Chapter 667 Chapter 741: Warmth, Romance

As the half-face mask was taken off, a pretty face as white as ice and snow caught Chen Mo's eyes. Because of its extremely fair complexion, it gave people a tragic and cold beauty.

Her face was stern, and the corners of her mouth were slightly raised, exuding a cold beauty that was unique to her. Her eyes were like deep pools, cold and gloomy.

There are too many beauties around Chen Mo, so the threshold is relatively high. Although Nalan Yiren is not the kind of stunning beauty, Chen Mo is still a little surprised.

It seemed to him before that Nalanyi wore such a mask all day long. Maybe the half of his face covered by the mask had some kind of birthmark, or he might have been disfigured due to practicing poisonous skills, but it turned out not to be the case. He had a very clean face.

He thought of what Nalan Yi said before and joked: "Isn't Miss Nalan attracted to me?"

As he said that, he continued in a very sultry manner: "Yes, I am young, handsome, strong, and have a high status. It is normal for you to like me. With my condition, there is no woman in the world who would not be attracted to me."

Hearing this, Nalanyi was so angry that he wanted to smash the mask on Chen Mo's face and said: "Stop putting so much money on your face, I am thanking you for letting you see my true face. "

"Really? Who said before that only my husband can take off the mask on my face."

"Only a fool like you would believe such nonsense." Nalan Yiren picked up the chopsticks and smashed it into Chen Mo's face, then put on his mask and walked out of the private room.

Because Chen Mo was receiving the chopsticks thrown at Lan Yiren, he didn't see the opponent's hands clenched into fists in anger.

…

Outside the restaurant, Nalan Yi didn't "leave his pick" and go back to the palace because of this incident, and then started shopping.

Chen Mo followed her, and the two walked side by side, saying: "Since what Miss Nalan said before was a lie, and you are not ugly, why do you wear a mask all day long?"

As a result, Nalan Yiren hit him with a punch, and Chen Mo raised his hand to block it. The former swung the punch in mid-air and then retracted it, saying: "You must have kidnapped all the women in your house."

After saying that, Nalan Yiren quickened his pace and walked in front of Chen Mo.

Looking at Nalan Yiren's back, Chen Mo touched his nose and murmured in his heart: "No, do you really like me?"

After finishing the hot pot, it was already Shen time, the weather was getting cloudy, not as hot as before, and there were many more people walking on the street.

There is no curfew in Xiangyang. At this time, the vendors doing evening business have set up their stalls in advance and are well prepared, and the atmosphere in the city has become more lively.

The Nalanyi people bought a sky prayer lantern. The merchant said that it could pray for blessings, and when it was placed in the sky, the wishes would come true. This was a polite way of doing business, but the Nalanyi people believed it and wrote blessing wishes on the lamp.

Chen Mo glanced at it, hoping that his trip to the Western Region would go well and that he could successfully avenge his grandfather.

Chen Mo knew that this matter had become a knot in the other person's mind.

He smiled and said, "Don't worry, everything will go well."

Xiangyang City is very big. After wandering around for a while, the sky darkened. Chen Mo accompanied Nalan Yiren to put back the prayer lantern on the small bridge in the south of the city.

There were already many people on the bridge, mostly young men and women, in pairs. Some were placing lanterns into the river, while others were also placing lanterns to pray for the sky.

There were also people guessing lantern riddles and blacksmiths at the bridge. They cheered one after another, filling the atmosphere with a strong atmosphere of prosperity.

After setting off the prayer lanterns, the Nalanyi people were mesmerized by the scene in front of them.

"What's wrong?" Chen Mo bought two bunches of candied haws and gave one of them to Nalanyi.

"I remember when I was a child, my grandfather took me to the capital of Baiyue. I guessed lantern riddles and saw iron flowers. In the blink of an eye, more than ten years have passed, but my grandfather is no longer here."

Chen Mo: "..."

At this time, he saw a candy-making stall on the other side of the bridge, and immediately grabbed Nalanyi's hand.

"boom"

At this time, Chen Mo's innate aura was suddenly aroused. A blue scorpion with the same color as Nalan Yiren's clothes crawled out from the cuffs. The scorpion's tail stung the body protector in Chen Mo's hand. On spiritual energy.

What surprised Chen Mo was that the toxin released by the scorpion tail actually made part of the innate spiritual energy in Chen Mo's hand more transparent.

Nalan Yiren reacted, took his hand away, frowned and said, "What are you doing?"

"I see that you are feeling sad again, and I want to take you to see something fun." Chen Mo pointed to the candy man stall across the bridge, then looked at the scorpion that had retracted into his sleeves, and said, "You scorpion, don't you?" Normally, toxins can actually corrode my innate spiritual energy."

"The blue scorpion is a kind of poison that lives in the poisonous swamp in the Poison King Valley. It has mutated itself, and the one I have in my hand grew up in the poisonous skills I practiced. That means you are the one above. A third-level warrior would have been foaming at the mouth if she had been a middle- or lower-level warrior." Nalan Yi raised her hand, and the blue scorpion came out of her sleeve and stood on the palm of her hand, as guarded as a loyal guard. Written by Chen Mo.

"This little thing is quite protective of the master." Chen Mo stretched out his finger to poke it, and took advantage of the moment when it stung, and quickly pulled his finger away.

"Don't touch me so suddenly in the future."

Nalanyi said something, put away the scorpion, and walked towards the candy seller's stall.

Chen Mo smiled and shook his head.

"Whatever the customers want, whether it's monkeys, insects or people, I can make it all." The vendor said enthusiastically when he saw business coming to his door.

"Can he do it?" Nalan Yiren pointed at Chen Mo.

Boss: "What?"

"Make me a candy man like him." Nalanyi said.

"It's easy to make a human figure, but it will cost extra to make the face and the mask on the face more or less the same," the boss said.

Nalan Yiren glanced at Chen Mo.

Chen Mo obediently took out the money and said, "Do as she says."

"Okay." The boss received the money and immediately started working with a smile.

While blowing the shape, Nalanyi suddenly stopped the boss and said, "Can we blow it ourselves?"

When Nalanyi was a child, she bought some sweets and ate them, and they tasted like wild vegetables.

The boss was stunned. After several years of business, it was very rare for him to take the initiative to brag. However, it was not an embarrassing thing, and he said: "Of course."

With that said, he handed the mouthpiece to Nalanyi.

Nalan Yiren looked at Chen Mo: "Come here."

After saying that, he added: "I won't use it to eat."

Chen Mo did as he was told.

The boss is a craftsman, and it didn't take long to finish it. He just spent some time carving the shape and used special carving tools.

Soon, a miniature version of Chen Mo, a candy man wearing a half-face mask, was held in Nalan Yiren's hand.

As for Chen Mo, he just let the boss pinch a scorpion at will and let the boss blow it by himself.

Well, he doesn't eat this anyway.

On the way back, Chen Mo met a middle-aged man and woman with two children. Chen Mo gave the sugar scorpion in his hand to one of the girls.

The remaining boy looked at the girl eagerly.

When Chen Mo saw this, he said to Nalan Yiren: "It's so hot and you don't eat. You melted when you returned to your house. How about..."

Before he finished speaking, Nalan Yiren bit into the head of the candy man Chen Mo and said: "It's so sweet."

Chen Mo: "..."

The boy’s parents: “…”

"Niuniu, thank you brother quickly." The parents of the boy and girl reacted and asked the girl to say thank you.

"Thank you, brother."

"You're welcome."

"Goodbye, brother." The girl waved.

"goodbye."

The family of four hadn't gone far. When the girl wanted to eat, her mother took it away and threw it on the ground. She also said, "What did you teach me? Don't eat food given by strangers."

Chen Mo didn't see this scene. Even if he did, he wouldn't be angry. He would throw it away anyway.

On the contrary, what the mother did was the right thing to do.

"Didn't you say you don't want to eat?"

On the way, Chen Mo asked.

"You take care of me." Nalan Yiren bit off the hand of the candy man Chen Mo again.

"That boy is probably talking about you in his heart." Chen Mo said.

"What do you think I'm doing? You can buy it yourself if you want. Besides, it's not good for children to eat too many sweets. I'm doing it for his own good." After saying that, Nalan Yiren bit the other hand of the candy man Chen Mo. Yes, the behavior is very specific.

"Am I provoking you?"

"you guess."

"I don't want to guess." As he said that, Chen Mo bit off the unfinished candy in Nalan Yiren's hand and ran away.

Nalan Yi was stunned for a while, then her face turned red, and she chased after him: "Don't run away, stop. You gave yours to others, and now you are eating mine. Don't you hate me?"

"Only a fool should stop. If you have the ability, come and chase him."

"Don't run."

The two of them were chasing each other. When an old couple saw this scene on the road, a warm smile appeared on their faces, as if they were reminded of their youth.

The two of them ran all the way to the palace. They stopped in perfect agreement. The smile on Nalan Yiren's face subsided and she said, "How old are you? Are you childish?"

"Then you still chase." Chen Mo replied.

"Who asked you to eat my food?"

"That's what I paid for it."

The two of them bickered and came to the gate of the palace. Sun Meng came over and said, "Your Majesty, I have a letter from General Wu."

"Wu Changlin?" Chen Mo said.

Sun Meng nodded.

Nalanyi was disturbed and entered the house alone.

Chen Mo read the contents of the letter and asked, "When did this letter arrive?"

"It wasn't long after you left. Because it was not an urgent matter, I didn't bother you, Prince." Sun Meng said.

Chen Mo nodded: "Quickly call Mr. Wei, General Shao, and President Qin of the Linzhou Chamber of Commerce to come to the house to see me."

"promise."

…

When Wei Linchun, Shao Jinneng and Qin Hao learned that King Wei had met them so late, they thought something big had happened and hurried to the palace without changing their clothes. They were all sweating profusely.

In the study.

"Your Majesty, the general and the common people have met the prince." The three of them saluted respectfully.

"We're all here, take a seat. Come and serve tea." Chen Mo smiled kindly.

Seeing this, the three of them breathed a sigh of relief.

After the three of them sat down and the tea was served, Chen Mo said to Qin Hao: "The shipping department in Sichuan Hai has been restored and the fleet is ready. Now we are waiting for our goods to be transported and loaded on the ship. .

This is the list of goods requested by Chuanhai. Your chamber of commerce will hurry up and prepare it. "

Qin Hao stood up and walked forward, taking the list. After checking it, he was slightly surprised.

The goods requested above are quite simple.

Tea, silk, porcelain, bronze and other common items in the Song Dynasty.

Qin Hao was surprised that the amount requested was too large.

"Your Majesty, can so much food be eaten overseas?" Qin Hao couldn't help but ask. After all, the Chamber of Commerce must have paid for these goods in the early stage.

"Don't worry, this is provided by the Nangong family of Chuanhai, there will be no fraud. Besides, there are many overseas countries, not just one country that needs these things. Don't forget that during the reign of Emperor Ling, the income from going out to sea that year alone was more than 10 million taels." Chen Mo said.

Qin Hao was relieved after getting Chen Mo's guarantee, and then he became a little excited.

You know, the Qin family is in the silk business. The quantity on the list is so large that it can completely eat up all the inventory in the warehouse, and it is far from enough.

The most important thing is that the King of Wei gave him the list, which means he gave him the purchasing right.

For such a big business, those tea merchants and porcelain merchants must flatter him.

Just this resale is enough for him to make a lot of money.

However, as soon as this idea came up, he shook his head and dispelled it.

Since the King of Wei gave him this right, how could he not think of this.

And before the establishment of the Chamber of Commerce, it was agreed that the King of Wei had the right to supervise.

If his little trick was discovered, he would definitely suffer.

"Your Majesty, I will go down and prepare now." Qin Hao said excitedly.

Chen Mo nodded, his eyes turned to Wei Linchun, and said: "Sir Wei, the king will leave Xiangyang tomorrow, and this matter will be handed over to you and President Qin to coordinate."

"Yes." Wei Linchun said.

"General Shao, the goods are ready, and the escort work to Chuanhai will be taught to you, the Cavalry Guard." Chen Mo ordered.

"Yes."

...

Chuanhai, Chaoping County.

Nangong Family.

Zhang Feng was a little distracted in the mansion, sighing.

He looked at Nangong Jin who was drinking tea leisurely and said, "Brother-in-law, are you really willing to hand over the maritime business to the Shifangsi? That is making a fortune every day."

Nangong Jin put down the teacup and said, "What if you are unwilling? Why go against the court? Are you the opponent of King Wei? Do you know who Wu Changlin is? He is the brother of King Wei's wife. King Wei sent him to be the governor of Chuanhai and rebuild the Shibosi, which shows that King Wei attaches great importance to maritime trade.

Besides, King Wei already knows that we have built a port privately. The court just couldn't control it before. Now if King Wei uses this as an excuse, not only can he seal off our port, but also make the Nangong family suffer. If you don't give it to them, they will come to take it themselves."

"But. Without the business on the sea, how can we support so many people?" Zhang Feng said worriedly.

"Although we have handed over our maritime business to the Maritime Customs, it does not mean that we cannot engage in maritime trade. We just can't make as much money as before. The most urgent task now is to enter the fairy island and get more fairy fruits. Only when we are strong enough can we have the capital to compete." Nangong Jin said.