Jia Gu looked at Jia Su in surprise, "Merchants are lowly, and doing business is despised by others. Why do you have such an idea?"

"Did your official mother deduct your monthly salary?" Jia Zhi suddenly spoke.

If not, she really couldn't think of why Jia Su suddenly wanted to do business, and even wanted them to help.

Jia Su also knew that it was difficult to get the two stepsisters to agree with her, but …

"Sisters, don't tell me you don't have a single shop in your dowry?"

No one was a fool. Who didn't know that doing business made money?

Even if they didn't dare to act recklessly because of rumors, how could these people at the top of society easily give up the benefits that were at their fingertips?

Jia Gu was stunned. Of course, she had more than one shop.

But before Jia Su pointed it out, she never thought that these shops were actually a kind of business and might be despised by others. "But, doesn't everyone do this?"

Which noble girl in the capital didn't bring a few shops as her dowry when she got married?

"Isn't running a dowry shop also a business?"

Jia Su looked at the two stepsisters seriously, "Besides, the shops in your hands can't always be the same as the ones in your dowry, right?

After all these years, haven't you bought a few more to earn some private savings? "

They didn't need to answer. Jia Su knew the answer herself.

Jia Zhi was more decisive and immediately said, "Third sister, what kind of business do you want to do?" As she spoke, her eyes fell on the boy beside her, and her eyes were obscure.

Jia Su narrowed her eyes and raised her hand to Chi Xia.

Chi Xia understood tacitly and immediately called a few maids to take the four children to the courtyard to play.

After they left, Jia Su said, "Rouge and face powder."

Jia Zhi lowered her eyes and looked indifferent, "There are at least seven or eight companies in the whole capital that do rouge and face powder business. Each of them has their own unique formula and has already established a firm foothold in the capital.

If third sister also wants to open a rouge and face powder shop, I advise you to give up. "

Rongguo Province had only been established for two or three generations. The matriarchs who married into the family were of similar background. They didn't have many secret formulas, let alone unimportant things like rouge and face powder.

Even the rouge and face powder used by Madam Jashi were specially bought from the shops.

Without the "secret formula" to distinguish their rouge and face powder shops from other shops, even if they had the backing of Rongguo Province, they could only wait to close down. They didn't need to be suppressed by their peers.

At first, Jia Su didn't pay attention to Jia Gu. But after these words, she realized that among the two stepsisters, this second sister, who didn't show herself, was the one who was the real's't's.

Thinking of this, her attitude towards Jia Zhi became much more serious. "I have a few unique formulas in my hands."

In this era, rouge and face powder were cosmetics. Although they were safer and more harmless than modern cosmetics, there were fewer patterns!

Even if she had lived on the frontlines of war in her previous life, she was still a woman. Not to mention other things, at least she knew about the different colors of lipstick.

After transmigrating, she looked at the single color rouge that could only be used to add color to her clothes. Naturally, she couldn't help but dislike it.

Fortunately, although Cui Yan was jumpy, she had the ability to make rouge. As long as Jia Su asked for a color, she could make the corresponding product.

After so many years, she had saved up more than a few formulas.

It seemed that third sister wasn't doing this on a whim and had already prepared to open a rouge shop.

But …

"Why did sister choose us?"

Jia Zhi didn't want to belittle herself, but she was just an unfavored concubine of the Marquis's' mansion. She didn't have much power and didn't have much affection for third sister. How could she be given such a good thing that was almost equivalent to giving away money?

Wouldn't it be better to cooperate with fourth sister?

Jia Su sighed. "I'm preparing to sell a few shops that I've taken a fancy to, but I don't have enough money at the moment.

Moreover, I need someone to help me in the early stages of opening the shop. "

Jia Zhi looked at the banknotes in his and Jia Gu's hands. "These aren't enough?"

"I can't make any moves before I get married."

Jia Zhi pondered for a moment and immediately nodded. "I agree."

Jia Gu was stunned. She looked at Jia Su and then at Jia Zhi. She still couldn't make up her mind. She could only say, "I'll give third sister an answer in a few days."

Jia Su nodded. She wasn't displeased.

Jia Su had always thought that most of the men in ancient times were only good at being officials. They could only be at a loss when it came to other professions.

But women were different. Not only did they have basic skills like zither, chess, calligraphy, painting, women's work, and housekeeping, they also had to be proficient in financial and human affairs.

Their own dowry was fine, but part of it was just land, gold, silver, jewelry, and ornaments. There weren't many areas that needed to be managed.

However, the husband's family's property was needed to support the entire family. Not to mention increasing income and reducing expenditure, but they couldn't let these properties suffer a deficit in their hands, right?

The matriarchs in ancient times were all top-notch management talents.

Jia Su suddenly had the idea of pulling her two concubine-sisters into a business partnership. She wasn't prepared to persuade them. Now that one of them agreed and the other considered, she had already profited.

As for the possibility of changing the original life trajectory of her two concubine-sisters?

That was a bonus.

After the three of them finished discussing business, they let Chi Xia bring the four children back into the house.

But when they came in, the three of them were shocked to find that the oldest boy of the four children had bruises on his face.

Jia Su was startled: "Chi Xia, what's going on?"

Chi Xia's gaze moved back and forth between the four children. She couldn't help but look at the eldest and second young misses who brought them over. Then, under Jia Su's urging gaze, she pointed at the oldest child and said: "Young Master Hu wanted to play with the three young masters and young misses. Because of his improper actions, he pushed down Young Miss Liu. Then the two young masters Liu and Young Master Hu started fighting."

Although Young Master Hu was the oldest, the four children were still young. At most, they were only one or two years older than the others.

One against two, wouldn't he be beaten up?

But what made Jia Su feel strange was that this Young Master Hu didn't cry. Instead, after entering the house, he looked at his second sister with bright eyes. His eyes were full of scrutiny.

This was too strange. It didn't seem like the eyes of a child his age.