The whole family travels through the book, the plot is broken but the characters are not

In the next few days, Yan Dahu proposed to Lan Niang.

Lu Youtian was reminded of the marriage of Dalin and Erlin, and he forgot about the cooperation that Ji Dongjia mentioned.

He was just waiting for Dalin and Erlin to come back, and then ask them if they had any plans to get married.

The day after Yan Dahu proposed, Lu Youtian met Ji Dongjia again.

However, after not seeing him for a few days, Ji Dongjia had lost a lot of weight. Only a small part of his hair was white, but now it was completely white. He looked more than ten years older.

Ji Dongjia first thanked Lu Youtian for the ginseng, and then said that he was going back to Minzhou Prefecture. His parents were over seventy years old, and his two grandsons were only five or six years old, so he had to go back.

Lu Youtian asked him when he would come back.

Ji Dongjia was silent for a long time before saying that he probably wouldn’t come back.

Lu Youtian was puzzled. Since Minzhou Prefecture was not safe now, why didn't they bring people to Luocheng?

Ji Dongjia said that he was going to Yucheng.

Lu Youtian was puzzled.

Minzhou Prefecture and Yucheng, one is located in the easternmost part of Dayu Kingdom and the other is in the westernmost part, nearly ten thousand miles apart. It takes a month to get there by horse carriage.

Ji Dongjia is in his fifties, his parents are in their seventies, and his two grandsons are five or six years old. It would be a huge ordeal if he continues to go through so much trouble.

Mr. Ji looked at Lu Youtian, but did not explain. He just patted Lu Youtian on the shoulder and finally said that he would transfer the two shops to Lu Youtian.

Those two shops were the result of Mr. Ji's ten years of hard work, especially the teahouse. He really didn't want to sell them casually. Lu Youtian's teahouse was doing very well, so he felt at ease transferring the shops to Lu Youtian.

Lu Youtian had no plans to buy another shop. He had the same idea as Lu Yanyan. Luocheng might not be safe, and buying a shop might turn out to be a waste of money in the future.

But Lu Youtian couldn't bear to refuse when he saw Ji Dongjia's miserable look.

The two shops of Mr. Ji's family are in an excellent location and are large. The two shops are worth at least 150,000 taels, but Mr. Ji only opened 100,000 taels, including the Ji Mansion.

The Ji Mansion is not big, but it has a good location. The market value of the house is 10,000 taels, not to mention that there are all kinds of fine furniture inside.

Lu Youtian felt miserable. After they arrived in Luocheng, they bought shops and houses, and spent a lot of the money they brought from Wuping County.

Although he had been making money continuously in the past few months, he only had a little over 100,000 taels in his hands.

Lu Youtian did not agree immediately, but said he would discuss it with his family.

Lu Youtian called Qin Yuru, Han Qingyun, Lu Yanyan and others to discuss the matter.

Qin Yuru and Lu Yanyan were also worried that the shop would be gone in the future.

Lu Yuantong, who was standing next to Han Qingyun, persuaded him to buy it.

Lu Youtian was also worried that the property would be lost, but buying those two shops and a house for 100,000 taels was such a good deal that you couldn't find anywhere else.

Lu Youtian then asked Lu Xing to come over, and Lu Xing agreed to buy it as well.

Lu Youtian stared into Lu Xing's eyes and asked, what if Prince Lin breaks in?

Lu Xing did not avoid Lu Youtian's eyes at all, and said that Luocheng was where Prince Lin grew up and where the late emperor and Concubine Qi were buried.

Ji'an Academy, the entire Luoshi Street, and other similar places are the hard work of King Lin, and he will never destroy Luocheng.

Lu Youtian noticed the sadness in Lu Xing's eyes when he mentioned Concubine Qi. He didn't know whether he was moved by Lu Xing's persuasion or he was already tempted by her. Lu Youtian slammed the table and bought it.

There are two shops. The teahouse will naturally become a branch of Mingxianglou, and the restaurant will be transformed into Lu Yanyan's dessert shop.

As a daughter, she could only support her father's decision, but Lu Yanyan only had 12,000 taels, so she gave it all to Lu Youtian and wrote an IOU to Lu Youtian for the rest.

Lu Youtian received 10,000 taels and asked Lu Yanyan to write an IOU for 30,000 taels for the remaining money.

The house belonged to the Lu family, so the restaurant was given to Lu Yanyan at a price of 40,000 taels.

Once the father and daughter made a decision, they thought it through.

Even if these two shops are gone in the future, they can start over again.

Now Mingxianglou, Fanghua Garment Shop and three stewed food shops have a lot of income every day, and the stewed food shipped to Yuezhou Prefecture can make a profit of 20,000 taels every month.

In addition, the spices and jewelry that Lu Fugui brought back have been selling well recently. Lu Fugui has also been reselling porcelain and the department store in Yuezhou Prefecture...

They still have a lot of foundation and can afford to lose!

Lu Youtian quickly took 100,000 taels and bought the Ji family's property.

He went to see the teahouse and saw that there was still a lot of high-quality tea, and he felt that he had gotten a great bargain.

On November 24, Mr. Ji left Luo City with his servants.

Lu Youtian went to see him off and prepared a food box for him, which was filled with snacks made by Lu Yanyan.

Ji Dongjia sat in the carriage, leaning his head against the carriage, thinking about his parents and grandchildren back home.

Seeing that he looked sad, Butler Ji opened the food box. He knew that the master liked the snacks from Mingxianglou.

But after opening it, Steward Ji was stunned. He shouted, "Master, look."

Ji Dongjia looked at the snacks and ten thousand taels of silver in the food box, crying and laughing: "Brother Lu..."

After the shop was decided, the decoration began in full swing.

The original teahouse of Ji Dongjia was well decorated, but unfortunately there was no stage.

Stage plays are the specialty of Mingxianglou. If there is no stage, they will build one.

Lu Youtian and Qin Yuru learned from the lesson of the first Mingxianglou. This time, the stage was built between the first and second floors, and bricks and stones were used underneath to ensure that customers on the first and second floors could see the stage.

The stage was built high, with stairs and guardrails.

The third floor is entirely private rooms, but there is also a separate reading bar on the third floor. This reading bar has all the storybooks from Mingxianglou.

The tables and chairs were left over from the original teahouse, but the chairs were covered with thick cotton covers.

Several sets of sofas and bookshelves were added, as well as wall paintings and niches, all replicating the style of Mingxianglou in the south of the city.

The restaurant is going to be turned into a gourmet restaurant, so there are a lot of changes happening, and a stage has also been added between the first and second floors.

There are also niches on the wall, but the niches are filled with childlike rag dolls. They are not the more realistic rag dolls of this era, but are all cute dolls based on modern cartoon characters. Not only children like them, but few women can resist such cute things.

All the tables and chairs were replaced with booths in the style of modern milk tea shops. The corners of the tables were all curved and polished very smoothly without any splinters.

In addition, there are also some child seats.

There is also a small bookshelf next to each booth. On the bookshelf are the girls' favorite storybooks, as well as children's books. The children's books also have a lot of illustrations, which exhausted the illustrator that Lu Yanyan found.

A roof was built in the backyard, turning it into a children's playground with slides, crawling toys, rocking horses, cabins, etc. All the toys were polished smooth before being painted to ensure that they would not scratch children's delicate skin.

The railings on both sides of the slide are covered with thick cotton covers, so children will not feel pain even if they hit their heads. There is a large sand pool at the bottom, so they will not get hurt when sliding down from it.

Not only are there toys that children like, but there are also several swings and hanging chairs, which are for women with leisure and elegance to sit on.

The swing ropes were wrapped in muslin, and the hanging basket chairs were lined with thick cushions embroidered with cartoon designs.

A swing specifically for children, with guardrails and safety belts...

Lu Yanyan drew the pictures of the cartoon toys and had the garment factory make them. The garment factory recently hired some more people, so they are now able to handle the work.

The tables, chairs and amusement park were made by Tan Mu, Chang Fei and the carpenters. In order to speed up the progress, Tan Mu and Chang Fei lived in the store for more than half a month.

This shop, named Qianbaiwei Food Court by Lu Yanyan, not only has desserts such as cakes, donuts, milk tea, and pudding, but also staple foods such as sandwiches, roast chicken legs, pizza, and meat sauce noodles.

Ever since Lu Yanyan learned how to extract cream and butter from milk, she can now make a lot of things.