Strategy to develop champions

Chapter 618

But after Zhao Caifeng's Tianyi Pavilion opened, the business is getting better day by day.After discussing the cooperation with the Hong family, many noble ladies from the Hou family went directly to her to order materials for clothes.Only after Zhao Caifeng entered this line of work did she realize that spending a month's salary on a brand-name bag for those petty bourgeoisies who worked in her previous life was nothing at all.These wealthy ladies spent hundreds of taels of silver to order a set of clothes without blinking an eye.

What's more, Zhao Caifeng directly asked Zhao Caifeng to design the pattern of the fabric according to her requirements, and sent it to Hong's brocade workshop to weave it directly. From the fabric to the style to the craftsmanship, everything was custom-made.Zhao Caifeng had to get into a carriage every time she sent out such clothes, and even put a lot of hand cream on her hands, fearing that her fingers would be too thick and get caught in silk threads.

Although Zhao Caifeng was busy, she calculated the money with her abacus, and there was a little smile on her face.Now that Tianyi Pavilion's business is on the right track, the store has already hired another shopkeeper, and Zhao Caifeng will personally calculate the store's accounts only at the end of the month.

Closing the account book, seeing the smile on Zhao Caifeng's face, she must be satisfied with last month's surplus. At this time, the little maid came in from the outside curtain and said, "Sister Xi'er brought another girl to the store. .”

Now Qian Xi'er is much more outgoing than before. She has been in the capital for many years and has a relationship with Liu Qiqiao. She often brings guests here, and Zhao Caifeng is used to it.Zhao Caifeng just put down her calculations, got up and greeted her, but she saw Cheng Lanzhi and Qian Xi'er coming in from the door talking and laughing.

When Cheng Lanzhi saw Zhao Caifeng, she lowered her head slightly, looking more gentle and demure than before.Earlier, I heard that General Cheng's family had returned to their hometown Pengcheng to worship their ancestors, saying that they had received the emperor's imperial decree to marry them, so they went back specially.In fact, Zhao Caifeng knew in her heart that Old General Cheng just wanted to avoid the limelight in the capital.Such a back and forth would take half a year, and when they came back, the original things would fade away.

The two greeted each other, Zhao Caifeng only invited them to sit down, served tea in person, and then asked: "I heard that the battle at the border is almost over, I don't know if it is true?"

Holding the tea, Cheng Lanzhi was grateful to Zhao Caifeng after all, nodded and said: "Father said that today he has sent people to the border for peace talks, I'm afraid this battle is over, before the end of the year, General Xiao will The teacher can return to court."

Zhao Caifeng became more and more happy after hearing this, and asked again: "Is the date set?"

Cheng Lanzhi blushed slightly, and whispered: "The eighteenth day of the first month of next year is fixed."

Zhao Caifeng only counted with her fingers, and it was only four months.

"That's coming soon. Are you ready?" It's a big deal for a girl's family to get married, especially for a rich family like them. The dowry has been prepared a few years ago. It takes a long time to start embroidering.

Cheng Lanzhi frowned when Zhao Caifeng asked about this, and Qian Xier only said, "I'm just worried about this now. Lanzhi said that she hasn't started embroidering the wedding dress yet, and she's been on the road for the past few months. I don't have time to do these things, when I got back to the capital, I heard that the Xiao family had set the date..."

Cheng Lanzhi didn't wait for Qian Xi'er to finish, but said depressedly: "It's all because I was playful when I was young and didn't learn these things well, but now I can't be in a hurry. Xi'er said that you also have custom-made wedding clothes for people here, I know I asked her to bring me here."

In the past two months, Zhao Caifeng has actually taken over a business of custom-made wedding clothes, but that family is also a wealthy landowner in the capital, who married into a big landlord's family in other places. The clothes are good, which is why I avoided my laziness.According to the tradition of the capital, it is better for the newlyweds to sew the wedding clothes by themselves, but there are still four months left, if no one helps Cheng Lanzhi, I am afraid that her wedding clothes will not be good after all. decent.

Thinking of Xiao Yiming, Zhao Caifeng felt a little guilty, and felt that since he came back from the border, he had become more responsible, and he was no longer as reckless as before. He has a sense of admiration.

Zhao Caifeng thought for a while, picked up her usual measuring tape from the tea table beside her, pulled Cheng Lanzhi and said, "Get up, let me measure your size first. The wedding clothes are all given by Xi'er, now that I have enough money, I don't have anything to give, so I just make a decent wedding dress for you."

When Cheng Lanzhi heard this, he just said, "Then why not, I have the material for wedding clothes at home, so you just need to help me process it."

Zhao Caifeng just shook her head and said: "Don't bother, I recently designed a few new patterns, and the Hong family said that they would take them to the brocade workshop, and let the weavers make the patterns directly, so that there is no need to embroider them again. Those The phoenix and mandarin duck designs are big, time-consuming to embroider, and cumbersome to wear. I thought of a way, just draw some patterns you like, and let them be woven directly to make skirts. It's better."

(End of this chapter)