The Blessed

Duke Weiyuan’s Mansion in the capital

“Master Six, a letter from Cangzhou!”

Zheng Shaoqing who hurried all the way from Cang Zhou to the capital with a large number of goods finally made it back before his old father and his big and second brother went out for wars. Before they left, they nagged again and again that he should find Yan Shengrui as soon as possible, otherwise there would be change on the court and the borders. Some problems weren’t that obvious when Yan Shengrui was here. But once he disappeared, the ugliness covered under the surface would slowly show. The reason that it hadn’t caused any chaos was that His Majesty had issued an order of concealing the news of Yan Shengrui’s missing. And only his personal bodyguards and Duke Zeng’s mansion knew about it. If someday it got exposed, not only the enemy kingdoms would take advantage of it to invade them, but also those unsettled princes would also stir up trouble.

As a result, Zeng Shaoqing had issued several orders successively, asking his subordinates to find Yan Shengrui even if they had to overturn the whole Cangzhou, but the situation was not optimistic, so far he hadn’t received any positive news.

Now hearing that it was a letter from Cangzhou, Zeng Shaoqing who was reclining on the armchair resting stretched out a hand, a girl in green waiting on aside took out a letter and handed it into his hand reverently. He opened his eyes and looked at the sealing was exclusive to Xinyuan Restaurant, a slice of disappointment flashed under his eyes. If it was news about Yan Shengrui, the sealing wax should belong to his mansion or his personal bodyguards.

“Hehe... this Ling Jingxuan is an interesting one.”

Reading the content of the letter, Zeng Shaoqing turned to sit up, the letter was from the general shopkeeper of Cangzhou, Datong town. The general meaning was that Ling Jingxuan provided several new dishes for them, and trials were pretty good. Shopkeeper Zhang meant to pay him silver to buy out his recipes, but instead of asking for silver, he proposed to take twenty percent of the profit of all the fishes he provided. Besides, he also promised that in the future, every month, he’d provide them one or two new dishes. This thing was too huge. Let alone Shopkeeper Zhang, even the general shopkeeper of Cangzhou couldn’t make the decision. Twenty percent of the profit sounded not much, but their Xinyuan Restaurant had branches all over the kingdom, there should be a few hundreds. So the net profit every month would be counted by ten thousand taels of gold. If his dishes were really that good, at least he would take away over a million taels of silver. Really having no idea what to do, the general shopkeeper mailed the letter to Zeng Shaoqing and let him make the decision himself.

“Kuiying, let people check his background, the more detailed the better.”

This time he kept a quarter of the jam and grape wine he brought back from Datong town, the rest was all sent to the palace, and he immediately earned over a hundred times of the money he spent. His Majesty even rewarded him a lot of jewelries for that. It proved that Ling Jingxuan was really capable. He really wanted to cooperate with him and see what would happen.

“Yes.”

The man called Kuiying bowed to back out. Zeng Shaoqing lay back, holding the letter. The more he carefully looked at the content, the denser interest under his pair of fox eyes. Ling Jingxuan! This name had gradually gotten imprinted in his brain.

The present he felt really relaxed now. But when he got Ling Jingxuan’s background investigated, and knew about Yan Shengrui’s whereabouts because of that, would he still stay so poised like now?

The whole family took a good rest for one day after delivering the jam. And the next day, they began to be busy again. Since no rushing delivery, Ling Jingxuan lazed and left the job of jam making to Ling Jingpeng. Of course, Yan Shengrui also didn’t go up the mountains. The two of them just stayed together all day, or went to Chu Ci’s room to read books with the kids. Days were so comfortable and cozy.

“Daddy, are we really going to the county tomorrow? I've never been to the county before. There's everything there, isn't it the same as in town?”

After class in the afternoon, the small bun rested on Ling Jingxuan’s thigh and asked out of curiosity. Since Ling Jingxuan told them that he would take them to the county two days ago, their mood had been keeping in an exciting state, especially the small bun, he seized any possible opportunity to ask, as if people in the county all had three heads and six arms.

“Hehe…Why ask so much? Won't you know when you are there?”

His repeated questions were so few that he did not know how to answer them.

“But I just wanted to know earlier.”

Pouty, the small bun held his arm and kept shaking it. Ling Jingxuan shook his head helplessly, then stretched out a hand to pat on his little butt and pouted his lips at Yan Shengruk, “Come on. Go ask your father. Daddy only went there when taking the examination for tongsheng. How could I remember so much?”