrieved cow and sheep milk and had it all transported to the Palace, where the Imperial Kitchen staff would turn it into Milk Candy. freewebnøvel.coɱ

The milk was of good quality, and since Milk Candy didn’t require the addition of Spiritual Water, she didn’t have to do it herself; leaving it to the Imperial Kitchen staff was enough.

Just having Milk Candy wasn’t sufficient, so after careful thought, Qiao Xiaomai also rummaged through many shells. Previously, all shells from Yuhu and surrounding prefectures had been transported to the Capital City, and the market for shell handicrafts was already saturated. Now it was time to sell these ordinary and cheaper wares.

There was also Nori, made from purple seaweed. She had been busy with various matters before and had not considered turning the seaweed into Nori, but since she was planning to sell off stock, Nori was added to the list as well.

After much deliberation, these were the only items Qiao Xiaomai could come up with.

There was no helping it; the trip to Yuhu completely disrupted her plans. The crops in the manor weren’t planted, the livestock wasn’t fed, and the fruit trees on the slopes weren’t watered—without the nourishment of Spiritual Spring water, the quality of these products was average, so they couldn’t be sold right now.

More than once, she expressed to Tong Sanlang her longing to return to the manor, fearing that everything there was going to waste.

Upon hearing her concerns, Tong Sanlang directly urged her to give up hope, "I think relocating your manor to the Capital City would be more realistic."

Yang Wenxiao was getting older, and without the care of Spiritual Spring water, he would age quickly. Perhaps Bei Yun’s promises of everlasting youth would then hold some truth.

That sentence effectively crushed all of Qiao Xiaomai’s hopes—so long as Yang Wenxiao was alive, she had to stay in the Capital City.

Thinking about it, indeed, relocating the manor to the Capital City seemed more practical.

She couldn’t help but sigh, "Then the next time I enter the Palace, I’ll ask him for a piece of land."

No sooner said than done. The next day, Qiao Xiaomai entered the Palace and asked Yang Wenxiao for some land, intending to establish a manor in the Capital City.

Lands adjacent to the Capital City were all owned, and further away they wouldn’t be considered suburbs anymore. Considering Qiao Xiaomai’s currently sensitive identity, Yang Wenxiao rewarded her with two of his own outlying estates.

The two estates together totaled five thousand acres, which was quite a large area. Qiao Xiaomai had Yang Wenxiao negotiate to consolidate these two estates into one location—Datian Manor, which at five thousand acres would have constituted a major landholding in previous dynasties. However, this was granted by Yang Wenxiao and thus fell outside the jurisdiction of the Daqi Laws.

In Daqi, the Yang Family had always been above the Daqi Laws. The Daqi Laws couldn’t govern the Yangs, and various exemptions could be invoked if the Yangs wished it so.