"Open the door, open the door!"
These people came and waited before dawn. When Jiang's shop finally opened its door, they wanted to rush in. Tang Lin stretched out his arms and blocked the door, smiling: "Dear guests, please don't be anxious. I know why you are here today."
"You know why you don't get out of the way?" someone shouted. They had waited at Jiang's house for so long but didn't see anyone. Now that they knew someone was here, they took a closer look.
"Sir, you see, I'm just a waiter. How can I decide whether to give way or not?" Tang Lin said with a smile, "Our shopkeeper has something to say. I have to finish speaking before I can give way."
"Hurry up and tell me!" someone urged anxiously.
"It's like this. Our shopkeeper knows that you all want to ask if he is the one engaged to Prince Pei of the Duke's Mansion, so he specifically asked me to tell you," Tang Lin glanced at everyone and deliberately kept everyone in suspense. "He is."
Everyone outside the door was excited. They were skeptical at first, but now that it had been confirmed by the real owner, how could it be false
"Guests who just want to know this can leave." Zhou Lin shouted, but the crowd at the door only became more excited and no one wanted to leave.
"No one is leaving, right?" Zhou Lin confirmed, and then said, "Our shopkeeper said that he also guessed that everyone wanted to take a look at him, but there were too many people. In order to give everyone a chance to take a look at him, our shopkeeper said that anyone who spends more than 30 coins in the store today can go to the backyard to take a look at him with a sign."
The enthusiasm of the crowd at the door faded a little. Why did they have to pay just to take a look? Some of them had seen Jiang Miao before, but they just didn't look at him carefully.
There were also those who were not short of money and said on the spot: "Bring me the most expensive thing in your store." When he said this, his face was full of the air of a lavish spender.
"Sir, the most expensive item in our store is soup dumplings, 20 cents a basket. You... that's not enough." Zhou Lin was a little embarrassed at first, but before the customer could show his embarrassment, he immediately said, "We now have a breakfast set meal in our store. For only 30 cents, you can enjoy several breakfasts that the shopkeeper strongly recommends. I guarantee you will be full and eat well."
"Then... then have one."
Tang Lin opened his arms and let the first customer go in, while shouting, "An exclusive meal!" He really admired his own shopkeeper, who could figure out how to make money from such a situation. He must learn from the shopkeeper!
Daniu, who was waiting inside, ran to the kitchen and ordered a set meal. Li Ping quickly followed Jiang Miao's instructions and served a bowl of shepherd's purse and egg dumplings, four small soup dumplings, a tea egg and a fried dough stick. These things were placed on a tray and Daniu took it out and placed it in front of the guest.
"Didn't you say there was any signing?" This customer had never been to this shop before, and he came just for Jiang Miao.
Although Daniu was not good at speaking, he could still learn a few words. He said, "Don't worry, sir. We will give you a skewer after you finish eating. Our boss is in the backyard and will not cheat you."
The customer thought so, and he was not going to run away anyway. He was really hungry this early in the morning after smelling these things. He scooped up an egg dumpling and put it into his mouth. His eyes lit up and he started eating.
The guests behind him kept pouring in, and they basically ordered set meals. For the rich, spending thirty coins on breakfast was not a big deal. For others, although thirty coins were a bit expensive, the added value was good. Normally, even if it was three hundred or three thousand taels, you wouldn't see those dukes and marquises.
Jiang Miao sat at the stone table in the backyard, playing with a copper coin in his hand out of boredom. Although he couldn't hear the noise outside clearly, he knew that many people had come in.
Finally, a man came over after finishing his meal, holding a stick and looking around. Jiang Miao immediately perked up and greeted him, "Guest, are you looking for me?"
The guest looked Jiang Miao up and down with interest, and then said with some disappointment: "Are you the man who is engaged to the prince?" He had clearly heard that this man was more handsome than Prince Pei, otherwise, how could Prince Pei, who had seen countless men, fall in love with him? Although the man in front of him was also good-looking, he was different from what he had imagined before.
"Exactly. Why, doesn't it match what you thought?" Jiang Miao said with a smile. One could tell what was going on from the man's expression.
Perhaps Jiang Miao's attitude infected him, and the guest also smiled: "Not really, I just suddenly realized that rumors are indeed not to be believed."
"Yes, the price for believing in rumors is this meal." Jiang Miao pointed at the skewer in his hand and motioned him to throw it into the wooden basin in front of him.
After this guest left, other guests who had finished their meals kept coming to the backyard with wooden sticks in their hands. Jiang Miao smiled and greeted them, letting their curious, inquiring, or disdainful eyes fall on him. At this moment, he suddenly understood why Pei Che liked to be in a quiet and deserted place. Being stared at by others all the time didn't seem to be something worth being happy about.
As time went by, the items in the set meal were sold out. Then, no matter what the item was, some items were simply added to the set meal, making the food in almost everyone's set meal different.
However, this did not reduce everyone's curiosity. Even when all the items in Jiang's shop were sold out, the crowd still did not disperse. Zhou Lin tried to persuade them to leave, saying that all the items in the shop were sold out, but they refused.
There was no other way, so Zhou Lin had to go to the back to find Jiang Miao and tell him about this.
Jiang Miao thought about it and realized that he couldn’t drive the person away and couldn’t create the things at the same time. What should he do
Just let them in? The next second after this thought came to his mind, Jiang Miao changed his mind. No, he couldn't let them watch in vain.
He thought about it, went back to the house, took out the ink that Pei Mu had ground, and then took some paper. He wrote the three words "voucher" on each piece of paper, each of which was worth thirty coins. After writing, he used the store's official seal that he had carved earlier to stamp the words in red.
"If you have nothing to do, cut these papers into pieces. Then, when a customer wants to come in, ask him to pay first and then get the coupon. After getting the coupon, he can come in and see." Jiang Miao said to the crowd while stamping.
Tang Lin looked at Jiang Miao with admiration: "Boss, you really have a trick!"
Jiang Miao said without even raising his head: "Less flattery and more work."
Tang Lin chuckled twice, turned around and took a pair of scissors to cut the coupons together.
The guests outside were a little confused when they heard the word "voucher". After Zhou Lin explained it to them, they nodded thoughtfully, and then some of them paid for the voucher happily, while some of them didn't believe it and decided to leave and come back tomorrow.
Jiang Miao was surrounded by a strong crowd again, and the Jiang family shop finally closed. At this moment, it was not long before noon. Jiang Miao asked Daniu to help him pick up Xiao Shitou, and gave Li Ping some money, asking him to go to a nearby lunch shop and buy a table of food to eat.
After dinner, Jiang Miao came into the room carrying a heavy drawer full of copper coins. Little Stone looked at him in surprise. When he came here before, Jiang Miao had already settled the accounts, so he had never seen so much money put together.
Jiang Miao poured all the copper coins in the drawer onto the table with a "clatter". Countless copper coins, some new and some old, appeared in front of them, forming a small hill, with a few silver coins mixed in from time to time.
The ignorant little stone was still in shock. Pei Mu, who had followed Jiang Miao to count the coins many times during this period, had already climbed onto the stool and stretched out his hand to stack the coins together in groups of ten. Seeing his actions, little stone quickly climbed onto the stool and began to count the coins.
Jiang Miao looked at them for a while, the corners of his mouth rose unconsciously, he reached over and picked out the silver coins one by one. After picking out all of them, he picked up the things and weighed them, and found that there were four taels of silver alone.
This is incredible. The Jiang family's shop only made about 300,000 yuan on its first day of business. Jiang Miao couldn't help but sigh. It seems that the power of gossip is far more attractive than food.
Pei Mu and Xiao Shitou didn't understand Jiang Miao's sigh, and they were still lining up the copper coins seriously. Two people were much faster than one person, and soon, the copper coins that were originally scattered on the table were neatly arranged in piles of ten.
Jiang Miao counted and found that there were more than six taels of silver in total! Together with the four taels, the total was more than ten taels of silver. Just this morning, a month's rent was almost saved up!
Jiang Miao swept away the unhappiness of being stared at today and began to look forward to tomorrow. When he first came here today, he learned that the group of people were just here to watch him, and he was so annoyed. Later, he prepared himself mentally, anyway, he couldn't just close the shop and stay away from the world. Since he was going to be watched anyway, he might as well charge them some money!
Pei Che returned to the room and found a letter on the desk. It was delivered by the person he sent to Pei Mu and Jiang Miao. After being discovered by Jiang Miao last time, he was worried that Jiang Miao would care that someone was following them secretly, but Jiang Miao said that he didn't mind, so he didn't withdraw the person. He only told him that unless something big happened in the future, he couldn't pass on any information casually. So, is there something going on
Pei Che didn't notice that he was getting nervous. He quickly walked to the table and opened the letter. His expression became stranger and stranger. At the end, he couldn't help laughing out loud.
As expected of Jiang Miao, his way of solving problems is always so strange but effective. This move not only confused him, but also those who came from afar to see the prince's wife. He acted so calmly that those people lost their desire to explore.
It is estimated that soon there will be rumors that the future wife of the prince values money more than anything else. All wealthy families are usually reluctant to talk about these yellow and white things in front of many people. If someone talks about them, they will definitely be regarded as vulgar. Now Jiang Miao allowed those ordinary people to watch for a mere thirty cents. Once the news spreads, he will surely become a laughing stock among the wealthy families in Upper City, right
Pei Che put down the letter and looked into the distance, his eyes full of deepness. I wonder if the person in the hall will feel more satisfied after hearing this news
(End of this chapter)