Chapter 10: The Woman Becomes the Boss
"Cousin! Cousin! I want to check it out! β
Chu Mingzhi was really too curious, "How did Boss Xu do it?" The quarrel was so fierce just now, how could we drink tea together so soon? β
Shangguan Kite also lowered his eyes and glanced at the door of the teahouse, which was no longer visible, looked back at the guards who followed him, and gestured to the box next to him.
"Yes, yes, let's hear it!" Chu Mingzhi was extremely curious.
The guards took the order and left.
This can be opened in a teahouse on Qingluan Street, even a guy is very smart.
After a while, Shangguan Kite and Chu Mingzhi heard the sound of the door next door opening.
Another guard guarding behind Shangguan Kite walked silently to the wall, "whoosh", and poked a small hole with his chopsticks.
Chu Mingzhi gasped excitedly, his image was gone, and he couldn't wait to climb up to the wall to listen to the conversation next door.
Shangguan Kite also listened.
The two were very easy to distinguish, a man and a woman, but to her slight surprise, the woman's voice was not as deliberately low and deep as she imagined, with some pretended calmness.
This Boss Xu spoke, softly and gently, completely like a woman's voice.
The man opposite was still a little arrogant and unreasonable at first, but Boss Xu spoke to him without hurry, his attitude was gentle and firm, and he was quickly speechless.
The man seemed to feel embarrassed, and slapped the table and said angrily: "Everyone sells the same thing, you have to be cheaper, so who will buy it from me?!" β
"Then Boss An can also be cheaper?" Boss Xu said with a smile.
"Lao Tzu is in business, not charity!"
"That's unfortunate, I'm a charity." Boss Xu didn't bother to continue to distinguish with him.
She was still smiling, "Pricing is my freedom, and it is also Boss An's freedom, there is no reason to force anyone, right?" β
"You stinky biaozi! Toast without eating and eating penalty wine, right? Boss An was really angry and scolded.
After that, he paused, and after a while, there was something else in his voice, "I heard that Boss Xu is a different woman, but a woman is a woman, and Boss Xu can't marry so far, why don't you follow An?" β
"In the future, our embroidery room will be together, and Boss Xu will be at home to warm the quilt for Lao Tzu, and these drudgeries will be handed over to the manββ"
"Whoa" the sound of the water remembered, and Shangguan Kite couldn't help but stand up.
She was even ready to let the guards help if she needed it, but Boss Xu's voice over there was still a gentle smile: "Boss An's mouth is so dirty, it really should be washed well." β
"You slut! Okay, okay, I'll teach you what a woman should look like! β
Shangguan Kite raised his eyebrows, and was about to call the guards to save people, but he heard a loud "bang" and a man's cry of pain next door.
"Ziyu, go take a look." Shangguan Iris frowned and ordered.
Chu Mingzhi couldn't help it anymore, and walked over with the guards with his skirt.
Shangguan Kite glanced at Qiu Yun, the most clever palace maid beside her, lowered her eyes and continued to taste tea.
A moment later, Qiuyun returned first.
She lowered her head and said in Shangguan Yuan's ear: "I didn't expect that Boss Xu to look slender, but he has some strength on his body. Boss An, who smashed the two chairs, saw the blood, and didn't dare to say a word. β
Shangguan Kite nodded slightly, and she guessed the "bang" sound.
"Boss An is also disgusting enough, and he actually wants to force Boss Xu directly......" Qiu Yun seemed to be afraid that Shangguan Yuan would misunderstand, and explained, "The slave and maid watched, and Boss Xu was also forced to fight back. β
As soon as she finished talking about things briefly, Chu Mingzhi walked in with Boss Xu over there.
As soon as Shangguan Kite raised his eyes, he saw that Boss Xu bent down and bowed respectfully to her: "Cao Min Xu Ningqin, see Her Royal Highness the eldest princess." β
"Have you seen Hongu?" As soon as Shangguan Yuan saw Chu Mingzhi's stunned appearance, he knew that she was not the one who told Xu Ningqin his identity.
Xu Ningqin didn't dare to raise her head, and said sincerely: "The grass people are fortunate to have seen the eldest princess once at the gate of the princess's mansion. β
"In this way, then you are also destined for this palace. Excuse me, sit down. Shangguan Yuan smiled.
Xu Ningqin straightened up, but she didn't dare to sit down.
Shangguan Kite really had something to ask her, so he turned his head to look at Chu Mingzhi: "Isn't Mingzhi still going to the palace to ask the queen mother for peace?" Go for it. β
Chu Mingzhi: "Huh? With a sigh, he glanced at Xu Ningqin with some reluctance.
But Qing He had already bent down and smiled: "Little county lord, will the slave send you down?" β
"The people around my cousin are really smarter than the other." Chu Mingzhi muttered, and reluctantly got up to leave.
Xu Ningqin lowered her hand and bent down to send Chu Mingzhi away, and when she looked at Shangguan Kite again, she was slightly surprised: "Does the eldest princess have something to tell the grass people?" β
"It's not a command, this palace is just curious, how old are you?" Shangguan Kite tilted his head slightly, no longer hiding his interest.
Xu Ningqin was stunned for a moment, and replied with some confusion: "This year, the grass people are two out of twenty." β
"Unmarried?" Shangguan Kite asked again.
Xu Ningqin nodded blankly, but listened to the golden and precious eldest princess ask again: "Don't your parents care?" β
This eldest princess has no concept of "other people's private affairs should not be asked" at all, and Xu Ningqin also understands it.
She took a deep breath and said slowly: "I was urging before, but every time I urged, the grass people didn't give them money for a month, and slowly they stopped urging." β
Shangguan Kite had never heard of such a novel method, so he couldn't help but ask: "Don't they earn money themselves?" β
Xu Ningqin had to explain to her from the beginning: "When the grass people were twelve years old, they almost took them to change their eldest brother's relatives. After that, the grass people escaped from home, because the arithmetic was good, a kind lady taught me to do the accounting, and then gradually had the first shop......"
"The grass people's families are very poor, but in the past few years, because the grass people's business has been doing well, all the expenses at home are paid by the grass people."
"Now the grass people's parents, brothers and sisters-in-law have adapted to the luxurious life, if the grass people cut off the silver, they will be empty in less than a month."
Shangguan Yuan couldn't help but stroke his palms and laugh out loud when he heard this: "Okay, good, you are really smart like this, this palace likes smart people." β
"Won't the eldest princess think that the grass people's behavior is really unfilial?" Xu Ningqin couldn't hold back.
Shangguan Kite smiled, and then his face turned cold: "It is said that the mother is kind and the son is filial, if the mother is not kind, why should the son be filial." β
After saying that, she herself was stunned for a moment.
If it is like Xu Ningqin's parents, who directly treat their daughter as a commodity, then there is a reason for being unfilial.
She wasn't, and she couldn't.
Just as he was sighing, Shangguan Kite saw Xu Ningqin suddenly kneeling on the ground and bowing to himself.
She buried her head and whispered, "The grass people have a reluctant request, and I ask the eldest princess to agree." β