Chapter 377 Opening a Store in Beijing (9)

When the children saw the scars on Mei's face and hands, they felt distressed and angry, but they wisely avoided the topic to avoid upsetting their grandmother.

They were now unable to compete with the Anguo Mansion, and it was obviously beyond their capabilities to avenge their grandmother. However, the children had made up their minds that they would settle their grandmother's account with the Anguo Mansion sooner or later!

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Caiwei's family settled down in the Anguo Mansion. Changchun Garden was a small courtyard with only three small main rooms and two small side rooms on each side.

Mei lived in the room on the left side of the main room. Caifei felt sorry for her grandmother and was worried about her sleeping alone, so she lived with Mei in the east room. The middle of the main room was the main hall, and the right side was also a bedroom, where Wen'er and Wu'er lived.

Zhongqing and his wife lived in the two side rooms on the left, and Caiwei lived in the side room on the right. She only lived in one room, and the other was for two maids.

After settling down, the siblings would hang around Mei every day, calling her "grandma". Mei enjoyed the pleasure of having her children and grandchildren around her, and her mouth was always open all day long. Her originally terminally ill body miraculously got better under the care of these children.

Wen'er and Wu'er entered the private school in the Anguo Mansion. The teacher in the private school was an old scholar with high moral character. He treated all the children in the school equally and never treated them differently.

After Mu Zhongqing sent his two sons there, he discussed academic matters with the teacher for a while and found that the teacher was a scholar with extensive knowledge of ancient and modern times. He then left his two sons there with confidence and went back to help his daughter plan to open a store!

Originally, Mu Zhongqing planned to cooperate with Cao Jin to open a store, and they had agreed to do so earlier.

However, the situation has changed. Now that his family has a storefront in Maoer Hutong, they can open their own store without cooperating with others. He discussed with his daughter and felt that it would be more appropriate to open their own store. So, he went to Cao Jin's house one day to visit him, explained the reason why they could not cooperate, and said that if Cao Jin's restaurant was interested in selling barbecue, his family could provide technology for free.

Cao Jin wanted to cooperate with them not to make money. He was already rich and didn't care about the little money he made from opening a restaurant.

The reason why he wanted to cooperate with Caiwei was nothing more than to earn their family to come to the capital. Since they were already here and had already moved into the Anguo Mansion under his plan, his adoptive father had made a great contribution to the Anguo Mansion, and he should be able to redeem himself soon.

Back then, when the fourth young lady escaped, Duke Anguo ordered all the servants in the mansion to pursue her. Anyone who caught the fourth young lady's servant could get back his indenture and become a good citizen from then on. How tempting was this for a servant!

His adoptive father was born in a poor family. Although he had secretly earned a lot of money over the years, he was still a slave after all. He had no freedom and no chance to spend money. If he took this opportunity to redeem himself, he could become a good citizen from then on and live a few days as a rich man. He could also honor his father openly and respectfully, which was worth his father's adoption!

Cao Jin readily agreed to Mu Zhongqing's request. He was not displeased because Caiwei's family broke their promise. Instead, he took the initiative to ask that if there was any difficulty when the Mu family opened a restaurant, they could come to him.

After thanking Cao Jin, Mu Zhongqing felt relieved. He could now open his own store without distraction.

Opening a shop and doing business is very novel and exciting for him who has been studying for half his life. Now he is full of longing and expectation for the future. He is very confident in his daughter's craftsmanship and ability, so he completely listens to his daughter's opinions on the specific arrangements of opening a shop.

For example, the decoration of the store, other stores are all pine railings and ink pavilions, small buildings and windows, but the design of his daughter's store is very weird.

She personally painted two strange paintings on some linen, framed them, and hung them in the hall on the first floor. The two paintings are colorful and realistic, and look like real ones.

He didn't know what kind of painting it was. After asking his daughter, he learned that it was called "oil painting".

These oil paintings are very beautiful and attractive. If they are taken to Sibaozhai to sell, they will definitely be sold at a good price, but his daughter said that these paintings cannot be sold to attract customers.

Furthermore, the daughter was very particular about some small details of the shop, such as the chopstick cage for holding chopsticks. It could be made of a bamboo tube or four thin wooden boards, but she insisted on finding a carpenter who did joinery, drawing a picture for him, and asking him to set it according to her picture.

Her chopstick cages were very strange. Some were shaped like a pumpkin, but there was a hole on the top of the pumpkin, and a few pairs of chopsticks were placed in the hole; some were shaped like an unclenched fist, and the center of the fist was just for holding chopsticks.

These strange and bizarre designs were numerous in their shop, which stunned Mu Zhongqing and the craftsmen who came to decorate it.

These designs were nothing in modern times, but in ancient times, these things were groundbreaking, unprecedented and unparalleled!