On the side, Nanny Xu also said with some distress:
"Second Miss, those people just don't like our Duke's palace. What's more, their words are like a thorn, which has made Madam uneasy these days. Why should Second Miss keep those words in her heart?"
Luo Jiuli's tone was tense and he quickly comforted:
"Mother, I didn't pay attention to what they said."
"Then you take over the shop and open the restaurant."
The Duke's wife looked serious.
"I want everyone in the capital to see it. Whoever said that a Heli woman living in her parents' home is an unlucky person, living alone and waiting to die."
"The second daughter of the Duke of Yiguo's palace is a pure and upright person, and she is upright and upright in her work. She is hundreds of times better than those thieves like them."
Luo Jiuli looked at the seriousness and hope in his mother's eyes, and the tears of excitement poured out like a flood that burst the embankment.
She slowly leaned into her mother's arms, extremely firm in her thoughts.
"A daughter will never let her mother down."
The Duke's wife finally smiled and patted her back gently with her palms, smiling calmly and relaxedly.
The next morning, Luo Jiuli got up early, changed into a long sapphire-colored dress, and pulled her long hair back into a simple concentric bun.
"Chunrong, I heard you mentioned that Butler Zhang's son has always been with Mr. Accountant?"
Chun Rong nodded.
"Yes, his name is Zhang Wen. He is an honest man and his wife is very at ease with him."
"Well, go and ask him to go out with us, and call Butler Zhang by the way."
Half an hour later, stepping on the bluestone road under his feet and standing in front of the second-floor shop facing the street, Luo Jiuli's heart was racing.
It turns out that this shop used to be a two-story teahouse. There was a constant flow of people coming and going on the street. On the street diagonally across the street was Yunzhi Pavilion, the largest and best pastry shop in the capital.
Zhang Wen unlocked the door and opened the door. The decoration inside was similar to that of other teahouses.
After Chunrong walked upstairs and downstairs, she said:
"Miss, if you buy some more tables, chairs and benches, this restaurant can be opened."
Luo Jiuli shook his head calmly.
"No, tear it down and renovate it."
"Demolished?"
The three people standing aside couldn't help but frown.
Especially the housekeeper, when he heard that the second lady was going to demolish the shop and renovate it, he was confused and didn't know what the second lady was thinking.
"Well, after it's dismantled, I'll go back and draw a sketch. Zhang Wen, you are responsible for finding a craftsman to decorate it. The cost of the decoration will be paid out of my account."
When Zhang Wen heard this, he glanced at his father.
"Second Miss, I'm afraid--"
"Afraid of what? Are you afraid that you are not qualified? If you are not qualified to decorate a shop, then I am afraid that you are not qualified to be the shopkeeper either."
As soon as these words came out, the father and son suddenly looked at Luo Jiuli in surprise.
When the housekeeper left the house just now, he was still wondering why the second lady insisted on asking his son to follow him to see the shop.
"Second, Miss Second, you asked this villain to be the shopkeeper of this shop?"
Luo Jiuli raised his eyes and smiled lightly.
"How is it? Can you do it?"
"able."
Zhang Wen clenched his fists, and a heartfelt sense of recognition bloomed on his honest and honest face.
"You must do your best, little man."
Luo Jiuli smiled and nodded. From beginning to end, Butler Zhang did not say a word, but his gratitude to Luo Jiuli was beyond words.
Now that the shop is open and the pots and pans are available, she still needs to do another thing before it opens.
Within four days, Luo Jiuli gave the bank notes he planned to Zhang Wen, Qin Wu, and Chun Rong respectively.
Zhang Wen was responsible for finding craftsmen to demolish the shop and decorate it, Qin Wu was responsible for going to Shilipu to supervise the quality of the shabu-shabu, and Chun Rong was responsible for leading the maids to purchase all the necessary tableware and seasonings.
For a moment, Luo Jiuli was so busy that his feet couldn't even touch the ground.
At this time, she didn't know that Xiao Mingxuan and Qin Yin had already arrived at the Liyang military camp a hundred miles away.
Qin Yin stood outside the camp, his eyelids twitching for some reason.
Ever since he and the prince hurriedly left the capital and headed straight for the Liyang military camp, his heart had never settled down.
He probably guessed why the prince came to the Liyang military camp to meet Duke Yi.
Originally, the journey from the capital to Liyang would take at least seven or eight days, but the prince was worried about Miss Luo Er and changed horses instead of people along the way, thus compressing the journey from seven or eight days to four days.
No, the prince arrived at the Liyang military camp early this morning. He rushed into the Duke's camp and has not come out yet.
As for the tense atmosphere faintly revealed from inside the camp, Qin Yin couldn't help but wipe the sweat from his forehead.
However, before the sweat was wiped off, a banging sound was heard from the camp, as if someone had been hit by a palm.
Qin Yin held the handle of the knife, raised his feet and rushed in.
He opened the curtain and saw that his master was holding his chest and standing opposite the Duke.
But the Duke of Guo had a cold look on his face, veins popped out on his forehead, and he was so full of anger that he had no place to spray it, and his cheeks were trembling with anger.
"Get out."
Xiao Mingxuan stood up straight and scolded Qin Yin.
Qin Yin did not dare to speak, so he had to retreat and guard the outside of the camp, but he could not let outsiders come in and see his prince being beaten by his future father-in-law.
In the camp, the aura surrounding the Duke of Guo was chilly and eerie.
"Why did the Ninth Prince come to tell me this matter today? Is it just to receive my slap so that the Prince can feel at ease?"
Xiao Mingxuan collected his thoughts and said calmly.
"No, this slap is what I deserve."
The Duke of Guo was startled, and his mind suddenly became clearer. He had been confused just now. Although he was the highest-ranking among the dukes, the Nine Princes were princes, members of the royal family, and their status was second only to the emperor.
What's more, as a general, he admired this capable prince.
However, no one who listens to what happened today will face it calmly.
"Ninth Prince, I once said that Jiu'er is not suitable for Gongmen Palace. She has suffered losses in your royal family, and I will not let her make the same mistake again."
Xiao Mingxuan knew that the Duke would stand in the way of his affair with Luo Jiuli, but he didn't expect that he would say it so clearly.
He couldn't help but smile bitterly and said:
"I know that the Duke of Guo will stop me. This is why I came to see the Duke of Guo today."
"The first is to plead guilty. The second is to get the forgiveness and consent of the Duke of the State."
"As for that matter, Yan Tinglian is dead. Apart from my two confidants, the only ones who know about it are the Duke of the State and me."
"What?"
The Duke's eyes are as bright as a torch.
"Jiu'er still doesn't know about that?"
Xiao Mingxuan nodded.
"With her intelligence, she can't hide it for long. Although her memory of that night was erased by Yan Tinglian, she -"
I remembered that in the palace, Luo Jiuli used a strange technique called hypnosis on the jailer of the Criminal Department.