"How could Miss not know?" The personal maid looked at the young lady in disbelief, as if she was unwilling to accept the usually smart and clever young lady, and said the words "I don't know".

With a soft sigh, the young lady lowered the hanging curtains.

She turned around and asked the personal maid: "Do you think the fourth lady of the Prime Minister's Mansion is a person who can casually hand over the most important things to the maid?" ”

"And as far as I know, Ling'er, these maids, are not familiar with Liu Yanxue at all, and even the relationship with Liu Yanxue's personal maids can only be said to be average." The young lady stretched out her hand to support her chin, and kept substituting herself into Liu Yanxue, trying to feel Liu Yanxue's state of mind, "If I were her, I would definitely observe for a long time, and then make various judgments and temptations to determine someone's character, and after knowing that she will never be tempted, I will really hand over the formula of skin care products to her." ”

The personal maid reached out and pinched the fan, carefully fanned the young lady, and at the same time said nonchalantly: "Maybe she wasn't very smart in the first place, and she was complimented by a few good words?" ”

"Impossible." The young lady shook her head firmly, "If she could really be impressed by a few kind words, her skincare store would definitely be out of her hands by now...... The prime minister, the prime minister's wife, the four ladies of the prime minister's mansion, and even the queen who appreciates the skin care store, which one doesn't want to take this store as already there? But Liu Yanxue has always firmly controlled the skin care store, which shows that she is definitely not a stupid person. ”

"Then why did she bring a few completely unfamiliar maids to her side?" The personal maid asked with some curiosity.

The young lady lowered her eyes and thought secretly.

About half an hour later, her eyes suddenly lit up, and she thought of something: "I know! ”

Half an hour had passed, and the attention of the maid had already been attracted by something else, and at first hearing the young lady's surprised voice, she was startled, and the fan in her hand almost fell to the ground.

Fortunately, she was quick to catch the fan, and continued to fan the young lady: "Miss, you scared the slave maid. ”

"I'm sorry." The young lady smiled, and there was a strange brilliance in her eyes, "I just suddenly blessed my soul and thought of the reason why Liu Yanxue did this." ”

"What is the reason?" The personal maid looked at the young lady cooperatively.

The young lady smiled mysteriously, and motioned for the maid to lean over and come close to her ear.

"I think she's playing a trap."

"Trap?" As soon as these words came out, even if she had been mentally prepared for a long time, the personal maid was still startled, "Miss means that Miss Liu Si has long seen that they are unreliable, so she deliberately designed a trap for them to drill into it, and then directly catch them?" ”

"Yes." The young lady nodded vigorously, "I can't tell where the trap is set exactly, but Ling'er's final result will definitely not be too good." ”

Thinking of Ling'er's final fate, the body of the personal maid trembled, and looked at the young lady worriedly: "Miss, we contacted Ling'er, and in the end, it won't fall on us, right?" ”

"No, it won't." The young lady sat calmly in place, "What did we do, Liu Yanxue has no right to control it, I just had a good relationship with Ling'er and gave her thirty taels of silver, why did Liu Yanxue say that I bought the maids around her?" ”

"As for the raw materials for skin care products, it was also given to me voluntarily by Ling'er, she felt that I was like her own sister, so she was willing to steal the raw materials of skin care products to me, this is her problem, and it has nothing to do with me."

Facing the admiring gaze of the maid, the young lady leisurely lifted the curtain and looked at the pedestrians and food stalls passing by outside the window.

"The raw materials for skin care products that Ling'er brought are definitely not real raw materials, but as long as we can find one or two useful things from them, the money we spent is not in vain." The young lady seemed to be talking to herself, and she seemed to be talking to the maid next to her.

"Miss is really smart." The personal maid does not hesitate to praise herself.

The young lady smiled modestly and glanced at the sky outside the window: "It's still early, go to the skin care store and buy a can of skin care products." ”

Thinking of the price of skin care products and the fast skin care products used, the young lady, who had always maintained a calm expression, couldn't help frowning.

The same story as Ling'er is being played out in all corners of Kyoto.

The maids who had received the money returned to the Prime Minister's Mansion with their own thoughts, explained the reasons why they went out with different reasons, and then carefully hid the money and jewelry they received.

The next day, Liu Yanxue took them to continue working.

"Mash all these herbs into a paste and mix them together." Liu Yanxue instructed them, "Wait until the afternoon to add water." ”

"Miss, is there any knowledge about adding water?" A maid who had received the money suddenly spoke, her eyes full of pure curiosity and doubt.

Liu Yanxue's footsteps paused, and then the corners of her mouth hooked up a smile, which made the asking maid a little afraid.

Just when she wanted to say something else and change the topic, Liu Yanxue suddenly spoke: "Skin care products are used on the face, so the water we use is spring water under the high mountain, and we need someone to go to the top of the mountain to get it, and then seal the lid all the way and send it carefully, and it can't be contaminated with half a cent of dust." ”

"It's because the water used is so scarce, so I won't let you pour it." Liu Yanxue did not change her face and told the lie that she had prepared a long time ago.

"I see." The maids felt that there was no problem with what Liu Yanxue said, so she refocused her gaze on the various herbs in front of her.

"I'll go out and get water, you guys work well here, and I'll be back in a while." A few days ago, when they were working, Liu Yanxue would sit in the room to supervise them, and once she saw unruly actions or lazy behavior, Liu Yanxue would criticize them harshly.

Today, Liu Yanxue finally gave them time to work freely, and the maids present couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

Seeing Liu Yanxue's figure disappear outside the door, the maids retracted their gaze and seemed to continue to work hard, but their eyes were a little scrutinizing and exploring.

Finally, a maid gritted her teeth, and was the first to reach out, sneak a herb, and stuff it into her arms.

Because of her nervousness, her movements were obvious, but the maids present all strangely pretended not to notice, and they all lowered their heads and worked seriously.

When the maid kicked all the herbs into her arms, the other maids also began to act one after another, some of them put up the half-finished paste, some took a handful of raw herbs, and some simply took out a little bit of everything.

Later, the range of their movements became larger and larger, even to the point of blatantness.

But the room was quiet, and the maids did their own things, took their own things, and did not disturb each other, as if they had reached some strange agreement in silence.

Later, a few maids got together and muttered a few words carefully.

Immediately, two maids were guarding the door, carefully watching the situation outside, making sure that Liu Yanxue would not appear at the door immediately.

The other two maids began to look through the other furnishings in the room in earnest, trying to find the secret that Liu Yanxue was hiding, preferably the intimate formula of skin care products.

It's a pity that Liu Yanxue hasn't been here much before, so the bookshelves are empty, and they are all useless things, and the maids carefully look through them for a long time, but they can't find useful objects.

Suddenly, the maid at the door stomped her foot hard.

The maid next to the bookshelf realized something, hurriedly ran to the place where she worked, and began to stir the skin care products seriously.

After about a few breaths, a clear footstep appeared at the door, and then the door was gently pushed open by Liu Yanxue.

The house was orderly, and the maids were all carefully processing skin care products, probably because they were overworked, and a few of the maids had a fine layer of sweat on their foreheads and necks.

As if she hadn't found anything, Liu Yanxue walked into the house naturally.

"How's it going?"

"It's almost over." A maid took the lead in replying, and then the movements of her hands quickened a little.

She felt the oiled paper bag in her arms, and felt like there was a nail under her feet, and she couldn't wait to fly to the agreed place immediately, hand over the things in her arms to the other party, and then receive the balance payment from the other party.

With a few hundred taels of silver, she can eat and drink spicy food, buy some delicious food and drink for her parents who live on the outskirts of Kyoto, buy two more clothes, and buy some land.

Thinking of this, her heart became more and more hot.

"You're all doing well." Liu Yanxue walked around everyone, she deliberately ignored the untidy fronts of the maids, as well as the bulging pockets around their waists.

The raw materials of these skin care products have been kneaded countless times by the hands of the maids, and Liu Yanxue didn't want to use them, so she really went to get a bucket of spring water and asked the little maid to move to the door of the study.

"You two." Liu Yanxue casually ordered two maids who looked stronger, "Move the barrel in." ”

The maids, whose names had been called, glanced at each other, walked to the door together, carried the barrel into the room, and gently lowered it on the ground.

"I'll go out and get someone to get a special bucket, and you can pour water into it and mix it well." Liu Yanxue lied without changing her face, "This time the skin care products will be packed in large barrels, I will save them first, and try to seal them for a period of time to make the skin care products work better." ”

"Yes." The maids hurriedly and happily responded.

When Liu Yanxue left, the maids hurriedly came to the front of the wooden barrel, scooped out a handful of spring water from it with their palms, first felt it with their fingers, and then drank it with the boldness.

"What does it smell like?" The other maids were staring at her intensely.

The maid who drank the water smacked her lips: "It's the taste of the mountain spring, a little cool, and a little sweet." ”