"Village chief, I've already had my dad and brother make the shelves in the general store."
Once you've tidied up your general store, you can move these shelves over, arrange them neatly, and stock them with goods.
As for the nameplate for the general store, I also asked Master Xu to write it, and my father and the others are making it.
It should be ready in the next couple of days, so it won't delay the hanging of the sign.
Only then did everyone realize that Li Lanzhen had already planned to open a general store.
They felt ashamed that they, as grown men, were always lagging behind and leaving Li Lanzhen, a woman, to worry about everything. They lowered their heads and fell silent for a moment.
Li Lanzhen could tell what they were thinking just by looking at their expressions.
Indeed, this dynasty was a man's world, and women were merely appendages of men.
Despite spending more than a year brainwashing them and instilling in them the idea of gender equality.
However, deeply ingrained ideas cannot be changed overnight.
So she smiled and prepared to continue washing their heads.
"As everyone knows, this Peach Blossom Spring is my own."
So I've thought about it a lot. I can say that I have a clear idea of how Peach Blossom Spring should develop and what its ultimate goal should be.
Don't blame yourselves. I've said before that Peach Blossom Spring is our shared home.
Everyone has a share in its development, so I can't just sit back and reap the benefits while you do the work.
"As long as you do your best in your respective roles, you will have contributed your utmost to the development of Peach Blossom Spring."
After listening to Li Lanzhen's words, he raised his head again. Yes, we should do what we are good at and do it well. If we do what we are good at, our Peach Blossom Spring home will become better and better.
Only when Peach Blossom Spring becomes better and better can one's own life get better and better!
Five days later, the first general store in Peach Blossom Spring opened in Youzhou City.
The grocery store is located on a street behind the Sifang Restaurant.
This street is the second most bustling street in Youzhou City.
There were restaurants, bookstores, fabric shops, snack shops, grain shops, and two general stores on both sides of the street.
The general store that Li Lanzhen took over is a single-story building with a floor area of over 80 square meters.
There was a spacious courtyard at the back, with three rooms on each of the east and west wings.
The east wing was used for living quarters, while one of the west wing rooms was a storage room, another a woodshed, and the third was unused.
There are also toilets and livestock sheds in the corner.
There is a well near the kitchen.
It cost more than 3,600 taels of silver to take over this shop.
This is only because of Manager Hua; otherwise, such a good shop would never have ended up in Li Lanzhen's hands.
Because when Han Shunde was in Hanjiacun, he worked as the manager of a general store in the town.
Therefore, he was undoubtedly the first manager of the Peach Blossom Spring General Store.
The two men were Han Dazhong's youngest son, Han Youshui.
Han Dazhong's three sons all have the character "You" in their names: Han Youtian, Han Youliang, and Han Youshui.
The other guy was a water buffalo.
After the water buffalo family arrived at Peach Blossom Spring, Li Lanzhen told her mother, Ye, and her father, Li Erhan, that they had become sworn sisters.
Li Erhan and his wife only had one son and one daughter, Li Lanzhen and Li Xishui.
Because Ye suffered a difficult childbirth when giving birth to Li Xishui, she was unable to conceive again.
They desperately wished they had another daughter to take care of them.
He hosted a banquet and officially recognized this daughter as his daughter.
He also adopted two grandsons, Shuishan and Shuiniu.
The reason we were able to choose a water buffalo to be a shop assistant in the general store is because the water buffalo has a sweet tongue and can chat with people of all ages. He is a lively character in Peach Blossom Spring.
According to Li Lanzhen, it is "She Niu".
Above the main entrance of the general store is a rectangular plaque in the color of natural wood, with the words "Peach Blossom Spring General Store" engraved on it.
These characters are outlined in red with green borders.
There was no other way; Li Lan was originally going to use yellow to outline the edges.
Li Erhan stopped him, saying that this was a major taboo, and only members of the imperial family were allowed to use bright yellow.
Ordinary people cannot use it. Li Lanzhen muttered a few words to herself but there was nothing she could do, so she simply went with bright red and green, outlining the red characters with a green border.
After the plaque was carved, Li Lanzhen had Li Xishui deliver it to the courtyard, and that night she used the paint from her spatial storage to paint the characters.
After drying, it looks very bright when hung up.
Everyone gathered around and asked her how it was made. Li Lanzhen only said that it was made by her father and brothers, but she didn't know what materials were used.
The shelves were arranged in a circle against three walls.
The table was covered with mountain produce picked by the villagers.
These mountain products have all been dried and cleaned thoroughly.
This spring, the villagers told everyone that the mountain produce they picked belonged to them personally, and the money earned from selling it would also be theirs.
So when everyone collected the money this time, a register was made, clearly recording how much was collected from each household and what was collected.
You could also say this is a reseller point.
Besides mountain products, there are also products produced in Peach Blossom Spring.
Wild duck eggs, reed mats of various thicknesses and styles, fish caught in the reed marshes, and vegetables grown in the Peach Blossom Spring...
The most eye-catching item, displayed at the very front of the general store, was the tender corn produced in Peach Blossom Spring!
This time, the yield of tender corn per mu was more than 3,000 jin, and the estimated harvest was 4 million ears of tender corn.
Li Lanzhen had them set up a stove outside the shop, with a large iron pot on top, where they boiled tender corn.
The sweet and fragrant aroma of cooked tender corn wafted through the air above Youzhou City, attracting adults and children alike.
When setting prices, they first learned about the prices of food in Youzhou City.
A meat bun the size of a man's fist costs four coins, while a vegetarian bun costs one coin.
Grain prices have stabilized, with wheat flour at 11 wen per jin and cornmeal at 8 wen per jin.
Therefore, a single ear of tender corn was priced at three coins.
Of course, the tender corn cobs were also separated into large and small cobs.
Small, tender corn cobs are placed aside, and their price is half that of large corn cobs.
The cooked tender corn is all small corn on the cob, and it costs two coins a piece.
On the opening day, Li Lanzhen was also busy running around the store.
The streets of Youzhou City were lit up with lanterns.
A dozen or so people were busy working in the store. Looking at the empty shelves, the corn silks scattered on the floor, and the corn husks, they slumped on their stools, too tired to speak.
But the excitement on his face shone brighter than the dim lights outside! My darlings, thank you all for following along. After reading this chapter, please give it a thumbs up to encourage more writing! Your encouragement is my motivation to keep writing! I'll work hard to reach a million words.
Wishing all my precious babies the best of luck!
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