After the Qiao Qiao Festival, Tian Minyan's family was free. After discussions with the family, Tian Minyan left the unplanted wasteland idle and waited for the arrival of Qi Shiqi's batch of seed potatoes.
Autumn sowing has been completed, and the fish farming in the rice fields is growing very gratifyingly. As the fish grow up, Tian Minyan has to walk around the fields almost every day, while Tian Huairen wanders into the fields whenever he has something to do to prevent someone from stealing.
fish.
The fifteen acres of land he bought in Taihe Town next door was difficult to manage. After being introduced by Deng Fugui, Tian Minyan leased the fifteen acres of land and the crops to an honest and honest family named Song Qingcai.
Just 50-50, and in the future you will have to pay 40% of the rent.
After everything was settled, Tian Minyan was thinking about how to increase revenue and reduce expenditure, and start some kind of business. After all, she couldn't make any money just by wasting it like this.
She did some calculations and found that after recently deducting the sixty-five taels spent to buy the land, they only had less than four hundred taels left. Even if they could sell part of the summer harvest, the money would only be enough for the family for half a year.
expenditures around.
If you want to do any business, you need to survey the market, so Tian Minyan proposed to go to the county town to have a look.
The decision was made, so Tian Minyan, Tian Huairen, Tian Minrui, and Xie Chengzhong got on the carriage and went to the county seat.
It was Tian Minyan who proposed to bring Tian Minrui with him. After all, Tian Minrui's path has not been completely finalized. Tian Minyan believes that diversified development awareness is better than anything else, such as doing business, so let him participate in it and exaggerate it. If in the future
If he really chose to do business, he didn't know anything, so he was eager to get started, and Tian Minrui himself readily agreed.
Qingping County is a large county, only about an hour and a half away from Taiping Town. The county seat is naturally much larger and more prosperous than Taiping Town.
Like Taiping Town, the county town is also divided into several commercial streets. The one with the best shops is Zhong Street, because it is right in the center of the county town and runs through the southeast and northwest streets like a circle.
Tian Minyan, the county seat, also invited Deng Fugui this time, because he has a wide network of contacts and many routes. Even if he wants to buy a shop, it is much better than running around looking for it like a blind fly.
The county town is very large, with many shops selling gold and silver jewelry, snack bars, large restaurants, and Lingluo silk and satin grocery stores.
As soon as Tian Minyan walked down, in the middle street alone, there were three jewelry stores, four cloth stores selling ready-made clothes, and a century-old Jinyi Fang store.
"This Jinyifang belongs to the Fang family." Tian Minrui whispered to Tian Minyan.
Tian Minyan looked over and saw that there were many people inside, and she saw that the business was good, so she smiled and said: "Brother, you said that he is from a poor family, but you don't know that he is also a noble man. He even sent two rice dumplings that day."
During the Dragon Boat Festival, Tian Minrui said that he wanted to give a boxing gift to a classmate. He said that he rented a house and his clothes were not fancy, so he thought that he also came from a poor family. Who knew that he also came from a wealthy family with land, land and a shop.
"I didn't know at first." Tian Minrui blushed slightly and said with a smile: "I saw him dressed like an ordinary farmer, so..."
"This is that people should not be judged by their appearance, brother, you understand." Tian Minyan took the opportunity to teach another sentence: "Whether you are looking at people or things, you can't just look at the surface. Don't make a conclusion easily before you fully understand it.
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"Yeah! By the way, Fang Yu said, if we want to open a ready-made clothing store, we can also introduce merchants to us." Tian Minrui said.
"Brother, look at this street. There are four ready-to-wear shops alone. Let alone other places, we can't open any ready-to-wear shops." Tian Minyan shook her head and kept looking at the passers-by.
"Then what are your ideas?" Tian Minrui asked, and after thinking for a while, he said: "You can design that jewelry pattern, do you want to open a jewelry shop?"
"A jewelry store requires a lot of capital. We don't have the capital to make gold, silver, and jade, and other cheap materials are hard to find at the moment, so I don't plan to open a jewelry store. However, I do have an idea."
"you say."
Tian Minyan built a tent on her eyebrows. The midday sun was blazing and hung over her head, making people dizzy. She said, "It's already noon. How about we find a tea shop to have dinner and then talk."
"That's fine."
Tian Minyan told Deng Fugui that she had never been to the county seat, but Deng Fugui was very familiar with it, so she took them to a restaurant on East Street.
The restaurant they were in was located at the front of East Street. It was a small teahouse, but for some unknown reason, there were not many customers inside. When Tian Minyan and the others came, the waiter was a little unhurried.
"Although there are not many customers here now, the braised pork knuckle here tastes very good and the price is reasonable." Deng Fugui seemed to see the doubts of several people and explained with a smile.
Tian Minyan looked around. The living room was not small. It could hold about fifteen Eight Immortals tables. Like other shops, there was a wooden staircase next to the counter leading to the second floor. The second floor should be a private room.
Tian Minyan deliberately chose a location on the roadside next to the window. At noon, the window lattice was open, and you could see the street. There was also a restaurant about five meters diagonally opposite. There were noisy people inside, and it was much busier than here.
There was a snap, Tian Minyan was startled, and when she looked up, it was the waiter who placed a pot of tea heavily on the table, and asked with a dark face and trembling legs: "What do you want to eat?"
Tian Minyan frowned. With such a service attitude, no wonder no one came.
"What's your attitude? Go call your shopkeeper." Deng Fugui immediately got angry.
In the direction of the kitchen, a middle-aged man of about forty happened to walk out. Seeing this, he hurriedly came up to him and said to the waiter: "I'll come, you go and wash all the dishes."
"What? You still have to wash the vegetables? Are you trying to kill yourself?" The waiter didn't care about the customers. He glared and said dissatisfied: "Goodbye, shopkeeper Feng, you pay me your wages, I won't do it."
Already."
Shopkeeper Feng had a bad look on his face. He pulled him aside and said, "You just came yesterday and you're leaving today. How much will you pay?"
"You can't blame me for this. Look at how many customers there are and how much money I can earn. I have eighty parents above me and a child waiting to be fed. They are all waiting for me to eat with my hands. Piaoxianglou said,
Pay me a tael of silver and go to a higher place. Shopkeeper Feng, you don't want to see my wife and children starve to death, right?" the waiter said with his legs crossed and his mouth curled.
"You can leave if you want, but you haven't been able to do it all day, so I can't marry you." Shopkeeper Feng was very tough: "Even if you go to the government to report to the government, you won't get it."
"You...Okay, let me see how good you are. This shabby shop can't open anymore, so I'll just take pity on you. I don't want this money." The waiter's eyes widened, and he snorted.
He threw down the white towel on his shoulders and walked away.
Shopkeeper Feng sighed, and then he remembered that there were guests. He walked over quickly and said with a smile: "No wonder I neglected you all. What do you want to eat?"
"Uncle Deng, you are familiar with it, can you order it?" Tian Minyan looked at Deng Fugui and said with a smile.
Deng Fugui didn't give in, so he ordered a plate of braised pork knuckles, a plate of fried bacon with green onions, a plate of green vegetables and a plate of steamed buns. The shopkeeper quickly went to the kitchen to give orders.
While Tian Minyan was drinking tea, she looked at the surrounding environment again. She had an idea in her mind, but she remained silent.
The braised pork knuckle has been braised for a long time and can be served immediately after being cut. Tian Minyan tasted a piece and it was fragrant but not greasy.
Try the fried bacon with green onions again. Although it's not as good as the pork knuckle, it's not too unpalatable and the price isn't too expensive. I don't understand why the business of this shop is so bad.
She had this question, so she asked Deng Fugui.
The shopkeeper was writing something on the counter. When he heard this, he came over with a piece of paper and said with some embarrassment: "Young lady, you don't know. My business here is only famous for selling braised pork knuckles.
It’s a secret recipe passed down from family, but the other dishes are just mediocre. Since the Piaoxiang Restaurant opened across the street, the business of my shop has been even worse. Some customers who are hungry for pork knuckles come to buy it and take it away. Opposite the store
Piaoxianglou also came here and wanted to buy my secret recipe, but my ancestors ordered me not to sell it. I also wanted to hold on for a while, but now it seems that this store can no longer be opened. It has been almost a hundred years, but it is ruined by me.
With this in hand, I won’t be able to see my ancestors in the future.”
Speaking of this, Shopkeeper Feng's eyes were a little moist and he looked reluctant.
"Does the shopkeeper want to sell this shop?" Tian Minyan's eyes lit up and she hurriedly asked: "But yours is also a century-old brand, what a pity."
"A hundred years is a hundred years, but it has not made a bright name. Instead, each generation is worse than the previous generation, and my generation is even worse. So what if we don't sell it out? How many guests can we have in a day? I support it.
I can't go on anymore. I just want to go back to the countryside with a small capital to guard my ancestral business, and open a snack bar selling only these pork knuckles." Shopkeeper Feng glanced at the public notice of the pan shop in his hand, and said with a wry smile: "I just hope
I hope that my descendants can reopen the store in the future, and I will have the honor to visit my ancestors in the future."
Tian Minyan pursed her lips and pondered for a moment, then said: "How much money does Shopkeeper Feng need to sell this shop?"
"Nanny, don't you want to?" When Tian Minrui heard this, he immediately noticed his sister's intention and hurriedly spoke.
Tian Minyan waved her hand to signal him to calm down, and only looked at Shopkeeper Feng.
Shopkeeper Feng said: "With tables and chairs and other personal belongings, as well as the remaining ingredients, it will cost two hundred taels if we are full. Could it be that the girl wants to open a shop? What do you think of me?"
"I do think so." Tian Minyan said oh, and then said: "It's just that your price is not cheap, and you can only open a shop. It's troublesome to live without a place."
"Shopkeeper, our girl wants to buy a shop with a yard at the back where people can live." Xie Chengzhong said, "Although your shop is good, it doesn't have a yard. Two hundred taels is too expensive."
"Girl, if you really want to buy it, I have built two small courtyards behind my shop, so naturally I will sell them as well." Shopkeeper Feng smiled bitterly after hearing this: "I also want to go back to my ancestral home.
Now, this yard is empty. Even the public notice for the shop has been prepared. Today, I am also destined to meet you, girls. The public notice has not been posted yet, and I met it."
As he said that, he handed the public notice in his hand to Tian Minyan and the others to look at.
"I want to see the layout of the entire shop, as well as the yard at the back." In fact, after looking at the hall and location, Tian Minyan already had a certain idea in mind, but she still wanted to see the place. After all, buying a shop is a big deal, and the price is also high.
It’s not cheap and it can’t be hasty.
"Okay, after you finish eating, I will lead you around." Shopkeeper Feng was a little happy when he saw that Tian Minyan seemed to be interested in buying. He agreed with a smile and walked away.
After shopkeeper Feng left, Tian Minrui looked at Tian Minyan eagerly and asked, "Nanny, you won't really buy this shop, will you? What are we going to do with such a big shop?"
"Nanny, do you want to go to other places to have a look? Haven't you decided what kind of business you want to do?" Tian Huairen was also hesitant. Two hundred taels is a lot of money.
Tian Minyan smiled, looked at Deng Fugui and asked, "Uncle Deng, what do you think? Is this shop affordable?"
Deng Fugui put down his chopsticks, looked around, and said after careful consideration: "Actually, this place is big enough and the location is pretty good. If there are people living in the small courtyard behind, I can afford it. After all, you don't own this place."
You can also rent out the business in the future." After a pause, he said: "It's just that I don't know what kind of business you want to do, second lady?"
"Of course it's a restaurant."
"But Piaoxiang Restaurant's business is booming now. If it turns into a restaurant..." Deng Fugui frowned.
"Uncle Deng, don't worry. They can do it, and I can do it too. I chose to open this restaurant instead of a clothing and jewelry store because of my own plans." Tian Minyan said with a smile: "This is actually true.
First, we have fields at home, and the crops we grow can be supplied to restaurants. In the future, we will also build a farm to raise chickens, ducks, geese, and other supplies. This will eliminate the need to purchase supplies elsewhere, which will save a lot of money.
Lower costs. Secondly, the restaurants here only serve lunch and dinner. The restaurant I open is different. The restaurant I open is one where people can come and eat all day long."
"All day?"
Everyone here looked at each other in confusion. Isn’t a restaurant just for eating? How many people are here to eat before it’s time for dinner?
Tian Minyan smiled and said nothing. What she wanted to open was actually a Cantonese-style teahouse that would provide morning tea and snacks in the morning market, meals in the lunch market, and afternoon tea as well. She really missed sitting in a huge restaurant and ordering
A pot of tea and two snacks, a noisy scene of chatting with a few close friends.
She has seen it, life in ancient times was extremely slow-paced, and the restaurants here were all the same. They only served two markets. In the afternoon, if she wanted to find a place to have tea and chat, she would go to a tea shop like Wenxiangju.
Or you can invite everyone to their home, which requires preparation and posting in advance, which is a bit inconvenient.
So if you open a teahouse with tea and snacks like this, some people should like this novelty, right?
Yan especially likes to drink morning tea and afternoon tea, hehe~
