Chapter 841: High ranking officials

Su Wan knew how important it was to hire people whom they could trust. It did not matter whom they hired, whether old or young but the thing that mattered the most was that the person had to be of good character, if he was not good enough then there was no need to give that person a job.

" Don"t worry, Wan Wan," chimed Shen Junxi who was given the responsibility of interviewing the workers before hiring them. As Shen Junxi was someone who had been working in the market for a very long time he knew how to see through the facade of a person very quickly. "I will make sure that only honest and decent workers are hired in our shops. There is no way I will make any trouble reaching you."

Shen Junxi patted his chest as he solemnly swore. He knew that he owed too much to his niece and was thus more than willing to take care of Su Wan.

Hearing Shen Junxi"s words, Su Wan"s eyes were filled with warmth as she looked at Shen Junxi and nodded before pointing to the paper on which she and Lin Yu had worked at night.

It was a layout of the snack street that Su Wan had come up with but there was not just one layout there was more than one layout as Su Wan wanted to choose the one which was the best among all four. The snack street was simple in layout with shops on both sides but each layout had various kinds of designs for shops each looking better than the rest.

" I tweaked it a little bit, the stores will be facing the street such that the people would have no trouble entering or leaving the shops. Some shops would be divided into two floors while some would be separated into three depending on the food sold. The cooking area would be at the back and behind it would be the servants" quarters.

The front would be the eating and take out area, this way no one would be troubled."

" On the second floor, we can keep the extra material for the time being but in case our customers increase then we can open the second floor for them. It will help us from wasting our time."

The back residence where the workers would be living was also designed by Su Wan, the reason she chose to make servants" residents was because she wanted to hand some benefits to the workers of her shop as well as keep an eye on them. If they act suspiciously, it would be much easier to deal with them.

Lin Jing and the rest studied the four layouts before Lin Yan decided to go with the second one. The reason was that he simply fell in love with the kitchens of the second layout, the shops" kitchens were the backbone of the entire storefront, if it was not good enough then there was no point in working in the field of food.

The kitchens drawn in the second layout were quite similar to the modern kitchens in the restaurant thus, Lin Yan truly loved the second layout.

" I want this one, it"s much more practical than the rest," he pointed to the second layout. Su Wan looked at the second layout and nodded before turning to look at the rest of her husbands and asked, " Do you all have any other opinion?"

" No," Lin Jing shook his head as he looked at the second layout just like his second brother, he found the second one more feasible.

The others did not refuse either. Seeing this Su Wan nodded and then said, " Very well then, I will be taking this layout to the county magistrate office then."

On the fourth day, after receiving unanimous support from her husbands, Su Wan finalized the second layout and then headed towards the county magistrate"s office with the plan. She also brought the other plans but Su Wan did not think that after hearing her opinions Yan Zhao was going to refuse.

As soon as she stepped inside the office, Su Wan found that other than Yan Zhao, there were many other officials standing inside. The second she stepped inside the office"s building they all turned to look at her with strange gazes as if they were watching animals in a zoo what was even more interesting they all were not even breathing just looking at Su Wan like she was some sort of rare animal.

The only thing that they were missing was a pair of binoculars in their hands.

However, Su Wan was calm even though her husbands could not enter the office since they were not related officials, she was calm and collected. She glanced at Yan Zhao who was standing in front of her and smiled softly, seeing Su Wan enter, Yan Zhao took a few steps closer to her and went to greet her.

Though Su Wan said that she came from the countryside, Yan Zhao had to admit that she did not look like a countryside girl at all. She was calm, elegant and vivacious, she looked just like a n.o.ble girl.

No, maybe she was even better than a few n.o.ble ladies as she was not only calm in the face of the officials but she did not even look overwhelmed. Su Wan did not look nervous even though she was facing more than one official.

Yan Zhao looked at Su Wan"s calm demeanour and immediately cheered in his heart. This calm att.i.tude was enough to surpa.s.s many other county magistrates who tried to suppress their colleagues the second they came to look for them.

Unlike them Su Wan was calm and she did not act over the top. She did not act servile but she did not dominate them either.

Even if she was pretending on the surface, she was still better than the rest who would start walking on clouds the second they were appointed as the county magistrate!

Yan Zhao smiled satisfactorily and then introduced Su Wan to the two high-ranking officials, " Madam Su, these two are in charge of the finance and development department respectively. This is Lord Pei Huai and this is Lu Huo."

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