pawn wife

This busy work lasted until the evening, when Chang Xi had time to ask about the brothers and sisters of the Wei family, Cai Feng flipped through the notepad in his hand and said, "Second Master Wei is still visiting the tea brick workshop, and he also participated in the production of tea bricks. Meal, he said that he would go to the cafeteria and wanted to try the dishes in our cafeteria. As for Miss Wei San, her cook sent the menu. I have already asked the cafeteria to deliver it, and the small kitchen is also ready , all the tableware is complete, Mrs. Chang, is there anything else you want to order?"

Chang Xi heard the girl say a long series of words without knots. Compared with before she set off for the capital, she has obviously improved a lot now, "Very good, by the way, is there any manpower in the yard?"

Although the Wei family sent servants to attend to the brothers and sisters, they were not familiar with the places where they were born, and she couldn't spare the time now, so naturally she could only arrange useful people there.

"Aunt Chen is watching over there, there should be no mistakes." Caifeng said.

Chang Xi nodded. Zhang Yingda's mother, Mrs. Chen, was never arranged by her to work in the workshop. Instead, she stayed in the yard where she lived to do chores. Compared to finding someone else, Mrs. Chen was more credible.

There is no need to worry about Wei Jinfu, she chose to eat in the cafeteria, but in order to take care of the appetite of her cousin Wei Guangnan, she specially asked for a private room, and then asked someone to cook a few delicious stir-fries, and then put Jieming The couple summoned them to accompany them, and of course the steward Fang sent by the eldest princess was also indispensable, as it was to draw closer to each other.

Wei Guangnan walked over with a red face, and after getting acquainted with everyone, he said, "I have opened my eyes today. The staff and system settings of your workshop are refreshing."

Chang Xi smiled and let him take the seat, "It's just that the scale of the workshop is large, so we must pay more attention to it, so that people can see hope while striving hard."

"Cousin, you have repeatedly refreshed my understanding of you." Wei Guangnan said.

Chang Xi smiled, she could see that Wei Guangnan was very interested in these things, and she felt eager to try, and she knew it all at once.

She doesn't know much about this cousin of the Wei family, but she knows that he has a hidden official position, the kind that he doesn't even use a little bit of work on weekdays, and then he is more concerned with the property of Duke Wei's mansion. As a future branch of the Wei family, his more role is reflected here.

"Then cousin, you should walk around and see more. After all, hearing is believing, seeing is believing. This is only the first day."

For Chang Xi's words, Wei Guangnan agreed very much. Although he was very excited, he would not act impulsively, especially because the background of this tea brick workshop was complicated, so it was not easy to get involved.

Xie Ming saw that the two cousins ​​were talking about the same thing, so he started talking with Wei Guangnan. Both of them came from wealthy families, and neither was the main branch of the family's vigorous cultivation, so they had a lot in common.

As for Chang Xi, she turned her head to chat with Steward Fang. Of course, she couldn't neglect Mrs. Bo. In short, as a master of Duan Shui, she did her best.

Everyone was quite satisfied with a banquet, and the relationship was instantly drawn closer.

When the banquet was over, Chang Xi and Bai Shi walked together, and she whispered, "Madam Ba Shao, tomorrow I will send a letter to all the businesses that have cooperative relations with our spinning workshop, inviting them to have a meeting .”

Bai Shi couldn't react for a while, and said in surprise: "But what happened?"

Chang Xi patted her hand lightly, "It's nothing serious, it's just that we get together to get in touch, and discuss the price of the cloth by the way."

When Bai Shi heard it, she immediately understood that Chang Xi was dissatisfied with the current price of cloth in the market, and she was also concerned about this point. Because of the increase in yarn, the price of cloth in Yiyang market dropped a lot, which is a good thing. Why is Chang Xi dissatisfied?

She couldn't figure it out, so she asked.

Chang Xi sighed, "It's not the price of cloth in the market, but the price of export."

Giving profits to the people of the Dayu Dynasty is what she likes, and it is also one of the reasons why she promotes industrialization, but she is not very happy to give profits to foreign businessmen.

"I heard from James, a foreign merchant, that in order to compete for the export volume, our local cloth merchants in Yiyang kept pressing down the price again and again. This is not acceptable. The export price is higher than our local price. We are not The money-giving boy of outsiders."

When Bai saw Chang Xi's face turned cold, she couldn't help feeling a little ashamed. She had never thought about this question before, "Okay, I'll send them an invitation letter right away."

Chang Xi nodded, and asked Caifeng to arrange the itinerary.

After dinner, the meeting continued. After all, there were too many things in the backlog, so the management all had to work overtime.

After finishing all this work, Chang Xi returned to her residence behind the workshop. After several months of repairs, it has become more and more perfect in all aspects.

It's just that compared to the magnificence of Duke Wei's Mansion and Marquis Marquis Mansion in the capital, this place is inevitably too simple, and the only advantage left is that it is bright and clean.

As for Wei Jinfu, when she saw Chang Xi, she kept pulling her and said sympathetically, "Cousin is suffering."

This made Chang Xi puzzled at the beginning, but later she understood what she meant. It was because she felt that the place where she lived was too shabby, which made her dumbfounded for a moment.

There are strict regulations on the residence of Da Yuchao. Like she used to be just a commoner, if she wanted to build a gorgeous mansion comparable to that of a nobleman, it would not work.

Of course, she wanted to be convenient and trouble-free, and she never spent too much time on food, clothing and housing. She was in the stage of primitive accumulation of capital, where would she have the time to enjoy it?Even if she builds a gorgeous mansion, how many days can she live there?
When Wei Jinfu heard Chang Xi's words clearly, she blushed immediately. She only thought that her cousin was living a hard life because of lack of money, but she didn't expect that there were other reasons, "I think it's too simple, Cousin, don't worry."

As for persuading her cousin to build a gorgeous mansion, she still didn't say it out loud. She just said this when she came here, and her cousin thought she couldn't get used to living here.

Chang Xi didn't think much about it. Wei Jinfu looked like a simple girl. She didn't have so much fancy, but she thought that this cousin was the daughter of the Duke's mansion, so she said, "This house is actually almost finished. Tomorrow I asked someone to arrange the scenery of the yard, so that my cousin can live more comfortably..."

"Cousin, I didn't mean that, I..." Wei Jinfu became anxious when she heard the words, she was afraid that Chang Xi would misunderstand.

"Did you just say that I was suffering? Now I said that I wanted to decorate the scenery, but you stopped me. You want me to continue to suffer." Chang Xi smiled and raised his eyebrows.

Wei Jinfu was stunned for a while, before realizing that she was being teased by Chang Xi, "Cousin, you are bad, make fun of me."

Seeing the coquettish look of this little cousin, Chang Xi couldn't help laughing.

However, in order to take care of the cousin's food and daily life, Chang Xi arranged several more people in the residence, but they all did some rough cleaning. After all, the work of serving people was not as good as that of Wei Guogong's servants.

When Chen talked about the servants of the Wei family with Chang Xi in private, she couldn't help but shrink back. After all, he was a servant of the Duke's Mansion, and she felt that she was a little short at first.

Chang Xi patted her on the shoulder and said solemnly, "Aunt Chen, you can't do this, you are born human, you are not half shorter than them, there is no need to frighten them, I will take care of all the important things, you just have to be bold and act boldly." Can."

With the encouragement from Chang Xi, Mrs. Chen had a somewhat confident look on her face.

And Wei Jinfu also restrained the servants of the Wei family who came with her in private, and she also said with a serious face, "You all know that I don't rub the sand in my eyes. If anyone lets me hear complaints again, don't worry about it." When I return to the capital, I will deal with her first, not to mention that my grandmother will not punish me, and even my mother will support my decision." After a pause, "If anyone wants to try, I will help her."

Although she ranks third among the sisters, she is the daughter of the eldest family of the Duke's Mansion, and her own mother is the head of the house.

Based on this alone, all the servants of the Wei family couldn't help panicking. They all knelt down and begged for mercy, swearing on the spot that they would behave in a well-behaved manner and would not say any more yin and yang words to make people unhappy.

Only then did Wei Jinfu's expression soften, and after telling them to get up, she emphasized again, "If anyone dares to lay maggots in my relationship with my cousin, I will never end with her."

All the servants of the Wei family hurriedly responded, and then they saw their own girl waving their hands, and then everyone dispersed, leaving only the big servant girl who was serving close to her in the room.

Not long after, Chen discovered that the servants of the Wei family were not as good as they were yesterday. They were talking yin and yang words of dislike, and then they had a look of disdain. It's all smiles.

This change made her think, Mrs. Chang is right, if she doesn't fear them, others can't crawl on her head to shit. After thinking about this, she puffed up her chest even more to arrange the affairs in the yard, she had to be worthy Chang Niangzi cultivated herself.

Regarding these trivial matters, Chang Xi didn't set aside too much energy to pay attention to them. At this time, after inspecting the spinning workshop, she immediately held a meeting with the textile colleagues who came to cooperate.

As for the few weavers who were competitively exporting at lower prices, when they heard Chang Xi mentioning this issue, they all looked at each other in blank dismay. They only thought about small profits but high sales, and naturally they didn't think too much about other things.

Mrs. Zheng, who is also a weaver, couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when she saw Chang Xi come forward to deal with this problem. She maliciously lowered the price competition just to sell more goods to foreign devils. In her opinion, it was stupid This is an act that disrupts the entire Yiyang cloth market, and it must not be allowed to go on.

Regarding this issue, she privately approached President Xu of the Yiyang Chamber of Commerce, but President Xu seemed embarrassed. After all, every business depends on its means. Even if he is the president of the Chamber of Commerce, he can't interfere with other people's business. , if this hand is stretched too far, it will be annoying.

That's right, now those few cloth merchants who are competing for lower prices are secretly rolling their eyes at Chang Xi, thinking that she is too lenient. I dare not speak out in anger, for fear of offending others, I can't bear it and walk around.