"Lisi, I know you are doing business with Miss Ruan together. In these times, it's indeed not easy for women to engage in trade, and merchants do not have high status, but earning silver taels uprightly, for women, is always a good thing."
"We sincerely thank you with genuine silver, which is neither safe nor able to express our gratitude. So we decided to gift you that shop, whether Miss Ruan wants to do business or pawn it for cash, it's up to you." Ruan Mian hadn't expected to gain such a benefit from this visit.
The General and his wife's hospitality was hard to refuse, in addition to Xiza's endless gratitude as she knelt and begged her to accept it.
Ruan Mian accepted it readily, since she was planning to let Lisi open a branch of Guishe Fang anyway.
This shop, acquired for free, was exactly what she wanted.
However, before she could express her thanks, a young servant rushed over: "General! Madam, the... the Commandery Princess, oh no, the detained common woman, is gone."
