Lin Shuran hurriedly opened the food box, which was a jar of white sugar and some candy wrapped in colored paper, and explained to the Queen Mother with a smile: "The Queen Mother, this is the white sugar and candy that I have newly figured out in the house, and in a few days my third child will also open a small sugar shop, thinking that I will take some for the Queen Mother to taste first, there is milk candy and halva, you should like it." ”

As she spoke, Lin Shuran took out a small box of toffee first, but she also knew the rules of the palace, and the things brought into the palace from the outside, especially the food stuff, had to be tested by the palace attendants to see if it was poisonous.

Aunt Chang stepped forward first to take the toffee box in Lin Shuran's hand, and then looked at the Queen Mother, the Queen Mother smiled and nodded, Aunt Chang opened the box and took out a candy directly and sent it to the Queen Mother.

The Queen Mother curiously peeled off the candy wrapper, and a faint milky smell wafted into her nose, and then she saw a white candy shorter than her little thumb in the candy wrapper, and there was a layer of transparent paper as thin as a cicada's wings on the outside.

"Queen Mother, this is glutinous rice paper, it can be eaten!" Lin Shuran explained in a timely manner on the side, and then took out a piece of sugar from the food box and peeled it open, there was also a glutinous rice paper wrapped in a sugar cube, and she smiled and put the sugar cube in her mouth.

The Queen Mother was surprised, she had never eaten anything with paper, glutinous rice paper - this was the first time she had heard of it, but she did not retreat because she saw something novel, but also smiled and put the sugar cube wrapped in glutinous rice paper into her mouth, not to mention that the paper melted when it met water, and the sweet feeling instantly filled the entire mouth cavity, which was delicious.

Then, Lin Shuran introduced white sugar to the Queen Mother, saying that it was white and clean, and the sweetness was very high, suitable for making all kinds of snacks, and said many benefits of white sugar, and even had to cook a few dishes for the Queen Mother.

How could the Queen Mother let the pregnant Lin Shuran go to the kitchen to cook for her, but called the imperial chef and asked Lin Shuran to tell him the method, and then let him do it, and today she wants to leave Lin Shuran to eat in the palace.

Concubine Yun heard the news of Lin Shuran's entry into the palace and also came to the Queen Mother's Palace, Princess Jiang Yue also followed, Lin Shuran also brought candy to her, after eating a piece of toffee, Princess Jiang Yue fell in love with candy completely, but Lin Shuran warned her that you can't eat too much candy, eating too much is harmful to your teeth.

"Auntie, Jiang Yue knows!" Xiao Jiangyue looked at a box of candy and said in disbelief, she is a girl who likes sweets, how can she resist eating so many sweets in the future! It's so hard!

When it was time for lunch, the imperial chef made a few dishes according to the recipes and methods that Lin Shuran said, which more or less used some sugar, but he didn't expect the food to taste more delicious, especially the shredded sweet potato, the imperial chef also tried it for the first time, but the chef is the chef, and he did it well, which won the love of the Queen Mother and Princess Jiangyue.

"Since the third child of your family is going to open a sugar shop, there should be white sugar in this hand, right?" After lunch, the Queen Mother looked at Lin Shuran and asked with a smile.

Lin Shuran nodded, she also knew that she couldn't hide it from the Queen Mother, and she entered the palace today to "promote" Xu Minghan's soon-to-be-opened sugar shop in the palace, and now that the Queen Mother can eat white sugar and say good, then other people will have fewer scruples and suspicions about this new thing like white sugar.

It's just that what Lin Shuran didn't expect was that the Queen Mother directly said that the Xu family would send sugar to the palace in the future, which was the first big business that Lin Shuran signed for Xu Minghan's sugar shop before the opening, which was really unexpected.

"Mother, did the Queen Mother really say that we should provide sugar to the palace?" This is not just a big business, it is simply to send silver, even if other businesses are not done, just sending sugar to the palace is enough for the general's mansion to eat and wear, Xu Minghan was a little stunned all of a sudden.

"That's right, you're scared?" Lin Shuran looked at Xu Minghan and asked, and then said, "Don't worry, I'll help you!" ”

Xu Minghan immediately shook his head and replied: "Mother, I'm not afraid, being able to do business with the palace is something that every businessman can't ask for, I want to do a good job in this business for a long time, and I have to make others unable to gossip." ”

"Whether it's doing business or doing things, don't be afraid of others gossiping, people have a mouth, we can't control what people want to say, do our own things, just have a clear conscience, do business with quality and quantity and credit is the long-term plan, remember, you can't be a profiteer, profiteers get a temporary profit, and it will destroy their own foundation, and there will be no good results." Lin Shuran was only worried that Xu Minghan was young and inexperienced, and that no one would teach him, so he was afraid that he would go crookedly when he walked this way.

"Mother, I understand!" Xu Minghan assured.

The other children of the Xu family also thought about helping Xu Minghan's sugar shop to "advertise", the fourth Xu Mingfan deliberately brought some candy into the Guozijian to taste it for his teachers and classmates, and Xu Minghao and they went to various banquets in the city with their identity as the young master of the General's Mansion, and took the opportunity to spread the news that the Xu family was going to open a sugar shop.

On the day of the real opening, the Xu family's small sugar shop was crowded with people, and soon the jars of white sugar were snatched away, and all the candy was sold out, even if the price of the white sugar and all kinds of candy sold by the Xu family was not low, but it was quickly swept away, especially when I heard that the white sugar was also specially offered to the palace, and there were more people who bought it.

On the first day of the opening of Xu's sugar shop, in less than half a day, everything was robbed, and the new goods were not even put on the shelves, so they were bought up again, thinking that they couldn't just do business for one day, and there would be goods to open tomorrow, so Xu Minghan decided to close the business for half a day first.

"Third brother, I didn't expect the business of our sugar shop to be so good, it almost caused me to have no sugar to eat today!" Xu Minghao hid in the backyard of the sugar shop and peeled off a candy and put it in his mouth, it was hawthorn-flavored sugar, sweet and sour, it was delicious.

"I didn't expect it to be like this!" Xu Minghan smiled bitterly, the first time he really did business, he encountered such a big battle, and he was still a little uncomfortable, but his heart was quite firm, everything was unexpected and expected, and he could still deal with it with a calm mind.

"Shaodong, there are a few people from the Beijing Chamber of Commerce outside, saying that they want to talk to you about something!" At this moment, the shopkeeper came to Xu Minghan and said.

Xu Minghan frowned, he had only been open for half a day, and someone from the Beijing Chamber of Commerce came to him, these people had a smart nose, and they knew that the Xu family was now in charge of Lin Shuran, but they didn't go to her, but came to find themselves, a half-grown child, their hearts were not pure!