Chapter 194 Signing the Second Shop
Looking at Lou Qianqian and Luo Jinqiu, Xue Yinyin asked, "Sister Zhiyi, who are they? What are their names?"
Xu Zhiyi introduced: "Lou Qianqian, Aunt Luo, you are the owner of the shop I will open in the future."
"Hello, my name is Xue Yinyin."
Luo Jinqiu smiled and nodded in response, Lou Qianqian smiled and greeted: "Miss Xue"
Xue Yinyin nodded in agreement, then looked at Xu Zhiyi in surprise: "Sister Zhiyi, you want to open a shop? But a pastry shop?"
"No, I'm planning to open a clothing store. I just rented this grocery store!"
"Sister Zhiyi, are you going to open a clothing store? The cakes you make are delicious and novel. Now many cake shops or cooks in wealthy families want to learn from you, but they just can't make the same as you."
"So, Sister Zhiyi, if you open a pastry shop, the business will definitely be very good."
Xu Zhiyi: "How do you know other shops are learning this?"
"I know a few girls whose families run pastry shops. They said..."
"Is that so? But I really want to open another shop to sell cakes, but I haven't started looking for a shop yet."
Xue Yinyin heard this and took Xu Zhiyi's arm and said, "Sister Zhiyi, come find me! I have a shop, my future dowry shop, and I'm planning to rent it out now. It's on East Street."
"East Street? What a coincidence? Aunt Luo said there's a shop for rent on East Street. Could it be yours?"
"Ah? That's possible. This is the shop my father gave me, but I don't know how to run a business, so I can only rent it out first and I'll make plans later."
Xu Zhiyi: "Then get on the mule cart and take me to have a look. But let's make it clear first, the rent for your shop is how much silver you want. Don't deliberately lower the price to me just because of our relationship. If you do that, I won't agree."
"We are friends in private, but we still have to figure out the money. No matter how good our friends are, if we can't figure out the money, our friendship won't last long."
Xue Yinyin lowered her head in embarrassment when Xu Zhiyi hit the nail on the head. She had just thought about it and planned to only ask for half of Sister Zhiyi's rent! She didn't expect that this plan would be ruined!
Several people came to the shop that Xie Yinyin mentioned. Luo Jinqiu looked at the shop in front of him and said in surprise: "This is the shop I visited the day before yesterday."
Xu Zhiyi: "I didn't expect that I was right!"
Xue Yinyin: "Have you seen it? But it doesn't matter, I will accompany you to watch it carefully again, let's go in"
As he said this, he took out the key from his purse and went over to open the shop door.
Everyone followed him in and saw a lobby the size of two rooms. The backyard was quite large with two rooms and a kitchen. There was even a small well next to the yard.
Xue Yinyin explained: "Before my father handed this shop to me, it was a food business, so they dug a well in the yard for convenient water use."
Xu Zhiyi saw that the yard was big enough and the kitchen was big enough. If he wanted to make bread, cakes and other pastries, a kiln would be indispensable. So this big kitchen or yard would be more than enough!
"Sister Xue, I am very satisfied with your shop. I will rent it. How much is it per month? Just tell me the truth."
Xue Yinyin had no choice but to tell the truth when she heard this: "It's two taels and two hundred coins a month. I'm telling the absolute truth!"
When Xu Zhiyi heard this, he looked at Luo Jinqiu, and seeing her nod slightly, he immediately realized that Xue Yinyin was not lying.
Afterwards, both parties went through the necessary procedures and signed the deed. They had originally planned to pay one year's rent, but Xue Yinyin insisted that they would only pay one month's rent first and the rest could be paid later.
Seeing that it was lunch time, Xu Zhiyi decided to host the lunch and invite everyone to have lunch at the restaurant.
Several people ate and chatted about how they planned to renovate the shop, but Shen Changan and Shen Wuyou just accompanied them silently and did not participate at all. They listened to their wives in everything and let her make the decision.
After the meal, everyone said goodbye. Xu Zhiyi went home with two shop deeds and a business cooperation deed in his pocket. He was in a good mood as he was one step closer to his goal of making a lot of money.
When Su saw the three people coming back, she hurried to the kitchen to heat up the food.
Xu Zhiyi held her back and said, "Mom, I just came back after having lunch in town."
"Mom, I have something great to tell you today. A few days ago I told you that Su Ji Lou wanted to discuss business with us, didn't I? The deal has been concluded today."
Su heard this and covered her mouth in surprise, eyes full of disbelief: "Really? Then we can have a big business every day, right?"
"Yes! Mom, there are two more big news. I have rented two shops, a pastry shop and a clothing shop. We can open the shops and do business soon!"
When Su heard this, she was so shocked that she couldn't speak: "What? Two...two...shops?"
Xu Zhiyi nodded: "Yes! We can ask the craftsmen to help start the construction of one tomorrow!"
After Su recovered, she pulled Xu Zhiyi and said worriedly, "Zhiyi! We opened two shops at once, and a clothing shop, which is something we have never done before. What if...ah..."
"Mom, don't worry. I've thought about this many times. I'm not doing this without any idea. I have planned it all out in my mind!"
Hearing this, Su thought about these days and realized that she was not a fool. She felt relieved: "Well, as long as you have your own plan, I know you have your own ideas. Anyway, if you want me to do something, just tell me. I can only support you with physical work."
Xu Zhiyi: "Mom, I promise, I will run these two shops well."
Su: "Zhiyi, we are planning to put up the beams for the house. Everyone has finished their work in the fields these days. If everyone helps, the roof will be ready in about six or seven days!"
"So I discussed it with a few other families, and decided to move there on a certain date, and then have a banquet together on that day."
"Then let's do it!"
"I'm going to town tomorrow and I'll check on the progress of the furniture I ordered! Last time I told the carpenter to finish the bed first, and the other furniture can be put off until later."
As he was talking, he suddenly remembered that he had made enough fertilizer for the past few days! He took a small hoe and knocked off the hardened mud on the surface, revealing the fertilizer that had solidified into a ball inside.
Xu Zhiyi looked at the homemade fertilizer with surprise. Although it was not as pure as modern chemical industrial products, it was much better than animal manure in ancient times, and animal manure was not available every day.
There were also people who would carry baskets on their backs and go out on the road every day to pick up animal dung. If they didn’t need it themselves, they could sell it to others and earn a few copper coins.
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