"She really doesn't know what's good for her!"
Zhou Rongsheng's face was gloomy, and he was filled with anger: "What kind of female guard team did you recruit? You're clearly trying to make a big fuss."
Now everyone probably knows that she rejected Xu'er and even made a bold statement.
The Zhou family steward was helpless. He had tried to dissuade the young master from giving gifts in a grand manner.
It was the master himself who said that young ladies like this, and he even lengthened the line of people bringing gifts.
Now they've really shot themselves in the foot.
"Sir, now that things have come to this, should we still send someone to negotiate..."
It refers to the initiative to cooperate with Bai Nu Ge.
Zhou Rongsheng waved his hand and said, "If it weren't for Xu'er, would she, a mere woman, be qualified to do business with the Zhou family?"
A golden opportunity was within reach, but An Zhengzheng's arrogance and hubris caused it to slip away.
"How is Xu'er?"
He calmed down; this was the eldest child in the Zhou family's investment portfolio.
The Zhou family steward shook his head and said, "Young Master returned looking distraught, and surprisingly, he even started drinking."
"Tell the servant to keep a close eye on him," Zhou Rongsheng said. "Don't let him drink too much."
He needs to vent.
Men, if they stumble when they're young, their future path will be smoother.
"The fifth young lady has gone to see the young master," Steward Zhou told him. "It's really against etiquette, and I don't know whether I should stop her or not."
Even cousins should be mindful of boundaries and not wander into the men's quarters at will.
Zhou Rongsheng remembered her and frowned, saying, "My younger brother died young, but he was still my brother. Keep a close eye on her and make sure she doesn't make a fool of herself."
Cousins are one thing, they live in different families and have different surnames. But if these cousins from the same clan were to actually marry, wouldn't the Zhou family be ridiculed for being licentious?
Zhou Rongsheng then said to the Zhou family steward, "She has now tricked our Zhou family by publicly rebuking Xu'er, causing the Zhou family to lose face. We cannot forget this debt."
“Master, this might not be a good idea…” The Zhou family steward felt uneasy. “Although Miss An’s cultivation level is now the same as yours, her strength is already above yours.”
Your Excellency is foolish! We are all people who have no hope of ascending to immortality, so how can you offend those who have a chance of ascending to immortality?
But Zhou Rongsheng felt very uncomfortable hearing this.
What does it mean to be above Xu'er?
The only ones who can surpass Xu'er are members of the Zhou family themselves.
He insisted, "Without subsequent elixirs and magical artifacts to sustain her strength, how long can she maintain it?"
"She's selling cultivation techniques, isn't she? We'll sell them too, and we'll make the same magazine. How can the cultivation techniques a little girl like her buy compare to those bought by the Zhou family?"
Zhou Rongsheng was determined to defeat An Zhengzheng: "And female cultivators, the Zhou family is also invited."
"This is."
Hopefully, the master will get what he wants; the Zhou family steward doesn't really approve.
The female cultivator market is not the Zhou family's forte. It's not that no one has tried to imitate the Hundred Women Pavilion before, but the content of the Hundred Women Pavilion cannot be copied.
He scratched his head and went to give the instructions.
"Wait!" Zhou Rongsheng called out to him again.
“Let’s send that Zhang Liu guy to give the Hundred Women’s Pavilion a hard time too.” Zhou Rongsheng sneered. “I was trying to cover up for the Hundred Women’s Pavilion before, hoping that An Zhengzheng and Xu’er would have some affection for each other, but now we don’t need to anymore.”
The Zhou family steward knew which matter it was.
Alas, it's all because the Hundred Women's Pavilion has such leverage! Miss An is also young, and the things made by female cultivators are ultimately somewhat inferior.
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An Zhengzheng was organizing her previous notes in her room, selecting new content for the magazine the month after next.
"Young lady, won't you eat more?"
Madam Pei brought over some grilled skewers of meat to An Zhengzheng, saying, "The girls are all very happy."
The sounds of laughter and sizzling meat outside filled the air. The Hundred Women's Pavilion was closed for the day, leaving the backyard for the girls to grill meat.
"As long as they're happy. Come and see how the new technique is. All the girls in our shop learn it for free, so you can make sure they do so too."
An Zhengzheng handed the new booklet to Madam Pei, who then took charge of supervising its production.
Madam Pei took it, looked at it, and exclaimed, "If you hadn't told us, we wouldn't have been able to tell that this was a notebook you wrote when you were seven years old."
It's incredibly detailed, and even includes a photo of the grown-up girl using a photo stone as an example, showing how her daughter, who can read, can understand it just by looking at the magazine.
Even nuns who cannot attend school or have never attended school can learn it.
She murmured, "This exercise is good, this exercise is good."
If she had been able to buy this kind of training method when she was young, she would definitely have been able to keep up with the basics.
Lady Pei's eyes were sore.
"What’s wrong with you?"
An Zhengzheng ate a few bites of roasted meat, and when she looked up, she noticed Pei Niangzi's strange behavior.
"It's nothing, just the wind." Madam Pei stroked the notebook, smiling kindly.
She didn't want to talk about it, and An Zhengzheng didn't ask any further.
"elder sister……"
An Yirou quietly poked her head out.
"Since the second young lady is here, I'll go and set an example first."
"Thank you for your hard work, Madam Pei."
Madam Pei left with the latest issue of the notebook.
After silently greeting Madam Pei, An Yirou came over and asked, "Sister, in our shop, the female cultivators who work there and the female cultivators who sell us raw materials... they all get half price when they buy our pills and talismans?"
“Yes.” An Zhengzheng nodded; she was the one who brought down the price.
An Yirou was a little annoyed: "But I just heard a female cultivator say that you can sell the pills from the Hundred Women Pavilion."
The female cultivators naturally wouldn't buy it, because it wouldn't be as affordable as what the Hundred Women Pavilion sold to them.
After all, as long as you sell ten catties of raw materials to Bai Nu Ge, you can get the chance to buy a bottle of Qi-Boosting and Blood-Nourishing Pill at half price.
But it's different for male cultivators.
Male cultivators also need Qi-boosting and blood-replenishing pills, but they are too expensive outside. It is cheaper to buy them from female cultivators in the Hundred Women Pavilion.
Therefore, some female cultivators would buy pills from the Hundred Women Pavilion at half price and then resell them to male cultivators outside, making a profit from the price difference.
“This is clearly exploiting us female cultivators.” An Yirou said unhappily, “We female cultivators each have our own tasks, selling and buying cheaply, but the male cultivators did nothing and just bought it all at a low price… Sister, aren’t you going to do something about this?”
An Zhengzheng laughed: "Do you think I didn't consider that?"
“I had anticipated this situation. It’s too late for you to realize it now.”
She gently instructed An Yirou: "When I achieve immortality in the future, you will inherit the Hundred Women Pavilion. You might as well take this opportunity to think about what preparations I will make in advance."
An Yirou was startled; it turned out her sister had already begun testing her!
She pondered in a daze, then her eyes lit up, and she gave the answer.
An Zhengzheng smiled and nodded, then she felt at ease and followed the group back to Siyue Gate to cultivate.
I'm not worried at all.
After quite a few days, someone came to our door.
"Young lady, something terrible has happened!" Dong'er said anxiously.
Madam Pei led a group to the second and third floors of the Hundred Women's Pavilion to work on the magazine in seclusion; she couldn't handle the task by herself.
They had no choice but to barge into An Zhengzheng's courtyard.
An Zhengzheng, who was meditating with her eyes closed and focusing all her attention on memorizing the alchemy manual, suddenly opened her eyes.
"What's wrong?"
"Miss, you should go outside and take a look. A lot of male cultivators have come and are making a scene in front of our shop, saying that the pills produced in our shop are harmful and damage people's health."
"So many people came to see, and our female cultivators who greeted guests were all scolded, and Zhao Xin was even slapped..."
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