Qing'an smiled awkwardly and tried to smooth things over: "The official roads are congested, so we're traveling a bit slower. We should have arrived within a month according to our plan, but we were worried that my cousin was too weak to handle the long journey."

Xie Xianyu took a deep breath and said, "Let's go into the city first."

Wanruo nodded and lowered the curtains, while Qing'an drove the carriage into the city.

Xie Xianyu watched the carriage enter the city with a gloomy face, feeling unhappy at all.

After an hour, Qing'an returned to Xie's house to report to Xie Xianyu.

"My cousin has settled down at the Lai Fu Inn. She plans to survey the shop and the courtyard she lives in for a while before opening a business. She's been buying herbs and checking out the market conditions at various herbal medicine shops along the way, so she doesn't have much else to do."

Xie Xianyu pondered for a moment and said, "Fu string."

"yes."

"You keep an eye on her from now on."

"Yes, sir."

Xie Xianyu paused, then added, "Watching secretly."

"I understand!"

If she finds out, won't there be trouble?

-

Wanruo became busy as soon as she returned to the capital. She first chose a good location, bought a few shops, and then hired craftsmen to demolish one of them and renovate it.

"Miss, are we going to buy such a big shop?" Su Yue was dumbfounded.

"Since you're going to do it, make it big. There are many more wealthy people in Yanjing City than in Qingzhou, and they're much more particular. Our shop can really make money from tonics and beauty products. If our shop doesn't have a respectable appearance, people won't want to come in and sell these things to the rich."

After all, Shiya County is a small place, and her customer base was developed by going door to door and asking people to try the product for free.

The rich people in Yanjing City are more particular. She can't even get in the door without a visiting card. She can only attract them to come to the store to buy, so appearance is more important.

"I've been visiting all these places and found that most herbal medicine shops are still very conservative, only selling common herbs according to the rules. If we open this shop, we will definitely be able to outperform them."

She had tried it in Shiya County and found that rich families really liked it. Men wanted immortality, women wanted beauty, and the elderly wanted health. She had developed formulas for them.

It was precisely because she was so confident, otherwise she would not have dared to invest most of her fortune in opening this shop. Shops in Yanjing City are extremely expensive.

Su Yue said excitedly: "Miss, you can do it. The master has said before that you are better at business than him."

Wanruo is smart, so her father has been cultivating her since she was young.

Curved lips.

"But," Su Yue said a little worriedly, "Did the eldest master really let the girl go?"

The smile in Wanruo's eyes faded a little: "I guess so."

Xie Xianyu really didn't force her anymore. Except for the day she saw him when she returned to Beijing, he hadn't even appeared in the past few days.

She wasn't completely sure in her heart, but she knew that the current situation was the best it could be.

In half a month, the three shops were connected. The first floor sold common medicinal materials, the second floor was an elegant room for distinguished guests to choose medicinal food supplements and nourishing medicines such as beauty pills, and the third floor was where he lived.

Wanruo finally started to stock her goods in the store.

When Xie Xianyu walked to the door of the empty shop, he saw her busy coming and going, busy as a whirlwind and full of energy.

It's just a shop, is it worth her being so happy?

These days, listening to Fu Xian reporting her situation to him every day, every day she was either visiting other shops or renovating her own shop, he now felt a pain in his ears when he heard the word "shop".

But seeing her busying around like a little rabbit full of energy, he felt that it was better than her lying lifeless on the bed.

She was wearing a cotton dress and an apron. Her long hair was tied into a big braid and hung down in front of her chest. Her porcelain-white face was sweaty, and perhaps because she was a little hot, her cheeks were slightly flushed.

His eyes darkened a bit, and he suddenly felt that it would be better to let her lie lifeless on the bed and do whatever she wanted.

He walked in slowly. She was standing on a stool and putting herbs into the high medicine cabinet. The cabinet was quite high and it was difficult for her to reach it, so she had to stand on tiptoe on the stool.

He glanced at the stool, pulled out a jade pendant from his sleeve, and flicked it, hitting the stool under her feet.

"ah!"

Her body tilted and she fell off the stool. He stepped forward and caught her steadily by the waist.

Wanruo's face turned pale with fright. She fell into his arms and subconsciously grabbed his collar tightly.

Xie Xianyu took the opportunity to hold her in his arms, and she seemed to have lost weight.

Wanruo finally came to her senses. When she looked up and saw him, he said in a deep voice, "You're so shaky, you can't even stand on a stool?"

She pushed him away with her arm and frowned, "Why are you here?"

“Just passing by.”