Ancient Imperial Examination Daily

Chapter 164 Proposals
Du Jinning asked Mrs. Chen to go to work, and led Qi Muyuan into the house, poured him tea and snacks, and asked, "Could it be that you found us here when you went to the teahouse?"

Qi Muyuan shook his head: "I have something to do with you."

"Oh?" Du Jinning sat down and looked at Qi Muyuan.

"I went to the teahouse early this morning to have a look, so I asked people to go around to find out if there are any teahouses for sale." Qi Muyuan said, "There are not many teahouses in the city, and it's the New Year's Eve, and the sales are good, no one wants to sell them However, there are two relatively spacious shops willing to transfer, which were originally used as restaurants, and the area is larger than Boyue Teahouse. Let me ask you what you think."

Du Jinning stared at Qi Muyuan in a daze, without speaking for a long time.

Qi Muyuan stared at him, but did not speak.

After a long time, Du Jinning said, "Why did you find a teahouse? Aren't we open?"

Qi Muyuan withdrew his gaze, and said lightly, "Don't tell me, you saw the long queue for Boyue Teahouse, and never thought of opening two more elsewhere."

Think, why not?

Du Jinning said something silently in his heart, but said on the face: "I plan to use the proceeds of the teahouse to open a branch in a month's time, depending on the situation."

"If you really think so, then I have nothing to say." Qi Muyuan said.

Du Jinning looked at his face.Qi Muyuan has always been a guy with an expressionless face, and his tone of voice is emotionless. At this time, he really can't tell whether he is happy or unhappy.

Du Jinning was a little frustrated.

She tapped lightly on the table with her fingers, stared at the scenery outside the door in silence for a while, finally decided not to be pretentious, and asked Qi Muyuan, "What's the price of those two shops?"

Qi Muyuan gave her such a look, and said, "One is 200 taels, and the other is 220 taels."

"It's so expensive. Even if you sell me, you can't sell it for so much money." Du Jinning sighed.

Qi Muyuan looked her up and down, as if he was estimating how much this guy could sell for.

"Hey, what kind of eyes do you have?" Du Jinning glared at him.

"Sell it by the catty, probably for two hundred dollars." Qi Muyuan said expressionlessly.

Du Jinning was angry.This guy with paralyzed face has grown up and knows how to tell a bad joke.

"How is it? Can it be opened?" Qi Muyuan asked.

Since we met, Qi Muyuan has been very kind to himself, and Du Jinning didn't hide it from him, and said honestly: "I really don't have any money, I have a lot of money on hand, only 25 taels of silver, and after the new year, I have to pay 20 taels of Shuxiu. Originally You take care of me, this time I'm sure I'm too embarrassed to take the stake again, I have to invest money in it. Besides, last time I had a bad fight with Guan Jiaze because of manpower; this time, we can't let Guan Jiaze find someone again. Xiaoer is easy to find , but a reliable shopkeeper is hard to find.”

"Don't worry about the manpower, I have it; as for the silver, I can lend it to you first. If you feel bad, you can also pay me the interest. Anyway, my silver is on the shelf. If you don't want to open a branch, I will also You can't make money, can you?"

Looking at Qi Muyuan's serious expression, Du Jinning was quite moved.

Among the four of them, Guan Jiaze is the oldest, but due to the environment in which he grew up, he is the most immature.On the contrary, Qi Muyuan, who is only 12 years old, may have experienced ups and downs, but he showed an unusual maturity and stability.When facing him, Du Jinning didn't feel at all that he was facing a child, but rather an adult who was equal to her.So Du Jinning is very willing to trust him, and believes that they will never have conflicts like Chen Jiaxing's in the end.

"Why are you so nice to me?" Du Jinning didn't think that Qi Muyuan urged her to open a branch because he was short of money.After all, didn't he want to help her when he did this?
Qi Muyuan glanced at her lightly, and said in a calm tone, "You are pleasing to the eye."

"..."

Well, this reason is so strong that Du Jinning was speechless.

"That's fine." Du Jinning nodded and said, "However, there is no need to open two more, just one."

Seeing Qi Muyuan looking at her in puzzlement, Du Jinning explained: "Instead of opening three teahouses, each with only [-]% to [-]% attendance, it is better to open two, and the two are full, so that everyone will find it strange and rush to go. Listen to the book. Let’s make an appointment to visit the two restaurants you have at hand, and then choose one with the right location, area, and price.

"Okay, I'll listen to you." Qi Muyuan naturally had no objection.

Because Zhang Hongwen was involved, someone had to send him a message to let him go into the city, so the two agreed to discuss this matter together the next day, and Qi Muyuan left.

After sending Qi Muyuan away, Du Jinning went to the kitchen and said to Mrs. Chen: "Mother, the teahouse is very popular now, and there are many people queuing up. We decided to open another teahouse. So the supply of dried tofu is estimated to be increased. At least double what it is now."

"Ah?" Although Mrs. Chen was delighted that her dried tofu was selling well and earning more and more money, she was also very embarrassed. "But we are rushing day and night, so we can only make so many dried tofu."

In the past two days, she and Du Fangfei didn't go to the field. They tried their best to make dried tofu at home, but they still couldn't supply the demand for the teahouse.On Xie's side, because Chen's promise was made earlier, Chen was unwilling to break his promise, so he would rather lose the supply of teahouses than cut off the wholesale supply to Xie's.

"I came here to tell you about this." Du Jinning said, "There are two ways. One is that we buy a small donkey and a big stone mill. Now this small stone mill must be replaced. The other way is to do it in the village. Hire two strong women to help grind the soybean milk. My suggestion is to buy a donkey."

"Donkey." Naturally, Mrs. Chen knew that buying a donkey was a good deal.If you hire people, you will spend a lot of money, and there are too many people to return.They have just moved here, they are not familiar with the place, and suddenly they want to hire someone, and the people in Zhuangzi don't know what to say about them.Besides, if the people they hired were of bad character and secretly learned how to make dried tofu, they would suffer a heavy loss.

But a donkey costs a lot of money, at least 12 taels of silver.And now they earn only three to four hundred coppers a day from making dried tofu.

"This is 15 taels of silver. Take it and go to the market to have a look, and buy it if it suits you. The stone mill is also called to a stonemason as soon as possible." Du Jinning handed the prepared silver to Mrs. Chen.

Chen was taken aback: "Where did you get so much money?"

Although she knew that Du Jinning had been writing scripts and that a script could sell for two taels of silver, since she opened the teahouse, the scripts stopped being sold.She reckoned that Du Jinning only had seven or eight taels of silver in his hand.

(End of this chapter)