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

The milk tea shop is located in the inner city. Coincidentally, it is the shop that Li Yu visited when he first came to Beijing and prepared to open a hot pot restaurant.

The kitchen is large, with a well, and there is ample lobby space.

Moreover, after a year, the rent of the shop dropped. When Li Yu asked last year, it was 600 taels per month, but now it has become 550 taels.

The shop was rented by the prince's people. I don't know how they negotiated the price, but it was finally reduced to five hundred taels.

After listening to Mr. Xiang talking about the price, Li Yu felt that he still had a lot to learn about bargaining.

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The full name of the shop is Dongxue Milk Tea Shop. The reason why the two words "Dongxue" are used is because it was snowing in Beijing on the day of the name. The shop will mainly sell milk tea and various snacks. The shop was not open today. Mr. Xiang accompanied Li Yu, who was deliberately covered with makeup, to walk around the shop and introduce it by the way.

This shop is different from modern milk tea shops that directly face customers. The front lobby is only for entertaining customers and does not make milk tea.

Milk tea is made in the back kitchen. In the back kitchen, the person in charge of decoration learned Li language and divided the whole kitchen into several areas. One area is for stir-fried hawthorn, one area is for fried chicken and potato chips, and if there are other fried foods in the future, they can also be made here. One area is for wolf tooth potatoes, and the last area is for milk tea.

A shed was also built in the yard, with a stove and a large pot underneath, which were specifically used to make sugar-roasted chestnuts.

The regional division of labor is clear, which is very good.

In addition to these, the store also prepared thousands of small bamboo tubes, each about six inches high, with the words "Winter Snow" pasted on it. In order to make it more convenient to take away, the bamboo tubes also have a small lid, which looks very delicate.

Li Yu picked up a bamboo tube and looked at it. It must be said that the craftsmen hired by the prince were very good. As long as she could think of it, the craftsmen could make it.

In addition to bamboo tubes, there are also various types of oil paper, which can be used to wrap fried chicken, potato chips, chestnuts and hawthorns in the future.

As for the wolf tooth potatoes, they are eaten on plates. There are also many bowls in the store, and customers can choose to drink milk tea in bowls.

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After walking around the various areas, Li Yu said, "There's nothing wrong with the decorations in the kitchen and lobby, but there aren't enough dishes and chopsticks. Find another artist to draw all the items that will be sold in the store. It's best to use larger paper and draw them in color. Then stick them on wooden boards and put them in front of the store every day when the store opens."

Mr. Xiang immediately wrote it down, "Anything else?"

Li Yu thought for a moment and said, "Before we open the shop, we must let the Imperial College's chief priest Wei know that the milk tea shop is about to open. It would be best if he can come on the opening day."

Wei Hesong, Wei Jijiu, is a recognized gourmet among the people of Beijing. As long as he approves of a meal, customers will come in an endless stream.

Mr. Xiang hummed and said as he wrote, "I have already thought about this matter. Yesterday I sent someone to pass the news to the Imperial College. In addition, I also found some people to spread the news in various places in the inner and outer cities."

Li Yu: "That's no problem, we just have to wait for the store to open. By the way, how are you going to set the prices?"

Mr. Xiang looked down and found a piece of paper and handed it to Li Yu, "Fried chicken legs are 30 cents each, popcorn chicken is 60 cents per pound, and chicken racks are 45 cents per pound.

Because sugar is expensive and not easy to make, sugar-fried hawthorns cost 70 wen per jin. As for sugar-fried chestnuts, there are no chestnuts in the capital, so they are more expensive, one tael of silver per jin. Ordinary milk tea is 50 wen per cup, and other fruits cost 80 to 200 wen. Wolf tooth potatoes are 20 wen per bowl, and potato chips are 2 taels of silver per jin. ”

The price is not low, but it is not too high either. Ordinary people can buy it and try it. Originally, the target customers of this milk tea shop are wealthy people.

Li Yu looked at all the prices and nodded.

Everything is ready, now we just have to wait for the opening.

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October 16th is a good day to travel, open a business, and make money.

Early in the morning, when the guys in the milk tea shop were getting ready to open the shop to welcome customers, Wei Jijiu from the Imperial College also left home after breakfast.

The news that a milk tea and snack shop will open in the inner city has been circulating for several days. As a person who loves food, he will definitely not miss it.

It was said that this new store sold several things, including milk tea, fried chicken, potato chips, chestnuts and hawthorns. He knew fried chicken and chestnuts, as fried chicken was chicken fried in oil. He had also eaten chestnuts, which were slightly sweet. But what were milk tea, potato chips and hawthorns? He had never heard of them before.

With doubts, Wei Hesong found the place.

The store hadn't officially opened yet, but there was already a waiter waiting at the door. He had a few small bamboo baskets on his arms, each containing something.

Seeing him, the waiter walked over with a smile and showed him the items in the basket: "Sir, these are some snacks we are going to sell today. Would you like to try them first? They are free."

Wei Hesong lowered his head to observe and saw that the things in the bamboo basket were neatly arranged, so he said, "Give me a little of each."

The waiter said "Ah" and gave them to Wei Hesong one by one.

First, a round thin slice, "This is a potato chip, crispy and delicious, please try it."

Without paying attention to the waiter's modifiers, Wei Hesong put the potato chips into his mouth.

It’s really crispy, and I don’t know what’s added inside it, but it has a unique taste when chewed. After eating the first piece, I want to eat the second one.

After the potato chips, there was a small piece of fried chicken.

The chicken had a crispy skin and was tender and juicy inside. This was the first time Wei Hesong had eaten such juicy chicken, and it was delicious.

After the fried chicken, there were sugar-fried hawthorn and sugar-fried chestnuts. Seeing the appearance of the hawthorn, Wei Hesong frowned slightly, "This is obviously a mountain fruit, why is it called hawthorn."

The waiter smiled and said, "This is the name given by our boss. I don't know why it is called Hawthorn, but this Hawthorn is not bad."

Wei Hesong nodded, "Okay." The sweetness of the sugar neutralized the sourness of the wild fruit. The women and girls in the wealthy families should like to eat it very much.

Finally, it’s chestnuts. Roasted chestnuts are sweet, and Wei Hesong prefers them to sugar-roasted hawthorns.

Overall, these snacks are good.

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In addition to Wei Hesong, there were also maids and servants from various families standing in front of the store. They had already tasted the food and although they thought it was delicious, they wanted to hear Wei Hesong's opinion.

In their eyes, Wei Hesong is the authority.

A brave man stared at Wei Hesong for a while, then stepped forward and asked, "Wei Jijiu, what do you think of those snacks?"

Wei Hesong said without hesitation: "Not bad, worth a try."

Hearing his words, the maids and servants who came to buy things for their masters felt relieved, and in order to buy the things faster, they stepped forward one after another.

Wei Hesong also planned to buy it, but he was not in a hurry and stood aside calmly.

As he stood there, he discovered several paintings at the entrance of the store.

Each painting shows food, with the names of the snacks he has eaten written on them. The paintings are colorful, which makes the food in the paintings look particularly tempting.

Wei Hesong paused for a while in front of the paintings of wolf-tooth potatoes and milk tea, which he had not tasted, and decided to buy these two first when he went in. He had already tasted the others, so there was no rush.

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Wei Hesong waited calmly, and at 9:00 p.m., Dongxue Milk Tea Shop officially opened.