That night, Zhou Quan was unable to visit the children and Li Mai again; Zhou Shi personally stayed with Li Mai in her room.
The next day, Xu Changhuan was replaced by Zhou Tao to keep him company, and the third day, Zhou Tao was replaced by Xu Changhuan.
In short, until the baby turned one month old, Zhou Quan was unable to visit his wife at night. During the day, Li Mai was always surrounded by people, so he would just visit her or have a meal with her, but he could no longer get close to her.
The day the children turned one month old was another lively occasion.
Xu Yue and Zhou Tao each carried a child outside, intending to let the children get some fresh air before going back inside.
Zhou Xing and Xu Changhuan accompanied Li Maiduo for a walk outside for a while.
When Li Mai went outside and saw the sun and the sky, she thought they were so beautiful; it was a full moon, after all.
There weren't many people invited to the banquet today; they were just some close relatives from town. People from the village were too busy to be invited.
Zhou Quan and Li Mai decided to take the children back to the village to stay for a few days.
It was already late March, and the weather was gradually getting warmer, so everyone was wearing a light jacket over a light coat.
The two little ones were wearing matching onesies in different colors, and skullcaps to shield them from the wind. Zhou Lin and Lu Qian were also holding umbrellas for the children, afraid that the sunlight would hurt their eyes.
Seeing the treatment her two kids received, Li Mai chuckled. The two had gained several pounds in a month and were now chubby and looked incredibly cute.
Perhaps because of the spiritual practice and the good physical condition, the two babies were able to straighten their necks and freely turn their little heads to look around when they were a month old.
When they see their mother, the two children will excitedly wave to Li Mai.
People found it incredible, saying that the two children were too smart and seemed to have good eyesight. Others said that babies a few months old have blurry vision, but Yanbao and Yubao's eyes seemed very sharp, and they could see things very clearly from several meters away and stare at them for a while.
Zhou Quan was busy arranging the banquet and entertaining the guests.
The Xu family and the Lu family, quite a few people came, all bringing gifts for the two babies' one-month celebration.
Zhuzhu's task today is to organize her younger siblings' full-month celebration gifts, record them in a booklet, and put it away so that her parents can see it tomorrow.
People praise Zhuzhu for already being a role model as an older sister. Although she is only five years old, she already does things in a very proper manner.
Gu Zhe arrived early this time. With Zhou Quan's introduction, Gu Zhe and Yun Chang had a long private conversation in the study about the affairs of the two countries.
After the full moon, Li Mai began to busy herself with business matters.
When she went out, Zhao would help her take care of the children.
Zhou Quan accompanied her on a tour of the businesses she currently owned.
Seeing that Zhou Tao was managing the flower shop very well, Li Mai felt relieved.
Zhou Tao also introduced her to the regular customers of her flower shop, and the flower delivery staff were also people from the town they hired.
They are familiar with every part of town, making it convenient to deliver goods to customers' homes.
The flower shop was officially opened by Zhou Tao on the tenth day of the third lunar month, after Zhou Lin and Xu Yue got married.
Xu Yue would often come to help out. With Xu Yue, Lu Qian, and others helping to introduce customers, the flower shop really had no shortage of business since it opened.
Moreover, the flower farmers in the village are all doing very well because Chen Yu personally teaches them and his apprentices.
The initial care may have been a bit troublesome, but when the flowers started to sell, these flower farmers felt it was all worth it.
The Zhou family paid them a high price for these flowers. They calculated that planting one crop of flowers would earn them more than they would earn from farming for a year.
The happiest were Zhou Erleng and Zhou Ermao, who had come to their senses. They planted flowers on all the land in their yards with Chen Yu, planting several kinds. In the past half month, their two families had earned almost twenty taels of silver. The two were so happy that they kept thanking Zhou Quan and Chen Yu.
Now the other flower farmers realized that they had been too timid when they signed the flower plots. However, even though they planted less and put in less effort, their income was still quite considerable.
Therefore, one by one, they decided to cultivate a few more plots of land next year.
In addition, the village's dyeing workshop is now able to supply Li Mai's shop with various colors of cotton fabric on a regular and quantitative basis.
These were all woven in their own weaving workshop. Li Mairang used them as inner garments, undergarments, or linings for jackets.
As for brocade and silk fabrics, they are dyed less often. Zhou Heng only assigns the dyeing to the managers based on what the shop needs.
After observing for a few days, Li Mai felt relieved. Now that they had everything running smoothly, everyone knew who was in charge and who was responsible for what. When she went to the store, they answered her questions fluently, and Li Mai was at ease.
Once the foundation for a small business has been laid, the next step is to start expanding the business.
Business expansion involves two aspects: increasing the number of products and increasing the number of shops.
To do these things well, there is a prerequisite: a reserve of talent and human resources.
Li Mai plans to begin fully training the managers under his command.
She began giving them a crash course on business principles in the east courtyard of the mansion.
Two months later, Li Mai told them to go out and find people themselves, each of them to find a subordinate to take care of them. They could choose from shops or buy people from human traffickers, on the condition that the people's character was not questionable and that the other party be willing to sign a ten-year contract.
Upon their return, these people will become their apprentices, and they will assist them in carrying out the tasks assigned to them, while also building up talent reserves for the expansion of the shop.
After celebrating the two children's 100-day celebration, Li Mai plans to begin expanding her store and product offerings.
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After Yanbao and Yubao turned one month old, Nanling and Yuze took Chengcheng and left the town to return to the capital.
Before they left, they visited Limai once.
Yu Ze solemnly thanked Li Mai, saying that Nan Ling had spoken with him and that they would make preparations after returning to Beijing, planning to move out and build their own mansion and get married at the end of the year. He hoped that Li Mai could return to Beijing at the end of the year to attend their wedding banquet.
When Li Mai saw the gentle look in Nan Ling's eyes as she looked at Yu Ze, she smiled. All she wanted was for her older sister to be happy.
She agreed, saying she would go to Beijing at the end of the year.
Chengcheng also invited Zhuzhu to visit Beijing, promising to take her to all the fun places in the city. Zhuzhu happily agreed.
The Lu family also hired a matchmaker to formally propose marriage to Zhou Tao, hoping to finalize the engagement this year, with the wedding to be held next year or the year after.
After discussing it, the two families decided to formally arrange the marriage in mid-June, after Yanbao and Yubao had celebrated their 100-day celebration.
In mid-April, Xu Changhuan originally planned to go back to Xujia Village for a visit, but she fell ill while making preparations.
After Li Mai personally examined her pulse, he learned that she was pregnant. Because she was pregnant, she didn't know it and caught a cold after taking a bath.
While giving her the spiritual spring water to drink, Li Mai also asked Doctor Niu to come over and personally prescribe medicine to regulate Xu Changhuan's body.
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