Don't worry about traveling through time, she has an all-powerful senior sister to help her

Chapter 180

These thousand households were naturally brought in by Chen Ru. When the diners saw that the officials had their meals served by their personal soldiers, their complaints about paying before eating were greatly reduced.

Captain Chen's visit was not solely to support the food shop, but more to use the second floor by the window to observe what was happening on Fuqian Street.

Keeping an eye on the government office was not within his scope. He was mainly responsible for the Qing Army Hall to the east of the government office and a Wude Camp not far from it.

However, when leaving after the meal, Chen Ru found that the restaurant's business was too good, and the people he arranged were either in the kitchen or cleaning the tables upstairs and downstairs.

They are so busy that they don’t have time to keep an eye on us.

So he planned to find Shen Miaozhu and make further arrangements after she finished her breakfast.

Unexpectedly, the personal soldiers sent out did not come back until lunch time, and said that Hu Ji Food Shop was still busy.

He said to himself, "One pot of mutton soup until noon?"

The personal guard said, "Captain, there is still lunch in the canteen."

"Yes, fortunately there is no dinner." What Chen Ru didn't know was that Shen Lingzhu wanted to observe whether the flow of people in the food stores and restaurants in the city was large before the curfew, and whether it was suitable for the food stores to add dinner.

But when she brought up this idea during lunch after the shop closed in the afternoon, it was rejected by her senior sister and grandfather.

"Dinner has wine and food, and it's easy for something to go wrong if the guests drink too much." Grandpa firmly disagreed.

He also said, "I can't cook by myself until the evening."

"How about assigning you another chef?" Shen Lingzhu asked, taking a step back.

Shen Miaozhu answered for Grandpa: "No matter how many more you deserve, Grandpa and I will never agree.

Cooking three meals a day for a long time is unbearable for the people in the kitchen, and neither is it for you as the one collecting the money.

Instead of wasting your time thinking about this and that, why don't you just count how much money you collected today?"

As soon as she said this, all her family members who were eating in the restaurant looked over.

From mixing the stuffing yesterday to getting up at Yinshi this morning to prepare meals and make dumplings, everyone also wants to know how many were sold.

"Okay, okay. After dinner, let's count the coins together." The idea of ​​asking customers to pay before eating was proposed by Shen Lingzhu.

She turned to her eldest brother's table and asked, "Brother, is this okay?"

"Of course." Shen Xianzhu has been busy for so long and also wants to know how much he can sell in a day.

As soon as he finished speaking, everyone quickened their eating pace.

A quarter of an hour later, the secret box for collecting money was carried out from the counter.

When Uncle Jiu led the young men to pour boxes of money onto several tables, everyone couldn't help but get excited.

Indeed, a few dozen or a few hundred copper coins are not a lot, but tens of thousands of copper coins mixed with some small amounts of silver piled up in front of people is a huge pile.

The young men beside Shen Xianzhu were already estimating how much it would cost in silver. They had counted the copper coins more than once when they were selling bellows.

There is strength in numbers. The twenty or so people present counted and strung the copper coins together with a hemp rope. Finally, they added and subtracted the strings of hundreds of copper coins and silver coins, totaling thirty-eight taels, nine qian and three fen.

"Xiao Zhuzi, if this is so much in a day, how much will it be in a month?" Aunt Jiu couldn't help but ask Shen Lingzhu in a low voice.

"Aunt Jiu, this is just because we just opened and are giving away rice cakes, and many of our customers are from the same industry, so we are selling more.

By the time three days pass, there won't be this many customers. "It's simply impossible to fill the restaurant and keep turning over tables all morning."

And this money also includes a 20% discount on lunch.

"That's right. After three days, it would be great if we can maintain half of the diners today." Grandpa also spoke at this time. He always knew that business in the provincial capital can make money.

In his early years, when Shen Huai just became an official, he also thought about doing business in the provincial capital. Unfortunately, when he was about to put it into action, his relative passed away.

At that time, it would have been a very inappropriate time for him to mention opening a store.

After Shen Huai was reinstated after three years of mourning, his eldest grandson died young, so he no longer had the energy to work hard in the provincial capital.

"It won't be too bad. We have a good location and a moderate price. We can sell 15 taels a day, which means we can break even and make a profit." Shen Miaozhuo had a plate in his hand and had already calculated the revenue and profit.

Three days later, the number of customers decreased immediately, and five days later, the number of customers washing clothes in the store had stabilized.

Because they serve snacks and drinks at noon, their daily revenue is between fourteen and twenty taels.

Seeing that the situation in the store was basically stable, Shen Miaozhu was about to take his people back to Shun County. He had already rented a house in the county town.

Her uncle was responsible for arranging all the cooking utensils and ingredients, and they would start the takeout business as soon as she returned with her staff.

Just before she left, Chen Ru came to her house as promised and brought two young men with him. "They are just orphans of my men. They do some chores like serving and cleaning. If they have talent, let them learn some cooking skills."

He used these two to replace Aunt Ding's husband and son, so that the other two would have more time to concentrate on doing what they should do.

Since Shen Miaozhu had already agreed to let him find two people with clean backgrounds to work, she naturally accepted them and said, "I hope this is the last time.

If the captain wants to recruit more people for some reason in the future, it doesn’t matter if the food shop is closed.”

Chen Ru frowned: "It's impossible for me to find so many problems at once."

"Then you should open a shop with all your own people instead of dragging us into it." Shen Lingzhu walked out from beside her senior sister with a firm tone.

Chen Ru's brows furrowed even tighter. Shen Lingzhu didn't seem afraid of him and said, "In fact, you only have a very small number of people here.

There are other jobs available on this street, such as the pawnshop guards further west, the drivers who drive donkey carts carrying people on the street, and the hangers-on who are just wandering around.

If you work harder, you can become a beggar on the street."

"You are very knowledgeable!" At this time, Chen Ru had relaxed his brows and looked at the two little girls in front of him with a look of surprise.

I did arrange for someone else to drive nearby to pick up the job.

He absolutely did not believe that what Shen Lingzhu said was her own idea. It was 99% likely that the older Shen Miaozhu taught her.

"It's just so-so." Shen Lingzhu didn't actually understand, it was just that he had watched too many dramas in another time and space.

It was only at this point that Shen Miaozhu spoke again, "Don't give me any random advice. Just stay here and take care of our business."

After saying that, he turned to Chen Ru and asked, "Is there anything else?"

"No."

"I'm sorry I can't see you off."

"..." Chen Ru didn't expect her to directly order him to leave, but he really had nothing else to do, so he left in disappointment.

As soon as he left, Shen Miaozhu tapped her junior sister's forehead with her index finger, "Why bother saying so much to him? He is using our power now.

And whatever you can think of, he can naturally think of as well.

Think twice before you speak, the capital city is not our Beigou Village."

Just as she finished speaking, the eldest brother's voice came from outside the door, saying that the car had been harnessed. Shen Miaozhu nodded quickly: "I know, I know, Senior Sister, have a safe journey.

When my younger brothers and sisters are 100 days old, my eldest brother and I will go home."