Before Cai Xiaolian could ask, Gu Xin gave the answer directly: "Mother, it was Grandma Jiang who bought our first batch of goods. She said that Uncle Ye has married quite a few wives and has several daughters, so there are many women in his family. She bought them for the family. She has many old ladies as friends in the capital, and she was looking to send some to them."
Cai Xiaolian was delighted. "An emperor with three thousand concubines in his harem, you probably wouldn't have enough if you bought a thousand bottles!"
Gu Nian also said, "Mother, we sold it to Grandma Jiang at a friendly price. When we sell it to her in a shop, the price will be different; it will start at ten taels. This month, we plan to go to the prefectural city to buy some people, select a few to take with us, teach them how to make it, and then price them according to their skills. Oh, right, we've already decided that once we buy the estate, we'll directly open a workshop for making toiletries sets. We'll be able to sell even more toiletries sets each month then."
Cai Xiaolian: "Alright! I'll take you to the prefectural city in a few days, and we can also discuss it with your Aunt Luo. We've already acquired the land, and construction can begin at the end of August. I'll show you the blueprints, and you can give me your feedback."
As Cai Xiaolian spoke, she got up to get the blueprints.
They were back in no time.
Cai Xiaolian's painting skills were indeed excellent. Even though she was fifty when she died, it seems that she never gave up her profession and hobby during the years she built her business from scratch.
Lian Sheng Street is named after a character from the names of Cai Xiaolian and Madam Li. It is divided into two parts: one is residential and the other is commercial.
Unlike the traditional layout of shops in front and residential courtyards in the back in Da Zhou, the shops on Lian Sheng Street could only accommodate one person, and there were no courtyards to house a large family.
Whether for residential or commercial use, they are all two-story buildings.
Commercial shops are connected to two streets, one in front and one behind. You can enter from one street and exit from the other. The shops closest to the edge, such as taverns and furniture shops, which require kitchen preparation, are all connected to the other side of the street.
The dwellings varied in size. The larger ones could accommodate at least eight rooms, with one upstairs and one downstairs. The smaller ones had three rooms, with the downstairs area used for daily activities and the upstairs area for rest.
In the small courtyard where they lived, the kitchen and the outhouse were all built uniformly.
The design plan that Cai Xiaolian brought over showed that the residential courtyard had a total of seven alleys and eight rows of houses, with a well dug in each alley for everyone to use.
Gu Nian looked at it and thought it was similar to a townhouse community with greenery. None of the houses faced the street, but you could walk a short distance to the street.
In the prefectural city, land costs ten taels per mu, and the largest of these courtyards is only one mu, while the smallest is no more than half a mu.
Once completed and sold, even the smallest unit will start at two hundred taels.
Gu Xin did the math and realized that a family like her third aunt's was considered ordinary in the prefectural city. They would actually be willing to spend money to buy such a small courtyard.
Moreover, people in the prefectural city love to buy houses and then rent them out to others.
Gu Xin completely believed what her sister said: her mother and Aunt Luo's business was definitely profitable.
With so many prefectures, counties, towns, and cities in the Great Zhou Dynasty, if every place had a Liansheng Street, even if they didn't sell their small courtyard houses, her mother and Aunt Luo would be raking in rent.
Even if the houses get old and need to be rebuilt in the future, they can still sell the land to others.
Land with houses built on it is worth much more than land without houses built on it!
Moreover, once the shops on Lian Sheng Street develop, Lian Sheng Street will become the central area and become even more valuable.
Gu Xin thought her mother was really good at making money! She could earn money just by drawing pictures and spending a little money.
These sisters had to research various fragrances and their proportions, which was much more complicated than painting.
She firmly believed that her mother was the one who earned the most money in their family!
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