Chapter 52 Busy Counting Money
After Wen Yingxue and Wen Yuyan returned to the Wen Mansion, life became peaceful, and Wen Yingxue never left her room again.
Because the weather in July is really too hot.
Fortunately, Old Man Wen was kind enough to send her ice every day, so the room was much cooler.
Aunt Lian also came to Wen Yingxue's house to escape the summer heat these days. The mother and daughter, together with Ai Ye, chatted and talked, and the day passed quickly.
Aunt Lian and Ai Ye helped Wen Yingxue embroider her dowry, while Wen Yingxue was practicing her extremely ugly calligraphy.
Today, Wen Yuyan and Aunt Yang also came.
Wen Yingxue looked up, a little puzzled: "Why are you here?"
Wen Yuyan sat down next to Wen Yingxue without any hesitation, picked up her iced sour plum soup and took a big sip.
Aunt Yang fanned herself with a beauty fan and said, "Sixth Miss, we are here to give you our share of the profits." As she spoke, she took out a silver note worth one thousand taels from her sleeve.
"Mugwort! Hurry, catch it!" Wen Yingxue's eyes lit up and she shouted immediately.
Taking the one thousand taels in her hand and feeling it carefully, Wen Yingxue smiled happily. This one thousand taels was enough for her to buy a lot of delicious food.
Seeing Wen Yingxue's money-obsessed look, Wen Yuyan rolled her eyes: "What a prospect!"
Wen Yingxue ignored her.
Aunt Yang watched Wen Yingxue happily put the money away, and then said, "Sixth Miss, although these restaurants and shops are profitable, the income is still too slow. Do you have any good ideas?"
"So this is what you came for? Of course I have it, here it is!" Wen Yingxue said, squatting down and pulling out a wooden box from under the desk.
Wen Yuyan came over curiously and helped Wen Yingxue lift it onto the table: "What is this?"
After rummaging through it a bit, I found that they were all pictures of patterns and clothes, drawn very vividly with charcoal.
Aunt Yang also came over to take a look, and the more she looked, the more surprised she became: "Sixth Miss, these patterns and designs of clothes are so beautiful, much better than what the women in the brothel wore before."
Wen Yingxue smiled proudly: "Of course, this is what I designed to sell, so it's naturally better looking than those.
These clothing designs were used to open a clothing shop, and the patterns were embroidered on clothes and round fans.
Of course, this is just the tip of the iceberg. I have also drawn many designs for hairpins and rings, and I will open a jewelry store later."
Wen Yingxue has loved painting since she was a child. Although she has not learned it systematically, she can draw almost accurately by following the pattern.
In addition, she likes watching costume dramas. She is familiar with the clothing styles of the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties. She has also seen a lot of ancient jewelry, so she just draws it as she thinks.
Aunt Yang and Wen Yuyan looked at the paper one by one and nodded in praise.
"That's right, Miss Six, these novel clothes and jewelry will definitely sell well once they are on the market." Aunt Yang said happily, her eyes turning into the shape of gold ingots.
Wen Yingxue clapped her hands and said, "Hehe, I'll praise you later, Aunt Yang, you've seen these pictures, so you must know their value.
I'll tell you straight, if you open a clothing store and a jewelry store, you have to give me half of the profits from both of them."
Wen Yuyan and Aunt Yang frowned when they heard this, but after looking at the really novel clothing designs and patterns, Aunt Yang finally made the decision.
"Just do as Miss Six says."
"Great!" Wen Yingxue immediately stood up, went under the bookcase, pulled out two wooden boxes and handed them to Aunt Yang and Wen Yuyan.
"Are these all?" the two asked stupidly.
Wen Yingxue nodded. She was a fast painter and could draw twenty or thirty pictures a day when she had nothing to do. She had been thinking about escaping and planned to open her own shop after she finished her paintings.
Now that I can't run away, I might as well leave everything to Aunt Yang and Wen Yuyan.
No need to manage the business yourself, all you need to do is paint and wait to count the money. Killing two birds with one stone, it's so beautiful that Wen Yingxue is dying.
Finally, Wen Yuyan and Aunt Yang left in a daze, holding three wooden boxes, with Wen Yingxue still following behind, waving her handkerchief to see them off.
The heroine Lin Youwan’s shop should probably open in the next few days, but it doesn’t have anything to do with Wen Yingxue.
Because the shop opened by Lin Youwan sells soap, rouge, perfume, lipstick and facial cream.
July passed like flowing water while Wen Yingxue was hiding away.
With the arrival of August, the capital city was shaken three times.
First, Lin Youwan's shop opened, and new rouge perfumes and novel soap lipsticks came out. Overnight, they spread among all the women.
Lin Youwan's store suddenly became extremely popular, with orders coming in one after another, and she made money as quickly as if she were picking up money.
However, not long after, Wen Yuyan's clothing store and jewelry store also opened.
It was not surprising that Wen Yuyan, relying on her status as the future consort of the eighth prince, gave several noble ladies new clothes and jewelry.
Overnight, the clothing store and the jewelry store also became famous. Within a few days, the sales exceeded ten thousand, and the sales soared very quickly, and soon flew towards one hundred thousand.
A few days later, before August 15th, Wen Yuyan and Aunt Yang sent over 20,000 taels of silver. Wen Yingxue was so excited holding the banknotes that she couldn't sleep all night.
"Miss, General Nie invites you out to play." Ai Ye came into the room to report. Wen Yingxue giggled and stroked a delicate jade box. Without even looking up, she said, "What General Nie? I don't know. Go out quickly and don't disturb me counting small coins."
Ai Ye sighed, shook his head, turned and left.
It's over. The lady is dumbfounded. She doesn't even know who General Nie is. What if General Nie doesn't want her anymore?
Nie Chubai was waiting outside the gate of Wen Mansion with Ji Yan, Wu Nan, and his eyes immediately lit up when he saw Ai Ye, and he looked straight behind Ai Ye.
But no one came out.
Nie Chubai frowned and asked, "Where is your young lady?"
Ai Ye sighed and said, "My young lady is busy."
Nie Chubai was filled with questions. Busy? What was Wen Yingxue busy with?
The wedding is about to take place, and according to custom, Nie Chubai cannot see Wen Yingxue again. However, they have not seen each other for several days, and Nie Chubai misses her really, so he thinks of inviting Wen Yingxue to meet him again.
But he didn't expect that Wen Yingxue was missing.
"What is your lady busy with?"
Ai Ye lowered his head, not daring to look directly into Nie Chubai's eyes, and said, "I'm busy counting money." After that, he bowed and left quickly.
Nie Chubai turned around and asked Ji Yan and Wu Nan behind him, "What did she say just now?"
Wu Nan said honestly, "She said the madam was busy counting money."
Nie Chubai nodded expressionlessly, then flew away in a flash.
"Hey! Master, where are you going?" Wu Nan asked loudly. Just as he was about to follow, he was stopped by Ji Yan.
"Are you stupid? Of course the master went to look for his wife. Why did you follow him?"
"But didn't Madam say she was busy?"
"Single dog, what do you know? This is called playing hard to get. The lady must miss the master too, she just wants the master to come find her." Ji Yan said with his arms folded.
Wu Nan scratched his head: "But, we are here to accompany our master to find his wife, right?"
Ji Yan choked, glared at Wu Nan, and said, "Shut up, you don't understand a woman's heart."
Wu Nan curled his lips: "They are all bachelors, you talk like you know everything."
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