77 Strawberry Hot Tea

◎But a different thought arises in my heart◎

The palm-sized tabloid boasted in bold letters: "Shock! Liuxiangju and Chayuan have joined forces, leaving Zui Liuxia's stance a mystery." The old battle between the two tigers is over, and a new three-legged tripod is about to emerge.

Manager Wu slammed the tabloid on the table. "Damn it, why is Cheng Xia getting involved in this for no reason?!"

Another person took the tabloid from her hand, looked at it carefully for a while, and said, "I don't think this news is necessarily bad."

"What do you mean?" Manager Wu asked subconsciously, but she was the manager of Zui Liuxia after all, and had handled many matters, big and small, and had accumulated a lot of experience over the years.

After she calmed down, her eyes rolled, and she immediately understood what the other party said. The anger on her face faded a little, and she sneered: "Indeed, small fish eat shrimps, and big fish eat small fish.

The end of her Liuxiangju wouldn't be for such a small profit, and the small pond of Chayuan may not be able to catch a big fish."

Just as shocked as Shopkeeper Wu was Song Jinyi, who had just seen the tabloid. Firstly, it was so sudden, and secondly, she didn't understand why this huge Buddha would take a fancy to her small temple.

Although in the eyes of others, this is a great thing, and big stores like Liuxiangju are willing to condescend to join, it is enough to show the influence of Chayuan. Those who have already joined are secretly glad that they have good vision.

If you don’t have the chance to join, you can only regret that you had poor vision and missed the good time to join.

But Song Jinyi was not deceived by this superficial phenomenon. Like Manager Wu, she was able to keenly see the hidden dangers.

After nearly two months of screening and training, all franchisees have opened their own stores.

She had carefully surveyed the location of the branch. Yunzhou was centered on Yunhe Tower, with four main streets roughly divided outwards to the east, south, west and north. Each street was connected to seven or eight markets.

She set up the appropriate number of branches based on the population density, and did not just focus on money without caring about after-sales service.

In this way, the tea drinkers in a certain area can be well diverted, malicious competition among franchisees can be avoided, and objective profits can be maintained.

But if Liuxiangju gets involved, the nature of the situation will be different, like releasing a piranha into a calm pond with a few koi.

The delicate balance can be broken in an instant.

She frowned and remained silent. For a moment, she couldn't guess what Cheng Xia was thinking.

She was worried for a few days, but when she saw that Cheng Xia didn't move, she felt relieved and prepared new products.

Daxia doesn't have many varieties of products, but she has developed almost all the new milk tea products she can make.

In addition, it is early summer, fresh fruits are on the market, and the weather is getting hotter, so fruit tea is the most suitable summer drink.

The sales of milk tea will definitely decrease. After much thought, she decided to make it a winter-only drink. In the summer, she could naturally launch fruit tea as a replacement.

She took the initiative to develop a new fruit tea - strawberry hot black tea.

These early summer strawberries have a light fruity fragrance. Take a bite and you will find that the flesh is firm and the sweet and sour taste instantly captures your taste buds.

Each one lies in the white porcelain bowl like a ruby, and the red color looks like condensed juice about to drip out. Even if nothing is added, it is delicious enough to eat it alone.

Before Song Jinyi even started cooking, Li He, who was learning from her, secretly ate one-third of the whole bowl of strawberries.

When she was about to steal it again, Song Jinyi handed the porcelain plate to her and said, "Go and wash it."

Under Song Jinyi's intimidating gaze, Li He didn't dare to eat secretly anymore and washed the strawberries honestly.

Song Jinyi removed the stems of the strawberries, cut them in half, put them into the pot, added rock sugar and boiled them. The red color of the strawberries dissolved into the water little by little, turning from bright red to fragile white, as if a sickly girl had applied a layer of light pink rouge.

She poured in a proper amount of black tea. Needless to say, the tea leaves on the cloud were of high quality. The tea fragrance instantly burst out in the boiling tea water, and the two flavors were entangled with the fruity aroma to form a unique fragrance.

Song Jinyi used a knife to cut a small hole in the remaining strawberries layer by layer.

Li He was puzzled at first, but when she saw the strawberry blossom into a rose in Song Jinyi's palm like a magic trick, her eyes suddenly widened and she exclaimed in surprise, "Sister, that's amazing!"

Seeing that she liked it very much, Song Jinyi found a pair of chopsticks and inserted them underneath for her to play with.

She carved two more flowers, placed them under two white porcelain bowls, and poured in the brewed strawberry black tea. She held the tea tray and took a sip carefully. It was a bit like the lemon black tea in her previous life, but the taste was richer.

Footsteps came from far away. Song Jinyi looked up and saw that it was Xie Wuyang. She raised the teacup in her hand and said, "You came at the right time. Try my new strawberry hot black tea."

She had intended for Xie Wuyang to take the teacup and taste it herself, but she hadn't expected Xie Wuyang to misunderstand her. He held her wrist, took a sip from the bowl, and said, "It's so sweet."

A strange feeling penetrated her heart along the touched skin. Her heart froze for a moment, and then seemed to turn into a silver hammer, pounding heavily in her chest.

She didn't move for a moment, then heard him say, "Sister, the owner of Liuxiangju is here."

******

Song Jinyi came to the hall with a new product - strawberry hot black tea, and saw Cheng Xia wearing a light purple silk shirt and a white cotton skirt with dark patterns, sitting in the back of the hall.

She brought the tea tray over, gently placed it on the table, and jokingly said, "You are in for a treat. This is a new dish I just made. I'd like to invite you to try it."

After drinking tea once, Song Jinyi didn't hide anything and asked directly: "I heard that Sister Cheng wants to join my Tea Fate?"

After hearing this, Cheng Xia looked up at her and asked instead of answering, "If I really have this intention, what will Madam Song do?"

"Of course I'm grateful for your patronage. I'm happy to leave." Song Jinyi said without any emotion, and it was easy to hear that it was a sarcasm.

Seeing that Cheng Xia didn't look unhappy, she simply opened up: "When I first told Sister Cheng about my plan to join Zui Liu Xia, she had no other intentions. Why did you suddenly change your mind now?"

Cheng Xia's answer to her was: "The more the better."

No one would believe this reason!

After Cheng Xia finished his answer, he laughed out loud with great joy: "I don't know where the news that I want to join your store came from.

I just heard a few days ago that your business is doing well, so I wanted to come and see you, but somehow the rumor got around that I was going to join Chayuan."

Cheng Xia took a sip of tea and said meaningfully, "I've read that tabloid too. It's quite well written."

Song Jinyi secretly breathed a sigh of relief when she heard Cheng Xia say that she had no intention of joining, and then she heard her mention the tabloids.

When something inexplicable happens, there is always a meaning behind it, whether it is hiding something or helping something. The best way to figure it out is to work backwards - who is the beneficiary?

Combined with what this tabloid said and the hidden meaning in Cheng Xia's words, Song Jinyi couldn't help but think of herself with a guilty conscience.

But she was completely unaware of this, and apart from the initial advertisement, she never contacted the tabloid writer again. But at the same time, she thought of someone - He Yuan's brother.

Could it be related to He Yuan? Song Jinyi wondered wildly: Could it be because of He Yuan, and then he was returning the favor and secretly building momentum for her? This is what was called hype in her previous life?

If this was true, it would be Cha Yuan who was taking advantage of Liuxiangju. Song Jinyi had no choice but to play dumb and remain silent for a long time.

Cheng Xia smiled and said, "This isn't a big deal. I came here to ask on behalf of my uncle. The two-month agreement is almost up. I wonder how Madam Song is preparing."

Time flies so fast. Two months have passed in the blink of an eye. She almost forgot about the bet.

She quickly replied that she would visit in the next two days.

There are already sixteen Tea Yuan stores in Yunzhou, and Xu Ruolan wrote to say that there are several other stores in Chuzhou that want to join.

Song Jinyi handed over all the affairs in Chuzhou to her. Now she has also made reservations with four companies, and the amount of tea required is exactly one hundred kilograms.

On a sunny afternoon, she went to Yunshang Tea House alone with the sorted account books.

After looking at the accounts, Mr. Cheng readily fulfilled his promise and set the price at fifty taels.

When Song Jingyi turned back, she was so focused on the cost that she didn't hear the low sigh behind her, "Yunzhi, your daughter is growing up very well."

******

Song Family Brocade Shop.

Dyed colored silk threads are hung in rows in the courtyard. Hundreds of embroiderers are weaving in the workshop. In another spacious room, the finished products are neatly stacked.

Song Zhangye and the merchant toured the huge workshop, saying as they walked, "Shopkeeper Song, I'll still pay the same price as before for this Shu brocade. I'll take one thousand pieces."

"If it had been two months earlier, I wouldn't have said anything. For some reason, the nobles in Kyoto have started using Shu brocade for the interior, and the price of this Shu brocade has skyrocketed. It's tripled in just this month..."

“…”

The two discussed for a long time and finally decided on a plan that both of them could accept.

After the business is over, it is inevitable to talk about some gossip.

"You are truly remarkable for having such a capable daughter."

Seeing Song Zhangye's surprised expression, the speaker thought he was joking with him, patted his arm and said, "Stop pretending, your eldest daughter - Song Jinyi.

I've seen him before. I heard that he opened a tea shop, which is quite successful, even more prosperous than Zui Liu Xia and Liu Xiang Ju, which have been open for decades.

"I wonder how you raised your daughter to have such a capable child." As he spoke, he couldn't help but think of his own disappointing children.

He sighed, "Don't look at my three sons, each one more useless than the last, it worries me to death! If I were you, how could I bear to let her go out and suffer? She wouldn't have enough time to manage the family business at home. At worst, I could find her a son-in-law, so I can control her."

Although Song Zhangye knew very little about Song Jinyi's affairs, he was still very pleased to hear the praise from outsiders. He pretended to be deep and said, "It's just a child's mischief. It won't amount to anything."

Although Song Zhangye said this, he had other thoughts in his mind.

After everyone left, he instructed the steward to go to Tianshuipu.

【Author’s words】

Looking for a pre-collected article collection [dog head holding a rose] "After the divorce, the cold ex-husband was cremated"