Transmigrated as A Farm Girl Making Her Family Rich

Ye Shiqi made a decision to turn some of the flowers in the space into skincare water to give to visiting guests.

She was busy all night. It took her two hours to make the skincare water, and she finished just before dawn.

Looking at the pile of cosmetics, she felt a sense of accomplishment. There were five varieties of skincare water, rose scent, violet scent, Yueji scent, chrysanthemum scent, and orchid scent.

These five varieties were divided into more than three hundred small bottles, each containing about 20g.

The importance of skincare water lies not in the quantity but in its ability to improve the skin of those who receive it and their liking for this kind of product.

She decided not to sell it but to give it away, ostensibly as a product shipped from outside, only available in that one bottle. If not accepted, there would be no more in the future.

Ye Shiqi hadn't ruled out the idea of creating a range of cosmetics.

The Medical Book that the Great King gave her also contained formulas for cosmetics made from Chinese medicinal herbs, but she did not yet want to enter that industry.

The most critical thing at the moment was to resolve the dangers around her and survive the crisis.

Ye Shiqi had just fallen asleep for a while when someone knocked on the door. The noise awakened her in the space, and she had no choice but to get up from the bed in her room.

"Come in"

Ye Shiqi rubbed her bleary eyes and glanced outside the window. The sun had not yet risen; it should be around 5:30 a.m. At this hour, the ancient people were already getting up early.

Poor her, dreaming of being a sloth—since she had arrived in this family as a child, she had been secretly working every night and getting up early in the morning. She had already overcome such little sleep.

Thankfully, there was Space Water. When she was tired or sick, drinking a little of it would make any fatigue or pain vanish.

Ming Yue didn't know that her Lady had hardly slept last night. She just came in on time to help her Lady with washing and dressing.

Moreover, the guards at their residence barely slept, either. Before it was light, they all got up to work: preparing breakfast, sweeping, washing clothes, and additionally, helping with the busy kitchen, readying the pastries for today's guests.

Ming Yue stayed behind in the courtyard to serve her Lady, while others had already gone to the big kitchen or onto other tasks.

Although the house had an ice storehouse, Ye Shiqi did not wish to store food there during the hot summer, as it might change in flavor.

She had already instructed Li Zhihao to fetch meat and vegetables from the ice storehouse during his waking hours.

The workers felt that the household's purchasing was very secretive; the ingredients they bought were very fresh. At the break of dawn, so much meat had already been purchased, and all sorts of vegetables and fruits were stored in the ice storehouse.

The house servants at this estate felt that their masters and managers were becoming more and more mysterious.

The spies who came to this estate did not pay attention to this aspect, but rather to the actions of the masters themselves.

Today, with so many ladies and young ladies from other mansions attending the banquet here, they dared not poison or drug anything.

Ye Shiqi was awakened by Ming Yue's knocking; while washing up, she cleared her head and remembered that the food materials had not yet been placed in the ice storehouse, so she used her Mind Space to put them there.

As for the grains, they could be stored in the storeroom. Generally, not too much was kept to prevent it from being eaten by mice.

With the assistance of Ming Yue, Ye Shiqi styled her hair beautifully, put on fashionable makeup, adorned herself with lovely jewelry, and then she painted a small flower on her forehead, which was said to be the latest trend among young ladies and girls.

She did not wear makeup on her face or draw on her eyebrows, just spritzed on a little skincare perfume.

Her body always had a floral scent, and last night, after making so many skincare perfumes, perhaps even more of the floral fragrance had permeated her skin.

"Lady, today you smell even more fragrant," Ming Yue said as she applied the skincare perfume for the young lady, which was an orchid fragrance, but she felt that the lady had more than one type of floral scent on her, and this mix of fragrances was even more intense.

Ye Shiqi had watched a TV series where there was a Princess Xiangxiang who, when she walked through the garden, butterflies would fly over. Perhaps it was an exaggeration in the television show, and posterity even dug up a legend about a Princess Xiangxiang who carried sachets with her.

Her own scent wasn't that strong to attract butterflies—how scented would it have to be to draw them!

Ye Shiqi, along with her maids, arrived at the main hall. This morning, breakfast was to be shared with her elder sisters.

As the two of them entered the hall, several sisters were already there, bustling about with their maids.

Ye Shiqi gestured for her sisters to have breakfast and told the workers to eat breakfast before starting work, as the hour was still early, and guests wouldn't visit their residence for breakfast at such an early time.

Li Zhihao was up early, leading the workers to busy themselves. Amidst the fervent hustle, the outside chefs they had hired were already here, along with their apprentices—some to make pastries, others to cook meals.

In preparation to serve such a large number of people today, they had last night notified the staff and shopkeepers from the estate and each store to ensure they brought extra maids and old women to attend to the guests.

By all means, today they had to bring more maids and old women over to entertain the guests.

After the hour of 7 a.m. to 9 a.m., guests began to slowly arrive for visits.

Ye Shiqi and her sisters, as hostesses, unlike before when they entertained male guests or went out on the streets, did not wear veils.

This time, the visitors were all women, whose coachmen would be entertained by others. Li Zhihao, the housekeeper, had the guards escort these people into the house.

Considering so many people, not all carriages could enter; therefore, their coachmen must also stay outside to attend to the carriages.

To entertain the coachmen and guards outside, it was necessary to summon some people as well.

Yesterday evening, Ye Jiaxing and some old acquaintances received notice and came to the Ye Mansion to help.

For these country lads and adults who came from rural areas, it never crossed their minds that they would suddenly face such a multitude of noble guests.

Even their house servants and drivers had never had the honor of such an experience before arriving in the Capital City, which was quite an eye-opener for them.

Ye Jiaxing and some old acquaintances couldn't comprehend how the Ye family, who had only bought a house, shops, and an estate, knew so many wealthy families.

Li Zhihao didn't have time to explain to them, and even if they asked, he couldn't clarify.

All he could say was that these noble ladies and Ladies were too idle—otherwise, why would they come to their house and make them so busy?

Every guest who arrived brought gifts, and those who received them had their hands full.

Ye Shiqi and her three sisters attended to the guests in the large living room, while the maids and old women welcomed the guests at the door.

The first visitors were the Marchioness Yongbo and her Lady, who came the earliest.

So eager were they that after sending their visiting card and hearing the news, they discovered that so many people were scrambling to see the Ye family's treasure.

The mother and daughter decided that if too many guests arrived at once, and they entered the Ye Residence after those others, there would not be as much time to chat with the Ye family's sisters.

Today they made an early start, having not even had breakfast at home; instead, they ate on the road.