Chapter 18 Steamed Fish with Soy Sauce
"Your Highness is wise, indeed." Without steamed fish soy sauce, steamed small yellow croaker would lose its soul.
"How do you prepare the soup?"
"..." She didn't dare to give Fu Shunlou this steamed small yellow croaker dish because she was afraid of being asked about steamed fish with soy sauce.
Did he reveal too many secrets in order to hold his thigh? Ji Rongjin suddenly felt regretful.
Yan Tao saw the look of annoyance on the little cook's face and raised his eyebrows. After confirming that the simple dishes did not taste simple, he stopped asking any more questions and lowered his head to eat.
There were three dishes and one soup for one person. When he put down his chopsticks, the bowl, plate and soup cup were all empty.
"Your Highness, if it's not enough, I'll make some more." Ji Rongjin wanted to take the opportunity to leave. She was really not used to watching people eating, and she felt uncomfortable and awkward.
Yan Tao was well aware of Ji Rongjin's tricks. He curled up the corner of his mouth and looked at her with a half-smile.
"Your Highness... Your Highness..." She felt guilty after being stared at, and her eyes wandered.
However, Kangtai discovered something terrible and looked at his master with a horrified look on his face. How could this smile come on... He quietly covered his mouth, not daring to think about it any further.
The room suddenly became quiet.
Ji Rongjin's heart was pounding, but she didn't dare to raise her eyes. She felt uncomfortable all over. There was no one to clean up the empty plates and bowls on the table. What did these people want to do?
After eating and drinking, Yan Tao leaned back in his chair and tapped his legs with his slender fingers. He looked at ease and was not at all anxious to let his servants clear the table.
Kangtai waved his hand and quietly led the people out of the side room.
Ji Rongjin kept staring at the servants. When he saw that the servants were moving, he pretended that Yan Tao was not looking at her and retreated quietly.
As soon as they arrived at the door, Kang Tai, who was the last one to go out, closed the door. Ji Rongjin hurriedly opened the door and said, "Manager Kang..." in a low but urgent voice, hoping that he would open the door.
When he thought of his master's expression, how could Kangtai let her come out? He even wanted her to wash off the yellow powder on her face, but he didn't get the master's exact meaning, so he didn't dare.
In the blink of an eye, Yan and Ji were the only two people left in the room.
In the end, Ji Rongjin had no choice but to solve the problem by himself, which was a blessing to him: "Your Highness, it's getting late, I have to go back..."
Yan Tao still tapped his legs with his fingers and stared at her with an indifferent expression.
"Your Highness..." Feeling like a little yellow croaker waiting to be slaughtered, Ji Rongjin was so flustered that he had already jumped into Qi Wang Yantao's plate.
No way, the 'cousin' just now is much prettier than her, and she came to her door by herself, so why not attack her?
Because it's hard to attack her 'cousin' because of her identity, why attack her as an orphan? Thinking of this, Ji Rongjin's face turned pale and she looked at him.
His eyes met those of King Qi Yantao.
With dark pupils, the man's eyes were like a deep sea, bottomless.
"Your Highness..." Ji Rongjin was extremely nervous.
"What did you think I would do?"
He wouldn't eat her. Ji Rongjin wished he could turn into a small flying insect and crawl out from the crack of the door.
Yan Tao sneered lightly and glanced at her with disdain, almost writing on his face, "How dare you even think about such a beautiful woman"!
Ji Rongjin's face turned red, okay, she admitted that she had overthought it.
"In the recent period, your identity is still my 'outer room'. Please don't do anything inconsistent with your identity."
What kind of 'outer room' does it not match her identity? What did she do? Ji Rongjin was very unconvinced, "I am not His Highness's 'outside room'."
"Are you sure?" Yan Tao's handsome eyebrows were raised high, "Besides Fang Zhaoyao, there is probably no one who can solve the tracking issue."
In order to hide in the market and be a salted fish, Ji Rongjin did not bother to run other businesses for the past three years after confirming that Uncle Fang was upright and reliable. He really had no connections. This man pinched her seven inches!
She regretted it very much. If she had known better, she would have managed more connections and not be controlled by others. Then she thought about it, what connections could be compared with King Qi? She couldn't try to get the second or third prince.
What is the little lady's mind? Yan Tao has a clear family and raised his eyebrows.
"Yes, Your Highness." Ji Rongjin was like a salted fish and gave up struggling. Anyway, he was not serious about it, so he just said yes.
The King of Qi stood at the top of the food chain, giving orders to his subordinates almost every day, and everyone had to submit to him, but he never thought it was anything, it was just a normal thing.
But today, the little lady's aggrieved look made him blurt out, "I won't treat you badly."
"..." Ji Rongjin was puzzled.
"Kangtai——"
Kangtai quickly opened the door and entered, "Your Highness——"
"Give her the small shop on Ximen Street."
Kangtai was stunned for a moment, but immediately handed over his hand, "Yes, Your Highness."
"Your Highness, what are you..." Ji Rongjin felt vaguely that she was hugging King Qi's thigh, and she suppressed the excitement in her heart.
"Find someone to run it and stop selling bean sprouts in public."
It turns out that this is what ‘showing one’s face’ means!
Someone took advantage of it and happily ran to King Qi and said, "Thank you, Your Highness."
Taking on the title of "outer room" actually has such benefits. Yes, it really can. Ji Rongjin couldn't open her mouth from ear to ear with joy, "Then when can I go and see the shop?"
But Yan Tao was really anxious, and he smiled half-heartedly, "Don't you believe me?"
"No...no, absolutely not...it's getting late, so I won't disturb His Highness's rest," Ji Rongjin ran away as if running away.
When Ping An came to Osmanthus Alley Villa for the first time, he was hit by a woman.
"Yes... I'm sorry..." Ji Rongjin's forehead was hit hard, and he seemed to be running away while rubbing it.
After entering the house, Ping An asked Kangtai, who was that woman just now?
Kangtai coughed unnaturally, "Let's get down to business first."
Yan Tao got up and went to the study.
Ping An went in and said, "Back to Your Highness, in the two months before and after the year before and after, except for the silver reward from the Holy One, the household department has not paid one tael of salary."
The six bureaus and nine ministers are in charge of the household department. The third prince, the King of Chu, is in charge of the war. When there are battles to be fought, the emperor transfers them and pulls them out. Now that there are no battles to fight, the emperor ignores them and asks the king of Chu to take out the money. I'm afraid it will be a disaster.
Night story.
"How is Qidi's harvest this year?"
Yantao's fiefdom - Qi includes most of Shandong and some surrounding areas such as Henan and Hebei. It belongs to the eastern part of the Central Plains. It is close to the sea and has good weather. It is still possible to collect the fiefdom. However, due to the recent years of Linhai, whether it is floods or droughts,
They were all quite serious. He often fought in southern Xinjiang and neglected management, so it was not easy to recover the city.
Heping shook his head.
In March, the court hall is like a farmer working in the fields. The sun and the moon change. It looks like spring is bright and flowers are blooming, but in fact it is dark and turbulent.
His long knuckles rested on his long legs again, his eyes narrowed slightly, wondering what Yan Tao was thinking.
Ji Rongjin was well versed in the efficiency of the ancients. Just when she thought that Qi Wang Yantao might draw a cake for her, Kangtai had someone call her to the government office and complete all the procedures.
Two days before and after, it was quite fast, and my thighs were indeed different.
After taking the contract, Ji Rongjin had long forgotten about being followed. She rode a donkey and took her wealth to see the shop. Along the way, she thought about how big the shop was and what it could be used for, or should she continue to rent it out for salted fish?
He didn't notice at all that someone had been following him. The person following him noticed that there was someone from King Qi behind him. He turned around and disappeared in a blink of an eye.
Chapter completed!