Si Shi Ya Yuan soon began to operate. As Chen Liyue had expected, not only wealthy families but also many literati and scholars flocked to it.
The more unattainable, the better. The reservation list is already filled up until the middle of next month.
Lu Xingzhou had reserved a room for Chen Liyue at the manor, so Chen Liyue didn't need to make a reservation. That day, Chen Liyue invited Lu Yun and Xie Wanting to come for dinner.
"You guys are so good, you did a big business secretly without telling me!" Xie Wanting pretended to be angry and turned her face away from Shen Liyue and Lu Yun.
"It has nothing to do with me." Lu Yun waved her hand. "It was Yue'er and my brother who did it. I have nothing to do with it."
Shen Liyue smiled, knowing that Xie Wanting was not really angry, and stood up to serve Xie Wanting the food herself.
"That's why I specially invited you here today to apologize to you."
"Hmph." Xie Wanting clearly wasn't buying it. "You're not sincere at all."
Shen Liyue smiled and gestured for Yuzhou to hand over a brocade box.
Shen Liyue took the brocade box and handed it to Xie Wanting.
"What about this? Is it sincere enough?"
Xie Wanting was indeed attracted by the brocade box. "What is it?"
"Open it and take a look."
Xie Wanting opened the brocade box and smiled at the first sight. "What a beautiful hairpin!"
Lu Yun leaned over curiously and saw that the brocade box contained a jade hairpin that was completely emerald green, with a magnolia carved on the end.
The magnolia flower was carved so delicately and lifelike that you could almost smell its fragrance when you got close to it.
Shen Liyue took out the jade hairpin and pinned it on Xie Wanting’s bun with her own hands.
"So, can you calm down now?"
Xie Wanting curled her lips, then quickly smiled, "For the sake of this hairpin, I reluctantly forgive you."
Lu Yun was jealous. It was not that she had never seen good things before. She had seen jade hairpins of better quality than this one in the palace. But this hairpin was so exquisitely made that Lu Yun could not help but touch it and could not let it go.
Lu Yun was just about to ask Chen Liyue for one when he suddenly saw a servant coming in from the door.
This boy is Bai Shan.
Bai Shan walked in, greeted the ladies, and then whispered something in Shen Liyue's ear.
"Marquis Yong'an's Mansion?"
Bai Shan replied: "Yes."
"Let's go take a look." Shen Liyue responded. Turning around, she said to Xie Wanting and Lu Yun, "I'm going to take care of some things. I'll be back soon."
Just as Shen Liyue was about to leave, Xie Wanting grabbed her sleeve and said, "Did you just hear you talk about Yong'an Marquis Mansion? Are they here to cause trouble for you?"
Shen Liyue shook her head and explained in a low voice, "They said someone from Yong'an Marquis' Mansion was coming, but they didn't make a reservation in advance. Now they're being stopped outside the manor. I guess they feel humiliated and are angry."
"Then I'll go too." Xie Wanting turned around and said to Lu Yun, "Stop eating, let's go take a look together."
When the three of them arrived at the entrance of the village, they saw Chen Lijiao and her group standing at the door. The servant who was receiving them at the door stood aside. He didn't dare to let Chen Lijiao and her group in, but he didn't dare to do anything to them either.
Seeing Shen Liyue coming, Shen Lijiao became even more angry.
"Is this how you treat guests, sister?"
Chen Lijiao had recently heard that there was a newly opened farm on the outskirts of the city with a very good reputation. She sent someone to inquire about it and found out that the farm was actually opened by Chen Liyue. Before Chen Liyue took over the Jiang business, Jiang was quite tolerant of them. The young ladies of the Shen family always put the money on account when they went to Jiang to buy things. Although they said it was a bill, they never went to settle the bill.
Jiang always turned a blind eye, thinking of her family, and never asked them for money.
Ever since Shen Liyue took over the business, she stopped them from keeping accounts. The last time she cut clothes, it caused the He family to lose such a big person, and Shen Lijiao still remembered it.
Ever since Chen Lijiao got engaged to the Yong'an Marquis Mansion, the sisters who usually played well with her all looked up to her and praised her to the sky. This time, when they heard that this manor was opened by Chen Liyue and it was extremely difficult to make a reservation, they urged Chen Lijiao to come forward and also wanted to come to the manor to take a look.
Chen Lijiao thought, although Chen Liyue doesn't allow them to hang up their accounts now, they should at least give them some face and let them in, right? Chen Lijiao herself was unsure, but she couldn't resist the high praise of several sisters, so she came directly.
As a result, when they arrived at the door, Shen Lijiao first reported the name of the second young lady of the Shen family, but the servant politely refused.
Chen Lijiao had no choice but to bring up the name of Yong'an Marquis Mansion, but the servant still refused to let her in.
Chen Liyue nodded to Chen Lijiao as a greeting, then turned to ask the servant at the door, "Didn't you say someone from Yong'an Marquis' Mansion was coming? Why aren't they here?"
The servant pointed at Shen Lijiao and said, "It's this girl."
Shen Liyue looked at Shen Lijiao, and Shen Lijiao's face turned red with shame.
Chen Liyue raised her eyebrows, but remained silent. She didn't want to lose face in front of Chen Lijiao's best friend.
Xie Wanting didn't care about that and asked, "Who is here from the Yong'an Marquis' Mansion?"
"Sister, have you forgotten? The second young lady of the Shen family is engaged to the Yong'an Marquis' Mansion." Lu Yun deliberately continued.
Xie Wanting slapped her forehead, as if she suddenly understood, "If we get engaged, does that mean I belong to the Yong'an Marquis Mansion?"
Then he turned to ask Chen Liyue, "Does the Yong'an Marquis Mansion know about this?"
Shen Liyue shook her head.
"This is strange. She hasn't even married yet, but she dares to come out and cheat people under the name of Yong'an Marquis Mansion. I didn't know that the family tradition of Yong'an Marquis Mansion is so lax now. I must talk to Madam Fang someday."
"Who are you calling a swindler?" A girl in emerald green clothes next to Chen Lijiao said. Chen Lijiao's face turned pale with shame and she couldn't speak.
Shen Liyue gently stopped Xie Wanting, turned to Shen Lijiao and said, "If you want to enter the manor, you must make a reservation. Once the rules are set, they cannot be broken at will."
"Who made these bullshit rules..." Shen Lijiao knew she was in the wrong, so she spoke in a much lower voice.
Lu Yun still heard it and said loudly: "My royal brother decided it, what's wrong?"
"King Yi?" Shen Lijiao couldn't believe it.
"Exactly." Lu Yun rolled his eyes.
Lu Yun brought up Prince Yi, and Shen Lijiao was completely silenced.
It was useless for her to bring up anyone's name. No one could surpass Prince Yi, unless it was the two in the palace.
"No wonder sister is so domineering, it's because she's relying on the help of King Yi." Chen Li said bitterly, then remembered something and chuckled, "No wonder sister Yue'er was so anxious to break off the engagement with the Yong'an Marquis Mansion, it turns out she's climbed up the high branch of King Yi."
Shen Lijiao didn't deliberately lower her voice when she said this, and everyone around her heard it.
Chen Liyue didn't want to argue with Chen Lijiao, but she became a little angry when she heard the words.
"I never thought that someone would be willing to take possession of something I didn't want." Chen Liyue said calmly.
Chen Lijiao was touched by Chen Liyue's heart, and she didn't care about her face anymore, and said without thinking: "Just after breaking off the engagement, she hooked up with Prince Yi right after. Sister really has a lot of tricks!"
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