NOVEL NEXT Chapter 38 New Store Opening
Since Liuxiang Snacks started selling Yang Zhi Ganlu, its business popularity has been increasing day by day. Today, the best-selling hot and sour noodles are hot and dry noodles, followed by hot and dry noodle set, kebabs and Yang Zhi Ganlu.
At the end of the month, Mao Xi secretly calculated an account and deducted the cost, store rent and labor wages, and the profit was 21 taels a month. In this way, after one year, plus two batches of 40 taels selling glutinous rice wine, he could earn 274 taels a year. Equivalent to more than 27 gold.
Unfortunately, in Da Huai Country, buying a shop requires at least 260 gold, so she would have to rent a shop and open it for ten years before she could collect enough money to buy a shop. Fortunately, the rent has not increased in the past year.
I’m really afraid of what will happen! While Mao Xi was still greeting diners in the store early in the morning, the landlord came to Liuxiang Snack Shop and proposed to increase the rent from the original 20 taels per month to 80 taels per month.
"Landlord, it's so unreasonable that the rent of your store has increased fourfold."
The landlord was a middle-aged man. He found a seat in the store and sat down, and said to Ma Xi: "You have been renting for a long time, and I didn't ask you for a high rent. Although my store is small, you see On Cross Street, the passenger flow is very good, isn’t it?”
There were still customers in the store, so Chen and Ma Xi called the landlord to the kitchen to discuss.
"Uncle Landlord, look at it, June has just passed. Can the rent only be increased by 2 times next month, calculated as 4 taels?" Shui Xi regretted that he did not sign the rental contract on an annual basis.
The landlord's face turned red: "I said your store's business is so good, your daily turnover is more than one tael. The rent of my shop is very cheap!"
"But look, this store is so small, and the prices in the market are not so high!"
"I don't care. Starting from this month, it will be calculated as eight taels. You should make up the difference of six taels. If you don't want to rent, you can move before the end of this month!"
In order not to disturb the customers, Mao Xi still took six taels of silver to the landlord before sending him away.
"Ah Shu, will we continue to open a store here in the future?" Lou Lan'er turned to Shu Xi after watching the landlord leave, "This store is so small, and they dare to increase the rent four times. It's just because our business is doing well. I want to Trap us!"
"Alas, we can't find the money to buy a shop now." Mrs. Chen lamented.
"Why don't we go to Brother Mu to borrow some money, and let's buy a smaller shop first?" Lou Lan'er suggested.
"I'm going to see if there are any suitable shops for rent in the next few days."
Lou Laner stopped talking. She could tell that Shui Xi still didn't want to speak to Mu Zhiyuan.
Goudan, who was squatting near Liuxiang Snack Shop, selling roasted sweet potatoes, immediately ran to Jiafu, told Mu Zhiyuan about the landlord's price increase, and ran back after receiving the reward.
Mu Zhiyuan came directly to Liuxiang Snacks, told Mu Xi that he had just opened a shop and was leaving it idle, and asked Mu Xi if he would like to open a shop.
"Brother Mu, do you want to open your own shop and hire me as a cook, or rent a shop to me?" Shui Xi understood Mu Zhiyuan's good intentions.
"Is it okay to rent it to you?" Mu Zhiyuan tried, fearing that Mao Xi would disagree.
"The landlord will only leave us one month. Ah Shu, go and have a look at Brother Mu's shop. If the environment is good, we can move there immediately and we won't have to look for a shop anymore!" Lou Laner encouraged.
"Ah Shu, go and have a look. I'm in the store!" Ms. Chen also encouraged Shu Xi to go and take a look.
Mu Zhiyuanpan's new shop is located on the right side of the entrance to Nanquemen. Needless to say, it is a must-go place for people traveling between Lihua Town and Linzhou County.
More importantly, this shop is less than 50 meters away from Jiafu.
The area of the store is twice as large as before, and the store is much more spacious, with several private rooms available.
"Brother Mu, how do I pay you the rent for the store?"
Seeing that Ma Xi was very satisfied with the shop, Mu Zhiyuan said, "Ah Ma, how about just renting it as your original shop?"
"How about five taels? Brother Mu, your shop has a good location and a large area. You can't lose money."
"Okay!" Mu Zhiyuan secretly rejoiced. This shop is close to Jia Mansion, and he can come to visit at any time in the future. .
After half a month, Liuxiang Snacks moved to a new store, and the original landlord also refunded Shun Xi's half a month's worth of 4 taels of money.
The new store was still called Liuxiang Snacks. On the day when the plaque was unveiled, Mao Xi invited a theater troupe to play gongs and drums and perform a lion dance at the entrance of the store to celebrate.
The couplets outside the store were written by Xiaodouzi. The first couplet: business is booming and wealth is like the sea. The second couplet: guests are flowing like money, and the horizontal line is: good luck in opening.
There is a framed piece of calligraphy hanging at the checkout area of the store, which Mao Xi asked Mu Zhiyuan to write. The inscription is: There is flavor in the world.
The store is divided into an inner room and an outer room. There are three private rooms in the inner room, separated by screens and decorated with flowers. Although it is not completely soundproofed, it is still an independent space. Each compartment can seat 4 to 6 people, and they can order food, drink tea and eat fruits.
There are six dining tables outside, where food can be served at any time. There is a big banyan tree outside the store, and three more tables can be set up for breakfast and late-night snack stalls.
Lou Laner made a new oven. The original oven was smashed by her when she left the store. In her words, it was called "breaking the old to welcome the new."
Mao Xi originally wanted to hire a new waiter, but because Brother Luda said he was not busy in the fields, he came to the store as a waiter to serve food and work alongside Lou Lan'er. His monthly salary was the same as Lou Lan'er's, and was increased to two. Two months.
The opening of the new store was lively and everything went smoothly. In the afternoon, the stage team also finished their performance. There were many people and it was busy that day. Brother Chun Sheng was also in the store in the morning, helping Lu Da run the hall.
In the afternoon, the old patriarch of Liujia Village and Li Zheng came to congratulate Mao Xi with Liuxiang snacks.
After greetings, Mao Xi invited the old patriarch and Li Zheng into the private room to entertain them.
At this time, two uninvited guests appeared at the door. They are Mao Xi's stepmother and second uncle Liu Yongde.
They were neither here to congratulate, nor to spend money or eat, but just stood at the door to investigate. It can be seen that the stepmother Ke Shi seems to have dressed up carefully, and it seems that she wants Chen to invite her in for a free meal.
Mao Xi, who had already seen through the two men's tricks, reminded her mother-in-law Chen not to be soft-hearted. She walked up to the stepmother and her second uncle Liu Yongde alone, and asked with a smile: "Second uncle, stepmother, are you here to eat today? "
The stepmother walked up to Mao Xi and said, "My granddaughter has opened a new store. Won't you invite me, a grandma, to eat in the store?"
"Hindnie, you can eat, but you have to pay!" Miao Xi spoke quickly and did not want to play tricks on the stepmother.
As if she had been caught, the stepmother began to cry at the door of the store: "My granddaughter doesn't want grandma anymore, and she still asks for money from her elders when eating!"
"My grandma is dead. You are not my grandma. If you don't pay, don't stop my family from doing business!" Shu Xi didn't look good either.
"You damn heartless little bitch!" Ke Shi poked Mao Xi with his index finger and started scolding.
From the first day she was reincarnated into Liujiacun, Mao Xi had never received any help from her stepmother Ke Shi. Now that she saw that her snack shop business was booming, she wanted to take advantage of it.
There were also some people from Liujia Village in the store, who accused Ke of taking advantage of the situation.
Hearing the sound, the patriarch came to the door and scolded: "Daughter-in-law Liu Wang, since you and the Yongren family have separated, you should live your own lives. Your granddaughter didn't see you coming to help when she opened the store. Now she comes to cause trouble in front of her store. Well, Yongde, take your mother back quickly!"
Liu Yongde didn't want to come, but his wife, Ke Shi, was instigated by shopkeeper Liu of Ruifeng Tower, saying that if she came to make a fuss when the new Liuxiang Snack Shop opened, she would order vegetables from Ke Shi for a year.
Lou Lan'er saw that Ke was affecting the business at the door. Why did she talk so much nonsense? She directly picked up the broom, jumped in front of the two of them, and drove them ten meters away.
"You are a welcome guest, but you are causing trouble. Don't blame me, Lou Lan, for being rude!"