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Wang Xiujuan began to learn to grow herbal medicine. Her family was big, so she directly set aside a piece of land as her herbal medicine planting land, right next to the allicin production area. While she was busy, a servant came in with Mrs. Lai.

"Xixi is busy, come on, come on, let me help you." After Mrs. Lai came in, she eagerly snatched the small medicine hoe from Wang Xiujuan's hand.

Wang Xiujuan quickly dodged and refused, saying: "This thing is different from farming. Don't waste the good stuff. Leave it alone. I'll do it later. Why are you here?"

Mrs. Lai explained sheepishly: "Well, thanks to your blessing, the pastry shop's business is doing well, but this business is really good."

She stopped talking and waited for Wang Xiujuan to ask more, but Wang Xiujuan knew the other party too well, so she just didn't speak and sat aside and looked at her quietly. Granny Lai couldn't hold it in anymore, so she continued to say with Wang Xiujuan's eyes:

"There are too many orders. There are not enough staff at home and we are overwhelmed. I just wanted to ask Xixi if she has any good ideas."

Lai's pastries have indeed made a name for themselves in Jingzhou, and people in the palace who like outsiders will naturally like it too.

"Do you want to expand your business?" Wang Xiujuan asked.

Mrs. Lai shook her head, "I understand that the business can do so well thanks to your family's help. I'm not greedy either. I just need to earn enough for the family's food and clothing. Now my children are going to school, and I can buy a house as long as I save up." . If the business continues to expand, we will not be able to hold on."

Wang Xiujuan raised her eyebrows. She was not surprised that Mrs. Lai was so sober, but she did not expect to be so content. She thought she was looking for her to give her ideas on how to expand the pastry shop.

"Then what do you think?"

Mrs. Lai put her hands on her knees and sat on a stool and said: "You also know that our pastries are very expensive, and only those high-ranking officials can afford them. People come to buy them. Can I refuse? There is a queue. It’s to give face to us ordinary people.”

Wang Xiujuan nodded for her to continue.

Mrs. Lai continued: "I actually don't want to take so many orders. If I do, I'm really overwhelmed with my work, but I don't dare to refuse people, so I want to ask you for an idea."

Wang Xiujuan thought for a while and concluded: "So you don't want to expand the scale, but you want to streamline it?"

Mrs. Lai nodded repeatedly, "Yes, yes, that's what I mean."

"This is easy to do. If you raise the price further, fewer people will buy it."

Mrs. Lai exclaimed: "Is it still going up? We already sold it for five taels of silver."

A mention refers to a small square box made by Lai Chunsheng, wrapped in paper and put into the frame. The pastry only weighs about five taels.

"If you don't increase the price, how can you refuse others? If you accept the order from this company but not that one, no matter what your reasons are, aren't you indirectly offending people?"

"It will be much easier to raise the price. Although people don't lack a little money, no matter how delicious the pastry is, people will not come to buy it every day. At least half of the people will be reduced, and you will make a lot of money." Wang Xiujuan said.

Mrs. Lai frowned and thought for a while, "Well, look at Xixi's breasts, how high should they be?"

"It's useless to raise it too little. Just raise it to ten taels."

"Pfft--" Mrs. Lai was so frightened that she spat out the tea she drank.

"Ahem, half a catty, ten taels?" This is not eating cakes, this is eating gold!
Even if the materials they use are precious, they are not worth the price.

"Is this okay?" She felt a little guilty

Wang Xiujuan explained to her, "Even the people in the palace eat this pastry. If you sell it cheaply, the palace will be unhappy. Don't worry, someone will buy it."

Mrs. Lai thought for a while and decided to listen to Wang Xiujuan, "Okay! I'll do as you say. Then I'll leave first, Xixi. There's still a lot of things waiting for me at home." After saying that, she stood up and walked out numbly. go.After sitting there for a while, I was overtaken by the garlic fumes.

"My legs and feet are quite nimble." Wang Xiujuan also stood up, took her own small medicine hoe, and squatted in the medicine field to work.

...Bai Yunliang's Mansion.

"Your Majesty also trusts Ning Changrong too much, right? Were the two of you discussing this matter when you invited him to dinner?"

"His Majesty actually gave Ning Changrong such an important task as revising the law. He has no fame at all. Why?"

When several people were discussing around Bai Yunliang, Bai Yunliang was still drinking tea calmly. When he mentioned that Ning Changrong had no fame, he lightly glanced at that person.

Ning Changrong has no fame, and Bai Yunliang only has the reputation of a scholar.

The man reacted immediately and apologized quickly: "Master Bai is different from Ning Changrong. How can he be compared with you."

"Then Ning Changrong doesn't understand anything. You keep an eye on it for me. Don't give him any help. I'll see what regulations he can come up with." Bai Yunliang said calmly.

Someone handed over his hand: "Don't worry, Mr. Bai, we are all busy ourselves, who has time to help him? Let's just wait and see his joke."

Inside the palace.

Fu Linjun also heard about what happened in the court.

"Your Majesty, I heard that you handed over the revision of the law to Master Ning?"

Chang Yuan smiled slightly, not angry, "Did it reach your ears so quickly?"

Fu Linjun pretended to be angry, "Why, Your Majesty suspects that I have eyes and ears in the court?"

"No, no, ma'am, I'm overthinking it, it's just a joke."

Chang Yuan himself would sometimes discuss matters with Fu Linjun, so naturally he wouldn't care whether Fu Linjun knew about what happened in the court.

"That's what happened. Mr. Ning is good at everything, but he always likes to hide. I have to find something for him to do."

Fu Linjun said with a smile on his face: "Isn't this good, Mr. Ning? You don't need to worry too much if you do your job well. No one else can ask for such a law-abiding minister."

That's what he said, but seeing Ning Changrong's cautious look, Chang Yuan was still furious.

"The other ministers are cautious because they are afraid of the king's suspicion. What does Master Ning mean by this? Can I still be stingy and attack him? Sometimes I really hope that he will change his temper with Bai Yunliang."

Fu Linjun said: "If the two of them really change their tempers, I'm afraid you won't be able to sleep again."

This means that Chang Yuan will not be angry if Mr. Fu Lin says this.

"Your Majesty, no one is perfect, please don't scare Master Ning."

Chang Yuan smiled and said, "Is it this little girl from Gu'an who tipped you off?"

Fu Linjun did not deny it, "She has a good relationship with Xixi. When she saw Xixi's father being embarrassed by you, she came to me to plead for mercy."

Chang Yuan laughed loudly, "These two girls can really play together, and they don't follow the rules."

Eunuch Li was always waiting by his side. Every time the emperor and empress talked, six times out of ten they were talking about the Ning family.

In addition to lamenting the deep love between the emperor and the empress, every time it was Eunuch Li's level of honor and favor for the Ning family was refreshed.

(End of this chapter)