Chapter 50 Chapter 50 I was busy from the morning till noon...
They were busy from the morning till noon, when there were fewer pedestrians on the road, so the few people in the store could take a break.
They were busy helping Shen Xuan sell goods, but they didn't have time to make their own lunch.
Shen Xuan directly gave each of them twenty coins and asked them to buy food nearby.
Shen Xuan prepared a total of sixty chickens early in the morning, but he didn't expect to sell forty of them just before noon.
Seeing that the stock was running low, he hurried to the butcher shop and bought forty more.
He prepared a thousand skewers of meat and a thousand skewers of vegetables for the red oil skewers, and there were still some left over.
In the afternoon, the theaters and nearby brothels officially opened, and there were more pedestrians on the street.
The guests who wanted to watch the show also heard that there was a new store at the door, which made delicious fried chicken and skewers, so they quickly lined up in front of the store.
The courtesan from a nearby brothel even sent her pimp to line up, saying that the distinguished guests inside smelled the aroma of the fried chicken and did not want to eat the roast chicken in the brothel, so they specifically ordered the fried chicken.
However, just after the afternoon, all 100 fried chickens in the Theater Xianwei were sold out.
By this time, Tu Si had closed, and Shen Xuan didn't want to buy any more ingredients. I waited another half an hour and sold out all the remaining skewers before closing the store.
After closing all the wooden boards at the door of the store, Shen Xuan and his group sat in the backyard. Qingkang and Qingping were both exhausted, and Shengcai and Shengfu's voices were hoarse.
"Everyone has worked hard." Shen Xuan said and asked Jinzhi Jingui to bring the sour plum soup to the backyard and let them sit down and drink it together. I began to count today's income.
On the first day, we sold a total of 100 fried chickens and 2,000 skewers, all of which were prepared in advance early in the morning.
After deducting the unpaid money for Xue Fenglin, Shen Xuan calculated today's income. The gross profit is nineteen taels, and after deducting the cost of less than four taels of silver, there is still fifteen taels of net profit.
The profit was fifteen taels of silver a day, four hundred and fifty taels of silver a month, and five thousand four hundred taels of silver a year.
After deducting the shop rent of one thousand two hundred taels, there is still a net profit of more than four thousand taels, which is a huge profit!
"You did a good job today." Shen Xuan said happily, "If you can sell this much every day, I will give you one or two taels of silver as a reward at the end of the month in addition to the monthly allowance."
When they heard that they could get a reward of one or two taels of silver, the already exhausted efforts of making money and creating happiness became more excited.
They used to serve the young masters of wealthy families and earned only two hundred coins a month. Although they occasionally received rewards, most of them were small amounts of a few dozen coins.
Only those who serve personally in the mansions of marquises and kings can get a reward of one or two taels of silver. They had seen this before and were extremely envious. They thought that others were lucky to be bought by princes and nobles to be servants. I never thought that I would have such an opportunity now.
Shengcai looked at the sky outside and said, "It's still early now. Zijin Street is very busy. We can prepare more things tomorrow and sell them for more money."
Shengfu also said, "Yes, those young men who go to the brothel only come at night, it's still early now. It's a pity for us to close the stall so early."
Chen Xuan was amused when he heard this. He glanced at them and shook his head, saying, "You got up before dawn today to pack the ingredients. Aren't you tired enough?"
"Even if I sell more tomorrow, if you guys get exhausted later, should I still keep my shop open?"
Shengcai and Shengfu were good at speaking, so they praised Shen Xuan and said, "Brother Shen is kind and righteous. He treats us very well. He is afraid that he will tire us out."
"That's right, we are happy to follow a master like Brother Shen."
Qingkang and Qingping came from the village and were not very good at talking, but they nodded in agreement and said, "We rarely ate meat at home before. After following you, Brother Chen, our food and accommodation are much better than before."
"Yes, they always bought us meat wontons for lunch. When we were in the countryside, we could only eat them once during the Chinese New Year."
"Okay, just say less. You'll need your voice tomorrow." Shen Xuan said helplessly.
Afterwards, he left them two hundred coins and told them to go out and have a good meal before he left in his car.
"Brother Chen, you treat them so well." On the way back, Jinzhi couldn't help but speak.
Jinzhi often traveled around the capital on her daily business and had seen a lot of things. The servants bought from shops outside are not like the servants in wealthy families. They are basically treated like oxen and horses.
How could there be someone like Shen Xuan who provided accommodation, food, and rewards?
"Brother Chen has always been kind and righteous, and he treats us very well, right?" Jin Gui also said.
Shen Xuan didn't say anything after hearing this. Although he was born in Dajin, the two years he spent traveling to the modern world had already taught him that everyone is equal.
So after traveling back in time, Shen Xuan always treated these servants from the perspective of a boss and did not really treat them as slaves.
The next day, Shen Xuan went to the shop again early in the morning. It was still early at this time, and he saw Qingkang and Qingping chopping wood, while Shengfu and Shengcai had already gone to the butcher's shop and the vegetable market to buy the ingredients needed for the day. The four of them were sitting together stringing skewers.
Seeing them doing things so consciously, Shen Xuan was quite satisfied.
He deliberately did not intervene today, just waiting to see how these men would run the shop.
Because of yesterday’s fame, as soon as the wooden door outside the store opened early this morning, passers-by lined up in a long queue.
Shen Xuan saw Qing Kang and Qing Ping slowly raising the stove and pouring new oil into one pot, while in the other pot, there was a big bone soup that had been stewing for a while.
After a while, the pot was heated up and they put the prepared ingredients into it. Shengcai and Shengfu on one side collected money and shouted, and everything was done in an orderly manner.
In fact, the reason why these servants are so active is not because they are born with good character.
Although Qingkang and Qingping are relatively honest, Shengfu and Shengcai are quite slippery.
People are lazy, and they work so hard because they see that Shen Xuan is clear about rewards and punishments. Although he was a servant whose indenture had been bought out, as long as he did his job well, he would receive sufficient rewards, and his life was no worse than that of the good citizens working outside.
With hope in life, they are naturally very positive in doing things. There was no need for anyone else to keep an eye on him, and the shop was running smoothly.
The theater's fairy flavor soon started to run very smoothly. Chen Xuan doesn't need to keep an eye on him every day. He only needs to send Jinzhi to get cash once a day and then exchange it for silver at the silver shop.
Since the shop opened, business has been booming. The daily limit is 200 chickens and 2,000 skewers, and the store will close when they are sold out.
When business is good, everything is sold out before 3 p.m.
On this day, in the private room of Baihua Tower, after the courtesan Liu Rumeng finished playing a song of pleasure, she heard a commotion in the hall.
"Who is making so much noise?" asked a middle-aged man in his early thirties sitting on the first seat.
Liu Rumeng immediately sent her maid to ask, and after a while she bowed very respectfully and said to the man, "My lord, the master of the Wang family who is in the tea business is drunk and is making a fuss about eating fried chicken downstairs."
"What chicken? Don't you have any in Baihua Tower? Why not just make one for him?" A young man in his early twenties asked upon hearing this.
He was the sixth son of the Minister of Revenue, Mr. Qian, and was also the legitimate son of the family, so he was very much loved. He is used to being a playboy on weekdays and has always been a frequent visitor to Baihua Tower.
Liu Rumeng immediately said, "Mr. Qian, you don't know that what Mr. Wang wants to eat is not ordinary roast chicken, but the fried chicken sold by Xiyuan Xianwei. The taste is very different and there is no other place like it in the whole capital."
As soon as she said this, someone else started to ask, "What kind of quality can the food in this foot shop be? It's not even clean. This Mr. Wang has never eaten good food."
After hearing this, Liu Rumeng said, "You may not know that Mr. Wang is a gourmet and is very particular about food. Xiyuan Xianke is a newly opened shop. The food inside is clean and fresh. It is brought back from the market every morning and prepared right in front of you."
"Even the oil they use to fry chicken is changed twice a day. The old oil is sold directly to the oil sellers outside. Other stall owners and shops spend a few cents more to buy the oil to fry chicken and cook, saying that it tastes better."
After Liu Rumeng's introduction, many guests in the elegant room became very interested in the fried chicken called "Xiyuan Xianwei".
They are all young masters of famous families in the capital. What good things have they not seen? But this is the first time I've heard of such a fried chicken shop, and I must try it no matter what.
"In that case, let's ask someone to buy some fried chicken so we can try it," someone said.
Liu Rumeng felt a little embarrassed after hearing this, so she could only shake her head and said, "It's a pity that the shop only sells 200 chickens a day. It never sells more than one chicken just because the business is good, so it closes before noon every day."
"It's already 5 p.m., where can you find fried chicken? If not, Baihualou would have bought some fried chicken for Mr. Wang a long time ago."
But I just wanted to eat some fried chicken, but I can’t even get it?
The young men in the private rooms were suddenly unhappy and wanted to know what this legendary fried chicken tasted like.
Early the next morning, many of the big families, including Lord Qian's family, sent their servants to line up and specifically request the Theater's Xianwei fried chicken.
They were queuing here when they suddenly saw a sedan chair parked in front of them, and then a young eunuch walked out of it.
After getting closer to the counter of the theater's Xianwei restaurant and taking a look, he asked the sedan chair bearer to help him queue up.
"Isn't this the eunuch Ning who is beside the eldest prince?"
"Why is Eunuch Ning here to buy fried chicken? Could it be that His Highness wants to eat some?"
"What good things are there in the palace? Even His Majesty comes to buy this fried chicken, which shows that this fried chicken is really delicious!"
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The servants of the aristocratic families recognized Eunuch Ning's identity at a glance, and couldn't help but talk about it. After returning, they told the master of the house about it.
For a time, the name of the shop "Xiyuan Xianwei" became popular among the upper class society in the entire capital.
It seems that if you haven’t tried the fried chicken from this shop, you’re out of date. After all, this is fried chicken that even the prince sent someone to buy specially!
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