Su Jinfeng, sitting behind, heard this and said somewhat shyly, "Little Hua, look at me, I'm so old, can I still learn martial arts?"
She really wanted to become stronger, so when others bullied her, she could use her fists instead of her mouth.
Before Lu Hua could answer, Aunt Ding, You, Yan, and the female workers from the underwear workshop all asked.
Following them, Ding Lei, Fan, Cai, Jin, Mu, Shui, and Tu also asked.
Even Uncle Ding asked for himself and Xiao Gu. He originally had no confidence, but seeing that his third uncle could still practice martial arts even without his legs, what couldn't he and Xiao Gu do?
Seeing this, Lu Ye said loudly, "If everyone wants to learn martial arts, from now on, every day at Mao Shi (5-7 AM), everyone in the household will go to the training grounds, and I will personally teach everyone.
I hope everyone in our Lu Mansion has a strong physique and can protect themselves and their families with martial arts."
"Good, this proposal is excellent!" The third uncle took the lead in agreeing. He had already resumed training. Although he had lost both legs, his archery skills and martial arts could not be neglected.
Moreover, Concubine Mei would be arriving in some time, and he needed to appear stronger.
Everyone highly approved of Lu Ye's proposal, and the entire household decided to join the martial arts team.
Next, the meeting continued.
Ding Xiang, A Qiu, A Dong, Su Jinfeng, and even Aunt Ding expressed their opinions and offered beneficial suggestions.
Finally, Uncle Ding felt that such family meetings were very good and should be held more often.
Everyone agreed.
Two days later.
Bai Sheng received an even larger order.
This order encompassed dozens of brothels throughout the capital. The madam of Chunfeng Tower was the one who contacted Bai Sheng.
She told Bai Sheng that after Li Qing told the girls of Chunfeng Tower about Bai Sheng publicly defending the brothel women, the girls were very moved.
Thus, within a day, the girls spread the word to all the brothels in the capital.
All the girls from the brothels unanimously decided to purchase rouge and powder from Hong Fen Jia Ren from now on. To avoid causing trouble for Hong Fen Jia Ren, they decided to have Hong Fen Jia Ren deliver the goods, making collective purchases.
The madam told Bai Sheng that their decision was not only due to their感动 (gandong - being moved) by Bai Sheng's protection but more importantly, they genuinely felt that Hong Fen Jia Ren's products were excellent.
Looking at such a large order volume, Bai Sheng felt a bit guilty. In fact, yesterday she was just annoyed by the condescending and imperious attitude of those two young ladies, and she had not followed their advice to prohibit brothel women from entering Hong Fen Jia Ren.
Did this small matter truly demonstrate her protection of the brothel women?
Protection was hardly the word; at most, it was respect, treating them as ordinary people.
She never expected that the women of pleasure in this era were so easily moved.
However, her guilt was quickly dispelled by her confidence in her own products.
She believed that the women of the brothels were not foolish and must have valued the quality of her products more, which led them to unanimously decide to support her business.
Yes, it must be so.
However, along with the surprise, Bai Sheng also felt a sense of tension. With such a large order, their production speed had to keep up.
Bai Sheng decided to return to Hongshu Village.
On one hand, she needed to go back to move goods; on the other hand, she needed to have Zhao Dazhuang expand the workshop and Du Min continue to recruit workers to speed up production.
Lu Ye heard that Bai Sheng was returning to Hongshu Village and decided to accompany her. Anyway, with the spatial ability, returning was just a matter of an instant.
During this time, he had been secretly investigating the Bai Li family's affairs, primarily by starting with the old soldiers his maternal grandfather had led.
However, because twenty years had passed, those old soldiers did not know much about high-level military matters, so he had not found any leads.
Bai Sheng had long wanted to help Lu Ye focus on investigating the case, but Hong Fen Jia Ren had just opened, and everything was still in disarray. She could only wait until production and sales stabilized.
Bai Sheng told Lu Ye that she had decided to choose someone in Hongshu Village to tell about her spatial ability.
Because she would have to travel back and forth to Hongshu Village to transport goods frequently in the future, she needed someone there to cover for her and make things more convenient.
Lu Ye thought for a moment and asked, "Good girl, who do you want to choose?"
"To be honest, I trust everyone in the family, but most of them treat me as their master and are loyal.
Only Du Min treats me not only as a master but also as family. The way she looks at me is genuinely like an older sister looking at a younger sister; I can feel that. Therefore, I have decided to choose her," Bai Sheng said, picking at her fingers.
Lu Ye curved his lips, "Then choose her."
The two left the space before dawn.
The guards on duty in the guard post saw them returning on horseback and were about to cheer excitedly, but Lu Ye stopped them.
Lu Ye explained that the supply in the capital was tight, and they were only returning to transport goods. They would leave the same day, so there was no need to alert too many people.
The guards immediately covered their excited mouths tightly with their hands.
The two went directly to find Du Min.
After much explanation, Bai Sheng showed Du Min her space. Du Min was indeed surprised, but the degree of surprise was far from what Bai Sheng had expected.
Bai Sheng had thought Du Min would need a few days of "surprise recovery period" like Lu Hua, but she didn't expect Du Min to accept the reality calmly after just a few exclamations.
Could it be that Du Min and the others had discovered something earlier? That she had a space, and that's why she always liked transporting things in the middle of the night?
"Sister Du, why aren't you that surprised about my space?" Bai Sheng asked, wrapping her arm around Du Min and leaning her head on her shoulder.
Du Min looked wronged, "I was surprised! I exclaimed several times."
"Compared to my Hua Hua, your surprise is incredibly subdued. Tell me, did you discover I had a space before?" Bai Sheng asked, poking Du Min's cheek and glaring.
Du Min cried out, "My dear lady! Your master, Granny Wu, can read faces. She told me that you are a person with great abilities.
Look at all you've accomplished in Hongshu Village. If it weren't for someone with great abilities, how could you have done it?
So, I knew you had great abilities long ago, I just didn't expect your great abilities to be such a large spa... space."
"So that's how it is. My master can read faces?" Bai Sheng asked with surprise.
Du Min's eyes flickered, and she stammered, "Perhaps your master just said it casually, casually. I took it seriously."
I'm sorry, National Teacher, I, Du Min... was forced to sell you out. If I had known this, I would have acted more surprised just now.
"Time is tight today. When I have time later, I'll have Master do a proper fortune-telling for me. Sister Du, have you remembered everything I told you?"
Du Min breathed a sigh of relief and nodded repeatedly, "Yes, yes, I remember, I remember."
In less than a day, Bai Sheng visited her master, inspected the workshop, stored all the goods in the space, replenished the food and meat for the Ghost Shadow Pavilion, and when night fell, she and Lu Ye left Hongshu Village.