Chapter 15 A group of small local tyrants
Before noon the next day, diners could not wait to enter the store.
Many people come to read the original poem "Shui Ji Tou". Of course, some people are guests who came yesterday. After the impact of "Shui Ji Tou", these people finally recalled that it seemed that the dishes in Hongchen Inn were really delicious.
Hongchen Inn became busy again. This time, Song Kai strongly recommended the membership card of his store.
By paying one or two gold ounces at one time, you can get the VIP card from Hongchen Inn. With this VIP card, you can get a 10% discount when you come to eat. If you celebrate your birthday or celebrate your family’s birthday, the inn can also send free birthday pastries.
Xue Weihai sat by the window, and Song Kaizheng tried his best to lobby, "Old Xue, now, this VIP card is free, that is, after paying one or two gold at one time, the amount in the card is one or two gold. In the future, you can eat in the store without paying cash, and you can also spend at a discount. There are also various discounts. If you pay ten taels of gold at one time, you can become the supreme member of our store with more discounts. And after the store releases new dishes every month, you can taste them for free."
Xue Weihai was a little puzzled at first, and then he figured out the key points. This membership card system seems to be very beneficial to customers and harmful to the inn. However, after careful analysis, it is clearly a disguised binding, and this braking can better drive the customer source and form a virtuous cycle.
After thinking through this, Xue Weihai sighed, "Song Kai, Song Kai, it seems that I underestimated you before. Once this system is opened, it will be difficult for you, the Hongchen Inn, to lose."
Song Kai smiled and said, "Old Xue, you have a shortage of funds recently, so you can get a Supreme Card. I think you must be a person with status. Ten taels of gold are not too much."
Xue Weihai was speechless for a moment, and then had to nod, "I always feel like I've been deceived by you, the cunning little fox."
"How could that happen?" Song Kai smiled happily, "After two days, I will go to Taihu Lake outside the city with you to see the tea. By the way, Taihu Lake, well, it should be called Taihu Lake."
"Okay, I'm just about to call you," Xue Weihai nodded, "For the sake of tea, I'll make something... what the Supreme Card. This name seems disrespectful, haha."
The two of them chatted and laughed for a while, and the inn business was getting better and better. Song Kai had to help greet the guests in person and sell his VIP card.
There are many people eating, but not many people buying cards. The main reason is that this system has never been implemented. If you hand over a tael of gold at once, it would cost 5,000 yuan. You always feel that it is a bit unsafe.
At noon, Song Kai stood in front of the counter and shouted: "The VIP card system is a discount activity that has been launched by our store. It is mainly because our store has opened and the capital turnover is somewhat difficult, so there is this discount. After three days, after the store’s capital turnover is normal, the VIP card will no longer be processed for free, and the minimum amount will also increase. Please cherish the current opportunity."
People in the inn were talking, thinking about what Song Kai was doing.
In the box on the second floor, a voice came out, "Shopkeeper, come here, get ten VIP cards."
Song Kai looked up and said that it was Sun Ximei. It turned out that today she brought a group of young men and women to eat and drink.
"Okay, Madam Sun, you have made a lot of money this time. I have only prepared 100 VIP cards in the early stage," Song Kai said, while asking Nie Lingdang to take out ten square wooden signs. The wooden signs were inlaid with a few silver leaves, and the whole was painted golden yellow, which looked a bit noble.
When I arrived at the standard room, I collected gold, engraved my names on the wooden signs, and told everyone a word that this was a code. In this way, even if the VIP card was dropped and picked up by others, I could not use the copper coins stored in the Hongchen Inn.
"Hey, little shopkeeper, is this your idea?" A round-faced woman sitting next to Sun Ximei asked with a smile. She was very fair and looked about fourteen or fifteen years old. She looked even more cute and round in a man's clothes.
Song Kai glanced at the girl and said, "Pay the money first, I'll tell you if I pay the money."
"The wealthy ghost," the little girl laughed, and the other teenagers and men and women laughed. Two children gave them ten taels of gold temporarily and directly applied for the Supreme Card.
Song Kai looked at Sun Ximei in confusion and smiled: "Where did you attract so many little tyrants?"
"What a rich man?" Sun Ximei was registering carefully and asking everyone to pay the gold. If they didn't bring it, they borrowed it from each other.
"It's what Fushen means," Song Kaixiao.
Sun Ximei glared at Song Kai, "You have many messy terms. OK, you have a good idea. This is twenty-eight taels of gold. Let me tell you, your store should not be closed, otherwise I will definitely not spare you this twenty-eight taels of gold!"
Song Kai laughed, "Don't worry."
After getting the VIP card, Song Kai left, and ten people at the table started talking about poetry again.
The round-faced girl beside Sun Ximei pulled Sun Ximei's arm, "Sister Ximei, I went home yesterday and asked my mother and father. Even if they were them, I had never heard of Nie Hong. I had never even heard of a talented man named Nie. Sister Ximei, please tell us the truth quickly."
Sun Ximei was eating old jealous peanuts, "How could I know?"
"Hmph, don't lie to me. Do you think I don't recognize your words? These poems are clearly written by you," the round-faced girl pouted in dissatisfaction.
As soon as these words came out, the rest of the people looked at Sun Ximei.
"Sister Ximei, is this true?"
"You actually wrote these poems?"
"Did you also make the content?"
Sun Ximei felt a headache, and she quickly whispered: "Okay, OK, I really don't know who did it. Anyway, it was Song Kai who asked me to write it like this. Meng Han, hurry up and have a meal, try this braised pork."
"No, it's so fat," Li Menghan pouted his round little face and still pulled Sun Ximei's arm. "Sister Ximei, these poems cannot be written by Song Kai."
"Ah... I don't know about this either," Sun Ximei picked up a piece of braised pork and put it next to Li Menghan. "This meat is made of cinnamon, Magnolia officinalis, and other medicinal materials. It is not fat at all, but it also has the aroma of medicinal materials. Haven't you always wanted to learn medicine from me? Try it and taste what the fat meat made from these medicinal materials tastes."
"Ah! Is that right?" Li Menghan lowered his head, took a bite, then praised it endlessly, and ate the whole piece into his stomach.
"I suddenly regretted it," Li Menghan muttered.
"Why?" Sun Ximei was surprised.
"I should also get a...a supreme card. Isn't it said that new special dishes can be tasted for free every month? This braised pork is so delicious," Li Menghan laughed.
The people on the table pulled away from the fat meat, pulled venison, hunted, and then talked about this year's Mid-Autumn Festival event.
Song Kai has been busy and selling his membership card. In the afternoon, a man and a woman entered the store. The neighbors around him saw the recruitment notice and came to apply for the job. One shop assistant, the other is buying vegetables, washing vegetables and other kitchen helpers. The shop assistant was the son of Aunt Wang's house not far away, named Changsheng. Changsheng just married and was honest and had no special talents, so he came here to be a shop assistant. The one who applied for the chef was a woman named Cuilan. Cuilan was very strong, with a height of more than 1.5 meters and weighed 150 kilograms, and she looked very festive.
Song Kai was very satisfied with the two new clerks and promised to give them the usual money every month. In addition, if you perform well, you will get a bonus at the end of the month, and you will get a piece of cloth and have a free meal at the store at noon. Changsheng and Cuilan's homes are both near the Hongchen Inn, so you naturally don't have to live in the store.
With Changsheng and Cuilan joining, Nie Lingdang finally breathed a sigh of relief. She didn't dare to see people with her true face, and always had to carry a plaster, which was also very uncomfortable.
Song Kai waved to Nie Lingdang, "Come here, I will teach you how to keep accounts."
Nie Lingdang's eyes shone, "Okay, okay, the money and money in the store will be kept by me in the future."
Song Kai opened the account book and said, "Did you remember the numbers last night?"
"Ah?" Nie Lingling was stunned, then lowered her head, as if she had been sitting in the wrong place. "I was too tired yesterday, and I fell asleep after taking a shower."
"...Okay, you can continue to memorize now. These are the basics. After teaching these, you will teach you the basic addition, subtraction and multiplication operations. Well, five-year-old children usually need to learn about two days. With your IQ, three days are probably enough." Song Kai said seriously.
"That's...what you said! You bastard," Nie Lingling stretched out her hands and grabbed Song Kai's neck.
Song Kai resisted for a while, and he suddenly realized sadly that his body was no match for Nie Lingling at all.
Nie Lingling stretched out her feet and kicked Song Kai on the butt, then let go of Song Kai proudly, and said with a smile: "You know the price of teasing me, little scholar."
"I'll go!" Song Kai was slandering in his heart, but he could only helplessly recognize the reality. When the matter in the store was finished, he would have to exercise. No, he should exercise from tonight and be a famous teacher. He would have to suppress the witch like Nie Lingling.
Song Kai held a brush in one hand and taught Nie Lingling's basic numerical calculations and simple table records.
At this time, a woman hurriedly walked in at the door of the store. She was wearing a veil on her head, lowered her head, and reached the counter and knocked on the counter.
Song Kai looked up and was about to speak, but found that the woman was an acquaintance, Liu Yuchan.
Liu Yuchan pointed to the backyard, then turned around and walked straight to the backyard.
"Practice well! Don't be worse than a five-year-old child!" Song Kai said this to Nie Lingling before leaving.
Nie Lingling looked at the backs of Song Kai and Liu Yuchan, bit the pen holder hatefully, her teeth trembled, and a drop of ink splashed on her chest.
Song Kai arrived at the backyard, "What's wrong, Yu Chan? In such a hurry?"
Chapter completed!