After Nan Wusi returned to the General's Mansion, Xiao Ba told her in her mind that the system shop had been updated again.
After opening the system shop, Nan Wusi found that instead of new clothing items, two pieces of jewelry were added.
One is a butterfly-shaped earring called "Butterfly Loves Flowers." The golden butterfly appears to be fluttering towards a small flower, ready to take flight. It increases charm by two points and requires 1000 beauty points to purchase.
The other is a white jade necklace with pearls, which also increases charm by two points and requires 1,000 beauty points to purchase.
Nan Wusi naturally bought the two pieces of jewelry without hesitation. Her jewelry store was about to be completed, and she needed a few decent pieces of jewelry to sell.
These past few days, Nan Wusi has been observing the prices of jewelry in the surrounding gold and silver shops. She doesn't want to provoke a united protest from others because of her own pricing.
After browsing through all the jewelry shops on the main street, Nan Wusi found that the prices were generally determined by the material and craftsmanship of the jewelry, with most of them priced between tens of taels and a thousand taels.
This time, it wasn't anyone else's fault. Nan Wusi discovered that the jewelry in her system shop was generally too expensive. The lowest price for her jewelry required 100 beauty points, equivalent to 100 taels of silver. Even without raising the prices, she was losing money.
What to do now? Nan Wusi is stumped.
The jewelry store's decor was almost finished, but Nan Wusi was at a loss. She compared the prices of many jewelry items and found that her goods were more expensive than others, regardless of the type. Her only advantage was that she had more styles.
Finally, the day arrived for Nan Wusi's jewelry store to open. She named her store Nan's Gold and Silver Shop, a very simple name. Mainly, Nan Wusi felt that choosing a name was too difficult, so she preferred something more common and easier to remember. Of course, this was just an excuse she used to comfort herself.
On the day of the opening of Nan's Gold and Silver Shop, many of Mengyifang's old customers came to support it. After all, just like beautiful clothes, beautiful jewelry is also a woman's favorite.
The solution that Nan Wusi finally came up with to address the high prices was to divide Nan's Gold and Silver Shop into two parts. Since they were two adjacent shops, one was named the Heritage Zone, and the other was named the Renewal Zone.
The heritage area mainly features jade artifacts, all of which are of superior quality. This is obvious to anyone with a discerning eye. Moreover, jade artifacts command a relatively high premium, so even if the prices are a bit high, they are still acceptable to most people.
The main attraction of the Renewal Zone is gold and silver jewelry. Although the prices are high, Nan Wusi has made a promise that any customer who buys gold or silver jewelry in the Renewal Zone can exchange it for new jewelry if they don't like it, as long as they pay the price difference.
"Manager Nan, is it really true that as long as we buy jewelry in this renovated area, we can exchange it if we don't like it?" One of the young ladies was still a little incredulous. Wouldn't this be a losing proposition? How could anyone do such a thing?
“Of course, I, Nan Wusi, always keep my word. Since I have made a promise, I will definitely fulfill it. Miss, you don’t need to worry that our Nan Family Gold and Silver Shop will not keep its promise,” Nan Wusi explained.
"Are there any other requirements for the exchange?" This young lady asked, echoing the thoughts of everyone present. It was the first time they had ever seen a gold and silver shop dare to make such a guarantee.
"You only need to pay the difference, and you can only exchange for new jewelry that is slightly more expensive than the old jewelry." Nan Wusi learned this from modern gold shops. This way, even if customers come to exchange their jewelry, they can still recycle the old jewelry, and in fact, they don't lose money because the customers are always paying more.
However, this is very tempting for female customers. After all, all women are prone to getting tired of the same thing. If she can keep changing the styles she likes and only needs to pay a small difference each time, she will feel that it is a great deal.
Therefore, in Nan Wusi's view, this was a win-win situation. Moreover, her shop already had higher prices, and if she couldn't offer more interesting solutions, these customers wouldn't be willing to buy.
Even so, most of the customers at Nanwusi's opening today were just browsing; many didn't make a purchase, as they still thought the prices at Nan's Gold and Silver Shop were too high.
However, Nan Wusi didn't care much. As long as the jewelry store business continued to grow slowly and she could earn a few orders a month to cover the store's operating costs, she could consider it as completing the system's main mission.
What Nan Wusi is more concerned about now is the completion of the main quest announced by the Xiao Ba system after the opening of Nan's Gold and Silver Shop today. It also rewards him with 1,000 beauty points, activates the exquisite face, and activates the skin care and cosmetics section of the system shop.
Then a new main quest was added, which was to open a beauty store.
Nan Wusi had anticipated this, since beauty stores were definitely a must-have according to the system's pattern, so she had been waiting for this day.
You know, ancient cosmetics were really difficult to use. Not only were they hard to apply color to, but the variety was also quite limited. Every time she changed a customer's makeup, she wanted to give them a good scolding.
Besides these, more importantly, ancient cosmetics were indeed poisonous. Long-term use would be very harmful to one's health, so she rarely used them.
Every time she sees her customers with thick layers of makeup on their faces, she wants to advise them not to, but she doesn't know how to explain it, so she can only give up. The only thing she can do is to complete her main quest as soon as possible and then unlock the main quest of opening a beauty store so as to benefit the public.
This main quest is easy for Nan Wusi to complete now, because she had taken over three shops in total. Two of them are now jewelry shops, and she decorated the other one in the style of a cosmetics shop.
Because the cosmetics shop needed many mirrors, Nanwusi went to find the craftsman who made the bronze mirrors for Mengyifang.
This time, the mirrors don't need to be as large, but the quantity needed is large, so it's another big project, and it's expected to take another month to complete.
However, this is just right, as Nan Wusi is currently short of money. If she were to open the business immediately, she estimated that she wouldn't even have enough beauty points to buy products from the mall.
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