The enthusiastic girls were like bees, and the ground floor had been occupied by them, and Xia Shang took the risk of sneaking to the staircase and hid directly on the second floor.

There were few people on the second floor, and only a few young men and women who liked to be quiet chatted first. A few people saw Xia Shang coming in embarrassment, and they all greeted him curiously. Xia Shang was not strict, prevaricated a few words, and then turned the topic to the dishes in the store.

Guests say it tastes great and the price is cheap.

More than ninety percent of the guests commented like this, Xia Shang didn't care, he took a breath and was about to pour a glass of water on the table to suppress the shock, not wanting to hear a woman's voice from the side: "Although the taste is good and the price is cheap, it is difficult for such small wine and small dishes to be on the table after all." With the support of the eldest grandson family, the Wei family, and the Yang family, you should open a restaurant as elegant as 'food is the sky'. ”

When I asked, I saw that the back of a woman by the window on the second floor was slightly familiar, leaning against the window and not looking back, her beautiful figure was twisted like a water snake, and Yingying couldn't hold it.

Xia Shang was stunned for a moment, the woman had already turned around, it was Mei Wan'er, the second lady of the Mei family.

Mei Wan'er said with a kind of contempt, and it seemed that neither party left a good impression in the plum garden that day.

Xia Shang was not very polite to this woman who annoyed his wife, and asked in a sarcastic tone: "Miss Mei, don't you want you to come here today?" I'm looking for you to tell me that this restaurant is so unbearable, why do I want to taste it? ”

Mei Wan'er looked at the two empty bowls in front of her and smiled faintly: "Boss Xia thinks too much, this girl is just here to save face for her younger brother." Besides, no matter whether your store is good or bad, there is always Mei Ruheng's profit. My father persuaded Mei Ruheng to put some thought into business many times but to no avail, but Boss Xia is now letting him get on the right track, according to what my father said, this girl came today to thank you. ”

"Thank me? Miss Mei's words didn't seem like thanks. ”

"How can verbal thanks be compared to action thanks? What Fang Cai said was just to show Boss Xia a clear way, hoping that Boss Xia would make more money, and it would not be so that my brother would follow you for nothing. The Mei family has been in business for generations, and it is the first merchant in Datang, so the men of the Mei family can't always follow you to make a little trouble, right? ”

"A little fight?"

"Isn't it? Your small shop does have a small profit with a few small dishes, and I also know that you make good use of small profits and quick turnover, but you only earn more than ten or twenty wen from this dish, how much should you sell a day to earn a tael of silver? Take a look at the four major restaurants in Chang'an, buying a dish can be your benefit from dozens or hundreds of dishes, compared to it, is your small shop a small fight? ”

After speaking, Mei Wan'er raised her eyebrows and looked at Xia Shang, hoping to see shame or inferiority in his eyes. But she was soon disappointed, because Xia Shang did not have the emotion she wanted in her eyes, but was a little contemptuous.

Mei Wan'er's brows furrowed, and Xia Shang showed a confident smile that she hated.

"I heard that the second lady of the Mei family is the treasure of the Mei family, not only proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, but also involved in poetry and songs, and more importantly, she has a very good business mind, and a casual little idea can make the Mei family earn thousands of gold."

Mei Wan'er also smiled, got up and walked in front of Xia Shang, and gave a salute confidently: "Boss Xia praises falsely, but it's ......"

"But today it seems to be an exaggeration."

This time, Mei Wan'er was not angry, her brows stretched, and she asked with great confidence: "To give a simple example, I only asked the grain team that was transported to Jiangnan by my family to bring the brocade of Jiangnan when I came back, so that the family gained thousands of taels of silver every year for no reason." You're also a businessman, do you think you can do it? ”

"Miss Mei, what you rely on is nothing more than the channels that the Mei family now has. It's not up to you, it's all your family's work. If it were me, with such a huge channel as the Mei family, I could get 10,000 gold at my fingertips. ”

"Humph! Brag! ”

"Don't believe me? Meijia merchants are all over Chang'an, and the amount of goods traded is quite large, and the transportation of gold and silver is extremely inconvenient. Paper can be used instead of silver, and the merchant deposits the silver in the Mei family, and the Mei family can issue the corresponding face value of the paper money, which is tentatively called the silver ticket. In the future, you can use this ticket to withdraw cash at various merchants of Meijia, and you can also buy equivalent goods. It not only eliminates the manpower and material resources of silver transportation, but also allows the Mei family to always grasp a huge amount of cash. As long as it becomes the climate, everyone will deposit silver in the Mei family, and what the Mei family takes out is just some blank paper, isn't this a profit of ten thousand gold in the snap of a finger? ”

Mei Wan'er was stunned, pondered for a long time, and asked rhetorically with her eyebrows: "Looking for what you said, this method requires the Mei family to be honest, and what is taken out is a blank paper, but I don't know that sooner or later it will have to be returned!" Where is the Mei family's profit? ”

"Miss Mei, can't you understand such a simple truth?"

Xia Shang didn't explain again, saying that these were just inconveniences of complaining about not having a silver ticket by the way, and there was no place to put nearly 10,000 taels of silver at home, and now he really wanted to have a money bank to keep for himself.

Mei Wan'er hadn't figured it out yet, thinking that Xia Shang was making a fool of herself, so she snorted coldly and continued to despise: "The way to take tricks is difficult to survive for a long time." ”

"The Bird's Ambition?"

"What did you say?!"

These words angered Mei Wan'er, he has been an angel held by people since he was a child, where has he been looked down upon?

"Birds? Have you compared this girl to a bird? ”

"Isn't it? Be kind and show you the way, but you can't see the stakes. If you don't listen, this path is for my shop. ”

"What did you prepare? Hahaha! Joke, with the strength of my Mei family, I can't guarantee the completion of your fantasy plan, just rely on your small shop? ”

"A small shop? Miss Mei should be optimistic, within ten years, you will not be the only Mei family in the Tang world, every state and county, every county, and every village in Datang will have the words delicious and reasonable! You said that I only earn more than ten wen a piece, then I will sell you a million or ten million copies a day, but I want to see how many more than ten wen the Mei family earns with Miss Mei's ingenuity. ”

Looking at Xia Shang's confident expression, Mei Wan'er covered her chest in anger, and the flames in her eyes seemed to be able to burn Xia Shang to ashes.

"What Gongzi said just now is not the humility of a gentleman, and it is really inappropriate to argue with a woman and lose the courtesy of a gentleman, and it is really inappropriate to speak arrogantly in front of the public, isn't it?"

A gentle, gentle and polite female voice came from behind Mei Wan'er, and a purple-clothed girl in a pleated skirt grabbed Mei Wan'er's shoulders from behind, smiling but indifferent, with a little cinnabar mole between her eyebrows.

It turned out that there was always a girl sitting opposite Mei Wan'er and not being noticed.

It just so happened that at this time, there was a sound of hurried footsteps at the staircase, and several girls who were looking for Xia Shang couldn't chase after them, they saw Xia Shang screaming excitedly, but when they saw the woman behind Mei Wan'er, she closed her mouth again, and her expression was even more excited!