Mo Ruxue was sitting in front of the window meditating, when Aunt Zhang came to her and said that someone from Zhuangzi below was here to hand over the silver.

She counted a lot, there were hundreds of taels. Yesterday she counted her dowry and found several boxes of gold, silver and jewelry. The wife's family was really rich.

Aunt Zhang said that the money for returning the money to the shop had not been handed over yet. Thinking of the white money, Mo Ruxue smiled from ear to ear. Nothing was really worth the money.

Mo Ruxue suddenly remembered that the novel said that a large-scale locust plague would occur in the south in two months. Because the disaster relief measures were unfavorable and the report was made too late, there was no harvest.

Then she should use the money in her hand to open a grain store. In ancient times, grain output was low, and famine would occur whenever there were various natural disasters.

This matter must be handled as soon as possible. First, she must find someone with business acumen and professional ethics to manage it. She must take a good look at the characters in the novel.

Mo Ruxue locked herself in her room for the past two days and analyzed all the characters in the novel. She wanted to find a reliable person with both ability and political integrity to manage the grain store.

Today she finally had a clue. She disguised herself as a man and went to the street to find her target. She came to a rice shop where a dark-skinned young man in his twenties was keeping accounts.

When he saw her walking in, he quickly stood up and greeted her warmly.

Mo Ruxue walked to the counter and took a look at the closed account books, and said with a smile: "You know how to read and how to keep accounts?"

"I knew a few words when I was young, but because I wanted to start a small business and had no intention of pursuing an official career, I didn't study for a few years."

At this moment, the shopkeeper of the rice shop came out. He had a fat head and big ears and was ready to go out with a bag on his back.

The young man quickly stepped forward and begged in a low voice: "Shopkeeper, you see it's almost the end of the month. Can you give me last month's wages? My mother has been sick for half a month and is waiting for money to save her life. Can you please

We’ll be out for only ten or twenty days, and my mother really can’t wait any longer!”

The shopkeeper looked deep in thought and said awkwardly: "It's not that I won't marry you, it's just that I'm going to open a new store recently and my funds are tight. If you just bear with me, it will be fine in a while."

He patted his forehead and continued with a smile: "By the way, I have a panacea here that I just asked for from Xiangguo Temple. I'll give it to your mother to use first. This is a good thing that is hard to find for a thousand dollars, so it's worth the two."

Month’s wages.”

The fat man took out a small crumpled paper bag from his waist and stuffed it into the young man's hand.

The young man opened the paper package and saw that it was a pile of powder mixed with unknown substances. The smell was very pungent. How dare he give this stuff to his mother to drink?

Seeing that the shopkeeper was about to leave, he urgently grabbed the shopkeeper's sleeve and begged: "Shopkeeper, how can this cure the disease? I beg you, please give me some wages! I

We are really at our wits end..."

The shopkeeper flicked his sleeves, with a look of disdain on his fat and oily face: "This is a good thing, but I can't bear to give it to others! You really don't know the goods, look at how poor you are! You keep pushing and pulling.

Yes, you stained my clothes, you can’t afford to pay for it!”

"What does it have to do with me that your mother is sick? Did I make her sick? I usually take good care of you. Do you think I owe you any wages? Don't push yourself too far. You are also a scholar after all. You should know some sense.

.Okay, I have to go out and take a good look at the store at home!"

The shopkeeper, who had non-existent dust on his elastic sleeves, walked out arrogantly, not at all worried that this young man would do anything in the shop.

Thinking that these two months had been in vain, the young man's mood suddenly hit rock bottom. I'm afraid his mother's illness can't wait any longer!

He collapsed on the ground, his eyes were red, and his face was full of despair and indignation!

"What is your mother's disease?" Mo Ruxue asked softly.

Only then did the young man come to his senses. He had forgotten that there was a guest here.

He hurriedly wiped the corners of his eyes, stood up, bent down and said, "I'm sorry, I don't have the time to greet you today. You'd better go shopping somewhere else!"

"He said that wages are paid every month, so why are you still so poor?" Mo Ruxue asked curiously.

"Humph, we have knots every month! Last month, we made them with two liters of brown rice, half of which were filled with stones. In the first two months, we made them with moldy wheat. He was told to sell the leftovers to someone else.

Yes, he always tries to find ways to get paid!" he said frustratedly.

"You are a rice shop here and you don't pay wages. You can just take the rice home."

He raised his head, looked firm, and said categorically: "I would rather die than do that crowing, dog-robbering thing!"

That's why he keeps a tight grip on you, Mo Ruxue thought in her heart.

But his quality was exactly what she needed. The novel mentioned that this man was very talented in business and later became the richest man in the Yan Kingdom.

"Do you want to open your own store?"

The young man said gloomily: "What's the use of thinking about it? I'm eating one meal now and I don't have the money to treat my mother's illness, let alone open a shop."

"I'm going to invest in opening a food store and would like to ask you to be the shopkeeper. Are you willing?"

"You...are you telling the truth? You're not trying to trick me, right?" He looked at her in shock, unable to believe it.

"What am I trying to trick you for? You are broke, what is there for me to trick you into?"

Mo Ruxue took out thirty taels of silver and handed it to him: "You take it to treat your mother first. Whether you want it or not, you don't have to pay back the money. You can treat it as a good deed by me."

"You don't know my name, how come you trust me so much and give me so much money?" He had never dreamed of such a good thing, and he couldn't believe it for a moment.

"The name is just a code name. I value your character more and I trust you. My name is Qiyue. Please think about it for a few days. I will wait for you at Xifeng Teahouse in five days."

After saying that, she left calmly. She knew that his name was Ouyang Xun, and he would definitely come in five days.

Ouyang Xun was stunned for a long time and couldn't recover. God opened his eyes and made his dream come true!

He hurriedly closed the store door, packed up his things and went home.

Mo Ruxue was in a good mood, she had accomplished something again, and she was one step closer to her dream of getting rich!

She walked slowly on the street alone. Chunyu and Xia He refused to let her come out in men's clothes. She locked them in the house and asked them to reflect on it.

There were many teahouses on the ancient street. She looked around and found that Xifeng Tower was the largest teahouse here. She just wanted to go in and have a look and examine the local customs. After all, she would live here for a long time.

The waiter led her to a seat by the window on the second floor, where she sipped tea and listened to storytelling. She used to sneer at these things in modern times, but now she also feels that they have a different charm.

While she was listening intently, a hand suddenly put on her shoulder: "Little brother, I'm alone. I happen to be alone too, why don't we go have a drink together later?"

Mo Ruxue turned her head and saw a man who looked like a steamed bun, with a lewd smile, looking at her seriously, with two attendants following behind him.

She was already dressed in men's clothing, but she was still harassed. Men's style was so popular in ancient times...
Chapter completed!