Chapter 11: The Secret Fight I

Shen Wuyan is no stranger to Deyue Tower, whether it is Shen Wuyan, a former scholar or Shen Wuyan, the current boss of Xingbake, they are very clear about the weight of the three words of Deyue Tower. [Ran^Text^Library] []【Ran Library(7764)】

In Suzhou, in addition to those few textile masters, it can be compared with a little. As for the other restaurants, they are beyond their reach. After all, Deyuelou has almost a monopoly on all restaurants-related industries, whether it is a winery or a supplier of ingredients.

So what Shopkeeper Liu said was not frivolous, what did Shen Wuyan count? How can unknown people be qualified to participate in the poetry meeting of Deyue Tower.

It's just that this sentence still made Wang Shaoqing a little annoyed after all, and when he was about to say a few words of ease, he turned around and saw that Shen Wuyan's face did not have the slightest hint of anger, so he gave up this idea.

"It turns out he doesn't care." Wang Shaoqing secretly admired in his heart, such a calm temperament is much stronger than himself.

Shen Wuyan really didn't care, what did Deyuelou have to do with him, as for whether to invite himself, he had planned to go, but now he didn't invite himself to go, so he just saved it and pushed it away.

Looking at the shopkeeper Liu who sat in the sedan chair again and left, Shen Wuyan chuckled lightly, didn't say anything, just walked towards the alley with Wang Shaoqing, and then the two sat in front of the chair in front of the teahouse and chatted for a while before returning to the teahouse.

"Isn't the young master really angry?" Yue'er sat on a chair in the lobby, looking at Shen Wuyan with a pair of big watery eyes: "Business has gradually improved in the past few days, and I am also a little tired. I let Da Mao and them eat first, and now they are writing in the room. ”

Da Mao is the eldest of the five little beggars, these children have no father and no mother, so they have been arranged by Shen Wuyan to live in the teahouse, after the last leaflet was sent yesterday, these children also wanted to stay in the teahouse, so they simply stayed and did chores.

After that, Shen Wuyan remembered Wang Shaoqing's words again, so he decided to teach them to read. It just so happened that Yue'er had also read books, so he asked Yue'er to help first, and every night he would find time to tell the children about the things in the books.

For Yue'er, this girl, Shen Wuyan really likes it very much. She is not only obedient and well-behaved, but also involved in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, although she is not everyone, but compared to other maids, she is already very powerful.

In addition to these, Yue'er's business ability and management ability are not inferior to many successful people in the previous life, and in the territory of Suzhou, they can deal with many problems, and Shen Wuyan also has plans to hand over the teahouse to Yue'er to manage.

Thinking of this, Shen Wuyan stepped forward and patted Yue'er's little head, and said lightly: "Of course I'm angry, how do I know who he invited, isn't I a human being, young master?" But then again, all the people invited by Deyue Tower are immortals? ”

Hearing Shen Wuyan joking like this, Yue'er knew that he didn't care, but when she mentioned Deyuelou, the girl's mind gradually fluttered.

"Every year on the occasion of Shangyuan, Duanyang and Mid-Autumn Festival, Deyuelou will hold a poetry meeting, at this time the talents of Suzhou will go to present poems, in general, it is very lively, and there are often stories of talented and beautiful people to circulate and ......"

The talents of this era are actually like the stars of that world, girls are somewhat obsessed with those talents, and for Shen Wuyan, these things are really boring.

"Yue'er's focus is probably on the talent."

Being ridiculed by Shen Wuyan like this, Yue'er raised her eyebrows slightly, and said with slight disgust: "Young master, don't talk nonsense,...... It's just that since he is a talent, he naturally has merit. Gu Qingshan, who was very white, was quite chic. ”

Shen Wuyan had never heard of the name Gu Qingshan, so when Yue'er mentioned it, he didn't feel anything, but Li Taibai was familiar to him, and after some nonsense, he talked about the recent business situation.

"I've tasted the young master's milk tea, and it tastes good. It should be accepted by guests very quickly. It's just that maybe the name is too weird, and there aren't many people in the afternoon. However, after listening to the feedback from the guests who have drunk it, it is said that it is not bad. ”

After getting Xu Wenchang's approval in the morning, Shen Wuyan wrote the milk tea into the tea list. Basically as he expected, the market has not yet opened, and it is difficult to be recognized. There are many people who follow the crowd, and once they are recognized, sales will naturally go up.

"By the way, it is said that the Shen family restaurant has also been reducing its price recently, and the price of each table has been reduced by twenty taels of silver, so that it will not be until the end of the month, and I am afraid it will be closed."

This news was expected, and when he went out that day and saw the four small words on the side of the Hu family restaurant, he knew that there would be this ending, but what he didn't expect was that it would be so fast.

Shen Wuyan shook his head and said: "With the temperament of the eldest brother, he will sell the house next, and then he will come to me to borrow money, in short, he will not stop before the Hu family restaurant closes." And the more the price is reduced, the better the business, then the faster and more complete the loss. ”

Yue'er has a talent for business, and she also expected what Shen Wuyan said, but when she heard Shen Wuyan say it, she still had palpitations, and asked in a low voice: "Will the young master lend money to the eldest young master?" ”

Shen Wuyan nodded and said, "Naturally, I want to lend it to him, no matter what, it is the foundation of the Shen family." Even if I didn't want to borrow it, the old man wouldn't agree. Let alone...... Lu's slap hasn't been returned yet. ”

"That slap ......" Yue'er opened her mouth, in fact, she had long forgotten about being slapped by the Lu family. Because this happened a lot in the past, so I got used to it, but I didn't expect the young master to remember it.

She couldn't speak for a long time, so she could only look at Shen Wuyan and be silent.

Shen Wuyan lightly flicked on Yue'er's head, and said, "What do you think about the promotion of milk tea?" ”

For this new product made by Shen Wuyan, Yue'er is actually not optimistic, after all, she has never seen it before, and what she has to do now is not simply to sell milk tea, but to change most people's habits of drinking tea, which is too difficult.

Seeing Yue'er's embarrassment, Shen Wuyan nodded, he naturally knew how difficult it was to change a habit that was recognized by the public, which meant that people would change the habit of drinking tea on weekdays to drinking milk tea.

"Actually, it's not as difficult as you think, and don't think about it as opposed to traditional tea drinking, just think about it as a new drink. The two are actually a relationship of substitution for each other, drinking tea today and drinking milk tea tomorrow, in fact, there is no conflict. ”

After Shen Wuyan said this, Yue'er's thinking gradually became clear, if it was not to change people's daily tea drinking habits, then it might be easier for people to accept milk tea.

So the plan on how to push milk tea into the Suzhou market was officially launched in the early morning of one day.

Early in the morning, several scholars met and walked towards a high-grade breakfast shop on Shiquan Street.

After a few people made it, they ordered soy milk fritters, and later ordered some snacks, and then they started talking while eating.

One of the chubby scholars said while eating a snack: "There is a teahouse on the side of Daru Lane, I went there once a few days ago, and the tea is all good tea, but the price is a little expensive." ”

"Wang Gongzi still cares about the price?" Listening to the slightly chubby prince talk about the price, a thin scholar smiled and said: "Your family can sell a piece of cloth casually, which is enough to drink tea over there for half a month." ”

This Wang Gongzi's family is a wealthy businessman in Suzhou, and his hobby on weekdays is to fool around with these literati scholars, but in fact, there is no literary atmosphere in his bones, and the reason why these scholars are with him is to spend money conveniently.

Of course, Wang Gongzi is not stupid.

More than half of the wealthy merchants in Suzhou City made friends with him in general, and he actually did this for the Wang family to climb more literati in the future.

"Little Er, let's have a pot of milk tea to wake up eight guests." Wang Gongzi was still chewing on the fritters and calling Xiao Er.

The shopkeeper looked at Wang Gongzi blankly, and said blankly: "What do you mean...... Wake up eight guest milk ......"

"Milk tea."

Wang Gongzi was a little impatient, he took out ten taels of silver from his waist pocket and threw it to the man: "Daru Lane Wake up the Eight Guest Teahouse, ask for a pot, and the rest should be used as travel expenses." ”

This scene seemed quite surprising to several other scholars, ten taels of silver to buy a pot of tea, and the rest was the travel fee, so how much was the rest of the travel expenses? Wang Gongzi is really generous, so they all looked at Xiao Er who left ecstatically with envy.

"A pot of milk tea costs nine taels of silver, and it is really a lot to give him one or two taels of silver." Wang Gongzi chuckled, completely ignoring the amazed eyes of all of you.

After a while, Xiao Er ran over with a teapot. The look on his face was obviously not as happy as before, and he seemed to be a little disappointed, and he muttered: "What kind of tea, it's nine taels of silver a pot." ”

When Wang Gongzi saw Xiao Er coming over with milk tea, he immediately showed joy on his face, hurriedly took it and poured himself a cup, and drank it alone.

Several scholars around smelled this strange smell and found that they had never tasted it, and their eyes couldn't help but glow with anticipation.

Wang Gongzi didn't seem to see it at all, and after drinking alone for a while, he suddenly got up and said: "I suddenly remembered that there is something at home today, so I can't play with you, and today's meal will be recorded in my account." ”

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Inside the teahouse.

Yue'er looked at Shen Wuyan with joy on her face and said, "Young master, don't you know, as soon as those scholars saw Wang Gongzi leave, they immediately divided up the pot of milk tea, and then called it delicious in the world." It is said that later these scholars boasted to other companions about how delicious this milk tea was. ”

This is the result that Shen Wuyan wants, until now, such things have happened in four or five shops in Suzhou City, and the results are roughly the same, which shows that the first step of the plan has been successfully completed.

"It's nothing more than leaving a pair of calligraphy and paintings of Wang Gongzi in the teahouse, this is a trivial matter, Yue'er will go to his ...... Hang the broken word on the wall and find a prominent place. ”

In fact, he was able to find such a few characters to help because Shen Wuyan promised to leave their calligraphy and paintings in the store for display. Although these rich children have money in their families, it is still impossible to hang calligraphy and paintings in Deyue Building, so they retreat and hang them in such a teahouse.

"By the way, there is something I forgot to tell the young master. When you went to Mr. Shaoqing's house in the afternoon, the housekeeper of the Li family came to visit. ”

"The Li family?" For this Li family, Shen Wuyan still has some impressions in his mind, it is said that it was opened in Suzhou Bookstore, and thirty percent of the books in the entire Suzhou City were printed by them: "Is there something wrong?" ”

Yue'er's face changed slightly, and she was silent for a moment before she stumbled: "The young master still remembers what the old master mentioned three years ago, is it Li Wan'er, the eldest lady of the Li family." ”