At the beginning, I was a rich female prisoner

Chapter 61: Renovation of Yanyu Manor

There were a few older women in the room embroidering with their heads down, some writing on wooden boards, and a few found writing boring and started drawing on the boards.

"The children here are very pitiful. Some of them escaped from their homes. Look at the one who is painting. We call her Hua'er. We heard from our master that she was going to be a burial child for a wealthy family. Our master rescued her from the cemetery. And the one over there who is good at embroidery is very good. Her name is B'er. Her family was poor, so they sent her to the town to be a child bride. But that family wanted her to do all the work. When she was sick, they threw her directly into Han Lake. It was our uncle who rescued her from the lake and treated her. She almost died, but later our uncle asked her to worship Goddess Xuannv, and her illness got better. Now our uncle only asks her to go to the Xuannv Temple to burn incense and wipe dust for Goddess Xuannv. But she is very sensible. After finishing the work in the main hall, she comes here to do embroidery. She does very well." Hai Wang shed tears as he spoke.

Yu Yunxin knew that Hai Wang might have been abandoned by his family when he was a child just like them, but it was already their honor to meet Yanyu Manor. Many girls were not as lucky as them.

After looking at the backyard, Yu Yunxin returned to the main hall and said to everyone, "I have a way to make the sisters of Yanyu Manor live better."

So Yu Yunxin began to ask: "In fact, relying solely on embroidery is not a good idea. If you do embroidery frequently for a long time, your eyes will become bad. What if you get older? Do you want to rely on embroidery to support yourself?"

When everyone heard this, they asked, "What good way does the princess make a living?"

"What do you like? Write down everything you like." Yu Yunxin asked Yunshan Yanyu Manor and Qionglou Haiwang to give everyone a piece of white paper and let them write down.

"Princess, can you write a few more?" asked a disciple.

"Of course, the more the better." Yu Yunxin said.

Seeing some people discussing in whispers, some holding pens in deep thought, and some writing down their favorite things, the atmosphere in the hall was very discordant.

When everyone had finished writing, Yu Yunxin took the paper and started to look at it. Some wanted to open a rouge and powder shop, some liked to cook, and some liked to be female doctors. Even Xuanfen wrote down that she wanted to open an embroidery workshop.

After reading everyone's papers, Yu Yunxin came to Xuanfen and saw her squinting her triangular eyes. Yu Yunxin knew that this was not natural, but the result of long-term embroidery work. So she pressed a few acupuncture points and said, "Close your eyes and open them only when I tell you to.

"Princess, what is your method? Why do my eyes hurt? Princess, it's my fault. I shouldn't have ruined your test." Xuanfen said as she began to cry.

"This princess is treating your eyes. Please stop crying and hold it in for a while." Yu Yunxin said as she stopped after pressing the five acupoints on the eyes.

After two minutes, Yu Yunxin said, "You can open your eyes now."

Xuanfen opened her eyes immediately. Although her eyes were still triangular, they were no longer narrowed into slits. She could see much more clearly.

"Princess, your technique is amazing. I seem to be able to see things ten meters away clearly." Xuanfen said excitedly.

"Taoyuan just said that she wanted to become a female doctor. Taoyuan, come here and I will teach you some simple massage techniques. Massage Senior Sister Xuanfen so that her eyesight will improve in the future. Maybe she won't have triangular eyes anymore." Yu Yunxin said and began to teach Senior Sister Taoyuan some simple eye massage techniques. She even taught Taoyuan eye exercises.

"Princess, your method is so strange, is it really okay?" Taoyuan asked.

"The princess just tried it on me, so how could it not work?" Xuanfen said.

"Okay, okay, the princess needs to rest too, let's all go back!" Yunshan said as he looked outside and saw that it was getting late.

It's been a busy day today, so you should have a good rest and make arrangements for other people tomorrow.

The second hottest morning, Yu Yunxin started to walk around Yanyu Manor and found that she could buy a few plots of land to grow some food, vegetables and flowers.

So what she had to do now was to reclaim the wasteland. Lincheng County bought all the wasteland around Yanyu Manor. At the beginning, the prefect of Lincheng did not know Yu Yunxin's identity. When she took out the mutton-fat jade token and bowed to the prefect's respected Yu Yunxin, she directly bought more land and gave it to Yu Yunxin, and said that in the future he would let his wife go to Yanyu Manor often to worship the Queen Mother of the West.

With the prefect's wife Yu Yunxin here, there is no need to worry about anyone harassing Yanyu Manor anymore.

Chunyu also bought a courtyard in the most prosperous area of ​​Lincheng, which could be used not only as an embroidery workshop, but also as a cosmetics shop and a cloth shop.

After returning to Yanyu Manor, he handed the house deed to Xuanfen and said, "From now on, I'll leave this to you. I believe you can do it. I can also find a few embroiderers from Linglong Pavilion in Beijing to teach you some Beijing embroidery and make some puppets."

"Princess, don't worry. The children in the backyard can make these dolls. I will choose some older girls to make them and they won't be too tired." Xuanfen said.

"I will leave Xingxiulou to you from now on." Yu Yunxin replied.

Xuan Fen happily accepted it. Yu Yunxin handed the deed of Yanyu Manor to Xuan Yi and said, "I will send people to open up the wasteland in a few days. Let's plant some coarse grains and cotton first. After all, it's all wasteland."

"Okay, I will also select a few disciples who can weave some coarse and fine cotton cloth. Not only can we wear them ourselves, but we can also exchange them for some silver." Xuan Yi said.

Yu Yunxin talked about Beirong Town and could arrange for the people in the sect to go to Beirong Town to help, so that there would be no need to worry about the people in the sect going hungry.

When everyone heard about Beirong Town, they were happy and willing to go there to help, and told her not to worry, they would do a good job.

Yu Yunxin was very happy to see the vitality of Yanyu Manor now. She was about to leave with Yunshan, Yanluo, Qionglou and Haiwang. She also had to go to Qingyi Tower to find Xiao Yu. Qiu Shuang and Chunyu were still very busy in Beirong Town with the help of the sisters from Yanyu Manor. So she let them stay here for a few more days and then take them back to Nanling County after everything was done.

Yang Yunsheng knew that Yu Yunxin was going to Qingyi Tower and said, "Princess Qingyi Tower is close to Sucheng. That place is my territory. Let me lead the way for you!"

"Thank you for your help, Boss Yang." Yu Yunxin said.

"Princess, what are you talking about? The carriage from Lincheng to Sucheng will arrive in two days." Yang Yunsheng said.

"Then please lead the way!" Hai Wang said to the coachman in front.

"Okay, lead the way!" Yang Yunsheng said and got into the carriage directly.

Yang Yunsheng took good care of them along the way. It was Yang Yunsheng who gave things to Yu Yunxin every time, and it was Yang Yunsheng who asked them if they wanted to rest.

When the car stopped to rest, Yang Yunsheng said, "This time the pirates were beaten by Qingyi Tower and fled in panic. It was also thanks to their tower owner who came back in time. Maybe there is someone behind these pirates. What a pity. If I were there, I would also like to fight the pirates."

"Boss Yang could have joined the army, so why did he want to go into business?" Yu Yunxin asked.

When Yang Yunsheng heard the words "join the army", he laughed and said, "My princess is really good at joking. Join the army. Do you think I look like a soldier? I still like the smell of banknotes. By the way, when will the princess start drinking beer?"

Yu Yunxin smiled and said, "Let's wait until we get back! We'll make more this year and sell them at night markets everywhere."

"I'm making money again." Yang Yunsheng said excitedly, "Princess, don't forget the beer recipe!"

"Don't worry! Boss Yang, you can take the secret recipe anytime as long as you pay enough." After Yu Yunxin said this, she got on the carriage and started on her journey.

"Now that Princess Shangguan Hongcheng and Shangguan Hongling have escaped, will they come to my Yanyu Manor to look for the Yanyu Order?" Qionglou asked.

"My butterfly has been lost too. It shouldn't be possible that there is someone behind them who also knows witchcraft. Who do you think it is?" Yu Yunxin said.

"I don't know? Could it be someone from the Southern Dian Kingdom?" Yunshan asked.

"If Shangguan Hongcheng absorbed the inner strength of the Gu Master, then could they also raise Gu?" Qionglou said, remembering something.

"No wonder my tracking butterfly lost contact with me." Yu Yunxin said.

"Xuan Zi sent a message saying that Lu Lian is missing. This Lu Lian should know that we know her identity!" Yan Luo asked.

"Lu Lian should have come here for the Misty Rain Order. Now that we have taken the Misty Rain Order away, she should go back to report. Let's just ignore her." Yu Yunxin analyzed.

"But she betrayed us after all. Will the princess just let her go?" Yanluo asked.

"What else can we do if we don't let her go? She has been our maid for so many days. From now on, we can just find more people to guard our Kangzhuang Town." Yu Yunxin said without taking Lu Lian's matter to heart.

"Yes, after going to Qingyi Tower, we will go back! We don't want to worry about anything." Hai Wang said while driving the carriage.

When we arrived in Wuzhou, our first stop was Sucheng, which has a unique Jiangnan charm.

"It's so beautiful here! It's a pity that sometimes we can't stop here." Yu Yunxin sighed.

"Princess, there will always be a chance in the future." Yang Yunsheng said, "The restaurant in front is owned by me, Yufulou. You can eat all the delicacies in Sucheng when you walk to Yufulou."

"Boss Yang, you really know how to do business! Look at the great location of your restaurant, it's well connected. In front is the main street, with both sides leading to the mansion and two docks. There's a big market at the back." Hai Wang said after entering the store and looking at the location of Yufulou.

Yang Yunsheng smiled and said, "My restaurant is also thanks to the princess's wine and recipes. Not to mention the princess's roast duck and drunken duck and chicken, even salted duck eggs and preserved eggs are very popular in my restaurant."

In fact, Yufulou was nominally his, but his master was behind it. He could also collect important information here. When they arrived at the private room on the third floor, Yang Yunsheng naturally arranged the dishes.

The dishes served were all famous dishes of Suzhou, but she took a look at them and saw that they were all fish and asked, "Boss Yang, why do you mostly serve fish?"

"Some of them are fish that are unique to Su City! This one seems to be called fish stew, it's carp, there's also Tibetan swordfish, even shad and knife fish that are extinct in modern times, and there's fish soup." Yang Yunsheng introduced: "Princess, you don't eat much fish in Nanling County, if you serve some chicken, duck, and goose meat, you won't be lacking!"

Seeing the whole fish feast in front of her, she found that the fish tasted delicious! She had never eaten such tender and juicy fish before, and the key was that there were very few fish bones. The fish meat melted in her mouth. There was also a lotus leaf roasted fish, which roasted the fish and lotus leaves together in an iron pan. There was a fresh lotus leaf fragrance and a unique original fish flavor. In the end, she even drank two bowls of the fish soup. There was no fish, only clear soup, but she could taste a variety of fish flavors. This is also the beauty of the fish soup. It must be said that the ancients were really good at eating.

After finishing the fish feast, I discussed with Yunshan and the other three and finally decided to stay in Su City for one night as we were still nostalgic for the night view of Su City.

The five of them started walking along the streets together, with the sounds of hawking from both sides ringing incessantly.

"The princess has so many pastries. Let's buy some to take on the road." Yunshan said.

"Okay, buy more." Yu Yunxin nodded and looked at the vendors on both sides. Some of them were trading on the water by paddling boats, which was very characteristic of the water town. Her mood also became cheerful.

When she came to the vendor selling flower umbrellas, Yu Yunxin was instantly attracted by them. She had seen many martial arts movies, some of which really required umbrellas. So she paid for five umbrellas and asked He Yanqin to study whether they could be turned into weapons.

"It's much more lively here than Nanling City." Yanluo said.

"This place has unique geographical advantages. There are numerous waterways, and it is very convenient for people to enter the city, so it is very lively here." Yu Yunxin analyzed.

"Yes!" Haiwang echoed.

Suddenly, I heard a very unpleasant voice in front of me: "Do you know the rules, kid? I told you not to spend money. Look at the fabric flowers you made. How can they be worth ten cents?"

"Sir, I learned how to make these cloth flowers from my grandmother. You can give them to the girl you like!" said a girl about seven or eight years old wearing a patch of coarse cloth.

"Don't block my way, you little beggar. It seems you are tired of living!" He was about to kick the girl.

Yu Yunxin and the others went up to help, but a figure appeared faster than them.

"Stop, sir, since you don't want to buy it, please don't hurt this girl." The speaker was a woman in a goose yellow gown.

The man saw that Si Niang was pretty and charming and said, "Since this lady has made a move, I will naturally show mercy."

"I wonder if my lady is free? I'd like to invite you to Yufulou for a chat," the man teased.

"Get lost! No one can tease me." Si Niang said tenderly. She picked up the abacus in her hand and was about to beat him. The man had never seen such a tough woman before, so he dodged the abacus and walked away immediately.

But he didn't go far. He just heard: "Why don't you ask me, Si Niang, who dares to touch me?" Si Niang said while beating and chasing the man for ten meters. The man was so scared that he ran away with his head in his hands.

"Little girl! The cloth flowers you made are beautifully crafted, but the fabric is so poor quality! Are there any other people in your family?" asked Si Niang.

"No, my grandma was buried by the villagers. I am alone and I just want to sell these flowers to eat steamed buns." The little girl said innocently, blinking her eyes.

Aunt Si looked at the girl, picked up the flowers thrown on the ground by the man and asked, "What's your name? Why don't you just beg? Maybe you can make money faster than selling flowers. This is Su City, there are many rich people. Some people will feel sorry for you and give you food and money!"

"My name is Xiu Xiu. My grandma said that we have hands and feet, so we won't eat food given out of pity." The girl replied righteously.

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