Delicate Flower 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 of all, she couldn't figure out whether things were going well at Pei Yan's place, and secondly, the family's shop failed to catch up with the prosperous market before the Spring Festival this year - because her uncle Yu Bo stayed in Jiangxi for too long and was already gone when he came back. Entering the twelfth lunar month, they hurriedly took their time and chose the twentieth day of the twelfth lunar month to open their business. However, according to custom, on the 22nd and 3rd lunar month, the shops in the market would be closed in the days before the Little New Year until the next year. It opened on the 15th. There will be no profit from the business this year, so we can only open the business before the end of the year to get good luck.

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

In the words of her eldest uncle, it is okay for her not to understand how to do business, but she must not understand the money transactions at home: "Even if you recruit a son-in-law, how much money does the family make in a year, whether it is a loss or a profit, you have to decide by yourself Be aware of it, otherwise you will be easily fooled."

Both Yu Wen and Mrs. Chen thought it was reasonable, and asked Yu Tang to wear coarse clothes and keep accounts in the warehouse at the back. They also asked Yu Tang: "From now on, you will come to the shop every five days. You have to know what is going on in our shop." What are the items being sold and how much money are made from each item?"

After hearing this, Yu Tang shook his head inwardly.

Is it any wonder that no one wants to be a door-to-door son-in-law?

Their family is considered kind, but the son-in-law who came to their door didn’t know where he was, and he started to be on guard for everything. Anyone who came to their house willingly, as long as he was not a fool, would be treated like this. I guess I feel uncomfortable, so what’s the point of trust and dependence?

If even the most basic trust and dependence between husband and wife are gone, what is the point of talking about music?

Perhaps, recruiting a home-based son-in-law may not solve all the difficulties.

While Yu Tang was thinking about it in her mind, she stood at the door of the warehouse with an account book and registered the goods coming in and out.

When Yu Tang’s grandfather was still alive, their family had their own small workshop, and they could also make items with complex craftsmanship and craftsmanship such as red picking. However, when his grandfather passed away, his father had not yet passed the scholar examination. , the master chef who had been in the family for two or three generations was suddenly poached by a century-old shop in Suzhou. His uncle was the only one who knew the red-picking skills in the family. Unfortunately, their family had few heirs. After this incident, his eldest uncle became more and more cautious in temperament. He had hired several apprentices who had been working in the family for more than ten years, but he still hid and refused to fully teach his apprentices their craftsmanship. I am so busy that there are fewer and fewer red-painted items coming out, and there are almost no high-quality products. The business in the shop is getting worse every year.

The eldest uncle did not think of ways to recruit talented apprentices, but instead placed his hope on Yu Yuan. Yu Yuan has honestly learned the craft for several years, but whether it is due to her talent or because her uncle is not good at being a role model, Yu Yuan's craftsmanship is mediocre and not as good as her uncle's apprentice Xia Pinggui.

Xia Pinggui became an apprentice in the Yu family at the age of six. He was two or three years older than Yu Yuan. He was the apprentice of Yu Tang's grandfather's son when he was still alive. He lived in the Yu family when he was young. Later, when Yu Tang grew up, considering the differences between men and women, Wang asked him to move into a shop. Changxing Street was in trouble, so Wang would rather arrange for him to move to the Yu family's old house than let him move back to the Yu family.

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

Although Xia Pinggui and Yu Tang don't meet often, they grew up together. 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 rough lady in the shop to drink some soup. The lady came over and handed it to Yu Tang: "Miss, it's too cold. Cover your hands, be careful." Cool."

Except for people from the Yu family, Yu Tang only knew Xia Pinggui in the entire lacquerware shop.

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

A smile appeared on Xia Pinggui's honest and loyal face, he said "You're welcome" and continued to urge the boys at home to put the goods into storage.

Seeing that there were two square tables with black lacquer and plain surfaces in the warehouse, Yu Tang couldn't help but ask Xia Pinggui: "Why can't our family still sell furniture?"

When she was little, she went into the warehouse when she came to play with her father in the shop. In her impression, the warehouse was full of shelves, with all kinds of lacquerware boxes and boxes of various sizes placed on the shelves, from nine-compartment boxes for snacks to boxes for rouge. have.

Why does it look like a grocery store now?

Xia Pinggui hesitated for a while and saw Yu Bo and Yu Wen standing in front of the shop discussing the furnishings. Then he lowered his voice and said: "We are too close to Hangzhou City, and now mother-of-pearl has become popular outside. Yes, the people who want to remove the red are also very particular about craftsmanship. If they don’t sell tables, chairs, suitcases and the like, it will be even harder to do business.”

Yu Tang didn’t understand.

Xia Pinggui explained to her: "In the past, those who married their daughters and wives had to buy one or two red lacquered boxes to store their things. But since the people from the Sheng family in Jiangxi opened their shop in Hangzhou three years ago, there are many places in Hangzhou. It has become popular to buy tin boxes."

After all, her family owned a lacquerware shop, and she also knew about the diamonds. She polished them with shells and seashells and mounted them on the box. The conch shell shines with colorful luster under the light, with a gem-like brilliance. Some people who are good-looking and cannot afford a treasure-encrusted box will buy this instead.

But there are thousands of people's preferences, and some well-educated people particularly don't like jewellery. What's more, the inlays are not gems but shells that are substitutes for gems?

Yu Tang thought for a while and said, "Does the Sheng family have any new craftsmanship that can sell mother-of-pearl much cheaper than ticking red?"

Xia Pinggui's eyes showed admiration and he said with admiration: "The eldest lady is so smart. Indeed, as you said, their family has now made a kind of diamond called 'lined tin', which is cheaper than ordinary tin. There are many. If you want other colors, you can customize them, and customization is much more expensive than ordinary colors. It has not only created a name, but also made a business. Now it is in full swing, I heard that the Zhejiang Chief Secretary gave it to him during the Qianqiu Festival. Their family made a twelve-panel screen with hundreds of birds facing the phoenix." Speaking of this, he hesitated for a while, "However, our shop is mainly about patterns, which have not changed for many years..."

This was said euphemistically, but Yu Tang still understood it.

She said: "Are you saying that our craftsmanship in picking red is not good?"

Xia Pinggui responded vaguely with a red face. Yu Tang didn't hear clearly what he said, but he understood the meaning.

She remained silent for a while.

In her previous life, their shop was burned down and sold. She didn’t know what their business was like. Later, Yu Yuan made money. Her eldest uncle wanted to revive the family business, but he didn’t wait until she was older. My uncle passed away just as he was building up the family business.

Now that their family has spent a lot of effort to renovate the shop and spent a lot of money to buy a lot of goods, they can't live on, right?

This is what she can't stand the most.

It took the same time and the same energy, but it was not done as well as others.

You have to find reasons and find solutions.

She looked at the various utensils piled up in the warehouse and sighed in her heart. She didn't want to take a second look at these goods, let alone those who were buying things?

I wonder if I can postpone the opening and find a way to re-adjust the goods?

Yu Tang pulled Wang aside and asked her quietly.

Wang smiled bitterly after hearing this, hugged Yu Tang, and whispered: "Good boy, you are interested. Your uncle has been in business all his life, how could he not know these principles? But we still owe money for repairing the shop. As for the Pei family's money, where is the extra money to purchase goods? Besides, the good utensils are reserved by various shops for use as treasures for their shops. How can they be easily sold to our family? Even if they are sold to us If a merchant takes a fancy to our home, we can’t do it, and it will easily cause trouble, so we might as well not show it off.”

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

Ms. Wang paused and her voice became even lower: "It's not all money, it's because we don't have the manpower at home..."

It’s just that I don’t have this skill at home.

This is exactly what Xia Pinggui said.

Over the years, the shop has been run by her eldest uncle. She was afraid that if she asked too much, her eldest aunt's face would be dull. After hesitating for a few words, she and her eldest aunt returned to the shop and found an opportunity to talk to Yu Yuan. Personal words: "How are the skills of those masters brought back from Jiangxi? Do you think it can be done with just these few people?"

Yu Yuan has been worrying about this matter these days.

He said: "The skills of those masters are all average. One of them is pretty good, but he is good at gold tracing. Our family started out as a red-painting business. Dad means that gold tracing is cheap. But I think it's a bit Putting the cart before the horse."

Every lacquerware shop has its own characteristics. It took several generations for their family to develop a reputation for red painting. At this time, they switched to painting red, and it was a craft that their family was not familiar with. Yu Tang agreed with Yu Yuan View.

Yu Yuan and Yu Bo have argued about this matter several times during this period. Wang firmly stood on Yu Bo's side and said, "Haste makes waste~IndoMTL.com~ Use gold tracing to make some money first. "Money, and then find a way to find some of your uncle's scholar friends to help draw some new red patterns, and the shop will slowly recover" and the like. Now he suddenly met someone who wanted to go together with him. The resentment he usually suppressed suddenly became a little uncontrollable. He couldn't help but said: "I don't know what dad thinks? No matter how good the gold painting is, it's not good." It’s not our family’s craftsmanship. If we lose the foundation of our family, how can the Yu family stand on it?”

The two fathers and sons had quarreled over this matter in their previous lives.

Yu Tang smiled and said: "Didn't you say you were going to open a shop in Hangzhou City? Don't worry about the flood."

Yu Yuan's face turned red and he said, "If dad insists on having his own way, I will go to Hangzhou to open a shop." After saying that, he was afraid that Yu Tang would misunderstand, so he hurriedly said, "This is not what your sister-in-law meant. It's me. I mean. She can’t be my home yet.”

Yu Tang laughed out loud when he saw him looking like he didn't have three hundred taels of silver in this place.

Yu Yuan realized that he had said the wrong thing and laughed shyly.

Yu Tang thinks this may not be bad.

In his last life, Yu Yuan had already proven his abilities and was unable to convince his uncle. In this life, he is still a young man who is studying under his father, and it is even less possible for him to convince his uncle.

Rather than having an unpleasant quarrel between father and son, it would be better for them to separate for the time being and run their own businesses. Anyway, this business will eventually be left to Yu Yuan.

Of course, Yu Tang also has a little selfishness.

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