Chapter 155 Getting Closer to the Richest Man
Aunt Wang and her aunt have already started steaming the perfume balm they're making today.
"Wanchun, you're awake." Du Damei walked to her side and said with a smile, "Your mother and father went to the fields, so I made breakfast for you."
As she spoke, she looked at the child she was carrying on her back.
The baby is already four or five months old. She has a chubby little face and looks a bit like her father.
Du Wanchun broke off a piece of the steamed bun in her hand and handed it to the little child, then turned and went into the house.
The Zhou family's life didn't seem to change because the Emperor came to Qingzhou Prefecture; on the contrary, their lives got better and better.
Aunt Zhou used gardenia, jasmine, osmanthus, magnolia, chrysanthemum, and camellia to make six kinds of fragrant balms.
The balm, packaged in small porcelain jars, was sold in shops and was even more popular than perfume.
Compared to perfume, balm is smaller and more portable. The small porcelain bottle is only about the size of an egg, so you can carry it with you and apply it anytime, anywhere.
It also has a longer-lasting fragrance and moisturizing effect.
In addition, the price was very cheap, and after only half a month, almost everyone in Cheng'an County had a bottle.
Seeing that the sales were good, Du Wanchun followed Aunt Zhou and made some more, then found a security escort agency to deliver some to Zhou Feng's shop in the capital.
The perfume balm had only been in the shop for a short time when Zhou Feng sold out, leaving only the last box.
Within a month, it became incredibly difficult to find even a single piece of this incense.
As his business flourished, Zhou Feng gained increasing prominence among the merchants in the capital, and soon everyone knew of this Master Zhou.
After hearing about this miraculous perfume in the palace, Consort Wu specially ordered her maid to buy some.
However, while others found the perfume to become more fragrant with application, she found it to become more foul, and in the end, she was so angry that she threw all of the perfume away.
The palace maids thought the perfume was nice, so they secretly picked it up and took it home to use.
Later, the ladies in the palace all thought it smelled good and sent their maids to buy it from Zhou's incense shop.
Soon, all the noble ladies in the capital knew that Zhou's perfume was a fine product.
Seeing that the family's accounts were accumulating more and more silver, Du Wanchun went to Aunt Zhou and asked her, "Mother, what about all this silver?"
Aunt Zhou took the account book, looked at it, and said, "This money is enough for us to rebuild several large houses."
Du Wanchun replied, "This is just the account book of our shops in Cheng'an County, and it does not include the silver from my second brother's shops in the capital."
After thinking for a moment, Aunt Zhou said, "Wanchun, let's divide the silver into two parts. One part will be given to my uncle to recruit soldiers and horses, and the other part will be kept for Feng'er to continue doing business and expand the incense shop!"
Du Wanchun nodded, "Okay, Mother!"
As soon as she finished speaking, she immediately picked up her pen and wrote back to Zhou Feng, asking him to open another incense shop in the capital.
While the Zhou family was thriving, the emperor was troubled. He stayed in Qingzhou Prefecture for a month without finding any news about the empress.
An old eunuch advised from the side, "Your Majesty, let's return to the capital, otherwise Consort Wu will become suspicious."
The Emperor took a large gulp of wine and sighed deeply, "I have a feeling that the Empress is here, but I just can't find her."
The old eunuch thought for a moment and said, "Your Majesty, didn't the fortune teller say that His Highness the Crown Prince would have twins, a son and a daughter? Why don't we wait a few more months and come back here to check again to see who has had twins?"
The Emperor thought it made sense, "There aren't many twins in our Xuan Yue Kingdom, so it will indeed be much easier to investigate this way."
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