Chapter 172 3/3

Jin Xiaoye had many things to do and couldn’t continue teaching the female workers from Miaoqian Village to read forever.

During this period, Li Qingzhi had her teach just to assess the situation and prepare suitable textbooks. He couldn’t just randomly create textbooks for the students without any experience.

However, Jin Xiaoye couldn’t keep teaching these girls forever, but she could encourage them to study at the school. They could even help teach and manage the new students.

Of course, it depended on whether they were willing and suitable.

Among the female workers from Miaoqian Village, there were a few who were not suitable for studying.

They found learning difficult and didn’t want to learn; they just wanted to do needlework to earn money… In this era, many people didn’t have the opportunity to receive education, and if they didn’t want to learn, Li Qingzhi wouldn’t force them.

But for especially clever students like Jin Mao’er… even if Jin Mao’er didn’t want to study at the school, Li Qingzhi would try his best to persuade her.

Jin Xiaoye said, “Okay! I really don’t have the time to teach them all the time. When we move out of here, I want to recruit more female workers and take on more work.”

The various small items made by Jin Xiaoye Embroidery Workshop and children’s clothes sold quite well. Next, Jin Xiaoye planned to expand into the ready-to-wear clothing industry and offer custom-made clothes for people.

In Chongcheng County, if a wealthy household hired servants, they would generally provide two sets of clothes per year.

Some families hired embroideresses to make clothes, but most of them hired people from outside. By taking on these jobs, Jin Xiaoye Embroidery Workshop could provide work for the female workers who were not skilled enough for fine needlework.

In addition, the ladies and young masters of wealthy households would make several sets of clothes every quarter… Jin Xiaoye Embroidery Workshop could also take on these jobs and let the skilled female workers in the workshop do them.

Previously, due to the small size of the local area, Jin Xiaoye couldn’t make a big move. Now that their family was moving out of the embroidery workshop, and some of the female workers were going to study at the school… she could recruit dozens more female workers!

Jin Xiaoye discussed her plans with Li Qingzhi.

Li Qingzhi highly agreed and even drew some Hanfu styles he remembered for Jin Xiaoye to try making in the future.

There were quite a variety of clothing styles worn by people in this era, and occasional trends would emerge. For example, last year, the young people in Chongcheng County followed those in the capital by making their sleeves narrower, but this year they started wearing wide-sleeved clothes again.

If Jin Xiaoye Embroidery Workshop produced some novel clothing styles, they might even lead the fashion trend.

What Li Qingzhi didn’t know was that, with the efforts of Shopkeeper Mu, Jin Xiaoye Embroidery Workshop had already begun to lead the trend in the capital.

The products of Jin Xiaoye Embroidery Workshop were rare, and Princess Liu loved to use them. Coupled with the recent popularity of Lu Qingxi… many officials in the court started using the products of Jin Xiaoye Embroidery Workshop sold in Shopkeeper Mu’s shop.

After these officials used them, merchants and ordinary people also began to follow suit. For a while, the stylish products produced by Jin Xiaoye Embroidery Workshop became popular among the people in the capital.

But Wu Baichuan’s embroideries from Jiangnan had long been sold out. Now, the embroideries sold outside by Shopkeeper Mu’s shop were all imitations she had someone make.

In the capital, Qian Fugui talked to Shen Zhilan about Jin Xiaoye Embroidery Workshop, “I heard that Jin Xiaoye Embroidery Workshop is from Jiang’an Province? The patterns of those embroideries are truly innovative.”

“Indeed, the products of Jin Xiaoye Embroidery Workshop are innovative, but there aren’t as many users in Jiang’an Province,” Shen Zhilan said, “Jin Xiaoye Embroidery Workshop’s fame in the capital is also due to luck. The workshop is located in a county town, and a local merchant always follows our Shen family’s business team to the capital. He brings the embroideries of Jin Xiaoye Embroidery Workshop to the capital, where they catch the eye of Shopkeeper Mu. That’s how Jin Xiaoye Embroidery Workshop became famous in the capital.”

“That Shopkeeper Mu seems quite capable,” Qian Fugui said.

He had heard of Shopkeeper Mu but had never met him.

King Yan had always warned him to be careful. The time he had spent in the capital before didn’t add up to as much as this time.

And this time… if he hadn’t told King Yan about his increasing contact with Shen Zhilan, maybe he could have persuaded Shen Zhilan to join King Yan, and King Yan wouldn’t have allowed him to stay in the capital.

“Indeed, Shopkeeper Mu has made quite a bit of money for Lord Lu,” Shen Zhilan said.

Hearing this, Qian Fugui felt a slight envy.

Whether it was the Shen family or Shopkeeper Mu, they lived lavishly, unlike him, who had been hiding for years.

But there was no fun in living a flamboyant life… and he didn’t even have any descendants!

If only he could find his niece. His niece had given birth to a daughter before, and it was said that she was taken away by his niece…

That child should be grown up by now? She could easily become his granddaughter!

Qian Fugui arranged the time to go south with Shen Zhilan and gave Zhou Dao’s authentic work to Mrs. Shen before leaving.

Shen Zhilan wanted to spend the New Year in Jiang’an Province, so they would set off from the capital on the tenth day of the twelfth month.

This year, he might have to spend the New Year in Jiang’an Province!