delicious little cook

Chapter 685

The three of them made an agreement, had enough food, paid the bill, went back to finish today's class, and left early in the afternoon.

When Gu Yun came home and saw Bai Kou was there, he couldn't wait to share with her the results of Shi Tianmin's investigation and the next good show. Bai Kou showed a lack of interest in Lin Qing's fate, but when he heard that it was Liang Zhongshan instigated her behind her back, and she regained her spirits.

"If you don't mention him, you will almost forget it. He will get married next month. I hope he has a happy marriage."

Bai Kou smiled treacherously, and Gu Yun felt his heart beating when he saw it.

"How could it be possible to be happy?" Gu Yun shook his head helplessly.

"That's his business. On this point, Lin Qingzhen was right in scolding him. It's quite interesting for two guys with flawed characters to scold each other."

"Liang Zhongshan hasn't provoked me these days, so don't mention him."

"Okay, I won't mention it if I don't mention it, but when you are free occasionally, please greet the owner of Wangjiang Tower. I wonder if they have raised enough money to repair the house and reopen the business."

"Oh, I don't want to think about it."

"It's almost Chinese New Year. It's your duty to walk around between business partners. I don't run errands for these things."

"Okay, I'll do my job." Gu Yun suddenly approached Bai Kou meanly, "I need some motivation."

Bai Kou jumped up and wanted to run, but Gu Yun did the calculations but didn't care, he quickly hugged her by the waist, and then pressed her down. After a while, he let her go out to do things.

Shi Tianmin took over the matter of rectifying Lin Qing, but finding a suitable reason to hold a banquet is not something that can be done in a day or two, so Gu Yun and the others didn't urge them to let Shi Tianmin do it. Busy with the farm work on the outskirts of the city, taking classes, and racking his brains to cope with various exams in government schools, Gu Yun also has to be distracted from keeping in touch with various business partners, and by the way, people are chasing glass mirror samples behind his butt every day , The days passed smoothly like running water.

After pushing all the trivial matters not directly related to the factory to Shizi, Bai Kou focused on the business she was in charge of. The yield rate of flat glass was slowly increasing, and a batch of large batches could be produced every four or five days. Large and small mirrors, the large mirror that can reflect the whole face were first sent to the East Palace. After Queen Ye satisfied her own use, she asked the Crown Princess to tell Mrs. Gu not to send it anymore. It was sent to the palace as a commemorative sample. The quantity is already enough, if you send it away, Gu Yun, the imperial merchant, don't do business.

With Queen Ye's words, Gu Yun stopped immediately, so the mirrors sent to the palace were limited to the Queen Mother, the Saint, the Empress and the Eastern Palace. The second-class concubines headed by Concubine Zhao Xian couldn't even have a small hand mirror. No.

Concubine Zhao Xian was so angry that she acted like a baby to the sage. The sage coaxed Concubine Zhao over with the excuse that the quality of the trial product was not good, because it was just a sample for trial production, and the workers produced it while groping, and the quality could not be consistent. The picture frame is also a rough folk handicraft, if it is not because it is something new and unprecedented, otherwise there is no chance of being used at all.

After being demoted in this way, the sage promised to wait for the authentic product to come out, not to use the frame made by the factory itself, but to give the royal craftsmen only the lens, and make a gorgeous big mirror for the concubine with precious materials.

Although Concubine Zhao Xian felt that the big cake painted by the sage was a bit perfunctory, but after thinking about it, at least no other concubines got the mirror except the empress and the queen dowager. mentioned.

A large vanity mirror that can illuminate the whole face is really rare. At the other end of the East Palace, only the prince and his wife and the eldest daughter and the eldest son have a large mirror. The second son is still a baby and cannot use the mirror temporarily. Only small mirrors are allocated, but concubine women still have large hand mirrors with long handles. It is most convenient to check whether the back of the head is neat and beautiful after combing hair every day. You only need to use it a few times and you will never want to look at it again With the big bronze mirror in front of him, he was full of expectation that Gu Yun's workshop could make a bigger mirror.

After the palace is no longer needed, the large and small mirrors produced by the workshop first satisfy the curiosity of the masters and masters in the mansion. No matter how big or small, they should be handed out as much as possible. The wish is to produce high-quality full-length mirrors during the Chinese New Year, and then take advantage of the closing time of the Chinese New Year to secretly install mirrors all over the walls of the cooperative store, and when it reopens in a few years, it will surely earn a lot of money.

The news of the glass mirror was spread by word of mouth all over the capital. Businessmen flocked to the factory to see the real thing. Bai Kou actually set up a display room in the office area. The waste plate glass is embedded in it, and a glass box is placed in the center of the room, and then four mirrors are placed back to back in the box, so that no matter which side the visitors stand on, they can clearly see own face.

The merchants who had seen the real thing immediately wanted to inquire about the price, Bai Kou ordered the stewards to refuse all of them, and the same caliber was that the current scrap rate was high, so welcome to visit, but not to discuss business.

When the merchants heard about the problem of scrap rate, they immediately expressed their understanding, and left their famous posts after the visit, waiting for future cooperation opportunities.

After these people have seen the real thing, they naturally want to share what they have seen and heard with their relatives and friends when they return home. Even the illiterate people know that the big workshop of Xilefang may produce new things next year. That Bai Koubai The big shopkeeper can really do business.

The factory only makes transparent colored glaze, and deliberately changed the name of this type of colored glaze to glass. Besides, they do not steal business from other colored glaze merchants. At most, they take a few special orders occasionally to make colored medicine bottles, so There is no competition with their peers, but now they make mirrors, which makes the craftsmen who polish bronze mirrors for a living feel nervous. They think of the soap craftsmen. This industry was strangled. After the start of trial production, the workshops that make soap for a living have closed down one after another and changed their business. Now, in just half a year, Fresh Household Soap has achieved the effect of de facto monopolizing the entire capital.

The mirror grinder's worries about his future livelihood did not affect Bai Kou's plan in the slightest. The renovation of the vacant Xianbugou workshop in the front alley of Zhou's house has come to an end, and she can open the door to welcome guests only after the gardener arranges the garden. Of course, I hope to prepare a room with a mirror wall before that. The girls can do whatever they want in front of the big mirror, behavior correction, etiquette training, and even compete on whose clothes and make-up look better.

In such a busy schedule, it came to the end of November without knowing it. Seeing that the twelfth lunar month is approaching, the marriage of Gu Yan, the fourth lady in the mansion, has entered the final preparation stage. At the same time, Bai Kou also learned from Ning Peilan that According to the news, Tong Mingli will get married as scheduled. To Tong Mingli, Gu Gong and his family are in-laws and friends at the same time, so they will naturally send a congratulatory gift.

(Author's note: Hi, everyone, Happy March [-] International Working Women's Day! According to the legal definition of our country, women who have reached the age of [-] are collectively referred to as women, so today is a festival for us as women. Do you still remember the origin of this festival? This It is a memorial day for women to fight for their own rights. All the rights we are accustomed to enjoy now are the result of bloodshed, sacrifice and hard work of our ancestors. As the descendants who enjoy the fruits, we have the responsibility and obligation to protect these rights and continue to pass them on. , instead of disappearing from our hands.)
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