Chapter 207 – Tong Po

In the morning, as usual, Jin Yu is hindering the court order and he is staying back to make the rumour of the witches’ empress becoming real.

He is in the study and reviewing all the document sent in secret by the prime minister. Meanwhile, Ni Qing and the rest are busy in the kitchen. They are producing pastry double the size of yesterday due to the demand.

Ni Sheng wife is preparing the location for the general kitchen for the people from poor area with the help of brother Ah Seh.

As long as he gets request from Ni Qing then he will do everything on his power to make sure all done and dusted.

He did not know that Ni Qing is a women disguise as a man. Brother A Seh is still under impression something wrong with himself to fall in love with man.

He is only falling in love with the only one Ni Qing. He did try to kiss his assistant when he gets so shocked and try to stay far away from his boss until now.

They are making the public kitchen and it is running with the help of the money from the Emperor. Ni Qing is telling her sister-in-law to hire chef to help her to cook.

They are not dare to do anything silly and pledge loyalty to Ni Qing and the Ni Mansion under the security of brother Ah Seh.

They are making rice congee and chicken continuously. They also buying a lot of vegetable and tofu from the local vendor to feed the public.

They are trying to buy locally so the flow of money gets moved again. It makes the economic become a little normal when people start to sell their stuff in the market.

Bao Ni and Brother Ah Seh are taking charge of all the vendor in the market. They are telling them to register and find out about their whereabouts.

As expected, many of the new vendor come from the people behind the mountain in the capital. They are roughed vendor who never set foot in the capital.

Bao Ni did not do anything but look at them and notify brother Ah Seh about their presence in the capital.

They are going back to the area near the poor district in the capital every night. Brother Ah Seh is sending some spy to blend into the new group and find out some information.

They are under the command of Tong Po. He is the person who hold absolute power within them in the area.

He is giving them food and money also direction to do for their next step. Brother Ah Seh spy is going back and report about Tong Po.

Brother Ah Seh is enjoying his tea and look at them with a solemn face. He is well known this Tong Po from he still an orphan who get bullied from the small kid.

Brother Ah Seh is taking him into his organisation and guide him into the adulthood. He is a good boy and strive to the good man.

He even gives the branch northern to Tong Po to lead as he mentions about retirement after meeting with girl.

He tells brother Ah Seh about his wishes to marry her. Brother AH Seh is telling him to work in the northern branch and pay for his marriage. Her even gifted Tong Po with house in the northern city near the border.

Normally, Tong Po or any other underling need to report or meet with Brother Ah Seh when they are in the capital.

This time something smells so fishy that Tong Po dares to cut his arm from brother AH Seh. He will not dare to betray the hand that give him food.

The people in the slump already report to Tong Po regarding the registration today in the market. They also need to pay security money to brother Ah Seh if they still want to get the place in the market.

Tong Po is calculating the whole fund to be paid to brother Ah Seh means that they are needing 2 ingots of gold every day with the whole number of vendors daily.

Tong Po is laughing to think about the whole money routine in the market. He knows his big brother did not change at all.

He must be angry to know Tong Po abandon his post and go back to the capital. He must go back to the head quarter to pay respect to the big boss.

Zhao Yu is securing the two-front shop for the dry foods store who sell rice and any other important food ingredient while the next to it, there is a big bank opening under the name of God of War.

General Lin Yue is opening a bank for people and small vendor to put in their money. The biggest pharmacy and hospital are putting his money to keep in the bank. The tea house and restaurant under Mr Zhou also putting their money to the bank.

The bank is not offering high return, but they are having legal entity and their money investing acknowledge by the military and the emperor.

The Emperor is bestowing the wooden name for in front of their store. it means that their business get acknowledgement from the emperor.

The rumour said that all the soldier under the young general is getting their bonus keep in the bank which can get interest after several time in the bank.

Many people are getting interesting with the service of the bank. They are also having a box inside the bank which guarded with the special force and military for special fees. Many of them who are having really important stuff at home get interest to rent the box inside the bank.

Ni Qing plan is using mouth to mouth whisperer in the tea house and any small vendor in the market to spread the word of their bank and shop business.

It is more powerful rather than they are going to come to each house to get the market.

The four business in the capital are pumping up the economic in the city become almost normal. They are really work as planned by Ni Qing. She is really working her charm in the nation and contribute to her husband work.

Ni Qing is finishing work exactly at four Pm to rest after preparing half of the amount of pastry for the next day.

Her plan is selling the pastry with full capacity for three days continuously and reducing the amount on the third day.

It is some plan to ignite their product in the market and it will make them to get curious with their product.

After a week, Ni Qing will introduce different type of pastry base on the ingredient in the season. Ni Qing is getting busy and full idea with every recipe that she wants to check.

Ni Qing is preparing set of pastry for next week for everyone to taste tonight. she is inviting them to come and enjoy the festivity.

She is preparing few new pastries for them to try, and it will be good for them to try. They are really happy after the whole day of working and they will having a good meal in return.

XI Kai and Wang Bo are already starting to make hand pulled noddle for everyone. Ni Qing is taking out her homemade roast duck from the clay oven.

She is making special crepes from the wheat flour. She is wrapping the shredded roast duck meat with special soy sauce, cucumber and spring onion.

She is throwing the left-over duck bone to the water with carrot, turnip, and scallion. She is making some soup to refresh their stomach.

She is slicing through the duck meat and serves it on top of braised green vegetable with mushroom.

The smell from the kitchen is so salivating from everyone who is waiting on the dining table. The hand pulled noodle is going to serve with the soy chopped pork meat and cucumber with the special chilli oil.

Wang Bo is making prawn dumpling for them to eat together as side dishes. Eunuch Wang and Eunuch Li are helping to serve the food on the table while Mo Feng is checking the food from the poison.

He never can be too careful if it related to the poison. He is checking every plate of food and satisfies with the outcome.

“I supposedly to die first if there is a poison on the food because I cooked them and I am actually keep trying the food,” Ni Qing is sitting next to the emperor.

“I just need to be careful. Nothing else,” Mo Feng is teasing his descendant for the whole ordeal.

Xiao Nie is serving the special fruit tea made by Ni Qing today as their drink.. They are beginning the huge feast after all the food serve on the table and everyone seated in their place.