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

In order to attract more people, Ji Shuo asked painters to draw pictures of the male and female protagonists in each of Xie Youlan's stories.

This is a good thing, as many people who come to buy milk tea come for these paintings.

However, when they saw the painting, they found that they could not recognize the people in the painting.

A young man standing in the front row looked at the painting in front of him for a while, then looked up and asked the guy holding the painting, "Who is in this painting?"

The waiter smiled and said, "This is Miss Song Zhilin from Mr. Zhuyu's storybook, Rain Bell."

The young man opened his mouth halfway, looking surprised.

If he remembered correctly, Song Zhilin was a rich lady who didn't like butterflies, but the Miss Song in this painting was wearing a butterfly hairpin on her head, her clothes were embroidered with butterflies, and even the jade pendant around her waist was in the shape of a butterfly.

"It's really Song Zhilin, you're not mistaken?" the young man confirmed again.

Guy: “No.”

The young man frowned deeply.

"No, this painting is wrong." Another young man in the crowd said, "The characters in your painting have nothing to do with the people in the picture book."

It is undeniable that the characters in these paintings are very good-looking, and it is obvious that the painters have superb skills, but they have nothing to do with the people in the storybooks.

*

Having taken the lead, others who saw the painting no longer doubted their own eyes and started shouting as well.

“You just drew this randomly.”

"It's completely different from what we saw in the storybook."

"You are lying."

"I thought yours was cheaper than the Dongxue Milk Tea Shop, but now it seems that Dongxue Milk Tea Shop is expensive for a reason."

"If I had known your paintings would be like this, I would not have come at all. It was a waste of an hour of my time."

"Let's go, I'm going to Dongxue Milk Tea Shop to buy some."

*

Soon, half of the people at the entrance of the teahouse dispersed.

Some of the remaining people refused to give up and squeezed to the front to see the paintings.

But no matter how you look at it, the people in the painting don't match the protagonists of the story.

After looking at more than a dozen paintings, only the heroine of "Feng Yue Hua" barely fits the bill. But with the painting of the milk tea shop as a good example, their painting seems ordinary.

"It's all in vain." Several young scholars were completely disappointed and turned away.

*

Upstairs, Ji Shuo finished a cup of tea and stood at the window again. He found something was wrong and his eyelids twitched.

"Shopkeeper." He called someone over and pointed downstairs and asked, "What's going on?"

The shopkeeper kept wiping his sweat, "The customers all said our paintings are not right."

Ji Shuo: "Drawing? I found the best artist to draw it. It's much better than the one in the milk tea shop. How could there be a problem? Did the artist you hired not print it well?"

The shopkeeper shook his head quickly: "There's nothing wrong with the painting, and there's nothing wrong with the engraving. It's the customers who said the characters in the painting don't match the characters in the storybook."

Ji Shuo: “…”

The shopkeeper whispered, "It would have been better to let the customers enter the store and buy milk tea first, because if we let them look at the paintings first, they wouldn't want to buy anything."

*

In fact, there are still people willing to buy it.

But only a small number of people.

Most of these people were servants and maids. They had never read the storybooks, but they were just buying them on the orders of their own masters and ladies. Even if others said something was wrong, they dared not refuse to buy them.

"What if the lady says it's wrong when we get back?"

"Even if the young lady is angry, she will only be angry at the Green Tea House. It has nothing to do with us. After all, we haven't read the storybook. If we don't buy it, the young lady will be angry and beat us."

"You're right, let's buy it. Even if it's not right, it's not our fault."

As they were talking, the servants and maids lined up to buy milk tea.

*

At this time, the milk tea shop.

The shopkeeper looked at the guests pouring in and greeted them warmly.

Then, he said casually, "Didn't they say that Lv Ming Lou also created a storybook collaboration? Why didn't you guys go take a look?"

"Stop talking, we just came from Lv Ming Lou." Several customers who entered the store first shouted, "The owner of Lv Ming Lou is a liar. He said it was a joint venture with a storybook, but the painting he gave away had nothing to do with the storybook."

"really?"

"Seriously, if you don't believe me, ask other people. I estimate that everyone came from that side."

"Your store is really sincere. There are all kinds of details on the paintings. We can match them with the characters at a glance."

The shopkeeper said: "It was our boss who arranged it well. Our boss said that since we are doing a joint venture, we must do it well and not let everyone down for their love for the dialogue book."

These are the most pleasing words. When people who come to buy milk tea hear them, they feel extremely comforted.

*

Green Tea House launched a massive publicity campaign, but ended up not selling many milk teas, becoming a big joke in Beijing.

At night, Ji Shuo knelt in Shangshu Huang's study, not daring to look up.

There were broken pieces of teacup all around him, and blood was flowing from his hand resting on his knees.

Minister Huang sat behind his desk, his wrinkled face as black as the bottom of a pot.

"You said you wanted me to rest assured, but in the end, you didn't accomplish anything!"

Ji Shuo lowered his head and clenched his back teeth tightly.

He didn't expect to fail.

It was all the fault of those painters. They didn't read the storybooks before painting, but just painted according to their own preferences, causing him to suffer as a result.

At this moment, he pushed all the responsibility onto the painters, but he didn't think about the fact that he was so anxious that the painters had no time to read the storybooks.

Ultimately it's his problem.

He was eager for quick success and he could obviously spend a few more days to prepare, but in order to make Shangshu Huang look at him with a higher opinion, he had to decide until today.

"When I met His Royal Highness Prince Hui in the afternoon, I vowed to him that I would definitely restore the teahouse's business. But look, you made me lose face in front of His Royal Highness Prince Hui." Minister Huang pointed at Ji Shuo, his hands shaking with anger.

"Father-in-law, I was wrong. Don't be angry. It's not good for your health." Ji Shuo lowered his head even more. "I have asked the painter to repaint it. Don't worry, I will get those customers to come back and buy it in a few days."

After hearing the solution, Huang Shangshu's expression eased a little, "I'll give you one more chance. If you can't do it well again, don't follow me anymore."

Ji Shuo nodded repeatedly.

At this moment, a drop of blood fell on his hand.

He raised his hand and touched it, and found that his nose was bleeding.

It must be related to the teacup just now. The old man surnamed Huang smashed the teacup on his nose.

Ji Shuo cursed in his heart, propped himself up and stood up, then walked out under the dissatisfied gaze of Shangshu Huang.

*

At this time, Prince Hui's Palace.

King Hui also broke the teacup because of Minister Huang's incompetence.

"If I hadn't intervened for him, my father would have exiled his entire family. Look at what he has done, none of it is reassuring."

"Minister Huang is old and lacks energy, so it is normal for him to make mistakes." A man in blue standing next to King Hui said, "Your Highness, you don't need to care too much about that teahouse."

King Hui suddenly raised his head and asked, "What do you mean?"

The man in blue smiled and said a few words in a voice that only the two of them could hear.

As King Hui listened, his brows gradually relaxed.

*

In Jinyu Tower.

After Li Yu knew the situation in the teahouse, he smiled.

She said that Ji Shuo couldn't do it well, and that a joint venture could not be completed overnight.

"The milk tea business is booming, Lvminglou will not give up, and there must be a trick up their sleeve. Mr. Xiang said that we should wait and see, but I think we should take the initiative and leave them no chance to fight back." said the owner of Jinyulou.

Just as Li Yu was about to answer him, the waiter rushed into the kitchen again and said that someone outside wanted to see Li Yu.