No matter what, he had spent a lot of effort on the Ruyi nectar. Unless it was absolutely necessary, Li Yi would not give up easily.
Last night, he had already thought of a few marketing strategies. If it didn't work, he could find a few shills and create hype.
Of course, whether these methods would work or not, he would only know after trying it out. After breakfast, he went down the mountain and returned to the prefecture city.
This time, he didn't let Xiao Huan follow. However, Fang was worried and had to follow to take a look.
He didn't know what the situation was like in the shop, so he didn't feel at ease staying in the stockade.
At the entrance of the Ruyi Workshop, there were only two young maidservants left. After waiting for more than an hour, the young maidservant lost her patience.
"Looks like the shop won't be open in the morning." The two maidservants looked at the sky and saw that it was almost noon. They shook their heads and said.
Although they couldn't buy the Ruyi nectar and couldn't report back, it wasn't their fault that the shop wasn't open. They would come back tomorrow.
The two of them came to an agreement and were about to leave when they saw a familiar figure walking towards them from the other side of the street.
"Eh, isn't that the shopkeeper we saw yesterday?" One of the maidservants said in surprise.
"Yes, that's the young master." The other young maidservant immediately said.
Yesterday, when they accompanied their madam to buy rouge and face powder on the streets, they accidentally discovered a newly opened shop. Out of curiosity, they walked in. The two maidservants didn't have a deep impression of this shop, but the handsome shopkeeper in the shop made them remember him.
Since this young master had arrived, the Prosperity Lane should be open for business soon. The two servant girls felt a trace of joy in their hearts. They were glad that they did not leave too early.
Li Yi didn't notice the two young maidservants at the entrance of the shop. He was thinking about something else. When he opened the door and saw the two young maidservants walking in behind him, he finally realized something.
"These two young maidservants are …"
"We're here to buy the Ruyi nectar."
One of the young maidservants looked up at him and said in a clear voice.
Fang, who was following behind, walked into the shop and saw the scene in front of him. His expression was a little stunned.
Didn't the young master say that the business of the Ruyi nectar wasn't good and no one bought it? What was going on?
These two maidservants seemed to have been waiting at the entrance for a long time. They were actually here to buy the Ruyi nectar?
Li Yi just realized that the two maidservants in front of him looked a little familiar. After some thought, he remembered that the woman who bought the Ruyi nectar yesterday had two maidservants with her. Weren't they the two in front of him?
It was gratifying to have a repeat customer on the second day of the shop's opening. At the very least, it meant that the problem did not lie with the Ruyi Dew. It was just his sales method that was wrong. Li Yi took a porcelain bottle from the shelf and handed it over.
The young maidservant shook her head when she saw this. She took out two ingots of silver and placed them on the counter. She said, "There are twenty taels of silver here. Use it all to buy the Ruyi nectar."
Fang stood at the side and stared blankly at the two rich and overbearing maidservants. He couldn't wrap his head around the situation.
It hadn't been long since the shop opened and there were already twenty taels of silver in the account. If this was considered bad business, then what was considered good business?
Even Li Yi didn't expect that the two young maidservants would ask for so much. The first batch of Ruyi nectar looked like there were only twenty or so bottles. There had to be a few bottles left at home. After selling two bottles yesterday, there were only about twenty bottles left in the shop.
However, he certainly wouldn't refuse to earn money. There were still twenty-two bottles of Ruyi nectar left in the shop. The twenty taels of silver were all sold to the two young maidservants. The two extra bottles were given to them as gifts.
It wasn't convenient for the two of them to carry around more than twenty bottles of Ruyi nectar. Li Yi found a wooden box and put them away. He watched the two young maidservants leave the shop with satisfaction. He couldn't help but feel puzzled. So much Ruyi nectar, how long would it take to use it?
Of course, Li Yi didn't know that the woman had already pinned her hopes for a long period of sexual happiness on these small porcelain bottles. Naturally, she had to store some first …
"Son-in-law, didn't you say that the shop's business wasn't good?" Fang turned to look at him with a dull gaze.
If the Ruyi nectar could be sold at this speed, then why would he sell candied fruits? He could just sit at home and count the money. Why would he need to go through so much trouble?
Li Yi sighed and looked at Fang. He slowly said, "How many times have I told you? You have to take a long-term view. Do you understand long-term? This is only a mere twenty taels of silver. In the future, we will make a lot of money. Don't always be satisfied with the current situation. This is just a small step for us. "
Fang's face showed respect. Son-in-law was indeed a son-in-law. If it was him, he wouldn't be able to keep his composure after earning twenty taels of silver so easily.
"Excuse me, do you sell Ruyi nectar here?" A weak voice sounded from the door. A fifteen or sixteen-year-old maidservant walked into the shop. The first person she saw was a burly man. She couldn't help but feel a little timid and asked in a low voice.
"I'm sorry, today's Ruyi nectar is sold out." Li Yi felt strange. Yesterday, no one was interested in Ruyi nectar. Why did everyone come running here today?
"Ah, then what should I do?" The maidservant revealed a bitter expression. Just now, when the door of the shop didn't open, she got bored waiting and strolled around the street. She didn't expect that when she came back, the Ruyi nectar was already sold out.
"How about this. You can pay half of the deposit first. When we have new stock tomorrow, we will keep it for you. You can come back tomorrow morning to collect it." Li Yi looked at her and said.
The maidservant thought about it and could only nod in agreement.
She wasn't afraid that they would take the deposit and run away. After all, their shop was here. In the prefectural city, cheating people of deposits was very rare.
"Then … I want ten bottles. I'll give you five taels of silver."
The maidservant took out five taels of silver from her pouch and raised her head.
"What … a few bottles?" Fang's eyes widened as he saw the maidservant put the silver on the counter indifferently. He was surprised. Were all the people in the prefectural city so rich?
Li Yi didn't have time to accompany Fang in a daze. He took the deposit and wrote on a piece of paper, "Ten bottles of floral water, five taels of deposit paid." He signed his name in the lower right corner and handed it to the maidservant.
After several embarrassing scenes, Li Yi felt that the unique handwriting of his previous life was better appreciated by him alone. When writing on the paper, he used Wang Xizhi's semi-cursive script, which was the only one in the world. The signature was similar to the artistic calligraphy of later generations, so he wasn't afraid that someone would take it and imitate it.
The maidservant put away the paper and looked up at the handsome shopkeeper's face. She vaguely felt that it was a little familiar. With doubts in her heart, she walked out of the shop.
"Young master, what should we do now?" Fang looked at Li Yi excitedly and asked.
Li Yi glanced at him and said with some annoyance, "What else can we do? Of course, increase production!"
Just when they closed the shop and planned to go back to the stockade, the maidservant had already returned home. The moment she stepped through the door, there seemed to be a flash of light in her mind.
"That young master just now seems to be …"
In the maidservant's mind, she couldn't help but think of a certain night not long ago. In the Mian Xiu Garden, at the Mid-Autumn Poetry Meet, she went to invite that scholar under the instruction of her mistress and fought with other maidservants until her face turned red …
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