Lin'er held back her smile and praised: "Yes, yes, as long as my lady doesn't use force, she is the most gentle and well-behaved girl in the world!"
Mu Qinxue raised her eyebrows, Lin'er's words obviously made her feel good.
Lin'er added: "It's just that I don't understand. If you confess your feelings to him on Miss's terms, he will definitely accept it. Why should Miss..."
Mu Qinxue said proudly: "You don't understand this. The best hunter should appear in front of the target in the form of prey~"
Lin'er was stunned.
Mu Qinxue thought for a while and said, "Actually, it was my grandfather who told me to do this! Not only do I have to pretend to be weak, but I also want to please his sister Xue'er, who is not related by blood, so I will be foolproof!"
"As expected of the old man..." Lin'er marveled.
Mu Qinxue looked at the flames of the candles on the table and murmured to herself: "Liang Xiao, Liang Xiao, when I deceive you, you will be my husband. If you don't, you will be my husband. If you don't, you will be Mrs. Yazhai~"
The more Lin'er listened, the more frightened she became.
In Liang Mansion, Jiang Fuxue stayed by Liang Xiao's side, watching Liang Xiao draw some strange drawings.
"Xue'er, are you still not sleeping?" Liang Xiao couldn't help but ask.
"Xue'er is staying with my brother. I'm not sleepy." Jiang Fuxue responded obediently, but her eyes did not leave Liang Xiao's drawings, her eyes full of doubts.
"Xue'er is only ten years old and is still growing. She needs enough sleep and cannot stay up late." Liang Xiao sighed.
Jiang Fuxue quickly changed the topic.
"Brother, Xue'er heard that scholars have two dreams. In addition to being named on the gold medal list, they also have to have red sleeves to add fragrance."
Liang Xiao was stunned and said with a smile: "Red sleeves add fragrance, and beauties accompany you to read? That is what Xueer's future sister-in-law will do. You are still a child, so you should study hard and don't think about these things."
"Ouch~ Xue'er understood it wrong! Xue'er goes to bed now and doesn't let her brother worry..."
With a well-behaved look on her face, Jiang Fuxue took her grandma back to her room.
"Grandma, look at my performance just now. Compared with that Miss Mu, who looks more well-behaved!" Jiang Fuxue said with a proud look on her face.
"Evenly matched..." Grandma said angrily.
"How can she be evenly matched with the well-behaved me? Then she is indeed worthy of my brother, and I will help him trick her out~" Jiang Fuxue snorted.
Early the next morning, the vendors guarding the market were dumbfounded when they saw Liang Xiao's empty stall.
"What did you say? We won't sell sugar today??"
"Our boss said that there will be no goods available today and tomorrow, and they will be available only the day after tomorrow." The stall owner nodded.
"the day after tomorrow!"
The vendors looked at each other with regret.
Originally, they were just waiting and watching to see if the sugar was worth the price of 400 cents per catty.
As a result, it was out of stock!
This means that several other large pastry shops have no chance to develop new pastries, and they cannot use sugar to supply dignitaries.
The sweetness of the caramel is not very obvious, and the color of the stone honey is hard to describe, so it is not suitable for making cakes.
Honey is so ridiculously expensive that when the harvest fails, it is even used as a special tribute to the palace!
Only the advent of white sugar has perfectly solved almost all the problems faced by pastries.
The sweetness is sufficient, the taste is colorless and clean, and it is definitely cheaper and higher quality than honey!
This is the kind of white sugar that is out of stock...
After the vendors came to their senses, they roared at their men.
"How on earth was this thing made? Let me study it quickly!"
On this day, the sugar output reached 1,200 kilograms, which was the limit of reasonable work for fifty workers.
But Liang Xiao had no intention of letting go of this excellent opportunity to make a fortune.
"Although Dingguo Houfu behaves decently, I can only gain a foothold in the sugar industry by relying on sugar to gain a first-mover advantage and occupy the market."
With this idea in mind, Liang Xiao took people to the escort agency and the refugee camp again.
The number of guards in the Liang Mansion increased to fifty people, who were specially used to monitor workers and prevent workers and relatives from running around and leaking secrets.
The number of refugee families has also been expanded to 100. Each family has one person working, which is equivalent to 100 workers.
Liang Xiao went to Baihe to buy five large courtyards near his home, totaling five hundred taels, which were specially used to house workers and guards.
The second batch of workers, like the first batch, learned that they could not only eat well but also receive wages. They were so grateful to Liang Xiao that they fell into submission. Faced with the contract of personal freedom in exchange for job opportunities, they did not hesitate to sign the contract and even promised to Each household supervises each other to reduce Liang Xiao's pressure.
Liang Xiao was already accustomed to the customs and customs of Dazhou, so he no longer made any fuss. He just gave adequate treatment and selected an eloquent person from each process among the first batch of workers to be responsible for guiding the new workers to understand the production process.
Because Liang Xiao arranged for meat, these guards who were originally worried about his bankruptcy also looked at Liang Xiao with admiration and even reduced the number of times they went back to Dingguohou Mansion to report.
Liang Xiao was not dissatisfied. After all, this was the clause when the two parties signed the contract, and the guard had the right to repay his master.
All Liang Xiao needed was to ensure that the workers did not leak the secrets. If the guards did not participate in the specific process of making sugar, they would not be able to leak the secrets.
"Tell Liang Xiao that our Gongsun family is offering five hundred wen per catty to purchase one thousand catties of sugar with the same quality as before!"
In the market, a group of wealthy businessmen shouted in front of the stall that Liang Xiao arranged for someone to look after, and slapped a stack of silver notes on the stall owner's table.
"Even Bashu Gongsun's family can't sit still. Do you want to try something new?" The surrounding traders were shocked.
The Gongsun family is a well-known speculator in the capital.
For a time, sugar prices unexpectedly rose again.
After consultation, the vendors reached a consensus: "White sugar costs 450 cents per pound, we can accept it!"
The businessmen of the Gongsun family, who were usually wealthy, returned to the house proudly, but they looked depressed.
"Grandma Jiang has brought news. If we don't buy some sugar, the lady will get angry, and we won't be able to eat and walk around! How dare the damn Dingguo Houfu and Duanmu's family steal the goods of our Bashu giant merchant!"
Only Liang Xiao was busy running between home and the workshop every day.
In the Imperial Study Room, Empress Duan Yunyi looked at the white pastry Duan Yunxiu brought to her mouth, her throat moved, and she took a bite.
"It tastes really good. With a little improvement, it might be used as a palace pastry in the future."
Duan Yunxiu has already blossomed with joy and is in high spirits.
"Sister~ Do you trust your sister's vision more now?"
Seeing his sister acting coquettishly again, Duan Yunyi's eyes were full of love and he couldn't help but pinch her little cheek and sighed.
"Sister has always believed in you, but..."
Duan Yunxiu said disappointedly: "Sister always seems to be dissatisfied with him? But he has proven that he is a qualified imperial merchant!"
Duan Yunyi explained: "Of course my sister agrees with you about Huang Shang. But you have forgotten that your acquaintance with him stems from his talent. You are impressed by his talent and think that there will definitely be a great Zhou in the future." Shixian. But now, he is just a businessman. With such an identity, how can he talk about Shixian..."
