Chapter 250 Shop
"Can you teach us the tofu recipe too?" Mrs. Chen, Qin Fangniang and Zhou Ge, whose belly was already round, were all stunned by the pie that fell from the sky.
"Teach me, I'll find a way to get you another mule so that you won't be too tired." Otherwise, she was afraid that the Chen family would be exhausted by making all kinds of vermicelli and tofu.
"But there is one thing. It may be a little different from the cooperation method we originally agreed on." He told the Zheng family's affairs and said, "So it is safer to open this shop under my name."
Mrs. Chen didn't care about this at all. She was only worried about whether the Zheng family or something would harm Sang Luo. After making sure there wouldn't be any problems, she thought about it and realized that the emperor's edict was kept at home. She felt relieved and asked where to open the shop first.
"We'll open one in the East Market first, and then open one in the West Market after the East Market is established. We won't just sell tofu, we'll also sell vegetables, eggs, and meat produced in the farm."
When Mrs. Chen heard this, her eyes lit up: "Then I will supply you with my pheasants, rabbits and vegetables grown in the fields."
Thinking about how the Shen family had spent almost all their money on buying a shop and building a house in the past few months, he immediately asked, "Do you have any money to spare? If it's not enough, we have a few dozen taels and we can give it to you first. The mule is also for our family use, so you don't have to pay for it. Just help us find a way to buy it, and we'll pay for it ourselves."
Sang Luo smiled and said, "You can buy a mule yourself, but you still need to go look for one. I'm afraid it won't be that quick. I just need the money to open a shop. You forgot that I still have nearly twenty jars of honey at home."
We weigh more than 300 pounds, so the financial constraints are only temporary.
Qin Fangniang also perked up when she heard this, "Is that shop in the city also going to open?"
Sang Luo was the first one to grow sweet clover and raise bees. Several other families came a little later and did not grow as much as Sang Luo, but her family now has three jars of honey. When she started learning beekeeping, she was promised that the honey would only be sold in Sang Luo's shop. They were all waiting for the shop that Sang Luo bought in the city to open.
Sang Luo nodded and said with a smile, "Yes, honey can't be stored at home for too long. It may be the same day, or it may be a little later than the shop in the East Market. It will take some time to order the shelves and decorate them."
Mrs. Chen took over and said, "Don't spend money on the shelves for the vegetable and tofu shops. Just draw the pictures and ask Uncle Tian to make them for you. If the other shops are more particular, you can order them in the city."
Sang Luo thanked them with a smile, and said that the Chen family would come to her house in the evening to sign a cooperation agreement, and then she went home.
When Chen Lie returned home in the evening, he heard that his family was planning to open a shop, and the first shop to be opened was mainly selling tofu and vegetables. He frowned and said, "Why don't we wait and see how Zheng's family reacts before making a decision?"
In Zheng's current situation, it would be reasonable for them not to do anything. They would not dare to do anything openly, but they had to be on guard against one or two stupid people in that family who might play dirty tricks. If Zheng wanted to play dirty tricks normally, Daxing Village would not be so easy to bully. To be honest, during those years in the mountains, even the children were armed like little wolves. There were many people in the village, so even if it was inconvenient to use knives, Sang Luo and Shen Ning were good at using long sticks. But now that Sang Luo was pregnant, it was hard for Shen Lie to rest assured.
Sang Luo guessed what Chen Lie was thinking as soon as she saw his reaction, and smiled as she told him what Concubine Fan had said.
Chen Lie was very happy when he heard that Concubine Fan asked a nanny who was good at obstetrics to check Sang Luo's pulse and left some dietary supplements. Then he heard Concubine Fan's response to the Zheng family affairs and wondered, "Did she send someone over?"
"That's not the case, but Madam Fei has always been truthful in her words and deeds. She won't be so sure about something she's not sure of."
"Could you please let me see Mrs. Zeng's reply?"
There is nothing to hide. Sang Luo turned around and gave the letter to Chen Lie. Chen Lie read the letter several times, with a hint of deep thought in his eyes.
"how?"
"It's okay, go ahead. But if you want to go out, it's better for you to come with me. If I'm at school, you can let Dashan and Wenqing go with me. I'll feel more at ease then."
Sang Luo naturally agreed.
Chen Ning was still cooking dinner, Chen An was carving bamboo slips, but Chen Lie told Sang Luo that he was going to see how the sheep shed was being built.
A sheep shed has recently been built on the 100 acres of mountain land bestowed by the emperor. Sangluo is planning to use it to expand breeding. The sheep are not gathered together because they are afraid that if too many are raised together, it might be difficult to prevent and control if any of them get sick.
However, the thatched house on the hilltop was built earlier than the sheep shed, which was where the hired farmhands lived. The Shen family had more than 270 acres of land, which was too much for Zhao Da and Zhao Si to take care of, so Sang Luo hired five more people, two of whom were from nearby villages, and the other three lived 15 miles away, much farther away. When they came to look for work, they asked if they could find a place to build a thatched house for them to live in, and they could also take care of the animals raised in the mountains.
They built the thatched hut themselves. Sang Luo only wanted to donate a small piece of land, so she had no right to refuse. So a thatched hut was built on the new piece of mountain land given to her family.
Chen Lie went up the mountain and came back after more than a quarter of an hour, but the doubts in his mind were not resolved.
At the thatched cottage on the mountain, after Chen Lie had walked far enough, the three farmhands looked at each other, and one of them whispered to his two companions, "What does he know?"
"It's not that I know, it's that I doubt." If you know, there's no need to test their reaction, "Don't worry, we're just farming."
Even if we go to the household registration office to check, there won’t be any mistakes in what we find.
After dinner, all the Chen family members arrived to sign the deed. The three brothers Shen Jin from the Shen family were also there. Shen An had been living with Shen Jin before, and now their eldest brother's new house was spacious and grand, and most importantly, it was clean, especially clean. Not to mention the smooth walls, the bathroom and toilet were the most amazing. Anyway, they were something Shen Jin had never seen before. They were flushed clean with water, and there was not even a trace of odor.
When it was just built, the three brothers were surprised and envious. Sang Luo said that when their family built a new house in the future, she would give the blueprints and let Shen Jin build it according to the instructions. Now, the new house was new and if they wanted, they could live in the east wing with Shen An.
Shen Jin didn't just move in for the sake of it, but they really wanted a clean house. They cooked and ate at home, and when they needed to take a shower, the three brothers would run here. Sang Luo made an extra bed in the east wing, and the three brothers Shen Jin sometimes lived in the east wing with Chen An.
So tonight is particularly lively.
Especially when they knew that their eldest sister-in-law was going to open a shop in the East Market, the three brothers Shen Jin were quite happy. However, the night was the home court of the Chen family, and the three brothers just watched the fun without interrupting or making trouble. On the contrary, Shen Jin watched his eldest sister-in-law sort out one by one how to cooperate and how to divide the profits, and then he came to the side to watch Shen Ning drafting the contract on the sand table according to the terms discussed by his eldest sister-in-law and others, and felt that he learned a lot.
In fact, the elders of the Chen family are not very proficient in this area. They have to go over each item in their minds several times before they can understand it. They have to ask Mrs. Chen to say that the prescription belongs to Sang Luo, the shop also belongs to Sang Luo, and that the deed has actually been written by Sang Luo. They just need to let them know, sign and put their fingerprints on it, and it's done. They can trust it completely.
Zhou Ge, Chen Ershan and Chen Xiaoya, on the other hand, had listened to many things taught by Manager Xu in the mountains before. When Sang Luo explained them one by one, the three of them reacted faster than the other people in the family, especially Chen Xiaoya, who hung out with Chen Ning and Xu Wenyin every day.
Finally, Chen Dashan signed his name and stamped his hand, which was so formal that it made him a little confused. How could he speak? He couldn't even recognize all the words on the deed.
It’s not that I don’t recognize them all, it’s that I don’t recognize most of them…
For the first time, Chen Dashan realized that his future life might be different from what he had thought. It seemed that he had to at least recognize all the commonly used characters. But that was not the case. In fact, since he took on the job from the government office after leaving the mountains, he had acquired so much more land. Later, there was an imperial edict to Daxingzhuang. Step by step, Chen Dashan felt that they were making great progress.
Chen Lie sent the Chen family out, and when he was hiding from people, he mentioned to Chen Dashan that he should learn to read. Chen Dashan surrendered first: "I know, I'll let Xiaoya teach me when I get back."
Seeing that he finally didn't say that he could just let his children learn it in the future, Shen Lie laughed, and then his expression straightened up. He talked to Chen Dashan about the Zheng family's affairs. Chen Dashan spent most of his time in the manor, and the two families lived close to each other, so he asked him to pay more attention.
Chen Dashan had heard his grandmother talk about the Zheng family during dinner, and said, "Don't worry, I will tell the other families in the village to pay more attention."
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The Chen family wants to enclose a yard. In order to meet the construction deadline and for convenience in later use, the yard is divided into two, the small yard for making tofu and the large yard for making vermicelli. Right now they are just enclosing the small yard. Of course, in the early stages they can close the door and make vermicelli in the kitchen.
Sang Luo was also busy. She rented a shop, hired people, ordered signboard shelves, customized special small pottery jars, and built a large oven in the Shen family's backyard.
On June 20th, the sound of lively firecrackers was heard at the same time in the main street and the East Market of Shezhou City. When people heard the sound, they went over and found that a new shop was opening.
What attracted the attention of the people of Shezhou most was not the things sold in the shop, but the people standing in the shop, the sign they saw when they raised their eyes, and the strange fragrance that kept coming into their noses.
The sign on the main street says "Daxingzhuang Specialties", and the sign on the East Market says "Daxingzhuang Fresh Food". Both signs also have a striking "Sang" character on the far right.
Daxingzhuang, if we talk about the most famous place in Shezhou this year, it must be Daxingzhuang. If we look at the whole Daqi, it is Mrs. Sang from Daxingzhuang.
Those who could not read looked at the people, and those who could read looked at the signboard. Before the firecrackers had finished burning, everyone who gathered around knew that Mrs. Sang from Daxingzhuang had opened a shop.
After the firecrackers were burned out, Sang Luo came out and gave a talk, and now everyone knew exactly what the two shops were selling.
Daxingzhuang Specialties mainly sells some special products produced in Daxingzhuang, such as honey, bread, cakes, and dried rabbit, while Daxingzhuang Fresh Food mainly sells products produced in Daxingzhuang, such as vegetables, eggs, tofu, and dried bean curd. Of course, bread and cakes are not available every day, but only in limited quantities on the fifth and tenth days of the month.
The onlookers were confused. Apart from honey, vegetables and eggs, they didn't know what bread, cake, dried rabbit, tofu and dried bean curd were.
Besides, isn't honey wild? How much can we sell?
Needless to say, it was a lively place. The names of these things alone were the subject of much discussion. Sang Luo said that when the shop opened for business, those with a little wealth or those who were bolder went in to broaden their horizons, while those who were poorer and less confident stood outside the shop and looked in.
Of course, Sang Luo was pregnant at the time, and was protected by several people. Everyone was also conscious, and the shop door was spacious, so Sang Luo also stood aside and no one squeezed in towards her.
Once you enter, although the variety of items is not too many, they are enough to shock you at first glance.
For example, they didn't recognize the things that filled three groups of containers and were served on exquisite bamboo plates, but the female waiter said they were bread and cakes. Not only did they look good, but their unique aroma was enough to make people drool.
I've never seen anything like this before. Not even one of these. Even in the pastry shops before the chaos in the world, I've never seen anything like this.
Another example is the ceramic jars filled with something called dried rabbit meat. The meat, the rabbit meat, makes one drool at the mere sight of it, and the smell of it makes one unable to move.
For example, there is a whole cabinet filled with jars of honey. The bottles are specially made with the words "Daxingzhuang" and "Amaranthus Honey" on them.
No, how can there be so much honey and what kind of honey can be divided?
There were not many categories, but everything they had was something they had never seen before or was rare and precious. In addition, next to each item there was a small bamboo sign with the name and price, which looked particularly novel.
Chen Ning had been selling tofu at the market with her eldest sister-in-law since she was nine years old. She knew the importance of tasting new products, so she had prepared very small pieces of tasting samples and small bamboo sticks. She and Xu Wenyin, Xiao Ya'er, and Qiao'er stood in a different place, and whenever a customer came, they would smile and offer a piece of bread or cake for tasting.
The effect is——
The serious female clerk in the shop, Dong Ge'er's sister, named Xin Niang, was almost in a panic when collecting the money.
The things were obviously sold at a very high price, because flour was expensive at the moment, and craftsmanship was even more expensive. A small piece cost forty or fifty cents, but there was not enough to sell at all.
Concubine Fan came with her people to show her support, but she didn't want to attract too much attention, so she came out three quarters of an hour late on purpose. As a result, when she entered the Daxingzhuang Specialty Store, apart from honey and some dried rabbit, there were only one diabolo plate after another.
She was confused: "What are those? They're all sold out?"
Sang Luo knew she would come, so she went to the East Market shop and looked around. Seeing that Gan, who was helping out today, and Daniu, who worked as a clerk, were both busy, she went back to the shop on the main street and waited. At this moment, she was resting in the yard behind the shop. When she heard Concubine Fan's voice, she entered the shop and said with a smile, "I guessed you would come."
She held an exquisite bamboo food box in her hand and said, "Don't say I don't miss you. I left these especially for you."
Concubine Fan opened the lid and was stunned when she saw six snacks inside that she had never seen before. Then she smelled the fragrant aroma and all manners were forgotten. She looked around with dazzled eyes, picked up a piece and tasted it. Her eyes widened as soon as she took a bite!!!
"No wonder it's sold out, Luo, why don't you come home with me."
I really want to go back!
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While Sang Luo's new shop was booming, on the other side, Zheng's maid went out to buy things and went to the East Market first. Seeing the new shop opening, she naturally joined in the fun. But when she saw what was being sold inside, the fun became less interesting. When she asked about the price, the maid became sick and stopped shopping in the East Market. She ran back with a basket in her hand, stumbling on both sides.
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