Ming Tian Xuan did not deny Bai Ze's praise of Feng Yu Heng, his vision had never been wrong before. If she were just an ordinary woman, how could she have entered his eyes, and how could she be worthy of his attention?

  "Go and tell the Prefect of Jingzhao, say that I said so. There are some people who will not speak the truth unless they are beaten."

  "I understand." Bai Ze's expression turned serious, his face stern, and his body flashed as he disappeared from the spot in the blink of an eye.

  But Feng Yu Huan in the Baicao Hall had no idea that every move she made was being watched by that person. She was explaining to the remaining villagers about the past and present of Baicao Hall: "This Baicao Hall was originally a dowry given by my maternal grandfather to my aunt, because I lived with my aunt in the northwest for many years, so Baicao Hall was managed by family members. Perhaps my mother was too busy and couldn't take care of this business, which allowed people with ulterior motives to take advantage of the situation. Everyone please go to other pharmacies to grab medicine today, I will close Baicao Hall for a few days to redo the inventory, and when we reopen, I hope you can give me some trust again and give Baicao Hall another chance."

  These ordinary people rarely had the opportunity to hear a noble lady speak like this, let alone having just witnessed her dealing with the evil shopkeeper, so they immediately expressed their belief in Miss Feng and looked forward to the early reopening of Baicao Hall.

  After seeing off the villagers, Feng Yuhuang personally returned twenty taels of silver to the old man who had been cheated, and then ordered the shop assistants: "Bring a ginseng."

  A fellow servant immediately brought over a ginseng, she took a look to make sure it was fine, then handed the ginseng to the old man: "Sir, please take this back first to save her life, later I'll have the maid write down your home address, tomorrow I'll personally go to see Madam."

  The old man was so grateful that he didn't know what to say, and he kept pushing the silver coins in his hand towards Feng Yuexia's hand. She shook her head and refused, "Consider it my compensation, Old Man. Hurry back and treat your wife's illness, that's more important."

  Finally, after dealing with the outside matters, Feng Yu Heng had the shop assistants close the large doors and then called over the young assistant who had previously helped her retrieve the lingzhi mushrooms. She asked him, "What's your name?"

  The young fellow was quick-witted and, upon hearing the master's question, hastily replied: "My name is Wang Lin, I live in the eastern suburbs of Beijing, my parents are also laborers."

  Feng Yu nodded and said, "I do things based on intuition. Although I don't know you well and am not familiar with this shop, just because of your reminder when you delivered the lingzhi earlier, I will let you be the head manager of Baicao Hall today. Can you handle it?"

  This made Wang Lin's young fellow stunned at first, then with a plop, he knelt down in front of Feng Yuexia and said solemnly: "As long as the master trusts me, I will live up to it!"

  "Very good." She liked young people with such a demeanor, and humility wasn't always effective. "From today on, this hundred-herb medicine is handed over to you for management. Also, I ask you, did you come here just to work, or have you ever sold your body?"

  Wang Lin nodded, "I'm just a laborer, I get paid by the month, and have never sold myself."

  "Then are you willing to sell yourself to me? Don't worry, I won't treat you harshly, and I'll only buy you for five years. After five years, if you're willing to continue following me, we can renew the contract again; if you want to leave, I'll immediately set you free."

  Wang Lin thought for a moment and said, "Can I go back and discuss it with my parents?"

  "It's okay." Feng Yu Heng understood, "From today on, the Hundred Herb Hall will be temporarily closed. I'll start renovating and reforming this place soon. As for the people in this store, you decide who stays or goes. I don't like having any of the former owner's trusted followers around, nor do I want anyone like him to continue staying behind. You make the decision, I'll come again in two days, and you can report back to me on those who are lacking."

  Wang Lin nodded: "Don't worry, master, I will take care of all these things."

  "Feng Yu Huan turned around again and shouted at the others in the store: 'You all heard what I just said, I won't say it again, but I'll be watching with my eyes. If anyone has any ill intentions, get out now! If you're thinking of staying behind with a lucky mindset, don't think that's all there is to it if I find out.'"

  Feng Yu Heng's first appearance was a shock to everyone in the Hundred Herb Hall. No one had expected that a twelve-year-old girl would have such charisma, and the second young lady of the Feng family made her debut in front of people, leaving a deep impression on everyone who witnessed this scene.

  Feng Yu Huan again instructed Wang Lin to make a good count of all the fake medicinal materials sold by the original shopkeeper, and to reclassify the existing medicinal materials for inventory. He also searched out a private account book and handed it over to Qing Yu to keep safe on her person. Only then did he leave Baicao Hall with the two maidservants.

  She read out the address of the next jewelry store from the deed in her hand to Huang Quan, and Xiao Yatou, who grew up in the capital, nodded immediately to indicate that she knew where it was. She took Feng Yuexiang and the two of them walked towards the jewelry store.

  Xuān Tiān Míng, sitting in the tea house across the street, raised an eyebrow and clapped his hands on the wheelchair he was sitting in. The wheelchair suddenly flew up and jumped out of the window on the second floor of the tea house. When it landed on the ground, it happened to meet Bái Zé, who had just returned.

  The jewelry store has a very grand name: Phoenix Pavilion.

  Feng Yu Huan had a deep affection for the two characters "Phoenix", not only because her surname was Feng, but also because she had a phoenix-shaped birthmark on her wrist in both her past and present lives.

  The three of them stopped as usual at a short distance from the gate and looked towards Feng Huang Pavilion together.

  This is a two-story loft, it is said that the first floor sells ordinary household items that ordinary people's wives can afford to buy, and the second floor specially receives noble ladies and noblewomen.

  "Hmm." Feng Yuhan let out a cold hum, gazing at the endless stream of customers in Phoenix Pavilion. It was really impossible to associate this with the loss-making account book that Shen Shi had brought over. "I heard that this place loses 3,000 taels of silver every month?"

  Standing beside her, Qingyu gazed for a moment before murmuring to herself: "In the time it takes to burn an incense stick, fifteen people enter the first floor, with twelve of them making a deal. On the second floor, three young ladies and two madams have gone up, but only one seems to be leaving in disappointment. Calculating this way, the average transaction amount per person on the first floor is fifty taels, while on the second floor it's five hundred taels. This means that Phoenix Pavilion's daily total transactions should fall between 500 to 800 taels. If a noble patron were to make a generous purchase, it's possible for them to take in over 1,000 taels in a day. After deducting fifty percent of the cost, there would still be at least 300 taels in profit each day."

  Huang Quan looked at Qing Yu in surprise, "Too awesome!"

  Feng Yu Huan didn't expect Qing Yu to have such thoughts, and after thinking for a moment, she asked: "But in the past, did your family have someone who was involved in business?"

  She had noticed when selecting maids that these few people did not have the physical qualities of ordinary maids, but were instead slender and delicate. Now seeing Qingyu calculating such trivial matters, she naturally thought of her background.

  As soon as she asked about this, Qingyu let out a sigh of resignation: "Don't be deceived, Second Miss. In the past, I was also the golden branch and jade leaf of my family. My father did silk business in another province, and from a young age, I followed him to learn how to do accounts. At that time, I lived with my mother in a three-section courtyard, and our household had nearly twenty servants. But that year, my father encountered mountain bandits, not only were the goods robbed, but he also lost his life. When the news came back, my mother was learning to make a dish that my father loved from the cook, but accidentally set the kitchen on fire, and soon the entire mansion was engulfed in flames. My mother died in that sea of fire, and I was rescued by one of our servants and sold to a human trafficker."

  Qing Yu said these words with a faintly sorrowful expression on her face, but without excessive grief, as if she were telling someone else's story.

  But Feng Yuexiang knew that the more such people, the more it shows that the change had a great impact on her. Qingyu just couldn't change, she wanted to live on and must forget the past, from being a thousand gold miss to becoming a slave who sells herself, this is her only way out.

  Feng Yu's hand grasped Qing Yu's hand, gently patting her hand, "It's okay, it's all over."

  Qing Yu excitedly rushed towards her with a smile, "Thank you, Second Miss."

  "Clear and pure." Feng Yu Heng proposed, "Since you understand these things, from now on the accounts for these three shops will be handled by you. To be honest, I don't really understand them either, and I'm not at ease using outsiders."

  A glimmer of light finally appeared in Qing Yu's eyes, and her excitement was hard to conceal: "Miss, is what you said really true?"

  Feng Yu Huan couldn't help but smile at this scene. If the people around her could all be as wonderful as this, that would be great.

  Who wants to fight all day? Who wants to face a courtyard full of people's calculations as soon as they open their eyes?

  If possible, she would rather take Yao Shi and Zi Rui back to the mountain village in the northwest, a paradise on earth, carefree for life, how wonderful.

  But it's no use.

  She furrowed her brow, not only was it the Phoenix Manor, but also that person she had been thinking about all along. Xuan Tian Ming, An Shi had told her this name before, why did the person named Xuan Tian Ming become crippled and disfigured?

  Some truths are slowly revealed step by step, some accounts must be settled one stroke at a time, and some grudges can only be avenged one case at a time.

  Suddenly, there were several tugs at the hem of her skirt.

  Feng Yu Huan was taken aback, and lowering her head to look, she saw a four or five year old child grasping the hem of her skirt and shaking it.

  That little kid is chubby and has a round face which is very cute.

  She bent down happily and pinched the child's cheek, asking him: "What's wrong?"

  A child with a milky voice and tone said word by word: "There's a brother who asked me to tell you, please go to the Xianya Building in the middle of the lake for a visit."

  After finishing speaking, she turned around and ran away. Along the way, she shouted to a young woman by the roadside: "Mother, mother, I have memorized everything!"

  Feng Yu Huan stood there in a daze, the three words "Xian Ya Lou" kept flashing back and forth in her mind, accompanied by a purple lotus flower, and a handsome face that she had remembered since deep in the mountains.

  That day, Mrs. Zhou came to the Feng mansion to discuss the engagement and had mentioned this place to her before, now...

  Is it him?