Chapter 586 Chapter 591: Cheongsam, Selling Clothes

"Master, I am also a member of the Xiao family. Even if I am a concubine, you can't ignore me. Before my father died, he asked the old master to take care of me, and the old master agreed." Xiao Ge said in a trembling voice.

"Do you still have the nerve to mention the old master?" Hearing this, Xiao Quan gave another cold drink, and then said: "Did the old master ask you to be King Huai's spy?"

Xiao Ge's expression changed and he quickly denied: "I, I didn't."

"No? Since July, the Fish Scale Guards have been watching you until now. They know who you met and where you went. You still want to make excuses?" Xiao Quan said angrily.

When Chen Mo left Jiangnan, he told him about Xiao Ge, and Xiao Quan knew about it at that time.

Xiao Quan really wanted to remind the other party, but he was afraid that Xiao Ge would bring down the entire Xiao family. After all, since Chen Mo dared to tell him this matter, he didn't worry about him leaking it, so he kept it in his heart.

Seeing that all the details were revealed, Xiao Ge was immediately heartbroken.

Seeing him like this, Xiao Quan sighed and said, "The reason why I came here today is to tell you. Tell General Nangong everything you know. Your family will be taken care of."

After saying that, Xiao Quan left.

After Xiao Quan left, there were bursts of screams in the dungeon.

Xiao Ge wanted to keep his mouth shut, but a noble man like him could not withstand the torture of these interrogations.

Before, Nangong Xian didn't let anyone take action because he was a child of the Xiao family, and Xiao Quan hadn't spoken yet, but Xiao Quan's words just now clearly meant that he had given up on Xiao Ge completely. Then he didn't care at all.

After a set of punishments, Xiao Quan answered all questions.

When he learned that King Huai and King Chong had united with Lu Sheng and would attack Huaizhou soon, Nangong Xian's expression changed and he quickly sent someone to inform King Huai's defenders and Duke An Guo in Linzhou of the news.

Linzhou.

Xiangyang.

Provincial examinations, especially those held in autumn, are also called "Autumn Examinations" and last for a long time, because each examination lasts for three days and nights, and needs to be changed in the middle. After three examinations, the entire examination cycle lasts nine days and seven nights.

During this period, students are not allowed to leave the examination room in the middle of the exam. Answering questions, eating, drinking, and sleeping are all done in the "house".

In the previous imperial examinations, candidates had to bring their own food and drink in the "house" or buy it with their own money.

But in order to let the candidates feel that the "Chen Mo regime" valued them, Chen Mo paid for the food and drinks for the candidates for free.

This is no small sum of money.

Without any requirements, a total of more than 300,000 candidates applied for the exam from the four states.

More than 300,000 people had to eat, drink, and defecate for nine days. This was a huge expense.

Of course, this expense was not in vain. The candidates all remembered Chen Mo.

But those who were caught cheating on exams do not count.

In the study room of Duke Anguo's mansion.

"Mr. An Guo, the above is the list of candidates who were caught cheating today. Please take a look." Wei Linchun bowed and handed Chen Mo a booklet.

Chen Mo opened it and found that there were more than a dozen names on it. He couldn't help but raise his hand and rub his brow.

The provincial examination has lasted for three days, and every day candidates are caught cheating.

On the first day, a hundred were caught.

In order to serve as a warning, Chen Mo ordered the cheating candidates to be beaten with a cane and then put in shackles and paraded outside the examination room.

This move indeed had a deterrent effect. There were much fewer people on the second day than on the first day, but there were still more than forty.

"These people are really not afraid. Am I being too kind?" Chen Mo said.

Wei Linchun said: "Because the temptation of being an official is too great, they do not hesitate to take risks and cheat."

After all, if you pass the provincial examination, you can become an official. For such a glorious opportunity, candidates will naturally try their best.

"That's all, let's punish him how he wants." Chen Mo thought for a while and gave up the idea of ​​increasing the punishment.

Throughout the ages, cheating in the imperial examinations has occurred in every session. The previous dynasty even formulated laws. The light punishment for cheating in the imperial examinations ranged from caning and confiscation of the home to exile or even beheading. However, cheating can still not be eliminated, and supervision can only be strengthened.

"In this case, I will ask General Sun to dispatch a team of people from the personal barracks for you to strengthen the patrol of the examination shed and try to ensure the fairness of the candidates as much as possible." Chen Mo said in a deep voice.

"promise."

"Go down."

"I am resigning."

After Wei Linchun left, Chen Mo continued to think about ways to make money. In order to fill the vacancy in Linzhou's finances, Chen Mo had transferred almost all the money from Fuze Restaurant's account.

Although the business of Fuze Restaurant is booming, it will take a long time to earn even one million taels.

Especially the "Benefit Plan for Retired Soldiers" that Geng Songfu drafted and handed over this morning, which also requires money.

There is still a lot of money in the house, but it is all from their dowry. Chen Mo does not want to use this money unless it is a last resort.

His initial plan was to make glass.

When his career first started, he thought about making glass.

In his previous life, his family ran a battlefield, so he knew the idea of ​​making glass.

There was no condition for not making it before. In addition, he was weak at that time and could not hold on to this wealth.

Now, it's time to take action.

"Dong dong dong"

At this time, there was a knock on the study door.

With a creak, the door opened and Xia Zhiqing walked in.

She has been staying in the house and not going out much. Her clothes have never changed. Her slim white dress outlines her gourd-like figure. After giving birth to a child, her figure seems to have developed a second time.

She was wearing green embroidered shoes, which were hidden under her skirt and difficult to be seen. In fact, from Chen Mo's point of view, Xia Zhiqing was quite suitable for wearing cheongsam. He had thought about it a long time ago, but he was always busy with other things and always forgot about it.

"Zhiqing, why are you here?" Chen Mo looked up and said.

"I just asked someone to take a piece of ice from the ice cellar and made honey shaved ice. It's icy and cool, and it's good for cooling off. Husband, please try it." Xia Zhiqing came over and put the food box in her hand on the desk in front of Chen Mo. When she opened the food box, a touch of cold air was released from it.

The so-called honey shaved ice is actually an ice product with honey poured on crushed ice and bean paste.

And this thing was not invented by Chen Mo, but something that has existed in this world for a long time.

And there are not only shaved ice, but also popsicles, but the taste is average.

"Zhiqing, feed me. I have something to tell you." Chen Mo took Xia Zhiqing's hand and pulled her into his arms. The two sat on a chair.

As an old couple, and having given birth to twins for Chen Mo, Xia Zhiqing no longer had the shyness she had before, but was a little shy.

She sat on Chen Mo's lap, holding a bowl of honey shaved ice, and fed Chen Mo a spoonful of it, her movements gentle.

"So cold, so sweet, you try it too." Chen Mo came closer and passed the sweetness in his mouth to Zhiqing.

"Husband, stop making trouble later, or the smoothie will melt."

After a while, Xia Zhiqing gently pushed Chen Mo away, her face flushed, her eyes misty, and she said, "Husband, don't you have something to tell me?"

"I can't help it, I can't help it, it's all because Zhiqing is too tempting." Chen Mo hugged Xia Zhiqing's delicate body, thinking that his desire was too strong.

As long as he has his woman by his side, he can't just sit and chat, he always wants to take advantage of her.

Zhi Ning is right, if he continues like this, he will fall for a woman sooner or later.

He decided to quit from tomorrow.

Of course, he said this more than once, but he never took actual action. Instead, he used the reason of "it's not too late to quit tomorrow" to paralyze himself, and then tomorrow after tomorrow, there are so many tomorrows.

When the desire comes, it is to quit, quit your mother's sex.

Xia Zhiqing's eyes were about to drip with tears in shame. It turned out that it was her fault. She didn't say anything and continued to feed Chen Mo with ice smoothie, but her body was getting weaker and weaker.

Chen Mo freed one hand and drew on the paper, drawing a cheongsam, and said with ice smoothie in his mouth: "Zhiqing, I think this kind of clothes is quite suitable for you, what do you think?"

Xia Zhiqing took a look and said strangely: "Is this a new skirt? Why doesn't it have a hem?"

"This is not a skirt," Chen Mo explained.

"Clothes. Then you have to match it with a pair of pants." Xia Zhiqing murmured.

"No need to match it with pants, it's one piece."

"Ah, wouldn't that expose your legs? No, no, it's too revealing."

"I won't wear it for others to see, just wear it at home, specifically for me to see, then wear a pair of stockings." Chen Mo unbuttoned the collar of the white skirt.

As for high heels, he had figured it out before and made a few pairs, but it was not convenient for walking and they were not used to wearing them, so no one wore them.

Chen Mo didn't have time to deal with the cheongsam, but he could draw a blueprint and give it to Xia Zhiqing to make it herself.

"Husband, didn't you learn this dress from a brothel?"

In Xia Zhiqing's cognition, in the Song Dynasty, only women in brothels would wear such revealing clothes.

Chen Mo shook his head and said immediately, "It was when I dreamed last night that I dreamed of Zhiqing. You were wearing this dress at that time, so beautiful."

Xia Zhiqing glared at Chen Mo, and then said shyly, "Since you want to see me wearing it, I'll try it."

After that, she fed Chen Mo the last spoonful of ice cream in the bowl.

"Zhiqing, your husband loves you so much." Chen Mo buried his head in the mountain.

"Hiss, husband, it's cold"

Xia Zhiqing only then realized that her skirt had been pulled down to her waist, and even her bellyband had been untied. She felt cold at the moment, and hurriedly hugged Chen Mo's head.

After a while, Chen Mo left Hongmei and whispered, "Zhiqing, the honey shaved ice you made is really delicious."

Hearing this double entendre, Xia Zhiqing's white and greasy cheeks flushed like clouds, and she said angrily, "Husband, you are bad"

Chen Mo hugged Zhiqing, and took advantage of this time to draw a hip skirt, a backless skirt, and a three-point swimsuit, while saying, "Zhiqing, you'd better find a few female workers in the city who can make clothes to make them, and don't let men do it."

"I know." Without Chen Mo saying it, Xia Zhiqing also knew that this matter had to be kept secret, and it would be embarrassing if it got out.

In order to prevent Chen Mo from talking about other intimate things, Xia Zhiqing quickly changed the topic and asked, "Husband, what were you busy with just now?"

"Wei Linchun came just now and talked about the cheating in the imperial examination. In addition, the Linzhou treasury is out of money. The silver on the books of Linzhou Fuze Restaurant has also been used up by me. I have to think of other ways to make money."

As he said this, Chen Mo suddenly had a flash of inspiration in his mind. He stood up suddenly and almost fell Xia Zhiqing. Fortunately, the latter hugged Chen Mo.

"Husband, what's wrong with you?" Xia Zhiqing said in surprise.

"I'm stupid. I can sell clothes." After Chen Mo put Xia Zhiqing down, he patted his left palm and right fist lightly and said.

You know, even in this world, the main force of consumption in those tailor shops and cloth shops is still women.

And he can sell the clothes of those women in his previous life in his mind to the women in this world.

As the saying goes, women dress to please themselves, he doesn't believe that there is no woman in this world who doesn't like cheongsam.

If you feel it's exposed, just don't shorten the slit of the cheongsam.

For hip skirts, lengthen the hem.

Three-point swimsuits can be sold to brothels.

Besides, he has a lot of non-exposing clothes in his mind.

In addition, he can sell not only women's clothes, but also men's clothes.

When he thought of this, Chen Mo seemed to have opened up his Ren and Du meridians. This is more profitable than selling glass.

"Sell clothes?" Xia Zhiqing couldn't keep up with Chen Mo's train of thought. After a moment, she tentatively said, "Husband, you don't want to sell the clothes you drew?"

"That's right." Chen Mo nodded.

"Will anyone buy this?"

"Whether anyone buys it depends on whether anyone promotes it. I need a group of models."

"Models?" Xia Zhiqing said she didn't understand.

"It's the people who wear my new clothes and go out to promote it." Chen Mo explained briefly and thought about the plan.

He definitely couldn't let his woman be a model.

If he remembered correctly, in order to attract business for Fuze Restaurant, Ning Wan had a group of girls under her command, and they could help.

She walked on the street of Xiangyang City in a cheongsam, which would definitely become a beautiful scenery. If someone asked, just tell the other person where you bought it.

Chen Mo picked up Xia Zhiqing, lifted her up high, and smiled: "Zhiqing, help me call Wan'er over, I need you two to do me a favor."

"Husband, put her down, I'm afraid of heights." Xia Zhiqing said.

After Chen Mo put Xia Zhiqing down, Xia Zhiqing immediately went to call someone.

Soon, Xia Zhiqing brought Ning Wan to the study.

Chen Mo didn't beat around the bush and said directly: "I want to open a clothing store in the city. Zhiqing, please help me invite all the skilled tailors in the city, both men and women."

The cheongsams made for his woman are made by female workers, and the ones sold outside don't matter whether they are men or women.

After explaining to Xia Zhiqing, Chen Mo quickly said to Ning Wan: "Wan'er, I remember you have a group of girls under you."

Ning Wan nodded.

"I need them to do me a favor. After the store is opened, I need them..." Chen Mo said in detail.