In the Xinqiao Restaurant, Zheng Rongtai ordered only two meat pies and a basket of buns, and waved his hand in pain and asked the bartender to go down.

"Why don't you give me one of the most famous secret sautumns in this restaurant?" Li Yanqing asked in confusion.

Zheng Rongtai swallowed and asked Li Yanqing with anticipation, "Didn't you notice that I've lost a little weight recently?"

Li Yanqing looked at him carefully and smiled and said, "It seems that he has been cleared a little. Could it be that you are on a diet recently?"

Zheng Rongtai was immediately happy, "You have the vision. I asked several people, and they all said that I was not thin, which made me so angry that I was halfway through my appetite. I have halved my appetite in the past two days. How could I not have lost weight?"

"At least I'm a little thinner than Xiangzhou Shi. In the past, when you sat down, the chairs would creak, but today there was no sound. Isn't this just losing weight?"

As soon as Li Yanqing finished speaking, he heard a 'Click!' sound, Zheng Rongtai disappeared from the table. The whole house of drinkers looked at this side and burst into laughter. The chair was crushed to pieces. Zheng Rongtai lay on the ground with his back on the sky and moaned in pain. Li Yanqing hurriedly held back his smile and stepped forward to help him up, "This chair is too bad to work with, it is not strong at all!"

At this time, the guy and the shopkeeper quickly ran forward, kept apologizing, and changed into a tough bamboo chair. Zheng Rongtai sat down, "Old Li, to be honest, am I losing weight or not?"

"Why do you care so much about your fatness and thinness? I have advised you before, saying that fat people have good fortune, how did you change your sex this time?"

"Why!"

Zheng Rongtai sighed a long sigh, showing an expression that was hard to describe.

"I went to the East Palace the day before yesterday and happened to meet the famous doctor Tang Shenwei. He specially took my lineage and said that if I gain weight like this, I will not live to be forty years old and my son will not be born. Do you think I can't hurry?"

Li Yanqing looked at him sympathetically. This is true. People who are too fat often have a short lifespan. He thought about it and said to Zheng Rongtai: "I have a way. You can lose weight or not so hard."

Zheng Rongtai was overjoyed, "What's the solution?"

"Play in the water!"

Zheng Rongtai was stunned, "How to play with water?"

"Isn't the weather getting hotter now? You can dig a pool in the back garden, don't the water is too deep, just keep your chest in place, and then you slept in the water for an hour every day. If you are hungry at night, you eat winter melon, try not to eat meat, you can drink broth. As long as you persist until autumn, I guarantee you will lose half of it."

"Really do it?"

"You'll know for a few days."

Zheng Rongtai was skeptical, but he thought that he would not live to be forty years old, no matter what the solution was, he would give it a try.

After the two drank a few glasses of wine, Li Yanqing asked, "Are Lao Pang and Zhu Xie familiar?"

"I am very familiar with his son. His youngest son is Zhu Tao. He is also studying in the Imperial Academy. He is two years older than me. This kid is famous for playing with women. The first time you entered the city on the first day, Zhu Tao was next to Gao Yanei, you may not have noticed it."

Li Yanqing could not remember it, but Zhu Xie's son was actually mixed with Fatty Zheng. So what is the relationship between Zhu Xie and the prince?

"Are Zhu Xie and the prince familiar?" Li Yanqing asked as if nothing had happened.

"Zhu Xie is familiar with the powerful and powerful people in the court, and the prince is no exception. What do you ask about this?"

Li Yanqing casually said: "Yesterday, I met a man who went to Beijing to file a lawsuit. He said that Zhu Xie had occupied his farm and robbed his family's property. It was angering when he heard it!"

"So naive!"

Zheng Rongtai curled his lips, and he lowered his voice before he owed his body, saying, "Don't be stupid, Zhu Xie makes money for the official family, and going to Beijing to file a lawsuit will only die faster. Besides, you and Zhu Xie have no conflicts of interest."

As soon as he said this, Zheng Rongtai seemed to have thought of something and could not continue to say it.

"What's wrong?"

"You can't say it, Zhu Jiazhen has something to do with you. Zhu Tao mentioned you when he was drinking with me the day before yesterday."

"Why do you hesitate to make the words clear!"

"Actually, it's not about you, but about Baoyanzhai. Zhu Tao's uncle also opened a rouge shop in Bianjing, called the Rainhong Wang Family rouge shop. The business was very prosperous, but because your Baoyanzhai was opened, it had a great impact on their business. Zhu Tao gritted his teeth and said that he wanted to burn Baoyanzhai with a fire. Of course, I told him not to do anything randomly, but you still have to be careful. This kid has always been cruel and vicious. Once he finds out that you don't have a backstage, he may have to take action."

Li Yanqing sneered in his heart, Zhu Tao dared to touch Baoyanzhai and try it!

After lunch, Zheng Rongtai hired a ox cart and went home excitedly to dig a pond, while Li Yanqing went to Baoyanzhai, not far from the restaurant.

Of course, Li Yanqing also knew that for more than 150 years, various money-making businesses have been monopolized by the government and various powerful companies. Unless they are doing small business transactions, no one cares about you, but if you devote yourself to making money, it will be difficult to make your business bigger and hot without a backend.

The cosmetics business not only has a vast market, but also has very low costs and a very generous profit. How could the powerful and powerful in the capital not intervene? They have already investigated that the number one Zhang Gu Lao Rouge Shop was opened by the descendants of the founding general Zhang Lingduo. However, Zhang Gu Lao Rouge has a very good reputation and stable customer base, so Baoyanzhai has little impact on it.

The Wang Family Rouge Shop of the Dyeing Red is hard to escape. Market competition is so cruel. Now that he knows that the Red Yeuge Shop is actually the Zhu Family's property, Li Yanqing suddenly became alert. He really had to be careful of the hidden arrows shot by the Zhu Family.

Baoyanzhai's business is as good as ever, and there are still long queues at the door. Lauder perfume has become their fist product. Its quality is better than Dashi Rose Water. The price is less than half, and the quantity is more than it. How can it be unpopular?

The shop was filled with women who bought other powders. Three female clerks hired were explaining the usage of rouge to the guests. One of the female clerks was talking to more than a dozen women about nine usages of rouge, and a group of women were all fascinated by it.

Li Yanqing suddenly realized that the female clerk looked familiar. After a while, he finally recognized that she was Aunt Yang's sister-in-law. Last time she gave her a bracelet, she thought she was good at talking. Unexpectedly, she actually went to the store to sell rouge, and she seemed quite capable.

"Little official!"

Someone called him behind him. When Li Yanqing turned around, it turned out to be Gu Tiezhu. He was standing under the eaves of the snack bar next door holding a white wax stick.

"What are you doing here?" Li Yanqing asked with a smile.

"Just just now, a few scoundrels pretended to buy rouge and squeezed into the pile of women to take advantage of it. Uncle Er asked me to stand here and watch to prevent them from making trouble again!"

"You've hit them?"

"I have practiced martial arts in the Archery Club for a few days. As long as there are only five people, I can deal with it!"

"Have other Yanzhi Shop sent someone to make trouble?" Li Yanqing asked again.

"No, but the shopkeeper of Zhang Gu's old Rouge Shop came yesterday. He was very polite. He talked to his second uncle for a while and then left."

"What are you talking about?"

"I don't know, you have to ask your second uncle."

Li Yanqing nodded, "Is my dad in the store?"

"It's in the backyard! But you can't walk from the store, you can't squeeze through, you have to walk through the back door."

Tiezhu pointed to an alley next to it. Only then did Li Yanqing realize that the shop actually had a back door, so he turned around and walked towards the alley. Tiezhu shouted behind him: "Little official, the second door is, don't go wrong."

"knew!"

Li Yanqing entered the shop through the back door. The back door was the room of Master Wan and his wife before. Now it is the rest room of the clerk. At night, he also sees the shopkeeper's dormitory. The next room is completely used as a warehouse, and the perfume is made at home, and Aunt Yang's brothers are responsible for it.

"The peach blossom rouge is sold out soon, hurry up and serve the goods!" The voice of Li Yanqing's father Li Daqi came from outside. He is currently the shopkeeper and owner.

"Uncle Second, there are probably not many in the warehouse, and there are still sixty-five bottles left."

"Send thirty bottles first, and then ask Dongdong to urge the goods. We must deliver them tonight!"

"I understand, second uncle!"

Li Yanqing heard his father's voice. He walked to the door and his father came from the next door. Li Daqi suddenly saw his son and was shocked, "Qing'er, why are you here!"

"I'll come to the store to take a look!"

"By the way, I happen to have something to discuss with you!"

Li Daqi walked into the house, wiped the sweat from his forehead, poured himself another cup, and drank it. He pointed to the kettle and asked Li Yanqing to pour water himself.

Li Yanqing also poured a glass of water and filled his father's cup.

"Let's sit down and say!"

Li Daqi dragged his chair and sat down, rubbed his arms exhausted and said, "Qing'er, when will this business end? I'm so tired."

“Is the business a booming one?”

"It's just that the business is too good, which makes people worry!"

When Li Yanqing heard something from his father's words, he asked lightly: "Has Zhang Gu Lao Yanzhi Shop come here to find trouble?"

"They didn't ask for trouble. I won't talk about this for now. I want to discuss with you. Yesterday, the old shopkeeper Zhang Gu came over and talked with me for a while. Their boss wanted to sell the recipe for our Lauder perfume for five thousand guan. I didn't agree, and then he proposed to cooperate with both parties."

“How to cooperate?”

"They have a 100-flower manor specializing in planting vermilion, jasmine, wintersweet and other various fragrant flowers. There are at least thirty flowers, all year round. They are willing to provide us with original flower juice, so that they can also sell Lauder perfume, just give them a profit of 300 cents per bottle. I said I should consider it. Just when you come, I will ask you! Do you think it's OK?"

Li Yanqing thought for a while and asked, "Why did my father want original flower juice? Can't I buy ready-made perfume?"

"You can buy ready-made rouge, but the perfume is not. I have tried it and mix it with fresh original flower juice. The perfume smell is even more fragrant. It has been soaked in the perfume for too long, and the fragrance is covered up."

"Then you can cooperate, but I want to remind my father to buy land to build a Baihua Villa. The secret of distillation will sooner or later be revealed, and we have to prepare for the future."

"I think so too. Qing'er, it's hard for people to predict! There is something I really didn't expect."

"What happened?"
Chapter completed!