The fierce peasant woman is busy farming

Zhou Yue was amused: "Of course it's a restaurant."

"Well, then why do we need a stage? This layout is almost like a brothel!"

Princess Ning: "......"

Zhou Yue: "..."

Prince Ning loves visiting brothels?

Seeing the unfriendly look in his woman's eyes, Zhou Yue's face was full of confusion.

Prince Ning quickly tried to make amends: "No, I went there once when I was young.

So know their pattern.

In addition to the stage, there are also the boxes you mentioned. Aren’t they the embroidery rooms of the courtesans?

Princess Ning's face is almost as black as the bottom of a pot.

He stood up, grabbed Prince Ning's arm, and dragged him into the inner hall.

Zhou Yue: How can you be so fat? Can you make new discoveries while talking about business? You won't let the couple fight, right?

The same goes for Prince Ning. The people have been imprisoned, and you are still not behaving yourself?

Princess Ning saw that her husband and wife were being laughed at by an outsider, and she saw that Prince Ning did not talk back.

A glance at Zhou Yue, the look in her eyes meant that how could a country old woman like you know the layout of a brothel?

Zhou Yue didn't want to be misunderstood by her and then be unable to cooperate with her in the future.

He hurriedly explained: "Princess, this is the case, I have never been to a brothel.

I didn’t know that a brothel was arranged like this.

When I was young, I read a foreign book that described the layout of a restaurant.

That's it. I thought, since people in that country like it, we can try it too.

As for the fact that it is somewhat similar to a brothel, that’s not a big deal.

We can send someone to the brothel to take a closer look and try to avoid their decoration style."

After Zhou Yue finished speaking, he was sweating a little.

The failure at the outset was truly a coincidence and an unprovoked disaster.

Princess Ning also wanted to do her best to promote this cooperation, even though the other party was a farmer.

But this peasant woman was neatly dressed, had a plump figure, and had a neither humble nor arrogant attitude. It was said that her children were all doing well.

In addition, they have some friendship with the Song family and have some connection with the saint.

And for saving his daughter's life.

These are enough for the other party to sit together with us.

Princess Ning smiled and said, "Excuse me, Sister Zhou.

You can talk to Shouzhong about these details, I don’t understand them.

I don't know much about doing business. My shop is run by a manager sent by my mother's family.

You just tell me what you need me to do and how much money I need to give you so that I can give equally, right?"

The Princess of Ning has a straightforward personality.

With this attitude, there is no need to worry about not being able to reach an agreement on cooperation or doing it well.

Zhou Yue first confirmed the restaurant's decoration and furnishing with Zhao Shouzhong, and then handed the matter over to Zhao Shouzhong.

Zhou Yue followed Qing Mo and went to eat at some of the restaurants she had previously selected.

I roughly explored the tastes and consumption levels in Beijing.

Money makes things easier, so Zhou Yue brought enough capital with him when he came to Beijing this time.

It can be said that most of the money earned these days was brought here.

She prepared generous gifts at home, and after arriving in Beijing she bought some more valuable gifts and sent them to the homes of her shareholders and old friends.

Including His Majesty today.

Of course she couldn't enter the palace, so she asked Song Yuan's mother, the eldest princess, to help pass it on.

Everyone in the world likes to receive gifts, especially when the other party does not ask for anything in return.

A saint is also a human being. Although all officials and people call him a saint, he is still a mortal at heart.

He received the investment dividend from Zhou Yue last year.

At that time, he had sold a batch of antique calligraphy and paintings from the palace and had sufficient funds.

Song Yuan came to lobby him, and he took some money and gave it to him to play with.

Later, when the Chinese New Year was approaching, someone from the Song family sent some money, saying it was a dividend.

What a surprise.

The palace can also have a good New Year.

The emperor immediately ordered people to use the money to customize thousands of lanterns and hang them in the palace, especially in the Empress Dowager's palace.

If Zhou Yue knew that the emperor was so good at spending money, he would probably spit out blood.

If I had known he was such a spendthrift, I would have not given him any dividends.

Isn't it nice to make the interest compounded? Anyway, he doesn't know.

This time, the gifts Zhou Yue gave to the emperor included wine, incense, many wild delicacies, and a box of sanitary napkins, saying that they were specially for the queen.

It's all good stuff.

The queen was not of high birth, but she had seen good things since she married into the palace.

She looked at the box and didn't understand what it was at first.

It's clothes, but they're too small.

I think it's used to wipe your butt, and it has wings, and it's made of cloth.

How could the villagers be so extravagant that they need to use finest cotton and cotton cloth to wipe their butts?

Later, a palace servant found a piece of paper underneath which explained the usage.

It happened that a senior palace maid beside the queen had her menstrual period, so the queen gave her one and asked her to use it.

The result was great feedback.

The queen suddenly became interested.

Ask someone to ask who sent this box.

Soon, a palace servant came to report that it was a peasant woman who wanted to cooperate with Princess Ning to open a restaurant.

This peasant woman was the one who saved the little princess.

She also has some friendship with the eldest princess's second son, Song Yuan.

By the way, his son is Master Cui’s disciple.

The queen's curiosity shifted from things to people.

How could a mere peasant woman be so adept at socializing and have connections with so many dignitaries?

She went to the emperor and asked him indirectly about the background of this peasant woman.

The emperor still remembered this person and told him some things about her.

I heard that it was true that Zhou Yue was going to form a partnership with Princess Ning, and the emperor acquiesced.

The queen became more active.

She thought that thing called sanitary napkin was a good thing, not to mention other families in Beijing.

Just the concubines and maids in this palace have a huge demand for this thing every month.

If she opened a workshop like this, she would be able to make a fortune every day. Who would still rely on the allowance from the Moon Palace to live?

She was the queen and had to maintain her dignity, so there were many people serving her in the palace.

However, the allowance was repeatedly cut by the frugal emperor, and she had been using her own pocket money to subsidize it for a long time.

But her family was not wealthy and she had limited money. After she married the emperor, the emperor was always short of money.

Therefore, she can be said to be the poorest queen ever.

Fortunately, the Queen Mother had money, and she served her attentively, and often received rewards from her.

It was only then that she could manage to avoid embarrassment during her tight financial times.

The people in this palace are all opportunists and greedy for money.

Even if she is the queen, if she doesn't give them some benefits, it will be difficult for her to order them to do anything other than their duties.

Although the Dahui Dynasty strictly prohibited officials from engaging in business, it was not very harsh on women in the harem.

Ordinary civilian women can do business, and so can the queen.

Dahui's women are relatively free. As long as the queen doesn't have affairs and doesn't interfere in politics, she can do anything else.

So she spoke to the emperor and after getting his approval, she secretly sent her personal maid to meet Zhou Yue.

For Zhou Yue, this was a pleasant surprise.

Of course, the Queen cannot do this personally. Princess Ning always sends her son to do it, and the Queen can just send a confidant to do it.

Soon the two parties agreed on the cooperation matters and signed the contract that Zhou Yue mentioned.

The Queen took it and looked at it carefully, thought it feasible, and asked the palace maid to sign it.

Naturally, her calligraphy cannot be lost among the people.

She just pays and then waits to be paid.