Transmigrated as A Farm Girl Making Her Family Rich

Hongji's father finally sent away those who had frightened him and caused the loss of his family, as cheerfully as one would dispel an evil spirit causing plague.

During the last couple of days of torment, he couldn't sleep at night and remained on guard during the day. Unexpectedly, although the other party had told him they had proof of his culpability, it seemed they hadn't informed his eldest son, nor had they taken the son and his family away.

As for the man's intention to go to the Capital City and firmly grasp his granddaughters, this was no longer something he could control.

Those girls were mere compensation, the most important thing being that his eldest son was like a gold mine, and his grandson was there too.

At this moment, Hongji's father refocused on having sons and raising children.

He also devoted more of his attention to the two new concubines he had just received.

With Aunt Lai in the house, seething with jealousy and constantly causing trouble, Hongji's father grew increasingly irritated with her and consequently stopped visiting her quarters.

Aunt Lai had only given birth to a daughter and, at a young age, was abandoned by Hongji's father, living like a chaste widow similar to the elder sister.

Of course, her heart ached. At the young age of twenty-something, can one really withstand the loneliness?

After Hongji's father stopped visiting her room, Aunt Lai had argued and made a scene. With the man being so cold and heartless, she directed her anger towards the two young and beautiful women.

She had even considered using drugs to render the other party infertile, forcing them to avoid pregnancy.

However, she never managed to find the colorless and tasteless drugs she was looking for, and the other party was very wary of her, leaving Aunt Lai unable to do anything.

In her solitude and loneliness, she flirted with every man who entered the house.

Returning home, Hongji was met with Aunt Lai's persistent and unsettling gaze, which disgusted him.

The estate's workers and chefs would stay away from the living room or the courtyard if there was no need to be there; they were even less inclined to appear before Aunt Lai.

The guards had also noticed this issue. Whenever they saw Aunt Lai, their expressions were wooden, and they regarded her with the same aversion one would have for a malevolent ghost.

Actually, Aunt Lai's behavior was a form of revenge; she was only trying to catch Hongji's father's attention, but indeed, she truly wished to catch Hongji's.

The workers and guards of the estate were of no interest to her; she merely fancied their robust physiques.

...

Ye Shiqi in the Capital City received invitations from the residences of the rich and powerful every day.

Ever since that banquet day, the stream of invitations had never ceased.

In this estate, she was the one making decisions on all the major matters.

Ye Shiqi had the ten thousand taels of silver borrowed earlier returned to Tang Family's bank.

Now debt-free, they remained vigilant and busy due to other matters.

In the Capital City, the shops sold their goods as usual, except for one tea shop that had been renovated. Half of it was used for selling tea, and the other half for selling bicycles.

Her two estates had also been transformed, with improvements to irrigation and the use of Space Water for cultivation and breeding. Aside from rice and vegetables, the estates also grew fruit potted plants and flowers.

Her idea was to quickly produce varieties of vegetables and livestock, with rice yielding high quantities.

The fruit potted plants and flowers were to be grown better to fetch a good price when sold.

Ye Shiqi visited the estates once or twice to place Space Water into the clay jars in the dungeons of the estates.

She left the matters in the hand of Li Zhihao, asking him to figure out how to manage them well.

In recent days, Ye Shiqi, along with her elder sisters, turned the resources that had been sent to them into finished products, bedding, clothing, and footwear.

As for the medicinal herbs, various medicines were made, including Cold Medicine and treatments for various minor ailments and injuries.

As for the anesthetics and anti-inflammatory drugs, these were also made into small pills.

Ye Shiqi felt it was a pity that she couldn't replicate Western medicine's injection.

The prescription she received were all traditional Chinese medicine methods, it seems that the immortal in the book also preferred to use Chinese medicine to develop drugs.

Ye Shiqi had no doubt that the medicines she developed were effective.

However, at the moment, she couldn't use these medicines for experiments since nobody had minor colds or minor illnesses for her to treat.

Nor could she demonstrate her medical skills in the Capital City, under the watchful eyes of everyone.

She could only carry out the experiments one by one outside the border.

These days, maids and old women from Marquis Yongbo's Mansion kept sending invitations, which Ye Shiqi consistently refused.

Not only did she refuse theirs, but she also turned down invitations from other households.

The maids and old women from Marquis Yongbo's Mansion were more polite; if the other party didn't agree, they didn't get angry and simply said they hoped the sisters would visit their mansion when they had the time.

The next day, they would send an invitation again, which would be refused again.

In the midst of rejections by the Ye sisters, maids and women leaving the other mansions would arrogantly remark that they didn't know what was good for them!

Ye Shiqi knew she would offend many people, but she didn't want to accept their invitations just because they had extended them, knowing full well what their intentions were.

They just saw how good her skincare perfume was and wanted the recipe, hoping to get her to produce it and give it to them or to let them sell such a valuable resource.

Ye Shiqi did not want to engage in this business, nor did she want others to dominate her.

Her elder sisters didn't know how she made the skincare perfume, but when asked, they consistently replied that it was a gift from someone else.

Her protective elder sisters didn't think it was improper for the youngest to come up with all the ideas, nor did they want to take the credit or wrest control of affairs.

With their mother not at home, the person most capable of making decisions was the youngest sister, and the elder sisters were clear about how the family had become wealthy over the years.

Faced with numerous invitations from the nobility of the Capital City, the little sister's refusals brought panic, but they had no choice but to listen to her advice.

Deep down, they were a bit afraid that if they visited others' homes every day, enduring sarcasm and ridicule, unable to respond yet not wanting to offend anyone, it would be a true suffering.

Visiting others daily would certainly require purchasing expensive gifts to present at their doors—too many invitations to visit too many mansions, all beyond their current family budget.

These people were from wealthy, powerful families; what good things hadn't they seen before?

Could they really visit others' homes with mere fruits and vegetables, as commoners in the countryside would do?

...

Previously, Mrs. Meng had an idea and mentioned in front of several madams that the Ye sisters were from a poor farming family in a small village where their husbands had once held official positions.

In that county city, she had friends among the madams of wealthy families, and she was sure that a letter to them would reveal where the skincare perfume came from.

She not only wrote to those wealthy madams but also to Mrs. Tang.

After two days, the madams she had written to in the new county all replied.

They said there was no such effective skincare perfume in the new county.

Only Madam Tang's letter mentioned that their family had also received skincare perfume sent by Miss Ye.

As for how it was made, they didn't know, but it was said to be made from ordinary flowers. Of course, they had tried replicating it, but the results were not as good as the other skincare perfume.

Receiving the letters, Mrs. Meng could not find out the source of the skincare perfume and could only wait for an opportunity, hoping the Ye sisters would visit her to ask for the recipe.