books44 Chapter 167 Destined to be defeated by a woman
Chapter 167 Destined to be defeated by a woman
"Choose another person to rely on?"
Meng Xiyue was a little panicked, lowered her head shyly, "Do I still have a chance?"
"Princess, you are talented and beautiful. As long as you are willing, there will be plenty of opportunities."
Seeing that she was coaxed by his few words, Nan Rongxin's eyes flashed with pride.
He said that no woman would be willing to do business in the public eye, no matter how capable she was.
"I wonder if the opportunity that Your Highness is referring to includes me?"
Meng Xiyue walked to the table and poured him a cup of tea. He wanted to reach out to take it, but Meng Xiyue deliberately dodged him.
"Your Highness has not answered yet?"
Faced with her deliberate provocation, even Nan Rongxin, who was used to seeing beautiful women, felt a little lost.
"As long as the princess is willing, this prince is willing to be the princess's greatest support."
After hearing this, Meng Xiyue handed him the teacup in her hand.
"Is the eldest prince trying to snatch this woman from his brother?"
Meng Xiyue's straightforward words made Nan Rongxin slightly stunned.
"He is not worthy of you. A beauty like the princess should be well cared for. How could he let you do such rough work?"
"Your Highness is right, the prince is unromantic."
Meng Xiyue sighed helplessly, "But the prince brought me from Yuanqing Kingdom in exchange for five cities. Even if I am dissatisfied with his actions, I cannot betray him."
"The princess is indeed kind and righteous. This prince will offer a glass of tea to the princess instead of wine."
Nan Rongxin didn't expect to make her submit to him with just a few words.
He was just testing her intentions today, and the result satisfied him very much.
He smiled, thinking he was showing his most handsome side, "If the princess can't stand it with the prince, you can always come to me."
"Thank you for your kindness, Your Highness."
"Princess, I heard that you and Uncle Wang made glass together?" After going around in circles, Nan Rongxin finally stated his purpose.
"Yes, Your Highness, didn't you see that many of the things we use in our shop are made of glass."
Meng Xiyue pointed to the cup in her hand.
"So, was the recipe for this glass yours?" Nan Rongxin looked at the glass in his hand, greed in his eyes.
"No."
Meng Xiyue smiled and said, "How can I make this glass? I just got the recipe by accident. I didn't expect that the pottery master could figure it out."
Nan Rongxin's eyes flickered, "Then why did you choose to cooperate with Uncle Wang? Was it the prince's idea?"
He was obsessed with glass, but what he cared about most was the relationship between Nan Rongzhi and Nan Rongshen.
"The eldest prince should know that the relationship between the two of them in the court is not good. How could the prince let me choose the Prince of Zhennan?"
Meng Xiyue acted as if she knew everything. "It's my own idea. In this capital, only the Prince of Zhennan is willing to cooperate with me for money and will not look down on my identity as a businessman. He is just my most suitable choice."
She said with some sadness, "As the eldest prince said, people should always choose multiple paths and have more people to rely on."
"But Uncle Wang..." The eldest prince hesitated, "The princess's choice is really unwise."
"This is the only solution I have. Fortunately, it's not bad for now."
Meng Xiyue curled the corners of her lips, "I'm just a little girl, I don't have any big ideals, I just want to live a stable life."
"Whatever the princess wants, she will get it."
"I think it will all work out."
Meng Xiyue raised her eyebrows, her expression full of confidence and carefreeness, "Enjoy your meal, my prince. I have other things to do, so I'll leave first."
Without giving him a chance to refuse, Meng Xiyue turned and left.
Nan Rongxin looked at her back, a little stunned. It was the first time he met such a strange woman, and he was puzzled.
When she first entered the store, she was very aggressive towards him and treated him like an enemy, but after he showed goodwill, she became ecstatic.
But before she could say a few words, she left again, and before leaving, he clearly saw dissatisfaction in her eyes.
After thinking for a moment, he laughed and said, "What a smart woman."
I think it was his tentative words later that caused her dissatisfaction. She probably thought that he deliberately showed kindness to her for the sake of glass, although this was indeed the case.
He sighed, thinking that he was too eager for quick success. Meng Xiyue was different from all the women he had met before.
She is very defensive, and if you don't show some sincerity, you probably won't be accepted by her.
However, this really aroused his interest.
As for women, no matter how smart they are, they can only be accessories of men. Even Master Mo Ran is no exception.
As for Meng Xiyue, after going out the door, she wiped her hands with some disgust.
Another self-righteous man.
Nan Rongxin was originally a cautious and meticulous person.
But his natural discrimination against women made him feel that he did not need to be cautious when dealing with women, nor did he need to use any clever tactics, but this also meant that he was destined to be defeated by women.
Following the trend of beverage shops, glass shops also opened.
Meng Xiyue hired a manager to run the glass shop. Apart from checking the accounts, she didn't really care about anything else.
After all, there are too many shops and she can't manage every one of them.
Once she has trained a dessert-making chef, she will let go of the dessert shop.
She didn't sell many things in the glass shop, only containers and mirrors. She didn't want people to discover other uses of glass for the time being.
However, just these things still make people in the entire capital city pursue them fanatically.
Not only the ladies from the aristocratic families, but even the concubines and princesses in the palace want it as well.
Especially a mirror that can reflect a person extremely clearly, which woman doesn’t want it?
In just over a month, her three shops brought about changes in the entire capital city.
Those literati families saw their money flowing into the shops like water and realized the danger.
But it was obviously impossible to stop it. If he was not allowed to buy it, his wife and daughter would cry all day long.
For the sake of family peace, they could only let it go. Fortunately, their family was very wealthy and had countless amounts of money accumulated over several generations, so they would not go bankrupt.
But they underestimated women's ability to spend money. Meng Xiyue would let them know that there is no such thing as endless money.
That day, Meng Xiyue came to Bai Yi's residence.
"Doctor Bai, look what good things I brought you."
Meng Xiyue held a box and protected it like a baby.
"Given to me?"
Bai Yi raised his eyebrows, "The sun is rising from the west. Is this stingy guy plucking his feathers?"
"How can you say that? Haven't I always been very generous to you?"
Meng Xiyue frowned. She was not a miser at all.
"Generous?" Bai Yi sneered, "I asked you for a painting but you didn't give it to me. I asked you for a glass but you didn't give it to me. I asked you to bring me some desserts but you didn't give them to me. How can you be generous?"