Rebirth of the Merchant Woman's Revenge

Nothing happened that night. Early the next morning, Gu Qiongsi went out with Dingxiang, who looked very excited.

By the way, she also took away some items she needed for daily life.

Xie Cheng'an still doesn't know where Gu Qiongsi is thinking of getting the money, but he feels relieved in his heart because Gu Qiongsi has the ability to do so. Many of her ideas are beyond Xie Cheng'an's cognition.

So he was not too worried. On the contrary, Xie Rui's current situation really made him heartbroken.

The more Qian held him, the more uneasy she became. Xie Rui was so quiet that he didn't even react when he wet the mat. He was completely different from the crying boy who had been making a fuss all day long.

"Ang'er, I heard from our neighbor Aunt Li that there is a pediatric expert named Doctor Li Dayou. He is said to be very good at treating children's illnesses. Rui'er's condition is like this, why don't we let him take a look and see if there is any hope."

Qian had a sad face, and she was very concerned about her grandson. How could the grandson who used to be full of energy become like this now? How could she accept this fact?

Xie Chengan shook his head and could only comfort his mother, saying, "Mother, let's think about this when we have some money at home. Now the money we have is only enough for the family to have some food. Do you want to watch him starve to death after you treat him?"

After hearing this, Qian sighed helplessly. All the silver they had now added up to less than five taels of silver. They had to live frugally, and if they were not careful, they might lose everything.

Fortunately, the housekeeper and Nanny Li have always been with them and would not leave even if they did not receive their monthly salary for a month or two. Otherwise, their lives might have become even more difficult.

"Are we just going to stay at home and wait for Gu Qiongsi to bring the money back? I no longer have any trust in Gu Qiongsi. Can she really run the incense shop?" Qian handed Xie Rui to Nanny Li and asked her to carry him into the house and coax him to sleep.

"I don't know, but I guess that Gu Qiongsi used to play with Gu Xunwei all day long, so he must have learned some tricks of making incense."

In this situation, we can only hope that Gu Qiongsi has learned that knowledge secretly.

However, to their disappointment, neither the original Gu Qiongsi nor the Gu Qiongsi who traveled through time had ever learned anything about incense making from Gu Xunwei.

All she knew came from the knowledge Gu Ziheng gave her, plus the vague understanding of distillation from her past life. She kept searching for related content in her mind, and by guessing, she managed to understand the Gu's incense recipe.

Although Gu's incense recipe only has a few thin pages, the recipe recorded on it is divided into the making methods of three grades of incense: high, medium and low.

Inferior incense products are those powders and pills suitable for ordinary people to use for insect repellent, shampooing and bathing. They are made of ordinary ingredients and there is no special skills in the production process. Most of the incense products in Qianxiang Pavilion used to be of this kind.

Medium-grade incense is suitable for use by wealthy people and dignitaries. For example, most of the incense in Yaxiangzhai are medium-grade incense, which are mainly used for fumigating clothes and burning incense in study rooms and bedrooms.

In the capital, this type of fragrance has the highest sales volume.

The top-grade incense consists of five extremely rare types including goose pear scent and ambergris. One reason is that they are made of exquisite ingredients and are not common. Another reason is that their production process is very complicated and takes a long time. If there is a problem in any link, all the previous efforts will be wasted.

So, even though the ingredients and preparation methods of these kinds of incense are listed in Gu’s incense recipes, Gu Ziyu and Gu Xunwei’s shops have never sold such incense.

Gu Qiongsi believed that they were not proficient in the production techniques of these fragrances, so they could not achieve mass production. Otherwise, who would spend a large sum of money to study those mid-range fragrances?

If you want to make money quickly, you have to use high-quality incense.

However, Gu Qiongsi also knew in his heart that they did not have that much money at the moment, and if they wanted to make money, they still needed to calm down and proceed step by step.

She started her research and production from low-grade incense products, and the ingredients she used were also very common.

As for the starting money, apart from the money she got from selling her jewelry, she was not in a hurry, as she would have enough money soon.

At this time, Li Junze was pacing back and forth anxiously in Prince An's Mansion, and Wen Jiaxiang and the other two looked at him at a loss.

"Your Highness, please don't be too anxious. I think there is still room for maneuver in this matter." Wen Jiaxiang hesitated for a long time, but finally spoke to comfort Li Junze.

"How do we do it? Everything we do now is wrong. How could we have made such a big mistake in the first place?" Li Junze was a little exasperated.

Wen Jiaxiang and others believe that the key to the problem now is that many of the diners who knew about this matter at the beginning have already left Prince An's Mansion, and these people are hidden dangers.

"Otherwise, shall I arrange some people to kill all those who know about this?" Wen Jiaxiang asked tentatively.

Although there are risks, they have no choice but to take risky actions at this time.

Li Junze shook his head. "They are not a big threat. Besides, anyone who knew about these things should be gone now."

His words frightened the other three. Fortunately, they all agreed to stay. Otherwise, the grass on the grave might be waist-high now.

"Then what is His Royal Highness Prince An worried about?" Cao Xingwen asked with some confusion.

"The people who executed Suzhou Governor Jian Liangce were Wang Quan and Ji Huan. Now they are both still imprisoned in the prison."

Li Junze felt a dull pain in his forehead when he thought of this. In addition, Hu Er was imprisoned in the Dali Temple prison. These two things almost became his worries. When he couldn't sleep in the middle of the night, he was always worried about these two things.

Now Jian Liangce has brought several key witnesses to Beijing. It is said that the memorials of injustice alone are a foot thick, and he has not yet found out the specific details of the witnesses he brought with him.

Because they had been escorted all the way here by Li Junhao's men since they left Suzhou.

"As long as Your Highness is sure that they don't say anything, this matter will not be exposed." Wen Jiaxiang thought about it and said so.

"After all, they were arrested because of the Xiangyang City dike incident. If they were smart, they would definitely not take the initiative to involve other things."

Li Junze naturally knew whether they were smart or not, but he had no idea what the situation was like in the prison.