Chapter 1784 - 1786: Four Seasons Department Store
The next day
The Yang Family set off early in the morning, driving a carriage to Shanshi County.
Yang Dong and Yang Ming took the front to drive the carriage, while the rest squeezed into the inside of the carriage.
They also brought Little Liufu along. Yang’s father said that when they go out to play, he would stay in the shop to look after the children.
When they arrived at the shop, the previous shopkeeper’s family was packing things up in the backyard, just about ready to leave. Upon seeing Yang Dong, they said, "Yang Dong, you’re just in time. Take a look, there are some things in the backyard I can’t take with me, I’m leaving them for you."
Yang Dong cupped his hands in thanks, "Thank you, Shopkeeper."
He couldn’t be silly enough to go check right then. What’s left for him is a bonus, he wouldn’t say anything even if there wasn’t anything left for him.
Yang Dong then introduced his family to the former shopkeeper, and after exchanging pleasantries for a while, the former shopkeeper left with his family.
After the former shopkeeper left, the Yang family couldn’t suppress their excitement and kept going in and out of the backyard.
"Oh my, this yard is just wonderful."
"I just checked, the kitchen, and the pots and pans left behind are all in great condition."
"Even those quilts are not bad."
"The tables, chairs, and benches are also quite nice."
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The family marveled at how pleased they were with such a yard.
Xiaoxiao meticulously examined the backyard. It was indeed a nice quadrangle courtyard, with a well in the yard, a main room, a west wing, an east wing, and many of the items left behind by the previous owner still looked quite new. Clearly, it was a well-off household.
The fourth brother really had a good sense to secure such a courtyard.
Then they went to the shop in the front. It didn’t need any renovation at all. It was a grocery store, and there were quite a few goods, with a small warehouse in the back full of stock.
Such a shop was amazing, truly ready to open for business at any moment.
She couldn’t help but ask, "Fourth brother, when are you planning to open for business?"
"Third sister-in-law, there’s no rush right now. I plan to first change the name of the shop, then run around outside a bit, and then open. If we open directly, selling the same things as before without any unique selling points, I’ve already met with those supply bosses, so it’ll be easy to get stock when the time comes."
Fourth brother talked about this quite persuasively. Xiaoxiao asked, "What do you plan to rename the shop?"
"Four Seasons Grocery Store, what do you think, third sister-in-law?" This was a name Yang Dong racked his brain to come up with. He thought that their family’s names had spring, summer, autumn, and winter in them, fitting the four seasons, and Li Chuntao had ’chun’ (spring) in her name too, so he felt the words ’Four Seasons’ were quite good.
Xiaoxiao pinched her chin and thought, "Why not call it Four Seasons Department Store instead."
Initially, they could focus on selling mountain goods and dried fruits, calling it a dried fruit shop, but now fourth brother had made it quite large, with various supplies, selling everything, so it might as well be called a department store.
"Four Seasons Department Store! That’s a nice name." Yang Ming agreed from the side.
Yang Dong felt that since both third sister-in-law and third brother thought it was a good name, it must be a good name. So he said, "I’ll find someone to make a sign tomorrow and call it Four Seasons Department Store."
Seeing such a nice courtyard, the whole family wasn’t in a hurry to go shopping. They all wanted to quickly tidy up this courtyard.
Since the previous owner lived here, it was already very clean, so there wasn’t much to clean up. Within a morning, the small yard was all tidied up.