Chapter 118 Not Losing (Update 1)
"By the way, it will take you several days to clean up this shop. It will be until the end of this month, so I won't calculate the rent for you. I'll just start calculating from next month."
"Also, my nephew at home is good at bricklaying. If you want to build a stove, I can ask him to do it for you. It's free, just give him a meal."
"Don't worry about your business in the future. I will definitely come to support you. Not only that, I will also attract customers for you..."
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"Okay, thank you, auntie..." While expressing their gratitude repeatedly, Zhuang Qingning and Deng went to the bookshop next door and asked Manager Liu to write a receipt. They both put their fingerprints on it, and the shop was considered to be rented.
"You have the key. If you need anything in the backyard, just take whatever I have at home. Don't be polite."
After receiving the first year's rent, Deng handed the key to Zhuang Qingning with a smile on her face.
"Okay." Zhuang Qingning nodded in agreement.
"Okay, you go ahead and do your work. I'll go back first and let me know if there's anything." Deng held the silver and left happily.
"Goodbye, Auntie." Zhuang Qingning smiled and watched Deng leave the shop.
"With this look, you still want her to go slower? I think she must be so happy that she just wants to go home and have a good meal to celebrate having you as her fool."
Zhang Yongchang gave Zhuang Qingning a cold look angrily.
"Although I am the sucker, there is also Uncle Zhang, a smart guy. If Uncle Zhang hadn't said those words just now, would I have been able to get so many small benefits for free?" Zhuang Qingning said with a smile.
Zhang Yongchang's face turned slightly red.
He had just been speaking in a sarcastic tone just to make Zhuang Qingning, the victim, look a little pitiful so that Deng would feel sorry for him and give him more subsidies.
I never thought that Zhuang Qingning could see through it. He is not a fool.
But since you are not stupid, it is unreasonable not to pay back the money. The price is so high.
Could it be that he was blinded by greed and was bewitched for a while, so the money in his purse could no longer be hidden and just kept jumping out?
No matter what, Zhang Yongchang was very disapproving and unhappy about Zhuang Qingning renting this shop.
"Uncle Zhang, don't be angry. This shop is worth renting."
Zhuang Qingning explained with a smile: "I did the opposite of what you said before, so let's not talk about it for now. The money is not too low now, so that Aunt Deng can be more obedient in the future."
"My tofu business will definitely make money in the future. Now I am getting so embarrassed and angry because of the price-cutting that I can't save much money in a year. Instead, Aunt Deng is very resentful. When my business is good, she will find ways to drive me away or ask for some benefits."
"I am kind and righteous now, and I have a good relationship with Aunt Deng. She won't cause trouble in the future. She won't be so embarrassed as to come and cause trouble for me. Giving convenience to others is also giving convenience to myself, right?"
"Besides, this shop is worth the money according to the market price, so I am not losing money."
"Let's not talk about other things. How can we calculate the value of this bad feng shui?" Zhang Yongchang felt that even if the other points made sense, this point was not convincing.
"This is not a good feng shui, I'm afraid it's just a rumor." Zhuang Qingning pursed her lips and smiled, "Just now on the way, I asked Aunt Deng what the earliest antique shops sold. They were all various exquisite porcelain, jade, calligraphy and paintings and so on."
"Uncle Zhang, think about it. Although our town is doing okay, it is definitely not a wealthy place. Paintings and calligraphy cost dozens of taels of silver. How can ordinary people afford them? Even if people can afford them, they will have to go to the county town or the prefectural city to buy paintings and calligraphy. They will definitely not buy them here. Naturally, the antique shop business will not be good."
"As for the one with a broken leg, Uncle Zhang, please take a look."
Zhuang Qingning stepped on the loose brick he had just discovered and said, "The bricks on the floor have become like this and they haven't been repaired yet. If anyone walks around in this room often, they will fall down. It's only a matter of time."
"This was originally just an ordinary thing, but it happened twice in a row, and someone mentioned something about Feng Shui, so the rumor about this shop having bad Feng Shui spread. Isn't this the same? The more it spreads, the more outrageous it becomes. It was not originally that, but it was made to sound like a real thing."
"Lease this shop. Uncle Zhang, wait and see how my business develops in the future, and you will know whether it is worth renting this shop or not."
After hearing this, Zhang Yongchang was speechless and didn't know what to say in response.
"Okay, you're making a lot of sense. I don't know what else to say. You've already rented the shop, and there's no turning back. Hurry up and get ready. It's a serious matter to open the shop as soon as possible."
Since we cannot change what happened in the past, we should try to look back as much as possible, so as to avoid the situation where we cannot change what happened in the past and delay the things that will happen later, which would be really impossible to do.
Zhang Yongchang said, "Just clean up quickly and put the things in order. It's not too busy right now, so I called Lian Rong over to help you clean up."
And as Mrs. Deng mentioned earlier, those usable boards and racks in her house also need to be shipped over quickly. These things should be done sooner rather than later, so we have to hurry up.
"It's okay. There's still time to clean up slowly." Zhuang Qingning waved his hands hurriedly.
Zhang Yongchang treated her very well. She knew that and appreciated his kindness. But he and Lian Rong were both from Fushunlou after all. If she asked them to come here to help with the work, it would not be good if Manager Feng saw it. He was afraid that he would say something to them.
"Why are you taking your time to clean up? Isn't it better to do it sooner rather than later? Hurry up, put it in order here, I'll call Lian Rong to get a broom or something, and sweep the dust off the roof first, so that you don't have to stand here and get dust falling on your head."
"This Deng is also the same. She rented out a shop but didn't clean it properly before renting it out. This person is now covered in dirt. I'll have to talk to her about this. This is a very dishonest way of doing business."
Zhang Yongchang was full of complaints and went to the backyard of Fushun Building next door to him to look for a broom and other things. Zhuang Qingning couldn't stop him seeing him, so he simply went to find some usable things, put them in order first, and also found the basins and buckets in the backyard to use when cleaning the doors and windows later.
Zhang Yongchang arrived at Fushun Building, called Lian Rong over, and gave him some instructions.
"It's still in time for me to help out for half an hour." Lian Rong wiped his hands and went to find a broom or something. When he was done, he asked, "Do you want to tell the shopkeeper?"
(End of this chapter)
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