"I heard that the shop sells some specialties from neighboring countries. It usually looks very deserted."

Xiao Ke muttered quietly, and Jiang Chen at the side heard it clearly. He looked over and saw that the entrance of the shop was clean, unlike the entrances of other shops, which were decorated with all kinds of things in order to display the goods.

"Do you want to go and take a look?" Jiang Qingqing turned around and looked at Jiang Chen, and asked very naturally.

Xiaoke stood aside, setting the dishes and listening to Her Royal Highness the Princess' acting as if she were a stranger, she was very impressed.

When I think about the purpose of Her Royal Highness the Princess coming here, which was originally to see the shop, she probably didn't want this noble young man to know her real purpose.

It seemed like it took a long time to get to its destination.

Xiaoke couldn't help but lower her head and purse her lips, not daring to let others see her laughing.

"This girl is very articulate, so she must know about the shops around here. Why don't you accompany us to take a look?"

Jiang Qingqing didn't wait for Jiang Chen to respond, but called Xiaoke's name instead.

Xiao Ke, who was laughing secretly just now, looked up at Jiang Qingqing blankly.

The latter gave her a mysterious smile.

Jiang Chen didn't understand the situation, but he looked at the shop and saw a figure busy at the stove. Apart from that, there was only this little girl walking around the hall ordering food.

"If you send her away, who will take care of this place?"

Xiao Ke had set the table and was ready to go with Jiang Qingqing, but she didn't expect Jiang Chen to suddenly say this.

She was panicking, fearing that Jiang Qingqing would not be able to take her with her honestly, so she looked at Jiang Qingqing in panic.

"Just let Gan Yuan and Gan Lin help out. It's just a shop, so it shouldn't be difficult to run it."

Jiang Qingqing pointed at the two maids beside her with disapproval and gave the orders calmly.

Jiang Chen looked at her in shock, and hesitated for a long time before finally hinting, "They... probably wouldn't do such a thing."

A maid from the Emperor's uncle's residence, now a first-class maid in Huaning Palace, ends up being arranged by Jiang Qingqing to work as a shop assistant? !

This is too much of an exaggeration to lower one's status!

"It's work no matter where you work. You can't just move to a shabby thatched hut and not be able to clean tables, right?" Jiang Qingqing stiffened her neck righteously and made excuses for her arrangement.

Her fallacies are always right, and she always follows their own fallacies, and you can't argue with her.

"Are you two willing?" Jiang Chen gave up trying to reason with Jiang Qingqing and decided to ask the two maids.

Gan Yuan and Gan Lin looked at each other, and then said in unison: "We will do whatever my girl arranges for us."

Jiang Qingqing was originally worried that the two of them would use the excuse of being personal maids to stand on Jiang Chen's side.

I never expected that they would cooperate with me so well.

We should give them both a chicken drumstick.

Seeing that the two maids were extremely loyal, Jiang Chen looked at the three of them with both anger and laughter, and waved his hand after a moment.

"Come on, go ahead."

"Aren't you going?" Jiang Qingqing was stunned.

Jiang Chen waved his hand generously, chuckled, and said, "What's there to see in the store? There are only a few things. I'll wait for my cakes."

"..." Jiang Qingqing felt helpless about her brother's character.

After turning around and instructing Gan Lin and Gan Yuan, she took Xiao Ke to the shop diagonally opposite.

As soon as they walked out of the shop, horse-drawn carriages began to pass frequently on the avenue.

Jiang Qingqing didn't take it seriously and simply stood there waiting for the turmoil in the carriage to pass. This wait lasted for half a cup of tea.

"Why are there so many carriages..." After waiting for a long time with no sign of an end, she began to mutter to herself in self-doubt.

Xiao Ke poked his head out to look in the direction of the imperial city, then retracted his head with understanding, and whispered, "At this hour, it is just the time for the court to end. These are the carriages that are taking our masters back home."

Is the court over?

Jiang Qingqing looked in the direction of the imperial city, and suddenly she thought of her uncle whom she hadn't seen all morning.

According to previous class schedules at the Imperial College, the emperor's uncle did not have to attend the morning court.

But strangely enough, I didn’t see the emperor’s uncle himself this morning.

Thinking of this, Jiang Qingqing secretly complained for some unknown reason.

Could it be that the uncle of the emperor had gone to the palace to attend the court? Then when she returned to the palace, would she attend the classes at the Imperial Academy or not?

Xiao Ken saw that the carriage traffic had disappeared and the two lanes were safe, so he stepped forward and motioned Jiang Qingqing to follow.

This wave of carriage traffic lasted too long. When Jiang Qingqing and her friends arrived at the shop, they found that a few more people had come in.

Seeing other people coming here, Jiang Qingqing subconsciously raised her hand to cover half of her face, quickly turned her back and deliberately looked at other items on the shelf.

I heard two people talking behind me.

"It takes at least ten days to get from here to Li State. You want me to take such a small amount back with me? Won't that waste my manpower, material resources and financial resources?"

"Look at what you said. How can I lose money on your price? We have cooperated once, and we have been cooperating well before, right?"

Have you collaborated once?

Jiang Qingqing frowned slightly, she turned her head slightly and glanced at the two people behind her.

Jiang Qingqing was familiar with the owner of this shop; he was the one who had quarreled with the person in charge of Fanlou last time.

However, although she couldn't see the face of the man with his back to her, his figure showed that he was someone Jiang Qingqing had never seen before.

She felt a little relieved and turned to look at the man with his back to her.

The clothes he wore didn't look like the fabrics that ordinary people would have. Her eyes finally fell on the man's boots and belt, and her expression suddenly became sharp.

This style... is unique among the patrolling guards in the palace!

On her way back to Huaning Palace from the Imperial College, she had seen the attire of those patrolling guards several times, so she was familiar with it.

Xiaoke saw Jiang Qingqing's shock, and she carefully helped Jiang Qingqing cover up.

The person who was talking over there didn't seem to take Jiang Qingqing, who looked like a young boy, seriously and was still doing his own thing.

"Last time you at least gave us a stack of books, but this time you only gave us a letter. No, the cost is too high. I won't do it."

The shop owner refused to take it, and the man stiffened slightly.

"Who said we were only delivering a letter?" The man with his back to her bit his back teeth and whispered with a gnashing of teeth.

The shop owner was well-known for his businessman mentality. He looked at the man, waiting for him to offer new conditions.

Sure enough, the man raised his hand and took something out from his arms.

"Is this worth the trip to Li State?"