Cuinong didn't let Su Shi wait long. When Su Shi was about to taste the third glass of wine, Cuinong had already returned.
A tall woman wearing a black robe and an angular face followed Cuinong expressionlessly.
When they came to Su Shi, the woman who looked like an iron tower made a hoarse voice: "Mr. Shen, the master invites you."
Su Shi stood up and followed her without hesitation.
Cuinong looked at Su Shi's leaving back, her eyes involuntarily filled with worry.
After walking through the hall and corridor, Su Shi came to a small courtyard. The woman stood in front of the door of the small courtyard, stretched out her hand to push the door open, and then said, "Master is waiting inside. Mr. Shen, please come in."
Su Shi nodded and walked in calmly.
The small courtyard is not large in area, but it is extremely elegantly decorated.
The water flows across the small bridge and surrounds a small house with green bricks and green tiles. Su Shi walked onto the small bridge. Under the bridge, several fresh fish were swimming in the water.
As soon as Su Shi arrived in front of the hut, the door of the hut creaked open, and a child of about ten years old stood in front of the door.
"The master is waiting for Mr. Shen in the hall."
As the child talked, he led Su Shi to the hall. The decoration in the hall was very simple.
An arched antique rack divides the hall into two parts, the front and rear. There are not many antiques on the antique rack, but they are arranged in an orderly manner.
In front of the arched door, a nanmu table is placed in the center of the hall, with three wooden chairs placed around it. There are several paintings hanging on both sides of the hall and a few green plants in the corners.
Behind the arched door, a huge screen blocked Su Shi's view, preventing him from prying.
An ordinary-looking middle-aged man sat quietly at a nanmu table. When he saw Su Shi coming in, his face showed no expression.
But Su Shi looked at Huangfu Jie with some surprise. He didn't expect that the person in charge of the flower shop was such an ordinary person.
He has an ordinary appearance, ordinary clothes, and even an ordinary temperament. There is nothing memorable about him.
If you walk on the street on Huangfu Festival, you will never attract anyone's attention.
Although Su Shi was surprised, he didn't have any contempt for it.
Being in charge of one of the top three flower shops in the capital, no matter how ordinary he looks, he is definitely not an ordinary person.
"Master Shen?" Huangfu Jie said calmly.
"Master Huangfu."
"Please sit down." Huangfu Jie pointed to the chair opposite him.
Su Shi sat down opposite him and looked at him quietly.
Huangfujie said calmly: "Master Shen doesn't look like a businessman."
Su Shi smiled and said, "I'm not a businessman at all."
Huangfujie's tone remained unchanged, but there was a hint of coldness in his eyes.
"So Mr. Shen is just teasing me?"
Su Shi frowned and said, "Master Huangfu, do you think I'm teasing you?"
Huangfujie said coldly: "Since Mr. Shen has never done business before, he still dares to boast about Haikou. Isn't this a joke?"
Su Shi suddenly sighed and said slowly: "Does Mr. Huangfu think I am an idiot?"
Huangfujie didn't answer him, because no matter how he looked at Su Shi, he didn't look like an idiot, even though he behaved like one in many ways.
Huangfujie's expression remained unchanged, but the coldness in his eyes had faded. He said calmly: "Master Shen really has a way to make the flower shop become the first floor in the capital within three months?"
Su Shi replied simply: "Yes."
"How to do it?"
"Work with me."
"What cooperation?"
Su Shi smiled and said, "Of course you will cooperate with me in the plum soup business."
Huangfujie was silent for a long time before slowly saying: "I'm not here to hear jokes."
Su Shi shook his head: "I'm not here to tell jokes."
Huangfujie's eyes narrowed into a slit, and this slit was as sharp as a blade.
"You mean that as long as we cooperate with you in the plum soup business, the flower shop will become the first floor in the capital?"
Su Shi didn't care at all, and just said lightly: "Now, Mr. Huangfu, are you interested in hearing my method?"
"what way?"
"How to use a bowl of plum soup to make the flower shop the first floor in the capital."
After hearing this, Huangfu Jie was disappointed. He found that if Su Shi was not an idiot, then he must be a lunatic.
Because only an idiot or a lunatic would say such ridiculous things.
So he didn't want to hear any more.
But he wasn't going to argue with Su Shi, because no normal person would argue with an idiot or a lunatic.
But he has already thought about how to punish Cuinong. He will definitely make Cuinong miserable.
No one dared to think of him as an idiot.
But if it weren't for Cuinong, how could he be sitting here like an idiot facing an idiot.
Although the changes in Huangfu Jie's expression were very subtle, Su Shi captured them keenly.
"You don't believe it?" Su Shi touched his nose and asked slowly.
"I don't want to hear jokes, let alone myths."
A bowl of plum soup can make the Flower Shop the first floor in Beijing!
This sentence is indeed like a myth, and even in mythical stories, such bizarre things cannot happen.
Su Shi said unhurriedly: "Why didn't Mr. Huangfu listen to my method before judging whether my words were myths?"
Huangfu Jie said calmly: "If you leave now, I can pretend that you have never been here."
Then his voice became as cold as ice: "If you want to continue talking, as long as I find out that you are teasing me, I can take one of your hands and one of your eyes right now without Dongyuan Zhiku taking action. "
"Now, Chief Huangfu, can you calm down and listen to my method?"
Huangfu Jie took a deep look at Su Shi and said, "Tell me."
Su Shi asked: "I wonder what is the most expensive soup in the Flower Shop? How much does it cost per cup?"
"Spring of flowers, one hundred cents a cup."
Unexpectedly, Su Shi shook his head and said, "As far as I know, the most expensive one doesn't seem to be one hundred cents a cup."
"Then the young master must have remembered it wrong."
Huangfu Jie knew everything about the flower shop, so he was sure that Su Shi had remembered it wrong.
"Really? I remember that the most expensive Baihuachun is probably two taels a cup."
Huangfujie's expression changed slightly, but he had to admit Su Shi's words, because the most expensive Baihuachun was indeed two liang a cup.
Except that was in the middle of summer.
The reason why Baihuachun in midsummer can be sold for two taels of silver a cup is because it contains something that can relieve the summer - ice cubes.
When ice cubes were added to Baihuachun, its price increased from one hundred cents to twenty taels, a full twenty-fold increase.
But even so, the demand for iced Baihuachun still exceeds supply, and the flower shop can only supply it for ten days at most, because the ice stored in winter can only be supplied for so long.
"What does Mr. Shen want to express?"
Su Shi smiled: "I just want to ask Mr. Huangfu, how much can a cup of Baihuachun with ice be sold for two taels of silver, and how much can a cup of plum soup with ice be sold for?"
