pamper you, make you bad

Take a good rest for a day, and Xi Yutong just went to the porcelain shop to have a look at Maoshi the next day.

There were quite a few guests inside, and as soon as she brought the two maidservants inside, the little girl came over and asked if she needed any help.

Cui Qingyao was keeping accounts, raised her eyes and hurried over, beckoned the questioning mistress to go down, and greeted Xi Yutong and the others to the small courtyard behind to rest, "The newcomer is ignorant, miss, don't take it to heart. "

Xi Yutong shook her head: "Of course I don't take it to heart." Thinking of being a shopkeeper, she rarely felt guilty for a moment, "It's been hard for you to take care of this shop these days."

When Cui Qingyao heard this, she laughed immediately: "Miss, if you really think I'm working hard, why don't you come over to this shop for a couple of days and let me have a good rest?"

Xi Yutong glanced at her: "Well, if you really feel that you are too busy, how about nurturing a few people who can help?"

"I have found some people, and it will take a while before I can really help." Cui Qingyao shook her head, poured her a cup of tea before sitting down, and asked suspiciously, "But Miss, didn't you go out to visit the mountains and water? Why did you come back so soon? Why don't you play for a while?"

"I came back because of some things." Xi Yutong smiled, "No big things happened recently, right?"

"It's not."

Cui Qingyao thought for a while and asked, "By the way, miss, do you have any idea of ​​opening another branch?"

Xi Yutong was taken aback: "I just bought a store on West Street not long ago, and I'm going to buy it again so soon?"

"Qingyao doesn't mean to buy in the capital, but to buy in other places." Cui Qingyao explained, "During these days, customers from other places often come to order porcelain, so I want to buy it in some towns with good conditions. Try to open a branch store, that way you can save a lot of shipping fees, and you can make more money in this way.”

Seeing her confident appearance, Xi Yutong raised her eyebrows: "What did you fancy?"

"Qingyao chose a few places, and I'm still waiting and watching." Cui Qingyao asked her to wait for a while, turned around and went out, and came back with a few pieces of paper after a while, "Miss, you can see if you like it."

There are three places listed above, and the demand for porcelain in this place and the existing shops are also analyzed. At a glance, it is clear that a lot of effort has been spent.

"Have you sent someone to investigate?"

"Qingyao thought that the capital would be saturated one day, so the young lady arranged for people to investigate around the next day after she left, and these three places were just now."

Xi Yutong looked carefully at each page, and finally his gaze stayed on the third place, and he raised his eyes to look at her: "Why is there Huafu? Do you know what happened there?"

"Miss, are you talking about the locust plague?" Cui Qingyao laughed, "Qingyao has already heard about the heroic deeds of the prince."

Xi Yutong asked again: "Then why did you choose this place?"

"It is precisely because of the locust plague that this place has experienced that Qingyao circled this place on purpose." Cui Qingyao looked at her, not hiding her ambition, "When Huafu did not experience the locust plague, there were frequent business contacts here, especially They are precious items such as porcelain, and they are purchased at a high price. Miss, because of the prince, the locust plague did not have a great impact on Huafu, and it will recover soon. And because of the locust plague here, the imperial court will definitely provide help. We will also pay close attention to this place, and then Huafu will be able to flourish.”

Xi Yutong didn't expect her to think so long, and even wanted to use the power of the court to develop.

She thought for a while before looking up at the person in front of her: "Qing Yao, what do you want to do?"

"Miss." Cui Qingyao was stunned for a moment, "Qingyao naturally wants to help you earn more money."

Xi Yutong shook her head: "You came to me to rescue Aunt Cui earlier, it was the prince's request to you."

Cui Qingyao pursed her lips and lowered her eyes.

"I'm not asking, I'm just letting you know that I know about it."

Xi Yutong picked up the teacup and took a sip, "I'll ask again, what exactly do you want to do."

If you really want to make good money for her, why not settle down first, and rush to open up other territories?Aren't you afraid that you will lose sight of the other, and in the end, "the bamboo basket fetches water in vain"?At the beginning, she handed over the store to the other party to take care of it, but the other party was so eager, it seemed that she wanted to rush to strengthen her strength and take revenge.

When she didn't get an answer, Xi Yutong was not angry, and put down the teacup: "You want to take revenge and want to use the hands of me and the prince to bring down the Liu family?" She laughed, "That's right, after all, the prince cares about me so much, even if the prince cares about me so much. If Huafu cannot develop, the lord will make arrangements in secret, and then I can develop power step by step, and you, as the biggest hero, will also benefit, and finally you can rely on the lord's power to deal with the Liu family. ?"

"Yes." Cui Qingyao bit her lower lip tightly, the ambition in her eyes was replaced by hatred, she gritted her teeth and looked at Xi Yutong, "I want everyone in the Liu family to try what my mother suffered in Liu's mansion. Ten times, a hundred times."

Xi Yutong recalled the scene of seeing Aunt Cui in the Liu Mansion, and sighed: "Does Aunt Cui know what you think?"

"She always wanted me not to live in hatred, but she can forget, but I can't forget." Cui Qingyao clenched her hands tightly, "Since I was a child, I have been treated as a servant by Liu Qingying. If I like it, I will step on it. If you don’t like it, you can step on it a few more times, and if you do something wrong, you can push it on me. She is obviously a lady of the Liu family, why can she be superior, but I am not even as good as a maid? I don’t agree.” She patted the stone table Standing up, he roared angrily, "I don't agree."

Her voice startled the people outside, Xi Yutong signaled Xiaotao to stand by the door, and then said: "I sympathize with what happened to you, but this is not the reason for you to use my money to develop your ambitions."

"Isn't Miss's original intention to make money?" Cui Qingyao looked up at her, "As long as Miss can let me take revenge in the end, I can help Miss earn more money."

"I really needed more money at that time." Xi Yutong brought 1 taels to Huafu, and spent more than half of it to buy tonics for Feng Yuyi. Now that the serious illness and misunderstanding have been resolved, naturally he is not in a hurry to make money. Immediately laughed, "Then what if I say that I don't want to make too much money now?"

"Miss." Cui Qingyao didn't expect her to say this suddenly, and she was a little panicked, "Miss, the grand master should need a lot of money to manage the job in the court, right?"

Xi Yutong shook his head: "My father's style is clean and honest, and he doesn't need to take care of it. What's more, my father is almost one person under [-] people, and taking care of him...that's asking for death."

Cui Qingyao pursed her lips tightly, and her mind quickly turned: "If the young lady becomes a princess, she must—"

"Stop." Xi Yutong raised his hand to interrupt her, "I never said I wanted to be a princess, this assumption is not valid."

Cui Qingyao froze all of a sudden and looked at her eagerly.

"Wait until you come up with a good reason, and then I'll think about the opening of Huafu's branch store." Xi Yutong smiled, put away the few pieces of paper, folded them and put them away, "I have limited time, if I don't find it within three days If you want to impress me, then I can only trouble Xiaohe to come over and take over as the shop owner for a few days. If you can impress me, then I will explain it to you, my lord."

Cui Qingyao pursed her lips and nodded unwillingly.

Taking advantage of enough time, Xi Yutong thought about it and asked the coachman to drive the carriage to West Street Porcelain Workshop.

After getting into the carriage, Xiaotao finally couldn't help but asked: "Miss, are you going to fire Ms. Cui?" Before Xi Yutong could answer, she said sympathetically, "Ms. Cui is so miserable, it's normal to want revenge. Miss Cui will probably change it in the future, so don't get angry with her. What's more, if Miss Cui doesn't work in the porcelain workshop, how can she make money to support Aunt Cui?"

"When did I say I was going to fire her?" Xi Yutong raised her hand and knocked on Xiaotao's forehead, "I just want to see how determined she is to take revenge."

She remembered that in the previous life, the Liu family supported Feng Yuyi's ascension to the throne, and even provided a lot of silver for fighting. If the Liu family in this life turns to support Feng Yuqi, then Feng Yuyi's future road will be much more difficult, so she wants to This thing is back on track.

It's just that Liu Qingying has already made friends with the second prince, and Master Liu didn't stop him but just showed his attitude. Naturally, it would be of no use for her to contact her again, so she wanted to take the lead.

Knowing Cui Qingyao's temperament, she naturally guessed that the people who have always hated the Liu family, so she took the opportunity to test it out, and now her thoughts have been confirmed.

The other party wants the Liu family to be ruined, and Feng Yuyi wants the Liu family's Wanguan family wealth. This is not in conflict, and they are even consistent. Only then did Xi Yutong have the idea of ​​​​wanting to help the other party.It's just that before helping, she wanted to see if the other party could find a bargaining chip that would make her heart flutter.

It was inconvenient to tell Xiaotao about these things, so she didn't say anything, shook her head and stopped talking.

The West Street Porcelain Shop is currently being managed by Qiu Shi, and seeing them coming, she was both surprised and happy, at a loss to welcome the two of them to sit inside, "I heard that sister Yao said that the young lady went out to play, but I didn't expect to come back so soon. "

Xi Yutong smiled: "I'll come back when I've had enough fun." She glanced at Qiu Shi, after nourishing for this period of time, Qiu Shi's face grew a little flesh, not as thin as before, as if only With a pair of round eyes, she can still be regarded as Xiaojiabiyu.

Qiu Shi asked, "Miss, have you visited the East Street?"

"I've gone, I came here after talking to Qingyao for a while." Xi Yutong smiled and said, "No big things happened recently, right?"

"Not here." Qiu Shi hesitated, "But I heard that someone on the other side of the East Street went to make trouble some time ago. It seems to be sister Yao's fiancé or some family member."

fiancé?Xi Yutong frowned, "Do you know why?"

"Miss, it's not easy for me to investigate sister Yao's affairs, but I once heard a guest say that the fiancé wants to regret the marriage, that the two of them have different identities now, and they want to marry Miss Liu. I even heard that the Liu residence has already been settled." Years later, this invitation has already been sent out."

Xi Yutong seemed to understand why Cui Qingyao was so eager to take revenge on the Liu family, presumably her fiancé also had a certain influence on it.

"She has her own ideas about Qingyao's affairs." Xi Yutong calmed down, talked with Qiushi for a while, and then gave a few words of encouragement, seeing that the time was almost up, before leaving.

Qiu Shi asked: "Miss, don't you want to sit down for a while?"

Xi Yutong shook his head: "I will make an appointment to meet someone at the Phoenix Restaurant later, it will be too late if I don't go there."

"Phoenix Restaurant?" Qiu Shi paused, with a strange expression on his face, "Miss, do you know that is Liu's restaurant?"

Xi Yutong shook his head.

But the time and place had already been set, so she had no choice but to go, and after a few words of encouragement, she left with the two servant girls.

Qiu Shi sent her away, and when she went back to the shop, several people came out from the shop, so she couldn't help but take a look, after all, it was the first time she saw a person wearing a bamboo hat to look at porcelain in this shop.

It's just that the shop is busy, and she quickly forgets about it.

the second

At the entrance of Phoenix Restaurant, Xi Yutong glanced at the plaque, and really saw the word "Willow" in the lower right corner next to it.

"Miss, it really seems to be the store of the Liu family." Xiaotao raised her chin and looked in. On the second floor, Liu Qingying and a man were talking, and they could only see the two of them chatting and laughing happily.

Xi Yutong waved his hands, raised his legs and walked in.

"Guest officers, please go inside." The waiter yelled, "I don't know if we want to eat on the first floor or the second floor?"

Xiaohe stepped forward: "My lady has an appointment with someone, and it's Master Mo Yuansi. I wonder if Master Mo is here?"

"Master Mo has already arrived and is waiting in the third box, please come with the little one."

Xi Yutong followed the waiter to the second floor, and passed the box at the corner, which happened to be the box where Liu Qingying was.The door of this box was not closed, so she could see the picture inside at a glance, and Liu Qingying who was inside probably heard footsteps and looked up.

Seeing that it was Xi Yutong, she said something to the people around her, smiled and got up and walked over: "Miss Xi is here, why didn't you say something in advance?"

"I just want to have a quiet meal." Xi Yutong looked away, "The waiter, continue to lead the way."

"Yes." The waiter hurriedly continued to lead the way.

It wasn't the first time that Liu Qingying was ignored, but she still couldn't swallow this breath, and her expression suddenly became distorted.

When the shop waiter came back, she stopped him and asked, "Who did Miss Xi date just now?"

"Go back to Missy, I have an appointment with Mrs. Mo."

"Master Mo?" Liu Qingying recalled, and asked doubtfully, "Which Master Mo?"

The waiter replied truthfully: "Master Mo, Minister of the Household Department, you are still a regular customer of our place."

Liu Qingying naturally knew that Mr. Mo Yuansimo, last year's No. [-] scholar, was arranged by His Majesty to be a servant of the household department, and he was a fourth-rank official.The most important thing is that this person is still young and is favored by the emperor, so his official career has a bright future.

Xi Yutong was in Box No. [-], and Liu Qingying was in Box No. [-], sitting near the window so that she could see it.

Seeing Xi Yutong take out a jade pendant and hand it over, she couldn't help thinking deeply.Could it be that Xi Yutong gave up on the prince and planned to marry Mo Yuansi?

Interesting if that's the case.

Liu Qingying wanted to pass the news to Yao Xiaoliu, but she didn't care about the people in the private room, so she hurried out of the private room after talking to the other party, but when she went down the stairs, there was also a group of people coming up to meet her.

This group of people wore black robes in broad daylight and black bamboo hats to hide their appearance, and their aura seemed to be full of anger, which was really strange.

"Step aside."

Seeing her standing motionless in the middle of the stairs, the leader immediately pushed her away impatiently.

Liu Qingying immediately bumped into the wall, and the shop waiter who passed by stepped forward to support her so she didn't fall directly down the stairs.

"Stop." Liu Qingying angrily stepped forward to stop a few people, "This restaurant doesn't welcome you, please go out."

"This king is not for eating and drinking." The leader lifted the black veil, and a handsome face with murderous intent was exposed in front of Liu Qingying. The hand holding the sword at his waist moved, and the long sword was pressed against his thumb. With one stroke, the bright light of the sword blade made Liu Qingying lose her strength for a moment, "This king is in a bad mood now, get out immediately."

Liu Qingying recognized the person, and hurriedly backed away, then remembered that Xi Yutong was going to meet Mrs Mo, and then contacted Feng Yuyi with an unhappy look, as if she understood something, she reminded with a smile: "My lord, are you looking for Xi Yutong? She's in box three."

"Did the king ask you?" Feng Yuyi stopped, turned around and drew out his long sword, and with a twist of his hand, the sword was placed by Liu Qingying's neck. With a slight twist, there was a breath on that fair skin, Some drops of blood came out, "That's my future princess, who allowed you to call her by her name?"

Liu Qingying didn't expect Xi Yutong to be so important in the other party's heart. The pain in her neck was so stimulating that she had no time to think about anything else, so she quickly knelt down, "I don't dare, please forgive me, my lord."

"When you see Yutong in the future, go as far as you can, don't stain her eyes." Feng Yuyi turned his hand, and the long sword was inserted back into the scabbard with a sound of "clang--", and he left such a sentence just now Continue upstairs.

When they left, Liu Qingying was already sweating profusely, and took out a handkerchief to hold the wound on her neck.

"Miss, you—" the waiter saw her pale face, and was about to ask if she wanted to call a doctor, but she didn't expect to see her unconscious in the next second.

"Miss?" The shop waiter hurriedly called others to help.

After Xi Yutong returned the jade pendant, she thought about going back, and smiled embarrassedly: "Master Mo, if there is nothing wrong, the little girl will go back first."

"Miss Xi, may I ask, where am I missing the lord?" Mo Yuansi showed a gentle smile on his elegant face, "I feel that the conditions are not bad. If it comes to family background, although the lord is His Majesty's heir, But not to be favored by His Majesty, now he is just a prince in name only."

"Bang—" There was a sound of breaking things suddenly from the next door, Mo Yuansi paused, and continued: "The second prince is being favored now, and this prince Yi can only be a prince in the future. And my father is the second rank , I even got the title of number one scholar through examination and fame. Although the fourth rank is low now, I am still young and will be higher in the future. Even if I can't compare with the prince, it will not be too far behind. , I am naturally no worse than the prince. After this, why is Miss Xi unwilling to give me a chance?"

"Bangdang-"

A loud voice came from the next door, Xi Yutong looked back subconsciously, only to see the window was closed for a moment, couldn't help wondering, but didn't think much about it.

Seeing that she was silent, Mo Yuansi called softly, "Miss Xi?"

"Master Mo can get into my father's eyes, the conditions are indeed not bad, but..." Xi Yutong laughed, "But Mr. Mo is not Lord Yi, so no matter how good the conditions are, the little girl doesn't want it."

Mo Yuansi was taken aback for a moment, then laughed.

If the conditions are bad, he can work hard to catch up, but Xi Yutong's words have already shown his attitude.

He also has his own arrogance, he will not stalk, put away the jade pendant, and stood up: "Although I am not reconciled, it seems that there is no other way but this. I am about to leave, so let's go together."

Xi Yutong could only come out with the other party, and said with a smile: "Master Mo's conditions are so good, maybe a matchmaker would step on the threshold and come to ask for marriage."

"It's natural." Mo Yuansi raised his chin, "It's still early, I think I'd better send you downstairs."

It was only a blink of an eye, and Xi Yutong had nothing to refuse, so he nodded.

"Speaking of which, I'm really sorry that I didn't get to meet the legendary prince who made you fall in love." Mo Yuansi smiled, "However, the prince disappointed me a bit, actually only let you come to see me, a little It doesn't seem like you care about your appearance. If you go back on your word later, and I'm not married yet, you can still come to me."

"Bang——" There was a loud bang from the door of the box next to it, and the two people who were speaking were startled.

Xi Yutong felt that something was wrong from the very beginning. When talking earlier, the box next door kept making noises, as if deliberately interrupting their communication.

Thinking of some possibility, she narrowed her eyes immediately, "Master Mo, the little girl still has some things to attend to, so I'd better go back first, sir."

Mo Yuansi asked eagerly, "Can you help me?"

"boom--"

Xi Yutong glanced at the box where the movement came again, smiled and shook her head, "It's just a very simple matter, don't worry about it."

"In this case, I will go back first."

After Mo Yuansi left, Xi Yutong returned to the box next to the previous box and knocked on the door.

"Boom boom boom——"

What responded to her was silence, as if no one was inside.

"I know you're inside, if you don't want me to see you in the future, open right away—" Before finishing speaking, the door was opened, revealing a somewhat familiar face with raised eyebrows, "Dark Four, Why are you here too?"

With a bitter face, An Si took her in and reminded her in a low voice: "My lord is a little angry, please coax Miss Xi well."

Xi Yutong snorted softly, "Go out."

An Si hurriedly called the other men in black robes and Xiao He to leave together.

The boxes are all similar, Xi Yutong took a look and didn't pay attention, looking around for Feng Yuyi's figure.

"Bang—" It was the sound of the cup falling again.

Xi Yutong heard the direction of the sound clearly, walked to the right with a smile, just saw a pile of wrecked cups on the ground, and saw a blue porcelain bowl smashed towards her, shattered to pieces at her feet, subconsciously took two steps back.

Hearing the sound of footsteps, Feng Yuyi came back to his senses, glanced at the broken hand at the opponent's foot, and then at the hand that was still raising the bowl in the motion of "throwing" the bowl, he couldn't care less about the jealousy in his heart, and stepped on his foot in shock. The table on the face flew to Xi Yutong's side with light work, bent down and carefully inspected the other's legs, "Where did you hurt? It's all my fault, I shouldn't throw things around."

She groped as she asked, not seeing a wound and fearing that the fragments might get on her clothes.

"I'm fine." As soon as he finished speaking, Xi Yutong felt his waist being tightly bound, and when he was about to ask aloud, he felt his body move, was picked up by someone, and subconsciously hugged the other person's neck.

"It's full of shards here, easy to step on." Feng Yuyi looked at the shards lying on the ground in this good place, and turned to leave with his arms around Xi Yutong, "I'm not happy looking at this place, so I'd better go back to the palace and talk."

Seeing her expressionless face, Xi Yutong couldn't help laughing.

"What are you laughing at?" Feng Yuyi unhappily took the bamboo hat and covered it up for her, before he kicked the door open and used his internal strength.

"boom--"

I didn't see too much force, but the solid door panel fell down in an instant, making a loud noise.

Xiaohe and the others were all outside the door, but secretly felt something was wrong and pulled them away to avoid the fate of being smashed.

An Si looked at the expression of his own prince, and the face of the person in the opponent's arms whose face was blocked by a bamboo hat, and asked suspiciously: "My lord?"

"Clean up here." Feng Yuyi pursed his lips, "This restaurant... especially the third box, this king is not happy to see it, and I don't want to see it again."

An Si knew that his lord's jealousy was overturned, so he nodded quickly: "This subordinate understands." As he spoke, he silently handed over the bamboo hat in his hand.

Xi Yutong was about to say something, but just as his head popped out, Feng Yuyi forcefully pressed him into his arms: "Go home."

Xi Yutong could only hold back the words of explanation.

But it didn't take long for her to react.She did nothing wrong, what are you afraid of?The one who was wrong should be Feng Yuyi who came over to spy and eavesdrop. How could the other party still have reason to be angry?

However, she tested her head and was pressed again.

"Don't move, let's talk when we go back to the mansion."

Listening to this angry and indifferent voice, is it the attitude that a peeping and eavesdropping person should have?Xi Yutong was so angry that she ground her teeth, thinking in her heart how to get back on the stage and let this person realize his mistake.

Feng Yuyi made a lot of noise, but luckily he brought a bamboo hat and left with Xi Yutong in his arms as soon as he left the restaurant, so it didn't cause any more commotion.

It was only after asking that she found out that Miss Liu in charge was unconscious, so An Si could only pay the money, and then brought other men in black to Liu's mansion to discuss matters of the restaurant.

As for the two of Xiaohe, worried about their own lady, they could only go to Yiwang's mansion on foot.