After some investigation, Li Mingcheng felt that there was great potential for this matter, so he prepared to let go of his hands and feet. However, doing business is not like studying, it only requires a pair of tricks.

The cost of opening a store, the staff who manage the store, the joints in the open and secrets, etc., all need someone to cook. After thinking about it, Li Mingcheng finally found Jiang Zhicheng, a respected elder of his wife, to plan the matter together.

The Jiang family in Caochuan County is not a big family. Jiang Zhige used to work in Jinling, and a group of Jiang family members had to come and curry favor with him. However, now Jiang Zhige has lost his official position and is poor and has a somewhat subtle attitude towards others.

However, when a group of Jiang's children came to the door, Jiang Zhige was thinking about his own friendship in his heart. He always helped him if he could. Now Jiang Zhige has lost his power. If the Jiang family members completely turned against each other, it would probably be a hindrance to their reputation.

So when Li Mingcheng came to him, Jiang Zhicheng was entertaining warmly, but when it comes to borrowing money and opening a store, Jiang Zhicheng just talks about it.

In the end, Li Mingcheng had no choice but to move him to understand his reason and to value profit. Then Jiang Zhicheng reluctantly let go of his words, but also put forward quite harsh requirements.

First, Jiang Zhicheng can only pay half of the cost of opening a store, and Li Mingcheng can only find a way for him. Secondly, the Jiang family can pay for the people who open the store, but the salary is determined and the store location must be negotiated by the clan and cannot be dedicated.

Although Jiang Zhicheng's conditions were harsh, Li Mingcheng had no other choice but to grit his teeth and agreed. He sold what he should have at home, and then paid for his face. He borrowed some from his close friends and moved around, and finally got enough money to make up half of his capital.

Li Mingcheng was naturally very attentive when doing it. Not only did he use his connections, he went to Jinling City to invite a few unsatisfactory chefs to come back. He tasted all the dishes in the store himself, and also found many literati and ink scholars to try the dishes. After more than two months of busy work, the restaurant slowly opened.

At first, the restaurant was remote and had little reputation. The business in the store was naturally very generous and the number of customers was absent, but it was impossible to resist the name of Li Mingcheng. The former scholar-official in the Southern Chu Dynasty actually pulled his face and ran around the street with the sample dishes to shout back and forth to attract customers.

Jiang Gulan was worried that her husband was working hard outside and was uneasy at home. After much thought, she was still ready to come out to help Li Mingcheng and run the business. At the beginning, Li Mingcheng did not agree with Jiang Gulan doing this. Although he was a relatively enlightened scholar, he was still quite resentful of his wife's behavior of accompanying him to show up in public.

Seeing that she could not convince her husband, Jiang Gulan had a plan and said that she would not leave much every day and just drank.

I stroked a guzheng song in front of the building. No matter whether things are successful or not, I promise to leave immediately and never stay for a while.

Li Mingcheng wanted to refuse, but he couldn't resist his wife's begging, and finally had to agree. Although Jiang Gulan was good at music, in addition to being content with her usual pleasure, she only offered a song at home dinner. This time she went out to play the zither, and it was the first time that the big girl was in the sedan chair.

However, even though Jiang Gulan was a little unfair to deal with this scene, she could not resist her youthful and beautiful appearance, and was charming in the country. She was also a wife for the first time and had her own charm. Even if she didn't caress the previous song, she stood there and smiled slightly, afraid that she would win the richness of the idle men in the city.

Not to mention that Jiang Gulan himself is a good player. As soon as the song "Phoenix Seeking the Phoenix" was released, it was full of sounds, and it lasted for three days, and everyone was intoxicated by listening.

Because of Jiang Gulan's arrival, this remote restaurant gradually became popular, and the food and drinks were really good. After a while, a group of customers soon accumulated. Li Mingcheng was overjoyed when he saw this and was even more concerned about running a restaurant.

Facts have proved that Li Mingcheng is still very sensible. If Li Mingcheng had enough capital and the restaurant could be operated independently, it would definitely be a great success, and there would be no tragic life in the future. But this problem lies in the fact that he did not have enough capital, nor was he a local person in Caochuan County, and he had to rely on the power of his wife to run the restaurant.

It turns out that although Li Mingcheng and Jiang Gulan are busy inside and outside, because they need to open up local joints, the owner of this restaurant is Jiang Zhicheng on the surface. Of course, everyone is neighbors, and who is actually taking care of this restaurant? This is something that can be seen with eyes.

Although Jiang's family ran a lot of errands in the restaurant, Li Mingcheng also calculated his wages, and it was more generous than ordinary families. As for Jiang Zhicheng, in addition to spending a little capital, he did not take a look at the restaurant at all. Moreover, because he spent half the capital, he not only had to collect water conservancy money, but also had to pay dividends in the restaurant's accounts, which was a profitable deal.

Li Mingcheng is an honest gentleman and doesn't care about this. It is true that Jiang Zhicheng was a little embarrassed by him, but without the elder of his wife, the small restaurant could not be installed.

So even though the restaurant business gradually improved and Li Mingcheng's wallet grew wider and he was fully capable of paying back half of his capital, he did not choose to do so. Instead, he continued this situation and continued to let Jiang Zhicheng get the previous one.

Of course, this is not because of the reason why Jiang Zhicheng continues to rely on Jiang Zhicheng's local identity, but more because of friendship. Li Mingcheng is so informed and tactful, and Jiang Zhicheng, who was worried that he would not make any money, was naturally overjoyed.

Since Li Mingcheng proved that he was a real person, Jiang Zhicheng naturally changed his sarcastic and disliked face in the morning. Instead, he lowered his figure and got along with Li Mingcheng. He didn't sway around in the restaurant all day long, but asked Li Mingcheng to drink two drinks, as if he was kind and elderly.

Although Li Mingcheng is easy to use, he is a scholar, so he inevitably has some scholarly spirit. After all, his understanding of life in the market is limited. He does not know that there is an old saying in the market, "Buying and selling is done by yourself, and crops are not entrusted to others."

The restaurant business was booming, but Jiang Gulan finally fell ill at home because of working all day long. Although the restaurant business made money, how could it be compared with his wife? So Li Mingcheng was busy running the restaurant while taking care of his wife. Naturally, he gradually became a little helpless in the business of the restaurant. The less money he made naturally aroused Jiang Zhicheng's dissatisfaction.

Therefore, Jiang Zhicheng often came to the restaurant to complain that Li Mingcheng was not interested in the business in the store, and Li Mingcheng also began to be dissatisfied with Jiang Zhicheng because even though Jiang Gulan was already ill, Jiang Zhicheng still wanted Jiang Gulan to come to the restaurant to show up to maintain the business of the restaurant.

So after the two had disagreements, they had a fierce quarrel shortly afterwards and finally broke up. After the two broke up, Li Mingcheng completely gave up the restaurant operation and returned home to take care of his wife. The property in the restaurant has not been liquidated.??

Since the two completely fell out, Li Mingcheng has been constantly looking for Jiang Zhicheng to ask for liquidation of the property and get back the money he owned. But because the nominal owner of the restaurant has always been Jiang Zhicheng, after Li Mingcheng left the restaurant, the property was also controlled by Jiang Zhicheng, he found many reasons to shirk it.

In desperation, Li Mingcheng had to draft a paper and sue the official for debt. However, Li Mingcheng lost his official position and was a weak scholar himself. He was not a powerful and wealthy man. He was a rival of Jiang Zhicheng, who was deeply rooted in Ye Mao in Caochuan County? So even a discerning person knew that Jiang Zhicheng was cheating, but the confusing account had not been settled.

Not long after, Jiang Zhicheng knew that he could not run the restaurant well, so he simply sold it and took the money into his pocket. He was happy and set up a farm outside the city, like a rich man.

However, although Li Mingcheng made some money by running a restaurant, most of the money he invested in was borrowed from his friends. After paying back the money, there was not much left. The whole family had to eat and drink, and his wife was seriously ill, so naturally he needed money everywhere.
Chapter completed!