I just want to live a good life

Dong Jingshu was almost mad with anger. She had spent 15,000 taels of silver to buy the jewelry for the empress dowager, but Concubine Xia actually wanted someone else to deliver it to the palace for her.

How could she show her filial piety if she let others send her to the palace?

"Sister Jingshu, if you don't say anything, that means you agree. Why not let the Second Prince help send it to the palace?"

"No, I'll deliver it myself."

"Sister Jingshu, are you afraid that the Second Prince will take away the credit? Don't worry, the Second Prince is not that kind of person. He will report this matter to the Queen Mother and let her know that this set of jewelry was given to her by you."

Su Nuan's explanation exposed all of Dong Jingshu's little thoughts.

"That's not the case." Dong Jingshu hastily denied, "I just happened to be going to the palace to pay my respects to the Queen Mother today, so it's the same if I bring the jewelry into the palace."

"Oh, is that so? That's fine too. It's best if you personally deliver the things you paid for."

Dong Jingshu didn't dare to bother with Su Nuan anymore, so she asked Manager Chen to go to the Mansion of Marquis Zhongyuan to get the silver, and then she quickly left with the jewelry.

Su Nuan quietly asked Manager Chen what to do if the Zhongyuan Marquisate refused to pay. Manager Chen told her not to be afraid, as he had a hundred ways to make the Zhongyuan Marquisate pay the bill.

At this point, the several sets of jewelry designed by Su Nuan for the reopening have all been sold.

Nearing noon, the customers in the store left one after another, and Mu Yunyi also went out to celebrate with his group of friends who had come to support the restaurant.

"Let's go too!" Mu Yunting said to Su Nuan.

"Where are you going?" Su Nuan asked.

"Let's go eat. Didn't you say yesterday that you would treat me to lunch today?"

"Oh, yes, yes, I did say that. Wait for me in the lounge for a while. I have something to say to Shopkeeper Chen."

Mu Yunting agreed and entered the lounge.

Su Nuan came to the counter and checked the accounts for the morning with Manager Chen.

I saw Manager Chen holding a bunch of small wooden signs and recording quickly in the account book.

There is a group of numbers recorded on the small wooden sign. Shopkeeper Chen can write down the corresponding jewelry name with just one glance. This skill requires one to be very familiar with all the goods in the shop.

Su Nuan didn't dare to make a sound to interrupt, and waited until Manager Chen had finished recording all the small wooden signs before she spoke.

"How much did we sell this morning?"

"Master, wait a moment, it will be calculated soon."

After saying this, Shopkeeper Chen took out a small abacus and started fiddling with it.

After a short while, Shopkeeper Chen stopped and looked up at Su Nuan with a happy face, "Boss, we sold a total of 31,228 taels of silver."

Su Nuan was also happy, but this was just the turnover, not the gross profit.

"Calculate how much money we made this morning after deducting costs and other expenses."

Shopkeeper Chen started clacking on the abacus again, this time taking a little longer.

After about half a cup of tea, Shopkeeper Chen slowly uttered a sentence: "Twenty-five thousand three hundred and eleven taels"

"My God, this is the profit of the UBS Building in the past two months." Shopkeeper Chen became excited. "Boss, you are amazing. If this continues, our UBS Building can make millions in two months."

"I can't stop smiling if I can earn 50,000 taels of silver a month." Su Nuan said with a smile: "Today is a special day, and with the presence of the Crown Prince and the Second Prince, those expensive jewelry are selling so quickly. It will be difficult to replicate such a grand occasion in the future."

"What do you mean by copy?"

"Well, it's hard to have a situation like today again. We have to do business down to earth in the future."

While saying this, Su Nuan was secretly thinking about holding a promotion during festivals and holidays, and an anniversary celebration a year later. In short, she wanted to replicate today's income, or even exceed it.

"I understand this principle, but I think with you as the boss of UBS Building, anything is possible."

This flattery made Su Nuan feel happy, and she did not hesitate to praise Manager Chen.

Of course, praise is not as good as reward. Su Nuan paid out of his own pocket to reward Manager Chen with fifty taels of silver, and each of the shop assistants received five taels.

This reward is quite a lot. You have to know that the average shop assistant only gets one or two taels of silver a month as wages, and a smaller shop earns less than one or two taels.

Just as Manager Chen and his staff were thanking Su Nuan profusely, Madam Wang arrived, followed by Kang Dahong and the servants of the Prince's Mansion.

These people all had food boxes in their hands.

Su Nuan asked Madam Wang to deliver the meal, and she sent double portions, one for her and Mu Yunting, and one for everyone else, but Su Nuan's portion only contained the ingredients.

When she walked into the lounge carrying a lunch box, Mu Yunting was lazily sitting on the couch and resting.

"Are you planning on eating here?"

Mu Yunting asked.

"Your Highness, are you free this afternoon?"

"What? You still want me to help you sell jewelry?"

"Of course not. If Your Highness is free, I would like to invite You to go on an autumn outing."

"Autumn outing?"

"Will Your Highness do me the honor?"

A smile appeared on Mu Yunting's lips.

An hour later, bursts of fragrance wafted over the creek at the foot of Buyi Mountain outside the imperial city.

Su Nuan was flipping grilled fish over a bonfire.

"The grilled fish is ready. Who else is still hungry? Come and eat quickly."

A row of guards were fishing with fishing rods by the river not far away. When they heard Su Nuan's shout, someone put down the fishing rod and was about to eat the fish, but was grabbed back by Ye Yin.

"You ate more than the skewers just now. You're still eating. Aren't you afraid of getting full?"

The man stared at the grilled fish in Su Nuan's hand without blinking.

Ye Yin continued, "Don't look at it, it's not yours. If you want to eat it, bake it yourself later."

As soon as he finished speaking, the guard saw his Royal Highness the Crown Prince reaching out to take two skewers of grilled fish.

"You've already eaten seven fish, and you're still eating?" Su Nuan asked Mu Yunting in surprise.

"I'm not full."

Su Nuan's eyes subconsciously glanced at his waist.

Fortunately, it seems that there is no change. As a visual animal, she will never allow such a good figure to be ruined.

The two sat side by side by the fire, and Mu Yunting suddenly mentioned the set of jewelry that Dong Jingshu bought.

"The yellow gem on the headband looks familiar to me. I seem to have seen it somewhere."

Su Nuan was shocked. The gem was taken from the scabbard of Hong Ji Sword, and she took it for herself. Was he going to settle the score with her later?

"The gemstones used by Silver House to decorate headdresses are all similar. Your Highness may have seen them on other headdresses."

She deliberately emphasized the word "headwear" to guide Mu Yunting to think about the headwear.

"No, I never pay attention to women's ornaments."

"So you don't care what jewelry others wear? Then why did you give that set of jewelry to the Queen Mother?"

"Not caring doesn't mean I don't know women like it. I thought you would rush to buy it and give it to the Empress Dowager in front of everyone."

"I have something better for her old lady."

"Oh? What?"

"Of course it's the dividends from the jewelry set."

"The Empress Dowager won't care about that little bit of silver."

Su Nuan just smiled and said nothing.

Mu Yunting suddenly remembered the one hundred taels that Su Nuan gave Mu Yunyi on his birthday, and suddenly he was not sure about what he said.