After breakfast, everyone began preparing for the opening together.
The girls on staff mainly prepared ingredients. Their boss was nervous, but they were not. Judging from the results of the publicity over the past few days, they could more or less tell that the shop would be packed on opening day.
To avoid being run off their feet when the time came, they needed to prepare all the necessary supplies in advance.
Chen Shi'an and Li Wanyin set out a table to serve as an altar.
They prepared all the necessary offerings and ritual implements: incense, candles, water, fruit, food, spirit money and silk offerings, a memorial petition, a fortune-gathering basin, and so on.
Since this was a milk tea shop opening, the offerings were mainly vegetarian-fruit, pastries, plain tea, and the like.
Liu Lingjuan did not sit idle either. Although no one wanted this kindly auntie to help, she kept finding things to do, whether helping with basic preparations such as peeling fruit and washing utensils, or, failing that, taking a cloth and painstakingly cleaning renovation dust from overlooked corners of the shop...
"Mom, you don't have to work. Just sit down and rest. You came so early and spent so long on the road. Aren't you tired?"
"It's fine. These are just little jobs."
It was all work for her own family. What did being tired have to do with it?
Seeing that her mother insisted on keeping busy, Li Wanyin could only let her. She had even suggested keeping her in the city for a couple of days to relax, but now it seemed she would have had more leisure going back to the countryside to feed the chickens...
Time passed, and soon the auspicious hour Chen Shi'an had carefully calculated was drawing near.
"Sister Wanyin, it's