"It's a little strange that you don't have a single guard?" Lu Mengqi is a little strange, the Gu family actually has more enemies, and Prime Minister Gu never accepts bribes, so the family is poor, but he is afraid that someone will persecute him, so there are guards around each lady, but there are no seven ladies around.

"I remember, the Seventh Lady is not often followed by one, called... King.. Guards of something? ”

"This is even more strange, Wang Yong stayed with the Seventh Lady in the name of a guard, but Wang Yong doesn't know martial arts at all." Li Rourou also felt that this matter was strange, but he didn't want to do what he wanted to investigate with his eldest lady.

"Interesting, adulterer? No way... Such a big melon? Lu Mengqi put down the pen and picked up the pastry next to him and took a bite, "Go check the origin of the Seventh Lady." ”

"Miss, you have to add money."

"Ahhhh Gaga Gaga! Isn't it okay to add! Why did I make this rule in the first place? Spend so much money! ”

"If you don't set this rule, you won't be able to make so much money yourself." Li Rourou's face, I still don't understand your expression.

"Walked back, it's too cold here." If it weren't for talking about things, Lu Mengqi wouldn't have come here to blow the wind and snot.

Bedroom

"Yuan Qing! I drew another sub-picture to see if I was improving! Lu Mengqi showed Gu Yuanqing the moon appreciation picture she had just drawn.

"Kiki's painting is very expressive, and it is an improvement from yesterday." Gu Yuanqing boasted about people, and he really didn't blush.

"Hey, hey~ for you! Put it away~ I became a great painter in the future, and the price may rise. Lu Mengqi patted Gu Yuanqing on the shoulder.

"It's not early, sleep, sleep."

On the morning of the second day, Gu Ruihan appeared as usual to teach Lu Mengqi to practice martial arts.

"Don't practice first, come, this one will be for you." Lu Mengqi took out another painting, and after chatting for a long time yesterday, she drew two.

"What's this drawing? It's black. Gu Ruihan held the picture, but he really couldn't understand what was drawn, there were many small black dots on the right and a large black patch on the left.

"This is the mountain, this is the lake, this is the lotus." Lu Mengqi pointed to Gu Ruihan and said.

"Lotus? Is there a lotus flower this season? ”

"Imagine! Can't imagine it! Forget it, you don't understand art, Yuan Qing does. Lu Mengqi said, with a smile on her face.

She didn't know what kind of wind she was pumping to give Gu Ruihan a painting, knowing that this person would not praise people, and she went up to the pole to find criticism.

Gu Ruihan also made a fool of himself to fold the painting smoothly and put it in the front of his shirt.

"Today we are fighting." Gu Ruihan said, pulled away from the stance, and slapped it with a palm.

"I'm not prepared! And that's where it begins. Lu Mengqi instinctively used light power to dodge Gu Ruihan's palm.

The two of them fought evenly for half an hour.

"It's too weak, I haven't learned the kung fu I taught you during this time." Gu Ruihan had an expression of hatred on his face.

"Where can anyone learn so quickly! It's only been a long time. Besides, didn't I fight with you for a long time just now, you see my hands and arms are all red. Lu Mengqi pouted dissatisfiedly, she felt that she had played quite well just now.

"I only blocked, I didn't attack, but you didn't really hit me at all." Gu Ruihan pulled Lu Mengqi over. "For example, if you call from here, I will block it, and you will do this immediately."

Gu Ruihan dismantled every move and style, and explained it to Lu Mengqi in detail, with a focused expression and no slackness, seeing that Lu Mengqi was a little distracted.

After practicing in the morning, Lu Mengqi was so tired that she couldn't lift her arms, so after eating lunch and resting, she went to the incense shop.

"Boss Lu, you're here, do you have any new goods?" Shopkeeper Wang looked at Lu Mengqi as if he had seen gold. Although the sales volume of flower water is not as good as when it first went on the market, the incense shop makes a lot more money than he made at the beginning.

"The hat shop next door, because there is no business, you have been taking care of it recently, I want to open an event, I have to hire another shopkeeper." Lu Mengqi asked the shopkeeper Wang to take the account book, looked at the income, and took his part.

In the afternoon, Lu Mengqi did an event plan, a "beauty contest", and a big-brimmed hat shop was held. As soon as the big red paper notice was posted, it attracted many people to watch.

Participants need to purchase a hat at a hat shop to participate in the competition, which is set as a young men's group and a young women's group.

The top 10 finishers in each category can get a share of the prize. The first place is ten taels, the second to fifth place is five taels, and the sixth to tenth place is three taels. And the hat, it only costs three hundred copper coins.

Here, money can always be exchanged for one or two pieces of silver, but most of the shops circulate copper coins, and the annual silver production is small, there is less circulation in the market, and everyone buys things, and they are also copper coins.

Lu Mengqi thought that this method of using a small amount of copper coins to exchange for more silver would still be very actively involved.

The competition has judges, who will select the final first place according to the judges' scores, and give the title of the most beautiful woman and the most beautiful Xiao Lang, and will also give away a special hat.

After the competition was held, there was an endless stream of visitors, but there were few people who signed up, so they had no choice but to use the old method to find childcare.

Lu Mengqi's sister-in-law found a young lady, Shi Wanyun, the eldest lady of the family, and promised that even if she didn't get the award, she would give the most distinctive award in particular, and ask the painter to draw a portrait and hang it in the hat shop, as a signboard, and buy anything in all the shops opened by Lu Mengqi in the future, you can get a discount!

After discussing with his father, Shi Wanyun agreed to this proposal and said that he would abide by the regulations and keep it confidential.

Shi Wanyun has a small group of followers in the city, because of his beautiful appearance, generous and decent behavior, his voice is as beautiful as a silver bell, his laughter makes people feel like a spring breeze, and there are some fleshy faces, which make people look at it with pity.

And Shi Yuanwai thinks that Lu Mengqi can bring a shop back to life so quickly in the city and make something as novel as Huashui, if it really develops in the future, she may need to flatter her, and now the other party has come to her in person, wouldn't it be a good thing.

As soon as the news of Shi Wanyun's participation was released, a group of applicants had already poured in to participate in the competition before people came to sign up.

The beauty contest went very smoothly, although the hat market was not very wide, but when you see people wearing all kinds of hats on the street, you will no longer look at it with different eyes, it doesn't matter if you make money or not, hat promotion is Lu Mengqi's ultimate goal.

Although the business of the hat shop is not so good that it is in the market, after paying the rent and paying the monthly money, there is still a surplus to continue to make hats, and Lu Mengqi is already very content.

Next, a person who specializes in the style and production of hats was hired, and the hat shop was over, and the hat he made for Gu Yuanqing could finally be worn on the street with confidence and boldness.

As soon as this matter was resolved, the first thing Lu Mengqi did was to take Gu Yuanqing, who was wearing a hat, to the street.

"It's good, it's just a little in the way." Lu Mengqi looked at Gu Yuanqing's big hat, in order to cover the light, the brim of the hat was made very large and wide, resulting in Lu Mengqi not being too close to Gu Yuanqing, otherwise Gu Yuanqing turned around, and the brim of the hat would easily hit her, causing the hat to fall.

"It seems that you still have to, improve it, but if you wear this first, at least you can go out, right?"

"Thank you Kiki, I'm already very content, after the age of twelve, I never thought that I would be able to see this bustling scene again." Gu Yuanqing said that it was all false not to be excited, since he was twelve years old, he had hardly been out of the Gu Mansion, let alone could wander around outside unscrupulously.

"But what are you doing here?" Lu Mengqi turned his head to look at Gu Ruihan. Although the two look similar, Gu Ruihan has recently become darker and has bigger muscles, and standing together, he already needs to look carefully to find the similarities between the two.

Gu Ruihan's eyebrows are deeper and more serious, his eyebrows are like a long sword, while Gu Yuanqing is much gentler, his eyebrows are curved willow leaves. Lu Mengqi thought about Gu Ruihan, who was Gu Yuanqing's stand-in at the beginning, and couldn't help but sigh, "It turns out that the makeup skills at this time are so good." ”

"Huh? Qiqi, what are you talking about" Gu Yuanqing looked at Lu Mengqi, who was also wearing a hat, in order not to make Gu Yuanqing look abrupt, so she, Gu Yuanqing, Gu Ruihan, Chen Jing, and the four of them came out, all wearing hats, but the four hats were different and different.

Lu Mengqi was wearing the latest model in the shop, decorated with four kinds of flowers, and her hair was exposed on the top of her head. And Gu Ruihan and Chen Jingdai are ordinary models in the store.

"It's okay, I just found that the two of you were so similar at the beginning, but now there is such a big gap." Lu Mengqi looked at the two of them again. "Let's go shopping, since you haven't been out for a long time, let's buy more things and go back!" What do you like? ”

"As long as it's your choice, it's fine." Gu Yuanqing looked at Lu Mengqi with sincere eyes.

"Okay." Lu Mengqi also smiled happily.

The four of them didn't go shopping for too long, although Gu Yuanqing's condition eased a lot, but they still couldn't stay in the sun for too long during the day, and after only a little strolling, the four of them went home.

Lu Mengqi bought a lot of things for Gu Yuanqing, and also gave Chen Jing a sword spike, a black and red sword spike, which was very suitable for Chen Jing.

"Oh, this, I'll give it to you." Lu Mengqi took out a small box from his sleeve pocket and handed it to Gu Ruihan. "Don't say I'm biased."

After Lu Mengqi finished sending it, he didn't wait for Gu Ruihan to open it, turned around and ran away.

"What is this?" As soon as Gu Ruihan opened it, there was a silk belt inside, Gu Ruihan looked at the belt around his waist that was a little old, and he had not changed the belt since he entered the story, and he was a little happy.

There was also a note inside, "Be happy, don't frown all the time." "There's also a smiley face and a byline at the end.

It's like when I was in elementary school, my classmates celebrated their birthdays and sent birthday cards.

A simple greeting, a simple gift, and a simple package, and a simple feeling.

"It's just, why is this belt green?" Gu Ruihan picked up his belt and looked at it again.