Farm Gate Business Tycoon

Chapter 108 A Wonderful Fate (6)
Gu Qingmei smiled and said: "Shopkeeper, if someone can understand my words, let alone 1000 taels, even 1 taels, some people will buy it. Anyway, you don't need capital, what you earn is commission money, give I sold it for 1000 taels, and you can take away 200 taels. If no one buys it, it’s me who loses, not you.”

"That is to say, if no one buys it all the time, wouldn't it be a waste of our seat?" The shopkeeper was a little dissatisfied.

Gu Qingmei saluted him quietly, "Thank you!"

"Oh...that's all!" Although the shopkeeper was a little dissatisfied with her whimsical idea of ​​selling 1000 taels for a single character, but considering that she was a beautiful girl, he decided to agree to her request.

It doesn't cost him money anyway, it's just a place on the wall.

"So, how much does it cost to frame?"

The shopkeeper held out two fingers to her, "Two taels of silver!"

She happily took two taels of silver from her handbag and put it on the counter, "Shopkeeper, please keep it!"

The shopkeeper saw that she was well dressed and that she was happy to get the money, so he didn't say anything else, he just waved his hand and said, "Okay, you can ask again in a few days."

Gu Qingmei didn't leave, but asked, "Shopkeeper, won't you write me a note?"

The shopkeeper couldn't help being puzzled, "What note?"

"That is, you have received a letter from me, you have to give me a proof, otherwise, what will I use to ask you for money in the future?"

The shopkeeper suddenly became furious, "You woman, are you insulting me? We Fangcao Zhai have been in this calligraphy and painting business for more than 30 years, and we have never done such a deceitful thing! Forget it, we will also take your money. If you can’t afford it, you still take your words and leave quickly!”

Saying that, the shopkeeper threw out her words heavily.

"Ah..." Gu Qingmei felt distressed when he saw that the thin rice paper was thrown away by him, and there was a hole on it, and hurriedly picked up the "Picture of Xuanji" that she wrote so hard.

Gujiazhuang is so far away from the city, it is impossible for her to go out by herself, so Gu Qingyang sent her here, and Gu Qingyang was always beside her, seeing that the shopkeeper humiliated her so much, he couldn't help saying angrily: "Shopkeeper, you don't want to help us Sell ​​the characters, just return the characters to us. What do you mean by ruining my sister's characters like this? Since ancient times, things that are stained with money have to be based on characters. That is your shop. The income also needs to be kept in the account, otherwise, what is the accountant doing? My sister asked you for a written receipt, what's wrong?"

The shopkeeper smiled contemptuously, "Ordinary literati only sell one piece of calligraphy for one or two taels of silver, and those big writers only sell one piece of calligraphy for three to five hundred taels. A picture of a young girl's handwriting, Just want to sell it for 500 taels, she thinks she is the empress in the palace? Not to mention the things she wrote, the poems are not poems, the sentences are not sentences, and it is a joke to sell it for 1000 taels. I am willing to help her sell it, it is already Give her face, she still doesn't know what to do, what kind of papers do you want from me? You don't go out to inquire, there are too many people consigning calligraphy and paintings in my Fangcao studio, who has ever asked me for papers?"

"You..." Gu Qingyang was so angry that the veins on his forehead popped out, he clenched his fist tightly, wanting to crush the old man to death.

At this moment, a gentle voice sounded from the side, "Girl, can you show me your handwriting?"

Gu Qingmei suppressed the anger in her heart, turned her face to look, and saw that it was a middle-aged man in his forties. This man was born with a white face and a gentle manner. He was wearing a moon-white scholar's robe, and he had a clear and handsome posture. .

She smiled and handed over the words in her hand, "Please, sir!"

After the middle-aged man took the calligraphy and painting, he looked at it carefully, and suddenly his face showed joy, "Wonderful! It's really wonderful! Girl, did you write this?"

Gu Qingmei nodded cheekily, and said in her heart that I copied it!
"You want to sell it for 1000 taels of silver?"

Gu Qingmei nodded again.

"It's not expensive! 1000 taels of silver, it's too cheap to buy such a wonderful picture!" The middle-aged man said, carefully rolled up the words in his hand, handed them to the attendant at the side, and then took them out of his sleeve. He took out a few bank notes and handed them to Gu Qingmei.

"I bought this calligraphy!"

Gu Qingmei looked at him in surprise, "You...do you really want to buy this painting of mine?"

The middle-aged man nodded with a smile, "The palindrome poem on this piece of writing is really wonderful. It's rare to see it in the ages. If I meet it today, there's no reason not to buy it."

"But this writing is broken!"

"It's okay!" The middle-aged man said indifferently. "It can't be seen even when it's framed."

Gu Qingmei bit her lower lip and thought for a while, took the stack of bank notes, and counted them hastily. It was indeed 1000 taels, and she took out 500 taels from it and handed it back to the middle-aged man, "A piece of incomplete characters is not worth so much." How much money, I will charge you 500 taels!"

"No, this painting is rare! 1000 taels of silver is already extremely cheap!" The middle-aged man waved his hand. "Girl, you just accept this banknote!"

Only then did Gu Qingmei put away the banknote anxiously, and gave a slight blessing to the middle-aged man, "Thank you, sir!"

After finishing speaking, she seemed to be afraid that the middle-aged man would change his mind, and turned around to leave the calligraphy and painting studio.

The middle-aged man stopped her, "Girl, please stay!"

She stopped, turned around and looked at him puzzled, "What else is there, sir?"

The middle-aged man picked up from the counter the silver tael that Gu Qingmei had just put there to frame calligraphy and paintings, walked over and stuffed it into her hand, "This is your silver, you forgot to take it away."

"Ah, thank you!" Gu Qingmei pondered, yes, since she didn't frame this calligraphy and painting here, naturally she didn't need to give the money to the shopkeeper.

"Hey...wait a minute!" Seeing that they had done a business of 1000 taels like this, the shopkeeper felt a little annoyed, and was obsessed with money for a moment, so he said. "That girl, according to the rules, you have to give us a commission of 200 taels of silver for the characters you consign in my shop!"

Before Gu Qingmei could speak, the middle-aged man cast a cold glance over him, and said in a deep voice, "Shopkeeper, you can't be so dishonest, you just said you wouldn't help this girl sell calligraphy and paintings, and now you're looking for a It's not appropriate for her to ask for money! Besides, I'm buying calligraphy from her, not from you, what kind of money do you want?"

The shopkeeper was immediately frightened by the self-important aura naturally exuded from him, and he dared not speak any more.

Gu Qingmei thought for a while, took out a 100 tael bank note, and put it on the counter for him, "Shopkeeper, although you just said that you don't want to consign my calligraphy and paintings, anyway, my calligraphy and paintings are in your According to the rules, I should give you a commission for those sold in the store. But you just broke my handwriting, so I can't give you [-]% of the price, I can only give you [-]%. If you accept, this Let's stop here. We don't know each other, if I still want to sell calligraphy and paintings in the future, I will come here again, what do you think?"

(End of this chapter)