4 Chapter 4
Li Changan clenched the corners of Cao Ye's clothes, and shouted tremblingly: "Mother." ”
Cao Ye Naji touched the top of Li Changan's hair.
"Why do you say such discouraged things?" Concubine Wu Hui was in a good mood.
She glanced at Cao Ye Naji, quite interesting: "Twenty-nine Niang is well-behaved, and I also regard her as my own, who can drag her down?" ”
Cao Ye Naji stroked Li Chang'an's hair, a smile appeared on her face, she seemed to be happy, and she seemed to sigh: "Thanks to the care of Concubine Hui, Chang'an will not be easily bullied by others." ”
"Chang'an, go to Concubine Xie Hui." Cao Ye Naji gently pushed Li Changan towards Concubine Wu Hui.
Concubine Wu Hui also took advantage of the situation to take her over, took out a handkerchief from her sleeve and wiped Li Changan's crying face, and said softly: "You must have been worried about it these days, and this little face has lost a lot of weight." I heard Mingyue say that you want to open a shop? It just so happens that I have a few shops in Pingkangfang, which were originally for your sister Xianyi, and now Xianyi is going to go to other places with the horse...... I'll leave you a room and let someone take you to see the shop tomorrow." ”
This Hu girl doesn't have long to live, Li Changan will be the princess under her name by then, and Concubine Wu Hui doesn't mind taking out something in advance to buy people's hearts.
There is only one shop on the left and right, and she still has hundreds of such shops in her hands.
Concubine Wu Hui knows that it is necessary to buy people's hearts with small profits, and she has done this dozens of times and has never failed.
Before leaving, Concubine Wu Hui also instructed the palace people to send thousands of catties of silver charcoal to the small courtyard, saying that Cao Ye Naji was weak and should not be cold, and she had already instructed the palace people not to let this place lack charcoal.
"Concubine Wu Hui is a good person." Cao Ye Naji pulled Li Changan, the sorrow between her eyebrows had disappeared a lot, and there was joy in her voice.
"Chang'an, you see she gave us so much charcoal."
Li Changan tugged at the corners of his mouth.
"yes, a good guy." Between asking a famous doctor and sending charcoal, I chose the one that treats the symptoms but not the root cause.
"Mother, I want to see the shop that Wu Niangzi gave me." Li Changan didn't say anything more and changed the topic.
Cao Ye Naji smiled: "It's time to go and see, your mother's body is already good, you have had an idea since you were a child, you should do some of your own industry, if it's always because I delay you, it's not good." Speaking of which, you can sell some spices, if you talk about distinguishing incense, I still have some skills, which Hu Shang's spices are the best, I know more miles than the Tang people. ”
Since she finished talking to Concubine Wu Hui, Cao Ye Naji seemed to let go of a matter of her heart, and the smile on her face was a little more.
Li Changan knows why.
After leaving the Xing'an Gate, Li Changan turned his head to look at the towering and majestic palace wall.
The life of the woman who gave birth to her was withering within the towering palace walls, and everyone was waiting for the woman to die.
Li Changan was not a sweetheart, and the daughter of an orchid was not liked by a saint, such a child was worthless. After all, there are too many children of the saints, thirty sons, twenty-nine daughters, and whoever wants a child to have one by himself can do it.
But now it's different, Li Changan is five years old this year, and no child has been born in the palace for five years, Li Longji is fifty-two years old, but there are still many childless women in the palace, so every child who hasn't grown up has become a sweetheart.
Li Changan, who is only five years old and his mother is about to die, is even more fragrant.
When Li Changan was four and a half years old, she realized this fact for the first time - no matter how unfavored the princess is, she is also the blood of Li Tang's royal family, and it is better to have a daughter than to die of old age without children.
Then Li Changan found Concubine Wu Hui by himself.
Concubine Wu Hui is the most suitable candidate, the most favored concubine, the most powerful concubine, and most importantly, she has no children by her side now. She has sons and daughters, but King Shou can't always go into the palace to accompany her, she also has two daughters, Princess Xianyi is married, and the other daughter, Princess Taihua...... Thinking of the rumors that the princess Taihua in the palace was actually the reincarnation of Tang Xuanzong's original queen and the fact that Concubine Wu Hui and Princess Taihua were not close or even lived together, Li Changan felt that the rumors were still so true.
In short, Li Changan still attached to Concubine Wu Hui, which is not difficult, even if it is just in the spirit of blocking other young concubines in the harem, Concubine Wu Hui is willing to raise a little girl like Li Changan.
Now all you have to do is wait for Nahime Sono to die of illness.
Concubine Wu Hui thought so, and Cao Ye Naji herself thought so.
Li Changan watched the palatial Daming Palace get smaller and smaller in her sight, and finally turned into a small dot and disappeared into the horizon, and she lowered her gaze.
But there is one person who thinks otherwise.
The shop that Concubine Wu Hui gave her was on the south side of Pingkangfang, which is not the most lively place in Pingkangfang, but the price of the shop is still high.
A small double-storey building, the roof is paved with tiles, lace tiles dripping water, the hook head is carved with flower and grass patterns, and there are two fishtail kisses on the roof, symbolizing sea beasts, which are said to be protected from fire. On the left side of the shop is a shop with the same appearance that has not yet opened, and on the right is a shop that sells velvet flowers.
There are two old servants waiting here in front of the door, their deeds are in Li Chang'an's hands, Concubine Wu Hui does everything well, and there will be no embarrassing situation where the store is given to Li Changan and Li Changan is unavailable.
The two old servants were a little surprised to see Li Changan, but after a while, they hid their surprise, and treated them respectfully as adults, even seven points more respectful than adults.
In this way, a small child can have a shop in Pingkangfang, which must be a gift from the adults in the family, and the shop worth thousands of dollars in Pingkangfang can be given to the children's funny people's families, and the whole Datang can't find a few.
Li Changan also learned part of the origin of this shop from them.
This shop originally belonged to a family surnamed Du, and then the family surnamed Du gave this shop to a noble man surnamed Zhang, and then I didn't know, the two of them were originally servants of the Du family, and they were sent back and forth with this shop, and later, even they didn't know who their master was.
Li Changan can probably guess eight points in the future, it is estimated that this shop was sent all the way up, from the hands of an official who wanted to ask for an official to the hands of Concubine Wu Hui, Concubine Wu Hui's name has too much wealth, this area is not a large area and the title deed of the shop is not the best one by her hand pressed the bottom of the box, until a few days when she wanted to give the juniors a lottery head before turning out the title deed and the old servant's deed from the corner and giving it to her.
That's how the shop got into her hands.
These two old servants are both surnamed Du, one is called Du Zheng, and the other is called Du Qing, both of whom are old people who grew up in Chang'an, and they are very familiar with Chang'an, they know a little bit about big and small things, and they can also read and settle accounts, otherwise they will not be given to nobles as part of the shop.
When Concubine Wu Hui gave these two people to her, did she think that "when the child is older, she should learn to cultivate her own small force"?
Although Li Changan felt that Concubine Wu Hui might never have paid attention to being bound to this shop, there were still two old servants.
"How many years have you been working in this shop?" Li Changan spoke quietly.
The square-faced old man named Du Zheng arched his hand and said: "It's been 20 years, this shop was originally the property left by Mrs. Du to my children and grandchildren, and the two of us are also the shopkeepers taught by Mrs. Du...... The cake lady in this pastry shop went elsewhere, and the two of us were left here, so I had to keep the shop empty. ”
No wonder Concubine Wu Hui gave herself this shop, it turned out that this shop was originally a pastry shop, and it was indeed very suitable to give a pastry shop to a six-year-old child.
Du Zheng told everything he knew in one breath, and then looked at Li Changan, and the expectation in his eyes was overflowing.
There's no way, in the two years after the shop closed down, they didn't even know who the owner of the shop was, let alone go to the door to ask for wages. In the past two years, the two of them can only secretly do some odd jobs to support themselves, which is extremely miserable.
But because of the slave status, he didn't dare to run, so he could only guard this empty shop here, praying that the unmasked master's family would one day remember this shop, and by the way, he would give them two old servants food and shelter.
"That being the case, then I'll start a pastry shop in the future, and I just like to study pastries on weekdays." Li Changan: This is not a lie.
She doesn't have anything else to do now, she just reads books and ponders to eat and drink. There are only two people living in the small courtyard, she and Cao Ye Naji, and the food sent by the palace dining room is not unpalatable but not delicious, and occasionally when he is hungry, Li Changan will make something to eat by himself.
"If you want to reopen the shop, it's not enough for the two of you, you have to go to the East Market and hire a few more people." Li Changan stretched out his fingers and calculated, "Two miscellaneous people, two errand runners, and I have to buy a few more orchids to make pastries and attract guests." ”
"Lady, we have all these hands, why bother looking for handymen who don't know the roots from the outside?" The guards who followed Li Changan and were responsible for protecting her couldn't help but speak.
Li Changan winked at him, and said a little coquettishly: "It's my first time to run a shop, so naturally I should do everything myself." Although there are people in our family, the people who can use my mother are not the same as the people I found myself. ”
The guards stopped talking, he was just sent by Concubine Wu Hui to protect Li Chang'an, and he was already arrogant when he intervened.
In the end, it's just a five-year-old child's play, and the little princess is willing to play.
Originally, this matter could be left to the old servant, but Li Changan had to buy someone himself, looking like he was joining in the fun.
After all, it's just a child, and he loves to play by nature.
Although Li Changan's money is not worth mentioning compared to other princes and princesses, it is not small outside the royal family, and the dowry brought by Cao Ye Naji from Cao Guo and Concubine Wu Hui's usual rewards add up to a thousand.
She bought four young girls and four beautiful orchids very generously.
"Our little big shop, how can we afford four orchids to entertain." Du Zheng is already thinking about saving money for his new master.
Orchids aren't cheap, they cost a few thousand.
"Just buy it, do I still have that little money?" Li Changan's eyes turned around on the faces of several orchids, like a child's joke, "Besides, don't you think these concubines look like me?" ”
"How can it be like you, there are two similar noses......" Du Zheng chattered.
Li Changan didn't say anything more.
It's true that it's not very similar to her, but it's more or less similar to Cao Ye Naji, who is now so thin that she has little beauty left, and it's not in vain that she traveled all over the East City to find these orchids.