Chapter 856 - 855: I’m Just Looking for Trouble!
They hoped to get lucky and encounter a generous customer who would leave a tip for running errands. Meeting one or two such customers in a day could make their monthly income quite decent.
The young clerks, all in their teens, were clean-cut with neat appearances, agile and attentive, dressed smartly and refreshingly, naturally appealing to customers.
When young ladies who had not yet married came to buy rouge and face powder, they spoke a few words shyly, feeling too embarrassed to say much. They would often buy what they liked and leave without asking for change.
Even married young women, who were bold and uninhibited, would come to the rouge shop daily, not for anything else but to banter with these young clerks, throwing flirtatious glances that made the clerks blush, giving the women a day of joy.
Therefore, the young clerks often received decent tips, especially when tired female customers rested in the shop and asked the clerks to run errands for them, buying snacks or other items, which usually came with a tip.
Because of this, though Shopkeeper Tian didn’t pay much salary, the clerks managed quite well. They all operated under this tacit understanding.
But since Lady Fang, the owner’s daughter-in-law, arrived, she relied on her privileged position to nitpick and find fault everywhere. No one in the shop escaped her criticism except the shopkeeper.
This could have been tolerated, considering she was the owner’s daughter-in-law.
However, Lady Fang did something recently that enraged everyone. After being in the shop for two months and thinking she had a handle on things, she began disliking the young clerks.
She believed they were focused too much on running errands for customers and making them happy just to earn extra tips.