businesswoman's wife

An Chengshao said that he would help Xu Xiuyi, but Xu Xiuyi never thought that An Chengshao's so-called help would be such a big favor.

Early the next morning, the clerk from Peony Embroidery Village came to the house excitedly, saying that it was a distinguished guest from Peony Embroidery Village.

This distinguished guest is none other than Wei Jinniang.

Xu Xiuyi asked the waiter to watch the tea, and was also a little surprised by Wei Jinniang's arrival.

Wei Jinniang was older than her, but she was very respectful to her, probably because of An Chengshao's relationship.

"Third Grandma, I have offended you a lot in the past, but I still hope that Third Grandma Hailiang."

Xu Xiuyi knew that Wei Jinniang was talking about the fire in Jinniang's embroidered village, and it seemed that Wei Jinniang knew from An Chengshao that Xu Xiuyi had already understood the cause and effect of the whole incident.

Xu Xiuyi smiled and said, "The past will go with the wind."

Wei Jinniang got up and glanced at the embroidery workshop outside the window: "The third grandma is indeed a good businessman. These people used to belong to our Jinniang embroidery workshop."

Xu Xiuyi doesn't feel embarrassed, this world is like this, there are poaching and job hopping everywhere, not to mention she is not poaching, to be honest, she has done a good deed, if these women go back to their hometown, maybe they will be better than they are now.

Xu Xiuyi cares that they have no worries about food and clothing, and Xu Xiuyi also has some ideas about Peony Embroidery Village. Regarding the welfare system, she intends to treat them equally. Since Baoning Hall and Baoning Hall have a reward and punishment system, Peony Embroidery Village also has to travel reward and punishment system.

In the past, Su Yalan was here, and she didn't care too much about Peony Embroidery. To be honest, she was restrained. After all, Su Yalan was the owner of Peony Embroidery, so she couldn't dictate.

But since Su Yalan handed over the Peony Embroidery Village to her, she naturally wanted to manage the embroidery village properly, which could be regarded as an explanation to Su Yalan.

Following Wei Jinniang looking at the embroiderer in the embroidery house, she said: "Well, instead of washing the sand with big waves, or get materials from nearby, these people are all top-notch under the training of Miss Jinniang, and now Peony Embroidery Village also depends entirely on them support."

"The third grandma is being modest. If it weren't for you, what would they have done with just a few of them? Third grandma, since I'm here, I'll cut to the chase. In fact, it was Master An who asked me to help you."

"Young Master Cheng?"

Wei Jinniang said with a smile: "At first I thought I would finally have time to go out for a walk, but I didn't expect to rest for less than three months, and now I am busy again, but from the moment I stepped into Peony Embroidery Village, I smelled the familiar silk The fragrance of silk, looking at the embroidery like brocade flowers, and then looking at the lady's embroidery frame, hehe, my heart is inexplicably peaceful, I have been looking for a piece of pure land, for this reason, I have traveled a lot in the past three months I finally discovered that the real pure land in the world cannot be seen by the eyes, but can be felt by the heart. Here, I am very calm, and my heart is as calm as still water.”

Wei Jinniang never married in her life, Xu Xiuyi thought she was an extraordinary person, now after listening to her words, she felt a little more admiration for Wei Jinniang in her heart.

There are few people in history who can regard work as fun, and even detach themselves to a state, as a pure land of mind.

"If Aunt Jinniang can help me, I will be very grateful. To you, this is a pure land. To me, this is a game. I am hovering between winning and losing, although the ending is the same. But the process is very different from joy to sorrow.”

"I know the bet between you and Mr. An. You are right. The ending is the same, but the process is very different. If you let me bet, I will bet on Mr. An to win. But if this is a game The game of betting your life, I bet you win, there are too many sufferings in life, too much attachment to hatred, it will only make the soul in shackles, unable to get out, the seemingly beautiful life, in fact, may be stepped on under the feet Walking with a sharp knife."

Wei Jinniang's words were very deep. She obviously practiced Buddhism. Xu Xiuyi actually wanted to ask her how she could break An Chengshao's shackles of hatred, but she knew that An Chengshao himself would not say anything. It was impossible to tell her.

"I want to win." Xu Xiuyi's eyes were calm, and her tone was also calm, but there was a strong determination in the calm.

Wei Jinniang looked at her with a smile: "I also want you to win, I will help you."

"I can't give him a good life, but at least I don't want him to walk on the tip of a knife."

"Hehe, I knew from the very beginning that you are the only one who can save him. Xiu Yi, he has a deep scar in his heart, but he wears too heavy shackles, and he can only see the scar after untiing the shackles." , I hope you are the one who unlocks it, and I hope you are the one who stays with him and slowly heals the scars in time. No matter what happens, you don't leave her. This is not my request to you, but ask."

Xu Xiuyi smiled slightly: "The sea is dry and the rocks are rotten."

Even if the sea is dry and the rocks are rotten, she will not leave An Chengshao. When Wei Jinniang talked about An Chengshao's peaceful and slightly sad eyes, it seemed to infect Xu Xiuyi's heart, touching the whole heart soft and sad. Knowing what happened to An Chengshao, no one is willing to tell her.

An Chengshao himself refused, Wu Mo refused, Wei Jinniang also refused, even Qin Yan refused.

She couldn't find the key to unlock the shackles of An Chengshao's mind, but she would not give up. She wanted to win before to protect the Su family, but now she wanted to win to protect An Chengshao.

*

Wei Jinniang became the treasurer of Peony Embroidery Village, and the celebrity effect was almost within a day, and the value of Peony Embroidery Village increased by a few points. Wei Jinniang seemed a very peaceful and elegant person, but she did not expect to start a business very quickly. .

Since she settled in Peony Embroidery Village, she used her celebrity to hold a banquet on the first day, and invited people from the silk, embroidery, dyeing, and cloth workshops she knew before.

The next day, she asked Xu Xiuyi for instructions and doubled the prices of all the items in Peony Embroidery Village.

This is undoubtedly a risky move, because those prices have never been so ridiculously high in Jinniang Embroidery Village before, but Xu Xiuyi believes in her.

Moreover, Peony Embroidery Village was not originally competing against the poor people. When Su Yalan was there, she wanted to make the embroidery village into the palace, and made a deal with the palace. Most of them are wives and ladies from wealthy families.

This kind of person is never short of money, what he lacks is face.

The poor live their lives, and the rich live their face. This has been the case since ancient times.

Xu Xiuyi, who has lived in modern times for decades, has long understood this truth.

So when Wei Jinniang showed her the price list, Yinyu blurted out: "Is this to help grandma or to bring down our store, a handkerchief costs five taels of silver, whoever wants it, even if it is embroidered with gold thread Not worth the money."

Xu Xiuyi just smiled and wrote "Agree" on the price list.

Now, Yinyu's eyeballs are about to fall out of their sockets, no, from morning to now, she has been talking about this matter.

"Grandma, this Wei Jinniang is clearly trying to bring down our Peony Embroidery Village."

"It's an adventure, but as long as the method is right, I will go to the embroidery village tomorrow morning."

For some reason, she is full of energy now, Yinyu probably feels that Xu Xiuyi is crazy.

"Grandma, how can this be sold."

Xu Xiuyi was in a good mood, and joked with her: "If it's sold."

Yinyu said loudly: "If it is sold, I will walk around our house three times. It is too expensive. A handkerchief is usually bought at a small stall. It is considered a high-quality silk handkerchief. It is embroidered Beautiful patterns cost thirty or fifty copper plates at most. In higher-level shops, those who want one tael of silver are all embroidered with gold thread, and those who want two taels of silver are all embroidered with gold thread. If you lose your heart, that's a robbery."

"What we have to do is to be more ruthless than the street."

"Ming grab?"

"To rob is not the same as to rob. What we want to do is to make people obediently offer money. Not only that, I don't want to give money, I want them to rush to send money, and we have to sort it out on a first-come-first-served basis. I just accept it, and I don’t accept it when it arrives later.”

"Grandma, why don't you slap the servant first, and the servant will say something sorry for you."

Yinyu has always been open-minded, and Xu Xiuyi doesn't have any sense of master and servant, and raising Yinyu's courage will make her even more courageous.

Xu Xiuyi touched her face and said, "I've beaten her, let's talk."

"Grandma, you are dreaming."

The fourth sisters were anxious for Yinyu, afraid that Xu Xiuyi would be angry, but unexpectedly Xu Xiuyi was not annoyed, but laughed out loud instead.

"Then you haven't heard a word called dream come true."

"The slave girl still said the same thing, as long as you can sell a handkerchief, of course, grandma, you can't find a babysitter, but if someone really pays for a handkerchief, the slave girl will walk around our house three times, like a dog. Call."

"Is this what you said?" Xu Xiuyi was all smiles, because she was sure that Yinyu would lose.

If her idea, which seems to be dreaming, is integrated with the concept of modern luxury goods, coupled with the celebrity effect of the world's number one embroiderer, Yinyu's three circles will be settled.

*

Xu Xiuyi arrived at Xiuzhuang early in the morning, Wei Jinniang was looking over the accounts, and Wei's sister-in-law was also there.

Seeing Xu Xiuyi, Wei Jinniang smiled and said, "Aren't you here to regret it?"

"Repent what?"

Wei Jinniang raised the price list, and the word Xu Xiuyi agreed on it was bright red.

"Aunt Jin, can you tell me how you plan to sell it at such a high price?"

Wei Jinniang took a sip of tea and said, "I said I would help you. I know many friends, and many people are willing to go through fire and water for me."

Xu Xiuyi immediately understood that Wei Jinniang's confidence in setting a high price was due to her connections.

Obviously, Wei Jinniang wants to sell her.

She originally thought that Wei Jinniang had advanced ideas and wanted to make Peony Embroidery Village a luxury item, but now it sounds like she is moved, but she knows that in this way, she is really invincible.

"If that's the case, then I really regret it."

Wei Jinniang was slightly surprised: "Isn't that good, otherwise you have no chance of winning against Mr. An. Mr. An's wealth is higher than the sky and deeper than the sea."

"Come and help me, I'm already cheating!"

"Open?"

I don’t know how to say a new word, even the ancients couldn’t understand it, so she hurriedly explained: “It’s just that I’m not good enough to win, I want to win by my own ability.”

Her eyes were extremely firm, and Wei Jinniang was taken aback for a moment, and then laughed happily: "Well, I was too eager for quick success, so I changed the price, and we will have a down-to-earth comparison with Mr. An."

After speaking, he got up and took a pen and paper, and said to Xu Xiuyi, "I'll write a new price list."

But Xu Xiuyi got up and brought back the price list that she had written and agreed to: "Since I will agree, it is naturally because I have a plan in mind. At this price, it will definitely sell."

"Oh? How do you sell it?" Wei's sister-in-law used to be the shopkeeper of Jinniang Embroidery Village, so she was naturally very interested in things like money in and out.

Xu Xiuyi said: "We want to make luxury goods."

"Luxury?"

Luxury knows, this is the first time I have heard of the concept of luxury.

The sister-in-law of Wei's family believes that she has been in business for more than 20 years and has never heard of the word luxury.

Wei Jinniang was also quite curious.

Xu Xiuyi explained the luxury goods in the modern concept in a way they could understand, and Wei Jinniang and Wei's sister-in-law were dumbfounded.

"Business, you can still do this, third grandma, you are really a genius."

Wei Jinniang also smiled and said: "It is said that ginger is still old and hot. This sentence does not apply to you and me. It should be said that green is better than blue. You are right, the quantity is limited, and the color is cut. Miss and Madam, five taels of silver is nothing more than a dental sacrifice to them, but five taels of silver can buy a unique handkerchief, which can be used as a collection while showing off, hehe, wonderful, wonderful."

"This requires us to be unconventional. Since we want to be unique, it is naturally impossible to embroider some peonies, begonias, peach blossoms and mandarin ducks on silk handkerchiefs. In this way, we are embarrassed to say that we are limited and out of print. Therefore, we, Peony Embroidery Village, must have our own A unique pattern."

"What trick?"

Embroidery is nothing more than those kinds, flowers, trees, people, birds, animals, landscapes, what else can there be?

Xu Xiuyi took out a stack of paper from her cuff and spread it out in front of Wei Jinniang. As soon as she opened it, Wei Jinniang and Wei's sister-in-law were surprised again.

"This is?"

"The traditional embroidery I paint is nothing more than flowers, plants, trees, birds and animals. Since we want to be unique, we must naturally have our own characteristics."

"This is a cat?" It has a round face, one of the two eyes is not sure whether it is a nose or a mouth, and it is wearing a big bow tie. If there are not a few whiskers on the left and right sides of the face, you can't tell it is an animal.

"Well, it's a cat." The image of the pirated kitty cat was slightly modified, but no one here would sue her for copyright infringement, so she hand-painted countless manuscripts based on some modern cartoon images.

Rogue rabbits, teddy bears, Mario, and Totoro were all spared. She didn't have a solid foundation in painting. If these cartoon manuscripts weren't for the images deeply ingrained in her mind and repeated revisions all night, they wouldn't have such cute images.

"What is this?" A fat blue fish.

"It's a dolphin."

"Dolphins, I've only heard of pufferfish."

"There are also puffer fish." Xu Xiuyi turned a few pages, and saw a cute little creature with thorns all over its body. The sister-in-law of Wei's family was getting older, but she couldn't help but exclaimed excitedly: "This little guy is so cute, how can there be such a thing?" Poisonous puffer fish, if there is such a little guy, I will raise it with gold and silver."

"Aunt Jin, Grandma Wei, what do you think?"

"Xiu Yi." Wei Jinniang looked at Xu Xiuyi, she seldom praised others, but now she couldn't help but look at Xu Xiuyi with admiration, "You are really a genius, you owe your talent if you don't do business, I have always heard that you are a quiet and elegant woman Miss Guanjia, looking at it now, that biography is really quite different from the reality."

"The third grandma of the Su family, if a woman can be an examiner, you can be a female prime minister."

Wei's sister-in-law also boasted.

Xu Xiuyi was a little embarrassed by the praise: "Hehe, you two have won the prize, so, after I find a special artist to color these sketches, let's start to embroider some patterns."

Wei Jinniang nodded: "I already smell money."

Wei's sister-in-law gave her a push, smiled and said to Xu Xiuyi: "Our sister-in-law never cared about money, but now because of the third grandma, all she sees is money. "

"Hehehehe."

"Hahahaha!"

Inside the house, there was laughter and laughter, and outside the house, there stood a downcast man, his clothes were dirty, his eyes were narrowed to the side, his head was lowered as if he was afraid that others would recognize him.

In fact, he needn't have worried, if he hadn't come to the door and said it was Su Jinye, the clerk in the store would never have recognized the down-and-out man in front of him, but it was actually the second master of the Su family who used to be famous.

"You wait, I'll make a report." Maybe it was because of seeing him downcast, the guys were all indifferent to his voice, and didn't pay him any attention at all.

When the clerk went in, Xu Xiuyi Zhengtong Wei Jinniang's sister-in-law of Wei's family smiled happily, and suddenly heard the clerk say: "Third grandma, there is someone looking for you outside, saying that it is the second master of the Su family. I think he looks a bit like him, let him wait outside." caught."

Su Jinyi.

"I don't see you." Xu Xiuyi flatly refused.

The man went out and said to Su Jinyi, "My third grandma said she couldn't see you."

Su Jinyi's face turned pale and blue for a while, her fists at her sides were clenched tightly, and her tone was pleading: "Please tell me again, I'm sorry."

The second master of the Su family used to be considered to be infinitely beautiful, but now he has to nod and bow to a young servant. His backbone, his self-esteem, and his pride are all suppressed now, and some are only suppressed by life. A remnant body, and a crumbling self-confidence.

The clerk went in again, Su Jinyi still lowered his head, his eyes were a bit cramped, the clerk came out again, followed by Xu Xiuyi who was dressed in fancy clothes.

Standing in front of Xu Xiuyi in such a mess, he looked like a bereaved dog.

He only has a bit of self-esteem left, and he is not allowed to see Xu Xiuyi nodding and bowing like a dog.

"Grandma Su third."

He called her Third Grandma Su, Xu Xiuyi sneered: "What are you doing here?"

"I'm here to beg Grandma Su San to let me take a look at my Xueying."

"You still know how to look at her. Why didn't you look at her when she was about to die?"

Su Jinyi gritted his teeth secretly, he knew that no matter what he said now, people in the world would not believe that he loved his daughters, how much he regretted the death of his two daughters, how heartbroken he was, how much life would be better than death.

"I beg you." He said forcefully, and it was obvious how much courage it took him to say this pleading.

Xu Xiuyi frowned: "I can't decide this matter, and Xueying may not want to see you."

Although Su Jinyi was hateful, his request was not excessive at all, he just wanted to see Su Xueying.

It's just that Xu Xiuyi couldn't agree to this behind Su Jiangshi's back, after all, it's their family's business.

"I beg you, I just want to see her once, even if it's far away, I've been to the second part of Baoning Hall, but they knew I was outside the door, so they hid her, I just want to see her for the last time. "

The last few words are subject to consideration.

Looking at Su Jinyi, is this so-called last side planning to leave the capital or the world?

He is undoubtedly down and out now, his body is full of pride and glory, he is not as embarrassed as a beggar on the side of the road, he is skinny and haggard, with Su Jinyi's personality, living like this, maybe he really thinks that he would rather die.

But even if he doesn't want to live anymore, it's his own life, Xu Xiuyi has no way to agree to let her see Su Xueying.

"You can't be the master, you go."

After sending Su Jinyi away, she turned around, but Su Jinyi behind her suddenly knelt down: "Third grandma... I beg you."

Xu Xiuyi was startled, turned her head and frowned: "What are you doing, you get up, I said I can't make the decision."

"Tomorrow at noon, I will be at the second gate of Baoning Hall. You take her to the lobby. I will only look at her from a distance. I will not approach her. I know that I am not qualified to approach her now. Just let me take a last look at her." ,I beg you."

Nodding her head, knocking firmly, without saying anything else, Su Jinyi got up and left. The assistant said behind her: "Third grandma, it's all broken and bleeding."

Xu Xiuyi glanced at the floor and saw a bloodstain.

Seeing Su Jinyi's back disappearing in the crowd, she lowered her eyes. Even if she could decide this matter, she didn't want to.

"Wipe it clean, and don't let him in casually in the future."

In the future, in fact, Xu Xiuyi felt a little bit in her heart. In the future, I am afraid there will never be a future. A father wants to see his daughter for the last time, so he should look at it from a distance. If it happened to someone else, she might still have a sore nose.

But Su Jinyi did it on his own.

If he lived a good life, how could life be like this for him? Now that he is in pain, Su Jiangshi and Su Xueying are not in pain.

If he really wants to seek death...

if it is real……

In fact, no matter what, the imminent death of a person is probably his last wish.

Xu Xiuyi, after all, is soft-hearted.