Traveling to an ancient peasant family: I got rich by doing business

In the hot pot restaurant, Li Yu took Han Xiaomei and Lu Xuan for a final check-up.

Let’s start from the kitchen. There are five large rooms in this shop’s kitchen. The area is large enough and is now divided into four areas.

One area is used to make hot pot base and fry food, one area is used to braise meat and cook bone soup, one area is used to cook porridge and soy milk, and the last and largest area is used to cut meat and vegetables.

Since she was making hotpot, Li Yu planned to sell some of the things she thought were delicious, such as fennel dough sticks and fried crispy pork.

Soy milk is also indispensable. When she was in modern times, she went to a certain Di Lao to eat hot pot and was used to drinking soy milk. She might try making it here too. Maybe some customers would like it.

Coming out of the back kitchen is the yard. On the left side of the yard is a tile shed, and on the right side is a grocery room. Under the tile shed are water tanks, wooden basins, and stools. In the future, the helpers will sit here to wash dishes and copper pots. The two grocery rooms have also been tidied up. One of them is piled with flour and spare dishes and copper pots, and the other is a lounge with a bed, table and chairs.

Next to the grocery room is the back door, and goods will be transported through here in the future.

There's just this in the back, and then there's the front.

There were twenty square tables in the huge lobby, and each table was wiped clean. In one corner of the lobby was a shelf, where sesame paste, chopped green onions, chili sauce, pepper oil and other condiments would be placed tomorrow for guests to choose. Oil was expensive these days, so each table was only given one free dipping sauce. If you wanted more, you would have to pay.

Next is the second floor. There are eight private rooms on the second floor. Each room is equipped with high-end tables and chairs that cost 20 taels each. The walls of the private rooms are hung with beautiful decorations, some are paintings, and some are words. Different from the rooms below, each private room on the second floor has a long table, and dipping sauces will be placed on the table. These dipping sauces are counted in the total consumption of the guests, and the guests can take them away.

After making sure there were no problems, Li Yu went downstairs to arrange the division of labor.

*

There are more than twenty helpers in the store now. Excluding Pei Mingzhu and others, only four were hired by her, and the rest were all people from the palace sent by Princess Jianing.

It’s not that Princess Jianing wanted to manage the hot pot restaurant business on behalf of Li Yu, but she felt that the business had just started, and she was afraid that the people Li Yu hired outside would not work diligently and would drag things down, so she transferred a dozen people from the palace. These people understood the rules and knew when to advance and retreat, and were the most obedient.

There was nothing wrong with this arrangement, and Li Yu accepted it readily.

As we are about to open tomorrow, let me review everyone’s work today.

First came the person sent by Princess Jianing.

Among them was an older woman who called herself Nanny Tian. She was eloquent, not afraid of people, and knew all the information about the major families and officials in the capital. Li Yu directly made her the shopkeeper, responsible for managing the helpers and entertaining guests.

There were two other people who were good at cooking and were strong. After consulting Princess Jianing, Li Yu accepted them as apprentices. From then on, the two followed her in the kitchen to make hot pot base and fry things.

Among the rest of the people, those who were eloquent were responsible for attracting customers, those who were not so good at speaking were responsible for serving dishes, or helping to light the fire, pick vegetables, wash dishes in the backyard. In short, they went wherever there was work.

The last one has high martial arts skills. Princess Jianing sent him here to protect the shop at night, so he doesn't have to work during the day and can just sleep in the shop after work at night.

Then came the four people recruited by Li Yu. These four people had good knife skills and would be responsible for cutting vegetables and meat in the future.

Finally, it was Pei Mingzhu and a few others. Pei Mingzhu was still working as an accountant. Since there was no space in the store, she was temporarily doing the accounts at her residence, which also allowed her to keep an eye on Xiaonan.

Zhu and Cheng were still washing and picking vegetables as before. Father Pei was not in good health and could not do heavy work, so he was in charge of making fire. Han Rong served soy milk or porridge to the guests in the back kitchen. As for Han Xiaomei, she was in charge of cooking bone soup and stewing meat.

Lu Xuan also wanted to find a job in the store, so Li Yu asked him to sit in front of the dipping sauce counter to collect money and, by the way, prevent people with bad intentions from secretly putting things in the sauce or taking the things in the sauce home.

After explaining the division of labor clearly and making sure everyone understood, Li Yu took out more than twenty money bags and gave one to each person.

"What is this?" asked Nanny Tian.

"This is a red envelope for everyone to start working. I'll trouble you all in the future." Li Yu said with a smile.

Each red envelope for the start of work contained 188 coins, which felt heavy in the hand. Nanny Tian, ​​who was just following the orders of Princess Jianing and doing the work step by step, couldn't help but look up to Li Yu.

This is a man with good ideas, who knows how to win people over. As soon as the money bags were handed out, everyone sat up straighter than before.

Maybe she could do more here.

*

Li Yu was ready. Inside the palace, Princess Jianing heard Nanny Tian's report and said happily, "I knew she could do a good job. Nanny, you can watch her tomorrow. The hot pot restaurant will definitely do very well."

Nanny Tian smiled and said yes.

"Go down. Do this job well and listen to Boss Li in everything. Do whatever she tells you to do." Princess Jianing reminded again.

Nanny Tian nodded and left immediately.

Princess Jianing watched her walk away, then she stood up and asked Qingbi to go out with her.

There is a palace banquet today and she has to attend it.

She actually didn't like attending such banquets, because there were always people surrounding her, and even when she didn't want to talk, they would still chatter beside her. Moreover, there were many rules in the palace, and even if the emperor loved her, she couldn't do whatever she wanted.

But her mother said she had to go.

Princess Jianing arrived at the palace with a bitter face. She became even more annoyed when she got off the car and saw her arch-enemy, Xie Youlan, the eldest daughter of the Xie family, being surrounded and courted by other noble ladies.

Seeing her like this, Qingbi thought for a moment and said, "Princess, the hot pot restaurant will open tomorrow. By then, you will be the most powerful person in the capital."

Princess Jianing's depression instantly dissipated, "You're right, the hot pot restaurant will open tomorrow." The hot pot restaurant's business will definitely be better than Xie Youlan's business, and then she will be better than Xie Youlan!

At the end of her speech, she calmed down, glanced at Xie Youlan indifferently, and walked into the palace without changing her expression.

Passing by a group of noble ladies, they greeted her and she replied indifferently.

The ladies were horrified by this.

After she walked away, they whispered, "Has Princess Jianing changed her temper today?" She always looked at them with disdain in the past.

Xie Youlan, the eldest daughter of the Xie family, looked at her from behind and said slowly, "Probably."

*

On the second day, Li Yu, Han Xiaomei, Han Zheng and Lu Xuan got up early and drove to the store to prepare.

Han Zheng came back last night. Opening a store is a big deal. As an important member of the family, he should be present on the first day of the store opening.

Li Yu had made all the arrangements that needed to be made, so soon after the four of them arrived, the people delivering meat, vegetables and soy milk arrived. Less than a quarter of an hour later, all the helpers also arrived, and then each of them worked according to their division of labor.

The store officially opened at noon.