At the palace gate, Eunuch Chang said with a bitter face: "Your Highness should go there. The Queen is urging you to go. Otherwise, I won't be able to explain myself."
The Queen is his biological mother and adoptive mother. After all, there is a mother-son relationship between them, so he is closer to the Queen. However, she just worries about the Queen as an elder, and now she is urging him to do something after seeing that the Crown Prince and the Second Prince have gotten married.
When this matter was mentioned, Nathan Li said in annoyance: "I don't like any of the portraits of women from noble families that my mother gave me."
Eunuch Chang's old face was wrinkled like a dumpling, and the Empress was anxious only because rumors from the people had spread into the palace.
People all say that the Third Prince has been fighting in battles at such a young age, and that he is the War Prince of Dayan. However, the War Prince has a masculine and masculine preference, and does not like women. Instead, he is close to men.
The Queen Mother was not in a position to ask this question, but Your Highness's actions only confirmed the rumors outside the palace.
Nathan Li lowered his eyes, making it impossible to tell his emotions: "Eunuch Chang, you should go back. I will not visit my mother today."
"If we don't teach them a lesson, where is the dignity of the royal family?" Another Concub!ne was being taught a lesson not far away.
Having grown up in the deep palace, he knew very well how deep women's minds were. The fighting in the harem was no less intense than fighting in a war. He was really fed up with these women who looked delicate but were actually scheming against each other in secret.
Zhu Ying reminded from the side: "Your Highness, it's Miss Tan from South Street again."
A hint of surprise flashed in Nathan Li's eyes. He looked in that direction and, as expected, saw her kneeling on the ground being scolded by the Concub!nes.
The little orphan girl was quite capable and even entered the palace.
"I can run into her everywhere." Nathan Li looked at the figure with interest.
The resolute look she had shown in the court was no longer there, and she knelt on the ground looking extremely embarrassed.
Seeing that he had no intention of attacking, Zhu Ying said, "Your Highness, the carriage of the prince's mansion has stopped at Chengtian Gate."
He didn't want to meddle in other people's business. After all, it was Li Jingcheng's power. It didn't matter that he was bullied by his father's Concub!nes by accident.
There was still a lot of official business to be done, and most of the people in the court had begun to form factions. Some people had wanted to join his camp a long time ago, but because of his relationship with the Queen, he had been reluctant to recruit them.
Judging from the current situation, he'd better make plans early.
Nathan Li passed by the figure kneeling on the ground and was about to get on the carriage when he heard the man calling him, "Wait a minute, Third Prince!"
Nathan Li paused.
Ava Tan had no intention of calling him, and was just trying her luck, but he actually turned around and looked at her: "What's up?"
An Chang glared at her unhappily.
I heard that the Third Prince has been close to the Empress since he was young, and has a cold face towards other Concub!nes. The Concub!nes treated him like a plague god, and they would avoid him as much as possible. But this wild girl actually called him over.
Ignoring An Changzai's murderous look, Ava Tan gritted his teeth and said, "Your Highness clearly said that you are optimistic about this business and want to develop it to Dayan. Don't you remember asking me to discuss business today?"
What a big tone! What kind of business is worthy of being developed throughout Dayan?
Nathan Li raised his eyebrows slightly and glanced at the person on the ground: "Then what are you kneeling and waiting for?"
Hearing that he was going to be taken away directly, An Changzai opened his eyes wide and looked at him in disbelief: "You..."
Ava Tan was just about to get up quickly when she felt a bone-chilling pain in her knee and fell heavily to the ground again.
This was the first time Nathan Li had seen someone fall down while trying to get up.
Ava Tan thought that he could still lend a hand to him, but seeing him acting like he had nothing to do with the matter, he felt so angry that his teeth were itching.
After finally getting up, Ava Tan no longer cared about his image and limped into the carriage with extremely indecent movements.
Zhuying looked at his master with a gloomy face, and after a moment of silence, he followed him into the carriage.
The carriage of the prince's mansion was more spacious than that of an ordinary family, and there was a large gap between Ava Tan and him.
Nathan Li didn't even look at her, he just said: "What business can allow me to develop it throughout Dayan?"
His voice was deep and magnetic, which made Ava Tan very uncomfortable.
She rubbed her ears impatiently, coughed dryly and then forced a smile: "After all, Your Highness has helped me again. This will be your most profitable business this year."
Nathan Li glanced at her calmly: "So you are teasing me?"
Ava Tan was speechless. The so-called business was something she made up on the spur of the moment, and he knew about it, so how could it be considered a joke?
At this moment, a flash of inspiration flashed through Ava Tan's mind, which she caught in time. She clapped her hands and said, "Since Your Highness is interested, why don't I have a good talk with Your Highness about this business."
She analyzed the benefits of beauty and the development prospects of the industry to him, from how makeup nourishes the skin to how the Third Prince invested in her research and development. Finally, she came to a conclusion: "If Your Highness cooperates with me to open a store, it is inevitable that you will make a lot of money."
As a woman, she is very sure of the spending power of ladies and young ladies. Developing the beauty industry is a long-term plan. Of course, the prerequisite is to have a good financial supporter.
Under her expectant gaze, Nathan Li sneered.
Where do those new and strange words come from? Beauty salons are nothing more than selling rouge and powder, and helping ladies to apply some new and strange skin care creams. How much can they earn?
It would take a huge sum of money to fight for the throne and maintain the army. Compared with what she earned, it was just a drop in the bucket. Nathan Li did not see any value in making money from the ladies.
"Your Highness, we have arrived at the prince's palace." Zhuying reminded outside the carriage.
"Little makeup girl," Nathan Li turned to look at her, and said word by word, "The profit you proposed cannot impress me, so go down."
Ava Tan didn't expect that he would chase her away without saying a word, so everything she said just now was in vain.
She still didn't give up, and when she saw Nathan Li was about to leave, she hurriedly grabbed his clothes and asked, "Your Highness, are you really not going to reconsider this?"
Nathan Li turned his head with cold eyes. If eyes could kill, Ava Tan's hand would have been cut off by him long ago.
She withdrew her hand awkwardly and got off the carriage.
After leaving her alone at the gate, the gatekeeper of the prince's mansion closed the door tightly.
Ava Tan clenched his fists with a forced smile.
Well, that’s great.
Sooner or later, she would make these people who looked down on others regret it, especially Nathan Li.
The roads in the capital were winding and winding. Ava Tan was about to ask the people around him for the way back when she heard her say, "The pawnshop owner of the Tan family is really powerful. He was surrounded three or four times in just a few days."
"Surrounded again?" Ava Tan and a lady spoke at the same time.
Ava Tan's voice trembled slightly. Her already fragile heart could not withstand such a big fluctuation.
How could she catch her breath today? She didn't even have a chance to survive.
Tan’s Pawn Shop.
Clara looked at the crowded entrance and sighed slightly.
Never mind. Since the girl came, she should be used to this kind of scene.
While the boss was away, Zhai didn't clean the table and instead took some time off.
Clara had known for a long time that Zhai had found a new husband, but now that husband was dead, she had no idea what plan she had started to make.
Ava Tan finally reached the door of the pawnshop, panting heavily, and saw a familiar face: "Ms. Chen?"
Miss Chen's face no longer had the sadness of that day, and she said with a smile: "Mrs. Tan, look how many people I have brought to you?"
Ava Tan's breathing stagnated. Young, old, beautiful or ugly, they were all women.
She forced a smile and said, "Ms. Chen is very capable..."
She was so tired that she didn't know if she could finish the day. Ava Tan's mind was buzzing.
"Heavy pollution, heavy pollution!"
"Host, please clean up in time."
The system's mechanical voice was full of excitement. If the system and the host did not coexist and perish together, Ava Tan would have suspected that he had also planned on a new employer and wanted to take the opportunity to tire her to death so that he could climb up the social ladder.
She and Clara were so busy that they just managed to arrange everything before closing the store. Only with the wallet of money in her hand, she felt at ease.
"Clara, find some young women to work in the store tomorrow so that you and I can have an easier time." Ava Tan said weakly. She really wanted to die now so that she wouldn't have to be so tired anymore.
The Tan family pawnshop threatened to close for three days, but actually planned to recruit workers. The owner was generous and tentatively set the salary at one or two taels of silver per month.
What a good job! It was the Tan family pawnshop that did makeup for Miss Shen and Miss Chen, and often went to the palace to do maintenance for the ladies.
While everyone was scrambling to get in, some people were crying and shouting to get out.
Ava Tan calmly brewed a cup of low-quality large-leaf tea. The aroma of tea wafted through the room, which was out of tune with the atmosphere of the shop. "Mrs. Zhai, you are also an old man in the pawnshop. After staying here for so many years, what do you think of the Tan Family Pawnshop?"
When Zhai was called by her, she felt a little nervous. She had seen it that day and found that this little girl was indeed not simple.
How could a person who could turn the situation around in court and then be valued by the nobles in the palace be a simple character?
"My old boss treats me very well." Aunt Zhai swallowed, not understanding what she meant.
Ava Tan was flipping through the account book in his hand. The rustling sound filled the pawnshop, making Mother Zhai feel inexplicably nervous.
She had found the old account book of the pawnshop some time ago. She flipped through it and saw a lot of false accounts on it. When she asked Clara, she found out that the account book was previously managed by Zhai Mu.
The old man of the Tan family has been running the pawnshop for more than 20 years, and Clara was a little homeless child he picked up. Excluding the group of long-term workers who left after the death of the old man Tan, it is true that Aunt Zhai has stayed there longer.
Seeing that she was good at math and qualified for the position of accountant, Mr. Tan naturally handed the account books to her. However, he did not expect that Mrs. Zhai would embezzle public funds.
The original owner was seriously ill during that period, and Father Tan had almost spent all his money seeking medical treatment for his daughter. At this time, Mother Zhai taking away the money was like adding insult to injury.
"Two hundred taels were paid in August, and eighty taels were paid in October. How could there be so many bills?" Every time Ava Tan said this, Auntie Zhai became more and more uneasy. "Aren't you living a comfortable life these days?"
"If you do something bad, there will be ghosts knocking on your door in the middle of the night."
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