With Xie Dachun overseeing the house construction, it went smoothly. His two brothers were taking care of the sour plum soup, and everything was perfectly arranged. He only needed to comfortably cook sour plum soup at home and wait for the money to come in. The boys were delighted to follow Xie Dachun around, busying themselves with small tasks, while Cheng Hui was finding ways to make complementary foods for Xie Yao.
In this way, Xie Songlin can relax. He doesn't have to worry about business or look after children. Every day, apart from occasionally strolling around the construction site behind the yard to check the progress of the construction, he and Xie Wanxing spend time in the space thinking about other businesses. After all, the summer is over in the blink of an eye, and the sour plum soup business will be discontinued in the autumn and winter.
Some of the flower tea and fruit tea material packages prepared by Xie Wanxing, such as brown sugar ginger tea and rose tea, can be used, but many things about lemon passion fruit, etc., they would not dare to take out in ancient times. After all, in this era, these things are too novel and may cause unnecessary trouble once they appear.
However, as modern people, they inevitably think of a tea drink that is very suitable for autumn and winter - milk tea!
Yes, the family of three discussed it for a long time and planned to accumulate some cash first by selling sour plum soup. When they had enough funds, they would buy a shop in the city and open a milk tea shop. They would sell fruit tea in the summer and milk tea in the winter. Even the name was ready-made - Frappuccino!
After planning the future direction of the business, Xie Wanxing announced another major discovery of hers. The breeding function of the black soil in front of the space villa can be said to be extremely powerful. It has reached the point where a complete plant can grow from any part of it.
Two days ago, Xie Wanxing secretly ate a banana in the space. After finishing the meal, she threw the banana peel into the black soil and didn't pay much attention to it. However, who would have thought that a few days later, when she passed by the black soil again, she was surprised to find that there were tender green banana seedlings growing there.
This magical discovery made Xie Wanxing very excited. Then, she buried a few more apple, orange and other fruit cores in the soil without hesitation, waiting for new sprouts to appear with full anticipation.
A few days later, when she came to this black land again, just as she expected, tender seedlings had grown from the fruit cores.
"Now I have a reason to farm." It takes at least ten months for a banana to grow from a sapling to mature and bear fruit, but the speed at which seedlings emerge in this black soil makes Xie Wanxing feel that it may not take that long. She decided to plant some more seeds of other fruits in preparation. "Let's see when these seeds grow. If we ever open a fruit shop, we can use the farm as a shelter to grow fruit."
This fruit shop is just a start-up, so we shouldn't rush into anything yet; we should focus on the immediate business. Since we've decided to start making milk tea later, we should capitalize on the transition period from summer to autumn. We can use the material packages Xie Wanxing has accumulated to launch some health-preserving scented teas that are more popular in ancient times.
Of course, the audience this time is no longer the dock workers. The dock workers pay more attention to affordability and thirst quenching, while health-preserving flower tea needs to be appreciated by people with more taste and pursuit of healthy life. Naturally, it cannot be sold by setting up a small stall. Doing so can neither highlight the quality of the health-preserving flower tea nor attract suitable customers.
Xie Songlin decided to rent a shop and set it up first. In order to do business at the dock, he should also have a store in the city. He calculated the money he had left. Now with the daily income from Zuiyue Tower and the dock, he had a lot of money on the surface. Two days ago, he gave Xie Dachun ten taels of silver as a reserve for building a house. Now he had fifty or sixty taels left on hand, which was not a small amount. However, renting a shop and setting up the store might cost a lot of money.
But Xie Songlin wasn't particularly worried. If it really wasn't enough, he could just pawn his daughter's other small gold bracelet. After all, outsiders didn't know how much money he had in his pocket.
He planned to attract some customers by selling sour plum soup first. After all, it wasn't just the dock laborers who loved it. He also wanted to let people know where his shop was. Once people remembered the location, it would be much easier to promote other teas.
Xie Songlin acted decisively, taking the money with him and heading to the city with his daughter to look at some shops. He wanted to call Cheng Hui, but she was having fun with Xie Yao. After all, children are most fun at this time of year. They can't talk, their noises are small and can be controlled, and they are very cute.
At this moment, Xie Songlin was standing at the gate of the yard holding his daughter, feeling a little headache. He had no means of transportation. His own ox cart was taken by his second brother to deliver goods, and the ox cart he rented from the village chief was driven by his eldest brother to set up a stall at the dock.
In just one month, Xie Wanxing has grown from being dark and thin when she first arrived to being white and plump. Xie Songlin was very happy to see his daughter so cute, but the current situation meant that he had no choice but to carry his daughter, who had been eating more and more recently, on foot to the town.
First go to Zuiyue Tower to inform Xie Songyang, so that at least you can come back by ox cart.
When they arrived, Xie Songyang had just finished unloading the goods at Zuiyue Tower, so he went with them to the Yahang to look at the shop. According to Xie Wanxing, it would be better if the shop was not opened on the main street, but on Wenxing Street where the academy was located. Most academies had cafeterias, but people would get tired of eating there every day, so in addition to bookstores and shops selling study tools, there were also many food shops on Wenxing Street for students to change their taste.
The people from the pawnshop took Xie Songlin to visit several shops on Wenxing Street. Because they were facing the academy and had a lot of traffic, the rents of the shops here were relatively expensive. Xie Songlin thought the locations and layouts of several shops were good, but the prices were really too expensive. Some of them asked for two hundred taels of silver a year. Xie Songlin was stunned by the prices. So it is the same in ancient times and modern times. Houses and shops near schools are extremely expensive.
When he saw the last shop, it was actually facing the gate of Hanfeng Academy. The geographical location scared Xie Songlin so much that he didn't dare to go in. However, since he was already there, he decided to go in and take a look. Unexpectedly, he became interested as soon as he entered the shop. It was originally an embroidery workshop with two floors. If it were used as a milk tea shop, the place would not be small. Each floor is about forty to fifty square meters, which can be planned into a comfortable customer rest area and back kitchen production area.
Moreover, it has such a good geographical location, right opposite the most famous Hanfeng Academy with the largest number of students. The price is ridiculously low compared to other shops, only sixty taels a year, and the payment can be made every six months. The reason why it is so cheap is that the building can only be rented for one year, and the original owner will take it back after one year.
This plunged him into a state of deep hesitation. He had worked so hard to build up a reputation by opening the shop; wouldn't it be a waste to move to another location? Should he take the risk and rent this shop, seize the opportunity before him, or continue looking for a more stable location? He weighed the question over and over in his mind, leaving him with a difficult decision.
"Let's rent it. It's such a great location. Seize the opportunity to promote the Frappuccino business. As long as we lay a good foundation and make money, we can afford to rent a normal-priced shop nearby. Besides, good wine needs no bush. Dad, you should have some confidence in the tastes of us modern people." Xie Wanxing whispered as he sat on his father's shoulder.
"Of course I have confidence." Xie Songlin nodded with a smile and immediately decided to rent the shop.
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