The Challenge of a Farmhouse Son-in-Law

She said, somewhat embarrassedly, "In the past few years, I’ve been living a life of confusion, not managing the shops and estates left by my parents properly, basically teetering between profit and loss. This time, after leaving the Jie Family, although Lord Jie gave me quite a bit of silver, I’ve almost used it all up in reopening Manxiu Building. If I were to expand the business further, I’m afraid I’d have to sell the shops and even the estate, which would require some time."

Gu Youyou said, "You can sell some of the estate, but you can’t sell the shops. The future chain of ready-made garment stores will rely on your family’s shops! Some well-located shops can’t just be bought with money."

Miss Du said with difficulty, "That may be true, but the estates aren’t worth much, only a few well-located shops left by my parents are worth some silver."

Gu Youyou laughed and said, "You don’t have to worry about the silver, we agreed on a fifty-fifty split. I can’t just contribute designs and not care about anything else, right? Don’t worry, you just need to lead the embroiderers in their work, I’ll take care of the garments."

"You’ll take care of them?" Miss Du asked in surprise.

"Right!" Gu Youyou smiled and nodded, saying, "There’s a rather large courtyard behind Jisheng Hall’s pharmacy in Jinxiu City; I had it converted into a factory, originally intended for packaging medicines. Now that we’re going to partner up and open a ready-made garment store, I’ll repurpose that factory to be a garment manufacturing facility. Miss Du, you’re familiar with Jinxiu City, won’t it be no problem for you to find some skilled female garment workers?"

Miss Du was stunned and nodded, taking some time to grasp the strange new terms brought up by Gu Youyou.