The three families under the Bombyx family were able to gain many profits and more control within their respective cities while the Bifta family in particular was able to proudly lift their heads with pride within the merchant city that was established in Wolfden city.
Many homes, stores and stalls were also rented out to businessmen or people wishing to stay for an extended period of time rather than staying at an inn within the city so there were many profits coming towards the Bombyx family.
While the family were able to establish and expand their own carriage and trading business they still had the other two families to assist with providing additional bodyguards, horses and carriages or any additional assistance if it was needed.
The Nix and Seren families involvement towards expanding outward helped the family a lot by building relationships with other families, spreading word of different business or products but also with adding additional monetary support or help with transportation and protection.
All three families had used their resources and begun to develop in their own fields after many years working under the Bombyx family.
Rumours of the Bombyx family became more prominent within the northern parts of the central lands, they were rumoured to be an old noble and merchant family that had been secluded from the world and only did small business and silk trade but over the years like a sleeping tiger, the moment they woke up they began to stalk their prey and feed.
Their heir was named Ki Bombyx and was rumoured to be beautiful and intelligent but very unlike most ladies her age.
Most skills like music, embroidery, poetry, painting and dancing, she was rumoured to have no interest in and instead she liked to spend her time researching herbs to make herbal teas, wines, scented candles, wound or beauty skin creams and other things.
Besides that she spent most of her days learning the family business and helping promote new product ideas but also rumoured to enjoy hunting and horse riding.
Her skillset was more practical and she possessed many life skills but in the eyes of many young masters of noble families who heard of her name they would only scoff after hearing her name.
In their minds if their women could not keep them entertained and pleased then they should be kept hidden in some corner of their home because they did not need a women who was more talented than them that would make them feel emasculated and inferior.
They would much prefer it if they could satisfy their ego to make her their woman and let her lose herself to love then let her slowly wilt and lose her radiance over time rather than have a woman appear that would show them how inferior they are to her.
Even a famous and capable but unruly person like Celeste Estrella had to be obedient and obey her husband and his family once she had married into the Baer family so she had to suppress her temperament a lot.
So some rumours began to spread that Ki was unladylike and ungraceful, anyone to marry her in the future would be unable to handle her.
The truth however was that while she possessed some painting and dancing ability her embroidery was only good enough to pass the basic grade but she knows how to weave silk thanks to learning within the family.
Her paintings or drawings could not be called artworks but she was able to draw portraits of people she had seen if she needed to locate someone in her memory and sketch out human forms to be shown in the martial art booklets and scrolls.
Unlike most noble ladies her drunken sword dance gave off a different feeling than the alluring or dignified dances the noble ladies learn and finally she did continue to hone and perfect her tea etiquette.
Those special few who got to taste her personally brewed tea could not help but immerse themselves in the atmosphere she had created and it was the same for those who had tasted her best wine creations.
Many people still wished to meet her in person to find out if the rumours about her were true.
Some wished to find out if she was really as competent with business and money making as previously mentioned or if it was merely her families assistance that helped start up so many projects which became successful.
There were two main things that caused such speculation and rumours and that was her age and her gender so about half or a little more tended to disbelieve that she could be so successful at a young age.
The other half had a poor opinion of her and kept their views that she was unladylike and without her families backing and support her projects would soon collapse on their own and all that would be left would be just another vase, beautiful in the outside but nothing of worth on the inside.
While some wished to get to know her and build up connections that would benefit them and their family later, others waited to see if she would fall from grace as they had placed their thoughts on the younger brother who was rumoured to be undergoing the same training as his sister.
Little did they know that Leon was completely loyal to Ki and wished to help her build the family from the ground up, while he had been learning noble etiquette and basic business knowledge he found that he enjoyed protecting the territory more than anything else and he did not have the resourcefulness and intuition needed for the business world.
The world usually expects so much more from the sons and very little of the daughters so when such things happen within families like the Bombyx family, many outsiders often make the wrong judgements based on the what the higher populations views and ideals are however often times just because many believe things should always be that way it does not mean that it is right.