Dong Gong Mei

Chapter 166 The Value of Exploitation

After drinking tea for a while and eating some candied snacks, Qiao Yunqian pulled Cui Yurong up and said goodbye: "My sister is sick and needs to rest, so we won't bother you any more. When my sister recovers, we can play together again."

Zhao Xiwei was really tired, so he didn't keep them any longer.

Jinxiu watched their figures go away, and then she smiled and said: "Miss Qiao and Cui have never had any friendship with the girls in our house. In the past, there were many banquets held by the aristocratic families, and everyone often sat together to eat, drink and have fun. But I didn't see them saying a few more words to Miss Yan and Miss Yu."

"That's right." Mother Liu said in amazement while cleaning up the teacups on the table: "I didn't expect our young lady to have the eyes of these two people..."

"Then you don't understand!" Yin Bao took a candied fruit and ate it, "Our lady is very popular, except for the jealous man in the house who is jealous of her every day, everyone else likes her when they see her! Otherwise, how could His Highness the Crown Prince? Send it to the lady's shop!"

"Yinbao, you can't talk nonsense about this." Zhao Xiwei suppressed his smile and said seriously: "Other jokes can be made, but it's better for everyone to be cautious about matters related to the palace."

"Yes, the servant knows!"

While talking, Yulan came over holding a white vase.

Zhao Xiwei said: "The peony is delicate and beautiful, the white porcelain is dull, go for a pink blue glaze. The color is blue with green, it is both elegant and lively, just suppressing the color of this flower."

"Yes." Yulan turned around and went to the outside room, and after a while brought a pink-green glazed vase, trimmed the peony branches carefully and put them in the vase.

The pink celadon glaze has a softness like jade, which complements the delicate pink peony. It really looks very beautiful.

After cleaning up, it was noon, and the sun slanted down by the window, shining warmly on my body.

Zhao Xiwei took a cup of the freshly stewed bird's nest, the discomfort in his body gradually dissipated, and his mind cleared up a lot.

She summoned the maids and told them to go down: "You don't have to stay by my side these few days, and send one person to watch on the street every day."

Several servant girls stared wide-eyed: "Staring on the street? What are you staring at?"

Zhao Xiwei explained in detail: "Go and see which shops are the busiest on that street, what sells the best, when are the most customers, and when are the least customers. And what are the identities of these customers? No matter what age, they are all stared at one by one, and report to me carefully every night. This is a top priority, and you must not take it lightly."

Jinxiu said: "Miss, do you want to prepare for the opening of the shop?"

Zhao Xi nodded slightly: "I didn't have any experience in business. This shop occupies the best location. I don't want to make a lot of money, at least it must be stable, otherwise it will be a joke for others."

The tone changed: "Of course, I won't let you suffer in vain. As long as you follow me wholeheartedly, when the shop is established in the future, I will reward you no less."

The faces of the few people were overjoyed, and they immediately responded: "It is a servant's duty to contribute to the young lady, and the servant will go to the street to guard this afternoon!"

Zhao Xiwei thought for a while, and then said: "You can't stand on the street dryly, it's too conspicuous, and it's easy to be misunderstood. You take a few pennies with you, buy something for yourself, and fight with those shopkeepers." deal."

"Thank you Miss!"

Several people laughed so hard that they couldn't close their mouths.

You have money, you have food, you can roam the streets, and where can you find errands!
At this time, Pearl came back.

The others were all silent, looking at Pearl in a somewhat complicated manner.

The four maids in Qiangweiyuan, Jinxiu and clever, Yinbao is lively, Yulan is cautious, only Pearl is timid and timid.

But she has been used many times, and she has made such a big noise every time.

Now the young lady just wants to send her to the second room to make a fuss...

Pearl bowed a little timidly: "I would like to follow Miss's order, and this slave will deliver the bronze mirror and silk scarf to Mingyuexuan."

"Not bad." Zhao Xiwei fiddled with the peony flowers on the table, and only replied two words lightly.

Pearl became more and more anxious, so she glanced at her master cautiously: "Miss, this servant also found out something about the rice shop. When this servant just went to Mingyuexuan, shopkeeper Deng happened to come out of the second lady's room. I just paid attention to it, and only then did I realize that the Second Madam let go of the distribution of food and let the people in the court arrange it..."

"Oh?" Zhao Xiwei frowned immediately, and raised his head: "Does the second lady not care about the rice shop's distribution of food? Leave it to the people in the court to get it?"

Who can I throw it to, isn't it going to my father!

Seeing Zhao Xiwei's complexion suddenly darken, Pearl was so frightened that she knelt down on the ground: "Miss, did the servant say something wrong? The servant has no other thoughts, but just wants to pay more attention to the situation outside, in case If any accident happens, our garden will have time to deal with it."

Yin Bao couldn't stand it any longer: "Oh, get up wherever you fall! Why did the lady send you to Mingyuexuan, because she wanted you to find your way back! Look at you, you are like a cat seeing a mouse. , isn’t it just to inquire about a piece of news, what’s the big deal!”

Pearl blushed, both ashamed and frightened.

Jinxiu hurriedly helped Zhenzhu up, and signaled Yinbao with her eyes: "The medicine is still boiling in the kitchen, go and check the heat."

Yin Bao curled his lips: "Aren't there little girls guarding that?"

"Oh, if you are told to go, you will go. Aren't you afraid that the little girls will not be able to do well? You are a first-class maid, and you must be more careful in doing things than those children!"

Zhao Xiwei fell into deep thought.

Logically, as the prime minister, my father should take care of the rice shop.

It's just... How could the queen mother let the Zhao family assist the prince in such an open and aboveboard manner?

Her concerns were not groundless.

At this moment, in Changxin Palace, the Empress Dowager was sitting on the chair inlaid with jewels and dragons and phoenixes, with a pair of narrow red and phoenix eyes staring coldly at the kneeling person on the ground: "What did you say?? The poison on that girl's body Has it happened?"

The man on the ground said flatteringly and joyfully, "Reporting to the Empress Dowager, this matter is absolutely true. I learned it from Imperial Physician Liu. The East Palace did not find an antidote for the cup of spring rain begonia drunk you gave me last time. "

It was Wang Fan.

"Really?" The queen mother poured herself a glass of wine, gently shaking it in the tall glass, with a much more relaxed expression: "That's really great, Wang Fan, your chance has come."

"My chance?" Wang Fan hurriedly took a step forward: "You mean, she is worth taking advantage of?"

(End of this chapter)