Cowardly Stepmother Dressed As the Hero

After Mrs Zhang left, Lei Li rubbed his hands excitedly.

"That's it? Then we'll wait for the payment next month?" He happily confirmed to Qi You.

Qi You glanced at him and warned: "Changling Market is still under construction, this place has always been your Lei family's territory, you should be more careful.

"I know that the Lei family has been loyal and good for three generations, but now that the Lei family has a great business, there will inevitably be some black sheep. As the next head of the family, it is time to stand up.

"Next time you ask me to catch it, I will never forgive you lightly."

What Qi lobbying was about corruption by a side branch of the Lei family.

Lei Li blushed with embarrassment at what he said, and repeatedly assured: "Yes! Your lord, don't worry, I'll go back to my home during this time, and I will definitely beat them!"

He gritted his teeth: "The crime actually ran into Grandpa's hands. I want to see if they ate the gall of a bear and a leopard."

Qi You nodded, and then instructed Chen He: "Extend our patrol area a mile further and test the reaction of those cavalry.

"Go find some clever ones, don't confront them directly."

Chen He cupped his hands: "I will understand at the end."

The three discussed the deployment of Changling, and Chen He suddenly remembered something: "My lord, you said, will Danba learn from us and open a market place?

"If this is the case, the profits of Changling Market will probably be divided a lot."

Qi You smiled and said, "Not for the time being."

He knocked on the table: "After all, the Rong people are nomadic people, they have no fixed station, and there are not many people left in the area north of Fengping. The reason why we can't confront them directly is just because of fear. The Rong army in the depths of the steppe.

"Without sufficient military power, it is difficult for him to form a market with strict rules.

"Furthermore, Danba has more connections than we do. Those caravans are enough for him to make money just by going in and out of the grasslands. Before facing extreme threats, this king guessed that he would not do such a thankless thing. ."

Chen He nodded: "Your Highness is wise."

Seeing that it was almost noon, the three of them ended their conversation tacitly.

When walking out, Lei Li still clutched his stomach and yelled, "Hey, my lord, I think we should end it three quarters earlier next time.

"My old man is too hungry to bear at this time, how can the two young masters survive?"

Qi You walked ahead, noncommittal. After exiting the door, he gave a look to the two little ones who were waiting by the door.

Qi An retracted his half-yawned yawn, and quickly followed Qi You with the boss Qi Rui.

King Bei'an said goodbye to the two generals outside the door, and returned to the courtyard where he was temporarily living with his two sons.

Before eating, Qi You asked, "Are you hungry?"

Qi Rui acted upright and heard the words and replied, "We have to wait for my father to eat together."

Qi You curled the corners of his lips and moved his chopsticks.

After eating, Qi An was so sleepy that she couldn't open her eyes.

He has been deliberately ordered by Qi You these days, and his daily work is very fulfilling. Fortunately, the child was originally in good physical condition. After all this tossing, he increased his appetite and slept deeply. He looked a little stronger.

Qi You carried him to the bed in the inner room, Qi An was drowsy, stretched his arms around his neck, and murmured, "Mother..."

When Qi You came back to his senses, Qi An had already let go of his hands and fell asleep.

Looking back at the eldest son who was following behind him with a tired look on his face, Qi You asked in a low voice, "Do you miss your mother?"

Qi Rui was shocked when he heard the words, and then nodded honestly.

Qi You curled his lips into a smile: "How long have you been away from the palace, and you're so useless?"

After five years of age, the eldest son of the royal palace, who believed that he had grown up, turned red, and retorted with his neck stuck, "It's not..."

Qi You stopped teasing him and whispered, "Go to sleep and take care of your brother."

After he finished speaking, he didn't wait for Qi Rui to respond, and turned around and left the house directly.

After closing the door gently, he stood outside the door for a while, and judging by his voice that Qi Rui was also in bed, Qi You breathed a sigh of relief.

Before leaving, he subconsciously calculated the time when he left home, and muttered: "This king has been away from home for more than three months? Why don't I miss it at all..."

Halfway through the speech, he thought about it carefully, but for some reason, he didn't finish the last unfinished words.

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Master Zeng, who is far away in Cannes, has encountered a little trouble recently.

After Liu Ge left the cement workshop, because he was the first to refine cement, he has now been promoted to the chief steward in the workshop, specially responsible for the management of firing.

In the past few days, workers have often come to react with him. Near the cement workshop, there are people who are sneakily monitoring the workshop.

Master Zeng wanted to report the matter, but the peeping people kept observing from a distance and did not do anything out of the ordinary.

But on this day, the person who only dared to spy from a distance actually found him directly.

Master Zeng took a sip of water to hide his doubts and nervousness, and asked, "What are you trying to do?"

Seeing that the visitor was also a servant with a low status, he heard the words and bowed respectfully to Master Zeng: "Good day, steward. This is the case. My master heard that the five-storey high-rise restaurant in the city, which has been built, is used. It's the material produced by your workshop, so that's why I sent a villain to inquire..."

He paused: "I don't know if your workshop is selling this material?"

The restaurant under Cao Mi's name has been roughly completed. Now, the interior decoration is still being finalized, and it is about to open soon.

People in Cannes changed their attitude very quickly from the mentality of watching the lively at the beginning to the amazement after the five-story building was actually completed.

During this period, some people with a keen sense of smell saw the business opportunities.

Some businessmen who know who is behind the cement are still in a wait-and-see attitude because of the power of the Beian Palace, and they dare not act rashly. The uninformed small businessman secretly dispatched domestic servants to follow the cement transportation route to the workshop.

The first person who came to prepare to eat crab was after observing for several days and confirming that this was the cement production workshop, so he went directly to him and was received by Master Zeng.

When Master Zeng heard this, his eyes lit up: "Sell it! Why don't you sell it! It's going to be sold soon!"

Since Qi You had brought two big orders to Cao Mi before, and Cao Mi had a restaurant and Rongguang Villa that needed to be built and repaired, since the cement workshop was built, the cement produced had a place to go.

Except for the heated kang and the ground dragon, which had been a small fight among the top families in Cannes before, cement has not been sold on a large scale.

But now that it is summer, the two lists and the restaurant have been completed.

Cao Mi has already asked the cement workshop to have more clay tile masters in the training department, and after waiting for his strength to recover, he will officially start selling cement to the outside world.

At this time, Master Zeng was naturally very happy when he saw the business coming to him.

Soon, the news was sent to the palace. Cao Mi looked at the letter sent by the cement workshop and thought about it for a while.

"Now that the construction of the restaurant is over, the sale of cement should really be put on the agenda." She thought about it, picked up the pen, and gave Master Zeng the corresponding answer.

Soon, the kang craftsmen who disappeared during the autumn harvest last year returned to Cannes again. This time, in addition to entering the high gate compound of the family, they also went deep into ordinary residential areas to try to promote the practical role of kang and cement.

And the cement workshop, which has been deserted for more than a year, has gradually become lively. Every day, caravans visit and exchange a large amount of cement materials with real gold and silver.

Before anyone noticed, new building materials will start from Cannes City and slowly change the living environment of this era.

Just when the cement workshop was in full swing, Cao Mi's five-story restaurant also ushered in the final repairs. According to the original arrangement, she started the "investment promotion" plan.

In the eyes of a modern person like Cao Mi, a five-story high-rise building with a vast area, of course, cannot be used only for opening a restaurant. She intends to imitate the practice of modern large supermarkets, opening the restaurant on the top three floors, while the first and second floors below will be used as large shops to buy and sell some exotics.

Today, the industries under her name can be settled in the prosperous area of ​​Yongle Street. One is the fine books and paper sheets produced by printing, and the other is the cashmere sweater that is being made in the villa.

Relying on her own, she naturally couldn't eat a whole two-storey shop.

So, she instructed her subordinates to spread the news. Prepare to lease the vacant space to other merchants in the form of leasing.

It is worth mentioning that after the housekeeper of Fuzhong knew the news, he didn't know whether he smelled the business opportunity, or because of the instructions given by the King of Bei'an to take care of the princess, he rented the three best places near the door directly with Cao Mi. place.

You know, with the gimmick of "five-story high-rise", Cao Mi's rent is not low, it is about 30% more expensive than renting a place of the same size on Yongle Street alone.

But seeing the appearance of the old **** in the housekeeper's presence, Cao Mi simply didn't ask any more questions. After this period of time, she knew that her titular husband, who seemed to be "relegated" to Liaozhou, the extremely miserable King of Bei'an, was actually very rich, maybe even richer than she imagined!

It's just that according to Qi You's macho style, he never felt that it was necessary to say such things to the mistress of the house.

Thinking of this, Cao Mi directly asked Xiling to send the lease contract, and for the sake of "my own person", on the grounds that these three positions were too good, he secretly added another percent to the contract. ten.

The housekeeper didn't care about such trivial matters at all. After getting the contract, he directly handed over the deposit all at once.

Cao Mi smiled calmly on the surface, while handing over the signed contract to Xiling, he instructed him to let the restaurant help the housekeeper's renovation arrangements.

The four close servants, Nanxi and Beisi, who were originally selected by her, stayed in Rongguang Villa, one was responsible for the education and training of refugee children, and the other was responsible for the production in the village.

Dong Li has been waiting around, occasionally assisting her in managing the house's internal affairs, only Xiling spared no effort. After more than a year of training, he took over Cao Mi's business in Cannes.

Before the news of the "investment promotion" spread, it had already made a "good start", and Cao Mi was very satisfied.

The author has something to say: there is one more chapter around 9pm.

Thanks to the little angel who threw the landmine: 1 brother, 1;

Thanks to the little angel who irrigated the nutrient solution: 10 bottles of Zhenzhen; 5 bottles of Yaqi; 4 bottles of Miaohua; 3 bottles of plum soup and key key;

Thank you very much for your support, I will continue to work hard!