Han Mei immediately gritted her teeth and said, "I'll try to scrape together another ten thousand taels."
Han Mei didn't want to see Song Mengyun make the money.
"Hmph! You're quite cunning! Fine! Then it'll be as you say, I'll go and raise the money in a bit, and we'll go get the soap tomorrow!" Song Mengyun sneered.
After discussing it, the two went to the silver shop in Donghai Town together.
Gu Lili replenished the warehouse with 5,000 bars of soap and then went to work in the fields.
But when harvesting rice, he was clearly distracted.
Although he had earned a large sum of money today, including the reward, he was still worried about Yin Jiuchen.
"Lili, you are so amazing! It's a pity we were so busy harvesting rice today that we didn't get to see you being conferred the title of Princess!"
Aunt Zhang's words brought Gu Lili back to her senses.
Gu Lili shook her head and laughed, "Auntie, I was just lucky, I'm not as amazing as you say."
The news of Gu Lili being granted the title of Princess spread as early as lunchtime today.
So when Gu Lili first arrived at the rice paddy, everyone stopped what they were doing and bowed to her.
Gu Lili quickly told everyone to drop the formalities and instructed them to remain as they always had and not to be overly polite.
"Lili, you're a princess now, you shouldn't be doing farm work. I've never heard of a princess doing farm work," Aunt Zhang said, covering her mouth with a laugh.
Aunt Zhang thought to herself, Gu Lili is truly a unique girl.
Most people, once they have money, think about enjoying life, but Gu Lili is different.
He does everything himself, and doesn't even have a maidservant by his side.
Gu Lili was preoccupied with her own thoughts, so she followed Aunt Zhang's advice and went home.
The Japanese have always been cunning, so Gu Lili decided to come up with a plan to help Yin Jiuchen defeat Japan and achieve victory as soon as possible.
Tranquilizer guns are clearly not suitable for large-scale use; they are not only expensive but also raise suspicion.
Another issue is firearms, which Gu Lili doesn't want to bring to this era.
Gu Lili lay on the bed, flipping through the Space Business Manual while thinking of a solution.
Suddenly, a Kongming lantern caught Gu Lili's eye.
Gu Lili immediately jumped up!
We have a way to repel the enemy!
Gu Lili immediately conveyed her thoughts to Uncle Facai before going back to work in the fields.
Aunt Zhang was somewhat puzzled when she saw Gu Lili return.
Uncle Facai had almost finished collecting the crabs, and after receiving Gu Lili's instructions, he rushed towards the border between Nanyue Kingdom and Fusang without stopping.
Early the next morning, Han Mei and Song Mengyun came to pick up the soap with 25,000 taels of silver notes.
After counting the silver notes, Gu Lili gave them the soap in full.
Han Mei and Song Mengyun took the soap and left the Gu family.
They didn't even have lunch before heading to the capital.
They planned to return to the capital as soon as possible and exchange the soap they had for silver.
To avoid any unforeseen complications.
However, when they returned to the capital, they were completely dumbfounded.
The soap, which was once sought after by ladies, has suddenly become unwanted.
Because there are now a few merchants in Beijing selling soap.
Everyone is scrambling to buy scented soap, and they don't care even though it's many times more expensive than regular soap.
Of course, it's not that soap became unwanted or couldn't fetch a good price.
Previously, the Han family had increased the price of their soap tenfold, but now, even after lowering it from ten taels, nine taels, eight taels, to five taels, no one is buying it.
Song Mengyun and Han Mei were on the verge of tears.
In the end, the two parted on bad terms because of the soap.
Later, Gu Lili heard that Han Mei's soap was sold at a loss of two ounces before it was finally sold.
Song Mengyun, however, was inflexible and remained determined not to lose money. In the end, the several thousand bars of soap became a family heirloom for the Song family.
However, these are all things that happened later.
Gu Lili is currently busy harvesting and drying rice all day long, and has no time to care about anything else.
Gu Lili was busy harvesting and drying the rice for more than twenty days, almost a month.
On this day, after the last harvest of rice had dried, Uncle Facai returned.
Although Gu Lili's family has many houses, if so much rice is piled up, it will definitely cause a rat infestation.
Moreover, rice changes flavor if it's left out for too long.
So, after Uncle Facai returned, Gu Lili paid the taxes immediately and "sold" 90% of the remaining amount to Uncle Facai.
While it's called selling, it's actually a disguised way of bringing the rice into Gu Lili's space.
In this space, the rice doesn't have to worry about being stolen by mice, nor does it have to worry about the rice becoming stale over time.
When you need it again, you can simply "buy" it out.
After the rice harvest, it's time to plant wheat.
This time, Gu Lili not only planted wheat, but also rapeseed flowers!
The Emperor bestowed upon Gu Lili another 500 mu of fertile land. Gu Lili decided to use 300 mu to grow wheat, 200 mu to grow rapeseed, and the remaining 100 mu, under the pretext of Uncle Facai, she bought several thousand jin of potatoes for him to plant in front of everyone.
Everyone still comes to Gu Lili's house to help out after finishing their own work.
As her land holdings increased, Gu Lili asked the village head to help her find many people from neighboring villages to assist her.
With so many people helping out, it was naturally difficult for Gu Lili's family to provide meals.
Therefore, Gu Lili paid an extra three coins, and the wages for working at Gu Lili's house for a day were twenty-three coins.
Although meals are no longer provided, wages have increased.
People from the neighboring village flocked to help Gu Lili's family with their farming.
Since it's far to go home for meals, they all bring their own dry food.
Everyone was hoping to earn more money before winter to buy some warm clothes for their families.
With more people helping, Gu Lili stopped going down to the fields.
She told Wei Yin and a few of her bodyguards, along with Li Tiansheng and a few others, to keep an eye on them while she began developing a formula for medicated soap.
After repeated experiments, Gu Lili has mastered the recipe proportions.
With enough people farming these days, Gu Lili's soap workshop has become busy again.
As more and more merchants came to buy soap, Gu Lili specially reserved the previously expanded courtyard for making soap.
The room that was originally used for soap and maltose was now used specifically for boiling maltose.
Everything is proceeding smoothly and in an orderly manner.
As the autumn wind gradually brought a chill, the girls' school was officially established.
Gu Lili, Lin Xiyao, and Lord Lin discussed it and decided that since it was to be built in Gu Manor, it should simply be called Gu Manor Girls' School.
This was the day the girls' school began enrolling students.
Early in the morning, Gu Lili and the Lin family were already at the entrance of the girls' school.
Seeing the plaque hung high above the girls' school gate meant that girls in Guzhuang and even the surrounding area would be able to read and write in the future.
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