The Rebirth of Two Beauties

Chapter 115

Rui country is the real tiny place.

There is only one city in the whole country, Ruicheng.The lord of the country is the hereditary earl, the Reb.

Five miles south of Ruicheng, there is a Chongyi Square.Chongyifang is a commercial city, half the size of Rui City, with a permanent population of over a thousand.

A new grocery store opened in Chongyifang today.This grocery store is called Kunlun Grocery. The store sells and buys all kinds of groceries, from food and clothing to daily utensils, and even letters.

The backyard of this grocery store.

In front of it is a shop with two floors of wooden buildings. Except for the lobby, there are seven relatively small rooms.The backyard is the residence.There is a small courtyard with flowers and plants surrounded by houses on three sides.A bit like a courtyard.

The shopkeeper of Kunlun Groceries is Cui Panpan.

Now that it has entered autumn, the construction project on Laiqi Mountain is still in progress step by step.With the addition of craftsmen such as Gong Shugou, they are more experienced than Cui Panpan and Lin Xiaoxiao.

Therefore, Cui and Lin put forward some ideas, and the detailed evaluation and realization were left to the craftsmen.

Lin Xiaoxiao likes to run around, so she supervises the work on the construction site every day, and even follows everyone in the work.

Cui Panpan is a little spoiled, and his body is a little weak.After Lin Xiaoxiao came back, she didn't go to the construction site directly.But it was boring to stay at home all the time. After discussing with Lin Xiaoxiao, she ran to Chongyifang to open this grocery store.

A few days ago, Cui Panpan led people to simply decorate the store.She adopts the idea of ​​convenience stores in later generations, some of the goods are displayed on open shelves, and some of the goods are displayed on the counter.

The first floor is guided by screens and divided into three areas.The entrance is on the right and the exit is on the left.There is a counter for storing items at the entrance, and free bamboo baskets are also provided.

The first floor is all open shelves.The goods are all bulky to prevent someone from stealing.Guys will walk around the store, both monitoring and serving customers.The second floor is the counter, where small items are placed, and counter workers are responsible for picking them up.

On the second floor, a tea tasting room, a meeting room for major customers, and a study room have been opened separately.

Guests can decide whether to buy tea after tasting it in the tea tasting room.

By the way, all the tea in the shop is green tea roasted by Cui Panpan himself.These green teas are produced this spring.She plans to teach the villagers to fry tea next year.

The big customer meeting room is just as the name suggests.If customers need to buy or sell goods in large quantities, they can negotiate in detail here.

There are letters in the study.The first batch that Lin Xiaoxiao carefully selected from the inventory was hand-carved by the children in the village.All the slips sold here have extra backups, and customers can buy them directly without waiting.

At present, most of the goods sold in the store come from Lin Xiaoxiao's warehouse, and a small part comes from villagers.

Lin Xiaoxiao and Cui Panpan had an in-depth discussion on the operation of the store.

The first is the ownership of the Kunlun grocery store.At present, all the investment in the store comes from Lin Xiaoxiao, but they unanimously decided that the grocery store should be owned by Laiqi Village.

In Lin Xiaoxiao's view, the money and goods looted from the slave hunting team belonged to the entire village, not her personal property.Of course, this definition will not be particularly strict, and Lin Xiaoxiao can make up her own mind.

After that is the revenue model of the grocery store.What Lin Xiaoxiao means is that the grocery store operates independently.

Lin Xiaoxiao took out ten gold as the working capital of the grocery store.Cui Panpan used the money to buy goods from villagers and sell them later.Regardless of whether the goods are unsalable or the price changes in the future, the risk of loss shall be borne by the grocery store.

Lin Xiaoxiao's idea is that she has the money to invest in the grocery store, so the grocery store can lose money, but the villagers can't lose money.

"What if you run out of money in the warehouse and the grocery store can't turn around?"

"Then I'll rob bandits and the like again, just like robbing the rich and giving to the poor. I have space to go back and forth at any time, so it shouldn't be too easy to rob."

"That means the risk is all on you alone."

"It's the two of us. You are in charge of running the store. You can't deliberately let the store lose money."

"You can't buy low and sell high, it's a lot of pressure to do business."

"You can buy it from others at a low price. Besides, you are not allowed to buy it from the villagers at a high price, as long as the market price is fine. You can also buy it from outsiders, such as medicinal materials. I will pay you to buy it, or resell it to you. Merchant. To do business, you need to be more flexible.”

"It's still a lot of pressure, and I don't want the store to lose money."

"If it really can't continue, then the store will not be opened, and it is not really necessary to survive on this store."

Lin Xiaoxiao pondered for a while and then said: "It must be difficult to make money in the beginning. I visually checked the traffic flow of the nearby shops. This street has less traffic, and the business of the grocery store is not optimistic."

Cui Panpan frowned: "Our grocery store is like a supermarket, one-stop shopping is convenient, and it may add popularity to this street."

Lin Xiaoxiao thinks that the problem lies in the variety of goods.Not distinctive enough, the selling point is not outstanding.

However, Lin Xiaoxiao brought out some special products from the country of Song and Hua, which can be regarded as a selling point, so there shouldn't be no customers at all.

In this era, the goods in the store are basically bought by the owner and the merchant himself.Unless Laiqi Village also formed a team of merchants to sell goods back and forth, it would not be able to compare with those big merchants.

Although Lin Xiaoxiao can use teleportation to purchase goods from far away places, but it consumes too many points, she can't bear it.Maybe one day when she realizes the freedom of points, she can really consider switching to a trader.

Cui Panpan will run the grocery store.

Chongyifang is seven or eight miles away from Laiqi Mountain.Cui Panpan lived here with a few villagers with milder personalities.These villagers all want to pay monthly money, and the money comes from the working capital provided by Lin Xiaoxiao.

Kunlun grocery store opened.Cui Panpan deliberately held a simple ceremony, and sent people to publicize and solicit customers at the door.

% discount on all goods in the first month of opening of the new store.

In addition, as long as you enter the store, you can draw prizes for free.The highest prize is one thousand coins, and the lowest is ten coins.There is only one place for one thousand coins, and two hundred places for ten coins.

The winning rate is still very high.The total resident population is only , and the winning rate of ten coins is equivalent to one in five.

Why the discount for a month?Because the speed of information transmission is slow in this era, people's life rhythm is also slow.

As the saying goes, you can't eat hot tofu in a hurry.To get off to a good start, you have to be patient.Anyway, Lin Xiaoxiao said that she is not afraid of losing money.

Needless to say, free sweepstakes are popular in any era.

At first, mainly passers-by and people from surrounding shops stopped to watch.

Lin Xiaoxiao asked someone to take two hundred and one bamboo sticks, engraved with ten and thousand respectively, there are two hundred for ten, and only one for thousand.Then someone brought seven hundred blank bamboo sticks.Mix nine hundred and one bamboo sticks from Jiangsu and Zhejiang, put them into a stone jar in front of the door, and cover with a wooden lid.

When the guest wants to draw a lottery, the staff removes a gap in the cover, and the guest can reach in and take out the bamboo stick.

Each guest has only one chance to win the prize.In order to prevent people from stealing many times, guests need to leave their addresses and names before the lottery draw.The store happens to collect a wave of big data.

The onlookers heard that there was a free lottery draw, and witnessed the store putting bamboo sticks into the vat, and felt that the owner of this store was too real.

There is such a thing as free money, who wouldn't want to try it.As a result, the onlookers rushed forward.

Guys keep order at the gate.

"Don't crowd, come one by one. You have to visit the store first, and you can draw prizes when you come out. In order to prevent cheating, I will ask everyone questions, and only those who can answer can draw prizes."

"And answer questions? It's so troublesome."

"No trouble, you are the first customer, right? I'll tell you the question now, you can find the answer when you enter the store, and you can answer me when you come out."

"What's the problem?"

"May I ask how much is the price of one or two clear teas in the tea tasting room on the second floor?"

"What is green tea?"

"After entering the store, go to the tea tasting room on the second floor, and you will find the answer."

"The second is me, what is my problem?"

"The problems of the first ten customers are all the same. Please enter the store for the first ten customers, and wait for the other customers. The space in the store is limited, and only ten customers can enter at a time. Please bear with me. The limit of the number of customers is also to improve the quality of customers. shopping experience."

There were only five people entering the store in the first batch, and everyone else was watching the excitement.Those five people were also shop assistants in the surrounding shops, obviously it was not a big deal to watch the bustle.

Cui Panpan personally sat in the tea tasting room, explained the efficacy of green tea to the guests, and boiled water to make tea.The tea set she used was a bone china set from Lin Xiaoxiao's warehouse, which could be very expensive in this day and age, and might even be unique.

Cui Panpan's flowing movements, coupled with soft and incomprehensible words, immediately calmed down the five guests on the opposite side.

Shop clerks always have sharp eyes.Even if you see bone china tea sets for the first time, you can tell that these utensils are of great value.

Cui Panpan personally poured tea for the five people, then invited them to taste it, and explained how to taste the tea to get the best taste.

Some guy's hands were shaking while holding the teacup.The more you worry about falling, the softer you are.

The five drank tea and left.Fortunately, someone still remembered to ask the price.

Five people entered and exited at the same time, and gave the same answer.

The guy yelled: "That's right. Congratulations to the five guests who won the free lottery."

In the first round of free lottery draws, two of the five people got ten coins, and the other three lost.The money was cashed out on the spot, and the drawn bamboo stick was broken off and thrown into the trash basket at the door.

The winning rate is really high.Seeing this, the people around rushed up immediately, trying to enter the store.

Of course, people didn't come here for the ten-dollar bill, they only thought about the thousand-dollar bamboo stick.

The guys maintained order: "Don't squeeze, ten people first. This time the question is changed, the new question is what is the third item from south to north on the second row of the third shelf from east to west on the first floor. "

"Hey, say it again, I didn't remember."

"The issue is"

On the first day, almost everyone near the grocery store came in to have a look.

In order to show fairness, when the shop was closed, the clerk pressed a big stone on the stone jar.

On the second day, more people came than on the first day.Cui Panpan had to ask the staff to organize the guests to line up outside the door, and persuaded the guests to leave after the application time in the afternoon.

On the third day, more people came than on the second day.Cui Panpan had to temporarily make fifty lottery tickets.Numbered tickets will be issued in sequence, and guests who have not received a numbered ticket will be persuaded to leave.

The free draw worked much better than expected.Probably because there is too little entertainment in this day and age, and if there is a new topic, it is easy to spread it around.

The reputation of Kunlun grocery store spread throughout Chongyifang with the free lottery, and the popularity has been maintained for more than a month.After the one-month period was over, there were still people asking about the free sweepstakes.

According to Cui Panpan's observation, people's expectations for the free lottery are the thousand-character bamboo stick, while the cross-shaped bamboo stick maintains the popularity of the free lottery.

Everyone wanted to touch the thousand-character bamboo stick.And the person who touches the cross bamboo stick will want to know who can touch the thousand-character bamboo stick.People will pull people they know to try their luck.

More than ten days have passed, and the thousand-character bamboo stick has not been touched, and more than 100 cross-shaped bamboo sticks have been exchanged.

Many people who have drawn prizes also come to the Kunlun grocery store to watch the excitement every day.Everyone wants to know who is the lucky one.

On the day of No.20, the thousand-character bamboo stick still hadn't been honored.More and more people come to Kunlun to watch the excitement every day.

Gu Yan, the doctor of Rui Guoqing, recently heard about a happy event. After leaving the court, he said that he had a good time with his friend Han Wu.Han Wu also found it interesting, so he invited Gu Yan to watch the fun together.

The two wore casual clothes and looked like ordinary noblemen.They each brought a follower, and rode leisurely to Chongyifang.

The Kunlun grocery store has been very popular recently, so I found the place after a little searching.

Han Wu and Gu Yan stood not far away and looked at the signboard of the grocery store.The signboard of the Kunlun Grocery Store was written by Kong Ci and carved by Gongshugou himself.

"The word Kunlun is majestic, it should be from everyone's hands."

"The inscription is Kong Ci, could it be a descendant of the Kong family."

"That should be the case. Since you are a member of the Kong clan, I will meet you later."

"There are so many people in front of the store, and it will take a while to queue up to enter the store. I will ask how many question marks have been issued."

Gu Yan walked through the crowd to find the buddy.

After some conversation, the clerk gave him two numbers, which happened to be 49 and .

Gu Yan handed 49 to Han Wu.

Han Wu said with a smile: "It's better to come early than to come by coincidence."

Gu Yan said: "Fortunately, I'm not in a hurry to go back today. I heard that the tea in this shop is good, so why not buy some back today."

Han Wudao: "Then you have brought enough money? When I went out, I only brought fifty dollars with me, and I have no money left to lend you."

Gu Yan patted his forehead: "A few days ago, I used up all the monthly money for eating and drinking. I wonder if this store can be credited?"

Han Wu joked: "The new store opens, no credit is accepted."

The two laughed and chatted in front of the store, and it wasn't long before it was their turn to enter the store.

They have to find answers to their questions this round on the first floor.Everyone else was looking around on the first floor, but Han Wu and Gu Yan went straight to the second floor.

The two followed the sign to find the tea tasting room.The curtain of the tea room was lowered halfway, and a woman could be vaguely seen sitting inside, and a faint fragrance of flowers wafted from it.

The two stopped involuntarily.

Cui Panpan was washing the cups when he saw someone moving behind the curtain and said, "Please come in."

Lifting the curtain and entering, Han Wu and Gu Yanju's eyes lit up when they saw the people sitting inside.

(End of this chapter)