Traveling through time as a peasant girl to turn things around

Little Milk Bag designed and drew the summer outfits. She gave the blueprints to the foreman and said, "These are for summer. Make one set of each and hang them up for the exhibition." The foreman said, "Okay. I'll work overtime and finish them." Little Milk Bag: "Go to the warehouse to get the fabric. Once the finished fabric is ready, put it away and make the summer ones."

Xiao Naibao's clothes are high-end, elegant, fashionable, luxurious, and understatedly extravagant. Children, in particular, want to wear every one they see, because the money is easy to earn. Over ten female workers come to the palace every day, and the leader keeps a list. Wages are paid every two weeks, piecework-based. Everyone is willing to work; the more they work, the more they earn. Xiao Naibao taught everyone how to iron clothes. They want to build the world's best clothing store. Xiao Naibao is planning to open a dedicated ready-to-wear shop. When Ye Heng heard about it, he asked Ye Renwen, the housekeeper of the Ye Mansion, to find a shop. Someone wanted to sell it, so Ye Heng bought it and gave it to Guoguo, but Xiao Naibao didn't want it. Ye Heng tried various ways to get it, and finally settled on a 30% profit for Ye Heng and a 70% profit for Guoguo. The shop is large and not far away, just two blocks from the Chai Mansion. It's two blocks south. It has two floors and a large backyard. Ye Heng spent one million taels of silver to buy it.

Guoguo had her uncle install larger windows. Both floors were dedicated to selling clothes, with the upper floors for men and the lower floors for women. Guoguo had it all designed. The walls were whitewashed inside and out, and after five days of overtime, they finished the house. They painted the entrance door purple. It could be locked from both inside and outside. Ma Xiaohong planted vegetables in the backyard, and Li Guang simply moved in, using the euphemism of being a gatekeeper.

Ten days later, the Lantern Festival passed, and the veterans were all heading home, including Huo Hua's wife. Li Escort was leading the charge, leaving seventeen people. Ye Heng assigned a hundred soldiers to escort them, as they were carrying twenty carts of glass and five carts of daily necessities that Guo Guo had purchased. This time, Old Lady Li stayed behind; Xia Hua was about to give birth, and Li Ru and Wang Min were leaving too. All four children were leaving. Chai Ping'an was also leaving, and Xiaodong was going home; he had made Taohua Village his home. Chai Ping'an and Xiaodong shared a carriage, along with Huanhuan and Hengheng, a total of four people.

So she left Old Lady Li behind, unable to return home, and trained every day. Sun Quan also came to the capital after the New Year.

Sun Gui and his youngest son stayed in the capital to accompany his son for a while. They bought a two-story house not far from the Chai residence, which was large enough for them to live in. They spent the New Year at the Chai residence. It was quite lively. Sun Quan, Sun Qing, and Sun Gui were all men, and Chai Zhen assigned a maid to help with the cooking. Sun Qing stayed in a county outside the capital, working as a county magistrate and managing farm affairs. He could come home every day and stay there. Sun Quan came, and this time Sun Gui went home with the motorcade. Wang Min, Li Ru, and the youngest son all rode in a large procession.

After more than twenty days of arduous travel, they finally returned home. Soldiers helped unload the truck, while Wang Min, Li Ru, and Zhang Yingjuan cooked and recruited a few other women to help. The veterans returned to the north courtyard and immediately approached a blacksmith to build a stove, one large enough to roast sweet potatoes.

There were sweet potatoes on the cart, but they couldn't sell them. Guoguo assigned them to raise seedlings for the sweet potato crop, which they would plant in spring and harvest in autumn. Potatoes also needed to be planted. First, they had to clear the wasteland. During Spring Festival, the veterans were so impatient they were eager to get to work. They only had one day off before they started working. Chai Ping'an had driven out the oxen, and the veterans used them to plow the fields. They had to prepare the land first, and then they would leave it alone for a few days before planting.

The veterans used five vehicles as taxis, while the rest of the group went to clear wasteland in preparation for spring planting. After planting sweet potato seeds on an acre of land, Little Milk Bag taught the veterans how to grow them. Sun Gui took the lead in plowing the fields. Classes began at the academy, with Li Jingwen teaching Xiaodong in the mornings and Xiaodong at home in the afternoons, focusing on statecraft. Huanhuan and Hengheng followed suit. The second and fourth children, both young, sat on their beds, listening to the lessons for half a day, taking in as much as they could.

The secret guards lurked in the greenhouse behind the Chai family's house. Jiale knew about it and simply set aside a room for them to rest. They protected Xiaodongwai, the Chai family, and Taohua Village. Sometimes the secret guards would accompany Jiale to tend the vegetable garden and provide them with food. They stayed there for two years, living a simple life and enjoying two years of happiness.