Lu Xuan went into action, and initially replaced Tan Shitou to take over two grocery stores, a mountain goods store, and the big business of delivering goods to grocery stores in various villages and towns in Guanyang.
No one is envious.
But there is no point in being envious. Firstly, Lu Xuan is Lu Xu's younger brother. Secondly, he is making money by taking over these things. But in the past, it was Tan Shitou, Liang Shanbao and the mountain people of the Qiu family who ran the business single-handedly. No one else intervened.
The remaining eight households of the mountain residents have no objections. What opinions can they have?
Everyone, take a look at the excitement and do whatever you need to do.
They can't get involved in these things. Haven't the docks, shipping, and firewood shops not yet chosen managers?
Moreover, Lu Xuan was in charge of so many shops by himself, so he definitely had no skills to deal with, so he had to use several deputies.
Those with lofty ideals are gearing up and performing actively.
Lu Xu saw this and was very pleased.
He is short of people, especially people with ability and good conduct. He especially values people who do not say harsh words or gossip at this time, quietly do their job well and show their abilities.
After Lu Xuan got used to it for a few days, the two brothers started planning to promote his deputy.
And the one that has been hit the hardest these days is Han Dew.
Brother, what are you doing?
Lu Xuan...
Can Lu Xuan be reliable?
Han Lu ran to Lu Xu to protest: "He only worked as an apprentice for a few days and can he be the shopkeeper? Then I can too. Brother, please promote me to be the shopkeeper!"
Lu Xu laughed twice and ran away.
Lu Xuan arranged the layout of the grocery store and smiled at his sister without saying a word.
Han Lu glared at him, picked up the eggs for the food shop and left angrily.
The "grievance" between the two of them is seen by the whole family - Lu Xuan, who used to be reliable in everything, suppressed the unreliable Han Lu, and Han Lu got a pocket of money during the New Year. For the first time, his assets surpassed Lu Xuan's, and he happily went to court. Lu Xuan showed off for a whole new year...
It had only been a few days, why did Lu Xuan get on top of her again? !
Cold dew.
She refuses to accept it!
She blocked Lu Xu and asked, "Brother, you don't come here often. Why don't you, the shopkeeper, let me do it?"
Lu Xu couldn't laugh or cry.
It's not that he doesn't want to be Han Lu's shopkeeper, it's just that the current situation...
There is no female shopkeeper in Guanyang!
Even the shopkeepers who sell cloth and make clothes are men.
Lu Xu said tactfully.
Han Lu said: "Why not? The shopkeeper who said the matchmaker is a woman."
Lu Xu: "..."
That's an industry difference. Besides, do you have to compare yourself with professional matchmakers who are in their forties or fifties?
Lu Xu was speechless for a while.
He doesn't mind arranging a shopkeeper for his sister.
Han Lu has a lively and generous personality, and is daring to speak and act, which is actually very suitable for external parties. However, Han Lu is still young and has not said marriage yet. He is afraid that his arrangement will be too shocking and will bring unnecessary quarrels to Han Lu.
But Lu Xuanyuan could, but Han Lu couldn't. Lu Xu didn't think so, and he didn't want to encourage Lu Xuan's arrogance.
Lu Xu thought for a while and suggested, "How about you become the shopkeeper of my mother's clothing store?"
When Han Lu heard this, she pouted.
A clothing store...
Haven't you chosen the shop floor yet?
And she was not interested in embroidering clothes.
It’s just sewing back and forth every day, how boring!
Han Lu shook her head: "It's better to forget it."
Lu Xu: "Then I'll think about it again? If I think of a suitable one, I'll ask you to be the shopkeeper?"
Han Lu also said happily: "Okay!"
In fact, she is still interested in restaurants and grocery stores.
However, the eldest brother is a little embarrassed. Lu Xuan looks miserable. She can basically have the final say in a restaurant even if she is not the shopkeeper, so let’s leave it at that!
After handing over the shop to Lu Xuan, Lu Xu didn't take much part in choosing his deputy.
He selected twenty candidates and told Lu Xuan the names in private, letting Lu Xuan choose by himself.
Finding a deputy is like choosing a friend. Ability is one thing, and whether you can get along with them or not is up to you. As a result, when Lu Xuan finished selecting, Lu Xu took a look and found that this candidate was very Lu Xuan. They were all calm and reliable types in appearance and style, and none of them were lively and outgoing.
Lu Xu suspected that the casual style he and Shi Shi had established would disappear from the grocery store.
Sure enough, when Lu Xuan had an assistant, the first thing he did was to take stock and tidy up.
He is not like Lu Xu and Tan Shitou, who just throw things wherever they come. He has to sort things into categories and arrange them neatly.
Lu Xu hadn't been here for two days, so he came back to the grocery store to take a look. My dear, the furnishings in the grocery store have been completely new. According to the types of items, they are divided into cereals, food, daily necessities, and groceries. The food is also divided into vegetable, meat and egg sections. Sauce area, home-brew area, etc.
Place what should be placed, hang what should be hung, big and heavy ones at the bottom, light and small ones at the top.
Even the wooden boxes and baskets used to carry things are all the same size, each one as square as a tofu block.
They also made wooden tags for each item and tied them to the side with string to mark the price.
The wooden signs with price tags are all the same size, and even the writing on them is the same size horizontally and vertically.
Lu Xu couldn't help but suspect that there was at least one obsessive-compulsive disorder person in this store.
It was said that it was Lu Xu's idea to make the storage shelves, but he himself did not implement it very thoroughly. Lu Xuan was basically organizing Grandpa Lu's grocery store in the village.
After Lu Xuan tidied up in this way, the originally full grocery store suddenly became fresh and empty, and he no longer had the embarrassment of having nowhere to go with something.
Lu Xu thought to himself that he and Shitou really didn't have the skills to open a supermarket.
At the grocery store, Lu Xuan slowly got started, and Yuan Manniang and Yan Mu had almost found a shop.
It was the first time for both of them to open a shop, and the price of renting the shop almost scared them away.
The first day they waited for Lu Zhou to come back from school, and they asked Lu Zhou to help them calculate for a while how many clothes to make, how much embroidery to sell to earn back the money for the shop, and they gradually got an idea of what price the shop should rent.
By the time Lu Xu asked, they had already compared and eliminated several shops, leaving only three.
"One is on West Street, diagonally across from the cloth shop. The other is on North Street, not far from East Street. The shop is a bit big. The last one is next to Zhou'er Academy."
"Next to the academy?" Lu Xu was most surprised by the last one.
Yuan Manniang seemed to like the last one the most, "You can reach North Street just around the corner. Next to it is a painting shop, and on the other side is a paper and ink shop."
Lu Xu hadn't been to the county school for a long time. When he went over to check, he saw that many shops had quietly opened on the street next to him.
And they are all related to elegance.
Lu Xu was amazed again and again. The more he thought about it, the more he felt that Yuan Manniang's vision was amazing.
They mainly sell ready-made clothes and embroidery, which are all luxury goods in Guanyang. Beicheng is rich and Nancheng is poor. Their customers are originally in Beicheng District.
She opened her shop next to the county school and added an elegant style. How many poor people can send their children to study nowadays?
Lu Xu gave a thumbs up and praised Yuan Manniang.
The more Yuan Manniang listened, the more embarrassed she became. She didn't think so much. In fact, she just wanted it to be close to home and convenient for picking up Lu Zhou from school.
She stared at Lu Xu with bright eyes. After his analysis, she suddenly felt that they would make money soon...
"Do you think it's feasible here?"
"It's feasible!" Lu Xu decided, and asked a dentist to sign the paperwork that day, renting it for five years.
Yuan Manniang's hands were shaking while holding the house deed.
This shop is small, but it is more expensive than the big yard they rent. It is fifty taels a year, and two hundred and fifty taels in five years...
Although Lu Xu had reached an agreement with the other party and only paid two years in advance, that was still one hundred taels!
They have to plant so many fields, cut so many clothes, and embroider so much to earn back!
Yuan Manniang was terrified.
Lu Xu already had an idea in his mind.
The shop that Yuan Manniang was interested in had an area of more than 20 square meters. It was not big, but there were two rooms inside that were larger than the shop. She thought that one room could be used as a warehouse and the other could be used to make clothes.
"It's not easy to ask someone to measure the size in a store facing the street." Yuan Manniang said.
However, Lu Xu felt that using the largest warehouse as a warehouse was a bit wasteful. It was better to divide half of the warehouse into a fitting room.
It is troublesome to make tailor-made clothes. Without customers, they will be idle and have no work to do. It is better to mass-produce some ready-made clothes and sell them in the shop.
Anyway, at this time, everything was made by hand, even for poor people, so there was no concept of poor batch quality.
If you want to do mass production, the best way is to find a template.
Clothes need templates, and people also need templates.
They guard the county academy, and the models are ready-made—one is Lu Zhou and the other is Yan Junqi.
Lu Xu gave Yuan Maniang an idea: "Let's make scholar's robes first, and then change the style after a month."
Yuan Manniang and Yan Mu looked at each other, "Just make scholar's robes?"
"right!"
"Is this okay?"
"Of course it's not possible to do it normally. To use it as a sign for the opening, we have to do something special."
Soon, Lu Xu put forward many requirements for "special", and they were all concepts.
For example: the legs should be made longer, walking in this dress should be more elegant than ordinary robes, the clothes should not have too many wrinkles when standing up after sitting for a long time, writing should be more convenient, and the body should have a low-key sense of luxury.
Yuan Manniang: "..."
Yan’s mother: “…”
Lu Zhou: At a loss.
Yan Junqi listened quietly for a while and asked, "Use thicker material?"
Yuan Maniang and Yan Mu suddenly realized.
right!
Use a thicker material. If the material is heavy, it will sag easily and be less likely to pleat.
Lu Xu: “It’s not just the materials.”
He scratched his head.
This reached his knowledge blind spot.
In the past, he only bought clothes, but he had never studied clothes. The only things he could name were T-shirts, jeans, and sportswear, which was useless...
If I had known earlier, I would have researched Hanfu.
Lu Xu racked his brains to recall, and the only thing he could think of was the TV series.
So, Lu Xudong made gestures here and there, and then used his simple drawing skills to start drawing for Yuan Manniang.
Yuan Manniang listened and listened, and seemed to understand a little bit.
There was ready-made cloth at home, so Yuan Manniang first cut Lu Zhou out of fine linen according to her own understanding.
After she finished it in the evening, Lu Zhou put it on, and the whole family suddenly realized: So this is it!
Yuan Manniang emphasized the waistline!
And it's lifted quite high. When it's pulled back like this, doesn't it make the legs look longer?
Now the whole family was surprised. Even the young La Yue noticed that her brother's body was different from usual. Only Lu Xu felt that this outfit looked a bit like a dress, but everyone was studying it seriously, and he didn't dare to say anything. He only secretly thought about what Yan Junqi would look like wearing such clothes.
It was Yuan Manniang's first time to do this. She tightened her waist a little hard. After tying her clothes, Lu Zhou couldn't even bend down. In order not to wrinkle his clothes, he automatically tightened his abdomen, raised his chest and raised his head. He stood so energetic.
Unfortunately, except for Lu Zhou who knew how hard it was for him to breathe in, others were still touching here and tugging there, this one offering their opinions and that one offering their opinions.
Yuan Maniang and Yan Mu suddenly burst out with a lot of inspiration.
Linen can produce such an effect, but what if I use other cloth?
In the past, they were limited by material conditions and lacked understanding of expensive fabrics. Nowadays, if you want to go high-end, you can no longer use the cheapest and most affordable coarse cloth as before. The two of them made up their minds and decided to start with fabrics while making linen samples. They put their money in their hands early the next morning and ran to various places. Lay out and buy cloth.
There are only a few cloth shops in Guanyang, and the materials are limited. Every time you buy something, you can always find the most suitable fabric.
"Man!" Yuan Manniang shouted in her highest voice, "that one, that one, that one, and those!"
The guy was surprised: "You want both?!"
Yuan Manniang: "Come one foot at a time!"
Dude fell, one foot? What is one foot enough for? Do you want to make bibs and bellybands for your children when you go home? !
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