Chapter 70 Preparing for the Opening
After Qu Wu returned from Wu Rong's new home, he began the renovation of the restaurant on the second day. and Wu Jiang and the three brothers Kong Chen, Li Wei, and Chen Cheng to do this together, and Chen Shi is responsible for the safety protection of the goods in the backyard.
The decoration of the restaurant is a more complicated thing, Qu Wu and Wu Jiang together planning, drawing, the two rooms in the middle of the downstairs of the building are opened into a lobby, the four rooms on both sides of the lobby are used as kitchens, and the kitchen is divided into two parts, one part is the cooking room, the other part is the stir-fry room, respectively, the stove, the board and so on.
All the stoves in the kitchen are separated from the lobby by a wall, and the chimney also runs up the wall. Doing so maximizes the use of kitchen heat to heat up the lobby.
In ancient times, there was no electricity, and smoke exhaust became a big problem, but Qu Wu skillfully installed the fan blades of the electric fan in the chimney, and made a pneumatic device with the fan blades of another electric fan outside, and connected the fan blades in the chimney with a pulley and the pneumatic device outside, so that the wind power was used to exhaust the smoke.
The four rooms upstairs are made into private rooms, and the lobby is equipped with display cases and counters.
Due to the large amount of work, Qu Wu asked Wu Jiang to invite more than 20 carpenters and plasterers to do this, the interior decoration is made of solid wood, dining tables, stools, wooden sofas, counters, display cabinets, etc., a color of pastoral style, Qu Wu drew and guided these carpenters to complete one by one, fortunately, these craftsmen are very smart, a little dial to understand, so it is quite smooth.
While doing the decoration of the restaurant, he also asked the carpenters to make wooden beds and furniture, which were placed in several rooms in the courtyard for Da Mao, Chen Qing and the guest rooms to use.
On the third day after the renovation of the restaurant, Chen Damao's three siblings, Ji Zhi, and Ziyan also came to Hanyue from Shucheng, but Zheng Shu did not come because he couldn't leave for the time being because of something at home.
Seeing that the people had basically arrived, Qu Wu summoned everyone to a meeting to discuss the matter of transporting goods, first of all, to rent a few larger cargo ships, which would be handed over to Wujiang to handle quickly, and then arrange a series of things from loading to transportation to how to send them to the warehouse after going ashore tomorrow.
Wu Jiang and his brother quickly contacted six large ships and arranged for six wagons to wait at the dock tomorrow morning.
At night, Ziyan and Chen Qing slept in one room, and Da Mao and Ji Zhi slept in one room. Everyone was very excited to get together and do things.
In fact, Qu Wu took everyone to do it together because he wanted to bring these brothers and sisters to make a fortune together. With the seven Night Pearls left on his body, he didn't need to work hard to make money at all. But instead of letting them deteriorate and rot in the wilderness, there is nothing wrong with using them to make everyone rich.
Early the next morning, in addition to Chen Qing and Ziyan who stayed in the courtyard with two big wolf dogs, steamed buns and steamed buns, Wu Jiang also invited a few soldiers to guard the compound, and the other seven brothers, under the leadership of Qu Hao and Wu Jiang, set off in three big boats in the direction of the heavy truck. After walking down the river for about a kilometer, I entered the tributary and went upriver to the direction of the heavy truck.
Qu Wu stood at the bow of the boat, looking earnestly to the side of the parked heavy truck, looking for the little red cloth mark tied to the small tree by the river.
After walking for about an hour, he finally saw the little red cloth, and Qu Wu immediately docked the boat on the shore.
After everyone followed Qu Wu ashore, Wujiang and them, as well as Chen Damao and Ji Zhi, were all stunned by this behemoth's heavy truck, and they didn't understand what it was or why they were here.
Everyone asked Qu Wu what it was, and Qu Wu told them that it was a heavy car, just like a horse-drawn carriage, but the carriage and horse could not be pulled, and they had to rely on their own power to walk on the road.
As he spoke, Qu Wu opened the carriage, and everyone was excited to see that it was full of boxes of goods.
Qu Wu took everyone to start unloading the goods and carrying them to the ship, and after a while, the six boats were full, for safety, Qu Hao did not let them be overloaded, fortunately it was a wasteland, they closed the carriage and returned to the ship.
Although the ship was carrying goods on the return voyage, because it was going downstream, it was not too difficult to row, and it arrived at Hanyue City before noon.
After arriving in Hanyue, Wu Jiangyue's six carriages were waiting there, Qu Wu then instructed everyone to unload the goods on the ship and load them on the carriage, and when a carriage was filled, one person was sent to escort the carriage to the courtyard to unload, and then Ziyan and Chen Qing counted and registered, and temporarily placed them in the compound to wait for unified storage.
After six wagons pulled back and forth several times, all the goods on the ship were finally transported back to the courtyard.
Qu Wu saw that it was still noon at this time, so he immediately left two people to sort out the goods with Chen Qing and Ziyan, and the others continued to drive the boat to the heavy truck car to load all the remaining goods back on the ship, including the things that can be removed and used on the heavy truck car, such as fire extinguishers, seat cushions on sofa beds and car seat cushions, etc., all of which were removed and brought back, and the remaining fuel in the car fuel tank was also pulled out and brought back, and the motorcycle was also put on the boat and towed back to Hanyue.
When all the dozens of tons of goods were transported to the courtyard, Qu Wu put all the goods into two warehouses by category, and it was busy until the evening, everyone was tired, but they were very happy.
Early the next morning after the goods were shipped back, Qu Wu, Ziyan and Chen Qing came to the warehouse and registered all the goods.
Qu Wu's mother is an accountant, Qu Wu has also seen his mother working overtime at home to keep accounts, curious to read those account books, his mother saw that he was curious, so she told him some principles and methods of bookkeeping, I didn't expect to use it here.
The new ledger is in the supermarket's goods, as well as the delivery list, Qu Wu, Ziyan and Chen Qing together to count all the goods, and the two of them will register them.
Although Chen Qing was born in an ordinary family and did not study a day of private school, but with her intelligence, she learned a lot of words with her two brothers under the teaching of her father at a very young age.
After the inventory and registration were completed, Qu Wu told Zi Yan and Chen Qing how to issue a shipping bill and check it in the account book, and told the shipping bill to sign the name of the person who handled it, and then the goods could be removed.
After doing these warehouse things, the kitchen was also renovated, Qu Wu put the pots and pans for stir-frying, and began to teach the brothers how to stir-fry and how to make hot pot, and after teaching, let them practice one by one, pass the test, Qu Wu also worked in the cooking class when he was in the army, because there were no ways to cook in the Spring and Autumn Period, so even if it was a simple home-cooked food, it was also a peerless delicacy for these people who had not eaten.
After Qu Wu taught the skills of stir-frying to these brothers, he began to recruit other personnel, Kong Chen, Li Wei, and Chen Cheng were locals, and they were responsible for recruiting chefs and running the second child.
Wu Jiang is responsible for training the basic etiquette of employees, and in terms of export goods, Qu Wu specially teaches everyone to explain the characteristics, names, and prices of several kinds of food and lighters and liquor that were first introduced.
Qu Wu also organized various functional departments and set up a reception office, an internal affairs office, a finance office, and a security office, which were respectively responsible for Wu Jiang, Chen Damao, Ziyan, and Kong Chen.
The restaurant also built a set of account books, every day to buy cauliflower expenses, restaurant income separately bookkeeping, existing goods are registered, how much sales in the warehouse must be registered, the goods are sold and replenished to fill in the warehouse list, and the remaining goods should be counted at the end of business every day, which is consistent with the account book.
For safety, several safes in the goods also came in handy, a collection of money was placed under the counter in the lobby of the restaurant, Qu Wu put one in his room to store valuable jade and night pearls, and the warehouse put a store for the business money after the daily inventory, and also found an infrared alarm from the goods, which was installed outside the wall to ensure safety.
After nearly a month of intense preparation, the decoration of the restaurant was finally completed, the training of the staff was basically over, and everyone began to prepare for the opening, which was also close to the end of the year.