Chapter Seventy-Eight: Joy at the Opening
After Shen Xi went back, he devoted himself to the work of compiling the book, he first prepared two books, one is the heroic legend "Yue Quanchuan" with a certain historical romance as the theme of Yue Fei's anti-gold story, and the second is the folk legend martial arts story "Tong Lin Biography", but the dynasty in the book was changed to the Yuan Dynasty.
These two works are the representative works of later generations of storytelling, and their artistic achievements are relatively high.
Shen Xi didn't have to write it all at once, he just wrote the first ten times of the two stories separately, then polished and processed them, and then handed them over to Han Wuye for interpretation.
After reading the new book, Han Wuye was very satisfied.
In the end, he is a person who knows the goods, Han Wuye has dealt with all kinds of stories all his life, and he knows whether it will be popular after a quick glance.
"Shen Jialang, the book you gave me is really well written, but I don't know which master it is?" After Han Wuye read it, even he himself was addicted to the story and couldn't extricate himself, so he asked Shen Xi politely at the moment.
Shen Xi replied with a smile: "Don't worry about this Fifth Master Han, there will always be a story when you turn back." Now that the preparations for this tea shop are basically ready, is it time to open for business? ”
Han Wuye: "Naturally, the sooner the better." ”
For the opening of the tea shop, Shen Mingjun specially took two days off.
On the first day of the opening of the tea shop, it coincided with the market period of Ninghua County, Shen Xi gave Shen Mingjun an idea in order to attract people to come to listen to books, that is, to drink tea and listen to books for free, and the people can go to the tea shop to sit down and drink a cup of tea when they are tired.
This tea shop had already used the silver that Shen Xi had sold his paintings before, and Shen Mingjun had to deal with the needs of the two taels of silver he got after selling the poultry, and he didn't dare to squander it wantonly.
Considering the mass base, the book that opened on the first day was "The Biography of Yue Quan", after all, since the Southern Song Dynasty, Yue Fei's story has been widely circulated among the people, and it has become more popular in the Yuan and Ming dynasties. Now that this story is out, some people who know a little bit will easily enter the story after listening to it.
At two o'clock in the morning, there are many people who come to drink tea, but there are not many people who stop to listen to books. After all, the average old ∝∝∝∝, m.∷.c≮om
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But there was still a harvest in the end, and by noon, when the sun was high, there were gradually more customers in the tea shop, and at this time the story was also in a wonderful place, and there were more and more people gathered outside to listen to the book, and some people even stood with teacups to listen.
In the afternoon, the market in the city dispersed early, and soon it was time to close the shops.
At the end of the day, it is actually equivalent to doing it in vain.
However, Han Wuye is very happy, the most successful thing about the scholar is not how much money he makes, but how many people are willing to stop and listen to his story. From the crowd who came to listen to the book at noon, Han Wuye could feel that this story had a doorway, and as the influence spread, it would not be long before he would be unique among the few scholars with heads and faces in the city.
Shen Mingjun was a little discouraged, he didn't quite understand Shen Xi's intention to drink tea and listen to books for free, and felt a little distressed that he was operating at such a loss, after all, the tea leaves and the firewood from boiling water were all bought by him with real money.
When Shen Xi came back from school in the afternoon, he asked about the situation, and comforted him with a smile: "Dad, if you don't get a lot of money, you will feel distressed about the money here, so how can you make a lot of money in the future?" ”
Shen Mingjun sighed: "I'm afraid that the money will be scattered, and in the end, I will accompany it cleanly, so it is really better to raise poultry well, at least I don't have to worry about losing money." ”
Shen Xi thought to himself that his father's thinking still had to be upgraded, and he had begun to retreat in just one day? If you encounter any setbacks in the future, why don't you just close your business?
Early the next morning, Shen Xi went out to help Shen Mingjun take care of the shop, and only rushed to the school when it was almost there. When he came back in the afternoon, the tea shop was full of people inside and outside.
It is also good news, the official army has reopened the official roads and waterways around Ninghua County, and the city gate is no longer open for half an hour in the morning and evening, and will be open all day.
With the increase in the number of people and merchants entering the city, the flow of people near the wharf in the city has surged. First of all, the workers came to drink a cup of tea and listened to the book, and then got the publicity of the people who drank tea for free yesterday, and more people knew that a new tea shop had opened here, which was so good to hear, so they came here.
Han Wuye sat in front of the table at the northernmost end of the tea shop, his eyebrows were flying, and the guests inside and outside the tea shop listened very energetically, and even the sellers who sold dried fruits and food took the opportunity to come over to do business, and were constantly driven away by Song Cheng.
"Shopkeeper, it seems that it is not enough to just sell tea."
Song Cheng took advantage of Han Wuye's tea break after a period of books, and said to Shen Mingjun, "There are so many people listening to books, why don't we also sell melons and fruits?" ”
Shen Mingjun was a little undecided, and was silent for a while: "After receiving the shop, discuss it with Lang and Han Wuye." ”
Shen Mingjun didn't have too many ideas in terms of business, the shop was taken care of and handed over to Song Cheng, and the books were handed over to Han Wuye, so he was dispensable.
At first, Song Cheng thought that coming to work in the tea shop was just to wipe the tables, chairs, benches, and boil water, and the days should be very leisurely, who knew that the tea shop had a very good business since it opened, and it was so busy that his feet did not touch the ground every day from the beginning of work, and he was so tired that he couldn't straighten his waist after only two ****.
At the end of the business on this day, the tea shop went from losing money on the first day to earning more than 500 wen on this day, and the net income was nearly 400 wen after deducting the cost of shop and tea labor.
According to this momentum, the net profit of the tea shop alone will be nine or ten taels of silver, and according to the ratio of ninety-one open, Shen Mingjun, the shopkeeper, can at least get seven or eight taels.
After calculating the accounts, suddenly the eyes of the two shareholders and a guy in the tea shop began to glow, which was much more profitable than they expected, but it was because of the freshness, plus the novelty came to join in the fun, so there would be such a good business, Shen Xi was worried that after two days, it would be lighter again.
Shen Mingjun distributed the money earned on the first day, whoever should be whomever it was, Song Cheng was the most tired, but he got the least, only twenty wen a day, but Han Wuye was good, he got forty wen, there were still twenty or thirty wen for today's reward, and there were sixty or seventy wen at the end of the day.
As for the rest of the money, it was left in the account, ostensibly it belonged to Shen Mingjun, the boss, but in fact, it was to prepare for the expansion of the tea shop in the future.
"Alas! This seems to be a lot of money, but if you remove the daily expenses and the money for the government and Fang Jia, I am afraid there is not much left. ”
Han Wuye is a person who has come over, and he knows a lot about the tea shop, "It's not a way to go on like this, if it doesn't work, you will add tea money tomorrow." ”
Shen Xi shook his head and vetoed: "It's not appropriate to increase the price of tea, many people pass by just to drink a bowl of tea to quench their thirst, not necessarily to listen to books, they won't come as soon as we raise the price." Although most of our money falls on listening to books, we also have to take care of this money in order to be profitable. ”
Han Wuye smiled and asked, "Shen Jialangjun, do you have any good ideas?" ”
Shen Xi smiled faintly: "Fifth Master is polite, I'm just a child, how can I have any good ideas?" However, I think Brother Song Liu's idea is good, tomorrow you can sell some fried melon seeds, twist flowers, pea cakes, dried longan and other snacks, and the others will continue to operate according to the current appearance, and then see how to expand the scale. ”
The people soon dispersed, and Han Wuye was the first to leave.
After a day of reading, Han Wuye's throat was almost dumb, but he was still very happy to earn sixty or seventy yuan, if he could earn so much every day, then the salary for a month would be more than two taels of silver, and twenty or thirty taels a year, which was much more than the previous income in the teahouse.
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