Chapter 135

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The next morning, Shen Yuntang's face was rosy after being moisturized. Compared with the back pain before, he got more pleasure from it this time.

He felt that maybe he could have had a baby last night, and he couldn't help but touch his belly, fantasizing about the baby coming soon.

Liu Ya happened to see this scene and ran over to him in surprise and asked, "Cousin, am I going to have a nephew?"

"No, I just have a little stomachache. Rub my tummy." Shen Yuntang explained with a red face. How could it be so fast? He just did it yesterday and now he's saying he's pregnant. If he tells Liu Ya about it, she'll guess what he did yesterday.

"The weather has been fluctuating recently. Did you catch a cold?" Liu Ya advised him to be careful. "I still have a lot of things to do today. You can drink some hot soup."

Liu Ya has also selected helpers and is anxious to assign work tasks to them today.

In addition to this, he also needs to custom-make a plaque to hang above their small courtyard.

I also want to open a sausage shop. I can just find a smaller shop. I can sell some sausages every day, and I can also advertise and tell them the address where I can wholesale the sausages.

There are many people in Beijing, so sausages should sell better.

Shen Yuntang also planned to open a small noodle restaurant in the capital. Before coming to the capital, he wanted to open at least five, but after arriving in the capital, he found that the capital was too big, so he would be fine with opening twenty-five.

Moreover, the store does not need to be too big, just enough to accommodate four tables. He and Cheng Yeran have also discussed the price of noodles.

Originally, Cheng Yeran said that he wanted to make it the same as in the county, so that no matter where he opened a noodle shop in the future, he would have to charge the same price across the country.

However, Shen Yuntang went to several vegetable markets in the capital to inquire about the price of meat and found that the price of meat here was much more expensive than in small county towns. If the price was unified, he would have to lose more than ten cents for each bowl of noodles. A bowl of noodles was only a dozen cents, and this did not include the rent and labor costs.

Everything in the capital is more expensive than in the county towns, and the rent is even more expensive.

Their dynasty was relatively wealthy. He discovered this after he experienced the natural disaster in the village after traveling through time. After the hail in their village, many families lost more than half of their food, but most of the villagers had savings, so they could cope with it even if they encountered a natural disaster.

Cheng Yeran thought like a future person, thinking that all the chain stores would have a unified price across the country, so he also wanted to have a unified price across the country. It seemed that this method was not suitable for Beijing.

Shen Yuntang suggested that it would be better to set the price of noodles according to the commodity prices in each region, so as to set the lowest local price, which would be both delicious and affordable.

Shen Yuntang visited three shops in one go. While decorating the stores, he recruited and trained people and looked for people who knew how to cook noodles.

First open three noodle shops to make them famous, then recruit franchisees, a total of more than a dozen, and then expand from the capital to the surrounding areas.

In addition to the small noodle shop, he has actually always wanted to open a big restaurant. In addition to a variety of dishes, he also wants to add dim sum. He has learned how to bake cakes and has almost learned how to make butter.

At first he planned to open a cake shop. Cheng Yeran said that the cake shop could also be turned into a national chain, but the cakes would have to be made by himself. A noodle shop could make seasonings, but the ingredients for making cakes were all available in this era, so it was easy for others to learn how to make them.

It would be more convenient to just open a bigger restaurant and sell everything.

And he wanted to make not only cakes, but other dishes as well, and a big restaurant could satisfy all his ideas.

But I don’t know if it would be too ostentatious to open a big restaurant now, after all, Cheng Yeran has just become an official.

He specifically asked Cheng Yeran, who said there should be no problem, and told him that they should visit a few more restaurants first to see the market situation in the capital before opening a restaurant.

There is a restaurant near their home. This restaurant also has three floors, but it is much bigger than Wangchunlou.

This place is called Jinyulou. It consists of four buildings together, forming a U shape. After entering from one of the buildings, you can see an open-air stage in the middle of the four buildings. There are singing during the day and dancing performances at night. The upstairs boxes of these four buildings face the street outside and the middle stage. The side facing the stage is just right for watching the performances.

It was night when they went to Jinyu Tower, and there were several gorgeously dressed Western dancers dancing on the stage.

They were wearing rather light clothing, which made Shen Yuntang blush and quickly turned away.

Seeing him so shy, Cheng Yeran asked him, "Do you guys get shy when you see women? Are your feelings towards women the same as men's feelings towards women?"

Shen Yuntang shook his head: "I don't know, but in the past, boys could marry girls, and even boys could marry boys. Boys could make girls or other boys pregnant, but later the law stipulated that boys could only marry boys. It might be because there were more men and fewer boys and girls, or it might be to have more children. If a boy and a girl were together, only one of them could have children. If they married different men, then both the boy and the girl could have children."

"So that's how it is. If two brothers are together, then both of them can have children, so why can't two brothers get married?" Cheng Yeran felt that the existence of this law lowered the status of brothers. In their place, whoever gets married has a low status, and women, like brothers, have a low status.

The two of them chose a private room on the third floor, facing the street outside. At night, even the streets of the capital city were more prosperous and beautiful. Although there were no electric lights, every house hung colorful lanterns, which added a unique charm.

They chose the box facing the street because it is well enclosed and they can close the door and shop online.

Before they came, they had already prepared three shades of lipstick and the clothes. They put them on Liu Ya and took photos. The only thing left was to find an artist.

Today, Cheng Yeran sent pictures to the artist and asked him to draw these three sets of pictures into nine advertising pictures.

The third issue of the magazine focuses on Liu Ya, supplemented by Yuan Bao. Apart from the pictures of the two of them, the rest are store advertisements.

The locations of the noodle shops in the capital, the locations of Lin Yu’s shops, the colors of dyed cloth for Lin Yu’s custom-made clothes, sausages, etc. were all put in the magazine, and this time, another goblin story was to be written.

I won’t write about a scholar this time. I’ll give him another husband who has something to do with lipstick.

This time there was a theme, and his requirements were more specific. His suggestion to the painter was to have a fairy theme, and he wanted a painting of a fairy that was enchanting and seductive, one that could be seen to be charming and alluring at first glance.

You also need to change the pupil color. If the hair color is changed, draw a pair of pointed ears or animal ears.

Zhou Hua also passed the exam, and their printing factory was also going to move to the capital. However, the printing factory had to move a lot of things, so it would take a longer time. It was also not easy to find a large yard in the capital, as it was too expensive.

Cheng Yeran said he would invest in him and help him rent a large yard. Even if he helped pay, it would still take time to open the printing factory.

Nanshan

The third issue of the magazine is expected to be printed by the end of the year.

Another incident happened this autumn. Xia Xiaowu passed the imperial examination and became a juren.