Daming female local tyrant

Shen Wan looked at Hu Quan in front of her, the same appearance as her previous life, only younger than her previous life.

It's no wonder that she met Hu Quan several years earlier in this life.

The same thing is that Hu Quan is still extremely noble, and he is still enthusiastic about her, even better than in his previous life.

He always kept a word on his lips, that is, Shen Wan was his sister's savior, and whenever Shen Wan needed any help, just ask.

Now that Hu Quan said this, Shen Wan was not polite, and she said what she wanted.

First, she said that she opened a new weaving workshop and wanted to get some palace work from Hu Quan.

Second, when her brother was riding in a carriage, someone deliberately released a black cat to frighten the horses, so that her brother's carriage overturned and her brother was seriously injured.She wanted to ask Hu Quan for help, and let a part of Tiqi under his control help find out who caused her brother to be injured.

After Hu Quan finished listening, he asked her if she only needed to help her with these two favors.

Shen Wan said yes.

Hu Quan didn't hesitate, and quickly agreed to help Shen Wan with these two favors.

He asked Shen Wan how many looms there were in the weaving workshop, and Shen Wan said there were two hundred. Hu Quan gave Shen Wan a list according to the number of these looms, which stated how much satin Jinling Weaving Yamen needed before the year. As well as the patterns of these satins, and the silver taels that will be paid for recycling these satins, and then printed on them.

Hu Quan gave this list to Shen Wan. Shen Wan saw that the amount of tribute satin written on it was enough for the craftsmen in her weaving workshop to work for half a year. Then she looked at the money paid by the court for each piece of tribute satin and made a rough calculation. , She has already calculated that by the end of the year, she will have more than 1 taels of silver in the account.

In fact, making money in the weaving workshop is secondary, the most important thing is to take over the court's satin weaving, which can bring fame to the silk factory and silk shop under her name, and even the silk business of the Shen family will be well-off.

The big silk merchants in Jinling were even willing to take the work of Jinling weaving yamen instead of making money.

But even so, Hu Quan, the eunuch who supervised Jinling weaving, did not nod and let others do the work in his hand casually.

Those who get jobs from him must be people who have personal relationships with him.

In Jinling City, there used to be only Lu Shiyun, the patriarch of the Lu family, but now there is Shen Wan.

Hu Quan has always been obsessed with collecting antique calligraphy and paintings. Lu Shiyun, the head of the Lu family, also has the same interest. When Hu Quan was still in the palace and was not sent to Jinling to work as a weaving eunuch, he was out of the palace once to handle errands.Passing by an antique shop, I stopped in to see if there was any good stuff, and then met Lu Shiyun who was in Shangjing on business.Both of them fell in love with a pair of Tianmu kiln tea bowls and wanted to buy them.

The owner of the antique shop said that Lu Shiyun asked for the price first, and the one who asks first gets the price.

The implication is to ask Hu Quan not to argue.

Hu Quan was not a bullying eunuch. When the shop owner said so, he had no choice but to give up and watch Lu Shiyun buy it.

After Lu Shiyun bought it, seeing that he was eagerly refusing to leave, he was generous for a while, saying that since he was a homosexual, he would give Hu Quan a Tianmu kiln tea bowl.

Hu Quan was very happy when he heard that, because he had been looking for this Tianmu kiln tea bowl for a long time, and he really wanted to have one.

He took the Tianmu kiln tea bowl that Lu Shiyun gave him, and thus met Lu Shiyun and made friends.

A few years later, Emperor Jiajing collapsed, and the new emperor succeeded him, sending Hu Quan to Jinling as Jinling weaving eunuch.

Of course Hu Quan had to take care of his old friend Xia Lu Shiyun, so he gave most of the work of weaving tribute satin for the imperial court to Lu's weaving workshop.

Now that Shen Wan came, he gave half of the work that he had done to the Lu family to Shen Wan, his sister's savior.

Hu Quan didn't think that he had reduced the work for the Lu family. If there was anything he owed the Lu family, it should be said that the Lu family owed him too much.

Since he was the admiral of Jinling weaving, in the past three years, because the Lu family has contracted the work of weaving tribute satin for the imperial court, the silk and satin business of the Lu family has been booming, and it is almost catching up with the Shen family, the first family in Jinling whose main business is silk and satin trading.

As for the second favor that Shen Wan asked him to do, he could also help.

The emperor sent trusted eunuchs to the south of the Yangtze River to supervise the weaving. In addition to weaving tribute satin for the imperial court on the surface, they also secretly asked them to supervise local officials and spy on various local news.They have a group of people under them. These people are secret spies, known as Tiqi, who belong to Jinyiwei. If they spy any news, they will report it to Hu Quan, the Jinling weaving eunuch.Hu Quan can also mobilize them to investigate some things.

Hu Quan asked Shen Wan to explain in detail what day, time and place her younger brother happened, what kind of person who threw the black cat when the boy who was following the car saw the person throwing the black cat, etc. .

Shen Wan recalled carefully and told what she knew one by one.

Hu Quan wrote down everything Shen Wan said, and finally he said that he would send her capable people to investigate the matter.

Shen Wan asked when it would be found out, but Hu Quan could not tell within ten days, since those under him were not vegetarians.

After hearing this, Shen Wan seemed to have taken a reassurance. She thanked Hu Quan, said a few more gossips, and left to go back to Shen's house.

If it weren't for the maids sent by two old ladies, Qiuyun and Qiuwen, to follow Shen Wan, she really wanted to go to Lu's house to see Jinglan.It's only been a few hours since Jing Lan left her, and she's already so worried about her.

She asked the servant to drive through Pipa Street, where Lu's family was located, and lifted the curtain of the car. She saw the houses and pavilions on the side of the long Pipa Street, and couldn't help wondering where Jing Lan was at the moment.

When Shen Wan's carriage passed Pipa Street, Jing Lan was following her stepmother Qi to the Xiulou behind Tongchun Hall.

At that time, Qi's biological daughter, Shu Lan, hadn't returned from the Lu family school.

The family school of the Lu family is located on the east road of the Lu family mansion, and it is divided into two parts, one part is for the sons and young masters of the family to go to school, and the other part is for the young ladies of the family to go to school and learn female celebrities.

The ethnology for young masters and young masters is more than three or four times larger than the place where young ladies go to school. The teacher hired is an old gentleman who was a Jinshi before, was released as a county magistrate, and then became an official. He is also a well-educated person.

The one who taught Miss Lu's family was an old man who had only been a scholar, because the young ladies of Lu's family only read to know a few words, and some basic common sense is enough.

The men's school and the women's school are separated by a narrow passage, which is divided into two parts. In addition to the high wall, it is impossible for the male students and female students on both sides to meet each other.

Usually going to school, male students and female students take different paths, which makes it impossible for them to meet each other.

Lu Shulan and other unmarried ladies in each house of the Lu family got up in the morning, followed their mothers to greet the elders, and after breakfast, they were accompanied by the maids to go to the home school.

After reading for an hour in the morning, when it was time to eat at noon, meals would be brought to them in the kitchen.They ate in a room in the home school that was used as a dining room, and took a short rest, and then the female master who was hired by the Lu family and was very good at needlework came.

They will learn embroidery from the female master for half an hour, and then do needlework for about an hour according to the female master's requirements. After being inspected by the female master, they can pack up and go back to the house.

At this time, it was probably the end of Shen Shi, that is, four or five o'clock in the afternoon.

It can be said that among the big families in Jinling, there are very few that have such strict education for their young ladies as the Lu family.Even with such strict requirements on the ladies, the requirements on the young masters are even higher.They basically get up at dawn, and arrive at the school at [-]:[-] a.m. (after [-] o'clock) to start a day's study, and then go back after school.After returning home, I have to write the calligraphy of the articles arranged by the old man. Often after dinner, it takes an hour of work to complete the day's studies, and then I wash up and rest.After a whole year, the days they can play and rest add up to less than a month.

The Lu family also experienced this change after Lu Shiyun took charge of the family seven years ago. Before him, when Mr. Lu was in charge of the family, the Lu family did not have such strict education for the children of the family.

The benefits of being so strict are obvious. The Lu family produced Lu Chengze, a young juren rarely seen in Jinling in recent decades.

The entire Lu family was proud of having produced such a seed for reading.

Many people said that it seems that the Lu family will be the first in Jinling in the near future.

At this moment, there was still more than an hour before Lu Shulan left the Lu family's girls' school. After Qi took Jing Lan and the others there, she called many maids to help clean up the second floor of the embroidery building.

Qi asked someone to open the warehouse again, and compared the furniture on the ground floor, moved the furniture up.

As for the curtain decorations, etc., the selection is similar to that of the bottom.

In the end, the dowry and clothes belonging to Lu Shulan were packed and carried up by the maid in her room, and then taken out and put in the cabinet.

After the ground floor was vacated, Qi asked Jing Lan how she wanted to decorate the house, so that she could ask someone to bring various ornaments from the warehouse to decorate the ground floor.

Jing Lan didn't like those pretty red and yellow curtains on the ground floor, so she said, "Just change these."

Qi asked her what color she liked.

Jing Lan thought for a while and said, "Light green and bean green look refreshing, so I'll replace them with these two colors."

After hearing this, Mrs. Qi immediately asked someone to go to the storeroom to exchange for curtain and window screens of this color.

She didn't forget what Feng said, saying that she would come to see Jinglan in person, if she came to see that the ground floor was still the same as when Shulan lived before, she must have something to say.

There were quite a few maids and women brought by Qi to help Jinglan clean up the house, at least a dozen or twenty, and everyone worked together, and quickly cleaned up the ground floor according to Jinglan's wishes.

The brocade quilts and pillows on the bed, the porcelain tea bowls on the table, the screen tables and chairs in the bedroom, and the vases and gold jade objects are all new.

Finally, Qi asked Jing Lan if he was satisfied.

Jing Lan looked around, thanked Qi Shi with a nod and a smile, and said: "Mother arranged very well, and everything is in line with my wishes."

At this time, Yuan's mother and son, who had finished talking in the Tongchun Hall in front, also came over. They walked in to see the new house that Qi had packed up for Jinglan, and they all nodded in agreement.

While talking, someone from behind angrily said: "What are you doing? Why did I go to home school for a day, and after I came back, my house became like this?"