I trade in both worlds

Fengjie waited in the side hall for a cup of tea before she saw a young man in his twenties walk in with a serious face.

Sister Feng stood up and saluted, "Manager Xiao Liu."

Manager Xiao Liu returned the greeting with a polite smile and said, "Sister Feng, long time no see. I heard that you wanted to see my father for something. I'm sorry, he's been busy with the autumn harvest at the farm and has been away for almost a month."

Manager Xiao Liu's full name is Liu Zhuqing. He is the eldest son of the chief steward of the Liu Mansion and the default successor to the next chief steward of the Liu Mansion.

He has been with the eldest young master of the Liu family since he was five or six years old. He is cautious and thorough in his conduct and can do everything entrusted to him beautifully, which makes his masters very happy.

"If you're not in a hurry, my father will be back in four or five days. If you're in a hurry, you can talk to me first and see if I can handle it." Then he gestured to Sister Feng: "Let's sit down and talk."

Sister Feng sat down on the chair next to him, with a small coffee table between them: "It's okay, it's the same if I look for you."

Manager Xiao Liu nodded: "Please go ahead."

Fengjie opened her bag, took out four bottles of lip balm and a lip brush and placed them on the coffee table: "The daughter of a good friend of mine made a few lip balms herself. She came to me some time ago to help her find a buyer and sell the lip balm recipe."

"Lip balm?" Manager Liu raised his eyebrows. He didn't think that Sister Feng would come all the way from Youzhou to the capital just for a few bottles of lip balm.

Seeing his cautious look, Sister Feng smiled, pushed the four jars in front of him, and gestured: "Open them and have a look."

Manager Xiao Liu looked at her suspiciously and picked up the big red jar: "This jar is really exquisitely made."

He held the jar in his palm and observed it for a while. He saw the words "jiangzhi" written in large seal characters on the bottle: "jiangzhi, does this refer to the color of lip balm?"

Sister Feng nodded: "This color is called Jiangzhi."

Manager Xiao Liu touched the smooth bottle, kept muttering the name of the color, and smiled: "Jiangzhi, this name is quite elegant."

He touched the petal pattern on the lid, opened the lid and saw that it was red. He felt a little disappointed. He didn't think there was much difference between this and the lip balm on the market now.

Sister Feng raised her chin and pointed at the other lip balms: "There are more, take a look."

Manager Xiao Liu glanced at her, put down the crimson rouge in his hand, picked up the jar with "Mei Ran" written on it, opened the lid and saw that the paste in the jar was earthy brown.

Looking at the jar and then at the lip balm, the colors were almost the same. Manager Liu remained silent. Such a color could be used for lip balm. He imagined a beautiful woman turning her originally rosy lips into an earthy brown color, and he shuddered instantly.

The black cream that was popular in the previous dynasty was to paint the lips black. He couldn't understand why people had to paint their lips black, because wouldn't rosy lips look better than black ones?

Now Fengjie has made a lip balm of earthy brown color. If the color is any lighter or brighter, it will become shit yellow. Can you still eat with such lip balm on?

Thinking of this, Manager Liu imagined a beautiful woman with poop on her lips.

Instantly, a feeling of nausea came over me. I quickly shook my head to get rid of the image in my mind and forced myself to swallow back the nausea.

Looking at the lip balm, he put the can back on the table with a look of disgust: "Is this lip balm? This color?"

Fengjie calmly took a sip of tea and replied slowly, "Manager Liu, there are still two cans. You can finish reading them together. We will find a few people to try them out. Then you will know."

"Do you want to try again?" Manager Liu looked at her in disbelief.

"Why can't I try it? How can I know if this lip balm is good without trying it?" Sister Feng looked at him in confusion.

Manager Xiao Liu turned his head away and exclaimed, "Who would try this shitty color?"

Sister Feng: "..."

"How do you speak?" Sister Feng looked at him speechlessly: "Can you still speak?"

“Hehe.” Manager Xiao Liu smiled awkwardly: “It’s this color. Um, it’s a bit like the so-called shit yellow.”

Sister Feng looked at him expressionlessly, she had never thought about it before, but when Manager Liu mentioned it, she started to imagine it too, and her chest began to feel uncomfortable.

Manager Xiao Liu thought she was angry and smiled at her flatteringly: "What Sister Feng can bring must be extraordinary. Let's find someone to do as you said and give it a try."

In fact, putting aside the color, according to Fengjie's personality, if this thing was nothing special, she would definitely not send it to him. This lip balm must have something unique that he didn't know about.

He thought of his wife's lip balm, which seemed to have several colors. Anyway, to him, they were all red, just with differences of lighter or darker. He didn't understand how women could tell the difference.

Sister Feng suppressed the discomfort in her chest and said, "Try to see other colors first."

"Your color is indeed special, hehe." Manager Liu picked up the red cinnabar and took a look. Although the color was obviously different from that of the crimson cinnabar, they were both red.

Finally, when I opened the Su Fang, I saw that the color of the paste looked like brown mixed with red. Visually, this color is still different from red, but not as big as plum dye.

Manager Xiao Liu put down the lip balm in his hand and asked: "How are you going to try it?"

Fengjie pondered for a while. She tried it again in the inn last night and found that the color would be different if the thickness was different. She wanted to try what the effects would be if she applied nude makeup lightly, light makeup lightly, and heavy makeup thickly.

"Well, find 12 good-looking maids, 4 without makeup, 4 with light makeup, and 4 with heavy makeup."

Manager Xiao Liu didn't understand. It was just lip balm, so why did they have to differentiate between different makeup styles? He asked curiously, "Is there any difference?"

Sister Feng pursed her lips and smiled: "You will know when the time comes."

Helplessly, Manager Xiao Liu stood up and said, "Okay, then you sit for a while. I'll go find my mother. You can only ask her to help arrange your request."

After saying that, he walked towards the inner courtyard. The mother of Manager Liu was Madam Liu's maid who came with her as a dowry. She now served Madam Liu and was in charge of all matters in the inner courtyard.

When the steward Liu came, she was talking to Madam Liu about the hot gossip in the capital. When Madam Liu heard that he came to borrow a maid, she curiously called him in to question him.

Manager Xiao Liu lowered his head and entered the main room: "Greetings to the Madam."

"No need to be polite." Madam Liu waved her hand and looked at him curiously: "I heard you want to borrow a maid?"

Manager Xiao Liu replied respectfully, "Yes, Manager Feng from Jinxiu Pavilion in Guoyue County brought some lip balms and needs to find a few maids to test the colors."

"Lip balm? What kind of lip balm?" Speaking of these, every woman would be interested, let alone the women who were locked up in the inner courtyard all day long.