"Besides Master, who else have you painted?"
During the portrait, Uncle Qi asked casually.
Shen Ruolan was afraid of revealing her flaws, so she didn't dare to say that she had painted portraits, so she said: "I have never painted people, but I have painted pigs, dogs, chickens, ducks, geese and other poultry."
The corner of Uncle Qi's mouth twitched, and he felt that this bad girl did it on purpose. He wanted to punish her, but he couldn't bear it. When he thought that she had painted for his fiancé before he had done it, he felt happy again. I was complacent, so I forgave her for being unreasonable!
After drawing all morning, I finally finished the portrait.
A man with a gorgeous face, dressed in elegant white clothes, sitting quietly behind the desk and reading a book, his face is as handsome as jade, his black eyes are like a landscape painting, gentle and sincere, gentle as jade, like the morning sun, so beautiful that people can't take their eyes off.
In this painting, there is no trace of his usual evil spirit and domineering, only endless tenderness, as if he is facing his beloved girl, there is a gentle and tender smile on that exquisite face, He is like a lover with the usual him!
Shen Ruolan was very satisfied, and Chunyu Yu was also very satisfied. She stood in front of the painting and looked at it for a long time before she said leisurely: "Lan'er is really ingenious, and she has a heart. The capital is famous all over the world!"
Shen Ruolan trembled!
It's Lan'er again, this is the second time he calls himself that, shouldn't she correct him and ask him to change his name
Thinking of this, she turned her head away, and was about to express her opinion to him, but she suddenly bumped into a pair of dark and deep eyes.
Shen Ruolan trembled again!
What kind of look is this? Why are you still so gentle and affectionate? It's like the eyes of couples staring at each other. Could it be that he is really attracted to him
Thinking of this, she didn't dare to say anything more to him, so she hurriedly ran away with the excuse of going to make lunch for him.
While making lunch, she had a deep self-examination, and felt that she had been walking too close to him these days, too frequently, and the interaction with him was not in line with the rules of this era, when men and women should be guarded against each other in this era. , but she actually forgot about this, and talked, laughed, and fought with him for several days, maybe it was because of her untimely behavior that he misunderstood that she was interested in him.
This is not good. I am already engaged. If he misunderstands her like this, it will damage her reputation and be looked down upon by the world. In the future, it is better to have less contact with him...
The lunch was very simple, and several dishes were made by the chef in the house. She only fried French fries, and also fried some sweet potato sticks and pumpkin sticks. These things are delicious when dipped in tomato sauce.
During the meal, Uncle Qi ate a lot of French fries to save face, and even picked up a chopstick of fish meat during the meal, which shocked Shen Ruolan so much that the chopsticks almost fell to the ground.
Seeing her panic-stricken and pale face, Chunyu Jue's smile grew stronger.
After dinner, Shen Ruolan got up to leave, Chunyuzhen ordered Luo Cheng to bring over the deeds of the three houses and hand them over to Shen Ruolan, and also asked her to live in Jizhou properly, Jizhou is a good place, The longer she lives, the more she will like it here.
Shen Ruolan agreed, but she didn't have any such thoughts in her heart. When everything in the family was on the right track, she still wanted to go back to the mountain village. She just liked the back-to-basics and self-sufficient life in the countryside. Call her a countryman in her previous life!
When she got out of Zhuangzi and got into the carriage, Shen Ruolan found that the pearls, ginseng, clothes and quilts she had thrown away in the past had all been neatly placed in the carriage, which meant returning everything to Zhao.
Seeing these lost and recovered things, as well as the three house deeds in hand, Shen Ruolan couldn't be happy at all, and even felt very uneasy in her heart. The way Master Qi looked at her today, and his attitude towards her, made Shen Ruolan feel uneasy. She was very frightened, she can basically be sure now that the old man has taken a fancy to her, this is too scary, scary...
**
In the days that followed, Shen Ruolan was very busy. She had to tell stories to the girls waiting in the printing factory every day, and occasionally to Shen Youjia. 》How is the recovery going? Are there any remaining problems that are difficult to deal with
To her surprise, the readers who bought "Thirty-Six Strategies" did not return many books. It turns out that the ancients already had the consciousness of collecting, and many people felt that books banned by the government , it will definitely not be published in the future, and the "Thirty-Six Strategies" in their hands may become a collection or a rare copy after many years.
Therefore, even though the higher-ups offered the purchase price at the original price, they still refused to sell it, and some people even blocked the door of Tianxia Zhizhi, buying the "Thirty-Six Strategies" for sale back, with a view to future have the opportunity to appreciate.
Tianxia Zhizhi collected it with great fanfare for several days, not only failed to take back the sold books, but also sold all the hundreds of copies of "Thirty-six Strategies" that existed here before, which is really dumbfounding !
Shen Ruolan couldn't wait for this, the less she collected, the less her loss would be. Although Master Qi said that he was responsible for collecting books, how could she really let people take money to collect them? It was already interesting enough for someone to help her issue the order to ban books, so how could she have the nerve to take advantage of such a trivial matter? So from the very beginning, she made up her mind to pay for the books herself. Now that no one sells the books back, she won't have to bear the loss, and she is very happy!
During this period of time, the business of hot pot restaurants has also been getting better and better. Originally, hot pot was the only novelty in Jizhou, and everyone loved to eat it if it was fresh. Now there are two more signs of tomatoes and cucumbers in the shop. There is an endless stream of customers who come to consume food, and there are people going to eat early in the morning every day. It can be said that from the opening in the morning to closing at midnight, there are constant customers, and there are often tables when they catch up with lunch and dinner When the children are not enough, for a while, the business is so good that even the Baiwei family can't match it, and the money is made more!
The dim sum was also selling very well, because there was not enough to sell, Shen Dejian went to the blacksmith's shop to order three or four ovens, but even so, the dim sum made every day was still not enough to sell.
Later, after much deliberation by Shen Dejian and his wife, they bought two young servants in the dental shop, one fifteen, called Xiaoqi, and one sixteen, named Wuzi, both of them were solid, strong and obedient. He is a capable young man who can serve as envoys to several maids by himself. After buying them, his father taught them for two days, and soon they started to work.
With the two of them joining, the production efficiency has been greatly improved at once, and the snacks made every day can finally meet the demand of the market!
After a short break, the printing factory also began to reopen. The first storybook published was called "The White Lady Yongzhen Leifeng Pagoda", which tells the love story between the White Lady and Xu Xian. Knowing the story, it seems ordinary, but I did not expect to gain a large number of fans in this world.
Many people were deeply moved by this poignant love story. They sympathized with Xu Xian and Bai Suzhen, a loving couple who were torn apart. They were also angry at Fahai for being ruthless, meddling, and even some romantic and childish men because they watched In this storybook, I bought a snake specially to release it, hoping that in the next life or in a few lifetimes, I could have a beautiful love story with the little snake he released...
For a while, in the streets and alleys, in the taverns and teahouses, everyone was talking about this story, and even the troupe planned to move this story to the stage and interpret it in the form of opera!
"White Snake" also quickly replaced "Thirty-six Strategies" and became the most popular topic of conversation after dinner. Shen Ruolan's printing factory and Tianxia Zhizhi also gained a huge profit because of this, and they were happy!
During this period, Shen Ruolan went to Chunyuzhen's villa again.
With the help of Liu Hanxiang and other six talented women, the last eight strategies of "Thirty-Six Strategies" have been completed, and she has to go to deliver the manuscript. But she deliberately chose to go around ten o'clock in the morning. At this time, Master Qi is probably not at home, so she can avoid meeting him.
As she expected, the old man was really not there, not only he was not, but also several of his attendants were also absent, so Shen Ruolan handed the manuscript to the housekeeper and asked her to pass it on to Uncle Qi.
The housekeeper's wife respectfully agreed, she treated Shen Ruolan with respect like her ancestors, almost knelt down to serve her, made Shen Ruolan very uncomfortable, after saying a few words, she fled as if to leave.
Chunyuxuan only found out that she had come that night. During this period of time, he had been staying in the barracks for military training. After hearing that she had come, Chunyuxuan was very sorry, and regretted that he had missed a chance to be with her. .
These days, even though he was in the barracks, he was thinking of her all the time in his heart, and he never forgot. The way she was riding horses and galloping across the fields and grasslands with him also reminded her of her shy and embarrassed look in the rain of flowers...
Every aspect of her is so beautiful, and it suits him so much. Only now does he realize that she is no longer a woman he has a crush on. Unknowingly, she has completely occupied him. His heart is hard to ignore even if he wants to ignore it.
This is really a headache and sweet thing, he is very happy, he has finally met a woman he likes from the bottom of his heart, but he is a little depressed, the mother and the emperor will never agree to him marrying her as a concubine Yes, and this girl is too determined to be inferior to others, what a headache!
However, those are things for the future. Right now, he hasn't seen her for several days, and he has been missing her for a long time. Tomorrow, he will send Ying Zhan to pick her up, saying that he has something to discuss with her, so as to relieve his lovesickness.
The next day, Ying Zhan really came to pick up Shen Ruolan.
Shen Ruolan was about to draw a line with that master, and just in time for her to feel unwell, she politely declined Uncle Qi's kindness.
Shen Ruolan is indeed feeling unwell, but she is not sick, but her body has developed. To be exact, the two rice grains on her chest began to swell and bulge, ready to grow up.
Although a mature woman's breasts are very beautiful, the process of maturity is not very beautiful. The heart-piercing pain can distort the painful facial features if one is not paying attention.
Shen Ruolan is in this embarrassing stage right now, getting up early today is extremely painful, so she doesn't want to go anywhere today, she just locks herself at home to experience the taste of growth.
Chunyuzhen didn't wait for the beautiful woman, but when she heard that she was feeling unwell, she was very worried, so she sent Nie Heng over immediately, and asked Nie Heng to take her pulse to see what the discomfort was.
Nie Heng came to Shen's house and explained his reason for coming. Seeing that Lord Qi was so caring about her, Shen Ruolan became more uneasy and made up her mind to alienate him and try not to see each other again.
But right now, Nie Henglai is here, and Jizhou is the most prestigious. Doctors who can't be hired by others come to her home. If she wants to see a doctor, she can't hold her back. She just wants to have a check-up As for her own body, this small body used to be so weak, and she didn't have a good foundation since she was a child. She wanted to check if there was any root cause left, so she could rest assured; besides, with Uncle Qi's temper, he sent someone to Yes, if she doesn't let him see, he will never let it go.
As a result, Nie Heng checked her pulse and made a diagnosis for her, and concluded that everything is normal for the girl, and there is nothing wrong with her body.
After a little bit of embarrassment, he simply grabbed Nie Heng and gave her mother a consultation. Anyway, the genius doctor came, so it was a rare opportunity, so I happened to help my mother to take a look and see how her mother's body is doing now.
Nie Heng gave Mu Shi another consultation. After the diagnosis, in front of Mu Shi, he said with a smile that everything was fine, everything was fine, but when he left, he quietly told Shen Ruolan that Mu Shi His body is gradually deteriorating, and he may not be able to last until the Chinese New Year.
Although Shen Ruolan was mentally prepared, she still felt very heavy after hearing what Dr. Nie said. She said, "If I go to the mountains next month to find ginseng flowers and ghost grass for my mother, will there be time?"
Nie Heng said, "This, of course, the sooner the better, sooner rather than later!"
Shen Ruolan nodded solemnly, "I will go into the mountains next month, no matter what, I will definitely find those two medicines, and when the time comes, I will have to trouble you to help prepare them!"
Nie Heng smiled and said: "It's easy to say, when the time comes, just do what the girl tells you, and the old man will do his best."
**
When Chun Yuxuan heard Nie Heng say that she was fine, she suddenly understood that the girl was hiding from her under the pretext of illness, and she didn't want to see her.
This made him feel very depressed. That time in the apricot blossom rain in Zhuangzi, she was obviously shy and timid. Rejecting him thousands of miles away, this is a bit unacceptable to him!
Just as he was depressed, Luo Cheng sent another message.
"Master, Princess Rongjia has sent a letter, saying that Princess An'an has left for Jizhou and will arrive in about a month. Do we need to send someone to meet him on the way?"
Chunyu Yu was bored, and when he heard that someone he didn't want to see was coming, he felt even more annoyed, and said coldly, "It's not that I invited her here, why should I accept her?"
Luo Chengxin said, "Just because she is your fiancée?" The fiancée came to your hospital for treatment, shouldn't you take care of her? '
Of course, he only dared to say this in his heart, not on the surface.
After a moment of silence, Luo Cheng said again: "Where does the master plan to place Princess An'an after she comes to Jizhou?"
Under normal circumstances, the master should place Princess An'an in the palace, but the master's attitude towards her is disgusting, and it is very likely that she will be placed in the Zhuangzi.
In the end, he guessed wrong again. Not only did the master not intend to let her into the palace, even Zhuangzi didn't intend to let her in. He just said coldly: "Let her go to the governor's mansion. After all, we have a marriage contract. Gossip will be spread in the same mansion, which is not good for anyone!"
There was a black line on Luo Cheng's head, it was the first time he knew that the master cared about reputation, if Miss Shen wanted to live in his house, would he still care about reputation
Not to mention fame, I'm afraid they won't care about fame!
However, these are not his business, since the master has spoken, he just obeys.
Just as he was about to leave, the master suddenly said: "Luo Cheng, do you have a woman you like?"
Luo Cheng was stunned for a moment, then his face turned red and he said: "Return to Master, this subordinate has sworn to be loyal to Master for the rest of his life since he was a child, so he won't think about his children's affairs!"
Chun Yuxuan waved his hand: "You go ahead and summon General Lu Shen to this king!"
General Lu Shen is his general, he is suave and suave, he is always surrounded by Yingying Yanyan, and he is very popular with women. Chun Yuxuan felt that such a person must be very good at women, so he asked him how to coax women...
**
Prince Zhan is still thinking about how to make people happy, while Shen Ruolan is already happy.
Because today the Jizhou Chamber of Commerce sent an invitation to her hot pot restaurant, inviting her to participate in an auction held by wealthy businessmen in Jizhou City five days later.
This auction is held every year in Jizhou. It is initiated by the wealthy businessmen of Jizhou. The people who participate in the auction are also rich and wealthy businessmen of Jizhou City. The auctions are rare treasures that everyone treasures. They can be auctioned. , can also be interchanged.
This auction is not only a gathering of wealthy businessmen, but also a symbol of status. People who have no money or are not worth enough are not eligible to participate. A newly opened store like Shen Ruolan's can get such a status invitation. It is very rare.
Probably because her family's hot pot restaurant is too famous in Jizhou, the business is so good that people are greedy, and her family can even get persimmons and cucumbers that other people can't get, which shows its strength, so I gave them a piece of paper. For invitations.
Otherwise, her shop alone is not enough to qualify for the auction.
Shen Ruolan felt that she could take this opportunity to broaden her horizons and maybe buy something she liked, so she readily accepted it!
On the second day after receiving the invitation, she made a special trip to the best silk and satin shop in Jizhou, 'Brocade House', to buy decent clothes for a facade. Like the kind of auction where wealthy businessmen gather, she, the owner of this small hotpot restaurant, was reluctantly invited. If she doesn't dress up more expensively, she will definitely be despised and looked down upon. The habit of looking at clothes and respecting others has existed since ancient times. Never change.
Arriving at the 'Brocade Building', Nuo Da's shop is full of colorful silks and satins, woven flowers, colorful embroidery, plain colors, and so on. She specifically asked the clerk which kind of fabric is the best. , she wants to see.
As soon as the clerk heard that she wanted the best, he deliberately went into the inner room, and took out a piece of light yellow thin satin fabric with great care, saying that this piece of satin was newly brought in from the south yesterday, and it was called Fuguang brocade. It looks like the sun shining on the water, and it is sparkling while walking, which is very beautiful, because the price is expensive, and there is only one horse in the whole store.
As soon as Shen Ruolan saw the satin, her eyes lit up. Not only was the satin beautiful, but it was also her favorite light yellow color. It was prepared just for her. When she touched it, she felt that the floating brocade was soft and silky, like water, delicate and silky. When you look at it, you can actually see different shades of yellow from different angles, which is amazing!
Shen Ruolan fell in love immediately, and asked, "How do you sell this satin, how much is it per foot?"
She said 'foot' not 'piece', because it is conceivable that a high-end silk and satin shop like Jinzhilou only bought one piece of satin, which must be of great value. The price of this piece of satin is no longer within her range.
The man laughed and said: "Speaking of the price, the price of this foot of floating brocade is more expensive than any other piece of satin. Just one foot costs fifteen taels of silver, not even a fraction."
When Shen Ruolan heard this, she was stunned. It costs fifteen taels a foot, it really is gold every inch!
No wonder there was only one horse in the store.
However, if it is more expensive, it should be more expensive. According to the current income of the family, it is affordable to buy a piece of clothing like this, and wearing such high-end goods will not only make you look beautiful, but also make you look good!
Thinking about it, she took out her purse and said: "Then measure six feet for me, but the ruler must be more accurate, don't fool people."
The man heard this, and said with a smile: "Girl, you can really joke. Our store is a time-honored brand in Jizhou, and it's the most trustworthy. How could it be possible to deceive customers?"
Shen Ruolan smiled and said: "No best, I'm just joking, please measure the cloth for me, I'm still in a hurry to make new clothes!"
"okay!"
The clerk put the piece of satin on the counter with a smile, took out a ruler and began to measure the cloth. After the measurement, he was about to cut it when he heard a sharp voice: "Wait a minute."
Shen Ruolan turned her head, and saw a gorgeous young woman walking towards her. She was wearing a pink peony brocade skirt, underneath a red horse-face skirt with gold makeup and flowers, and a gold-embellished jade bracelet on her head. Shake, gold-dotted emerald phoenix hairpins, coral bead flowers, etc., rich and prominent, domineering.
Behind the woman stood two beautifully dressed maids, both of whom were dressed in silk and satin, with gold and silver on their hair, better dressed than Shen Ruolan.
However, although they are well dressed, the three masters and servants are full of arrogance, each of them raised their faces and raised their chins, as if they were so noble and great.
Seeing the woman coming in, the man hurriedly nodded and smiled and said, "Hello, Aunt Xue!"
The woman known as Aunt Xue ignored the waiter's greeting and said arrogantly: "I bought this piece of satin, and I am not allowed to sell it to others!"
Hearing this, the man was a little embarrassed and said: "Aunt Xue, this girl has already bought a six-footer just now, and I have finished measuring it. You see, why don't you give this girl a six-footer, and you can take the rest..."
Aunt Xue raised her eyes: "Didn't you hear what I said?"
A maidservant with a round face said sharply: "Our aunt said that she wants this piece of satin and is not allowed to sell it to others. Are you deaf?"
The guy was scolded, his expression was stagnant, and he slowly turned to Shen Ruolan, with a guilty and helpless look on his face, and said in a low voice: "Girl, why don't you look at other things, if there is something you like, go to the little one." Help you talk to the shopkeeper and ask him to sell it to you at a lower price."
Shen Ruolan knew what this guy was thinking, so she didn't make it difficult for her, she smiled and said: "Forget it, then I'll go look elsewhere."
She doesn't want to quarrel with the people because of a few feet of satin, that shitty aunt looks like a picky and provocative, and judging by her attire, the husband should be a rich and powerful master, she doesn't want to mess with herself Trouble, you can only admit that you are unlucky.
The guy said apologetically: "I'm sorry this time, girl. If there are any new materials and patterns in the store in the future, I will reserve them for you, but girl, you should buy them first!"
Seeing the guy's sincerity, Shen Ruolan had a good impression of him. If he was a follower, he might be in a hurry to greet this aunt by now, why would he care about her
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