After the separation, the family had a lot of fish and meat every day, and the best was furious

Chapter 343 Flower Appreciation Banquet 1

The workshop has only been open for about a year, but the workshop building is not newly built, so even if it is sold, it will not fetch much money.

The most expensive foundation was four hundred taels, plus the workshop and the depreciated tools, it was only worth nine hundred taels at most. The remaining eighty taels were the hard-earned money that Lin Ting had earned for purchasing things.

Looking at the numbers he had calculated, Liu Ruishi was shocked. Lin Ting didn't use beads just now. How did she calculate all this?

His mental arithmetic is so fast. If Liu's Bank had such a talent, one person would be worth ten.

"Boss Liu, have you made your decision? This price is the best I can offer you. If you agree, we can sign the contract."

It is difficult to sell such a large workshop. The Liu family will lose any income if they keep it here. It is better to sell it directly to Lin Ting, at least to reduce his losses.

"Mrs. Lin is truly a genius at business. I, Liu, am humbled by your kindness. Nine hundred and eighty taels, that's it."

The two signed the contract and went to Liu's Money House, handing over the silver in one hand and the land deeds and house deeds in the other. From then on, this workshop belonged to Lin Ting and Lin Lin.

"Xiao Man, I remember you said that before you were bought to live with me, you were trained, including dressmaking and embroidery, right?"

Xiaoman and Bailu have pretty faces and tall figures, with a cool and aloof appearance. The human traffickers raised them to be like this not only to make them maids, but also to prepare them as concubines for the masters of the family.

Therefore, both the lady and the male owner of the house are willing to spend a lot of money to buy such a maid.

"Yes! But don't worry, Madam. We know our identities and won't do anything that crosses the line."

When Lin Ting asked this, Bailu and Xiaoman felt uneasy, for they were afraid that Lin Ting would know that in addition to having some skills, they had also been trained on how to be a concubine and the basic skills of being a concubine.

"Trust your employees, don't be nervous."

Lin Ting planned to let Xiaoman help manage the garment workshop first, find someone to clean and tidy up, and repair it.

Finally, she has to find an embroiderer. There are about 800 workstations here. When she gets an order later, she will look for other processing workshops.

Xiaoman and Bailu had followed her for almost two months and had witnessed many of her major business scenes. Lin Ting taught them everything they needed to know.

"Thank you, madam!"

Lin Ting took the two of them to look over the workshop again, and handed over the repairs and preparations that needed to be made to Xiaoman.

"I understand, ma'am, but what should this workshop be called?"

Lin Ting and Lin Lin had discussed this before. Since it was a two-person workshop, they decided to use the homophonic sound of their names.

“It’s called listening, listening to everything, listening in a prosperous era.”

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The workshop affairs were handed over to Xiaoman, and the flower viewing banquet at Zhang Mansion was also coming. Lin Ting asked Bailu to prepare a light blue dress for her.

"Madam, when we go to the Zhang residence today, is this outfit too plain for you to wear?"

To put it nicely, a flower-viewing banquet is an elegant one, but later, due to the transformation of women in Beijing, this kind of banquet became nothing more than a place for comparison.

"That's fine. Today I'm just going to be a supporting role. No need for any fancy stuff."

The flower viewing banquet is not only attended by women, but also by some noblemen in the capital, who would come to appreciate the flowers, write poems, and be elegant.

But there are also young men and women who go out to look for themselves, hoping that they can meet their ideal husband.

"Madam, the carriage is ready, let's go!"

When around Lin Ting, Bailu and Xiaoman don't have to call themselves slaves. Madam said that they are also complete people and are not born to serve others.

Now that they are staying with the lady, they just treat this as their job, and the lady will also give them a monthly salary.

He even said that if the two of them behaved well in the future, he would give them freedom, they would no longer be slaves and would be free to marry.

With such a good lady, how could Bai Lu not follow her wholeheartedly?

But if we go to a place like Zhang Mansion today, we are afraid that someone will bully their lady. It would be better if Miss Han could go with us.

"Madam, the Zhang Mansion has such a large flower viewing banquet, I wonder if Miss Han will go?"

Thinking of Han Yian, she hated this kind of banquet full of beautiful women the most and probably wouldn't go. But since Bai Lu mentioned Han Yian, she must be worried that she would be bullied.

"Yian probably won't go. Let's just treat it as a feast and come out when we're full."

Bai Lu was helpless, her wife always had such a good attitude.

The carriage stopped outside the gate of Zhang's mansion. Lin Ting looked at the carriage and saw Han Yian standing outside the gate of Zhang's mansion with his hands on his hips and wearing jewelry.

Seeing Lin Ting coming down, Han Yian walked towards Lin Ting with his fists clenched as usual.

"Lin Ting, you're finally here. You don't even know how many people are laughing at me when I'm standing here waiting for you dressed like this."

The flower viewing banquet at the Zhang Mansion invited almost all the noble ladies in the capital, as well as some wives and young men.

Han Yian is the only daughter of General Han. Her family is important to her. Even though she is famous in the capital for her rude behavior, her family background cannot withstand her influence.

"Yian, why are you here? I thought you wouldn't come?"

Han Yian disdained to come to such a place, but she heard that the Zhang Mansion had invited Lin Ting, and that when Shen Qingzhou passed the imperial examination, the Seventh Prince sent the top scholar wine over.

The Zhang family is the Seventh Prince's in-laws, and she also heard that the Seventh Prince will be here today.

Inviting Lin Ting to this grand flower-viewing banquet showed from all the signs that they were determined to take advantage of Lin Ting.

Lin Ting is Han Yian's friend. How could she not come when she would go through fire and water for her friend?

"How can I not come? Can't you see that they dragged you into this trap just to eat you up?"

Lin Ting knew it of course, but if she dodged directly, there would be only two results, either immediate death or slow death.

She is not stupid, so she naturally knows that every day she can wait is a day's time.

"Will they let me go if I don't come here?"

Han Yian choked. It seems that he doesn't know this either.

"Forget it, forget it. Just stay with me today and I will protect you."

Lin Ting smiled with relief: "Then thank you in advance."

The two of them entered the Zhang Mansion with the invitation. It was indeed a marquis's mansion. Although the old marquis was gone, a lean camel was still bigger than a horse, and the mansion was very magnificent.

The front yard was decorated with carved beams and painted buildings. Rows of servants were walking under the corridor holding flower pots, and then walking to the backyard, where many ladies had already arrived.

The backyard is full of spring colors and flowers in full bloom, and every flower blooms just right.

There are more than a dozen varieties of peonies alone, including the first spring red, drunken red, yellow, white, light red, and double petals.

There are also orchids and peach blossoms, each with its own unique beauty.