222. Competitive Imperial Merchants
Zhuo Minghe had no opinion on Lin Xi's request, and responded very happily.
After the two discussed, Zhuo Minghe seemed to have a lot of things to do, so he left without staying long.
In fact, Zhuo Minghe only stayed in the county for about five days, and then left with the hot pot ingredients and vegetable soup pieces that Lin Xi gave him first. Since the department store was not open much during this time, when Zhuo Minghe proposed to buy some rouge to take away, she directly sold most of the rouge to Zhuo Minghe.
At the end of June, Zhang Ze, Xu Wu and Xu Qi were almost recovered, and Lin Xi picked a day to reopen the department store.
In order to get rid of the influence of the previous incident, Lin Xi specially held this opening day very grandly, and announced to the people that the guests who came to the department store to buy things that day could count the money cheaply.
In order to support her, Zhao Dequan specially took the time to help her host the scene.
Unexpectedly, the county lieutenant also came, and Chen Yunhe from the neighboring county Hai County also came, he sent Dabao back from his private school, and came to visit Lin Xi and Shen Chen's family by the way.
The arrival of the two county lieutenants made the first day of the department store's opening, and business was very good.
Busy until the evening, the shelves of the display case were almost half empty, and Zhang Ze and the three of them were about to be paralyzed.
Lin Xi closed early and let them go back to rest, and then she and Shen Chen went to Keyun Tower with Chen Yunhe and the county lieutenant at the warm invitation of Zhao Dequan to eat new hot pot and new dishes.
The county lieutenant was terrified and accosted Chen Yunhe.
Chen Yunhe casually responded with a few words, then ignored the county lieutenant and turned to worry about Shen Chen.
Zhao Dequan said a few words with this, and a few words with that, but it was not good to be in good spirits, but it was Lin Xi's headache that stopped Zhao Dequan, and Zhao Dequan stopped and concentrated on eating.
And Lin Xi was busy giving Dabao vegetables, and Erbao and they also gave Dabao vegetables. I haven't seen him for a month, Dabao looks like he's lost a lot of weight, and he used to have some baby fat, but now it's gone, it's all the steady self-determination of young people.
When the food was almost finished, Lin Xi had time to say something to Chen Yunhe: "County Lieutenant Chen, are you all right?" Didn't leave any after-effects, right? ”
Chen Yunhe knew that Lin Xi was referring to the last time he was injured and what happened last time, he had a very different opinion of Lin Xi, and he was a lot more polite in his words.
"No, you're really good at healing."
Zhao Dequan and the county lieutenant raised their heads in unison: "Injured? What hurts? County Lieutenant Chen, you don't matter, right? ”
"Would I still be sitting here if it mattered?" Chen Yunhe said.
The two of them choked, and they didn't know how to answer this.
Shen Chen put down his chopsticks, poured a large cup of tea for Lin Xi to relieve his greasy, and said, "It's getting late, and I'm almost done eating, so I'll go back to my own house." ”
The county lieutenant couldn't hear the meaning of driving people away, and said in a sloppy manner: "Farewell." ”
Lin Xi and Shen Chen also took the sleepy children to prepare to leave, they did not return to Chenyang Village, they have been living in the county department store for the past few days.
Only Chen Yunhe asked with a question mark on his face: "What about me?" Shen Chen, I've come all the way to visit you, aren't you going to get me a place to live? ”
Shen Chen's chin raised slightly, pointing at Zhao Dequan: "Although he is not from this county, he has a house in this county, which is not small." ”
When Zhao Dequan heard this, he said excitedly: "Yes, yes, yes!" County Lieutenant Chen, if you don't dislike it......"
"I hate it." Chen Yunhe said.
Zhao Dequan was stuck all of a sudden.
"It's useless to dislike."
After Shen Chen finished speaking categorically, he left with Lin Xi and the children, ignoring Chen Yunhe at all.
Chen Yunhe watched them leave with a dark face, so he had to look at the eager Zhao Dequan and reluctantly said, "Okay." ”
Zhao Dequan was overjoyed, and hurriedly asked someone to set up a carriage to send him and Chen Yunhe back to the house.
To be honest, Lin Xi was actually quite surprised that Shen Chen did not leave Chen Yunhe. She had already figured out how to arrange the room if Chen Yunhe went back with them.
Of course, Shen Chen went to sleep with Chen Yunhe, and she brought four treasures, two treasures and three treasures.
The next day, it wasn't until Zhao Dequan came to find her that Lin Xi vaguely understood why Shen Chen wanted to push Chen Yunhe to Zhao Dequan.
Because Zhao Dequan excitedly said to her: "It's done!" It's done! ”
Lin Xi: "? What became of it? What have you and County Lieutenant Chen become......"
Zhao Dequan said: "Miss Lin, do you know about the imperial businessman?" ”
Lin Xi was stunned for a moment and said, "I've heard of it." ”
Zhao Dequan said colorfully: "Zhao has actually been eyeing the position of the emperor for a long time, and he wants to fight." Miss Lin, you don't know, my industry is not only a restaurant, not only in this county, but also in more than a dozen other places. ”
Lin Xi: Hey, Zhao Dequan is still an invisible rich businessman. No wonder he didn't say anything after he was cheated by her, and the point of her pit was nothing to him at all.
Zhao Dequan was a little embarrassed: "The biggest business in this is, of course, a restaurant." Originally, it was not as famous as it is now, but since Miss Lin, you provided unique recipes and hot pot, business has been booming a lot. Now, the name of the imperial businessman, Zhao can think about it a thing or two. Last night, County Lieutenant Chen also mentioned in passing where to operate. ”
Nowadays, there are three main categories of customers in department stores. One is the big order represented by Zhuo Minghe, the other is the interaction with Keyunlou, and the other is the ordinary people's guests.
Since Zhao Dequan knew that she was selling hot pot ingredients, he came to her to discuss that the hot pot ingredients he wanted should be increased. Lin Xi didn't want to be too hurt, so he agreed. Thinking about it now, Zhao Dequan's idea of becoming an imperial merchant appeared earlier than she thought.
Lin Xi thought for a while and reminded: "It is naturally good to be an imperial businessman. However, Zhao Zhangshi, don't blame me for pouring cold water on you, no matter how big your business is, can it be compared with other businessmen who compete for the imperial merchants? Their business should be all over the country, right? ”
Zhao Dequan sighed: "I know this myself." However, I started preparing as early as last year. Miss Lin, do you remember why you and I first met? ”
Lin Xi nodded, "At that time, I went to sell wild vegetables, and you said that there was a noble person waiting." ”
Zhao Dequan said mysteriously: "Exactly." To tell the truth, this noble man is not an ordinary nobleman, and he has quite a background. I was favored by him, and he promised me that if I were to die one day, he would carry me one or two. In the competition of the imperial merchants, if he can open his mouth to introduce me to one or two, I can at least get the opportunity to squeeze in. ”
Lin Xi said: "Then I wish Zhao all the best." ”
Zhao Dequan thanked him happily and left in high spirits.
As soon as he left, Lin Xi immediately went to the backyard to find Shen Chen, and Chen Yunhe was talking to him. When he saw her coming, he stopped talking.
"What's wrong?" Shen Chen asked.
Lin Xi said bluntly: "Why do you want Zhao Dequan to fight for the emperor? Didn't you think about it before? ”