Otoharu

Chapter 334
Li Meier can only persuade Mrs. Jiang first, "Mother, please be calm and don't be impatient. You know that I have never been a reckless person. I discussed this matter with Shanqing today. Wait for me to ask first. I'll explain it to you."

Mrs. Jiang heard that there was something about Shanqing here, so she didn't continue to stop it. Anyway, her daughter was just asking, and she didn't want to pay for the shop immediately.

Li Meier walked up to the shopkeeper again, and said, "Shopkeeper, I'm not joking with you, I really want to buy your shop, please make a price."

The shopkeeper looked at Li Mei'er suspiciously for a while again, apparently still didn't believe what her half-old child said.

"The shopkeeper, you can make an offer." Seeing the shopkeeper's hesitation, Jiang went to her daughter and said.

Then the shopkeeper believed it. After thinking about it, he stretched out a finger and said, "100 taels, you just need to give me 100 taels, and this shop will be yours."

Mrs. Jiang frowned when she heard the words, thinking that she bought such a large printing workshop in Zhangshui Town and it only cost 50 taels. It is such a small shop again, seven to eighty taels is the best, how dare the shopkeeper call out a high price of 80 taels, he is slaughtering them like fat sheep.

"Shopkeeper, your price is not sincere. I see that there are quite a few shops similar to yours around here. I don't have to buy your shop. If you sincerely want to sell it, you can offer a real price." Li Mei'er looked uncomfortable. Said differently.

The shopkeeper hesitated for a moment, then said again: "Then how much do you say?"

"50 taels." Li Meier discounted it in half without any psychological pressure. If you ask for the price, I will just sit back and pay back the money.

When the shopkeeper heard the price, he immediately waved his hands, "That's not good! That's not good! When I bought the shop, it was more than this price. You should go to another store and ask."

Li Meier nodded, and was about to turn around and leave without any regrets.

The shopkeeper didn't expect that she was really going to leave, so he didn't even need to negotiate the price, so he quickly stopped her, "Hey, girl, don't go, you should add more, I'll buy a shop , can’t make no money at all.”

Li Meier stopped in her tracks, turned to look at the shopkeeper, her small face was still expressionless, and said leisurely, "60 taels at most, nothing more."

The expression on the shopkeeper's face became tangled in an instant. He struggled for a while before he gritted his teeth and said, "Okay! It's only 60 taels. Let's make a document first. You and I will go to the Yamen to sign the contract tomorrow."

Li Meier nodded in satisfaction, and waited for the shopkeeper to get the pen and paper.

Jiang Shi was dumbfounded looking at it from the sidelines. It didn't take long for her daughter to buy a shop, and the price was actually a bit of an advantage.

Immediately, Jiang pulled Li Meier and asked in a low voice, "Meier, do you really want to buy this shop?"

Li Meier nodded, "Mum, do you think I lost money?"

Jiang's expression was tangled, and he hesitated: "That's not true, it's just that the shop here doesn't have much room for appreciation, what are you buying it for?" Didn't you see that the shopkeeper was eager to sell the shop quickly?

"Mother, don't worry, your daughter is not that stupid, so she won't do such a loss-making business. When you get rich in the future, I will tell your mother that you will get cramps when you count the silver bills." Li Meier coaxed her mother with sweet words.

Seeing her confident appearance, Mrs. Jiang didn't say anything more, but her doubts became even worse.

Li Meier wrote a receipt for the shopkeeper, paid a deposit of five taels of silver, and left the shop.

The group was already starving, and soon arrived at Siming Mountain Town on the mountainside, found the inn where they ate last time, and ordered a lot of dishes.

Taking advantage of the time when the food was being served, Mrs. Jiang finally couldn't bear it, and asked, "Tell me the truth, what kind of business are you buying that shop for? Do you know what it is?"

"Mother, didn't you also hear what my father said, there is no other food shop besides a breakfast shop at the entrance of their academy, let's take over the shop, and with a little decoration, we can open a restaurant. Just do those As a student business, I want to open a noodle shop, and I will specialize in making all kinds of noodles. It is not only economical, but also fast and convenient. I can also make breakfast and sell some buns, steamed buns and sesame cakes. Big steamed stuffed buns, milk-flavored steamed buns, and meat-stuffed pancakes, which ones are delicious, and the business will definitely be good." Li Meier talked about her plan to Jiang with great interest.

After hearing this, Mrs. Jiang was also a little moved, but when she thought of what her husband said, she worried again: "But didn't your father say that students in the academy generally don't eat outside? What if we open a restaurant and have no business?"

"Mother, believe me, food is the paramount necessity of the people. As long as the food in our restaurant is delicious and cheap, people will definitely patronize it. Didn't you hear what dad said? Only a fool would choose the unpalatable one." Li Meier persuaded Jiang again.

Mrs. Jiang has been doing business for these years, and she has some business sense. After listening to her daughter's analysis of the pros and cons, she finally made up her mind, "Okay, even if this shop is the dowry that mother buys for you first, mother doesn't care what business you do. Whether you lose or earn is your own, and the money you earn will be your dowry in the future."

Seeing that Mrs. Jiang agreed, Li Meier said happily: "Then the store will be registered tomorrow, mother, you have to ask two good craftsmen to re-paste the paper and paint the white, let's try to open it earlier, the furniture is easy to talk about, go collect the old ones Pick a place for the furniture, give some money, and they will send it to the mountain."

Mrs. Jiang laughed when she heard the words, "It's not easy to paint the white paper. Ask Ding Yi to ask the master of the printing shop to help. It will be ready in three to five days. But what do you plan to do with the ingredients that will be used to open the shop in the future? It’s going to be transported up the mountain every day, and the cost is not low, so if you don’t make a lot of money, it’s all a loss.”

"Mother, don't worry, I've thought of this a long time ago. Let's stop by Siming Mountain after we finish our meal." Li Meier said with a smile, obviously she had planned it long ago.

When Jiang heard Li Meier talk about Siming Mountain View, she also thought about something, and was about to ask, when the food just came out, she decided to eat first, and wait until she was full.

The dishes in Siming Mountain Town still maintain the same level as last time. After climbing the mountain this morning, Li Meier and the others are all very hungry. They ate all the dishes on the table, even the soup. After eating mixed rice, the small bucket of rice sent by the store was also eaten clean. If Jiang was not afraid that the two children would eat too much accumulated food, they could continue to eat.

(End of this chapter)