Chapter 1203 Open for business
Yu Dong was aware of the fact that she was in the wrong which was why her attitude was really good. She apologized to the customers and then said, " From now on there is no need for everyone to line up for three to four hours before. The mall will open around nine in the morning, so you all can come after finishing up your tasks."
She had to consider her husbands health as well, after all, they were mers and could not keep up with the excitement and one of them was pregnant. Just earlier this morning Shen Li seemed to be in a very bad mood because he was woken up as the courtyard was filled with noises.
" Haha, Boss Yu really knows how to be relaxed," one of the women joked. After all, most of the vendors opened their business early in the morning and yet Yu Dong was setting up her business at nine which could be considered as very late.
She looked at Yu Dong and the rest of the mammies who were setting up the mall while saying, " Madam Yu, are you not worried about offending the customers by opening so late? What if your customers are stolen by other vendors?"
Yu Dong smiled as she handed the box which was filled with rice sacks to the mammy next to her. She then replied to the woman's question, " I am not scared of offending anyone, Madam. The reason I am opening my store late is to give other vendors a chance to make a decent earning lest they think that I am bullying them just because my stock is better than theirs."
Yu Dong was not an unscrupulous person who would push someone into the corner by stealing their business completely, she knew her limits which was why she decided to open her mall a bit later than the rest. Similarly, she would close sooner than the rest of the vendors as she did not want to steal their business completely.
When the customers heard Yu Dong's response they were a bit touched. Yu Dong was indeed a woman with a gold heart. She was willing to lose a few customers such that the other vendors could make a small earning.
" Please wait for a while, the products will be stocked up in the next fifteen minutes. I will send someone to call you all inside by the way if you want to line up, you can stay inside the lobby.
The front doors of the mall are always left open and only the metal ones are closed," Yu Dong had left the lobby which was cold for the refugees to take shelter as she did not want them to die of heat stroke.
When she was travelling to the north gate yesterday morning, she saw many children and old lying in the streets with sweaty and tired faces, because she did not want those poor and weak to die, she decided to leave her large lobby open.
As for stealing, she was not scared of that at all, she hadn't just hired strong mammies to patrol the floors but she had also hired two shadow guards from Magistrate Li. In fact, she would have hired more but Magistrate Li could not hand her anymore at the moment. Though she had promised that she would hand her more shadow guards once the situation in the capital eased.
" We will wait here patiently, Madam Yu!" The customers promised as they headed inside the lobby. They did not care about the refugees who were lying inside the lobby instead they neatly filed into a line in the middle. At first, the refugees were scared that they would be kicked out of the lobby which was cool and nice but to their surprise no one kicked them out.
The boss of the mall even smiled at them and said, " If you all want to stay then you can stay but make sure that you do not dirty the lobby there are some odd jobs that you can do, so make sure to submit your application. The salary is three hundred copper coins."
Yu Dong paused and added, " There are two food counters at the north and south entrances, you all can go and eat your fill there."
After she was done speaking Yu Dong walked inside the mall while the four mammies arranged a barricade such that no one would cause rush inside the mall.
But they worried too much as the refugees were not foolish. Yu Dng had given them food and shelter how could they go against her and steal her things?
To them, she was their saviour! They all looked at Yu Dong with worshipping gazes.
This was the reason why Yu Dong allowed the refugees to enter her mall as she knew that the only way to keep your enemy controlled was to keep them close. Since the refugees did not have food and water if she was to give them the means to fill their stomachs then they would not attack her willy-nilly.
With the mammies working together, the shelves were arranged neatly.
Soon the customers were allowed to enter the mall where they could buy whatever they wanted at the same time the theatre and play area were opened as well.
Very soon Nan Yan along with Qiu Li arrived at the mall. The two of them were dragging their daddies who were panting as they had never run so fast before.
" Damn it! I knew that the line would become crazy big! See, I told you, Daddy!" Nan Yan complained only to receive a smack on the back of his head.
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" Language Yan'er. How many times I have told you to not curse like your sister, huh? Why must you anger me like this?" Daddy Nan scolded his son while looking at the line inside the mall. " This place is really this popular?
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Last night when his daughter and son told him that they got the cucumbers and pork hock by relying on their lives he did not believe them but now looking at the rush, it seems like they were speaking the truth!