Delicate Flower - Chapter 89

[Chapter 89 Business]

Everything on Pei Yan’s side was proceeding in an orderly manner as he imagined, while Yu Tang’s side was a little flustered.

First, she couldn’t figure out whether things were going well on Pei Yan’s side, and secondly, her family’s shop failed to catch up with Wang City before the Spring Festival this year-because her uncle Yu Bo stayed in Jiangxi for too long, and it was the twelfth lunar month when he came back. , they hurry up and choose to open on the 20th of the twelfth lunar month, but according to the usual practice, on the 22nd and 3rd of the twelfth lunar month, the shops in the market will close in the days before the new year, until the fifteenth day of the following year. opening.

This year’s business is not profitable, so we can only open a year ago to get a good luck.

Because of this, Yu Tang was also called by his uncle to the shop to help for two days.

In the words of her eldest uncle, she didn’t know how to do business, but she couldn’t understand the money exchange in the family: “Even if a son-in-law is hired, how much money the family makes a year, whether it is a loss or a profit, you must know in your heart. Otherwise, it’s easy to be fooled.”

Yu Wen and Chen Shi both felt it was reasonable, and asked Yu Tang to wear coarse clothes to keep an account in the warehouse at the back, and also asked Yu Tang: “From now on, come to the shop every five days, you have to I know what our shop sells and how much money each item earns.”

Yu Tang shook her head inwardly.

No wonder everyone is reluctant to be a door-to-door son-in-law?

Their family can be considered kind, but the son-in-law who came to the house didn’t know where he was, so he began to be on guard everywhere, and he was willing to come to their house, as long as he was not a fool, he was treated like this. Will be uncomfortable, what about trust and dependence?

If even the most basic trust and dependence between husband and wife are gone, what is there to talk about?

Perhaps, recruiting a son-in-law may not be able to solve all the difficulties.

While Yu Tang was thinking about it in her mind, she stood at the door of the warehouse with the account book to register the incoming and outgoing goods.

When Yu Tang’s grandfather was still alive, their family had their own small workshop, and they could make objects such as red tickling that were complicated and required craftsmanship. The master craftsman who had been two or three generations was suddenly poached by a century-old shop in Suzhou, and his uncle was the only one who knew how to pick red at home.

However, their sons are weak, and his uncle has become more cautious after this incident. Several of the apprentices he has recruited have been working at home for more than ten years. Too busy to do so, fewer and fewer red-picked objects are produced, there are almost no boutiques, and the business in the shop is not as good as each year.

The eldest uncle did not try to find a way to recruit talented apprentices, but instead placed his hopes on Yu Yuan.

Yu Yuan has honestly learned the craft for a few years, but I don’t know if it is because of talent or because her uncle is not good at being a teacher.

Xia Pinggui was an apprentice in the Yu family at the age of six, two or three years older than Yu Yuan. He was the apprentice of Yu Tang’s grandfather’s son when he was alive.

Later, Yu Tang grew up, and considering the difference between men and women, the Wang family asked him to move to a shop.

When Changxing Street was empty, the Wang family would rather arrange him to the Yu family’s old house than let him move back to the Yu family.

This time the shop was completed, and Xia Pinggui moved back to the shop with a few junior brothers.

Although Xia Pinggui and Yu Tang did not see each other often, they grew up together, and occasionally they would meet Yu Tang when they went to Yu’s house.

Seeing Yu Tang helping with accounting at the door of the warehouse, he asked the granny in the shop to pour a soup and hand it over to Yu Tang: “Miss, it’s too cold, hold your hands and be

careful. Cool.”

In the entire lacquer shop, apart from the Yu family, Yu Tang only knew Xia Pinggui.

She smiled and thanked Xia Pinggui and took Mrs. Tang.

Xia Pinggui smiled on his honest and honest face, said “You’re welcome”, and continued to urge the little guys at home to put the goods into the warehouse.

Seeing that there were two square tables with plain black lacquer in the warehouse, Yu Tang couldn’t help but ask Xia Pinggui, “Why can’t we still sell furniture in our family?”

She used to go into the warehouse when she and her father came to play in the shop when she was a child.

In her impression, the warehouse is full of shelves, with all kinds of large and small lacquer boxes and boxes placed on the shelves, from the nine-compartment box for dim sum to the box for rouge. Have.

Why does it look like a grocery store now?

Xia Pinggui hesitated for a while, and when he saw Yu Bo and Yu Wen standing at the front of the shop discussing the furnishings, he lowered his voice and said, “We are too close to Hangzhou City, and now the snails are popular outside again. The people who pick the red also pay attention to craftsmanship, and if they don’t sell some tables, chairs, boxes, etc., the business will be even more difficult to do.”

Yu Tang did not understand.

Xia Pinggui explained to her: “In the past, people who married their daughters and daughters-in-law had to buy one or two boxes with red lacquer, but since the people from the Sheng family in Jiangxi opened their shop in Hangzhou three years ago, it has become popular in Hangzhou. (Start) I’ve bought the tumbler box.”

After all, the family opened a lacquerware shop, and she knew the tumbler, polished it with screw shells and seashells, and set it on the box.

The shells shone with colorful luster in the light, with the brilliance of gems. Some people who have good face but can’t afford a treasure box will buy this instead.

But there are thousands of people’s preferences, and some people with deep background don’t like jewels and jewels, not to mention that they are not gemstones, but the substitutes for gemstones.

Yu Tang thought for a while and said, “Does the Sheng family have any new craftsmanship that can sell Luodian much cheaper than

Tichong ?”

Their family has now made a kind of ‘color threaded rod’. The original color is much cheaper than the ordinary threaded rod. If you want other colors, you can customize it, and the customization is much more expensive than the ordinary color. He got his name and also made a business. Now it’s in full swing, I heard that the governor of Zhejiang gave a screen made by his family for the Qianqiu Festival with a 12-span bird and a phoenix.” Speaking of which, he hesitated. After a while, “However, our shop is mainly still the design, and it has not changed for many years…”

Yu Tang still understood the words in a euphemistic manner.

She said, “You mean, our family’s craftsmanship of picking red is not good?”

Xia Pinggui responded vaguely with a blushing face, and Yu Tang didn’t understand what he said, but he understood.

She was silent for a while.

In the previous life, their shop was sold after it was burned down. She didn’t know how their business was going. Later, Yu Yuan made some money. When the job is done, it dies.

Now that their family has spent a lot of effort to rebuild the shop, and they have spent a lot of money to buy a lot of goods, they can’t survive, right?

This is what she can’t bear the most.

It took the same amount of time, the same energy, and no one else did it well.

You have to find a reason and find a way.

She looked at the various utensils piled up in the warehouse and sighed in her heart. She didn’t want to look at these goods, let alone those who bought things?

I don’t know if I can postpone the opening and find a way to readjust the goods?

Yu Tang pulled Wang aside and asked her quietly.

Hearing a wry smile, Mrs Wang hugged Yutang and whispered: “Good boy, you have your heart. Your uncle has been in business for a lifetime, how could you not know these things? But we still owe the Pei family for repairing the shop. As for the silver, where is there any extra money to buy goods. Besides, all the good utensils are reserved for the treasures of the shops. How can they be easily sold to our family? Even if they are sold to our family, there are The merchants like it, but our family can’t do it, and it’s easy to cause trouble, so why don’t we show it.”

Yu Tang was stunned and said, “Is it because there is no money?”

Wang Shi paused, and his voice became even lower. : “It’s not entirely silver, or there are no people at home…”

That is, there is no such craft at home.

This is exactly what Xia Pinggui said.

Over the years, the eldest uncle has been running the shop. She was afraid that she would ask too deeply, and the aunt’s face was dull. : “How about the craftsmanship of the masters invited back from Jiangxi? Do you think it is possible to do it with just these few people?”

Yu Yuan has also been worrying about this for the past few days.

He said: “The craftsmanship of those masters is average. One of them is not bad, but he is good at drawing gold. Our family started out as a red-picker. Daddy’s meaning is that gold is cheap. I think it’s putting the cart before the horse.”

Every lacquer shop has its own characteristics. It took several generations for their family to develop the reputation of picking red. At this time, they switched to drawing red, and it is a craft that their family is not familiar with. Yu Tang agrees with Yu Yuan’s point of view.

Yu Yuan and Yu Bo had quarreled several times over this matter, and Wang shi stood firmly on Yu Bo’s side, and said, “You can’t do it haste. Money, and then find a way to find some of your uncle’s talented friends to help you draw some new red-picking patterns, and the shop will slowly recover.” and so on.

Now suddenly I meet someone who wants to go with him, and the resentment that he usually suppressed suddenly can’t be suppressed, and he can’t help saying: “I don’t know what Dad thinks? It’s not our family’s craftsmanship. If you lose your family’s roots like this, what’s the Yu family’s foothold?” The

two fathers and sons quarreled over this matter in their past lives.

Yu Tang smiled and said, “Didn’t you say you were going to open a shop in Hangzhou City? No matter what the flood is.”

Yu Yuan blushed and said, “If Dad insists on going his own way, I will go to Hangzhou City to open a shop.” Afraid of Yu Tang’s misunderstanding, he hurriedly said, “This is not what your sister-in-law meant. It was what I meant by myself. She can’t be my home yet.”

Yu Tang laughed when he looked like he had no money here. stand up.

Yu Yuan realized that he had said something wrong, and laughed shyly.

Yu Tang felt that this might not be bad.

In his last life, Yu Yuan had already proved his ability and failed to convince his uncle. In this life, he is still a boy who studied art behind his father, and it is even less possible for him to convince his uncle.

Rather than the father and son having an unpleasant quarrel, it is better to separate temporarily and run their own business. Anyway, this business is ultimately left to Yu Yuan.

Of course, Yu Tang was also a little selfish.

She wants to be like Jiang Ling in her previous life, to be a strange woman who can make money and support herself and her family.

[End of this Chapter]