sbdcsierra Chapter 218: The Merchant's Daughter Wants to Marry the General 15
Chapter 218: The Merchant's Daughter Wants to Marry the General 15
In just one week, Guxiang Noodle Shop sold out seven orders of its colorful longevity noodles, and also sold a lot of its ordinary dried noodles.
The noodle shop does not serve aristocratic families, but the best way for her to build a reputation is to work from the top down.
She believed that once these seven servings of colorful longevity noodles appeared on the nobles’ tables one after another, it wouldn’t be long before she could open up the market in the capital.
Just by looking at the noodle shop's business getting better day by day in the past two days, we can predict that the business will be prosperous in the future.
Xie Rong would bring his friends or subordinates to patronize Guxiang Noodle Shop every day. There was such a large group of people that they almost booked the entire place.
It seemed that there was no seat for those who were watching outside to come in and try the new food.
Xie Rong was also very conscious. Every time he brought people here, they would leave after eating and he never looked for Shen Guli once. He was simply an excellent salesman.
The people he brought with him ate noodles just as quickly as he did, which hardly affected her ability to entertain another round of guests.
Shen Guli asked Yingtao to inform the shopkeeper to give a preferential price to Xie Rong and his group, but the shopkeeper quickly replied that General Xie still had to pay the original price.
Shen Guli: ------
General Xie is quite nice.
However, that afternoon, the slight affection Shen Guli had for Xie Rong disappeared.
"Miss, there is a lady outside who wants to see you. She said she is General Xie's cousin!"
Oh, my cousin is here.
Shen Guli put down the account book and straightened her skirt. "Let's go meet this cousin."
After leaving the back hall, Shen Guli didn't see Xie's cousin. She turned to look at Yingtao, "Where is she?"
Yingtao looked at the waiter, "Where is the person who was looking for my young lady just now?"
The waiter bent over and ran over, pointing to the noodle shop next door and said, "That lady said she wanted to try our braised pork chop noodles, she just passed by."
"Oh," Gu Li sneered, "Then let's wait until she comes."
He wanted to see her but had to go to the next door at the last minute. How dare she rush over to flatter him! Shen Guli pretended to inspect the small dried noodle shop and asked Yingtao to go out and buy her some snacks.
Gu Li asked the waiter about today's shipment volume, and picked up the red paper with the words "Gu Xiang" printed on it on the counter, thinking about making a unique label that would leave an impression on people at first sight.
Yingtao hadn't come back yet, and Zhao Yurou, who hadn't been waiting for Boss Shen to come back, came over hesitantly.
"Boss Shen!"
It was the first time Shen Guli heard someone call her like that, and she couldn't help but look at Zhao Yurou, who was like a little white flower.
She had her hair in a snake-like bun, a style commonly seen among young girls, and a gold-threaded hairpin with pearl tassels inserted diagonally. She walked towards me gracefully, but her hairpin did not move at all.
Among the four classes of scholars, farmers, merchants and artisans, the identities of merchants were the most despised by the aristocratic families, so she came and called her Boss Shen.
After all, she is only a girl in her teens and has not yet grown into a concubine who can take charge of the general's mansion. She still needs to hone her skills in cultivating her energy.
"Miss, who are you?" Shen Guli accepted her identity as a businesswoman frankly.
Zhao Yurou was stunned for a moment, but soon returned to her delicate appearance and spoke in a voice as soft as a mosquito, "I'm from the Zhenbei Marquis Mansion. Xie Rong is my cousin."
The more she spoke, the harder it became to hear. I didn't know if she was deliberately trying not to let people hear clearly so people would misunderstand her, or if she just spoke in a breathless way.
"Oh, it turns out to be Miss Xie from General Xie's mansion!"
Zhao Yuruo's weak expression added a hint of timidity. She held up her handkerchief and said, "No, no, I'm General Xie Rong's cousin!"
"Oh, cousin." Shen Guli nodded, "I'm sorry, maybe the noise next door was too noisy, I couldn't hear clearly. Cousin Xie, what do you want to talk to me about?"
Zhao Yurou tightened her grip on the handkerchief and said, "My last name is Zhao."
What cousin of the Xie family? Is that something a businesswoman can call her?
"Oh, Miss Zhao! Are you looking for me to order dried noodles?"
Zhao Yurou's expression cracked for a moment. Why didn't this woman play by the rules? What was the point of ordering noodles? Did she, the cousin of a marquis's mansion, need to do such rough work as purchasing?
She just hangs out in the shop all day and accepts the title of Boss Shen. How could she possibly enter the Marquis' Mansion?
Just as Zhao Yurou was thinking over and over again, Shen Guli continued to ask, "Do you still want to order the five-color longevity noodles? Didn't General Xie say that he has an elder who is going to celebrate his birthday?"
The last sentence was Shen Guli's quiet mumbling to herself, and happened to be heard by Little White Flower.
Zhao Yurou took a deep breath quietly, "I don't want to order the colorful longevity noodles. I just heard that my cousin comes to this noodle shop every day to eat noodles, and I think there must be some unique flavor of Mr. Shen's noodle shop that attracts my cousin to linger."
Shen Guli just looked at her with a smile, and she would not help her solve her doubts.
"Well, General Xie does like noodles. How about Miss Zhao buy some dried noodles and cook some for General Xie as a midnight snack?"
Zhao Yurou choked again. She had never seen anyone so shamelessly trying to sell something to someone. "I don't want to buy dried noodles!"
"Then what does Miss Zhao want to talk to me about?" Shen Guli looked at her with eyes wide open. He wanted to get information from her without buying any noodles. What a joke.
Finally, Zhao Yurou was forced to order 20 kilograms of dried noodles from the shop, only to find out that in addition to eating pork chop noodles, Xie Rong also liked to eat braised lion head soup noodles when he came here.
There is no more news.
What a stingy person! In order to please her cousin, she was only willing to pay for 20 kilograms of dried noodles.
Even want to get something for nothing?
Shen Guli wondered how her original wealthy self could be defeated by this begging cousin.
Even if you throw money at her, you can kill her.
In five years, she gave birth to three sons for Xie Rong. When she left, two of them were concubines, but when she returned to Beijing, she was the only concubine. The other one died of illness.
He is also a man of means.
Take your time.
Shen Guli turned back to the back hall and found Lin Shu, "Brother Dashu, prepare a recipe for pork chops and braised lion's head and send it to the Zhenbei Marquis Mansion."
"By the way." Shen Guli forced a smile that showed no doubt of good intentions and waved at Lin Shu, motioning him to come closer and listen.
At the beginning of the afternoon, Lin Shu rushed from the noodle shop to the Zhenbei Marquis Mansion. He happened to meet Xie Rong who had just returned from his job at the gate of the mansion.
"Thank you, General. Please stay!"
Xie Rong, who was wearing court robes, saw that it was Lin Shu and immediately strode over. "But what happened in the shop?"
This shouldn't be the case. These past few days, he and his brothers from the city defense camp went to Miss Shen's noodle shop one by one to eat noodles and get to know the place. How could there still be some blind people who wanted to do something bad?
Lin Shu ran over from behind the stone lion, waving his hands repeatedly. After taking two deep breaths, he said, "Thank you, General, for your worry. Thanks to your care, everything is fine in our shop. Our boss said that he has no way to repay you, so he can only present this recipe to you as a token of respect."