Mu Yunyao regained her senses. The blood droplets on her fingers had already started to solidify. She took the handkerchief and gently wiped it, and her fingers became clean. Even that tiny needle didn't feel any pain. "It's nothing."
What she saw in the Cao family today had somewhat touched her heart, and she couldn't help but think of her past self. In her past life, she had been Prince Jin's concubine, and that young miss of the Su family had probably treated her the same way Lady Jin had treated Aunt Wang.
In this life, she would never be someone else's concubine, and she would even safely send her good elder sister to the Jin palace. She wanted to see what would happen when two extremely hypocritical people were together.
A few days later, Mu Yunyao went to the Cao family's residence to discuss with Lady Jin what kind of embroidery should be used for the new year. She then saw someone cleaning up the lotus pond.
Seeing her gaze on the lotus pond, he softly explained, "Yesterday, there was a conflict between Aunt Wang and Aunt Zhou, and Aunt Zhou accidentally pushed Aunt Wang down. The pond was full of mud, and Aunt Wang had only gone down for a short while before she stopped breathing. Madam always felt uneasy when she saw the lotus pond, so she ordered someone to clean it up and prepared to fill it in for death."
Mu Yunyao slightly smiled as a ripple flashed in her eyes before disappearing without a trace. "Madam is considering this carefully."
After running back and forth for a few days, they finally finished preparing the cloth and embroidery lines for the New Year's gift. The words written by Patrolman Zhang also arrived. Mu Yunyao carefully selected them before instructing people to start embroidering.
Forthright's handwriting was written and sent back by Zhang Xianfeng, who had invited all the ladies in the city to help him with the embroidery. Although he said that he wanted them to help him with the embroidery, in the end, the birthday present was given to the emperor, so it was hard to avoid leaving behind flaws in those women's embroidery work. Thus, he had agreed with Lady Jin that most of it would be done by Mu Yunyao, with the help of the embroidery ladies of the Nebula Market.
Su Qing helped to arrange the handwriting that was sent over from various places. She felt that her eyes were about to go blurry, "Yao'er, this is too much. How long are you going to take to embroider this?"
Jin Lan and the others who were helping to cut the silk couldn't help but nod their heads: "That's right, Miss, Inspector Zhang really doesn't understand people. There are only a few days until the new year, and he has to send the New Year's gift to the capital half a month earlier. The only time he can really embroider is three months. How can he possibly finish embroidering it?"
Mu Yunyao raised her head and lightly smiled, "I'm not even worried, what are you guys worrying about? Rest assured, three months is enough time. "
Su Qing couldn't help but sigh. She endured the pain in her heart and said, "Mother will cook for you. You don't need to care about anything else for the next three months, just focus on weaving the New Year's gift."
Mu Yunyao smiled and nodded. "Thank you mother."
After Manager Qin found out that Mu Yunyao wanted to help prepare the New Year's gift, he hurriedly bought many medicinal materials and sent them over.
Mu Yunyao opened the box and looked at the ginseng within. She could not help but chuckle, "Supervisor Qin, the things you have prepared are too precious. I'm only helping to embroider the New Year gift, I'm not willing to use such a good thing."
This ginseng seemed to be over a hundred years old. If he really ate it, it would definitely be too late.
"Miss, you can't not take this to be important. Embroidery takes up a great deal of effort, especially the lady's embroidery. Those silk threads are so split that you can't even see them. Ordinary people would feel dizzy just by looking at them.
At the same time that Steward Qin felt admiration, he could not help but feel his heart ache.
For the sake of the Nebula Pavilion and the Not Envy Pavilion, Lady Mu had already planned everything step by step and was extremely tired. However, right now, in order to please the Sacred Heart, he had to work continuously for three months. He could not help in any way, and could only do his best to find and send over some tonics.
Mu Yunyao's heart warmed. "Please keep an eye on the 'No Envy' building. If you give me more silver every month, I won't feel tired anymore."
"Don't worry miss. The people I sent out have already taken root in Suzhou, Yangzhou, and other places. They will soon be able to make tea and earn silver taels. "Unfortunately, picking fresh leaves is just for a few months. When winter comes, there's no way to fry tea anymore." These days, Steward Qin had experienced the pleasure of earning money. He wished that he could bring out all the tea trees in the garden and let them have fresh leaves to pluck every day.
"We can't earn all the money. We're already busy enough. We can't bite off more than we can chew. Just take it step by step." Mu Yunyao's thoughts of earning silver was even more pressing than Supervisor Qin's, but she didn't dare to be anxious. She was afraid that if she made a mistake, she would lose everything. After all, there wasn't even a year left.
Steward Qin also understood this logic, "That's right, it is good that you are steadily fighting now." Half a year ago, he had thought that it would be great if he could have several tens of thousands of silver taels in his hands. But now, the amount of silver he had to pay was more than ten thousand taels.
In the following period of time, Mu Yunyao practically never left her house, and she spent every day in her room embroidering New Year's presents.
Lady Jin came to see her twice. Seeing how the embroidery progress was so pleasant, she didn't disturb her further. Instead, she would send people to give her presents every once in a while.
Mu Yunyao didn't refuse and instead instructed Jin Lan to receive them one by one.
Half a month later, Steward Qin sent a reply to King Yue.
Mu Yunyao flexed her stiff wrists and fingers. She was a little surprised in her heart, "I didn't expect that Your Highness Duke of Yue would actually reply to me." However, she didn't deliver the letter the last time. What kind of letter was it this time?
Steward Qin only smiled, his smile was exceptionally brilliant. His gaze towards Mu Yunyao was filled with even more splendor, completely treating her as the future Princess Hua-Yang. Moreover, the more he looked, the more satisfied he was.
Mu Yunyao was a little confused. After opening the letter, there were only three words on the paper: Understood. It was truly the style of the Titan King, where each word was worth thousands of gold.
She couldn't help but raise her eyebrows and show the letter to Supervisor Qin. "This …" Got it … What does King Yue know? "
Supervisor Qin could not help but stare with wide eyes as he grumbled in his heart: Hearing senior's words, it is clear that Prince is concerned about Lady Mu. Why don't you write more? Only knowing these three words, who knows what the Prince was thinking?
Seeing Steward Qin's wide-eyed and speechless look, Mu Yunyao didn't want to make things difficult for the elderly, "I'll write a letter to ask for Your Highness Duke of Yue. Coincidentally, I haven't sent a letter for a long time.
Steward Qin quickly wiped off his cold sweat, "Good, Lady Ji is considerate." It was fortunate that Lady Mu was considerate. If it were any other girl, they would have already been infuriated!
No, he still had to write a letter to scold an old man. Lady Mu was part of the profit of the Nebula Pavilion, and she had helped to set up the Avaricious Restaurant. Not only had she won two golden signboard, she had even travelled thousands of miles to deliver Jiang Cha to his highness.
Yue Wang, who was far away in the west of Guangdong Province, could not help but sneeze, causing Eunuch Cheng, who was reporting to him, to say, "Wang Lu, it's getting cold, why don't you add some clothes. Didn't Old Qin send over two sets of fox fur cloaks? I bought it from Jiangnan. You can wear it because it's exceptionally brilliant and powerful. I'll have someone find it to hang it for you and you'll be able to wear it tomorrow. "
King Yue nodded and did not say a word.
Half a month later, the caravan carrying the tea leaves finally arrived at the outskirts of Yuxi City. Unfortunately, before they could enter the city, they saw a group of fierce bandits run out and grab the tea leaves before pulling them away.
The garrison troops of Yuxi City waited until all the robbers had fled, then cautiously walked out. Seeing the merchant caravan's owner sitting on the ground crying bitterly, they couldn't help but console him, "Don't cry, this is just robbing things and not injuring others is already good enough. Hurry up and enter the city to rest."
"This errand boy, we need to report to the officials and ask them to help us capture the robbers!"
"If you're willing to report it, then report it. It's just that we've agreed that reporting it is useless, and the robbers won't be able to catch him."
"Then what should we do?" The merchant caravan's owner cried out, "I… "Let's take a break, then go back to Jiangnan to buy more tea leaves. I still don't believe that the bandit will rob us every time!"