Chapter 801: Chapter 801: Reward for Him Chapter 801: Chapter 801: Reward for Him In the following days.
Su Yunjin’s shop saw a slight improvement in business, yet on the whole, it was still struggling, managing to sell at most seventy to eighty taels of silver a day.
Gu Ya asked Su Yunjin to keep an eye on the shop while he went out to negotiate business with some restaurants, hoping to strike up a partnership. Ideally, he aimed to sign a long-term contract for the supply of fruit wines.
That way, there would be no worries about the fruit wine not selling. As Gu Ya went out to conduct business, Su Yunjin wasn’t idle either; she planned to go to the market to buy several kinds of fruit to make additional fruit wine varieties.
Originally, on the day she intended to return the gift to Young Master Luo, Su Yunjin had planned to buy fruits at the market, but ended up helping her second sister, Su Ningxiu, with an issue and thus failed to buy any fruits.
On the day Gu Ya went out for business talks, Su Yunjin was alone in the shop, seeing no customers coming to buy liquor, she simply closed up and went out to purchase fruits.
Loquats, green plums, duck pears, red dates… Su Yunjin bought a basket of each type of seasonal fruit. As it was a lot to carry, she couldn’t manage it on her own.
Therefore, before buying the fruits, Su Yunjin had spent money to hire an ox cart. With the ox cart there, after each purchase of fruit, she simply had the driver or the fruit vendor help load them onto the cart.
It was both convenient and meant no worries about not being able to carry everything.
She bought a basket of various fresh fruits at the market.
When Gu Ya returned, he saw people carrying baskets of wild fruits into their shop. Su Yunjin walked up to him with a smile upon seeing him return.
“Husband, you’re back?”
Watching the people carrying wild fruits to their backyard, Gu Ya asked his little wife, “Yunjin, did you buy all these fruits?” Su Yunjin nodded.
“Yes, I just bought them from the market.” Since there wasn’t much going on in the shop anyway, Su Yunjin planned to start brewing different types of fruit wine with the various fruits in the backyard that very afternoon.
To create several new flavors.
Not only would this increase the variety of fruit wines in the liquor shop, but it would also attract more customers. With her previous experience, she planned to price some of the newly developed fruit wines lower.
So that ordinary people could afford them, eliminating the issue of customers being deterred by high prices.
Elated, Su Yunjin plotted her fruit wine-making plans in her heart. After the driver had left, Gu Ya shared the results of his business negotiations with his little wife.
“Yunjin, I visited several restaurants today, and two of them expressed a willingness to cooperate with Zuixiang Restaurant. They will order a fixed quantity of fruit wine from us every month.”
Su Yunjin was delighted, “Husband, are you serious?” With this, they would have two more stable sources of business, in addition to Young Master Luo and Fuman Building.
Basking in self-satisfaction, Su Yunjin was soon embraced by Gu Ya, “Yunjin, don’t celebrate too soon though,” he cautioned, leaving her puzzled about what he meant.
Su Yunjin looked at Gu Ya with curiosity.
“Yunjin, while those two restaurants agreed to a continuous partnership with Zuixiang Restaurant today, they don’t require much fruit wine each month. They both only want twenty-five jars each.”
The quantity they wanted was not huge.
Gesturing with her hands, Su Yunjin calculated that one restaurant would take twenty-five jars, so the two combined would amount to fifty jars a month, which would add up to a few hundred jars a year.
Having this bit of fixed income was also quite good, she felt. Embracing Gu Ya’s neck, Su Yunjin kissed his handsome face twice.
“Husband, this is your reward.”