"Miss, there's something I don't understand. Someone offered thirty taels of silver to learn how to make wontons today. Why didn't you agree? We could have taken on more apprentices and made some money that way."

Shen Danru was planning to talk to Liu Nian about her plans. When Liu Nian asked her, she began to explain them to him in detail. Liu Xiangzhu and Qingtan listened with great interest.

Liu Nian was a smart man and understood immediately. After Shen Danru finished speaking, he secretly admired her. Miss was indeed amazing. It seemed that he had met a benefactor.

If you do as the young lady says, you won't have to worry about not making money.

Besides, if ten people eat these wontons, all ten will praise them, and all ten will become repeat customers.

As long as they spread the word that Shenji is recruiting franchisees, anyone who wants to open a wonton shop will be eager to come knocking.

You could open a Shenji Qianlixiang wonton shop every two or three miles.

The name is excellent, "Fragrance for a Thousand Miles," truly fitting.

"Uncle Liu, how about hiring two assistants for the shop? They need to be honest and hardworking. Qingtan and I will be leaving in a couple of days, and the shop will definitely be too busy then."

"Cough~ cough~." Liu Nian, who was drinking tea, didn't react in time and choked twice.

"What? Miss, you're leaving? This shop..."

Shen Danru: "This shop will be left to you to manage from now on. When you leave, I will leave you 100 catties of secret seasoning. If it's not enough, you can come to Shangqing Village and I will make more for you. I will leave you the address when you leave. If you don't have enough manpower, you can hire more people. If you make money later, you can expand the shop. If there are franchisees, you can follow up on the franchise. In short, everything is in Uncle Liu's hands."

Liu Nian was deeply moved. He was unworthy of being valued so highly by the young lady. He knew in his heart that if the young lady continued to work like this, his annual dividends would be more than what he had earned from his previous shop in ten years.

"Miss, thank you, thank you..."

At this moment, Liu Nian was speechless, only able to say thank you repeatedly.

Upon hearing that Shen Danru was leaving, Liu Xiangzhu immediately knelt down and said, "Miss, please take Xiangzhu with you. When you saved Xiangzhu that day, Xiangzhu swore that she belonged to you in life and in death..."

Before she could finish speaking, Shen Danru interrupted her: "You're two years older than me, so I'll call you Sister Xiangzhu from now on. You can manage the shop with Uncle Liu. You'll have to take care of the franchise stores later."

From her observations over the past two days, Shen Danru knew that Liu Xiangzhu was literate and intelligent, but she had been tricked by a man for a time.

Having suffered such a great loss, she believed that Liu Xiangzhu would not be so foolish again if she encountered such a situation in the future. It would be best to let her manage the shop with Liu Nian.

"Get up, Xiangzhu. Remember, you are not my servant. You are not allowed to kneel before me again. I will have Uncle Liu take two taels of silver from the profits each month as your allowance."

"Thank you, miss, thank you, miss."

Liu Xiangzhu kowtowed twice more before she was willing to get up.

She was almost taken away and sold by those people. If she was lucky, she might become a concubine for some master or a slave in a mansion. If she was unlucky, she would inevitably be sold to a brothel. Thinking of this, she was even more grateful to Shen Danru.

Since the young lady entrusted her with managing the shop, she would definitely follow her father to safeguard it, expand it, and open shops all over the country as the young lady had instructed, so that people all over the country could taste Chenji Wonton and repay the young lady for saving her life.

On the third day, fewer people were buying memberships. We sold over a thousand bowls of wontons, but the money wasn't as much as the previous two days. Many repeat customers came to eat using their memberships, and by evening we had made over fifty taels of silver.

Shen Danru had a total of five hundred taels of silver in her hands. She exchanged them for silver notes, gave one hundred taels to Liu Nian, and put the rest away.

She handed 100 jin of seasoning to Liu Nian and said, "Uncle Liu, we've hired some helpers for the shop, and we're planning to set off tomorrow. My address is in this seasoning bag. You can come find me anytime when you run out of seasoning, or if you need anything else, you can come to Shangqing Village to find me."

Liu Nian nodded and repeatedly assured that he would take good care of the shop.

On the morning of the fourth day, Shen Danru gave Qingtan three hundred taels of silver to redeem the jade pendant.

“Miss, you’ve given me too much. One hundred and eleven taels would be fine. One hundred and ten taels is the pawn money, and there’s not even half a tael of interest for these three days.”

Shen Danru: "Take this first, buy a better carriage, and purchase the supplies for the journey, then we'll set off."

Qingtan accepted the silver note, agreed, and went out to make the purchase.

An hour later, Qingtan, dressed in men's clothing, drove a carriage to Shen's shop.

"Miss, Miss, good news! Quick! The Longmen Escort Agency, heading to Ningzhou, has just set off. It's safer for us to follow them."

Upon hearing this, Shen Danru realized it was indeed a good thing. The journey to Ningzhou would take five days, and if they could travel with the Longmen Escort Agency, it would save them a lot of trouble and danger.

After saying goodbye to the Liu couple and Liu Xiangzhu, she got into the carriage, and Qingtan drove the carriage in the direction the escort agency had gone.

Looking at the cartload of things, Shen Danru secretly praised Qing Tan, saying that she was quite thoughtful and had bought a wide variety of things, including two sets of clothes for each person.

She smelled herself; she almost stank. There were only two rooms behind the wonton shop: one was where Liu Nian and his wife lived, and the other was where she, Qing Tan, and Liu Xiangzhu lived, making it inconvenient to bathe.

She had been busy at the shop for the past three days, and the smoke and heat had made her sweat a bit, which made her smell quite unpleasant.

She couldn't resist changing into men's clothing in the carriage, and even styled her hair in a man's bun. She browsed through the system shop, found the body-fragrant pills, and clicked to buy them.

"Ding ding, successfully purchased one bottle of body fragrance pills. 30 points deducted, 185 points remaining."

One bottle can be used ten times, which is quite cost-effective. Shen Danru picked up the bottle, poured out one pill, and put it in her mouth. Immediately, a fragrance wafted into her nose, a scent she liked.

Not only did I no longer smell of sweat, but I also felt refreshed, and my physical strength and energy had recovered.

Qingtan drove the carriage very well, and caught up with the Qinglong Escort Agency when they reached the outskirts of the city.

A large flag was planted on the caravan, with four big characters written on it: "Azure Dragon Escort Agency".

Qinglong Escort Agency is a large escort agency with bases all over the country. They mainly deal in six types of escort services: letter escort, ticket escort, silver escort, grain escort, goods escort, and personal escort.

The Qinglong Escort Agency grew larger and larger, not only because of their brute martial arts skills, but also because of their intelligence and the complex social connections behind them.

Shen Danru considered joining the Qinglong Escort Agency because it was the largest escort agency in Nanshun, and there was a saying in the martial arts world: "Qinglong Escort Agency, every shipment will be delivered."

When the bandits who wanted to rob the goods heard that it was the Qinglong Escort Agency, they were all so frightened that they clasped their hands and quickly made way.

If we can cultivate a good relationship with the Azure Dragon Escort Agency, it will truly be entirely beneficial.

The Azure Dragon Escort Company wasn't moving very fast, and Qing Tan followed closely behind in the carriage. Around noon, seeing that the escort company ahead wasn't planning to stop, Shen Danru took out two sesame seed cakes and gave one to Qing Tan each, and they ate a simple meal.

Around dusk, the Qinglong Escort Company finally stopped in the wilderness, seemingly to rest.