Mu Yunyao and Lady Jin boarded the same carriage and went on their way to the Provincial Governor's residence. By the time they reached, there were already many guests chatting with each other.
(T/Nonsense: Oh my gosh I seriously dislike typing the provincial governor wife/ residence over and over again why did I even type this I just did it again ughghghhgjjsjdj)
The moment the two of them stepped into the residence, the Provincial Governor's wife's personal handmaids escorted them to the main hall.
Mu Yunyao did her greetings. When she got up, she gave a quick glance at the Provincial Governor's wife. She was wearing the clothes that Mu Yunyao had made. Her green clothing was accompanied with carefully picked accessories and good makeup. She looked especially graceful and noble.
"You must be the girl that Lady Jin praises from time to time?"
Mu Yunyao bowed again. "This commoner girl Mu Yunyao, greets Lady."
Seeing that her manners were perfect, the Provincial Governor's wife was very satisfied. "No wonder Lady Jin really likes you so much, you are indeed a bright girl. I really do like the dress that you have made me. I might have to trouble you further."
Mu Yunyao's face had the appropriate amount of shock and fright, "Oh, your requests are not troublesome at all! I have also yet to thank you for the reward."
"It is something that you have earned. As long as the clothes you made are good, there will be much more of that reward to come."
"Yes, Lady." Mu Yunyao was naturally aware that she was in a very good situation. These Ladies are willing to spend a lot on their clothes and accessories. Every year, they would even spend a few thousand silvers or more. If it were not for this, Mu Yunyao would not have chosen to make clothes to earn money.
When she saw that the Provincial Governor's wife had pulled Lady Jin over to her to talk, Mu Yunyao knew that it was her cue to leave. She followed the handmaids to the furthest seat of the banquet. Mu Yunyao was also wearing simple clothing and was a foreign face to the other Ladies, thus no one bothered to talk to her.
Mu Yunyao sat at her seat and tasted the delicate treats and smelled the herbs. She was a little bored.
Since this was a flower banquet, there would obviously be many different types of flowers and petals around. The two most beautiful flowers were orchids; one was purple and the other was yellow. Everyone crowded around them.
Mu Yunyao quietly watched on. She was thinking, what if she used these two flower designs to make clothes for her Mother? Mother was a natural beauty, if she wore dresses with these designs, she would definitely stand out a lot more. All of these women would be no match!
Now that she thought about it, Su Qing really did not look like she was born from the Su family at all. She was elegant and beautiful. Even when she was living in the wild countryside, she still had a unique air to her. The Su family's women were more on the seductive side. Especially their eyes, they were all slightly slanted up, thus increasing their seductive air.
The banquet had officially started. Everyone was happily chatting with each other. The atmosphere was especially harmonious. Mu Yunyao came back from la-la land and used this opportunity to study the Ladies and the Little Misses. After all, from today onwards, her main source of revenue would be these girls. She had to do her best to memorise their looks and aura so as to make clothes that would best fit them and thus earn more silver!
Somewhere in the middle of the banquet, Lady Jin said something, causing the majority of the women present to look at Mu Yunyao. Fortunately, Mu Yunyao was not really a little girl, otherwise she would have been frightened out of her wits' end.
When the banquet ended, the Provincial Governor's wife pulled Lady Jin out to somewhere else to talk, so Mu Yunyao went to stand by the entrance. Not long later, a few servants went up to ask her, "Are you Miss Mu?"
"Yes, is there anything I can do for Sister?"
"Our Lady wants to buy some of that rose cream that you had given to Lady Jin. Could you tell me the price?"
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"The rose cream is something that I had invented myself. Since it requires meticulous effort and many, many rose petals, I did not make that much. I have already run out of it, so I must apologise to Sister," Mu Yunyao had to reject her with an embarrassed expression.
The servants furrowed their eyebrows and did not say anything else. They turned away and went to their respective carriages.
When Lady Jin came out, she saw Mu Yunyao's worried look. "What happened?"
"Lady, there were a few servants who wanted to buy some rose cream from me, but I had already run out of it. Would they be angry?"
Seeing her anxious expression, Lady Jin secretly chuckled. In the end, Mu Yunyao was still a child, coming to such an event still got to her. "No worries, you can still make a few more. When the next banquet arrives, you can still give it to them. Actually, this was all my fault. Someone in the banquet had asked me about it and so I mentioned your name. Who knew that the news had spread to this extent in such a short amount of time."
"Making the rose cream is a really tedious process. I have to concentrate on making dresses so I really do not have the time to make the cream. Yunyao wants to make a presumptuous request, I hope that Lady agrees to it."
"Hm?"
"Yunyao wants to give Lady the recipe for making the rose cream."
Lady Jin looked at her, her eyes were filled with complicated feelings. "Auspicious Treasure Pavilion's highest quality cream is worth ten gold for each bottle. But your rose cream is something that it cannot even compare to. It can be said that as long as you have the recipe to make it, it will be equivalent to you owning a gold mountain."
Mu Yunyao's expression did not change. "Lady has always been the one to take care of me. If this recipe is worth as much as you said, then treat it as my thanks for all the care Lady has given to me."
Lady Jin's eyes brightened up, "Alright, in the future, if you meet any problems, just come to me. In Jingling City, my words hold some power."
A rose cream recipe in exchange for Lady Jin's promise was very worth it. Mu Yunyao happily said, "Thank you, Lady."
She went to the Cao residence with Lady Jin and wrote out the recipe. Then, she returned home.
Lady Jin held the recipe and smiled, a light flashed through her eyes. Mu Yunyao had always said that meeting Lady Jin was basically opening the door to a bright future. But to Lady Jin, meeting Mu Yunyao was also a very good thing. This recipe would be very useful to her.
When Mu Yunyao arrived home, she saw Su Qing waiting anxiously by the door. Seeing that she had arrived home safely, Su Qing let out a relieved sigh. "Yao Er, are you alright?"
Mu Yunyao giggled, "Mother, I went to a flower banquet, not a battlefield. What ever could happen to me?"
"I've heard that these big residences are always more cruel than the battlefield."
"Haha, I will punish the person who said these nonsense to Mother." Those ten girls had already been here for quite some time. Su Qing had already became closer to them, so they would definitely talk.
"Alright, alright, it's good that you are fine."
Seeing that Su Qing was still worried, Mu Yunyao told her everything that had happened. Also, just for the sake of making things more interesting, she also mentioned someone and someone looked harmoniously but actually hated each other, someone had secretly created a trap for another someone, even more someones were also hurting other someones with their words, causing Su Qing to gasp in shock.
"Mother does not have to worry, I have already gotten Lady Jin's promise that if I were to meet other problems in Jingling City, I can always just find her."
Su Qing was ecstatic, "Lady Jin is the main wife of Cao Zhizhou, if she has agreed to help you, then that is very good. But she wouldn't have given you this promise out of the blue, would she?"
Leaving the simple environment of that small village opened Su Qing's eyes to how complicated human relations can be. Every sentence had a hidden meaning that she could learn from. Normal people would not help others if there was no profit, not to mention Cao Zhizhou's main wife. If she had not gotten anything in exchange, she would not have made that promise to a mere commoner girl.
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