The two guards carried one bunch in their left hands and another bunch in their right hands. In a short while, Yu Zizhen turned them into two Christmas trees hung with various decorations.
They felt very uncomfortable and subconsciously put on a stern face, which already looked unapproachable to begin with, causing passers-by around them to avoid them.
Seeing that they had caused some commotion as he expected, Yu Zizhen took them into the teahouse next to Ji's spice shop.
She asked for a private room that would be convenient for her to sneak out, and ordered a pot of tea and two plates of snacks. Then Yu Zizhen closed the door of the private room and asked the guards to guard outside.
The guards' hands were freed and they no longer had to face the strange looks of passers-by on the street. While they breathed a sigh of relief, they couldn't help but secretly pray that Yu Zizhen could "rest" in the private room for a while longer.
Yu Zizhen did not waste any time. After closing the door, she immediately used the one-time "disguise" skill exchanged from the system mall to temporarily change herself back to her previous life appearance.
Yu Zizhen quietly climbed out from the window facing the narrow alley behind and headed straight for Ji's incense shop with a clear goal.
The incense shop is very large and has a wide variety of spices. Although Ji Haoyang, the current head of the Ji family who has just taken over the business, is not good at making perfumes or doing business, his father just died not long ago. Those evildoers who coveted the Ji family incense shop have not had time to attack Ji Haoyang's wife.
Although his first wife did not know how to make perfume, they had a large number of perfume recipes left by Ji Haoyang's grandfather and father. If someone had not secretly plotted to kill the smart and capable Ji Haoyang's first wife, the Ji Family Incense Shop would have been able to survive even if the couple just kept the original perfume recipes and stopped innovating.
Yu Zizhen wanted to seize this opportunity to help Ji Haoyang and his wife lure out those evildoers who were secretly plotting against Ji's incense shop.
According to the information provided by the system, after Ji Haoyang's father passed away, Ji Haoyang and his wife would go to the Jijia Incense Shop together almost every day to manage the business.
One of them is responsible for making perfume according to the recipe left by Ji Haoyang's grandfather and father, and the other is responsible for managing the shop according to Ji Haoyang's father's last wishes.
Those relatives of the Ji family who could not fool Ji Haoyang's wife at all could not help but jump out to accuse Ji Haoyang's wife of being a hen that crows at dawn. However, even though Ji Haoyang has become the new head of the Ji family, his "obedient" attribute has not changed at all.
He was stubborn and single-minded. Since his father had left a will asking him to be solely responsible for perfume making and to hand over the management of the shop to his first wife, he really refused to compromise at all. No matter what others said, he insisted on carrying out his father's wishes.
Although the relatives of the Ji family always acted as if "I'm doing this for your own good" and tried to persuade Ji Haoyang with earnest words, Ji Haoyang never thought of letting his wife return to the inner house.
On this point, Yu Zizhen admires Ji Haoyang very much.
In Yu Zizhen's view, although our ancestors have long said that "it is important for people to know themselves", it is actually difficult for most people in this world, even herself, to see themselves correctly and objectively.
Some people are blindly inferior, some are overconfident, and some are neither inferior nor confident, but they just cannot accurately assess their true situation.
As for Ji Haoyang, although he is extremely blind when looking at others, he is very clear-headed when looking at himself.
The most important thing is that he was not angry at all because he was "dominated by a woman" and was not eager to prove himself by hurting this woman.
No matter how Ji's relatives tried to displease his wife, he always respected and trusted her.
Just for this reason, Yu Zizhen found Ji Haoyang particularly pleasing to the eye.
She walked into Ji's spice shop with her hands behind her back and a curious look on her face.
In the shop, several assistants were serving customers who came in to buy incense. As soon as Yu Zizhen stepped into the door, a assistant who had been standing quietly came over and greeted her into the store with a warm look on his face.
"Sir, please come in. What kind of incense would you like to see?"
Yu Zizhen was wearing an ordinary silk gown at the moment, holding a folding fan in her hand, not feeling the cold. She said, "I want to discuss a big deal with your boss."
The waiter was startled. He had seen many so-called scholars like Yu Zizhen, who seemed to have some wealth, but not much, judging by their attire and who usually liked to pretend to be polite with a folding fan, but this was the first time he had seen someone who came up and wanted to discuss a "big deal" with their boss.
He hesitated for a moment, then led Yu Zizhen to one of the private rooms on the second floor of the shop.
On the way, he asked another waiter to help him invite Ji Haoyang's wife, Mrs. Liang.
Mrs. Liang came quickly. Seeing Yu Zizhen, who didn't look like a businessman at all, Mrs. Liang did not show any contempt or doubt towards him.
She first asked someone to prepare tea and a gift box for Yu Zizhen to entertain the guests, and then she smiled and asked about the "big deal" that Yu Zizhen had just mentioned.
Yu Zizhen didn't keep the secret. She didn't drink the tea brought by the maid, nor did she eat the dried fruits and snacks in the box. Instead, she lowered her voice and asked Mrs. Liang, "Madam, have there been many relatives who are not very friendly to you visiting your house recently?"
Mrs. Liang frowned slightly. "What exactly do you want to say, Master? Does the presence of relatives in my house have anything to do with the big deal you're talking about?"
Yu Zizhen said, "Of course it is related. After all, what I want to sell is some information about the Ji family."
Before Mrs. Liang could say anything else, Yu Zizhen smiled and dropped a bombshell, "To show my sincerity, I can tell Mrs. Liang a big news for free."
"Mrs. Liang and your husband's two concubines, it's not that you can't give birth to healthy children. Your husband, Master Ji, is not born with any health problems."
"The reason why your children were either aborted or died young is because someone has been secretly harming Master Ji and his children for the sake of the Ji family's assets."
"They want to leave the Ji family without a successor."
Mrs. Liang's face changed drastically when she heard this, and even the nanny who had been following Mrs. Liang suddenly changed her expression.
In this dynasty called Da Qi, the art of medicine and poison was still very primitive. Those who wanted to seize the Ji family's property could not get the powerful medicine that was colorless and odorless, would not change the taste of water after being taken, and could completely and permanently eliminate Ji Haoyang's fertility.
In order to avoid arousing the suspicion of Ji Haoyang's father and grandfather, they didn't even dare to play tricks in Ji's house while they were still alive.
As a result, they could only ask Ji Haoyang out from time to time.
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