I fought back after reselling my engagement

Zhen Su smiled. She still felt strange. It turned out that the girl was going back to her parents' home to celebrate her birthday. Bai Ruizhu had someone accompanying her, so they came together.

"Princess Changle has arrived. I want Qiurong, Aunt Ye and her family to go back to the capital with Princess Changle. The dowry shop my mother left behind needs to be renovated and stocked. It won't work without the right person."

"The manager of Yunyifang is my roommate. She is not very smart but she is calm. Now that the big manager Ye and the small manager Ye are gone, can she really take her down?"

"She will definitely be able to do it. Don't worry. She has learned from the Ye family's stewards. There is nothing she can't do."

Zhen Su sat for a while and took Chunyue back to Tingyuxuan.

Near noon, Su Jingzhai sent someone to deliver a box. When Zhen Su opened it, there was a whole set of Dongzhu jewelry inside. When he looked at it carefully, he found the words "Made in the Imperial Palace of Da Qi" engraved on it. These were jewelry from the palace, no wonder they looked so valuable at first glance.

Su Jingzhai already knew that Zhen Su managed Cui's two shops very well and could make a lot of money every month. But Cui only offered 100 taels of silver. Given his understanding of Zhen Su, he would definitely not accept it. Zhen Su would not accept it even if he had no money.

Cui always scolded Su Qinnan for being short-sighted, but she was the same. She found that her three grandsons did not act like Cui and were not petty-minded.

Su Jingzhai saw that his granddaughter had been busy for several months and the two shops were doing great business, so he only deducted the cost he had advanced and did not take a penny more. Su Jingzhai could not bear to let her go, so he took out a set of treasured jewelry from his collection to give to Zhen Su. This set was left by his late wife, Xiao Xie.

Xiao Xie received the jewels as a reward from the Empress, but she was reluctant to wear them and only picked out a few sets to leave behind before she died.

She said to Su Jingzhai, "I am leaving. You should keep these jewels. When you have granddaughters-in-law for the first and second wives in the future, you can give them as rewards in my name. I will not prepare any for the granddaughter-in-law for the third wife..."

Each generation only cares about its own generation. The first and second wives always say that he is partial to Xiao Xie's children. In fact, Xiao Xie has the deepest feelings for him. Xiao Xie's children are even closer to him. The filial piety between father and son is also mutual. He gave Su Gang and Su Jin the same fatherly heart, but the daughters-in-law of the two wives just pretended not to see it.

I can't see it, it's a benefit and they say they gave more to the third wife, he's too lazy to please me, you say I'm partial then I am partial. The third wife split up, the three sons are all legitimate, except for the eldest son who got 50% of the family property, the second son and the youngest son got an equal share, the dowry of the eldest Xie was divided in half, half was given to the eldest son and half to the second son.

He had no guilt towards his three sons, and he would just let his second daughter-in-law say whatever she wanted.

The servant who brought the box said, "My Lord, this is a gift for the princess as she comes of age. You should wear this pearl hairpin during the ceremony."

This set of Dongzhu jewelry is a precious set among the relics left by Xiao Xie. Su Jingzhai thinks it is most suitable for Zhen Su.

"Please thank my grandfather for me. I will definitely wear this pearl hairpin on my coming-of-age day."

The servant bowed and left Tingyu Pavilion.

Zhen Su said to Chun Jiang, "Where is Qiu Ye? Ask her to tell Qiu Rong and Aunt Ye to come back tonight. I have something to discuss with them."

"Yes——" Chunjiang responded.

At dusk, Qiu Rong and Aunt Ye entered the house.

Zhen Su invited the two of them to have dinner together.

After dinner, Zhen Su talked about transferring them to the capital to run the store. She wanted to cooperate with Princess Changle and even more so with the Second Prince to open an auction house. The design draft and plan were already ready, and Qiu Rong could take a look at them first. At that time, Qiu Rong would negotiate the details with the Second Prince in her name as "Manager of the Dowry Shop."

Zhen Su showed the plan to Qiu Rong and talked about it with Aunt Ye. He suggested that Aunt Ye go to the farm in the suburbs to see how the sewing women there worked. He briefly introduced his management of the sewing workshop and assembly line production. Aunt Ye had been a manager before, so she immediately understood the key points.

In the next few days, Zhen Su kept Qiu Rong and Aunt Ye in the mansion to help. Qiu Rong followed Aunt Ye to the farm. When she saw the sewing process there, her eyes lit up. If the process of making incense and rouge was also changed to assembly line operation, there would be no need to worry about the secret recipe leaking. One person could only learn the work of one or two workstations and could not learn the others.

Qiu Rong and Aunt Ye both felt that this princess was a capable person and looked at her with admiration.

At night, Zhen Su went to look for Su Jingzhai.

Su Jingzhai was practicing calligraphy in the study, while Zhen Suli stood beside him. "Grandpa, I plan to let Qiu Rong and Aunt Ye return to the capital first. There is a dowry shop left by my mother over there, and I plan to renovate the rouge shop. Now I have some extra money, so I want to buy another farm there and arrange for the old people who worked in the shop to live there."

"It's hard for you to arrange for those elderly people, so give them to your uncle. Your aunt has been envious and coveted them for a long time, saying that the companion rooms left by your grandmother are all the best. If you give them to these elderly people, I will give you some younger ones later."

"Grandfather, what you said sounds like a one-for-one exchange. They are all family members. Since my uncle wants them, I will transfer them to him."

Su Jingzhai said: "This is also for Wulang. His marriage was arranged when your grandmother was seriously ill. The Xie family was afraid that once she left, the relationship between the two families would be severed. In order to reassure her, I agreed to let Wulang marry a granddaughter of the Xie family, although I chose the best legitimate daughter of the Xie family.

But none of the first and second wives were willing to marry a girl from the Xie family. The Xie family has been getting worse and worse over the years, and all the children and grandchildren are bookworms. In your great uncle's generation, there were still some who entered the government, but in your cousins' generation, there was only one gentleman who passed the imperial examination. "

The Xie family was also a family of scholars in the previous dynasty, but by the time of the Great Qi Dynasty, it was really getting worse year by year. The Xie family was divided into several branches, and by the time of my uncle's generation, it had begun to decline. Today, few people know about the Hedong Xie family.

"Your grandmother had a deep relationship with your uncle and his sister. What she was most worried about during her lifetime was the second branch of the Xie family. Recently, you have been helping your aunt to manage the dowry shop, and you have done a good job.

People always say that it is better to teach a man how to fish than to give him a fish. You should help the descendants of the second branch of the Xie family. In your cousin's generation, you have a sixth cousin who was not good at studying, but he has some talent for business. However, he has encountered many setbacks along the way because no one has guided him. "

Su Jingzhai practiced writing big characters calmly and forcefully without rushing.

Zhen Su thought this was strange. "Grandpa, I'm a junior, how can I dare to say that I have experience in running a store? This is a bit unreasonable."

Su Jingzhai called out "Su Su". "I don't know what trouble you have caused in the capital. But the fifth prince is still quarreling with Concubine Zhou Shu and the emperor, and he wants to marry you as his legitimate wife. Grandpa is an elder and wants to gather some connections for you. Even if he is a businessman, he can be of great use at a critical moment."

Zhen Su waited for him to say the next words.

Su Jingzhai asked, "Do you want to marry into the royal family?"

"Grandpa, what are you talking about? Before my mother died, she made me swear that I would rather be a peasant woman than a concubine of a noble family. I have a reputation as a 'softie' in the capital, so this is impossible. I don't want to be a wife of a noble family; I don't want to be a prince's consort, a concubine, or a concubine. My mother made me swear that way, she must have been out of a loving mother's heart. I don't think she would want me to marry into the royal family. For her, safety and health are the greatest blessings."