"Bad news." Mu Jiu walked into the hall quickly.

There is a fire burning in the hall, and it exudes a faint fragrance, which seems to be the masterpiece of Wu Po.

Mu Jiu walked over to the fire and sat down, and took a few oranges to the roses.

Rose was flattered and took it, "Thank you, master, here's the thing, you asked me to buy the store next door, the owner on the left next door refused to sell, saying that their business was very good, and insisted on refusing to move out, but I went to investigate, in fact, they have been losing money, and the business is not good at all, but they don't sell, I can't think of a way for the time being." ”

"That's the bad news?" Mu Jiu stretched out his hand.

Because Lin Changsheng took a hot towel.

Mu Jiu took an orange and peeled it.

Rose continued, "But the shop on the right agreed to sell it to us, the price is a bit expensive, it costs a thousand taels, but the development of Qizhou in the past two years is very good, I think a thousand taels is worth it, if you agree, master, I will go to sign a contract with them tomorrow." ”

"In the future, the silver within 1,000 taels does not need to go through me, you can just make the decision." Mu Jiu is quite relieved that Rose will do things, "As for the one on the left, don't worry about him, he will naturally be anxious in the future." ”

Rose couldn't suppress the emotion on her face, and it was the first time she was so trusted, "Thank you, master!" ”

"Sit down and have a fire, I don't have that many rules here."

"Thank you, master."

Mu Jiu, "......"

Forget it, it's good to have rules, lest you get used to the lack of rules that day and do something out of the ordinary.

……

The next day, Rose bought the store next door and gave the original store a day to move.

Mu Jiu was fine, went to the tooth shop, bought a few girls, and gave them the names of white peony, angelica, atractylodes, white root, white ginseng, and ginkgo respectively.

Lin Changsheng was completely speechless, "Jiu'er, it's really easy for you to expose yourself like this. ”

Mu Jiu knew, "Changsheng, they don't leave the medicine factory easily, if they really come to that point, I would have been discovered a long time ago." ”

"Well, I'll protect you!" Lin Changsheng secretly made up his mind to make an adjustment.

Mu Jiu temporarily placed the people in the small courtyard first, and then went back together when he went back one day.

The shop on the right side of the store only took half a day to relocate, and Mu Jiu went to rectify it in advance, anyway, it was used to sell briquettes, and it didn't need to be too gorgeous.

Mu Jiu went to buy red paper and asked Lin Changsheng to write more than a dozen big characters: briquette, a new type of smokeless fuel, convenient and clean!

The name of the store is still Jiu'an, which is easy to form a brand effect.

The name of the store was also brought by Mu Jiu in Wanbao Town before, and he only needed to scan the store and hang the plaque.

The brothers of the caravan kept going, and they came in several batches, bringing in more briquettes and coal stoves for the opening.

Mu Jiu prepared for the opening in five days, and in fact, it only took two days to complete the store.

But the suitable day for opening was five days later, Mu Jiu was not in a hurry to open, but wrote a lot of small leaflets, and hired two child laborers, Pang Xiaohu and Pang Xiaobao, to distribute them on the street.

When the old man heard about this, he brought Shi Qing to the door, "Doctor Mu! There are such good things, why don't you think about my old man, I heard that your briquettes can burn the fire, and there is no pot ash for cooking, and it is very convenient, I have to buy some and go back to try. ”

Mu Jiu personally took Old Man Shi and Shi Qing to see the briquettes, "Look at your old man, it's this kind of thing, five cents a piece, and the price is not cheap." ”

Shi Qing was skeptical, but when he heard what Laifu said, he said very happily, "No matter how bad the Shi family is, this little confidence is still there, I will buy a thousand first, and I will also have a coal stove, this fifteen taels of silver, you can put it away, and I will send someone to pull it later." ”

Is there no reason not to do door-to-door business?

Mu Jiu accepted the silver, "Cheng, where does Master Shi want to send it, I have rules in the store, buy more than a thousand at a time, you can send them, the scope is limited to the city." ”

Shi Qing's eyes lit up, "This can save us a lot of trouble, yes, you can send me to the oil mill in XX Alley." ”

"No problem."

This is just a small transaction, but after Shi Qing went back, he helped Mu Jiu to publicize it, and with the publicity of Laifu, Jiu'an Fuel became popular in Qizhou Mansion before it opened, and it became a topic of conversation after dinner.

"I heard that no, what kind of Jiu'an fuel said that there is a black thing that can be burned, and what do you say that there is no pot ash, do you believe it?"

"Do you believe it? Anyway, I don't believe it, how can something black not have pot ashes? Blindfold! ”

"Don't believe it, I have a relative who works in the Shijia oil mill, and now he has changed the fuel called a briquette to burn the fire, not to mention, there is really no pot ash, and there is no need to burn the fire all the time!"

"Yes, yes, I have a cousin who stir-fries in the back kitchen of the Rifle Inn, and says that the dishes fried by this thing taste better than firewood!"

"Really? Then I must try, you see me, in order to serve the family, cooking and cooking firewood, all day long, my hands are ugly to death, I am afraid that if this continues, my family will dislike me! ”

"Don't say it, I also have such worries, if it is really so magical, I will definitely not be able to burn firewood, it will be more expensive, and it is a serious thing not to be disliked by the public."

After Mu Jiu found out, he had an idea, changed the content on the leaflet to clean his hands with the woman, and wrote a few lines of limerick poems.

Most of these women were illiterate, and Mu Jiu went to the troupe invited by Jiu'an Food when it opened, and spent twenty taels to ask them to help publicize it in the streets and alleys.

……

Four Seas Dart Game.

Lao Niu's face was gloomy, "Grandpa, what did you say about that Mu Jiu, he actually opened such a popular food store in Qizhou City, these days the teahouses of Qizhou size are talking about her kind of briquettes, I am worried that if this continues, she will gain a foothold in Qizhou City, and it will not be so easy for us to get her again in the future!" ”

Niu Sihai's face is also not good, he has been in Qizhou for many years, and it is the first time that he has been so rude and provoked by a civilian, if he doesn't take revenge, where will his face go in the future? How to maintain the status of the rivers and lakes?

"Don't worry, I've already arranged it!"

Lao Niu couldn't sit still, "Grandpa, what arrangements have you made?" ”

"Isn't her food store very popular? I've already arranged for a few people to go to her shop to make trouble, so just wait and see the show! ”

……

On the sixth day, Mu Jiu went to the fuel store with a happy face, and when the auspicious time came, he lit a string of firecrackers and opened the store.

Compared with the coldness of the food store at the beginning, the fuel store is very lively, and it is no exaggeration to describe it as a crowd.

Laifu and Shi Qing gave Mu Jiu enough face, and they were the first to squeeze in front of Mu Jiu, "Congratulations to Boss Mu!" ”

"Thank you!" Mu Jiu took the red cloth they sent and handed it to the rose, "Hang it on the lintel." ”

There is a strange rule in Qizhou City, when a friend's store opens, it does not send a red envelope, but sends a piece of red cloth, and it has to be hung on the lintel, the more red cloth, the more friends the owner has, and people from certain forces want to come to the store to make trouble, and they have to weigh it.

Before, there was no red cloth in the food store, Mu Jiu bought a few pieces and hung them up, but now someone has given two pieces, and Mu Jiu still hangs the few pieces he bought together, indicating peace and auspiciousness.

There were many people who came, but I heard that a briquette cost five cents, and many people retreated.

"My God, a piece of black stuff costs five cents, and I can buy a bun!"

"No, five cents is enough for my family to eat for a day!"

"It's too expensive, it's about the same for two dollars a penny."

"There are so many coal stoves, ten taels of silver each, why don't you grab it!"

"Ten taels of silver is enough for me to spend a year!"

Hearing such remarks, Mu Jiu was not worried at all, Qizhou was not as good as other big cities, but there were still many people who could afford to consume briquettes, and he was not afraid that no one would buy them.

No, Mu Jiu motioned for Rose to light the briquettes and put them in the coal stove, and after a while, the flames of Lan Yingying rushed up.

Rose was a person who could let go, took a pot and shouted loudly, "Everyone, look here!" It's a newly bought clean pot, I'll put it on it for everyone to see! ”

After saying that, put the new pot on the coal stove and pour some water.

The big guy looked inside with his eyes wide open.

"What is this trying to do?"

"I don't know, don't get in my way, I'll see what they want."

"Do you think the pot is steaming?"

"Nonsense, your pot will also be hot when it is burned on the stove, what's so strange about this!"

A group of people chattered and guessed that the rose wanted to boil water, but they were curious about the difference between the rose boiling water and their boiling water.

After a while, Rose opened the lid of the pot, "Don't squeeze everyone, line up one by one to take a look, the water is boiling!" ”

Rose: "That's right! This is the coal stove, it's so fast, let's look at the bottom of the pot, is it not dark at all! ”

Rose raised her hands, "Ladies, take a closer look at my hands, my hands can be so clean and delicate with the coal stove, if the ladies use the coal stove, ensure that the hands will not be black in the future, and they will be beautiful, and your husband will definitely like you more!" You don't have to worry about your husband disliking you when he marries a concubine, they don't spoil you enough! ”

Rose has been in the kiln, and she dares to say anything, a pet word, which directly says that those women who have financial conditions are ready to act and take action.

"Girl, I want a hundred!"

"I want a coal stove and a thousand briquettes!"

"I'll just ask for two hundred!"

The shouts came and went, all to buy briquettes and coal stoves.

Mu Jiu secretly wiped his sweat, fortunately, the brothers of the Ma Gang have been working hard in the past few days, and the coal stove and briquettes are well supplied, otherwise it will be a mess now.

But these are far from enough, Mu Jiu never dreamed that the purchasing power of women in Qizhou was so strong, and the stock of fifty coal stoves was sold out at once, but there were still many women clamoring to buy coal stoves!

Rose was greatly surprised, and under Mu Jiu's signal, she hurriedly stood up to maintain order, "Thank you ladies for your love for the coal stove!" However, I can't help you, ladies, because we didn't expect the coal stove to be so kind to the ladies, and we only have fifty of them in stock for the time being, and they are all sold out. ”