The Evil King's Favorite Concubine: Genius Perfumer

Chapter 32 The atmosphere is not harmonious
"Hey, the newcomer is here?"

Gan Tiantian was drying the water stains on his hands when he looked up and saw someone entering their room.

Several girls walked in together, and the small wing suddenly became much more crowded.

Gan Tiantian saw that they were all wearing light blue bijia and plain skirts, but their hairstyles were slightly different, so he murmured in his heart: "So the apprentices in the workshop still wear uniforms?"

Su Cuiying immediately greeted them with a smile, and greeted the seniors respectfully, but only received a faint response.

A girl with a slightly square face twitched the corners of her lips, and without looking at Su Cuiying, she turned her head to her companion and said, "Hmph, didn't you say I should pick something good this time? That's all, a few yellow-haired girls..."

"Hee hee, Meier, don't say that in front of others." Her companion also raised an eyebrow and laughed, and they turned their heads and walked out, leaving Su Cuiying as a transparent person in the cold.

"They're so rude."

Tao Tao stood beside Gan Tiantian, her willow eyebrows stood on end, and she said angrily, "It's only a little earlier than us, everyone is apprentices, so what's the point?"

"Oh, stop talking."

Su Cuiying, who had just been ridiculed in person, hurried over to stop Tao Tao from continuing. "Aunt Li said that you should respect your sisters and listen to them..."

"You respect others, have they taken care of you?"

Ruan Jingjing tidied up her things slowly behind their backs, and tossed a sentence calmly, stabbing Su Cuiying's face green and white.

Gan Tiantian saw that the atmosphere in the room was too bad, so he hurried out to smooth things over: "Okay, it's lunch time, let's go to lunch."

"Hmph, just now Aunt Li said that the sisters will come and take us to dinner... Now it seems that it's difficult."

Tao Tao was still angry, her two cheeks were bulging like meat buns stuffed.

Gan Tiantian pinched her face amusedly, and said with a smile: "Okay, there's no need to get angry with them, they're trying to show us off."

Based on Gan Tiantian's experience, the two or three gossips of these little girls are unlikely to have any lethal effect on her.If she became popular like this, her previous life would have been in vain.

"I am going to eat."

Ruan Jingjing packed her things and wanted to go out on her own.Su Cuiying hesitated for a moment, then smiled again and said, "Jingjing, let's go together. Tiantian, Xiaotao, let's go?"

"Yeah, let's go, eat and eat."

Gan Tiantian echoed, holding Tao Tao's hand, and suddenly another figure walked in outside the door.

"Are you all still there?"

A slender girl pushed the door open and entered, her eyes were eager and her expression was amiable. "My name is Yue Ming, and I usually take care of the affairs of our East Courtyard temporarily. Are you new here today?"

"Hello, sister Ming."

Su Cuiying said hello quickly, and everyone else followed suit.This Yue Ming is what Aunt Li said, one of the two eldest sisters in the East Small Courtyard who take care of the aunts, right?

Yue Ming was obviously much more generous than the little girls who came to demonstrate earlier, and his words and deeds were very much like a big sister's.

She has been an apprentice in Yujinfang for five years, and she turned 17 at the beginning of the year. She plans to go home and get married next year.

Although her skill in perfumery is mediocre, and she failed the assessment of the county-level incense shop every time, but because she is fair and stable, she is very trusted by the owner's family and the aunts in charge, and the little girls are willing to listen to her of.

Although the few new apprentices just met her, they were quickly impressed by the gentleness and compassion of this elder sister Ming, obediently obeying her orders.

Yue Ming took them to the big cafeteria where they had eaten that day, instructed them to get their meals, and ate with them, asking about everyone's situation with concern.Even Ruan Jingjing, who is the most unreasonable, is much more behaved in front of Yue Ming, answering every question.

Thanks to Yue Ming, Gan Tiantian was able to quickly understand many things about his companions.

For example, Ruan Jingjing, like Su Cuiying, is 12 years old, and her family is the second shopkeeper of the Xiangyao shop.From the implicit conversation between Yue Ming and Ruan Jingjing, Gan Tiantian discovered another future for the female apprentices besides being a perfumer, that is - accumulating qualifications as a dowry.

There are very few apprentices who can become perfumers, and it is even more difficult for women.But why are there so many young girls vying to sign up? Is everyone as ambitious as Gan Tiantian?
The truth is not that simple.

The prosperity of the spice trade and related industries in the Great Depression has reached the peak of all dynasties, and the number of employees is beyond imagination.

And these merchants engaged in the trade of spices and families of perfumers, like other industries, often intermarried among their peers.

Girls from this kind of family work as apprentices in incense workshops. Even if they can't become craftsmen in the future, they can marry a more prosperous spice merchant under the arrangement of their parents.Having worked as an apprentice in the Xiangfang for several years, she is naturally qualified to be the head of the house, and she will not make a fool of herself because she doesn't understand the way of incense when interacting with her family members.

Of course, it doesn't mean that those who trade in spices at home must choose their daughter-in-law from among the children of their peers, it's just that the probability is higher.

It took quite a long time for Gan Tiantian to gradually understand the various "inside stories" of this industry, and the "future" of the female apprentices...it's really not gossip.

However, the simple conversation between Yue Ming and Ruan Jingjing at that time allowed her to roughly guess why Ruan Jingjing had a slight sense of superiority when facing them.

Compared with these pure rookies who don't understand anything, Miss Ruan is the daughter of the second shopkeeper's family, so she must be a daughter spoiled by her parents at home, right?And for spices, she naturally knows much more than them.

As for Tao Tao's family background, it is much simpler. Her father worked as a cashier in a certain restaurant, and her family background was not too bad.But she has four or five older brothers and sisters, and a younger brother at the bottom. There are many children in the family, so she was sent out as an apprentice.

Firstly, Xiangfang can support her until she returns home to marry, and secondly, if Tao Tao really becomes an official family in the future, the family can follow suit!

During this meal, Gan Tiantian didn't talk much, he just concentrated on eating and drinking, only answering when Yue Ming asked her.

When you first enter the workplace, before you find out the working environment, it is best to talk less and do more.This is the valuable experience accumulated by Gan Tiantian's years of hard work in the workplace.

Contrary to her, Su Cuiying kept talking non-stop.Although the tone was gentle, but he couldn't help but get close to Yue Ming, "Sister Ming, Sister Ming" so that Gan Tiantian's ears felt callused.

Yue Ming had no special reaction to her attention, but Ruan Jingjing raised the corners of her mouth in disdain, and a few contemptuous smiles flashed in her eyes.

After a short break, the new apprentices were gathered together, and began to work in the Yujin Workshop.

Gan Tiantian thought that he was low-key enough, as long as he worked diligently, he would definitely not cause any trouble.But who knows, if she doesn't go to cause trouble, trouble will come to her...

(End of this chapter)