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Jiang Miao raised his head and looked at Pei Che, and found that his eyes were full of sincerity, without the slightest falsehood.
"Since you consider me a friend, I cannot take your shop." Jiang Miao lowered his head. His motives in agreeing to that thing were not pure.
At that time, he thought that he could make money by acting in a play, so there was really no reason to refuse. But he didn't expect that it would get deeper and deeper. The more he got along with Pei Che, the more he felt that this person was really good as a friend. Although he liked money, he had a principle, which was not to take advantage of his friends. It was fine if the house was agreed before they became friends, but it would be bad to do it again afterwards.
Pei Che still didn't quite understand why Jiang Miao was so frank before, but became restrained after becoming friends. But since Jiang Miao's attitude softened, he couldn't be so tough anymore.
"It doesn't matter if you don't want to take over this shop. Just consider the money as a loan to you. How about that? If you don't want to lend the money, then consider this shop as a rental to you. How about that?"
After Pei Che made his suggestion, the more he thought about it, the more he felt it was feasible. This way, Jiang Miao wouldn't feel like he was taking his things for nothing.
"You are going to rent someone else's shop anyway, so you can pay me the same amount as you pay them. That way, you don't have to worry about others using your shop to harm you. When you make enough money, you can buy the shop back from me, how about that?"
Pei Che was so thoughtful and considerate of him in every aspect, Jiang Miao didn't know what to say. If he refused again, it would be like he was ungrateful.
He was just being hypocritical today. He actually knew that Pei Che didn't look down on his thoughts. Perhaps it was the fact that he had just arrived and found out that he had been cheated that made him furious, and his already unhappy mood worsened. While waiting for Pei Che to finish class, he thought about a lot of messy things, so that when he faced Pei Che, he couldn't control his anger towards him.
"I negotiated for fifteen taels of silver a month for this shop." Jiang Miao said with a somewhat awkward attitude, "I'll give it to you after I go back and draft the contract."
Is this a promise? Pei Che breathed a sigh of relief, but also blamed him for being too reckless and almost turning a good thing into a bad thing.
"You didn't ask me to sign the deed before. You trust me so much, so I naturally wouldn't ask you to sign it. As you said, we will soon become the closest people in this world. If others find out, it will be difficult to deal with." After all, which couple would sign a contract for a shop? As long as they get married, it will be the common property of the two.
Jiang Miao nodded, his eyes wandering, not daring to look Pei Che in the face. He had just been inexplicably hypocritical, and now thinking back, it was really embarrassing.
"Alas!" Jiang Miao sighed several times in succession in the carriage. Unexpectedly, Pei Mu, who was sitting opposite him, also sighed.
This was the first time Jiang Miao heard a sound coming out of Pei Mu's mouth. He was so surprised that he forgot all the embarrassing feeling of social suicidalness that had been lingering in his heart.
"Little Wood, why are you sighing?" Jiang Miao asked.
Pei Mu looked at him with a helpless expression on his face. His pair of black and white eyes seemed to hide a lot of worries. Then, he sighed heavily, as if the quarrel between Jiang Miao and Pei Che just now made him worry a lot.
Jiang Miao touched his little head and said with a smile: "Don't worry, I didn't quarrel with your brother, we just spoke a little loudly."
Pei Mu looked up at him and observed his expression carefully, as if trying to judge whether what Jiang Miao said was true or false.
Seeing him like this, Jiang Miao said a lot of comforting words to make him stop worrying about it. Jiang Miao decided to learn from his lesson. If there is a similar situation in the future, he will find Pei Mu to solve it privately, not in front of the child. Otherwise, it might leave a psychological shadow on the child. This child is not outgoing to begin with, so don't scare him back again.
Now that the shop was no longer a problem, Jiang Miao began to prepare for the renovation. He had previously roughly envisioned the layout of the shop, but there were too many places to renovate, and after all the work, the house would definitely be completely changed beyond recognition.
Although the owner said that it was possible to renovate, it was equivalent to rebuilding, and I didn't know whether they would agree. But now, this concern disappeared directly. He rented Pei Che's shop, so naturally he could do whatever he wanted.
Jiang Miao picked a few strong and honest men from the wall of the west city gate to help him work. He found out about this place from the eldest brother of the Bai family. The eldest brother not only told him where the place was, but also told Jiang Miao the standard of their fees, so that he would not be cheated by others when he was recruiting workers.
Jiang Miao and their team worked for dozens of days and finally renovated the shop, which originally looked a bit shabby, into a brand new look.
First, there was the open space outside the gate. Jiang Miao planned to put the steamer outside in the future, so he had to take into account the possibility of bad weather. Therefore, Jiang Miao had someone install a retractable oilcloth on top, which could be put up when the weather was good and put down when the weather was bad.
In addition, he also modified all the movable places, including the stairs leading to the second floor, the cashier counter, the tables and chairs in the house, according to his own ideas.
In this way, the overall decoration style of this shop gradually moves closer to modern times. In modern times, this thing is not eye-catching, but now it is ancient times, and owning such a shop is a very novel thing in the eyes of ancient people.
Da Niu comes to help almost every day. Since the fried buns business is only sold for one hour a day, he has more free time and makes much more money.
In the first two days, because the fried buns were only on display for one hour, sometimes they would be brought back and only eaten by their family. But later, when customers knew that they could only eat his fried buns at this time every day, they almost always came to buy them during this time. In this way, all the fried buns prepared were sold out.
Da Niu is an honest child, so he naturally doesn’t know that there is a way of selling goods in this world called hunger marketing.
"Brother Jiang, what are you going to sell in this shop?" Daniu walked up and down the stairs several times, and finally couldn't hold back his curiosity and asked.
Jiang Miao said: "At first, I just wanted to sell steamed buns, but then I thought, since I already make steamed buns, I might as well do something else to give customers more choices and make more money." So, he decided to open a breakfast shop.
When he set up a stall on Yifong Street before, due to lack of manpower and capital, and also considering the competitors on the same street, Jiang Miao focused on buns and did not sell anything else.
It was different now. He had opened a shop, and the customers who came to eat in the shop would definitely not be satisfied with just one type of food. If they wanted to be satisfied, there had to be more varieties. As far as he knew, there was no such mixed breakfast shop in Liangjing at present, and basically everyone specialized in the same thing.
"Brother Jiang, if you don't have enough manpower, I'll come and help you!" As soon as Daniu saw the house, he liked it. He also wanted to work in a place like this. This place is much more beautiful than Yingkelai.
Jiang Miao smiled: "Of course, otherwise I wouldn't ask you to make fried buns for only one hour every day. When I open my shop, you can help in the morning and sell fried buns in the afternoon."
Daniu nodded excitedly. This way, he could earn more money.
After the shop was renovated, Jiang Miao placed it here for ventilation and began to plan what he would sell after the opening.
Steamed buns are indispensable, and you can add or remove some stuffings as the seasons change, always keeping it fresh.
Now that we have steamed buns, we can also arrange steamed buns and flower rolls. As for steamed buns, Jiang Miao plans to prepare some side dishes to sell together. This thing is more filling and more affordable than steamed buns. As for flower rolls, they are more flavorful than steamed buns and more affordable than steamed buns, so they should also have a market.
These are all dry, so you must prepare some liquid ones, otherwise they will get stuck in your throat. As for the liquid ones, Jiang Miao plans to discuss with Mr. Ding to see if he can get some soy milk or tofu pudding from his daughter to sell, which is quite good with noodles.
In addition, Jiang Miao also prepared to cook some porridge. He found that there was basically no porridge for sale on the market. In people's eyes, porridge is something that everyone can make at home, so there is no need to spend money to buy it. White porridge is of course true, but other delicious and nutritious porridges are innocent. Jiang Miao is going to make this kind of porridge. For example, mushroom and lean meat porridge, millet and egg porridge, seafood porridge, etc., which are not only labor-intensive but also delicious. He doesn't believe that customers don't like them.
Of course, he also has to prepare some noodles, dumplings, wontons and the like. It would be best if he could serve whatever the guests want to eat.
Jiang Miao bit the tip of the pen, wrote and drew while thinking. He sat under the candlelight for a long time before he finally wrote down all the breakfasts he could think of.
Some of the dishes here he was very familiar with, but some he hadn't made for a long time, so he didn't know if his hands would be unfamiliar with them. Jiang Miao touched his stomach, which was rumbling with greed because of writing the menu, and happily decided to make all the dishes he was unfamiliar with starting tomorrow.
His decision made Xiao Shitou and Pei Mu feel like they had fallen into a blessed nest in the next few days. Every morning when they woke up, they could smell all kinds of aromas and taste at least three types of breakfast.
I have eaten some of these breakfasts before, and I have never seen some of them before, but they all have one thing in common: they are all delicious. The two little ones ate their fill every day, and within a few days, their little faces became puffy at the same time, and they looked as cute as the dolls in the New Year pictures.
Recruitment,
(End of this chapter)