Red sleeves add fragrance

Red Sleeves (I) (I)

While Xinjie was busy for the court and Pingluan Pavilion, Lian'er was also busy for business.

Yixinzhai is a small business in the capital that Lian'er used her private money to test the waters, but she didn't expect it to be so popular soon. At first, people went there because the Five Princes made it, but when they got there, the women of the wealthy families were surprised to find that the things here were surprisingly in line with their hearts.

The elegant ladies were very fond of the delicate brushes that had been treated with incense and carved with various fine patterns. What makes them even more pleased is a variety of delicate blank fans, including fans, folding fans, and the noodles are made of fine materials such as white silk, sprinkled gold paper, snow wave paper, etc., and the fan bone fan handle is all of the best materials, such as red sandalwood, all kinds of jade, tortoiseshell, etc. There are also a variety of paperweights, different from common paperweights, these paperweights are not necessarily rectangular, there are various patterns, and there are also special pet paperweights specially launched by the store to accept customer portraits. Those who are proficient in the art of the piano find that the piano here is even more amazing.

The women who came to see the excitement came with them, but then they brought their families, and many men found that they could find something pleasant here. For example, spending a dozen taels of silver to buy a blank fan with red sandalwood sprinkled with gold, and going back to inscribe poems or paint paintings by yourself is an excellent thing to give away. Some people even bought blank ones and sent them to famous artists to ask for words and paintings. A year or two later, in the noble circle of the capital, Yixinzhai became a symbol of elegance, and three or four years later, the people in the context of the Great Zhou Dynasty took Yixinzhai as the vane of literary and ink things. A few years later, sometimes our majestic Young Master Tang San would often find his wife to be coquettish and beg for support, because a certain young grandmother was too golden. That's for later.

In addition to using private money to open a pleasant meal, Lian'er invested most of her energy and time in the capital Baihuatang. As more and more widows, children, the elderly, the weak and the disabled are sheltered, Baihuatang not only needs more space to accommodate them and more money to provide for them, but more importantly, how to solve the problem of so many accumulated people, so that they can live and work in peace and contentment and live with each other and care, instead of becoming a group of people who are easily encouraged and used by outsiders. To this end, in addition to allowing school-age children to enter self-built schools and supporting them to fend for themselves when they become adults, Baihuatang has also opened various manors and workshops.

When Lian'er was in Jiangnan, she discussed with the stewards of Baihuatang how to make incense powder and the like into finished products and sell them in major towns. The people of Baihuatang in Beijing also moved quickly, and when she didn't arrive in the capital, she had already selected the shop and made all kinds of preparations. After she arrived in Beijing, she started a real fat powder business. At the same time, he asked the steward of the capital to find skilled embroiderers, trained a large number of women in Baihuatang, and launched an embroidery workshop with its own ready-to-wear in the capital.

After Lian'er opened the fat powder business and the Baihua Embroidery Workshop, the affairs of Baihuatang in the capital became clearer, and the stewards of Baihuatang became more and more convinced of the deputy chief and the future young grandmother. She also began to gradually design more for Baihuatang, and find more ways for the orphans and widows who were rescued by Baihuatang. As the business of rouge gouache became more and more prosperous, it has become inevitable to open your own workshop in the capital to make rouge gouache; The Hundred Flowers Embroidery Workshop is doing well, and it also needs to recruit apprentices, which also provides more opportunities for more women who are willing to support themselves.

In the following years, after Baihuatang solved the internal problems, in addition to letting adult women work in Baihuatang, Baihuatang also opened a special school to provide a little opportunity for children who were not taken in by Baihuatang, but who were out of school and out of school, so that they might have the opportunity to get ahead in the future.

As Baihuatang's business increases, so does the number of people, and there may be Baihuatang sisters everywhere in the capital, which also makes Baihuatang more aware of the various dynamics in the capital. Since the mountain rain is coming, the necessary arrangements and the necessary training for the sisters are necessary. The two directors of Baihuatang in the capital, Hall Master Liu and Deputy Hall Master Ouyang, were both capable people, especially Hall Master Liu, who came to the capital from Kansai to guard when Aunt Xiaoxiao established Baihuatang. She is strict and loyal, and she has no special likes or dislikes for this young deputy manager, since the old lady has assigned it, she just does things according to the rules. But after a few things, she began to admire the old lady's vision, although the white girl's way of doing things was different from her habits, but the effect was far better than her used to do things step by step. Now the white girl asked her to select some people to receive various training such as martial arts, language and conversation, and observation of affairs, although she did not understand the deep meaning, but she knew that she must have a long-term plan. And Baihuatang's various businesses operated by borrowing other businesses in the Ming Office, although some of the arrangements she couldn't understand, but there were no longer as many objections as at the beginning.

Busy days, time flies, spring flowers bloom in April, especially beautiful in the capital. It's the prettiest season of the year in the city. The streets are also the most populated during this season. On this day, Lian'er went to the newly rented shop next door to the Baihua Embroidery Workshop to sell rouge gouache, and asked people to tell Liu Tang Master that she had to pick a few smart and reliable sisters who learned to dress up for guests. This is a service for customers who come to the store to try things out, and at the same time, they can also come to their homes and provide them with a special makeup service. And this kind of service is mainly provided to the wives and ladies of large families, so that they can better use the things of Baihuatang, and at the same time, they should also tell them that Baihuatang is doing good deeds. This is also the best self-built image of Baihuatang, resisting those who are prejudiced against a group of women doing things, spreading all kinds of gossip and fighting back.

After explaining all the details, Lian'er decided to go home early and prepare some light side dishes for Xinjie to wait for him to come home for dinner. Xinjie has been so busy lately that he sometimes comes back late at night or even at dawn. What's more, it's in Pingluan Pavilion all night, sleepless all night. When he left home early this morning, he specifically told her that he would come back today to have dinner with her. He doesn't want to snub his lover, and he himself prefers to share a peaceful and pleasant time with her.

The car stopped, Lian'er thought she was home, opened the curtain of the car and looked, there was still some distance, and saw two sedan chairs parked at the door from a distance, and two girls were talking to Uncle Zhou at the door. Xing'er had already seen the person standing at the door, and she was nervous, not knowing how to explain to the hostess in the car.

In the past, Xing'er and Jin Quan'er often followed the new outstanding door in the capital. Xing'er was originally in Henan with a few brothers doing business-free business, and one day on the road accidentally hijacked Xinjie's car and another Jiangnan artist's car. After the tricks, a few of their brothers knew what martial arts were, and from then on they decided to wash their hands and change their ways. Xinjie put the other brothers in different places in the Ping An Inn and the capital Yuehuaxuan, and let the shopkeepers everywhere strictly discipline him, because Xing'er has good kung fu and is clever, and he doesn't have so many bad problems as his brothers, so Xinjie keeps him by his side. Xinjie often instructed him in kung fu when he was in the capital, and he has made rapid progress in recent years, and he can be regarded as an absolute master in the rivers and lakes.

Now Xinjie asked him to follow Lian'er out to protect her. Xing'er is naturally familiar with many people Xinjie knows in the capital, and these people naturally include the red-sleeved girl of the famous prostitute in Jiangnan who they robbed Xinjie on the road at the same time. Since the red-sleeved girl was rescued by Xinjie on the way to Beijing, the two have been in a relationship. In recent years, the red sleeves have been popular in the capital all over the sky, the singing voice is sweet, the people are also beautiful, and there are countless sons and grandsons who are admired.

In the short term, she has no plans to return to Jiangnan. Although she is listed in Tianyin Tower, but she has always been a performer and not a person, in this capital where nobles gather, can keep this state, in addition to her good communication between the literati and nobles, these people are more or less in order to pretend to be elegant and vain, unwilling to use strong, many people know that she is one of the confidants of the third prince of the Tang Sect in the capital is also another reason. The power of the Tang Sect and the relationship between the Queen Mother and the Queen Mother are something that no one in the officialdom and shopping malls wants to offend, and Xinjie's status in the rivers and lakes is not something that ordinary people in the rivers and lakes dare to harass. Tang Sangongzi often stayed in the red sleeves of Tianyin Tower or stayed overnight in the flower dew of Evian Pavilion in the capital, which is well known, and even Lan Xin once went to the door. In this way, Red Sleeves and Flower Dew can live a relatively peaceful life, and avoid the entanglement of disgusting people.

It has been half a year since Xinjie returned to Xianyang to visit relatives, and both Red Sleeves and Hualu know that he has returned to Beijing, but no one is seen. Although they didn't think that one day they would be lucky enough to follow Xinjie, but the attachment is indescribable. Today, Red Sleeves really didn't want to wait stupidly, and decided to find Xinjie himself. She and Hualu have both been to the old mansion of the Tang family, and have never found Xinjie, only to hear later that the third young master has his own yard on Nanqin Road. Today she made an appointment with Flower Dew and decided to give it a try.

"Xing'er, do you know who this is?" Lian'er had already gotten out of the car and decided to go over and see for herself.

Xing'er naturally didn't dare to say who this was: "Miss Cousin, I'll go and let them leave first, and then you can go over." ”

Lian'er stopped and looked at him: "Why?" Since people are here, they are naturally looking for something to do with the young master, right? ”

"These two are the girls of Tianyin Tower and Evian Pavilion." Xing'er had to answer carefully, and scolded the two sisters a few times in her heart, isn't this looking for him to find trouble?! I love Miss Cousin so much, if Miss Cousin gets angry because of this...

"Oh?!" Lian'er smiled, didn't say anything to Xing'er, and walked straight over.