Chapter 78: The Soap Recipe Leaked (Please collect, vote, and leave a message)
Fang was an experienced person and understood it immediately.
He pulled Xie Tingting behind him and sternly refused: "What a child is talking about. What kind of soap can she make! Shopkeeper Cui, don't take it seriously."
Xie Tingting smiled and came out from behind her, saying, "Mom, Manager Cui is the manager of the Jingchuan branch of Sihai Pavilion. How dare I say anything nonsense in front of an expert?"
Fang was panicking. She knew that Tiffany Xie could not bear the suffering of exile and was afraid that she would never get out of exile in a few months. Tiffany Xie wanted to use her beauty to escape exile.
But Tiffany Xie is young after all and doesn’t understand men. Cui Mingshi looks very elegant, but he is not a pushover.
He was smiling, but that smile was purely superficial; this man was very cold.
Xie Tingting said to Fang seriously, "Mom, my second uncle and third sister told me the recipe for making soap. Big brother Xie Ning also knows how to make it, and he taught me."
Cui Mingshi asked playfully, "Are you really Xie Anfeng's niece?"
Xie Tingting pulled a nearby prisoner and said, "Tell this nobleman what is the relationship between me and General Xie Anfeng?"
"You are his niece! He is your uncle."
It’s just that he is a legitimate descendant, and your father is a bastard.
Cui Mingshi felt a little contemptuous when he saw her coming up to him and trying to offer him the prescription.
Recipes are so important that they are the lifeblood of a business.
This little woman is obsessed with using General Xie's prescription to seduce me!
Cui Mingshi was torn between his conscience and his desires. He smiled and said, "Well, when you guys get to Jingchuan, I'll pick you up and give it a try."
"It's a deal." Tiffany Xie suppressed her excitement, tried to be dignified, and said goodbye to Cui Mingshi.
Cui Mingshi's carriage left quickly.
In a deserted place, he immediately wrote a piece of paper, rolled it into a small roll, tied it to the leg of the pigeon in the cage, and released the pigeon.
Half a day later, Chu Xiwang was reviewing documents in his mansion when a carrier pigeon landed in front of the window and cooed.
He took a look and the pigeon flew in from the window by itself and jumped onto the table. Chu Xiwang then saw the small scroll of silk on the pigeon's feet.
"The message has been delivered. Someone from Kyoto has taken Xie Anfeng and his daughter away. They will be back in three to five months. The escort and Xie Anfeng's legitimate son have kept silent about this."
Chu Xiwang read the note twice.
Both father and daughter were taken away to Kyoto?
Since you're going to Kyoto, why do you need to wait three to five months to come back?
Three to five months, one month there and one month back... Could it be that he went to the northwest to control the locust plague?
"Check again"
He wrote two words, fed the pigeons, picked a pigeon from the cage, tied the note, and released it.
Ever since Cui Mingshi said that he would pick her up in person in Jingchuan City to make soap, Xie Tingting started to take action. She wanted to get the soap recipe from Xie Ning.
Fang thought she was crazy: "Tingting, don't mess with Cui Mingshi. That man is not a good person."
Xie Tingting sneered: "My father is a kind man, but what's the use? Apart from being a bully at home, what else can he do?"
"Mother, even if we deceive ourselves and say that we are the legitimate branch, who would be convinced? If it weren't for my grandfather relying on the title of Marquis and the dowry of Grandmother Xu, who in the Xie family would support him to be the patriarch?"
"The only benefit of him being the clan leader is that he helped my grandmother become the legitimate heir. We may look like the legitimate heir, but who will recognize us in our hearts?"
"Look at the Su family. The clan leader manages the entire family well. What about our Xie family? It's a mess."
"Mom, I have to seize the opportunity and live a good life on my own. I can't rely on my father. What can my father do to dig shit, empty urine and carry heavy bags in the exile area?"
After hearing what Tiffany Xie said, Fang felt as if her heart was being stabbed by a knife.
Although she was not from a high-class family, she was still a legitimate daughter, but she was deceived into marrying Xie Qingmu, a fake legitimate son.
After a while of sadness, she said, "I understand that you want to live a good life, but the soap recipe is hard to get, and Xie Ning will definitely not tell us."
"Just knowing the basics is enough. I will tell Cui Mingshi that the recipe is in the hands of a few people and I only know one of the steps. Besides, Shopkeeper Cui looks like he must have a connection with my uncle and my third sister. After all, I am Xie Anfeng's biological niece. Even if I lie, he won't kill me."
As long as she is given the opportunity to be alone with Cui Mingshi, she will be able to catch Cui Mingshi.
Fang felt very upset. Xie Tingting was more beautiful than Xie Xiangxiang, and looked like old Shen. It was old Shen's good looks that seduced Xie Jinrong for a lifetime.
No mother wants her daughter to seduce a man and become his concubine, but Tiffany Hsieh no longer has the qualifications to choose her own man.
It is a sinful body and his innocence is gone.
The mother and daughter discussed who they could learn the breakthrough from so that they could get the soap-making recipe.
It is absolutely impossible to ask the Xie Ning brothers directly, and Song Lingling won’t tell me either. The best choice is Jiang Shuang.
During the lunch break, Fang found Jiang Shuang, grabbed her hand, pulled her aside, and cried, "Second sister-in-law, I have had abdominal pain these days, and my period has been coming for a long time."
Jiang Shuang noticed that Fang's hands were cold in the hot summer, so she became anxious: "Do you want to see a doctor? Should we tell Lord Li?"
"I don't have any money. Second sister-in-law, you also know that Tingting and I were trapped by those evil people... Since then, we have been suffering day and night. Tingting has even gone crazy. I don't know if she can survive to the place of exile!"
Jiang Shuang cried with her for a while. Seeing that the time was almost right, Fang said tentatively, "Second sister-in-law, can you tell me how to make soap? Tingting and I can earn three or five dollars to buy two doses of medicine."
Jiang Shuang hesitated for a while and wanted to agree. The other person was so sick, couldn't she just help him a little?
"I'm asking Ning'er to give you some silver?"
"Second sister-in-law, we don't even have enough money, and you're asking the eldest master for money. Isn't this making it difficult for me to be a human being?"
Jiang Shuang said, "Yan'er has become estranged from me because of the marriage proposal. She usually ignores me and keeps everything secret from me. I was not even there when she was making soap."
"Tell me the general steps. Just make a few pieces and exchange them for some silver. Even if we want to make more, Lord Li won't allow us to compete for the profits."
Fang was very good at speaking. Every word she said hit the nail on the head. Her words were both emotional and reasonable. Jiang Shuang had no doubt about it and described the ingredients she had seen: caustic soda, grass juice, lard, and mold.
Caustic soda and lard were also boiled together. She had a rough idea of how long it would take, and she even told Fang about things like stirring.
Although she didn't know the crucial details, the recipe was leaked.
He also kindly said, "Stirring is very tiring. Don't do it yourself. Let your bastards do it. You can't support them for nothing."
Fang was extremely grateful and complimented her: "You are lucky, my second sister-in-law. My second brother doesn't take concubines, so the backyard is clean. Unlike me, I am always annoyed by a bunch of illegitimate children. I am so angry that I am about to die."
Jiang Shuang felt very happy and said a few humble words, saying that Xie Qingmu valued Fang the most.
Having done a great thing, Jiang Shuang returned home in a good mood, and saw Xie Ning looking at her coldly with his phoenix eyes.
(End of this chapter)
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