However, as the legitimate daughter of the city lord, Shen Meng grew up in Dongquan City and must have many friends and acquaintances. It would be easy for her to open up the market by doing business with women.

Yes, Song Yan'er is planning to open a cosmetics shop! She's had this idea ever since she arrived in Dongquan City; the cosmetics of ancient times are truly indescribable! She initially thought it was just a problem with Peach Blossom Village being backward, but it turns out the girls in the city aren't much better. They use charred willow branches as eyebrow pencils, their lips and faces are always the same color, and they even use rouge for lipstick. And this is basically the standard makeup look in the entire city.

Song Yan'er remembers how stunning the makeup of the ancient people in the TV series was, paired with their elegant and luxurious clothes, it was simply dazzling.

It turns out that TV dramas are all lies!

Of course, opening a shop is still quite troublesome, mainly because there's no one available!

"Do you know where I can buy people? You know, the kind with a life-long contract!" This kind of thing can only be done by your own people; you don't trust anyone else!

"Yes, I'll take you there later, but is there anything I can do for you?"

"Find a shop. We'll sell lipsticks and rouge. Women's money is the easiest to earn. Hmm, the shop doesn't need to be too big, two will be enough! The rest is finding people. I have the formulas for making these, but you know these formulas can't be passed on, so we need to buy contracts with these people to do it!"

"Wow, Yan'er, how are you so smart? How come I never thought of that before!"

Song Yan'er rolled her eyes. "Alright, stop bragging and let's find a shop first!"

Chenmeng: I learned a new word today, "awkward boasting"!

Chen Meng: "I have a shop in a really good location, but... well, I'll show you!" Her expression was a bit complicated.

"Okay, let's go then!" Song Yan'er had just finished eating!

Looking at the three large shops in front of me, which were clothing stores, it was obvious that business was not good. Apart from the shopkeeper, there was no one else in the huge shops!

No one else can run a business like this!

"Sigh, this is my dowry left to me by my birth mother. My father handed it over to me after I grew up, but I didn't know how to manage it, and over time, it ended up like this!"

Song Yan'er and Shen Meng walked inside. The shopkeeper was overjoyed to see Shen Meng, as if a dog had seen a meat bun. "Miss, you've finally arrived! Please replace me. I'd rather be a lowly maidservant by your side than stay here!"

Looking at such a big store, with not a single customer every day, the pressure is just too much.

Song Yan'er was speechless. "No wonder the business is failing when you hire a maid to be the manager!"

Song Yan'er took a look at the structure of the house and was very satisfied. There was also a large courtyard at the back, which could be used as accommodation for people working here!

The main thing now is to make things, and then do some simple renovations on this house! Order some cabinets and stuff!

When Song Yan'er and Shen Meng arrived at the slave market, Song Yan'er was stunned: There were so many people!

Song Yan'er took a liking to a woman in her mid-twenties at first glance. Although she had two children, Song Yan'er was particularly drawn to her eyes! They held a stubbornness mixed with resentment, unlike those who were meek and submissive, who seemed to consider themselves servants from the bottom of their hearts!

In the end, Song Yan'er spent ten taels to buy the mother and her two daughters, and also bought five little maids, who temporarily lived in the courtyard of the shop!

The rest was left to Chen Meng, while Song Yan'er went back to her residence to draw up the interior design plans!

After Xiao Yang finishes his exams, we'll discuss settling down here. Since the shop is located here, we'll definitely need to be hands-on at first. It's not convenient to always live in the Fourth Prince's residence. We could buy a house here and bring our parents over too!

As expected, many hands make light work. When Song Yan'er went to the shop the next day, the backyard had been cleaned up spotlessly! The front was also mostly done, and they were preparing to order cabinets to display the trinkets! It was just a pity that there were no glass cabinets here!

Song Yan'er first took the mother of the three women from yesterday to buy the necessary materials. This mother was named Wen Xiang, and she was a real treasure, saving Song Yan'er a lot of trouble!

Wenxiang was disliked by her husband's family because she had given birth to two daughters in a row. Moreover, since Wenxiang's husband passed the imperial examination at the junior high school last year, he also began to feel that a woman like Wenxiang was not good enough for him, so he divorced her and abandoned her two daughters, and wanted to marry the daughter of the city lord of Dongquan City.

Wenxiang didn't care and took her two daughters back to her parents' home. However, what Wenxiang didn't expect was that after only two days back home, her sister-in-law packed up the three of them and sold them to a human trafficker, which led to Song Yan'er buying them!

To Song Yan'er's surprise, Wen Xiang often made lipsticks and rouges for her husband's family and sold them in Peach Blossom Town, and the business was quite good! So Song Yan'er entrusted Wen Xiang with the task of selecting the materials.

The six people who stayed at Dayanshan also found this place yesterday. Song Yan'er rented another courtyard for them to live in. She hasn't arranged any other work for them yet, but just asked them to help out in the shop!

Since the shop was just starting out, Song Yan'er didn't plan to make too many things, so she quickly bought all the materials! All she needed was to customize the molds. She found Chen Meng to customize the molds, and Song Yan'er drew up the blueprints and asked Chen Meng to customize them. Although it was small, it was quite complicated, so it would take three days to receive them.

Upon arriving at the shop, I had the others take out the materials they bought to air them out. Then, I took the little girls I had bought yesterday and started grinding some dried flower petals into powder. We waited for the molds to arrive before we began making lip balms. We had all sorts of colors, and they were all practical materials!

Song Yan'er wrote down the recipes for all the items sold in the shop and handed them to Wen Xiang. Wen Xiang was flattered and quickly waved her hand, saying, "Boss, this is unacceptable! How could you tell me these recipes? You should protect them! They are family heirlooms!"

"I entrusted this to you because I trust you. To be honest, I only know these recipes; I've never made them myself. Besides, I have limited time and can't stay here every day, so I feel at ease entrusting it to you. Don't you deserve my trust? Or do you not want to help me?"

"Alright, boss, don't worry. These recipes are between you and me, and no third person will know them, at least not on my end!"

"Okay, I like your decisive nature. When making them, have each of them make one, and you can do the most important steps. Or, after you're familiar with it, you can find someone reliable!"

"Okay, boss, don't worry, I will definitely not let you down."

Wenxiang was very grateful to Song Yan'er for not treating them like slaves. After experiencing so much, Wenxiang had come to terms with it all. Only her own well-being mattered; no one else could be relied on! Perhaps this was her chance, and she had to seize it!