An ugly girl starts off, then becomes a beauty

This year's horse racing meeting in Xiaonan Mountain was more lively than the previous two years. After the national mourning, the battle in the south was won with a great victory, and the emperor and the people were celebrating together.

If the people above are happy, the people below will be less timid in doing things.

It was late spring and the beginning of summer, and the weather was good. In the past two days, visibly more people had come to Xiaonan Mountain for the party. Sang Ling entered with Nie Ce. Madam Zhaoyu did not come today. After the couple sat down, many people came to greet them and socialize with them. In the past, Sang Ling had actually followed her mother-in-law in greeting, or let her husband go forward to deal with them. But today was different. When she saw someone coming with his wife, she took the initiative to greet and talk to him.

Nie Ce had known what she was thinking for a long time. When they were talking in the carriage before coming, Sang Ling said that she wanted to promote Xianglianju's products today, and Nie Ce also asked her how she would promote them.

"They look down on me as a businessman, so I can only quietly advertise. Most of the women who glanced at me were curious. They asked about it, and I would chat with them for a few minutes and then give them one. After they used it, they knew how good it was. Then they would naturally inquire about it and buy it back. Shouldn't I spread the word?"

After he finished speaking, the guy paused for a long while, his expression unclear. As he got off the car, he agreed and said, "Your idea is good. You are born with the talent for business."

Facts have also proved that as long as you are determined to do something, even if you can't see any results at the moment, you will not end up with a bad result. For example, as for the mascara, two were given away, and one was given to Lady Yuyang and Lady Cao Wang of the Judicial Department. She confiscated their gifts and said that she would go directly to Xianglianju to take a look when she had time, and even invited Sang Ling to go with her - in fact, she just wanted to get closer to Lady Mu Wuhou. After all, Nie Ce was very popular now, and it was all meant to be. Sang Ling knew what was going on and readily agreed.

Only two or three days later, I went to Xianglianju with Lady Yuyang and Lady Wang. Their shop was originally two connected shops, and later another shop was added, so the area was quite large. In addition to the main products such as mascara and wolf-hair eyeliner, there were also less innovative incense, but the incense was divided into many types according to its scent. The two high-ranking wives selected mascara and wolf-hair eyeliner, and then went to choose incense.

Madam Yuyang smiled and said, "I didn't expect that Madam Hou was still interested in these things. I also saw you once at the horse race last year. I didn't have time to say hello at that time, but I saw that you were wearing a plain dress with no patterns, but you were already very graceful--" She paused and said, "I speak frankly, Madam Hou, please don't mind."

"How could that be?" Sang Ling kept smiling, and then heard the person on the other side say, "I thought you didn't like to mess around with this kind of stuff."

Madam Wang at the side continued in a low voice, "The first time I saw the Marquis's Mansion was at the palace banquet in the eleventh year of Jiansi. At that time, Madam Hou also had makeup on her face. She was very pretty without makeup, and even more so with makeup. However, the few times I saw you afterwards, you became more plain and elegant."

Sang Ling couldn't help but think back, associating the words "palace banquet" and "makeup". It was the first time she went to the palace with Madam Zhaoyu for a banquet, and Yunyuexie's maid put on that makeup for her. Afterwards, Nie Ce asked her to put on that makeup again. Her thoughts were profound. That makeup was really heavy, and her lips were bright red. She curved her crescent eyes, revealing two dimples at the corners of her lips. "I just did it for fun. When I had the energy to do it, I asked the maid to put on my makeup. If I didn't have the interest, I would be too lazy to do it. Recently, I heard the maid talk about the rare mascara and eyeliner produced by this store, so I put them on my face to try. I saw that the effect was not bad, so I became interested."

"I think you have good eyesight." Madam Yuyang said, "This master is smart, how could he think of doing this to his eyes?"

As she finished speaking, Mrs. Wang twisted open the mascara and held it under the sun to look at it. "Applying it on your eyelashes really makes them look more lively."

Just as they were saying this, Dai Chengjun came in with two ladies. The two sides bumped into each other. Mrs. Wang happened to know some of the people there, so she stepped forward quickly. Another social interaction was inevitable. The two younger daughters, Sang and Dai, just smiled at each other.

*

In the middle of the year, the household chores began to increase. After Dai Chengjun and the five girls from Zhongcun had learned the business of Wuxiaxianglianju in Sangling, she could put aside the affairs of the mansion for the time being.

Just after meeting with a group of manor owners at Jingsi Residence that day, Wei Chu came back to say that the wife of the Marquis of Dong was here.

She hurried over to greet him, and found him already sitting in the back room. It was early noon, and all the owners of the house were taking a nap in their bedrooms, and would hardly come out before noon. Moreover, it was a hot summer day, and those who were afraid of the heat would not come out the whole afternoon. Therefore, she did not take him into the noon garden, and the two of them talked in the back room.

"I have nothing to do with the Xun family anymore." The Ban family's daughter looked tired. Although her tone was calm, looking at her tired look, it seemed that there were many twists and turns. Sang Ling hesitated for a moment, and wanted to ask about the back and forth, but when the words came to his lips, he didn't know how to start, so he prepared to ask her about her next plan.

Ban Le forced a smile and spoke first, "You guessed it right. They didn't want to divorce at first. They found all kinds of excuses, saying that I committed the seven main reasons for divorce and asked Xun Jin to divorce me, but he refused. Since he didn't want to divorce me or divorce me, I wanted to discuss it with him, but he hid in the room and wouldn't see me. Later, I sneaked out, and my mother asked me to find my uncle and ask him to help me get rid of the Xun family. Who would have thought that Xun Jin chased after me? I don't know how he became like that again. That day he cried and admitted his mistake to me..." The daughter of the Ban family frowned, her eyes instantly reddened, "I said I didn't want any of the dowry, and I didn't want anything from the house. He wanted to take Niuniu away, but he refused. He hugged me... He said..." It was difficult for him to say these words several times. Ban Le looked at the hem of her skirt again. "A Ling, I don't know anymore. I don't know if he ever loved me. If he really loved me, how could he treat me like that? He said that when I first got married, he really had no feelings for me because you hated me. Later, he slowly began to like me. He said that he was bewildered in the past two years. The elders all hoped to have an heir, and the concubine happened to give birth to a son. They were all happy, and he was happy too. He ignored me and my daughter for a while, and he even knelt down in front of me--"

"You believe that?" Sang Ling interrupted coldly, "Given his current situation, apart from the precarious title of Marquis Dong, there is no one with real power in his family. He himself is in solitary confinement and he doesn't know when he will be in solitary confinement. Who can he grab to help him at this time? Who else can he find besides you?"

"Ah Le, you've been used by him once, this time you should see clearly what's going on."