Chapter 61 Chapter 61 The new store can be opened after cleaning...
Ning Shaoming had never done business before, and he didn't know if selling fried rice noodles would work: "How about we give it a try first?"
Zhao Ruyue thought he wanted to try selling at the market first: "You still have to deal with the work on the homestead, can you handle the trial selling at the stall?"
Ning Shaoming explained: "It's not a trial sale. I want to sell the ingredients tomorrow morning and make a meal for the people who help with the work at the homestead to try at noon to see if they can accept it."
Those who help out at the homestead are all locals, and they can basically represent the tastes of most local people.
If they think the food is delicious, they will take it home and eat it with their family a few times. They will soon help promote the products that his family wants to sell, and it won’t be long before people in the town know about it.
"Let's wait a little longer, until the house is almost ready for move-in and opening of the store, then let them try the food. After all, this isn't that difficult for people who can cook." Zhao Ruyue was worried that someone might get there first.
She is not afraid that after she starts selling fried rice noodles, other rice noodle shops in the town will follow suit.
She has confidence in Ning Shaoming's cooking skills, and the customers' tastes are not in vain. If they have the same food and the same price, they can tell whose food tastes better.
Zhao Ruyue was only worried that someone else would use the money to make money ahead of time, while her own house was not completed, and she had no way to compete with others.
Ning Shaoming was a little worried: "If the feedback is not good, will it take time to change something else?"
Zhao Ruyue said: "What's the big deal? We use our own house to open the store, and we don't have to pay rent. If the business fails, we still have land to farm, and we won't go hungry due to debt."
"Okay, I'll speed up the construction as soon as possible. Now the general framework has been completed. You can go over and see how the store will be arranged in the future when you have time. You can also ask the carpenter to make tables, chairs and counters for the store."
The wood that was cut down recently cannot be used to make furniture. After the wood that Zhao Ruyue had selected was cut down, she had to exchange it with others for wood that had been dried.
If you were to exchange wet, freshly cut wood with someone else, it would definitely not be a one-to-one exchange.
But she went back to her parents' home to exchange it with her family, and they didn't ask for much.
The wood we exchanged for, together with some wood that my parents-in-law had saved in advance for their son who was willing to use the vacant land, was just enough to make furniture for the home and tables, chairs, and counters in the store.
The next day after the wood arrived, Zhao Ruyue immediately went to measure the dimensions of the new house which had already been built.
Then he went straight to find a carpenter to make tables, chairs and counters for the store.
"Are you making a chair or a table?" the town carpenter pointed to the size drawing she gave him and asked, "Are the dimensions correct? It looks like a long chair, but the dimensions are wrong!"
"No, you can just follow the dimensions I gave you. I want to make a long table against the wall so that more people can sit."
A rice noodle shop is not a milk tea shop. Most customers wipe their mouths after eating and rush to the market. They don’t mind sharing a table with others. Putting this kind of long table in the store can maximize the use of space.
A store in town that is about the same size as hers can only accommodate four tables at most, and five if they squeeze in.
But with the arrangement she made, after placing the two long tables and reducing the area of the normal tables a little bit, she was still able to place four tables.
“The shops in this town don’t sell tables like this…” the carpenter muttered in confusion, but it did not delay his work at all, nor did he pretend to obey.
Anyway, he has confirmed with Zhao Ruyue that he will make it according to the dimensions of the drawing given, so it will not be his problem if it cannot be used.
Zhao Ruyue was very satisfied seeing that he executed the task meticulously. She even went to buy some tarpaulin to install outside against the wall to provide shade and shelter from the rain.
I was about to leave when I remembered that I had to buy a few folding tables to put under the tarpaulin and use to entertain guests when there were many guests.
The carpenter seemed to have finished products for sale, so she asked another question.
The carpenter looked up and pointed to a room next to him. "They're all inside. A table costs fifty dollars, and a stool costs ten dollars. They're all made of real wood. If you buy a set, it's eighty dollars. There's a table and four chairs. No bargaining. This price is very affordable. If you buy it somewhere else, a set will cost at least a hundred dollars, and the table may not even be made of real wood."
Zhao Ruyue knew that there were tables with patterns on the top that looked nice, but in fact the inside was made of boards pressed together with wood chips and glue. If heavy things were placed on them, they would dent in the middle, and were definitely not as good as his wooden folding table.
"Okay, I'll go pick out a few. No bargaining. Can you deliver them to my door? I'll probably need four or five. I can't carry them all by myself."
The carpenter smiled and nodded vigorously: "Of course I can send it to your home. Do you want it to be sent to your old house or the new house? I'll tell my son and he will send it to you directly."
Zhao Ruyue thought for a moment and said, "Let's send it to the old house first."
The frame of the new house has been built, but the walls are not yet dry, and the doors and windows have not been installed. If the things are placed there, Ning Shaoming may not always notice them, and they may be easily stolen.
We were lucky to have good weather. It hasn't rained much since the house was built, the air is dry and there is sunshine, so the walls dried quickly.
In addition, in order to build the house as quickly as possible and open the store to make money earlier, Ning Shaoming asked more people to help, so the speed of laying the foundation and building the house was faster.
We were busy until the beginning of March when the doors and windows were installed. The new house looked very presentable, even better than some small buildings that people moved into but only had doors installed without even windows.
If you don't want to renovate the house, you can just install the water and electricity, move the furniture in, and move in directly.
Many people, including Ning Shaoming's parents, thought they would move in like this.
However, the driver who had transported the steel bars before came again. This time he was not transporting steel bars, but tiles, as well as wall painting materials, toilet pans, washbasins, etc., which were transported in another smaller truck.
There was only cement and plaster in the town, and wall paint had to be bought in the county town. The boss who sold steel bars not only sold steel bars but also decoration materials. Ning Shaoming didn't want to run around, so he just bought everything from the same store.
All the items could just fit into one car, so they were delivered directly to his door, saving him the trouble of finding a way to transport them back himself.
Zhao Ruyue and Ning Shaoming had both been to Pengcheng and seen the decoration of the city dwellers' houses and hotels.
Although they don't have enough money to decorate their homes as well as people in the city, they also want to do their best to improve the convenience of their quality of life without spending too much money.
For example, water and electricity wiring, switches, sockets, as well as toilets, washbasins and shower heads in the bathroom.
They can't afford washing machines, refrigerators, televisions, etc. for the time being, but they have reserved space for them in advance.
Currently, the only most valuable household appliance in my house is the storage electric water heater.
A long time has passed since we bought the water heater and installed it when renovating the house, but the neighbors still remember it.
When Zhao Ruyue installed the electric water heater, many people followed her to her new home to see it.
The water heater reserved in their home is located outside the kitchen, and is equipped with a separate socket and switch.
As long as you drill the hole, install the bracket, and then place the water heater on the bracket, you are halfway done.
Zhao Ruyue decided on the point to drill, put a chair in place, and stood on it with the electric drill. In order to save on consumables and installation costs, she had bought materials and installed them herself before.
“Hey, hey, hey, Ruyue, why did you go up there by yourself? What can you do with this man’s work?”
"Hey, woman, don't mess around, let your man do it, or you'll break the wall!"
A group of aunties, uncles and grandpas around her looked at her nervously, as if what she was holding in her hand was not an electric drill, but a machete to chop them.
Before Zhao Ruyue could explain that punching was simple and she could do it herself, she heard a childish voice saying unhappily, "Why can't my mom do it? My mom can do everything!"
Ning Shixia pouted and felt a little angry. These adults actually suspected that her mother couldn't even punch a hole. It was really outrageous.
It was such a simple thing, she felt that if she was not so weak, she could do it!
The adults thought she looked adorable when she pouted and wanted to tease her, but Ning Shixia slapped away the hands that wanted to pinch her face and ran behind her father and brother to cheer for her mother.
In fact, Ning Shixia had no idea whether her mother could do it or not, because she had never seen her mother do it.
But she just didn't like those people who hadn't seen it before and didn't let her mother try it, but said in advance that her mother couldn't do it!
Zhao Ruyue smiled and winked at her daughter, then calmly started the electric drill and drilled two qualified holes at the places she had marked.
Then he reached into his pocket, took out the expansion tube of the expansion screw, knocked the expansion tube in, and then installed the expansion screw and water heater bracket.
"Okay, hand me the water heater."
Ning Shaoming handed the water heater over, and Zhao Ruyue aligned it with the bracket and the water heater was hung firmly on the wall.
"Did you see it?" Ning Shixia raised her chin proudly towards the adults, "I told you my mom would do it!"
Zhao Ruyue then took out other accessories and installed them one by one. She installed the water heater so easily that the neighbors who were watching were amazed and looked at her as if they were looking at some rare animal.
Faced with their teasing, Ning Shaoming appeared calm and modest in words, but in his heart he was as proud as his daughter. These neighbors didn't know that the sockets and faucets in his house were actually installed by his wife!
If she had an electrician's license, Zhao Ruyue could even do the wiring work herself.
On the evening when the hot water was installed, the family of four took a pleasant hot bath in this chilly spring weather without having to boil water in a pot.
If the house had not been newly renovated and the furniture had not just been moved in, and needed to be left out for two or three months to air out, they would have been eager to move into their new home right away.
In other words, all their furniture is solid wood furniture, and there is nothing in the house with high formaldehyde content, otherwise it would take more than two or three months to air-dry the house.
We can’t move into the new house right away, but we can open the new store after it’s cleaned.
They originally planned to invite people to taste the fried rice noodles that would be sold in the store, but later they felt that the timing was not right, so they kept putting it off.
Seeing that making money has been delayed for so long, if they don't open their store, the promotion of selling goods before the Spring Festival will be in vain.
The fellow villager who had bought things from Zhao Ruyue would come to ask when their store would open every time he came to the town for the market.
If it goes on any longer, Zhao Ruyue will feel embarrassed to see her.
After applying for the necessary documents to open a store, the two discussed it together.
You might as well move up the time for the housewarming party and invite those who helped build the house and other relatives and friends to come over for dinner.
Serve fried rice noodles as a dish at the banquet and see their reactions after eating it.
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