Manor Industries: Hairpin Maker, Character Customization, Clothing Production

To Jiu Cai Rong, both options were tempting.

They could even directly influence the entire manor's development path, leading to the most direct branching of the manor's technology tree.

But he ultimately chose the new race.

It was people!

Wasn't he curious?

Weren't the hundred blacksmiths present curious?

He wasn't a dictator; they had just conducted a vote among the hundred people in the manor.

80 votes passed.

This only proved that this option was the will of the people.

Ning Zheng didn't pay much attention to Jiu Cai Rong's choice.

After all, they were given casually and weren't really useful.

For Ning Zheng, getting the meat fields was enough.

Although Little Ai was usually slow, she sometimes said the right things.

As long as they were given a little bit of petty gain, they would be very happy and eagerly earn various cultivation resources for him.

Ning Zheng could understand their feelings.

After all, when he played games as a child, learning a new move was always fun, but that childhood was long gone.

In fact, Ning Zheng was quite satisfied with the manor's development now.

After they successfully defeated the crows, he planned to truly develop this force to earn resources.

Ning Zheng said, "Recently, the manor has been developing quite well."

"That's right."

Jiu Cai Rong was a little proud and prepared to introduce everything around:

"Next, once the war is over, we plan to vigorously develop all aspects of the manor's businesses, progressing in parallel."

Although it was still very rudimentary at the moment.

There were already some functional facilities.

Not to mention the most popular blacksmith shop.

The dormitories were beginning to be renovated, with individual dorms. In reality, this meant separating them with boards to create individual sleeping spaces with metal bed frames, to protect privacy.

There was also the canteen, managed by the duo of [God of Cookery] and [Shao Chai Kun].

There was also a clinic for treating various injuries and researching medicine.

It also featured a beauty and plastic surgery service that Ning Zheng didn't quite understand, managed by a Money Girl named [Medical Fairy Maiden].

Ning Zheng chatted with the audience through [Flower Blooming Rich] and learned that the [Medical Fairy Maiden]'s blacksmith was a medical student who had recently become addicted to dissecting mice and wanted to try it out here.

But everyone wasn't very confident in her.

They always felt she was like an unreliable female driver, and they were planning to develop this into a [player character customization] service.

She would provide the character customization function that the game didn't offer!

At that time, she would realize her dream:

Everyone entering the dressing room would be her mannequin, a miracle Barbie doll that could change outfits at will!

Ning Zheng, however, found her to be quite simple and down-to-earth, much better than those chattering blacksmiths.

Because she was genuinely dissecting, learning plastic surgery, and researching technology.

As soon as he entered with Jiu Cai Rong, he heard her and her assistant dissecting the corpse of a Money Boy who had died in the war.

"The internal structure of this body is so wild."

"I told you our Money Boys are tough!"

"This physique should have undergone a C-section earlier. The metal bed frames are practically anti-human, anti-social primitive tribal living. Let's directly install large bladders, super large capacity, that can also solve this frequent urination problem."

"It's a shame the medical tools weren't made well before, otherwise I would have carved one out on the spot to show off my skills."

Ning Zheng had seen [Medical Fairy Maiden] before.

When he went to the restroom previously, Jiu Cai Rong's proposed solution was to build fully automated dorms, focusing on mechanical technology.

This person, however, had enthusiastically suggested and proposed a solution at the time: to cut open the abdomen and install large-capacity bladders, focusing on biological technology.

Medical Fairy Maiden had clearly not given up.

She believed Jiu Cai Rong's fully automated dorms were a human failing, too ugly, and was still vigorously promoting her medical reform ideas within the manor.

She spoke eloquently, continuing her research with her assistant:

"Look, here, the infection rate of the incision is the lowest. If we install a parallel bladder, that makes two. The surgical difficulty is practically zero."

"But it's best not to put it in the stomach, as two bladders in the stomach would make it bulge like a big belly if held for too long. I suggest putting it on the chest. The longer you hold it, the prettier you become."

They were enthusiastically discussing until Jiu Cai Rong coughed a few times, which called their attention back.

"Esteemed old steward," the Medical Fairy Maiden said somewhat awkwardly, "you're here."

"It's fine," Ning Zheng thought she was quite an innovative person.

Physician was also one of the auxiliary professions in the cultivation world.

It was no less important than an alchemist, and arguably the most life-saving profession.

Since she couldn't afford to hire a physician to come to the manor, cultivating one herself was a good idea. Although it might not be able to heal herself, it could at least reduce casualties among these lively blacksmiths.

She could get some medical books later. The cost would be low, and if it truly succeeded, the profit would be immense.

However, physicians were generally cultivators. For a healing-type wood spiritual root, if the other party had the aptitude, she could procure a spiritual root for them.

Afterward, she had a casual chat with this physician of the manor, encouraging her to continue her efforts.

The [Medical Fairy Maiden] received commendation, and Jiu Cai Rong beside her also felt proud seeing it.

Jiu Cai Rong didn't mind the female physician having opinions about him because he believed she was capable, innovative, and daring enough to experiment, making it potentially feasible.

Besides the mechanical ascension of his manor, there was also flesh-and-blood ascension!

Especially the old steward, he was so experienced and knowledgeable!

He had presumably ventured through countless rivers and lakes outside, and now he gave them high praise!

Jiu Cai Rong, his face flushed with pride, couldn't help but flatter:

"She is indeed amazing! Honestly speaking, our manor's Money Girls are much less troublesome than those Money Boys who are always causing trouble."

He seemed to realize he had said something wrong and added, "Uh, although we don't have genders, we have internal genders, differentiating between lolis and boys."

Ning Zheng nodded, "Then let's go see what they're up to."

"Yes, I'll show you around and you'll know," Jiu Cai Rong led Ning Zheng on a tour.

Aside from a few exceptionally strong women who enjoyed swinging large hammers to forge iron, this group of lolis now had three main pastimes.

1. Becoming Hairpin Makers.

This involved going to the blacksmith shop to craft beautiful accessories, beads, and DIY ancient-style hair ornaments, creating such decorative magic artifacts.

Hairpins, hair sticks, crowns, tassels, necklaces...

They were already addicted to making hairpins!

They were sitting at their workbenches, happily playing and planning to engrave their personal brand mark on their creations, dreaming of becoming the Queen of Hairpin Makers!

Making it so that fairies and celestial maidens everywhere would find their ornaments hard to come by.

2. Dress-up and Character Customization.

Except for the aforementioned [Medical Fairy Maiden], who was more into hardcore physical beauty and customization.

The other Money Girls were focused on makeup. They even dyed edible soil to use as pigments, and some even became beauty bloggers, editing videos.

Jiu Cai Rong wasn't very fond of them.

They weren't productive, purely enjoying the scenery of the game. It was truly infuriating, affecting my Manor Lord's ability to earn money!

3. Clothing Production.

They used a defensive tower as a framework and built a new clothing workshop. Humans were, after all, flexible.

Without silk, they drew out Magic Bronze, weaving fine bronze threads into golden silk robes. Crow feathers were also used as materials.

They were also planning to make Hanfu and various ancient-style decorations.

Rumor had it that their goal was to turn the second floor of the tower into their changing room, filled with beautiful clothes and shoes.

Just now, these enthusiastic lolis were in the blacksmith shop assigning tasks, asking the blacksmiths to help them build a loom.

Jiu Cai Rong was somewhat shocked at that moment: What kind of game were these Money Girls playing, Miracle Nikki?

All one could say was...

Well done!

Looking at these magic robes, it seemed very promising. They could be persuaded to sell them later, and our Manor Lord would make another fortune.