There was paper and a brush in the private room. Prince Jin wrote a contract and asked Shi Qingluo to read it.
Shi Qingluo was not polite and proposed amendments, meaning that what she had just said, in addition to changing a cement road, they should also write about making paper for their use.
Prince Jin didn’t refuse and wrote another one according to her wishes.
Shi Qingluo signed her name and stamped her thumb on the contract. Prince Jin used the seal he carried with him.
After the ink dried, Shi Qingluo folded her copy and put it in her purse, and took out a stack of paper from it.
“Here are several formulas for modifying paper, which can produce paper with different levels of texture. Your Highness can try it together.”
These are twenty recipes that are more suitable for the northern border. Your Highness can ask the chef in your mansion to try them first.”
Prince Jin took the paper and read it. Both the methods for modifying paper and the recipes were very detailed.
He asked, “Did you write this?”
Shi Qingluo nodded, “Yes, I did.”
Prince Jin smiled, “Your handwriting is very good.”
Shi Qingluo also smiled, “Thank you for the compliment!”
Prince Jin folded the prescription and stuffed it into his sleeve. “It will probably take two days to give you the situation of various places on the northern border you want.”
Shi Qingluo replied, “Okay, then I will stay in Beicheng for two more days.”
Prince Jin thought for a while and said with a smile, “You can’t always live in the Deputy Governor’s Mansion when you come to Beicheng in the future, so why don’t I give you a courtyard.”
Shi Qingluo found that Prince Jin wanted to give her money and things all the time, but she didn’t dare to accept them.
She shook her head, “Men and women should not be intimate. I dare not accept the prince’s courtyard. I don’t know what groundless rumor people will spread outside.”
Prince Jin: “……”
She talked as if he had some dirty thoughts.
He was convinced by this reason for rejection.
He thought for a moment and said, “It’s not a gift for you alone, but for you and your husband. When the time comes, the owner of the courtyard will be your husband.”
Let’s see how Shi Qingluo will refuse this time.
Shi Qingluo shook her head again, “No, if you want to give the courtyard to my husband, people who don’t know will think you want to bribe him, which will be bad for your reputation.”
“We won’t come to North City often, we can stay in an inn when we come.”
“If we stay in North City often in the future, we can just buy a courtyard ourselves.”
Prince Jin: “……”
Does he need to bribe a seventh-rank county magistrate?
But people have said it for his reputation, and he really can’t find a reason to refute.
He said speechlessly, “Okay, as long as you are happy!”
Liang Mingyu, who was standing aside, saw that his father was repeatedly defeated, and he became more interested in Shi Qingluo.
He suddenly asked, “Madam Shi, what do you like?”
Shi Qingluo always felt that the prince of Prince Jin’s Mansion looked at her a little strangely.
She smiled shyly, “I like my husband.”
Liang Mingyu: “……”
Who asked you this?
And it sounds so sad.
What’s so good about a seventh-rank county magistrate?
He coughed dryly, “I mean, what hobbies do you have?”
Shi Qingluo suppressed her shyness, “Hobbies? Does farming count?”
Liang Mingyu was speechless. “Does farming mean farming?”
Shi Qingluo smiled and said, “Almost. I like to study and grow various plants.”
It was because she liked agricultural science that she chose this major against her family’s wishes, and she entered the Academy of Agricultural Sciences after graduation.
Liang Mingyu: “…..”
This is the first time I’ve heard of this hobby.
He added, “Don’t you like the rouge, powder, clothes, and jewelry that other girls like?”
Shi Qingluo smiled, “I like it, but it’s not a hobby. If you have it, you can dress up. If you don’t have it, it doesn’t matter.”
She likes to enjoy it, but if she doesn’t have it, it’s not acceptable.
Liang Mingyu felt that Shi Qingluo could kill people by talking.
The women or ladies he had liked before were either interested in music, chess, calligraphy, and painting, or liked to dress up.
The one who likes farming was too special…
Seeing that he was still asking, Shi Qingluo didn’t want to talk to him anymore.
She looked at Prince Jin and said, “Does Your Highness have anything else to ask? If not, I’ll take my leave first.”
Prince Jin just saw his son being humiliated, and he felt amused.
He wanted to win over Shi Qingluo, so he naturally wouldn’t force her to stay. “It’s okay, go ahead.”
Shi Qingluo stood up and bowed, “Goodbye!”
Then she turned around and left the private room without any regrets.
This also made Liang Mingyu a little depressed. Why is this woman like this?
Prince Jin looked at him and smiled, “I said Shi Qingluo is different from those women. Now you believe it, right?”
Liang Mingyu touched his chin, “Father, do you think she was teasing me just now?”
Prince Jin was speechless. “She shouldn’t, she knows a lot about plants and crops.”
“I heard that the Grand Minister of Agriculture in the capital has been praising her all the time, and even wants to make an exception and let her go to the Minister of Agriculture.”
Liang Mingyu frowned, “What’s so good about plants and crops?”
Prince Jin smiled, “So you and she are on different paths and cannot work together, so give up that idea.”
“I’ll give it a try.” Liang Mingyu didn’t want to give up; after all, Shi Qingluo’s appearance, temperament, and identity were very much to his taste.
Especially since she kept emphasizing that she liked her husband.
He just liked to pry married women like this.
The main point was that if he could take Shi Qingluo in for himself, it would be beneficial for him to inherit the palace in the future.
If father goes one step further and becomes the emperor, the whole world will be his in the future.
Now, although he was the heir of the Jin Mansion, several brothers were eyeing his position and wanted to pull him down at any time.
Recently, the second and third sons have been very active, which has made their father pay some attention to them.
He has to find an opportunity to consolidate his position.
Prince Jin didn’t bother to care about him. “It’s up to you.”
Then he took the two out of the private room and immediately asked someone to take the recipe to try.
After cement became popular in the capital, the Emperor opened several cement workshops.
In addition, there was also a cement workshop in Shi Qingluo’s village, so the formula was no longer a secret.
In the northern city, Prince Jin also built several cement workshops.
The main streets of the northern city were also paved with cement.
Therefore, Prince Jin also ordered the cement workshop to make a batch of cement recently. After confirming that Shi Qingluo’s recipe can be used, he will ask people to pave the road.
This was also the sincerity he paid to win people over.
After Shi Qingluo and Prince Jin finished their conversation and went back, Xiao Yuanshi also received the news.
However, the tea house was Prince Jin’s property, and there were secret guards inside and outside just now, so his people couldn’t eavesdrop at all.
Therefore, Xiao Yuanshi was particularly curious about how the two talked and what price Prince Jin would pay to get the prescription.
Based on his understanding of Shi Qingluo, her prescription was not easy to get, so it was unlikely to be taken for free.
However, no matter how curious he was, he didn’t ask Shi Qingluo.
On the other side, Shi Qingluo went to another tea house where she had an appointment with Xi Rong.
They planned to continue shopping today.
But before they arrived at the tea house, when they walked into an alley, they saw several thugs surrounding a boy who looked to be thirteen or fourteen years old.
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