Chapter 61 Please help

"I am here to pay my respects to you, mother-in-law. I should have come yesterday, but I got so bored on the way back that I caught some heat and am feeling unwell. That is why I am here today. I hope you will not blame me."

The next morning, Xu Shuhe came to Wanshuangzhai again.

Li Mingzhu was there too, and should have come even earlier. It seemed that she had helped Feng get up and wash up.

It can be seen that the news in the mansion is correct. During this period of time, Li Mingzhu should be carefully trying to please Feng.

"Paying respects is no big deal. Is your health okay?" Feng acted as gentle as ever and waved her hand.

Xu Shuhe stood up and sat down beside him with the help of Xinyue. "Thank you for your concern, mother-in-law. I saw a doctor yesterday and he said it was nothing serious, just due to the heat."

"This woman has a delicate body, she is afraid of both cold and heat." Feng said softly, and finally instructed, "Songqiu, the Third Young Master's wife has a fever, change the licorice tea."

Mother Qiu, who was standing nearby, responded immediately and quickly replaced the tea at Xu Shu's table.

Xu Shuhe thanked him but didn't drink.

She didn't like drinking tea very much, especially now that she was at Feng's place, it felt a bit nauseating and she really couldn't drink it.

But in Feng's eyes, this became caution.

Licorice is cold in nature and is not very suitable for pregnant women.

However, this test was not enough. Feng asked someone to bring a plate of sugar-coated hawthorns and asked her two daughters-in-law to eat it.

Li Mingzhu naturally gave him face. Since Xu Shuhe didn't like to eat it, he only tasted one.

Feng saw it all and was silently calculating in her heart.

After coming out of Wanshuangzhai, Xu Shuhe was about to go out of the house to check out the store, but he didn't expect to be stopped by Li Mingzhu before he had gone far.

"Brothers and sisters."

"Is there something wrong, sister-in-law?" Xu Shuhe turned around.

Li Mingzhu smiled and said, "Sister-in-law, are you free right now? I have a few words to say to you, why don't we take a walk together?"

This means something must have happened.

Xu Shuhe's eyes moved slightly, and then he nodded.

The two of them turned around and headed towards the small garden in the mansion.

As she walked, Li Mingzhu began to talk about her own affairs in a low voice.

"There is a clothing store called Yunshang Pavilion in the city these days. Business is booming. I inquired carefully and found out that it is actually owned by my third brother and his wife. To be honest, I opened a small embroidery shop at the beginning of this year. I usually sell embroidered screens, fans, handkerchiefs and the like. I also embroider clothes and quilt covers for people. The embroiderers are all very skilled. Unfortunately, the location of the shop is not very good and business is not very good. So I thought, please help me, my sister-in-law."

"But the cloth in our shop is all woven in our own cloth shop and embroidery workshop, and then made into clothes to sell. Although I want to take care of my sister-in-law's business, it is inconvenient to take them to the embroidery shop for embroidery." Xu Shuhe pretended to be stupid.

Li Mingzhu smiled and immediately said, "I don't mean to work for you, my sister-in-law. I'm just wondering if I can make some space in your shop so I can put some items from my embroidery shop on it and sell them. If anyone asks about it, I'll ask the people in your shop to tell the customer where the items came from."

Having said that, probably because he was worried that Xu Shuhe would not agree, his expression changed again and he let out a long sigh.

"If I hadn't put a lot of money into this shop, and the business hadn't been good, I wouldn't have been so shameless as to ask my sister-in-law for help."

After hearing this, Xu Shuhe knew what was going on. However, she also knew that Li Mingzhu was not a person that could be trusted, so she would not agree immediately.

"We are a family. Second sister-in-law said that I must think of a way for her. However, the man is responsible for the outside affairs and the woman is responsible for the inside affairs. The shop is managed by my husband. I can only help out and do the accounting, but I cannot make the final decision. Second sister-in-law, please let me go back and talk to my husband."

"Of course. Second sister-in-law would like to thank you first." Li Mingzhu nodded.

After the two separated, Xinyue couldn't help but ask.

"Are you really going to help the Second Young Master's wife? She has been bullying and plotting against you together with the Madam before. She is not a good person."

Xu Shuhe chuckled, "She didn't agree to it, but since she came to me to beg me, she must be in trouble. I'm about to leave the house, so go to my second sister-in-law's shop and check what's going on."

Xinyue responded and kept it in mind silently.

The master and servants returned to Fuyunju, and Xu Shuhe changed his clothes and went out.

She first inspected all of her dowry shops, and then went directly to Yunshang Pavilion.

She didn't go to other places. After all, they were all left to him by Chen Zhi's mother and were his private property. Only Yunshang Pavilion was tinkered with by Chen Zhi, so she was in charge of it.

Even as a couple, they have to settle accounts clearly.

Except for the rouge shop, which allowed Chen Zhi to get involved in other her dowry shops, she didn't let Chen Zhi get involved.

Of course, these are just other things. When Xu Shuhe arrived at Yunshang Pavilion, he saw that the business was still booming.

When Shopkeeper Zhou saw her coming, he hurried over to greet her, "Young Madam, why are you here? The young master just came to check on us this morning."

"Nothing, I was just passing by and came in to take a look to see how the business is going." Xu Shuhe smiled.

When he heard her talking about the business, Shopkeeper Zhou smiled brightly.

"It's going very well. Since the second opening, the business has been very good. We followed your advice, Madam, and did not bring out all the new products at once. We put in new products every ten days. As expected, there are many new customers and even more returning customers. Our business has even caught up with the Brocade Workshop!"

With such high reviews, the business must be good.

Indeed, extremely wealthy people are a minority after all, and most are small wealthy families like the Chen family and ordinary families, so Yunshang Pavilion’s positioning and customer base are still very large.

"The better the business is, the more careful we must be. The rules I required before must still be strictly followed. I hope Manager Zhou will make sure the guys in the store remember them." Xu Shuhe reminded.

No matter how good a store is, bad service attitude, poor environment, quality issues, poor after-sales service, etc. can ruin the store.

Shopkeeper Zhou has been in business for many years and is well aware of the principle. He immediately nodded in agreement.

"Madam, please rest assured. I will definitely manage the store well. When the young master came today, he also mentioned this. He also mentioned that he wanted to train the shop assistants. However, the young master has not yet drawn up the rules for this matter. We will talk about it in a few days."

"I also know about the training." Xu Shuhe nodded, "If this person wants to move forward, he has to do better business, so he deserves a promotion."

Shopkeeper Zhou also agreed, "Yes, I understand the benefits of this matter, but Madam, I have something else to tell you."

"What's the matter?" Xu Shuhe asked.

Shopkeeper Zhou frowned slightly and said in a deep voice, "Today I heard something from several customers in our store. They said that a few stores in the west of the city have started selling clothes of the same style as ours in the past two days. The colors and patterns of the fabrics are almost the same, but they are much cheaper than ours."