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In the darkness, only the light from the houses on one side shone. The sound of the Qinhuai River flowed with the wind, and the night fog was like mountains. Ning Yi looked at her expression, and this time he nodded clearly.

"Okay, I understand." After a moment, he thought about it again, "Then what exactly is your relationship with him?"

Nie Yunzhu's expression was initially serious, but when she heard this, her face became complex. She seemed to struggle to maintain her serious emphasis, holding it for a few seconds before finally bursting into laughter with a "噗".

"Someone I knew from the Jin Feng Brothel."

She looked at Ning Yi. For some reason, she had suddenly felt nervous when Ning Yi asked about Gu Yanzhen. She wondered what he had heard and what he was thinking, trying to figure out the best way to be honest. But now, because of his question, when she said it again, there wasn't even a ripple in her heart, as light as when they had been chatting in front of the building before. Ning Yi paused. "I heard you mention the other day that he's a very famous scholar, right?"

"I'd be surprised if Liheng hadn't heard of him."

"Forgot." Ning Yi shook his head. "So what now?"

"I don't know either. I've already asked a few relatives from Er Niu's side to help, but I haven't really thought it through yet." Nie Yunzhu rested her chin on her hand, looking troubled. "Originally, there weren't many things I could do. I just wanted to get a small cart and sell some pancakes, to prove that I wasn't completely useless. I thought the same about the preserved eggs, and figured it would take a long time for people to like them. Who knew that in just a few days, they'd sell so many that I couldn't even keep up with the production. It's too fast... Well, I'm very happy, but I really hadn't thought about what to do next. Liheng, what do you think?"

"Preserved eggs... do you want to continue making them?"

"I wasn't much of a businesswoman to begin with, so I only planned to set up a small stall..." A person should know their own limitations. Nie Yunzhu had seen many truly successful merchants in the Jin Feng Brothel over the years. Doing business, selling things, profit comes with risk, and some things she couldn't easily understand with her temperament. But: "Now that business is suddenly so good, and I can't keep up with the orders... I feel it's a pity to give up..."

"Things are going to get a little complicated next."

"Hmm?"

"The preserved eggs will sell even more. You'll hire some people. For the first month or two, sales will expand, especially... after Kang Xian promotes them at the family banquet, the 'Emerald Eggs', the 'Wealthy Eggs'... demand will exceed supply. You'll continue to expand the scale. New things are always like this..."

Ning Yi picked up a twig and drew on the ground as he spoke casually. "At this point, you'll find that you lack management experience. You originally used some people you were familiar with, like Er Niu's relatives and friends, to create a small workshop, but various bumps and collisions will start to occur. Then, on the other side, people will start imitating the preserved eggs. In about three months, they should be able to come out with their own versions, maybe even a little earlier. If the secrecy is strict, it won't last more than four months..."

"The process for making preserved eggs isn't technically advanced. You haul firewood back every day to burn, buy lime powder. Someone who is determined can find out these things with a little investigation. Now that they've become a bit famous and are in a state of high demand, word is spreading within the range of a few restaurants. It's possible that someone is already eyeing them. You sell preserved eggs with traces of unwashed mud powder on them. The other party can experiment using the method for making salted duck eggs, and it won't be a big problem. And if you expand the scale and create a small workshop, exposing the method will be even easier."

"Then it's simple. A price war. More and more people will know how to make them, and they'll come up with new ways to eat them. You won't be able to sell them for twenty wen, so you'll have to lower the price. They'll lower the price too. More people will make them. In the end, selling preserved eggs will be almost the same as selling sesame cakes... uh..."

Ning Yi spoke, then turned his head to look. Nie Yunzhu was also resting her chin on her hand, looking back at him, with a hint of a smile in her eyes. Ning Yi curled his lips and pointed at her with the twig. "At that time, you'll be hit hard."

Nie Yunzhu was thinking about other things. "Actually, Liheng is very good at these things, right?"

"Hmm? What things?"

"Doing business."

Ning Yi was silent for a moment, then said, "Am I a reincarnated old monster who is very good at doing business? Do I have to tell you that too?"

Nie Yunzhu pursed her lips and smiled lightly, then brushed the hair from her ear. "Actually, I've always wanted to ask, does Liheng have anything to do with why the preserved eggs suddenly sold so many?"

"I made a bet, so I had to do something. I couldn't just wait to lose, right?" Ning Yi laughed. "It was my idea at first, but it seems to have had an unexpected outcome, a case of being too clever for my own good. It's just added to your burden. If I had known, I would have just asked some idle people to give a little push, and left it at that. Actually, because I estimated that you wouldn't be able to do that much, I specifically told Old Kang not to promote it randomly at the Prince Consort's residence..."

"So that's really how it was." She murmured, a smile creeping onto her lips. "Liheng hired someone to act as a shill?"

Ning Yi nodded.

"But Liheng... doesn't know Gu Yanzhen, does he?"

"That morning I ran into Li Pin and casually mentioned this matter. He said that a few of his friends were bored anyway and could help. I figured they'd be scholars or something. I don't know them. Gu Yanzhen might have been among them. When I made the bet with Old Kang, we agreed not to use fame to promote these preserved eggs... uh, do you remember you told me the next day that you had sold six preserved eggs? Heh, I bought four of them."

Nie Yunzhu narrowed her eyes, looking enlightened. "Ah... I was wondering why a waiter from the restaurant would suddenly come to buy four preserved eggs. It was only the first day after Liheng finished making the cart. So... heh..."

The night before dawn, there were still stars in the sky. Nie Yunzhu looked up and laughed. Many things became suddenly clear in her heart.

"What does Liheng think I should do?"

"Do it big if you think it's interesting, stop if it's not. See if you think it's interesting."

"Actually, it's quite fulfilling. I feel like I'm very capable. But I also know that I'm not. Liheng... will you teach me?"

A slight silence. Ning Yi glanced at her. "...Okay."

On a March morning in the eighth year of the Jinghan era of the Wu Dynasty, this light voice rang out in the pre-dawn mist on the banks of the Qinhuai River. Afterwards, there were only some trivial matters, miscellaneous things like catering, chain stores, high-proof liquor, industrial chains. The two people in front of the small building's steps were talking as usual. As for what they were saying, it didn't matter. In the room of the small building behind them, a maid named Hutaoleaned on the window and sighed, worrying about her young mistress in her heart.

The white fog flowed and dispersed. The sun rose, and people began to move about in Jiangning City. We speed up the pace, fast-forward the trajectory of the sun, and only release our fingers when the time approaches noon. At this time, Nie Yunzhu was holding a small package, wandering aimlessly on the city streets crowded with shops, because Hutao and Er Niu were currently guarding the shop.

According to the habits of the past few days, she would rush back, thinking about how to increase the production of preserved eggs, where to buy firewood in the afternoon, and which place had cheaper prices. But today was a little different. From the morning, she had been tightly wrapped up in a certain mood, her mind churning with thoughts that had not subsided in the slightest even now.

Ever since Hutao told her "Young Mistress, you can't marry him" a few days ago – perhaps even earlier, since she became aware of some of her own feelings – to the entanglement of Gu Yanzhen in recent days, the suddenly expanded preserved egg business and the increased burden came together, her heart had actually been a little distracted and uncertain. But today was not like that. All morning she had been very happy, in a cheerful mood, all the gloom swept away.

In the distance, she saw the flag of a Su Family Cloth Store. She often saw such cloth signs. There were several branches of the Su Family in Jiangning. In the past, she didn't pay much attention to them because of Ning Yi's relationship, but this time she stood by the road and watched quietly for a long time, watching the comings and goings in the shop, and the busy business.

The words Ning Yi said today, the "Okay" she agreed to, and some other things, kept echoing in her mind.

"...However, there's only one thing you have to remember. I want you to remember why you decided to take it a step further. Even if you don't have much money now, you're still very happy. You just want to have a pancake stall and prove that you can do many things. That's the Yunzhu girl I know. If you go too fast in the future, you have to remember your current mood. Stop when you should stop, retreat when you should retreat. Don't force yourself, lest you lose sight of the bigger picture in the end and forget what you want. The sand that you can't hold onto, just let it go. Even if you go back to where you are now, you won't have lost anything..."

After nodding, Liheng said some things very casually. He pointed and drew on the ground with the twig, not caring or showing a practiced hand, "Or" do this, "Or" do that. Only these words did he say solemnly, and then he seemed to laugh mockingly at himself, not knowing what he was thinking of. Nie Yunzhu remembered these words, but her mood at the time was not quite the same as what Ning Yi said.

Some things, some feelings, happened quietly, and Ning Yi didn't know. In fact, yesterday morning Ning Yi and Su Tan'er went to the suburbs to go on a spring outing, ate something, and Chan'er and Juan'er flew kites. There were many people on the outing, and Ning Yi didn't know that Nie Yunzhu and Hutao had seen them from afar.

At that time, Nie Yunzhu and Hutao contacted a fellow villager of Er Niu's, and then went to the countryside to buy duck eggs. On the way back, they saw Ning Yi and Su Tan'er there. This was the first time Nie Yunzhu had seen Su Tan'er. Looking from a distance, the two were talking on the grass, a complex feeling that was difficult to describe. When she met Ning Yi in the morning, her mood was surrounded by low emotions, and then Ning Yi suddenly asked about Gu Yanzhen, and in that instant she really felt like she was being strangled by something.

Fortunately, this mood was released afterwards, but when she saw Ning Yi, she kept thinking about the meadow in the suburbs yesterday, thinking about the luxuriously dressed and young and beautiful Su Tan'er. However, gradually some other emotions surged up again, especially after Ning Yi nodded and said that he was the mastermind behind the preserved eggs. This idea had been around for a long time, but at this time it suddenly became clear. Just as everyone outside was saying, why would such a person become a live-in son-in-law?

Let's not worry about the reasons, but Nie Yunzhu suddenly thought. Liheng has talent for poetry and business acumen. Does he really enjoy every day living the leisurely and detached life he leads now? She didn't know much about the Su family before, and even less after she redeemed herself, only knowing that the Su family was very

rich, which was truly like heaven and earth compared to ordinary people like her now. Later, Ning Yi became famous because of two poems, but she heard some news, saying that Liheng had no business talent, and that Miss Su was very good at business and would even take over the Su family in the future. But Liheng has business talent, but with his status as a live-in son-in-law, he can only hide his talent behind Su Tan'er, what would he think?

Liheng casually solved the preserved egg issue, wouldn't that also have the meaning of not being willing to be lonely, he can't take action at home, so outside, he did it casually.

So she suddenly understood what she could do.

Maybe she can become his tool, let Liheng prove through her that he is more capable than Su Tan'er, if she can reach that point...

She is still essentially a woman with a quiet nature. There are some things that are not good to think about. She hugged the small package in her arms, gently bit her lower lip, and walked past the entrance of the Su Family Cloth Store. As she passed, she also turned her head to look inside. Then she pursed her lips, thinking a little childishly: In the future, her shop will be much, much bigger than this...

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