Flowers in full bloom

Chapter 282 Bounty 22

"Your cowardly sister has earned dozens of taels of silver as you wished."

Xiaoyuan looked at Hualei's sleeves and smiled happily.

Gui Jing'an, who was standing next to her, looked at Hua Lei and asked, "Miss Hua, why did you refuse Master Li's round card? Many people want to get it. If you make it to the finals, Miss Hua will most likely win, and there will be a reward for you."

Hua Lei paused and smiled, "I was lucky today, so I won against them. The young masters and young ladies of the noble families in Shangjing City are all outstanding and outstanding. It is impossible for me to be so lucky to win all the time.

Besides, I am not a competitive person. I took on three matches today because I didn’t want to work for nothing tomorrow. Winning so much money is already a pleasant surprise, but I don’t dare to expect to get a reward.”

Hua Lei knew that she dared not take the lead, as Shangjing City was a place where many hidden dragons and crouching tigers were hidden. Regardless of winning or losing in chess, she was just an orphan with no power or influence, and she did not have a background like Ruyi, who had a grandfather like Lord Pei to protect her.

Ruyi won first place and attracted the attention of Emperor Shengwu, and she almost entered the palace. If she succeeded, it would be unlikely for her to enter the palace. After all, Emperor Shengwu would not have such an idea now, as his own son had a son and he was also a grandfather. It is said that Emperor Shengwu still paid great attention to his wise and brave image.

However, what if some old man from some aristocratic family in the capital city takes a fancy to me and wants to take me as his concubine? Wouldn’t that be terrible?

So, whether she is low-key or a coward, Hualei will never participate in any chess finals. She should just stay safe and save her life first.

Hey, what happened to Zhao Yulan today? She came to me for no apparent reason. It was really unlucky. If I could use silver to replace the free work, I would use silver to replace it. I hope nothing will happen.

As the sun was setting, the number of guests in the Osmanthus Garden gradually decreased, and Hualei suggested going back. So, the group said goodbye and went home, and Hualei took Xiaoyuan back to Qingyun Lane.

As soon as she returned to Qingyun Lane, Hua Lei found Brother Xiao Qun and asked him to inform Tian Xiaofu and others to adjust the sales method of their own stall. Because Hua Lei found that the small stalls selling food were doing particularly well in the morning, and many stalls required queuing to buy things.

Small stalls selling soaps, ointments and toothbrushes have very little business in the morning, and many customers are more willing to patronize them in the afternoon when customers go home.

Therefore, the number of food stalls in the morning should be increased, and in the afternoon, the food stalls should be replaced by soap stalls. So Xiaoqun immediately rushed to Huayingzhuang and conveyed Hualei's intention, and Tian Xiaofu immediately adjusted the direction.

Sure enough, after the osmanthus appreciation event ended, Hualei carefully compared the sales of the first day and the next two days and found that the revenue of the second day was nearly one-third more than that of the first day, while the sales of the next two days were basically the same. It seems that my decision was right.

In many similar activities later, Tian Xiaofu always kept in mind the business tips taught by Hua Lei. Even if the business was only for a few days, he would adjust his methods and approaches in time and actively explore.

The business of fancy stall carts is getting better and better, and the number of mule carts is gradually increasing. The flexible and maneuverable operating model has made the mule cart stall business surpass many store businesses.

In the next two days, Xiaoyuan and Hualei did not continue to go to the Osmanthus Garden in Xicheng District, but stayed in the house in Qingyun Lane to rest and adjust. But Hualei didn't know that although she was extremely low-key, the poem she wrote was still sent to the imperial study of Emperor Shengwu.

At this time in the imperial study, Emperor Shengwu looked at the poem in his hand and nodded repeatedly with satisfaction. These words, this poem, and this artistic conception really made him very satisfied. The sea is peaceful and the rivers are clear, the four directions are stable, the country is peaceful and the people are safe, and the prosperous times are coming. Isn't this a proper boast that he is a wise ruler in a prosperous era?

Emperor Shengwu directly named this work as the best in calligraphy, and, for this one alone, offered a reward of 200 taels of silver, an unprecedentedly high reward. In the past, the reward was usually within 500 taels of silver. This was the first time that gold was offered as a reward.

When Gui Jijiu sent a message to Hua Lei, telling her to go directly to the Ministry of Rites to claim the reward, Hua Lei couldn't believe it. The reward was 200 taels, and one tael of gold was equal to ten taels of silver, which meant 2,000 taels of silver? Wow, she made a fortune. Hua Lei was really happy. She happily went to the Ministry of Rites to claim the reward accompanied by Butler Pei.

And Hualei's talent and reputation also quietly spread in Shangjing City.

After the Mid-Autumn Festival, after sending Xiaoyuan to the Imperial College, Hualei went back to the farm. She was going to make toothpaste, because during the osmanthus appreciation event, many people would ask if they had toothpaste when buying toothbrushes from the stalls.

Unfortunately, Hualei never made toothpaste. She knew how to make bamboo salt toothpaste, but in the Great Sheng Dynasty, salt was too expensive to use in toothpaste. Hualei felt that bamboo salt toothpaste was expensive, had few customers, and was difficult to make business, so she put the toothpaste making on hold.

Unexpectedly, during the osmanthus appreciation activities in the past few days, many people from aristocratic families asked about toothpaste, which was really unexpected for Hualei. Also, in the previous life, the world she lived in was also a world with a huge gap between the rich and the poor.

Some people can buy bags and jewelry worth tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of yuan without blinking an eye, and can buy houses worth tens of millions of yuan at will, but people in some areas cannot even solve the most basic problem of food and clothing. Otherwise, there would not be the story of "Why not eat meat porridge?"

As a large country with a vast territory, the Great Sheng Dynasty still had a huge gap between the rich and the poor. There were still many poor people in the Mobei, Western Xinjiang and other border areas. Their family only had two or three taels of silver for food a year. Often, they would only buy a little black flour to fill their stomachs, and then add wild vegetables to make the whole family full. They also had to save salt every month because it was too expensive and the people could not afford it.

However, the living conditions of the people in Shangjing City are much better, and there are many wealthy businessmen coming from all directions, so they should have the purchasing power. The aristocratic families are all gathered in Shangjing City, so their purchasing power should not be bad either.

And from what Hua Lei knew, in the several prefectures in the south of the Yangtze River where Liang Xiangyi's family lived, the living conditions of many people were no worse than those of the people in the capital.

Then you can try it yourself first, make a small amount of toothpaste, and then test the sales in Shangjing City, and you can also sell it to several prefectures in Jiangnan.