Chapter 383 Throwing Money
"As for the purchase of dishes, tables and chairs, I have already asked people to find a few reliable merchants. In addition, I have also arranged the purchase and hiring of shop assistants. Now I would like to invite Madam Xia to come to the shop to take a look and give some suggestions."

Although Manager Fu managed all matters in an orderly manner and even had a good eye for decoration and furnishings, this was his first time running a restaurant business, so he preferred to let Xia Mingyue check it to prevent some things from looking good but not being practical.

Every profession has its own expertise, and Manager Fu believes that it is still necessary to listen to the opinions of professionals.

Xia Mingyue did not make any excuses and took Zhuang Cui and Manager Fu out of the door and went to the shop.

The shop chosen by Manager Fu was located on the most prosperous street in the East District of the entire Changzhou city, in an excellent location.

The shop is three stories high and previously operated as a teahouse. It has a spacious area and a very reasonable overall layout, so many places do not need to be modified and can be used directly.

The screens, calligraphy and paintings that had been used to decorate the teahouse all looked to be of good quality, and even the flower pots were well tended to be lush and green, which made people feel happy when they looked at them.

"This shop is really good." Xia Mingyue nodded repeatedly, "The clothes everywhere look very new, and the door seems to have been repaired. It can save a lot of trouble."

"Yes." Manager Fu had a smile on his face.

He thought so too.

"We just said we wanted to do the copper pot hot pot business, and we happened to meet someone who was reselling such a good shop. We are really lucky." The more Xia Mingyue looked at this shop, the more suitable it seemed to her, and she couldn't help but sigh.

"In fact, this teahouse had good business before, and the owner didn't intend to sell it." Manager Fu laughed, "But the price I offered was right, so the owner agreed to it. When he heard that we were going to do hot pot business, he said he must come and try it in the future."

Xia Mingyue, "..."

Another one who spends money!
However, most of the time, doing business requires vision and decisiveness, and you should not pay too much attention to temporary costs, so as not to lose opportunities.

Manager Fu has worked in the He family for a long time, so he naturally has such ability and financial resources. Moreover, he is very confident in the copper pot hot pot business.

Then she must work with Manager Fu to develop the copper pot hot pot meat business well, and make it prosperous, so as not to let down the trust.

Xia Mingyue calmed down, and after looking around, she briefly summarized her opinions and suggestions on various places, and discussed them one by one with Manager Fu.

From big things like the door sign to small details like the length of chopsticks, the two of them wrote down all the key points while discussing and recorded them in a book to avoid omissions.

This discussion took most of the day. When the sun set and a large sunset glow formed in the western sky, Manager Fu finally spoke.

"It's already late today. Madam Xia has been working hard for most of the day. It's time to take a rest. We can look at the omissions in a few days."

People's thoughts are limited, and they always fail to think everything through at once. Moreover, many things are always imagined to look a certain way, but when they are actually made and displayed or used, it is a completely different picture.

If you want to achieve the best results, you can't be impatient, you need to take it slow and think it over again and again.

"Okay." Xia Mingyue agreed with a smile and went downstairs with Manager Fu.

Manager Fu raised his hand and asked someone to harness the carriage to send Xia Mingyue back.

"No need to trouble you." Xia Mingyue declined with a smile, "We've been sitting for a long time today, and it's still daylight now, so the two of us can walk back slowly and take a stroll along the way." Since arriving in Changzhou City, they have directly started to deal with various businesses of Xia's. Xia Mingyue does not have much free time on weekdays.

Even when I went walking on the street before, I mostly checked the stalls, conducted market research and so on, and rarely had time to stroll around.

The dog days of summer are gradually passing, and the evening breeze brings a little coolness, which is very suitable for taking a walk.

When Manager Fu saw Xia Mingyue like this, he no longer insisted. He just gave her a brief greeting and then went on to do other things.

Xia Mingyue was walking on the street with Zhuang Cui.

The city of Changzhou is bustling with shops and stalls lining the streets, selling a wide variety of items.

First, she went to a small stall and bought a comb made of peach wood. Then she saw a child selling freshly picked lotus pods, so Xia Mingyue bought some and prepared to go back to peel some fresh lotus seeds to eat.

Then I saw people selling fresh edamame, fresh peanuts that had just been unearthed and not yet dried, and even fresh walnuts with green skins...

Xia Mingyue was so happy that she bought all of them.

Because these things were quite heavy and inconvenient to carry, Xia Mingyue simply bought two new small bamboo baskets on the street, put all the things in them, and continued shopping conveniently.

As we were shopping along the way, we passed by a bookstore.

Thinking that she had already finished reading the book she brought from Jinqiu County and was currently in a book shortage, Xia Mingyue suddenly became interested and wanted to go in and carefully select.

Before he even stepped through the door, he saw the shop assistant pushing a man out, saying impatiently, "Go quickly. If you don't leave, the shopkeeper will probably say something unpleasant."

The person being pushed was a woman named Shen Shujun, who was dressed simply in a cloth dress, with gray hair, a rough face with obvious wrinkles and grooves, and was obviously a weathered and slightly elderly person.

"Young man, please talk to the shopkeeper again and ask him to be lenient with you." The woman pleaded, her voice urgent and youthful, which did not match her face.

This sense of incongruity made Xia Mingyue and Zhuang Cui unable to help but stop and take a closer look.

The bookshop clerk sighed, "It's not that I didn't say this, nor is it that the shopkeeper is unkind, but let alone selling this book, no one would want it even if you gave it away for free. We are also doing business here, so we have to think about ourselves."

"I also advise Madam Shen not to waste her energy writing these unsalable stories. It would be better to write stories that sell well. For example, stories like "Spring Boudoir Dream" are quite popular. Madam Shen, why not write something based on this?"

When Shen Shujun heard the words "Spring Boudoir Dream", her hand that was originally tugging at the waiter's sleeve loosened immediately as if it had touched a burning iron. She pursed her lips and lowered her face. After a long while, she said, "Such a story is just to deceive others."

Cheating others?

But which storybook is not the product of someone else’s imagination?

What about the story of a talented man and a beautiful woman, a handsome man and a beautiful woman, who secretly got married. Their parents were against it, but when the boy passed college, the girl's parents had no choice but to agree to their marriage. Isn't this nonsense?