After a busy period until early October, Li Mai received a letter from Nan Ling. She and Yu Ze had set their wedding date for the 18th of the twelfth lunar month and wanted to invite her family to the capital for the New Year, and then return next year.
After discussing it, Li Mai and Zhou Quan decided to make arrangements at home and go on the day of Nanling and Yuze's wedding.
Li Mai went to ask Yun Chang and Xu Changhuan whether they should return to the capital or stay here for the New Year. When Yun Chang heard that they were returning to the capital, he said that they could go back together. He had also received an imperial decree from the emperor that he should return to the capital during the New Year to discuss some matters.
Li Mai calculated that they would go to the capital at the end of winter and arrive in the capital around the middle of December.
My sister-in-law found out she was pregnant in mid-April, and she'll probably give birth in January. That's fine, it'll be better if she goes back to Beijing to give birth.
As for my sister-in-law's big belly, if she can't walk, let's just keep her in the space!
Anyway, her older brother has already gone to the space with her a few times, and this time he brought his sister-in-law along. She also brought two children, so they will definitely spend most of their time in the space.
However, with only a little over a month left before leaving, she needed to make arrangements for things at home.
After deciding to go out, Li Mai and Zhou Quan got busy.
Zhou Quan instructed the martial arts school to train the children step by step, and to give each child one tael of silver and a set of clothes for the New Year so they could go home and celebrate with their families. They could return to class on the fifteenth day after the New Year.
The current principal of the martial arts school is Luo Dongshan, who is quite skilled in martial arts. He is Luo Si's cousin and is around thirty years old this year. After becoming the principal, he takes this place very seriously and has brought a lot of training equipment and weapons from the modern world through space.
Seeing that he cared about the martial arts school, Zhou Quan asked Li Mai for a bottle of spiritual spring water and gave it to him to help him cultivate.
After using the spiritual spring water once, Luo Dongshan knew it was a good thing and was very grateful to the ancestor. He also became more diligent in his work.
After he finished making arrangements on his side, Zhou Quan went to help Li Mai with the business at home.
Li Mai has compiled the styles to be sold in winter and spring into a booklet and handed it to Zhou Heng, who will then arrange for the clothes to be made, the fabric to be dyed, or the fabric to be purchased from Zhang's cloth shop.
Having enough manpower makes things much easier.
By mid-November, after Li Mai had made arrangements for the year-end and next spring's business, he and Zhou Quan and his wife returned to the village and held a meeting for the villagers who worked for them.
I inquired about their income this year.
Almost everyone in the village came, and now they all work with them to earn money.
Most people had a good income this year, especially Zhou Erleng and Zhou Ermao, who were extremely grateful to Li Mai and Zhou Quan and even kowtowed to them.
Li Mai stopped them, saying that as long as they worked hard and had the right mindset, she and Zhou Quan would definitely lead everyone to a better life.
She instructed everyone to continue doing the same things next year, and that when she returned next year, she would plan something else to help everyone reach new heights.
People were pleased to hear this and said they would definitely do their jobs well.
Li Mai also said that she and Zhou Quan would not be in town for the New Year, but would be going to the capital. They would also arrange New Year's gifts for everyone, so that since everyone had followed them, they could focus on their work.
Everyone agreed.
After returning to town, Li Mai and Zhou Quan made arrangements for the Zhou family elders regarding the aftermath of their departure.
The Zhou elders agreed. As for the affairs of the village, they didn't really need to worry about those in charge. They just needed to cooperate well with the in charge and go back to arrange the year-end gifts for everyone and give the managers their year-end bonuses.
After winter arrived, Zhou Tao's flower shop could no longer sell fresh flowers, but instead started helping Hong Shi Liu Fabric Shop sell fabric flowers.
Use leftover fabric scraps from tailoring clothes to make various fabric flowers. Families who love beauty and are particular about their appearance can buy them to decorate their homes and yards, ensuring that the house and interior remain beautiful.
And you know what? Zhou Tao really made this business thrive. The young girl, taught by Li Mai, is very good at chatting with customers. She has a lot of regular customers, and even in winter, her shop is still bustling with customers.
Other shops also started to imitate the fabric flowers in her shop and make them for sale, but their products were never as good as those in Zhou Tao's shop, and they couldn't sell them in large quantities.
This made the other cloth and clothing shops envious and jealous of Zhou Tao's business. However, they just didn't have her brains and could only follow behind her, learning a little and picking up business from her old customers.
They had no idea what kind of background Li Mai, the owner of Red Pomegranate, was besides being the god-sister of the King of Clouds, or how she could be so good at business. Ever since she entered the business, their stake-laying business in town had been getting worse and worse.
The Pei family and the Yue family were the most affected.
The Pei family's Caiyi Pavilion and the Yue family's Chengyi Shop have been struggling in business for the past two years, and they are considering whether to sell other items.
However, Pei Jing, the young master of the Pei family, and Yue Xiu, the young master of the Yue family, were both very unwilling and harbored some resentment towards Li Mai's Red Pomegranate Clothing Shop.
Their father visited Red Pomegranate once after it opened, and when he came back, he said that they would eventually be surpassed and replaced by Red Pomegranate. However, the young people from both families were not convinced, so they took over from their fathers and planned to compete with Limai.
Unfortunately, despite their best efforts, Red Pomegranate still managed to replace their two families' garment businesses in Qing Shi Town within just one year.
They were fortunate that Li Mai hadn't started selling cloth, so their two families could still make some money by selling cloth.
But they didn't expect that the following year, which is this year, Red Pomegranate Garment Shop opened its second large store in Yongzhou City.
This year, the two young masters finally got together to discuss countermeasures.
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