Chapter Eighty-Nine: Buying a Shop
Originally, Yu Paralytic did his best to do things for Gu Chengyu, but Gu Chengyu knew that it was all because of the constraints of poison, and there should be no sincerity, but now that he said it, Gu Chengyu saw that Yu Paralytic seemed to be more dedicated than before, so he was satisfied. If he can be admitted to Xiucai, I am afraid that Yu Paralytic will be even more desperate.
"The shop I asked you to buy on West Street, is there a suitable one?" Gu Chengyu remembered the shop that Yu Paralyzed had paid attention to before, and he wanted to open a pastry shop.
"I went to see it a few days ago, and there was only one shop in that area for takeout. It was originally just a small teahouse, with only one floor, that is, a small courtyard in the backyard, and two rooms, one with a kang and the other with sundries. The price of the master's house is two hundred taels, and I will take you to see it? ”
Yu Paralytic felt that the small shop was more than enough to make a pastry shop, and next to it was a seller of rouge gouache, the location was not bad, and the yard with the back head could still live in people, but two hundred taels was really expensive.
Gu Chengyu bowed his head and motioned for Yu Paralytic to lead the way. In the past two years, Gu Chengyu's silver has been taken out of the space, although he has made up a master, but he can't sit and eat empty, right? He decided to start a small business anyway.
And the Gu family, they all have their own thoughts, he doesn't want to use silver in the future, he has to look at his face.
Yu Paralytic found a tooth in the tooth shop to show them the way, and the location of the shop was at the west street entrance, which was eye-catching. From the outside, the façade of the shop is not big, just two small rooms, Chen Yazi opened the lock on the shop, unloaded three door panels, and the three of them entered.
The furnishings of the shop in front of him are not much to look at, the tables and chairs of the original teahouse have been moved, and some of them are empty, and the originally small shops also seem empty at this time. The floor is covered with green bricks, which looks a little dusty, but the counter does. After a slight look, Gu Chengyu followed the two into the small courtyard behind.
Chen Yazi thought that the one who was in charge of the two was Yu Paralytic, he had seen Yu Paralytic in Yaxing, and in the first two years, Yu Paralytic bought twenty children and two mothers-in-law at once in Yaxing, and finally they did not have enough children in Yaxing, and they also pulled some from the county seat. From then on, he knew that although this Yu Ye was only dressed in cotton clothes, he had silver! He just doesn't have any silver, and the people behind Yu Ye also have silver.
Therefore, when he saw Yu Paralyzed coming to sell the shop, he became very attentive. As for Gu Chengyu next to him, he ignored it, in his eyes, this must be Yu Ye's family.
"Master Yu! Rest assured! This shop is really not expensive, you see! In such a good location, if you open a shop here, you can keep your business prosperous! If you look at this yard again, although it is smaller, but although the sparrows are small, they are all complete, right? Don't worry! A few days ago, someone came to see this shop! If you don't settle down sooner, you'll be cheaper than someone else. However, I have already given you the lowest price, and we still want to do your business in the future, don't we? ”
Yu paralyzed saw that Chen Yazi shouted the wrong master, so he wanted to correct it, this is not something he can call the shots! But who knows, before he could speak, Gu Chengyu glanced at him, is this not allowed to say? Yu Paralyzed can still understand this little bit of his eyes.
"Brother Chen! Don't you really want to do my business! It's such a dilapidated little courtyard, you want me two hundred taels of silver? Are you trying to steal the money? It's too expensive. Gu Chengyu didn't nod, and he didn't say that he wanted to leave, Yu Paralytic knew that this shop, Gongzi was satisfied, but the price seemed to be not very satisfied.
It is common sense to ask for a price all over the place, and it is common sense to pay back the money on the spot, so he must cut some of it!
"Ouch! Look at what you said, how dare I earn your grandfather's silver? We really want to make Yu Ye a friend, so let's do it! I will tell the master's house, and let him pay him five taels of silver. Chen Yazi pretended to be embarrassed, but the result was only five taels less.
Gu Chengyu didn't have the patience to look at the two of them anymore, and directly gestured to Yu Paralyzed, one hundred and fifty taels.
In the end, the two talked for a long time before they talked about it for one hundred and sixty taels of silver, and for the extra ten taels, Gu Chengyu said that it was completely within the budget.
The three of them entered the special office again, found the master's house, and transferred the shop, which was naturally written in Gu Chengyu's name. When pressing the handprint, Chen Yazi looked at it, and got it! So the Lord is here! Yu Paralysis immediately explained that this was his nephew, and he had to drag him to take care of the shop after buying it.
Chen Yazi also believes that this little baby will still be the master of Yu Paralysis? Then I bought two simple mothers-in-law and a man who used to be a shopkeeper in Yaxing. This time it was personally selected by Gu Chengyu, and the one who chose was the honest and capable mother-in-law who also loves cleanliness, and these two mothers-in-law will be mainly responsible for making pastries in the future; And that man was specially cultivated by the original master's family, but he was wrongly accused of being a private bag, and then he was sold again.
What this man said, Gu Chengyu has no way to verify, but it should be paid back for temporary use. Anyway, in the shop, he will ask for another account room, pay the account once a month, and ask Yu Paralytic to go to the shop regularly to check the accounts, Yu Paralytic has learned a lot of words with those children in the past two years, and has also learned simple arithmetic, as long as the accounts are not complicated, it should still be able to calculate. In this way, he will take out the silver money in the future, and it can be regarded as a source.
There is no way, he can't do these things himself, so he can only choose to trust others. It was a coincidence that they were able to buy this shopkeeper, because the original owner said that they would sell it farther, otherwise it would not be easy to buy such a person in a remote town like them.
By the time Gu Chengyu had finished handling everything, it was already the beginning of the afternoon when he went back. Looking out at the gray fill-in, it looked like it was going to snow.
"Childe! I'll send you back! Look, it's going to snow, I'll find a carriage to take you back sooner. Yu Paralytic looked at the sky outside, also a little worried. He is not going to go back today, Gu Chengyu has just taught the two cooks a few recipes for making pastries, and the shop will open in the next two days, and he has to keep an eye on the town. Before the end of the year, you can still make a lot of money!
"No need, these days, you help me keep an eye on the town, if any of them are cheating and tricky and don't listen to discipline, you just go back and forth to me, I can buy them, and naturally I can sell them, but when the time comes, where to sell, of course, I say." Gu Chengyu had already sternly instructed him before, but he was afraid that if he was not there, those people would disobey him. As for whether to buy or hire someone, he still tends to buy someone, after all, he can only rest assured when he holds the deed of sale.
The punishment of the fugitive slaves in the Dayan Dynasty is particularly severe, once caught, it is really impossible to survive, and it is impossible to die, but don't think about it, if you escape, you can't catch it, where can you escape without a guide?
Gu Chengyu still has a hand when he teaches the recipe, and the main ones he teaches are Poria cocos cake, silk yam cake, seasonal flower cake, etc., although these are technical, but his method is different from the practice of the people around him, and it should be more delicious. It's just that there is a ninety-nine to one Yiyuan cake with a lot of medicinal materials, which he bought in the pharmacy and ground them into powder, but in fact, those medicinal materials were taken in the space, and a mill was used.
He just didn't want the pharmacy to know the ingredients of the Yiyuan cake, so he left a large amount this time, anyway, it wouldn't be bad in winter, and he would replenish the stock after a while. Yiyuan cake has the effect of strengthening the spleen and dampness, nourishing the heart and kidneys, which he wrote on the paper, and waited for the opening as a gimmick.
As for the outer packaging, it is not to be sloppy, his pastries add a lot of medicinal materials, and he suffers a loss when they are sold cheaply, so they can only be sold at a high price, and the ordinary people can not often come to buy, the most important thing is to do the business of large households, fortunately, there is a small wharf in the town, and the business should not be too bad. So he's going to use a wooden box, which looks more upscale.
After a while, we will see how the income of the shop is, Shanhe Town is just a small town, and he doesn't want to take out recipes such as cakes, if the source of customers is limited, then these recipes should be enough.