Chapter 441 Help
Yang Qiushi waved his hand and said, "There is no such thing as right or wrong in this world. Juanjuan, if you don't agree, I will move out and you don't have to call me Master anymore!"
Take the six drugstores in Shanghai for example. He said that they were looked after by a distant nephew of his. However, he had been in the countryside for so many years and this nephew had never come to see him once, and had never even received a letter from him.
Blood ties are unreliable, and Xia Juanjuan and Li Zhan have no obligation to support him in his old age.
Xia Juanjuan felt amused and helpless after hearing this. She thought for a moment and said, "Master, let me tell you this. If you really trust me, I will help you run these pharmacies first, but the ownership will still belong to you. When the pharmacies are profitable, you can pay me a salary. What do you think?"
Yang Qiushi heard this and knew the characters of Xia Juanjuan and Li Zhan. He was afraid that they would not easily agree to these stores. After all, Juanjuan already had two stores and a big restaurant. He was also familiar with Li Zhan's parents. Their family background was not less than his, and they would not covet his family property.
Therefore, he nodded and said, "That's fine. However, the three stores given to the triplets are a gift from me as a grandfather, so you are not allowed to refuse."
Xia Juanjuan smiled and said, "Okay, then we won't refuse. It will still be called Yang's Pharmacy in the future, and it won't change."
In addition to the five pharmacies in Beijing and the six in Shanghai, there are two in Guangzhou, one in Kunming in Yunnan Province, and two in Nanming in Jiangsu Province.
There are many medicinal herbs in Yunnan Province, so there is a collection and transportation center for medicinal herbs in Kun City. There is also a large medicinal herb planting base in Kun City, but it has been used to grow vegetables and grains for many years and has become abandoned.
Yang Qiushi has no time to take care of these for the time being, and plans to open the five stores in Beijing first.
Xia Juanjuan then found someone to renovate the store first.
She had an idea in her mind and went to find Li Jie.
After talking to Zhou Qiuhe about whether they were interested in coming to Beijing, Li Zhan went to ask the school. After some effort, the school agreed to accept transfer students from outside.
As for the letter of introduction that Li Jie and Zhou Qiuhe wrote when they came to Beijing, they wrote that they were coming to visit relatives.
There is no way to solve the household registration problem immediately, but as long as I stay in Beijing and think about it slowly, it will be fine. There is no need to rush.
Li Zhan then went over and talked to Li Jie again.
Li Jie thought about it and finally decided to move his family to Beijing for the sake of his children.
Therefore, Zhou Qiuhe has now resigned and is in charge of the store in the county town.
Li Jie now has some spare time.
Last time, I asked Li Jie to help renovate the store in the county town.
This time, Xia Juanjuan also found Li Jie and asked him to find a few people to help.
The decoration of the pharmacy was not difficult. Xia Juanjuan even drew a schematic diagram for Li Jie for reference. Xia Juanjuan did not have bricks and cement in her space, so she had to buy them. However, she had all kinds of wood, such as the shelves for storing medicinal materials, tables and chairs, etc., which could all be made by asking a carpenter.
The carpenter was not good at his job, so Xia Juanjuan found another carpenter.
But Li Jie can definitely do the job of painting the baseboards. Since we have to find someone to pay the wages anyway, we might as well ask Li Jie.
However, Xia Juanjuan also told the ugly story at the beginning: "Third brother, we are relatives, but in business, if the decoration does not meet my requirements, then I will not show mercy, and I will definitely let third brother rework it."
Li Jie nodded solemnly and said, "Juanjuan, don't worry. Third Brother will definitely take responsibility and do a good job."
He is sincere, but not stupid either. He naturally knows that Xia Juanjuan is helping him.
In this part of the capital city, if you were looking for someone to build walls, paint walls, and decorate, you would find many skilled craftsmen at all times, but Xia Juanjuan still gave him all the projects for so many rooms, wasn't it just to help him?
The renovation of a shop takes about a month, and Xia Juanjuan gave a renovation fee of 600 yuan for each shop - this amount was paid by Xia Juanjuan, but Yang Qiushi also took out a few antiques and asked Xia Juanjuan to exchange money for the renovation.
Xia Juanjuan originally declined, but Yang Qiushi insisted on paying for it himself, so Xia Juanjuan had no choice but to put the antiques into the space.
On Li Jie's side, apart from the expenses for purchasing materials such as cement, lime, and bricks, as well as the wages of the few workers he brought over, he could still make an income of about 100 or 200 yuan.
Add to that the two or three hundred yuan a month in revenue from the store in the county town, his family can make three or four hundred yuan a month!
In that era, this was a profit that most people could not even imagine!
Naturally, do your best.
Xia Juanjuan's restaurant now makes a profit of about one thousand yuan per month. The clothing store depends on the season, but generally can maintain a profit of four or five hundred yuan. Xia Shuangshan and Lin Yuru's salty food store is still maintaining its profit, with a profit of about one hundred yuan per month. The snack bar in the county town makes about two or three hundred yuan. All calculated together, it makes a profit of about two thousand yuan per month.
The other part is that I get the goods from Chen Rongsheng and let Dahei help sell them. The profit from this is not small, about seven or eight hundred.
Therefore, she was able to maintain her cash flow by renovating each pharmacy one by one.
However, she is really busy. She has to balance her studies and go to the stores from time to time. The ingredients used in the restaurants and brine shops, as well as Zhou Qiuhe's store in the county town and her own store, are all taken out of her space, so now she still has to replenish them personally.
Fortunately, there is someone watching over each store, so you don’t have to do it yourself.
The restaurant has Qi Jia'an as a consultant, who visits from time to time. The chefs in the back of the kitchen all give face to Qi Jia'an. Xia Juanjuan also promoted a manager who did a good job to be the front of house manager. Now smaller matters can be handled directly.
Qi Ningyu is mainly in charge of the clothing store.
The salty restaurant is run by Xia Shuangshan and Lin Yuru, but recently Chunyan has also been asked to help out.
Chunyan learned literacy and arithmetic at night school. She was smart and willing to learn, so she was able to help with the accounting and collecting money.
Chen Qi and Wu Feng are also looking after the snack bar in the county town.
As for electrical appliances and sundries, Dahei is now fully responsible for the final sales.
In fact, each store has developed smoothly without any major setbacks.
But even so, it is tiring enough.
Seeing her working non-stop, Lizhan massaged her shoulders and said distressedly, "You're working too hard. You even have to calculate your sleeping time every day. If there are things that can be done by subordinates, let them do it. Otherwise, you'll get sick from all the work."
Xia Juanjuan cried out in comfort, then sighed and said, "Well... there are just too few people who can be used. Now I have to set up the five pharmacies of Master first, otherwise I will not be worthy of Master's trust. After I finish this period of work, I will spend more time with you and the children."
Li Zhan smiled and said, "When you have time, just rest at home. Don't think too much."
Xia Juanjuan felt very comfortable during the massage. She fell asleep while talking and only said vaguely: "Hmm..."
Seeing her like this, Lizhan eased up his technique, covered her with the quilt, and fell asleep in her arms.
The first drugstore was renovated very quickly and now mainly sells Chinese medicinal materials, but there is also a counter for Western medicine, selling some over-the-counter medicines for treating colds, digestion, etc.
It is easier to obtain Chinese medicinal materials. Xia Juanjuan grows them herself in her space, and some are also grown in Qingshui Village. Western medicine is relatively difficult to obtain.
Now, Baiyao in Yunnan Province has been established for less than ten years, and Harbin Pharmaceutical has been established for less than three years, and there is a shortage of medicines in all parts of the country.
The western medicine in Xia Juanjuan's space would definitely be reported if it was sold out, unless the outer packaging was destroyed, so it could only be sold on the black market and could not be sold in the pharmacy.
However, these are not a big problem. As the country develops, Western medicine will be easier to buy than Chinese medicine.
Xia Juanjuan decided to formally establish a transport team.
The ingredients of each hotel must be kept fresh, so she still takes them out from the space personally.
However, in the future, except for the herbs she took out from the space to replenish the five herbal medicine shops, there would be no need for her to be a porter herself for the other herbs purchased from Qingshui Village or other places.
There is also clothing. She still buys clothes from Guangzhou because the journey is too far, but now she regularly entrusts the garment workshop of the county textile factory to help make clothes. In the future, the raw materials will be transported there, and the finished products will be transported back to Beijing. For these short-distance transportations, Xia Juanjuan plans to hire a transport team.
Of course, in addition to transporting their own goods, they can also do business for other merchants or individual businesses, and even public work, so that they can also earn other income.
Xia Juanjuan had also thought about the candidates for the transport team.
Li Jie and Wu Feng.
Both of them had trained in Luocheng and learned how to drive a truck.
Although there is a suspicion that they are trying to dig into Luocheng's corner, Luocheng's activities in the past two years have been around Guangzhou and Shanghai, and it has not made much layout in Beijing. Since Lijie and Wu Feng have their families here, they only have occasional opportunities to go out and work.
Therefore, it was not too unethical for her to seek out Li Jie and Wu Feng.
However, before you can build a transport fleet, you first need trucks.
Although there is no restriction on individuals buying trucks after the liberalization, a Dongfeng truck, with a base price of 20,000 to 30,000 yuan, may be more expensive than buying a courtyard house now!
This is obviously not a price that an individual business owner can afford, so even if it is liberalized, the buyers will generally still be large state-owned enterprises.
But this is not a problem for Xia Juanjuan.
Who told her that there was just enough space for a small truck?
When I prepared it, I bought it according to the appearance of this age, so judging from the appearance alone, there will definitely be no flaws.
Li Jie was still busy renovating the medicine shop, but when Xia Juanjuan suggested setting up a short-distance transport team, Li Jie readily agreed.
Wu Feng naturally had nothing to say either.
Xia Juanjuan went to the county town and handed the truck to Wu Feng. All the travel procedures and letters of introduction were naturally completed.
The things that can be used recently are the winter coats processed by the textile factory and sent to Beijing, and the Chinese medicine from the first pharmacy, which need to be collected in Qingshui Village and then transported to Beijing.
The variety of medicinal herbs in Qingshui Village was not complete, so Xia Juanjuan supplemented some commonly used varieties from the space.
When the first pharmacy opened, Yang Qiushi, as the boss, looked at the antique wooden shelves that were so high that they reached the beams of the house. The name of Chinese medicine was engraved on the outside of each small drawer. When he opened them, he saw the processed herbs lying quietly inside. The whole shop was filled with the familiar aroma of medicine in his memory. He couldn't help but be so excited that tears flowed.
After more than a decade, Yang's pharmacy finally came back to life. How could he not be excited?
Xia Juanjuan came over with a smile to comfort him: "Master, don't get too excited. There are four more pharmacies to open in the back."
Yang Qiushi quickly raised his sleeves to wipe away his tears and said, "I'm not excited at all, you're wrong!"
Xia Juanjuan smiled and said, "Okay, okay, I was wrong..."
However, from then on, Yang Qiushi would occasionally bring Xiaowen, Xiaowu, Beibei and the triplets over to teach them to read medical books and memorize the names and properties of medicinal herbs. However, the focus was still on the triplets, and he really treated them as his future heirs.
Xiaowen, Xiaowu and Beibei are fine. They have grown up, have good self-control, and can study obediently on time.
The triplets are at the age where they like to have fun, so how could they be willing to sit down and memorize lessons?
As a result, the triplets were so sneaky when they entered the house, for fear that they would be caught by Grandpa Yang and taken away to study.
Xia Juanjuan and Li Zhan did not stop it either.
Yang Qiushi's knowledge is there. The young guys may not know how useful it is now, but they will definitely benefit greatly from it in the future.
Moreover, Yang Qiushi didn't force the triplets to learn every day.
Lizhan and Xia Juanjuan left the battle of wits and courage between the grandfather and grandchildren.
When Rong Zhenbang and Shen Wanxue saw that their grandchildren were sent to study by Yang Qiushi, they knew they couldn't lose and joined the battle for the triplets.
Seeing this situation, Li Zhan and Xia Juanjuan quickly called the three elders over and held a serious meeting. They decided how much time each week the children could be taught. Within this time frame, they were allowed to compete with each other.
The remaining time is also guaranteed for them to play.
Xia Juanjuan thinks that children should have a happy childhood, and there is no point in working so hard to raise a baby.
Soon the final exams were over and winter vacation arrived.
This time, Xia Juanjuan did not let Chen Lu leave immediately. She asked her to stay at her home for a few days and then leave with her, Xia Shuangshan and Lin Yuru.
Although Chen Lu felt a little awkward in getting along so directly with her future in-laws, she thought about how Yan Haotian had been helping her parents with housework and changing the gas, and was like a half-son to them. She should also get familiar with her future in-laws first, so she agreed.
After staying there for a few days, Zhou Qiuhe entrusted the store to Li Jie's eldest sister Li Zhaodi to look after it for a while, and also asked Chen Qi to help look after it when she had nothing to do. Then she came to Beijing and went to Guangzhou with Xia Juanjuan and others.