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

He has good facial features, wheat-colored skin, and his figure is not as tall and straight as the young man's. His tall and thin figure is slightly bent, and he can vaguely see the dragon and phoenix posture of his youth.

At this moment, he was dark and thin, his brows were condensed, and his eyes were full of sadness.

"Except for a few of you, all the workers in the dyeing workshop in Suzhou City are under the control of Xingsheng Dyeing Workshop, and even you have overcome all difficulties to stay."

He looked up to the sky, clenched and loosened his fists, desperately trying to force back the tears, but a few drops still dripped from the corners of his eyes.

He slowly bent his knees to kneel, but suddenly remembered something, and quickly stood up again.

Tears could no longer be held back, and slid down her cheeks.

"Father, my son has really tried his best. I'm afraid that Rongde Dyefang...can't keep it."

"For more than ten years, my son has followed his father's teachings, practiced the pulping and dyeing process hard every day, and memorized the secret recipe handed down from his ancestors by heart."

"Don't worry, even if you go to Huangquan Road, my son will never pass on the secret recipe. My son is worthy of the ancestors of the Bai family."

The workers were horrified and hurriedly gathered around to ask what happened?
"What happened to the boss, and why did you come back?"

"Yeah, let's figure out a solution together when something happens. By the way, there is another businessman coming to you today, who looks like a foreigner."

Su Nianbai looked around at the buddies who were not brothers but real brothers, patted this and looked at that, almost overflowing with reluctance.

"Master Su told me to go over and explain that a man from the capital city is coming to Suzhou for inspection, and he asked me to dye two thousand bolts of silk in one day, and the most precious and beautiful colors of madrid red, gardenia yellow, and indigo must be used."

Liu Da was the first to change his face.

"Two thousand horses a day, or these three kinds, even if the Xingsheng Dyeing Workshop is so big, it can't be dyed, let alone us, this is clearly making things difficult on purpose"

"What will happen if we can't finish it? The master of the capital will come to inspect and let Xingsheng Dyeing Workshop go? Why make things difficult for our small Rongde Dyeing Workshop?"

The brothers were filled with righteous indignation, and everyone's faces were frightened and angry.

"If you can't finish it, you have to hand over the secret recipe, otherwise the Rongde Dyeing Workshop will be demolished, and I will be expelled to leave, and I will never set foot in Suzhou again."

There wasn't much fear on Su Nianbai's vicissitude-stricken face, just sadness.

"If you don't come, you won't come. There are many places we can go. Lin'an and Yangzhou. If you don't stay here, you have your own place. Master, we are willing to go with you."

All craftsmen in the folk know that the skills that can be learned from a good master are more valuable than any high wages.

Silver can only be counted as family wealth, and skilled craftsmanship can be passed down to the family.

Su Nianbai has no children, no daughters, no wife and no children, he will definitely take in apprentices in the future, and these people will all become his apprentices.

The remaining brothers, in addition to their love for skills, also have deep respect for their masters, which is the sympathy between craftsmen.

"Yes, we are all willing to go with you"

"Let's close the doors today and let them figure it out on their own."

"What does an adult from the capital have to do with our small dyeing workshop? We craftsmen eat with our hands, and we can make a living wherever we go."

Su Nianbai shook his head slowly.

"My father was dying and said that this is my root, and our skills can only be brought into full play by relying on the silk and silk of Suzhou."

He smiled bitterly.

There is another reason why he can't tell anyone.

That is his sister from the same country, Bai Yunxiu, who followed the late emperor into the palace and was conferred the title of Concubine Bai.

At that time, Baijia in Suzhou started with weaving and dyeing, and it owned more than 20 cloth and embroidery workshops and dyeing workshops. It even had thousands of hectares of silkworm breeding land and countless long-term tenants.

Tens of thousands of assets, silver and gold are inexhaustible.

The rich family of the Bai family in Suzhou would shake the whole city of Suzhou when they stomped their feet.

Although they are merchants, even the imperial government has to give three points of face. Whenever a magistrate takes office, the first person to visit must be the Bai family.

The mistress of the Bai family, his mother, and even the magistrate's wife all competed to curry favor.

The so-called big business, big money, power and vigor and vitality are nothing more than that.

But all of this came to an abrupt end with the entry of my sister into the palace.

That year, he had just got married, and his wife was newlywed Yaner. On the second day, a group of 300 imperial guards came from the capital, and they broke into the Bai family's mansion with the imperial decree in hand.

The leader was a forty-year-old eunuch. He said that Concubine Bai had something bad in her heart and practiced witchcraft in the palace to murder other concubines and princes, so she was reprimanded.

He also said that such a crime should have implicated the entire family, and because Concubine Bai had made a contribution in giving birth to the prince, he only had to raid the family and exterminate the whole family.

He also asked him to kneel down and kowtow to thank the emperor.

He will never forget how cold the ground was that day, and how cold the tears on the face of his new wife were.

The father was furious, his heart trembling, and he pointed at the capital and scolded his sister for being unfilial.

But Su Nianbai knew that her younger sister was the most well-behaved and beautiful woman in the world, she would never practice witchcraft, let alone harm others.

But the deep palace is far away in the capital, and the emperor's imperial decree in black and white is as overwhelming as Mount Tai, so what can a mere merchant do.

He knelt down and kowtowed to the emperor, watching his father and mother fall to the ground one after another, and his newly married wife fell into his arms crying.

He patted her on the shoulder and told him: "It doesn't matter, there is me"

The case ended with ransacking the house. The Bai family wiped out tens of millions of property and finally saved the lives of the family of four.

But the father and mother still couldn't bear the blow and passed away one after another, and the wife finally died of depression. Soon there was news of the death of the younger sister in the palace.

Once the glorious Suzhou Bai family came to an end, it was left with a lot of chicken feathers.

On the day of burying his wife, there was heavy rain in the city of Suzhou. He thought, it must be because his sister was crying in the sky.

Seeing that Xie Lang missed his life, it can be seen that it is not empty talk.

He wondered if his younger sister would regret marrying the noble son of the capital whom he met when he was 15 years old.

All he knew was that his father gave him a cheat book on weaving and dyeing before he died, and took his hand to force him to swear.

"Suzhou Baijia will never end here, you swear to God that you will revive the family business"

"I will watch you step by step in the sky, my child, father and mother will bless you"

"Swear, swear!!"

Su Nianbai knelt before his father, raised his right palm to face the sky, and made a vow word by word, saying that one day he would revive the family business and once again be known as the Suzhou Bai family.

As soon as he finished speaking, his father swallowed his breath.

On the day of the funeral, he knelt in front of the grave and looked at the blooming Suzhou city, and had nowhere to go.

The house is gone, the workshop is gone, the farm is gone, the family is gone.

The sky and the earth are big, and there is nowhere to go.

After wandering for a few days, a man who looked like a father-in-law found him and gave him a sum of money and a secret decree, saying that he should change his surname to Su to hide his name.

He shed tears, burned the secret decree, changed his name to Su Nianbai, and started working as a long-term worker in a small dyeing workshop outside Suzhou City.

So many years in a blink of an eye.

The romantic and unrestrained son of Bai's parents has become a seasoned worker who is well versed in skills.

The long and strong figure bent down, the white and straight jade face was sun-tanned, and the slender fingers with well-defined joints became rough and full of calluses.