My domineering ex-husband is living off his wife in ancient times.

Chapter 126 The Capital of Arrogance

This term is new; Manager Luo has never heard of it before.

Cheng Ruoan explained it to him in detail, "The molds and shapes used to demonstrate the effects of hand creams such as Cloud Cream are called 'hand molds'."

Manager Luo nodded in understanding, "Please wait a moment while I go upstairs to inform them."

Cheng Ruoan smiled and nodded.

After Manager Luo went upstairs, Cheng Ruoan hurried back to her mother and Cheng Ruotong, urging, "Hurry, hurry, finish the crispy mountain and put the bowl on the counter for a while. That Master Zhao brought a distinguished guest with him, so let's not be rude to him."

The mother and her two daughters stood in a corner of the inn's lobby, quickly slurping up ice cream.

The northern region is naturally cold, and if you eat this crispy mountain too quickly, your mouth will really go numb from the cold.

When Cheng's mother saw that Cheng Ruo'an's lips were a little purple from the cold, she said with annoyance, "You've just recovered from a serious illness, I shouldn't have let you eat cold food."

Cheng Ruoan laughed it off, "Oh, everyone's having a good time shopping."

"Little sister, your lip color doesn't look good. Mother, did you bring any lip rouge? Quickly put some on for me."

"Who carries lip rouge with them when they go out? Besides, I don't usually wear that stuff."

Hearing what the two said, Cheng Ruoan suddenly remembered that the three treasures of a transmigrated woman were "fine salt lipstick and soap," and she hadn't thought of getting any of them.

She didn't make fine salt because she didn't have salt permits. Even if she did make it, she couldn't sell it. If she dared to sell it, she would be winning the "Nine Clans Elimination Game" package.

She wouldn't do something that would surely lead to the extermination of her entire family if discovered by the imperial court.

She didn't make soap because Daxia already had bath beans and scented soap, which weren't expensive. Making soap to earn a few coins was less worthwhile than making traditional Chinese medicine cosmetics.

However, this lipstick...

That's something we can do.

After all, it's a type of cosmeceutical, and it's convenient for all the women in the family.

Besides her mother, her eldest sister, and her precious Niannian, there were also her sisters-in-law from the Si family, and several maids from the Si family.

Ok.

Get back and get it done!

Not long after the three finished eating the crispy mountain, Manager Luo came down and led them all upstairs.

Previously, the Cheng family stayed in a Class 1 room at this hotel, which had already given Cheng Ruoan, a modern person, a little shock.

But the three of them were taken directly to the third floor of the inn and entered Zhao Dongjia's private room, Room Zero of the Heavenly Class.

As soon as Cheng Ruoan entered, she felt the difference.

Although this place is just a stopover for Zhao Dongjia when he occasionally comes to Huangyang Town, the decoration and furnishings inside are something that even if you collected all the items in the entire Cheng residence, you couldn't get.

This apartment has three rooms. The entrance leads to an outer partition room, and you have to walk around a screen to reach the reception hall.

The flower hall is flanked by symmetrical curved partitions, with a study on the left and a bedroom on the right, which is further divided into inner and outer rooms.

Because from the partition, all you can see is the daybed and dressing table, and then a beautiful floor-to-ceiling screen that blocks out the inner room where the canopy bed is placed.

Even the floor... Cheng Ruoan could feel its warmth when she stepped on it, even in her cloth shoes.

Because an extremely luxurious animal fur carpet was laid out!

In modern times, a handmade genuine fur rug would cost at least 400!

Cheng Ruotong and her mother glanced at the exquisite luxury inside the house from outside the door and were hesitant to go in. It was Manager Luo who announced from the doorway, "Master, the three ladies of the Cheng family have arrived."

The mother and daughter followed Cheng Ruoan inside.

Xiao Cui'er and the other two servants also followed the rules, keeping their heads down as they went in. They were very polite, never raising their heads or looking around.

As soon as everyone came in, Zhao Dongjia also walked out of the study on the left with a smile.

"Madam Cheng, Madam Cheng, it's been a long time."

Zhao Dongjia was wearing a brightly colored scarlet peony-patterned long-sleeved shirt and a light blue strapless long dress. He had an oval face and fox-like eyes.

With her eyes crinkling and sparkling, her lips forming deep dimples, and a slight smile, Cheng Ruoan, a straight woman, felt her heart flutter.

This charming innkeeper is absolutely stunning!

The elegantly dressed noblewoman who followed behind Zhao Dongjia was also quite graceful, but not as stunning.

"Come, come, don't be shy, sit down wherever you like, let's sit down and talk." Zhao Dongjia's name was Zhao Xuejin, and he was very straightforward.

She invited the Cheng family mother and her two daughters to sit down, and then pulled the noblewoman behind her to sit down as well.

Although the noblewoman remained silent, she kept observing the three members of the Cheng family, mother and daughter.

When he saw that there were three servants following behind the three men, a hint of displeasure flashed in his eyes, but he quickly suppressed it.

Cheng Ruoan thought that Manager Luo must have informed Xiao Cui'er and the other two about their roles in advance.

When Cheng's mother and Cheng Ruotong came to deliver return gifts before, they had met Zhao Dongjia and responded with smiles and politeness.

Cheng's mother said, "Look, Mr. Zhao, you were the one who was discussing business with my Ruo'an today, and I shamelessly brought Ruotong here to ask for tea. It's so embarrassing."

As soon as she finished speaking, Zhao Xuejin and the noblewoman turned to look at Cheng Ruoan. Zhao Xuejin spoke first: "I've met Ruotong before, so this must be Ruoan?"

Cheng Ruoan smiled and nodded, "Yes, thank you for your kindness to the Cheng family, Mr. Zhao."

She was referring to three businesses: Cheng's mother's tofu, Cheng Ruotong's steamed egg cake, and the game from Shaoyang.

Zhao Xuejin smiled and waved her hand, personally refilling tea for everyone present: "It's a mutually beneficial deal, there's no need to talk about favors."

As she spoke, she looked at the noblewoman beside her and said, "Madam Guo, you see, I told you that there wasn't a single bad person in the Cheng family, right? From Madam Cheng to her son-in-law, and then to Second Madam Cheng, they all have good stuff in their hands."

Madam Guo finally revealed a slight smile. She smiled and nodded at Cheng Ruoan, then said to Cheng's mother:

"It's just a pity that our Guo family lives in the neighboring Changshan County, which is a long way away, making it inconvenient to buy tofu and wild game every day."

What could Cheng's mother say? She could only smile and nod, echoing her regret.

Although it was easy to guess that the Guo family was probably a big customer, Changshan County and Songshan County were more than 80 miles apart!

“But it doesn’t matter. I heard from Ruotong that this sponge cake can be packaged in gift boxes and sold from Songshan County to Changshan County. That would be convenient.” Zhao Xuejin took the initiative to make the connection, and also brought up the main topic of today’s discussion. “Although it’s not as convenient as shipping cloud cream to other places, it can still be sold to other neighboring counties in the north when it’s shipped together with cloud cream.”

Cheng Ruoan smiled, picked up the tea on the table, took a sip, and then said, "Manager Luo said earlier that Master Zhao was not satisfied with the cooperation method I proposed, and preferred to buy out the goods from me instead?"

Zhao Xuejin nodded, her smile bright and captivating. "That's right. Because of my sincerity in the cloud cream business, the contract for your chicken cake business is entirely in accordance with your wishes, Xiao Ruoan."

Cheng Ruoan's lips twitched almost imperceptibly.

They're calling each other so affectionately, it can't be anything good.

“I know Mr. Zhao’s sincerity, but I really cannot supply goods to just one company.”

Upon hearing this, Madam Guo chuckled softly, "This cloud ointment is nothing more than a mixture of hand cream and frostbite cream. Does Second Madam Cheng really think it's some rare item that no noble family has ever seen before?"

"You're not young anymore, how can your ideas still be so arrogant?"

Cheng Ruoan wasn't annoyed. He smiled and gestured for Xiao Cui'er and the other two to come forward: "Master Zhao and Madam Guo, why don't you see the effects of my hand cream for yourselves, and then consider whether I have the right to be so arrogant?"