Best friends dressed up in ancient times to become mistresses? You run, I run too!

After meal

The midday sun was scorching, its intense rays piercing the earth. The air was stifling, and the rice seedlings in the fields were wilting under the heat. This was the perfect time for an afternoon nap.

But thinking of her best friend's miserable situation, Liu Zhiyi couldn't sleep. So she had a carriage prepared, called the Shen brothers, and went out.

After the carriage swayed and rattled for half an hour, the three of them arrived at the largest brokerage firm in Sweetwater Town and went inside together.

It was noon, and the lobby of the brokerage was empty except for a middle-aged man in his forties sitting at the counter, dozing off with one hand supporting his head.

The man, dressed in a brand-new gray cotton long gown and with a prosperous appearance, raised his eyelids and glanced towards the door upon hearing the noise. Seeing the people enter, he immediately stood up and said warmly, "Oh, three distinguished guests have arrived. Please come in. Are you here to look at the house?"

These words were spoken to Shen Dazhuang.

Of the three, he was the strongest, tallest, and looked the oldest, so the broker naturally assumed he was in charge.

Liu Zhiyi stepped forward and said, "We want to buy land."

The man was surprised for a moment, but quickly adjusted his mindset. What kind of situation hadn't he seen in his line of work? He smiled and invited the three of them to sit down, and then personally served them tea.

Then he brought out several thick booklets, placed them on the table, and pushed them to the group for the three of them to look through.

"My surname is Chen, and everyone calls me Chen Yaren. May I ask how you should address me, young lady?"

"My surname is Liu, and these are my two cousins, surnamed Shen."

"Greetings, Miss Liu, and greetings, both of you young masters Shen." Chen Yaren politely bowed to each of the three men.

The three of them quickly stood up and returned the greeting.

"I wonder what kind of land you gentlemen are looking for? If you haven't decided yet, you can take a look at these brochures. They list all the land plots that our brokerage firm sells. You can take a look and see if there's anything that suits your taste."

Time was limited, so Liu Zhiyi didn't look through it.

"I need large tracts of farmland, good or bad, just large, contiguous plots, preferably not too far from here."

Chen Yaren's eyes lit up for a moment.

After thinking for a moment, he said, "According to your requirements, there are two suitable estates nearby, one with 300 mu and the other with 600 mu. Both are top-quality fields, and they are not far apart, about a few miles apart. Which one would you like?"

Liu Zhiyi made the decision without hesitation.

"If the price is right, I'll take both."

Chen Yaren's eyes widened in surprise. He hadn't expected that these people, dressed plainly and modestly, would be so extravagant, buying hundreds of acres of land so easily. What kind of families were they, so wealthy and powerful?

"What's wrong? Is there a problem?"

Seeing the other person staring wide-eyed and speechless, Liu Zhi asked in confusion.

"No problem, of course no problem."

Chen Yaren was overjoyed, his smile so wide it was almost blinding. He looked at the group with immense enthusiasm, as if they were his own second parents.

After some bargaining, the price was tentatively set at eight taels of silver per mu. If there were no problems after inspecting the land, a contract could be signed and the transfer of ownership could be completed at the government office.

While there was still time, Chen Yaren went to the back room to make some arrangements and found someone else to watch the shop. He then led Liu Zhiyi and the other two to the manor without stopping.

"The land on the estate is probably already planted. You can choose to buy it along with the crops, or you can wait until the autumn harvest to take over the estate. You can rest assured about the price; I guarantee fair and honest pricing."

Liu Zhiyi dislikes procrastination and decides to act quickly.

"If the land is indeed as you say, then we'll buy it along with the crops."

After speaking, he looked at the two Shen brothers.

"Big brother, second brother, I don't know anything about this land, so it'll be up to you two to handle it." They had been tending the land since they were little, so they were experienced and had no problem judging the quality of the land.

The two nodded and said at the same time, "Don't worry, Zhiyi, we've got it covered."

After a busy afternoon, I finally finished looking at the land.

It was pretty much as the broker had said, so I paid the deposit and arranged to go with the government officials to measure the land and complete the formalities the next day. Then I rushed off to the street to buy the goods.

Clothes for over three hundred people require a lot of fabric, and Liu Zhiyi didn't hesitate to spend money. She went straight to the fabric shop and said, "Boss, I want three hundred bolts of coarse cloth and three hundred bolts of fine cotton cloth."

other side:"……"

"Get out of here, you little brat! You're getting in my way. Get lost, or I'll get rough with you."

Liu Zhiyi: "..."

"How can you talk like that? We really came here to buy fabric." Shen Erzhuang angrily stepped forward to argue with the other party, but was pulled back by Liu Zhiyi.

The other party sneered, his face full of disdain.

"Buy fabric? With what you're wearing, I might believe you if you said you were buying three feet of fabric, but three hundred bolts? Are you kidding me? You're still wet behind the ears and you've already learned to talk big. Aren't you afraid of biting your tongue?"

The three of them were all wearing fine cotton robes that looked quite new, but did she know how much money three hundred bolts of cloth were worth? Even the worst material would cost several hundred taels of silver.

"you……"

The two Shen brothers were so angry that their chests heaved violently. Liu Zhiyi just glanced at the shopkeeper expressionlessly, turned around and left the cloth shop, heading to a cloth store directly opposite him.

The shopkeeper, with his pointed face and monkey-like features, was still making sarcastic remarks when, before long, the shop assistants from the shop across the street ran off to rent several horse-drawn carriages, and everyone in the shop, including the shopkeeper, busily moved the fabric out.