Chapter 68: Opening of Baizhen Luo
There is light snow in winter, and those who can not go out all burn firewood and charcoal at their homes to keep warm.
Business on the street is down.
With the appearance of hot pot, while the streets were still deserted when it was snowing, the restaurants and bars were not deserted.
Hot pot is popular in the county, and it is also a pleasure to gather three or five friends and go to restaurants or taverns to drink hot wine and eat hot pot.
Wei Cheng continues working in winter, his workshop and sauce workshop are equally busy.
The Wei Family’s Workshop makes rare handmade goods and it was rightfully busy. The sauce workshop sells sauces continuously. They are all necessary sauces for people in the county and shops are selling them even in Jinzhou.
These businesses are all stable, and they were handed over to the staff below. Yun Chengfeng opened the workshops to be built and the dried seafood sales stores in the suburbs before the cold winter while he continued managing Tai Fu Luo. Even when others were free, Wei Cheng was still extremely busy.
But no matter how busy he was, he still had to eat.
Yun Chengfeng didn’t stay in Tai Fu Luo, eating hot pot alone was boring, so he went to Xian Manju instead.
Yun Chengfeng: “Why are you tossing about this winter? Why don’t you stay at home with your husband?”
Wei Cheng glanced at him, and said calmly, “The shop in the inner county is about to open.”
Being shocked by what he said was an understatement, Yun Chengfeng felt that it was not good to open a store on a day when people were freezing in the cold of winter, and he suddenly wondered if Wei Cheng was too busy, “If you open too early then if the store opens in winter when the business is bleak, there would too few people willing to buy. What if you open on a snowy day, maybe there would be no customers. Are you okay with this?!”
Wei Lei and Wei Hu hurried in and out, but they were used to obeying the arrangements, and they were not business-minded.
Wei Lei had just entered the business, so he didn’t know much about business, and he didn’t think there was any problem with the date of opening but now Wei Lei felt that there was indeed a problem with Yun Chengfeng’s words, and even Wei Hu could hear the problem behind his words.
Wei Cheng seldom explained what he did, even when people stared at him and questioned him, he remained calm.
Wei Cheng said coolly, “There is no better day, you can prepare to stay at home in advance and prepare for the New Year’s ceremony along the way.”
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Now it was Wei Cheng’s turn to be speechless!
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On the opening day of Baizhen Luo, it was snowing lightly.
The streets of the inner county are deserted.
Baizhen Luo is located at a very good location, not far from Tai Fu Luo and Baiweifang. The store has two floors, a spacious storefront, and a yard behind it.
The first floor is the lobby, and there are several private rooms, which are semi-open, with screens and gauze curtains at the entrance of the private rooms. The second floor also has private rooms, each with a product brochure.
On the opening day, few people patronized the shop.
In the private room on the first floor, Wei Cheng and Zhou Yuan, Yun Chengfeng, and Yan Yi came to watch the excitement, even the curious Steward Quan followed while Wei Lei and Wei Hu were also there. The group sat at a table that was set for refreshments.
The room they were sitting in was warm, not cold, otherwise, sitting for a long time may cause some problems.
Yun Chengfeng drank tea and said, “Your private room is warm.”
The private room is heated by burning a fire in the backyard. There is a stove on the first floor and a stove on the second floor, both of which are separate. Yun Chengfeng thought that there was a charcoal stove in the house and lit a charcoal fire to keep warm, so he didn’t pay attention to ask what made the rooms warm.
“Your Baizhen Luo is very elegantly decorated, and the products outside are all high-quality goods, but you have chosen the wrong opening date.” Yun Chengfeng said, “If no one comes to buy, you can just give me the goods and I will happily accept them!”
Wei Cheng said indifferently, “Do you know what products I have in this Baizhen Luo? There are a lot of new products here.”
Yun Chengfeng didn’t pay attention to this, he knew that there were dried seafood, candles and soaps, glass lamps, and glass decorations, and there seemed to be some of the most difficult-to-buy pastries.
Yun Chengfeng guessed, “Last time you asked for a batch of white sugar, you wouldn’t sell it in this shop, would you?”
Wei Cheng: “…….”
White sugar is cheap, only you think it’s rare.
Wei Cheng bluntly insulted him, “I wonder what kind of business mind you have, why didn’t Tai Fu Lou close down during your operation!”
Yun Chengfeng choked on his tea!
Yun Chengfeng retorted back, “It’s because of my ability that Tai Fu Lou didn’t close down!”
Wei Cheng glanced at people and didn’t speak. A good family background is indeed a skill!
Yun Chengfeng: “…”
He wouldn’t be narcissistic and think that Wei Cheng’s glance was approval, he knew that it was the opposite, contempt.
However, while there are indeed no customers, the boss himself was not worried so why should he be?
On the other hand, Zhou Yuan was very anxious. Why wasn’t there a single customer when the store opened so he tugged on Wei Cheng’s sleeve, “Isn’t it bad that no customers are coming on the store’s opening? Why aren’t you worried that there are no customers?”
How could Wei Cheng make his wife worry? He leaned sideways and said softly, “There are no customers now, but there will definitely be many customers later on. There will be no shortage of people to buy our family’s things.”
That being said, if no one came to the door, no one would realize what their things were. Zhou Yuan frowned, thought for a while, and said, “Why don’t we ask the guys to go outside and sell some, someone will definitely buy it if we sell outside.”
The wife’s idea is too cute. If his shop attendants go out to yell, it would downgrade the shop’s reputation, not to mention that they were on one of the most prosperous central streets in the county, there are many famous and expensive shops in the county.
Wei Cheng smiled, “That’s a good solution, I will listen to Yuan Yuan.”
The wife ordered him and anyway, it doesn’t hurt to do so.
Wei Cheng asked Xiao-Liu to call the shopkeeper. The shopkeeper was becoming anxious in the lobby as no customers came to the door for a long time after the opening. Now that the boss called him, maybe it was to blame him. The shopkeeper entered the private room, anxiously and respectfully asked, “Boss, what are your orders for this little one?”
Wei Cheng ordered him, “Since there is no one in the store, find two shop assistants to yell at the door and invite customers to come to our door.”
Yun Chengfeng and others: “……”
You are really doing this!
Seeing that the boss didn’t reprimand him, the shopkeeper ordered him to ask his assistant to yell at the door of the shop. He didn’t care if the yelling was indecent, as long as they didn’t blame him, he would do it immediately.
Except for Zhou Yuan, everyone looked at Wei Cheng speechlessly.
Wei Cheng didn’t care about others’ thoughts. These guests of his came to the shop uninvited, he opened his shop without inviting anyone but he still had to greet important guests himself so he ordered Xiao-Liu to serve all the snacks in Baizhen Luo before he lowered his head to ask his wife, “Yuan Yuan, what else do you want to eat, there is stew in the kitchen, if you want to eat something else, I will let them bring it in.”
Zhou Yuan recalled the snacks he had tried and remembered those he liked most, “Husband, is there some of that milky candy, the toffee? There are also preserved plum cakes and sweet-scented osmanthus fruit tea.”
Wei Cheng smiled, “I will ask Xiao-Liu to bring you all of them”
Xiao-Liu came in with a lot of things, she couldn’t carry them alone so there was a waiter behind her, Xiao-Liu put a stew pot in front of everyone and put all the things on the table.
Wei Lei and Wei Hu have both seen and eaten the new things, but Yun Chengfeng and the others have never seen them.
“What kind of food is this, and this is candy? This white one smells like fragrant milk, and this flat one is dried fruit. Then what are these slices? What are these cans?” Yun Chengfeng looked at Wei Cheng, “Is this new merchandise?”
Wei Cheng is not responsible for giving him answers, he has to make sweet-scented osmanthus tea for his wife.
Xiao-Liu acted as a commentator and introduced them one by one: “This is crystal fruit candy, it has flavors including orange, ebony, lemon, and pear. Crystal flower candy includes flavors of osmanthus, jasmine, rose, chamomile, and lemon. The white one is Toffee, the quantity of toffee is small, it is still difficult to find milk sources, and the price is more expensive. In addition, there are preserved plum cakes, the slices are licorice plum slices and preserved hawthorn. The transparent bottle is flower fruit tea, which contains various combinations of dried fruit scented tea is suitable for girls and boys.”
Yun Chengfeng: “… all these things are made in your workshop?”
He tasted them one by one, and most of the candy had a strong fruity taste, not the kind of sweet candy sold outside, for this type of flavor, which girl, ger, and child can stop themselves?
Aww is it a candy store? Of course he isn’t worried
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Thanks for the chapter! No one can resist sweet stuff…