Noble Lady

After returning to Furongju, Xue Chenyu no longer asked about the affairs of Mr. Lu and his family's courtyard.

She also asked Xue Huai and Luo Luo to keep their mouths shut.

"No one is allowed to tell anyone about what happened today!"

"Don't worry, sister. I know the seriousness of the matter." Xue Huai said solemnly.

"Sister, I won't say anything nonsense, and I won't tell anyone." Luoluo nodded repeatedly, not daring to be vague at all.

Xue Chenyu: "Well, I believe you know your limits. But you should know that if even a word of what happened today gets out, our family will be in big trouble!"

Luoluo was suddenly startled and didn't dare to play with the treasure at all.

Xue Huai, like a little adult, bowed to Xue Chenyu and performed a scholar's salute: "I'm sorry to have worried you, sister. But, sister, I know the impact this matter will have on our family. I'm an adult now and I know my limits."

"it is good."

After that, everything was back to normal for the Xue family.

At least that's what it looks like on the surface. ...

Xue Chenyu took some time to go there to see how Manager Qiu and Sanniang were working together, and to distribute the New Year's rewards before the New Year.

Yuzhu and Qiuhua are on duty today, and Xue Chenyu also brought Qinniang, who rarely goes out.

When I arrived, I found out that Jinyi Pavilion was already busy taking orders for spring clothes after the New Year.

While Xue Chenyu was busy helping Du Jingyuan stop Chen Mingxuan from becoming a monk, Jinyi Pavilion had already held a lively plum blossom viewing party.

Appreciating the flowers is secondary. The main purpose is to invite all the distinguished guests of Jinyi Pavilion to come together to discuss the designs of next year's spring clothes.

For this purpose, Sanniang drew many patterns for them to choose from.

It also solved at one time the problem that Xue Chenyu asked her to solve: take Shopkeeper Qiu to deliver custom-made New Year clothes to each family one by one, and let Shopkeeper Qiu show up.

Of course, Xue Chenyu also kept his promise and asked Manager Qiu to arrange it as he had said before, with a special person taking measurements and drawing patterns, and then finally handing it over to Sanniang for overall planning and production.

"Our boss is really a living Bodhisattva." Sanniang smiled happily.

Compared to the depressed look he had when Manager Wang forced him to take those people with him, he felt much happier now.

"I'm just doing business. You want me to be a Bodhisattva. Isn't this a sincere attempt to stop me from making money?" Xue Chenyu pretended to be angry.

Shopkeeper Qiu couldn't help laughing.

It was only when Sanniang saw Manager Qiu smile that she realized that the boss was teasing her.

"The boss is very generous and will not hold it against me." Sanniang already had an inherent impression of Xue Chenyu as a benefactor, so she smiled no matter what she said.

Xue Chenyu knew that this arrangement really hit Sanniang's heart. She exchanged glances with Shopkeeper Qiu, who also smiled.

It is not easy to find a good embroiderer with superb skills and steady character.

Even though some embroiderers have good skills, they are impatient and cannot work for long before they eagerly seek out wealthy families and use the Jinyi Pavilion as a stepping stone to marry into one.

Although marriage is a matter of personal freedom, if someone makes a solemn promise at the beginning and then turns around to marry into a rich family after just three or two months, it might be one or two cases, but if everyone does this, the Jinyi Pavilion will naturally not be able to continue operating.

Sanniang has good skills and is a down-to-earth person. She does not care about gains and losses and is willing to take on newcomers, just like He Jixiang before. She is also very happy to teach from scratch as long as the other party is willing to learn.

Such people naturally need to be retained by all means.

"Shopkeeper Qiu, please ask everyone in the shop to put down their work and come over here."

Upon hearing this, Shopkeeper Qiu took a look at the box she brought.

Xue Chenyu continued, "It's almost time for the Lunar New Year holiday. I went to Lingnan this year, and after I came back I was overwhelmed with things. I can't delay the most important thing."

Sanniang's eyes lit up, and she couldn't help but say, "Everyone has been busy all year long, all for those few taels of silver to support their families."

Shopkeeper Qiu said, "Yes, I'll go right away."

Soon, everyone from the Jinyi Pavilion gathered together.

"Yuzhu, unpack."

Yuzhu went forward as ordered, and when the box was opened, there were ingots of silver ingots inside.

A whole box full of goods, just looking at it can make people feel satisfied.

As the saying goes, money can make the world go round.

Although money is a vulgar thing, it is something that people cannot live without in their daily life. People are busy all their lives just for this thing.

"Qiuhua, take someone and carry the silver into the accounting office."

"Yes."

Afterwards, Manager Qiu asked the accountant of Jinyi Pavilion to come forward and bring in the account book of the year-end bonus.

Afterwards, their rewards were distributed one by one according to the order of their queue.

The year-end bonus is calculated based on many factors, including the number of hours each person works in the Jinyi Pavilion and their performance.

Naturally, some are more and some are less.

There is naturally no reason to announce such a thing in public.

"Then I'll leave the rest to Shopkeeper Qiu. Please also prepare the clothes I need. I'll pick them up later."

"Boss, please rest assured. I will definitely take care of it." Shopkeeper Qiu said softly.

Xue Chenyu felt relieved that Xue had handed over the matter of distributing the year-end bonus to the shopkeeper Qiu.

Although there were not hundreds of people in the Jinyi Pavilion, there were still dozens of people including the embroiderers and handymen, and it would take half a day to line up.

She sent an invitation to Chen Lizhu, the third lady of the Duke's Mansion, in advance, inviting her to have tea.

It’s just right for me to go over there after I finish my work here. After chatting, I can still catch up to pick up Qiniang and take her back home.

……

"Girl, here we are."

Qiuhua's voice rang out, and Xue Chenyu opened her eyes from her doze. She pushed open the small window and saw the sign of Rulin Teahouse.

"Miss, the carriage in front belongs to the Duke's Mansion." Yuzhu said in a low voice.

Xue Chenyu took a look and found it was true.

After they stepped onto a stool and got out of the car, the waiter of the teahouse was waiting at the door and led them to the private room upstairs.

Private room on the second floor.

"Sister Xue, long time no see."

As soon as Xue Chenyu entered the private room, Chen Lizhu couldn't wait to stand up and greet her, "How are you?"

"Very good. How about you? Helping with wedding planning for the first time, I'm afraid it's not easy, right?"

After being away from Beijing for two months, Xue Chenyu had no time to see Chen Lizhu after returning to Beijing.

Of course, Chen Lizhu had no time to see her because the Duke's Mansion was preparing for a wedding, and she had won the Duke's favor and was working hard to help her fifth brother prepare for the marriage, so she was also busy.

Now that the wedding is imminent and all the necessary preparations have been made, she has some free time.

"Sister Xue, please don't laugh at me. It's not my turn to make decisions about wedding preparations. I'm just running errands and helping out." Chen Lizhu said modestly.

Xue Chenyu smiled faintly and said, "How can what Miss Chen San did be considered just helping out and running errands? I just heard when I got back that you have put a lot of effort into arranging your fifth brother's marriage...."

"It doesn't give anyone who wants to tamper with anything any opportunity to take advantage of it."

Chen Lizhu turned her head and glanced at the maid Huang Li behind her, "Did you spread it?"

Huang Li said quickly, "Miss, how dare we? We have always been cautious in our words and actions since we received your order."

"Ms. Chen San, please don't accuse me wrongly. I heard it from others." Xue Chenyu smiled, covering her mouth.

Chen Lizhu immediately knew who the "others" she was talking about were.

I'm afraid that the group of people who have the final say in the Duke's Mansion don't mind airing their family's dirty laundry, so when they go to the Jinyi Pavilion or the Silver Shop, they talk nonsense and get overheard.

"Sister Xue, I'm sorry to have embarrassed you about the conflicts in the Duke's Mansion."

"Every family has its own problems. I understand." Xue Chenyu said with a smile.

She specifically mentioned these things to Chen Lizhu, naturally because she wanted her to be alert and not be ambushed without knowing it.

After that, they talked about Du Jingyuan's marriage.

Xue Chenyu and Chen Lizhu both wanted to add makeup to Du Jingyuan.

Normally, if you want to add makeup to the little sisters, you should have sent them there long ago, but they refused to do so.

If it is sent too early, there is a fear that someone might secretly tamper with it without noticing.

Du Jingyuan had little say in the general's mansion. If the dowry they gave her was taken away by someone else, it would take a lot of effort to get it back.

So they met today to discuss how to deliver the things.

After some discussion, they decided to wait until afternoon before sending it.