Ye Shiqi shared some of her secrets with her grandmother, omitting only the matter of her "space," that she had some medical skills, some estate planting techniques, and some knowledge of making cosmetics!
These were skills that could be openly displayed, and she planned to run a cosmetics factory. It was enough that her family knew she possessed these skills.
As for her proficiency in Qin, Chess, Calligraphy, and Painting, and etiquette, she had studied all of these. She was not exceptionally skilled, but competent enough to deal with officials' sons and rich ladies.
Second Madam never knew that life was so hard for her son and daughter-in-law in the countryside, that they could still teach their children etiquette and Qin, Chess, Calligraphy, and Painting under such pressure.
Despite not knowing their identity, the foster parents who didn't like his children much, or the circumstances of his daughter-in-law, somehow raised the children so well!
