Chapter 340 Lime Soap
"So Miss Jiang, please come with me to see the Princess first," the maid said politely.
Jiang Mi nodded, indicating that she understood. When she saw Princess Jinning, she noticed that she was wearing a white dress and looked clean and pure. She was someone that worldly people were not worthy of messing with.
"Honey, you're here! Let me see the soap you made."
Jiang Mi asked Siqin to open the box, which contained four blue soaps. As soon as the box was opened, the refreshing fragrance filled the entire room.
"It smells so good! This is the scent!" Princess Jinning couldn't wait to take one out and smell it. "I think I don't need this. Just placing it in the room will fill the whole room with this refreshing fragrance. It's great. Even without lime, my room will still smell like lime."
Jiang Mi asked curiously, "I secretly tasted this lime, and it was both sour and bitter. Why does the princess like it so much?"
Princess Jinning laughed and said, "You're so silly, you actually tried it. That's not how you eat limes. But I've already given you all the limes I have, and there aren't any more to eat. Otherwise, I could have gotten some for you to try. But even if you don't eat the limes, just smelling them makes me feel much more relaxed."
That's true. Even Jiang Mi herself really liked the soap after making it.
"Princess, I made five of these soaps in total, and four of them are here. I kept one for myself. You don't mind, do you?"
Princess Jinning said nonchalantly, "Of course I don't mind. After all, you worked hard to make this. Giving you half is only fair, but you only kept one."
Jiang Mi smiled and said, "There are so few limes. I'm lucky to have one. It's all thanks to the princess. Otherwise, I wouldn't even know what a lime looks like, let alone a lime-scented soap."
Princess Jinning couldn't wait to share her goodies, so she asked the nanny beside her, "Has Grandmother woken up from her afternoon nap?"
The old woman said, "It should be soon."
Princess Jinning then pulled Jiang Mi over together: "Come on, my grandmother is about to wake up. Let's go and wait. I want to show her your skills so that she can praise you in front of the nobles when she enters the palace."
Jiang Mi let Princess Jinning pull her along, but her mind was elsewhere. The system hadn't appeared for a long time, and she wondered if her benefactor was Princess Jinning or perhaps the Old Madam.
"Has my grandmother woken up?" Jiang Mi called out to the old lady's maid. The maid was about to say "yes" when the old lady's voice came from inside.
"You brat, you walk so loudly, it's impossible for me not to hear you."
Princess Jinning stuck out her tongue shyly. She pulled Jiang Mi inside and said, "Grandmother, Mi Tang has made the lime-scented soap I wanted. Look, it smells so good."
The old lady looked like she had just finished washing up. She looked at Princess Jinning with a face full of doting affection: "My child, walk slowly, be careful not to fall."
Princess Jinning walked over to the old lady with a smile and sat down next to her. She held the soap in her hand under the old lady's nose and asked, "Grandmother, smell it, does it smell good?"
The old lady nodded: "It smells good, it smells wonderful. This is the scent of lime. Did Miss Jiang make all of this?"
Jiang Mi then had a chance to bow and greet the old lady: "Yes, it was all done by me. Thanks to the princess, this is the first time I have seen what a lime looks like and the first time I have smelled a lime. No wonder the princess likes it so much. The lime does smell very nice."
The old lady looked at Jiang Mi with admiration: "You are indeed very capable. There are very few limes, so it is already quite an achievement that you have made just a few. Is this the kind of soap that even the nobles in the palace do not have?"
"Yes, if it weren't for the princess, I wouldn't have been able to get the lime, let alone make these few lime-scented soaps. Right now, these are all the lime-scented soaps I have."
The old lady looked at the few bars of soap, lost in thought, while Princess Jinning was overjoyed: "These should last until the limes ripen next year. I'll save some for Honey to make more."
The old matriarch glanced at Jiang Mi and said, "It's not really appropriate for us to use such a good thing ourselves. Good granddaughter, let's take it and give it to the Empress Dowager and the Empress tomorrow. We can't leave out Consort Jing either. You can keep the last one for yourself, okay?"
Upon hearing that only one of her four soaps remained, Princess Jinning was incredulous: "Grandmother, this was originally our own property. Why can't we keep it? Is there no law anymore? Can't all the good things in the world be given to the people in the palace? Can't we keep some for ourselves?"
The old lady feigned anger and said, "You child, what nonsense are you talking about? This is our filial piety towards the palace. You have such a good thing, you must be going to show it off. Even if you don't show it off, when people come to your room, they will find this. They went to Yue Shang Shao to buy soap but couldn't buy it, so they will definitely spread the word even more. In this way, everyone in the palace will want it. But why can't they buy it at Yue Shang Shao?"
Princess Jinning didn't understand, and she didn't want to hear it.
“Those are my own limes, what do they have to do with them, Grandma? We’re living such a tiring life.”
The old lady sighed. She didn't want to wrong her granddaughter, but she was also afraid that if she possessed something good, others would covet it and it would bring disaster in the future.
Jiang Mi comforted her, saying, "This originally belonged to the princess. I can vouch for her. I can make soap for anyone who has good stuff at home and wants it made. Even vegetable-scented soap is possible."
At this point, Jiang Mi really wanted to give it a try.
Princess Jinning, upon hearing this, also became interested: "Vegetable scent? Can that smell good? I'd like to smell it, Grandmother. This vegetable-scented soap isn't going to be given to the people in the palace first, is it?"
The old lady said helplessly, "These green vegetables are everywhere, but there are only a few limes. How can they be the same?"
Jiang Mi thought of something else through this incident. If she wanted to become a special tribute merchant for the palace, she should make sure her products were unique and irreplaceable. She had already achieved that, so she should put some pressure on the nobles in the palace. The incident involving Princess Jinning could just tell the nobles in the palace that as long as they did not pre-order the soap, Jiang Mi had the right to make one-of-a-kind soap for them.
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