Mai Jiu discussed with Wei Xiran in Zhumengxuan for an afternoon, and the two had already decided that the opening day would be five days later, which was a good day to travel, start work, open, open, collect money and open the market.

Time is tight and the task is heavy, Mai Jiu didn't stop for a moment, the palace to the shop ran to Guo Qiyan's courtyard at three o'clock and one line, the busier she was, the more excited and looking forward to it.

On the second day, Mai Jiu sent a lot of people to release the news of the opening, and then she simply redecorated the shop again.

How to place the shelves, the abacus used by the shopkeeper, and the tea that the rich wives drank were also arranged by Mai Jiu, and the most important signboard was also designed and created after several waves of elimination.

On the third day, Mai Jiu made a lot of skin care products and trial packs with Guo Qiqi in Guo Qiyan's small courtyard, sorted out which products were recorded, and the specific functions and applicable groups Mai Jiu also wrote down, planning to return to the palace and carry a rolling melon.

On the fourth day, the Wei family sent a lot of helpers, and everyone determined the display method and quantity together, and discussed the approximate turnover, sales target, promotion plan and income and expenditure budget of the first day of opening.

On the fifth day, Mai Jiu also formulated a reception service system, reward system, personnel training, etc. for the employees in the store.

In the evening, Mai Jiu asked someone to install the signboard and cover it with red cloth, and many people stopped to watch, and Mai Jiu enthusiastically told them that he would definitely be able to come to the venue when it opened tomorrow.

After five days of hard work, she returned to the palace and fell asleep on the bed without even having dinner.

In the early morning of the second day, Zhihua walked into the house to wake up the master, Mai Jiu heard the voice, opened his eyes, and an excited carp got up, and without saying a word, he washed himself and sat down in front of the dresser, waiting for Zhihua to make up for her.

After finishing the makeup, Zhihua chose a blue emerald smoke yarn for his master, as well as a pale green skirt like scattered flowers and mist.

Mai Jiu shook his head and said, "It's too gentle, I don't have the temperament of a boss." ”

Zhihua also brought a goose yellow embroidered white magnolia skirt, with a big sleeve, and the big sleeves were all big hibiscus flowers embroidered with gold thread.

Mai Jiu put his hand on his chin, thought for a while, and said, "Hmm... Okay, that's it, extravagant. ”

Mai Jiu put on her skirt and sat back in front of the dresser, Zhihua picked up a milky white pearl and compared it to Mai Jiu's neck.

Mai Jiu shook her head, and Zhihua picked up a pair of jade hairpins with strands of silver tassels on them, and she took the hairpin and compared it to Mai Jiu's bun.

Continuing to shake her head, Mai Jiu looked down at the dresser, she first picked up a jade bracelet and put it on her hand, then picked up a pair of eight-treasure jade chrysanthemum hairpins and inserted them into the bun, and then picked up a few golden hairpins and inserted them into the hairpins, so that she could see that her whole body exuded grace and luxury.

Mai Jiuqi walked out and said, "Let's go." With that, he raised one hand above his head and made a powerful gesture.

Mai Jiu soon arrived at the shop, and everyone was already fully armed, each performing their duties and preparing to open.

The shopkeeper was also introduced by the Wei family, and the shopkeeper Sun had two mustaches, and when he smiled, he leaked a mouthful of yellowed teeth, but that mouth could really say that he could boast about Mai Jiu every time they met.

Seeing Mai Jiu come in, Shopkeeper Sun raised his smile and trotted up to greet him, he looked up and down at the person in front of him, shook his head and said with a tongue, "We Gu Boss, the eyes are cut water, the eyebrows are picturesque, the powder makeup is jade, the clothes are fragrant and the sideburns are shadowy, and the beauty and generosity are peerless beauties." ”

In fact, Mai Jiu didn't understand these idioms very much, she just knew that she was praising her.

Mai Jiu covered his mouth and smiled shyly, shook his hand and said, "Where is it, where is it." ”

Immediately afterwards, Guo Qiyan also walked in, and after seeing it, the shopkeeper Sun turned sideways and went straight to Guo Qiyan, who was still a rainbow fart, and scratched his head embarrassedly.

Mai Jiu clapped his palms and motioned for everyone to gather, and all the people in the room gathered towards her.

"When the hour comes, let's set off firecrackers, and the two of you will go and uncover the red cloth." Mai Jiu pointed to the two shopkeepers beside him: "Don't drag the mud and water, be quick." ”

"After the firecrackers are over, I will go out to speak, and you can say a few words." Mai Jiu turned his head to look at Guo Qiyan again.

Guo Qiyan pointed his finger at himself: "Me? But I don't know what to say. ”

Mai Jiu put his finger on the right side of his head and drew a circle and said, "Don't you want to?" You're also the boss, so you have to say a few words, and if you can't, you'll betray your hue. ”

Hearing this, Guo Qiyan blocked his arm in front of his chest as a form of protection.

Mai Jiu didn't pay attention to it, but turned around and looked at the other two clerks: "After you finish speaking, you will shout hard, just..."

She remembered what Guo Qiqi said when she first met Guo Qiyan, so she continued, "Let's just say that it's a free trial, after using it, the skin will be fair, and the beauty will be unstoppable after using it, and the skin will go up every day, understand." ”

The two of them nodded in unison, and after Mai Jiu turned his head, the two of them read the words they had just told them in their mouths.

Mai Jiu looked at the shopkeeper again and said, "Give full play to your skills in slapping sycophants, praise the guests to the sky, and praise them hard." After saying that, she clapped her hands and said loudly, "Okay, get ready." ”

Sang Huai'an stayed in Wucheng for three days, and found that there was no other clue except the footprint, after which he immediately went to Nanzhou.

Nanzhou is a small city in the south, and Sang Huai'an and the others arrived for two days.

As soon as they entered the city gate of Nanzhou, the prefect Jia and the officials waited at the city gate, and after hearing that the prince personally investigated the case, there was no specific time, so they waited here every day.

Seeing the prince enter the city, everyone knelt down and saluted, and Jia Zhifu knelt on the ground and kowtowed, "The next official will see the prince." ”

"No courtesy." Sang Huai'an looked at the surroundings as desolate as Wucheng, with only a few shops open on the street, and pedestrians in twos and threes hurrying.

Jia Zhifu got up and said, "Lord Wang, please come with Xiaguan, Xiaguan will take you to Xu's Mansion." ”

Sang Huai'an twitched the reins, and the horse walked forward slowly.

The Xu Mansion had long been burned to ashes, and outside the ruins were rows and rows of charred corpses.

Sang Huai'an and the three jumped off the horse, and Jia Zhifu hurriedly stepped forward and patted the horse's ass: "Lord Wang, you are tired of traveling all the way, and the lower official has arranged the best inn in Nanzhou for you, which will definitely make you live comfortably in the next few days." ”

Sang Huaian waved his arm and pushed the person standing in front of him, and walked forward: "This king is here to investigate the case, not to enjoy the mountains and rivers." ”

Jia Zhifu followed behind the prince, pretended to slap his mouth a few times, and said, "Look at the mouth of the lower official, what he said is out of place." ”

Sang Huai'an said coldly, "It's good to know, and I won't talk about it for a few days in the future." ”

For this Jia Governor's Mansion, Sang Huai'an has heard of it, this person is absurd and loves to eat meat and drink, and his life is extremely luxurious, looking at the bulging belly of Jia Governor's Mansion, I don't know how many silver taels he swallowed the imperial court.

Sang Huai'an approached the corpse, the exposure to the sun in recent days has been a little stinky, he covered his nose and turned his head to look at Jia Zhifu and asked, "It's hot, why don't you find a house or yard and put it up, just throw it on the street like this." ”

"This..."

Jia Zhifu didn't know how to quibble, as soon as this happened, he was still happy, Lord Xu has been an official in the court in recent days, and he has only resigned and returned to his hometown, and the people in Nanzhou have to respect the Xu family a few points, and as soon as they die, isn't the boss of Nanzhou Jia Zhifu himself.

Sang Huai'an endured the stench and got closer, he looked at the corpses in this area, many of the corpses were still struggling in pain when they were burned, it seemed that the murderer did not directly kill the people of the Xu family, but let them slowly burn to death in the flames.

Ruthless, ruthless.

Liu Shaoqing took out a few square scarves from his sleeve and handed them to Wang Ye and General Lin respectively. Sang Huai'an took the square scarf and tied it on his face, he looked around and didn't see a single one for so long.

"Where's the work?"

Hearing this, Jia Zhifu also looked around and said, "I guess where it is..." With that, he turned around and walked towards the servant.

General Lin looked at the back of the departing prefect of Jia's mansion: "Why is this prefect so unreliable." ”

Liu Shaoqing stepped forward and said, "Lord Wang, come down." Hearing this, Sang Huai'an took a step back and gave way to Liu Shaoqing.

Liu Shaoqing inspected each corpse and preliminarily judged that they were basically burned to death before their deaths. He pulled out a cloth bag from his sleeve, which was neatly arranged with the tools used for the autopsy, and he picked up the knife and compared it to the leg of the corpse in front of him.

"This corpse, the lower leg was broken, and it was unable to walk and could only be burned alive."

Liu Shaoqing got up and walked to the corpse next to him: "And this one is a little different, let's dissect it." After speaking, he squatted down and gently cut the abdomen of the corpse with a knife, and the corpse immediately flowed out of the corpse water.

Liu Shaoqing pointed with a knife: "Look, Lord Wang." ”

Sang Huai'an covered his nose and looked down, Liu Shaoqing continued, "The lungs and stomach have different degrees of puncture wounds, but the heart is not. ”

The thing Liu Shaoqing was referring to had already burned black and couldn't see its appearance, and Sang Huaian could only nod his head in agreement.

Shaoqing continued: "It shows that the murderer did not want to directly ask for this person's life, there was no smoke in this person's nasal cavity, he was not burned to death, but died of excessive blood loss with a knife." ”

At this time, Jia Zhifu hurriedly ran with the prefect, just sent someone to the yamen to look for it but did not find it, Jia prefect went in person, passed by the teahouse and saw the cha sitting in it leisurely drinking tea, so angry that he was angry, but he was forced to suppress his anger back because of the prince's side.

As soon as he came, he knelt down and kowtowed, and said, "The grass people, see the prince." ”

Sang Huai'an didn't turn his head back when he heard the voice, and when he saw that the person in front of him didn't reply, he could only continue to kowtow and kneel.

Jia Zhifu, who was behind him, said in a round game, "These corpses have been examined, and there is nothing abnormal." ”

Sang Huai'an straightened up and said, "You have seen a totem that looks like a wolf and an eagle. ”

Jia Zhifu shook his head and thought, when he heard the prince say this, he seemed to have really seen it somewhere, he quickly rummaged through his memory, and suddenly patted his head and said, "Xia Guan has really seen it, a few days ago, a group of Jianghu artists came here, they all wore a mask like a wolf and an eagle, they would do tricks and perform in Nanzhou for a few days before leaving." ”

Mai Jiu sat in the store drinking herbal tea, it was already evening, and the customers had sent away wave after wave, so she sat down to rest.

She looked at Guo Qiyan's big white teeth smiling at a woman, and the woman's shy expression said it all.

Mai Jiu sighed and brought the teacup in his hand to his mouth, many of the people who came today came to Guo Qiyan, and sure enough, Guo Qiyan's façade was not bad.

She turned her head to look at the counter again, Shopkeeper Sun was pulling the abacus, his hand was fast, Mai Jiu looked at the account book that was full of writing, and leaked a smug smile, she softly called Guo Qiyan to let him have a cup of tea and rest.

Guo Qiqi sent off the last female customer with a smile on his face, and when he saw the person walking out of the store, his smile immediately took it back, he turned his head to look at Mai Jiu and said, "Why are you so leisurely." ”

Mai Jiu waved his hand: "Because I'm not as good-looking as you." ”

Guo Qiyan put his hands behind his back, raised his chin, and said proudly, "You have vision." ”

Behind a stall opposite, a man was walking across the street looking at the man in the opposite shop, the scars on his cheeks that made him afraid to approach him, and his eyes were like a hungry eagle seeing his prey.