I just want to live a good life

Chapter 279 It’s time to change the cook

Su Nuan had expected that Su Qingmo would be tempted, and said with certainty: "These will be written into the contract, so of course I will take it seriously."

"Okay, let's do as the Concubine said. I'll take 20 taels of silver for every 2,000 taels of silver sold for this tea."

After saying that, Su Qingmo rolled up his sleeves and prepared to get to work.

"My Lady Concubine, when are we going to the teahouse?"

Seeing his high morale, Su Nuan was very satisfied, "Don't worry, I'll have someone take you to where you need to go after lunch."

Originally, she wanted to send Chu Qi to the Ruiyin Building to be handed over to the shopkeeper Chen, and send Su Qingmo to the shopkeeper Qiu of Piaoxiang Tea House, and take a look at the business status of the two shops. However, she had to take her mother to the Ministry of Justice to visit her third brother today, so she decided to let Butler Ding send someone to send the two to the shops.

These two were talents she found for the shop, and the two shopkeepers Chen and Qiu would naturally treat them well, so Su Nuan was very relieved about this.

After Su Qingmo was arranged here, Su Nuan turned around and faced Chu Qi.

This man is still studying the gold bracelet carefully.

"How about it? Can you try to build one similar to this one?"

Chu Qi answered without hesitation: "No problem, give me seven days, I can make you an identical one."

He was already very happy that he could imitate Su Nuan, but he didn't expect that he could create one exactly the same. This shows great confidence in himself!

Su Nuan actually didn’t want something exactly the same, after all, things are valuable only when they are unique, but she also wanted to take this opportunity to assess Chu Qi’s craftsmanship.

After all, the previous longevity lock was not successfully made due to someone's interference.

"But I have a condition."

Su Nuan was secretly happy when she heard Chu Qi say this. She quickly asked, "What are the conditions?"

"It means that His Royal Highness cannot be around when I'm working."

"No, no. The place I found for you is very secluded, His Highness will not go there." Su Nuanxin said that as long as you don't disturb him, he won't come to you.

Chu Qi and Su Qingmo were both very enthusiastic about their work, which also aroused Su Nuan's enthusiasm.

She decided to use her lunch break to personally take the two of them to the shop.

We had lunch outside.

So she waved her hand and took the two of them away from Duiyueju.

At this moment, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was still lying on the door and eavesdropping.

Meixiang almost bumped into him when she brought the tea.

"Your Highness, you——"

Meixiang hadn't finished her sentence when Mu Yunting signaled her to be quiet.

She didn't dare to ask the reason, nor did she dare to question the Crown Prince's eavesdropping. She put down her tea and slipped away.

Mu Yunting listened for a while and found that there was no sound outside. He couldn't help but pry open the crack of the door and look out.

There is no one in the yard.

He called Meixiang over and asked, "Where is Concubine Xia?"

Meixiang replied, "He left the house and said he was going to send Master Chu and Master Su to the shop."

"When did you leave?"

Meixiang wanted to say something but stopped herself.

"Speak." Mu Yunting said with a cold face.

"Just now when I brought tea to His Highness."

Mu Yunting's face turned dark and he waved Mei Xiang away impatiently.

Looking at her for one more second gives me a heart attack.

On the other side, Su Nuan took Chu Qi and Su Qingmo to Tianxiang Tower to celebrate and have something delicious before starting work.

It was the first time for these two people to come to the imperial city. Although they lived in the prince's mansion as soon as they entered the imperial city, they did not eat any delicious food.

Including Falcon and Chunliu, there were five people in total, and Su Nuan asked for a private room.

There were many people this time, so she ordered a lot of dishes and ordered all the dishes she wanted.

As the dishes came up, the aroma filled the air, and Su Qingmo and Chu Qi were drooling.

After Su Nuan picked up her chopsticks first, the two of them stopped being polite and started eating voraciously.

"The way you two eat makes me feel that the Prince's Mansion is treating you poorly."

Su Nuan said with a hint of disdain.

Su Qingmo stuffed a chicken leg into his mouth and said, "It's not that I'm treated poorly, but the food in the Crown Prince's Mansion is really not that good. Good food is cooked so tasteless. Concubine Madam should really change the cook."

"Not really. Chef Kang's cooking skills are quite good, comparable to the chef at Tianxianglou. It's not as bad as you say!"

Su Nuan felt that she could be considered a gourmet, and her evaluation of Kang Dahong was absolutely fair.

Su Qingmo and Chu Qi looked at each other, disbelief in their eyes.

"Then why do we eat tasteless boiled vegetables and meat has a fishy smell?"

Su Nuan turned around and asked Falcon: "Does the food you've eaten these past two days taste like this?"

The reason why she asked Falcon was because all the meals in Duiyueju were prepared by Madam Wang. Ever since Madam Wang came into being, they had never eaten anything sent from the kitchen again.

Falcon replied: "My meals are all delicious. Thanks to the queen, everything that Kang sent to me was made by him personally."

"Then could it be that the food they were given was prepared by the cook's apprentice?"

Su Nuan muttered to herself, but she denied it as soon as she finished speaking. Kang Dahong is such a smart man that he can even take care of the falcon, let alone the guests she brought into the mansion. He can't be so tactless.

Her eyes fell on Su Qingmo's handsome face. Su Nuan suddenly seemed to understand something. She asked Su Qingmo, "Did you eat such a bad meal on your first day in the mansion?"

Su Qingmo stuffed his mouth with food and said vaguely, "That's not the case. The food on the first day was pretty good, but it was far worse on the second day."

That’s it, Su Nuan understood.

It must be that Kang Dahong found out about Su Qingmo's provocation to Lady Wang. Kang Dahong didn't dare to cause trouble for the two of them directly, so he treated them harshly in the meal.

Su Nuan pointed at Su Qingmo and said to Chu Qi, "You have been implicated by him."

Chu Qi looked puzzled, and Su Qingmo couldn't figure out the connection either, so he asked, "Why did the Concubine say that?"

Su Nuan gave him a meaningful look and continued to eat.

After they had a full meal at Tianxianglou, Falcon drove a horse-drawn carriage to take them to Piaoxiang Tea House.

Su Nuan took Su Qingmo to meet the shopkeeper Qiu Ming.

Ever since the former manager of Piaoxiang Tea House, Manager Zheng, wanted to use his connections to control Su Nuan, Su Nuan used Qiu Ming to squeeze Manager Zheng out.

It has to be admitted that the departure of Manager Zheng did have some impact on the tea house. Several major customers have made it clear that they will no longer cooperate with Piaoxiang Tea House.

Su Nuan explained her purpose and handed Su Qingmo over to Shopkeeper Qiu. Shopkeeper Qiu was not optimistic about this man, but she believed in her boss's vision and personally took Su Qingmo to familiarize herself with the teahouse.

After leaving Su Qingmo in the teahouse, the few of them went to the UBS building. Shopkeeper Chen was busy fiddling with an abacus. He caught a glimpse of the waiter bringing people to the counter and quickly closed the account book.

"Which treasure did the distinguished guest choose?"

Before the person even looked up, the words to greet the customer had already been spoken.

Su Nuan secretly gave a thumbs up. This was the proper hospitality attitude that should be adopted in the service industry.

"Boss! You're back! You're finally back. The customers who come to order jewelry are almost breaking down the door of our Ruiyin Building. Please let that genius who draws patterns come to the store and take charge. We can give him more money!"

This was a real affirmation of her own talents, and it was very comfortable for Su Nuan to hear.

"Don't worry. To those distinguished customers, the more unobtainable something is, the more precious it is. You can hang a notice at the door tomorrow, saying that you will only accept one custom order per day. The price can be doubled."

Shopkeeper Chen thought for a moment, and suddenly something dawned on him.

"Why else would you be the boss? Your brain is better than mine."

Su Nuan just smiled and said nothing.

After Shopkeeper Chen had praised enough, he pushed Chu Qi in front of him.

"This guy is Chu Qi, a newly hired craftsman. He only makes custom jewelry."

Seeing Chu Qi was so young and tender, Shopkeeper Chen couldn't help but mutter, "Can he do it?"

Su Nuan took out the hairpin she bought in Xiaomian County and handed it to Shopkeeper Chen, "This is made by him. Shopkeeper Chen, take a look and see if it's okay."

Shopkeeper Chen took the hairpin with both hands, examined it carefully, looked up after a while, and said in surprise: "OK, OK, there is nothing better than this."

"Then Manager Chen, please arrange a secluded place for him, and pick out the best materials for him to use."