Chapter 114
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The lipstick packaging was made by my third brother, who even specially carved a peach blossom on the small shell.
Cheng Yeran had made peach blossom soap before, and Shen Yuntang loved the scent of peach blossoms the most. He thought that this shop mainly promoted peach blossoms, so he took it upon himself to carve patterns on it.
But after I finished carving, I was afraid that they wouldn't like it, so I tossed and turned for several nights. When I delivered the packaging to them, I saw Shen Yuntang's surprised expression, and I felt relieved.
"Third brother, you are so good at doing things, so amazing." Shen Yuntang's family members have no habit of praising others, and he has never been praised since he was a child.
After Shen Yuntang followed Cheng Yeran, Cheng Yeran always praised him. Later, they had to hold a morning meeting to praise others every morning. Shen Yuntang developed the habit of praising others. Now when he sees his third brother, he can't help but praise him.
The third brother was not used to being praised, so his face turned red. "It's not a big deal, just do it casually."
Just follow this and make another hundred. However, I think carving the patterns is too troublesome. If so, don't do it.
"It's okay. I have nothing to do every day anyway. You have paid me, so I have to do my best." Besides farming at home, the third brother followed his father to his brother's village to do carpentry work.
But usually it was his father who did it and he helped out. Now he has his own things to do and doesn't have to follow his father around everywhere, so he is quite happy.
Following his father around everywhere, he felt like a little kid, but after doing things on his own, he felt like he had grown up.
Moreover, my father also said that he would take care of this, and he could save the money collected.
My third brother has also been preparing for his marriage recently. The other party is a guy from the next village. I heard that he is handsome and gentle. He is the child of a friend of my father, and the two families know each other well.
The third brother also wanted to save some money for his own small household after getting married. He also wanted to move out. He envied his second brother who could live with his wife outside, freely and without being controlled by his parents.
Cheng Yeran paid him ten cents for each piece as labor fee. After he finished, Cheng Yeran felt that one or two taels of silver was too little for a hundred pieces. The work was so delicate that the price should be increased.
The third brother felt that he had earned a lot. He had no disposable funds at home. It took him almost a month to do a hundred pieces, and he only earned one or two taels of silver a month. He earned more than Liu Ya and the others.
Finally, they discussed it and raised the price for the third brother to twelve cents per piece.
After the lipstick shell is made, you also have to make the lipstick body yourself.
If Cheng Yeran followed his lazy idea, he would just buy lipstick and pour the liquid into it, but Yuanbao said that since they were all sold in the soap shop, he would do it himself.
Cheng Yeran could only purchase raw materials online, part of it online and part of it in real life. Otherwise, outsiders would become suspicious if they saw that they were only spending money and not earning any.
The final lipstick is more moisturizing than the lipsticks of this era, and comes in three scents. The packaging is also novel and convenient. The price is higher, so the order will also be higher, fifty cents per stick.
However, there were still many people who bought it. Later, when the magazine came out, it also wrote about the various functions of the lipstick. Cheng Yeran even wrote a short story next to the lipstick advertisement.
The story uses the cliché of a scholar who meets a forest fairy on his way to an imperial examination. When they kiss, he feels the fairy's lips are moist and he falls in love with the feeling immediately, never forgetting it for the rest of his life. He asks the fairy why her lips are so moist and she tells him that he used a Chanel lipstick.
Although the advertising slogan is obvious, people of this generation have rarely seen such advertisements, so it is still quite novel to them.
As soon as the magazine arrived in the capital, Prince Jing bought a copy and took it back.
The last time Prince Jing learned that Yuanbao was a man, and a mediocre-looking man at that, not as handsome as in the painting, he was sad for a long time.
But after the magazine came out, someone gave him a copy. He was angry and wanted to throw the book away, but when he saw the face on the cover, which was a new look he had never seen before, he couldn't bear to throw it away.
Let him be a man. It’s fine as long as he only loves painting and not people.
Now that he heard that there was a second copy, he immediately asked someone to buy it for him to read.
The ingot on the cover still looks good. After turning it over to the back, he found another charming little goblin. This one looks wilder and arouses people's possessiveness.
He couldn't wait to open the magazine, and then saw the three pictures of Liu Ya. He immediately fell in love with Liu Ya in the pictures, "I want to marry him!"
This new character couldn't be a man, he was thinking, when he noticed a line of small print at the bottom saying that this new character was fictional and did not exist in reality.
But when he turned to the next page, there was another story about a fairy and a scholar. He suspected that Liuya was a fairy in the mountains, otherwise how could the story be described in such detail and vividly!
He went to the old prince with the book in his arms, "I want to go
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Find him in this county and marry him. It doesn’t matter even if he has been married. What’s so good about that poor scholar? Can he be better than a prince like me? ”
The old prince was so angry with him that he beat him up again.
Originally, the prince should get married at this age, but the noble ladies all knew his character, and none of them was willing to marry into the palace. Those who were willing to marry him did not have pure intentions, and he did not like them, so it has been delayed until now.
The prince was not in a hurry. He already had many concubines in his house. Now he was going to marry a fictional person from a book as if it were a joke. The person was so careless and lazy that the prince was almost worried to death because of him.
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Lin Yu rented a shop. Buying a shop was too expensive, but renting a shop was relatively cheaper. He rented a similar shop for five hundred taels a year.
He didn't want to rent a shop that was too small, so that when Shen Yuntang and others came, they could use the shop directly.
The servants in the house all had good tempers and personalities. They all grew up in the local area and were very familiar with the area. When he said he wanted to open a shop, the maids and old women in the house helped him find a way and a place.
They also helped with the decoration. The two maids were from the young general's courtyard, and the rest were selected from the general's mansion.
They knew that the young general was usually enthusiastic towards his friends, but they didn't expect that he would give them away, especially to a country boy. They suspected that the young general liked Lin Yu and perhaps wanted to keep her as a mistress outside.
Lin Yu was off guard, so they found out all about Lin Yu in just a few words. They then realized how pitiful Lin Yu was. She had just become an official's wife, but her husband was taken away by the princess. The young general had saved her before, and was a good friend of his former boss, so the young general helped her like this.
The young general sold the house to the princess because he was angry with her.
They knew that the young general loved to read martial arts novels and always imagined himself to be as chivalrous as the heroes in those novels. The young general had absolutely no love for him, at least not now.
They also changed their minds towards Lin Yu. They no longer looked down on him, but felt sorry for him. They would give him the greatest help both in life and business.
Lin Yu would not treat them as servants. He was not used to it at first, but after feeling their kindness, he got along with the two maids like friends. The old woman cared for him like an elder treats a younger person. He even felt that the cook treated him better than his own mother.
After the shop was renovated, they had nothing to sell, so they wrote a letter to Shen Yuntang. It would take several months for the goods to be shipped back. The shop couldn't be left empty forever and waste the rent, but the shop couldn't be put into operation and ruin the decoration that was done with great difficulty. So he made some embroidery to sell. He was good at embroidery and his embroidery patterns were novel. These patterns were the future patterns that Shen Yuntang gave him on a daily basis.
He had been using it for practice before. The patterns of clothes sold in the shop were all designed by Shen Yuntang. He had never had the opportunity to use the patterns he practiced on clothes, but now it has become a business.
At first he only embroidered some purse handkerchiefs to sell. Later, when he became more famous, some young ladies from wealthy families would ask him to embroider the fabrics.
When a young lady from a wealthy family asked him to embroider for her, he would go to the lady's house, discuss the matter with the lady, and then take the lady home to embroider the work.
He didn't hire any assistants in his shop. Two maids said they could go to the shop to help. They were both good at embroidery and had received special training.
When he first went to a wealthy family to discuss embroidery, he was a little nervous, and the lady he met was also a lady who looked very noble.
He was so nervous that he almost stuttered, and his mind was in a mess and couldn't react.
Fortunately, the other person was very gentle. He told him not to be nervous, asked him to sit down, chatted with him for a while, and gave him some snacks.
He also relaxed. He always felt that he was inferior to others before, especially the young ladies from wealthy families, who were at a level that he needed to look up to.
Unexpectedly, the other party was not that difficult to deal with, but very easy to get along with.
On the way back, the two maids said worriedly, "We rely on our skills to make a business, so we just need to treat customers with a better attitude. There is no need to be so humble. Neither of us servants is so humble. Don't be so self-deprecating."
"After all, she is the daughter of an official, different from the rest of us." Lin Yu thought of himself as a country boy who was afraid of being disliked by people in the capital, so he always spoke with caution.
"The more you lower your posture, the more others will look down on you." The two maids pinched his shoulders and helped him straighten his body. "Hold your head high and chest out. No matter who you meet, we should be neither humble nor arrogant. Only in this way can we be respected."
"Okay." Lin Yu also knew that they were doing this for his own good. When he was with Zhao Yanlin before, he always tried to please Zhao Yanlin but was ignored. Later, when he became confident and regarded himself as an equal to him, Zhao Yanlin changed his attitude instead.
Maybe my previous low self-esteem was really annoying.
The first business deal was successfully completed, and later the lady helped him promote the business, and he got several more big business deals.
After completing the big business, he made several hundred taels of silver. Just at that time, magazines, lipsticks and soaps were delivered, and he placed them in the store. People in the capital city saw the magazines and realized that they were a branch of Xiangjie.
And they also sell that light blue fabric.
We had previously made summer and winter styles, both in blue, divided into two different shades of blue. These two blue dyes were not available in this era. The clothes were sold out after they were put on the shelves. Many people wanted to ask about the material, but there was none to buy.
Now that the magazines say that fabrics can be purchased, everyone is lining up to ask Lin Yu to buy them.
Lin Yu had not started dyeing cloth yet, but he had learned from Shen Yuntang for a while and knew the process.
He hung a sign at the door saying how many days it would take to dye the fabric and how many pieces he could dye in total, and that it could be pre-ordered.
All the reservations were sold out in one day, and some people even brought their own fabrics, hoping that their fabrics could be dyed.
It’s just that the materials these people use are very expensive, and Lin Yu is afraid that they will be ruined.
Those people said that they didn't need him to compensate if the dyeing was damaged, and they trusted his craftsmanship.
But words were not enough, so he came up with a solution. He required customers to sign an agreement before dyeing, and he would not be responsible if the customers brought the materials to be dyed badly.
But he dyed a few pieces of cloth and nothing happened, and the dyed effect would be more beautiful if the good material was dyed.
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Another year passed, and Cheng Yeran was preparing to take the exam. The whole family took it very seriously and did not dare to bother him with business matters. Shen Yuntang even cooked for him personally every day, in different ways.
She would also give him a massage, which made Cheng Yeran uncomfortable. "You make it impossible for me to relax. Otherwise, let me give you a massage. That's the way for me to relax."
"How can you call that a massage?" Shen Yuntang thought of the last time Cheng Yeran said he would give him a massage, but ended up touching him all over his body. He blushed and said, "If you want to do it, just tell me. It's not impossible. You have an exam soon. I will cooperate with you in any way you want to relax."
Cheng Yeran's eyes widened when he heard this, and he unceremoniously hugged the man into his arms, "With this kind of treatment, I really want to take the exam for the rest of my life."
"Puh, phuh, phuh." Shen Yuntang raised his hand to cover his mouth, "Don't say that, you will definitely pass the exam this year!"
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