The peasant girl has a private space, and her husband is handsome.

After finishing his work, Brother Yuan returned to his rented room in the slum and placed the banknotes in front of his wife, Wang.

Wang was illiterate, and when she heard Brother Yuan say that it was a silver note worth eight thousand taels, she was so shocked that she couldn't speak. She couldn't believe that her family had so much money.

She pinched her thigh hard, and the intense pain told her it was all real.

"Master, you didn't steal this money from Gu's shop, did you? Miss Su has been kind to you. Before, you couldn't find any work anywhere, but Miss Su kindly took you in. If you dare to betray Master Su, I... I'll kill myself."

"Don't worry, this money wasn't stolen. Master Su gave me peaches, the kind that cost over ten thousand taels of silver each. I sold the peaches and got eight thousand taels."

Wang was so excited that tears streamed down her face. She never expected that her husband would have earned eight thousand taels of silver in such a short time by following Miss Su.

Miss Su is the lucky star of the Yuan family.

"Master, Miss Su has been so kind to us. You must work even harder in the future to repay her kindness."

Brother Yuan nodded and said, "Don't worry, I will not only put my heart into it, but I will also risk my life."

"Wife, our girl is a grown woman now. She often gets harassed by thugs while living here. Why don't we use this money to buy a small house? I've heard that there are some small courtyards next to Gu's Restaurant. Eight thousand taels of silver should be enough to buy one."

"Alright, honey, I'll do whatever you say. Prices are high in the capital, and being able to buy a house here is already a blessing. It doesn't matter if the yard is a little small."

Previously, the Yuan family's courtyard in the slums of the south of the city was rented. Wang never dreamed that she would be able to own a house in the capital in her lifetime.

Working under Miss Su is like being reborn; it instantly elevates your social class.

Once they have a house in the capital, both their own family and their daughter's future in-laws will look up to the Yuan family.

The Murong family's Zhaixing Tower is still locked in a fierce battle with the Gu family.

Hu Pingfan heard that the owner of Zhaixinglou had been secretly in contact with several chefs from Gu's restaurant, trying to poach their staff.

I'm worried that the chef and his staff might be taken advantage of and poison the food.

After consulting with Miss Su, Hu Pingfan held a meeting with the chefs and staff during a time when it was not peak dining hours.

He felt that as Miss Su's strategist, the most important thing was to help Miss Su win people's hearts and improve the ideological awareness of her subordinates.

He stayed up all night to prepare a ten-page speech.

"Master chefs, Gu Ji pays you ten taels of silver a month, which is more than one hundred taels a year. Your income is considered high in the entire Daqi."

"I know that Zhaixinglou promised to pay you ten times the wages, one hundred taels a month, which is quite high. But the Murong family can't keep paying such high wages forever. Once the Murong family defeats Gu's Restaurant, you will lose your value, and it will be hard to say whether you will be able to earn ten taels of silver a month then."

"Even if you work at the Star-Picking Pavilion for a month, you'll only earn a little over a thousand taels a year. But the peaches Miss Su gives you as a bonus can fetch eight thousand taels if you sell them to Feng Yuanxi. That's more than the county magistrate's salary."

The chefs nodded in agreement, finding it to be very reasonable.

"As long as you are loyal and do well, Miss Su might reward you with another peach next year. Wouldn't that be great?"

"Whether it's someone in the kitchen or someone running errands, if anyone dares to overturn Gu Ji's table, don't blame Gu Ji for being impolite."

Feng Yuanxi now works as a waiter at Gu's Restaurant, and he shouted the loudest when he heard Hu Pingfan's words.

"I, Feng Yuanxi, swear that I will never betray Miss Su. If I do, may I be struck by lightning."

Seeing that Feng Yuanxi had sworn an oath, everyone else followed suit and swore an oath as well.

Three days later, Zhaixinglou poached Mengji's pastry chef with a high price and launched a 50% discount on their signature chicken cake, attracting many customers.

When Murong Fu saw that the business of Zhaixing Tower was improving, a smile finally appeared on his face. The Murong family was wealthy and powerful, and he did not believe that they could not beat that young girl.

He originally wanted to poach people from Gu's Restaurant, but for some reason, the young girl had bewitched Gu's head chef, raising the wages from ten times to a hundred times, even to a thousand taels of silver a month, but it didn't tempt Gu's chefs.

Unbeknownst to him, two of Gu's chefs were very tempted by the hundredfold pay he offered. Unfortunately, Gu's chefs and staff had all sworn an oath to heaven that if they betrayed Miss Su, they would be struck by lightning.

The people of Daqi believed in the gods, and once they made an oath, they naturally dared not disobey it.

Meng Ji's chicken cake recipe was taken to Zhaixing Tower by the pastry chef, and Fifth Master Meng even came to Gu Ji to apologize to Su Qianqian for it.

"Miss Su, it's all my fault for making a bad choice of people."

Su Qianqian didn't think there was anything wrong with it. "Although I sold the recipe to Mengji, the recipe was taken away by Zhaixinglou. It was Mengji that suffered the loss, not me, so you don't need to apologize to me."

She will soon be launching cream bowls, with fluffy little cake bases at the bottom and colorful flowers made of pure plant-dyed cream on top. They will definitely be more appealing than sponge cakes.

Therefore, Gu Ji will definitely not lose to Zhaixinglou.

Meanwhile, the Guiping Marquis's residence and Su Bing and his wife are actively preparing for Su Qianqian's coming-of-age ceremony.

In two days, Su Qianqian will turn fifteen.

For the coming-of-age ceremony, a highly respected and blessed woman should be invited as the principal guest to insert the hairpin into Su Qianqian's hair. The wife of the Marquis of Guiping arranged for the wife of the Duke of Anguo to be the principal guest.

The one who made the arrangement was Princess Zhaohua.

The entire Guiping Marquis's residence and Plum Garden were bustling with activity, all preparing for the coming-of-age ceremony.

Seeing how hard everyone had worked for her, Su Qianqian decided to make a two-tiered cream cake as a reward.

The cows at Gong Yu's estate in the suburbs of Beijing produce a large amount of milk every day.

Some of the leftovers were processed into butter and cheese by Su Qianqian.

Mix butter and milk in a 1:1 ratio, beat vigorously, refrigerate in an ice cellar, take it out the next morning, add 10% sugar, and whip into a sweet but not greasy cream.

Use gardenia, butterfly pea flowers, and purple dragon fruit to dye the cream yellow, light blue, and bright purple, which can then be used to decorate a two-tiered cake.

Before transmigrating, Su Qianqian had worked part-time at a cake shop, where she was skilled at cake decorating.

The resulting two-layer colorful flower cake was absolutely stunning.

The Prime Minister's wife, who was assisting him, was so shocked that she couldn't speak.

Miss Su said this food is called cake, and it's so beautiful; she's never seen such a beautiful dessert before.

For her, who has been passionate about making desserts since childhood, it was incredibly appealing.

Su Qianqian prepared a lot of ingredients and also made a small cream bowl for the Prime Minister's wife to taste.

"This is a new product I'm preparing to launch at Gu Ji, designed to compete with Zhaixinglou's chicken cake. You should try it."

The Prime Minister's wife took a bite of the fluffy, creamy cream and immediately nodded in approval, "It's so delicious, Master. With these little cream bowls, we can definitely beat Zhaixinglou."

Su Qianqian gave the leftover cake-making ingredients to the Prime Minister's wife so she could practice.

Once her coming-of-age ceremony was over, she started promoting her new cream bowl at Gu's Restaurant.