What favor are you fighting for?The empress's harem has won a lot of business

Xie Chenyu finally nodded.

Lin Ximeng felt comfortable all over, with a kind of complacency as a time-traveling woman who would finally be of some use.

She picked up the documents on the table and flipped through the pages.

Xie Chenyu sat at the side drinking tea: "You actually like this kind?"

Lin Ximeng chuckled: "The concubine just doesn't like to be idle."

If you do one thing, you will get credit for one thing, and if you are idle, you will only be at the mercy of others.

-

June 28

Xie Chenyu pretended to be a merchant, and took Lin Ximeng to Rongde Dyeing Workshop.

This is a place on the outskirts of Suzhou City close to the northern suburbs.

There are dozens of dyeing vats of different colors in the not-so-big yard, and more than a dozen workers are working hard.

Sweat trickled down their dark skin, and their faces were filled with cheerful smiles, talking and laughing profusely.

Lin Ximeng listened carefully, they spoke in the unique dialect of Wudi.

"Our Rongde Dyeing Workshop has the best skills. I hope that shopkeeper Su can continue to support it. One day counts as one day. I will do it here."

"It's the same for me. If it wasn't for shopkeeper Su who taught me, I wouldn't be where I am today."

"The artisans here are the most popular among all the dyeing workshops. After leaving this door, the wages can be doubled immediately."

"This is all due to Shopkeeper Su's superb skills, what a pity."

"There is no pity, no pity, one day counts as one day, God will always open his eyes one day"

Someone shouted, "Who are you looking for?"

All the workers looked at the two young men dressed as merchants at the door.

"Leave, both of you, our shopkeeper is not here, so we can't pick you up," a man with the appearance of a foreman yelled.

Xie Chenyu walked in with a smile, cupped his hands and said, brother, I'm not in a hurry, just take a look first.

"Then let's see"

The pigments in the dye vat are all secret recipes, and they can't see anything.

Xie Chenyu took Lin Ximeng to look over one dye vat after another.

Even their laymen can find that the colors inside are bright, with a faint plant fragrance, and some have a floral fragrance.

"Dare to ask brother, how old is your shopkeeper this year, and who else is in the family?"

Xie Chenyu asked modestly, with his back slightly bent, and a three-point smile that businessmen often have on his face.

Lin Ximeng was surprised that he could imitate so much.

With this attire and movements, no one will doubt his identity.

I thought the emperor was 'why not eat minced meat'.

Only now did I realize that they were hiding something.

"You mean our shopkeeper?" The foreman smiled honestly.

"His name is Su Nianbai. He has just reached the age of forty this year. He has no children. His wife left early, and he guards this dyeing workshop every day. In the past two days, he has been ordered by the magistrate..."

"He suddenly got busy these two days, let us work hard," the foreman smiled honestly.

"Leave as soon as you see it, we still have work to do"

"Nanbai"

His slender figure swayed slightly, his frozen eyes opened, and his piercing voice trembled slightly.

"Brother, do you know where he lives?"

Xie Chenyu looked around at the courtyard with three fronts and three entrances. It was simple and dilapidated. Most of the dyeing vats were missing, and the drying racks were not stable and were crumbling.

He has been to Xingsheng Dyeing Workshop, and all the items there are new. The dyeing vat is a frosted vat carefully fired from purple-black mud, with the engraving of Xingsheng Dyeing Workshop engraved on it.

In this way, when the cloth is dyed, the pigment will be evenly distributed, and the silk will not be scratched.

The cloth drying racks are all made of agarwood, exuding a faint fragrance, and they are firmly tied up in the entire yard. There are ten rows of ten in total, and a total of one hundred embroidery racks. The scene of drying cloth is very spectacular.

Compared with Xingsheng Dyeing Workshop, this one is really not worth mentioning.

"Our shopkeeper lives here, you can come back in a few days, he is busy these days"

The foreman started chasing people away again.

Xie Chenyu looked around and had to leave.

On the way back, Lin Ximeng praised: "The conditions here are not good, but the dyed cloth is good. I just found the edge of the cloth they cut and tried it. The color does not fade at all, and there is a faint fragrance."

She rambled on, not paying attention to the distraction of the people around her.

It wasn't until Xie Chenyu knocked over three teacups in a row when she went back to the study that she realized something was wrong.

"What's going on here?"

"Su Nianbai" means Nianbai.

The person who had been buried in his heart for more than ten years suddenly appeared concretely and appropriately, and he didn't know how to accept it for a while.

"Is that person my uncle?"

Lin Ximeng also opened her eyes wide: "Your Majesty, isn't the first Empress Dowager's surname Bai..."

Nian Bai, Nian Bai, is it possible that someone changed their surname.

Her pupils dilated suddenly, and her internal organs were shaken.

"Your trip...you found your mother's family?"

"If Su Nianbai is really from the Bai family, he is likely to be your uncle."

"What is the emperor planning to do?"

Xie Chenyu picked up the fourth cup and finally took a sip of tea steadily.

"Wait first, wait first, I have to check it out"

I forgot to say, changed to me.

"If the Su family is really the original Bai family, there should be rumors in the market, the emperor is not as good as..."

Xie Chenyu suddenly hugged Lin Ximeng tightly, her body trembling slightly.

"What was your mood when you found your mother?"

Lin Ximeng's heart ached suddenly, as if someone had punched her in the chest, and the pain was severe.

"I can't remember, I only know that there are endless grievances"

It's like when I fell down when I was a child, I can pat the dust and stand up without my mother. If my mother is there, I will cry a lot.

Just like the grievances she suffered in the workplace at the beginning, she never complained to the leader, but she couldn't hold on when her mother asked if she had dinner.

Xie Chenyu didn't speak again.

If there really was his uncle in this world, it would be his blood relatives.

His father had never cared about him for many years, and his last words were nothing more than an embarrassment to his mother and concubine. He didn't seem to have cared much about him.

If he has a real uncle, isn't it...

The lonely and desolate heart that had been hidden since childhood suddenly opened a crack, and soft warmth flowed out.

-

Rongde dyeing workshop.

Su Nianbai came back late at night, dragging his tired feet, his face was ashen.

"Boss, what happened?"

"That's right, Master, why did the magistrate find you all of a sudden?"

The room lights of the guys in the backyard were lit one by one, and the dim oil lamp was surrounded by countless mosquitoes. They didn't care at all, and strode around Su Nianbai with their shirts off.

The foreman's surname is Liu, and he is the eldest in the family, so everyone calls him Da Liu.

"Liu Da, how many pieces of cloth can our dyeing workshop dye at most in a day?"

Liu Da was caught off guard by the question, scratched his head, and roughly calculated with his fingers.

"All the dyeing vats are open for dyeing, and they can dye 1000 or [-] horses at most in a day, but there is not enough manpower. If we want to reach this number, we must recruit at least [-] more experienced hands."

"Twenty Experts"

The tall and thin body staggered violently, the ashen look on his face became more obvious, and his footsteps became stilted.

"Where can I find twenty experienced hands at this time, even if there are people, I can't cook that much dye in a day, two thousand bolts of cloth, where can I dye so much cloth?"

Su Nianbai is actually 40 years old, but looks like 45.