Chapter 343: Painting with Taste
Old Master Liu got angry and left in a huff. The eldest old lady quickly chased after him and said nice things to him.
Hu Xiner felt very relieved. The first wife's current ending was all their own fault, just as what Madam Dou said.
Good deeds will be rewarded and evil deeds will be punished, God is watching!
With her husband, a doctor, taking care of her and without too much to worry about, Mrs. Dou recovered quickly.
One day, Hu Xiner took a carriage out of the city.
Yun Qiu smiled and said, "Young Madam is such a kind person! If people in the capital knew that our comic book shop offers such good benefits, they would probably be scrambling to come and work for you!"
Hu Xin'er laughed: "How can it be so exaggerated as you say?"
She lifted the car curtain and saw large patches of red leaves on the mountain outside, which was very beautiful.
Yun Qiu said in amazement, "When the Second East Guard said that our shop was far away, I thought it was in the wilderness. How come there is such a beautiful red leaf here?"
Hu Xin'er also stared intently: "Maybe it wasn't the season for the leaves to turn red at that time, so it didn't look surprising."
Yin Li leaned lazily against the carriage and threw a stone.
The red leaves were beaten down and fluttered down, causing Hu Xin'er and Yun Qiu to laugh again.
The carriage continued to move, and in less than a quarter of an hour, the shop appeared in front of the manor.
Hu Xiner got off the carriage and was stunned by the scene before her.
She originally thought that the environment of the remote and cheap shop in the suburbs would not be very good, and it might be a desolate version of Shuangxi Village.
What appeared before my eyes was a whole street and houses. Although it was just a gravel road, it was much better than the dirty and messy situation in the village.
The Dou couple stepped out of another carriage, equally shocked. "When did such a wonderful place appear in the suburbs of Beijing?"
It is called a shop, but in fact it is a factory for printing books. Everyone here is working hard. There are both male and female workers, and the sound of laughter is endless.
There are a few earthen houses next to it, which seem to be used as breakfast shops or something like that. There are many workers here, and if we sell breakfast to them, there is indeed a business opportunity.
At the door of the breakfast shop, an old man was waving a palm-leaf fan with a leisurely look on his face, and he seemed very glad to have found such a business opportunity.
Further away, the wind blew the wheat waves, that was the shop owner's territory.
Red leaves are fluttering down, and there seems to be a built villa in the woods, like a resort.
"Have we taken the wrong path?" Yun Qiu carefully tugged at Hu Xin'er's sleeve. "Young Madam, this seems to be the Zhao family's farm. They just built the Lanqiu Villa a few years ago, and it seems to be right here."
Hu Xin'er scratched her head. "But, whose family would build a street specifically underneath their villa?"
Yun Qiu was stunned by the question.
Yes, the villas of these dignitaries are all built in uninhabited areas, in order to be elegant and detached from the mundane world.
"And didn't the princess hold the shop owner accountable last time she came? Although the Zhao family is from a wealthy family, they also have some power and won't bow to power...right?" Although Hu Xin'er was a little nervous, the more she analyzed, the more confident she felt.
Several people looked at each other.
Hu Xiner was the first to walk to the door of a shop. She saw that several rooms inside were connected to each other. A man who looked like a scholar was squinting his eyes and proofreading books.
The name of the book is "The Domineering Prince and His Lovely Guard".
We walked to a shop next door, where a craftsman was carving patterns on cardboard. It seemed that he was making a hardcover book.
"Who are you?" A carpenter shook his sore hands. Seeing several outsiders appearing here, his expression suddenly became a little defensive.
"Uh, my name is Hu Xiner. May I ask which areas here belong to my Hu family's properties? Which areas are vacant?" Hu Xiner asked politely.
Since she hadn't taken care of it herself for a long time, she didn't know which rooms were hers. She had originally asked Erdong to handle it, and the deeds were all with him, so it was inconvenient to bring them over.
So you have to ask in person.
The carpenter was also making a hardcover wooden box. When he heard her name, he became inexplicably excited: "Manager Hu is here! Everyone, come out quickly!"
"What? Shopkeeper Hu is here?" The whole street was quiet for a moment, and then cheers broke out.
"Carpenter Li, you can't talk nonsense!" someone laughed loudly.
Someone else shouted, "Manager Wang, come and take a look! I heard that Manager Hu is here to see us!"
A large group of people gathered around Hu Xiner, and then a man who looked like a manager pushed through the crowd, took out the portrait in his arms with sweat on his forehead, and carefully compared it with Hu Xiner.
"Yes, this is Shopkeeper Hu!" Manager Wang said happily, stroking his mustache. "Well, I told you guys to work hard and the shopkeeper will come to see us!"
Hu Xiner felt a little embarrassed. Why were the people here so excited?
She is their boss. She suddenly came to inspect the shop. Logically, shouldn't everyone be alert and worried?
"Well, actually, I came here to ask which shops are my properties..." Hu Xiner said weakly, feeling inexplicably guilty.
Everyone is so enthusiastic towards her, but she doesn’t even know where her own store is. She feels a bit embarrassed!
Manager Wang was stunned for a moment, then burst into laughter: "Manager Hu, you're joking. Isn't this all your property?"
"Ah?!" Hu Xiner was stunned.
This, this, these places...all of them?
This entire street actually belongs to her?!
What did the eldest princess do secretly behind her back?
Although she knew that 20 shops were a lot, and strictly speaking, most of them were invested by the eldest princess, when Hu Xiner saw it with her own eyes, she still felt dizzy.
"Hurry, slap me." She suddenly turned her head to look at Madam Dou and said very seriously, "I must be dreaming now, wake me up!"
Madam Dou smiled in shock and helplessness, "Shopkeeper Hu, it's true!"
Steward Wang's eyes rolled around, and he smiled, "A few days ago, you said you wanted to reserve two shops for a bookshop and a clinic. I've already prepared everything for you. Do you want to go and take a look?"
Hu Xin'er nodded dazedly, still a little incredulous, "It's done so quickly? Am I really not dreaming?"
Steward Wang was also amused: "You will know after you take a look!"
Sure enough, the bookstore and the clinic had been arranged clearly.
Hu Xiner then handed over the two shops to the Dou couple.
Looking at her own property, she felt a sense of expansion in her heart.
At the same time, different inspirations also emerged.
"Maybe we can create a sense of atmosphere and create paintings with flavor!" she murmured.
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