I just want to live a good life

Su Nuan was thinking about visiting Madam Wang, but she didn't know if she was adapting well in the restaurant.

It was not yet time for dinner when the carriage stopped in front of the restaurant. There were not many people in front of the restaurant. Even the waiter who greeted guests was hiding inside the door and dozing off with his hands in his pockets.

"Xiaobai, I told you that there are delicious foods to eat when you follow me. Don't disbelieve me. I will take you to taste them today."

"Miss, can there really be any delicious food at this point?"

Ye Xiaobai pointed at the restaurant's facade and asked a soul-searching question.

Su Nuan smacked her lips. The old building and the paint-chipped plaque really didn't look very presentable.

Now that I'm here, I can't not go in. There's no point in saying more.

The two walked into the restaurant one after the other.

Ye Xiaobai was in front, and when he saw the lazy guy, he kicked him with his toes and said, "Stop sleeping, there are guests coming."

The guy was very unhappy about being disturbed. He rubbed his eyes and muttered quietly: "Just come, there are so many seats, why don't you just sit there."

"What did you say?"

Ye Xiaobai asked with a stern face.

"I said welcome, sir, please come in."

The waiter forced a fake smile and pointed to a table. "There is a seat over there. Please take a seat, sir."

After saying this, he turned around and went back to the door without caring whether Su Nuan and the others went to sit down or not, and continued to doze off while leaning against the door.

"Miss, is this shop really owned by the Prince's Mansion?"

"Hongyun Restaurant, that should be correct."

Su Nuan wasn't entirely sure.

Ye Xiaobai complained: "Your Highness the Crown Prince opened this shop to support idle people, right? You see there are many assistants, but no one is working."

"He doesn't have any good business people on his hands."

"I don't think he's short of money. If he doesn't need to make money from this shop, he naturally won't think about running it."

"But there isn't much money in the account of the Prince's Mansion!"

Su Nuan muttered.

"Then His Royal Highness must have other profitable shops."

This idea coincided with Su Nuan's. She had thought about this problem when she just returned to the Prince's Mansion. Mu Yunting took his own annual salary to entertain the troops, and the Second Prince always went to the Prince's Mansion to sweep up the money. Later, he took out 10,000 taels for her to buy the Ruiyin Building.

After that, she took over the management of the accounts and shops of the Prince's Mansion. She knew exactly how much income and expenditure the mansion had in a year. According to her calculations, the maximum amount of silver that Mu Yunting could use was 10,000 taels, but he took the silver to help Xun Zheng renovate the old house of the Xun family.

He asked Song Qi to inquire about the materials Xun Zheng bought to renovate the house. They were all top-quality materials. She also asked someone to calculate it. It would cost at least 30,000 taels to renovate the entire Xun family house with such materials.

Although the thirty thousand taels that Fusheng had taken from her might have already fallen into Xun Zheng's hands, Xun Zheng might not dare to use that money.

She must have made her budget based on the money given by Mu Yunting.

Mu Yunting is not a fool. If he finds out that the money she spent on renovating the old house is far more than the money he gave her, he will definitely suspect where the money came from. After all, Xun Zheng appears as a lonely and helpless person with nothing.

So Mu Yunting gave Xun Zheng at least 30,000 taels of silver to build the house. But the question is, he only had 10,000 taels of silver at his disposal. Where did he get the extra silver from?

Either he has some private money, or he has other businesses that he is hiding from Su Nuan.

No matter what the situation was, Su Nuan felt that he was deliberately hiding the truth and was not doing justice to her for working so hard to earn money for him.

"Miss, are we really going to eat here?"

Xiaobai's words brought Su Nuan's thoughts back to the present.

"You won't dislike the food here when you eat it later."

After saying that, Su Nuan looked around, trying to find a waiter to take their order. Unfortunately, after searching for a long time, no waiter came forward to take their order.

Su Nuan was a little angry. With such service, it was no wonder that the restaurant had been losing money year after year.

"Someone come."

Xiaobai suddenly shouted.

But no one moved.

He tried shouting again, but a waiter shouted "Customers" towards the kitchen.

A woman's voice came out, "It's coming, it's coming."

Then, Madam Wang hurried out from the kitchen.

When she saw Su Nuan, her eyes lit up first, and then she called out aggrievedly, "Concubine!"

Su Nuan pulled out a chair next to her and asked Madam Wang to sit down.

I haven't seen Madam Wang for a few days and I've discovered that she has lost a lot of weight. Now I can see the lines on her chubby baby face.

Hearing Madam Wang's shout, the guys around looked at Su Nuan curiously.

Someone who was quick-witted had already come over and gently pulled Madam Wang's sleeve, "Um, is this guest really the concubine of the Crown Prince's Mansion?"

Madam Wang rolled her eyes at the man and replied, "How can this be false?"

Perhaps because Ye Xiaobai and Su Nuan were sitting at the same table, the waiter misunderstood and knelt down in front of Ye Xiaobai, and said excitedly: "I pay my respects to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."

Ye Xiaobai was startled, then kicked the waiter on the buttocks and scolded: "Your Highness, did you recognize someone randomly? You think your life is too long, don't you? My young lady is Concubine Xia, and she is also the boss of your restaurant. If you don't kneel to her, you kneel to me. Are you stupid?"

The guy was kicked but didn't dare say anything. He looked at Su Nuan and seemed a little bit unconvinced.

"Okay, no need to kneel, this is none of your business, just go down."

Su Nuan opened her mouth, sent the waiter away, and then said to Madam Wang: "How is it going, has your work here been going smoothly these days?"

"It's not going well. You can see that I'm the only one working."

"Have they never worked, or has this only happened since you came?"

If no one is doing the job in the first place, then these people should have been fired long ago. If it is the latter, then they need to be properly educated.

"There weren't many people working originally, and the day after I arrived, there was no one working at all."

"So what should we do if there are customers coming to the store these days?"

"If I'm here, I'll be the one to greet you. If I'm not here, someone will call me."

This was obviously bullying. Su Nuan was unhappy. Madam Wang was someone she asked Steward Ding to send here personally. These people knew that she was sent here by them but still treated her like this. It meant that they did not take her seriously.

After learning about the situation on Madam Wang's first day, Su Nuan was basically able to conclude that the kitchen staff and the waiters were ostracizing Madam Wang.

"You've been doing all the work these days, so do you know where to buy the vegetables and how to settle the bill?"

"Every day, vegetables are delivered, but they are old and rotten, and the meat is leftover meat from the previous day. I don't want to use such ingredients, so I go to the market to buy fresh meat and vegetables. The shopkeeper said that these are all for my own use, and the store will not pay me. He also said that this is a waste of the meat and vegetables originally ordered, and I have to make up for the wasted money. He also showed me the account book. You gave it to me before I came, and I happened to flip through the account book."

Madam Wang still said with grievance, "Madam, why don't I go back to Duiyueju to cook for you? It's so difficult to run a restaurant!"

It wouldn't be difficult for one person to work in a restaurant. Seeing how much weight she has lost, I know she has suffered a lot in the past few days.

"Send the shopkeeper here. I want to see him."

"I'm afraid you won't be able to see him today. Today is a double date, so the shopkeeper is taking a break."

"what?"

Su Nuan was so surprised that she was speechless.

She herself didn't even dare to think about working one day and resting one day.

It took a long time for Su Nuan to come back to her senses.

"If you want to rest, let's all do it together. The restaurant will be closed starting tomorrow."