"If you're really worried, then how about this? You can come out of the house with me. I'm short of help for those jobs right now. If you work hard, you can earn two cents a day."
Xiu'er and Yang'er looked at each other, then looked at Zhang You and said, "Forget it, we can't do the work you do.
Everyone knows what Erya did in the first two months after she arrived. They didn’t have such big ambitions, but they didn’t want to be so competitive and do all the dirty and tiring work.
Xiu'er's tone also softened at this time.
"Well, you must keep your promise."
"Don't you understand me? That's for sure."
"But can't you pay back part of it every month, slowly? If you do that, we'll still have no money."
The sheep who had been silent all this time suddenly spoke.
Zhang You also wanted to pay it back every month, but she had used all her money to buy materials and now she really had no money left.
"But my monthly salary isn't fixed, so I can't pay you back on time. And since I have to pay you back a little each month, I don't have any proof, so it's hard to keep track of it. Why don't you let me save up enough money to pay you back?"
We have all signed a contract to sell ourselves, so where else can I run?
If you really don't believe me, why not ask Madam Chang to be a witness? If she testifies, I will definitely pay you back."
When Yang'er heard her mention Nanny Chang, he was afraid that he would need to repay Nanny Chang's favor later, so he stopped pressing her.
"What you said makes sense. There's no need to look for Madam Chang. We trust you."
The sheep relaxed.
After finally dealing with them, Zhang You became more cautious and secretly ran her small business.
She specially bought a lot of beautiful small porcelain bottles at the market.
She found another pharmacy, bribed the pharmacist there, and temporarily borrowed the druggist's backyard to make lip balm.
Melt the beeswax you bought, mix the ground cochineal powder and the prepared pollen, boil them together, then add a few drops of oil and honey, stir well, and then divide into small porcelain bottles to cool.
Zhang You made ten bottles in succession, and obtained three different colors of lipstick according to different proportions.
After she returned home, she pretended that the lipsticks were unique items she had bought from a traveling merchant she had met by chance outside the house.
Spread the word quietly among the concubines and maids.
Sure enough, within a few days, many people started contacting her privately to buy lip balm.
Zhang You sold this lipstick at twice the lowest price that the mansion had purchased before.
A small bottle costs twenty coins.
Not to mention, this kind of rouge and powder is so precious.
She was a servant girl, earning only thirty cents a month. Rouge and powder like this cost at least ten cents, and the price of this kind of rouge and powder advertised as a "unique product" was even more outrageous. Zhang You had only heard of it but had never seen it purchased by the mansion.
The items purchased at the mansion were the most common low-end and mid-range rouge and powder.
Speaking of this, this is another magical and contradictory gossip.
I heard that the princess came here to support the prince in the war, so the family has been living frugally and only allows the purchase of daily necessities. Things that are too expensive are not allowed.
However, the concubines in the mansion, the maids and servants who have been hired in the past two years, and the courtyards that are under construction, all represent a huge expense.
If you say it is rich, it is reluctant to be extravagant; if you say it is poor, it has a lot of people.
It's hard to comment.
At first, Zhang You was afraid that the concubines in the mansion could not afford it, so he only sold it for twenty cents.
But I didn’t expect that even at this price, it could be sold out in just two days!
Tsk.
The price is too low.
Loss.
It should be higher.
After deducting the cost of these lipsticks, Zhang You only earned 120 wen, but the cost cost her nearly 80 wen.
Although compared to her monthly salary, it is already a huge profit.
But every investment requires money and time to get a return, and the debt cannot be paid off in one go.
I should have known the price was thirty cents.
I can pay it off in one go.
At this price now, I can’t sell it for higher than this later.
well.
Zhang You used the money he earned to start the next round of purchasing materials, bribing the medicine boy to make lip balm and sell it.
Before we knew it, winter was coming quietly.
The weather was getting colder, and the breath I exhaled was steamy.
There is less than a month left until the end of the year.
I heard that the war on the border is almost over. Now that winter has really arrived, the northern barbarians are already busy taking care of themselves and don't have the energy to harass the border.
In a while, the prince will return to the mansion to celebrate the New Year together, and the mansion will be extremely busy during this period.
The courtyard that was built earlier is almost completed, and it has been cleaned and arranged these days.
Zhang You also made enough money during this period.
She thought that she had borrowed so much money from Xiu'er and Yang'er, and it took such a long time to pay them back. Although they didn't ask for interest, it was still too shameless for Zhang You to only pay back two hundred coins.
So she spent a huge amount of money to buy two pieces of jewelry at a jewelry store in the East Market, intending to give them as interest on the loan.
She had carefully selected these two pieces of jewelry. She knew Xiu'er liked earrings and she had pierced ears. Occasionally, she would string two red ropes together as decoration.
So Zhang You specially bought a pair of earrings, a pair of exquisite, full moon earrings inlaid with pearls and bamboo leaf earrings made of green jade, which cost a full twenty cents.
Zhang You also bought Yang'er a copper hairpin with a white magnolia carved from a piece of fine white jade on the top, which was inlaid on the hairpin.
Zhang You saw Yang'er always tied her hair with a rope, so she bought one for her.
Sheep usually look weak, quiet, soft-spoken, and well-behaved and likable.
Moreover, she is younger than Zhang You. Xiu'er had urged Zhang You to pay back the debt several times before, but Yang'er did not urge her.
Therefore, Zhang You has a good impression of Yang'er and regards her as a younger sister. Therefore, she chooses gifts for her with special care.
Zhang You returned home excitedly with the gifts he bought.
When I went downstairs, I happened to meet Xiu'er who had just returned.
Zhang You took out a hundred coins and the pair of earrings from her purse and handed them to Xiu'er.
"Is this for me?" Xiu'er's eyes lit up and her expression became excited.
I didn’t expect that after borrowing money from Erya, I would actually get something in return!
This pearl and this jade pendant look beautiful, they must be expensive.
"Yes, I'm sorry it took you so long to save up enough money. I bought this especially for you. Why don't you try it on?"
Xiu'er happily took the money and earrings, hurriedly took off the red string on her ear, and put them on to try them on carefully.
"By the way, Xiu'er, have you seen Yang'er? I haven't paid her back yet, and I haven't seen her along the way."
Xiu'er was trying on her new earrings in front of the only bronze mirror in the room, which had a blurry image of a person on it.
She said casually, "I seemed to see her and Cuihua trimming flowers in the small garden in the north courtyard."
"Oh, then I'll go find her first."
Zhang You said this and hurried out to find the sheep.
But he ignored the worry and hesitation on Xiu'er's face after she finished speaking.
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