Three days before the engagement party.

After the shop was tidied up, Ye Ziyu asked Lixia to buy bedding, mats and other daily necessities, and then asked Liqiu to bring Erya and her mother to the shop.

"Miss." Li Qiu brought someone over.

"Young lady." Erya's mother bowed slightly.

"What's your name?" Ye Ziyu asked. Ye Ziyu only knew that the child was called Erya, but she forgot to ask what the woman's name was.

"My name is Chun Niang."

"Okay, Chunniang, you and Erya will live in this shop. I've already made a small attic for you on the second floor. I've also sent someone to prepare some simple things. If it's not enough, just ask for it."

"The young lady is willing to let me take Erya to work, which is already a great favor. How dare I trouble the young lady to prepare these things for the two of us."

Ye Ziyu did not argue any more, "This shop is planning to open a pastry shop. Miss Liu will come back here to teach you how to make pastries in the future. After the shop is opened, you will be responsible for delivering the orders on time. Miss Liu will also come here to help when she is free." Ye Ziyu pointed at Liu Zhizhi.

"Hello, Miss Liu." Chunniang greeted Liu Zhizhi.

Liu Zhizhi smiled and said nothing.

"But girl, I haven't read much and I can't read."

"You don't have to worry about that. I will arrange someone to take orders here, and then tell you that you don't need to worry about accounting. Just learn how to make pastries and make them on time. The monthly salary is fifty coins."

"Yes."

"The shop will open tomorrow. You guys should take a good rest today."

After Ye Ziyu and Liu Zhizhi explained some other things, they left together.

"Ayu, which refugees did you find this person from?" Liu Zhizhi asked in the carriage.

"Yeah, I just happened to run into her when I went there. She looks like a hardworking person."

"Well, he seems to be a hardworking and honest person, but I don't know how well he has learned the craft."

"Teach her first and give her a month as a probation period. If it doesn't work, let her leave."

"Ah."

As for the method of making this pastry, Ye Ziyu was not afraid of someone secretly learning it, because the special ingredients would be prepared at home and then sent over, so Chunniang only had to make it.

"I didn't expect that Ah Yin would be engaged so soon. Come with me to pick out some gifts and give them to her when she gets engaged."

"Well, when will it be possible for you and my second brother to succeed?" Ye Ziyu teased Liu Zhizhi.

Liu Zhizhi's cheeks flushed, "He didn't ask my father for marriage, so how would I know?"

"That's right. Why didn't my second brother react for such a long time? If he doesn't hurry up, he might regret it later."

*

"Master, Miss Ye's shop will open tomorrow. Do you want to send some gifts?" Mo Qing asked.

"Why does Miss Ye San want to open another shop? Why doesn't she just take over the family shop?" Mo Yu asked.

"This is not Miss Ye San's own shop. She opened it jointly with Miss Ye Da, Miss Liu and Miss Ling." Mo Liang said.

"How do you know?" Mo Yu looked at Mo Liang.

"I looked it up out of curiosity before..." Mo Liang said guiltily.

"Why don't I see you investigating the missing case so quickly?" Fang Jingxiu said coldly.

"Missing cases are so difficult to investigate, but this one can be easily solved with a simple search."

Fang Jingxiu glanced at Mo Liang, and Mo Liang immediately fell silent.

"Go and back up Bo Li." Fang Jingxiu said.

"Yes." Mo Qing took the order and went down.

"Master, our people discovered that Lin Yun had contact with people from Miaojiang."

Before, Ye Jiaxuan was poisoned by Miaojiang medicine. Fang Jingxiu guessed that Lin Yun might have a relationship with someone from Miaojiang, so he sent people to keep an eye on Lin Yun.

"Can you find out who it was with?"

"That person's whereabouts were secretive, and the contact between the two was not direct. After they separated, my subordinates followed him, but were quickly thrown off." Mo Yu said.

"Keep watching Lin Yun, find an opportunity to make the Lin family make a mistake, and then arrest Lin Yun."

"Yes."

*

Two days before the engagement party.

The pastry shop opened and was named Qingshui Zhai. Because it originally received and delivered orders from Qingshui Tea House, Ye Ziyu simply named the pastry shop derived from Qingshui Tea House.

When the ribbon was cut for the opening ceremony, Ye Ziyu, Liu Zhizhi and others did not show up, but cheered like spectators from the sidelines. The person who cut the ribbon was Ye Jiaxuan.

Ye Jiaxuan said, "The new store is opening, and there is a tasting event. Everyone who enters the store can receive a small opening gift. Those who place an order for tasting today can enjoy a 10% discount."

"Good!" The people applauded.

Ye Jiaxuan took off the red cloth covering the bed name and asked the servant to call people.

"Sister, your new store event looks very attractive."

"Of course. Everyone likes to get a little bargain. Why not want to eat or get something for free?" Ye Ziyu said with a smile.

"But everyone is taking so much, aren't you afraid of losing money?"

"No, we have both high-end and ordinary cakes. We sell the newly made cakes at a discount before closing the shop every day to ensure the freshness of the cakes every day. If they are not sold out, we give them to the poor. This can also be considered as accumulating merit for the Ye family."

"Young master, someone is here to deliver a gift." Fu Cai led someone over.

"Second Young Master Ye, First Miss Ye, Third Miss Ye." A slightly older man came forward to pay his respects.

"you are?"

"I am Butler Xu from the Marquis of Wu'an's Mansion. The young marquis specially sent someone to deliver a gift." The butler presented the gift respectfully.

"Marquis Wu'an's Mansion?" Ye Jiaxuan was confused. He and Fang Jingxiu probably didn't have much interaction, or it could be said that they had almost no interaction at all.

"Second brother." Ye Qingyin saw Ye Jiaxuan standing there in a daze and reminded Ye Jiaxuan.

Ye Jiaxuan came back to his senses, "Oh, thank you, Young Marquis Fang."

Fucai stepped forward to accept the gift.

"Butler Xu, please wait a moment, Xiaoxue." Ye Qingyin said.

Xiaoxue went into the shop, took out a packaged gift box and handed it to Ye Qingyin.

"Please take it back to the young marquis and his wife to taste."

"Thank you, Miss Ye." Butler Xu took the gift box and said goodbye.

"Second brother, what are you thinking about?" Ye Ziyu patted Ye Jiaxuan's shoulder.

"I was wondering when I became so familiar with Fang Jingxiu that he would actually come to give me a gift." Ye Jiaxuan said.

"Hmm? Aren't you familiar with each other? I seem to remember hearing that you were under the same teacher and were classmates." Ye Ziyu said.

"Pa." Ye Jiaxuan gently patted Ye Ziyu's forehead, "That's big brother, not me."

Ye Ziyu touched the place touched by Ye Jiaxuan, "It's the eldest brother, I thought it was the second brother."

"Second brother, if you two are not familiar with each other, why would he send you a gift? Is it for eldest brother's sake?" Ye Ziyu asked uncertainly.

“But as far as I know, the relationship between eldest brother and Young Marquis Fang is not that close, and he has never attended any banquets in our family in the past, let alone sent any gifts.” Ye Jiaxuan said.

"Could there be some conspiracy?" Ye Ziyu said.

"Okay, look at the two of you, your words are getting more and more outrageous, even revealing the conspiracy. It might be because Si Chen is close to the young marquis, and our family is engaged to the Ling family, so you might just be sending a gift for Si Chen's sake." Ye Qingyin said.

The two siblings nodded, "That makes sense." Ye Jiaxuan said.

Ye Qingyin shook her head.

"I still have things to do, so I'll leave first." Ye Qingyin said.

"Okay, Ah Yin, go and get busy. Your engagement banquet will be in two days, and I'm sure you have a lot to do right now." Ye Jiaxuan said.

"Goodbye, sister." Ye Ziyu said with a smile.

"You brought the owner of my Qingshui Tea House here, what should I do with my tea house?"

"I'm not asking you to be here directly, I'm just borrowing it today."

"Oh? Then who's in charge of the shop at the back?"

"Transfer the shopkeeper from my shop here. Xiaohua can now run a shop independently. I feel relieved to leave the job to her."

"Yeah." Ye Jiaxuan nodded. "I was worried that you wouldn't be able to handle these things, but I didn't expect that you had already arranged them. I don't need your second brother to worry about it."

"Of course. If I hadn't been fully prepared, I wouldn't have opened this shop." Ye Ziyu looked at the shop, tilted her head towards Ye Jiaxuan and smiled.

Ye Ziyu: Today we have brought enough popularity to our shop. From now on, as long as the pastries are well made, the shop will have no worries about business.

"Sir, a noble has sent a steward to the teahouse to question us." A waiter from the teahouse came running over in a hurry.

"what?"

"They said that if we sell cakes separately now, wouldn't the efficiency of the orders from those houses be affected? And will they all have to order from Qingshuizhai in the future? I don't dare to answer without authorization, so I came to ask you, sir."

"No, we will still deliver their orders on time, and the timeliness and quality will not be any different from before. If there is any problem, we are willing to return the order without a penny difference. As for placing orders in the future, you can continue to place them with the tea house or with Qingshuizhai. It remains the same as before." Ye Ziyu said.

The man looked at Ye Jiaxuan. After Ye Jiaxuan nodded, he bowed respectfully and left.

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