"Of course I want it! Sister Meng, is the rent for this shop expensive?" Wang Ling'er asked quickly.
“It’s not expensive, one tael of silver per square meter per month,” Wang Simeng replied.
"Okay, Sister Meng, wait for me, I'll go get the silver for you right now."
"No rush, let's go take a look at that shop first," Wang Simeng said, taking Wang Ling'er's hand.
"Oh. Okay." Wang Ling'er nodded.
Wang Simeng, along with Shuang'er and Cui'er, and Wang Ling'er, along with her head maid Lvliu, went out the door.
Five people arrived in the West District.
"Is this huge shop what Sister Meng is going to use as a shopping mall?" Wang Ling'er and her head maid, Green Willow, were immediately captivated by what they saw.
“Yes, this place will be a shopping mall from now on, selling all kinds of things,” Wang Simeng replied.
The five of them walked into the empty shop, and Wang Ling'er looked around.
"Well, how are you feeling?" Wang Simeng asked, looking at Wang Ling'er.
"This is wonderful! I love it so much! This transparent, hard window, and these colorful, bright lights—I've never seen anything like it before. Sister Meng, I'll definitely run this shop well from now on," Wang Ling'er said happily.
“This transparent thing is a glass window, and this bright thing is a light. I used to have these in my big hotel, but they’re different kinds of lights from the ones in this shop. The lights in this shop are a bit more unique,” Wang Simeng replied.
Since this was a shop that Wang Simeng had reserved for herself, she had done some simple renovations in advance and installed the lights as well.
"Ling'er, what do you plan to sell in this shop? Food or jewelry or something?" Wang Simeng asked.
"I want to open a shop selling clothes, jewelry, fabrics, shoes and socks," Wang Ling'er said.
"Do you have these things at home?" Wang Simeng asked doubtfully.
"Yes, hehe, I have a shop that sells ready-made clothes," Wang Ling'er said.
"Okay, I'm relieved to have you made the arrangements. The shop has only undergone simple renovations, nothing else has been done, so you can handle everything yourself." Wang Simeng nodded.
"Okay, then I'll start recruiting craftsmen tomorrow," Wang Ling'er said.
"OK."
Wang Ling'er and Wang Simeng chatted for a while longer before returning home separately, agreeing to go shopping together when the store opened.
Wang Simeng also mentioned that she planned to invite Prefect Wang to cut the ribbon on the opening day. She added that she would send out the invitation shortly.
After receiving the invitation, Prefect Wang was overjoyed and immediately accepted, also promising to bring his whole family to attend the ribbon-cutting ceremony.
The countdown to the mall's opening was on its final day. Wang Simeng, accompanied by her maids Shuang'er and Cui'er, walked around the entire mall and the whole street.
"Shuang'er, go and call the housekeeper over," Wang Simeng said, sitting in the cosmetics store on the first floor of the mall.
“Yes, Miss,” Shuang’er replied.
The butler walked up to Wang Simeng and stood in front of her. "Miss, is there anything you need to tell me?"
"Yes, butler, I just realized something today. We need to hire a few people to sweep the streets. We should start by hiring the poorest people."
Then they gave each of them cleaning tools. They work three shifts a day. We're opening tomorrow, I don't know if we can still find people.
"Miss, you don't need to worry. I'll send someone to post job advertisements right away. I'm sure we'll find a suitable candidate soon," the butler assured her.
"Alright! Butler, call over every shop owner on this street. Tell them the owner of the Wonderful Shop has something good to bring them," Wang Simeng said to the butler.
"Yes, miss. I'll be right there."
"Sigh!" Wang Simeng sighed, realizing she had been too careless and had only just thought of hiring cleaning staff.
“I never knew what the owner of the Wonderful Shop looked like before, but today I finally get to see him,” said Li Tianfu, a slightly overweight man in his early thirties wearing a purple robe, to Zhang Decai, a tall and thin man in his forties.
“Yes, I’m quite curious too. But what I’m most curious about are those strange things. They invited us over saying they had something good to share. I wonder what that good thing is?” the tall, thin man, Zhang Decai, chimed in.
"Who cares what it is? Anyway, anything produced by the Wonderful Master is always novel." A man walked up from behind and stepped between the two, saying to them.
"Oh, what a coincidence! Isn't this Zhao Zijin, Boss Zhao?" The two turned around and talked to the man.
"Haha, Mr. Li, Mr. Zhang, what a coincidence!"
The three of them chatted and laughed all the way to the cosmetics store on the first floor of the mall.
At this time, the cosmetics store was already filled with the owners of various shops.
"Hello everyone, I'm the owner of this amazing shop, my name is Wang Simeng," Wang Simeng said.
As soon as he finished speaking, people inside the room began to whisper among themselves.
When everyone heard that the girl in front of them, who looked to be about eighteen or nineteen years old, was the owner of this wonderful series of shops, everyone was very surprised.
Despite their surprise, no one dared to underestimate Wang Simeng.
Wang Simeng didn't care about their reactions. She continued, "You can call me Boss Wang or Master Qimiao, it's up to you."
Today, I've invited all of you business owners here to discuss the lighting issues for each of your shops.
As you can probably see, the lights in my cosmetics store are different from those in the hotels and supermarkets I've run before.
I have an idea: to install different styles of lights, like the ones in my cosmetics store, on all the shops along this street.
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