allonlinenovel Chapter 755 Li Yao made money
Chapter 755 Li Yao made money
Li Yao laughed. "You don't understand. Girls like us are meant to get married, so they didn't want to give us the property. But my mother is different. She's already married into the Li family, so she's considered a member of the Li family! It's definitely impossible for her to buy the restaurant for free, but it's no problem for her to buy it, and she can even get it at a relatively low price!"
Shen Wantang nodded: "Then what do you need me to do for you?"
"I need you to help me convince my mother! Because she thinks this restaurant is going to fail soon. Oh, and it's true. So when I say that the restaurant can surpass Qingyun Restaurant, she definitely won't believe it. She'll just think I'm crazy. You have to go and talk to her."
As Li Yao spoke, she couldn't help but complain in a low voice, "She doesn't believe I can run a restaurant. She urges me to go home every day, telling me not to waste my time here. She always asks me to go see Mr. Zhang or Mr. Li. If I could really manage the restaurant well, she probably wouldn't force me to see those men."
Shen Wantang nodded in agreement: "Okay, sure."
Li Yao was so happy that he almost jumped up. "Great! I'll have my own restaurant soon! Can we really surpass Qingyun Restaurant? And become the largest restaurant in Dafeng?"
Shen Wantang said with a firm tone and a confident look: "Yes."
The shopkeeper standing by secretly shook his head, thinking that his young lady was too naive and believed everything others said.
Zuixianlou has been in business for more than ten years. When it was managed by her father, the business was prosperous for a while, but it was completely incomparable to Qingyunlou. Now it has been suffering losses repeatedly and has almost become a hot potato. No one in the Li family is willing to take over, otherwise it would not be Li Yao's turn to manage it.
How could Shen Wantang, a concubine's daughter from a humble family, have the confidence to say that Zuixianlou could surpass Qingyunlou? Even if she dared to brag like this, he wouldn't believe it!
Unless she could convince the Second Young Master Gu to use the powerful resources and connections of the Duke's Mansion to build momentum for Zuixianlou, and then help Zuixianlou poach the chef from Qingyunlou, then it would be possible.
Thinking of this, the shopkeeper's heart moved. Could it be that Shen Wantang really planned to use the connections in the Duke's Mansion? With her ability to bewitch people, it is not impossible for her to make Gu Er obey her orders!
If this is true, then Li Yao really didn't lose out on this deal!
Not only will you not lose money, you can also get a huge advantage!
After all, the person Li Yao had made friends with this time was the Duke of Guo, a powerful official! This was rare good news for the Li family, who had been in business for decades!
Li Yao's status in the Li family will also rise. In the future, it is possible that she can rely on her relationship with Shen Wantang to marry directly into an official family and completely get rid of her identity as a merchant!
The more the shopkeeper thought about it, the more he felt that he had been too superficial. No wonder Li Yao agreed to cooperate with Shen Wantang without hesitation. She must have set her sights on the Duke's Mansion behind Shen Wantang from the very beginning!
So, he was the innocent one? And the young lady was the one with ulterior motives?
Li Yao had no idea what the shopkeeper was thinking. She was just so excited that she pulled Shen Wantang and walked out: "There is no time to lose. Madam Second Young Master, please come with me back to the Li family today!"
Shen Wantang had a lot of things to do today and originally wanted to visit Li Yao's mother tomorrow, but Li Yao was so eager and happy that she hesitated for a moment and followed her.
After the shopkeeper saw the two of them leave, how could he have the heart to stay in the restaurant?
Anyway, there is not much business in the restaurant. The prominent princes and nobles who have enough money to eat and drink will naturally go to Qingyunlou and will not come to Zuixianlou. Those who are short of money will naturally choose the cheaper and more affordable small restaurants and will not come to Zuixianlou.
Zuixianlou was stuck in a middle position, so fewer and fewer people came to eat there. With fewer customers, the profits naturally decreased. They naturally couldn't retain good chefs, so they hired ordinary chefs, and the dishes they made were mediocre, so even fewer people came to eat there.
Since there is no business, it doesn't matter whether he, the owner, is there or not. He might as well go to the Li family to see the situation. If Shen Wantang can really convince Mrs. Li, then the owner of the restaurant will become Shen Wantang!
He had to seize this opportunity! Otherwise, what would happen if Shen Wantang replaced him as the shopkeeper?
On the other side, Shen Wantang and Li Yao came to the Li family in a carriage.
The Li family exudes an air of wealth everywhere, and the servants are all well-dressed, but it is certainly incomparable to the Duke's Mansion.
The size of the Li family's house is far smaller than that of the Duke's Mansion. It's not that the Li family can't afford a bigger one, but the Dafeng law has clear regulations on merchants' houses. If they exceed the limit, it is considered an overstep and they will be sent to jail.
Not only are there regulations for houses, but also for daily food, clothing and daily necessities.
When Madam Li learned that her daughter had brought back the second young master's wife from the Duke's Mansion, she used the most solemn etiquette to entertain her.
Even when she was talking to Shen Wantang, there was a hint of respect in her politeness. Her daughter was young and inexperienced, and she didn't know what the second young master's wife of the Duke's Mansion represented, but how could she not know?
After Shen Wantang explained her purpose, she was surprised for a moment, but then she said, "Second Young Master's Madam is willing to support Yaoyao. This is a blessing that I couldn't ask for. However, Zuixianlou is not something a woman like me can have the final say in. Please allow me to discuss this with my husband and give me some time."
Shen Wantang had said everything she needed to say, so she didn't stay any longer, otherwise it would seem that she was too eager and others would doubt her intentions.
She really needed Zuixianlou, but if the deal fell through, she also had other alternative restaurants, but those restaurants were smaller than Zuixianlou.
So, she quickly left with her people.
It hadn't taken her that long to come to the Li family. If she left now, she would still have time to go to the government office to see what was happening with Fang Xuning and Lou Yuner.
What Shen Wantang didn't know was that just as she left, Madam Li solemnly ordered, "Mother Chun, go get my dowry list!"
Mother Chun was stunned: "Madam, are you really going to buy Zuixianlou for the young lady?"
Li Yao, who was standing by, was also surprised and delighted: "Mother, you agreed? Then why didn't you just agree to the Second Young Master's wife?"
Madam Li waved her hand and asked Chun Mama to go get the dowry list. At the same time, she said to her daughter, "Of course we can't agree directly. If I agree too readily, how will she control us? Naturally, we have to make her feel that buying the restaurant is not an easy task for us."
"Of course, this isn't an easy task, but no matter how difficult it is, I will definitely be able to secure Drunken Immortal Tower for you. No one can stop me this time!"