Chapter 469 She is interested in this news
The adoption of Gu Ruinian started with great fanfare but ended quietly.
Gu Youtian stayed at home for one night and then went to Heilongtan to discuss the department store with Wu Ren.
Since my sister-in-law is also planning to enter the department store business, we might as well do it today, on the day her store opens.
I also want to let my sister-in-law taste the feeling of failure.
Otherwise, she, a widow from Qinghe Bay, would be too crazy.
Tong Huaqiong was in a good mood after playing a trick on Gu Ruinian. She had become a mother painlessly in this era, and she had five children, both her own and her stepchildren. She really didn't want a sixth person to call her mother.
She would only be willing to acknowledge the sixth child if the emperor asked her to be the empress dowager.
Tong Huaqiong has been very busy recently. In addition to expanding the pig farm and taking care of the cotton fields, the most important thing is to prepare for the opening of the supermarket.
The villagers didn’t quite understand what a supermarket was, but they knew that Tong Huaqiong’s supermarket needed manpower.
Everyone wanted to let their own labor force work for Tong Huaqiong. After all, whether it was Taohua Dessert or the hired workers in the fields, Tong Huaqiong paid a high salary.
If I could hook up with Tong Huaqiong's big, thick legs, I wouldn't dare to imagine a life of luxury and wealth, but at least I would have more money.
Tong Huaqiong's two supermarkets in Pingchuan County and Yanguan Town are quite large. She has hired a lot of assistants from sales to stocking to miscellaneous work. Tong Huaqiong had already recruited a group of assistants as early as when the shops were decided.
Naturally, these guys are mainly from Yanguan Town and the surrounding areas.
Originally, Tong Huaqiong wanted to provide job opportunities for some girls in the village, but only a few were willing to work as clerks in the supermarket.
Only two girls were recruited, and they were from the Gu family.
Firstly, the girls in the village are shy and don't want to show up in public; secondly, their families don't allow them to do so. In particular, some girls were already confirmed to come, but were forced by their parents to come home to be replaced by their brothers.
Tong Huaqiong shook his head and sighed.
In this era, it is the mainstream that every household does not want their girls to show up in public, and people like Gu Xiaocao are forced to do so.
Tong Huaqiong did not blame the villagers. Given the general environment, the impact could only be small.
When the cotton harvest comes in autumn and a large number of weavers are needed, the girls in the village can be asked to work in the embroidery workshop. I believe there will be less resistance.
Tong Huaqiong selected some smart or honest young people from the village to work as clerks in the supermarket.
Now these people are receiving pre-job training in Tong Huaqiong's yard.
Gu Honglian learned that Tong Huaqiong's shop needed a clerk and that two girls from the Gu family had already been recruited, so she also wanted to work as a clerk in the supermarket.
Although her sister-in-law treated her coldly, she still wanted to give it a try.
Gu Honglian entered Tong Huaqiong's yard and saw the selected young people from the village wearing uniform clothes and practicing smiling, while her sister-in-law was sitting in the corridor supervising them.
Now everyone in the village knows that the guys recruited by my sister-in-law are subject to strict training and assessment, and that if they fail to pass the training period, they will be fired.
She thought it was a training, but it turned out to be a smile.
What's so difficult about that? She will laugh too.
Gu Honglian came to Tong Huaqiong and took the leg-massaging tool next to her and started to help Tong Huaqiong massage her legs.
There is no good thing about being nice to someone without any reason.
Tong Huaqiong was enjoying herself and didn't ask Gu Honglian what was wrong.
Gu Honglian couldn't hold it back any longer, so she took the initiative to say, "Sister-in-law, I can laugh too, and I also want to work as a clerk in your shop."
Tong Huaqiong said: "You are not suitable."
How can a delicate lady serve customers?
Gu Honglian said, "Sister-in-law, I heard that the shop in your town is still in need of people to do odd jobs. Please let me work in your shop in your town. I can serve tea or clean the place. In short, I can do a lot of jobs."
"How about this, I won't ask for any salary for the first three months. You can see how I perform first."
Tong Huaqiong seized the information from Gu Honglian and decided to go to town.
Tong Huaqiong will open supermarkets in Pingchuan County and Yangguan Town this time. Based on Tong Huaqiong's understanding of Gu Honglian, if she were to work as a clerk, she would prefer to go to Pingchuan County. Why did she emphasize going to Yanguan Town as soon as she arrived?
And I can't wait.
There must be something hidden in this.
Tong Huaqiong asked, "Honglian, why do you have to go to town?"
Gu Honglian was a person who could not hide her thoughts. When Tong Huaqiong asked her, she lowered her head and a suspicious blush appeared on her face.
Tong Huaqiong has never been in love but has seen young boys and girls miss each other. Her expression is very similar to Gu Jingzhe's missing Lu Zhaozhao.
Tong Huaqiong asked directly: "Who do you like, sister?"
Gu Honglian's face became redder and redder. She indeed had someone hidden in her heart.
That person is Fan Tong, a scholar named Fan.
She couldn't help but reveal it to Tong Huaqiong in exchange for a chance to work in Yanguan Town, but she got angry when she thought of how Fan Tong was rather cold towards her and how his eyes sparkled when he mentioned his niece Gu Taohua.
She must not let her sister-in-law know about this. What if Gu Taohua also likes Fan Tong, and her sister-in-law and Gu Taohua team up to ruin her good fortune?
Gu Honglian defended herself: "No, no."
Tong Huaqiong thought to herself, you are lying.
That thought was written all over his face.
However, it was none of her business who Gu Honglian liked or disliked. If she got married, she would give her a dowry for the sake of their relationship as sister-in-law. But before that, Gu Honglian must not be seduced away by anyone in her shop.
Tong Huaqiong said, "I just asked casually. My shop is not short of people. If you are bored, you can follow my family to work in the fields. Didn't your family just hire me to plant corn on five acres of land? Watering, fertilizing, and weeding, which of these tasks doesn't require manpower?"
Gu Honglian looked unhappy.
She didn't want to farm. She was already dark-skinned, and the skin she got from working in the fields couldn't be saved.
Gu Honglian's eyes turned, and she thought of Gu Youtian's plan to open a shop. She thought that this information might be enough to get her sister-in-law to agree to let her work in the shop in town.
"Sister-in-law, do you want to know what my second brother is doing now?" Gu Honglian asked Tong Huaqiong with a smile.
Tong Huaqiong raised her eyebrows. Gu Honglian wanted to exchange it for the information about Gu Youtian.
She didn't care at all what Gu Youtian was doing. Even if Gu Youtian wanted to deal with her, the information provided by Gu Honglian was limited.
There is no other reason, it's simply that Gu Youtian feels that Gu Honglian is not worth winning over.
Tong Huaqiong waved her hand and said, "What is your second brother doing? I am not your second sister-in-law, so you don't need to tell me."
Gu Honglian gritted her teeth. Her sister-in-law was really adamant.
But now that things have come to this, if she doesn't reveal it, she will suffocate herself to death.
Gu Honglian said, "My second brother and the head of the village of Heilongtan are planning to open a shop in Pingchuan County together. It will be the same shop as the one you want to open, selling general merchandise. I heard that the shop will open on the same day as my second sister-in-law's shop."
Oh, this is the news that Tong Huaqiong is interested in.
Gu Youtian knew that her supermarket was about to open and wanted to challenge her to a competition.
But she's not afraid.
Anyway, if there is no grain in the field, there will be others.
Since we are doing business, there must be competitors.
Seeing that Tong Huaqiong was interested, Gu Honglian became eager to make a move and continued to propose to work in the supermarket that Tong Huaqiong was about to open in Yanguan Town. Of course, she was rejected by Tong Huaqiong again.
Gu Honglian was very angry.
My eldest sister-in-law is really ungrateful. I hope that this time my second brother will take away your business.