reborn princess

Chapter 314 Miserable Days
"Hey..." Sui Youran sighed faintly, "That's the only way!"

She trusted Shen Luo from the bottom of her heart, as long as Shen Luo sat there and said nothing, her heart would be at peace.

Several people were busy carrying all the things in the yard into the house, found out the gift list, and checked everything, and found that it was twice as heavy as yesterday's gift. In addition to gifts, jade pendants and engagement documents It was also delivered in a small box, and the 1 taels of silver bills were also in that box.

"Daughter-in-law, I'm back!" Xuan Chen broke into the practice room and shouted with joy.

Ye Weilan stopped and looked at him in surprise, "Why are you here again?"

"Hey..." Xuan Chen replied. "My mother promised me to stay and practice with the master, and also agreed to our marriage, daughter-in-law, do you miss me?"

Ye Weilan looked at him speechlessly, and wondered in her heart, in what life did she do the evil?To come across such a piece of material, so thick-skinned that it is even thicker than the corner of the city wall. He is only 12 years old, and with this kind of virtue, he is a wife and daughter-in-law all day long.
She could almost foresee the miserable days ahead.

Xuan Chen blinked, and said with a smile: "Daughter-in-law, why do you look at me like this? Haven't you seen me for a few days, and I've become handsome again?"

Ye Weilan rolled her eyes, turned around and went to practice, she was really too lazy to talk to him!

……

Zhenbei General's Mansion——

Xuan Yu looked at his sweet wife angrily, "You asked Brother Hui to give Shen Luo double the dowry, how much dowry would it be appropriate for him to give that girl in the future? He's not like our family, He has a big family and a big career. Although the emperor didn't decree to dismiss him as an official, he hasn't received a salary in these years, so it can be said that he has no wealth."

"I just want to see if that girl has a backbone." Baili Yao calmly sipped a cup of ginger jujube tea. "If that girl had integrity, she wouldn't just bring the dowry gift from us to marry. Let me tell you, I haven't done anything more embarrassing, and I haven't given her the formal dowry gift yet."

Xuan Yu was so angry that she couldn't help it, and said, "I'm really too lazy to talk to you!"

Baili Yao glanced at him coquettishly, "If you have the ability, really ignore me."

While talking, I heard someone outside saying, "The general's wife is back."

Immediately afterwards, Lu Jiaoying raised the cotton curtain and walked in. Behind her was a little girl, holding a small table screen in her hands.

Lu Jiaoying glanced at Mrs. Wu indifferently, and said with a smile, "Xiaoyao, what are we talking about?"

"Well, sister-in-law, you are back, how are things going?" Baili Yao got up and asked.

"The things are left behind, Brother Chen has also gone back, it seems that there will be no more trouble." Lu Jiaoying said, winking at the maid who was holding the small table screen. "I just got a rare thing. I was busy yesterday, so we had time to talk. I'm free today, so I'll bring it here for you to see."

"What kind of rare thing? You look like a baby." Baili Yao took the screen with a smile, looked at it a few times, and saw that it was just a picture of plum blossoms, so he laughed. "It's just a small table screen, so it's worth your rarity?"

Lu Jiaoying turned the small table screen around, exposing the back of the table screen, and Bai Liyao immediately exclaimed: "Double-sided embroidery?"

"That's right, it's double-sided embroidery." Lu Jiaoying said with a smile. "Speaking of which, your in-laws and mothers really have a pair of skillful hands, and they can come up with this kind of embroidery method. Isn't it really a rare thing? A few days ago, they gave the New Year's Day gift. I said it was rare, but I still thought about it." When spring comes next year, I will send someone to send it to you. Give it to the Empress Dowager, so that she will be a rarity. Just when you came, I was afraid that my memory would be bad and I would forget it later, so I brought it for you. You take it Well, don’t forget to take it with you when you turn around.”

Xuan Yu reached for the small table screen in her hand, looked over and over again, "It is indeed a rare item, if the embroiderers of our embroidery shop can learn this skill, it will be a good magic weapon for making money. Would you like to follow Mother-in-law tell me, let her teach this craft to our embroiderer?"

Baili Yao shook his head, "No! I already have a set of screens, and I plan to let our embroiderer figure it out for herself. This is something that knows everything, and there will always be someone who is smart enough to figure it out."

As she said that, a sneer curled up on the corner of her lips, that girl was guarding such a profitable golden hen, she wanted to see how far she could go.

If there is no way to use this opportunity to make a fortune, she thought, this daughter-in-law can completely disappear from her candidate list.At that time, no matter who objected, she would not soften her heart.

……

In the evening, Chen An said that he had already made an agreement with the magistrate's wife, and even brought the money. The magistrate's wife was very generous and gave the money directly.

Ye Weilan had already sent Song Hengzhi and Li Feng to buy all the materials needed in advance. What she thought at the time was that if the Madam Zhixian thought it was too expensive and didn't want to do this business with her, she could make dim sum and eat it slowly.

Anyway, there are a lot of people in the family, and they all like to eat dim sum.

And Chen An also brought her a piece of news, that is, she didn't need to buy food boxes for delivery by herself, and the magistrate's wife would send someone to pick up the snacks when they were ready.

For Ye Weilan, this is definitely a good idea.

After getting the real news, she began to call up the staff and started to work busily.

Xuan Chen and Luan Ying also came to help, but she still felt that there was not enough manpower. Finally, under Li Ying's recommendation, she called Cui Niang and Huo Niang who were friends with Li Ying. All the two hundred catties of cakes were made.

Chen An sent a letter to the magistrate's wife, and the magistrate's wife sent a steward to drive a cart pulled by two big green mules, and put these pastries in a big food box carried by two people, and took them away. .

Ye Weilan gave Huo Niang and Cui Niang a salary of two taels of silver each.

Both of them declined, but Ye Weilan insisted that they accept it, and said that if they didn't accept the money, it would be difficult for her to ask them for help in the future.

Only then did the two accept the money, but they still said too much. After all, those strong laborers can only earn twenty copper coins a day to repair the city wall, and two silver coins are two hundred copper coins, which is equal to those strong laborers. It's ten days.

Huo Niang and Cui Niang all left happily, and Li Ying's family also said goodbye and went home to rest.

Ye Weilan didn't give Li Ying any money. She felt that if the relationship between the two of them was measured by money, it would be heresy.

"Daughter-in-law, look!" Xuan Chen ran into Ye Weilan's room with a wooden clip in his hand, sat sideways beside her, and opened the wooden clip for her to see. "Look, I was locked in the house two days ago and couldn't go anywhere. I was just bored, so I drew a design."

Ye Weilan looked curiously at the wooden clip opened in his hand. Inside the clip was a stack of snow-white rice paper with a picture of a house drawn with charcoal on it. What surprised her was that the picture was as real as it was. like a house.

"Look, this is the pastry shop I designed."

Ye Weilan said in surprise, "You really want to open a pastry shop?"

"Of course it's true!" He explained to her enthusiastically. "I have already thought about it. Our shop must not be the same as an ordinary pastry shop. Otherwise, it will not be competitive. I plan to make it a study and a teahouse. The pastries are sold by piece. One piece of cake, plus a cup Tea, and the same dried fruit, are sold together, and can be sold for 28 copper coins. Of course, they can also be sold separately, but if they are sold separately, 28 copper coins cannot buy these three things. Separate these three things If you buy it, it will cost at least 35 yuan, do you understand? This is called bundled sales!"

Ye Weilan opened her eyes blankly, she couldn't understand what he was saying, but in a trance, she seemed to understand something, "You mean to take advantage of people's greed for petty gain and sell a lot of things? "

"Smart!" Xuan Chen praised her without hesitation.

Ye Weilan didn't know why, but her face suddenly turned red, she turned her face aside, and asked in a low voice, "Then what do you mean by the study?"

In fact, in the past two days, she was also considering the feasibility of opening a pastry shop. This time, she earned 24 taels of silver from Madam Zhixian. Although it was to get rid of the cost, she did the math, and the total cost was nine taels. Money, a net profit of 14 taels, and after subtracting the two taels each for Huo Niang and Cui Niang, there are still 14 taels, so the profit is still quite large.

Xuan Chen said: "There is no shortage of scholars anywhere. These scholars like to go to those so-called elegant places to party in their daily life. We can set up a few bookshelves in the shop. As long as they come to patronize, they can read books at will. Then let's buy some special books. Beautiful bowls and plates, make things more pleasing to the eye. Think about it, in the cold winter months, our shop is equipped with a heating heater, and there are food, drinks and books. Those scholars who like arty Wouldn't you like to patronize?"

"You mean, our pastry shop only caters to male customers?" Ye Weilan felt a little awkward. In this world, she couldn't think of any other shop that only catered to male customers, except for a brothel.

"Of course not!" Xuan Chen overturned her guess, and pointed to the design drawing he drew. "Look, there is an area here. Every table is an independent small box. The compartment is made of wooden boards. The door is a bead curtain. Female guests can also come. And we have a second floor!"

As he said, he turned another page, "Let's make the second floor into private rooms, and set a minimum consumption for him in the private rooms. Let me use an analogy, if you want to go to a private room, you have to spend at least one tael of silver. Two silver coins won't let him go up. Isn't it a good idea for those rich ladies to come to our bakery for a little gathering with three or five handkerchiefs? They usually don't have much chance to go out, if they have Such a place for them to entertain, do you think they will come?"

(End of this chapter)