delicious little cook

Chapter 411 On-Site Recruitment
"With just a few words from us just now, the new business is settled like this?"

"Well, do you have a Zhuangzi under your name? If not, can you rent the Zhuangzi in the public house? If you rent it, it's not in vain. Think about the profits of the fur business, the rental money is just a drizzle."

"Okay, it's worth thinking about it."

"If this business can be done, you can find another expert to take care of it, and the servant girl can only give ideas and don't care about anything else."

"It's really nonsense. If this business is successful, you will have to wait for foxes, big and small, in the Zhuangzi all year round. What if you go to the Zhuangzi to manage this? Let me stay in the city with peace of mind, and I will find someone else to do it. Business."

"Well, it's up to you." Bai Kou yawned loudly.

"Haven't got enough sleep? Who made fun of me earlier?"

"It's all spring sleepiness that you provoked, don't play tricks."

"Okay, don't play tricks, sleep for a while if you haven't slept enough, we are still walking in Zhongfang."

"Don't sleep anymore, if you continue to sleep, your arm should be useless, is it numb now?"

Bai Kou sat up while talking, Gu Yun withdrew his arm, rubbed his shoulders, and still tried to be brave.

"It's okay, you're not heavy."

"Oh, the servant girl will eat a little fatter in the future, she is too light to beat people and has no strength."

"So you remember it for me. Whenever you go out, call the guards for me. Let them do the fighting. You don't fight with people outside."

"Oh."

"Don't always be oh oh oh, just perfunctory me?"

"How dare you, you haven't woken up yet."

"It turned out that I was sleepy."

"Hmm~"

"It seems that your spring sleepiness is more severe than mine."

"It seems to be." Bai Kou opened his mouth and yawned again.

"Then you're stuck on your side."

"Oh." Bai Kou obediently moved to the seat box next to her, and yawned desperately towards the outside of the car window.

Gu Yun sat alone for a while, then began to harass Bai Kou out of boredom, and finally hugged her like a big pillow, until the carriage entered the boundary of Xiafang, and it was getting closer and closer to their destination, Chunhefang. close.

The carriage stopped at Shizi Street in the center of the square. Gu Yun booked a large restaurant on the corner of the street as a place for lunch, and then let the driver move about on his own. He and Bai Kou went into the alley, just like the last time they came I wrote down the addresses of several glass workshops, drew the route, and began to visit and inquire.

In the colored glaze workshop of Chunhefang, the craftsmen’s skills can make exquisite treasures and decorations. Rich people buy them to enshrine in front of the Buddha or place them as decorations at home. The sons who passed away, they learned solid skills from elementary school, but they may not have the financial resources to open a glazed workshop by themselves after separation.

The people on the street didn't care about Gu Yun, a rich man, they only thought that he was here to buy things for the elders, after all, only the rich would buy glazed products.

Bai Kou has her own selection criteria, she first looks at all kinds of stoves and tools in the workshop, a large venue with all tools is good.

She doesn't understand colored glaze, but she understands glass. Just casually mentioning the input ratio of a certain raw material in the solution formula, and picking on the impurities in the finished product, is enough to pretend to be a knowledgeable person. Even the master craftsmen in the workshop dare not underestimate her. , and looking at the sons and brothers beside her, everyone in each workshop thought that some big customers had come, entertaining them attentively and answering every question.

Bai Kou and Gu Yun relied on this trick to collect information in various glazed workshops, and found that each family had sons who lived alone, but after the separation, the sons still worked in the workshops at home, and received a salary every month to support the family. make ends meet.

It is not easy to poach the whole family of these artisans who are satisfied with the status quo to Tianshuifang, so Bai Kou can only keep walking, trying to try his luck and see if there is a chance for her to make a move.

Walking and walking, when they came to the next colored glaze workshop, before they even reached the door, they saw neighbors stretching their necks, not knowing what they were looking at, Bai Kou pulled Gu Yun to stand behind the crowd and listened to their discussion, It took a while to find out that there was a dispute between the sons of this family, and the Marquis Wu of this workshop was mediating inside.

The eyes of both of them brightened. Finally, today was not in vain. I am afraid that they have encountered a chance.

Bai Kou took out the money bag from the satchel, grabbed a handful of copper coins in his hand, and raised them into the sky. The copper coins fell to the ground with a clang, causing the onlookers to scramble all over the ground. Bai Kou and Gu Yun entered smoothly. opened the door of the workshop.

The workshop is already deserted at the moment, I don’t know how many days it hasn’t opened, I walked through the workshop and went to the back house, I saw that the yard was full of daily necessities, including adults and children, and the clothesline above the head was like a spider Nets, one of which was covered with diapers, it is impossible to count the number of people living in this small courtyard, and the environment is in a mess.

There were two daughter-in-laws in their 30s and [-]s and a group of children standing in the courtyard. They were all wearing mourning clothes. In the main room, there were also women's cries and men's persuasion. In the past, he and Bai Kou also stopped.

The women and children also saw them coming in. Although they were unfamiliar, they only regarded them as customers coming to the door. The younger daughter-in-law hugged the children so that they would not make trouble, and the older daughter-in-law came forward to greet the guests with an apologetic face.

"I'm sorry, two guests, the owner has something to do these few days, and the business is closed for a few days. If you want to buy something, please go to another place."

Because she was a female relative, Gu Yun rubbed his nose and stepped back half a step, letting Bai Kou speak.

Bai Kou smiled and cupped her hands, "This sister-in-law is the daughter-in-law of this family? What's your name?"

"Yes, I am the eldest daughter-in-law of this family, and my man's name is Liu Qiang."

"The one on the side is your younger brother and sister? Are your husbands brothers? Who is the one in the room who is clapping the table?"

"Yes, our sister-in-law's husband is indeed a brother. The second uncle is named Liu Zhuang, and the one in the house is the third uncle who was born after my mother-in-law came in."

"So, are you doing filial piety for your husband?"

"Yes, the women talking in the room are the step-mother-in-law and her daughter-in-law."

"I heard the noise in the house. It seems that the family is not evenly divided? Didn't your two elder brothers get a decent inheritance?"

"This is our family business. It's not easy to tell outsiders. You should go to another house to buy things. Our house has been shut down for several days."

"Come on, sister-in-law, let's talk for a while." Bai Kou seemed to be juggling, and suddenly there was a small piece of silver in his hand, "Here is two pieces of silver, buy buns for the children, tell me about it later The story of your family."

The two sisters-in-law stared at each other with wide-eyed eyes. Apparently, Liu Zhuang's wife had also been paying attention to Bai Kou's movements. Liu Qiang's wife swallowed dryly and reached out to take the money.

"That's right, tell me what's going on with your family? The step-mother-in-law is going to sweep out the two houses that your first spouse left? Will the whole workshop be inherited by her own son?"

"That's right. It is said that there is a will written by my husband's fingerprints. The person who wrote it and the witnesses are all well-known neighbors, but our two families know nothing about this will. I don't believe that my husband will be so heartless. Give each of us a few taels of silver and send us away, which is not even enough to rent a house." Liu Qiang's daughter-in-law felt sad as she spoke.

"Don't cry, I'll ask another question."

"what?"

"How much does it cost to build a glass workshop?"

"This... this we don't know... This workshop has been handed down for several generations when the two of us got married, and there has never been another glass workshop built in the workshop since we were born."

"Oh, forget it, maybe you men know the cost of the workshop, why don't you show me some glassware made by your men?"

The two daughters-in-law looked at each other in blank dismay, and finally each found a few gadgets from the room and took them out.

After Bai Kou looked at it carefully, he felt that the craftsmanship was not bad, on par with other colleagues.

"Okay, since we met by fate, let you men come out and ask how much the new workshop will cost. Would you two like to go with my young master and produce glassware for him?"

"what?!"

The two sisters-in-law were taken aback, and they took a moment to react before they quickly ran into the main room.

(End of this chapter)