Song Qiu bought a house in Dajiang Village and planned to open an inn here. He would just go ahead and open it here before Chunlin Town.
If you don't need to make some changes and prepare for it, you can just open it now.
This courtyard is full of good-quality brick and tile buildings, and they are not old. If they were all demolished and rebuilt, it would be troublesome and wasteful.
Therefore, Song Qiu only planned to do some minor repairs and decorations.
The area that was previously used as a tea shop was left unchanged and became the lobby. The space is quite large. There are six or seven square tables for drinking tea without being crowded. After a little organization, four square tables and two round tables were placed.
Not a problem.
In addition, the yard at the back of the house will be expanded, half of the yard will be taken out, and two private rooms will be designated.
In this way, there are four square tables and four round tables in total, which is quite a lot.
The original gate side was demolished, expanded into the yard, and two wing rooms were built.
In addition to the original two wing rooms at the back and the three rooms in the main room, there are seven rooms in total, which is enough to entertain guests.
She mainly focuses on eating. If these seven rooms are full, it will be good. If there are more people, then the business will not be competed with the next few.
In this way, the big courtyard in front was gone, and it was all turned into houses, leaving only corridors for people to pass through.
The kitchen is right here where it leads to the backyard. It only has one stove. It would be better to expand it a little bit and get an extra stove.
A gate is opened in the backyard, and the carriages and horses can park in the backyard.
The backyard is spacious, with a stable built on one side and two small rooms on the other side for my own people to live in.
That's pretty much it, as for the tea stall...
Song Qiu didn't plan to set up a tea stall here, because there was a snack shop and a noodle shop opposite, and Chen Gui'er also wanted to set up a small tea stall at the entrance of the village later.
She won't take up this bit of business anymore.
Not less than the income from this tea stall.
If you take them all, wouldn’t that fill up the hatred value?
She came to Dajiang Village to do business, not to go against the villagers here. It's not easy to come from outside. It's important to make friends with these people if you can, and it's also a way to take care of them.
Therefore, in addition to those who were busy remodeling houses and making carpentry furniture, Song Qiu also spent two days traveling throughout the village.
Order the tofu from this place, the pork from that place, the chicken from that place, the rabbit from that place, the duck from that place, the fish from that place, the vegetables from this place, the eggs from that place.
All in all, the rain and dew are all there.
Since they had nothing to sell and their own family couldn't take care of them, Song Qiu hired them to help make bedding and other things, which was also a wage.
Because Chen Gui'er was close to Chen Lizheng, Song Qiu also planned to hire his daughter-in-law to work as a handyman in the inn for five hundred coppers a month. In addition to her, there were two other daughters-in-law who were also related to Chen Lizheng, and the other one was
The youngest daughter-in-law of the head of Dajiang Village.
As a result, almost half of the people in the village have a relationship with her inn.
The village was too big for her to take care of, but half of it was enough.
This Dajiang village is inhabited by ethnic groups. There is a Chen family, a Liu family, and a Wu family. They all occupy people, which is equivalent to occupying people in the whole village.
There were many people working hard, and it only took eight or nine days to complete everything according to Song Qiu's plan.
There were also many carpenters, and the work was divided among several families. This family was responsible for making the table, and that family was responsible for making the bed. It took only eight or nine days to almost complete it.
The canopy bed is simple to make, but making one is more troublesome than a table or stool. When opening the bed, Song Qiu does not necessarily have to make them all. He can only make three or four beds and decorate a few guest rooms first.
The woman who was making bedding had faster hands and feet and had already made them all.
Naturally, the opening depends on the auspicious day. After finding out that the third master of the Wu family was good at this, Song Qiu came to the door with a gift and asked the third master Wu to help find the nearest auspicious day.
It just so happens that September 16th is an auspicious day.
Song Qiu decided to open the store on this day. After she opened the store, she could see it for two or three days, and then she could continue to Jianping County to see it. It was almost the end of the month when she returned to Chunlin Town.
By that time, Daxingyazi must have been almost ready, and we were just about to go back and prepare to open.
If things can be done in Jianping County, it will be at least the winter months by the time they set off to go home.
After being away for a few months, she might be worried about leaving her breast milk at home, so Song Qiu also wanted to go back as soon as possible.
Then this time is very tight, and it cannot be wasted at all.
At that moment, the auspicious day was promising, and Song Qiu held a small meeting that night to arrange personnel matters.
There is no tea stall here, so there can be fewer people left.
Three women from Dajiang Village have been hired to help with chores such as washing and chopping vegetables, washing dishes, setting tables and lighting fires, cleaning guest rooms, unpacking and washing bedding, and they only need a waiter, a waiter, and a shopkeeper.
Song Qiu thought carefully and left Tao Dongping here in Dajiangji as the shopkeeper. Tao Dongcheng would definitely be in charge of Daxingyazi by then, not too far away from each other, and the two brothers would also have someone to take care of him.
As for the clerk, it is Tian Gen'er of course. He is very talkative and chatty. These days, he has been getting along with the men doing the work, and he is very familiar with Chen Gui'er. He can stay here like a fish in water.
There is only one spoon left, which is a straight.
Shunzi's knife skills are good, and his cooking skills are not as good as Bench's. But he learned a lot from Bench's before, but he hasn't really mastered it yet. These days, Song Qiu catches him cooking every day, so he just needs to teach and practice it step by step.
After half a month, I'm almost doing a decent job.
When it comes to cooking, it's all about cooking once and then cooking. As long as you work hard, have the talent, and cook it a few times, the taste will naturally come out.
After arranging the manpower, the only people she could take with her to Jianping County were Yang Dalian and Mian Mian Ayin.
If Jianping County can do it, she won’t have the manpower!
Naturally, Yang Dalian couldn't stay. She had to take her back. She had already made an engagement with Xi Meier and was going to get married by the end of the year. If she stayed here, Xi Meier would cry at home.
I want to send him out to be a shopkeeper, and I want to wait until they are married and the couple can be together.
If I had known earlier, I would have brought more people with me now.
But no matter how many there are, she doesn't have many shopkeepers.
Huang Qi now has a problem with accounting. His accounting book is still not good enough, and Liu Zi has just started writing, so he still needs to practice.
There are only about fifty people in Huang Qi's group, and there are more than a dozen of them who are only a few years old. This time they brought out six. The family still needs to practice. It's okay to be a waiter, but the shopkeeper and spoon are not enough.
Already.
Alas, I still have to buy someone.
Everything was ready. On September 16th, it was the big market day of Dajiang Market. The newly baked Dajiang Inn was torn off the red silk under the crowd of villagers going to the market. With the crackling of red firecrackers, the ceremony officially opened.
Zhang.
The Song Ji cloth banner with black characters on a red background fluttered in the wind, making it very eye-catching.
This is not the first inn opened by Song Qiu, nor will it be the last.
Songshan Inn, Crescent Inn, Dajiang Inn, and soon Daxing Inn, there will be more and more inns hanging with Song Ji cloth banners, and Song Qiu is also full of a sense of accomplishment.