Chu Chu: [You've already eaten.]
Qiao Zhen: [No, I want the kind of candy that can enhance one's inner strength.]
Chu Chu: [Oh...so you want it for decades? The pain is different at each stage.]
Qiao Zhen: [Could you check what level my body can withstand?]
Chu Chu: [...I absolutely cannot handle it. I advise you to improve your physical condition first.]
Qiao Zhen gave up. "Let's improve your constitution first. Can I have a candy?"
Chu Chu: [Okay.]
As soon as a candy appeared in Qiao Zhen's mouth, she felt as if her meridians had been opened up, and the heaviness that had been weighing on her body for days was released, making her walk lightly.
Of course, none of these are possible.
In fact, Qiao Zhen didn't feel anything after eating the candy beans, since the effects were very slow. Her immediate priority was to exchange gold for money and then do business.
As for what kind of business to do, it would definitely be the restaurant business, and it would be best to cooperate with the young emperor.
Forgive Qiao Zhen for being blunt, but she's very picky. Qi Yijuan and Xu Li cooked for her countless times back then. Take An Zhao, for example; that handsome young man in his prime would wear an apron and cook for her four or five times a week. She couldn't possibly have watched him cook for decades and still not know how to cook a single dish, could she?
Xiao Ling: [Forgive my bluntness, but you really can't do any of them. Oh wait, you can do a few things: cook porridge in a rice cooker, make scrambled eggs with tomatoes, and make sweet and sour pork. But those three things aren't enough to support a restaurant.]
Qiao Zhen: [But I can drink, and why don't you get those videos of men cooking?]
Feeling she had seen through something, Chu Chu murmured, "Those men..."
Xiao Ling: [Do you think I have three heads and six arms, and I'm good at everything? Those videos are stored in the task system; I'm not authorized to access them.]
Qiao Zhen: [If you don't bring it up for me, I'll destroy you. I believe your main system knows how to make choices.]
Xiao Ling: This woman is so shameless!
In the end, it was forced by Qiao Zhen's tyranny to pretend to be threatened by Qiao Zhen in order to ask the main system to retrieve those videos, and the result was unexpectedly successful.
Qiao Zhen, disguised as a man, took Shen Xiaobao, who was dressed as a servant, out. "Xiaobao, after we go out, you are not allowed to tell anyone that your surname is Shen, understand? From now on, you will have the same surname as your mother, and your name will be Qiao Xiaobao."
Xiao Bao was confused, but he grasped the key point: "I have the same surname as my mother." He nodded obediently, "Okay, my name is Qiao Xiao Bao."
Qiao Zhen led Xiao Bao outside, a folding fan in her hand, looking dashing and elegant. This scene accentuated her small bust and her 1.7-meter height.
The mother and son arrived at the busiest street. Qiao Zhen took a fancy to a shop that was eager to be sold. She heard that someone had died in the shop and that it was tainted by something unclean.
If you ask Qiao Zhen, the fact that someone died inside might be a dirty trick played by a competitor. After all, what are the chances of a murder case being so coincidental? A death in a shop is a very sensitive matter, whether in ancient times or modern times. The fact that something happened in a shop in a prime location with excellent business makes it seem anything but ordinary.
Xiao Ling: [Can you please stop framing all these things as conspiracies? Can't you just be normal?]
Qiao Zhen: [Do you know why you're still only at level two?]
Xiao Ling: [Since you haven't encountered a clever and capable host, please reflect on that, okay?]
Qiao Zhen: [Wrong! That's because they have a stupid system! Even if your host is right at first, they will become wrong because of your subtle influence. There's nothing wrong with having divergent thinking about anything, as long as it doesn't affect your own perspective or others, it's harmless. But have you ever considered that some people can discover things that others can't because they dare to think, and based on that daring to think, they discover subtle discrepancies, thus uncovering the truth.]
Xiao Ling: [If something was really wrong, wouldn't I have noticed it already? Besides, I'm the system, I can see everything from every angle. If something were really going on, wouldn't I know? You're underestimating me!]
Qiao Zhen: [I was underestimating you. You know, using someone else to do your dirty work, right? For example, if I wanted to use the young emperor to kill Shen Zhao, you could only see the superficial process of the young emperor killing Shen Zhao. But going further back, I couldn't directly use the young emperor; I would definitely bribe the eunuchs and palace maids around him. At that point, you would find out that it was these eunuchs and palace maids who instigated the young emperor to kill Shen Zhao. But who are the masters of those eunuchs and palace maids? Wouldn't you continue to trace back further?]
Xiao Ling looked completely bewildered. "Why are we pushing this back? Didn't you tell me you bribed those eunuchs and maids? Then you're their master."
Qiao Zhen almost choked on her breath. "[What if I hadn't told you? Were you going to implicate them yourself? If I bribed those eunuchs and palace maids, and then had them approach other princes and nobles, then in the two links of 'I bribed the eunuchs and palace maids' and 'the eunuchs and palace maids instigated the young emperor to kill Shen Zhao,' there would be an additional decoy link: 'It was those princes and nobles who bribed those eunuchs and palace maids.' Do you understand what I'm saying?"]
Little Zero... Little Zero's feelings were very complicated. It couldn't understand what Qiao Zhen was saying at all. It weakly said, "Excuse me for being frank, but I don't understand at all."
Qiao Zhen: [It's all interconnected.]
Xiao Ling: [Oh.] Anyway, it still didn't understand, but to save face, it decided to pretend it did.
Qiao Zhen stood at the shop entrance for a long time. Xiao Bao reached out and tugged at her clothes, "Mommy, Xiao Bao is so hungry, shall we go get some noodles?"
She playfully tapped Xiao Bao on the head with her fan, not too hard, not too soft, and said, "How many times have I told you, I'm not your mother, you have to call me brother!"
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