Qiao Er pulled Zhang You aside and talked about some irrelevant things.
It's probably just a trick based on Zhang You's background.
After all, Zhang You is not very clear about the original family situation of this body.
Even her parents' names were only occasionally found out when she followed Manager Qiao to do the shopping.
She could only guess and say something ambiguous, mixed in with some cases she had seen.
She fabricated an image for herself of a miserable woman who suffered so much injustice and was sold for rice.
By the way, it highlights how the palace saved her from danger and how kind the second lady was to others.
The whole thing was praised to Qiao Er.
Qiao Er was also happy that she followed her so "wholeheartedly".
Seeing that Zhang You looked loyal, Qiao Er asked Jinglan to bring a small porcelain bottle.
"Lianxiang, I have a new bottle of rouge here. I heard you bought it?"
Jinglan handed the familiar small porcelain bottle to Zhang You.
So that's the purpose.
I want my lipstick formula.
No wonder…
I'm afraid Qiao Er has already found out that it was me who was selling this thing.
She calmly recruited me just for this recipe.
She didn't follow the mansion's rules and punish the servants who engaged in private transactions. So, she wanted to monopolize the entire formula...
Zhang You pretended to look at it for a moment, then looked at Qiao Er cautiously and spoke in panic.
"Please forgive me, Second Miss. I had no choice but to make this.
I owed a lot of money to others and promised to pay them back by the end of the year, but they kept asking for it. I had no choice but to make this rouge and sell it. Please forgive me, Second Miss."
"Oh? So you were the one who made it? If you have such skills, how could your parents let you become a servant in the mansion?"
"Second Miss, you may not know this, but this was only discovered by chance.
When I was young, I often followed my mother to the market. I once happened to see someone making rouge, but the rouge that person made was soaked in paper to make red paper.
At that time, I wanted to follow suit, but my family was poor. Although I wanted to, I couldn't do it because I had no money.
Later, after I entered the mansion, I often followed the steward out of the mansion to purchase things. I happened to see someone making rouge, and I got inspiration. After trying for several months, I gradually made it.
If the Second Miss likes it, I can make it for her."
Qiao Er spoke softly, smiling angrily, "I won't take your things for nothing. How about this? I happen to own a cosmetics shop. You can research new rouge for my shop on a daily basis. For each one you come up with, I'll give you 100 coins."
One hundred wen?
Buyout?
Do you really think I've never seen the world?
Just one hundred coins to buy out my future financial resources.
but.
You can't afford to offend him.
There's no way to hide.
When you live under someone's roof, you have to keep your head down.
Zhang You had a mental struggle in his heart, but he smiled happily on his face, expressing his gratitude for being appreciated by the second young lady.
Qiao Er chatted a little more about the rouge style he wanted, then told Zhang You to get started.
When they met for the first time, Zhang You could tell that although Qiao Er looked gentle, he was also a man of his means.
Zhang You didn't want to get too involved with these people. After all, no one would think that his life was too long.
She just wanted to follow Qiao Er's wishes and do some research for her. As for the rest, it was not something a country girl like her could do.
She doesn't want to expose herself and just wants to live a low-key life.
After Zhang You came to Qiao Er's yard, she recognized almost all the maids there, but she did not see the person who brought her the hot water bottle on New Year's Eve - this means that it is very likely that Zhang You had thanked the wrong person.
Could it be... that I found the wrong person?
Could it be that it was actually Qiao Si who asked someone to send her the hot water bottle?
It seemed that at that time, she had indeed preconceived the idea that Qiao Er was the one who did it...
It seems... accidentally... the truth was revealed...
Zhang You secretly kept this matter in his heart, planning to find out more about it later and then make other plans.
Winter has quietly left, and spring... although it has come, it's almost the same as if it hadn't come.
It's the North after all.
But the arrival of spring also brings good news.
After a winter, the enemy had been weakened and was vulnerable to attack.
They retreated to their towns and signed a truce with the court.
Promise not to offend again.
Dingzhou began to recover and prosper.
The previously interrupted trade gradually returned to normal.
Dingzhou City also became lively.
However, the spring in Dingzhou is still very cold.
It is only warm at noon, and it is still cold in the morning and evening, so you need to wrap yourself in a thin jacket.
Zhang You usually works with Lanxiang and helps take care of the flowers and plants in Qiao Er's greenhouse.
Now that the weather is warmer, the yard, which originally only had a few plum trees, has some greenery.
The flowers in the greenhouse need to be moved out to bask in the sun from time to time when the weather is good and there is plenty of sunshine.
There are a total of nine maids in Qiao Er's yard. In addition to Jinglan, who is a first-class personal maid given by the princess, there are four second-class maids, and three third-class maids, including Zhang You, who is nothing.
After all, she did not take part in the assessment, and now she can only be regarded as Qiao Er's specially recruited maid.
On weekdays, I help her research new rouge.
During this period, Zhang You relied on her memories from her previous life to develop more than a dozen colors of rouge, which she sold to Qiao Er.
If you think about it carefully, she is now a maid with some assets.
Zhang You had the privilege of taking petals from some of Qiao Er's flowers to make lipstick.
Because of its rarity and bright colors, I heard that Qiao Er took it to a shop and sold it for two taels of silver per box!
When Zhang You heard Lanxiang talk about this, he was extremely envious, but Lanxiang said, "That's nothing! If this were in the capital, the second young lady could earn two taels of gold!"
The noble ladies in the capital love these cosmetics all the time. Good rouge is in short supply and only the highest bidder can get it!
Zhang You felt that she was still shallow after all.
Should have thought of it earlier.
This kind of scarce resource has no market in Dingzhou, but in the capital, it is not a problem to make a fortune from it!
What a pity, she is just a little maid.
She can't earn this money.
No matter how many types she researched, she could only get a hundred coins.
Moreover, over the past few months, her recipe had already been learned by those people in Qiao Er Rouge Shop.
I'm afraid that it won't be long before she has to go back to her old job.
It's not that she doesn't want to do her original job.
only……
These three months have been so relaxing!
When people have too much free time, they tend to be reluctant to leave.
It is easy to go from frugality to extravagance, but it is difficult to go from extravagance to frug
She just doesn't dare to think about how difficult it would be if she went back in the future.
So, in order to make Qiao Er see her value, she started to take action on Qiao Er's flowers and plants.
After all, the probability of her research being successful is high.
Take advantage of the privilege now and make a few more models. Then wait seventy to ninety days to launch one. Qiao Er can't give up on her.
Zhang You planned her future plans and extended her claws to Qiao Er's pink crabapple tree.
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