Chapter 237 Seven people, snakes and leaves, traces of candles (4500 words)

Author: Bachelor in White

It's July.

A loud rainstorm washed away the sultry heat of early summer and brought some coolness.

The "Xiangman Tower", known as "the best building in the world", has now become the property of the Red King. From word of mouth, it has become a scenic spot in the imperial city. It is full of guests every day and it is very lively.

Since Zheng Xiu was awarded the title of Red King, Xiangmanlou has become a dining hall for high-ranking officials, courtiers, princesses, princes, and dignitaries. It’s not that they really want to eat from the Red King. Some people think that they might meet Shenlongjian here.

The legendary Prince Zheng has never been seen. Some people think that paying a lot of money to help him can make the Red King pay attention. Some people want this place to be luxurious and prestigious. In short, the nobles who come here to eat have different thoughts and plans.

After learning about this, Zheng Xiu quickly bought several poorly managed restaurants in the city without saying a word. All the staff of Jixiang Workshop were mobilized to do some decoration and opened five branches in the imperial city. Finally, the "Xiangmanlou" problem was solved.

of urgent need.

Sometimes, making money is really difficult.

Zheng Xiu looked at the large sums of money written in the account book and felt unhappy. Zheng Xiu was from here, so he couldn't guess what these people were thinking. He didn't pick the good ones, only the expensive ones, and ordered a table full of dishes and

After saving the most expensive wine, he left a table of dishes that no one cared about, and signed the bill and left his name coolly, which was nothing more than making the Red King look at him with admiration.

In the study.

The candlelight is dim.

Zheng Erniang and Zheng Xiu were alone in the room. Zheng Xiu was holding the account book and flipping through it quickly.

There was a small bunch of orange hair on the edge of the table. Zheng Xiu raised his eyebrows, picked it up and put it under his nose to smell it. Hissing, there was a smell of mutton, and he didn't know where it came from.

He threw Maomao out of the window and let the heavy rain wash it away.

Zheng Xiu closed the account book and said, "These people are quite small. Am I, King Chi, the one who needs that little money?"

Zheng Erniang smiled and rubbed away Zheng Xiu's frown: "But this Yuexiangmanlou's revenue is more than the usual two years." Rubbing away the annoyance in Chi Wang's heart, Zheng Erniang gently rubbed Zheng Xiu's sides.

Temple, three circles on the top and three circles on the bottom.

"That's not a coincidence." Zheng Xiu closed his eyes, folded his hands in front of him, enjoying Zheng Erniang's long-lost caressing, and said with a smile: "In the future, you don't have to work so hard. We have earned enough money to open a restaurant."

Month, the business has been out of business for a year. You, take advantage of the closing time to find a matchmaker in the city, mainly as a client, and find some young talents in the city to see if you can take your fancy..."

"Don't make trouble, be serious. Er Niang has never thought about getting married. She just wants to be a member of the Zheng family for the rest of her life." Zheng Er Niang felt angry and couldn't help pinching the soft flesh of Zheng Xiu's neck and twisting it hard.

After a while, she felt Zheng Xiu grimacing in pain, and then pressed close to Zheng Xiu's neck distressedly, breathing softly and warmly on the red and swollen area. She thought to herself that this guy has become a prince, why does he sometimes act like a child in front of her?

Bad temper, talking nonsense.

"itch!"

"No, I'll tickle you to death!" Zheng Erniang blew even more happily.

After fooling around for a while, Zheng Xiu changed his mind.

Zheng Xiu said helplessly: "I heard that Chef He lost his temper and chopped up the chopping board he had been using for five or six years with a few swipes."

Zheng Xiu understands Chef He's temper. He treats the dishes he cooks like his wife. The dishes he cooks with his own hands can make the guests lick the plates clean. Chef He can laugh so hard, but once

If someone wastes his food, he is looking down on his wife.

Most people who are able to follow the path have their own rules and persistence.

"There's nothing we can do about it. We can't reheat the leftover dishes and serve them to other guests."

Zheng Erniang was even more helpless. While Zheng Xiu was busy rectifying the important matters of the "Disaster Prevention Bureau", Zheng's property fell entirely on her thin shoulders. In the past, Zheng Xiu had discussed it, but now that Zheng Xiu has become the prince, the situation has become bigger.

, Zheng Erniang knew that she could not give Zheng Xiu a headache, so she could only bear it silently. When the business got bigger, it would also be a headache.

"Eh?" Zheng Xiu thought about it for a moment and suddenly came up with an idea. He thought, you guys have to spend money, right? You dare to throw money at me on my territory. Hum, Zheng Xiu rolled his eyes and said with a smile.

Erniang said: "Who can't say?"

"Ah?" Zheng Erniang was dumbfounded. She thought Zheng Xiu was talking about rearranging the leftovers and selling them.

This is the behavior of profiteers.

Absolutely not.

"Just tell Chef He that all the untouched dishes should be sent to Dali Temple. Dali Temple is home to many poor homeless people. This can be used to improve their meals."

When Zheng Erniang heard this, she suddenly woke up and said with a smile: "You are still kind-hearted."

"That's ridiculous." Zheng Xiu shook his head: "Borrowing other people's things to extend one's own generosity is not considered kind-hearted."

After a pause, Zheng Xiu said again: "Since they want to spend money on me, why bother to stop them? One stroke at a time."

When Zheng Erniang heard this, she looked slightly startled: "How do you say this?"

"Hold several auctions, and the one with the highest price will win. Now, isn't the south experiencing a drought and flood? For several months, the local tenants have had no income and are even homeless. It is very pitiful. We can use the money raised from the auction to

All the funds will be sent to the south for disaster relief."

Zheng Erniang's eyes lit up and she nodded repeatedly. She had been exposed to many of Zheng Xiu's novel concepts in the past, and she could understand the word "auction". But soon Zheng Erniang became worried again and muttered: "But what are we shooting?

Photographing gold, silver and jewelry has finally fallen into the cliché..."

"Photograph a meal." Zheng Xiu had already thought about it, raised a finger and said to Zheng Erniang with a smile.

"……meal?"

"On the surface it seems to be just a meal, but in fact it is an opportunity to have lunch with the Red King." Zheng Xiu smiled mysteriously: "The Red King will personally teach... the secret of success."

Zheng Erniang was completely stunned.

What Zheng Xiu wants to take is... the Red King's lunch?

Zheng Erniang kneaded Zheng Xiu for a while, and then she fell asleep. She looked at Zheng Xiu's sleeping face, and her child-like quiet face did not have the domineering look of the prince in the past. Zheng Erniang smiled and said softly.

Qing Qing pecked Zheng Xiu on the cheek, tucked a thin quilt for Zheng Xiu, and spent the whole night speechless.

The next day, Zheng Erniang began to promote and publicize the "Red King's Lunch" event, which shocked the entire city's elite circles.

Even outside the capital, many dignitaries heard about this and became very excited.

But the nuclear bomb Red King who inexplicably caused the earthquake in Guiquan quickly forgot about it after he offered his advice to Er Niang.

To him, it didn't matter whether it was auctioned or not, he just wanted to find something to do for his second mother.

It's just for fun, it doesn't matter whether it's money or not.

After the first two days of "entry", Zheng Xiu finally got his wish and became the hands-off shopkeeper, allowing the four departments of the Disaster Prevention Bureau to perform their respective duties and operate.

From all over the country, any case that seems a bit wrong will be reported through the six doors, followed by reports one after another, and finally reach the hands of Jiang Gaoyi. Jiang Gaoyi will then transfer the seemingly suspicious files to Yin Qingqing of the Secret Service for final screening.

Yin Qingqing herself, a member of the "Pillar" of the Disaster Prevention Bureau and a member of the "Shi Yao" with a different background, still groveled in front of Zheng Xiu and called herself a "slave". What she couldn't figure out was why Zheng Xiu could trust her so much.

After all, she was originally the emperor's person, but because of the emperor's words, she fell into Zheng Xiu's hands.

Naturally, it is impossible for the person given by the emperor to go back, and the emperor also wants to save face. Therefore, Yin Qingqing is now "homeless" and can only stay by Zheng Xiu's side peacefully, willing to be a tool with no affection.

How did Yin Qingqing know that regardless of whether Zheng Xiu's talent can be trusted or not, he has a "brotherhood" that he personally led to look after the back garden for him, and he has the former "number one knife hunter" to look after him. Zheng Xiu will not be interested in anyone who has different intentions.

Don't panic. Besides, people like Yin Qingqing, who have cheap wages, are born strange, can be used as teleporters, are familiar with the secret service procedures, and are obedient. Such "easy-to-use" people are rare nowadays. When Zheng Xiu thought of this,

I wish I could use it more, for fear that one day I might not be able to use it anymore if someone is injured.

Those who use it will have to use it to death.

Well, the secret to the success of the richest man.

Although Jiang Gaoyi is the Minister of the Ministry of Justice, in order to move more smoothly in the "official" path, he became the "special secretary" of the Disaster Prevention Bureau after Zheng Xiu half-assed him. When there was something to do, he was a secretary, and when there was nothing else, he was still a secretary. Jiang Gaoyi held two positions.

, he was so busy that he had one head and two heads, and the whole person was like a spinning top. He went to court in the morning to be an official, in the afternoon he went to the Ministry of Justice to approve cases, and as soon as he got off work he rushed to the disaster prevention bureau, sorting out the hills.

File. It is said that Mrs. Jiang was quite critical of this. In the circle of ladies, three to five beautiful women complained to their close friends about the depression in the boudoir when they went to the garden together.

Practicing swords during the day, playing with cats in the afternoon, swimming with phoenixes at dusk, and soaking in poison at night, Chi Wang put down his burden and lived a peaceful and healthy life. When it was time for the first acceptance of the disaster prevention bureau's acceptance work, Chi Wang went out on a carriage tour and arrived at the disaster prevention bureau.

View the roster.

Jiang Gaoyi finally sorted out the current staffing of the four departments of the Disaster Prevention Bureau. Of course, they are mainly from the "Xiao" department, not to mention the "Zhu", four people and one cat, Zheng Xiu all knows the basics, and the "Secret" department,

Zheng Xiu gave the "remnant" department a great deal of autonomy, which was equivalent to a bureau within a bureau. Yin Qingqing and Wei Chen were in charge respectively. Zheng Xiu only had to contact them on a single line. From the beginning of Xiaobu's tenure until now, there are three

One hundred and sixty people.

By the way, the three big brothers of the Brotherhood also joined the "Akatsuki" under their names for the sake of convenience.

Among them, there are seven people who have stood out in the "Akatsuki" department and obtained Class A authority.

These seven people are at the top of the Akatsuki tribe in terms of strength, but they are below Yiren.

They are:

Qing Thirteen in "Hanging Flowers", Pei Gaoya in "The Heroic Man Who Dotes on His Wife", Ji Hongou in "The Flower Lady with Thousand Hands", Gu Qiutang in "Don't Move the Knife", Jun Buxiao in "Shadow Play", Xi'er in "The Gold Medal Middleman",

"The Living Dead" Situ Yong.

For a whole July, under the above-mentioned operation mode, the disaster prevention bureau began to operate efficiently. The members of the Xiaobu were working hard to get a promotion and a salary increase and marry the daughter of a wealthy family. They vented all the depression when Ye Weiyang was paralyzed and rushed to various places.

, and by the way, find a way to get in touch with Ye Weiyang’s old subordinates who are scattered all over the country, so as to make the disaster prevention bureau bigger and stronger.

Within a month, through the miraculous transmission of "Chang Shie", news was sent back from all over Daqian. Under efficient operation, the Disaster Prevention Bureau solved more than a hundred backlogged cases.
To be continued...