Chapter 57: Opening a Shop
Under the guidance of Yamen’s ‘bullying’ blows, Lin Tianbao finally changed his idea of wanting to abandon literature and engage in business, and obediently went home to listen to Lin Laogen’s words and go to private school.
Although the child still does not quite understand how big the difference between business and school is, after this incident and Wu Qingyuan’s enlightenment and indoctrination, the child still vaguely knows the difference between ‘being an official’ and a commoner, and that reading is not useless.
And just like Wu Qingyuan said, he is still young, even if he really has no interest in studying in the future, it will not be too late to learn business at that time, thinking like this, Lin Tianbao finally has a goal to strive for.
Seeing that Lin Tianbao took the initiative to obediently decide to go to private school, Lin Laogen smiled and couldn’t keep his mouth shut, and he had complained a little about Wu Qingyuan working against him before, and at this moment he was happy all of a sudden, for his ‘Brother Wu’ had a way.
The matter of the child’s education was decided in this way, and finally considering that the private school was in the town, Lin Tianbao found it inconvenient to go back and forth in the village every day, Wu Qingyuan simply took the initiative to let the child live in the town with them, so as to avoid Lin Laogen being overworked with helping him manage the field and short-term work and since had no time to take care of the child.
Anyway, when the time comes to go to the town to be busy with the store every day, he will also invite an old woman to some home as a nanny, and Lin Tianbao will not be troubled to come and live together.
After explaining the affairs of the field to Lin Laogen, Wu Qingyuan and Amo packed up their things and moved to the town, the shop had been decorated, and they hired guys to put the goods on the opening day, and after being busy for so long, it was finally time to make money.
Hiring guys is not a problem, he has always been generous and cheerful in terms of wages, and as soon as the news of the generous salary for recruitment spread out, there were many people who applied, and Wu Qingyuan finally chose a few more honest ones to help.
Maybe a clever man can help himself more, but at the moment he just started a business, many rules in the shop are not very developed, he does not need too clever people, as long as they can honestly handle the things he assigns, after all, business is not a one-time thing.
All the preliminary work was completed, and on the sixth day of June, amid the noise of gongs and drums, ‘Wu Ji Department Store’ finally opened its doors for business.
In order to increase the popularity on the first day of opening, Wu Qingyuan racked his brains and tried his best, not only setting off firecrackers according to normal procedures, but also inviting acrobatics of lion dances to perform.
Finally, he imitated the modern ribbon cutting, and invited a group of servants from Yamen, as well as a few local snakes in the town who specialize in collecting protection fees, to the scene to cut the ribbon.
“…… Thank you for coming to the opening ceremony of our Wu Ji Department Store, today all customers who spend in Wu Ji Department Store, regardless of the amount, can receive a lucky bag with the bill, the lucky bag contains a variety of gifts provided by our Wu Ji Department Store, from jade stones to small snack candy cubes, welcome everyone.”
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When he opened his business, his main goal was not to make money, but to make the store famous!
“What? Really want to give away jade? Can I just buy something for a penny?”
As expected, as soon as the preferential policy came out, the people watching the excitement around were all interested, obviously attracted by the jade prize told by his mouth.
“Of course, the contents of these lucky bags are different, what you get depends on your own temperament, no matter what you get at that time, my Wu Ji Department Store will never not pay the bill…” Wu Qingyuan was very satisfied with everyone’s expressions and continued to tempt.
“Really, it’s not fake? So many lucky bags contain something, who knows if there really is jade stones…”
“That is, if we buy a few taels of silver, you will give us a small snack, then we are supposed to be thankful…”
“Are we sure it’s not a lie, are there really people who do business without making money and give away silver…”
The crowd talked a lot, some people were moved, but most people still didn’t believe that there was such a good thing, jade, the cheapest ones have to be a few taels of silver, the boss was just running his mouth.
Because they didn’t believe it, they moved around the crowd watching the excitement.
Wu Qingyuan was not in a hurry, smiling and waiting for the first person to take the bait, Amo stood next to him a little nervously, and finally a ruffian who was invited to participate in the ribbon cutting today came out sensibly to help break the deadlock.
“You people are just timid, people who do things by cowering and shrinking are meant to live a poor life, wait, Lao Tzu comes first, today Lao Tzu goes out at the door hearing the magpie call, Lao Tzu touches a jade stone for you to see!”
The ruffian, a local snake, came out, arrogantly pointed at the people around him and cursed twice, then swaggered to the basket full of lucky bags, picked one at random, and then opened it in front of everyone.
“It’s jade!”
The ground ruffian snake head was very lucky, and as soon as he came, he got a lucky bag containing jade, which immediately caused the people around him to scream.
That ruffian obviously didn’t expect his luck to be so good, he was dumbfounded looking at the jade for a while, damn it, it’s really jade, the texture is crystal clear, and the color is good!
“Congratulations to Brother Sun.”
Wu Qingji smiled at him, if you want to do business, you can’t smash your own sign board. He did fill these lucky bags with jade stones, but the number is relatively small, this scene is not arranged by him, it is indeed the luck of this surnamed Sun.
With the strong beginning of the surname Sun, not only the people around were a little moved, but even the other servants and snakes at the door who were invited to help cut the ribbon and press the field were also eager to try, after all, everyone likes to take advantage of free things.
Wu Qing had a foresight and smiled and encouraged, “Brother Zheng, why don’t you try it too…..”
“Good!”
Waiting for this sentence to step down, Zheng Yanyan everyone was happy, unceremoniously nodded immediately, ran over to try their luck, they took their lucky bags, seven or eight men gathered around to pick lucky bags instantly drove the atmosphere of the scene, causing the people around to stretch their necks and look.
“Oh, it’s a handkerchief.”
“Mine is a coupon, what is a coupon?”
“Ahhh, mine is a jade, look quickly, hahaha, I’ve been blessed!”
“I’ve been given a food coupon for the Wu Ji Department Store, what is the food coupon…”
Opening lucky bags is to see luck, everyone’s luck is different, the things drawn are naturally different, and the several servants and local snakes who drive the atmosphere curiously take the lucky bag prizes they drew to study.
They thought it should be all small things, but they didn’t expect that there were some very special small cards, with all kinds of coupons, food coupons and so on, which were novel and special.
But no matter what it is, it is true that there is something in each lucky bag, especially when one of the servants excitedly yells that he has obtained jade, and the whole lively scene atmosphere is raised to the top in an instant.
“I’ll try…..”
Finally, some onlookers endured and couldn’t help but run up, followed the others into the store, bought something at random inside, and hurriedly ran out to open the lucky bag, compared to the things in the store, everyone’s curiosity and attention at the moment were all led to the lucky bag’s prize.
Finally, under everyone’s attention, when the first onlooker to take the bait excitedly shouted, “I also got jade!” At that time, all the people who watched the excitement were suddenly defeated in reason, collapsed like a flood bursting the embankment, and rushed into the store to buy things, looking anxious as if they had slowed down- the lucky bags containing the good things would have been snatched away.
For a while, the shop that had been empty was suddenly crowded.
Seeing this scene, Wu Qingyuan showed a smile of victory on his face, and Amo excitedly hugged his arm and kept saying, “It’s done, Brother Wu, we succeeded!” The whole lively scene lasted for a whole morning, and the continuous surprise sound of “Look what I drew” came out, attracting a group of customers to run into the store, although the lucky bags and gifts that everyone drew were different, good and bad, but the faces were basically happy in the end.
At first, everyone may have entered the store to buy things for the sake of lucky bags, but soon when everyone strolled around the store, they found that the name of Wu Ji Department Store was also unique, and the goods inside were really meant for department stores.
There are things in the shops in Shiqiao Town, things that are not in the shops in Shiqiao Town, and there are many things that everyone has not seen much, unique soaps, mosquito coils, and gems, they heard that all of them are ‘overseas goods’ exchanged with traders from various countries, which is very rare.
Even the major jewelry stores claim to be the most difficult to find the source of goods, regarded it as a treasure, ‘Wu Ji Department Store’ actually has it, and there are quite a few!
At this time, not only ordinary townspeople were strolling around the shop, but some rich old men who watched the excitement did not feel that the shop was crowded and ran in.
On the first day of opening, the turnover of Wu Ji Department Store was very impressive. Of course, the lucky bag gifts sent out were also a large amount, and the profit was not much.
But Wu Qingyuan is not in a hurry, this is only the first day of opening, the lucky bags he gave away for nothing, the gift of jades certainly cost him a lot of silver, but the other part of the large number of coupons and food coupons sent out, is the biggest surprise.
Yay! The shop is open! How clever of Wu Qingyuan. Thanks for the chapter!
Everybody loves to gamble for a big prize~
Thanks for the chapter!
Coupons meant that those people will need to come again… It’s so ingenious. Capitalism has its perks
Thank you for the chapter! 💚🤍💚🤍
Gotta Love Coupons eheheh
Thank You for the new chapter (๑˙❥˙๑)
Ancient people meet coupons!! Cannot lie, once I signed a monthly magazine to be rewarded a little lantern to read books, the lantern was cheap, but the price of the magazines were a little salty…. Weeks later did I reflect on that….