The Blessed

"Really not modest. All right, deal, as long as you tell me where you get the vinegar you use. Why does it taste so different? And the seasoning for the braised food. You got to contribute all these things.”

He was a businessman, who would never get up early without profit. How could he let him take the advantage while he got nothing?

“All right. For the seasoning, pay me ten thousand taels of silver and it’s yours. As for the vinegar, I made it myself, it’s fruit vinegar. There are only thirty jars of it, fifty jin each. If you want, one hundred taels of silver each."

Ling Jingxuan was also not a fuel-efficient lamp. How could he give out things for free?

"Ten thousand? Are you robbing me?”

Hearing the price, even Zeng Shaoqing who was already rich enough couldn’t help blowing up. Just a seasoning prescription. Seriously?

Throwing him a ‘yeah, I am robbing you, what?’ look, Ling Jingxuan shrugged his shoulders villainously, totally an ‘it’s your choice whether to buy it or not’ appearance. Zeng Shaoqing was so mad that he could barely breathe, only staring at him with that pair of fox eyes. He swore in the name of his head he was revenging him! Definitely! Heaven knows now how regretted he felt that he had failed to restrain himself and give him that punch! He could let it go that his two little cute nephews didn’t like him, now even Seven and Ling Jingxuan hated him! Holy shit! If given a second chance, he’d rather take the risk of being beaten into a pig head by Nine (Jiu: Yan Shengrui—the ninth prince) than giving Ling Jingxuan that punch. The price was really too huge!

"Fine, ten thousand taels of silver, all right? I’ll buy it.”

Seeing that both Yan Shengrui and Chu Yunhan were standing there, totally an onlooker’s appearance, Zeng Shaoqing could only suck on it.

"As for the prescription, I’ll let Jinghan write it for you later, and the fruit vinegar, you can ask Shopkeeper Zhang come fetch it anytime. My twenty percent profit is together with Shengrui’s thirty percent. You can all give it to me. Oh right, I got new items to launch in Baiyunge. As for the promotion, I still need to trouble you to inform those branch shopkeepers. Besides, I decide to open a branch on the opposite side of Xinyue Gold Shop in Qingyang Town. You take care of it for me. I want to open it in the shortest time. I want Xinyue Gold Shop to go out of business within the year.”

Since they were a cooperative relationship, Ling Jingxuan was no longer polite with him, Xinyue Gold Shop, He had been keeping ‘thinking about’ them all the time!

"Xinyue? A shop of Gui family in Cangzhou?”

Such things were as easy as a piece of cake to him. So Zeng Shaoqing didn’t put it to heart. What he felt strange was what Gui family had done to offend him. Apparently this was an ‘overkill’ approach.

“Gui family?”

Ling Jingxuan raised his eyebrows to look at Yan Shengrui. That sounded like a big family?

"The Gui family in Cangzhou belongs to a collateral branch. Their head now is the prefect of Cangzhou. Their main family is in the capital. They sent two daughters into the palace. At first, they didn’t win my imperial elder brother’s favor. Only under Noble Consort Xiao’s help, one became a Lady of Bright Deportment, while the other became a Beauty. And since then, they had become an appendage to Xiao family. Since Noble Consort Xiao receives favor from the emperor, apparently they could also be rendered as one of those influential families in the capital.”

This kind of trifles, for any others to ask, Yan Shengrui wouldn’t answer at all. But that was his precious wife. Besides, he had been keeping it in mind that how Xinyue had humiliated his precious sons!

"Really? Then we have another reason to do it. Lord Six(Liu), how many industries do Gui family get involved in? What are they? And where?”

They were Noble Consort Xiao’s accomplice! And he was looking for a place to vent his anger! They even cut his Yan’er into pieces alive! Be it the previous life or this life, he’d let her pay! The first job was to cut off her tentacles!

"What do you want?”

With an evil smile stained between his eyebrows, Zeng Shaoqing asked with great interest. Is it possible the fun would be starting from here?

"What else could it be? Destroy them, of course."

Ling Jingxuan wore a reasonable face. The only thing his man left was money! Why not waste it?

"Yeah, just leave it to me. But as for things of the yamen, leave it to Nine (Shengrui).”

As a businessman, he could only crush them from a commercial point of view. As for the rest, Yan Shengrui had a clear advantage over him.

"Within a month, the memorial about the bribe-taking of all officials of Gui family serving the court will be presented to the emperor. What do you say?”

As domineering as Yan Shengrui was, he made the decision without thinking. Ling Jingxuan originally didn't think so much. Hearing him, he could only nod in agreement. He was the prince and his man. Of course he had the final say about things outside. And he also didn’t want to put too much thought on that. But on the other side, Chu Yunhan said, “I’m afraid Xiao family wouldn’t give up easily. They have spent so many years on fostering the Gui family. How would they allow you to destroy them as you want?”

Training one or two trusted subordinates might be easy, but to train a whole family as the subordinates was quite difficult. If something happened to Gui family but Xiao family did nothing, what others minor families who leeched on to them would think? A slight move in one part may affect the situation as a whole. He didn’t believe that Xiao family wouldn’t understand this.

"It’s not up to them."

His deep tone wasn’t deliberately emphasized. Yan Shengrui leaned over to take up a cup on the tea table, first sent it by Ling Jingxuan’s lips. After he drank a mouthful, Yan Shengrui took a sip gracefully himself, like he didn’t put Gui family, or even the whole Xiao family in his eyes. But it was quite reasonable as you thought it. As a meritorious general prince, how would he think that much? If he wanted to kill someone, wasn’t it as easy as crushing an ant?

"Let them take care of that. You just have to figure out how to resume your position as the empress. I hear the emperor is not quite well these days. He hasn’t reached his forty yet, right? What do the imperial doctors say?"

Throwing Chu Yunhan an eye, Ling Jingxuan asked strangely. A man in his forties is still in full blossom. Besides, the emperor had the imperial doctors around. How could he be in such bad condition at such a young again? Maybe too indulging in sensual pleasures? But he remembered that all emperors in history didn’t live quite long, and it seemed it was all due to that reason.