How much does a cup of plum soup with ice cost?
Or two taels of silver.
Because in the hot summer, the most expensive thing is not soup, but ice.
"Is this the business you want to work with me on?"
"Yes, the iced plum soup is the business that I cooperate with the Flower Shop."
Huangfu Jie shook his head and refused: "Not interested."
Su Shi was a little surprised: "Why?"
Huangfujie said calmly: "I know that the young master is a distinguished person and there must be a storehouse of ice at home, but how many cups of black plum soup can the ice stored in it be?"
He thought for a while and said: "It won't exceed three thousand cups. This is just a drop in the bucket for the flower shop, and we don't have to offend Dongyuan Qiku for a few thousand taels of silver."
Su Shi smiled: "It's really not worth it for three thousand cups. What about thirty thousand cups or even three hundred thousand cups?"
Huangfujie's breathing seemed to have stopped, because Su Shi's words had deeply shocked him.
"Impossible." Huangfujie regained consciousness immediately: "Even if all the ice in the icehouse in the capital is added up, it is impossible to make that much iced plum soup."
"I can."
Huangfu Jie stared blankly at the young man in front of him. He was reluctant to believe what this young man said, but looking at Su Shi's indifferent eyes, he couldn't say anything.
After a long time, Huangfujie said slowly: "As long as you can supply 30,000 cups, I can consider cooperating with Mr. Shen."
"How to cooperate?"
"A hundred cents a cup."
Ordinary black plum soup costs two cents a cup, but for the iced plum soup, Huangfujie costs one hundred cents at the beginning, which is a full increase of fifty times.
For most people, this price is already high.
Huangfujie continued: "Master Shen should know that the price I offer is not low. If you just rely on you to sell it, you won't be able to get such a high price at all."
What he said was not wrong. If Chen Xiaolan and his daughter were allowed to sell on the street, there would only be very few buyers for even fifty coins, let alone one hundred coins.
The price of the same cup of iced plum soup at a flower shop and at a roadside stall is absolutely worlds apart.
"And since you are looking for me to cooperate, it's because Mr. Shen knows that except for flower shops, no business dares to cooperate with Mr. Shen."
Huangfu Jie didn't mean this sentence as a threat, because he was telling the truth.
But Su Shi sighed, looking disappointed.
Because he always thought that Huangfu Jie was the kind of person who pretends to be a pig and eats the tiger, he never underestimated him, but now it seems that Huangfu Jie is indeed a very ordinary person.
So Su Shi felt very strange, how could such an ordinary person become the director of a flower shop?
"How are you thinking, Mr. Shen?"
Seeing that Su Shi didn't answer for a long time, Huangfujie couldn't help but ask.
Su Shi did not answer him, but asked: "How long has Mr. Huangfu been in charge of the flower shop?"
Huangfujie was stunned and didn't understand what Su Shi meant at all, but he still thought about it and said, "Ten years."
"Ten years?" Su Shi couldn't help but frown, because according to his understanding, these ten years were the ten years when the flower shop had the fastest development momentum.
It is precisely through the development of these ten years that the flower shop has entered the top three brothels in Beijing.
The main event of the flower shop in the past ten years has been Huangfu Festival.
At this time, Su Shi's eyes glanced behind Huangfu Jie, then his heart moved, and he looked thoughtfully at the screen behind Huangfu Jie.
Six exquisite screens perfectly hide the second half of the hall.
When Huangfujie noticed Su Shi staring blankly at the six screens, a trace of panic flashed across his face.
"Mr. Shen, it seems you haven't answered me yet." Huangfu Jie said coldly.
Su Shi ignored him at all, and just said lightly: "How do you think we should cooperate in this kind of business?"
Su Shi didn't say this to Huangfujie, but to the screen.
If other people had seen Su Shi's behavior, they would have thought he was crazy, but Huangfu Jie's face suddenly became ugly.
He was about to yell loudly when a voice as sweet as an oriole sounded from behind the screen.
"How do you know there's someone behind the screen?"
Su Shi smiled and said, "I had no idea there was anyone behind the screen."
The oriole-like voice fell into silence, and after a while it sounded again: "Then how did you infer that there was someone behind the screen?"
Su Shi smiled and said, "Because I know one thing."
"What's up?"
Su Shi said calmly: "If Mr. Huangfu is really the head of the Shihua Building, then the Shihua Building may have closed down long ago."
Su Shi said this very rudely. Huangfu Jie sat there with his fists clenched, veins popping out on his face, and his eyes piercing him like sharp swords.
But now that the person behind the screen has spoken, he also knows that he is no longer qualified to speak here.
The voice fell silent again, and after a long time he slowly asked: "Where does ice come from?"
Su Shi smiled, because the person behind the screen asked the key point in one sentence. The focus of this cooperation was not iced plum soup at all, but ice.
On long, hot summer days, ice is the most precious resource.
Ice can cool down, store food, and make drinks...
If Huangfujie can't even see this key, he is not a qualified principal at all.
Su Shi shook his head and said, "I'm not used to discussing business with people through a screen."
The voice said: "Please forgive Mr. Shen for this. Due to some reasons, I cannot talk to Mr. Shen face to face, but please rest assured, Mr. Shen, I can make the decision on behalf of the flower shop."
Su Shi thought about it and stopped forcing it. Although he was very interested in the person behind the screen, the most important thing for him at the moment was business.
So Su Shi smiled and said, "Since you have something to hide, I won't force you."
The voice said: "Thank you, Mr. Shen, for your understanding. Now I would like to ask Mr. Shen to help me clear up my doubts."
Su Shi said slowly: "I know how to make ice."
As soon as these words were spoken, the entire hall fell into silence.
Rain, snow, and frost are either magic spells from gods or the way of nature, but Su Shi actually said that he had the art of making ice.
Huangfujie would never believe such a ridiculous thing, and he also believed that the person behind the screen would never believe Su Shi's words.
So he was waiting for the man on the screen to give orders. He wanted to cut out Su Shi's tongue, because then he would no longer be able to talk nonsense.
I don't know how much time passed before the voice sounded again.
"Do you know what you are talking about?"
"I know."
The voice said calmly: "I don't even know who you are, how can I trust you?"
Su Shi couldn't help but sigh and said, "If you really don't know who I am, I will be very disappointed in the flower shop."
With the strength of the flower shop, it is not difficult to check a person's origin, not to mention that Lin De and Zhao Rong are definitely not tight-lipped people.
