my awesome king

Chapter 42

"About the newly opened Herbal Food Hall, I want to discuss the details with Shopkeeper Wang." Mu Shuiqing glanced at Shen Mo who was beside him, and whispered, "Treasurer Wang, there are many people here and things are complicated, let's talk inside. "

Shen Mo, who was eavesdropping while waving his fan, exclaimed, "You're going to open a new store again? Medicinal Food Hall?" Isn't his store about to suffer a series of suppressions again?
Seeing Mu Shuiqing ignoring him and entering the palace, Shen Mo closed his fan, bowed his hands to her respectfully and said: "My lord concubine, I have no place to stay when I first came to Kyoto. Since the concubine wants to open a medicinal restaurant, why not hire me? It takes half of the monthly money of an ordinary guy!"

Seeing Mu Shuiqing's footsteps paused, Shen Mo finally looked at himself with noble eyes, and immediately began to brag about himself: "I have always had the ability of photographic memory, and I know a thing or two about pharmacology, so I must be able to organize medicinal materials. It will be like a tiger with wings... Not to mention that I am good at martial arts, and I can save the monthly money for the concubine to hire guards..." After several observations, he has already figured out Mu Shuiqing's preferences, and the temptation of money may be in her hands.

Shopkeeper Wang nodded sharply when he heard this: "Princess Wang, if it is true that there is not enough manpower to open the medicated dining hall, since this young master took the initiative to hire, why not us..." Shopkeeper Wang is also a shrewd person, who can save half of the monthly money, and he can be a clerk and a guard at the same time. , How can such a fool not make good use of the squeeze.

Shen Mo's active self-recommendation made Mu Shuiqing immediately vigilant. She carefully walked around him several times to observe his expression, but the opening of the Herbal Food Hall did require new staff and new guards, and Shen Mo could play the role separately. Erjiao, it can really save a lot of money, she instantly became as excited as shopkeeper Wang, and nodded silently, but she was planning how to squeeze him as a labor force in her heart!
After entering the inner room, Mu Shuiqing put the pamphlet he had written on the stage, and explained, "This is the recipe of medicinal recipes I wrote. I selected the dishes that I think are more essential from some recipe books, and there are also some recipes for medicinal recipes. I made it up and made it myself, let some doctors see if there is anything else that needs to be added..."

Although Mu Shuiqing is not interested in books about piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, but about food, Mu Shuiqing read a lot during the days when he was recuperating, so he even dreamed of eating, holding Ji Xiaomo's arm at night. Leave your mouth watering.In addition, in his previous life, when Mu Shuiqing became the head nurse, he worked as a nurse for several years, taking care of the patients' sleep, food and daily life, especially cooking medicinal meals for the patients to regulate their bodies.So in terms of recuperating and recuperating, she can be said to be very experienced!That's why she tried her best to heal Ji Xiaomo.

"Shopkeeper Wang, the store next to you is going to be sold out due to poor management... You should find a way to buy it at a suitable price... Don't be scammed of money..." Shen Mo complained silently, the poor management is not the result of all of you. of.

"We will start recruiting personnel tomorrow. This is the layout plan of the Medicinal Food Hall that I roughly drew. After you show it to the carpenter, discuss it with them and make a detailed layout plan based on the terrain. Give it to me within five days."

"Yes, princess."

Shen Mo looked carefully at the ink balls of paper, and couldn't tell what was what, but seeing the shopkeeper Wang nodded frequently, as if he had realized it, he couldn't help but marvel, "The shopkeeper is a god-man."

In fact, the shopkeepers have been watching for a long time, and they have long been accustomed to Mu Shuiqing's abstract painting style, and they are also very familiar with Mu Shuiqing's strict and brief orders.

After Mu Shuiqing gave the order, he was extremely tired, and took a few medicinal materials to go back home to prepare a medicinal meal for Ji Xiaomo. At this moment, Shen Mo followed up.

"Princess, why do you always have some weird ideas?" Shen Mo thinks that he has a good business, and his stores are booming, but all the stores he opens are quite well-behaved, but they just use business strategies to suppress them tactically. The opponent steals the other's business and forces the other party to surrender.And the courage to invest in venture capital, so that their business development has taken full advantage of it.

For example, the lord has long discovered that the shopkeepers have silently corrupted him and falsely reported him, but there are too many eyes and ears. The lord rectifies the whole house or dismisses the shopkeepers, which will make the people behind them vigilant.The prince must act as someone who has no strength and nothing to contend with.That's why he acted behind his back and opened a Yixian Building opposite the teahouse the prince used to have, and took away all the business.Even if the shopkeepers were corrupt, they would not be able to embezzle a few taels of silver.

Over the years, his financing strategy of borrowing chickens to lay eggs and money to make money has made the business bigger and bigger.Integrating bank, munitions, raw silk, pharmacy, pawn, foreign trade and many other businesses, he secretly established a huge business empire.

However, no matter how experienced he is in business, he would never think of taking advantage of the advantages of the pharmacy to open a beauty salon, a medicine restaurant, etc., nor would he come up with so many new products in the teahouse.These days when he returned to Beijing, he heard too many things about Mu Shuiqing from the shopkeeper, and he became more and more curious about what kind of woman would have such a novel idea, the courage to continuously open up new business fields, and suddenly Turn the capital upside down!
Therefore, Mu Shuiqing has always been a fascination in Shen Mo's eyes. He thought she was good from a distance that day, but now he heard her analyze the pros and cons of opening a medicinal food hall in an orderly manner, the layout, the specific content of the medicinal food, etc. He was even more confused. It was really hard for him to imagine that an ordinary woman was so proficient in making money and familiar with pharmacology.

"Want to know?" Mu Shuiqing smiled evilly, and suddenly she took a step forward, approaching Shen Mo.When Shen Mo was hesitating, her face turned cold, and she shouted: "Say, why have you been following me and what is the purpose of approaching me!"

"Princess, you misunderstood." Shen Mo was taken aback, he took a step back, and said with great sincerity, "Princess, to be honest, I was once the son of a merchant, and I knew a thing or two about the way of doing business. All the stores in the camp were defeated by me. I just came to the capital recently, and I heard about the great achievements of the princess who opened the store, so I want to learn something and revive my father's family business in the future!" The lie mixed with a few truths sounds even better. It seemed true, especially those few compliments made Mu Shuiqing feel elated.

Mu Shuiqing asked suspiciously: "You are the son of a merchant? Why are you good at martial arts?"

"Returning to the princess, her family is backward. When she came to the capital, she learned the art of self-defense and served as a guard for several years."

Mu Shuiqing rolled his eyes, and suddenly smiled and said: "Okay, you can steal from me! You can even be the supervisor, but there is a condition, you will be my guard and teach me martial arts!"

Shen Mo was preparing to make up a miserable life experience to deceive the princess' sympathy, and even prepared a series of rhetorical questions about Mu Shuiqing's textual research, but why did Mu Shuiqing agree so easily? !This princess can't be so innocent and not vigilant at all...

Seeing Shen Mo's sudden silence, Mu Shuiqing glanced dissatisfiedly, and sighed: "Why, you also dislike me for being too old to learn martial arts, and don't want to teach me?! If you don't want to, I can't afford you."

Seeing Mu Shuiqing angrily chasing people away, Shen Mo said anxiously: "No, no, I'm afraid I can't teach you well. It's a great honor for me to let you teach me martial arts." It's so annoying, I didn't expect the princess to make such a request to him when they met for the first time.She is so eager to learn martial arts, is it really just for self-protection?
Mu Shuiqing nodded in satisfaction, and clasped his fists like those in the world: "I don't know your son's surname?" Although the first impression of Shen Mo's death was very bad, but at this moment, he promised to teach her martial arts, which made Mu Shuiqing's blood boil Woke up, daydreaming about the wonderful scene of traveling with lightness kung fu and dancing swords under flowers.At this moment, her dissatisfaction with Shen Mo disappeared in an instant, and she was full of thoughts about how to squeeze Shen Mo so that he could teach her everything he had learned in his life.

"I'm Shen Mo, thank you, Princess, for taking me in!" Seeing Mu Shuiqing's trick, Shen Mo raised his head happily, but saw Mu Shuiqing's smile suddenly retracted, and his eyes looked up and down at him strangely. He felt uneasy and said in a low voice, " Princess, is there something on my face?"

"No, it's nothing." Mu Shuiqing came back to his senses, and muttered to himself, "There are a lot of people with the surname Shen and Mo in this world, so I can't just meet one by such a coincidence..."

Shen Mo, who studies martial arts, has such good ears that he can naturally hear all Mu Shuiqing's mutterings.He was puzzled, his name was not well known, the Shen family was indeed a business tycoon in the capital at the time, but many years have passed, the Shen family that once ruled the business world has long since disappeared, and the young master Shen who was second in high school was also rejected The world is slowly forgetting... the history of those years was also blocked due to the change of dynasty...

In the evening, Mu Shuiqing brought Shen Mo back to the mansion.She joyfully jumped up to Ji Xiaomo who was staring out the window in a daze, pointed at Shen Mo and introduced: "My lord, let me introduce you to someone. This is Mr. Shen, he will be my martial arts master and guard from now on." , and is also the director of the newly-opened Medicinal Food Hall, and has a lot of insights in business."

She paused for a moment, seeing that Ji Xiaomo's face was indifferent, and she was not dissatisfied with her private apprenticeship to learn martial arts, and then said: "Mr. They are all living in, why not let him, as a guard, live in the other courtyard of the palace for the time being. Your lord, okay?"

Mu Shuiqing has never thought about her identity. As a princess, she brought a strange man back to the palace and let him stay? !If Ji Xiaomo hadn't known Shen Mo for a long time, and knew that the two of them had no adultery, he would have turned his back on him by now and ordered the man who damnedly abducted his princess to be punished.

Ji Xiaomo glanced at Shen Mo lightly, Shen Mo smiled at him, and deliberately took a step closer to Mu Shuiqing.Ji Xiaomo narrowed his eyes dangerously, signaling him to keep a distance of half a meter from Mu Shuiqing, not to stick so close.

Mu Shuiqing didn't notice the eye contact between them at all. Seeing that Ji Xiaomo had been silent and his face was slightly gloomy, she quickly added: "My lord, don't look at his coquettish and coquettish look, Martial arts are still good! He was the one who saved me that day and helped me resist a knife! My lord, please let me learn martial arts... okay..." No one is willing to teach her how to learn martial arts, and it is not easy to abduct one now Free master and free guard, how could she let go.

Mu Shuiqing used his almighty trump card—sticking a dog skin plaster on Ji Xiaomo's body, rubbing against Ji Xiaomo's body to seduce him like a coquettish, such unconscious coquettishness, which he didn't realize.

Under Shen Mo's sly gaze, Ji Xiaomo's face was slightly embarrassed, and he nodded silently, but he didn't push Mu Shuiqing away.

"My lord is so kind!"

When Mu Shuiqing was happily arranging the room, Ji Xiaomo saw Shen Mo secretly laughing, with an ambiguous expression of "I found the prince's weakness", immediately hooked his hands with a sneer, and gritted his teeth: "You come... do what!
Shen Mo pretended to be stupid: "Teach the princess martial arts! How dangerous that day is, it's better for the princess to learn some martial arts to save her life." He had a serious face of "I'm thinking about the prince and princess".

"I didn't know that Mr. Shen had such free time to teach my concubine martial arts regardless of his own shops!"

"It's so sour..." Seeing Ji Xiaomo's gloomy face, Shen Mo immediately said seriously, "Don't worry, my lord, I'm just here to find out business secrets, and I stole my teacher! The princess has too many secrets, and the lord needs to find out by himself. Bar……"

Ji Xiaomo thought that Mo Hua had other tasks, so he might take care of Mu Shuiqing with Wuxia's clone.But at this time, it was a good thing that Mu Shuiqing had Shen Mo with good martial arts beside him.What's more, Mu Shuiqing learned some self-protection moves, he was very relieved.Although he slandered in his heart that Shen Mo's martial arts were as fancy as he was, and they were useless at critical moments.

He said: "You...don't mess with her...teach her martial arts...you have to take it step by step, be patient...also, be more serious in front of her, put away your old playboy tone...if I see you If you bully her, I will send someone to tell Song about your return to Beijing..."

"Don't worry, my lord, how dare I..."

Shen Mo twitched the corners of his mouth, and it was the first time he discovered that the rumored sullen Seventh Prince... was so wordy!And even threatened him with others!
Before leaving, Shen Mo suddenly said: "That Mu Yuanran came to harass the princess today... It is said that his lifeblood was cut by Mo Hua? When did the prince do this..." He even sighed a few times, but didn't know I wanted to say something, but those peach eyes were full of a playful smile.

Hearing this, Ji Xiaomo lowered his eyelids, and said calmly: "He is annoying, he thought he would be smarter when he was injured, but he is such a fool, so entangled... It would be fine if he was out of sight..."

"Mu Shilang's detention and review was probably done secretly by someone sent by the prince. The spies said that the princess respects her father very much, and he is the only one who obeys. Why is the princess completely unresponsive after hearing about it today, with a cold expression on her face..."

Ji Xiaomo said softly: "There are many things that she doesn't agree with the information she inquired about... As for Mu Shilang, I have my own arrangements. I have to get close to him and get to know him better..."

(End of this chapter)