Chapter 165 The Maids in the Palace Are on Strike (35)
Chapter 165 The Maids in the Palace Are on Strike (35)
That farm was a cloth farm, and Shen Fanli named it Jinxiu.
Shen Fanli also bought a shop behind him that sells pastries.
All three of them can make pastries, and Shen Fanli took them mainly for Bier and Jinger to pass the time.
She spent most of her time in the early days at Jinxiu Cloth Shop. Later, when the shop's operations were on track and soon began to make profits, Shen Fanli would occasionally visit the shop. Most of the time, she would stay in the yard or go to the pastry shop to see Bier and the others.
Shen Fanli's generosity made the local wealthy businessmen look at her in awe, and what was even more amazing was that her cloth shop made back its previous losses in less than a month and in less than three days.
Her talent for business is admirable, but the fact that she is doing business as a woman is even more shocking.
Shen Fanli's success is envied and admired by everyone, but naturally, there are also some incompetent and jealous people.
He wanted to seize Shen Fanli's property and also throw dirty water on others.
She is just an ordinary woman, how can she show her face in public and make people laugh at her?
He also sent people to harass Shen Fanli.
During that period, not only Yunlin Courtyard, but also the cloth shop and Shen Fanli would be cursed by people with ulterior motives whenever they walked on the street. Those who did not know what was going on would also gather around to watch the fun, and would make belittled and cursed people from time to time.
If it were someone else, and the person who experienced this was not Shen Fanli, but a woman who was born and raised in ancient China, she would definitely be ashamed to death and would wish to stay indoors.
But within three days.
All those messy rumors and daily harassment that Shen Fanli was a concubine who ran away from home had completely disappeared.
Shen Fanli's cloth shop business became more and more prosperous, and he even had dealings with the local governor, who also imprisoned dozens of typical people there.
Almost at the same time, news spread that the owner of another cloth shop had been thrown into jail.
For a moment, no one dared to move.
The next day, many people found out that the owner of the cloth shop ended up in such a state because he falsely accused Shen Fanli.
In fact, it’s not just him, there are several shops as well.
Firstly, they couldn't stand the fact that Shen Fanli was a woman doing business, and secondly, they were jealous of her talent for business. In such a short period of time, she had managed to rapidly develop her cloth shop business.
Moreover, it is limited.
Demand exceeds supply.
Not only Suzhou City, but also the surrounding cities purchased cloth from Jinxiu Cloth Shop.
It would be even better if you could become famous in the future.
As a result, the business of other cloth shops plummeted, and they were even more resentful of the new female like Shen Fanli.
However, that person happened to be unlucky and was seen by Shen Fanli himself.
As for the prefect and the Dai Mansion, it was more than a month ago.
That day, Shen Fanli was drinking tea in a teahouse and saw a man in a carriage on the street through the window.
He was lifting the curtain and Shen Fanli saw his face.
Suddenly startled.
But when she went downstairs, the man was gone.
Shen Fanli stood at the door of the teahouse, a little dazed.
Bi'er and Jing'er followed closely behind her, looking at Shen Fanli's dazed look.
Bi'er asked, "Girl, what are you looking at?"
Shen Fanli came back to her senses and shook her head. "Nothing, let's go."
Several people left this place.
And in the shop diagonally opposite, a figure suddenly walked out quickly.
He looked around.
Shen Fanli had already left and he didn't see it.
He muttered to himself, "Maybe I'm seeing things, but why are they so similar?"
A man came forward, somewhat puzzled, and looked in the direction where he was looking, but there was nothing or anyone worthy of attention.
Puzzled, he asked: "Third Master, what are you doing..."
Mr. Dai was a little absent-minded and whispered: "It seems that I saw her..."
The man was puzzled. It was the first time he saw Third Master showing such an expression. "Third Master, who are you talking about?"
Mr. Dai San looked somewhere in the distance, and then he walked forward. "It's my wife."
The man didn't quite hear what was said, and was a little bit unbelieving. He scratched his head and said, "Ah, Third Master, Madam is not..."
There was no further talk afterwards.
Then follow.
Dai Jingsheng and Shen Fanli met at a time when rumors were becoming more and more rampant. Having followed his father in business for many years, he grew up in various places and had heard all kinds of things. However, the strategies of these people were not very clever.
Dai Jingsheng could see through it at a glance.
However, he wanted to meet this woman who was famous in Suzhou City.
He went to Jinxiu Cloth Shop specifically.
Shen Fanli doesn't stay in the cloth shop every day.
But that day, Shen Fanli happened to be there.
Dai Jingsheng went straight into the cloth shop, and when he saw people, he was stunned.
He originally thought that this person must be an older woman, but he didn't expect that she looked so young.
She was wearing a sky blue skirt, with red lips, fair skin, and clear eyes and eyebrows.
Her makeup was only slightly modified, and her pair of glass-colored eyes were extremely clear and bright, without any trace of wind and frost.
But it is also calm and indifferent.
He looked at the person sitting in the room. Someone was reporting something to her. Her face was calm, as if the noise around her did not affect her at all. The color of the ink was warm, like a red and black ink painting.
Dai Jingsheng walked forward regardless of people trying to stop him, and said in a loud voice: "This must be the famous Miss Shen."
The person in front of Shen Fanli was the accountant, and he was talking about yesterday's revenue.
He stopped talking when he saw someone coming.
The person next to him hadn't had time to announce, "Boss, this is the son of the Third Master of the Mansion."
Shen Fanli saw the man from afar and thought he was here to cause trouble, but she didn't expect that the man was the son of the third master, the richest man in Suzhou City.
Her expression remained unchanged as she looked at the person who came. "If the person you heard was me, then yes."
"I wonder why you are here, sir?"
Dai Jingsheng was holding a folding fan in his hand, with four big words written on it: Nothing to do.
He said, "I have nothing to do, so I came to see Miss Shen's elegance."
"You've been in Suzhou for less than two months, and you've become the richest man in the city. Your reputation has spread so much that it's hard not to hear about it..."
"I didn't expect Miss Shen to be so young. I just don't know if she's married yet."
As soon as Shen Fanli finished speaking, her first impression of Dai Jingsheng was that he was a playboy.
She raised her hand and pointed at the door, "If you have nothing else to do, then I will forgive you for not seeing you off."
Shen Fanli turned his head and motioned for him to leave.
Dai Jingsheng was still shouting before he was dragged out.
"Miss Shen, I have a business deal to discuss with you..."
"Hey, hey, don't drag me..."
"My fan..."
Shen Fanli rubbed his forehead. This guy was really noisy.
She waved her hand, "Let go."
"Your boss asked you to let go, but you still don't..."
Seeing him let go, Dai Jingsheng stood up straight and brushed his sleeves, "That's right."
He opened the folding fan in his hand, fanned it a few times, and slowly walked in front of Shen Fanli.
"What kind of business are you talking about, young master?"
"Hey, Miss Shen, if this deal goes through, then we should be considered partners and friends. Should we change our names?"
Dai Jingsheng closed his folding fan, leaned over and said, "You can call me by my name. My name is Dai Jingsheng, you can just call me Jingsheng. What's Miss Shen's name?"
Shen Fanli took a deep look at the man and felt that he was very shameless.
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