I fought back after reselling my engagement

Zhen Su said, "A good horse never turns back, and he is my third cousin's fiancé, so he is a donkey." She folded the letter and looked up to see Qiu Ye in a daze. "Qiu Ye, why have you been so lost these days?"

Qiu Ye looked over with an embarrassed look on his face.

Chunyue said unhappily: "The princess asks questions, you should answer truthfully."

Qiu Ye was conflicted. Qiu Rong acted first and asked for permission later. She saved Wu Ren's family first, thinking that she could help the princess make money. However, the princess had the secret recipe of braised food left by the immortal. Wu Ren's skill in making braised food was not worth mentioning at all. The really amazing thing was the secret recipe seasoning packet that the princess sent to Wu Ren every month.

Zhen Su said, "I treat the people around me as my own family. If you don't say anything, I won't ask." She said to Chunyue, "Please prepare the fragrant soup. Let's ask the three major dental shops to send the embroiderer to come tomorrow morning."

She had to select embroiderers for her aunt's clothing shop. The imperial court sent troops this time, and many women from powerful families were demoted to official servants, and the whole family was convicted. The former was punished with serious crimes, and the latter unmarried girls did not separate from their families, but had to go to the northern border with their fathers and brothers. The servants in the family were all demoted to slavery and auctioned off by the government. The silver and money obtained were made into silver and money books along with the confiscated property and reported to the imperial court and returned to the national treasury.

Qiu Ye's heart tightened, and she knelt heavily, banging her head three times, "Princess, I have met my mother, sister, and brother-in-law. My nephew is only a little over one year old, but my brother-in-law has no other advantages except reading a few books and being able to do accounting. I heard that when we arrived at the big dental shop in the north of Yueyang Prefecture, no one was willing to buy them because my brother-in-law insisted that the family of four should stay together..."

"How much is the indenture?"

"Four people... want... want fifty taels of silver."

This little bit of money was nothing in the old Hua family. But in the current Hua family, even the master has become a government slave, and the master's servants have an even lower status.

Zhen Su said, "Tomorrow morning, Chunjiang will go with you to buy them. Last time, you said your sister's needlework is good. Your mother will go to the garment shop as a manager, and your brother-in-law will be the shopkeeper. Arrange them there first. After they have been trained well, they can go to the garment shop in Beijing in a year or so."

"Thank you, my lady."

Before taking a bath, Zhen Su took out a banknote and gave it to Chun Jiang, asking her to buy the person the next day.

After bathing, Zhen Su did not rest, but wrote letters to his friends in the capital. This time he wrote a letter to Lu Yan, thanking him for his protection along the way and telling him about his recent situation.

It was almost three o'clock in the morning when I finished writing the letter. I made an envelope, sealed it with wax, and placed the letter on the desk, waiting to be sent out the next day.

The next morning, the roosters crowed at the dawn, and the sound of swords could be heard outside. Two little children followed Qiu Ye to learn martial arts. One was called Xiaolan and the other was called Xiaoju. When they were promoted to maids, the character "Chun" would be added to their names. All the little maids in the mansion were given small characters at the beginning of their names.

Zhen Su pulled the quilt to block out the noise and continued to sleep. Chun Jiang looked at him and said in a low voice, "The princess wrote back to the Ninth Princess yesterday and didn't stop until three o'clock in the morning. Qiuye, you are taking Xiaolan and Xiaoju to practice martial arts. Can't you go to the back garden?"

Qiuye looked embarrassed and took Xiaolan and Xiaoju out of the yard.

To be a qualified maid, you must first learn to be considerate of your master.

Zhen Su was easy-going, rarely lost her temper, and was talented. At least the portrait of her grandparents was praised by Grand Commander Su, and the whole family said it was exactly the same as his. The Grand Commander hung his portrait in his study. Occasionally, officials came to visit and saw such a realistic portrait, so they would inevitably ask about it. Su Jingzhai would show it off to others, saying that it was painted by his granddaughter.

Previously, only the calligraphy of the father and son was hung in the study, but now there are more calligraphy and paintings by Zhen Su, and they occupy a large number. Zhen Su also painted portraits of his aunt and Su Qiniang. Su Qiniang spent money to frame them and showed off in the Mao Mansion Girls' School.

Early this morning, people from the three major embroiderers came with their embroiderers. Zhen Su asked the manager of the embroidery room to take an inspection and watch the needlework of more than a dozen embroiderers on the spot. She picked out six of them, and the manager picked out two more. She paid fifty taels of silver each in one go and sent the people to the embroidery room to learn the rules. Once they had learned well, they would be placed in the ready-made clothing shop.

The Yunyifang clothing store is about to open. The shop has been decorated and sells both cloth and ready-made clothes. This time, Zhen Su personally drew two pattern books for Yunyifang, including men's and women's styles. The women's styles range from girls, young girls, grandmothers, wives to old ladies, and the men's styles range from boys, teenagers, young men, masters, and old men. Men are divided into scholars, scholars, and long gowns.

She personally designed styles such as fake two pieces and fake three pieces, and first promoted them among the masters and servants in the mansion. When worn, they were clearly one piece, but one could tell they were wearing two or three pieces, and the cost was half or thirty percent of what it was before.

The new embroiderers made two sets of autumn clothes for Su Qinnan, her aunt and other masters in the family according to the new designs she made. Su Qinnan wore the "new style from the capital" autumn dress to the Mao Mansion, and her classmates exclaimed that it looked beautiful.

Su Qiniang said, "This is what my cousin found out from the Ninth Princess. It's a new style in the palace. My cousin drew it according to the pattern and made two for me. It's called the Auspicious Patterned Skirt."

This is a six-panel autumn skirt. Two kinds of fabrics, plain satin and floral satin, are chosen. The fabrics are cut into six pieces and then pieced together. It is quite novel. The elegance of the plain color and the brightness of the floral satin are combined together to slim the waist, making the woman look taller and more graceful.

The girls of the Mao family saw that Su Qinnan was wearing a beautiful dress and a set of cloisonné South Pearl jewelry, from hairpins, earrings, necklaces to the red gold cloisonné bracelets on her hands. It was also a perfect set. The South Pearls were made into flower shapes, and the gold flowers were wrapped around the beads. The silver-white beads and the red gold flowers were truly noble and beautiful.

The girls surrounded Su Qinnan and envied her for a while.

Su Qiniang said: "The South Pearls that the Queen Mother gave to my cousin were designed by my cousin herself. Mine are South Pearl Butterfly Pattern Jewelry, and my mother's are South Pearl Wealth Pattern Jewelry. My cousin loves orchids, so she made a set of South Pearl Orchid Pattern Jewelry."

Mao Yuanniang is already engaged, and the wedding date is next March. Now when she sees the new jewelry Su Qinniang is wearing, she thinks the style is beautiful, and most importantly, it looks noble and not tacky. "Where did Sister Su Qi have it ordered?"

Su Qinnan was very proud. In the past, she had always seen the legitimate daughters of the Mao family wearing the most beautiful dresses and expensive jewelry, but now she had surpassed them all. With the South China pearls given by the Empress and the drawings and designs made by her cousin herself, no one else could imitate her.

"Linglong Pavilion. My cousin and I personally sent the pattern over a month ago. The shopkeeper was very excited when he saw it. He originally said that the payment for a set would be 100 taels of silver. I didn't ask how much it was later. Anyway, the craftsmanship on it is very exquisite. I listened to my cousin and the shopkeeper talking about leather silk skills, inlay, winding silk, threading flowers, and weaving flowers. I don't understand, but my cousin really knows a lot."