The General is Pregnant: His Majesty Abstinence and Sexual Devotion Every Night

Chapter 222 Xue's Incense

These things in front of him really made it difficult for Gu Junqing, who didn't know flowers.

Fortunately, these are not the focus, but the bottles and jars placed among the clusters of flowers.

Gu Junqing walked forward, looked at the bottles and jars on the table, and asked, "What is this?"

Xue Ben heard this and explained a little embarrassedly:

"This is incense. It's different from the incense sold outside. It only has the scent of flowers. Some of them don't rely on burning, but on sprinkling on the ground and letting the air evaporate to spread the fragrance. It's no problem to use it for a day."

Ji Rang: "Incense?"

After asking this, Ji Rang first asked Xue Ben if he could take a look. After Xue Ben agreed, he reached out and took out a jar with a red cloth stuffed in it. The next second after he took the red cloth away, he smelled a fragrance similar to that of peony flowers. It was not strong or pungent, and it made people feel relaxed and happy. In short, it smelled good.

Seeing Ji Rang's frown relax, Gu Junqing walked forward with some curiosity, picked up another bottle on the table, opened it, and smelled it. It really smelled good, but she didn't know what kind of flower it was.

She put it back, looked at Gu Jiyan standing beside her, and exclaimed: "These things are really unique, unheard of in the capital or other places, and they look very convenient"

Is this the good thing that Gu Jiyan brought them to see? Why does she feel that things are not that simple?

"Yes, it's a waste to keep all these bottles and jars here, so I thought about getting rid of them, but Brother Xue doesn't want to waste them, so..."

Gu Jiyan narrowed his eyes and smiled. He didn't say the rest of the words, but Gu Junqing still understood them, and so did Ji Rang. "So you want to open a small stall to sell to the people, right?"

Gu Junqing took over.

Gu Jiyan glanced at Xue Ben, chuckled, and praised: "As expected of you, General Gu. You guessed what I was going to say."

It seemed that Gu Jiyan couldn't handle it by himself, so he called me to help. I happened to meet Ji Rang, so I didn't stop him.

She glanced at Xue Ben, and when he saw her looking at him, Xue Ben smiled shyly.

Although he had thought about setting up a stall, he did not have much savings at the moment, as they were all saved for the imperial examination and daily expenses. It was really not enough. As for Gu Jiyan, he also met him by chance, and of course they got to know each other because of these incenses.

Xue Ben was extremely grateful for Gu Jiyan's help and thought that he would repay him well in the future.

In the end, he did not set up a stall. Instead, Gu Junqing rented the shop property that was awarded to him by the emperor to Xue Ben, allowing him to open an incense shop.

He originally wanted to give it as a gift, but Xue Ben was unwilling to accept it and insisted on renting it himself. Gu Junqing had no choice but to just let him do what he wanted.

In the end, Gu Jiyan brought them here just to solve the incense problem, and by the way, they spent half an hour looking at the flowers in the garden.

Although Gu Junqing was indifferent in her heart, seeing that Gu Jiyan liked the place very much, she lowered her head and looked at the unknown flowers blooming at her feet, and inexplicably felt that they were much more beautiful.

In the next few days, Gu Junqing followed Gu Jiyan to deal with the pile of bottles and jars of incense in Xue Ben's yard. After all, she was the most idle general in the capital.

Ji Rang is different from Gu Junqing. He still has a lot of official duties to do. In addition, for some reason recently, perhaps because he has offended the emperor, Ji Rang obviously has much more official duties than before.

So he didn't deal with these things together, but he had great hopes for Xue Ben's incense shop and invested 500 taels of silver in it. It seemed that he wanted to run the shop for a long time. Xue Ben was naturally grateful, but Xue Ben didn't accept it. He just told Ji Rang to see how the harvest would be in the future. If possible, he could consider continuing to run the shop for a long time.

Ji Rang didn't continue to force it.

In fact, the shop was just empty and didn't do any business, so it was quick to clean up. After spending a day tidying up the shop, he spent a few more days decorating it. The money for decoration was a bit high, but Gu Jiyan could afford it alone.

As for Xue Ben, when he had free time these days, he would stay in his own courtyard to study new incense, and the rest of the time he would review his lessons.

Over the past few days, even Qi Yunjin knew what Gu Junqing was doing. When she had nothing to do, she would talk to Gu Junqing about her achievements in the past few days and expressed her desire to help.

Gu Junqing refused. Not to mention herself, I'm afraid Xue Ben himself would be flattered if he knew that the emperor was also helping with his shop, but it depends on the profit. In addition to the decoration, it is also necessary to recruit one or two shopkeepers and waiters in the store.

This is much easier to handle. Xue Ben can handle it himself. I don’t know where he got these three people from, but in short, they are trustworthy.

Ten days later, Xue's incense shop officially opened.

Xue Ben's was not the only shop that opened on that day. For example, Li's Silk Shop next door and Chen's Jade Shop two days away all opened on the same day. In addition, these two shops had done enough publicity in the previous days, so at the beginning they did not attract many people to come here, and they all went to other sides to watch the fun.

Gu Junqing sat in a small teahouse not far from the shop, looking at the Xue's shop which had not had anyone enter it so far. She lowered her head and took a sip of tea slowly, looking very relaxed, without any worry or nervousness.

As for Gu Jiyan, he sat aside, turning his head from time to time to see if anyone had entered, for fear of being exposed. The tea in the cup in his hand was scattered on the table because of his movements, but he was unaware of it and looked very nervous and expectant.

After sitting for a while, the two of them watched many customers coming in and out of the Li Silk Shop next door, and the same was true on the other side, but their side was very cold and there was still no one there.

Gu Jiyan looked at the other side of the street where business was getting more and more popular while there was still no one on their side. He felt a little restless, so he stood up from his chair and wanted to walk towards Xue's shop, but was stopped by Gu Junqing.

She just said: "Why are you in such a hurry? As the owner of the shop, if Xue Ben can't even learn how to attract customers, then how will the business be in the future? Let's wait and see."

After hearing what Gu Junqing said, Gu Jiyan calmed down, sat back in his chair, drank the cup of tea, turned his head to look at her, and after reacting, he said:

"Are you saying that Brother Xue has a solution? Then why not use it now? It's almost noon and there are usually almost no customers at noon."