Chapter 211 Buying a New Shop
Xie Wanniang and Xiaomei took turns watching over the child for three days and two nights. The child's fever finally subsided without any serious complications. His previously inflamed wounds also gradually showed signs of improvement thanks to the combined efforts of acupuncture, herbal decoction, and medicinal powder from the two of them.
At this point, Xie Wanniang and Xiaomei had finally pulled the child back from the brink of death.
No longer needing to watch over him every day, Xie Wanniang sent Xiaomei, whose eyes were dark, back home to rest for two days. Then she handed over the task of delivering the child's three meals a day and medicine, as well as taking care of his daily life, to Granny Wu and Granny Lu, who had volunteered for the job.
They continued to do their jobs as usual, without putting them off because of taking care of the children.
Seeing that they were working so hard, getting up early and working late, Xie Wanniang gave them extra money for taking care of the children.
Originally, Granny Wu and Granny Lu only wanted to make a good impression on their master and leave a good impression on Xie Wan Niang. However, they were pleasantly surprised by this unexpected joy and became even more grateful to Xie Wan Niang.
The two women were already very diligent in their work, and now, with the tempting clinking of copper coins hanging in front of them, they worked even harder.
After all, at their age, they are no longer easily fooled by a few nice words. No matter how sweet the words of the master are, it is not as good as giving them more copper coins so that they can slowly save up some money for their retirement.
Xie Wanniang was unaware that they were becoming increasingly grateful to her because of this, nor did she know that the other rough-and-ready women were already green with envy. She sent the eight children to Hao Yu's house and asked him to teach them martial arts and manners.
Of course, like everyone else, she also paid tuition to these eight people in a proper manner.
Hao Yu and Chen Shi declined repeatedly—their family's martial arts school had almost become a private academy for Xie Wan Niang's subordinates, and it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that Xie Wan Niang was supporting their entire family.
At first, the couple was only slightly embarrassed, but as Xie Wanniang brought more and more people, they couldn't help but feel restless and unable to eat or sleep.
They felt as if their family was being supported by Xie Wanniang with money.
However, Xie Wanniang had a different opinion. In her view, she gave the money because Hao Yu was working hard to train her people. It was a mutually beneficial transaction, and there was no question of personal favors involved.
She didn't feel that Hao Yu's family owed her any favors.
The couple tried their best to reason with her, but no matter what they said, Xie Wanniang would refute them one by one with clear and logical arguments.
After a long back-and-forth, Hao Yu and Chen Shi were finally persuaded by Xie Wan Niang.
So, following the orphans of the fallen soldiers, Hao Yu took on another batch of disciples from Xie Wanniang.
Hao Yu thus gained a large sum of money, but the orphans of the fallen soldiers felt a strong sense of crisis due to the addition of the newcomers.
Xie Wanniang was a good employer. She not only paid them well but also treated them with sincerity. They wanted to serve Xie Wanniang for the rest of their lives.
Therefore, all of them who were sent by Xie Wanniang to Hao Yu to learn martial arts had a goal in mind—once they had mastered their skills, they would join Xie Wanniang's guard team.
Just like those who weren't particularly talented in martial arts but excelled in literacy, arithmetic, cooking, pharmacology, embroidery, sewing, and tailoring, they all put in their best effort to become the manager, accountant, shop assistant, cook, tailor, embroiderer, etc., in Xie Wanniang's shop.
They originally thought that their only competitors were each other, but now it seems that their previous thinking was far too naive.
The fact that Xie Wanniang bought people from the matchmaker made them belatedly realize that Xie Wanniang could actually recruit people through many channels.
Knowing that Xie Wanniang disliked the infighting among her subordinates, none of these teenagers dared to step forward and ostracize the eight newcomers. However, when they trained, it was as if they were competing with the eight newcomers.
Hao Yu saw it all, but said nothing, after all, it was a good thing for the children to have a competitive spirit.
Xie Wanniang, who knew nothing about this, was busy with the newly purchased shop.
On the third day after the child's condition stabilized, the broker found Xie Wanniang and told her that she could go and look at the shop.
Xie Wanniang not only demanded that the newly purchased shop not be too far from her residence and her restaurants and clothing stores, but also that the newly purchased shop must have a small courtyard with two or three courtyards.
The broker spent a little time helping her gather information; otherwise, he wouldn't have delayed for several days before coming to talk to Xie Wanniang about it.
Led by the broker, Xie Wanniang looked at three shops in total. In the end, she chose the one with the smallest storefront, the worst location, and of course, the cheapest price.
This shop is close to her restaurants and clothing stores, but it is located at the end of a relatively quiet street. Not only is the storefront slightly smaller than the other shops, but it also always has poor business no matter what it sells because of the lack of foot traffic.
That's why the shop owner wanted to sell the shop. After all, he was losing money doing business there, and if he rented it to someone else, they would also lose money and quickly choose to sublet it to another prime location.
I don't need it myself, and no one will rent it out, so it's better to just sell it and get rid of it altogether.
Perhaps because his shop was notorious for losing money no matter what he did, he asked for a very low price when he sold the shop.
After inspecting the shop, Xie Wanniang realized that it could actually be revitalized with some effort, so she decisively bought it.
The broker was surprised that Xie Wanniang would still choose to buy the shop after hearing about its situation. He wanted to remind her a second time, but then he thought that this girl was not the kind of naive young lady who was raised in seclusion and had little business experience. Her restaurants and clothing stores were all thriving, making her competitors green with envy every day.
He said what he needed to say, and that's enough that he upheld his bottom line and professional ethics as a dentist. As for how the other person chooses to proceed, that's their own business.
Having figured this out, the broker readily led Xie Wanniang to pay the money and exchange it for a red contract.
After parting ways with the broker, Xie Wanniang had her guards find the bricklayer she had previously worked with.
The man was recommended to her by a servant of the Chang family. She used him twice and thought he was a very good person, so she planned to continue working for him in the future.
After discussing the shop's renovation requirements with the other party, and agreeing on the price and the start and completion dates, Xie Wanniang took the contract written by Haitang and confirmed that there were no omissions or errors in any of the terms before she and the other party signed and pressed their fingerprints to formally conclude the contract.
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