delicious little cook

Chapter 356 Start Your Own Business

In the early morning of the next day, everything in the Zhongming Courtyard was as usual. Gu Yun was talking and laughing as if he had forgotten what happened yesterday. He ate a delicious breakfast under the service of the three big girls, and took the boy out to school. After confessing, the three old servants must not let them off lightly.

Xiao Panzi understood and promised to make them suffer first in the next few days.

Bai Kou called Xiao Yezi to be his attendant, and took her to meet Yan Zheng in the family room in the front yard. After a brief understanding of yesterday's business situation, he rushed to the ice cellar to see if he was ready.

When the third lady Shui and the daughters-in-law saw Bai Kou coming over, their expressions and attitudes were more respectful than before. They saw her skills clearly yesterday, but they didn't want to annoy this little steward one day and suffer from it.

The ice truck said it was coming today, but I didn't know when it was, because the usual cars were parked outside the back door of the East Kitchen, so she went to the East Kitchen and waited. Fortunately, the woman at the back door came in to report the news after not waiting too long. The ice truck has arrived.

The handymen in the east kitchen are the laborers who move the ice. They immediately push the trolleys used for transfer to the back door to pick up the ice, and then transport it to the ice cellar, moving them piece by piece to the bottom and stacking them.

The ice cellar in the mansion is a big one, and it will take three days to fill it up. As the steward of the ice cellar, Bai Kou naturally has to complete her errands properly, and she can't go anywhere for these three days.

After working for a day, the ice cellar was filled to one-third as expected. After Bai Kou checked that there was no problem, he encouraged his staff and went back to the Zhongming Courtyard to rest.

For the next two days, Bai Kou worked in the ice cellar, and the gossip he wanted to see was never staged. Except for the three dismissed women, there was no other personnel transferred from the young master's place, and even the pregnant Tongfang was still on the job. .

However, those three wives had gossip spread into the mansion. In the past few days in the back street, people stood outside the door of their three families every day and greeted their family with various vulgar market words, scolding them so much that they dared not go out during the day. , If you want to go to the street to buy some rice, flour, grain and oil, you have to sneak around.

This gossip made Bai Kou and Gu Yun both feel refreshed. Bai Kou guessed that the young master probably had to wait for Xiumu, so that he could deal with the problems of his servants at home, so she finished the ice storage with peace of mind. After her important errand, she took the guards to the street to find her blacksmith shop.

The family of the blacksmith who violated the agreement and ordered the case scales for others saw that Bai Kou had missed the appointment and had not seen her come after waiting for three days. They thought they had escaped a catastrophe and were secretly relieved, when they saw Bai Kou appearing at their house with a man on a horse in front of the door.

"Old iron man, business is good?" Bai Kou sat on the horse's back and raised his hand, smiling as he got off the horse and said hello.

"Take care of things in vain, TOEFL, TOEFL." Old Tie, the head of the blacksmith's shop, stammered. After all, he was wrong, and his sons also nodded submissively.

"Let's talk in the room."

Bai Kou threw the reins to a guard and asked him to stay at the door, and led another guard into the inner house of the blacksmith shop.

The old iron man handed over the business to his son, and he led Bai Kou to the main room. His old wife and daughter came out nervously from their respective rooms, went to the kitchen to bring hot tea to the guests, and hesitated to speak for his man. Please ask for some kind words.

Bai Kou didn't greet them at all, and asked them to take the account book when they sat down, but when they took it out and looked at it, outsiders couldn't understand what was written on it, only their family could understand it, which was very painful.

But it didn't bother Bai Kou, she immediately asked the daughter of the blacksmith's family to go to the street to find the inspectors under Marquis Wu as a witness, the girl looked at her parents and left in fear.

During the waiting time, Bai Kou went to visit the blacksmith's shop to assess the value of the shop. When the inspector came, he warmly invited them into the house and told them why.

The old Tie family did not deny Bai Kou's allegations. After all, the account books were clearly written. Although outsiders could not understand them, they knew it well. The inspection was another threat. If they did not tell the truth, they would be dragged out to beat the board , I had no choice but to honestly explain the income and expenditure situation during these days. Relying on that new-style case scale, I did earn a lot of money, and my daily life has improved.

"What's your family's set of food, how much is it worth now?"

"Based on the current market price, that set of things will always cost more than 100 taels of silver, and those few necessary large items can't be saved." The old iron man replied honestly.

Bai Kou thought for a while, lowered his head and opened the satchel, and took out a heavy 50 taels of official silver ingot and placed it on the table. The snow-white color immediately made everyone in the room stare.

"I don't want to ruin your business. Since the current price of your set is more than 100 taels, and your set has been passed down for so many generations, it's better to discount it as 100 taels. This is 50 taels. Let me enter the industry." half of the shares. Have you ever heard of Xian Bugou in Zhoujiaqian Lane? In the future, you will be given priority in making metal accessories there. Suggestion, the inspector is here to be a witness."

The inspectors bowed their hands again and again to express their duty.

The old iron head asked his daughter to take care of the guests, and led his old wife to the front to call his son back. The family of four discussed in the yard.

The daughter of the Tie family poured tea for Bai Kou excitedly, but she couldn't hold the teapot with her trembling hands, and she spilled water around the teacup. She hurried to find a rag to wipe the table, and almost knocked over the cup.

Bai Kou and Xun Zan couldn't bear to watch anymore, so they asked the girl to sit on the sidelines and make less trouble.

With just such a little effort, the discussion in the courtyard was over. No one objected to Bai Kou's shareholding. The 50 taels of silver ingots were too dazzling. Besides, as long as she agreed to her request, there would be continuous business guarantee in the future. With a backer, there is no rich family with a higher status than Ye Guogong's mansion in Tianshuifang. This suggestion of Bai Guanshi will not be a disadvantage to their family.

After the agreement was made, the sons continued to take care of the business at the front, and the old iron head and his old wife walked into the main room and bowed their hands to Bai Kou.

"Bai Guanshi, our family has discussed it, and we will do it according to Bai Guanshi's wishes."

"Okay, he's a straightforward person, so sign the deed."

Bai Kou took out the deed in duplicate and a box of ink pads from her satchel. The deed was written during the few days when she used the ice cellar to store ice. She knew that the family would not reject her proposal. Will have trouble with money.

Read the contents of the contract to everyone, it lists the rights and obligations of both parties, Lao Tiejia is responsible for the quality of the products, Bai Kou is responsible for soliciting business, and the profits earned are divided in half.But the contract has a limited number of years. If the old man is too old to work, when he wants to pass the shop to his sons, Bai Kou has the right to examine the young man's technical ability, and then consider whether to continue to renew the contract.

Lao Tie nodded again and again, had no objection to the content of the deed, and signed the deed without hesitation. As a witness, the inspector also signed and stamped his hand on the deed, got a little tea money from Bai Kou, and left with a happy smile.

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