Plant pigments are very easy to extract. Yu Xiaolian asked Zhao Erya and Zhao Sanya to wash the fresh red and blue petals, then crush them finely with a stone mortar, and filter out the dross with fine gauze.

   "After the juice is dried, add a little rose essential oil, which is rouge."

  Yu Xiaolian's hands were dyed red because she squeezed the juice from the petals with gauze.

   There are disposable plastic gloves in her space, but because these are plastic products, it is inconvenient for Yu Xiaolian to take them out. After all, the two granddaughters and a great-granddaughter of the Fourth Master Sun's family are coming soon.

   "Sister Lian, you are so powerful!" Zhao Sanya looked at the extracted red pigment, which was clear and translucent, and was amazed.

  Yu Xiaolian took Zhao Erya and Zhao Sanya to work in full swing.

  When Sun Mancang came with Sun Feixue and the others, Yu Xiaolian seemed to see a savior.

  Yu Xiaolian didn't expect Sun Manjiao to follow, "Manjiao, why are you here too?"

Sun Manjiao smiled and said, "When the chili workshop employed people, you said that I was less than ten years old, and I was too young. Now that the Chinese New Year is over, I am already ten years old. If you don't take me with you to work this time, I will take care of you." I'm going to cry."

Her younger brother Sun Manzhi has gone to school, and her mother is the only one who can earn money in her family. For more than half a year, she has been helping her mother light the fire and pick vegetables in the kitchen. Now she can earn thirty cash a day, and she still uses girls exclusively. Yes, of course she will come.

  Man Jiaozi is small, but she has come here, and Yu Xiaolian can't let her go back, otherwise she is really afraid that she will cry.

   Thinking of Sun Erji's life and death being unknown, and Sun Erji's daughter-in-law and their two children living a difficult life, Yu Xiaolian felt sad again.

   It stands to reason that Gao Yishui has returned, and if Sun Erji and Sun Wulin were alive, they should also come to find them.

  If they were still alive, they might already be on their way to Yuzhou.

   "Come on, let's divide the work, Erya, go to the front to look at the store, there is no one in front.

  Sister Manxi, you and Sister Manxia, ​​you two are here... You are responsible for washing the petals, then mashing them, and after mashing the juice, filter it into this basin with gauze.

  Feixue and Manjiao are in charge of pounding dried petals with a stone mortar, and grinding them into color powder for me. The grinding must be very fine, and you must not fool things.

  Brother Mancang, you are responsible for carrying the water for washing the petals for them, and making a break at the side. "

  After Yu Xiaolian made arrangements one by one, she felt that there was still not enough manpower. Originally, she didn't let Mrs. Gao and Gao Qiaoer participate, but now it seems that it is necessary to let them come together tomorrow.

  Yu Xiaolian carefully taught them how to do it hand in hand, and how to grind the toner to be considered qualified.

  Several girls were chatting while doing work, and the atmosphere was very good.

   Until the evening, Yu Xiaolian called to call it a day.

  There is no finished product today. After adding other things tomorrow, she will be able to make the first batch of finished products.

  When Yu Xiaolian took the girls back to Xiangyang Lane, Mrs. Gao had already prepared dinner and was waiting for them.

   Mrs. Gao knew that there were many people today, so she specially made five dishes and one soup. Although her cooking skills are average, it's not bad at all.

  Yu Xiaolian asked the girls to wash their hands and eat.

  Grandma Gao hesitated for a long time, but finally mustered up the courage to thank Yu Xiaolian. She didn't expect Yu Xiaolian to be willing to help her. Logically speaking, they are the current people, so there is no reason for the master to help her.

  If the original owner changed, they would definitely reprimand her and sell them off.

  Washing her hands, Yu Xiaolian said, "I promised to go to Lu's Mansion with you, but it's still up to me to say whether this will be possible. It's too early to thank me now."

  Grandma Gao said nervously, "Miss just do her best, no matter what, old lady, I will accept your favor."

  Yu Xiaolian smiled, "I will try my best to reunite your family."

   "Hey!" Mrs. Gao responded with a cry, and quietly retreated out.

  Yu Xiaolian greeted everyone to sit down and eat, and the moment she picked up the chopsticks, the girls saw that their hands were dyed red by the juice of flowers, and couldn't help laughing at each other.

   After dinner, Yu Xiaolian arranged a single room for Sun Feixue and the four girls. The four were very happy to see that the room was clean and tidy, with new bedding inside.

  Thirteen-year-old Sun Manxia couldn't sleep, she was in a state of excitement, and ran to her sister's room next door to chat.

   "Sister, it's much better for us to work here than at home. I like being in the city."

When I was at home, I wasn’t tired, but apart from having a good lunch at Yu’s house, I ate corn porridge and pickles when I went home at night. When they went to bed at night, they were a family of five squeezed into a big bunk. The snoring sound was loud all the time, and the stinky feet were also stinky. How can I sleep alone in a separate bed, covered with soft and fragrant new quilts like now.

  Speaking of the quilt, Sun Manxia felt that it was her father who was too stingy, moved to a new house, but they were not allowed to throw away the broken quilt on the way to escape from the wilderness, and asked them to pull a new quilt to save face and continue to use it.

  The cotton in the quilt was black and hard, even if it was replaced with a new quilt, it was uncomfortable and not warm.

Sun Manxi is fifteen years old this year. She is not as happy as Sun Manxia. Recently, her mother is also arranging marriages for her. Since she came to the border of Yuzhou not far away, any marriages she settled in Hewan town before are considered yellow. Find people again.

   It's just that Sun Manxi didn't want to marry, not because she missed the fiancé who was originally engaged, but because she overheard a sentence from Su Jingchen, which made her unforgettable for a long time.

That's right, when Yu Xiaolian was talking to Su Jingchen in Erjin Yard, she was actually there, but since she sneaked into Erjin Yard, she was afraid of being scolded by the Yu family, so when she saw someone coming in, she hid .

  She heard Su Jingchen express his affection for Yu Xiaolian, and also heard Yu Xiaolian say that he had no feelings for Su Jingchen for the time being.

  At that time, Sun Manxi's first thought was that Yu Xiaolian must be stupid to refuse Su Xiucai.

   While she was in shock, she heard Yu Xiaolian ask Su Jingchen, would she be angry if she was rejected?

  Sun Manxi felt that it was certain to be angry, after all, he was a scholar, so he didn't want to lose face?

   I'm afraid Su Xiucai and Yu Xiaolian won't even be friends in the future.

   In the end, she felt wrong again.

  Su Xiucai said, not angry!

  Sun Manxi felt that her world was a fantasy. Why was the question and answer different from what she imagined?

   Immediately afterwards, Sun Manxi didn't remember what Su Jingchen said, but she only remembered that Su Xiucai said that Yu Xiaolian deserved the best.

   Then for a long time, the words echoed in Sun Manxi's ears, you deserve the best...

  At that time, she didn't know where Yu Xiaolian was so good? She only felt that there was an inexplicable arrogance in Yu Xiaolian's body, but she was surprised when she found out that Yu Xiaolian was his wife. Knowing that she became a ninth-rank student officer, she was shocked.

  By the time Yu Xiaolian started to set up a workshop for hot pot bottom ingredients, Sun Manxi had already admired Yu Xiaolian from the bottom of his heart, and finally understood why Su Xiucai said that you deserve the best.

   She does deserve it.

  Since then, Sun Manxi has also secretly made up her mind that she also wants to become as good as Yu Xiaolian, and also wants to have such a handsome young man tell her that you are worth it.

  She knows it will not be easy, but she is willing to work hard for it.

   It's just that if she is married, then I'm afraid...

   No, she absolutely cannot marry so early.

   "It's the same wherever you work." Sun Manxi replied to Sun Manxia lightly.

  Whether they are working in the base material workshop or making rouge, they earn the same amount of money, and they have to give it to her grandfather. They don't get a penny.

   "Then how can it be the same?" Sun Manxia pouted, "How nice it is in the city, look at how harmonious this quilt is, and how nice this bed is with carved patterns..."

   "Okay, you go back to your room, I'm sleepy!" Sun Manxi interrupted her sister's chatter.

  Sun Manxia pouted and stood up, "Go back!"

  After Sun Manxia left, Sun Manxi lay on the bed, his eyes staring like copper bells, and he didn't feel sleepy at all.

  The next morning, Yu Xiaolian asked Zhao Erya to take the four girls from the Sun family and Gao Qiaoer to work in the backyard of Taotaoju.

  She took Mrs. Gao and Sun Mancang to Yintai Lane in the west of the city.

  Under the guidance of Mrs. Gao, they came to Lu Mansion smoothly.

  Grandma Gao knocked on the door.

  The other party opened the door. Hearing that it was Xueguan Yu who was visiting, he didn't pass on the information, so he invited them to the living room.

  Not long after Yu Xiaolian sat down, a maid came over to serve tea.

   Not long after, an old man over fifty years old hurried in.

  Grandma Gao whispered, "This is Master Feng!"

   "Oh... I'm really sorry to keep Senior Officer Yu waiting for so long." Master Feng is an old man who is nearly sixty years old, with gray hair and a long gray beard. He looks very kind.

  Yu Xiaolian stood up from the chair, "I heard that Master Feng wanted to see me by name?"

  Master Feng traveled thousands of miles from Pingcheng to seek refuge in not someone else's house, but his daughter's house.

   I want to ask how his daughter married so far from Pingcheng to Los Angeles?

  That would be a long story, but in a word, her little girl was as beautiful as a flower when she was young, and she was taken by Lu Maolin, the son-in-law of Dangzhi County in Pingcheng at that time, and then married Lu Maolin.

  Lv Maolin was transferred to Luocheng as the county magistrate by the imperial court within a few years of being the county magistrate in Pingcheng. Her little daughter, husband and wife, naturally followed her to Los Angeles.

  His son-in-law, Lu Maolin, is not an ordinary person, he is the concubine brother of Concubine Lu. Although Concubine Lu is old and out of favor, the intricate power of the Lu family is still there.

Feng Daquan didn't know until he came to Los Angeles that the vacant house opposite the door was the original house of Concubine Min Gui's natal family. He heard from the old housekeeper who showed the house to his son-in-law that when both families lived here, Concubine Min's natal family , was also very polite to Lu Maolin.

   Want to ask why? That is Concubine Min Gui, she did not give birth to a prince, so what if a concubine without a prince is favored? After all, like duckweed, there is no root, and you can't get angry.

   Concubine Lu Gui is different. Concubine Lu Gui has a very outstanding son—King Jin.

  Lv Maolin served as county magistrate in Los Angeles for another ten years. He was promoted the year before last and transferred to the capital to be a capital official. However, the yard he bought in Los Angeles was not sold.

  Although the drought in the Northland is severe, Pingcheng is not too bad, but Master Feng thinks this is a good opportunity for the whole family to seek refuge with a powerful son-in-law.

  After Mr. Feng sent a letter to his little girl, he brought his family and lived in the Lu Mansion in Luocheng.

  The reason why he was looking for Yu Xiaolian was because he had heard about Yu Xiaolian's fame and wanted Yu Xiaolian to be his daughter's wife.

  Last year, because Elder Fu Ge chose Yu Xiaolian's math problem as an additional question in the palace examination, Yu Xiaolian became famous all of a sudden.

  Among those who lined up to visit Yu's house, there were also people from their Feng family.

  But Yu Xiaolian was very arrogant, not only did not receive these visiting people, but also refused to accept gifts. Master Feng got frustrated and didn't go again.

  Now, after he heard that Gao Yishui's mother was sold by him, he went to work at Yu Xiaolian's house, thinking this was an opportunity.

  If Yu Xiaolian refuses to come to his house to be his wife, then Mrs. Gao won't be able to get her son's contract of prostitution.

  Yu Xiaolian frowned after hearing Master Feng's words. Is this threatening her?

   "Master Feng really thinks too highly of me. I only have some superficial views of my own in terms of arithmetic. As for etiquette, chess, calligraphy and painting, I don't know anything about it.

  You want me to train the young lady of your mansion to be a lady, Xiao Lian may not be able to bear the heavy responsibility! "

   When Yu Xiaolian was on the road, she heard Mrs. Gao talk about the situation of the Feng family, and knew that his son-in-law was Lu Guifei's concubine's younger brother and the uncle of King Jin.

  Thinking that the Feng family can be regarded as a backer, it is best not to offend.

  Yu Xiaolian even thought in her heart, if she really can't come out, forget it.

  She can't afford to offend Master Feng for the sake of a high school student.

  Feng Daquan only thought that Yu Xiaolian was speaking modestly, "Scholar Yu is too modest, I believe that as long as Xueguan Yu teaches with heart, my two granddaughters will be as good as Xueguan Yu in the future.

  I heard that your monthly salary in Shuren Academy is less than ten taels of silver? "

Yu Xiaolian nodded, but no, it's only seven taels of silver, and it was only raised recently. It used to be three taels, then five taels, and now seven taels. That's it. Dean Ying also said that she is the fastest in their academy for promotion and salary increase Master, there is no one.

   "I am willing to pay Xueguan Yu fifty taels of silver every month to teach my two granddaughters." Feng Daquan looked at Yu Xiaolian with piercing eyes.

   This is to hire a private tutor for my granddaughter, this old man is quite willing to pay.

  Fifty taels per month, and six hundred taels a year. This salary is really generous.

   It's just that when he first arrived in Los Angeles, this Master Feng laid off more than half of the family's servants in order to save money, and even sold Mrs. Gao, his mother and daughter. Why is he so generous now?

   Could it be that his rich son-in-law subsidized his money?

  Feng Daquan saw that Yu Xiaolian was silent, and his face was proud. How many masters can refuse this price?

   After a while, Yu Xiaolian said, "We have a Women's Virtue College in Los Angeles, why doesn't Master Feng send the two Miss Suns to study in the Women's Virtue College?"

  Feng Daquan laughed, "The two granddaughters of my family have already turned thirteen years old. When they were in Pingcheng, they had already received the graduation documents from the Women's College of Virtue."

  Yu Xiaolian was puzzled, "Since the two Miss Suns are already so good, why does Master Feng...

   You must know that no matter how good a woman is in math, she can't take the scientific test. Xiao Lian knows it, but it's actually just some useless skills. "

  Feng Daquan is very straightforward, "I want them to become as good as you."

   You know, since ancient times, women have always been accessories of men, they can come and go as they please, and concubines can be given away at will.

  Master Feng has great ambitions. He wants to train two of the best women, and then ask his son-in-law Lu Maolin to send them to Jinwang Mansion.

  Although his son-in-law is not the direct uncle of King Jin, Lu Maolin has a good relationship with Concubine Lu since he was a child. It is not difficult to send two women to his son's house through Concubine Lu.

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