Traveled through time and became the darling of the whole family

"Mother, Father." Ye Ziyu walked in and bowed.

"Ayu, why did you come here so late? Is there something wrong?" Jiang Xu stretched out her hand and asked Ye Ziyu to come to her side.

Ye Ziyu walked over and sat down next to Jiang Xu. "Didn't you say before that you would make another small thing? It will be ready in the next few days. Bring it over for daddy and mom to try. Liqiu, bring it here." Liqiu walked up with a plate.

"What is this?" Jiang Xu picked up one and looked at it. "Is this a dress? I've never seen this style before, and it feels quite soft. Zhengde, take a look."

Ye Zhengde picked up another one and said, "This fabric is familiar, but what's in the interlayer inside?"

"This is called a down jacket." Ye Ziyu took Jiang Xu's coat. "The inner lining is filled with goose and duck feathers. They are washed, dried, and puffed up before being put into the lining to keep you warm. This is how you wear it." Ye Ziyu put it on outside to try it on for the two of them to see. "You can wear this inside your outer robe, and then you don't need a cape or cloak."

"Is this thing really that warm? No need for a cloak or cape?" Ye Zhengde was a little skeptical.

"Dad, you can try it on and feel it when the time comes. My second brother tried it on for a day the day before yesterday and it seemed pretty good to me. I also gave one to my eldest brother."

"If it's really that useful, we can mass-produce it for the soldiers to wear, so that they won't be exhausted from the cold when fighting in winter!" Ye Zhengde's eyes were filled with excitement. "Great, great, my son is really smart."

"Actually, mother, I came to see you for another matter." Ye Ziyu sat back next to Jiang Xu.

"What's wrong? Tell me." Jiang Xu patted her hands and looked at her.

"I...I want to say..."

Jiang Xu looked at Ye Ziyu and said, "Kid, just say what you want to say."

"I want to say that I want to open a shop." Originally, Ye Ziyu wanted to ask about Ye Qingyin. Ever since Jiang Xu and the others talked to Ye Qingyin, Ye Qingyin seemed absent-minded, so Ye Ziyu felt that Jiang Xu and the others should know something. But then she thought about how Ye Qingyin had refused to say anything during the day. Ye Ziyu was afraid that her question would make her sister feel uncomfortable, so she changed the subject temporarily.

"I thought it was something else. You kept hesitating for a long time and didn't say anything. You just want to open a store. Why don't you just go find your second brother to help you? He has the most experience in opening a store. He even came to talk to me so late at night."

"I'm just afraid that my second brother won't agree."

"If he has any objections, I'll ask Guyu to tell him later."

"Thank you, mother. I hope you and father can have some rest soon. I'll go back first." Ye Ziyu stood up, bowed and left.

"He's really just a little kid." Jiang Xu looked at Ye Ziyu and shook his head.

"After all, she is still a 13-year-old girl, isn't she just a child?" Ye Zhengde said with a smile, picking up the down jacket in his hand and looking at it carefully.

*

"Ayu."

Ye Ziyu was still having breakfast, "Why did Second Brother come to see me so early?"

"Stop talking. Didn't you tell mom that you wanted to open a shop? Mom sent Guyu to tell me early in the morning and asked me to come to you quickly. I haven't even had breakfast yet. I'm starving." Ye Jiaxuan sat down.

"Hurry up and bring more bowls and chopsticks." Ye Ziyu ordered Lixia.

"What kind of shop do you want to open? Why are you in such a hurry? You can just tell me directly. Why do you still go to mother? I won't refuse you."

"Hehe, actually I'm not in a hurry. I just mentioned it casually when I went to deliver clothes to mom and dad yesterday." Ye Ziyu didn't expect Jiang Xu to think she was anxious and then go to urge Ye Jiaxuan early in the morning.

"Mom's urging look made me think she was really anxious." After the dishes and chopsticks were served, Ye Jiaxuan began to eat voraciously.

"Second brother, haven't you eaten these days?" Ye Ziyu asked weakly.

"Eat it."

"Eat slowly." Ye Ziyu pushed the dishes in front of Ye Jiaxuan. Originally, Ye Ziyu could still eat more, but seeing Ye Jiaxuan like this, she felt full instantly.

"You don't want to eat anymore? Is that all you're going to eat, sister?" Ye Jiaxuan saw Ye Ziyu put down her bowl and chopsticks.

"I ate some cakes before going to bed last night, so I'm not very hungry this morning. Eat more, brother."

"Okay, I won't be polite, brother." Ye Jiaxuan continued to eat. "By the way, if you have decided on a shop, tell me."

"Well, you eat first, brother. I'm going to go to my sister's place. It's almost time to learn to write."

"Go ahead, don't worry about me. You're really hardworking. You've been learning things since you came back."

Ye Ziyu smiled and said nothing more. She took Liqiu and Lixia to find Ye Qingyin.

*

"Sister, have you had breakfast?"

"Ayu is here. I've used it before. The dress I wore yesterday felt so comfortable. I wanted to try it on today."

"Of course, it doesn't mean you have to wear it when you go out. I just wanted my second brother to test its warmth that day, so I asked him to wear it when he went out. But since we have a charcoal fire burning in the house, there's no need to wear it."

"That's what I was thinking. Let's try it when we go shopping some other day."

"Hmm, what are we learning today? Am I almost done, sis?"

"It's almost done. Today we are learning pen spinning, which involves a lot of content, so we will learn it for a little longer today."

"Okay!" Ye Ziyu ran to the desk.

Ye Qingyin smiled dotingly and walked to the desk.

"Pen spinning mainly tests the flexibility of your wrist. Make sure the thickness of the lines is even. Use your wrist to control the direction of the pen tip and keep the speed of the center of the pen unchanged at the turn." The pen fell. "I will explain everything to you today, and then you can find the corresponding ones in the book I gave you before and copy them."

"Next is continuous pen spinning. In fact, the previous S-line exercise was already continuous pen spinning. Practicing continuous pen spinning can make the shapes and lines of your subsequent writing more varied." Ye Qingyin wrote down several continuous pen spinning lines on the paper.

"First, simulate writing these lines with your bare hands to determine the corresponding movements of the wrist when writing. For the second row, pay attention to keeping the lines smooth. For the third row, pay attention to adding lifting, pressing, and swinging techniques. Try copying these rows first, and when you go back and practice on your own, find the corresponding copy from the book I gave you."

Ye Qingyin was worried that Ye Ziyu would be confused if she said too much at once, so she asked her to try it first. Ye Ziyu first simulated writing in the air, and then copied it on paper with a pen. When she encountered problems, she asked Ye Qingyin. She didn't know whether some of her feelings were correct.

After copying for a while, Ye Qingyin began to teach the rest. "In most of the previous exercises, the wrist and arm were moving around a simple movement, which was relatively easy to coordinate. But the next one may be more complicated and difficult. You will need to practice more later."

Ye Qingyin first wrote a horizontal line on the paper. "To copy this stroke, the rotation of the pen is strictly controlled by the wrist. While the wrist rotates, the arm controls the pen to move horizontally to the right. The two movements are integrated and should not interfere with each other. The movement should be smooth. The length of the final stroke should not be shorter than this length. It is difficult to copy directly on paper. First, hold the pen in the air and practice moving it. After you are familiar with it, write on paper."

"Okay." Ye Ziyu started to simulate, but she couldn't control this part well and couldn't write it correctly, which made her feel a little annoyed.

"Don't be anxious, Yu. Take your time and be calm. We won't learn anything else today. This one is really not that easy."

"Yeah, that's fine. I thought this was easy, but I didn't expect it to be so difficult to practice. It always goes wrong."

"It's not something you can learn to write overnight. Didn't you already know this before? Take a rest first and write it later."

Ye Ziyu put down her pen and shook her hands, "Okay, I'm just tired." She walked to the round table, drank some water, picked up the cakes on the table and started eating, "Come to think of it, the cakes made by Zhizhi are really delicious, even better than those made by Baodiexuan."

"If I hadn't really eaten the pastries made by Zhizhi, I really couldn't imagine that a pastry shop that has been in business for 30 years would make pastries that are not as good as those made by a half-grown girl." Ye Qingyin picked up the teacup and took a sip.

"Yes, speaking of this, when I went out with Zhizhi the day before yesterday, I mentioned the matter of selling cakes to her."

"Oh? What did Zhizhi say? Did you agree?"

"Well, Zhizhi thinks this is a good idea, but she said she's not good at business, so she wants me to do it. But I haven't decided yet whether to sell her cakes in the form of a cake shop or in the form of private customization. I'm a little confused."

"Emm... Tell me what you are struggling with?"

"I'm thinking that if we open a shop, first we need to find a store with a suitable geographical location, then find a reliable person to manage the shop, and then the pricing. If the price is too high, ordinary people can't afford it, and rich people may not ask us to customize it, then the whole shop will be in a loss. If the price is too low, the quantity may be large, and if the quantity is large, it will be tiring for Zhizhi to do it. And if the quantity is not large, the cost cannot be covered."

"Yeah." Ye Qingyin nodded, "What if you don't open a shop?"

"If I don't open a shop, I can do private customization. I can decide in advance which day I want the cakes, what kind I want, and how many I want, and then tell Zhizhi to make it. This way, Zhizhi can control the time and quantity of customization. But the only problem is, how can I customize it? You can't always come to our house and ask us for customization, and it's not good to give Zhizhi the address directly. After all, Zhizhi's family is not in business, eh." Ye Ziyu fell into deep thought.

Although Ye Qingyin is versatile in other aspects, she doesn't know much about business. "Why don't we ask our second brother? He's in business, he should know."

"Second brother is usually very busy. I came up with a plan and asked him to help me see if it is feasible. If I ask him to think about it, he will probably be too busy to remember it." Ye Ziyu shrugged.

"Sister, what do you think if we get together?"

"Combination?" Ye Qingyin was puzzled.

"Yes, in combination, we will start with private customization in the early stage, and start promoting it around us, so that as many people as possible can taste the pastry, and then build its reputation. If there are many people who customize it, we will consider opening a shop? In that case, with the foundation in place, the initial cost of opening a shop should be greatly shortened." Ye Ziyu said.

"Yes. Now it's about the early customization channels and how to spread the reputation of the pastries. In fact, it's not difficult to spread the word. Hold a banquet, and the ladies of each family will eat pastries at the banquet. The pastries made by Zhizhi are so delicious. I think everyone will like them as soon as they try them. As for the customization channels." Ye Qingyin said.

"Does second brother own a tea house?" Ye Ziyu asked.

"Yes, I remember one. It wouldn't be too abrupt to order cakes through a tea house, and I can also sell tea at the same time. I don't think my second brother will refuse." Ye Qingyin said with a smile.

"Second brother naturally won't refuse. If he refuses, I will go and talk to mother about it. Hahaha." Ye Ziyu laughed.

"The whole idea becomes much clearer now that I have thought about it this way. I can just mention it to my second brother and see what he thinks of it." Ye Qingyin suggested.

"Okay, I'll find time to go visit my second brother then."

Ye Ziyu looked at Ye Qingyin with a smile on her face, and she returned to her previous state, as if the person yesterday was not her. "Maybe the matter has been resolved."

That night, Ye Ziyu went to find Ye Jiaxuan and told him the ideas she and Ye Qingyin had discussed today. After listening, Ye Jiaxuan felt that this method was feasible and could reduce the initial costs. If the initial feedback was not good, it could be stopped in time.

But from Ye Jiaxuan's point of view, he suggested that he could just open a shop. The pastries were so delicious that he didn't have to worry about lack of business. And even if there was really no business and he made a loss, it would be okay. He had plenty of money and could afford the loss.

But Ye Ziyu refused, because this was not just her business. She was going to do this in a joint venture with Liu Zhizhi. Liu Zhizhi would invest in technology and she would invest in money. If it would cost so much money to open a shop directly in the early stage, she felt that Zhizhi might be under a lot of pressure.

Ye Ziyu's original idea was to help Zhizhi find a way to make more money. Zhizhi happened to like making delicious cakes. Even if her father couldn't resist her grandmother and used the family's money to help her second uncle, at least she would have some pocket money and her life would not be the same as before. In the end, Ye Jiaxuan couldn't persuade Ye Ziyu and agreed.

When Ye Ziyu was leaving, Ye Jiaxuan called her and said, "Look how busy I have been these past few days. Here, this is the powder you wanted. I have prepared it for you."

Ye Ziyu opened the bag and took a look. "Thank you, second brother. Just wait for me to make a lot of money for you." Ye Ziyu tightened the rope of the bag and turned to leave.

When he returned to the room and saw that it was still early, he asked Lixia to send an invitation to Liu Mansion, inviting Liu Zhizhi to come over tomorrow. Later, after thinking about it, he asked Lixia to send an invitation to Ling Mansion as well, inviting Ling Bingqing to come over.

"By the way, Liqiu, go see if Sister has rested. If not, tell her that I have arranged for Zhizhi and Aqing to come to my house for a gathering tomorrow, and discuss the pastry issue."

After finishing her instructions, Ye Ziyu packed up and went to bed to rest.