Ancient Imperial Examination Daily

Chapter 160 It's Him
Although Lu Xiaobei and Qian Youcai will offer to help, but they have to perform double reeds, cross talk and sketches, and each show is a new play, it is impossible to stay down there all the time to serve tea guests, and they have to find time to memorize lines and rehearse new plays .

The most important thing is that it was fine for Lu Xiaobei and Qian Youcai to serve the guests on the first day, but it was nothing on the second day.Why?Because they are horns.Those tea guests saw that these two mistresses were the two jugglers on stage, how could they let them go easily?Then you have to pull them to talk, ask them how old they are, who wrote this juggling book, what will be performed next, and so on.These are all guests, and Lu Xiaobei and the others have to answer; after answering one or two, they will have time to play.Not only did they do nothing to help, but they were also very tired.

Zhuang Yue saw the situation and told them to stay in the background and not come out.

And what about Zhuang Yue himself?Originally, he was in charge of the VIP area, and there were only eight chairs there. Even if each of the eight distinguished guests brought a servant, there would be only sixteen guests, and they would be served in a short while. The work was not tiring, and Zhuang Yue returned Can take care of the whole audience, see where there are any mistakes, and quickly make up for them.

But don't forget, there are still a bunch of people queuing at the door.Even if Zhao Dahu and the others maintain order, quarrels and fights over the position cannot be resolved by Zhao Dahu and the others. You have to let the shopkeeper come forward to mediate, which shows that your teahouse values ​​customers.

There shouldn't be too many days like this. After one day, except Qian Dongbao, who was not affected, everyone else was exhausted.I got down tired yesterday, got up strong today and continued to be tired for another day, but it’s okay, everyone can stand it.But there is no such thing as a day.Now that word of mouth has spread, the business of the teahouse will only get better and better, and there will be more and more people.It's just a few of them carrying on like this, tired day after day, even the iron man can't bear it, can't they?
Guan Jiaze also understood what was going on.

He asked Du Jinning: "Let's not half-price, just raise the price, wouldn't it be better?"

Du Jinning did not answer, but turned to ask Zhuang Yue: "Master Zhuang, what do you think?"

Zhuang Yue shook his head directly: "This is not good. As businessmen, the most important thing is reputation. If you agree to six days, then you will have six days. No matter how tired, troublesome and disadvantageous these six days are, you can only endure it."

Du Jinning also meant the same thing.The reason why he asked Zhuang Yue was because he wanted to know how Zhuang Yue was.

She nodded; "I agree with Shopkeeper Zhuang's point of view."

"Then we can only recruit more people. It's just..." Guan Jiaze looked at the tea customers outside, "I don't know if these people will come when the original price will be restored in six days."

Zhuang Yue didn't speak.

Although he heard from many customers that even if the original price is restored, they will come.But in the end it's just talk.As a shopkeeper, he can't boast in front of his boss.

Du Jinning asked Guan Jiaze: "I have some scripts, if the price is raised to four taels of silver a copy, will you buy it?"

Guan Jiaze nodded without hesitation: "Buy, of course."

This is from the heart.Although his monthly bill of silver is 20 taels, a book of four taels is not a small amount for him.But money can't buy a good heart, so he likes to watch "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", and he is addicted to watching it.Not to mention four taels, even if it is 20 taels a book, he will find a way to raise money to buy books, who said that this is what he wants most at present?

Du Jinning smiled and said nothing more.

Guan Jiaze understood what Du Jinning meant.

Yes, he likes to watch "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", and most of these tea drinkers come for it.I am addicted to listening, how could I not come here just to save a few pennies?Those who can afford to spend five or eight renminbi to listen to books will not fail to spend ten or twenty renminbi.In order to listen to the book, even if I am reluctant to bear it, I will grit my teeth and come here, unless "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" is finished.

Thinking of this, he became worried, and asked Du Jinning, "Is this "Legend of the Condor Heroes" long? Don't just finish it in a few days. If these tea drinkers think the price is expensive, they won't come to us." There's a teahouse."

Zhuang Yue suddenly looked at Du Jinning very nervously.

Although he was tired these two days, he was happy in his heart.Thinking about yesterday's income, and thinking about the deserted silk and satin shop on weekdays, he felt a sense of accomplishment in his heart.As long as the teahouse continues to be popular like this, his monthly income is designated to be more than that of the big shopkeeper in the silk shop.

"Don't worry, it will be very long. We are only here now." Du Jinning smiled and said, "It won't be finished in half a year. Don't worry."

As she spoke, she continued: "We will launch other storytelling content after a while."

"Other storytelling content?" Guan Jiaze's eyes lit up immediately.Doesn't this mean that he has read a new storybook again?

But Zhuang Yue thought of the teahouse: "But this day, four games are almost enough. If we add two more games, we won't be worth it."

Because the new content is one session in the morning and one session in the afternoon, and the two sessions are relatively far apart, those tea drinkers will leave halfway and do not occupy seats here.But if new content is added in the middle, they will definitely sit still.After sitting with a cup of tea for a day, the teahouse still can't drive them away, and the storyteller's monthly fee is extra, wouldn't that be a big loss?

Du Jinning smiled and didn't explain much, just said: "It's still early, don't worry, we'll talk about it later." She told Zhuang Yue, "Ask Lu Xiaobei to see if he is familiar with anyone else. Introduce people with good character, if not, you can recruit people from outside."

Because of the examples of Chen Jiaxing and Liu Ze, Zhuang Yue didn't dare to go back to Guan's house to ask for help when he found that no one was guarding the gate of the teahouse, so he asked Lu Xiaobei to go back to Goulan to find two people to guard the gate.Zhao Dahu was found by Lu Xiaobei.

The business in Goulan was not very good, and after hearing Lu Xiaobei say that the teahouse was short of people and the monthly money they were given was quite a lot, they naturally scrambled to come over.Because he wanted to guard the gate to maintain order, Lu Xiaobei ordered two burly men pretending to be martial arts students to come over.

"Okay, after a while Lu Xiaobei comes off the stage after the performance, I'll ask him to do this." Zhuang Yue said.

Seeing nothing else, Du Jinning and Guan Jiaze came out of the teahouse and got into the carriage.

"Hey, brother, look, isn't that Brother Ning from the third room?" A teenager saw Du Jinning's back and couldn't help but tugged on the sleeve of his elder brother.

Du Jincheng looked up and saw Du Jinning's profile, he was also taken aback.

The cousin in my impression is always thin, weak and taciturn, and his clothes are always in tatters.But the person in front of him seemed to have a rosier complexion than before, and was wearing a stone blue muslin jacket.Even when he was talking to the young master of the Guan family beside him, he still had a calm expression, neither humble nor overbearing, and his gestures and gestures had the demeanor of everyone.

"It should... be him?" He was a little uncertain.

At this time, Du Jinning turned around and sat down, with his face facing this way, and his beautiful facial features came into the eyes of Du Jincheng and Du Jinde.

"It's him!" Du Jinde immediately said with certainty.

(End of this chapter)