Yi Xin as a concubine

Chapter 230 Preparations before opening (2)

The place where Liyanan brought Xin Baoer to was a royal garden. Not everyone could enter such a place. Xin Baoer looked at the gate in front of her, mentally prepared to be turned away and have to wait for an entire afternoon.

Then she saw Liyanan handing a sign to the maid beside her. The maid took it and showed it to the guard at the door, and then the four of them were let in.

Xin Baoer curiously looked at the small piece of wood and jade for a few more times. Liyanan seemed to know that she was curious and smiled, "I asked Marquis Tuya to give it to me."

This sentence contained a lot of information. Xin Baoer thought to herself that she had underestimated this cheerful elder sister. She had already started planning how to get in touch with Marquis Tuya through Leah.

However, things went much more smoothly than she had imagined.

The four of them came to a bridge over the water. In the octagonal pavilion in the center of the bridge sat a shadowy man in white clothes that fluttered in the water. His features could not be seen clearly from a distance, but from his casual posture, he did not seem like a rigid person.

"Brother Tulu, Nan is the sister-in-law of the Tu family's side branch. I know you are obsessed with architecture. My friend has a few related problems that he would like to ask you for advice. I'd be grateful if you would condescend to see me."

Liyanan spoke loudly towards the pavilion, and took the drawings prepared by Xin Baoer from Wei Yu, and respectfully bent down and raised them above his head. Seeing this, Xin Baoer did not dare to look around, and followed suit and bowed.

Xin Baoer felt a little uneasy after not hearing any sound from the pavilion for a long time. Could it be that her perception was wrong? This person was really picky and didn't want strangers to approach him.

Later, Xin Baoer found out that this person really was one, but only when he was doing construction.

By the time Xin Baoer straightened up, about a quarter of an hour had passed. The reason was that the man in the pavilion was so engrossed in looking at the pictures that he completely forgot about the people beside the pavilion.

When Xin Baoer was invited into the pavilion, the man had already finished looking at the blueprint. He looked at her intently and asked uncertainly, "Did you draw this?"

Xin Baoer stood in a corner of the pavilion, as polite as a primary school student meeting her teacher, nodding her head obediently.

"When do you plan to start construction? I can come over to supervise you." Tulu said to himself.

Xin Baoer raised her head suddenly. Happiness came too suddenly. She felt a little floating, but still a little worried. Could this person really solve her problem? What if he was an academic who would spend ten days or half a month on research? Would she be able to open her store?

As if seeing the concern, Tulu continued to speak: "It won't delay your work."

Xin Baoer felt relieved and nodded like a sparrow catching rice, and then received a look of looking at her as if she were a fool from the other party.

As if to say: "With this silly look, is this really a picture she drew?"

When questioned, Xin Baoer said she was innocent. She had not spoken since entering the pavilion, but suddenly she said, "I really drew it. Don't doubt it."

Then the man rolled his eyes and walked away leisurely. Xin Baoer felt speechless and choked, and followed Liyanan out of the garden helplessly.

In this way, the awkward and mutually disliked interactions between Xin Baoer and Tulu began. In their subsequent work together, Tulu was often angered by Xin Baoer over a structure or a pattern, but was later bribed by her with all kinds of delicious food and continued to work diligently for her.

And Tulu was not the final surprise that Liyanan gave her. Because her drawings were novel and unique, Tulu would go to her elder sister, Marquis Tuya, for advice whenever she was unsure. After several visits, Tuya also became interested in the project and went to the construction site several times to provide guidance.

After a few interactions, Xin Baoer came into contact with this prominent figure in Nanzhao Kingdom. Later, Xin Baoer learned that the two were indeed siblings, both were hidden foodies, and Tuya was a genuine and senior Jimei lover who liked all beautiful things.

After knowing her characteristics, Xin Baoer always intentionally or unintentionally revealed some of the good things in her hands to her during their subsequent meetings, so that she could see but not eat. In order to eat them sooner, she could only study the drawings with her brother and strive for success faster.

With the help of these two heavyweight siblings, the construction site is progressing steadily, allowing Xin Baoer to have more time to do other things.

Qin Chu and Erqi were exploited by her and could not leave the pharmacy for several days. Because she wanted to open a foot bath, massage parlor, beauty salon, and sauna parlor, the two had to cooperate with her to develop various beauty and skin care prescriptions and cultivate talents who could recognize the acupoints and give massage to the customers.

In addition to these, there are tea rooms, bars, and chess and card rooms. The Xin family can provide her with tea, and she has already ordered people to make chess and card games, and has also taught a group of service staff to guide guests on how to play. The only thing that makes her feel troubled is the wine.

But she didn't have to worry for long, as some new shopkeepers who had approached Nanzhao brought her a letter that solved her problem.

The letter was sent back from Qiang State, a neighbor to the north. One of the two shopkeepers who successfully entered Qiang State was a descendant of a wine-making family. The reason why he was able to step out and venture abroad was also to revive the family industry.

And he has indeed made some breakthroughs in the past two years. From the plan that Xin Baoer gave them, he learned that in addition to grains, many plants, fruits, and even flowers can also be used to make wine.

The Qiang State had fertile land, vast territory and sparse population. After they gained a foothold there, they first tried to brew several kinds of grain wine using local materials. Through distillation and purification, they made the alcohol content better, which was very popular among the Qiang people.

Then, they contracted large tracts of land on the pretext that brewing wine required a large amount of grain. In addition to growing grain, they also planted some new crops on these lands. In addition, they introduced greenhouses into the Daoqiang Kingdom and planted vegetables and some fruits that were not suitable for growing in the Qiang Kingdom.

After all, two years is a limited time, but they also developed more than a dozen kinds of wine within a limited time, including fruit wine, medicinal wine, flower wine, but the most is grain wine.

Although transportation is a little difficult, it is not a big deal in Xin Baoer's view. After all, she has a lot of talented people under her command. Take the guys who delivered a box of gold to her from Shengjing before. Their skill in hiding their whereabouts is really perfect. Two days before the opening, truckloads of wine and beverages were put into the warehouse, and Xin Baoer didn't even express surprise.

And these are not the things that Xin Baoer spends the most time and effort on. The clothing store and the supermarket are the things that she spends the most time and effort on.

In this era, there is no concept of supermarkets. Most of them are grocery stores. Xin Baoer feels that there are still many commodities in grocery stores. She is developing some new products to fill in the stores based on her funeral. It should be enough. However, the research and development process may be relatively long. Therefore, she has designated the supermarket as a pending space. She will open a small part first, and then slowly release the space as more and more commodities are available.

Finally, there is the clothing city. Women love to be pretty. As the saying goes, clothes make the man, and saddles make the horse. Clothes, jewelry, shoes, bags, hats, scarves, etc. have always been women’s favorite things, so Xin Baoer has spent the most time and effort on this.

She doesn't understand fashion design, but she has seen a lot. However, seeing a lot doesn't mean she knows how to handle the details of those high-end clothes. After all, she can't do needlework.

So she thought of a way. She first asked someone to buy a lot of leftover fabrics from a clothing and cloth shop, and then spread the news that anyone who was good at making clothes could choose the fabric they liked and then make clothes according to their own preferences. As long as the clothes they made did not catch Xin Baoer's eye, they would get a reward. In addition, regardless of whether they were chosen or not, the clothes they made would belong to them.

The conditions were very tempting. After all, that country had poor people and people who had skillful hands but had no chance to show them. So quite a few people came. They received the materials and registered, and only had to wait two days to see the results.

Two days later, Xin Baoer felt her eyes hurt when she saw the various kinds of clothes collected by her subordinates, but she still worked diligently with a few friends to pick out a hundred satisfactory pieces.

Afterwards, they asked the owners of these 100 works whether they were interested in participating in the next competition. They would select some of them to become the exclusive clothing technicians of their private club, with very generous salaries.

However, what Xin Baoer did not expect was that not a single person out of the hundred people withdrew, and quite a few of them were men.