Chapter 113
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"Is your house very expensive?" Lin Yu knew that rich people would buy many houses and shops to rent out. The remote and dilapidated little courtyard bought by the Zhao family cost two hundred taels. The young general definitely could not afford a house.
"Don't you have 30,000 taels? Use it to buy a house," said Shao Hui.
"I can't spend it all on buying a house. Thirty thousand taels may be a small amount for you, but it's a lot for me. I want to save it for a rainy day." Lin Yu only wanted to buy a house worth one or two hundred taels.
"How can you, a man, keep so much money? Aren't you afraid that it will be robbed? If it's a house, no one can rob it. Besides, you are alone, living in a remote place, it's easy for bad guys to find your door. If you live in a prosperous area, the people around you are either rich or noble, and those little gangsters and hooligans don't dare to come here." Shao Hui told him about a house, "I'll sell it to you for 28,000 yuan. You can keep 2,000 yuan. Tell others that you bought it for 30,000 yuan."
Lin Yu felt that what he said made sense: "Okay, I'll give you the money right away."
"You haven't even seen the house yet, but you're so anxious to give me the money. Aren't you afraid that I'm here to cheat you out of your money?" Shao Hui felt that he was too naive, which made him even more worried.
"You definitely won't lie to me, and you're well-informed, I believe what you say." Lin Yu took out the banknote and gave it to Shao Hui, "You take it, I'm afraid someone might snatch it away. Do you have work to do this afternoon? I'll wait for you to be free and take me to see the house."
"I'm free in the afternoon. After dinner, I'll go with you to have a look. Do you want to buy someone?" Shao Hui asked him.
"Who is it?" Lin Yu was startled.
"The servants at home, such a big house, how can you clean it by yourself without servants? Do you still want to do business? I have a few good maids. I will sell you two, and also a guard, a doorman, and a cook. They are very cheap. Maids are only twelve taels each, and the rest are even cheaper, seven or eight taels. But what I sell to you are high-quality servants who are well-trained. Five people will cost you one hundred taels. How about it?" Shao Hui thought that if there was no one in their family, it would be easy for bad people to think of them. If there were too many people,
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At least it's safer.
In fact, Lin Yu was also afraid of living alone, but he was not used to having servants and felt uncomfortable.
But he didn't understand anything, so he just listened to Shao Hui, "Okay."
Shao Hui took him to see the house. In fact, the house was worth more than 28,000 taels. He didn't care about that. He was usually very generous to his friends. A casual birthday gift would cost 10,000 or 20,000 taels. He felt that he got along well with Lin Yu, so it was nothing to spend a little money to help him.
The yard was not a big house, but a two-story yard, smaller than the yard in their previous small county town.
However, land in Beijing is very valuable and the location is in the central area, so this price is very reasonable.
Although it is not that big, it is enough for him and his servants to live in.
The news that he sold the house to Lin Yu also spread. Everyone heard that Lin Yu used the money to buy a house. The focus was not on the house, but on how Lin Yu was related to the young general? The house is worth at least 40,000 or 50,000 yuan. The young general is selling the house at a loss. Could it be that selling the house is fake, but hiding a beautiful woman in the mansion is real?
After more than half a year, Shen Yuntang finally received Lin Yu's letters. There were three letters in total. One was for Shen Yuntang and Cheng Yeran, one was for Shen Yuntang alone, and the last one was for Liu Ya.
The person who delivered the letter was from an escort agency, and the people from the agency also said that if they had goods to transport, they could take them back.
At first, Shen Yuntang thought they were the escort agency that Lin Yu had found in the capital. Before reading the letter, he said to Cheng Yeran, "I haven't seen him for half a year. He has grown a lot. If I go there alone, I may not be able to do better than him."
Giving Lin Yu money to open a shop was just an excuse because he didn't want him to be locked up in the backyard by the Zhao family. Even if the shop couldn't be opened, he could go out more often. If there was any trouble, he would let Yuanbao go over to help first.
"It seems that the shop is open." Shen Yuntang said as he opened the letter and read the contents.
"What's in the letter? If it's a little secret between you two best friends, you don't have to tell me." Cheng Yeran was also very curious about what Lin Yu had experienced in the past six months, but if he didn't want her to know, then forget it.
"It's not a secret. He said he divorced Zhao Yanlin and Zhao Yanlin became his consort," Shen Yuntang said as he read on. He didn't expect so many things to happen in just six months. "The princess gave him 30,000 taels as compensation and settled him in the capital. Later, he met the young general, who helped him find a house to live in and rent a shop. The escort agency was also run by the young general's family, so they can give us a discount."
"He got divorced? And he got a Beijing hukou. This divorce was worth it." Cheng Yeran also came over to read the letter. "He said in the letter that our magazine sells very well in Beijing, and many people want to buy the same clothes in it. But the small quantity is one reason. Another reason is that many people want to have it tailored to their measurements and don't want to wear the same style as others. Another point is that the color of their material can't be bought outside. They can find someone to make the same clothes, but they can't find the same material."
"What he meant was that he wanted to open a custom clothing store, so he could go to people's homes and make custom clothes for them," Shen Yuntang looked at the dyes. "Why not send the dyes to him and let him dye them himself? This way the shipping cost will be lower. Besides, these dyes are not natural and cannot be made in this era. We don't have to worry about others learning how to make them. Even if they are stolen, it doesn't matter. They only make one batch and it's gone."
"He is very capable now. You didn't misjudge him." Cheng Yeran rubbed his head. "Thanks to your kindness, you helped him and gained a good friend who can also help you in your career. When you get to Beijing, you two can chat together and it won't be so boring."
Shen Yuntang had no friends in the village before. He also asked Shen Yuntang, and Shen Yuntang said that he had two playmates when he was a child. Later, he married and moved to the next village. Later, when he encountered problems, there was no one to talk to, and he could only keep it to himself on weekdays. Later, he married Cheng Yeran and had someone to talk to. Lovers are important, and friends are also very important. Sometimes it is more relaxing to get together with friends and talk.
Later, when he arrived in the county town, he could chat with Liu Yalinyu and others every day, and he became much more cheerful than before.
Shen Yuntang saw the last sentence in the letter and was reminded that the second letter was for him alone and not to be shown to anyone else.
Cheng Yeran read the last sentence and retracted his gaze, "That letter is just a private conversation between the two of you, right? I understand. I am that other person. I won't read it anymore."
"Why do you sound jealous?" Shen Yuntang poked his face, "We are brothers, don't think too much."
"What's wrong with being brothers? In my eyes, they are all men. I don't have the concept of brothers." Cheng Yeran smiled and stood up. "I'm not kidding you anymore. I'll go out for a walk and you can take a look."
Shen Yuntang sighed. They have been together for several years. Although he has grown older, he still has that childish temper. However, he can be quite cute sometimes. On the contrary, he doesn't like men who are too serious.
In the second letter, Lin Yu told him more of his true feelings, talking about the difficulties he had encountered in the past six months and the fear in his heart. In fact, he was not as strong as he imagined. Many times he felt that he could not hold on alone, but he did not want to disappoint Shen Yuntang.
He also wanted to become a powerful person like Shen Yuntang, hoping to help him.
He didn't want Shen Yuntang to think he was useless, so he wouldn't take him with him to do business in the future.
Shen Yuntang didn't expect that he put so much pressure on himself. He had told Lin Yu before to relax, but the other party didn't seem to listen.
Lin Yu was too insecure, probably because he had been suppressed too much by Zhao Yanlin, which caused indelible psychological damage to him. He was always afraid that he was not good enough, would be disliked, and abandoned.
He had also suffered similar injuries as Lin Yu. Even after meeting Cheng Yeran, he was still an insecure person, and this was difficult to cure.
In his reply letter to Lin Yu, he comforted him and praised him, letting him know that he was doing well, that he admired him, and that he would not be abandoned.
He didn't know how to solve Lin Yu's problem. If one day both of them became strong enough that they didn't have to rely on others, everything would be fine.
He also told Lin Yu that he would send the dye over and asked him to hire two embroiderers instead of doing it alone, as it would be very tiring.
It would be great if they could send a sewing machine over. One of the main selling points of their clothes is the neatness of the seams. Machine-sewn lines are naturally straighter than hand-sewn lines, and each stitch is exactly the same width, which is difficult to achieve manually.
In the future world, machines will be more common, and hand sewing will be expensive, but in this era, there are no machines, so machine sewing seems novel.
But Lin Yu didn't have a machine. They wrote in the magazine that their advantage lies in the arrangement of stitches. There is also a specific number of stitches on each thread. You can count them if you don't believe it.
These not only make the clothes stronger, but also can be used as publicity gimmicks. If Lin Yu didn't have these, it would be easy to ruin his reputation.
He really wanted to make the machine as soon as possible and send it to Lin Yu.
He wrote back to Lin Yu, saying that he would send a batch of clothes to Lin Yu. He would first sell magazines, soap and clothes, and then dye a batch of cloth. The cloth would also be in colors that were not available on the market, so he could sell the fabric first.
As for the price, let him set it based on the prices in the capital, and not make it as cheap as in the county.
The profit-sharing issue was also agreed upon with him. He would receive 5% of each order, and his salary was also increased. Lao Zhao said that the shopkeepers there were paid five to six taels a month, so they paid Lin Yu six taels a month.
The magazine only published one issue, which sold well. Tens of thousands of copies were printed and sent all over the country.
The second issue of the magazine was also ready, and it only needed to be bound. He asked the escort who delivered the letter, and the escort said that they had other places to go and would be back in a month, and would then help them deliver the goods.
This is a good time to fill in another page and write the advertisement of the shop in Beijing in the magazine.
Because the first issue was drawn by Yang Shiming, and he also collected all the new soap models of Yuanbao.
After the first issue of the magazine was released, only one Mid-Autumn Festival Jade Rabbit soap was released. The Mid-Autumn Festival soap filled the missing autumn style, and a new Monkey Year soap was released during the New Year.
Both the Jade Rabbit and Monkey styles focus on being lively and agile, which is very different from the graceful and ladylike style of the Year of the Sheep. However, Yuanbao looks good in whatever he wears and is very versatile and can hold his own.
The second issue of the magazine only has three new clothes, and the content seems not as rich as the first issue.
But they added a lipstick advertisement, in which Liu Ya was the model.
Liu Ya is also a very attractive boy. The Shen family has good genes and they all look good.
That day, Liu Ya heard Shen Yuntang say that the magazine was too monotonous with only Yuanbao, and it would be better if they could invite a few more people.
But most guys won’t be models for commercials. They think that this is making money by relying on their looks, which is not the kind of money a decent person should make. They will be laughed at and won’t be able to get married in the future.
Liu Ya said that since he would never get married in his life anyway, he might as well use his pretty face to make some money. He had long been jealous of Yuan Bao's endorsement fees.
Shen Yuntang knew that although he said he was jealous, he actually wanted to share their burden.
"Yuanbao is a boy, so he can avoid a lot of trouble. But you are different. You are really a boy. If someone takes a fancy to you, it will easily cause trouble." Shen Yuntang was worried about him. In fact, he was also worried about Yuanbao, but the young general also said that he would protect Yuanbao.
The last issue of the magazine wrote that he bought two of Yuanbao's paintings, and also wrote that he came here from afar to see Yuanbao. Everyone guessed that the young general had taken a fancy to Yuanbao, and no ordinary person would dare to snatch the young general's people.
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Willow buds are different. Without anyone to protect them, it is easy for something to get into trouble.
"It's okay. Just draw me nicely so that people can't recognize it's me. And don't write my name. I make sausages on weekdays and no one can see me." Liu Ya was not afraid of those things. Someone had to come out to be a model for the magazine to continue.
"It's not impossible to turn on the tenth-level beauty filter for him and write that this person is fictional." Cheng Yeran thought. Now that Yang Shiming is no longer around, he only remembers Yuan Bao's face and not Liu Ya's. It would be better to let the painter he found online to draw Liu Ya. The painter's painting skills are not bad, and his style is very different from Yang Shiming's. If all the magazines are in the same style, it will easily cause aesthetic fatigue.
After finishing the clothes and styling, they gave the finished lipstick to Liu Ya and asked her to hold the lipstick and pretend to apply lipstick.
Cheng Yeran told him to pose, as the painter he hired didn't want to see anyone and had already entered the house. He would watch him through the window and paint him.
In fact, it was Cheng Yeran who was in the house taking pictures of the willow buds through the window with his mobile phone.
After taking the photo, I went to Delusion Building at night and sent it to the artist.
The painter was tortured badly by Cheng Yeran last time, but she had to admit that Cheng Yeran was the most generous client she had ever met, and the photos he provided were also very beautiful. Although they were agreed not to be passed on to others, she kept them for herself and used them as wallpaper, which made her happy looking at them.
She waited for a long time, but Cheng Yeran never asked her to draw again, thinking that Cheng Yeran was not satisfied with the last painting. When Cheng Yeran came to her this time, she was particularly attentive, looking forward to Cheng Yeran sending her a picture of a beauty.
She was not disappointed. This time, Cheng Yeran sent her a picture of a beauty. It was another beauty. "The boss has so many beauties at home. I'm really envious."
"One is my cousin and the other is my cousin, don't think wrongly." Cheng Yeran didn't turn on the level 10 beauty filter, "He should be more beautiful than he is in person, so that you can't recognize who he is."
Painter: "You are really embarrassing me. He is already beautiful enough. He is not the same cute style as the last beauty. Why do you despise your cousins? They are actually very beautiful."
"I'm afraid that others will miss them." Cheng Yeran made some more requests and asked him to draw three pictures.
One is a full-body photo, and the other is a half-body photo. The half-body photo is divided into two perspectives. In one perspective, one hand is resting on the table, and the other hand is applying lipstick, facing the mirror. The audience's perspective is as if looking at the beauty through a mirror.
The last picture is a side view, showing him applying lipstick in front of the mirror.
These three paintings highlight Liu Ya's mouth, making it plump and shiny, which is in line with the characteristics of a lipstick advertisement.
After getting the painting back, Liu Ya was too embarrassed to look at it, "Why does it make me look so charming? I won't look at it anymore."
"You are usually as carefree as a man. Others will definitely not be able to tolerate the fact that the person in this painting is you." Yuanbao joked.
"These are two completely different styles, one is about the gods and the other is about the demons. In the future, we can complete a large world view, with humans, gods, demons, and monsters..." Cheng Yeran thought this was more interesting. "We really need to set up an editorial department in the future. We racked our brains after just two issues. It will be even more troublesome in the future."
The last page of the new magazine added the location of the new store in Beijing, and also wrote the colors of the materials sold there. The quantities are limited and they will be sold out while stocks last.
The magazine was transported to the capital along with new lipsticks and other goods. Yuanbao was still on the cover, but this time a large picture of Liu Ya was placed on the other side of the cover.
This time there were two beauties, and they were sold out on the first day because the last page was sold out. Many people came to place orders before the fabric was even dyed, and Lin Yu was too busy to handle it.
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