February 29, weather, sunny, light breeze, mild climate, suitable for opening businesses, groundbreaking, weddings, and shopping.
Early in the morning, the gates of Lu’s on Fuyuan Street were opened.
Outside the gates, many curious people were already waiting to watch the excitent, with so even eating breakfast, nibbling on buns and cakes as they watched.
Shu Yu saw this and had hot soup, which had been prepared earlier, placed at the entrance, and noticing that so people were choking on their food, she had it sent over.
The onlookers were taken aback, embarrassedly accepted the hot soup, and felt a warmth in their hearts after drinking it. Then they thought that just watching the excitent seed rather impolite; they should co in later and buy sothing worth two hundred wen.
Soone raised their voice and asked, "County Lord, when are you opening the shop?"
"At the auspicious ti," very soon, just a few minutes.
When the hours arrived, Jiang Fengshou ca out with a string of firecrackers and ignited them. Amidst the crackling sounds, Shu Yu raised her head and pulled down the red silk from the shop’s signboard.
"New shop opening, today everything over two hundred wen is ten percent off. Don’t miss this opportunity!"
As soon as the voice fell, a person suddenly rushed out from the crowd, ran straight to Shu Yu, and congratulated with a smile, "Congratulations County Lord Lu, congratulations on the opening of Lu’s. This is my gift."
Shu Yu looked at the person in front of her, her face filled with a confused expression.
She hadn’t expected the first person to co to congratulate her would be him, and the problem was, she wasn’t familiar with him.
But one must not reject a smiling person, and after all, they had exchanged a few words and were acquainted. Therefore, she accepted the gift with a smile, turned to Jiang Fengshou, and said, "Note this... What’s his surna again?"
Jiang Fengshou imdiately said, "Young Master Gan, please co inside."
Shu Yu nodded in satisfaction at him, thinking Jiang Fengshou indeed had a wide circle of acquaintances, knowing everyone in town.
After Young Master Gan was led inside by Zhou Tiedong to drink tea, Jiang Fengshou quietly asked while welcoming guests inside, "Boss, you don’t know this person? Didn’t you say you wouldn’t accept gifts from strangers?"
After all, boss is the county magistrate, not just a rchant. Naturally, so people want to ask for favors.
So Shu Yu had already told Jiang Fengshou not to accept gifts from strangers to avoid complications in the future.
Just now, Jiang Fengshou observed Shu Yu’s deanor, thinking she probably didn’t know Young Master Gan?
Shu Yu coughed lightly, "I know him, just not well. We’ve t twice."
This Young Master Gan was Xun Sheng’s schoolmate. Previously, when dealing with Chen Bing, he brought his family’s bodyguards and Protector to support Xun Sheng. Chen Qiu initially had eyes on him.
Shu Yu wasn’t familiar with him, but they had talked, and she knew that apart from being impulsive, he was a good person.
But ever since Xun Sheng left that day, she hadn’t seen Young Master Gan, and didn’t expect he would be the first to send a gift for the opening.
Jiang Fengshou understood.
The two did not chat further, and after the first person sent a congratulatory gift, more people followed suit.
Most of them were bosses or shopkeepers from other shops on Fuyuan Street. Everyone runs shops on Fuyuan Street, and maintaining good relationships with neighbors is important.
Therefore, many ca bearing gifts, including so strangers, but Jiang Fengshou refused them.
Seeing this, others understood the county magistrate’s intentions and abandoned their plans.
Gradually, more custors filled the shop; so were purely curious, while others happily went to the tasting tables to try the flavors.
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