Chapter 78 Strange
Before opening her shop, Wang Erya specifically used the marketing techniques Lin Yuhan had given her in modern times to recruit a group of young girls for training.
Although the customers already liked the beautiful jewelry, Wang Erya still gave each piece a beautiful meaning based on the labels Lin Yuhan had put on them.
If a customer needs an introduction, I'll bring up those special meanings along the way. As long as the customer isn't short of money, nine times out of ten they'll just buy it.
For example, yellow crystals bring wealth and peace to the home.
Purple crystal can improve sleep, promote health, ward off evil spirits, and protect against backstabbers, etc.
There are also various kinds of jade and pearls. The pearls are modern artificially cultivated, round and full, and some are made into necklaces, while others are made into handicrafts.
The pearls in the Da Jin Dynasty are all harvested by pearl divers at sea. Due to limited conditions, the output is very low. However, the pearl jewelry and handicrafts in Wang Er Ya's area are very beautiful.
Although Wang Erya's apparent backer is the daughter of the prefect, people now have other speculations about her background. Otherwise, how could a refugee who fled here have the ability to obtain so many valuable ornaments?
Wang Erya didn't explain this, and whenever someone asked, she would say that it was brought back from overseas with great difficulty and at a high cost.
The shops in the prefectural city were booming, and merchants from other places saw the business opportunity and wanted to buy goods from Wang Erya to sell elsewhere. Wang Erya sold them at two-thirds of the price marked in the shop as wholesale price and made a fortune.
For this reason, Wang Erya also found Brother Wu, who had led the way on their escape from famine. After arriving in the prefectural city, Brother Wu couldn't find any work for a while. Later, he rented a shop to do business, but business was lukewarm.
Wang Erya then asked Brother Wu to take charge of external business. Brother Wu's personal abilities were quite good, and the two had already had some contact. Moreover, Brother Wu's whole family was now living next door to Wang Erya, so he knew the details quite well.
If Angkor performs well, she will continue to use him as before, and at the same time, she will continue to train other capable staff and find opportunities to promote them later.
At this point, Wang Erya's business finally took a big step forward. The upper class of the city could not fathom the power behind Wang Erya, nor did they dare to mock her to her face.
Ning Xuan was quite envious as she watched the two of them start to seriously pursue their careers, but her circumstances didn't allow it yet, so she decided to keep things just flirting for now.
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In the Great Northern Wilderness, Zhang Xiuying looked at her hands covered in mud and grime, and couldn't help but cry.
Thinking back to when she finally arrived at the farm after several days of travel, all she saw was boundless desolation. The place she lived in was even worse than Gou Sheng's house, which she had once despised. It was a low and dilapidated dugout.
However, because she was small, she could live alone in a room with her mother. The mud-brick house was a large communal room, but it was already full of people. The two of them, who came later, lived in the dugouts that other people used to live in.
"Mom, when can we go back? I don't want to stay here anymore. I don't want to work..." Zhang Xiuying complained to Yu Meifang with a sob in her voice.
Yu Meifang also longed to leave this place. If she had known it would turn out this way, she should have filed for divorce when she found out about Zhang Youde's misconduct, and she wouldn't have ended up in this situation today.
“Mom also wants to leave. Let’s be patient a little longer. We’ve just arrived, and they’re still quite wary of us. Once they’re less strict with us, we’ll write to your aunt and send her a telegram to ask her for help.”
"Don't sit there anymore, the team leader is looking over here again." Yu Meifang noticed the team leader looking this way again and quickly reminded Zhang Xiuying to get up and get back to work.
They are currently busy with spring plowing. After spring plowing is over, they will have to clear wasteland, which is even more arduous than spring plowing. Yu Meifang, who has been an official's wife for many years, finds it unbearable.
Seeing her once well-maintained hands become rough in just a few days, with many scratches even when wearing gloves, Yu Meifang comforted her daughter, but she was actually devastated herself.
Suddenly, Yu Meifang saw a middle-aged man working efficiently and looking quite strong not far away, and an idea flashed through her mind.
Next, when Yu Meifang was working, she would deliberately move closer to that man, and she would deliberately bend over or squat on the ground to pick things up in a way that would accentuate her figure.
To make the farm more attractive, even though it's not convenient to take a bath there, Yu Meifang would try to boil some hot water after cooking, and she would wash her body and face every day, even though it was very little.
Zhang Xiuying also loves cleanliness, so she shares the limited amount of hot water with Yu Meifang every day.
Even if Yu Meifang and Zhang Xiuying didn't dress up deliberately, they were already quite eye-catching since they had only been there a short time and their skin hadn't yet been tanned or roughened.
So not long after, Yu Meifang got her wish and hooked up with that strong middle-aged man to do her work.
Yu Meifang's initial idea was just to flirt a little, let the other person hold her hand and take advantage of her, and also get them to do more work for her.
But that man wasn't stupid. He came to the farm because of his conduct, and he had been taking care of himself in that area for so long that he was really pent up.
In fact, he had his eye on Yu Meifang and Zhang Xiuying as soon as they arrived, but he didn't dare to take the initiative for fear of getting himself into more serious trouble. In that case, he might not be reformed but instead be put on the gallows.
But now that Yu Meifang has come to him, he would be a fool not to seize the opportunity.
The middle-aged man was more familiar with the farm's terrain than Yu Meifang. After helping Yu Meifang with her work for a while, he used the excuse of giving her food to lure her to a secluded place at night.
Yu Meifang initially refused, but she hadn't had marital relations in a long time. She was only in her early forties, and her sexual needs were at their peak, so she reluctantly agreed and the two had sex.
After that, without the man's coaxing, Yu Meifang would take the initiative to invite him out.
However, what Yu Meifang didn't know was that one time Zhang Xiuying happened to need to use the restroom and saw Yu Meifang quietly leaving the house. Driven by curiosity, she followed her and witnessed her mother and another man performing an explicit act.
Zhang Xiuying was both angry and embarrassed that her mother had acted this way. She also watched for a long time out of curiosity. Then, before the two of them had even finished dressing, she ran back to her residence ahead of time.
Since then, Zhang Xiuying has found herself becoming very strange. She often thinks about the scene she saw that time, and her body also experiences an unbearable feeling of shame.
She also frequently has unspeakable dreams, and Yu Meifang, who is well taken care of by others and receives extra care, is completely unaware of her daughter's strange behavior.
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