When the young prince, Li Xuan, left with those people, he took ten bottles of Ruyi dew.
Although it was announced that Ruyi dew had long been sold out, there had to be some spares left in the shop. This time, Li Yi simply let him take all of it.
After his step-by-step seduction, the final goal was achieved. Li Yi watched as the group left, and the smile on his face brightened.
Originally, he had only wanted to start a small business. Under the condition that he wouldn't starve, he wanted to raise the standard of living a little, and at the same time, he wanted to lead Fang and the others into a well-off life. Originally, the Ruyi Workshop and the candied haws business could satisfy this small wish. However, in the jianghu, some things were not as simple as they seemed.
The business of Ruyi dew was a large cake. There were probably countless people watching from afar, wanting a piece of it. Li Yi was just a commoner. He didn't want to compromise, but he also couldn't fight against the local snake in Qing An Fu. With no other choice, he could only choose to hug a thicker thigh.
In Qing An Fu, there was no thigh that was thicker than Ning Wang Fu's thigh.
If the business wanted to grow, it needed more manpower, resources, and financial resources. It was clearly impossible to rely on just Fang and the others. They could only find others to cooperate with. Cooperating with Ning Wang Fu was clearly the most suitable and the best way to solve the problem once and for all.
In this small piece of land, no one dared to compete with Ning Wang Fu for business. He only needed to contribute the recipe, and then he could sit at home and count the money.
Although he was using the curiosity of the young prince, this was a win-win situation. The profits of Ruyi dew were considerable. Furthermore, Li Yi also planned to work with him for a long time. Ning Wang Fu wouldn't lose out, and Li Yi could use this huge umbrella of protection to be a shopkeeper who didn't have to do anything.
Of course, after interacting with the young prince a few times, Li Yi also found him to be quite pleasing to the eye. He was one of the few friends he acknowledged. They were all from the old Li family. To some extent, the goodies should be kept within the family.
Now that his worries had been resolved, Li Xuan went back to make preparations for the manpower, workshop, and shop. He could handle such a small matter by himself. In fact, when Li Yi suggested a fifty-fifty split, he didn't even think about it before agreeing. This caused Li Yi to admire him even more.
The young man's thinking was very advanced. Originally, Li Yi wanted to explain to him about intellectual property rights, but now it seemed that there was no need for that.
In the following time, he did some small training for the girls. It took a little time to teach them how to write orders. Although the format of the order was fixed and Li Yi could write it in advance, they had to fill in the delivery date and quantity by themselves. He needed to teach them how to write the number and date.
Fang also had something to do. Of course, it was not enough to have only a few girls in the shop. If there were any bad customers or hooligans, Fang had to go out personally and temporarily act as a flower protector.
Everyone had their own division of labor, so there was nothing for Li Yi to do.
He made a cup of tea and lazily lay in the yard behind the shop. While basking in the sun, he looked for a few books in the library in his mind to recharge. In Jianghu, it was never a burden to have more skills. Maybe they would be useful one day.
The position of this yard was facing the sun, and the sun was warm on the body. Li Yi closed his eyes and digested what he had just read. Suddenly, everything went black. When he opened his eyes, he saw Fang standing straight in front of him, just blocking the sun.
"Son-in-law, someone is looking for you."
Fang looked at Li Yi with a strange expression on his face. He wanted to say something but stopped.
When Li Yi stood up, Fang added, "It is a beautiful woman."
"En, I got it." Li Yi nodded and turned to walk into the shop.
Recently, there would occasionally be women coming over and asking him to write something on a piece of paper. He had long been used to it.
Of course, there were some scholars in the beginning, but after they heard that he had to pay one tael of silver to write a word, gradually, no one came.
Being able to enjoy the treatment of a star also made Li Yi's vanity a little satisfied. However, in Fang's view, it was not like this.
"En, I got it …" What kind of attitude is this?
There is a beautiful woman looking for him … Isn't he worried that I will tell the big miss?
A trace of hesitation appeared on Fang's face. After thinking about it, he still followed.
Seeing that the young master was so calm, it did not seem like he had a guilty conscience. What if he was thinking too much?
Li Yi walked into the shop from the back door. Several girls were practicing what he had just taught them at the counter. In the resting area opposite, a young woman was sitting there with a pretty maid standing behind her.
The young woman seemed to be holding something in her hand. At this moment, all her attention was on the paintings around the wall, fascinated.
Seeing the woman from afar, a trace of doubt appeared in Li Yi's eyes. He walked to the woman and asked, "May I know why Miss Zuimo is here today?"
He did not expect that the person who came here to find him was actually the top artist of the Jade Courtyard. Li Yi and she had some small misunderstandings before, but they had later reconciled. However, the two of them had only met twice at the poetry conference and had no further interaction.
"Zuimo is here to return the painting to Young Master." Zeng Zuimo stood up, curtsied, and handed the thing in her hand to Li Yi.
"Painting?" Seeing that she handed over a paper tube, Li Yi was even more puzzled. When did she take his painting?
He turned to look at the surrounding walls. Not a single painting was missing?
Puzzled, he untied the string in the middle of the paper tube and slowly arranged the paper tube on the table beside him. Seeing the painting of a woman in martial attire on the paper, the expression on Li Yi's face froze for an instant.
Liu Ruyi, it was actually Liu Ruyi …
The painting was three-dimensional, so it should have been drawn by him. However, he had only drawn Liu Ruyi once, and that painting was still locked in the cabinet in his room!
But what was with the painting in front of him?
"I'm afraid that Young Master took the wrong painting that day. Please return the painting that you took away to me." Zeng Zuimo did not notice the change in Li Yi's expression and looked up at him.
A strange feeling welled up in Zeng Zuimo's heart at the thought that her painting was in the hands of a man. Coincidentally, she heard that the scholar who defeated Shen Zhao in poetry was in this Ruyi Workshop, so she immediately brought the painting over.
However, Li Yi did not give Zeng Zuimo an answer. His mind was still a bit confused at the moment. If he had taken the wrong painting that day, if this painting had fallen into Zeng Zuimo's hands, then the painting he had taken away that day was actually … her portrait!
Li Yi raised his head and glanced at her. He finally realized that the reason why he felt a sense of familiarity when he saw her at the Intoxicated Fragrance House was not because he went to the Jadeite Courtyard with Li Xuan that night, but because he had seen her portrait at the art stall …
Fang walked to Li Yi's side with doubt and looked at the table. After a moment of shock, his eyes suddenly widened, as if he had seen something extremely incredible.
"Young Master actually secretly hid a portrait of Second Miss!"
A voice, like thunder, exploded in Fang's mind!
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