A Blessed Daughter - Chapter 078

A Blessed Daughter
Chapter 078 – A mysterious nobleman (2)

Translator : Virichime
Editor : Tea
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The shopkeeper walked over to him and reported on the competition held today and the sales situation of the shop.

Overall, it was very successful. With just one pair of Tibetan Buddhist calligraphy and a small competition, Sibaozhai was promoted in Xingshan County and successfully sold 7200 pieces of paper.

“Okay, thank you for your hard work.” Xu Zhushan responded with a giggle.

Looking at Xu Zhushan’s simple and modest appearance, the shopkeeper was blown away multiple times. Although he looked quite dull, he had so many ideas.

For example, the method of soliciting business today was taught by Xu Zhushan, and he, the shopkeeper, just followed his suit.

The shopkeeper was not sure whether his boss was truly wise or pretentious.

After a brief moment of inner turmoil, the shopkeeper continued to say to Xu Zhushan: “Just now, a young master came to the shop and asked to meet the boss. I answered according to what you told me before, saying that our boss doesn’t see customers.”

“Oh, good.”

“The young master also said that he is here to cooperate with the boss and wants to get goods from you to open a store in the capital. I remember the boss mentioned that because the daily stock is limited, you will never cooperate or supply papers to anyone. So I repeated the boss’ wish to that person.”

“That’s right, just say it like that.” Xu Zhushan nodded.

“Boss, forgive my curiosity. We only sell this much paper daily, is it really because of tight supply?” The shopkeeper really couldn’t hold back his curiosity.

“Yes.” Xu Zhushan replied.

Then Xu Zhushan thought of an important thing: “By the way, starting tomorrow, we can’t sell paper alone, we need to……to……”

In the middle of the sentence, Xu Zhushan got stuck and thought carefully for a while before continuing, “We need to sell it bundled together with the brushes, ink, and inkstones before the customer can buy it. The specifics were written on a piece of paper, I’ll show it to you!”

Xu Zhushan ran back into the house, and when he came back, he held a piece of paper in his hand. There was a page of characters that were densely written on it. The handwriting was not very good, like a seven or eight year old child’s handwriting.

The shopkeeper took a look at the paper and was surprised!

Among the Four Treasures of the Study* that was sold in their shop, only paper was special. The other three were ordinary goods that were also sold in other shops.

^*Four Treasures of the Study: essentials of calligraphy, commonly refers to brush, ink, paper, inkstone.

This also led to the fact that only paper was the best seller item in the shop, and other things were rarely sold.

Today, the paper was sold out, while the brush, ink, and inkstone together were only sold out in four pieces.

Then Xu Zhushan wrote on the paper he gave him that the purchasing rules for the store in the future should be implemented through a “distribution system”, where a person could only buy up to twenty sheets of paper directly. However, if the person bought the papers together with other items in the store, the person could buy fifty or even eighty sheets of paper.

After reading it, the shopkeeper still had doubts: “Boss, if we sell it like this, will those people refuse to buy it?”

“It’s fine. Just sell it like this, we won’t force them. If they don’t want to, they can still buy twenty sheets.” Xu Zhushan said.

The shopkeeper nodded, “Then I’ll sell it like this tomorrow. I’ll take my leave for today and come back tomorrow.” The shopkeeper said goodbye to Xu Zhushan.

“Okay, you’ve worked hard.” Xu Zhushan nodded.

After collecting the account books, Xu Zhushan is ready to pick up his wife. She had been busy with her work at the mountain for the past few days and had lost weight. He had to kill a chicken to make up for it at night.

Xu Zhushan smiled foolishly while carrying a bamboo basket in the yard. The bamboo basket could help his wife carry things, and if there was pigweed* on the roadside, he could also cut some pigweed to bring home.

*pigweed: grass to feed pigs.

 

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