Two hundred and ninetieth chapters unannounced visits II
Su Liu looked at the teahouse waiter's face that turned red and white through the thin curtain, and snorted. With such a service attitude, how do you expect the teahouse business to be so good?
"It's our shop's negligence. I hope you don't blame me. This waiter has only been here for a few days and he doesn't understand anything. It's no wonder that she's doing this. I'll apologize to her now."
While the two were in a stalemate, a voice came from the door. Su Liu looked over and saw a middle-aged man in his forties or fifties wearing a gray brocade robe and satin boots walking in.
"The second shopkeeper." The waiter immediately lowered his head and stepped aside.
"Go down." The shopkeeper shouted: "Bring me a pot of good tea and some dishes of snacks."
"Yes." The waiter didn't dare to argue and got busy.
"Don't be surprised if the girl is weird." The shopkeeper then stood in front of Su Liu with a smile.
Su Liu came here for an unannounced visit. He first took a look at the shopkeeper. He was a little fat, with a round face full of smiles, but his eyes were sparkling. He was a shrewd man. I just didn't know how this shop was managed.
So bad.
Su Liu was interested in exploring and said: "The shopkeeper is too polite. Your way of greeting customers may be different, but I am overstepping the rules."
"What you said is serious. Since the girl comes to the teahouse to eat camellias and money, she is our food and clothing parent. She can teach the waiter a few words and it will be successful. Moreover, it is true that we have neglected the girl. How can the girl go beyond the rules?
"That's what I said." The shopkeeper said with a smile: "In order to apologize, I will treat the girl to this pot of tea."
Su Liu raised his eyebrows, he was a good person, and said: "I think the shopkeeper is not unreasonable, and he is also a person who can do business. Seeing that the business of this teahouse is really poor, shouldn't he be unable to continue doing business and have to close down?
"
After hearing this, the shopkeeper sat down on his own regardless of whether Su Liu invited him or not, and said: "To be honest with you, girl, as you can see, the service attitude of the waiter in our store is unwelcome. Business
How can it be better?"
"Since it's no longer useful, I'll just fire you. How come you're still here?"
"I'm afraid the girl didn't hear what I said just now. I am actually the second shopkeeper of this teahouse, and there is another one above me. These waiters..." He chuckled.
Not long after, the waiter came in with tea. The second shopkeeper shut up at the right time. When the waiter was about to exit, he said: "The money for this pot of tea will be put on the public account. It is considered as offending the distinguished guest for you."
It’s a crime to make amends twice.”
The waiter's expression changed, and he blurted out without thinking: "But the boss..."
"Why, I'm just the second shopkeeper, so I can't decide which guest will be brought to the public account? Don't forget, it's all because of you." The second shopkeeper said coldly.
The waiter didn't dare to say anything and responded like a mosquito, but everyone could see the contempt and displeasure flashing in his eyes.
When Su Liu saw this, he basically understood that the real decision-maker in this teahouse was the legendary big shopkeeper. He didn't know who he was, so he said unintentionally: "The big shopkeeper of your shop is also
If you have time, there is no time in this world to sit in court."
The second shopkeeper gave a wry smile and said, "Who wants a master to look after me?" At this point, he seemed to realize that he had made a mistake, so he changed the subject by pouring tea for Su Liu.
Su Liu's heart skipped a beat, Master, who does this big shopkeeper belong to?
Her face remained calm, and she stopped talking about these secret topics. She only talked about the tea ceremony with the second shopkeeper, and then talked about the business methods and so on. She found that this person still had some insights, but from his words, he should be able to tell
Because he was suppressed everywhere, so that his talents could not be used.
After drinking a pot of tea, Su Liu asked for the shopkeeper's surname. Knowing that his surname was Kong, he secretly noted it down before turning to the next place.
Next, we went to the fragrance powder and cloth shop. The fragrance powder was imported from other merchants, so the price was naturally not as cheap as the original source. The rouge gouache was also not available in timely new styles, so it was good to be able to maintain it.
As for the cloth sellers, there was a small dyeing workshop, but because the patterns were old and the colors were monotonous, she sat in the small teahouse opposite the cloth workshop for an hour. Eight people went in, but only one came out with a piece of cloth.
, it can be seen that this business is too bleak for people to look directly at.
After slipping away, Su Liu had a headache. This was far more serious than she thought!
Business is slow, and I don’t know who is involved behind the scenes, or who belongs to whom. If we really want to reorganize it, it is absolutely impossible to keep a low profile.
Su Liu didn't go to the two rented shops. The last one was the restaurant. As for the gambling house, it was not something a woman like her could go to.
It's noon now. Normally there should be a lot of people in restaurants and restaurants, but that's not the case. There are only a few tables in twos and threes. The waiter is very enthusiastic. As soon as Su Liu and the others came in, they wiped the tables and chairs and bowed to say hello.
The restaurant was not big, with only two floors. For the sake of convenience, Su Liu did not ask for a private room, but sat down at a table in the lobby with a wide view.
"Bring in all the specialty dishes in your store." Su Liu didn't order any dishes and only asked General to bring the cooked ones.
After walking for a long time and drinking a lot of tea, everyone was tired. Shuang Ning added that this was more tiring than working in the village.
Xueluo then smiled and said, "This is called tired, and you still say you are following the girl to do big things!"
Shuang Ning stuck out her tongue, glanced at Su Liu and said, "Shouldn't I moan?"
Su Liu put the curtain aside and said: "Shopping is naturally tiring, but today is not the most tiring. I'm afraid it will be even more tiring in the future. You have to be mentally prepared."
After hearing this, the second maid straightened her waist and said, "Don't worry, girl, we will do a good job."
Su Liu nodded and said: "After dinner, we will go back to the inn to rest. I will test you again to see how well you have learned abacus."
Knowing that Pingjing was still in charge of the account books, Su Liu knew that there was still a tough battle to be fought. However, these days, she didn't even know how to use an abacus to calculate accounts. She immediately felt that she was making a lot of money and asked the carpenter to make several abacus skillfully.
, recited all the abacus formulas silently, and taught them to several girls respectively.
Calculating accounts with an abacus is much faster than checking accounts one by one with an abacus. Even Chen Ye thought this method was useful and learned it from Su Liu.
In fact, the two girls Song Fei chose for her, Xue Luoshuang Ning, were really good. They were both very smart, and they both learned abacus very well now. I believe that with time, they would be able to do it very well.
While we were talking, the restaurant's specialty dishes were already served, a dish of soy bean curd, a dish of braised pork elbow, a dish of braised winter bamboo shoots, and a dish of rice wine pork knuckle.
As soon as the dishes were served, Su Liu felt that they were overpriced, but since she hadn't tasted them, she didn't dare to make a conclusion. She just lightly picked them up and tasted some of each.
Without waiting for her to comment, Xueluo and the others frowned and said, "It's worse than what the girls did."
Look, it’s not that she is arrogant, let alone home-cooked food. In this restaurant, the cooking must be all about color, flavor and flavor, so as to attract people’s appetite, but the presentation is not good, and the impression score will naturally drop sharply.
After the blows from the previous stores, Su Liu said he was very calm. While eating, he was sifting through his mind as to which business he wanted to close.
Tea can only be made with a tea certificate issued by the imperial government. This teahouse in Ningguang is mainly a teahouse and sells tea as a supplement. There is no such thing as a tea certificate. If you really want to make an elegant teahouse, Su Liu can start it again.
The layout can at least be better than the current one.
People depend on food, so she wanted to open this restaurant. Restaurants in Beijing mostly cook Beijing cuisine or Jiangnan cuisine, and chili peppers have not been introduced here. It just so happens that she will turn this restaurant into a spicy hot pot restaurant first, and then open it in the future.
Make all kinds of spicy dishes, don't believe it can't be popular.
As for the cloth shop, that's not her strong point. She doesn't know how to dye cloth. She avoids clutter when doing business. Besides, she doesn't know how to dye cloth, so she wants to close the business.
The perfume shop must be kept. She admitted that she was a little selfish, because Su Xiao was making powder. She hoped that Su Xiao's powder could be brought in in the future and turned into a beauty and cosmetics store, specializing in doing women's makeup and selling cosmetics.
With a preliminary plan in mind, Su Liu settled on it, planning to meet Pingjing tomorrow or the day after.
What was Pingjing doing at this time? He happened to be sitting in the teahouse where Su Liu had been sitting. Shopkeeper Kong was chatting with him. Hearing him talk about the business Su Liu mentioned, he couldn't help but be startled.
"You said she is a girl with a fresh face, but can you tell what her accent is?" Pingjing squinted at Shopkeeper Kong.
"It's hard to tell, but the maid next to her speaks with an accent from Qingzhou." Shopkeeper Kong thought about Su Liu's accent and said.
"Qingzhou?" Pingjing raised his eyebrows and suddenly said: "Go and call San'er."
Shopkeeper Kong didn't understand, but he quickly called the waiter named San'er, and Pingjing ordered: "Go and find out where that girl has gone. Come and report immediately."
San'er didn't ask any questions, just answered and left.
Shopkeeper Kong didn't know why, but Pingjing didn't say anything, so he had no choice but to remain silent. Could it be that Manager Ping knew the girl?
Half an hour later, San'er trotted back and breathlessly explained the whereabouts of Su Liu and his party.
After hearing this, Pingjing showed an enigmatic smile, raised his fingers and tapped aggressively, saying: "I'm sure I'm here. It's interesting. It's interesting. I should pay a visit first."
Shopkeeper Kong felt as if a cat was tickling him. He didn't care about his dignity and said, "General manager, look at Wu Sheng..."
"Don't worry, why do you think I have kept him? It is naturally useful. Don't worry, I won't wrong you. Soon, he will step down from this position. The position of the big shopkeeper will definitely be yours.
Pingjing glanced at him indifferently, narrowed his eyes and said, "Of course someone will take care of him for you."
Now that Su Liu was here and knew what was going on in the teahouse, he was very curious about how he would straighten things out. One thing was that if she dared to pull Wu Sheng down, he wouldn't mind giving her a hand.
Ping Jing smiled slightly, but Shopkeeper Kong's eyelids twitched when he saw it. He always felt that this smile was as mysterious as possible.
