Two days before entering the palace to run for election, Baochai and her sisters went to greet Jia's mother, and seemed to say that they would go to the temple to offer incense the next day.

Qingwen teased her: "Sister Bao wants to pray for the blessing of the Buddha and successfully elect the princess of which family?" ”

Daiyu held her cheek with one hand, looked at Baochai with a smile, and did not speak.

She clearly knew that Baochai really wanted to be chosen.

However, going to the temple to offer incense is just a pretense, and this is not what she really has to do.

Baoyu pouted, hung his head, listless, and did not speak.

In the past, he liked to mix in the sisters' pile the most, and he wished that these sisters and sisters would never leave for a moment and guard him.

But as he grew older, he knew it was impossible.

Baochai was going to run for election, although he felt uncomfortable, but he didn't make noise when he was unsatisfactory as before.

The three sisters of Tanchun, Yingchun, and Xichun do not know why, and they all express their blessings to Baochai one by one.

Baochai looked at the old lady, glanced at Mrs. Wang again, and said with a smile:

"I don't know, how did this good deed come to me? However, since I can enter the palace to run for election, I naturally have to pray. It doesn't matter if you choose the princess or not, the important thing is that you can't lose the face of our sisters. ”

The old lady smiled and ordered: "Mandarin duck, go and take my set of colorful phoenix heads to the treasure girl, you can't dress as plain as before when you enter the palace." The girl's family still has to be brighter. ”

Baochai went to run for the princess, and the old lady was really happy.

Baochai followed Aunt Xue and lived in Jiafu for several years.

Originally, the old lady felt that the marriage of Bao Dai was certain, but because of her arrival, it changed.

The old lady was unhappy, and she said many times openly and secretly that she did not agree with Baochai marrying Baoyu.

But Mrs. Wang didn't listen to her at all, and she and Aunt Xue privately spread the "golden and jade relationship" of the two treasures.

Moreover, there is also the concubine Niangniang in the palace, who is also married to the second treasure.

The old lady was lonely, and she didn't dare to go against the will of the imperial concubine, so she forced the two jades to pair up.

Now that Baochai is going to run for election, she has to burn a few pillars of incense and pray that she will be elected.

The old lady was talking and laughing with the sisters, but Mrs. Wang next to her was furious.

Looking at Baochai, Qingwen, Daiyu, and even the old lady, none of them are pleasing to the eye.

She winked at Baochai and led her back to her room.

"You still have to go to the incense to pray for blessings, begging yourself to be elected as a princess?"

Mrs. Wang glared at Baochai angrily, "Didn't I say that you are not allowed to prepare carefully?" ”

"Oh, aunt......" Xue Baochai hugged her arm and said coquettishly, "I deliberately said that in front of the old lady, didn't I make the old lady happy?"

You know, the old lady has always disliked me in her heart, for fear that I will rob Brother Bao. I said I wanted to be a princess, I didn't want to pester Brother Bao, wouldn't she like me? In the future, I will not be colder to me. ”

"Do you really think so?"

"Auntie...... When did Bao Ya lie and lie to you? Don't you believe that you will wait for the day to see what I will dress up to enter the palace? Baochai continued to pretend.

The next day, Xue Pan personally took people to accompany Baochai to Baiyun Temple to offer incense.

The group went and went back again, but when they came back, they passed by the Zizhuxuan branch in the city, and Xue Pan proposed to go in and have a look.

Qingwen "just happened" to be there, and she greeted her warmly.

Baochai's maids took things in large bags, and Qingwen arranged for people to be placed in a separate room.

The contents of those packages are, of course, the clothes and accessories that Baochai wears when she enters the palace for the election, and the items prepared for the queen's talent examination.

Qingwen did not hide that she was the owner of Zizhuxuan in front of Baochai, and pulled her around.

"Sister Bao, do you think this restaurant is laid out like this?"

After Baochai looked at it carefully, he gave his opinion:

"The two-story building in front of this restaurant is very well furnished. However, there are only a dozen private rooms upstairs and downstairs, which is not enough for the bustling capital.

In my opinion, the yard in the back can also be used. Set up a few pavilions, set up a few elegant tables and chairs, and a small table with a small number of people can be arranged there.

In addition, I think it would be better to set aside a few private rooms for the exclusive use of female guests. Women in the capital will also come to the restaurant to eat, and it is always bad to mix with men. ”

"What Sister Bao said is that I will immediately ask someone to sort it out." Qingwen said with a smile.

After all, Baochai is the daughter of a merchant, and she still has some insight into the operation of the business and the layout of the store.

Unlike those wealthy ladies who "don't go out of the door, don't step out of the second door", they only see needlework girls all day long, at most they learn poetry, calligraphy and painting.

The two sisters were talking downstairs, and two young sons came down from the upper floor.

One of the attendants dressed up and whispered: "Son, the next one is going to choose someone to enter the mansion, and everyone else is busy asking which girl is suitable, and even the second son has sent someone out, why aren't you in a hurry?" ”

The son who walked in front was luxurious and calm:

"What's there to inquire about? The left and right are just the cowardly ladies of the princes and nobles, which one is different? The second brother still wants to pick a good one from it?

If you have that spare time, it's better to think about where to open a vegetarian restaurant. Look at this Zizhuxuan, it is not enough to open a house in Baiyun Temple, and it is run into the city to open it, which shows that the designation is profitable. ”

"You...... You can't just think about making money, your life's events are also important, and finding a powerful Yue family will also help you. The entourage said anxiously.

"My mother's family is weak and can't help me. I've never thought much about it, it's okay to do business and make money in peace, and live a rich and happy life? ”

When the two walked down, they met Qingwen and Baochai.

Qingwen didn't expect that there was a foreign man upstairs, so she couldn't dodge for a while, so she simply didn't hide and stood there generously.

Baochai is not a person who twists, although his face is slightly red, his eyebrows are lowered, but he is not cramped.

The rich man came down the stairs all the way, and although his followers whispered, he also listened to what the two of them had said.

Hearing the two discussing business, he was still puzzled, why were the two girls interested in business?

quietly glanced at Qingwen and Baochai, one with a slender physique and charming; A bully frost and snow, dignified and graceful, this son's heart is a little messy.

"Let's find out, where are these two girls?" He whispered to his followers.

"Yes."

The attendant tried hard to persuade his son-in-law to no avail, and was discouraged, when he heard that he was interested in these two girls, he hurriedly went out to inquire.

This at least shows that Childe still likes girls, otherwise he suspects that his father has such a special habit.

The attendant went out for a while, then returned to the boy who had already gotten into the carriage, and whispered:

"Today is Xue Pan, the eldest son of the imperial merchant Xue family, accompanying his sister to the temple to offer incense, and the plump one should be the girl of the Xue family."

"The daughter of an imperial merchant?" Childe smiled playfully, "No wonder it's the first thing to talk about business." ”