Chapter 52: Opening is a good deal
"Your shopkeeper, I heard that the movement of the Northern Jiangsu Tea House during this period is not small, let's see which shopkeeper has such courage?"
Song Xinshu smiled and said: "I am the shopkeeper of Subei Tea House, thank you for your gift." β
Shopkeeper Li's eyes widened in surprise when he heard this, the woman in front of him was weak, just like a young lady from a big family who had not left the cabinet, although the pair on her body didn't look gorgeous, but if you looked closely, she knew that it was a very precious fabric, well-cut and very generous.
"You are the shopkeeper of Subei Tea House, I have been doing business in Jinling City for so many years, and I have never seen a woman as the shopkeeper of the shop, have you taken the name of your husband?"
"What Shopkeeper Li said, what's wrong with the woman, my husband can't get out of the way if he has something, so I'll come to manage the tea house, can this woman open this tea house, don't you go in and see?"
Song Xinshu is used to being here, everyone thinks that women can't show their heads outside, she should change their thinking.
Shopkeeper Li frowned and shook the fan in his hand and said, "If your husband is free, it is better for your husband to manage it, after all, it is a business, and there are many things to deal with." β
Shopkeeper Li shook his head and shook his fan to go in, Song Xinshu looked at his weak figure and shook his head helplessly.
The housekeeper said: "Madam, you don't have to take his words to heart, although the shopkeeper Li has a lot of money, but his ideals are indeed in the middle, but he has not been admitted to the exam for many years, and he is also contaminated with a sour talent, and his speech is very ugly." β
Song Xinshu smiled and said, "It's okay, I've heard a lot of things like this, but he's not a bad person, it's okay." β
When the housekeeper saw that his wife was so open-minded, he didn't say anything more.
The guests who came to wait came one after another, and Song Xinshu's congratulatory gifts also accumulated a lot, so he asked someone to move to the warehouse in the backyard, and then count them after it was over.
From time to time, someone around him sighed similar to that of the shopkeeper Li, Song Xinshu still greeted him with a smile as if he hadn't heard it, but Wu Xiuyuan was like a little bun, puffing up in the courtyard, and when he heard someone say this, he went up to refute it.
"Our lady is very powerful, all the pastries in this northern Jiangsu tea house are developed by our wife, and there is absolutely no second one in this Jinling City!"
Song Xinshu saw Wu Xiuyuan like this, and was about to call him over to settle down beside him, when he heard a familiar male voice say: "Shopkeeper Song, congratulations on the opening, you will be the big boss in Jinling City in the future!" β
Song Xinshu turned around and saw Zhang Guodong and Fan walking in with a smile, and Song Xinshu hurriedly greeted him.
"Godfather and godmother, you are finally here, I am still wondering if you encountered something on the road!"
"Your godmother picked a congratulatory gift for you, and you couldn't choose the left and right, isn't this a delay in time?"
Fan glanced at Zhang Guodong with disgust, took a red square box from the hand of the little maid behind him, and gently placed it in Song Xinshu's hand.
When she opened it, she saw a gilded white jade bracelet, with bright gold lined with warm white jade, lying quietly on the base of yellow satin.
Song Xinshu sighed silently in his heart, and only the words "graceful and luxurious" came to mind.
"This bracelet is not small." Zhang Guodong said with a smile. "This is what I went to Beijing that year, the queen mother rewarded me, and asked me to go home and give it to my wife, your godmother can take out this to congratulate you on the joy of opening, it can be seen how much I love you!"
In the past few days, Zhang Guodong has also heard of the movements made by Song Xinshu in Jinling City, and I heard that the people in the city are discussing the Northern Jiangsu Tea House in the past few days, and it seems that he really did not see the wrong person at the beginning.
When Song Xinshu heard that it was rewarded by the Queen Mother, he hurriedly said: "Godmother, this gift is too valuable, I can't accept it......"
Before she finished speaking, she was interrupted by Fan: "Godmother, I feel sorry for you, don't talk so much, my godfather and I will go in first, and you will entertain the guests first." β
After speaking, Fan patted her hand affectionately, and walked into the tea house with Zhang Guodong.
Song Xinshu put away the bracelet with emotion and put it in the pocket of his clothes, he really met a nobleman by fate, if she hadn't met such a Taishou, she wouldn't know where she was now, maybe she wouldn't be able to reunite with Wu Xiuyuan and Aja.
Thinking like this, Song Xinshu's eyes became hot, but now was not the time to be lyrical, she suppressed her emotions and greeted the guests with a smile.
When all the guests came, according to the customs in Jinling City, Song Xinshu asked the housekeeper to put a firecracker at the door, then tidied up his clothes and walked into the hall of the tea house.
She walked up to the small stage in the center of the hall and clapped her hands, focusing everyone's attention on herself.
"Thank you for accepting my invitation today and coming here when the Subei Tea House opens, and I especially want to thank Jinling Taishou." As he spoke, Song Xinshu threw a smile in the direction of Zhang Guodong and Fan.
"After that, the North Jiangsu Tea House was officially opened, and I would like to ask you to take care of it in the future, after all, the North Jiangsu Tea House has just opened, and many places are not very mature, please bear with me, please enjoy the refreshments today, and if you need it, just say hello!"
After Song Xinshu finished speaking, he bowed to the audience, and there was applause from the audience.
She had wanted the butler to prepare a formal statement for herself, after all, she was not very good at the clichΓ©s here, but in the end she decided to be more straightforward, after all, she was a woman, and she wanted to tell everyone that she was not a woman to be messed with.
Song Xinshu's confident temperament is rare for women in this era, and most of the people sitting under him are famous merchants in Jinling City.
Song Xinshu walked down from the stage, and then the singer came to the stage with the pipa in her arms, singing some elegant tunes.
After Song Xinshu stepped down, he wanted to go over to talk to Zhang Guodong and Fan, but there was an endless stream of people who came to greet him, and it took him a long time to get out.
Accompanied Zhang Guodong and Fan to talk for a while, she planned to go to the back kitchen to see how the pastries and milk tea were made, these are the signatures of Subei Tea House, but you must not mess it up.
As she was walking into the backyard, a young man suddenly stopped her way.
"Shopkeeper Song, your way of doing business is really admirable!"
Song Xinshu looked at it, and the man in front of him was dressed in a navy blue robe, and the belt around his waist was inlaid with a quail egg-sized ruby, which was extremely bright and reflected a beautiful light in the sun.
The housekeeper had already introduced these merchants to her just now, and she searched hard in her mind, and finally remembered: "Zheng Tianyi, the shopkeeper of the Zhuting Study on East Street, is there something wrong with you?" β
I don't know why, Song Xinshu always has a feeling that the comer is not good.
"I just want to ask, where did the Song shopkeeper's whimsical ideas come from, everything in this tea house is different from others, it's really interesting."
"That's how you came up with it, isn't it special?" Song Xinshu shrugged his shoulders and pretended to be stupid.
Zheng Tianyi also saw that she was reluctant to say, and said with a smile: "Don't be nervous, Shopkeeper Song, I'll just ask casually, look at your backyard decoration, can I take a look casually?" β
Song Xinshu looked around, this courtyard was full of guys, presumably he couldn't do anything, so he nodded.
She walked quickly towards the kitchen, but she didn't expect Zheng Tianyi to follow closely behind her buttocks, and she also wanted to walk into the kitchen, Song Xinshu turned around and stood at the kitchen door, clasped her hands in front of her chest, and said in a hard tone: "The kitchen is heavy, idlers are not allowed to enter." β
Zheng Tianyi said innocently: "But I'm hungry, won't the shopkeeper Song entertain me?" β
Song Xinshu couldn't help it, and he couldn't really get angry in the face of such a cheeky person, so he turned around and went into the kitchen and took out a small plate of snowflake crisp and put it in his hand and said, "Please use it slowly." β
Then he walked into the kitchen and closed the door.
Song Xinshu leaned on the kitchen table and frowned and thought, although this bamboo pavilion study is called a study, it is just a restaurant made into a study, and ordinary literati are willing to go there.
This is a theme restaurant in modern times, I didn't expect this Zheng Tianyi's thinking to be so advanced, but they are doing two kinds of business, he shouldn't want to peek at his secret recipe, right?
Song Xinshu knocked on the door of his head with a headache, he didn't have so much free time to think about such things today, and entertaining the guests in the front hall was a serious matter.
She opened a crack in the door and found that Zheng Tianyi was no longer in the courtyard, and trotted all the way back to the front hall.
It wasn't until the bright moon hung high that Song Xinshu sent off the last guest, sat on the chair with a sore back, and asked Ah Ya to bring him a cup of milk tea.
"Be sure to put more sugar!" Song Xinshu instructed loudly.
She gulped down the sweet milk tea, and instantly felt that the fatigue in her body was reduced by half, and if she was so busy every day, she didn't have to worry about drinking milk tea and getting fat.
Just when she was about to order someone to close the door, suddenly a small guy ran in and said, "Which one is the shopkeeper of Subei Tea House?" β
Song Xinshu said: "I am." β
The servant handed over a letter and said, "This is a letter from someone. β
Song Xinshu took the letter suspiciously, opened it, took out the letter paper inside and read it.
She didn't expect it to be Zheng Tianyi's invitation letter, inviting her to have dinner with her tomorrow afternoon, saying that there was a business matter to discuss with her.
Song Xinshu read out Zheng Tianyi's agreed place: "Qingyuan Tower? β
"What? Qingyuan Tower? Before Song Xinshu could say anything, the housekeeper blurted out in surprise.
"What's wrong with this place?"
"This Qingyuan Tower, but it is the largest Fengchen restaurant in Jinling City, and it is not something that ordinary people can enter!"