A life of two souls traveling through time

Li Yunye followed Manager Yuan to learn about cloth shop management for two days, and then visited several other shops in Qile City. He began to doubt again whether Li Xingyuan had overestimated his son.

On the first day of officially taking over the East Street shop independently, Li Yunye took Ange out early.

"Sir, you haven't slept this night. Why don't you let Ange look after the shop while you take a rest today." Ange said distressedly as she looked at the young master with red eyes and continuous yawning.

"Is your young master so delicate in your eyes?" Li Yunye waved his hands and continued to yawn.

"Of course." Ange nodded seriously.

Li Yunye looked at Ange in a daze, then nodded in agreement: How could the only child of the richest man in Jiangnan not be pampered?

Maybe at the beginning Jiang Siyao really had no interest in running a shop and was even resistant to it, but she suddenly remembered last night when she couldn't sleep that when she was a child, she went to the bakery to steal bread and was caught. Her grandmother came in person to apologize to the bakery owner and paid compensation. When she got home, her grandmother didn't beat or scold her, but said to her earnestly: Yaoyao, you must remember, there is no free lunch in this world, and your debts must be repaid sooner or later.

She is not the real Li Yunye, she is just Jiang Siyao who occupies this delicate body. Although she has to bear the identity of the Li family's master out of helplessness, she cannot and should not take the enjoyment she gets from Li Yunye for granted. She has benefited from it and should also take on the responsibilities. Only in this way can she continue to live in the Li Mansion with peace of mind.

"Master, we're here." An Ge's voice brought Jiang Siyao back from his thoughts.

"Morning, sir."

"morning."

As soon as Li Yunye got off the carriage, he saw Lu Zhi waiting outside the cloth shop.

"Even Manager Yuan can't do anything about this store, how can I turn the tide?" Li Yunye walked slowly into the cloth shop, and seeing the deserted scene in front of him as usual, he suddenly became discouraged.

"That may not be the case. Maybe this shop will start to prosper once it is handed over to you, young master."

"Thank you for your good words." Li Yunye nodded happily at Ange. Although it was flattery, it was really helpful. Then he mustered up his confidence again, clapped his hands and shouted, "Okay, let's get started!"

Ange and Lu Zhi smiled at each other, took the broom and started to clean the shop. Li Yunye propped up a long pole and hung the sign high outside the shop.

An hour later, the cloth shop was still silent. Li Yunye was lying alone on the windowsill on the second floor, bored and dazed. Opposite the window was a dilapidated temple. Several dishevelled beggars were curled up in a corner covered with hay and sleeping. Their tattered paper fur coats were in sharp contrast to the exquisitely crafted fox fur coat on Li Yunye by the window.

"Young Master, what are you thinking about?" Ange asked curiously as she walked upstairs with the teapot in her hand.

"I was thinking about the price reduction that Manager Yuan mentioned before." Li Yunye muttered, but his eyes were still wandering outside the window.

"It's good to cut prices at the end of the year to attract some customers."

"Of course it's good, but there's no one here..." Li Yunye shook his head in distress. He glanced at the beggar in the dilapidated temple and suddenly an idea flashed in his mind. He turned around, picked up the brush on the table and asked, "Ange, who do you think is the most well-informed person in Qile City?"

"The most informed..."

"Of course it's the biggest gang in the world, the Beggars' Gang!" Li Yunye knocked Ange's head with the end of his pen and said with a smile.

"Yes, the Beggars' Sect has the most people, so they are naturally the most informed." Ange suddenly realized and nodded in agreement. Seeing the young master drawing and writing on a piece of paper, he continued to ask curiously: "Young master, what is this?"

"Flyers. Even if there is no one on East Street, as long as we publicize the price reduction activity throughout Qile City, and our East Street shop must have a lower price than the other shops, people will naturally come here." Li Yunye spread his arms and immediately felt that this shop was going to be saved by him.

"But....."

The more Li Yunye thought about it, the more excited he became. Without waiting for Ange to finish, he took his handwritten flyer and ran downstairs to hand it to Lu Zhi: "Is there a printing place nearby?"

"Yes, there is a bookstore just around the corner." Lu Zhi took the "flyer" in confusion and nodded in reply.

"Hurry up and go to the bookstore to print this list...print about a hundred copies first."

"Sir, do you need so much?" Lu Zhi and An Ge opened their mouths in shock.

"I still think it's not enough, let's see the effect first, go quickly!" Li Yunye was already full of enthusiasm at this moment. Without waiting for Lu Zhi to speak again, he pushed and urged people out of the shop, and turned to Ange and said, "Go to the dilapidated temple behind and find those beggars."

"Sir, the printing..."

"Lu Zhi is in charge of printing, go find him quickly!" Li Yunye urged again without waiting for An Ge to finish.

Soon, five beggars stood timidly outside the famous Li Cloth Shop in Jiangnan, and no one dared to look directly at the young man in brocade clothes in front of them.

"Brothers, today I would like to hire you to do promotion for my shop. Each of you will get ten cents!" As soon as Li Yunye finished speaking, Ange and the beggars were all shocked.

"Sir, there are too many..." Ange stepped forward and reminded quietly.

"They don't get any commission, so it's not much." Li Yunye also whispered to An Ge to comfort her.

"Sir, will you keep your word?" At this time, one of the older beggars mustered up the courage to ask.

"Of course, I can't run away from the shop of Jiangnan Ming Li. If I cheat you can just go to Li's house and make trouble!" Li Yunye said confidently.

Seeing what the young master of the Li family said, the five beggars naturally agreed happily. Each of them could get ten cents a day, which was a huge deal for them.

An hour later, Lu Zhi came back with a hundred printed flyers. An Ge divided the flyers into five parts and distributed them to five beggars according to Li Yunye's instructions. The beggars took the flyers and dispersed.

Li Yunye, who seemed to be confident of victory, was sitting on the second floor of the shop, drinking tea happily. He had already imagined the scene of a bustling crowd of customers in a while.

"Sir, will this method work?" Lu Zhi on the first floor poked around at the stairs, pulled Ange aside and asked in a low voice.

"I don't know..." Ange shook her head and was about to continue speaking when she suddenly heard the young master upstairs shouting:

"Ange, it's almost noon, I'm hungry, go outside and buy some food."

"Okay, sir!" Ange responded and left the shop.

After lunch, the cloth shop still hadn't received any customers. Li Yunye had not slept well due to insomnia, so after having a good meal and tea, he fell asleep while waiting and slept until dark.

"Ange, what time is it now?" When Li Yunye saw the darkening sky outside the window with sleepy eyes, he became panicked and stood up and ran downstairs.

"Young Master, are you awake?" An Ge and Lu Zhi on the first floor were also dozing off in front of the counter. They reacted quickly when they heard the Young Master's shout.

"It's dark now, where are the people?" Li Yunye ran downstairs and looked at the cloth on the shelf that was still motionless with a puzzled look on his face.

"Sir, there are no guests today..." Lu Zhi replied nervously.

"How come there is no one?" At this time, Li Yunye still believed that there was nothing wrong with his marketing method.

"Mr. Li, our mission is completed and it's time to get paid." At this time, five beggars who had completed their propaganda appeared outside the cloth shop, and it was still the older one who spoke.

"Are you sure you've distributed every flyer to someone else?"

"That's natural."

"But we didn't get any guests!"

"Sir, you only asked us to post the message, but you didn't ask us to invite anyone over."

The beggar's words left Li Yunye speechless for a moment. It seemed that he really just asked people to hand out the bills... Now thinking about it, ten cents per person was really too much. Jiang Siyao, who always loved money, was heartbroken.

"Ange, give me the money." Since the cloth shop didn't make a penny, Li Yunye had to pay out of his own pocket.

Looking at Li Yunye's gloomy face, Ange dared not say anything. She could only silently take out fifty cents from her purse and distribute them to the five beggars. The beggars took the money, bowed to Li Yunye several times happily, and then left.

"Ahem, sir, there's also money for the bookshop's printing..." The shop suddenly became silent again. Lu Zhi cleared his throat and came to Li Yunye and whispered.

"how much is it?"

"Thirty taels... of gold."

Thirty taels of gold, Li Yunye's eyes turned black and he fainted on the spot.