Su Mingyu nodded in confusion. "Shall we find a doctor?"
Su Yueyue held her head. "No need. I'm just feeling a bit under the weather. I'll go and rest first."
Su Mingyu replied, "Okay. Take your time, sister."
Watching Su Yueyue's departing back, Su Mingyu curled the corners of her lips.
Wang Manwen was a suspicious person. If she knew that Su Yueyue had settled the deal with Sinnan on her first visit, she would surely be reluctant to pay the silver.
So she had deliberately given Su Yueyue a warning. But unexpectedly, Su Yueyue had been so angry that her true nature was exposed.
Su Mingyu had thought that with Su Yueyue's arrogant temper, she wouldn't come to her for a while. But unexpectedly, early the next morning, Su Mingyu received an invitation to meet from Su Yueyue through Xia Mian.
Xia Mian asked worriedly, "Miss Su, isn't it dangerous for you to go like this?"
After all, Su Yueyue already knew that Sinnan Pavilion didn't have the powerful backer as rumored, and it was also in great need of silver.
So Xia Mian was really worried that Su Yueyue might do something cruel to Su Mingyu.
Su Mingyu burned the letter and raised her eyebrows with a smile. "Who said I'm going?"
Then she buried her head in the ledger. As she read, her brows furrowed.
Previously, she had thought that to ensure the quality, she must have everything under the control of people she trusted.
But this had brought limitations. Every time she opened a new branch, she had to invest a large amount of silver.
She hadn't thought about this problem before setting a trap for Su Yueyue. Now she suddenly realized why she couldn't use the 21st - century method of expanding through local outsourcing here?
Su Mingyu had thought about the franchise model, but the transportation in this era wasn't so developed. It would take at least ten days or half a month to transport goods from the capital to the south.
But considering the changing speed of clothing styles, the clothes would be out - of - date in ten days or half a month, and it would also increase a lot of transportation costs.
But if she outsourced the production to local people who were interested in making clothes of her brand and let them open clothing factories in their own areas.
She only needed to provide the drawings and sample clothes for each new collection, and then she could earn silver easily and happily.
In fact, Su Mingyu didn't even need to go out. Anyone who wanted to make clothes of her brand had to send people to learn from her.
It was like sitting at home and having money fall from the sky!
Su Mingyu curled the corners of her lips, in an unexpectedly good mood.
Xia Mian watched Su Mingyu being in a daze and then looking happy. Her eyelids twitched. "Miss Su... What's wrong with you?"
Su Mingyu gave a mysterious smile. "Xia Mian, I've thought of a good way to expand our Sinnan Pavilion stores, and we don't need to invest our own silver."
"That's really great," Xia Mian said with a smile on her lips. "Miss Su has been checking the accounts frequently recently to think about opening new branches, right?"
Looking at Xia Mian's smile, Su Mingyu asked in confusion, "Aren't you going to make fun of me for saying we can open branches without spending silver?"
"Make fun of you?" Xia Mian was a bit confused, but she could roughly guess what Su Mingyu meant.
Smiling, Xia Mian's eyes were full of respect. "If someone else said this, I might think she was daydreaming. But when Miss Su says it, I have no doubt at all."
Su Mingyu didn't expect that the woman she had accidentally saved would trust her so much.
She felt warm in her heart. "Thank you. It may take some time to deal with Su Yueyue's matter. I'll have to trouble you these days."
Xia Mian shook her head. "I don't feel troubled at all. I always learn a lot from Miss Su. So Xia Mian is willing to follow Miss Su forever."
"Follow?" Su Mingyu said with a half - smile. "You're not my servant. We're friends."
As soon as Su Mingyu said the word "friends", Xia Mian's eyes turned red.
She was originally a low - class prostitute and was later ostracized by the brothel people because of her disfigurement. She had thought that Su Mingyu just wanted to use her to look after the store.
But unexpectedly, Su Mingyu not only taught her all the ways and techniques of drawing but also trusted her enough to hand over the whole operation of Sinnan Pavilion to her.
Now she even said that she was her friend.
Xia Mian's nose turned sour, and tears fell one after another.
Su Mingyu didn't expect her to cry. After a slight hesitation, she comforted her in a rather stiff tone, "Don't be too touched..."
Hearing this, Xia Mian couldn't help laughing. "Miss Su, you must have rarely comforted people before, right?"
Su Mingyu touched her nose. In her previous life, she was a cold - blooded agent. How could she comfort people?
But after traveling through time, she had met Zhizhu, who loved to cry at the slightest thing.
It always made her feel at a loss for words when comforting Zhizhu, but fortunately, she could comfort the girl.
Now that Xia Mian had exposed her, Su Mingyu twitched the corners of her lips awkwardly. "I'm really not good at it..."
Xia Mian covered her lips. "So you also have things you're not good at."
Su Mingyu frowned pretending to be angry. "What's wrong? I'm also human. Everyone has their shortcomings."
Hearing her forced defense, Xia Mian couldn't stop laughing.
For a moment, the small accounting room was filled with her silver - bell - like laughter, as if the people inside were extremely happy.
When Su Mingyu left Sinnan Pavilion this time, she didn't bring any clothes. So when the maids saw her coming back empty - handed, they were a bit disappointed.
Su Mingyu noticed it but said nothing. Just as she was walking through the corridor of the main hall and about to return to her courtyard, Su Yueyue called out to her, "Sister."
"Yue'er?" Su Mingyu asked in confusion. "You're calling me?"
Su Yueyue quickly nodded. "Sister, why didn't you bring any clothes back today?"
Su Mingyu sighed helplessly and showed a bit of regret. "The shopkeeper seemed a bit unhappy that I was reluctant to open a branch with her."
"Moreover..." Su Mingyu frowned. "I heard that not long ago, a very wealthy young lady approached her."
"She said she wanted to cooperate with her. Although the shopkeeper didn't agree, judging from her thoughtful look, she's probably already made up her mind."
Hearing this, a smile appeared on Su Yueyue's face. "Really?"
Su Mingyu touched her nose. "I'm not very sure about this. After all, I've already said I won't cooperate. It would be inappropriate for me to keep asking her."
A look of triumph flashed across Su Yueyue's eyes. That damned Sinnan had pretended in front of her before, making her wait the whole day in vain.
Unexpectedly, she was the one who was the most eager.
After separating from Su Mingyu, Su Yueyue immediately called Xiaocui.