Buddha-like Mrs. Lin
Chapter 77
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No one was a fool. Who did not know that business made money?
Even if they did not dare to act wantonly because of rumors, 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 had never thought that these shops were actually a kind of business and might be despised by others. "But, isn't everyone doing this?"
All the noble ladies in the capital.
Who would not bring a few shops as a dowry when they got married?
"Isn't running a dowry shop a business?"
Jia Su looked at the two concubine sisters seriously. "Besides, the shops in your hands can't always be the dowry, right?
All these years, haven't you bought a few more to earn some private money? "
They didn't need to answer.
Jia Su knew the answer herself.
Jia Zhi was even more decisive. She immediately said, "Third sister, what kind of business are you planning to do?" As she spoke, her gaze fell on the boy beside her. Her eyes were obscure.
Jia Su narrowed her eyes and raised her hand to Chi Xia.
Chi Xia understood what he meant.
She immediately summoned a few maids and brought the four children to the courtyard to play.
After they left, Jia Su said, "Rouge and face powder."
Jia Zhi lowered her eyes and said with an indifferent expression, "There are at least seven or eight rouge and face powder businesses in the capital.
Each of them has their own unique formulas.
They have long established a foothold in the capital.
If third sister also plans to open a rouge and face powder shop,
I advise you to give up. "
Rongguo Province was only a matter of two or three generations.
The matriarchs who married into the family were all of similar background. They did not accumulate many secret formulas at all. For unimportant things like rouge and face powder, they did not have a single one.
Even the rouge and face powder used by Madam Jashi were specially bought from the shops.
Without the "secret recipe" to distinguish their rouge and face powder from other shops, even if they had the backing of Rongguo Province, they could only wait to close down. There was no need for their peers to suppress them.
In the beginning, Jia Su focused her attention on Jia Gu. But after she said this, she realized that among the two concubine-sisters, the one who didn't show off was the one who really made the decision.
Thinking of this, her attitude towards Jia Zhi became much more serious. "I have a few unique formulas."
In this era, rouge and face powder were cosmetics. Although they were safer and more harmless than modern cosmetics, there were fewer variations!
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 the various 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 more than a few formulas.
It seemed that her third sister wasn't doing it on a whim. She had already prepared to open a rouge shop.
But …
"Sister, why did you choose the two of us?"
Jia Zhi didn't want to belittle herself, but she was an unfavored concubine of the Marquis's Mansion. She didn't have much power and didn't have much affection for her third sister. How could such a good thing, which was almost equivalent to giving away money, fall on her head?
Wouldn't it be better to cooperate with her 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.
And I need someone to take charge of the shop in the early stages. "
Jia Zhi looked at the banknotes in her and Jia Gu's hands. "These aren't enough?"
"I can't do anything 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 my 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.
But the husband's family's property had 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?
In ancient times, the matriarchs of the family were all top-notch management talents.
Jia Su had suddenly had the idea of pulling her two concubine-sisters into the business. She hadn'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 would be an additional gain.
After the three of them finished discussing business, they let Chi Xia bring the four children back into the room.
But when they came in, the three of them were astonished to find that the oldest boy among 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 had 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 Young Miss Liu down. 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 they be beaten up?
But what made Jia Su feel strange was that this Young Master Hu didn't cry. After entering the room, he looked at his second sister with bright eyes that were full of scrutiny.
This was too strange. It didn't seem like the eyes of a child of this age.
Jia Zhi wasn't surprised at all. Her gaze fell on Young Master Hu's face, and a trace of ridicule flashed through her eyes. Unexpectedly, she planned to let go of her hand and completely ignore it.
Jia Daishan and the others were unwilling.
They only needed to think about it to know what outsiders would say about the fu. Every time they thought about it, they would get a heart attack. In the end, they could only let go of themselves. Their ears wouldn't listen to it, and their ears wouldn't listen to it. On the other hand, the servants in Rongguo Province were too busy.
Originally, it was just an unremarkable concubine's daughter's marriage. Suddenly, it became the marriage of the only legitimate daughter in Rongguo Province. The layout of the fu had to be changed greatly. Everyone was so busy that they didn't even have time to gossip. How could they care about what other people thought about their master's family?
When they were almost done with Rongguo Province, they had time to inquire. Everyone looked at Jia Su. Even the servants serving Jia Su had strange looks in their eyes.
The maidservants and mamas in Jia Su's courtyard had been frightened for more than half a month. When they heard that Yuan Yang's bride had been changed, they all relaxed and had the leisure to go out for a stroll and inquire about the news.
Who knew that once they went out, they would be met with a lot of soft rebuffs. When they came back, their expressions weren't very good.
Chi Xia was attentive. After discovering this, he immediately called them one by one and asked them carefully. Soon, he figured out the reason.
After Yuan Yang left that day, the news that Jia Su would be registered as Madam and married to Lin Ruhai as the legitimate eldest daughter had spread in the fu.
This wasn't strange. After all, the servants in the Jia fu had no rules after their ancestor passed away. Each and every one of them was very talkative.
Among them, the servants around Jia Shi were the most talkative.
Therefore, Chi Xia didn't care that the news spread so quickly in the Jia fu.
However, these servants said that "they all thought that Miss plotted against Fourth Miss, causing Fourth Miss to not only offend Master and Madam, but also lose a good marriage." This made Chi Xia anxious.
After dismissing them with a few words, she turned and ran into Jia Su's room.
It was already late in the morning, but Jia Su was still sleeping.
In Chi Xia's opinion, this wasn't the behavior of a noble family's young miss.
However, her family's young miss had a lot of fallacious arguments. Not only did she look at her status as a noble family's young miss, but she also looked at her bearing when sitting or lying down. She didn't look at whether she slept in or not. She also said that if she was forced to wake up without enough sleep, it would be harmful to her body and she would be sickly when she grew old.
If she was provoked, her young miss would treat herself as the master. As a maidservant, she only needed to be obedient and shut her up.
The fu had arranged for an etiquette instructor and a wet nurse for the young miss. They all had the right to teach the young miss.
However, in front of them, the young miss was outstanding in every aspect and no one could find fault with her. She didn't give them the opportunity to exercise their right to teach her.
When other things were done, the young miss would just sleep in. They naturally didn't want to care about the young miss.
After a long time, Chi Xia also learned to accept her fate.
However, at this time, the young miss couldn't continue sleeping in.
Chi Xia entered the room and ignored Jia Su's previous orders. She carefully pulled her out of the bed and said, "Young Miss, something big happened!"
Jia Su sat on the bed in a daze. She only felt that Chi Xia's voice came from the heavens and couldn't be heard clearly.
After a while, she finally reacted. "What happened?
Could it be that another young miss in the fu was caught having a tryst with Zhou Yu? "
But what did this have to do with her?
Zhou Yu wasn't even her fiancé.
Chi Xia's serious expression almost collapsed. Her originally anxious and anxious mood was thrown into disorder by these words. She didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
"Young Miss, you should be more careful. This is a matter of great importance to your reputation. If it's not handled properly, someone might die!" Chi Xia threatened Jia Su.
Hearing that someone might die, Jia Su immediately sobered up and looked at Chi Xia with bright eyes, "What's going on?"
Seeing that Jia Su was serious, Chi Xia told her the news that the other maidservants in the courtyard had heard, "Young Miss, it may be that madam is unwilling to accept this, so she spread the news that you will be recorded as the legitimate daughter in advance and will 'replace' the fourth young miss in marrying someone who came in third. She also let the maidservants around her hint that all of this was because you were dissatisfied with madam's arranged marriage and took a fancy to someone who came in third. Therefore, she planned to tarnish the fourth young miss's reputation."
Jia Su looked confused, "… So?"
Chi Xia widened her eyes, "Isn't this serious?"
Jia Su frowned, "Has the news spread out of the fu?"
"No." Even if madam wanted to do this, master would not allow it!
Jia Su collapsed back on the bed and said weakly, "Since it hasn't spread out of the fu, don't worry too much about it.
I can understand Madam's unwillingness. After all, if I'm recognized as the legitimate daughter, I'll become the eldest legitimate daughter of Rongguo Manor, and I'll be above her legitimate daughter. I'll be surprised if she doesn't do anything. "
Based on Madam Jia's character in Dream of the Red Chamber, she was a very easy-going old lady when it didn't involve the interests of her and the people she really cared about.
But if it involved the interests of her or the people she cared about, she was invincible among the concubines. Even until the death of the Jia Daishan, she didn't have a concubine-born son.




