HCB Chapter 226: The Merchant's Daughter Wants to Marry the General 23
Chapter 226: The Merchant's Daughter Wants to Marry the General 23
"Then I would like to thank the Seventh Prince!"
Li Xuanzhi looked at Shen Guli's eyes that suddenly lit up, like a candle suddenly lit in the night, shining brightly. He smiled, "Later, I'll ask the butler to bring the deed to you for selection!"
Shen Guli smiled widely and quickly expressed her loyalty, "Thank you, Your Majesty. I will not let you suffer any loss and will repay you."
Li Xuanzhi thought Shen Guli wanted to give him a banknote, so he put down his cup and prepared to stand up. "It's just a farm, I can still afford it. Consider it my return gift for saving Xie Rong!"
Shen Guli smiled but didn't say anything. She would let Li Xuanzhi see her abilities and know that she was a very useful person to him!
Xie Rong hadn't come to the noodle shop for three days in a row. On the evening of the third day, he came hurriedly on horseback. After eating a bowl of pork chop noodles, he went to the back hall to look for Shen Guli.
"Miss Shen, this is my personal jade pendant!"
Why did Xie Rong give himself the jade pendant?
Shen Guli's first reaction was to step back and refuse. A jade pendant that fits the body is best suited for private exchange. What does he want to do?
"My name is engraved on it. If you encounter any emergency and cannot find the Seventh Prince, you can take this to the Zhenbei General's Mansion to find my father."
Shen Guli:----
"Thank you so much, General!" Shen Guli calmly accepted the black jade pendant. She would never have too much of a life-saving item.
It would have been fine if her stepfather didn't do anything, but he did something so serious that he would lose his head and his entire clan would be executed.
She could only cling to orthodoxy to give her family a glimmer of hope.
"As for the procurement of food for the military camp, it will be more convenient for the Seventh Prince to handle it than for me. Don't worry about this matter, there will be no accidents."
Xie Rong gave some instructions and stood up to go back to the mansion without even drinking a sip of tea. "I will leave tomorrow. I still have some things to take care of in the mansion, so I will leave first!"
"Shen Guliyao wishes General Xie a triumphant return. By then, my restaurant will be one of the best restaurants in Beijing. I will host a welcoming reception for General Xie in the restaurant!"
"Thank you for your kind words." Before going to the battlefield, his life or death was uncertain. Xie Rong suppressed the inexplicable emotions he had towards Miss Shen, bowed solemnly, and turned to leave.
The next day, Shen Guli inspected the new restaurant as usual, then took a stroll around the noodle shop before returning home.
Cherry looked up at the high sun and asked cautiously, "Miss, aren't you going to see General Xie off?"
The weather has turned a little cooler. The autumn wind blows the withered yellow leaves, which rustle on the ground, creating a unique sense of desolation.
"There are plenty of people who will see him off, and I'm not the only one." Shen Guli stepped on the fallen leaves, listening to the crackling sound. "Besides, what kind of identity would I have to go and see him off?"
What would happen if Xie's cousin saw it? In her previous life, Xie's mother, who was very picky about Gu Li, really disliked her merchant background, not to mention that she had now become the merchant she disliked the most.
So even though she understood the expectation in Xie Rong's eyes yesterday, she just wished him a happy return from afar, hoping that he could understand what she meant.
I don’t know what Xie Rong was thinking. He actually wanted to see him off myself. I didn’t feel so unhappy in my previous life.
In his previous life, Xie Rong received the transfer order and returned home before informing his newly-married wife, packing up his things, and leaving two days later.
It's called a clean walk.
Perhaps he also cared about the gossip of people in the capital about him marrying a merchant's daughter.
Soon Shen Guli stopped thinking about those trivial things. Lu Zhengrong escorted a batch of dried noodles to Yuhua City, which is close to the capital, to distribute them.
Grapes also came back with him.
"Miss, this is a letter written to you by the Madam and the Young Master!" Grape packed up more efficiently than before. This time, Shen Guli specially sent her and Lu Zhengrong back to the farm to transport the goods. However, she did not expect that she would come back separately from Lu Zhengrong this time, but they came back one after the other.
Although she intuitively felt that something must have happened on the farm, Shen Guli still put the two letters aside and looked up at Lu Zhengrong, whose face showed more determination and maturity.
"Master Lu, is the journey smooth?"
After being called out by Shen Guli, Lu Aniu straightened his back a little more. He replied seriously, "Everything went well. On my way back, I found that several grain stores in the county towns already had dried noodles for sale. Some were made in our workshop, and some were imitated by others!"
Shen Guli nodded, "It's not a very complicated method to make dried noodles. Once it's made, there will be people who will study it and imitate it."
"I had no time to stay as I was on deadline for delivery. Otherwise, I would have found out who was counterfeiting us and smashed their workshop to pieces!" Lu Zhengrong clenched his fist as big as a sandbag and smashed it into the palm of his other hand, making a snapping sound.
Shen Guli thought it was funny, but she was a little impulsive and still needed some experience.
"I had expected this situation to happen, it's okay." Due to the particularity of this era, it is very possible to achieve a monopoly, but there is really no need to spend too much thought on the dry hanging noodles.
"Let them do it. How can we, alone, handle the thirteen states and counties? What we need to do is to secure a sales channel that no one else can snatch away."
For example, cooperating with the court.
"But, young lady, you have worked so hard to make this with everyone -"
Shen Guli was speechless. Was it so hard to make just one piece of dried noodles?
"Brother Daniel, if possible, I can come up with more good things. Dried noodles are just the most insignificant one."
Hearing the young lady calling him by his former nickname, Lu Aniu smiled innocently. He scratched his head and said, "Young lady, you are amazing. How did you learn so many skills?"
Shen Guli was very pleased to be praised directly. She made dried noodles and no one asked her where she learned it from. Who would have known that the first person to question her was the silly Lu Aniu.
Yingtao rolled her eyes at Lu Aniu and said, "Of course, Miss figured it out bit by bit on her own. Don't you know about the experiments she conducted on the farm?"
Lu Aniu laughed when he was scolded, "I just think it's amazing that the lady can come up with things that don't exist!"
Shen Guli wanted to hold her forehead with her hand. So far, she had only made one kind of dried noodles, but Lu Aniu seemed to have seen countless of her inventions.
This is really blind worship by subordinates.
"That's why I told you to read more books. Books can reveal your golden house and your beautiful wife!"
Lu Aniu nodded hurriedly, "I have been studying hard to learn words and arithmetic!" It's just that I'm learning a little slowly.
Shen Guli asked him about the details of his assignment and then let Lu Zhengrong go back to rest.
He flipped through two letters, one from his mother, Lin, and one from his fifth brother, Shen Helin. "You stayed at the manor for so many days. Did something happen?"