In this world, the Mid-Autumn Festival was still one of the most important festivals on the 15th of August every year.
The Mid-Autumn Festival, which implied reunion, was a relatively sensitive day for Li Yi. It was easy to evoke some dusty memories in the bottom of his heart.
But now, he had learned to hide those emotions in the bottom of his heart, and it would not be easily seen by others.
Tomorrow was the Mid-Autumn Festival that Xiao Huan had been looking forward to for a long time. For a simple-minded girl, every festival would be looked forward to a long time ago. After Li Yi taught her to count, the little servant girl would count the days with her fingers.
Today, Fang and the others did not go to the street to sell candied haws. It was a festive festival, and they had to take a holiday to relax.
In the past, when the family conditions were poor, every festival, they would eat a porridge with a handful of rice grains, and it was considered a festival.
Now, there was a lot of money coming in every day. Even if they ate rice and meat every day, there was no psychological pressure.
The economic base determined the superstructure. When the family's situation was better, the pursuit was naturally higher. When Fang and the others returned from outside yesterday, they had already bought wine and meat and other things, preparing for the Mid-Autumn Festival celebration.
Li Yi looked at the things they sent yesterday and actually saw mooncakes. It was called mooncakes, but in fact, it was dough with fillings. After picking one up and tasting it, Li Yi suddenly missed the taste of the five-kernel mooncakes in the future.
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Walking on the wide street of Qing 'an Prefecture with Xiao Huan, the little servant girl blinked her big eyes curiously and looked around. She felt that everything she saw was so strange, but Li Yi's heart was thinking about other things.
In the past few days, he had used all kinds of methods to improve the distillation of alcohol. He had also made great improvements to the formula of floral water. Soon, it could be officially produced.
Floral water was different from candied haws. Li Yi's initial positioning for it was to go the high-end route. After all, the cost of distilling alcohol was not small. A few jars of wine could make a small bottle of floral water. If the price was set low, Li Yi would lose a lot of money without selling a few bottles.
This brought about a new problem.
Since it was decided that the floral dew would appear as a high-class image from the beginning, it naturally couldn't be like selling candied haws. Li Yi imagined that Fang was holding two bottles of floral dew in his hands and selling them on the street. He randomly grabbed a passerby and said mysteriously, "Brother, do you need Ruyi dew?"
This situation, no matter how he thought about it, felt like he was selling porn or Indian divine oil.
Obviously, the roadside stalls were far from meeting the requirements of pretentiousness. If they wanted to do the floral water business for a long time, they might have to add liquor, perfume, and soap in the future. It was essential to have their own shop in the prefecture.
However, the difficulty of renting a shop in the bustling area of Qing 'an Prefectural City was no less than opening a shop in the commercial streets of a first-tier city in the future. Just one year's rent was an astronomical price for some people.
Li Yi specifically inquired about it. Even if the shop was not in the most prosperous area of the prefecture, the annual rent would be seventy or eighty taels of silver. If the shop was slightly renovated, it would cost at least a hundred taels of silver.
This was a very embarrassing thing for Li Yi at present.
His entire net worth was only a hundred taels of silver. If he rented the shop, there would be no money to buy liquor and the materials needed to make the floral dew. But if he didn't rent, without the shop, how could he sell the floral dew?
Fang and the others naturally wouldn't consider these problems. If Li Yi didn't say it, he was afraid that he would sell the floral dew like candied haws. Anyway, in his eyes, these two things were treasures that could make money. There was no big difference.
The matter of money couldn't be rushed at the moment. He would find a way to solve it after he went back.
Xiao Huan held the two pieces of cloth that her son-in-law bought for her to make new clothes. Her eyes were curved into crescent moons, and her little face was full of joy.
In the past, there was no spare money in the family to buy cloth. Most of the clothes that Xiao Huan wore were worn by Liu Ruyi.
Liu Ruyi's figure was extremely tall. Xiao Huan couldn't wear her clothes at all. Liu Ruyi was taller than Xiao Huan, but the difference was not too big. Xiao Huan could wear her clothes with a little modification.
In addition to those rich families, most ordinary families were like this. They took turns to wear the same clothes. Li Yi also saw that the clothes that Xiao Huan wore were all patched, so he specially brought her out today.
At this time, there were still no ready-made clothes shops. If you wanted to make clothes, you either bought a few pieces of cloth and went back to make it yourself, or find a special tailor to make it. Of course, the price of the latter would be a little higher. Generally, poor families would choose the first way to make clothes.
After learning about these things, Li Yi was slightly tempted.
If he opened a ready-made clothes shop here, would he make a lot of money?
Of course, at the moment, he could only think about it. He still had a lot of things to do. He didn't have the energy to take care of more things.
When it was almost noon, Xiao Huan and Xiao Huan randomly found a roadside stall to eat something. Not to mention, although the roadside food did not look that fancy, the taste was actually not bad, and the price was also very cheap.
The present was not like the future, where one did not have to worry about gutter oil when eating at roadside stalls. Li Yi did not know if it was because of their good looks, but he realized that the stall owner actually gave him and Xiao Huan more noodles than the customers around them.
This made him feel a little gratified. After all, the him in the past had never thought that one day he could actually use his good looks to take advantage of others.
After eating, they strolled on the streets for a while and bought some things. Because it was approaching the Mid-Autumn Festival, there were more people on the streets than usual.
It had to be said that the quality of the beauties in ancient times was really not bad. In this era where double eyelids could not be drawn, all the beauties were pure natural. They wore light makeup. Along the way, Li Yi saw many of them. If it was in the future, they would not need to change their clothes to be able to hold up a period drama.
Of course, his little servant girl could also be considered a little beauty. Although she was a little young and had a little baby fat on her face, but after a few years, she would definitely grow into a beauty.
Towards the resistance of beauties, the current Li Yi was much stronger than in his previous life.
The three beauties in his family swayed in front of him all day, which directly caused Li Yi's resistance towards beauties to increase greatly. Even if he met a beautiful woman on the street, he would only glance at her with an appreciative gaze, and then turn to look at … other beauties …
When he passed by a certain part of the street, he saw a group of people gathered there, making a lot of noise. Li Yi did not have the mood to watch the show, but Xiao Huan looked curiously in that direction. But when she saw Li Yi walking straight past, she hurriedly retracted her gaze and quickly followed him.
"He actually took out a hundred taels of silver …"
"This is a little too generous …"
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