First-rank palace maid Su Jixiang

Chapter 242 The Birth of Charcoal

When Qu Wanning saw the charcoal pencil, she was immediately curious. She asked Su Jixiang for one and found a piece of white paper to try it out. She found it very convenient.

"This is good, can you give me a few?" Qu Wanning asked.

"This, if you like it, take it first, and I'll find someone to make it." Su Jixiang said with a smile, "But I haven't had time to optimize this thing yet. It's easy to break when it's written now, so you need to be careful. When I have time, I'll find someone to make some new ones. It will be more convenient to carry."

Su Jixiang wanted to make some pencils, but because of the lack of time, she has not yet made them. She didn't know if there was graphite ore in Mangcheng, but she could make it with coal. Mangcheng had coal. Last time, in order to cover up for Wei Ling, Su Jixiang went into the mountains to find hunters. She had seen someone pick up burnable stones in the mountains to save money on firewood and charcoal. Su Jixiang wrote down the location that person said, and she would wait for the weather to get warmer and the ice and snow in the mountains to melt before going into the mountains to take a look.

Su Jixiang also asked Wei Ling if he knew that there was a kind of black stone in the mountains that could burn. Wei Ling only said that he had heard of it but had never seen it. She knew that Daxie didn't know much about this kind of burning stone.

It has to be said that Mangcheng's location is really excellent. Not only does it have iron mines, but it also has coal mines. According to the description of the mountain people, the coal mine should be an open-air shallow surface coal mine, which is very easy to mine! If this is the case, Su Jixiang is confident that everyone in Mangcheng can use coal! With coal, you can burn boilers, and then Mangcheng can enter a new stage.

"Okay. I'll take this one first." Even though the current charcoal pencils have the problems that Su Jixiang mentioned, they are convenient and Qu Wanning likes them very much.

Just as Su Jixiang expected, the people queuing outside did have an argument, and some even threatened to rush inside, swearing.

Fortunately, the people she brought were Lushui and Guihua. Lushui and Guihua were also ruthless people. When they saw someone making trouble, they rolled up their sleeves and carried the troublemakers out one by one.

With Lushui and Guihua there, the commotion outside was quickly extinguished, and the queues became orderly. The first thirty tables filled up Caidiexuan in the blink of an eye.

Those who were not able to enter at the back and were willing to wait started to take numbers, but Guihua came over and told Su Jixiang that the 30 number plates were not enough. Su Jixiang asked them to handwrite the number plates and send them out. If the person who called the number was not there, they would just pass the number.

So today, the 30 tables of people can still have free steamed chicken, but what is different from yesterday when they only received money for one serving is that today they received money for twelve servings of chicken soup, and the eight private rooms have been booked for the evening.

As for the guests waiting outside, Su Jixiang asked Lushui to deliver the tea menu to them and asked them if they would like to sit more comfortably. As long as they ordered tea, they could go into the tea room in the backyard to rest while waiting, and the tea room also provided free snacks.

Several groups of customers readily agreed when they heard that there would be free snacks.

Hua Rui originally thought that no one was interested in the teahouse today, but it turned out to be just as Su Jixiang had told her in the morning, her teahouse was only half open to the public!

The snacks she carefully prepared were finally delivered. Although they were delivered as a gift, Hua Rui was still very happy.

After all, Su Jixiang had told her that giving gifts was just for attracting traffic, and attracting traffic meant attracting customers to come first. After all, good wine needs to be promoted even if it is not well known. Her craftsmanship is impeccable, but Caidiexuan is a newly opened store, so she has to attract people to come in first before she has the opportunity to show her craftsmanship to others and let them taste it.

Hua Rui was very confident in her skills in brewing tea and making snacks. After all, in the palace, her skills were praised by all the concubines in the palace, and even the deposed emperor praised her snacks.

Fortunately, she has this skill, otherwise she wouldn't know how she would survive in the harem with her personality.

These customers originally wanted to wait comfortably, and the price of tea on the tea sign was fair, although a little expensive, but these people didn't care much. Who knew that they really discovered that Cai Die Xuan not only made good dishes, but also made tea much better than other tea houses outside! With this taste and this technique, anyone who likes to drink tea will know that it is made by an expert as soon as they taste it!

Moreover, the refreshments given as gifts are so exquisitely made that they are jaw-dropping. These refreshments are given along with the tea, but they are only available for three days!

These people immediately slapped their thighs in regret. Caidiexuan opened yesterday, but no one knew that the snacks were so good yesterday. They really wasted a day!

Suddenly, the afternoon tea and the next day's snacks in Huarui's tea room were booked.

Hua Rui's eyes almost became two slits from laughing...

In the past, she practiced tea making and snack making just to survive in the harem. She wanted to have a skill that would at least be of some use. This way, she could stay in the tea room and not have to go out. This was the most reassuring thing for her.

But she never imagined that one day she would be able to make money with this skill.

She had signed a contract with Su Jixiang. As long as the sales of snacks were guaranteed and the amount they agreed on was reached every month, she would get half of the profit no matter how much she earned afterwards.

After a busy day, she went back and quietly calculated. Hua Rui discovered that it would only take her fifteen days to earn back the guaranteed sales amount. That is to say, as long as she could earn one or two taels of silver in the other half of a month, half of it would be hers!

Moreover, Su Jixiang also asked her to keep her own set of accounts, and to reconcile them with the general ledger recorded by Qu Wanning at the end of each month, so as to protect her interests to the greatest extent.

In fact, Hua Rui completely believed in Su Jixiang and Qu Wanning, but Su Jixiang insisted on her doing so, so she could only keep her own set of accounts.

Because she knew nothing about business, she just did what Su Jixiang said.

After three days, Caidiexuan's steamed chicken, dishes and teahouse became completely famous in Mangcheng.

When everyone met and greeted each other these days, the topic of conversation was how delicious and novel the steamed chicken at Caidiexuan was, and how exquisite the snacks in the Caidiexuan teahouse were.

Zhao Xiuwan's restaurant was officially renamed and opened after the Chinese New Year.

She waited for Nangong Rui for a few days, but when he didn't show up, she secretly asked the shopkeeper in her store to find out where Nangong Rui's home was.

The current shopkeeper of her store is the previous clerk. Because this clerk is very smart and learned accounting from the previous shopkeeper, Zhao Xiuwan simply promoted him.

After all, she had no idea what running a business was.