The brightly lit Wei Mansion was busy for two hours, and then the lights were turned off and everyone went to sleep in peace. Anyway, Li Guolou and Yelia will not be leaving tomorrow. All things will be discussed this morning.
Li Guolou sighed as he slept alone on the bed. The more he thought about it, the more uncomfortable he felt. He was led by Jelia Wood and even planned to come to his home, but he didn't even dare to say a word of resistance. If you have money, you will be rich.
Take, you can get the answer from what Chen Xiangfang said by Xie Xiuzhu. Now that Yelia and Wood have arrived, Yelia has the final say in this family from now on. He has countless good ideas to make money, but they are all for the future.
He still needs someone to support him. Every business is made by others. In the future, the principal of the business will be paid by his brother, sister, second wife Xie Xiuzhu, Yelia; Wood, but he still has to look at other people's faces.
This is completely different from what I imagined at the beginning. Even if he makes money in the future, the money will go to the three grandmothers, and his family will still say that he is a soft rice earner.
This person wanted to make progress, but he took a shortcut. The two new titles of "Soft Rice King" and "Ximen Qing" have been spread among friends, colleagues, and society. Li Guolou became a benchmark figure in the Qing Empire, but
With this image, he reaches heaven. In the future, he will become a figure with mixed reputations like Hu Xueyan. His reputation is as high as that of his brother Li Guoyun. Li Guolou regrets what he has done and finally successfully entered the upper class circle.
But he has ruined his image. No upright person would be friends with a beast like him.
Li Guolou complained to himself that he couldn't sleep, and the door of the room opened softly with a "squeak" sound.
Li Guolou said: "I knew you were coming."
Yelia wore socks and carried two shoes in her hand. She sneaked into the room, quickly inserted the latch, slipped into bed, hugged Li Guolou and said softly: "Mike, how did you know I was coming?"
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Li Guolou said: "Dear Yelia, you have been scheming until now. You are not scheming to get into my bed. You are already here. It is even more impossible for you to let me go."
Yelia twisted around Li Guolou and said softly: "This is a new place. I can't sleep unless you sleep next to me, Mike."
Li Guolou kissed Yelia's face and said, "My dear, it will be dawn in two or three hours. Go to sleep. I will be by your side." After speaking, Li Guolou turned off the bedside lamp.
Oil lamp, everything returned to darkness, the surroundings were silent, only the whine of the cold wind hovered between the buildings.
In the dining room in the morning, Zheng Lingling circled around her third grandma, Yelia. She kept looking at Yelia, and even touched Yelia's blond hair. She curiously asked Yelia what happened to the people in many Western fairy tales.
Which fairy tale are you in? Is the third grandmother Jelia transformed into Snow White?
After receiving the affirmative answer, Zheng Lingling no longer got along with her mother, she stayed with Yelia for breakfast, listened to Yelia's words, and became a good girl.
Chen Xiangfang rolled her eyes at Yelia and said, "Did you sleep well last night?"
Jelia smiled and said: "With Mike by my side, I can sleep anywhere. Grandma, your daughter is so cute, like a little princess in a fairy tale."
When talking about his daughter, Chen Xiangfang's face immediately became friendly, and she started chatting with Yelia about their family problems. When Li Guolou was not allowed to clean up, Li Guolou still listened to their talk. The three grandmothers would ask him questions at any time.
If the opinions are repeated, they will not repeat them a second time.
Li Guolou was bored and changed the subject and said: "Don't talk about these things about mother-in-law and mother-in-law. I'm not interested in Yelia's past private life. I'm still talking about things in the store. Yesterday I saw my second mistress writing recipes in the store. Although
The handwriting is very good, but there is no creativity at all. The menu in other restaurants is also like this. I have come up with a good idea, do you want to listen to it? "
With the support of the three grandmothers, Li Guolou continued: "My trick has never been done before or since. Can't we take photos now? Why can't we put a picture of the dish next to each dish? This way people can
If you don’t know how to read, you don’t need the waiter to explain what the dish is made with. The customer can just look at the photo to know what the dish looks like when served, and what ingredients are in the dish? Yelia, you think I can go to the West
Apply for a patent?”
Jelia smiled and said: "Mike, is there any technical content in this? People will know it at a glance. But the idea is really good. The guests must find it fresh. Your menu will be stolen back, or the guests will ask you to give it to them.
From now on, Baozhifang’s menu will become an antique.”
Li Guolou nodded and said: "Grandma, don't laugh. This is really going to happen. Order 200 menus first and engrave numbers on them so that the value will be different in the future. What we do is called creating history. You are making history."
Witness a miracle happen.”
Xie Xiuzhu chuckled and said: "Then let's fake it. All three of our grandmothers will have the number one, and we will pass it on to our children and grandchildren in the future."
Chen Xiangfang smiled and said: "Xiaolou, you can make Baozhifang famous with just one move. I think two hundred recipes will not be enough. If they are printed more beautifully, and the names of the dishes written by the second mistress are handwritten, they will definitely be very valuable in the future.
There will also be people asking for my second grandmother’s words.”
Li Guolou asked: "Second Grandma, are you willing to write? I'm very tired. How about printing it on paper?"
Chen Xiangfang glanced at it and said: "Now I have something to do except at night. I have nothing to do during the day, so I just write. I just want to cultivate my sentiments."
Li Guolou nodded and said: "Then I will go and invite the photographer here in the morning. This job can make Roberts a small fortune."
Chen Xiangfang said: "Xiaolou, didn't you say you wanted to do a photography business last time and didn't you talk to Roberts?"
Li Guolou sighed: "Second Grandma, the business is too small. I'm really not interested. How much money can I make? This industry will be very competitive in the future. More and more people will join. Photo studios will be opened in every corner of the capital."
Corner and shadow graphics will be eliminated soon, and wanted criminals will be photo graphics in the future.”
Xie Xiuzhu looked at her two hands, played with her posture, and said softly: "I am a little interested in taking photos. I take a guy with me and go out to see the scenery every day. I can also go to the houses of wealthy families. You can go and take the foreigners from the small building."
Technology has tricked us. When we go out as a family in the future, we will bring a camera with us, how enviable it will be."
Li Guolou said angrily: "Then ask me to hold the torch, no way!"
The camera at this time was a British pistol camera with a fixed tripod. Taking pictures relied heavily on light. If the light was not good during the day, it would not be possible to take photos. The failure rate of photos taken with barrel-type film was very high.
In order to make up for the lack of light, the person taking the photo usually has to bring a guy with him to light the torch. Sometimes two guys are required to illuminate the person in the middle symmetrically, so taking a photo is also a luxury.
The photos require several pieces of film, a long period of posing, and several photographers on hand.
Westerners brought this new technology into the Qing Empire, but these people were originally low-level photographers who came to the Qing Empire to make a living, so they would not teach the key techniques to the workers. The key developing techniques were occupied by Western photographers.
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Jelia snorted coldly: "Second Grandma, don't ask Mike, I can also take pictures, I also have a camera, and I can also develop and print photos. It's just that the photos have to be soaked in potion and the smell is very bad, so I gave up this hobby.
I'll go talk to that Roberts, what does it matter for our family to hire a photographer? The two of us go to the capital together, and we don't have to spend money anywhere in the future, and there are people to treat us, wouldn't that be great?"
Xie Xiuzhu said cheerfully: "Yelia, you don't know that Roberts is a famous prostitute who specializes in eating other women's wives. He has a bad reputation and has tarnished the reputation of foreigners. Now no one in the capital invites him to take photos. Last time
Xiaolou said that he would have to solve a lifelong issue for Roberts before he could cooperate with him."
Yelia giggled and said: "Then I want to see someone who is more powerful than Mike."
Li Guolou said: "Roberts is the legendary British gangster. When you go to see him, I have to stay close, otherwise Roberts will become bestial when he sees a blonde beauty like you."
Chen Xiangfang scolded: "Xiaolou, Lingling is innocent, what are you talking about? Wan Niang, take Lingling out to play, and you should behave more carefully in the future."
Chen Xiangfang pretended to be a doctor and scolded the three dishonest people. She was not allowed to say obscene words in broad daylight and in the morning, and she had to follow the rules in the dining room from now on.
Li Guolou quickly repented and promised to abide by the rules when going downstairs in the future, regardless of whether there is someone or not, and he will not mess around in the house again.
Xie Xiuzhu said: "Grandma, do you know? Children from large families do not stay with the adults. They all have time regulations for parents and children to get together and play for a while. Especially in the small building, there are three of us grandmothers, how can we play with the children?
If we mix them together, if there are more children in the future, they will all have separate wet nurses to take care of them."
Chen Xiangfang glanced at her and said, "I know that, but it's not that time yet? It's hard for a coquettish guy like you to have children."
"What did you say!" Xie Xiuzhu was furious and started to chase Chen Xiangfang. The two of them chased and quarreled around the Li Guo building.
Jelia watched the two grandmothers fighting and chasing each other, and said suspiciously: "Mike, I heard that the men in your Qing Empire are very restrained on women. Why is it that your family is laughing and joking all day long, and there are no rules at all."
Li Guolou said: "Dear Yelia, many of the words in the book are high-sounding words. This is an inner house. It is like this in every family with a young wife. Outsiders cannot see it. Why else would a man marry three wives?
The fourth concubine, keeping a straight face and following the rules all day long, where is the fun in it?"
Jelia asked: "Mike, what should I learn?"
Li Guolou said: "If you order the servants to work, they will be lazy, so don't give them a good look. You must first establish your authority, don't reward them casually, select model workers every month, and reward the model workers in front of everyone.
.In this way, the servant's motivation will increase. Otherwise, if you reward him once, he will wait for the next time, and he does the same thing next time. If you don't reward him, he will not do it again in the future. Most of these servants are slaves born at home.
They are already skinny, and sometimes you have to beat them, otherwise they will forget who their master is."
Xie Xiuzhu was caught by Chen Xiangfang. Chen Xiangfang was the most powerful here. She was a martial arts practitioner and had a flexible body. How could a woman with small feet like the Second Mistress escape her grasp?
Yelia smiled and said: "Then I want to beat the skinny second grandma?"
Li Guolou smiled and said, "Put it at night."
The three grandmothers' faces were filled with clouds and their eyes were full of spring. They looked at Li Guolou shyly and began to perform the exercises.