In ancient times, I just wanted to be a salted fish

Chapter 155 Landmark Building

The teahouse was successfully purchased, and Chen Ruotong, Qiao Zien, and Zhou Qian went to the teahouse to check the interior decoration. Chen Ruotong made a plan on what to demolish and what to keep.

She planned to decorate the three-story building according to the decoration style of Zhenpin Pavilion in Pingyang Prefecture.

She wanted to add new elements to the original style. She wanted to install glass on the counters and shelves on the three floors, which would make the Zhenpin Pavilion look taller and more magnificent. She even wanted to replace all the windows with glass, which was a big project.

If it is renovated in this way, it will take several months to complete. Then, it will become a landmark building in the capital and even the entire Daliang Dynasty.

But isn't it too ostentatious to do so? It will attract too much attention and arouse envy, jealousy and hatred. If you are not careful, it may provoke those royal descendants, nobles and wealthy people to come and smash the building, which will be bad!

But after much thought, she still wanted to give it a try. She wanted to make Zhenpin Pavilion famous all over the world!

So she told Qiao Zien about this idea and asked him to help her make a decision.

Qiao Zien said, "If you want to do it, just do it. Don't be timid. Gu Chuan is a man who can do big things! Besides, even if everything goes to waste, so what? Do you still need that little bit of stuff, that little bit of money?

If you want to do it, do it vigorously. Don't you still have me, a strong backer? What are you afraid of? Furukawa, no matter what decision you make, I support you!"

With Qiao Zien's support and encouragement, why bother? Just do it!

It is obvious that Chen Ruotong does not have enough manpower in the capital, so she has to transfer people from Pingyang Prefecture here.

So she wrote a letter to Old Man Chen, asking her grandfather to send twenty or so smart and capable servants and maids to help.

At the moment, Chen Ruotong asked Zhou Qian to hire craftsmen, carpenters, and skilled workers in the capital with high salaries.

Zhou Qian had made some friends in the past few months in Beijing, so he was able to handle things easily and quickly found a decoration team. He was just waiting for Chen Ruotong to give the order to start working.

Chen Ruotong was not in a hurry. He was waiting for Pingyang Prefecture to send someone to supervise the decoration work while accompanying him.

Zhou Qian also has to contact people about buying a house. He is a capable person and needs to work hard, so he is indispensable in everything.

In order to motivate him to work harder, Chen Ruotong raised his salary to 200 taels per month. Zhou Qian was even more motivated and worked very hard. He was really a qualified ancient worker!

Feng Liangyu went to the Princess's Mansion to stir up trouble. He specially hired a few people and dressed up as peddlers not far from the Princess's Mansion, selling goods with a load on their shoulders.

The few people were whispering to each other. When Aunt Xu passed by them, they deliberately spoke loudly, "Hey, Wang Da, I saw the county horse often leaving the city from the east gate in recent days. He didn't go to work. Why did he go out of the city? He left the city again this morning. It's really good to be an official. You don't have to go to work but you can still get a salary!"

Another person laughed and said, "Hey, Brother Li, do you know Junma? Introduce him to me, hahahaha..."

Brother Li said, "How can I not recognize him? He comes out of the Princess's Mansion every day, and the servants call him a steed. Besides, he bought pearl flowers from me! The Princess's Horse is so handsome that even my heart beats fast when I see him. Not to mention that if a girl sees him, she will be unable to walk..."

When Aunt Xu heard this, she was shocked. She grasped the key words, "not going to work, leaving the city from the east gate." Could it be that the county horse knew that the woman was Zhihua and where she lived? This is bad, something big is going to happen!

But Nanny Xu was also smart. She would not be rash enough to inform the monarch of the matter before she had figured out the whole story.

Otherwise, he would be scolded by the princess and even despised by the monarch.

In order to make amends and please the monarch, Nanny Xu wants to go to Plum Blossom Manor to find out whether the prince really went there.

So she immediately got on the carriage and left the city for Plum Blossom Manor.

As expected, there was an ordinary carriage parked outside the manor. No strangers would pass by this manor, so where did the carriage come from? There must be something strange.

Madam Xu did not dare to open the door and enter the yard, fearing to alarm the people inside. So she hid at the gate and asked the coachman to drive the carriage far away, and she waited there.

Nanny Xu didn't have to wait long before she saw Wu Qiming walking out of the door.

Aunt Xu's heart suddenly started beating so fast that she almost had a heart attack.

The person who saw Wu Qiming off was Zhihua.

Oh, these two are finally together, and the family of three is reunited. What should the princess do? The princess did a stupid thing. If she had just adopted a child, this wouldn't have happened!

Nanny Xu was indignant on behalf of the princess.

Wu Qiming's carriage drove away and disappeared from Aunt Xu's sight. Aunt Xu turned around and walked towards the gate.

Aunt Xu knocked on the door, and Zhihua thought it was Wang Pozi and the maid Fangcao who came back from buying food, so she opened the door. When she saw Aunt Xu, her face turned pale with fear.

Zhihua didn't expect that Aunt Xu, whom she hadn't seen for a long time, would suddenly appear in front of her. It must be something bad!

Every five days, Wang Po and her maid Fangcao would go to the city to make purchases. Zhihua found the right time and told Wu Qiming.

Today is the day for shopping, so Wu Qiming came to the farm to meet Zhihua.

I don't know if Aunt Xu saw Wu Qiming when he left. If she did, she would be dead.

Zhi Hua stood there in a daze for a long time before she stammered, "Xu, Xu Ma, you are here, please come in, I will pour you some tea!"

Madam Xu asked, "Where are Po Wang and Fang Cao?"

"They both went to the city to buy rice!"

"You are alone on the farm, aren't you afraid?"

"Don't be afraid, I'm used to it!"

Nanny Xu didn't want to alert the enemy. She wanted to calm Zhihua down and see how the princess would deal with her in the end.

Nanny Xu sat in the room for a while, drank a cup of tea, then got up and left Meihua Manor.

Zhihua looked at Aunt Xu's back, and a sense of foreboding came over her. She was uneasy, and always felt that something bad was going to happen.

She was panicking and at a loss, not knowing what to do next.

She didn't dare to run away, and if she stayed, she was afraid of two deaths. She didn't dare to go to Wu Qiming at all, because that would confirm the fact that they knew each other and were together.

Just when she was extremely anxious, Feng Liangyu appeared.

He held a bundle in his hand and handed it to Zhihua, saying, "Young lady, don't be afraid. My master knows that you are in trouble, so he sent me to save you from the sea of ​​suffering.

This is men's clothing, change into it quickly. If you don't leave, your life will be over. It's up to you to decide whether to leave or stay.

There is a carriage outside. If you want to leave, change your clothes and get on the carriage. My master will definitely not harm you. As for the old woman and the maid, they are still in the city and will not be back for a while. "

Zhihua didn't believe what Feng Liangyu said, after all, he was a stranger. She would not go with Feng Liangyu. Zhihua shook her head and said, "I don't know who your young master is, and I don't know you, and I don't know why you know me. I won't go with you."

Feng Liangyu also guessed the result, and since his life was not wanted, he was not in a hurry. When Zhihua asked him for help, it would not be too late for him to take action.

So Feng Liangyu hid in Meihua Manor, waiting to rescue Zhihua.