Chapter 83 Cooperation◇

Zhou Yu bought the mountain as he wished, and then excitedly took Zhu Xi, Zhou Luo, and a bunch of his family members to the mountain to see the hot spring...

While everyone was looking at the hot spring, Zhou Yu took the opportunity to tell them about her future resort plans!

"Look, this hot spring pool may look small, but the spring where it flows out actually has a lot of water. It's just that the water probably flows down the bottom of the pool or somewhere in the crevice of the mountain, so there's only this small pool left on the ground..."

In the future, as long as we can drain the hot spring water from this spring, we can use it to create countless hot spring pools on this mountain...

This hot spring soup is a wonderful thing. It contains many substances that are beneficial to the human body. Soaking in it more often is very beneficial to the human body and can also greatly relax the body and mind...

This will be the signature of our hot spring resort from now on, and it will be the only one of its kind in all of Kyoto."

Zhou Yu excitedly said to everyone:

"With these hot spring pools, we can find a good landscape designer to create small gardens with unique characteristics but overall coordination based on these pools. For example, we can make a peony garden here, a thatched house there... and so on.

Then connect these small gardens together to build a large villa where you can have fun, enjoy the scenery, and relax...that's our hot spring villa!

I think, with such a great place like this, and Kyoto having no shortage of wealthy people, once our hot spring resort is built, there will definitely be a lot of customers...

When the time comes, we can also make use of the fruit trees planted by my grandparents... For example, when the flowers bloom, we can use the flower viewing as a gimmick to hold a peach blossom festival or pear blossom festival at the villa. When the fruits are ripe, we can hold a fruit picking festival...

We can even build a garden specifically for entertaining the women. Let me tell you, women are just as good at spending money as men..."

Zhou Yu chattered on and on about her plans. Aside from Zhu Xi and Zhou Luo occasionally chiming in with their own opinions and ideas, everyone else was stunned by Zhou Yu's ideas. If they were to follow Sister Yu's plan, how much money would it cost?!

But then they thought, there are two wealthy people here who are willing to give her hundreds of thousands of taels and let her do whatever she wants, so everyone stopped worrying...

Now, everyone knows Zhu Xi's identity...

Although no one knows how much money Zhou Luo has, but the fifth grandson?!

Everyone in Kyoto knows that when the Crown Princess married the Crown Prince, her dowry stretched from the Duke of E all the way to the East Palace where the Crown Prince lived!

That grand spectacle is still talked about by the people of Kyoto today. Whenever a daughter of a wealthy family gets married, her dowry is compared with that of the Crown Princess. As a result, some families, even if they clearly don't want to give their daughters such a large dowry, have to fill it up for the sake of face. Otherwise, the people of Kyoto will see that the dowry is too small and looks too ugly! The whole family will be embarrassed!

Everyone knows that Duke E gave almost all of his wealth to the Crown Princess, his only daughter, as a dowry! They also know that the dowry is now in the hands of the fifth grandson of the emperor!

So, who has no money? This person will not be without money!

But now that they were no longer worried about the money, everyone started to worry about whether the Fifth Emperor's grandson was willing to spend so much money just for Sister Yu's words and whether his motives were impure...

After all, Zhou Luo and Zhou Yu are cousins ​​from the same clan, so no matter what, he wouldn't have any bad intentions towards his cousin Zhou Yu...

But the Fifth Grandson is not so sure...

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Even Zheng was feeling a little uneasy...

Zheng felt that by now, Zhu Xi's feelings for her daughter, A-Yu, were obvious to everyone...

When Zhu Xi lived in her house, she saw the two children inseparable all day long. Zheng Shi had actually thought about this at the time. At that time, she actually thought the two children were quite a good match...

The two have known each other since childhood and their personalities are very compatible...

At that time, Zhu Xi was still called Chang Sanlang. Although he was a hot-headed boy who often yelled and made noises, he was well disciplined by his daughter Ayu. No matter what Ayu said to him or made him angry, he was still willing to play with Ayu!

Ayu was the same. On the surface, she was disgusted with the boy, but in the next moment she was amused by him and started laughing!

At the time, Zheng Shi didn't know Zhu Xi was the fifth emperor's grandson. She simply assumed he was a stubborn young man who had lost both his biological parents and had run away from home in anger because he was disliked by his stepmother and scolded by his grandfather...

At that time, Zheng thought that when her daughter Ayu grew up, she could take Chang Sanlang as a live-in son-in-law. That way, her daughter Ayu wouldn't have to marry out and wouldn't have to serve her parents-in-law. Besides, Chang Sanlang had been afraid of Ayu since he was a child, so he wouldn't dare bully her when he grew up...

Therefore, when Chang Sanlang broke up with his daughter and left, Zheng Shi felt regretful for a long time. But who knew that when the child came back, he would become the fifth grandson of the emperor...

The status of the fifth grandson of the emperor is certainly much nobler than that of Chang Sanlang, who has no father or mother. But for Zheng, who did not live happily in her husband's family after marriage and had just experienced exile, Zhu Xi's status is not a good match for her daughter at all!

She only hopes that her daughters can live a safe, healthy and happy life.

Therefore, she doesn't want her Ayu to marry into the royal family and become a princess who looks high and mighty but actually has to follow etiquette and rules all day long!

What's more, given their family's status, the current emperor would not allow the fifth grandson to marry her A Yu as his principal wife. No matter how nice the title of concubine sounds, she is still a concubine!

Their Ayu is so ambitious, how could she be willing to be someone's concubine?

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Of course, Zhou Yu had no idea what her grandparents and her mother were worried about. After introducing her plan to everyone, she began to talk to them about the issue of profit sharing from the cooperation.

Zhou Yu believed that since they were going to do business together, they naturally had to agree on the rules first and write them down clearly in black and white.

“Although we may need you to contribute more money when we build the villa in the future, the hot springs on the mountain were discovered by my grandfather’s family, and the idea of ​​opening a hot spring villa was mine!

Don't underestimate the person who came up with this idea. If I hadn't come up with this idea, how could we have the business we are doing together today and make money together in the future?

Therefore, I think this hot spring and the idea of ​​building a hot spring villa should also be part of my and my grandfather's family's investment!"

Zhou Yu first fought for his side.

Zhou Luo smiled and asked, "How much do you plan to own?"

"Hmm~ I think it's reasonable for my maternal family and I to each hold 20% of the shares, and for you two to each hold 30%!"

"That won't do," Zhou Luo said with a deliberately stern face. Seeing Zhou Yu and Zhu Xi beside him change their expressions, he chuckled and said:

“You already said that the idea was yours, and the hot springs were discovered by your maternal grandparents, so how can you take such a small share?

If you ask me, let's stop arguing and just divide the shares into four equal parts!"

Zhou Luo felt that what Zhou Yu said was right. In his opinion, it was reasonable for Zhou Yu, who first came up with this business, and the Zheng family, who discovered the hot springs, to own more than half of the shares.

Zhu Xi naturally thought that the more he gave to Zhou Yu's family, the better, so he did not object when he heard it, and even suggested giving Zhou Yu more, but Zhou Yu refused!

So the shareholders' meeting, which everyone thought would be the beginning of a debate, ended quickly to Zhou Yu's astonishment. The few of them easily reached a consensus and signed the cooperation documents!

What was even more astonishing was that Mr. Zheng was dragged by his granddaughter to put his fingerprints on the document without any knowledge. Without investing a penny, he became one of the four major shareholders of the hot spring villa.

After signing the agreement, it’s time to discuss how to build the villa!

"I think since we're going to build it, we have to make it refreshing. I'll be responsible for finding the craftsmen who will design the garden. Ah Yu, have Ah Ying draw a rough outline of your concept. Then I can show it to the craftsmen and let them use it as a reference..."

Zhu Xi spoke first.

There are a lot of craftsmen who design gardens in the Ministry of Industry, and they will use whichever one is better when the time comes!

Zhou Luo also thought of this and felt that Zhu Xi was the most suitable person to do this! Not only could he save money, but he could also find the final designer! So he immediately agreed and said to Zhu Xi:

"Okay, since you're in charge of finding the craftsmen who will design the garden, then leave all the chores involved in building the villa to me. I haven't had anything else to do in the last few months anyway, so I might as well be free...

As for the initial investment, you and I will each contribute 20,000 taels. We can talk about it later if it's not enough. Is that okay with you?"

Zhu Xi naturally nodded and said yes, and Zhou Yu said:

"I think our villa doesn't need to be too extravagant. It should be simple and comfortable. I can use the more than one thousand taels I have first. Although I don't have as much money as you, since I am a shareholder, I have to pay the money!"

"I'll also give a thousand taels!" Old Master Zheng, who was standing by, saw that the children were throwing in so much money. He couldn't get something for nothing, so he slammed the thousand taels of silver note given to him by his daughter on the table.

Forget it, let's wait and marry off our son and grandson's daughter-in-law. Making money is the most important thing first! Although he doesn't know if the business his granddaughter has started will be profitable...

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In the following days, everyone devoted themselves to the construction of the hot spring villa.

When Zhou Jin heard that his sister was going to open a hot spring villa with Zhu Xi and Zhou Luo, he specially sent another 1,000 taels of silver. Together with the 2,000 taels that Zheng had originally intended to return to his grandfather, he invested all of it in the hot spring villa.

In order to facilitate the supervision of the construction of the manor, Zhou Yu and Zhou Luo both lived directly in the Zheng family.

Zhu Xi is now with Emperor Chengqian all day and can't come here often, so he sent his current close follower Ye Qing to help Zhou Yu run around...

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Two years ago, after Ye Qing returned from Liaodong with Zhu Xi, although Zhu Xi said nothing, he still did not dare to hide anything and reported to Emperor Cheng Qian that he had lost his fifth grandson when the Tartars were raiding the valley.

After hearing this, Emperor Cheng Qian did not punish him severely, but he transferred him away from the Fifth Imperial Grandson and sent him back to the Dark Guard Camp for another two years of training!

Ye Qing had stayed in that place for ten years. It was his lifelong nightmare and a place he would rather accept severe punishment from Emperor Qian than go back to.

But he had to go back again. At that time, Ye Qing thought that after he went out, he would never come back to this damn place again!

Some time ago, he was finally released. Emperor Cheng Qian told him that from now on he would be the personal guard of the Fifth Imperial Grandson and he would no longer have to obey his orders. From now on, he only had to obey the Fifth Imperial Grandson!

If the Fifth Imperial Grandson asked him to get reinforcements but he disobeyed the order again, or if he dared to betray the Fifth Imperial Grandson, then what awaited him would not be a return to the Dark Guard Camp, but he would directly become the target of the Dark Guard Camp's secret training.

Ye Qing was so scared that he broke out in cold sweats, because becoming the target of the secret guards was more terrifying than returning to the secret guard camp!

Ye Qing knew that since Emperor Cheng Qian said so, he would definitely do it. Even if Emperor Cheng Qian passed away in the future, those secret guards would still act according to his instructions!

Ye Qing has now learned his lesson. He thinks that since his life and death will be decided by the Fifth Grandson, then it won't hurt him to curry favor with Zhou Yu, whom the Fifth Grandson cares about.

Therefore, when Ye Qing was sent by Zhu Xi to be Zhou Yu's assistant this time, he behaved more cautiously, even a little flattering, which made Zhou Yu couldn't help but look at him several times, thinking, why does this close follower of Zhu Xi seem to know her?

But she didn't seem to have seen him? !