The lucky girl in the village has a good way of making money.

Chapter 558: Lu's Intentions

Within a few days, the news spread among the people that the rebels had started a rebellion in Cangzhou and an army of 200,000 was stationed outside Wumaguan.

Whenever a war breaks out, whether it is an internal conflict or a foreign enemy, the common people are the most likely to be frightened. After all, in any war, the common people are the first to suffer!

Fortunately, Cangzhou is far away from Bingzhou and has not been affected here. However, when Old Man Li and other old men were free, they would sit under the old locust tree and talk about the rebellion of the rebels, hoping that the imperial court could wipe them out as soon as possible.

Their country is now peaceful and their people are safe, the weather is good, and they live a stable life. They really don't want the world to be ruled by a different family.

When Shi Liuda passed by the village entrance, he heard them talking about this and shook his head slightly. The rebels were unpopular among the people, so they were halfway defeated.

She had just received news from Liang Zheng who had inquired about it from the provincial capital. It turned out that Li Yan took Princess Zhaozhao away because of General Chen Qichang of Wumaguan.

A few days ago, Yu went to Wumaguan to challenge General Chen, asking him to retreat to Huixian, otherwise he would kill Princess Zhaozhao. It is said that when Chen Qichang saw Princess Zhaozhao, his face changed drastically, but in the end he did not agree to the rebel's call. Instead, he ordered the soldiers to shoot arrows from the city wall and repelled the rebels.

As for the current situation, no news has been received yet.

However, I heard that the emperor has ordered General Zhaowei Bai Xing to lead 150,000 Beijing troops to Huixian, and ordered Governor Wang stationed in Changzhou to gather 50,000 troops to Huixian to join forces and obey General Bai's orders. Together with the 100,000 defenders at Wumaguan, and the fact that Wumaguan is easy to defend but difficult to attack, it will not be a problem to defend Wumaguan.

It depends on how long it will take to defeat the rebel army and recapture Cangzhou.

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince's people are currently cleaning up the aftermath in Changzhou. So many temples are deserted and countless Changzhou officials are involved. The last time, Jinyiwei commander Chen Ju did not even find out the problems in Changzhou, which was also a dereliction of duty.

These are far away from Xiahe Village, and Shi Liu just keeps an eye on them, while living his life as usual.

Today, the puppet workshop is going to ship goods to the provincial capital, and Shi Liu is going to take a look.

The shop in the provincial capital has been decorated and will open for business in a few days.

The person in charge of this shop is a man from Da Nan Village, the younger brother of Ma Zhuangtou. The one who came to transport the goods today is Zhu Shi. She left Du Ping to take care of the dowry given to her by her adoptive father, and assigned Zhu Shi to take charge of this area. She found a suitable house in the state capital and rented it, and is preparing for the puppet workshop.

She planned to let Sui Lu go to the provincial capital with Zhu Shi to help train the workers hired for the puppet workshop so that they could be used as soon as possible.

When they arrived at the puppet workshop in Shanghe Village, the goods had already been loaded onto several trucks. Zhu Shi hurried forward to greet Shi Liu.

Shi Liu gave him some detailed instructions, asking him to take good care of Sui Lu.

Zhu Shi readily agreed, quickly glanced at Sui Lu who was standing beside him, and his face turned slightly red.

After all the goods were loaded onto the truck, Sui Lu picked up his bag, said goodbye to Shi Liu, and got on the carriage in front.

Mrs. Lu turned around and handed the shipping booklet to Shi Liu for review, and talked about the Dragon Boat Festival gifts. "I heard that last year the Food Workshop and the Sheep Workshop both gave out glutinous rice and cloth. This is also the first time that the Puppet Workshop is giving out Dragon Boat Festival gifts. Everyone is concerned about whether they will give out glutinous rice or just rice dumplings."

Everyone knows that the Li family always has New Year gifts during the New Year. The Dragon Boat Festival is coming soon, and the workers are bound to have some free time while working.

Workers in the sheep workshop and the food workshop have been there for at least two years and know the Li family's rules. The Li family is kind and will not mistreat the workers when it comes to New Year gifts. However, the puppet workshop has only been open for half a year, so the workers are very curious and are looking forward to the gifts.

Shi Liu looked at the delivery list and continued, "It's still the same as last year. Two pounds of glutinous rice, two feet of cloth, and four salted duck eggs per person. It doesn't matter whether it's from last year or the ones we just hired. Lu Dong will deliver them when the time comes. You can distribute them to everyone, aunt." There are too many workers in all the workshops now. If we want to distribute zongzi, we don't know how many dumplings we will have to make. Even if we go to Xinglongzhai to make an appointment, we can't take such a large order. It's more convenient to just distribute glutinous rice.

Now that the workshop has been open for so many years, it has long been on the right track. We have a record of the annual holiday gifts and we can just go with the old routine.

During the Mid-Autumn Festival, a piece of pork and a box of mooncakes are given out, and during the Winter Solstice, mutton is given out. The most generous gifts are the New Year gifts. In addition to meat, cloth, and snacks, everyone will also receive a red envelope, and when work starts at the beginning of the year, a red envelope is also given for good luck.

Mrs. Lu nodded in agreement and then said that Mrs. Zhu had made some snacks today and asked Shi Liu to go over and try some.

Shi Liu was embarrassed when she heard that. This Mrs. Zhu could come up with new snacks every two or three days. The snacks were so good that she couldn't even eat them. She had only been back for a short time and she had already eaten them several times.

She had every reason to suspect that Mrs. Lu had 'ill intentions' and was deliberately using Mrs. Zhu's cooking skills to seduce her. With a cook so good at making snacks and dishes in her husband's family, why didn't she marry in quickly so that she could eat every day?

Facts have proved that Mrs. Lu really did have this little idea. As soon as she entered the house with Shi Liu, snacks, fruits, tea and drinks were served to her, as well as the sweet soup she had cooked herself.

She also took out two sets of summer dresses that she had just made for Shi Liu and said, "I'll make them according to the previous size. You've lost a lot of weight this time, so I don't know if you can wear them. Try them on first. If they're too big, just tighten the stitches."

Shi Liu was really flattered. "Aunt, you made clothes for me again? This is too much work for you. I have enough clothes to wear. Aunt, please don't strain your eyes."

Mrs. Lu smiled gently, "It's just two sets of clothes. It's not a big deal. As long as you don't despise my needlework and like the clothes I make, I will be very satisfied."

The flowers embroidered seem to come alive, who can say that the needlework is bad?

Shi Liu also laughed, "I really like the dress Auntie made!"

"That's it. As long as you like it, I'm not tired." Mrs. Lu said, "Among the cloths you bought for me from the capital this time, I think there is one that is quite suitable for making small clothes. If you don't mind, Shi Liu, can I make you a few small clothes?"

She really likes making clothes, and when she makes clothes for Jin'er, she only uses a few patterns. Unlike girls, she can embroider all kinds of patterns on their clothes. How beautiful would that be?

She embroidered her skills on clothes and gave them to Pomegranate to wear. She was so happy!
Shi Liu was also very embarrassed. She wanted her future mother-in-law to make a bellyband for her? This was too embarrassing.

But she also understood some of women's little quirks. For example, her stepmother Wang liked to comb her hair and dress her up with all kinds of jewelry.

I guess Lu's hobby is making clothes? She makes clothes for her future daughter-in-law. A daughter-in-law is half a daughter. I guess that's what she thinks.

But she was too embarrassed to ask Lu to make small clothes for her, as she had to measure the size. She lowered her head, glanced at herself inconspicuously, and laughed dryly.

Seeing her expression, Mrs. Lu also smiled and smoothly changed the subject, "According to the rules, before the marriage, the man has to give the woman four sets of clothes for each season. I have prepared the fabrics a long time ago. Pomegranate, do you have any patterns you like that you want to embroider on the clothes? Just tell me. After all, it's the clothes you want to wear, so of course you have to like them--"

Shi Liu breathed a sigh of relief and continued, "Auntie's embroidery skills are so good, the clothes she made are all very beautiful, I like them all!"

Lu nodded and said, "Okay, then I'll do it myself."

She had to use all her skills to make these sixteen sets of clothes. At that time, these clothes would be sent together with the betrothal gifts one month before the wedding.