Border Cook

Chapter 233 Get Out

What a grand style!
Captain Han despised such people and showed them the document issued by the government office. "I am summoned by the county lieutenant to summon Zou Fuquan to the county government office for questioning."

Question?

Zou Fuquan glanced at him and said disapprovingly, "This matter was done by Zhao Guangfu alone. It has nothing to do with me, and even less to do with Yueran Restaurant. Why did you summon me to question me?"

"You can ask these questions when you see the county lieutenant." Captain Han put away the documents and said, "Manager Zou, please come in."

"What if I don't go?" Zou Fuquan said coldly.

He is a seventh-rank official in the prime minister's office. He is a member of the Zhao family. He can do whatever he wants in this small county town. What can be done to him if he refuses to be appointed as the county lieutenant?

"Before we came to investigate the case, the county lieutenant ordered that if anyone refused to cooperate, they could be forcibly taken back, regardless of their status."

Captain Han said, "Since Shopkeeper Zou won't cooperate, then we won't be polite."

After that, Captain Han raised his hand and said, "Please ask Manager Zou to return to the county government office!"

Although they said they were inviting him in, their actual attitude and actions were extremely barbaric. They simply dragged Zou Fuquan out. Seeing that he was not cooperating, they simply pushed and dragged him without caring whether he could stand or not. It seemed as if they would drag Zou Fuquan away if he fell down.

Zou Fuquan was furious, annoyed at the Jinqiu County Court for being ignorant of the current situation, but he also felt that a wise man should not suffer a loss in front of him, so he could only follow Captain Han and others out obediently.

Captain Han and others took Zhao Guangfu and Zou Fuquan and went through the main door of Yueran Restaurant.

In the eyes of the onlookers, this scene almost confirmed the accusation that Zou Fuquan had instigated Zhao Guangfu to harm Xia Ji, and they became even more angry.

"Let me tell you, whatever a fellow dared to do was all done by that guy named Zou!"

"Zou Fuquan get out of Jinqiu County!"

"Give Xia Ji justice!"

Everyone shouted loudly, even Xia Mingyue and others joined in, echoing loudly.

They were really angry and really wanted Yueran Restaurant to receive the punishment it deserved.

Seeing the crowd getting closer and closer, some people even wanted to throw rotten vegetable leaves, rotten eggs and other things at Zou Fuquan and Zhao Guangfu. Captain Han and others hurriedly tried to stop them.

"Everyone, everyone, the county magistrate and the county lieutenant will handle this matter impartially, let the bad guys receive the punishment they deserve, and give Xia Ji justice."

Captain Han said loudly, "I hope you all will stay calm. Otherwise, we won't be able to bring these people back to the government office, and it will also delay the county magistrate and county lieutenant from trying the case."

After hearing Captain Han mention that the trial would be delayed, everyone's originally excited emotions calmed down a little, and they took the initiative to make way for Captain Han and the detectives to take the person away smoothly.

But the person was let go, and there was still a lot of cursing in front of Yueran Restaurant.

There were also some who wanted to watch the fun, hoping to get a fair and reasonable result as soon as possible to calm their anger, so they followed Captain Han and others to the yamen, hoping to see the county government publicly try the case.

The entrance of Yueran Restaurant was bustling until the evening.

Seeing that it was getting late, Xia Mingyue and others got up and left.

On the way back, everyone discussed setting up stalls and doing business tomorrow.

"There were many people before the New Year, so I added an extra long table and long benches to my stall, so I have to sell more of these goods." "It's the same here. I originally wanted to add 30%, but after thinking about it, I think it's better to add 50%. If I work harder and shout more, I can sell them all."

"I think we need to pay more attention to our business and make it better. Not only will we make more money, but isn't Zou Fuquan most afraid that our Xia Ji business will be good and big? Then we should work hard to do business and make him angry to death!"

"Yes, that's the reason."

A crowd of people were discussing this matter. Ding Quan thought about it and asked a question.

"Ms. Xia, would you like to create some new food and add some new franchisees to make Xia's a little bigger?"

Xia Mingyue sighed slightly after hearing this, "I have thought about this, but Jinqiu County is so small. If we make new food, it will divert the existing customers, which is not a good idea overall."

The plate is too small, so the cake cannot be made big. You can only add more variations to the original cake size.

Everyone understood what Xia Mingyue meant and fell silent for a while. After a long while, Zhou said, "Since it doesn't work in the county, why not develop a few more in the towns below?"

In a town, you don't need many, just one restaurant is enough. And most people don't want to spend too much money in a restaurant when they go to a town. A bowl of noodles with lots of meat, a bowl of hot wontons, a basket of steamed dumplings with thin skin and lots of meat, etc. will all be very popular.

Without going into too much detail, there are several not-so-small towns near Jinqiu County, and it doesn’t take too much time for ox carts to travel back and forth. All you have to do is go into the city early to pick up the day’s goods, and you won’t be delayed anywhere.

"This is a good idea." Xia Mingyue's eyes lit up.

If we enter the lower-tier markets, the returns will also be very good.

Moreover, if Xia Ji's business coverage is wider, it will be of great benefit to word-of-mouth publicity. If Xia Ji can be expanded to the provincial capital in the future, the business can be truly expanded.

"But it's not easy to find suitable franchisees in villages and towns." Xia Mingyue was a little worried.

As I said, the one who is chasing after you is not the business. You still have to let the franchisees come to you before you can have a good talk.

"It's not a difficult task." Jiang Erniu said with a smile, "Ms. Xia, you just need to hang up a sign on our stalls to recruit franchisees. When we do business on weekdays, we also help promote Xia Ji more, and naturally, people will want to do it."

For the rest, don't do anything more.

Those who are good at doing business must have a unique vision and a quick and active mind. If they do too many things, they will not be able to screen out the right people.

"Okay, I'll prepare these signs right away. I'll have to trouble you to help promote Xia Ji. However, this promotion is not in vain. If anyone can introduce a successful town to join Xia Ji, they can give away 30% of the goods for that day."

Xia Mingyue is very generous to those who can do the work.

After hearing this, everyone became more motivated and discussed how to promote Xia Ji's reputation even more.

When Xia Mingyue and Lu arrived home, it was already dark.

Jiang Zhuguo prepared dinner.

Scallion meat patties, pickled mustard greens, roasted bean curd sheets, stir-fried bean sprouts and a pot of glutinous candied date rice porridge.

The meat filling used to make meat patties is meat filling that has been washed many times. The Jiangzhuguo is seasoned as usual, with some scallion water and pepper powder added. Although the meat patties taste a little bitter, they are more spicy with the aroma of scallions and pepper.

In addition, they had been busy all day and had a simple meal of stir-fried cabbage noodles in soup at noon. Now that the matter was concluded, everyone felt hungry and ate with relish.