Only then was he led by the shopkeeper to the rest area on the second floor to drink tea, and the shopkeeper just saw that Lin Jiu's intention was not to make a cloth, so he asked when he sat down.

"I don't know what Miss Lin is talking about today."

Seeing that someone asked like this, Lin Jiu was not ambiguous, so he directly explained his intention: "I don't know if the shopkeeper's shop may be for me?" ”

The shopkeeper was stunned when he heard this, and thought that Lin Jiu was joking, but his Lin Jiu didn't look like he was joking.

He wanted to get angry, but he remembered that early this morning, the Huang family sent someone over, and he made a special trip to tell him that Lin Jiu and the Huang family are now a cooperative relationship, and asked everyone to make it convenient when necessary.

It seems that Lin Jiu's inventory this time should have been instructed by the Huang family, he painted for most of his life to get such a shop, but if it is compared to financial resources, he and the Huang family are naturally incomparable, but it is a little unwilling to ask him to give up like this.

The shopkeeper was silent for a long time, Lin Jiu did not urge, she also knew the struggle in the shopkeeper's heart, and after waiting for a while, she said: "Don't worry about the shopkeeper, I am not here to rob, I respect the shopkeeper very much, no matter whether our business can be negotiated or not, I will not let the shopkeeper suffer." ”

After Lin Jiu's words, the shopkeeper breathed a sigh of relief, since there is oppression from the Huang family, this store must be sold, so try to earn more benefits for yourself.

In the end, Lin Jiu had bought this shop at a price of 20,000 taels of silver, although the shopkeeper's heart was still not very comfortable, after all, his shop was a prosperous shop, but he knew that this was already the best result.

After buying the shop, Lin Jiu began to renovate, fortunately, the ancient buildings were all based on beams and column bases, and there was a way that the walls and houses did not collapse, so it was very convenient for her.

After some inspection, she directly opened all the walls inside, and found a painter to draw a floor plan of the situation in the shop according to her requirements.

Following the memories of her previous life, she left a circular square in the middle of the shop, and the roofs between the second and third floors were all opened, and the locations around the square were divided into small cubicles and turned into small bunks.

When she came to the decoration problem, she thought of Master Zhang, who worked for her in Heishui Town before, Master Zhang's craftsmanship was really good, even in Fucheng Lin Jiu, she didn't see a few good craftsmanship like him.

So Lin Jiu sent people to Heishui Town from thousands of miles away, and invited Master Zhang, as soon as he arrived in Fucheng, Master Zhang took a look at the shop non-stop, and calculated that if he kept improving according to Lin Jiu's requirements, he would decorate all the upper and lower three floors of the shop, and with his manpower, I am afraid that it would not be completed in a year.

Even if Lin Jiu could wait, he couldn't help it, so after he asked Lin Jiu, he went to find his master who opened a store in Fucheng, Li Cheng.

Because Master Zhang's craftsmanship is so good, Lin Jiu thought that his master's work must be no worse, of course, it is true, for so many years in Fucheng, Li Cheng has always worked for the rich and powerful.

And Lin Jiu's recent cooperation with the Huang family has spread in Fucheng, so Li Cheng did not refuse, so he came with Master Zhang to see Lin Jiu.

After Li Cheng looked at Lin Jiu's design drawings, he put forward his own suggestions for several places, and Lin Jiu naturally gladly adopted the suggestions of professionals, which made Li Cheng feel more comfortable and more dedicated to work.

While they were decorating, Lin Jiu began to use the name of the Huang family on the other side to find merchants who could settle in her department store, and Mrs. Jin needless to say.

Previously, she was just going to be a shopping mall, so she rejected Mrs. Jin's proposal at that time, but now she heard that Lin Jiu wanted to make this novelty, Mrs. Jin immediately said that she wanted to support it, and even gave Lin Jiu a deposit for renting a shop.

The same is true of the Huang family, Huang Ke will move the jade shop under his name into Lin Jiu's department store, with the Huang family and the Jin family taking the lead, other shops have followed suit, and directly occupied the twenty-five shops designed by Lin Jiu.

As for Lin Jiu's own boiled world, cherry blossom workshop, etc., she didn't bring them, but chose to leave them in Blackwater Town and continue to let Chen Nong take care of them for her.

However, she didn't want the department store to be set up, and she could only transfer the rent money, so when she signed the contract with the merchants, she proposed that in addition to the rent, she would also own a 10% stake in the shop.

Of course, in exchange, Lin Jiu will ensure the safety and hygiene of the store, and will go to each shop on time every day to clean it, and if there are rude customers, she will also help deal with them.

The Jin family and the Huang family agreed, and the other merchants basically agreed, but there were a few who didn't want to give her dividends, so Lin Jiu increased their rent by one percent.

In addition, Lin Jiu also prepared two adjacent empty shops, which were placed on the first floor, specifically for the small vendors outside to make mobile shops, and they took turns to settle in every day without charging rent, which not only enriched the business categories in the mall, but also increased production and income.

When Lin Jiu rented out all the shops, the decoration of Master Zhang and Li Cheng was basically over, and there was no need to release formaldehyde after the renovation of the building here, so as soon as this side was completed, the merchants began to move in one after another.

Because these merchants are well-known in Fucheng, Lin Jiu even saves trouble with advertising, and there are a lot of customers on the opening day.

As soon as they entered the store, they felt novel, because among the merchants recruited by Lin Jiu, there were those who sold fabrics, ready-to-wear, pastries, jewelry, and the two mobile shops she specially opened.

As long as the guests enter this department store, eat, drink and have fun, if they are tired, they can also go to the tea room on the second floor near the window, sit and rest and drink tea, the tea here is good, two dollars and a pot of silver.

For the lady, the price of this tea is not expensive, and the decoration here is very good, the sound insulation measures are very good, and the noise of the shopping mall below is completely isolated, even if it is not much worse than the tea house outside.

Moreover, Lin Jiu was ingenious, she asked Master Zhang and them to create several sets of bamboo and rattan tables and chairs for here, which looked antique and matched the name of the tea very well.

For the guests who thought the tea here was too expensive, Lin Jiu also set up comfortable benches in the aisles of the square for them to rest, and next to each chair, a hollowed-out wooden stake was placed as a garbage bin.

In the middle of the square, there is a huge seesaw for children to play with, and in the middle of the seesaw is a small fountain, which is researched by Master Zhang himself, but it is completely dependent on the self-circulation within the mechanism, so the flow rate is not high.

But the mere gurgling of the water was a novelty for the children, and they were all vying to get to the seesaw, so sometimes the ladies came to the department store just because the children wanted to come and play.

But when they went back, they had a lot of things with them, and this seesaw added a lot of money to the department store.

When I came to the department store for a while, chatting, drinking tea, and eating have become a trend in Fucheng, and the merchants who settled in the mall have made a lot of money.

Some people found Lin Jiu again and wanted to buy a shop in a department store, but Lin Jiu did not agree, firstly because all the shops in the mall were indeed rented out, and secondly, he was also angry.

Most of the merchants who rejected her were better with the Wei family, and at the behest of Wei Wenshu, she wanted this little girl to see how capable she was at that time.

The department store was doing a brisk business, and the two mobile shops were well received by small vendors every day, which made the business of the shops in other places even more deserted.

Finally, someone couldn't help it, and one night after everyone in the mall had finished work, a dark shadow sneaked into the mall through the back door and set fire to the shop near the door.

It was a cloth village, the cloth was resolute, and after a while, the smoke billowed from the entire shopping mall, and the night watchman arranged by Lin Jiu here immediately ran to this side when he noticed it, but the person who lit the fire had already fled.

There was no way, the night watchman could only put out the fire first, and there were five people in their group of night vigils, four of whom immediately went to the well on the first floor to fetch water to put out the fire here, and the rest of the people ran out to find someone and notify Lin Jiu.

The man knocked door-to-door along the street where the mall was located, and finally found a few guys sleeping in the store to come over and help put out the fire together.

At this time, there was a lot of trouble, the case was personally accepted by the Wei Governor's Office, the shopping mall caught fire, in addition to the heavy loss of the cloth house, a jade shop and a pastry shop on the left and right were affected, and the shopping mall was directly closed.

The merchants who suffered losses followed Lin Jiu to the Yamen, but it was really difficult to find out the murderer who ignited the fire anonymously late at night, and Lin Jiu also knew about it.

However, one of the people who kept vigil yesterday reported something to her, in the past two days, the shopkeeper of Sunglasses Xuan in the north of the city often came to the shopping mall, and he sat for a day, and today Lin Jiu also brought the guy named Chen Linchuan to the court.

"Report to my lord, my guy said that in the past few days, I have seen the shopkeeper of Sunglasses Xuan come to my mall in the store, I don't know if you may ask the shopkeeper to come to the shopkeeper."

Wei Wenshu, who learned the news, happened to rush outside at this time, and immediately spoke out after hearing Lin Jiu's words: "Miss Lin's words are unreasonable, your shopping mall is open for business, isn't it normal to go there as a guest to the shopkeeper, and your mall has so many customers coming and going every day, why do you suspect that the shopkeeper only listens to the words of a slave?" ”

"I don't know if the prefect or Miss Weisan will decide the case in this court." Lin Jiu laughed angrily at Wei Wenshu's words, "The prefect hasn't said anything yet, Miss Wei San is excited first, could it be that the shopkeeper has nothing to do with Miss Wei San?" ”

Together, plus Li Cheng's carpenter's shop, there were more than a dozen carpenters in the shop, and they clanged in this shop.