Chapter Twenty-Seven: The People of the Mu Mansion (II)

Ten-year-old Mu Qingwan is both talented and beautiful, although she is immature, she has a unique style that is difficult to hide.

When Mu Qingwan was eight years old, Mrs. Mu began to intentionally let Mu Qingwan learn housekeeping, the population of Mu Mansion is simple, and the masters do whatever they want, so Mu Qingwan had the opportunity to contact the housekeeper very early.

In her previous life, she was also a top wealthy lady, and the family business was booming, Mu Qingwan was familiar with running and making money, and she was also a good hand at management, because she knew everything in many places and learned very quickly.

Nowadays, Mrs. Mu's business has also reached a certain scale, mainly dealing in furs and imported products from overseas, which are relatively lacking in the mainland and are often in short supply. Since Mu Qingwan slowly got started, Mrs. Mu divided a part of the property from her own hands into Mu Qingwan's name, as Mu Qingwan's dowry, and handed it over to Mu Qingwan to operate alone.

At the beginning, Mu Qingwan mainly sold imported goods, mainly foreign jewelry, glass, clocks and perfumes, etc., and contacted a fixed exotic caravan, buying at a low price and exiting at a high price, and making several times the difference in price as soon as it changed hands.

The original shop was integrated and named Linlang Pavilion, which mainly sells jewelry, jewelry, clothing and various rouge gouaches, etc., in addition to scarce imported goods, such as clocks, perfumes and spices.

Starting from the first store opened in Pingcheng, several shops were opened one after another, and one was quietly opened in the capital. At first, they were all finished products bought directly, but after all, the quantity was limited, and considering that in the long run, there may not be people who will follow the trend and do business in the same way. So later, some goods that can be processed by herself, Mu Qingwan bought more raw materials, built her own workshop, and hired skilled masters to process and produce, not only overseas jewelry, but also mainland jewelry, clothing and rouge gouache, etc., the cost is lower, and the finished products are more in line with the aesthetics of the Central Plains, so the sales are better and the profits are greater. As for the style of production, Mu Qingwan doesn't want to copy the modern one, after all, there are always some scruples in her heart, and there are many skilled craftsmen in ancient times, so it is more practical to meet the needs of the moment.

All the products are sold in Linlang Pavilion, because of the variety and fashionable styles, and now it has formed a brand effect. Mu Qingwan began to try to do business at the age of eight, and in just two years, with the help of Mrs. Mu, she has now done well, and the profit of the original shop has also increased several times.

However, Linlang Pavilion is mainly a place where rich ladies and ladies like to patronize, and the prices of the main things sold are not cheap.

In ancient times, the people took food as the sky, the productivity was low, the rulers emphasized agriculture and suppressed business, grain is of great significance, grain is a necessity of life, and the business of operating grain shops is more profitable. At the beginning, Mu Qingwan planned to open a grain shop and buy grain for resale, but later, Mu Qingwan found that in this era, there was little operation of the industrial chain, and the current family did not have the consciousness of enclosure. Therefore, after making a lot of money, Mu Qingwan did not invest all of it in the expansion of the store, but quietly bought land on a large scale. Just talking about Jiangnan, the soil in Jiangnan is fertile, the wind and rain are smooth, Mu Qingwan entrusted his second uncle to buy nearly 1,000 acres of fertile land here, and hired long-term workers to plant, with a huge annual output to supply grain stores in various places. In the suburbs of the capital, Mrs. Mu gave Mu Qingwan a few Zhuangzi, and Mu Qingwan bought hundreds of acres of fertile land on this basis. And the scale of land purchases is still expanding. No one would have thought that a ten-year-old girl would actually do the business of buying land and grain. So much grain is not necessarily a good thing, Mu Qingwan divided the land into small parts, managed them separately, and everything was carried out in a low-key manner.

Not only that, Mu Qingwan also bought hundreds of acres of wasteland in Biansai, the climate and soil in Biansai are not suitable for farming, the area is desolate, and many places are still uncultivated wasteland, and the price of land is terrible. Mu Qingwan bought it mainly for the cultivation of medicinal herbs, such as astragalus, wolfberry and so on. In this era, the level of medicine is extremely backward, the medicinal materials are scarce, the medicinal materials sold are mainly from the wild medicinal materials picked by hand, and there is no precedent for planting medicinal materials. But Mu Qingwan didn't start blindly, after all, a lot of never-before-seen medicinal materials were planted at once, on the one hand, people accepted difficulties, and secondly, at a critical time, medicinal materials controlled people's life and death, and the tree was a big wind, I am afraid that it would bring trouble to the family. The medicinal herbs are all grown in their own villages, and they are taken care of by their cronies. There are many kinds of medicinal materials, Mu Qingwan has opened several pharmacies one after another, and found a famous local doctor to sit in the hall, mainly engaged in the business of making medicinal materials.

In the past five years, Mu Qingwan's life has been busy and fulfilling, everything is to strengthen herself and gain a firm foothold in this unstable era.

In the past five years, the biggest change in the masters of the Mu Mansion is that there is another small group. A year after Mrs. Mu returned to Pingcheng, she became pregnant again, and gave birth to Mu Qingwan's little brother the next year, named Mu Lan, who is now three years old, and Mu Yan was almost carved out of the same mold when he was a child, fleshy and round. My favorite is also pestering Mu Qingwan, chattering all day long.

Mu Qingwan's eldest maid is eighteen years old, and a year ago she was married to a local head of a hundred households, abolished the slave status, and sent out of the house. Thinking about returning to Beijing in the future, Mrs. Mu gave her big maid painting fan to Mu Qingwan, and only sent a few smaller second-class little maids to cultivate.

Now Ji Xiang Ruyi has been promoted to be a big girl, but she is mainly responsible for Mu Qingwan's personal protection. Ji Xiang Ruyi began to learn martial arts with Mu Qingwan five years ago, and he is very able to endure hardships, and at the age of fifteen, he has grown to a height of about one meter six and a very toned figure. Fortunately, although the two are a little stronger than the Central Plains woman, their skin is not delicate and snow-white, but a healthy wheat color, but they have also been well maintained in recent years, although they are not the delicate of ordinary women, but they are in good spirits, and their appearance is not ugly.

After several years of training, Hu Zhao is twelve years old, and his height is now 1.6 meters, and his skills are also first-class and sophisticated. Now Hu Zhao has officially belonged to Mu Qingwan's name, and he is mainly arranged to walk outside to help with the business outside the house. Dealing with all kinds of people, Hu Zhao is also becoming more and more calm.

In the past five years, the people of Mu Mansion have changed a lot.

Mu Erye has been in Pingcheng for ten years, and in ten years, many cities in Biansai have had small-scale conflicts or wars with the Hu people. And Pingcheng is relatively stable, which also has a lot of credit to Mu Erye. But the stability of Pingcheng has aroused the minds of others, after all, there will be some people who are eager for quick success and want to reap the results. In addition, Second Master Mu was thinking about being transferred back to the capital, but there has been no news, although there is a block from the capital. In the past few years, Mu Erye has spent a lot of money, and he has deliberately dredged and dotted up, but now it is just a short time.

And because of such an opportunity, returning to Beijing has gradually been put on the agenda.