Now that it's June, Li Mai is extremely busy. She and Zhou Quan might not even see each other during the day for several days, each busy with their own tasks.
Xu Yue and Zhou Tao gave birth in mid-June.
In April, Zhou Tao fell and scareed the Lu family half to death. Lu Qian was especially afraid to leave her side at all times, and would often call Li Mai over to help Zhou Tao with her examinations.
Xu Yue was a little better off because it was her second pregnancy. She didn't have any problems, and with the help of her family, Li Mai didn't have to worry about her much. She would just check Xu Yue's pulse every now and then, and since there were no problems, she was at ease.
Zhao had told Li Mai that Xu Yue and Zhou Tao were in their postpartum period around the same time. If she had to take care of her daughter alone, Xu Yue would be neglected. If she took care of Xu Yue, Zhou Tao would be neglected.
She wanted Li Mai to help her share the care, with Li Mai taking care of Zhou Tao's side more, since she couldn't neglect her daughter-in-law's side. The two of them would take turns caring for each other during their postpartum period.
Although Madam Xu might come, as the mother-in-law, she cannot stay away from the mansion forever.
Li Mai knew the situation was somewhat unusual, so she agreed.
In this way, she would have to be the one in charge of the overall business and make reasonable arrangements for them.
On June 16th, the inn, embroidery shop, and incense shop officially opened for business with a cannon salute.
Li's Inn
The inn has just opened, and there won't be any guests immediately. Li Mai isn't in a hurry to make money and recoup her investment. The inn's peak season should be a year or two later, when the town will be even more bustling.
Now that she's opened the inn, she wants to start this business together with the Li Family Business.
The embroidery workshop has been moving for the past few days, and today is the final day of the move. We are officially starting work here today.
Incense workshop officially started incense production today.
However, the Ruyi Incense Shop opened by Li Mai and Xu Changhuan offers incense balls, incense powder, incense cakes, incense sticks, incense sticks, and incense towers, which were originally available to the Xu family. But these are not Li Mai's main focus; she has also added everyday incense products.
She wants to bring fragrances into everyone's lives, filling every aspect of life with fragrance, rather than saying that fragrances are only for scholars and refined people.
There is a fragrant liquid when you shower and wash your face, and a fragrant balm after you finish washing your face and body, which can be used to make you smell nice for two or three days.
For indoor use, you can hang sachets in some corners of the house to make the house smell nice without having to burn incense. However, burning incense to add fragrance to life can sometimes cause headaches, dizziness, coughs, or respiratory problems.
However, once it is made into a sachet, it does not need to be burned with an open flame, which reduces the damage to the human trachea.
These sachets evaporate more slowly. If you don't want the room to smell too strong, just put one sachet in. If you want a stronger fragrance, you can put in several sachets.
There are also perfume sprays, but the perfume might be released a little slower, and the spray nozzle hasn't been developed yet.
She wanted to make a wooden stopper sprayer to be placed on a small porcelain bottle, but the pressing part was too delicate, and Zhou Lin's side had not yet developed a simple and easy-to-use nozzle. Therefore, Li Mai and Xu Changhuan decided to make this a new product for next year.
After numerous trials with Li Mai and Xu Changhuan, they also invited several masters who knew how to make rouge and face powder, as well as several masters from the Xu family who used to know how to blend perfumes. With Xu Changhuan's knowledge and Li Mai's information on modern perfume making, they researched for several months and succeeded.
The items in the incense shop can be accumulated for one or two months. Li Mai plans to open the Ruyi Incense Shop specialty store before the Mid-Autumn Festival in August.
There were shops too, right across from Tian Shun Zhai, and not too far from my own pomegranate shop. One was a little to the west, and the other a little to the east, but they were on the same street.
After the business opened with a cannon salute, Li Mai led the people who came to congratulate them on their opening to a banquet at Yingxianglou Restaurant.
People came to congratulate him, bringing many gifts. Li Mai's banquet was also arranged to be high-class, and Lu Qian instructed the restaurant to prepare three of the best tables for him.
As for the workshops, the managers are overseeing the busy work in each workshop, so she and Zhou Quan don't need to worry about them today. They can just come to her if there are any problems.
The manager of the incense shop is Xu Changhe. He originally knew some incense making, and now he stayed to help Xu Changhuan and Li Mai manage the incense shop. Li Mai arranged for Zhu Qiang to be the junior manager and learn from Xu Changhe.
After Zhou Tao got married, Zhu Qiang returned to Li Mai's side.
Originally, Li Mai wanted Zhu Qiang to marry along with her, but Lu Qian said that Li Mai should keep her people for herself, and he would arrange someone skilled in martial arts to accompany Zhou Tao.
He arranged four maids for Zhou Tao, two of whom were skilled in martial arts, and two attendants who were also skilled in martial arts.
After Zhu Qiang returned, he had been following Zhou Quan around. After the inn was built, he stayed there to help look after the construction site.
This time, letting him learn to manage the incense shop was something Li Maizhou and Quan had discussed with him, and he was willing to do so.
The innkeeper was Song Ban, and his apprentice Li Shan was with him.
After studying for more than half a year, Li Shan can now do many things. He is also very clever, no less so than Li Dong. Lu Ban likes him very much and took him as his apprentice during the New Year. Now he not only teaches him to manage affairs, but also teaches him to read and do accounting.
Xiuhua is the manager of Xiufang, Zhou Heng's wife. After getting married last year, Xiuhua learned a lot about management from Zhou Heng. Now the couple is very happy working with Zhou Quan and his wife. In particular, Li Mai trusts them and lets them manage things. Xiuhua is also very dedicated. She asks questions and learns more when she doesn't understand something.
When she got home in the evening, Zhou Heng would give her extra lessons or have her practice calligraphy.
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