[Comprehensive] A small goal

When Lin Shiyin sobered up and learned from the maid in the house and Gao Yanan who was staying in Li Yuan what she had done when she was drunk, she almost collapsed.

"You should stop me..." She said weakly to Gao Yanan.

"...I really want to." Gao Yanan said that she would not take the blame, "but you are stubborn, just pulling the head of the cold catcher and refusing to let go."

However, seeing her desperate appearance, Gao Yanan still comforted her very intimately: "But I don't think that cold catcher really minds, he treats you very gently."

Lin Shiyin looked indifferent: "...that's because other people are nice."

Gao Yanan thought about it seriously, frowned and said, "I don't look like it?"

It's not like she hasn't seen someone who treats others gently because of being "nice". Not to mention others, Chu Liuxiang is a good example, but even if it is Chu Liuxiang, being kind to others will never be as good as being cold-blooded to Lin Shiyin.

As long as he thought of how cautious he was when he hugged Lin Shiyin last night, and how Lin Shiyin relied on him when he was drunk, Gao Yanan felt that there must be a story in it.

However, when she told Lin Shiyin such speculation, Lin Shiyin didn't take it seriously, she just insisted, "I know he is a good man." But he actually has a girl he likes!

Regarding this, Gao Yanan could only: "..."

Well, about emotional matters, she probably isn't qualified to give advice to others.

In addition to her, Lin Shiyin's maid actually mentioned many times of being cold-blooded, both openly and secretly.

The more daring ones asked her directly: "Wouldn't Miss Cousin go to the Shenhou Mansion this time to thank Leng Butou?"

Lin Shiyin spread her hands and said: "He went out of Beijing today to handle the case, and he was in vain in the past, let's talk about it."

The maid was surprised: "Why are you out of Beijing again..."

Lin Shiyin thought to herself that I also hope that he will not go out of Beijing less, but his profession determines that this is almost nothing but a delusion.

Forget it, even if she really wants to spend her wallet like in the dream, she must first earn as much money as in the dream.

Thinking of this, she, who had been languid for a long time because of feeling ashamed, finally regained some motivation, and finally pulled herself together to wash up and prepare to go out.

Anyway, on the way, she invited Gao Yanan to ride in a carriage with her when she went out.

On the way, the two of them talked about the embarrassing scene last night. In fact, Hu Tiehua also saw it, and it was Hu Tiehua's idea to ask Gao Yanan to follow Leng Xue to send her home.

Lin Shiyin carefully observed her expression when she mentioned Hu Tiehua, and it was really different from the beginning, so she couldn't help but sighed in her heart.

It seems that Ji Bingyan, who was obsessed with making money prematurely, is hopeless again. The world is clear, if she must choose a better one between Ji Bingyan and Hu Tiehua, she still thinks that Ji Bingyan is much more reliable; as for people like Hu Tiehua, I can't say He's not good, but it's best to be a friend.

But since this kind of thing happened first come first served, Lin Shiyin, as an outsider, couldn't make any comments.

After the carriage drove all the way to East Cross Street and stopped, Gao Yanan jumped out of the car and said goodbye to her, then turned and went into the inn next to the hot pot restaurant.

Lin Shiyin followed her back and glanced at the alley where she said she met Leng Xue and herself before, and the dream of last night suddenly appeared in her mind uncontrollably.

...In the dream, she actually held Leng Xue directly and refused to let go, and asked him while grabbing him, what are you dissatisfied with me being so rich!

Cough, I still don’t want to.

She rubbed her face, turned and walked into her shop.

Probably because of having that dream as a goal, in the next half month, Lin Shiyin put extra effort into the management of several shops, even if the emperor didn't come, she didn't need to go to the hot pot restaurant to serve her, she would be there almost every day Stay so that the shopkeeper and the guys can find themselves if they have something to do.

Winter is here, and a new season.

But the business of the hot pot restaurant is not much better than before, at least not as hot as it was in the winter when it first opened.

The reason is actually very simple, it is what Ji Bingyan was worried about before, more and more people imitate her.

The taste may be a little worse, but the price can be lowered accordingly, so the business of those imitators is not much worse.

Customers are diverted, and her business here will naturally be affected.

Lin Shiyin was actually a little worried. She originally wanted to gain a little more advantage from the perspective of service, but her labor costs would inevitably increase a lot, and her price could not be raised on this basis, so she could only Find ideas elsewhere.

Neither the shopkeeper nor the staff in the main store could give her any advice on this kind of matter. After struggling for a few days, she decided to go to Ji Bingyan to discuss it.

It is true that she was too optimistic and made a wrong judgment in this matter, so she was ready to be ridiculed by Ji Bingyan on the way there.

As a result, after going there, Ji Bingyan was not there.

I asked the shopkeeper and the buddy of the semicolon, and said that they came here early in the morning and left in a hurry.

"Did he say where to go?" Lin Shiyin was puzzled.

"Mr. Ji didn't say anything." The shopkeeper shook his head, and said again, "Actually, he went out for a long time yesterday afternoon, but he came back at night, why don't you wait here?"

Lin Shiyin thought to herself that she had nothing to be busy anyway, and would wait wherever she went, so why not just stay here.

So she nodded and said: "Okay, give me a pot of tea, and tell him to come up to me directly when he comes back."

After that, she directly went upstairs with her skirt in hand.

This wait is an hour.

Ji Bingyan didn't come back until the end of the day. At that time, she almost fell asleep without propping her face up. She didn't even hear the door being pushed. It wasn't until Ji Bingyan came around to her and asked her why she came.

It must have been raining outside, and there were still drops of water on his body. When he got close and spoke, Lin Shiyin suddenly felt the cold air rushing towards his face, and before he could speak, he frowned.

"Where have you been?" she asked.

"I went to a few famous taverns in the capital." He took off his cloak and threw it aside, "Didn't they cook hot pot together after winter, I'll go and have a look."

It turned out that the two of them wanted to go together.

Lin Shiyin breathed a sigh of relief, raised her head and said, "I also wanted to discuss this with you."

Before Ji Bingyan sat down, when she heard her speak, she lowered her eyes and looked over with a faint smile hidden in her eyes, as if to say, do you believe it now?

But this was not the time to mock and bicker with each other, so he still kept the words in his heart and didn't say them. After shaking the rain on his front, he sat down opposite her.

"So what do you think?" Ji Bingyan asked.

"I didn't think of anything good, so I came to you." Lin Shiyin was very honest, "I heard from the shopkeeper here that you have been running out for the past few days, and you probably have seen the taverns in the city almost?"

Ji Bingyan nodded: "It's not that there is no solution. I think most people are looking for the next best thing. As long as we can open more stores immediately, we don't have to worry about the business coming back."

Lin Shiyin knew that what he said was right, but this was too hasty, and I'm afraid it would be too late.

Sure enough, the next moment he continued: "What I'm afraid of is that we haven't fully prepared yet. They have already locked in this part of the guests. After all, we don't have an absolute advantage after all, but we just took the lead."

"I've been thinking about the third store, and the original plan was to open it after the new year." Lin Shiyin said, "It's really too late, it's not suitable, and I don't have enough manpower."

"So this road won't work." Ji Bingyan said decisively, "We can only find a way from other places, but we haven't made them prefer to queue up instead of going elsewhere..."

Speaking of which, the two of them looked at each other as if they thought of something at the same time.

Lin Shiyin: "Yes."

Ji Bingyan narrowed her eyes: "Yes, yes."

The more famous taverns in the entire capital are imitating them, the only exception is probably their partner Xihonglou.It is true that they did not make customers prefer to wait in line for an extra half an hour rather than going to other restaurants for special dishes, but Sihonglou has them. In order to lower the price, Sihonglou promised Lin Shiyin to give her four altars every year. What about Zui Hanjiang?

No, you can ask for this year's share.

"In this way, I will take out Zui Hanjiang as a reward for the guests." She quickly thought of a good way to stimulate consumption, "Once every three months, no, the interval between three months is too long, I have to and Discuss with the Xihong Building, give me more, and use that person's face if it doesn't work."

"How?" Ji Bingyan didn't understand her thoughts yet.

"For example, if you spend enough money in our store, you will be eligible to participate in the lottery, which will be drawn every once in a while!" She explained.

After saying this, Ji Bingyan immediately understood: "In this way, in order to qualify for the lottery, those who can't make it to the Sihong Building will come to us to try their luck."

"Yes!" Lin Shiyin clapped her hands, "After all, as long as you are lucky enough, you can get drunk without spending money."

Most people with money but not enough status are probably willing to try their luck more.

After all, it sounds like "no cost".

"Then you have to assign someone to record how much each customer spent." Seeing that she was excited, Ji Bingyan quickly reminded her.

"I can still afford this labor." She didn't take it seriously.

"With all due respect, this is much more tiring and troublesome than reconciling accounts. It may not be obvious that there are only two stores now, but if you really open stores all over the Song Dynasty as you said in the future, just remember the daily customers. , ten accountants will be exhausted to death." Ji Bingyan said.

After hearing his words, Lin Shiyin calmed down a lot.

Yes, it is really troublesome to count this kind of data. In this era, it is not possible to directly use a computer to do the statistics like in later generations. When the two stores are in the capital, it is not a big deal to communicate with each other. She spent enough money in the place and wanted to come to the capital to try her luck. Did she have to ask someone to send the account book from that place to confirm whether there was such a person?

... Oh, it's really troublesome to think about it this way.

No, you have to change your mind.

"In that case, we only keep records here, and give those who are eligible to participate in the lottery a certificate of eligibility, tokens, paper notes, etc. How about drawing with that thing?"

"Isn't it still the same? What's the difference?"

"There's a big difference." Lin Shiyin patiently explained to him, "For example, if we mark up 100 taels of silver and get a draw, we can keep accounts normally. This time this person spends 20 taels and gets a piece of paper. , Next time you spend more than [-] taels, you can get two paper notes, and when he has ten paper notes, he can come to us to exchange for a lottery token."

After she finished speaking, she felt that she was a genius, and moved the point card system of the milk tea shop here to draw a lottery!

Ji Bingyan is also convinced, but he still has a question: "If you use a paper token, what if someone fakes it?"

Lin Shiyin smiled brightly and said: "You don't have to worry about this. Who can fake the paper with my cousin's seal on it? As for tokens, they just collect enough paper and go to the store to change their qualifications. If you get on the number, there will be no problem."

Ji Bingyan: "..."

Does your cousin really not be pissed off knowing you use his seal for this? ? ?

Lin Shiyin thought he didn't believe it, and explained: "My cousin's seal was carved by himself. You know, with his knife skills, there are not many people in the world who can imitate it."

A real expert with that skill probably wouldn't be so free as to do such a thing for a lottery draw for a hot pot restaurant.

Ji Bingyan nodded with complicated feelings: "...well, I know."

Afterwards, the two discussed some details, such as what is the most appropriate amount to set, and whether this news should be released together with the news of the new store, and so on.

Ji Bingyan probably gave up all hope of her negotiation skills, so she directly took the job of going to the Sihong Tower to talk to them, and said, "You wait for me to ask for more."

At that moment, Lin Shiyin really wanted to hug his thigh and call out daddy.

But in fact, her reaction was almost the same. Ji Bingyan sneered and shook her head.

"This method was contributed by you, and you have solved our current big problem." He said, "Let's do the rest slowly, there is time."

"Okay." Lin Shiyin believed in his ability, squinted her eyes and took a sip of tea, feeling that she was not far from realizing her life goal.

But even if she believed in Ji Bingyan's ability so much, she never thought that this guy could pry so much directly from the stingy boss of Xihong Building.

The next day, when he brought a cart of Zui Hanjiang to the head office to look for her, Lin Shiyin almost popped her eyes out of their sockets.

"You you you...how on earth did you do it?" She was almost at a loss for words.

"Tell you that you can't do it." He didn't bother to reveal, "It's enough for two years, and you can take it home to drink during the Chinese New Year."

Thankfully, when Lin Shiyin mentions drinking now, she will remember the embarrassment of her being cold-blooded and refusing to let go last time, she hurriedly waved her hands and refused: "Forget it, let's keep it as a lottery prize!"

After she finished speaking, she remembered that he had two friends who were good at wine. After thinking about it, she said: "You, you can give Chu Liuxiang and Hu Tiehua two jars to taste. Anyway, you can't buy them even in line."

Ji Bingyan curled her lips when she heard this: "Come on, when we first came to the capital, Hu Tiehua asked Chu Liuxiang to steal two altars for him."

Lin Shiyin: "..."

I'm sorry, I almost forgot that he is a Bandit Commander.

Seeing her complicated expression, Ji Bingyan added another sentence: "There are those who keep money."

Lin Shiyin: "...Okay, okay."

Having said that, after struggling for a while, he finally took away the two altars.

Lin Shiyin laughed that he was as soft-hearted as his unforgiving mouth was, and he stared at him several times.

After getting along a lot, she was not afraid of him at all, not only stared back, but also made a face at him.

Ji Bingyan: "...you are not childish."

Lin Shiyin: "Childish, super naive, but not as good as you."

Ji Bingyan was so angry that she didn't want to talk to her.

In the next month or so, the hot pot restaurant that launched the activity of collecting paper and drawing drunken cold rivers really got a new level of business.

Because of Li Xunhuan's seal on the paper, this paper was nicknamed "Tanhua Jian" by the people of the capital, and it became very popular for a while.Even the emperor who had finally recovered from typhoid fever and went out to eat hot pot had heard about it, but she is an emperor, so she didn't care about the jar of wine in Caitou, but thought her talent in business was really amazing, praise I missed her once.

Lin Shiyin knew that she couldn't afford this compliment. After all, almost all of her ideas came from her experience in modern life, and she came up with very few of them. It is only in this era that she stands out.

The emperor heard that she was modest, so he didn't continue to talk about this topic. After letting go of his stomach and eating, he hugged Li Shishi and went down the tunnel to Li Shishi's residence.

Lin Shiyin guessed that this was probably Li Shishi's overt and secret mention of not wanting to act here, which had an effect, and she was very grateful in her heart, and decided to give her a proper gift during the Chinese New Year.

Speaking of the Chinese New Year, it seems that it is just around the corner again.

Although she intends to open as usual during the Chinese New Year, most of the employees employed in the store want to reunite with their families, and it is estimated that they will not be able to stay, so she can only do as the Romans do, and the store has been closed for half a month.

It should be a vacation for myself who has been busy for a year, Lin Shiyin thought.

On the other side, Ji Bingyan had no objections either.

"Okay, let's wait until Shangyuan is over before opening, just concentrate on preparing for the new store." He said.

When he mentioned the new store, Lin Shiyin came back after being relieved.

"I guess I still have to recruit people. I can't allocate much in my original shop."

"Then recruit before Chinese New Year." He paused, "Anyway, I don't have to worry about not being able to recruit."

The two of them always talked about business matters for a long time, and in addition to the short days and long nights in winter, they often only talked halfway, and it was already dark outside.

Lin Shiyin thought that after Chinese New Year, she would be too lazy to go out early and return late every day like now, so she simply suggested: "Would you like to live in Li Garden during the half a month of closure? Call Chu Liuxiang and the others to come together."

Anyway, the three of them are away from home, and there is no family to reunite with, so it would be nice to have some fun together.

Ji Bingyan looked at her, and said after a while: "You want to invite those three girls?"

Lin Shiyin: "...There is a reason but..."

Ji Bingyan interrupted her with a wave of his hand: "Okay, but more importantly, you are lazy. I will ask them later. I have no objection if they are willing."

In fact, this sentence is tantamount to talking for nothing, at least he knows that Hu Tiehua is definitely willing, not to mention Chu Liuxiang, those three little girls like Lin Shiyin, he wished to make them happy.

So it's settled.

On the twenty-eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, after the two shops were closed, the group of them packed up their luggage in the inn and headed for Li Yuan in a mighty manner.

When Uncle Xiang learned that she had invited friends over for the New Year, he also asked someone to clean the yard early. By the way, he tested Lin Shiyin when arranging which yard these people would live in.

"I see that you like those three little girls very much, why don't you let them live in the courtyard next to yours this time?"

Lin Shiyin thought for a while, then shook her head and said, "...Forget it, let them live in the original place."

She was a bit reluctant to live in the place where Leng Xue lived!

Uncle Xiang laughed as soon as he heard it, nodded and said, "Okay, I understand."

Lin Shiyin: "This matter will trouble you."

She didn't even know that her thoughts about Leng Xue were already clear to the whole family.

Speaking of cold-blooded—

He went out of Beijing to handle the case this time, as she expected, and he didn't have time to come back for the New Year.

Lin Shiyin sat under the tree he used to sit on, looked up at the bare tree trunk, feeling a little unhappy.

This unhappiness was not even washed away by the celebration of the Chinese New Year.

On New Year's Eve, when a group of people gathered around a big hot pot in the front yard to heat food, Lin Shiyin couldn't help thinking about the time at this time last year.

At that time, the cold blood couldn't resist her request, and she still remembered the slightly surprised look in her eyes after tasting the hot rabbit meat in a spicy pot until now.

Seeing her distracted frequently, Gao Yanan, who was brought here by Hu Tiehua and Chu Liuxiang, couldn't help being a little concerned: "What's the matter with you?"

Lin Shiyin shook her head: "It's okay, let's eat."

Gao Yanan was about to say something more, when suddenly a panting servant ran in from outside the courtyard, and went straight to Lin Shiyin in disbelief, saying, "Biao girl! That! That dragon hero, the dragon hero is here!"

These words successfully made Lin Shiyin lose all interest in hurting the spring and autumn, and her expression didn't hang on for a moment: "What the hell?! How can he still have the face?"

The servant also felt that this matter was quite dreamlike, so he took a few breaths before saying: "He, he said he came to find the young master..."

Lin Shiyin: "..."

Is this person sick?Didn't Li Xunhuan leave because of him?Come here now to look for Li Xunhuan?

Why did you choose this day to disgust her on purpose?

Their conversation confused everyone except Uncle Xiang at the table, and Hu Tiehua was the first to ask.

"Hero Long, who is it?"

Lin Shiyin squinted her eyes, gritted her teeth and said, "A very shameless person."