Daughter of aristocratic family

Chapter 242 Investigation
Zhao Wangshu sat in the teahouse for more than half an hour before paying the bill and heading to the store. He happened to encounter someone from the thrift store taking away the tables and chairs.

"Zhao Mao." Zhao Wangshu was surprised to find that the man on the cart was Zhao Kui's eldest son.

Zhao Mao looked at Zhao Wangshu and pursed his lips, "Hello, girl."

"You work in a thrift store?" Zhao Wangshu asked.

"Earn some money and support your family." Zhao Mao lowered his head and rubbed his calloused hands.

"After the old lady passed away, the two families were separated, so why did they fall into such a state of decline?" Zhao Wangshu asked puzzledly.

Zhao Mao smiled bitterly and said: "The empress in the palace offended Your Majesty and was banned from the palace. My father spent most of the family property in order to take care of the empress."

"You have studied and are a child. You can find something easier to do." Zhao Wangshu said.

Zhao Mao smiled sheepishly: "I want to open a thrift store."

"You don't want to go to school?" Zhao Wangshu asked doubtfully.

In this era, everything is of inferior quality, but reading is the only quality.

Moreover, among the officials, farmers, industry and commerce, although the businessmen were rich, their status was the lowest.

"I am stupid and have been studying for more than ten years, but I have no hope in the scientific examination." Zhao Mao smiled wryly, somewhat self-deprecatingly. "It is hard to open a thrift store, but I can support my family and my life is not in vain."

Zhao Wangshu looked at Zhao Mao, with a flash of appreciation in his eyes. In this era, there are very few people who can abandon literature and go into business. It is rare for him not to be bound by worldly vision. "Since you are determined, then go ahead and do it." Well, I believe you can do it.”

"Thank you for your kind words, Miss." Zhao Mao said happily.

No one supported him, Zhao Wangshu was the only one who encouraged him.

Watching Zhao Mao leave with a cart of tables and chairs, Luzhi said, "I didn't expect that the second young master would be the only sensible person in the mansion."

"They are not confused, they are just pretending to be confused because they understand." Zhao Wangshu walked into the store.

The tables and chairs were moved away, making the store look even emptier.

Zhao Wangshu looked up and down, then asked Hong Chang to lock the door and lead them home.

After returning home, having dinner with his grandmother and mother, and visiting his sister-in-law Song Yuanqu, Zhao Wangshu returned to the courtyard.

After taking a nap, use charcoal pencil to sketch the floor plan of the store on white paper.

She is not a professional. She draws a flat plan, which is very simple, but it does not hinder her design.

At the entrance, Zhao Wangshu prepared two rows of flower stands with fresh potted flowers on them, rotating them according to the seasons.

In order to create a comfortable shopping environment, she specially designed some decorative partitions to divide areas without looking too crowded.

Although she doesn't know much about design, she has been to a modern beauty salon and learned from it, and she can still design a makeup store that is far ahead of this era.

"Girl, can my slave come in?" Lady Qiao asked from outside.

"Come in." Zhao Wangshu said.

Mrs. Qiao opened the door curtain and walked in, "Girl, I have heard that Fan Jinyao is not living a comfortable life in her husband's house. Her husband spoils his concubines and kills his wife. Her parents-in-law favor the children of her original wife. She has been married for a long time. Without pregnancy, life becomes even more difficult.”

Zhao Wangshu sneered after hearing this, "Is this the reason why she is jealous of her sister-in-law and wants to destroy her? If she is not living well, she wants others to be miserable too?"

"Girl, what should we do next?" asked Lady Qiao.

Zhao Wangshu pondered for a moment, then slowly spoke: "Spend some money to bribe the servants of Fan Jinyao's husband's family, and investigate in detail what Fan Jinyao did in her husband's family."

"With her viciousness, she wouldn't be able to get along well with those concubines, and she probably wouldn't have any love for her first wife's children."

The matter of Fan Jinyao finding someone to promote Song and Yuan music should not be a big deal. Even though Zhao Yin has no intentions towards Fan Jinyao, Fan Jinyao's obsession will still ruin Zhao Yin's reputation.

If Zhao Wangshu wants to punish Fan Jinyao, he must find other evidence of her crime.

"Yes, girl." Lady Qiao nodded in agreement, turned around and left.

Zhao Wangshu continued to draw her design. She drew it for seven days and revised it three times before she was satisfied and ordered her maid to deliver the post to the princess' mansion.

The next day, she took the design drawing and went to the princess mansion to find Yao Shanzhi.

Yao Shanzhi welcomed her into the house with the fragrance all over her body, "Yue'er, you are so amazing, you can finish the painting so quickly."

"Come, let's take a look." Zhao Wangshu smiled and unfolded the picture, "This is the first floor, the entrance."

She explained the design concept for each area in detail, including the location of the flower racks, the style of decorative partitions, and her expectations for the overall atmosphere of the store.

Yao Shanzhi listened intently and nodded in agreement from time to time, "Yue'er, I think this beauty salon will definitely surpass Yuyanzhai and become the most famous makeup store in Beijing."

Zhao Wangshu was amused by her words, "Gardenia, are you so confident?"

"It's necessary." Yao Shanzhi looked at her with firm eyes, "Just listening to you, I feel that I will linger in the store, and with those makeup powders made from ancient recipes, we will definitely make a lot of money. ”

Zhao Wangshu was infected by her optimism, and most of the anxiety in his heart dissipated, and he was full of expectations for the future of the beauty salon.

"This is powder, ointment and soap made in the workshop." Yao Shanzhi brought a bunch of things to Zhao Wangshu.

Zhao Wangshu thought of those creamy and dewy cosmetics in modern cosmetics and sighed. He knew she should have majored in chemistry.

In the following days, they started to get busy.

Zhao Wangshu was busy perfecting the design drawings and finding craftsmen to repair the shop.

Yao Shanzhi was busy supervising the fat girls to make rouge, powder, soap and other goods.

During this period, the cosmetics store that faked the name of Yao Shan Zhi was shut down. The reason was quite simple. The boss saw that others had backers, so when he started doing business, everything went smoothly and he was able to run a solo business.

As for why he used the name of Yao Shanzhi instead of the name of another powerful person, the reason is still simple, "My great-uncle is the second steward of the Yao Mansion."

But the second housekeeper of Yao Mansion did not admit that he had such a grandson, "I don't have sisters, how can I have a grandson?"

But the boss said: "The younger one is the grandson of your second sister-in-law's sister-in-law."

The second housekeeper of the Yao Mansion had a dark look on his face after hearing this. This relationship had gone too far.

Fortunately, the boss was selling quite well, so Yao Shanzhi didn't want to pursue the case. She just asked the boss to open a store elsewhere and not to use her name falsely again, so she let the boss off.

A few days later, Yao Shanzhi asked Zhao Wangshu to go to the slave market and buy a few female slaves. "It's better for the servants to sign the death contract, so don't worry."

"What happened?" Zhao Wangshu listened obediently.

"Someone paid a lot of money to poach the fat lady in the workshop, and the recipe for lipstick was almost leaked." Yao Shanzhi said angrily.

"Who is it? So brave."

"Xu Wu." Yao Shanzhi gritted his teeth, "It's Xu Huanhuan who was slapped by me and kicked out of the capital a few years ago."

"Why did you slap her?" Zhao Wangshu asked curiously.

Yao Shanzhi hesitated for a moment and said, "She drugged my eldest brother in an attempt to achieve something good, but she failed and I found out."

Zhao Wangshu's mouth twitched slightly, "Well done."