Quick Transmigration: Survive to the End

After hesitating for a long time and talking with several embroiderers, Madam Zhao decided to agree to Li Chengming's request.

Only then did they officially enter the negotiation stage.

However, Li Chengming was sincere in wanting to buy, and Madam Zhao was sincere in wanting to sell, so the two did not argue too much and quickly settled on a satisfactory price. The money and goods were exchanged, and they would go to the government office to change the contract the next day.

But the task of ranking the embroiderers can begin today.

Li Chengming did not step forward in this matter, but instead called Li Yinyin forward.

Li Yinyin remained calm even when pushed to the front. After examining the embroidery works, she roughly divided them into five levels. The lowest level was the apprentices, the highest level was the leading embroiderers, and the middle level was divided into three grades, corresponding to three different levels of difficulty in lace making techniques.

Their wages naturally varied according to their rank.

“You don’t need to rush. This difference in rank is only temporary. If you do well, you can move up; if you don’t, you will naturally move down,” Li Yinyin said with a stern face that looked quite intimidating. “But I hope that the promotions and demotions will be based on your real abilities, and not on any other messy calculations.”

"Such a thing, once discovered, will be severely punished without exception!"

As Madam Zhao listened to Li Yinyin's words, her admiration deepened: "Although Miss Li is young, she has a very upright heart. It is evident that Master Li has put a lot of effort into teaching her."

For Li Chengming, being praised by his younger sister was even more gratifying than being praised himself. Moreover, Li Yinyin's actions today had truly surprised him; perhaps he really should carefully consider how to raise his sister.

By the time Li Yinyin and her brother left in the evening, all the class distinctions had been completed, and Li Chengming had given them a day off. After they went to the government office to complete the replacement of the contracts, all procedures would begin to proceed normally. Next spring, they would have goods that would soon sweep across the entire Western Regions.

Through the carriage curtain, Li Yinyin saw Madam Zhao still standing outside the embroidery shop, looking at the signboard with great reluctance. She couldn't help but ask, "Brother, I don't think Madam Zhao is short of money. Although the embroidery shop is not well managed, it is not difficult to survive. Why would Madam Zhao think of selling it?"

Li Chengming ruffled her hair: "Madam Zhao came from Shu after marrying into the country. Her husband passed away three years ago, and she has no other relatives in the area. Now that she has been here for three years, she should have come to terms with it and is planning to sell her assets and return to Shu."

Li Yinyin suddenly realized: "I was wondering why Madam Zhao made so many unreasonable demands to drive away customers, and yet, despite her reluctance, she still sold the embroidery shop. If it were me, I'm afraid I would have made the same choice."

"No matter where you are or what ties you have, being with your family who love you is the most important thing."

"Just like me, I can never bear to leave my brother and sister-in-law."

Amidst Li Chengming's satisfied smile, Li Yinyin's eyes darted around, and she ruined the atmosphere by asking, "So, big brother, have you found a suitable brother-in-law candidate yet?"

Li Chengming immediately put on a stern face: "You're still young, what would you do with that?"

“It’s precisely because she’s young that I can teach her according to my own wishes,” Li Yinyin said. “If I feel she’s not suitable, I can change her as soon as possible.”

Li Chengming's brow twitched, but after thinking about it carefully, he felt that although his sister's idea was a bit bold, it had a lot of room for maneuver. At least he wouldn't have to worry about the person chosen treating his sister badly.

"Let me think about it and keep looking. Finding the right person will require more effort."

“I’m not in a hurry,” Li Yinyin said, her thoughts drifting to a pastry shop. “Big brother, isn’t that the shop where you often bring me pastries? Let’s buy some for sister-in-law before we go back tomorrow!”

Li Chengming naturally agreed to these small requests, and the next day he even arranged for Xiao Liu to accompany Li Yinyin for a stroll in the neighborhood.

Li Yinyin hadn't been to a bustling market in a long time, and everything looked new and exciting to her, making her want to eat everything she saw.

In just one hour, Xiao Liu had seven or eight kinds of food, as well as many other miscellaneous items, all of which were gifts that Li Yinyin planned to give to her relatives when she got back.

She originally wanted to buy some more, but seeing how exhausted Xiao Liu was, she finally took pity on him and forgave him. She led him to sit down and rest at the teahouse, waiting for Li Chengming to come back and pick them up after finishing the contract.

Li Yinyin held the teacup but didn't drink a drop. She just watched the tea leaves rise and fall, feeling quite bored, when she suddenly heard a familiar voice.

"You...you're robbing me!"

Xijiangyue? Li Yinyin narrowed her eyes slightly. How could she be in the prefectural city?

"What robbery? You put that tiger skin up for sale, and our young master paid you. Now that you've taken the money, you're regretting it? That's ridiculous!"

Tiger skin?

Li Yinyin remembered that in the original drama, this should have been the early stage, when the Li family and the Mu family were engaged, but Xi Jiangyue was still secretly seeing Mu Xianyun, and the two developed feelings for each other, which was discovered by Li Chengming.

To avenge his beloved younger sister Li Yinyin, Xi Jiangyue's hunter father was forbidden from hunting in the mountains bought by the Li family. The Xi family lost their source of income, so they took out their treasured tiger skin and planned to sell it in the prefectural city to buy some land and settle down to farm.

After selling the tiger skin, Xi Jiangyue regretted it and wanted to take it back. This led to her encounter with the male protagonist. Because of this, Xi Jiangyue, who had received a favor from the male protagonist, secretly saved him later.

Among them, the only unfortunate second-generation rich kid who bought the tiger skin was mistaken for a villain who robbed people in the street and was severely punished for no reason, with no one to vent his grievances.

However, this time, she rejected the marriage agreement with the Mu family, and her elder brother did not impose any restrictions on the Western Hunter. Why would Xi Jiangyue appear here with a tiger skin, thus completing the plot?

Is the plot really that uncontrollable?

At the city gate, two fast horses were galloping towards them.

Li Chengming's carriage arrived at the tea shop: "Yinyin, it's time to go back."