Du Mei's illness came and went quickly, and the next day he took medicine again, slept for most of the day, and was cured.

The news that Chu Lin urgently summoned He Lian to enter the palace that day quickly spread to the palace, but the empress dowager was scared a lot, and at noon on the second day, he specially sent Guo Gonggong to inquire, and saw that Du Mei was indeed fine, so he went back to report.

Du Mei has three years of filial piety to his father, and in the event of a national funeral, his body is even weaker, even if Wan Ruojin is in a hurry to hug his grandson, he has to hold back and not mention it, but he will send those good ginseng Ganoderma lucidum and bird's nest Ejiao to the Zhongyi Marquis Mansion in a steady stream.

After the lesson of stealing away, even if Du Mei recovered, he still honestly recuperated at home for a few days, eating kitchen stewed supplements every day, and even changed his way to make Chu Lin happy.

Chu Lin didn't know Du Mei's careful thoughts, he just let her play around, besides, he privately enjoyed Du Mei's rare warmth and beauty, but often when he couldn't help himself, he had to hold back, which was really uncomfortable.

"I want to go to Luomei Xuan tomorrow to see the patterns of this year's custom clothes." The two were having lunch face to face, and Du Mei stole a glance at Chu Lin and said flatteringly.

"Didn't you say it before, just follow the three chapters of the covenant." Chu Lin's heart moved, and his face did not change.

"Hehe, I just wanted to ask if you want to go." Du Mei bit her chopsticks and smirked.

"I don't understand that, you can go ahead." Chu Lin gave her some slices of spring bamboo shoots, he felt a little lonely, this girl was going to do her own business after all.

"I promise, I'll be home soon." Du Mei lowered her head and picked the fish bones in the small dish, this was the season of peach blossom flowing water mandarin fish fat, she picked it well, and pushed the small dish to Chu Lin naturally.

"Remember to bring Xiao Qi." Chu Lin raised his hand and poured a little marinade on the fish, carefully picked up half of it, and handed it to Du Mei's mouth.

"Definitely." Du Mei opened his mouth and muttered.

Chu Lin ate the rest, and the two ate some others, most of which were fed by Chu Lin, Du Mei was too shy to do this, so he gave him vegetables, but most of them were eaten by her, and he always wanted to make her fatter.

Early the next morning, Chu Lin went to the court accompanied by Zhao Ji'an, Du Mei was able to go out today, and she woke up very early excitedly, but she endured it until dawn before getting up, freshening up and eating, and then took Xiaoqi out.

"Sister, did you let me fight with Master and Shi in order to sneak out of the door that day?" The two sat in the carriage, Xiao Qi asked. On the second day after Du Mei's illness, she was punished by Chu Lin for practicing swords for a day, and until now, her arm has improved.

"It's all my sister's fault." Du Mei said apologetically.

"What's this, isn't it just to make me trapped by Master and the stone, I'll do it." Xiao Qi laughed heartlessly.

"They, who lost?" Du Mei suddenly asked curiously.

"Of course it's Master, if I join forces with Shishi, he can't stop it. Sister, you say, which of them likes me? Xiao Qiyang said proudly.

This result made Du Mei not expect, she was already emotionally dull, that is, Chu Linken has always spoiled her so much, that day was just an expedient ploy, at this time, she didn't know how to answer Xiao Qi, whether the person who likes her is a stone with tacit understanding, or Zhao Ji'an, who is deliberately defeated.

Fortunately, Xiao Qi didn't bother with this problem, she was quickly attracted by the bustle of the street market outside, and looked around half-lifted the curtain.

Although it is early spring, but the ladies and ladies in the high-ranking families have begun to come out to choose the new season's dresses, you know, Luo Meixuan's custom patterns and new fabrics are so several, there are many parties in late spring and early summer, who is the first to wear new products, that is the focus of the whole party, on the contrary, if you accidentally re-like others, it will be laughed at for a year.

Du Mei hadn't shown up in Jiangling City for a few days, she and Xiao Qi entered the slightly crowded Luomei Xuan, those plump or slender women, they didn't have time to look at her at all, they all stared at the patterns and fabrics like wolves, and secretly asked the embroidery girl, what kind of person ordered, I think it was last year that she suffered a loss at her hands, and this year she deliberately pulled back a game.

Du Mei was happy to mix in the crowd and listen to their various picky reasons, as long as it was not too excessive, she would write it down carefully, after all, the needs of these customers were the magic weapon for Luo Meixuan to make money.

Deng was talking to a tall and stout rich wife, the clothes had been chosen, as if she was choosing a pattern, and Du Mei squeezed over to take a look.

"Madam, you see that this kind of fancy is more chic and elegant, which can set off your wealth and grace." Deng Shi stood with his back and pointed to a tangled branch and said.

"I'm going to have a big red peony, this doesn't look good!" The rich lady's chubby fingers poked in disgust.

"This lady, Peony is the queen of flowers, if you insist, I'm afraid of ......" Du Mei looked at Deng Shi and pinched his eyebrows, and couldn't help but interject.

"Mei ......" such a familiar voice, Deng Shi turned around abruptly and covered his mouth excitedly.

"Who are you?" The rich lady looked up and down the tall and thin girl in front of her suspiciously, she is the kind of rich landlord, and she returned to Luomei Xuan to customize clothes at the beginning of this year, she is a dirt bun who doesn't understand the rules at all.

"I'm a person who paints patterns, compared to peonies, which need to be set off by the face of the city and the country, I think my aunt chooses you better." Du Mei said with a smile, then reached out and shook Deng's arm, like a coquettish child.

"You're saying I'm ugly!" Mrs. Fu said angrily.

"You're blind, what do you look like, you can't see it, and you're still a peony, you deserve it!" Xiao Qi's temperament was hot, and he snorted coldly.

Her hoarse voice and fierce words quickly attracted the attention of everyone who was buying, there was no shortage of wives and ladies of the official eunuchs, they knew Du Mei whether it was business or identity, and it was rumored that this Luo Mei Xuan was also her industry, who didn't compete to know her.

"Oh, county lord, you came to see the shop in person." A shrewd woman hurriedly saluted.

"It's obvious that the Hou Ye is here, everyone hurry up and see you!" Another woman waved a handkerchief and said excitedly.

That rich lady was stupid for a while, the county lord and the marquis, these two identities are unattainable for her, she just said something offensive to people, this can't live!

Her fat body was lying on the ground, because she was frightened, she trembled a few times and couldn't stand up, but Xiao Qi pulled her hard.

"The county lord and the princess, the women all listen to you, you can look good as you say, okay?" Mrs. Fu was so bitter that she just cried.

"My aunt has been making clothes for many years, and her vision is the most accurate, so you can believe her." Du Mei couldn't stand being stared at by so many people, so she hurriedly left with Xiao Qi.

"Meizi, why did you go out today?" Lin Dan had already gotten the news and hurried over.

"I'll be able to come out every day from now on." Du Mei raised his eyebrows and said with a smile.

"It's better to take care of your body more, don't work so hard, come and sit in the house." Lin Dan deliberately opened the sunny room on the second floor, which was warmed by the morning sun.

Peach Red and Willow Green brought pastries and tea, and at this time the shop was full of customers, and they also came secretly, and only said a few words and went to work again.

"Should I find some help? I look at the outside, too, too busy. Du Mei took a sip of tea.

"The dozen or so embroidery girls brought by the Deng family, after these two years, are all familiar hands in charge of their own, such people are not easy to find, I want to open another branch in Jiangling City these days, and divide the other businesses of Luomei Xuan, only do clothes and accessories here, what do you think?" Lin Dan pushed the slightly salty walnut shortbread to Du Mei and asked softly.

"The branch is going to be opened, but the embroidery girl also has to recruit, since ancient times, the heart of the heart is unpredictable, Luo Meixuan's business is so prosperous, not to mention that other embroidery villages are red, will use usury to tempt the embroidery girl to turn their backs on us, it is these dozen embroidery girls, maybe in the future, they may rely on their superb craftsmanship, and it is not impossible to blackmail us to process more money, besides, over time, they will eventually grow old, is Luo Meixuan's business not done?" Du Mei didn't want to think of people's hearts so badly, but after the great changes in winter hunting, she gradually grew stronger, and understood that Rouran's heart still needs to be protected by hard armor.

"And what are your plans?" Lin Dan leaned over and asked, what Du Mei said was very reasonable, there are a few embroidery girls who are indeed showing signs of arrogance, and the Deng family can hold it down now, and it will be difficult to say in the future.

"I plan to run a class to teach embroidery in Dujiagou Yixue, only accept teenage girls, and then ask my mother to teach the technique, one to make a living for the girls, and the other is to catch up with one or two clever and perceptive, let them go to Luomei Xuan to continue to learn tailoring and sewing, when the embroidery girl has a new person every year, although it can not completely eliminate what may happen in front, but there is always a back hand to guard." Du Mei elaborated on his thoughts.

"This method is good, the country girl is sincere, you give her a chance to get ahead, she will always be able to read your good, naturally she will do it for a longer time in Luomeixuan, without further ado, I will let Lin Qing do it, he knows the girls who can embroider in the villages around Sheshan Town, and he knows which is better and which is bad." Lin Dan nodded.

"That's what I thought, too." Du Mei smiled knowingly.

The two were talking, Chu Lin suddenly came over, and Lin Dan had an idea, so he didn't dare to disturb and left by himself.

"It's still early." Du Mei was surprised that he had come so early, and she looked out the window, where the sun was shining and the green leaves of the big elm tree were shining brightly.

"Ahem...... I'm fine today, waiting for you to go back with me. Chu Lin covered the corners of his mouth and coughed.

God knows, when he returned home, he looked at how lonely the empty house was, on weekdays, he sat in front of the big case to deal with official business, Du Mei would read a book or embroider under his nose, and the worst would be dangling and chatting with him, but today there was neither a figure nor a voice.

He quickly finished his business, sat in the house and drank tea, but without Du Mei by his side, even the fragrance of tea faded, Du Mei went to Luomei Xuan is a place to sell women's clothes and accessories, he thought about it, and still resisted the urge to go to her.

He spread out the rice paper and splashed ink, but every word seemed to be written unsatisfactory, and soon there was a pile of crumpled waste paper on the ground, he changed the pen and prepared to paint, but as soon as he painted a pool of blue lotus red lotus, he was damaged by a drop of ink, finally, he took a deep breath, threw down the pen in his hand, regardless of the mess in the house, went out to ride the ink cloud, and walked quickly.

"Then let's eat here, Aunt Xia's craftsmanship is good." Dumay grabbed his arm and smiled like a little fox.

"Okay." Chu Lin couldn't help pinching her little face, as a shock, since he came in just now, he really used a lot of courage.

Lin Dan naturally instructed Luo Meixuan and everyone not to disturb, and Chu Lin could finally hug Du Mei and be tired of being in the comfortable sun with her, making up for the morning of being overwhelmed and unwilling.

After lunch, Du Mei and Chu Lin went back, and with such a cold-faced Yama with him, he couldn't do anything.

The afternoon sun was shining, Chu Lin insisted on squeezing in the carriage with Du Mei, and drove Xiao Qi to the carriage, while Mo Yun followed behind the carriage.

"Tomorrow, where are you going?" Chu Lin asked while holding Du Mei.

"The Empress Dowager wants to summon me tomorrow?" Du Mei asked cautiously.

"No, I just thought, I might as well finish my business in the yamen and go directly to you, anyway." Chu Lin stretched out his hand and curled a strand of hair that fell out of Du Mei's sideburns and covered it up.

"Then you have a good mouth, Ming'er is going to Meiji, Song Jiu is here." Du Mei breathed a sigh of relief, it was not that she didn't like to go into the palace to accompany Wan Ruojin, but she was afraid that the rules in the palace were big, and she would make jokes without paying attention, and she wanted Chu Lin to help cover it up.

"Okay." Chu Lin also breathed a sigh of relief, and finally didn't have to go to Luomei Xuan, and was stared at by those women.

The next day, as soon as Chu Lin left, Du Mei took Xiao Qi out, Dong Chang wanted to stop her, but as soon as she said a few words of reassurance, he had to reluctantly follow her.

"This is the ginseng that Grandpa brought to you, as well as the fox fur jacket, which are all genuine goods collected in the mountains." Song Jiu came here a while ago, and was waiting for Du Mei early this morning, and spread out a table of good things for her to see.

"Thank you, Grandpa, I have all of these." Du Mei said movingly.

"You are now both the county lord and the marquis, and there is naturally no shortage of these things, but we still want to give them to you, and we just want you to recover quickly." Song Jiu looked at Du Mei, whose face was still fair, but she was getting thinner and thinner, and couldn't bear to say in her heart.

"Then I'll take it, thank you grandpa on my behalf." Du Mei was grateful for their deep friendship and had to accept it.

"Now that the business of Mei Kee Restaurant is so prosperous, do you have any other plans?" Song Jiu poured her a cup of tea and asked.

"Yesterday, Shopkeeper Lin just talked about Luo Meixuan opening a branch, do you think Mei Ji should open it?" Du Mei took the teacup and asked.

"I'll tell you the truth, since the year ago, I had no choice but to bring Mei Ji's cook back, and I made dishes in my own restaurant in Huizhou for a few days, and as a result, guess what, the guests praised one by one, and there were still people who wanted to eat on the twenty-seventh day of the lunar month." Song Jiu said with a fluttering eyebrow.

"Really?" Du Mei giggled at the richness of his expression.

"So, if you want to open a branch, Huizhou must open one, no, at least two." Song Jiu stretched out one finger, and then quickly stretched out another finger.

"The shop is easy to find, the cook is hard to find, the stall is large, it is inevitable that there will be places that cannot be taken into account, if the taste cannot be guaranteed, or don't open, I think this matter should be done slowly, not too fast." Du Mei shook his head and said calmly.

"You have a point, but I have the best of both worlds, so listen to it." Song Jiu's proposal was overturned by Du Mei, and he was not annoyed, and then said, "Look, in more than a month, it will be summer, Meiji takeaway must be busy, and the business of Huizhou restaurant is very cold, why don't you take this opportunity, I will let all the cooks come to Jiangling City, not only to help, but also to learn the craft, what do you think?" ”

"This ...... It is okay to learn, but when each chef leaves, he must independently make a table of duck banquet that satisfies me, which is the quality assurance of the dishes, if ten people can pass the test at a time, the Huizhou branch can be opened at the end of the year. Du Mei thought for a moment.

"Quality inspection is a must, and when the branch opens, half of your shares will be counted." Song Jiu said with a grin.

"This ...... It's too much. Du Mei was stunned.

"No more, no less, you created the duck cuisine, and the signboard is also yours, so I will go out of the house and the manpower, and each will take half of it, just right." Song Jiu waved his hand.

"Your method of opening a branch is refreshing to me, and I don't know if anyone in other states is willing to cooperate with Mei Kee." Du Mei said thoughtfully.

"As long as you are willing, what's so difficult about this, now that the tabloids in Beijing are all over the world, you send an invitation on it, are you afraid that no one will come to talk?" Song Jiu pointed to the counter, where I don't know when it started, and there would be a few tabloids of the day every day, and diners who came to eat could take a look at it while waiting for the dishes and chat to pass the time.

"Shibei three days, when you are impressed, you are really getting smarter and smarter!" Du Mei clapped his hands and praised.

"I am the only man in the Song family in Huizhou, my grandfather is in his last years, my mother and aunt are women's families, I am pressed against the mountain, I am not strong, I am not ruthless!" Song Jiu smiled bitterly, who doesn't want to live a peaceful life, but the family mission makes him dare not relax for a moment.

"You've done a great job and will be even better in the future." Du Mei patted his arm and comforted.

"Owner, there is a new roast duck, do you want to take a look?" A cook came in and asked.

"Just come." Du Mei replied loudly, and then said to Song Jiu, "Let's go, I'll give you a piece of roast duck to eat." ”

The newly baked roast duck is golden in color, crispy in skin and tender in meat, Du Mei concentrates on the fine slices of duck, and recalls the action of Wang Shengpian duck in his dream.

When Chu Lin came, he saw Du Mei's focused expression, everyone in the kitchen stared at Du Mei's hand with bated breath, no one paid attention to him coming in, and Chu Lin leaned against the door to admire his beloved girl.

Her fair skin, lowered eyebrows, and long eyelashes blinked gently like butterfly wings for a long time because of her concentration, her small mouth was tightly pursed, extremely attentive, and her green fingers were even more careful to remove the shiny duck meat slices into thin slices.

"Today, it seems to be better than last time." Du Mei picked up a piece of meat and looked at it.

"The knife work is good." Chu Lin said with interest.

"Gentleman is far away, you shouldn't be here here." Du Mei hurriedly washed her hands and took Chu Lin to her own room in the back hall.

"You are the county lord and the marquis, you can come, why can't I come?" Chu Lin hugged Du Mei, bent down and asked with a smile.

"I'm a cook, and I'm a proprietor, and it's a matter of course in the kitchen, but when you sit there, they don't feel comfortable working, and besides, if they are seen by the people who chew the root of their tongues, they have to gossip about your regent." Dumei pouted.

"The mouth grows on others, I love my own daughter-in-law, what does it matter to them!" Chu Lin lowered his head and kissed Du Mei lightly.

"Who is your daughter-in-law! I've got to get back quickly. Du Mei blushed and tiptoed to kiss him on the cheek.

"It's too sloppy." Chu Lin frowned deliberately.

"Like this?" Du Mei had to put incense on his lips again.

"Remember to bring something delicious." Chu Lin saw that the skin behind Du Mei's ears was red, so he had to let go of her, pointed at her nose and said.

"Just wait." Du Mei ran away with a puff of smoke.

After a while, it was already time for dinner, and Du Mei brought a large tray, which was the duck meat that had just been sliced, as well as sweet sauce, cucumber shreds, green onion and white shreds, and then a plate of extremely thin dough, as well as two bowls of rice and two plates of fried vegetables.

"How do you eat this?" Chu Lin asked curiously.

"Look at me wrapping one for you." Du Mei said, spreading the dough in the palm of his hand, smearing a little sauce, picking up three or four slices of duck meat, and then sandwiching a little cucumber shreds and green onion white shreds, and finally wrapping the ingredients in the dough.

"Open your mouth." Du Mei looked at Chu Lin with a smile.

"Can I eat this?" Chu Lin grew up in the palace since he was a child, and this very unsightly way of eating was the first time he had seen it.

"You'll know if you've eaten it!" Du Mei shoved it into his mouth.

Anyway, Du Mei made it, Chu Lin never disliked it, besides, this was the first time Du Mei fed him food, and he believed that what she made was all delicious food.

"Isn't it delicious?" Du Mei quickly wrapped one for herself, and asked as she chewed.

"Well, it's very fragrant, the cucumber shreds and the green onion white shreds absorb the greasy of the roast duck, and add a fresh and crisp taste, the dough is firm, and the sweet sauce also adds a little saltiness, which tastes great." Chu Lin never hesitated to praise Du Mei.

"I think so too, it's just that the duck slices aren't good enough." Du Mei frowned.

"Wait for me to forge a quick knife for you with dark iron in a few days, then you will be able to get twice the result with half the effort." Chu Lin stretched out his hand and wiped off a bit of sauce from the corner of her mouth.

"Well, you have a point, modern knives should be faster than we use." Du Mei thought for a moment.

While the two were talking, after eating, Du Mei took the dishes and chopsticks to the kitchen, and at this time, there was a lot of noise outside, and Chu Lin didn't leave, just crooked the table and looked at the book of ghosts and monsters and foxes that Du Mei brought.

After a while, the diners sat down, each staggering, and Lin Dai had time to talk to Du Mei.

"When Murong Gongzi left, he put the deed of the shop on the dock here, and now, it is still idle, whether we rent it or use it, how should we arrange it?" Lin Dai took out the deed and showed it to her, and the owner of the house had Du Mei's name written on it!

"Although the poisoning case is in broad daylight, the people's fear of saltwater duck is still there, this is useless just by relying on us, we can only wait, let time slowly dilute everything, that shop will be used in the future, let's put it aside for the time being." Du Mei felt a pain in her heart, although the poisoning case was not Mei Ji's doing, but she was the one who suffered the most damage and loss.

"There is also the matter of the takeaway team, a few days ago, a commercial house is in the medicinal herb business, asked if we can deliver it to Luzhou, our team in Jiangling City to send some small things is okay, if out of the city, eat and sleep, that is the dart bureau to pick up the job, so, I didn't agree, the owner, this kind of thing in the future, what to do? If I want to refuse, I'm just pushing the money out. Lin Dai frowned.

"Remember, we only do what we can do, no diamond and no porcelain work, if we don't have this ability, we will mess things up, and we won't have to lose money, I'll go back and think about it." Du Mei pondered for a moment.

"Yesterday, the owner of the rice shop next door said that he wanted to go back to his hometown in Liangzhou to marry his daughter-in-law, and exchange the store at a low price. Lin Dai remembered something again and said.

"The Meiji grain shop in Sheshan Town is indeed a little smaller, so let's buy and sell houses, Shopkeeper Lin is in charge, you can watch it with him." Du Mei trusts both of them very much, and the things assigned to them are safe and reliable.

Before the time came, the diners dispersed one after another, and Chu Lin and Du Mei went home together.

"In a few days, let's go horseback riding, I want to take you to the horse farm to watch the sunset." Chu Lin was still squeezed into the carriage with Du Mei and took her in his arms.

"Well, after a whole winter, I want to go for a run in the mountains." Du Mei snuggled up to him sweetly and replied with a light smile.

Since then, Chu Lin has accompanied Du Mei in addition to official duties, and in her free time, riding a horse to accompany her to the horse farm to watch the sunset, to Baiyun Villa to see the sea of flowers, the two of them have revisited all the places they have been to one by one.

The spring breeze is proud, and you can see all the Chang'an flowers in one day. In this warm spring day, the world is clear, the years are quiet, Du Mei's business empire is slowly unfolding little by little, over time, Mei Ji will be everywhere in various forms, and all she has is because there is a man who holds up a sunny day for her!

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When I received a text message from the insurance company this morning, I suddenly found that I was a year older and gloomy.

Thank you for joining the party today, it's a coincidence, even if it's a special birthday present, although I may not get the money back, but it's good to take a look.