Because Liang Chuan gave them one night, when they parted, they did not cry out pitifully like the previous day. Instead, they calmly kept their emotions in their hearts.
The most important thing is that Liang Chuan said something. From now on, everyone will have a holiday every month, and they can go home and visit during the holidays instead of being separated from their families forever. This small sense of expectation seemed to give everyone the strength to accept the reality, silently supporting them, and waiting for the day to go home.
Hope is a wonderful and powerful thing.
After bidding farewell to his family, Liang Chuan led the five girls back to Chengtian Lane. Before taking up their posts, they first needed pre-job training.
Five girls, Zheng Ruoying, gave them new names respectively. According to the twenty-four solar terms, they are the Beginning of Spring, the Waking of Insects, the Spring Equinox, and the Qingming Festival. Their ages are from oldest to youngest. Although it is a bit simple, it is better to be simple and easy to remember, otherwise it will be easy to remember. There are a lot of names like Qiuer Yueniang, which are so confusing that no one can remember them clearly.
Opening this health and beauty club also requires a store. Zheng Ruoying asked where to open the club, and Liang Chuan thought about it for a long time.
This club is not open to the general public, it is only open to women, so it would not be good to place this store in a busy market place with a lot of people. On the contrary, women will feel repulsed by other people's strange eyes. For a club that makes money silently behind the scenes, it is best to have some concealment and be open only to insiders, who can then lead the way to achieve the best results.
Moreover, if it is placed in a busy city, the cost will be high. I don't really know the market value of this kind of club and how much market profit it can create. If I take advantage of it and end up with little profit, wouldn't it be worth the loss?
So in the end, after comprehensive consideration of all aspects, Liang Chuan decided to open the first beauty and health club in Chengtian Lane, an unknown and remote alley next to the Taobao store. The shop rents here are low, and few people are willing to rent a house or shop here because it is too deserted. After Zheng Ruoying rented a Taobao store, she complained to the landlord more than once that none of the business was completed. The landlord was even worried that Zheng Ruoying would close the store and not renew the lease with him, so Zheng Ruoying complained to the renter for the third time. When he visited the store in Erkan, he readily gave Zheng Ruoying a satisfactory price. It was better to earn less than to earn nothing at all.
According to Liang Chuan's plan, Chengtian Alley was originally opened only by the Bi family, and there were no other stores. Now it has its own Wanhuo Store, Zheng Ruoying's Taobao store, and in the future there will be a beauty and health club. The next step will be to build this alley into a one-stop industry, develop and expand the business, become bigger and stronger! There is a long way to go!
The store has been found, and the next step is to decorate the store and the internal environment. The first impression when customers enter the store is very important. The environment of the store, the placement of items, the indoor atmosphere, and the light and shade will all affect the sensory experience of those who come to relax.
Especially women have delicate minds, and they can pay great attention to small details. Women don't necessarily come here for beauty, sometimes they come for mental relaxation and spiritual enjoyment. Liang Chuan even wanted to ask a girl to play some guzheng, yaoqin or something to create a soothing atmosphere.
Liang Chuan thought about it and asked Zhao Xiaopin for advice. Architects like them had the most say in the matter, and Xiaopin had a lot of thoughts. He was not limited to old-school ideas and often came up with many unexpected and fresh designs. .
When Liang Chuan told Zhao Xiaopin this idea, a picture emerged in Zhao Xiaopin's intuition, that of a brothel. Yes, this is the feeling you want. Men go to places like brothels most. In fact, women also want to go. Women feel more beautiful living there than in some flower houses and embroidered pavilions. But because the location is too special, you can't put yourself there. The room you sleep in should look like a brothel. .
The two hit it off immediately, and Liang Chuan directly handed over this important task to Zhao Xiaopin. Although Zhao Xiaopin now had work to do, he did not dare to ignore Liang Chuan's matter, and even took it as a top priority and personally led people to design and construct it.
According to Zhao Xiaopin's estimate, it will take a month to be completed.
The store also needs various beauty tools.
For example, tools such as beauty beds, bathtubs, pedicure barrels, tool baskets, small wooden hammers, pallets, etc. can be completed by Luliang. But there are some small details that need to be explained. For example, this kind of beauty bed has a hole dug in the upper part so that the person lying on the bed can face down so that there is no sense of oppression. I believe anyone who has been to a foot bath city or beauty spa has seen this kind of bed with a hole in it.
There is nothing special about the others. An ordinary wooden barrel will do the job. The tray is used to hold towels and customer belongings. It can also be used to put some snacks and fruits. Women also like to drink tea. , when the time comes, you can ask Sun Houpu to bring some good tea to sell in the store.
Foot baths require disposable bags, and current industrial capabilities are unable to produce them. Liang Chuan thought for a long time and finally found a substitute - oiled paper. When washing your feet, place a piece of paper like this on your feet and throw away the water after use. It is environmentally friendly and convenient, and you don't have to worry about secondary contamination leading to infectious diseases.
As for pedicure knives and ear-picking tools, these require some hard work from Fang Tianding. They are definitely not available on the market. I designed them myself and asked them to make them. Fortunately, I don’t need a lot, so I will make a few pairs first. That’s it.
Now there is no need to worry that your skills will be learned by others. Lu Liang and Fang Tianding are working for themselves now. If they are asked to go east, they will not go west. If you don't sell things like ear acupuncture on a beauty bed to others, it's unlikely that others would even think of getting such things.
As for women's work clothes, towels, bath towels, massage clothes for customers, and socks, these are extremely common things, but they are still not available on the market.
Liang Chuan thought about the big difference between the clothes of today and the clothes of later generations. He still had to design his own. However, even if clothes were made public, others would not dare to wear them on the street. They were too different and felt a bit standout. It's not pleasant to go out on the street and have people all pointing at you, so it's okay for Liang Chuan to boldly hand over the design plan. It will definitely be regarded as a fancy dress and no one will dare to wear it outside.
Cupping, scraping boards, and cotton wool are also needed for beauty. There are many things on the market. Cupping and scraping props are available in general pharmacies. Only in the era of traditional Chinese medicine, of course, the tools of traditional Chinese medicine are also very common, such as scalpels, stethoscopes, and tweezers. This kind of thing is a rare thing that cannot be seen. Although cotton wool is not available, it is easy to make. Just wrap cotton on a bamboo stick. It is not a difficult item to make. It's just that people in this era are not used to using industrial cotton for debridement. This kind of cotton should be of higher purity and have less impurities before it can be used.
The most important thing in a beauty salon is beauty, and its core competitiveness is to prevent girls from having ice-cold skin, snowy skin, orchids. It is like the secret room in the hands of famous doctors in ancient times. Famous doctors are the ones who can cure terminal illnesses, and these prescriptions are what they rely on. To become famous core competitiveness.
Liang Chuan had browsed the major forums before and saw a lot of interesting little bits of unofficial history. It just happened to let him know a few whitening secrets that modern women are not interested in.
Modern people only need to put on a facial mask and apply more expensive cosmetics on their face to achieve whitening effect, but in ancient times, even if you had money and status, you couldn't get these advanced cosmetics.
The secret recipe is passed down from Wu Zetian's whitening secret recipe. Take the whole motherwort plant, wash it and remove all the dust, dry it in the sun and pound it into fine powder, then sieve it into the finest powder. Add flour and water and mix it into an egg-sized pill. Continue. Dry. Then use a stove made of yellow mud, with smoke all around, put the medicine ball in the middle of the stove, put charcoal on top and bottom and start grilling over high fire. After a meal, switch to slow fire for a day and night, take it out, grind it into fine powder and sieve it. When adding one-tenth of talcum powder and one percent of rouge, ordinary women can enjoy this imperial-level high-end care.
The second secret recipe is inherited from the four great beauties Yang Guifei. Peel and grind the soaked almonds into fine powder, mix them with an appropriate amount of light powder, talcum powder, etc., steam for a while, and then stir evenly with an appropriate amount of borneol and musk. Use egg white to make a paste, and this is the most original facial mask. It is said that even Empress Dowager Cixi used this recipe every day in order to stay young forever. Even at the age of seventy, her complexion is still fair and rosy, without a trace of wrinkles or spots.
The third secret recipe is for bathing, to whiten the skin on the body, not for white faces. Women also often envy that kind of milky white skin, which is equally alluring. First pour the hot rice into cold water and soak it for five or six days. Boil the upper layer of water, add the melted antler glue and an appropriate amount of glutinous rice, simmer it into porridge, spread the porridge out to dry in the sun, then dry the porridge with peach kernels, almonds, Pound black beans, angelica, white peony, white root, atractylodes, white tuckahoe, agarwood, soap locust and a little musk into fine powder, store it tightly for later use, and use it to scrub the skin when bathing. Along with this prescription, there is also a dietary prescription, which is to make tea with Tribulus terrestris and drink it. People with a thin complexion can drink it for three to five months, and they can also regain their radiance and relieve fatigue.
These three recipes are all secrets that were not passed down in the palace in the past. Only big figures like Empress Wu Yuzhen and Cixi can enjoy them. They were prepared by the imperial doctors in the palace. They are not historical mysteries. How could the ancients see them? ?
With one side in hand, I have the world. These prescriptions are not groundless rumors, but are actually written into the medical books summarized by later generations. The reason why Cixi dotes on Li Lianying so much is because he can comb his beautiful hair. How many high-ranking officials and nobles are looking for wives and concubines. This kind of thing that enhances one's appearance cannot be found. He who has the right recipe will win the world. The ancients will not deceive me.
