Chapter 289: On Sale
For ordinary people, a night is just a blink of an eye, but for Shopkeeper Li, Shopkeeper Wang and others, it feels like a year.
After tossing and turning all night, Manager Wang finally waited for the sky to turn light. He quickly got up and went downstairs. At the corner of the stairs, he met Manager Li who was also preparing to go out.
The two of them glanced at each other and understood each other's plan. Shopkeeper Wang quickly reached out and grabbed Shopkeeper Li: "Shopkeeper Li, keep your voice down. Let's go outside the city first."
Cui Qingyi also got up early, but her current identity was not really suitable for appearing in the warehouse. It was not that she looked down on merchants, but her identity was actually more suitable for sitting behind the scenes.
Although she couldn't show up at the warehouse to greet the guests in person, Cui Qingyi still took Konjac and others out of the city after breakfast. They sat in a private room by the window of Hongyan Teahouse. They could see what was happening at the warehouse by opening the window.
Knowing that today was the first time that the goods from Luhua Town were sold to the outside world, Konjac felt that he was even more nervous than her daughter. As soon as he entered the private room, he stared at the warehouse without blinking.
"Girl, there's already someone guarding the warehouse door this early."
Cui Qingyi was not surprised at all. Last night, Yangmei and several managers of the caravan came to her house and told her about what happened when the caravan entered the city today. She knew that several familiar shopkeepers were guarding the caravan and were going to take away all the goods.
It had been a long time since I last came to the teahouse. While the warehouse was still closed, Cui Qingyi called the teahouse owner to question him.
"What's going on with the Yunlai Teahouse? Why didn't they send a letter to Luhua Town?"
The shopkeeper saw that his boss looked unhappy, and he felt a little uneasy. "Yunlai Teahouse opened two months ago. Because it was opened in the city, there was no conflict with our teahouse at first, so I didn't take it seriously.
Later, a regular customer of our teahouse told me that Yunlai Teahouse had also hired an opera troupe.
Speaking of the opera troupe in Yunlai Teahouse, the owner was also very angry. Before he became the owner, he was a scholar who paid great attention to propriety, righteousness, integrity and shame. He had never seen people as shameless as those in Yunlai Teahouse.
"After hearing what the customers said, I went to the Yunlai Teahouse and found that the Miao Family Troupe was no different from our Jiang Family Troupe except for the singers. Isn't this obviously stealing? Troupe Master Jiang was so worried about this that he couldn't sleep for several days."
After hearing this, Cui Qingyi turned to look at Konjac. Konjac smiled and stuck out his tongue: "Don't blame me, girl. I wanted to tell you about this when I went to Luhua Town, but you were vomiting so badly at the time that I didn't tell you for fear that you would get anxious and angry."
Cui Qingyi's expression was serious: "This is just the first time, it won't happen again."
Although it is for her own good, in order to prevent her from being kept in the dark about bigger things happening in the future, what needs to be said still needs to be said.
Konjac raised his hand and swore, "This won't happen again."
"What can the owner do about the Yunlai Inn?"
The shopkeeper was a little embarrassed: "Boss, everyone in the county knows that our Hongyan Teahouse is doing good business, but because the teahouse is your property, no one dares to do the same thing as us openly, but some people also learn from us in private.
But that was just to find one or two musicians to open a small hall to sing. Yunlai Teahouse was the first of its kind.
I felt something was amiss, so I sent someone to investigate Mr. Yun Sanye. They discovered he was from the capital, but their identity and background were unknown."
Cui Qingyi raised an eyebrow. "People from the capital came all the way to Dongping County just to open a teahouse exactly like ours?"
Konjac had previously thought that someone was just jealous of the Hongyan Teahouse's business, but after hearing what Cui Qingyi and the shopkeeper were saying, he realized, "Is this person coming for us?"
The shopkeeper's face turned grim. If he was trying to steal the business, it would be fine. Everyone would just rely on their own abilities. But if someone dared to come and cause trouble knowing the village chief's identity, then this person must have some status behind him.
Cui Qingyi tapped her fingers lightly on the table and thought for a while before saying, "Go and tell Boss Jiang to stop the performances in the teahouse for half a month. I'll think about when to reopen them."
The shopkeeper was stunned when he heard that the show was going to be stopped. You know, apart from tea, the biggest source of income for Hongyan Teahouse every day comes from the Jiang family troupe. If the Jiang family troupe is asked to stop the show, and if it is stopped for half a month, the loss will be huge.
But seeing the boss's expression that didn't allow any objection, the shopkeeper had no choice but to do as he was told.
Konjac also didn't understand why Cui Qingyi wanted to stop the show: "Miss, by doing this, you're playing into the hands of those villains. I'm afraid all the regular customers who like to listen to opera in the teahouse will run away in the next two weeks."
Konjac's worries were not without reason, but Cui Qingyi was not anxious at all. She said calmly, "We are now doing a unique business, and Yunlai Inn is not the only smart person in the world.
In the past, everyone kept things to themselves because they didn't want to create animosity with us. If we stopped singing in our building, but Yunlai Teahouse was still crowded with customers every day, what do you think others would do?"
Cui Qingyi still had great confidence in the bosses and shopkeepers in Dongping County. After all, people had come to her to make trouble just because she had opened a baking class in the girls' school. It made no sense that she would now watch outsiders making money without being tempted.
Konjac still didn't understand, but Cui Qingyi didn't have time to explain it to her because firecrackers were being set off at the warehouse.
Yang Mei and several managers of the caravan stood in front of the warehouse. After a burst of crackling firecrackers, the warehouse door opened.
A clear aroma of wine with the fragrance of grain overflowed and drifted to everyone's nose.
Shopkeeper Wang exclaimed, "Wine, is that wine?"
When it comes to wine, anyone who knows about it can tell whether it’s good or bad just by smelling it, not to mention people like Manager Wang who hang around the wine table all year round, whose noses are like those of spirits.
These people know the market for good wine very well.
"No matter how much you have, I want them all, I want them all!" Shopkeeper Wang opened his arms, trying to block the merchants who were looking inside from behind him.
Shopkeeper Li pushed away Shopkeeper Wang's arm and rushed into the warehouse first, waiting to take in the entire container. Shopkeeper Li's eyes lit up instantly.
There were rows of uniquely shaped wine bottles neatly arranged on a small container. Even the delicate-looking shopkeeper Li didn't dare to touch them. Of course, he couldn't touch them even if he wanted to, because there were people from Luhua Town standing in front of the container.
"Shopkeeper, this is our Luhua Town's new Luhua Bai, a sweet and mellow wine. Please try it."
Before Shopkeeper Li could react, a small wine glass was handed to him on a tray. Shopkeeper Li smelled the aroma of the wine, grabbed it and poured it into his mouth in a daze.
The person in charge of reception prepared a high-concentration liquor, which had a refreshing fragrance and a spicy taste. Only one sip was enough to let anyone who tasted it know its value.
Shopkeeper Li shouted, "Good wine!"
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