Yang Cui never expected that Xi Hongmei would be so strong-willed as to disfigure herself!
However, this also shows that she didn't have the kind of ambition to climb the social ladder.
Thinking about it, I do need people right now. Xi Hongmei is literate and has worked at Qunfang Pavilion for so long, so she has a certain amount of social experience. Putting aside loyalty, with some training, she should be easier to get started with than others.
So Yang Cui said, "Get up and go to the clinic to get your wound bandaged. Come find me later if we happen to meet."
"Thank you, Madam." Xi Hongmei wept with joy and kowtowed deeply to Yang Cui.
After the Xi sisters left, Kwong Mei-wan said, "This woman is really strong-willed; I hope she's a good person."
“I have a new script. Do you have any products you want to advertise?” Yang Cui suddenly asked.
"What? You can really advertise for me?" Kwong Mei-wan exclaimed excitedly. "Is it really true?"
"Never mind if you don't want it, honey, let's go eat." Yang Cui took Cen Xiao's arm and headed towards the Star Gazing Tower.
"Yes, yes, yes!" Kwong Mei-wan immediately caught up, stood on the other side of Yang Cui, and took Yang Cui's right arm with great affection. "I'm just about to release two new lip rouges. If I could advertise them in your scripts, business would definitely be booming."
When Cen Xiao saw Kuang Meiyun holding Yang Cui's right arm, his face darkened.
Yang Cui smiled, immediately pulled her hand away, and said, "I can only give you one page of paper, which means you can only promote two designs. You should finish drawing the designs as soon as possible and send them to the manager of Moxianzhai."
"I'll go back and get it done now. I won't go to dinner with you guys. I'll treat you to dinner another day."
After saying that, Kwong Mei-wan left in a hurry.
Cen Xiao said, "You should have left a long time ago. You have no sense of propriety at all." He wasted their time together.
As soon as they entered the Star Gazing Tower, Manager Yu immediately came over, his face clearly showing that he had been waiting for them. He said, "Master Cen and Madam Cen."
Cen Xiao's face was frighteningly dark; these people really wouldn't stop.
Seeing Cen Xiao's cold face, Manager Yu shivered. Why did he feel that Master Cen was hostile to him?
"Manager Yu, is there something you need?"
“Madam Cen, I’ve heard that many people want to cooperate with us and buy the recipes for those dishes you have to sell in the neighboring county. Madam Cen, you’ve been cooperating with our boss for so long, if you’re going to sell, it should be to our boss, don’t you think?”
Yang Cui never intended to hold onto the recipe. In her view, the recipe was only valuable temporarily, and someone might figure out how to make it soon. Besides, there were too few people who could actually use it, so it wasn't realistic to expand the business to other places.
It would be better to sell the recipe for a good price now, as long as the buyer doesn't steal business from Wan'an.
Yang Cui said, "Su Murong isn't here right now. Can you make the decision? My asking price won't be low."
Upon hearing this, Manager Yu knew there was hope: "Madam Cen, would you like to name your price?"
"Eight hundred taels for one prescription, but you are not allowed to steal my business in Wan'an County, nor are you allowed to resell the prescription to others. If you want to resell it, you must get my permission."
One prescription costs 800 taels, so five prescriptions would cost 4,000 taels. Where would the Star Gazing Tower get so much money?
"Can't the price be made any lower?"
Yang Cui shook her head: "No, I won't lie to you. It's been open for so long, and my store's turnover has never been less than fifty taels, even with cakes and sachima being out of stock every day."
Manager Yu himself runs a food business, so as soon as Yang Cui said that, he could immediately calculate Yang Cui's approximate daily profit.
Their employer's business spanned many places, and they could earn back four thousand taels in about a month or two. This business was perfectly feasible. However, as a qualified employee, he naturally had to haggle over the price to be worthy of his employer.
“Alright, four thousand taels it is. But Madam Cen can’t be sold to anyone else. I’ll raise the money right now.”
"Shouldn't you wait for news from Su Murong regarding something this big?"
This is four thousand taels of silver. Yang Cuijue, as the manager of a restaurant, should not have the authority to spend such a large amount of money.
“I’m confident our employer will agree, and the back-and-forth correspondence takes too long, which would mean losing a lot of money.”
Of course, I will immediately write to my master to explain the situation. Mr. and Mrs. Cen, please continue eating. I will go and raise the money first.” Manager Yu got up to take his leave. He felt like he was walking on air after negotiating such a big deal with Yang Cui.
Yang Cui couldn't help but praise, "Manager Yu is truly decisive and loyal. It's a pity he's not one of my people. It would be too unethical to poach him, considering we've been working with Su Murong for so long."
After she finished speaking, Yang Cui sighed, with a hint of regret.
Cen Xiao's face darkened completely. He had said that Manager Yu should be transferred! He could be given ten women and still have the mind to work! The old man was truly useless!
At this time, Cen Xiao did not know that the poor shopkeeper Yu could not afford to support those ten women, but he could not bear to refuse his employer's kindness (he now thought it was Su Murong who gave it to him), so he bought five acres of land and let the ten beautiful women who had never lifted a finger to do housework farm the land so that they could be self-sufficient.
Seeing Cen Xiao's dark face, Yang Cui chuckled and lowered her voice, saying, "Are you kidding me? You can get jealous over this? How old is Manager Yu? How could I like him? Besides, didn't you say he has ten concubines? I don't like men with many women, so even if you hadn't appeared, I wouldn't have married him. Don't worry, I only care about you."
I only care about how a few words from you successfully pleased someone, and how the corners of their mouth couldn't be suppressed from turning up.
Dao Ba's mouth is huge, which is why his master sent ten beauties to Manager Yu!
He immediately sensed something was wrong. Why would his master send so many beauties to Manager Yu? If he was going to send them, he should send them to him, someone he'd risked his life for. Well, today he finally found the reason.
The key point is that Dao Ba, that simpleton, loudly asked, "So, Master, you sent ten beauties to Manager Yu just because you were jealous? I, Lao Ba, have been with you for so long, and I don't even have a wife. Why didn't you say you'd send me a few?" He even looked aggrieved.
Cen Xiao's face immediately darkened. This idiot was courting death!
Yang Cui and Su Yutang were also dumbfounded; they never expected such a thing to happen!
Enraged, Cen Xiao threw Dao Ba out. Yang Cui in the private room burst into laughter, tears streaming down her face.
She really didn't expect her man to be so adorable!
Su Yutang suppressed a laugh, but fearing being beaten by Cen Xiao, she quickly ran away.
Although Cen Xiao had just knocked Dao Ba away, Dao Ba felt that his master definitely had more ruthless methods waiting for him, and his own storm was yet to come.
Dao Ba was filled with regret! He wished he could slap himself twice across the face.
Good heavens, why did I have to be so quick to speak?!
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