Flowers in full bloom

Hualei hadn't decided whether to continue renting out the new shop or open it herself. The tenant had already sent a message saying that the lease would not be renewed. Hualei thought, if that's the case, then why not open it herself? The peach candy fruit preserves at Baihuazhuang will be on the market in about half a month. Originally, I wanted to squeeze in next to the steamed bun shop, but since the other party didn't rent it, I might as well do it myself.

First, the four walls of the shop were painted white with lime water, and the slightly bumpy ground was paved with blue bricks. The roof was also repaired. After cleaning everything.

He arranged the shop according to his own ideas, and moved the unused wooden racks in the west wing of Qingyun Lane to form a U-shape, with the horizontal part directly used as a partition between the front and back of the shop, leaving a distance for a door as a passage. The original 50 square meters of shop space was now divided into two, with the front 30 square meters used as the shop and the back 20 square meters used as a warehouse.

I also ordered a square table with small cabinets on both sides and placed it in the middle. The shop was newly decorated and I was waiting for the peach syrup from Baihuazhuang to be put on the shelves. But I haven't thought of a name for the shop yet. Hualei was a little confused. What name should I give it?

I estimate that the peach syrup can only be sold for three to four months. The current sealing technology is not very good, so it is best to sell it before the hot weather next year. But what will we sell after selling this batch of peach syrup?

I don't know the name of the store yet, so if I just name it Huaji Peach Soup Shop or Preserved Fruit Shop, it won't be a good name when they are all sold out. Huaji Grocery Shop doesn't seem to be a good name either.

After thinking for a few days, I finally sent the name of the shop to the craftsman who made the wooden plaque. Three days later, the wooden plaque was taken back and hung in front of the shop. The five characters "Hua Qianbian Shop" were clearly visible on the horizontal plaque.

Nowadays, you can tell what kind of store it is by looking at the sign. However, Hualei, the "Flower Thousand Changes Shop", makes it hard to tell what kind of business it is doing. This unique approach has caused a lot of discussion before the store even opened. When the peach syrup and preserved fruit jam from Baihuazhuang were delivered to the store, the mystery was solved.

Although peach syrup was the first to be put on the shelves in the store, when the first batch was made in Baihua Manor, Hualei asked Mrs. Pei to send a lot to many noble families who visited each other. Hualei also sent it to every wife in the Marquis's mansion, including the maids and old women. A good foundation has been laid, and the price is reasonable. Therefore, as soon as the store opened, many housekeepers, maids and old women from noble families came in carriages to take away a lot. Especially peach syrup and jam sold very well. Better than the sales of several preserved fruits, after all, there are also candied fruits in this society now.

Zhenzhu also brought Butler Pei to Hua Qianbian's shop to show support for Hualei, and took away a full cart. The second manager of the printing house also came and took back two carts of peach syrup and jam, and Hualei couldn't stop them.

Seeing Uncle Fu and his friends busy in the shop, especially Xiaoxiao who was in charge of the cash register, Hualei was happy but also a little worried. It seemed that this batch of peach syrup would not be sold for more than three or four months. What would they sell after selling this batch of goods? She was not Sun Wukong, who could change whenever she wanted.

A few days ago, Hualei sent a message to the farm again, asking Aunt Zhao to adjust the production quantity of each variety. Because the store still had stocks of preserved fruits, the production was reduced, and the production of the best-selling peach syrup was increased. The production process of peach syrup was the simplest, and the cycle was much shorter than that of preserved fruits, so the production of peach syrup increased immediately. The neighbors around also opened their wallets and came to buy peach syrup because of its fresh taste.

For a while, Hua Qianbian's shop was crowded with customers. These days, every afternoon, Hua Lei is in the warehouse behind the shop, observing customer needs and counting sales in the past month.

After the aristocratic families attracted the first batch, there were still many returning old customers, about 60 to 70 percent. And maybe the way of eating was new to them, and because of word of mouth among the aristocratic families, more housekeepers from the aristocratic families came in recent days.

So the business is better than at the beginning, but Hualei also found that not many customers come back for the third time. After all, the taste of peach syrup is still a bit monotonous, and you get tired of it after eating it a few times. It still needs to improve the monotonous taste.

However, it is still difficult to improve the taste in today's society where food processing technology is not very advanced. Although you can try to add milk or something, once you add milk, it is more suitable for drinking on the same day and not suitable for long-term storage.

Even if it can be stored, the taste will not be good, just like the milk tea in the previous life, which tastes better when it is made and eaten now. If the shop adds a freshly made and sold product, it is not impossible, but the young ladies of wealthy families nowadays are not like in the previous life. They can go out at any time. Even if they don’t go out, they can order takeout. What if they add door-to-door delivery?

No, no, we need a large delivery team like in the past life, which is not possible now. If we let our own guys deliver, we can only deliver to a few places a day. Hualei rejected it again. Maybe Hualei has always been in the habit of preparing for a rainy day, so even if the business is still good now, she thought about the future.

But she was a little too obsessed this time. The situation she was worried about was unlikely to happen before she sold all the goods. If she had to worry about it, it would be next year, and that would only happen if someone imitated her. With the output of Baihua Manor, there would be no problem selling it in Shangjing City.

Speaking of imitation, Hualei thought of the grid-patterned copying paper from his own bookstore. Four or five months after the paper was on the market, a small number of imitations of the grid-patterned paper appeared in some small bookstores, which far exceeded Hualei's expectations.

She thought that they would appear in large quantities within a month at most. After all, this engraving board was not difficult. Although she had signed contracts with 70% to 80% of the private schools in Shangjing City, the later the imitations appeared, the better it would be for Huabud.

What she didn't know was that Gui Jijiu had put a lot of effort into this, and there was still a large backlog of goods of varying quality in his paper mill's warehouse. If imitations appeared in large quantities sooner or later, the number of orders for Hualei at the printing house would decrease sharply, and the backlog of goods would have to continue to be stored.

This was also because Gui Jijiu did not expect Hualei to win so many contracts. If he had known that Hualei could win 70% to 80% of the contracts in Shangjing City, he would not have needed to exert his own strength. So under the premise that neither party knew the other, the two parties exerted their strength and almost monopolized the use of this rice grid copying paper in the entire Shangjing City in the past few months.