Ge Sheng never dreamed that Christie would be his fiancée.
A strong, beautiful, arrogant, weird and unique girl, to be fair, no one who has no interest in her would hate her.
When Ge Sheng just heard that Christie would announce the engagement candidate, he felt a little unhappy at that moment. In fact, it was not an unnecessary emotion, just like you know that the neighbor girl you have not seen for many years suddenly told you When you get engaged or married, although you will definitely congratulate her and wish her a happy future.
But before that, there will always be a moment of unhappiness in my heart.
But when Christie announced that he was her fiancé on the occasion of the Imperial Oath, with almost all the forces in the entire empire present, for some reason, there was no happy emotion, but a slight sense of loss.
There is a feeling - it turns out to be this way.
There were so many reasons before Ge was born, why did you do this to me, why did you choose to tell me so many secrets, and why did you only see me differently from others in this world.
At this moment, it was completely answered.
It turned out that the two of them were destined to become husband and wife from the moment they were born.
Of course, Ge Sheng then understood why Ye Qing behaved so strangely that day. It was just because she knew about it earlier than he did.
Regarding his relationship with Ye Qing, Ge Sheng actually didn't have many thoughts in his heart. At most, he just wanted to maintain the status quo. The two of them were too close and had been together for too long, and they had never concealed any secrets from each other. , but because of this, there was no room between them for other emotions besides family affection. Ge Sheng never thought that this girl who had always called him brother would one day stand in front of him in red.
In this case, I, who had no worries, should not have been so slightly shocked and confused when I heard Christie announcing his engagement to her, but this emotion had already happened at that time.
Yes, Ge Sheng is only fourteen years old, and there is still a long time before he reaches adulthood at this age, but in many remote places, he can actually marry and have children at this age, which means that, in a sense, Ge Sheng He is already considered a real man, but at this moment, for some reason, this real man does not feel happy at all.
Do you hate Christie yourself?
Absolutely not.
So do you like Christie?
In a way, I really like it.
If Christie could be your wife, would you be dissatisfied with her in any way?
Christy is so perfect that you can't even fault her in the conventional sense.
But.
Why.
Faced with the fact that Christie will become your bride, will you feel lost and confused?
I do not know.
Ge Sheng was lying alone on his bed, holding a thin piece of paper and a letter in his hand.
Unexpectedly, Christie didn't even meet him after the Emperor's Oath ended, so she returned to the Glitter Gold Chamber of Commerce alone. After all, she was busy with official duties, and coming to participate in the Emperor's Oath was able to take time out of her busy schedule just because the Emperor's Oath meant so much to her. There are many benefits.
But that doesn't mean she can't take time out to meet her fiancé, who has already announced their engagement.
Then there is only one possible explanation - even if Christie is determined to fulfill this engagement, she still has too many things that she is not ready for before that, so that even she herself does not want to be in some awkward way with Ge Sheng. meet.
Instead, there was this letter.
She asked someone to send this letter to Ge Sheng.
A letter from An Ning.
The letter was written in the familiar handwriting of An Ning's mother, but the content of the letter was simpler than any previous letters home.
"I already know about Chris. I've seen that engagement a long time ago. This was originally one of Xia's causes and effects."
"Although I haven't seen Chris for a long time, I still hear about her occasionally. This time Chris sent someone to see me, and I thought about it."
"Perhaps she is the best person in this world who can take care of you on my behalf."
Qi Xia watched Ge Sheng on the bed staring at the letter with only a few lines of words for half an hour, and asked with a smile: "Why, you are not even satisfied with the best fiancée in the world? She hasn't disliked her yet. You are poor and stupid. You openly announced your engagement on the imperial oath and then broke it. Why did you become depressed first?"
Ge Sheng lowered his head, put down his arms and covered his eyes: "It's just unbelievable, I can't believe it, and I don't want to think about it."
"Only now do I understand why I felt an inexplicable familiarity with her at first."
"It wasn't until I read my mother's letter that I realized that we had met a long time ago. She turned out to be Sister Chris."
Qi Xia was not surprised at all, and pointed at Ge Sheng with a hand like a pistol: "An Ning and Stella are Ye Ye's classmates and have a very good personal relationship, but Christie was mentally retarded when he was young. How could they How about taking our future Queen to travel thousands of miles to Ye Ye to meet her old classmates?"
Ge Sheng recalled carefully: "I can't recall the specific reasons now. I just remember that it was when I was four years old. Suddenly one day my mother told me that she would have a good friend come over and bring a child. My sister came to play with me, and I even forgot how to respond, but I only vaguely remember that not long after, a young lady with crimson hair moved into Fengmian Villa."
"Many of my memories from when I was four have become blurry. I only vaguely remember that the young lady was very beautiful, gentle, and very powerful. She taught me many things that I never knew. But her full name I couldn’t remember it, so I just called her Sister Kris.”
"It was only now that my mother called her by the name Chrissy in a letter that I realized that it turned out that Christie was Chrissy's sister. She clearly remembered everything, but she never told me this."
Qi Xia smiled slightly: "Perhaps Her Majesty the Queen doesn't want to use her childhood sweetheart experience to gain extra points, but since you know this, you should only like Her Majesty the Queen more. Why does she seem more entangled."
Ge Sheng paused, his expression slightly confused for a moment: "I suddenly remembered that when I was a child, I seemed to have made a very important agreement with her, but I couldn't remember it anyway."
"Although I know she must remember everything, I always have a vague feeling that the things she didn't tell me must be things I shouldn't know."
"Just like I never knew I was her engagement until she announced it in front of the world."
"It's just because I didn't know that I could like her so much before."
The storm of the Emperor's Oath slowly receded, and Christie seemed to have evaporated from the world. She never appeared in front of Ge Sheng again. Except for the letter from An Ning's mother, she seemed to have crawled back into her snail shell. Turn your back to the world again.
But Ge Sheng always understood that this was not the case.
Although his engagement with Christie brought a lot of trouble to Ye Xiaojiu, Ye Qing understood the whole story from the beginning, so he never entertained the idea that Ge Sheng could terminate the engagement. Because of this, he gradually accepted this fact. After that, the relationship between Ye Qing and Ge Sheng slowly returned to its original state. Of course, we have to admit that Christie's sudden choice to disappear was an extremely important factor.
Because of the Emperor's Oath and Xiang's presence, Ao no Gensokyo has finally changed from a sparsely populated place to a busy one now. It can be said to be the hottest store in the West Market today. After all, in addition to Xiang's absolutely top brand, His Highness the Third Prince's Coca tea, Ye Qing's Baizuo dumplings and Aoxuehua's Lotus Rejuvenation Potion are all top-notch products.
No, it does not include Aoxuehua's Lotus Resurrection Potion.
Although the Lotus Hidden Resurrection Potion is Aoxuehua's Imperial Oath's winning product, due to its too high price and even more "expensive" taste, even though Ao no Gensokyo's pharmacy stores still use Aoxuehua's Lotus Hidden Resurrection Potion to this day. The elixir is solemnly displayed as the treasure of the store, but every customer who asks about it will receive an impatient explanation: "That's just a fake. Although our store provides sales of Lian Yin Rejuvenation Elixir, it only provides the ordinary version after reservation. , Aoxuehua's special edition requires you to go to the president to consult personally."
Although Blue Gensokyo still does not have reliable full-time blacksmiths, inscription masters and potion masters, I am very fortunate that Xiang is a master in basically all fields due to her long lifespan and her life that is not affected by youth hormones. Nowadays, she has steadily maintained the frequency of randomly producing one piece of work every day. This high-quality, affordable and top-notch product is still the highest competitiveness of Blue Gensokyo.
As for other products, although Xiang did not have the energy or time to cover the entire Blue Fantasyland, the Flash Gold Chamber of Commerce took the lead and signed goods supply contracts with giants in the corresponding industries such as Frozen Flame, Gilded Rose, and Fantasy Movement, and We will provide processing and production services close to cost price for Ao no Gensokyo.
Although I thought on my knees that there must be Christie's shadow behind this, but this is a completely profitable transaction for Blue Gensokyo. After all, the other party only needs to sign a sales sharing agreement, but for the equity behind Blue Gensokyo There is no plan to get involved. This is simply the spirit and attitude of charity in similar business activities.
As for the management of light stores such as books and restaurants, Ao no Gensokyo has two real trump cards, His Highness the Third and Ye Qing. Especially His Highness, the Third Highness has completely proven himself in the battle with the Emperor's Oath and completely removed the Wearing the hat of a tea art mascot who only knows how to show off, his level in all aspects has been completely close to and even surpassed the level of the royal family's tea masters in some places. However, the other side is facing the same dilemma as Xiang. Ye Qing is definitely not like this. She spends a lot of time cooking in Ao no Gensokyo. Although the Third Highness has so much time, she herself is not willing to stay here all day making tea for others, so after various considerations, every week Saturdays and Sundays are the special working hours for these two people, and each person will provide a limited number of catering supplies for one hundred people, which can be regarded as a certain degree of hunger marketing.
Because the reputation of Ao no Gensokyo has finally spread, the daily sales volume is extremely huge. With the managers on duty complaining every day, Ao no Gensokyo now even offers completely self-service purchases. There are no longer waiters in the above hard-core stores. Instead, there are clearly priced products and detailed product introductions. Anyone who is interested can take them by themselves and pay the corresponding money at the front desk, and no counter-offers are accepted at all.
However, unexpectedly, due to the elimination of counter-offering, the prices of Ao no Gensokyo's products are even 10% lower than those of other conventional large stores.
Today's Ao no Gensokyo can be said to be making real money every day, and due to the close-to-self-service purchasing method, the original ten founders can complete the normal operation of the store without even hiring additional staff, and it is not without trying to steal. It’s a small shop, but Qingzhi Gensokyo is a key store in the West City. No one has ever been able to sneak out here unscathed, and because of the joint endorsement of Yi Lanshan and Christie in a sense, Qingzhi Gensokyo The various rules have even become the characteristics of the store.
After talking about Ao no Gensokyo, we finally returned to the original intention of establishing this store.
That is, classmate Lobel.
Although Lobel appeared with a mysterious aura, in the following months, the green-haired little girl inevitably fell into silence, because this was also a matter of necessity. After all, Lobel Belle is just a baby who is still sucking milk, and the Friends Club will not carry Lo Belle out of the academy to show off at the end of summer. After all, she has been seriously concerned by Lin Xi and it is best for her not to appear casually in the outside world.
But now, it's different.
As Yi Lanshan introduced before, as long as Lobel is provided with sufficient food, her growth rate can be described as rapid. In just three months, she has already completed the growth of an ordinary baby. After nearly one and a half years of growth and development, she can now stand and use simple words. Ye Qing and Ge Sheng, the "parents", watch this little girl getting smarter and smarter, enjoying the joy of being parents. At the same time, I also felt real pain.
Because Lobel is truly a bottomless salesman.
Even though she is getting cuter and smarter, and very considerate, one thing has never changed, that is, she has always had a great obsession with eating, and this obsession When her thoughts came along with her almost bottomless appetite, Ye Qing truly understood what it was like to be deprived by her children.
Because, at first, Luo Beier was only sucking milk. While one person needed to be supported by four pregnant heavenly beasts, under the guidance of Yi Lanshan, Ye Qing also provided her with various alchemical potions that were said to promote growth and development. .
But when she reached the age of one year old for an ordinary baby, in other words after two months, Ye Qing gradually understood the basics of childcare.
That is - babies will be weaned.
