Daughter Raiders

Chapter 226 Whitewashing
The spring in Liaodong is very long, and there is almost no summer.Afterwards, the days passed slowly until May. If you were in the capital, you should have changed into light summer clothes, but the people in Liaodong still wore late spring clothes.

Waking up early this morning, Tao Ran wrote three big characters in the bright morning light, and then Tao Ran took Yang's mother into the city in a carriage, intending to get back the summer clothes that she had ordered earlier - she was a bit tall this year. , Last year's summer clothes are unwearable, even if the weather is still cold, who knows when it will suddenly be summer?
Unexpectedly, Wen Tong was driving the carriage to stop at the entrance of the silk shop, when he heard someone calling him not far away, looking over it was Song Zhi, an old acquaintance from the general's mansion, who was also driving the carriage in this direction.

"It's the second girl and the third girl from the General Army's Mansion." Wen Tong parked the car and greeted Song Zhi with a smile, then softly told Tao Ran in the car.

Tao Ran froze for a moment.Yesterday she went for a walk by the city wall with Mu Huan and Mu Lei, why didn't Mu Lei tell her that she would also go to the street today?And Sister Yun, hasn't she been embroidering dowry in the backyard of the General Military Mansion, why did she leave the house for the first time today?

"Sister Tao, are you waiting for me to lead your horse and put you in the stirrups?" Mu Lei smiled and lifted the curtain of Tao Ran's car, "Come down soon!"

Tao Ran hurriedly supported Mother Yang's hand and jumped out of the car, went to greet Mu Yun again, and then asked Mu Lei softly, "Who are you?"

Mu Lei put her finger on her lips and hissed: "It's not suitable to talk about anything right now. My sister and I came here to measure clothes. Are you also here to make clothes? Why don't you go to my house when you're done with business, and I'll follow you slowly." Elaborate."

If it was in the capital, they would never ask the ladies to go out and order clothes in person. If they didn’t like the craftsmanship of their own sewing team, they would have their own famous silk and satin shops, such as Jinxiufang and Siqiaofang, who would bring all kinds of silk and satin patterns to the mansion. , Let the wives and girls choose, and then the most skillful tailors will measure the body for the female relatives, and then deliver the goods to the door again.

But the silk and satin shop in Liaodong Mansion doesn’t know whether it doesn’t do door-to-door business, or because of folk customs, even if it’s the mansion of the prefect of the General Military Mansion, the women’s family members have to come to the silk and satin shop to order clothes if they want to dress—even if it’s Mu Yun, a girl to be married, is no exception.

Tao Ran also nodded along with the situation, and entered the silk and satin shop with Mu Lei and Mu Yun, led by the shop assistants, and led them into a room in the backyard.

After the guy poured tea for them and left, two female masters came over after a while. After saying hello, one of them measured the sisters of the Mu family, and the other handed over the burden to Yang Mom: "Miss Su's clothes are all here. I went back and tried on what didn't fit, so you can send it back to me and modify it."

Mother Yang lowered her head and curled her lips after taking the burden.If it wasn't for the fact that the girl can't live in Liaodong for two years, she should really give the girl an idea to open a tailor-made clothing store like Siqiaofang on this street!This silk and satin shop in Liaodong Mansion doesn't care about coming to the store for body measurements, but they can't try on clothes when they come to the shop.
So after the Mu sisters had chosen their clothes again, and everyone came out and got into the carriage, Mother Yang said to Tao Ran in a low voice, "Miss and Miss Mu are really good-natured, if a girl from another family came to Liaodong, I'm afraid It’s just unbearable to make clothes.”

"I wasn't used to it when I first came here." Tao Ran smiled and said, "Mom, how about we open a tailor-made clothing store like Siqiaofang in the capital?"

"Even if you don't do business with the locals of Liaodong Prefecture, if you only talk about the wives of the military officers of the Mu family army, and the wives in the back houses of our government office, they all love the tricks of the capital city, but suffer from the inability of these silk and satin factories to do so. It’s coming out. When they wear the new style again, the local ladies and girls will definitely be jealous, won’t the business increase?”

Without waiting for Yang's mother to answer, Tao Ran made a bitter face: "But where is the ready-made clothing shop so easy to open? The pattern, the style of the clothes, even the silk and satin are easy to talk about. Where should the embroiderer go to find it?"

Doing business is not something that can be done just by talking about it, especially a business like a garment store. There is a big difference between a good embroiderer and an ordinary embroiderer.

But she didn't know that her words hit Mama Yang's heart, even if she said that the embroiderer was hard to find, Mama Yang didn't take it seriously - the girl is getting older, the master will give the girl some money every now and then for the girl to keep for herself, but After all, silver is a dead thing, and every penny spent is one penny less. If you can start a business, then you will live!You can save some money for the girl, right?
Besides, even if the girl wants to return to the capital in a year and a half, so what, the girl and Mu Shizi's marriage is almost inseparable, and the master will continue to be an official in the Liaodong Mansion, and there are still people in the Liaodong Mansion for the girl's property Dare to make up your mind?It is more profitable than the capital!

"If the girl really wants to do it, mother will send someone to check on the good embroiderer first." Yang's mother said with a smile: "If you have a good embroiderer, you can open the shop. If you don't have a good embroiderer, don't open it. What loss is there?"

No matter how bad it is, you can go to the ready-made silk and satin village to dig a few corners, right...

"Mom's idea is good." Tao Ran clapped his hands and smiled: "Since that's the case, let's make an agreement. Mom, you can visit the embroiderers from now on. You don't need too much in advance. Two are enough. Let's work slowly and carefully. Son."

The folk customs of Liaodong Prefecture are simple and rough, and the female celebrities of the local girls are just like that. If her ready-made clothing shop is established, she may be able to do a wedding dress business—what girl doesn’t want to dress herself up when she gets married? Beautiful?

While speaking, two carriages stopped one after another, and the General Military Mansion arrived.After entering the gate of the mansion and getting off the car, Tao Ran was waiting to follow the Mu family sisters to the back house, when he saw Mu Zhen walking over with his bay red horse, and went out without a word as if he hadn't seen anyone .

"Hmph, who owes him, who is it to show you with a droopy face!" Mu Lei snorted softly.

"Sister Lei!" Mu Yun scolded her sister lightly: "What about him, yours, he is our second brother."

Whether it is in the Beihou Mansion in Beijing Township or in the General Army Mansion in Liaodong, it is not a good thing for a family to be restless; not to mention that no matter how much Sister Tao took the Mu family's token, she is now just an outsider. Tell an outsider about the scandal?
But Mu Lei was not convinced, she raised her head and glanced at Mu Yun: "What is the second brother not the second brother, in front of Sister Tao, sister, you don't have to whitewash the peace at all."

"Just that person... isn't he unhappy these few days? Sister, do you know whose idea made him unhappy? It's all thanks to Sister Tao!"

Seeing that Mu Yun froze in place after clearly understanding the words, Tao Ran was confused.

What does Mu Zhen's unhappiness have to do with her? How could it be her fault?In March, she gave Mu Lei the idea of ​​controlling Mu Zhen, but she never heard anything from Mu Lei after that...

(End of this chapter)