six-fingered peasant girl

Chapter 227 Unannounced Visit ([-])

Su Liu looked at the teahouse waiter's red and white face through the thin curtain, and snorted lightly. With such a service attitude, how good is the teahouse's business?

"It's my shop that's neglected. I hope the girl can't be blamed. This little girl has only been here for a few days. She doesn't understand anything. Don't blame the girl. This old man will apologize to the girl."

While the two were in a stalemate, a voice came from the door. Su Liu looked over and saw a middle-aged man in his forties or fifties walking in, wearing a gray brocade robe and satin boots.

"Second shopkeeper." The waiter immediately bowed his head and stepped aside.

"Go down." The shopkeeper gave a sip: "Here's a pot of good tea, and a few dishes of smaller dishes."

"Yes." The little girl didn't dare to argue and got busy.

"Young lady, is there anything strange?" The shopkeeper stood in front of Su Liu with a pleasant smile.

Su Liu came to make an unannounced visit. First, he took a look at the shopkeeper. He is a bit fat, with a round face full of smiles, but his eyes are shining brightly. He is also a shrewd person. I just don't know how this shop is managed. so bad.

Su Liu wanted to inquire, and said: "The shopkeeper is being polite. Your store's way of greeting customers may be different, but it's because I overstepped the rules."

"Miss, this is serious. Since you come to the teahouse to eat tea flowers and silver, you are our food and clothing parents. You can teach us a few words, and you will be successful. Moreover, it is true that we have neglected the girl. Why did the girl go beyond the rules? That's what you said." The shopkeeper hurriedly said with a smile: "To make amends, I invite the girl to eat this pot of tea."

Su Liu raised his eyebrows, he knew how to be a man, and said: "I don't think the shopkeeper is unreasonable, and he seems to be a person who can do business. Seeing that the business of this teahouse is really bad, maybe he can't continue to do business and is going to graduate, right? "

The shopkeeper listened, regardless of Su Liu's invitation or not, he sat down on his own, and said: "To tell you the truth, as you can see, the service attitude of the waiter in our shop is unwelcoming. How can it be better?"

"Since it's useless, just dismiss it, so why keep it?"

"Girl, I'm afraid you didn't hear the sound just now. I'm actually the second innkeeper of this teahouse, and there's another one above. These little girls..." He chuckled.

Not long after, Xiaoer came in with tea, the second shopkeeper shut his mouth at the right time, and when the second shopkeeper was about to leave, he said: "The money for this pot of tea will be put on the official account, it is for you to offend the distinguished guest." Second pardon."

That Xiaoer's face changed, and he blurted out without thinking: "But the shopkeeper..."

"What's the matter, I'm a dignified second shopkeeper, can't I still decide what customers want to pay the public account? Don't forget, it's all because of you." The second shopkeeper said coldly.

The little boy didn't dare to make a sound, and responded like a mosquito, but everyone could see the contempt and unhappiness flashing in his eyes.

Seeing this, Su Liu basically understood that the real owner of this teahouse was the legendary big shopkeeper, and he didn't know who it was, so she pretended to say something unintentionally: "The big shopkeeper of your shop is also If you are free, there is no need to sit in the hall in this world."

The second shopkeeper smiled wryly, and said: "Who would let the master look after him?" At this point, he seemed to realize that he had slipped his mouth, so he changed the topic by pouring tea for Su Liu.

Su Liu's heart skipped a beat, master, who does this shopkeeper belong to?
She didn't make a sound on her face, and she didn't talk about these secret topics any more. She only talked about the tea ceremony with the second shopkeeper, and then talked about the business method and so on. He was suppressed everywhere, so that his talents could not be used.

After drinking a pot of tea, Su Liu asked the shopkeeper's surname again. Knowing his surname was Kong, she secretly wrote it down, and then turned to the next place.

Next, I went to the incense powder and cloth shop. These incense powders are all imported from other merchants. The price is naturally not as cheap as the original source, and the rouge powder can’t get new models in time. It’s good to keep it going.

As for the cloth seller, there is a small cloth dyeing workshop, but because the patterns are outdated and the colors are monotonous, she sat in the small teahouse opposite the cloth workshop for an hour, and saw eight people go in, but only one came out with the cloth in her arms. , It can be seen that this business is so bleak that people can't look directly at it.

After slipping away, Su Liu felt a little headache, it was far more serious than she imagined!

The business is weak, and it is unknown who is involved behind the scenes, who is who, if it is really necessary to reorganize, it is absolutely impossible to keep a low profile.

Su Liu didn't go to see the two rented out shops, the last one is the restaurant, as for the gambling house, it's not something a woman like her can go to.

It is noon now, so it is said that there should be a lot of people in the restaurant, but it is not the case, there are only a few tables in twos and threes, but the waiter is very enthusiastic, as soon as Su Liu and the others came in, they cleaned the tables and chairs and bowed to say hello.

The restaurant is not big, with only two floors. For convenience, Su Liu didn't ask to go to the private room, but sat down at a table with a wider view in the lobby.

"Order all the special dishes in your shop." Su Liu didn't order any dishes, and only asked the general to serve them well.

After walking for a long time, I drank a lot of tea, and everyone was tired. Shuang Ning said that this was more tiring than working in the village.

Xueluo smiled and said, "That's called being tired, and you still say you're doing great things with the girl!"

Shuang Ning stuck out her tongue, glanced at Su Liu and said, "Didn't I just groan."

Su Liu put the curtain aside, and said: "Going shopping is naturally tiring, but today is not the most tiring. I'm afraid it will be even more tiring in the future. You should be mentally prepared."

The second maid straightened her waist and said, "Miss, don't worry, we will do well."

Su Liu nodded, and said again: "After dinner, let's go back to the inn to rest, and I will test you again to see how well you have learned your abacus?"

Knowing that the account books are still in Ping Jing's hands, Su Liu knew that there was still a tough battle to be fought, and she didn't even know how to use abacus to settle accounts these years. She immediately felt that she had made a lot of money, and asked the carpenter to make a few abacus , and silently recited the abacus formulas, and taught them to several girls.

Calculating the accounts with an abacus is far faster than reconciling the accounts one by one. Even Chen Ye, who saw it, felt that this method was very useful, so he specially learned it from Su Liu.

In fact, the two girls Song Fei picked for her, Xueluoshuangning, are really good. They are both very smart, and now they are both good at abacus. I believe that with time, they will be able to make it handy.

While talking, the specialty dishes in the restaurant have been served, a dish of tofu in sauce, a dish of braised pork elbow, a dish of braised winter bamboo shoots, and a dish of rice wine pork knuckle.

As soon as the dishes were served, Su Liu felt that the name might be too good to be true, but she didn't try it, and she didn't dare to make a conclusion, she just lightly picked up and tasted some of each.

Before she could evaluate herself, Xueluo and the others frowned and said, "It's worse than the girls."

Look, it's not that she is arrogant, let alone the home-cooked dishes. In this restaurant, the cooking must be exquisite in color, fragrance and taste, so that it attracts people's appetite, but the presentation is poor, and the impression naturally drops sharply.

With the blows from the previous shops, Su Liu said that she was already very calm. While eating, she screened in her mind which business she wanted to close.

Tea can only be made with a tea guide issued by the imperial court. The teahouse in Ningguang is mainly a teahouse, supplemented by selling tea. The layout, at least better than the current one.

People depend on food, so she wants to open this restaurant. The restaurants in Beijing mostly serve Beijing dishes or Jiangnan dishes, and the chili stuff has not spread here. It just so happens that she will make this restaurant a spicy hot pot restaurant first, and later Make all kinds of spicy dishes, don't believe it can't be popular.

As for the cloth workshop, that is not her strong point, and she doesn't know how to dye cloth, and messy business is the most taboo, and she doesn't know how to dye cloth, so she wants to close this business.

The powder shop must be kept, she admits that it is a little selfish, that is, Su Xiao is making powder, she hopes to let Su Xiao's powder come in in the future, and build it into a beauty and cosmetics shop, specializing in makeup for women and selling powder at the same time.

With a preliminary plan in mind, Su Liu made up her mind, planning to see Ping Jing tomorrow or the day after tomorrow.

And what Ping Jing was doing at this time, happened to be sitting in the teahouse where Su Liu had been, and was accompanied by shopkeeper Kong to talk, and when he heard him talk about the business that Su Liu said, he couldn't help being taken aback.

"You said she was a woman with a face, but can you hear that accent?" Ping Jing squinted at Shopkeeper Kong.

"Well, it's hard to hear, but the maid next to her spoke with an accent from Gyeongju." Shopkeeper Kong thought about Su Liu's accent and said.

"Qingzhou?" Ping Jing raised his eyebrows, and suddenly said: "Go, call San'er."

Shopkeeper Kong didn't understand, but he quickly called the little girl named San'er, and Ping Jing said: "Go and find out where that girl has gone, and report quickly."

San'er didn't ask any questions, just answered and left.

Shopkeeper Kong didn't know why, but Ping Jing didn't say anything, so he could only hold back his words. Could it be that Manager Ping knew the girl well?

Half an hour later, San'er trotted back, panting heavily, and explained the whereabouts of Su Liu and the others clearly.

Hearing this, Ping Jing revealed an inscrutable smile, curled up his fingers and tapped aggressively, and said: "Sure enough, it's here, interesting, interesting, it's actually a visit first."

Shopkeeper Kong scratched his heart like a cat, regardless of his dignity, he said, "Chief Manager, look at that Wu Sheng..."

"Don't worry, why do you think I have kept him? It is naturally useful. Don't worry, I won't wrong you. Soon, he will come down from this position. The position of the shopkeeper must be yours. Ping Jing glanced at him indifferently, narrowed his eyes and said: "Of course someone will clean him up for you."

Now that Su Liu came and knew what happened in the teahouse, how would he rectify it? He was very curious.One thing is, if she dares to pull Wu Sheng off his horse, he doesn't mind pulling her.

Ping Jing smiled slightly, but shopkeeper Kong's eyelids twitched when he saw it, and he always felt that this faint smile was as secretive as it could be.

(End of this chapter)