On Su Mingyu's side, she was busy making patterns, recruiting staff, and providing training for her clothing shop.
Su Yueyue somehow heard of a folk remedy saying that she should avoid any food with color. So she stubbornly ate steamed buns for almost half a month.
Although her wound finally got better, Su Yueyue became sallow - faced and emaciated, looking like a country girl. She dared not go out for a long time.
When Zhizhu told Su Mingyu about this, she still looked full of regret: "It's a pity for our seafood. Who would have thought that she accidentally cracked the problem."
Regarding this, Su Mingyu didn't really care. She must have suffered enough during this period.
"By the way," she said, looking sideways at Zhizhu. "Anything special happen in our mansion while I was busy?"
"Special?"
Zhizhu frowned and thought carefully. "There have been rats in the kitchen recently. Does that count as special?"
The kitchen?
Su Mingyu pursed her lips. "How long has this been going on?"
Zhizhu tilted her head and recalled. "It's only been a few days. But it's really strange. Those rats seem to be quite smart and are very hard to catch."
"I see."
Zhizhu nodded, half - understanding.
She didn't know why, but she always felt that her young lady was very different from before.
She could always plan ahead. Most importantly, they hadn't been bullied by Su Yueyue and Wang Manwen for a long time.
This must be because the young lady had become stronger!
Su Mingyu successfully opened her shop when spring was in full bloom.
Her clothing store, "Sinan Pavilion", mainly sold ready - made clothes of fixed sizes. Since they were mass - produced, the prices were naturally lower than those of ordinary shops.
Coupled with her avant - garde designs and the bold move of inviting all the top courtesans in the capital as models, her shop was soon surrounded by a huge crowd.
Gu Ruobai watched this bustling scene, took a sip of his tea, and couldn't help raising his eyebrows.
"I didn't expect you to be so creative. You actually thought of using courtesans to create a stir."
Su Mingyu watched the people coming and going at the door and squinted her eyes. "Why shouldn't I take advantage of such a good thing with built - in popularity?"
Seeing her so proud, Gu Ruobai had the urge to tease her. "Since that's the case, why are you sitting in the inn across the street instead of going over to promote your business? Wouldn't your business be even better then?"
Su Mingyu rolled her eyes. "My identity is so sensitive."
"If I went there, this shop would become the property of the Su family within a day."
After taking a sip of tea, Su Mingyu said in a bad mood, "Moreover... there's Wang Manwen in my family. Her family is the leader among cloth merchants. If she knew I was buying cloth from her family, she'd surely raise the price sky - high!"
Gu Ruobai didn't expect this young girl Su Mingyu to be so perceptive. "You're really adaptable."
When he first heard that Su Mingyu was going to open a clothing shop, he wondered if this girl would be so stubborn as to give up the business once she knew that Wang Manwen had basically monopolized the cloth market in the capital.
Unexpectedly, this girl had given him another surprise.
Su Mingyu shrugged indifferently. "Not only did I buy goods from her family, but I also got the lowest price."
"Don't even mention that Wang Manwen isn't really my enemy. Even if she were, so what? A fool doesn't take advantage when it's there. Why should I turn down money?"
Wasn't all her hard work for the sake of money?
Although Su Mingyu wasn't very familiar with the affairs of this era, she deeply understood the principle that one couldn't get anywhere without money.
In any world, one needed enough money to have the motivation to fight against unfairness.
Opening the clothing shop was just the first step. What she was going to do next would be really a big move!
Seeing that the shopkeeper she had trained was starting to resemble the salespeople in a certain store in the 21st century, Su Mingyu felt very gratified.
Gu Ruobai glanced at the bustling shopkeeper and the other clerks in the store. "It seems that you'll be able to pay back my three hundred taels of silver soon."
Su Mingyu nodded and gave a sly smile. "However, I don't plan to pay you back so soon. Let me use the money for a while for business turnover."
Only Su Mingyu could say such a thing. If it were someone else, Gu Ruobai probably wouldn't let that person live another second.
After sitting and watching for a while, Su Mingyu suddenly stretched out her hand towards Gu Ruobai. "You came to congratulate me on the opening of my new shop. Where's my gift?"
Gu Ruobai was taken aback. "Gift?"
Su Mingyu frowned slightly. "Don't you, a noble prince, even know such a basic thing as bringing a gift when congratulating someone?"
Gu Ruobai's mouth twitched. He took back his previous thought.
He really wanted to strangle this girl right now.
The veins on his forehead were throbbing wildly, but Gu Ruobai forced himself to keep his composure. "The money you used to open this shop was borrowed from me, and you still have the nerve to ask me for a gift?"
Su Mingyu nodded and smiled. "I know, but it doesn't conflict, does it?"
"No! The fact that I've come here is already a great blessing for you. You still want a gift?"
She was probably the only one who would openly ask him for a gift.
Su Mingyu pouted and glanced at him. "Tsk! An out - of - favor prince really thinks highly of himself?"
Gu Ruobai clenched his fist, staring at Su Mingyu with a fake smile.
"Do you know that for this single sentence, I could behead you ten times?"
Su Mingyu rolled her eyes. "Come on, we both know each other well. We still have to cooperate, so you won't be willing to behead me."
Seeing that she couldn't get any benefits, she stood up. "This is so boring. A noble prince can't even afford a gift."
"Since that's the case, there's nothing else to talk about. I have something to do and I'll leave first. Prince Ruixian, you can keep watching here."
After saying that, Su Mingyu turned around and was about to leave.
But before she could take a step, her wrist was grabbed by a strong hand.
The warmth from that hand shot up from her wrist, making Su Mingyu almost shake it off.
She looked back suspiciously and met Gu Ruobai's cold and deep pupils.
His dark eyes seemed to be covered by thick black fog, making it impossible to see his true emotions. Only the thick ink - like mist was floating, giving people the illusion of being trapped and unable to escape.