The Marquis' Wife

Working with Zhou's manager

There are many things that Adelia has to prepare for the opening of the cake shop, she has to decorate the first floor of the store, order furniture and prepare ingredients for drinks and tarts.

Adelia asked the painter to change the screen on the shop wall to be brighter and described the type of cake she would sell on the other side of the wall but the results were not as she had hoped because they were not can paint 3D that looks like the real thing.

Adelia eventually replaced it with the same scene screen as the rest of the wall. He also asked Lu Kai and Lu Tian to look for chocolate to the villages and make contracts with the residents there.

The month of June will soon come and the fruit trees start to bear fruit one by one so that he wants to buy chocolate that incidentally is in the forest near the village because no one has planted it before.

"I've made gelatin and milk tea now live chirp and fruit jam. What else do I have to prepare?".

Adelia thought hard and her eyebrows rose when she remembered that she did not have ice, summer would soon replace spring and would enjoy a cold drink while tasting the sweetness of tarts.

He told Lu Xiao, who was a local slave, to look for a shop that specialized in selling ice after the man picked up Lu Cheng and Lu Shan from the academy.

Today Adelia makes chirping and strawberry jam along with Lu Mei and Lu Yan.

They process the dried leaves of cincau into cincau jelly by boiling the dried leaves of cincau until the water becomes blackish and then filter it and add sago flour then boiled again.

After the water boils, the lizard water is poured into the bucket and allowed to become solid and hard like jelly.

For strawberry jam itself does not take long because just boil strawberries that have been split into two along with grated lemon and sugar until the strawberry extract water thickens.

"We go home~" Lu Shan's voice sounded from the front of the main house.

"You're home, wash your hands and we'll eat".

"Both Adel's sister" Lu Shan and Lu Cheng immediately washed their hands and sat down on the dining chair waiting for lunch to be served.

"What did you guys do today at Lu Shan academy, Lu Cheng?".

Lu Shan thought for a moment and shook his head. "There is nothing special, brother, we memorized the basic Confucian books and classics and began to learn to count".

"Heh~ but I saw you get punished for standing in front of class today" Lu Cheng who enjoyed lunch smiled slantedly looking at his sister.

Adelia's eyebrows shot up. "really?"

"I-i-it's because of Jun Shi's brother Adel. He forced me to speak while the teacher was explaining so that Jun Shi and I were punished". Lu Shan explained frantically, he did not want Adelia to think that he was being a bad boy until getting punished at the Academy.

"He forced you to talk?"

Lu Shan breathed a sigh of relief at Adelia's unchanging countenance, he nodded strongly to reassure her sister-in-law. "Yes, he always asks when the bag goes on sale, haa~ I am confused in serving Jun Shi and his friends".

Ah, today Adelia hasn't had time to go see Zhou's manager who sells knitted fabrics, shirts and threads in a big shirt shop in Fuchenh.

"Sister Adel, when can we sell that bag? They keep asking me questions keeps me busy".

"But you enjoyed it" Struck Lu Cheng as he rolled his eyes.

Lu Shan's face slightly reddened in embarrassment, he immediately shook his head. "I-I didn't enjoy it. How could I enjoy that when they keep bothering me".

Adelia smiled cutely at the small debate. "That bag we might be able to sell for about 2 more weeks".

"How long, brother? My friends will complain".

Adelia scrambled her sister's hair. "Creating that bag took a long time because of the many processes. Just tell your friend, the bag will be on sale in about 2 weeks".

Lu Shan nodded. "alright".

"For the pastry shop when are you going to open it sis?".

"A few more days, after the installation of the outboard cabinet is finished we can already open the store" Glass table where the cake and two other tables have been completed is done only glass cupboard that has not been completed.

"What if you take your friends to the opening of De Xiang's shop?" Adelia wanted her sisters to have lots of friends and enjoy childhood perfectly, playing with their friends instead of just focusing on learning.

Lu Cheng and Lu Shan were stunned. "I can bring my friend?!" Both asked simultaneously.

"of course. I'll give you one piece of cake and a drink for your friends".

The two boys smiled and thanked Adelia.

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"Welcome Madame Adelia. Our manager is waiting for you" The employee who saw Lu Mei immediately recognized that Adelia was the one who wanted to meet her manager.

Adelia smiled and went up to the second floor, an old man dressed in hanfu robes immediately stood up to welcome Adelia's arrival.

"It's nice to meet you Miss Xiefu. I was surprised when your waiter said that you wanted to make a meeting".

"I'm also happy to meet you manager Zhou. What if we go straight to the subject?".

Manager Zhou was stunned and turned his face serious. "What kind of cooperation does the madam want to do with me?".

"Uncle. Just call me Adelia, I'll call you uncle Zhou, we'll work together and be brothers in the future".

"Well if you say it like that, Adelia, so what kind of cooperation are you talking about?".

Adelia asked for the bag Lu Mei was holding and then placed it on the table. "What do you think of this stuff?".

Manager Zhou picked up the knitted brown bag, flipped it around and then looked inside.

"This..tas?". Manager Zhou's eyes widened. This model of bag is more beautiful and elegant than the travel bag made of fabric with drawstring. But this bag has an iron hook that is unique enough to open and close the bag.

"Yes uncle. Do you think this bag will sell on the market?".

"Of course" replied manager Zhou quickly then he realized his enthusiastic attitude and laughed embarrassedly.

"This will sell on the market. Do you want to work with me to make this bag?".

Adelia smiled looking at Zhou's quick-witted manager, talking to smart people no need to mince words. "Yes uncle. I can teach you how to make this bag for your employees".

Manager Zhou's eyes flashed, he could already imagine his shop would be crowded by people who wanted to buy this bag.

"What about the 6:4 advantage? 6 For uncle and you get 4 parts".

Adelia shook her head slowly. "Uncle, I just sold you this idea. This bag will sell well and you can monopolize the sale because other business people will take a long time to make this bag. I think I deserve more".

Manager Zhou smiled resignedly. Adelia is right that this bag will take a long time to learn it self-taught, especially the iron hook that must be made with high painstaking due to its small size.

"alright. How are we 5:5? We'll take half the profits each and I think that this is the right part".

"Deal. Congratulations on working with uncle".

"Haha. Happy working. I heard that you're a woman with a lot of unique ideas like the tarts you sell in Cheng City".

Adelia smiled cheerfully. "The information about me has already spread to Fucheng apparently. I just have some uncle ideas".

"You're very humble. The information that you sell tart recipes has spread in Fucheng, some businessmen even want to meet you to buy the cake recipe but you've gone to Fucheng. Did they not come to you?". Actually, the information was not spread to the public, only a few big business people who have extensive connections in Fucheng who know the information.

Adelia's stunned. "really? No one visits to buy a tart recipe. I'm not going to sell it anyway because I'm going to open my own cake shop in Fucheng".

Manager Zhou nodded in understanding. "But you're going to compete with other business people. In Fucheng there are already two tart shops open before you move here".

Adelia was stunned because the process of opening a store that other business people do is very fast. He smiled without worry.

"I won't compete with those uncles".

Manager Zhou raised his eyebrows then smiled understandably, the woman before him had another tart cake recipe so he dared to sell the tart recipe. Adelia is indeed a great woman as she heard, she even made a lot of money just from the recipes.

Manager Zhou made a letter of agreement and both signed the letter. Manager Zhou would send his employees to learn how to make bags from Adelia and send iron hooks to his artisan friend to make them in large quantities.

Adelia decides to pay a visit to a cake shop that sells tarts on the outside of town, get a taste of what the tarts taste like and compare them to hers.

Although he is confident in the taste of the tart cake he made but it is not wrong to know information about his competitors.

The two stores were named MeiZhen and Lan Gangwang. The interior design of the two shops is almost the same as his own cake shop in Cheng city, has a type of cake painting and a glass table where the cake is placed.

But the taste is not comparable to the making because they do not add lotus well water when making cakes but the cake decoration looks more varied than his, has a plus minus of its own.

Both stores also provide silver and gold vouchers to every loyal customer who buys whole tarts, including, not only that they also opened VIP rooms and VIP cards for large and influential families in Fucheng, more innovative.

Adelia came home after learning about the family information and the tart flavors of her two competitors.