After becoming rich overnight, I handed over the system.

Chapter 254 Conferring the Title of County Princess

Seeing that her cousin wasn't there to comfort her, Shen Yunrou finally felt that there were still normal people in the Jiang family.

Not only that, her cousin also returned all the things she had taken from her before.

What are you doing?

"You, you're not my sister-in-law anymore, here's your stuff back!" My cousin mustered up her courage and voiced her thoughts.

Shen Yunrou never expected that her vain cousin could go to such lengths, looking at the other's reluctant gaze towards these jewelry pieces.

"Then I'll take them all back!"

"Take it, take it, it's yours anyway! I'd be taking advantage of you if I took it!" Her cousin forced herself to look away and began to earnestly instruct Shen Yunrou again.

"Don't be so foolish in the future, giving everything away to others. Look at what my parents and older brother took—they can't get it back!"

"Will you still ask your sister-in-law for things in the future?" Shen Yunrou suddenly asked.

"No, no thanks. Even family things should be kept separate!" my cousin said hesitantly. "Besides, sometimes we might not even be family yet!" She then glanced at Shen Yunrou.

"Anyway, don't give your things to other people in the future, understand?"

Listening to her cousin's advice, Shen Yunrou thought that her cousin couldn't possibly be that silly.

No, that's not right. She really was that silly before.

Learn from this experience; Shen Yunrou won't be so foolish in the future.

"You can have this pile of things!" Shen Yunrou pushed the jewelry to her cousin.

My cousin got angry: "Didn't I just tell you not to give your things to strangers? Why did you give them to me again?!"

"What, you don't want it?" Shen Yunrou mainly looked at these pieces of jewelry, but none of them had any special meaning.

"Of course I want to! But if you give it to me, my mother will definitely think you've agreed to be my brother's concubine. So I'd better not!" My cousin shook her head repeatedly.

Shen Yunrou thought her cousin made sense, so she picked out the largest hairpin and put it in her cousin's hand.

"Then I'll give you this!" I noticed that she stared at this hairpin the longest just now.

"This, this..."

"What? I'm not your sister-in-law anymore, I'm still your cousin! Take it, if you really don't want it, I'll take it back!" Shen Yunrou reached out as if to take it back.

My cousin immediately clutched the hairpin in her hand, "I want it! Of course I want it! Thank you, cousin!"

"That's more like it!"

"But cousin, aren't you worried? Do you know anyone here? Should I send you a message or something?" The cousin asked, then seemed a little annoyed. Her cousin definitely didn't know anyone in the capital, otherwise she wouldn't be staying at her house.

"Otherwise, cousin, I'll go see if there's any sleeping potion. You can secretly drug the people in the mansion and make them unconscious, then run away!" The younger cousin looked worried. How could she help her older cousin? The old woman guarding the gate wouldn't listen to her!

Shen Yunrou was also surprised by her cousin's idea, but she still advised her, "You're a daughter of an official, where are you going to find sleeping pills? You should read less of those storybooks! But you could help me deliver a message!"

My cousin was a little disappointed at first, but she got excited as she listened to the end. Finally, there was something she could do to help her older cousin!

So Shen Yunrou sent a letter to Xiao Yi.

After receiving the prescription, Xiao Yi immediately rode to the seaside, bought a manor, and had all his servants sign life contracts.

He wanted to test this seawater salt-making method to see if it was really as described in the recipe.

After all, this is something that needs to be presented to the emperor, and it would be bad if I were accused of deceiving the emperor.

After receiving the snow-white sea salt, he couldn't help but laugh.

In the past, the tributes that salt merchants sent to the palace were nothing more than snow salt, while most common people used coarse salt and green salt, and even officials and nobles could not use this snow-white salt.

Look at the salt he's dried now; it's like snowflakes in the salt pond.

This court is about to change!

"Keep a close watch on everyone on the estate. If anyone is found to be escaping, execute them on the spot!" After giving these instructions to his trusted confidants, Xiao Yi hurried back on horseback.

Upon returning to the manor, a servant delivered a letter. After reading it, Xiao Yi couldn't help but think that Shen Yunrou was really lucky, as he was just about to enter the palace.

Without delay, Xiao Yi took Xuehua Salt and went into the palace.

Xiao Yi entered the palace and requested an audience with the Emperor.

The eunuch led him to the imperial study, where Xiao Yi respectfully presented him with snowflake salt.

"Where have you run off to again, you little rascal? What new and interesting thing have you found this time?" the emperor asked.

His son was fond of immersing himself in nature, playing around, and had no ambition for the throne. He was also unlike his brothers, who often quarreled. The emperor quite liked this son.

The main reason was that whenever the son found something novel among the common people, he would present it to his father, the emperor, allowing the emperor to experience the father-son affection that was common among the common people.

"Father, this is salt!"

"Oh, so the salt merchants are sending tribute again? They're quite clean!" The emperor didn't pay any attention.

"No, Father, this is salt that I made myself, sea salt!"

When the emperor heard Xiao Yi say that he made the salt, he was greatly shocked. Salt was usually controlled by salt merchants, so how could the seventh prince make salt on his own?

"Father, this is sea salt that I made using a new method, called Snowflake Salt. The yield is considerable, and if it is promoted, it will benefit both the country and the people," Xiao Yi replied calmly.

They also explained in detail how the salt was extracted and what the salt yield was.

The emperor was overjoyed to hear this, for the method of making sea salt was so simple, and more importantly, the yield was so high.

The imperial court had long been dissatisfied with the salt merchants, and with this sea salt, the salt merchants' affairs could be reshuffled.

The emperor was overjoyed at this thought and immediately wanted to reward Xiao Yi. Xiao Yi quickly mentioned Shen Yunrou and revealed that she was the one who had actually offered the prescription.

"No, Seventh Brother, you deliberately gave the credit to the girl just to win her favor!"

Xiao Yi blushed instantly and hurriedly explained that it really was someone else's prescription, and he couldn't take advantage of the girl.

Seeing this, the emperor stopped teasing him and immediately decided to bestow the title of county princess upon Shen Yunrou, not only giving her a residence in the capital but also allocating a fiefdom for her.

"In that case, Shen Yunrou's maternal family can no longer pressure her, right?" Xiao Yi thought to himself.

Regardless of how much of a splash the Snowflake Salt made in the imperial court, when the imperial edict arrived at the Jiang family, Uncle Jiang was nearly scared to death.

When did this niece begin associating with the Seventh Prince, and how did she even get granted the title of County Princess?

Later, upon learning that the recipe for snowflake salt was contributed by Shen Yunrou, he was filled with regret. How could he have given away such a great credit, only to receive the title of county princess?

If it had been given to their family, the Jiang family would have prospered in this generation, it's just a pity.