Help! The innocent prince always tries to seduce me clumsily

Chu Shitong said: "Take it out and let me see it."

She was quite curious about what the old man Master Wuji had written for her. It seemed that nothing related to the purse had happened in her previous life. She vaguely remembered that she had reached the point of disgust towards Bishui at that time and directly demoted her from a personal maid to a servant in the outer room. Bishui lost her original position and even had difficulty seeing her.

Later, Chu Shitong and Yun Xiangrong had a big quarrel over the murder case in Jiangzhou that shocked the world. She thought that Bishui had been reporting her whereabouts to Yun Xiangrong, so she directly drove Bishui out of the mansion.

Before leaving, Bishui wanted to see Chu Shitong again, but Chu Shitong did not agree. She thought she was going to use some kind of torture. Chu Shitong did not have anyone kill her at that time, which was considered the most kind thing she had done for them since childhood. Now she thinks that Bishui wanted to see her at that time maybe because she wanted to give her Master Wuji's purse.

Bishui rarely disobeyed Chu Shitong's words, "No! The fourth princess said that we must wait until your highness's seventeenth birthday to see it, otherwise it will be bad for your highness!"

Chu Shitong knew that although this little girl looked soft and gentle, she was actually as stubborn as a cow.

Since Bishui was unwilling to take it out, Chu Shitong gave up the idea of ​​looking at the purse. He guessed that the old man couldn't write anything good in it, so it didn't matter whether he looked at it or not.

Ji Shu hurriedly walked into the room with someone, "Your Highness, I have brought her here."

Chu Shitong glanced behind him and immediately couldn't help but chuckle.

The woman behind Ji Shu, dressed in the gray servant's clothes, lowered her head. Although her face could not be seen clearly, from the way her hair was tied, it could be identified that it was Yuan Xi, her most profitable and capable assistant in her previous life.

In his previous life, Yuan Xi was originally a subordinate of Xie Chuchu. Together, they founded a restaurant that was very popular in Beijing. Yuan Xi could not cook, but he had a lot of strange things in his mind. Many marketing methods and ways of making money were proposed by Yuan Xi when he was working with Xie Chuchu.

Yuan Xi was in charge of marketing and attracting customers, while Xie Chuchu cooked in the kitchen according to the recipes given by Yuan Xi. The two of them worked in unison to make the restaurant's business so prosperous.

Later, Yuan Xi and Xie Chuchu had a disagreement. It seemed that Yuan Xi was ambitious and wanted to invest in the restaurant outside the city, but Xie Chuchu was unwilling to take the risk because she had a child. The two quarreled for a long time and finally parted unhappily.

Because the initial capital for establishing the restaurant was provided by Xie Chuchu, Yuan Xi only took some dividends and left the restaurant. Later, she was recruited by Chu Shitong and helped Chu Shitong make a fortune by using her original plan to invest in a hotel in Jeonbuk Qingguo.

Xie Chuchu also relied on her family background of running a restaurant to make a killing in the capital.

The two people belong to two extremes. Yuan Xi is cheerful by nature, and has a lot of strange things in her mind. She always has all kinds of spooky ideas. She prefers the risky way of making money with ups and downs, but her success rate is still quite high. What Chu Shitong remembers most about her is that she always likes to tie two crooked braids, and calls herself "double ponytails". She always dresses very strangely every time, and her way of speaking is not very similar to that of a Beiqing country person. But Chu Shitong has checked and found that Yuan Xi is indeed from Beiqing country. It seems that she used to be a well-known fool in a village near the capital. As a result, she fell into the water and suddenly became smart, which is also very strange.

Xie Chuchu's personality is the type that takes things step by step, otherwise she wouldn't have suffered in Xibaolou in order to endure the day when she could make a name for herself. No matter how rich she was in her previous life, the business under her name was only spread across the capital and had never expanded to other places. She was the type of person who stayed in her own territory to maximize profits.

In her previous life, Yuan Xi told me that after she became smart, she ran away from home and came to the capital to make a living. As a result, she was kidnapped by a boy because she was not good at finding her way and almost starved to death. Fortunately, when she was sold as a slave, she met Xie Chuchu who admired her talent, and that's how the sequel happened.

The ice-making recipe was originally provided to Xie Chuchu by Yuan Xi.

It seems that at this moment, she must have been bought back by Ji Shu after being kidnapped by a boy.

Seeing Chu Shitong laughing happily, Bishui also became happy and asked curiously, "Your Highness, do you know her?"

Chu Shitong shook his head and said, "It's just that I think the way this girl tied her hair is interesting."

Yuan Xi suddenly raised his head, and his big eyes on his gray face flickered as he looked at Chu Shitong. There was not the slightest fear of a slave towards his master in his eyes, but instead a hint of curiosity and excitement.

"Are you the Seventh Prince?"

Ji Shu shouted angrily, "How dare you! Who gave you the guts to speak to His Highness like that?!"

Ji Shu was probably used to teaching his servants with a cold face on weekdays. When he opened his mouth, Yuan Xi shivered and immediately lowered her head, but Chu Shitong did not see the slightest fear in her.

The little girl is quite good at pretending to be honest.

Chu Shitong waved his hand and said, "It's okay. This girl seems to have a good relationship with me."

Ji Shu: “…”

What a fate! Wasn't it Chu Shitong who specifically asked me to buy Yuan Xi?

"What's your name?" Chu Shitong asked.

Yuan Xi said: "My name is Yuan Xi."

"I heard something about you." Chu Shitong lied, "It seems that you were not very smart when you were young in your hometown. After falling into the water, you suddenly became smart and became a lot more talented. I heard that you can speak eloquently."

Yuan Xi smiled awkwardly: "Oh, no, I just remembered a few sentences... No! I can only speak a few sentences fluently."

Chu Shitong naturally knew that Yuan Xi's few lines of poetry at a garden party in her previous life had earned her a reputation as a talented woman, but after that, Yuan Xi never created any other poems or songs, so it was not surprising that she could only recite those few lines.

"I think you are a very interesting person. Would you like to serve under this prince?"

Yuan Xiru was as excited as she imagined: "Really?"

But the excitement lasted less than a moment, and the expression on his face suddenly changed from surprise to confusion, and finally he frowned and lowered his head, and he began to worry for some unknown reason.

Chu Shitong stared at her expression and said, "It's okay if you don't want to. You are already a member of my house. It's okay for you to be an ordinary servant."

Hearing the words "ordinary servant", Yuan Xi immediately said: "No, no, no, I still want to serve Your Highness. I am weak and cannot do rough work. Your Highness can let me do some brain-intensive work, I am good at it."

"what can you do?"

"I..." Yuan Xi thought again and again, and said, "I can keep accounts and I'm very fast at math! I'll recite the multiplication table for you."

"What is the multiplication table?" Chu Shitong raised his eyebrows and said, "This prince does not need an accountant."

"I can do other things. I also know marketing planning, market management, promotion management, and consumer psychology. I remember a lot of them. Anyway, I can make money for you. Trust me. This is my main profession."

Chu Shitong smiled and said, "Okay, it just so happens that I have a few shops to open. When you buy the shop of the restaurant, you can try your hand at it. Let me see your ability and consider whether to keep you."

"Okay!" Yuan Xi agreed immediately.

A strange look appeared on Ji Shu and Bishui's faces at the same time.

Yuan Xi looked at Chu Shitong expectantly and said, "Then... Your Highness, do I not have to do rough work in the yard?"

Chu Shitong paused, then turned to ask Ji Shu, "How long will it take you to buy the restaurant?"

Ji Shu said: "Within three days."

"That's fine." Chu Shitong said, "Then Yuan Xi won't have to do hard labor in the mansion anymore. He can rest until the shop is bought."

Before Yuan Xilai could feel happy, he heard Chu Shitong say again.

"You should be able to read, right? As an equal contribution, you will be responsible for writing down your strategy and submitting it to me in the next few days. If you can't read, ask the accountant to write it for you. If I think it's okay, then you can just live in the mansion and take care of the restaurant business. You don't have to work. But you have to promise to make back the money I invested in the restaurant within half a year, otherwise I will exile you to the border."

Yuan Xi looked at Ji Shu in confusion, "How much money would it cost to invest in that shop?"

Ji Shu snorted coldly and said, "Two thousand taels for the shop, plus two thousand taels for the decoration and five hundred taels for the labor, a total of four thousand five hundred taels."

The room suddenly became eerily quiet, as if something broke, perhaps someone's heart.

The smile on Yuan Xi's face almost broke. She looked at Chu Shitong with a ferocious look and said accusingly, "Four thousand five hundred taels? Aren't you a little too shabby? Isn't this the behavior of a capitalist?"

Chu Shitong knew that Yuan Xi was always talking nonsense and saying some strange things. Although she didn't quite understand what he said, she could guess roughly what he said. Her expression turned cold. "If you tell me now that you can't do it, I will exile you to the border and make you a coolie for the rest of your life."

Yuan Xi forced a smile on his sad face, and said with tears in his eyes: "Of course I can do it... Your Highness, please trust me once..."

Chu Shitong then smiled politely, "Thank you for your help. Now you can think about how to make money for this prince."

As soon as Yuan Xi left, Ji Shu and Bishui couldn't help themselves.

Ji Shu said, "Your Highness, this person is full of nonsense. She is talking about things that you cannot understand. She is yelling at Your Highness without following the rules. Why does Your Highness need her?"

Bishui also said: "That's right, Your Highness. You see, she has no rules at all. She is crazy. Bishui doesn't like her at all. She is an unreliable person at first glance."

Chu Shitong laughed and said, "You two really have the same thoughts. You think alike."

Being teased by Chu Shitong, Bishui and Ji Shu looked at each other. Bishui immediately blushed and lowered her head, muffled and said: "Your Highness only knows how to make fun of Bishui..."

Ji Shu coughed awkwardly twice and pretended to be serious, "Your Highness, Bishui Hu Niang is also worried that Your Highness has been deceived by Yuan Xi."

Chu Shitong said disdainfully, "Who lied to me first or did you lie to her first? The investment in that shop was 4,500 taels, you really dare to say that."

Ji Shu's offer to Yuan Xi was 3,000 taels for the three shops, which translated to only 1,000 taels for each shop. Moreover, how could Chu Shitong be willing to spend 2,000 taels on decoration and 500 taels on manpower? It was completely Ji Shu's intention to cheat Yuan Xi by asking for an exorbitant price.

Ji Shu was exposed by Chu Shitong, and said with a stiff face: "That's because she was too rude to Your Highness. Your Highness is too good-tempered to let her speak to you in such a disrespectful way. If she dared to speak to Si Shizi like this, Si Shizi would have ordered people to drag her out and slap her in the face."

When Si Jingli was mentioned for no reason, Chu Shitong suddenly fell silent.

Since sending him back home that day, the two had no more contact. I developed the drawings of the carriage modification, but for a moment I didn't know how to give them to him.

"None of these things are important." Chu Shitong said, "No matter how respectful she appears to be, or how rude she may be, I am not a person of high power and influence. As long as they can bring me something that is truly within my reach, I do not care what their attitude is."

Chu Shitong glanced at Bishui and Jishu, and said in a calm tone, but with a hint of warning, "In the future, you should not act like that in front of others. Just hold back if you need to act. As long as I am not angry, you should not say anything to others casually, especially to people of status. I don't want to see the tea-making incident last time again, understand?"

Ji Shu, who was named, could only agree to Chu Shitong's order and said, "I understand."

......

At sunset, the heat had finally dissipated a lot, and Chu Shitong was ready to go out to the jewelry shop to get the prepared gift.

The sunset glow is scattered in the sky, purple with a hint of red, and the sky is full of rosy clouds.

The carriage swayed all the way to the jewelry shop. Although the shop was not big, there were usually many people there. Today, there were several carriages parked next to it.

Chu Shitong got out of the car, looked around, and said, "It looks like business is good today."

Bishui said, "I heard that the second princess' birthday is coming up these days, and many young men and women are coming to the shop to buy jewelry."

"Why are you all here? Aren't there a lot of jewelry shops on Changchun Street?"

"I heard that it seems that because the second daughter of the Marquis of Xiaozhan bought a hairpin from us before, and when the old lady of the Xiangfu celebrated her birthday, she took it out and was praised by many people. Since then, more young men and women have come to our shop."

"The second young lady of the Xiaozhan Army Marquis family..."

Chu Shitong recalled this person and had some impression of him, but it was not very deep.

Bishui said: "It's Miss Xu Bingqing. You saw her in the last class at the Imperial Academy."

Chu Shitong remembered that there were only two things that impressed her most about the Xiaozhan Army Marquis family. One was that the eldest son of the Xiaozhan Army Marquis died in a battle at the Xifeng Border. Because of this incident, His Majesty was furious and almost sent the fifth prince to the battlefield. The other thing was that the Xiaozhan Army Marquis family had only this daughter, Xu Bingqing, left after the eldest son died.

If you ask why it was so memorable, it was naturally because of Xu Bingqing's deep love for Si Jingli.

Xu Bingqing fell in love with Si Jingli at first sight when she was twelve years old, and this love lasted until she was nineteen. Girls could get married at the age of fifteen or sixteen, and she waited for Si Jingli for several years.

In the previous life, because the eldest son of Marquis Xiaozhan died in battle, in order to appease Marquis Xiaozhan, His Majesty wanted to marry Xu Bingqing to Si Jingli, but Si Jingli directly refused in front of everyone at the banquet without giving her any face. Xu Bingqing was heartbroken and became ill. Later, unfortunately, she contracted tuberculosis and died of depression.