After transmigrating into a stepmother, I transformed my whole family to work on farming

Chapter 704 New Products
Liu Ji got up to open the door, and when the door opened, it was Liu Fei.

"What are you doing here?" Liu Ji glanced at Liu Fei with her peach blossom eyes. She was holding a basic ladies' box in her hand and had nothing else in it. Her eyes were immediately filled with disgust.

Liu Fei gave his third brother a look, then squeezed in with a box and an umbrella, "I'm not looking for you, I'm looking for my sister-in-law."

Looking up, he saw food being served in the hall. Liu Fei smiled and said, "We're eating!"

The children stood up in surprise and shouted in unison: "Uncle!"

Qin Yao also came to the corridor outside the hall and asked him, "Have you eaten?"

"No!" Liu Fei put the umbrella under the corridor with a smile. As expected, he heard his third sister-in-law asking Awang to get her dishes and chopsticks. He turned around and raised his eyebrows proudly at Liu Ji.

Liu Ji sighed, and seeing Liu Fei about to enter the hall, he quickly stopped him, "You're going in here all wet? If you step on the carpet in the room and make it dirty, you'll have to wash it!"

He first dragged the man into his room and tidied him up, then took out his own old but clean shoes for Liu Fei to change into, and then led him into the dining room.

Liu Feixiao complained in a low voice, "What a nonsense."

But after putting on clean shoes and wiping off the rain water on my body, I felt a lot more comfortable.

A seat had been added for Liu Fei at the table. Since they were family members, there was no need to be polite. As soon as they sat down, they picked up their bowls and chopsticks and started eating.

Liu Ji bumped Liu Fei's shoulder and said, "Will you sleep at my house tonight?"

Qin Yao glared at Liu Ji speechlessly. It was already dark and raining, and it would be unreasonable to send Liu Fei back to sleep.

"You should rest in the guest house at the back tonight." Qin Yao said to Liu Fei, raising her chin slightly and inviting him to eat, not allowing him to refuse.

Liu Fei agreed and moved his stool closer to Awang, determined to distance himself from his brother.

Liu Ji: "."

No one talked about business while eating. After dinner, Liu Fei took the box and went to the flower hall with Qin Yao to talk.

Other people in the house should consciously avoid it and not disturb it.

Liu Fei already knew that Liu Ji had applied for a position as a servant in the Imperial Master's Mansion. He showed some concern, but when he learned that Liu Ji had adapted well, he stopped paying attention to him.

He opened the box he brought and placed the letter and a stack of banknotes wrapped in oil paper on the small table next to Qin Yao.

"Third sister-in-law, this is the profit from the shop in the past three months, and also the letter Song Yu sent from the village. Take a look."

Qin Yao had not received any news from home since coming to Beijing. When she saw Song Yu's letter, she happily opened it and read it.

The letter said that everything was fine at home, that the stationery factory had replaced a few lazy people and recruited a new group of people.

A personal basic information form for newly recruited workers was also attached.

Qin Yao looked through the table. Each person's name, age, place of origin and other information was recorded. Most of them were from Kaiyang County, and only one was from outside the area.

There are eight people in total, four women and four men.

Qin Yao smiled and it seemed that she was implementing the principle of ladies first very well.

Song Yu also said in the letter that the stationery factory's design department, at Qiao Yun's suggestion, had accepted two new design apprentices.

These two apprentices were the scholars who originally rented a house in the village.

Both of them were scholars with superb painting skills.

In Qiao Yun’s words, the aesthetic is unique and can add different fresh inspiration to the design department.

He also smuggled two suitcases of original design drawings.

After the managers of the stationery factory decided to designate the two suitcases in the picture as the upper berth of the new autumn products, they asked Qin Yao for her final opinion and whether she agreed.

Liu Fei said, "I've seen this picture and I think it's pretty good. The owner of Fulong Commercial Bank also thinks it's good. Our store has always had wooden boxes, so this is the first time we have leather boxes."

"And the leather suitcases are much lighter than wooden ones. As for the pricing, you have to decide." Qin Yao was looking at the two new drawings. When she heard Liu Fei's words, she nodded and said, "Let me take a look at the cost first."

Song Yu was very efficient. He prepared a stack of information for the new products, and asked Qian Wang and Liu Zhong to write down the purchase categories and suppliers in detail.

The costs are clear at a glance.

Although the leather is not cheap, it does not need to be inlaid with various jade and jewelry, so the total price is 20% cheaper than the ladies' box.

Leather materials were hard to find, so Liu Zhong ran to the northern state and finally found a stable sheepskin supplier.

There are two new suitcases, one large and one small.

The smaller one is smaller than the lady's box. It uses wood as the main structure, and leather is used as the dividing layer between the surface and the lining.

Because sheepskin is soft, the interior divisions of this small suitcase are made more refined. Not only is there an area for daily necessities, but there is also an additional jewelry compartment.

The larger one is larger than the divine book box, and is similar to the cabinets used by ordinary people, but it has the pulleys and rods of the divine book box added.

Qin Yao thought, isn’t this just a modern trolley suitcase?

And when you look at the layers in the picture, they look even more similar.

Even more high-end than the dividers in modern luggage compartments.

The box is divided into four main parts: one is the clothing area, one is the shoes and socks area, one is the accessories area, and there is also an area for the four treasures of the study and books.

Each area has meticulous storage, with pen bags, ink cartridges, special long belt compartments for belts, and high and short compartments for shoes.

Qin Yao read the letter written by Song Yu again.

The letter said that this large leather suitcase was designed by the two new scholars, who said that if students from all over the country could use such a suitcase when they were about to take the exam, they would definitely be able to reach the examination venue smoothly.

The spring examination has been scheduled for early March next year. If the candidates want to go to Beijing to take the exam, they must set off at the latest this winter.

In order to avoid the severe cold in winter, most people would choose to go to Beijing in autumn and prepare for the spring examination in advance.

This large suitcase was placed on the upper bunk, just in time to catch up with the huge flow of students going to Beijing for the imperial examinations.

The leather supply is limited, so the first batch can only produce 2,000 suitcases and 300 official boxes.

Yes, both the small and large luggage sizes have names.

The reason why Guan Xia is called Guan Xia is because its customers are among the officials attending court in the capital.

As for suitcases, it is even simpler. Practicality is the main purpose, so something that holds luggage should be called a suitcase.

"They did a great job." Qin Yao put down Song Yu's letter with appreciation, picked up the two drawings, made a big tick on the drawings with a cinnabar pen, and wrote down two numbers readily.

One is 66, the other is 88.

Liu Fei couldn't help but feel a little excited. He quickly put the drawings away carefully. The next morning he would ask the escort agency to send the news to Kaiyang County by carrier pigeon.

After dealing with the new product issue, Qin Yao looked at the thick stack of bills in surprise.

The profit this time is as much as 15,000 taels. After sending 30% to the Princess's Mansion, there should be 10,500 left.

The change of five hundred was given to Liu Fei, so the total amount sent to her should be ten thousand taels.

but!

The banknotes wrapped in the oil paper amounted to 14,500 taels.

Qin Yao frowned immediately, "What happened? The money wasn't sent out?"

Liu Fei suddenly stood up and nodded nervously at Qin Yao.