Chapter 83: Quiet Opening

Ye Xinyan found a mediator, and with the help of Shopkeeper He, she managed to rent a small, unremarkable shop adjacent to Great Crane House.

At that time, business wasn't like the modern era, where you could open a small tobacco and liquor supermarket beneath a big restaurant and expect it to do well. Back then, if a small shop was next to a restaurant, it really couldn't benefit much from the proximity and would be overshadowed to the point of being inconspicuous.

It was a languishing grocery store, whose owner was hesitating whether to continue running it. Hearing that someone was inquiring about renting a shop nearby, he quickly started calculating.

Rather than strenuously running a grocery with little profit, it made more sense for him to rent out the space and earn a comfortable income from the silver.