Chapter Eighty-Three: A Cold Opening

Ye Xinyan found a Chinese person, and the shopkeeper He helped to rent an inconspicuous small shop adjacent to Honghe Tower.

At this time, the business is not like the modern one, and a small tobacco and alcohol supermarket is opened under the big restaurant, and the business is also done. At that time, if the small store was adjacent to the restaurant, it really wouldn't have much light, and it would only be pressed without a sense of existence.

It was a non-living grocery store, and the proprietor was hesitating to continue with it, and when he heard someone come to ask if there was a store for rent nearby, he immediately made a small calculation.

Rather than running a grocery store that doesn't make much profit, it's better to rent out the store and make a comfortable amount of money with peace of mind.

The Chinese entrusted by Ye Xinyan was originally running to this grocery store that was not doing well, and as soon as he opened his mouth to ask, he saw that the owner of the grocery store was tempted, and then asked a few more words, and the two of them tried back and forth, and finally rented the store for five taels of silver a month.

Ye Xinyan planned the money in her hand, wrote a year's paperwork, and paid the rent quarterly. In order to reassure the owner, he also pressed five taels of silver as collateral.

After renting it, the shop will be tossed by Ye Xinyan, and renting this small shop for five taels of silver will not be a loss at all. Not only does the shop have a storefront and a cubicle for miscellaneous items, but it also has a backyard behind the store, and a kitchen is located in the backyard. This pattern is very much in line with the requirements of Ye Xinyan's snack shop.

Ye Xinyan spent twenty taels of silver before and after to decorate the store.

Casual snack shops are high-end traders, and the appearance of the store must have a certain taste. Ye Xinyan repainted all the door and window grilles of the store, abandoning the red and purple red commonly used in the store today, but using silver brown paint, and using a horizontal silver brown grille on the door of the shop, and the five words "leisure snack shop" on it are inlaid with snowflake lace flower characters.

The shop is not a big place, but the casual snacks are bought and sold by the wealthy, and the food sold is profitable enough to be crowded next to each other to set up tables and chairs. Diners who can enter the snack shop will not eat in a group and in a row. Therefore, there are only two tables in the snack shop, which are located in the opposite corners of the snack shop, and a thicker screen is placed to make a cubicle.

And the table and chairs were bought by Ye Xinyan at the thrift store. Even if it was an old item, she couldn't afford to buy a table and chair made of good wood, so she just picked two sets of old elm tables and chairs with good quality and style.

After the tables and chairs were brought back, they were no longer repainted, and only two people were hired, and after wiping them carefully, they were carefully polished with a fine cloth until they had a delicate and soft color, and they barely looked a little bit of heritage.

The other decorations are also simple because of ugliness, giving full play to Ye Xinyan's expertise as a modern person, and cutting several cloth stickers of different sizes to fill the number.

Most of the cloth stickers are relatively simple or childlike smooth sailing, underwater world, autumn harvest wheat waves, winter snow huts and so on. In order to make the style higher, Ye Xinyan also hung a cloth sticker of Jiang Xue's artistic conception. A figure wearing a hat on his head, meditating among the stretches of snow-capped mountains and winding rivers, looks really meaningful...... At least Ye Xinyan thinks so.

In addition, two vases with a few strangely shaped dry branches are placed on the table, and the decoration of the store is almost the same.

As for the rest, it is the business of carpenters, masons and painters.

This series of nondescript simple decorations, Qi Younian didn't think anything of it, but it made Mama Jin and Shopkeeper He refreshing, and won the praise of the two.

When planning the decoration of the snack shop, Ye Xinyan tried several desserts, snacks and soups.

Pimple soup, hot and sour soup, and egg soup are must-haves, although these are ordinary and can no longer be ordinary public soups, but with the richness of the ingredients in the soup, the grade of the soup can also be very different.

The second is several kinds of sweet soups such as red bean paste, mung bean paste, and fish maw stewed milk, which are eaten by women for leisure.

As for the chess pieces, mahjong cakes, meat cakes, and staple snacks such as egg tarts, sugar cakes, and mung bean cakes, Ye Xinyan knew that her ability was limited, so she recruited a female chef named Yun Niang, who was good at white cases, and wrote an employment document for five years, planning to guide Yun Niang to make modern snacks.

If you are not a professional pastry chef, even if you know how to make these pastry sweets, you will not be able to make a good taste, and you have to spend money to hire professionals.

After half a month of busyness, all the utensils, raw and auxiliary materials and other items were prepared, and it was finally the day of opening.

With such a powerful advertisement in Honghe Tower, Ye Xinyan is too lazy to do any marketing strategy, and when diners eat ice drinks and double milk skin in Honghe Tower, they will naturally know that these snacks are produced by casual snack restaurants, and there will be people who will patronize them.

As for now, even if she says that the sky is falling, people with status will not come to eat in such an inconspicuous small shop as hers.

And the taste and style of her small shop could not make her make a promotional promotion such as a trial tasting. Therefore, I can only pretend to be reserved and passively wait, and after the diners of Honghelou have tasted the ice drink and double milk skin, there will be a day when I don't plan to drink and feast in a noisy manner, but want to have a cold sweet sorbet and a clean and leisurely time, and visit her shop.

Another thing that made her embarrassed was that she didn't have much money in her hand, and if the supply of Honghelou was too large, she really couldn't hold on for a month to settle with Honghelou.

If you settle in advance, or advance money to Honghelou, it's a bit ...... No face.......

Renting a shop, paying intermediary fees, decorating, and buying everything in the store have emptied the family's purse. If Honghelou's business is booming, and the snack shop needs to supply a large number of snacks, and all the silver in her hand will be pasted into it in a short time, so that she doesn't even have the cost of operation, isn't it blind?

People do business, they are afraid that it will not be prosperous enough, only her, and she hopes that the business of Honghelou will not be good for the time being. When her small shop has customers and earns more money, she can gradually buy more ingredients, raw materials and utensils, make more different snacks, and support her to supply Honghelou in large quantities.

As a result, many factors came together, and after setting off a firecracker, the casual snack shop opened in the desert. Adjacent to a behemoth like a large crane tower, the beautifully decorated and leisurely snack shop did not even attract the attention of passers-by.

Ye Xinyan was making preparations in the quiet shop, and occasionally went to the backyard to see Yun Niang's pastries. There were no diners in the store, and Qi Younian didn't have much to do, so he played with Qi Jia in the backyard.

It was almost noon, Ye Xinyan estimated that when Honghelou was about to have guests, he asked Qi Younian to send a small bucket of free sorbet and a few double milk skins to Honghelou first, which were used to attract business for ice drinks and gain popularity.