A genius girl with her own space

Chapter 6: Yun Lei Saves People

The maids accompanied their wives to the shop, their voices echoing throughout the shop. Many of the ladies bought bracelets, jade pendants, and jade plaques for their children. The maids handed the ladies flyers offering a 30% discount, saving them a considerable amount of money. Each of them received a reward and accompanied them home in joy. Several of the ladies, eager to show off their bracelets, visited their friends, deliberately displaying them, unintentionally providing free publicity for the jade shop.

Suddenly, a horse-drawn carriage barreled down the street, and the crowds erupted in panic. A small girl, about two years old, stood there, stunned. Qiqi was about to use her mental power when a figure flashed by. Yunlei reached out and grabbed the reins, exerting all his strength to stop the raging horse. He was about two meters away from the girl. Due to the carriage's inertia, a woman fell out. Yunlei reached out and hugged her.

When Qiqi saw the little girl being rescued, she realized it was Brother Yunlei and immediately clapped her hands in joy. Everyone then realized what was happening and started to applaud and cheer.

Yun Lei finally reacted and gently put the woman down. The woman's cheeks were slightly red, and she looked shy and beautiful.

"Sir, thank you for saving my life." Xu Yunfang bowed slightly.

"Miss, you're welcome. It's what we should do. No one would stand idly by when faced with this situation," Yun Lei said. "Sir, may I ask your name? My name is Xu Yunfang."

At this time, a maid came running over, sweating and panting. She hugged the young lady and cried, "Young lady, are you okay? Are you hurt?" She walked around her in a circle.

The little girl's mother hugged her and burst into tears, then took her to Yun Lei, knelt down and kowtowed, thanking her son for saving her life.

Qiqi looked at Xu Yunfang. This sister was so beautiful, so pretty that it seemed like she had a crush on her brother. She was attracted to her sister-in-law. I wanted to grab her for my brother, but my brother was so dull and didn't understand romance.

"Sister, my name is Jiang Yunlei, and my name is Jiang Qiqi. I like you very much, and you are so beautiful." Qiqi's praise made Xu Yunfang even more shy and she didn't dare to look directly at Yunlei.

"Sister, are you coming to our store? I'll take you in." Qiqi stretched out her little hand and took Xu Yunfang's hand, and they entered the store together. Xu Yunfang was amazed by the dazzling array of jewelry in the store. She had never seen such jewelry before, and they were all very beautiful. She wanted to buy them all. In the end, Xu Yunfang chose an imperial green bracelet for her mother, and her mother would definitely like it. She chose an ice-type small Buddha pendant for herself, which was crystal clear with a hint of green. She chose a jade pendant for her brother, which was also ice green. Qiqi said she wanted to give it to her sister, but Xu Yunfang disagreed. Finally, the shopkeeper Zhang came out and gave her a 50% discount, and the maid went with the shopkeeper to pay. Xu Yunfang took Qiqi's hand, "Qiqi, can I call you that? Sister Qiqi likes you so much! Let's go to the Xu Mansion to play some other day, and I'll make you something delicious." After saying that, she glanced at Yunlei, and it seemed that it would be even better if Yunlei went with her.

Xu Yunfang thanked the three brothers and sisters and happily returned home with her maid.

At dusk, when the lights were on, it was time for the shop to make samples. There were also young ladies and wives looking at the samples and ordering many jewelry. It turned out that Jiang Yunfeng had drawn many jewelry sample drawings based on Qiqi's description and hung them in the shop for customers to order. Shopkeeper Zhang took the account book, calculated the sales for the day, and came to the three siblings to report the accounts, grinning from ear to ear. Congratulations to the young master for making a profit of 2,155 taels today. Qiqi had expected this, but the brothers didn't understand. They hugged Qiqi and jumped up, saying, "Qiqi is our lucky star, bringing good luck to our whole family." It turned out that Jiang Shuoan had no official position in the Zhou Kingdom. He was the director of the library in the palace, earning about 100 taels of silver a month. After the palace's expenses, there was not much left. Today's profit was more than Jiang Shuoan's annual salary. How could he not be happy?

The maids, the waiter, and the shopkeeper all cheered. They had never seen so much money before, and even though they were tired today, they were happy. Yun Lei gave everyone in the shop a red envelope, even Qiqi and Yun Feng received one. The shopkeeper, the waiter, and the maids all bowed generously to the siblings. Yun Lei held Qiqi in his arms, and they hurried to the mansion in the carriage. As they arrived at the gate, they saw their mother, Zhao, looking out at the road. As the carriage stopped, Yun Feng carried Qiqi down, and Zhao came to meet them.

"I miss you so much, Mom! You've been out all day. Are you hungry?" Qiqi kissed her mother on the cheek to prevent her from scolding her brother. "Mom, I miss you so much. I'm hungry." Upon hearing this, Zhao hurriedly carried her precious daughter to the front hall. The table in the front hall was filled with food, including Qiqi's favorite lean meat porridge. Zhao fed her with a small spoon, and Qiqi ate with big mouthfuls.

Jiang Shuoan watched his precious daughters eat, feeling incredibly distressed. He scolded his two sons. "You little brats, if you're not hungry the whole day you're out, your sister will be hungry. Why don't you come back earlier? Look how hungry your sister is! Don't take your sister out anymore." "Daddy, the baby has food," he patted his little bag, and quickly came to his brother's rescue.

Yunfeng told his parents how his fifth brother had rescued someone on horseback. Zhao was so frightened that she pulled Yunlei over to look around. Seeing that he was unharmed, she finally felt relieved. Jiang Shuoan also praised Yunlei. Yunfeng gave Zhao the proceeds from the jade shop today—two thousand taels—which made Zhao and Jiang Shuoan overjoyed. Daughters are the Jiang family's lucky stars. Since the birth of Little Qiqi, the Jiang family has been blessed with good fortune.

Xie Lei led the miners, unearthing more and more rocks. Qiqi would visit the mountains every few days to see if any of the rocks contained jade, bringing them back to the shop. Wang Wu's carving skills were improving, and the jade shop was booming. Now the three siblings had less to worry about, so they planned to open a branch and had Zhang, the shopkeeper, select a few clever young men to train. Wang Wu mined diamonds and asked Qiqi to come and take a look. Qiqi was overjoyed. Diamonds could be made into arrowheads. The border was often harassed by neighboring small countries, and soldiers were often injured. If they could forge diamond arrowheads, they would be so hard and penetrating that they could even penetrate armor.

Qiqi told Wang Wu how to build it, and Wang Wu started working on it overnight.

This batch of diamonds was used to create two thousand arrowheads, which Wang Wu secretly handed over to Qiqi. Qiqi also told Wang Wu not to reveal the information. Qiqi then secretly placed the diamond arrowheads in the space.

Three years passed, and Qiqi was now four years old. The Sanqi in the mountains had matured, and it was time to harvest them. After harvesting and drying them, Qiqi didn't plan to sell them, but wanted to give them to her uncle as first aid medicine. She also planned to secretly give her uncle some diamond arrows. The fruit trees in the mountains had also ripened, and she opened a fruit shop next to the jade shop. Because the trees were watered with spiritual spring water, the fruit was large and sweet. People traveled miles to buy them. Qiqi also made the smaller fruits into fruit wine, which was particularly delicious. She sold them all in the shop, and it became the shop's signature dish.

The mountain was being used for traditional Chinese medicine cultivation, fruit tree maintenance, and ore mining. As the number of workers increased, Qiqi planned to build some houses for the workers. Once the houses were completed, he hired a chef to cook for the workers, saving the government from having to run back and forth to deliver meals. While this was fine in the summer, in the winter, the food was cold and there was no hot water. There was no soil on the mountain, so transporting it from the bottom was a struggle.

Qiqi thought of mining ore, and those waste materials could be used to burn lime. It was simple, and there was no shortage of wood in the mountains, so she could burn it. When she first started mining, Qiqi had thought of burning lime. Because she was young, she couldn't express it, and she was afraid people would think she was a freak. So she put it off until now, and now any explanation would do. She said she saw it in a book she bought from a traveling merchant.

The Little New Year is just a few days away, and her four brothers haven't returned yet. Qiqi misses them terribly. Even though they've never met, blood is thicker than water, and distance can't erase the bond of family. Zhao Shi also quietly wiped away tears, hidden from her family. With the New Year approaching, she missed them even more.