The ancestor of the apocalypse is so cool after being reborn!

Chapter 111 The pie in the sky

Several shops in the city have been renovated.

After Xia Jing finished her breakfast, she took the two maids and walked out of the mansion together.

Today she plans to go to the shop to check and see if there are any deficiencies.

Speaking of which, she has never visited these four shops from the purchase to the decoration.

Passing by the garden, seeing that the women who usually come out to enjoy the flowers in the morning have disappeared, Xia Jing asked the maid, "What are they doing recently?"

"Back to the princess, after the ladies in the mansion obtained the title deeds, they were busy arranging for the stewards to open up wasteland, plus the few masters were busy recruiting soldiers, leaving early and returning late. Recently, no one will have time to take a walk in the garden .”

Xia Jing said lightly, and stopped paying attention to the other rooms.

Hongmei took the initiative to talk about Li Chengmu's whereabouts: "Fifth Master has been busy with military training these days, and has stayed in the barracks for three days and hasn't returned."

"The young man is willing to work hard and endure hardships. He has a good heart. Let him go."

Xia Jing was talking, when she saw the old man at the second door, she asked in surprise, "Why are you here, sir, are you waiting for someone?"

Mr. Zhang stroked his beard and said with a smile: "Today, I took a break for half a day, and I happened to be bored in the mansion. I heard that the princess is going to the streets, can I bring my minister with me?"

Ok?
Now the government office is so busy that the old man actually said that he has half a day off.

Why doesn't she believe this?
Mr. Zhang looked at Xia Jing, noticed the suspicious look in her eyes, and immediately grinned: "Hehe, please bring me."

Xia Jing gave him a meaningful look, then walked past him and walked out of the mansion.

Hongmei and Baimei looked at each other, bowed to Mr. Zhang, and hurried past him to catch up with Xia Jing in front.

Mr. Zhang fanned the wind, put away the fan and followed with a smile.

Silence is the default, so the princess agreed!

At the gate of the mansion, Xia Jing paused, and noticed a green curtained carriage parked next to her carriage.

snort!
Now old men are better at playing tricks than young people!
Of the four stores in Fucheng, two are located on the main street, and the other two are located in the streets and alleys of the North and South City.

Mr. Zhang has always been curious about what kind of shop Xia Jing plans to open?It is so unreasonable to play cards in site selection.

According to the thinking of normal people, when the funds for opening a store are sufficient, no one is willing to open a store in an alley with little traffic.

I couldn't figure out what she was thinking, so I followed her to have a look today.

The main thing is that another man wants to know how she is doing.

The closest store to the government office is on the main street, a shop with only more than 100 square meters.

As soon as Xia Jing got off the carriage, Ding Daqiang greeted her, "Ding Daqiang, a grassroots man, has seen the princess."

"You are Ding Dazhuang's elder brother."

The siblings are very similar in appearance.

"It's the grass people."

Xia Jing walked past him into the shop, "Is the shop ready?"

Ding Daqiang followed behind, with a hint of hesitant expression on his face, "It's ready, we've recruited two guys, and we can open for business anytime, but we're just waiting for the goods to arrive. I wonder when our goods will arrive?"

There is a cash register, a display cabinet, and a rest area for customers to rest in the shop.

Due to the small footprint of the products, the shop looks a bit empty.

But Xia Jing was very satisfied, "Yes, you don't have to worry about the goods, I have received the news that they will arrive tomorrow, and our shop will be officially open the day after tomorrow."

Ding Daqiang was stunned for a moment, "Don't we choose an auspicious day?"

Are the rich and powerful so casual about the opening of shops?

Xia Jing knew that he had good intentions, so she smiled, "Every day is an auspicious day, and we will open on that day."

Mr. Zhang was holding a fan in his hand, fanning the wind while looking at the shop.

When he noticed the display cabinet, he asked suspiciously: "Princess, is this cabinet for your products?"

Xia Jing nodded: "Yes."

"How many things can these cabinets hold?"

"The goods that this concubine wants to sell are the same. A few boxes in the cabinet are enough."

Mr. Zhang was taken aback. He picked his ears and thought he heard it wrong. "It's just the same product?"

"Yes! You heard me right."

hiss!
Ding Daqiang, Mr. Zhang and the two guys all took a breath. A shop only sells one product?
"What commodity is that?"

Xia Jing smiled viciously: "It's a secret for now!"

Mr. Zhang just raised his ears, and when he heard this, he looked at her speechlessly.

Seeing Mr. Zhang's speechless expression, the two maids pursed their lips and snickered.

After inspecting several shops, Mr. Zhang really doubts that such shops can make money?
Thinking like this in my heart, I asked like this, "Can you make money from the opening of these four shops?"

The two are in a small alley. Although the two are said to be on the main street, each shop has only the same product. Can this business make money?

"Why would I open a shop if I don't make money?" Xia Jing asked back.

I saw a herbal tea shop on the street on the left, "I seldom drink herbal tea when I come to Lingnan, why don't we go and taste what this herbal tea tastes like?"

Mr. Zhang frowned, glanced at the herbal tea shop next to him, knowing that he couldn't ask anything for the time being, he nodded helplessly: "Okay, it just so happens that I haven't tasted it either."

Ding Daqiang followed behind and introduced in a low voice: "Most of the shops on this street belong to the three major families in Lingnan, and now this herbal tea shop belongs to the Tong family."

After his introduction, Xia Jing noticed that Tong Ji's emblem was really hanging on the counter.

"Since most of the shops on this street are owned by the three great families, how did you buy my two shops?"

Ding Daqiang laughed, "Small businesses are so squeezed that they can't keep going, and they are taken advantage of by the small ones."

The herbal tea shop is divided into upper and lower floors, and Xia Jing and the others were led to the private room on the second floor.

The wooden stairs leading from the first floor to the second floor creaked when stepped on due to their age.

Mr. Zhang was dissatisfied with the stairs, "Tong's family has a big business, how can they do business without repairing the guest room! Will the business be good under such conditions?"

Xiaoer, who was leading the way, turned back and smiled: "Don't worry about the guest officer, our shop business is pretty good."

After all, he pointed to the many individual customers sitting in the lobby on the first floor.

Mr. Zhang glanced back, and said unconvinced: "It's still too early for Li Ke Ru Yun to come."

Little Two: "."

It was the first time I encountered a guest who raised a bar.

"Thank you for reminding me, Mr. Tong, we will continue to work hard."

The sound from the second floor caused several people to turn their eyes and found that it was the young master of the Tong family.

"Yo! It's really fate. I can meet Tong Ji Shaodong's family here. I have long admired him."

Mr. Zhang's eccentric tone attracted the attention of Xia Jing and the others.

Tong Song laughed at his words.

His eyes fell on Xia Jing, who was wearing a sky blue skirt, with three thousand hairs gently pulled back, her appearance was natural.

Judging from the outside, it's hard to see that she is already the ancestor of the palace, and her son is almost grown up.

"Wangfei can come to the small shop and let Tong Ji flourish. Can Xiaosheng treat us today?"

Xia Jing pursed her lips and nodded slightly.

Outside, she hasn't had any real contact with people from the three major families. This opportunity is rare, and it's hard to justify it if it doesn't go according to his wishes.

"Princess, please!" Tong Song made a gesture of invitation.

Tong Song heard that they came here specially to drink herbal tea, so he asked Xiao Er to serve them a bowl and make a pot of black tea by the way.

Mr. Zhang saw that Xiao Er had withdrawn, and came out to find fault again, "Don't you drink the herbal tea in Master Tong's own shop?"

Young Master Tong smiled: "Sir, I misunderstood. Herbal tea clears heat and detoxifies, and is naturally cold. It's okay to drink it once or twice occasionally. It's impossible to drink it every day just because it's from home?"

As he spoke, he looked at Xia Jing, "However, for those of you who have just arrived in Lingnan, because you have not yet adapted to the climate in Lingnan, you can drink more to relieve the heat, so as not to get angry when you get burned."

"Oh, no wonder I feel a little angry these days. It turns out that the weather is too hot." Xia Jing doesn't dislike drinking herbal tea, but she doesn't know how it tastes?

Tong Songwen said: "It will be better after a while to adapt."

While chatting, Xiao Er came in with herbal tea.

Xia Jing looked at the herbal tea in front of her that looked like traditional Chinese medicine juice, "Isn't the herbal tea in your shop just a traditional Chinese medicine soup?"

Mr. Zhang nodded: "Aren't you trying to sell pork on a pedestal?"

Tong Song took a deep breath, "That's right, it's brewed with herbal medicines made into herbal tea bags. People in Lingnan like this. Those with a little bit of conditions can drink it whenever they need it outside. The poor like to boil it by themselves."

Mr. Zhang: "."

He suspected that this kid was pointing fingers at Sang Huai, implying him!
In his heart, he wanted to go back and endure it by himself, but when the kid said something, whether he endured it or not, if he endured it, he would admit that he is a poor person.

Tong Song looked at Xia Jing, "Princess, I heard that you are busy opening up wasteland recently?"

"Correct."

Xia Jing looked at the herbal tea on the table, took a sip, "It doesn't taste very good, why would anyone like to drink this?"

"It's good for the princess to get used to it." Tong Song poured a cup of black tea and pushed it in front of her.

Xia Jing picked up the black tea and took two sips, the bitterness in her mouth eased a lot.

Tong Song brought the topic back again, "If the princess encounters any difficulties in opening up wasteland, you can come to me, and I will definitely help if I can."

Xia Jing put down the teacup and exhaled, "Not to mention, this concubine really has something to ask Master Tong for help."

"Oh?" How rude!

Xia Jing thought about the materials she lacked, "Nowadays, there is a real shortage of materials for land reclamation, such as cattle, horses, farm tools, seeds, building materials, etc. It would be better if I borrow a few more craftsmen."

The corner of Tong Song's mouth twitched, he really had a lot of appetite, and the Tong family felt a little distressed when they brought out so many supplies.

As long as he is not in the government office, the young master of the Tong family has regained his confidence. After hearing this, his aura instantly weakened a lot.

"Princess, are you kidding me? The supplies you mentioned are in short supply no matter where they are placed."

Mr. Zhang didn't wait for Xia Jing to speak, he said with disgust, "Young master of the Tong family, do you want to renege on your word and get fat?"

Tong Song took a deep breath, and his face was still calm, "Princess, I will distribute some supplies from our Tong family. Among them, there are only cattle, horses, and some other supplies, but they will not be too many. Because the Tong family doesn't have many."

Mr. Zhang stared angrily, "You actually said that there are only twenty horses and ten horses in our tens of thousands of hectares of wasteland. How can you do that? Send the beggars? What do you think of our palace, beggars?"

Tong Song wanted to take back the original sentence of asking for help, these are not beggars, they are simply a group of robbers!
Tens of thousands of taels were robbed before, and then 10,000+ taels were robbed. Now the lack of supplies has started to rob again.

Is there any reason!
Xia Jing didn't talk nonsense, and told him directly: "We bought it with silver, three thousand cattle, two thousand mules and horses, and others, you can give them to you. This concubine wants to rely on Master Tong's influence in Lingnan. A little difficulty should be able to help us solve it!"

So don't misunderstand her playing Qiufeng.

hiss!
Several people around took a deep breath, the princess ate garlic for breakfast, her breath was really serious.

Even Tong Song, who had always been good-tempered, wanted to sneer.

It may be due to the businessman's habit, he immediately started haggling and haggling the price quoted by Xia Jing.

"You can only gather seven or eight hundred cattle at most, and it is even more difficult to gather mules and horses. There are only five hundred horses at most. I will try my best to gather some for you. Princess, it's not that I don't want to help you, it's just that the situation in Lingnan is special. The property of the people at the border cannot be guaranteed, so the people naturally dare not raise more livestock."

Mr. Zhang endured the bitterness in his mouth, and put down the herbal tea bowl, "Master Tong's family is indeed worthy of doing business. He is not as ruthless as you in bargaining. You just cut it in half and then cut it in half. You like to do things like this. Does your business partner know?" ? Your concubine has thousands of hectares of wasteland, and your hundreds of cattle are not enough!"

As soon as these sarcastic words came out, Tong Song's face darkened.

"Since Mr. thinks it's so easy to do, why don't you try some other companies?"

Mr. Zhang: "Master Tong, don't be upset. What the old man said is the truth. There are ten thousand hectares of land, and the cattle you said are really not enough."

"The construction of Lingnan starts with land reclamation. The ancestors of the Tong family have taken root in Lingnan for generations. I believe that Young Master Tong doesn't want Lingnan to lag behind other prefectures, right?"

Tong Song waved his hands, frowned and said, "Don't talk about righteousness with me. Talking about righteousness is like playing hooligans."

Xia Jing raised her eyebrows, and asked with a light smile, "Young Master Tong, let me tell you the real number, but the number just now must not be enough."

Tong Song pondered for a while, "The limit is the amount you reported, cut in half."

Xia Jing also felt the horror of the aristocratic family at this moment. They occupied a large amount of supplies and lived a life of luxury and corruption, while the people at the bottom were living in hardship.

It has been such a long time since she came to Fucheng, she sent people to the livestock market, and in so many days she only bought less than thirty cattle.

And the aristocratic family can make hundreds or even thousands of heads casually, the gap is really too big.

"Okay, I'll leave this to you." Xia Jing agreed.

"I'm really sorry that I couldn't solve all the troubles for the princess."

Xia Jing shook her head, "You have tried your best."

Waiting to leave the herbal tea shop.

Sitting in the carriage, Hongmei asked puzzledly: "Why is the concubine so talkative in the end, why don't you ask the Tong family to help?"

Xia Jing laughed loudly when she heard the words: "Benfei originally thought that everything would be fine if he helped me deal with five hundred cattle, but I didn't expect it to exceed twice the estimate. So what is there to be dissatisfied with?"

In fact, at the very beginning, I never thought that I would meet Tong Song, let alone that he was willing to help.

The most surprising thing was that he helped her gather head and mules and horses.

How could such a pie in the sky be let go?
It's just that a lot of money is needed to buy this batch of materials, and my own money is not enough at all.

We have to find a way to get enough money!
Do you want to take advantage of these few days to go out and rob the bandit den?

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