Delicate Flower Chapter 321: jealous
Of course Pei Yan doesn't have just that little bit of mind.
He was busy improving the craftsmanship of Yu's lacquer shop during this time.
After the Mid-Autumn Festival, he immediately asked Yu Yuan to meet at the Pei Family Tea House not far from the Yu Family Lacquerware Shop. He gave Yu Yuan the booklet he had compiled, poured Yu Yuan a cup of tea with his own hands, and said "Look carefully and see if it can be used. If it can be used, the problem of insufficient apprentices and leaked skills can be solved in the future. However, nothing can be generalized, and my method is not necessarily safe. But you can use it first. If you encounter problems later, you can slowly improve it."
Yu Yuan was flattered and hurriedly bowed, thanked Pei Yan, took his pamphlet, and read it carefully.
When I finished reading it, all I was left with was a burning face.
He has been the young owner of the Yu family lacquerware shop for more than 20 years, but he is not as good as Pei Yan, an outsider who has only been observing for two months.
Pei Yan broke down all the craftsmanship and let one skilled apprentice lead several apprentices. This not only improved efficiency and effectively ensured quality, but also prevented apprentices from being poached after learning the craft. risks of.
"Thank you, Third Master!" Yu Yuan poured Pei Yan a cup of tea with admiration.
Pei Yan frowned and said, "Although I am older than you, if I marry Ah Tang, I will be your brother-in-law. You don't have to be so polite to me."
But Yu Yuan couldn't say the title "brother-in-law" when he looked at Pei Yan's cold and perfect face.
Fortunately, Pei Yan did not force him, but continued to talk about the topic just now, "Of course this method also has disadvantages. I think the masters you hired are all working together as a family. Even if every apprentice is equally proficient, if there are several The apprentices have a good relationship and go together, but the result is still the same. I think that if you really want to start a workshop, the most important thing is to re-establish a reward and punishment system so that they feel that if they do well, they will get money. , if they don’t do well, they won’t get paid. They feel that they feel safe and secure working in your house, so naturally they don’t want to leave.”
It would be difficult for him to interfere in this matter.
Yu Yuan, however, had already fallen in love with Pei Yan, who admired him. He would do whatever Pei Yan said and would not think about it carefully. Hearing this, he hurriedly said, "I don't have much education, so why don't you help us make an idea?" ”
But you can’t always rely on him for the Yu family’s affairs!
It is better to teach a man to fish than to teach him to fish.
Pei Yan saw Yu Yuan's restraint, thought for a while, and said, "How about you ask Pei Man? Since he took charge of the Pei family, he has re-established some rules for the servants and women in the family. You can refer to it. For a moment."
Yu Yuan thinks this is fine.
It's better than facing Pei Yan.
Facing Pei Yan, he was embarrassed to ask questions if he didn't understand.
Pei Yan said, "Then I will tell Pei Man later."
Yu Yuan thanked him profusely and called Dr. Tea in. He wanted to treat Pei Yan to try the tea house's most famous tea snacks, assorted cakes.
Pei Yan didn't want to eat it at first. He thought that Yu Yuan was his uncle, and there would be many opportunities to interact with him in the future. The heir of the Yutang family must come from their family. It was necessary to deepen the relationship with Yu Yuan. So they sat down with peace of mind, waiting for Dr. Cha to serve them snacks, and casually asked about Yu Yuan's business.
In addition to managing the Yu family's lacquerware shop, Yu Yuan also privately participated in Yao San's grocery store.
He casually mentioned that Yao San had recently bought Zhang Yanyin, wanted to try his hand at the salt business, and was looking for him to become a shareholder.
Pei Yan's heart moved when he heard this, and he thought of the shopkeeper Gao whom Peng Shiyi was looking for.
He asked, "Are there many people in the salt business here?"
Yu Yuan nodded and said with a smile, "However, everyone joins together to buy a piece of salt. Although this business is profitable, if you don't have access, you can get a real exchange from Jiubian people according to the rules. It's just to make hard money. Yao San dared to do this business because he had a friend who knew a general soldier from Datong. That general soldier was from Haining."
Pei Yan is not very familiar with the military attache, let alone a general soldier in Datong.
But he was willing to help Yu Yuan and said, "Don't bother yourself. I'll help you ask the name of the general soldier first and see who has friendship with him. Then you can decide whether to invest."
If this is indeed the case, their business will be profitable.
This is an unexpected bonus.
Yu Yuan was overjoyed and offered tea to Pei Yan instead of wine.
Pei Yan thought of what happened to shopkeeper Gao, so he simply asked Yu Yuan to tell him about the Gao family and ask him to help him pay attention, "Let's see what this person is doing in Datong?"
He now suspects that this shopkeeper Gao is in the salt business. I just don’t know if it’s Peng Shiyi’s own business or a bureau created by the Peng family’s business management.
Yu Yuan agreed.
The two chatted for a long time and drank two pots of tea before breaking up.
Yu Yuan was full of praise for Pei Yan from then on, saying that Pei Yan respected the Yu family and would not look down on the Yu family just because he was a second-ranked Jinshi.
After hearing this, Yu Tang pursed his lips and smiled.
This guy can always put on a show at critical moments. Based on his behavior in front of her family, Yu Tang felt that after marrying him, he had to treat Pei Yan well.
The house in Lin'an City cannot be sold, and Li Duan is not happy living in Lin'an City, not to mention that Li Yi is still waiting for money to take care of the servants on the road. After the Mid-Autumn Festival, Li Duan returned to Lin'an City in person. Only then did he find out that Pei Yan and Yu Tang were engaged.
Li Duan stood in the dilapidated yard of his house and didn't come back to his senses for a long time.
Such a beautiful girl, like a flower, should not grow in an ordinary home or bloom in an ordinary courtyard.
He just didn't expect that she could marry into such a strong castle.
Thinking about Gu Xi again, she also married into the Pei family.
It seems that the two girls he had a relationship with have fallen into the Pei family.
Li Duan felt sour.
He sent someone to Pei’s house to submit a post.
Pei Yan was not at home and was said to have gone to Suzhou.
As for what he was doing in Suzhou, of course the Pei family would not tell him, and he did not find out.
Li Duan stayed in Lin'an for two more days.
During this stay, he waited for Peng Shiyi, who made a special trip to Lin'an to find him.
Peng Shiyi had no other intentions. He just wanted him to return the five thousand taels of silver he had "lent" to Li Duan.
Li Duan was shaking with anger when he heard this, but the Peng family still had a great business, and he had to bow his head under the roof of others.
"You also know what our family is like. How can we repay the Peng family's five thousand taels of silver?" He said in a deep voice, specifically emphasizing the word "Peng family", "Otherwise, Brother Peng Wait until I sell this ancestral home?"
The Pei family said hello, can the Li family's house still be sold?
Peng Shiyi sneered in his heart and said, "Otherwise, just sell it to me for two thousand taels of silver."
He planned to buy the house and give it to Pei Yan, in order to beg Pei Yan to let him go.
Li Duan was furious, but he did not dare to lose his temper and said, "This price is too low."
The price of their house is four thousand taels, and he is going to sell it for 3,500 taels.
Of course he would not take the difference of one thousand five hundred taels of silver into his heart in the past, but the days of running for his father in the capital made him understand that sometimes a penny of silver can stump a heroic man, let alone a penny. One thousand five hundred taels of silver could allow them to live a prosperous life for several years.
Li Duan didn’t want to appear too weak, so he allowed Peng Shiyi to take advantage of him, and said with a hint of threat, “The Pei family has always been willing to do good, but if it doesn’t work, I’m going to sell this house to the Pei family. Then I can pay back more money. Here you go."
Peng Shiyi did not want to anger Li Duan, attract the attention of the Pei family, and cause unnecessary trouble. He said with a cold face, "That's fine. Then I'll wait until your family sells the house."
Li Duan asked the boy next to him to deliver Peng Shiyi, but he stood in the yard without moving.
The loyal servant who followed Li Duan couldn't help but said, "Young master, you just let him go like this? Those five thousand taels of silver are their filial piety to the master!"
It's just that this filial piety is related to the fact that the Peng family asked the Li family to help get back the "Picture of Fishing in Songxi".
So Peng Shiyi doesn’t dare to really fall out with him, right?
Li Duan looked at Peng Shiyi's back with cold eyes and said, "If he makes me anxious, I will go to Pei Yan and tell the head of the Peng family that he wants money from me."
He had an intuition that the Peng family was not so stingy and would get back the money they gave out.
If word gets out, who else can the Peng family count on to help them?
The loyal servant nodded repeatedly.
Li Duan felt that he could not survive without seeing Pei Yan, so he quietly squatted at Tiaoxi Pier for a few days and finally waited for Pei Yan.
But this time Pei Yan took a one-masted boat and entered the Pei Mansion directly from Tiaoxi Pier.
Li Duan handed over another post.
Pei Yan met him.
He simply lost his shame and asked Pei Yan to buy their house.
Pei Yan intended to compensate the Li family's clan house and spent three thousand taels of silver to buy the Li family's old house.
Li Duan was extremely grateful and sighed as if unintentionally, "Speaking of which, all the misunderstandings are caused by the "Picture of Fishing in Pine River" by the Yu family. If it hadn't been entrusted by the Peng family, my family would not have done it. I went to plan the Yu family's painting. If I hadn't planned the painting, the second young master of the Wei family would not have lost his life. If the second young master of the Wei family had not lost his life, Miss Yu would not have forgotten it. They are going to kill our family. ~IndoMTL.com~ Now it’s retribution for our family!”
Pei Yan's hand holding the tea cup paused.
I read the words "Second Young Master of the Wei Family" in my mind several times.
Li Duan was still afraid that Pei Yan would not understand, so he explained, "Miss Yu was originally engaged to the second son of the Wei family and had met each other. But before the official appointment was made, the second son of the Wei family passed away. Because In this case, Mrs. Yu and Mrs. Wei also became sworn sisters. Yu Yuan married Mrs. Wei's niece, and the two families continued to be in-laws."
Pei Yan had heard of this before, but didn't think much about it.
But when Li Duan said this, it felt different.
It seems that Yu Tang is still thinking about the second son of the Wei family.
Pei Yan clearly knew that Li Duan's words had bad intentions, but after hearing this, he still felt as if he had been stabbed in the chest. He was bleeding and the pain was so painful that he was speechless.
He served the guests with a smile. When he returned to the study, he was so angry that he walked back and forth several times and still couldn't calm down. He even smashed a few tea cups to suppress the anger in his heart.