The next couple of days passed and Agnes began to push forward the expansion and renovation plans with the help of Miranda, Adam and Elizabeth.
Ki worked in her research room and worked on several of her products.
She made several scented candles with different fragrances which had calming effects and assisted with treating insomnia.
The medicinal wines were chosen based on their effects to be sold within the medicine pavilion.
Some of the wines had mild bone strengthening effects while others had effects that helped with boosting the immune system, weight loss, improving skin, reducing blood pressure and improving the hearts health, calming the mind, reduce fatigue and finally helping to combat cold or hot environments.
Herbal soups were made and recorded for each recipe along with the effects, several bath solutions were also made along with skin creams to treat irritation, improve skin condition and to help treat and prevent infection on open wounds and treat fatigue.
She made several different recipes based on the herbs used so that some recipes could be reduced in price and be mass produced to be available to the common people but there were also more high quality recipes that would be available to those with more money.
Several medicinal herb soups were to be sold in the restaurants and several other healthy meals were to be added to the more expensive and larger restaurants in larger cities.
Finally medicinal herb tea and ice drinks recipes were to be added to the tea pavilion after working with the herb pavilion.
Ki sat with the family after introducing the products and brought forward her ideas on how to use them. "We need to have the restaurants set a customer standard based on the the quality of the food menu and the money charged. In the larger cities we can begin to open a higher quality restaurant that caters towards those with more money and has the best of our families chefs and food served. I have wrote down several recipes which could be used along with many beneficial medicinal meals and soups that can be added to the menu of them. We can also sell some of the non medicinal wines with the higher quality there unlike the smaller restaurants where we can only sell the cheaper wines."
Adam nodded. "It's good to have some variety and cater to different groups of people. It would probably be best to open up a restaurant per city but if the city is larger then a higher quality version can be added too. That way we can cater to both the rich and the common people."
Elizabeth sighed as if tired of talking business all the time and turned to Ki. "All we have done is talk business over the years and help to purchase the buildings, materials and employ the staff to make them successful. However we have not bought any presents for my daughter in the past few years that have nothing to do with the family business. Is there anything you would like?"
Ki went deep into thought and thought about her future travels and needs. "I would like some horses, huskies and reindeers along with several ice sleighs, sledges and carriages. I would like to open some barns for them to live in and some breeding farms if we can be able to purchase the reindeers and huskies from the northern lands. Huskies are quite popular pets when bred and domesticated and make good companions and they are also quick learners. Reindeers can be used to pull the sledges and sleighs if I ever make trips to the northern lands in the future."
Ki had been to the northern lands in her previous life and travelled around for some time encountering some of the natives and wildlife.
Since Ki wished to travel there in the future to help promote business with the family and promote relations with the northerners so she really needed a method to travel and deliver goods safely through the snowy and icy lands.
Ki also wished to have her own horses and carriages for her own purposes to assist her future travels and encounters along with those who accompany her.
A husky would make a good partner for daily life but also assist with tracking and detection along with helping to pull a sleigh when travelling with few people and items in the northern lands or accompany her to the north to keep her company.
To be honest dogs were her favourite animal and huskies were her favourite among them so she was looking forward to getting one as a gift from her family.
In her previous life she never kept any pets because of the fear of being unable to protect it but now she began to open up to the idea.
The places Ki had visited the most were the northern and eastern lands but she had once visited the western desert but it was only a short journey because a war with the central lands broke out with them and she did not wish to be caught up in the crossfire.
Most of her future plans and visits to other places were more focused on the central, eastern and northern lands for to promote trade between their people and the family but if she ever needed to visit the western desert then she also needed to be properly prepared.
Thinking of this Ki noted down some animals which could help with transportation in the desert if the need arises in the future, if she ever gets asked in the future for additional gifts then she would ask for them.
As for the southern lands… she did not wish to visit there because she did not like being too close to the shipyards and boats ever again.
The southern lands was very much populated by fishermen, sailors and pirates and their main money source came from finding new islands, the pearls found under the water and catching the sea life to make food.
Although some of the things would be profitable… in the long run the dangers of encountering raids on transport or fishing boats would become increasingly problematic in the future since there are no laws within the sea.
Worst of all for Ki was not these but that she did not wish to step foot on a boat ever again, she was fine with carriages but not boats.
She often experienced severe seasickness during some of her missions within the blood sect and decided to never set foot on a ship again during her later years.
Ki broke out of her thoughts and listened to her families thoughts on her wishes for a gift from them.
Agnes, Adam and Elizabeth carefully looked at her and then Elizabeth spoke up in a stern tone of voice. "Are you sure you wish for this? After all the animals will be under your care and you need to build a bond with them directly. You cannot just leave this to others and forget about them once you grow tired of them. After all they are living things and you need to be responsible once you decide to keep them."
'If I hadn't been determined to take responsibility for them in the first place then I would of never asked…' Ki secretly rolled her eyes out of her mothers sight and then smiled and began to speak displaying her determination. "I promise mother."
Agnes frowned upon hearing everything. "We will have to get in touch with some northern traders to be able to get some good breeds of reindeer and huskies because they are not often traded within the central lands. This is good for us because not many families have ever tried raising and breeding reindeers and huskies within the central lands and we are so close to the border so we can contact the traders and be able to purchase some of each from them. If we can let the huskies gain some popularity as pets then we may be able to open a new line of business. I know a couple of good horse breeding farms but what kind of horse would you like?"