Chapter 95

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Zhao Yanlin and Yang Shiming sent Lin Yu to Cheng's house and left. Lin Yu was taken in by Shen Yuntang and given a room.

"You will live with Liu Ya for the time being. I will arrange bunk beds for you later. Do you dare to climb the ladder?" Shen Yuntang asked him.

"I want to live on the upper bunk." Liu Ya frantically waved her hands to attract Shen Yuntang's attention. He had long envied the upper and lower bunks of Yuan Bao and Ye Gou next door. He had always wanted to try it. Now that the opportunity was before him, he grabbed it immediately.

"Okay, you live on the upper bunk." Cheng Yeran was happy to see Liu Ya become lively and cheerful again. However, she was too noisy and kept talking all day.

"I'm fine." Seeing that both of them were looking at him with an inquiring attitude, Lin Yu immediately expressed his opinion. He is like this at home. When someone asks him for something or asks him to do something, he agrees immediately. Otherwise, his family members will look disappointed and say something bad about him.

Being scolded a few times might not be a big deal, but when it happens too many times, it becomes like a terrible spell that makes him tremble all over. He also gets used to agreeing to whatever others ask of him.

"Did you bring bedding?" Shen Yuntang looked at the luggage he brought.

He brought a lot of things with him because the Zhao family thought he was going to live with Zhao Yanlin, so most of the things he brought were for Zhao Yanlin. However, Zhao Yanlin said there was no room in the dormitory, so he asked him to bring the things over.

The bedding was also new, newly made by Zhao's mother for Zhao Yanlin, and now it was just right for him to use.

After he put down his luggage, he immediately took out the things he had embroidered before and showed them to Shen Yuntang.

Lin Yu knew that he came here to work because Shen Yuntang was impressed by his embroidery skills. He specially brought some embroidery works he had made to show Shen Yuntang, fearing that Shen Yuntang would not like them. He also told Shen Yuntang that if they were not good, he would work hard to learn them in the future.

Shen Yuntang looked at them one by one and found that their embroidery was better than Mai Miao's. Mai Miao was a hard-working person. She would always go back and practice many times what he taught her. It seemed that she was making rapid progress, but later Shen Yuntang found out that it was the result of dozens of times of private training.

He didn't know Lin Yu well enough, but he was good at embroidery and seemed to be a hardworking person, so there was no need to worry.

"You take a rest first. I'll tell you what you are going to do tomorrow." Shen Yuntang asked him to put his luggage away and go eat.

Liu Ya urged him, "Hurry up, my brother cooked a lot of food today, so we are lucky enough to have him."

Lin Yu had never met someone as enthusiastic as Liu Ya, and didn't know how to respond, so Liu Ya pulled him to the dining table. Liu Ya seemed careless, but in fact she was very caring. She picked up food for Lin Yu and told him many things about her family.

The next day, Shen Yuntang took Lin Yu and Mai Miao to embroider in the yard.

Their family does business during the day, so they open the door and sit in the yard to keep an eye on the guests coming and going. Cheng Yeran specially asked someone to build a shed for them in the yard, saying that it could provide sun protection.

There are tables, chairs, and tea in the shed. The scorching sun above is blocked outside, with only a slight cool breeze blowing in, making the working environment very comfortable.

Mai Miao was still young, so Shen Yuntang arranged small flowers for him. There were quite a few small flowers on each piece of clothing, which took Mai Miao a long time to embroider.

Now that Lin Yu had just arrived, Shen Yuntang did not dare to give him the big work, and asked him to start with Xiaohua.

After getting familiar with the job for a day or two, Shen Yuntang felt at ease letting him take his place and embroider those complex patterns.

He gave some pointers from the side, and Lin Yu learned faster than Mai Miao, and he didn't have to practice many times in private.

After Shen Yuntang handed the clothes to him, he began to draw the styles of new clothes. He also told Lin Yu that he could practice painting in his spare time, and he also gave Lin Yu homework.

He had given Mai Miao homework before, but since Mai Miao was young, the homework he gave her was more childish.

Moreover, Mai Miao’s homework was to draw a picture every three days. I gave Mai Miao some simple drawings and asked her to follow them, so that she could practice drawing good lines. The rest could be done when she was older.

Lin Yu, on the other hand, draws one picture a day. What he requires is not just the lines, but also the likeness.

He not only wanted to train Lin Yu in embroidery, but also wanted him to help with clothing design in the future.

Cheng Yeran wanted to expand the industry nationwide. Although this plan scared him at first, he later developed this ambition. If he was the only one designing clothes, he would not be able to make so many.

He used pencils to draw at home, and the brushes he gave Lin Yu were also

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It was a pencil. Lin Yu had never been to school, so he didn't think there was anything wrong with pencils. He cherished the pencil every day and didn't dare to make a mistake. Sometimes he would draw on the ground with a wooden stick first, and then draw on paper when the pencil was used up.

Seeing him like this, Shen Yuntang simply gave him a box of pencils and a box of paper, and gave him a time limit to use up all the pencils.

He became a strict teacher, but Lin Yu felt that working here was too easy.

Lin Yu originally thought that he would have to be busy every day to earn two cents of silver a month, but every day he just sat leisurely in the yard embroidering, and rested when it was dinner time. He was not asked to work overtime at night, and he was given two days of vacation every month.

In addition, they provide three meals a day, including white flour buns or rice, sometimes noodles, and meat at every meal. The food in this family is much better, and every day is like New Year's Day.

At first he was embarrassed to eat here, but after a while, he started to treat this place as his home.

In fact, this place is much better than home. He is not bullied by his brother and sister-in-law, nor is he ordered around by his mother-in-law and father-in-law. There is no Zhao Yanlin who belittles him every day. Life is very comfortable.

I didn’t feel wronged when I was at home, but after coming here, when I think back on my previous life, I feel wronged.

During the day at work, Mai Miao is a quiet person, while at night Liu Ya is a talkative person, but she never says anything he doesn't like to hear and always praises him.

I praised him for his good figure and said he looked good in any clothes. I also invited him to go shopping with me on holidays to buy fabrics or jewelry. I also praised his big, round eyes like a kitten, saying that his skin was too rough and he had some acne.

Liu Ya gave him the soap from home and said that after washing his face with it, he felt very refreshed and all the oil on his face was gone.

These soaps were failed products made by Yuanbao when he was experimenting with new products, and some were damaged during transportation. There were a lot of them at home, and Shen Yuntang told him to take them if he wanted to use them, and he was welcome.

He felt that Shen Yuntang was like an older brother, sometimes gentle, sometimes strict. But when he was strict, he didn't scold him. Instead, he had high expectations for him in learning painting and working. Every time he pointed out his mistakes, he would point out the key points. He made rapid progress after improving them, and would get praise from Shen Yuntang when he did well. Even if he had small advantages that he hadn't noticed, Shen Yuntang would specially praise them, which made him feel warm in his heart.

After Lin Yu used the soap for a while, the acne on his face disappeared and his skin became smooth.

Another thing is that I don’t have to live in fear every day, my mood has improved, and my overall state of mind has improved.

While embroidering during the day, Shen Yuntang also had to talk business with people and help people get goods. Lin Yu especially admired this about him, as he could talk business with so many men so naturally and without being outshined.

Lin Yu had been suppressed by Zhao Yanlin's words for a long time, and felt that his brother was inferior to men and was not worthy of carbon trading with men.

But Shen Yuntang was very natural, and no man looked down on him. The two sides seemed to be equal.

Lin Yu once couldn't help but say to Shen Yuntang: "You are really awesome, like a man."

Shen Yuntang couldn't help but frown when he heard this and corrected him: "It's not like a man. There are excellent brothers and bad men. Don't always belittle yourself. Others don't belittle you, but you still belittle yourself. This will not change. Otherwise, praise yourself a few words every morning."

"Praise yourself?" Lin Yu had never been praised by anyone since he was a child, and he had never praised himself before.

Shen Yuntang saw this method from a TV series, and he didn’t know whether it would work or not. He could ask Lin Yu to give it a try.

"I can't say it..." Lin Yu began to retreat again, "Let's just forget it."

"From now on, every morning, you and my cousin will go to the yard, and Liu Ya and I will check it. You must praise yourself at least three times." Shen Yuntang thought that his cousin was in the same state, so he called her over so that they could have company.

Liu Ya came over to find them and heard this, "I want to participate too. I can name twenty!"

Seeing how lively and cute he was, Shen Yuntang couldn't help but joked, "If I ask you to praise yourself, you won't be able to stop until dark."

"Hehe, it feels great to have confidence and it feels great to love yourself. Ever since I started paying more attention to my feelings and stopped blaming myself, I'm happy every day." Liu Ya said with a smile.

"How come you are similar to my husband in this respect?" Shen Yuntang thought that Cheng Yeran often praised himself and him. Hearing the praise every day, his mood would indeed improve and he would become a better person.

"How about this, since you can't tell us about your own strengths, let's tell each other about each other's strengths, at least three every day." Shen Yuntang called his cousins ​​and Liu Ya to come and hold a meeting every morning before work. The content of the meeting was to praise each other in any aspect, such as appearance, personality, and work ability.

He also told Cheng Yeran about this plan in the evening. Whenever he couldn't make up his mind, he would ask Cheng Yeran for his opinion. He didn't know if what he was doing was right. Would it have the opposite effect, making them reluctant to go to work and all run back home and stop working for him?

Cheng Yeran heard it and said, "Not bad, they even came up with a corporate culture."

It was this culture that reminded Cheng Yeran of some videos of pyramid schemes he had seen before, where they also shouted “I can do it!” every day. I can! I'm the best! We should also encourage each other and call the people we work with family.

However, their starting points are different. MLM is to brainwash people, while Shen Yuntang is to help them regain their confidence.

"You can give it a try, it can also enhance their relationship. Originally, they are all busy with their own work on weekdays. Except for Liu Ya and Lin Yu who live together and can talk to each other, Mai Miao and cousin are both quiet. They don't look familiar with each other, and Lin Yu and cousin Mai Miao are not familiar with each other either. If you get them together for a while every day, they will understand each other better and become good friends." Cheng Yeran believed that one of the main reasons for the inferiority complex of cousin and Lin Yu was that they had not made the right friends.

Being suppressed by parents and husband at home and having no friends outside, people will definitely have psychological problems. Now they have all become friends, and it is lively and lively. They can encourage each other, play together, and chat together. After getting familiar with each other, if they are unhappy, they can complain to each other, help each other with ideas, or help each other to scold scumbags. Maybe it can even cure Lin Yu's love brain.

Shen Yuntang specially reserved a meeting place for them and told the men in the family not to come and watch.

During the morning meeting, Liu Ya asked curiously, "Why didn't Yuan Bao come? Should we wait for him?"

When Shen Yuntang heard him ask this, he remembered that he seemed to have never introduced to everyone that Yuanbao was actually a boy.

Yuanbao's real gender has never been made public, but there is no need to hide it at home. What's more, Cheng Yeran's classmates also know that Yuanbao is a boy. This matter can no longer be concealed and will be exposed sooner or later. He told Liu Ya and the others.

"Yuanbao is Cheng Yeran's cousin, a boy." After Shen Yuntang said this, he saw Liu Ya's expression as if struck by lightning, and rubbed his forehead helplessly. It was all because Yuanbao dressed too much like him, and he didn't expect to fool the real guy.

"He's a boy? That's impossible? A few days ago, I was discussing with him which rouge and powder are the best. How could he be a boy?" Liu Ya had regarded Yuan Bao as her best friend for a long time, but now Shen Yuntang told her that her best friend is actually a man! He hates men the most, how can he make friends with men?

He was confused and wanted to get angry, but he didn't know who to be angry with. He stammered, "But, he, he has a mole, how can he not be a boy?"

"That was drawn." Shen Yuntang still remembered that the pen was a red oil pen that Cheng Yeran bought specially. The oil pen was less likely to fall off than the cinnabar that Yuanbao used at the beginning. It could not be wiped off with hands. Sometimes you had to wash your face two or three times before it would fall off.

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Yuanbao repainted it every day, deepening the color. He doubted whether the mole could be washed off. If everyone thought he was a scoundrel in the future, would he still be able to find a wife?

“But, why is he?” Liu Ya still couldn’t recover. He couldn’t accept it. He had helped Yuanbao put on makeup before, Yuanbao had helped him comb his hair, and they had gone shopping together to pick out jewelry. How could he be a boy? !

How can a boy have such good makeup skills? He didn't believe it, he would rather his cousin was lying to him.

Shen Yuntang explained the whole story from beginning to end. "If you can't accept it, just continue to treat him as your brother. I think he already treats himself as a brother."

"Why would anyone want to be a brother?" Lin Yu suffered a lot because of his identity as a brother since he was a child. Sometimes he would secretly envy his younger brother who could go to school, did not have to do housework, and received praise from the elders at home. However, no matter how much he did, he would not get any praise from his parents, and those were what he should do as a brother.

After getting married, the husband no longer has to worry about his parents and can go out to study. The whole family will give him money, while she will take care of all the housework at home.

At first he thought this was what he should do, but recently Liu Ya had told him many different opinions, and he began to wonder, why? Is it true that I am inferior to others?

Now seeing Yuanbao actually took the initiative to dress up as a boy, he found it very incredible.

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The results of Cheng Yeran’s last exam came out. He was still in Class C, but he moved from the middle to the top of the class.

Most of the students in their class were scholars, but they failed the test as he, a non-scholar, did. Many people felt ashamed, while others were not convinced and thought that Cheng Yeran had cheated.

Some people also suspected that Cheng Yeran was close to Yang Shiming, and Yang Shiming was close to the Master. Was it that Cheng Yeran gave Yang Shiming benefits, and Yang Shiming secretly slipped questions to Cheng Yeran?

Some people secretly made up stories about Cheng Yeran in dark corners, while some people simply came to Cheng Yeran and asked him, "Did you plagiarize? You must have plagiarized, otherwise how could you improve so quickly?"

"No wonder your grades are so bad, it turns out it's because you spent all your time on me instead of focusing on your own studies," Cheng Yeran shook his head, "Oh, my damn charm, it's all my fault, my handsomeness affected your studies, don't push, I'll sign autographs for you one by one later."

These people were shocked by his shameless appearance and didn't know how to respond for a moment.

Generally speaking, in this situation, shouldn't the person under suspicion try to defend himself in every possible way? How did he change the topic to another one, and said that they did not do well in the exam because they were attracted by his charm.

"We are all men, don't be so disgusting." One of them blushed and jumped directly into the self-proving trap set by Cheng Yeran for him.

"If you don't like it, why did you gather around my desk as soon as the get out of class was over, and get so close to me? You must want to be the first to talk to me before everyone else," Cheng Yeran shook his head. "If you did this to deliberately attract my attention, congratulations, you did it. I did talk to you, and I said so many words to you. Will you be so excited that you can't sleep when you go home at night? This is so bad. Not to mention that it affects your studies, your wife will also be unhappy, right?"

"You're talking nonsense!" He immediately jumped back a step. Seeing that some classmates were laughing at him, he thought that everyone must have believed what Cheng Yeran said and that was why they were laughing at him.

He went from nervous to angry again, and grabbed the book on Cheng Yeran's desk and threw it to the ground, "You're talking nonsense, I like pigs and dogs, but I won't like you!"

"We are all men. I understand. Some men like to bully the people they like. The angrier you are and the more you bully me, the more you like me." Cheng Yeran did not pick up the book, fearing that he would throw it again. He looked at the classmates around the man and asked, "Are you the same as him?"

"We didn't, we didn't say anything." They were all educated people and they all wanted to save face, so those people quickly stepped back and dispersed, fearing that they would be misunderstood as liking men.

The teacher just came in at this time, and the man who was so angry that he threw the book left.

Cheng Yeran was just about to bend down to pick up the book on the ground when a man sitting next to him helped him pick up the book.

Cheng Yeran had attended the same large class with him and knew that his name was Lu Liu. When he first enrolled, Lu Liu was in Class B. However, in this exam, he was assigned to Class C, which was behind Cheng Yeran. His grades had dropped quite seriously.

"Don't let them affect your mood." Lu Liu helped him pick up the book and patted it on the table. He lowered his voice for fear that the teacher would hear.

After class, he thanked Lu Liu. Lu Liu said that they were actually from the same village, but later their family moved to the county town to do small business.

He also asked Cheng Yeran how he improved his grades. His grades have dropped significantly recently, and he wanted to ask Cheng Yeran some questions. He wondered if it was possible.

Cheng Yeran didn't think much about it and just thought that he was being nice to her just to get her help with his studies.

Cheng Yeran believed that while helping others study, he could also consolidate his knowledge, so he helped Lu Liu look at the test paper from the last exam.

Although the levels of the four classes were different, the questions were the same. He found that there were ink spots on Lu Liu's paper, which was stained. This was a taboo in the exam. It could easily be regarded as a cheating mark in the imperial examination, and in serious cases the test paper would be invalidated.

But his writing level is pretty good. He shouldn't make low-level mistakes with his writing level. No wonder the teacher assigned him to Class C. Maybe he wanted to warn him.

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The soap shop has been renovated, but only one type of packaging for the new soap has been made. The other type has been changed to a box with a card mixed in. There is still time to make it, but the rent for the shop has been paid. Yuanbao said that he would open the shop first and only sell a new model of soap.

A total of 200 pieces of peach blossom soap were made, and the rest were the old soy milk soaps. A large portrait of Yuanbao was hung on the wall in the center of the lobby on the first floor, and the other one was kept secret for the time being.

The same clothes are also on the shelves, hanging on the first and second floors. Although there are only male customers on the first floor, they may also buy clothes for their wives and husbands.

The other set and women's clothing will be hung out after the boxes are printed.

There are no portraits on the second floor, but you can see Yuanbao himself on the second floor, so the boys and girls who go up to the second floor will not feel at a disadvantage.

Yuanbao placed a table by the window and made soap by the window to attract customers. Of course, he would not sit there all the time. Occasionally, when there were important customers, he would receive them personally.

On the opening day, Cheng Yeran invited a few familiar classmates to come and show his support.

In fact, they wanted to come and buy the new soap without Cheng Yeran inviting them. Cheng Yeran said he would save one for them and bring it directly to the academy, but they said they wanted to buy it in person so that they could have a better atmosphere.

Cheng Yeran also thought about the time when their noodle shop opened, they invited a county magistrate. On weekdays, the constables would go to the noodle shop to eat noodles. From the opening of the noodle shop to now, they have not encountered any troublemakers.

Even though the noodle shop later added more alcohol, no drunkard dared to cause trouble.

We can also invite the county magistrate to come for the opening ceremony. Last time, County Magistrate Chen said that his wife liked those soaps very much, but his wife was not sociable and did not go out to promote them.

He also kept in touch with the other party. After making sausages, he would send some to County Magistrate Chen. Whenever he was free on holidays, he would visit County Magistrate Chen, show him his recent report cards or articles, and ask him for his advice.

Even if he was not free on holidays, he would usually write to County Magistrate Chen, writing down the difficulties he had encountered recently in his studies and asking him about them.

County Magistrate Chen even jokingly asked him if he really treated him as a free teacher, but County Magistrate Chen did not find him annoying. Instead, he admired him for his ambition and said that he had not misjudged him.

Cheng Yeran wrote a letter to County Magistrate Chen saying that he had opened a new shop and invited him to come and support it. County Magistrate Chen wrote back to him telling him not to focus on these things, as studying was the important thing, and it would not be too late to do these things after he passed the exam and became an official.

But at the end of the letter I still wrote that I would come and take a look.