Before Min Rong was born, Jin Xi fell in love with a street-facing shop on Qianmen Street near the overpass.
Coincidentally, the house number of this store is "1314" which is very meaningful. So without saying a word, Jinxi took Qingsui and Moer to the owner's house, gritted his teeth and took 80 taels.
I got out of this shop with only about twenty square meters.
Before even considering opening a shop, Jinxi and Qingsui had discussed recruiting more people. Qingshui alone would not be able to make the product in time, so there would be no time to develop new aromatherapy.
However, recruitment needs to be done with caution. Once the formula is leaked, their beautiful plan will be shelved.
So, after careful consideration, Jinxi decided to set up the aromatherapy workshop in Meishan Villa. He also planned to carry out a series of processes such as collecting, crushing, extracting, adding materials, refining, and extracting aromatherapy independently. The work of each process was carried out independently.
Personnel only need to stick to their posts and complete the work at hand seriously. It is very similar to a modern assembly line operation.
As a result, Jinxi had no choice but to confess the matter to the cheap lady.
If she wants to set aside an area in Meishan Courtyard to allow her to engage in aromatherapy business, even if she doesn't have the support of her cheap father, she still has her solid backing from her cheap mother.
Otherwise, with her empty talk about a child under seven years old, it would be strange that Manager Lin didn't file a lawsuit against her to the cheap daddy.
As for whether Min Rong will communicate with Fei Yanggu in private, that is not something she should worry about. After all, the cheap mother now has a younger brother in her hands, which is enough to "blackmail the emperor to order the princes". If the cheap father is so angry that he will blow it again
Beard glared, but his anger could not burn the cheap lady.
As for whether it would burn herself, she didn't know. Because she was really busy these days. She was almost busy.
"Fruit Language" requires her to come up with new ideas from time to time to increase the store's popularity, and the honey language aromatherapy shop in the decoration needs her to keep an eye on it. She is afraid that the upright craftsmen will decorate the aromatherapy shop into a fragrant sauce.
Well, that would be really embarrassing.
The store decoration is based on the style of a modern aromatherapy shop. The street-facing facade is made of expensive glass walls. The other three walls are painted with white paint, and the corners are painted with Dutch green wood paint to outline lingering vines, accompanied by the wall-mounted
The European-style white-painted wooden frame with roof is full of vitality at first sight.
In the blank area in the middle of the store, there is a large rectangular white-painted wooden table half a person's height. It has the same function as the cabinet on the bottom floor of the wooden frame with the top: storage. The cabinet stores various aromatherapy, decorations and other ready-made goods.
Replenish the vacancies on the shelves at any time.
A hollow wooden frame with fine lattice is supported above the wooden platform. There are many wooden nails on both sides of the wooden frame. It is planned to be used to hang various cute gadgets in the future, such as hair accessories, tiaras, earrings, or Hatsuto's use.
Palm-sized rag dolls made from rags. They can be decorated and sold at the same time, killing two birds with one stone.
The three large wooden shelves against the wall have prominently placed beautifully packaged scented candle sets and rose essential oil.
Several dolls or pillows of different sizes and shapes are randomly scattered in the blind corners of the glass wall and the free space of the wooden platform. They are all decorations jointly made by Jinxi and the wisteria flowers left behind in the Yingxi small building.
Taste.
Speaking of puppets, on a sultry midsummer afternoon, Jin Xi drew a large pile of puppet prototypes and pillows with different shapes and cute expressions on a whim. The puppets include Ragdoll Rabbit, Ragdoll Cat, and Ragdoll.
Puppet bear, puppet frog...the pillows come in heart-shaped, baby-faced, fruit-and-vegetable-shaped, animal head-shaped...
As a result, the most loved one among the Wisterias and recognized as the cutest among the puppets turned out to be the prison rabbit with a weird expression.
Jinxi's mind was moved, and other book friends read normally: He simply drew a dozen more puppet rabbits with different shapes, not to mention the prison rabbit that was very popular with wisteria flowers, as well as the pink rabbit with droopy long ears, and the brown bear.
The little black rabbit in the shape, the rogue rabbit that became popular in later generations, the red-faced rabbit with short ears...
From then on, Chuteng fell in love with this kind of beautiful and cute dolls, and sewed several of them from time to time until they were piled up in every corner of the Yingxi Building.
Jinxi selected a large number of dolls and pillows with relatively delicate stitching and eye-catching colors and sent them to the newly renovated Miyu Aromatherapy Shop to fill the dullness and blankness in the room.
Standing on the street and looking in through the glass wall, it is very warm and lovely. It is enough to arouse the desire of tourists, especially young women, to find out what is going on.
The two characters "Miyu" on the store's signboard are made of a cute girl's body, carved from wood. It is painted in a rainbow shape with seven-color paint and nailed to the wooden door. The three characters "Aromatherapy Shop" are written in Zhengkai and Gong.
It is neatly carved on the flat forehead and nailed to the pillar outside the shop, so it can be clearly seen at a glance.
After the decoration was completed, Jinxi took Mo'er and other maids to clean it several times before putting the aromatherapy stocks prepared by Qingsui on the shelves one by one. As for Qingsui himself, he took advantage of this period to stay in Meishan.
The other hospital trains the newly recruited subordinates.
Jinxi specially asked Liangzi to recruit some orphans and widowers, because they would have to stay in Meishan Villa for a long time to work, so that they would not have to worry about anything. The result was good, Liangzi directly found a large courtyard full of orphans in the slums of the outer city, and put the people inside
Fifteen boys and girls, the oldest being only sixteen years old and the youngest being only nine years old, were brought here.
Jin Xi was speechless for a while. If it were in modern times, she would be employing child labor in Hongguoguo.
After regaining consciousness, Liangzi asked a doctor to check their bodies. Except for a few stomach qi problems, which must have been caused by hunger, there were no other diseases.
So, Jinxi asked them to follow Liangzi to the Meishan Villa. With the help of Manager Lin, they moved into the servants' room at the foot of the mountain. It was said to be a servants' room, but it was much better than the large courtyard they lived in before.
Three people live in a clean and bright room. In addition to food and accommodation, they also receive half a tael of wages per month. This is not enough for those of them who have nothing to eat but wander around the streets and alleys day after day, begging and picking up rags.
What a great blessing that is to the young boys and girls.
As a result, the manpower problem was successfully solved. Qing Tui, who went to teach the production process, felt a lot more confident in front of these children of a similar age to her, and she was able to train well without any stage fright. According to her,
In other words, it is much easier to teach these simple and honest children than to face a group of nagging and shrewd women.
Jinxi thought that Qingsui not only had to train these workers, but would also continue to develop aromatherapy with other flavors and functions in the future, so it was impossible to stay in Miyu to look after the store all day.
Jinxi even considered that in addition to various flowers and plants, she also wanted to use some fruits to try to extract essential oils. For example, oranges, lemons, pomelos... but she was not sure that these would be suitable for extracting essential oils in later generations.
Are the fruits now widely consumed?
As for herself, it won't be long before she has to learn the rules from her tutor, and in a few years she will be waiting for election to the palace. Regardless of whether she can be successfully selected, she is not the best candidate to stay behind.
Therefore, after discussing with Qingshuan, Jinxi decided to let Sifan get out of the trivial affairs of Yingxi House and devote himself wholeheartedly to the aromatherapy business, becoming the acting shopkeeper of Jinxi and Qingshuan. As for the clerk, Jinxi started from
Among the group of orphans that Liangzi recruited, Zhilan, a girl who was only twelve years old, had a lovely appearance after being washed, and had a quiet and well-behaved personality. She came to Miyu to be Sifan's assistant. The two of them were considered Miyu's assistants.
The first batch of guys.
October 18th is an auspicious day.
"Miyu" Aromatherapy Shop opened in a low-key and high-profile manner under the curious attention of the surrounding neighbors.
To put it bluntly, "Miyu" did not explode firecrackers or invite lion dances like other store openings, and it was quiet and unpretentious.
Speaking of high-profile, there are a row of flower baskets placed on both sides of the store's entrance, and each flower basket has a congratulatory message congratulating the opening of the new store.
These congratulatory messages were obtained by Jinxi from all over the world. Fei Yanggu, Minrong, Shui Yingying, Xia Youzhen, Qi Ke, Qi Chen... all of whom had decent calligraphy were invited by her to write a congratulatory message, but no one
It's hard to escape, other book friends will read it normally: If her own calligraphy had not been used in the name of the store, otherwise, she would have wanted to buy a few of them. Who wouldn't do it to fill the scene!
In order to gather popularity and promote sales, Qingsui specially designed the first batch of scented candles in long strip-shaped boxes, with twelve candles in each box and one floral scent in each box.
According to the difference in collection and production technology, the existing twelve kinds of scented candles are priced between one or two to three taels per box. White orchids, gardenias, plum blossoms, and jasmine only require one or two per box. Wintersweet, narcissus
, cloves, and tuberose cost 2 liang per box. Roses, peonies, chamomile, and geranium cost 3 liang per box.
As for the only treasure of the store - rose essential oil, the asking price is the highest. A small bottle of rose essential oil, which is only about 5 ml, costs 50 taels.
Don't blame them for setting the price so high, it's just that the production cost of these aromatherapy is too high. Not to mention that Qingsui needs to consume several kilograms of fresh flower petals to make such a small bottle of aromatherapy essential oil, and those aromatherapy candles are also very time-consuming and labor-intensive to make.
.The entire process from collection to cooling out of the oven takes more than three to five days.
Although the price is not low, sales have been surprisingly hot just ten days after opening. A total of fifty-seven boxes of scented candles and nineteen bottles of rose essential oil were sold, with a gross profit of one hundred and seventy taels. Excluding aromatherapy costs and labor costs, Hibiscus
Xi and Qingsui made more than fifty taels in just ten days. They were so happy that they almost laughed with their hands on their hips.
Just after "Miyu" Aromatherapy Shop launched its exclusive new spices, an unprecedented "spice craze" set off in Beijing.
Especially ladies and ladies from high-profile families, when they learned that the spices sold at No. 1314 on Qianmen Street were unique, they came from all over in horse-drawn carriages and sedan chairs to patronize it.
After they bought it and tried it, they found that the effect was very good, much beyond their imagination. The next day, they would come to buy it with their maids and wives excitedly.
As a result, Qingsui and her newly established aromatherapy production team worked day and night. However, towards the end of the month, several scented candles with strong fragrances such as jasmine, wintersweet, rose, etc. were still out of stock one after another. One hundred bottles of rose essential oil were only
There are twenty-five bottles left. Jinxi smacked her lips when she saw it. (To be continued)