Yuan Yiyi was taken away by his subordinates, and Li Jing rubbed his head with a headache in the study.

He didn't expect that he could be overheard in his deliberations at home, and it seemed that he could only contact the Ma family in another place.

Li Jing called out his henchmen and asked, "What did the Ma family say?" ”

"The Ma family seems to be distressed by something recently, but it doesn't seem like it's about private salt, it's like looking for people for an incident more than ten years ago?"

"Who's looking for?"

"A witness, the Ma family did not do things clean before, left evidence, and they are trying to destroy it."

How could it be?

Li Jing was a little surprised, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, if he helps the Ma family from this aspect, he will have a steady stream of wealth in the future.

With this capital, you still can't pull in power? The moment he holds power, it is the moment when he forces the emperor to marry the seventh princess to him!

It's just that if you want to complete these plans without anyone knowing, Yuan Yiyi is indeed indispensable.

Without her cover, under the noses of the five princes, it was too eye-catching for her to enter and leave the Ma Mansion at will many times.

Li Jing, who had no choice, had to go to the main courtyard for the night.

doesn't mention how Yuan Yiyi splashed and rolled, and didn't mention how Li Jing was as uncomfortable as swallowing a fly this night.

In short, Meng Qiqi, who lives next door, sleeps very sweetly and comfortably. It's just that the low-investigation case she thought was about to be harassed beyond recognition.

Of course, Meng Qiqi didn't know at this moment, she was thinking about going out in the afternoon.

She was going to take Yang Yuhuan to see the address of the shop, after all, it was impossible to check Ma's house without starting from the store, and she also needed to buy a congratulatory gift for the full moon banquet to sneak into Ma's house.

forcibly deleted Li Jing and his wife from his mind, and after breakfast, Meng Qiqi took Yang Yuhuan to the street with great interest.

After a casual stroll, she felt quite bored.

"I really didn't expect that the shops in Pingzhou were carved out of a mold. Yuhuan, do you know what's going on? ”

How does she feel like shopping in the same store?

Yang Yuhuan had been cleaning the wing room yesterday, and she didn't see the scene in the yard.

She didn't know Meng Qiqi's identities, and she didn't want to involve them in the affairs of the Ma family, so she had to keep silent.

Seeing that Yang Yuhuan wanted to speak and stopped, Meng Qiqi shrewdly realized that there was definitely something wrong with this, so he casually found a jewelry store to enter.

She didn't pick anything, and just asked the guy to call their shopkeeper.

"What does this boy command?" Meng Qiqi dressed as a man, and deliberately stained her beard, but the shopkeeper didn't recognize it, so she thought it was a playful little boy who came over.

"I want to buy your store and make a price." Meng Qiqi deliberately said in a rough voice.

The shopkeeper was frightened, he had never seen this kind of direct door-to-door shop, he hesitated and asked, "Do you run it yourself, or do you just want to sell one?" ”

"Does it make a difference?"

"It doesn't make much difference, it's up to you how you want to make it."

"Oh, let's hear it."

"To run your own business is to resign yourself to fate, waiting for guests to come to your door; But if you worship the gods, maybe there will be a lot of customers in the future, and the wealth will be abundant. ”

This time it was Meng Qiqi's turn to be surprised. Is it necessary to open a jewelry store in Pingzhou, but also to give a gift? But she didn't show her thoughts, just smiled very reservedly and deliberately rubbed her hands.

"Tell me quickly, how do you bow down?"

"It seems that Childe wants to make money, it's really not me who blows, you just listen to me."

The shopkeeper pointed in the direction outside the store, "Tomorrow there is a rich merchant holding a full moon banquet, you send a red coral over and say where you want to open a jewelry store, that's it!" ”

"It's that simple?" Meng Qiqi couldn't believe it.

She naturally knew that the wealthy businessman in the shopkeeper's mouth was the Ma family, but the Ma family was so powerful?

The shopkeeper smiled profoundly, "It's as simple as that. ”

It may be that Meng Qiqi has been listening very seriously, and the shopkeeper thinks that he is on the way, and he instructed again, "Look at the little boy's eyes, it should be the first time I don't know Pingzhou, the old man will send you a word, the strong dragon can't suppress the head snake, it's better to go to worship at the beginning of the opening." ”

"In that case, I should prepare a proper gift to send over tomorrow." Meng Qiqi thanked the shopkeeper for his advice.

However, before leaving, she couldn't help but ask the strange question, "Why are so many shops in Pingzhou similar?" ”

The shopkeeper smiled silently, "You will understand after giving the gift tomorrow!" ”

Meng Qiqi left in disbelief and decided to go to the next store to ask.

Originally, she wanted to find a few more shops, but she felt really awkward, so she simply went to a shop that looked different, which happened to sell salt.

She was just about to go in, but Yang Yuhuan grabbed her, "Why don't you go buy gifts first and come back in the evening?" ”

After turning around a few shops, this was the first time Yang Yuhuan opened his mouth to stop it, Meng Qiqi took a closer look at this somewhat dilapidated salt merchant, nodded and left.

After buying red coral, the sun had already set.

As the night got darker, Meng Qiqi came to the store with red coral and found that there were quite a few people inside, but they were wearing tatters.

Then an old man caught her eye, dressed in patched clothes, but who had bought many bags of salt, acting sneakily as if he were selling illicit salt.

Meng Qiqi quietly followed, but was discovered, but she had studied martial arts, and she blocked people in a small alley in two clicks.

"Oh, this little boy, what are you doing to block me from an old man!"

"Then why did you run away when you saw me?"

The old man subconsciously glanced at Red Coral and pouted, "Little boy, you are here to open a jewelry store, I am a salt seller, we can't stand it, you can let me go." ”

He even knew from a gift that he was going to open a jewelry store?

Meng Qiqi felt that things were getting more and more interesting, and Pingzhou's business was really wrong.

"Who said that my son only opened a jewelry store, but my son has money and wants to open any store!"

The old man rolled his eyes, "Then you are wrong, in Pingzhou, everything is fine if you have money!" ”

"If you want to buy and sell private salt, find me, I can help you!"

"Just you?" Meng Qiqi deliberately mocked him contemptuously, "Your clothes are all in tatters, and you still want me to believe that you can sell illicit salt?" ”

"I've been in Pingzhou for more than 20 years, and I know the doorway here, I just don't have any money!"

Well, a fine light flashed in Meng Qiqi's eyes, it seems that she is still blocking the right person!

With a wave of her hand, she took out a bag of broken silver from her arms, "Tell me everything you know!" ”

The old man took the money bag, opened it and saw that his eyes were red, he had never seen so much money in his life!

took Meng Qiqi and Yang Yuhuan to a more remote teahouse, and the old man invited them to sit down and carefully talked about the "rules" of doing business in Pingzhou.