"Manager Ma, you're very well-informed."
Manager Ma looked distressed: "Oh dear, Madam Cen, why don't you cooperate with our Pinxiangzhai? Running a pastry shop is so tiring! Why don't you cooperate with us instead? You have to write stories and take care of the rice noodle factory, how can you manage all that?"
Yang Cui smiled and said, "Let's cooperate again in the future. I mainly want to use this shop to train my daughter. Anyway, the shop is just sitting empty."
"Oh, I see..." Manager Ma looked distressed. "What products does Madam Cen want to sell? Has the pastry chef been hired?"
Yang Cui wouldn't have bothered to say much to anyone else, but since Manager Ma was Su Murong's man, it wouldn't hurt to say a few more words. She said, "My shop doesn't have a wide variety of products, and it's not next to your Pinxiangzhai, so it won't have a big impact on your Pinxiangzhai business. You can rest assured about that."
"Is Madam Cen making something new again this time?"
Yang Cui smiled faintly without saying a word; this expression was tantamount to acquiescence.
Manager Ma was on the verge of a heart attack, feeling that he had missed out on hundreds of millions by not cooperating with Yang Cui.
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The shop's renovation is proceeding smoothly; my husband is indeed reliable and trustworthy when it comes to handling things.
Because the production base was not yet completed, Yang Cui could only temporarily call people to her home to learn.
The current apprentices are Zhou Xiaoyun, Hu Binzi's younger brother and sister Hu Lai and Hu Li, and Wang Ximei. As for Hu Binzi's wife Hu Linshi, she took over Wang Ximei's original job. Wen Shuishui is quick-witted and bold, so she trained him to sell goods and then gave him intensive training in addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
To prevent the recipe from being leaked, Yang Cui signed contracts with them. Anyone who dared to betray the recipe would not only have to pay compensation but also face legal trouble, and their family would also suffer. Yang Cui promised that if they did well, they would have two opportunities for a raise every year.
They are apprentices now. Yang Cui's pay for these three months is relatively low. For the first three months, she provides two meals a day and twenty catties of millet each month. Starting from the fourth month, she will receive a salary of one tael of silver every three months, with two meals a day provided. However, there will be an outstanding employee award every month, with a red envelope reward.
This greatly encouraged everyone, and they were all eager to open their business as soon as possible and start the trial operation.
Half a month has passed in the blink of an eye. The weather has been good during this time, the pastry production workshop has been built, and the necessary equipment and raw materials will arrive one after another.
The shop's renovation is complete, and now everything is ready; we're just waiting for the right opportunity.
These apprentices are practicing repeatedly, and although they've wasted a lot of materials, they're now doing a decent job.
Yang Cui gave them two days off. Two days later, they started production and stocking up on goods in preparation for opening!
But on the very day they began preparing the goods, Zhuang Zhicheng arrived, covered in wounds: "General Cen, my young lady has been attacked by bandits in Furong County. Please, General, go and rescue her immediately..."
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