Chapter 1504 Wei Ronghua
When she reached the entrance of the Red Fragrant Cake shop, Shu Yu paused and began to walk more slowly.
Yingxi stood to her left, supporting her as she hesitated at the doorway, her voice neither loud nor soft, "Mother, the pastries in this pastry shop look quite expensive. Are we really going to buy them here?"
As soon as she said this, the people inside naturally heard it.
Upon seeing a woman in her thirties and a teenage girl standing at the door, and noticing their clothing, the waiter closest to them immediately frowned and looked at them warily.
However, the other two shop assistants who were waiting for customers saw this and wanted to come forward.
But when she saw the look in the shopkeeper's eyes, she stopped and pretended not to see him, continuing to talk to the customers inside the shop.
Shu Yu and Ying Xi observed the actions of the three employees. They exchanged a glance. Was it a bit redundant to have three employees in such a small shop?
Shu Yu coughed lightly and said, "Your sister is getting married, so we should buy some good pastries to entertain the guests. I heard that this pastry shop is quite delicious. Let's go in and ask."
He was about to step forward when he was stopped by the waiter at the door.
"Stop right there, ma'am. Our pastries aren't cheap. If you can't afford them, you'd better not come in, lest you scare the other customers."
He couldn't stop Shu Yu and the other person from standing at the door, unsure if they would come in. Now that they had one foot inside, he naturally stepped forward and blocked them.
Shu Yu looked at the waiter in front of her, and was about to say something when a middle-aged man hurriedly walked in from inside.
The middle-aged man glared at the shop assistant, then turned to Shu Yu and smiled, "Come in, sister-in-law, take a look around. We have a wide variety of pastries. Please feel free to choose whichever flavor you like."
Shu Yu pointed to the waiter next to her and whispered, "But he just said..."
“What he said doesn’t count. I’m the manager here, and I can make the decision.”
Shu Yu sized up the man in front of her; it seemed this was Wei Ronghua.
Upon their first meeting, Shu Yu confirmed the contents of Master Miao's letter.
Mr. Miao said that this pastry shop was originally an unknown little shop with a limited selection. It only started to improve after Wei Ronghua became the manager, and the number of repeat customers gradually increased.
However, after the old boss passed away, the new boss had different ideas from Wei Ronghua.
Especially in the past few months, a batch of a new type of pastry in the shop was ordered by the county magistrate's wife to be used for a banquet, thanks to Wei Ronghua's efforts. The pastry shop received praise from a distinguished guest at the banquet, and the shop became an instant success.
With this success, the new owner intends to raise the price of the pastries.
If he had only raised the price of the pastry that the magistrate's wife ate, that would have been fine. But he wanted to raise the price of all the pastries in the pastry shop and only do business with the rich.
What he wanted to do was raise the overall value of the pastry shop.
But Wei Ronghua felt it was inappropriate, at least not now.
The new owner had a falling out with him and soon installed a trusted subordinate in the shop.
Based on what just happened, the guy who chased them away must be one of the new owner's trusted subordinates, right?
This guy really implemented the new owner's measures very thoroughly—only doing business with the rich and driving the poor out.
Shu Yu dressed up like this specifically because she read this part of Master Miao's letter, wanting to verify whether it was true or not.
(End of this chapter)
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