Li Bao was busy for most of the day, and finally finished the work at hand, stretched his waist, and shook his head. yawned, and was just about to go out for a walk, when Ling'er entered the study and saluted Li Baofu.

"Lang Jun Wanfu, the slave has just returned from Aunt Liang's side. Lang Jun is busy with something today, how can he be so tired, come and let the slave pinch you and loosen your skin and bones. ”

After speaking, Ling'er walked to Li Bao's side, pressed Li Bao on a low stool, and skillfully kneaded Li Bao's shoulders and back.

Li Bao snorted comfortably, and praised: "You are still the most intimate, you have been in and out of the palace gate for the past few days, and you have worked hard." I'm really a little unaccustomed to staying in the palace without your care. ”

"But isn't Cui Niang's service unsatisfied?"

"There, Cui Niang served very dedicatedly, before you came to the palace, Aunt Liang took care of me, and then Aunt Liang was going to go out of the palace and return home, you have been serving me for the past few years, I am used to it, of course I will not be used to it when you leave for a few days."

Ling'er listened to Li Bao's words, her heart was sweet, and the hard work outside the palace seemed to disappear with Li Bao's words.

Li Bao asked Ling'er to press it for a while, then asked her to stop and sit beside her to rest. Pick up the milk tea on your table and give it to Ling'er. Ling'er didn't shirk, took it and took a sip, the tea was hot, with both the fragrance of tea and the sweet fragrance of milk. The bells that drank were warm in their bodies and hearts.

"How are you preparing outside the palace, the personnel and the store site are all ready, and how is the decoration going. How's the windows? ”

Ling'er hurriedly stopped Li Bao's series of questions, and said: "All aspects are going very well, that Yang Siqi is also very attentive, and helped us find a merchant who supplies milk, our store has just opened now, and we are afraid that the amount will not be large at first, so we don't dare to ask for more and let them supply 200 catties of milk every day." ”

Li Bao calculated, the ratio of milk to cream is 10:1, and the cream that can be produced from 200 catties of milk is only 20 catties, and it is not a problem to make 20 to 30 cakes with this 20 catties of cream.

As for the production of cream, it is now mass-produced, and it can no longer be stirred manually, which is too inefficient. Li Bao remembered that in later generations, people in Tibet used a large wooden bucket to make ghee, and then used a handle with a piston to stir the milk up and down all the way to polish the ghee. So Li Bao drew a diagram of a tool for cranking and stirring milk.

Since the cream needs centrifugal force to separate, it is directly stirred by manpower to crank to separate the cream. The rest of the milk is not wasted either. Li Bao asked people to make milk tea into a bamboo tube as a container, and a can was sold for 500 yuan, which was used for takeaway, so that it would not waste and increase income.

Every bit of the store in this store is made by Li Bao based on the existing material conditions of Datang, and then based on his own experience. For example, at this time, Datang had not yet been able to make glass, so in order to show the window effect in the store in later generations, Li Bao specially asked Liang Hongmei to use the thinnest white silk as a screen, which was not only beautiful but also exuded the deliciousness of the pastry.

Of course, Li Bao's high standards and high requirements are high, and the money is also spent like flowing water. For example, Li Bao's specially customized packaging box, because the material of mahogany is too expensive, the cost of each packaging box is about three dollars, plus some other supporting small things, the cost of the whole cake has reached an astonishing five dollars.

This is still a considerable profit for its selling price of 30 yuan, but for the cost of less than the consistent money originally planned, this five yuan is equivalent to losing four yuan. Whenever I think of this, the bell hurts for a while. But Li Bao insisted on doing so, and Ling'er had no choice but to accept it.

In fact, the cost of these packaging is still a small amount of money, and the real money is spent on the storefront, Liang Hongmei bought a small store in Dongshi, a two-story building. The downstairs is the door face, and the upstairs is the tea room, which is convenient for guests to buy freely. Of course, the decoration of the store is quiet and elegant, in order to set off the high-end taste of "beautiful girls".

As for why the name of the store is called "Mei Yaya", unlike brands like McDonald's and KFC in later generations, this is the patriotic complex in Li Bao's heart, and those foreign brands are not good, it is better to create their own brands. And in today's Datang time and space, the creation of its own chain brand is thousands of years earlier than those foreign brands, which is of course a little vanity in Li Bao's heart.

The entire store cost 3,000 yuan, and Li Bao was also distressed, if it weren't for Yang Siqi's compensation, Li Bao would have to pawn the treasure given by Li Luo in order to place such an estate. Of course, King Li Bao, who is not bad for money now, will not cry like Lao Duna sour Confucian, "It's not easy to live in Chang'an."

In addition to packaging, the store spends money on recruiting staff, and at this time, there are people who are scoundrels in the market, and Li Bao doesn't want to use such people. Therefore, Li Bao explained that the staff in Liang Hongmei's store must find simple countrymen, first, they are obedient and obedient, and they also know how to be grateful.

Therefore, Liang Hongmei specially took Ling'er to a remote suburban county to buy more than a dozen beautiful girls about fifteen years old as waitresses. There are also strong men who do labor. The prices of these people are extremely cheap, and they can basically just take care of the rice.

But Li Bao is not a black-hearted capitalist, for these poor people, each of them is paid a monthly salary, and they are promised, and there are dividends at the end of the year. At first, these people thought they were dreaming. After arriving at "Meiyaya", everyone is in new clothes, and some people call the rules for the new bedding, and after they come, each person will be given an allowance of 30 yuan. When several men got the money, they burst into tears of joy. Therefore, the recruited workers are very hard at work.

Li Bao and Ling'er talked for a long time about the new store. Until the situation was basically clear, he took Ling'er to the outside of the hall to relax. In Chang'an City at the end of November, the weather was still gloomy.

The sky was filled with thick, low, grayish-yellow cloudy clouds. The northeast wind whined and roared, running wildly in the wilderness of Daming Palace, it seemed to hold a sharp sword, easily pierced Li Baoyan's tight fur, and was blown by the cold wind, Li Bao's numb and sore face felt a trace of liveliness and vitality in the cleverness of the north wind.

Li Bao turned around and took Ling'er's hand and walked towards the edge of the Taiye Pool. If it was too late today, Ling'er's blushing face was not afraid of being seen, and she lowered her head and followed Li Bao.

The master and servant blew a cold wind by the Taiye Pool, and Li Bao was afraid that Ling'er would freeze, so he turned back to the Jinluan Palace. After dinner, there was a regular tea party. Li Bao went to bed early after the workout because there were more things for him to do the next day.

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In the following time, Li Bao was busy and fulfilling, and everyone in the "beautiful girls" in the Jinluan Palace and outside the palace worked hard for a goal.

In addition to being busy with his own affairs, Li Bao also has to go to Li Yi from time to time to serve, not only for the continuous update of "Journey to the West", but also for food. In this way, Li Luo's love and trust for Li Bao in his heart will continue to increase. Of course, Li Yi rewarded Li Bao more and more, and there were more and more people in the palace who hated Li Bao.

Hu Sanbao's intelligence network has begun to operate, and some of the inadvertent leaked news of the people in the palace has been pushed through Hu Sanbao's network, and the news sent at the beginning is fragmented and complicated. The information on trivial things and other trivial things came to his face, which made Li Bao tired of it, and Li Bao had to point out a few words to Hu Sanbao.

After Hu Sanbao learned a lesson, he began to give full play to his subjective initiative. Slowly, the information handed over was sorted out and screened by Hu Sanbao and sent to Li Bao's desk.

For those information that has no practical value, Li Bao will ignore it. As long as he can always grasp Li Yi's backer, those little gossip is meaningless. Unless it is the information of the "four nobles" in the palace, Li Bao will pay attention to it, and Li Bao specially asked Hu Sanbao to inquire about these powerful figures.

But after getting it, Li Bao had to encourage Hu Sanbao not to rush and take his time.

On this day, Ling'er returned to Jinluan Hall and told Li Bao excitedly that the preparatory work for "Mei Yaya" had been completed and could be opened at any time.

Li Bao looked at the excited Ling'er, and thought in his heart, the preliminary preparations for this store have been going on for almost a month. Since it opened, it was necessary to choose a day with lip gloss, so I made a decision with Ling'er, and it was officially opened on December 18 two days later.

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