The Legend of the Farm Girl

Yunfang walked quickly to Tiantian's house and knocked on the door. It was Zhang Lin who opened it. Yunfang asked, "Brother Zhang Lin, why are you home?"

Zhang Lin replied, "Tian Tian took the child to the grocery store first, saying she was a little nervous. I saw that she was upset and the child was crying, so I accompanied her home. The child fell asleep, but Tian Tian was still worried. You should go and talk to her!"

Yunfang nodded in agreement.

At this time, Tian Tian heard Yun Fang's voice and came out of the house. Zhang Lin immediately went into the house to look at the sleeping child.

Tian Tian asked anxiously: "Yunfang, where is my mother? Why didn't she come back with you?"

Yunfang patted Tian Tian's arm soothingly and said, "Don't worry, Aunt Tian is at Linglong Embroidery Workshop. I'll tell you what's going on."

Yunfang told Tian Tian in detail what happened in Linglong Embroidery Workshop.

Tian Tian frowned when she heard the man's attitude. She was angry when she heard the harsh terms of the contract. She was a little confused when she heard that her mother signed the contract herself and not for her.

Yunfang added, "I didn't sign the contract either. People like me who didn't sign were kicked out immediately. Auntie Tian should have started working in there, so nothing will happen to her."

Tian Tian nodded in agreement and asked Yun Fang, "What are your plans next? Go to the garment shop to help out? Or find another embroidery studio? If you want to find one, I'll go with you."

Yunfang shook her head and said, "I'm planning to open another shop. You came to my wedding a while ago. What do you think of my wedding dress?"

Tian Tian didn't know why Yunfang brought up this, but when she recalled Yunfang's wedding dress, she still looked amazed.

She said, "Your wedding dress is really the most beautiful one I have ever seen. If I were to get married now, I would like to make one based on your wedding dress."

Yunfang asked her, "If I rent the wedding dress to you for ten taels of silver, would you be willing to rent it?"

Seeing Yunfang asking her so seriously, Tian Tian also thought about it seriously, and then said: "I should be willing. Even though I am also an embroiderer, your level is much higher than mine. I can't embroider clothes like yours no matter how hard I try. Besides, ten taels of silver is not a big deal for me, and it also saves me a lot of time."

Yunfang asked again: "What if it was another woman?"

Tian Tian thought for a moment and replied, "If it's ten taels of silver, it's a bit high for most women. Only those who have the ability to make money like me can afford it!"

"What if the style is also novel and good-looking, but the quality is not as good as mine? If I lower the price appropriately, will they come to rent it?" Yunfang said.

Seeing Yunfang's specific description, Tian Tian knew that Yunfang must have some ideas. She looked at Yunfang expectantly and said, "There will definitely be a beautiful woman who will come to rent it."

Yunfang said, "You must have guessed my plan. I want to open a wedding dress rental shop like this. I originally wanted to embroider these wedding dresses by myself, but because of the changes in Linglong Embroidery Workshop, I want to take you with me. I wonder if you are willing?"

Tian Tian trusted Yun Fang very much, and nodded repeatedly without thinking too much.

She said, "Just arrange some work for me. I'm willing to work with you. I have a feeling that working with you will be better than working at Linglong Embroidery Workshop."

Yunfang smiled and shook her head, somewhat touched by Tian Tian's trust in her. In fact, she was not too sure whether her shop could succeed. She had a lot of business knowledge in her head, but she always remembered that sometimes success required luck.

What Yunfang needs to do now is to consider things comprehensively.

She smiled and said to Tian Tian, ​​"I have asked my mother to find a shop for me. My mother has also vacated a female worker to make clothes for me. There are enough clothes prepared in my family's clothing shop. The female workers can be given to us for half a month. I will teach these female workers to make wedding dresses with novel styles. Then we will need to embroider the patterns on the clothes. I will put my wedding dress when I got married in the shop as the most high-end one, and then we will embroider some according to different grades. I plan to put ten pieces in the shop for the first batch. If we embroider together, half a month should be enough."

After a pause, he continued, "I have two ways to pay you. One is that if you embroider a wedding dress, I will give you ten taels of silver. If you help me run the shop, I will give you 10% of the profit. The other is that I will give you 30% of the profit directly, and I won't pay you separately for embroidering the dress."

Tian Tian thought for a while and then said, "I want the second one. I believe you can run the shop well."

Yunfang nodded and said, "Then let's sign the contract!"

After signing the contract with Tian Tian, ​​Yun Fang told Tian Tian: "Just come to Yun's Clothing Store to find me tomorrow morning. We'll start tomorrow."

Tian Tian's head should be good.

After the matter was settled, Yunfang returned home.

Li Muwen had also returned home by this time. The news about Linglong Embroidery Workshop had spread everywhere. Seeing Yunfang coming back happily, Li Muwen knew that Yunfang must not have been affected.

After Yunfang came back, she told Li Muwen about her plan to hire Tian Tian, ​​and the two discussed the homework that the teacher left for Li Muwen.

In the following days, Yunfang was extremely busy. She moved her discussion of homework with Li Muwen to the evening. During the day, she guided the female workers in making wedding dresses, and embroidered wedding dresses in the shop with Tian Tian.

It took her half a month to finally make nine sets, plus her own wedding dress, a total of ten sets.

These ten sets are divided into five grades. The highest grade is the one she wore when she got married, which cost ten taels of silver a day. Then there are eight taels, six taels, four taels, and two taels.

Yunfang did some calculations and found that the cost of these wedding dresses plus the rent was two hundred taels. The clothes could be used for at least one year, and new styles would have to be introduced after one year. If there was a monthly turnover of fifty taels of silver, including the depreciation of the clothes, she should be able to earn thirty taels a month. If she slowly added clothes in the future, she should be able to earn more money.

On July 16th, Yunfang's wedding dress shop also opened. The name of the shop was similar to Yun's Clothing Shop, so it was called Yun's Wedding Dress Shop.

Yunfang placed the wedding dress she wore when she got married in the most conspicuous position. Many women who were curious about the new shop carefully observed the wedding dress. Especially the women who were about to get married, they were unable to walk after seeing the wedding dress.

A woman asked Yunfang: "How much does your wedding dress cost?"

Yun Fang smiled and replied, "The wedding dresses in my shop are only for rent, not for sale. The one you are looking at is ten taels of silver for rent a day. There are also eight, six, four, and two taels. I guarantee that after you wear it, you will become the most beautiful bride."

Some of the women who came to the store were already married, but after seeing Yunfang's wedding dress, they were reluctant to leave. After returning home, they promoted it to the unmarried women in their families.

Soon, Yunfang's wedding dress shop became very popular. All ten wedding dresses were quickly rented out. There were weddings on the double-days of every month, so there were almost no empty clothes.

In the first month, the rent of nearly two hundred taels was recovered from the clothes, but some of the clothes were damaged and would have to be replaced if they could not last a year.

However, such a harvest still surprised Tian Tian. She didn't expect that she could earn more in the first month than when she was at Linglong Embroidery Workshop.

From then on, she believed in Yunfang unconditionally.

During this month and a half, Yunfang had lost visibly more weight, because she was not only busy with the shop, but also had to discuss schoolwork with Li Muwen.

Li Muwen felt sorry for her and asked her not to do the homework assigned by the teacher with him. However, Yunfang was a persistent person who would never give up until her goal was achieved, so Li Muwen could only lie to her that the teacher did not assign much homework.

Yunfang also discovered it. Fortunately, the shop is now on track and she is going back to doing homework with Li Muwen in the afternoon.

After talking to Li Muwen, Li Muwen was also very happy. Indeed, Yunfang provided him with a lot of help.

Every month, Yunfang could get about seventy taels from the wedding dress shop and fifty taels from the ready-made clothing shop, and she did not hide this money from Li Muwen.

Seeing that Yunfang could make so much profit every month, Li Muwen often felt as if he was living off her.

But Li Muwen also worked harder, and with Yunfang's help, the teacher told Li Muwen that his chances of passing the next provincial examination were about 50%.

The long river of time flows peacefully.

Yunfang has been married to Li Muwen for more than a year. Since the beginning of the year, Yunfang has devoted more energy to accompanying Li Muwen in studying. At the same time, she also pays attention to cultivating Yunying, who is already ten years old.

Yunying has studied for so many years, but has made no progress in the imperial examinations. She is always at the bottom of the academy in every small test.

In addition, Yunying wanted to do business, so Yunfang decided to train Yunying in this area.

After discussing with his mother, Yunying stopped going to school and went to Yunfang's house every day. Instead, he went to the shop with Yunfang. On the way, Yunfang would tell him the business knowledge she had learned in the system.

Yunfang couldn't help but sigh that Yunying was much more talented than her in this area. It took her many classes to understand the knowledge, but when she taught it to Yunying, he understood it immediately.

After learning from Yunying for half a year, Yunying can already give advice to Yunfang's mother and Yunfang occasionally. In another two years, when Yunying is older, I believe he will be able to manage these two shops well, and even make them bigger and stronger.

Yunfang got up early today. Today was the day that Li Muwen went to the provincial capital to take part in the provincial examination. There were many students going with Li Muwen, almost twenty people, all of whom were studying at Tingfeng Academy and were going to take part in this provincial examination.

Before the exam, the teacher found Li Muwen and told him that he had an 80% chance of passing the exam and asked him to keep calm.

Li Muwen also told Yunfang not to worry at home, and that he would definitely make her the wife of a juren.

Yunfang knew that Li Muwen's current level did allow him to pass the imperial examination, but she still couldn't help but feel nervous and worried.

In the more than one year since their marriage, Yunfang has never left Li Muwen. She felt a little sad when he left suddenly.

Yunfang could only try her best to prepare everything Li Muwen needed.

When the carriage came to pick up Li Muwen, the whole Li family sent Li Muwen to the carriage. Carrying the hopes of the whole family, Li Muwen set off for the provincial capital.

After that, no news came back for half a month.

During the past half month, Yunfang had been extremely tormented, always worrying about whether Li Muwen was doing well in the capital, whether he could pass the exams, and whether he could achieve academic success.

Li Muwen, who arrived in the provincial capital, also missed Yunfang very much.

It was already evening when Li Muwen arrived at the city. He and his classmates lived in the courtyard rented by Tingfeng Academy. He did not feel lonely when there were many people around. But when it was late at night and everyone was asleep, Li Muwen missed Yunfang very much.

He couldn't help but pick up the book and start reading. He picked up the book that Yunfang brought back to him from the capital two years ago. After reading it carefully, he found that there was a scholar who was not ranked high. The allusion used in the text was novel and he had never seen it before. The allusion was called "He Bo Watching the Sea".

People who are going to take an exam are like this. They are always afraid of being tested on knowledge they don't know, and even if it's obscure and unpopular, they still want to understand it.

Looking at the courtyard that had fallen into silence, Li Muwen decided to ask the students who came with him the next day. If they didn't know either, he would go to the bookstore to see if there were any books introducing this allusion.

The next morning, some of the students who came with him went to visit old friends and relatives, while others stayed in the yard to sharpen their swords for the final time. Li Muwen asked a few students who were on good terms with him, and when he found out that they didn't know either, he asked about the largest bookstore in the city and went straight there.

There were several people who went to the bookstore with Li Muwen, but they all felt that the story Li Muwen mentioned was too unpopular and were not very interested in it. They mainly came to see if there were any articles written by the examiner in the bookstore, so as to infer the examiner's preferences.

Soon, the students who wanted to buy the examiner's article found the book they wanted. However, Li Muwen was at a loss as to which book the allusion came from.

There were five students who went to the bookstore with Li Muwen. After each of them paid four taels of silver, they left the bookstore quickly without waiting for Li Muwen.

Li Muwen had to look for it alone in the bookstore, and finally found this allusion in a history book of the previous dynasty. Few people would use allusions from the previous dynasty when writing policy essays, because the previous dynasty has a history of less than a hundred years, and there was a huge war between the previous dynasty and the current dynasty, and countless royal family members of the current dynasty died at the hands of people from the previous dynasty. The literature of the previous dynasty is rarely tested, so few people study it.

Li Muwen was still somewhat curious as to why the scholar wrote this story. After reading it carefully, he realized that the story was about an autumn when it rained heavily and countless small streams flowed into the Yellow River.

I saw surging waves and rising river water, which submerged the sandbar in the middle of the river and irrigated the depressions on the shore. The river suddenly widened and looking across the water, even large livestock such as cattle and horses on the other side of the river could not be distinguished.

He Bo thought that all the water in the world had flowed to him, and he was very proud of himself. He followed the flowing water to the east, admiring the water scenery as he walked.

He came to the North Sea and looked eastward. He was shocked to see that the water and the sky were connected, and he could not understand where the water ended.

He Bo stared blankly for a while, then turned to the sea and said with emotion: "As the saying goes: 'People who understand more truth think they are better than everyone else.' I am such a person!"

This turned out to be such a cautionary tale. After understanding it, Li Muwen left with satisfaction.