Delicate Flower

Everything on Pei Yan's side was proceeding in an orderly manner as he had imagined, while Yu Tang's side was a little flustered.

First of all, she could not figure out whether things went well in Pei Yan, and secondly, the store at home could not keep up with the Vong city before the Spring Festival this year—because the uncle Yu Bo stayed in Jiangxi for too long, it was already in the twelfth lunar month when he returned. They hurriedly hurried and chose to open on the eighteenth of the twelfth lunar month, but according to the usual practice, on the twenty-two and three of the twelfth lunar month, the shops in the market will be closed in the few days before the new year. . This year's business is not profitable, so I can only rush to open the business a year ago to please my head.

Because of this, Yu Tang was also called by his uncle to go to the shop to help for two days.

In the words of her uncle, she doesn’t know how to do business, but she has to understand the family’s money exchanges: “Even if you hire a son-in-law to come home, you must know how much money your family makes in a year, whether it’s a loss or a profit. Otherwise it is easy to be fooled."

Both Yu Wen and Chen felt that it made sense and asked Yu Tang to wear coarse cloth clothes in the back storeroom to keep accounts. They also asked Yu Tang: "I will come to the store every five days from now on. You have to know that all the stores are sold in our store. What are these things, and how much money is made for each thing."

Yu Tang shook his head in his heart.

No wonder everyone is unwilling to be a door-to-door son-in-law?

Their family is considered kind, but the door-to-door son-in-law didn’t know where he was, so he started to guard everything, and he was willing to join their family. As long as he was not a fool, he would be treated like this. Will be uncomfortable, so what kind of trust and dependence do you talk about?

If even the most basic trust and dependence are gone between the husband and wife, what would they talk about?

Perhaps, recruiting a door-to-door son-in-law may not be able to solve all the difficulties.

While thinking about it in his heart, Yu Tang stood at the door of the warehouse holding the account book to register the incoming and outgoing goods.

When Yu Tang's grandfather was still there, their family had their own small workshop, and they could also make objects with complicated crafts like Tihong, which required craftsmanship. But when her grandfather passed away, her father hadn't passed the exam. Two or three generations of masters were suddenly poached away by a century-old shop in Suzhou, and only her uncle could know the craftsmanship of Tiehong at home. However, their sons were weak. Her uncle became more cautious after this incident. The apprentices he recruited had been working at home for more than ten years. He was still hiding and unwilling to fully teach his apprentices to his apprentices. I can’t get too busy, I produce fewer and fewer red-tinted objects, almost no boutiques, and the business in the shop is not as good as every year.

The uncle did not think of ways to recruit talented apprentices, but instead placed his hopes on Yu Yuan. Yu Yuan has been learning the craft honestly for a few years, but I don't know if it is because of his talent or his uncle's not good at teaching others. Yu Yuan's craftsmanship is mediocre, but not as good as her uncle's big apprentice Xia Pinggui.

Xia Pinggui was an apprentice in the Yu family at the age of six, two or three years older than Yu Yuan, and was the apprentice of Yu Tang's grandfather's son during his lifetime. He lived in the Yu family when he was young. Later, Yu Tang grew older. Considering the difference between men and women, Wang asked him to move to a shop. Walking along Changxing Street, Wang preferred to arrange him to the Yu family’s old house instead of letting him move back to the Yu family.

This time the shop was completed, and Xia Pinggui moved back to the shop with a few juniors.

Although Xia Pinggui and Yu Tang didn't see each other often, they grew up together. Sometimes when they go to Yu's house, they will meet Yu Tang. Seeing Yu Tang at the door of the warehouse helping with the accounting, he asked the ruthless lady in the shop to fill a soup and handed it to Yu Tang: "Miss, the weather is too cold. Hold your hands and be careful. cool."

In the entire lacquerware shop, except for the Yu family, Yu Tang only knew Xia Pinggui.

She smiled and thanked Xia Pinggui and accepted Po Tang.

With a smile on Xia Pinggui's honest and loyal face, he said "you're welcome", and continued to urge the young guys at home to put the goods into the warehouse.

Yu Tang saw that there were two black lacquered square tables in the warehouse, and she couldn't help asking Xia Pinggui: "Why can't our house sell furniture?"

She used to go into the storeroom when she came to play in the shop with her father when she was young. In her impression, the warehouse is full of shelves with grids. On the shelves, there are all kinds of large and small lacquerware boxes and boxes, ranging from nine boxes for snacks to boxes for rouge. Have.

Why is it like a grocery store now?

Xia Pinggui hesitated for a while, and saw Yu Bo and Yu Wen discussing the furnishings at the front of the shop. Then he lowered his voice and said, "We are too close to Hangzhou. Nowadays, snails are becoming popular again. Tiehong’s people also pay attention to craftsmanship. If they don’t sell tables, chairs, and boxes, business is even harder."

Yu Tang didn't understand.

Xia Pinggui explained to her: "In the past, people who married their daughters and married wives had to buy one or two red-lacquered boxes to hold things. But since the people from the Sheng family in Jiangxi opened their shops in Hangzhou three years ago, it has become popular in Hangzhou. Let’s start buying a box of Yongtian."

After all, the house is a lacquer shop, and she also knows Yong Tian, ​​and she polished it with snail shells and seashells and set them on the box. The snail shell gleams with colorful luster under the light and has a gem-like brilliance. Some people who have a good face and can't afford a box with a hundred treasure will buy this instead.

But there are thousands of people's preferences, and some people who have the background especially don't like jeweled things. What's more, they are not gemstones but snails, which are substitutes for gemstones?

Yu Tang thought for a while, and said, "Does Shengjia have any new craftsmanship that can sell Luodian much cheaper than Tihong?"

Xia Pinggui showed admiration in his eyes, and said in admiration: "The eldest is really smart. Indeed, as you said, their family has now made a kind of color-matching iron, which is much cheaper than ordinary irons. If you want other colors, you can customize it. Customization is much more expensive than ordinary colors. It has not only made a name, but also made a business. Now it is in full swing, I heard that the Zhejiang Chief Secretary gave it to their home during the Qianqiu Festival A screen of twelve pieces of a hundred birds facing the phoenix." He hesitated for a while when he said that, "However, our shop mainly still has the design, which has not changed for many years..."

Yu Tang still understood the words in a tactful way.

She said: "You mean, the craftsmanship of our house is not good?"

Xia Pinggui blushed and responded vaguely, and Yu Tang didn't hear clearly what he was talking about, but he understood what he meant.

She didn't say a word for a while.

In the previous life, their shop was sold after it was burned. She didn’t know what their business was like. Later, Yu Yuan made money. Her uncle wanted to revive the family business, but she hadn’t waited until her uncle took the house. Karma died when he did it.

Now their family has spent a lot of effort to rebuild the shop, and they have spent a lot of money to buy a lot of goods, they can't stay on the sidelines, right?

This is the most intolerable for her.

It took the same time and the same energy, but no one else did it well.

You have to find the reason and think of a solution.

She looked at the various utensils stacked in the warehouse and sighed in her heart. She didn't want to look at these goods, let alone the people who bought the things?

I don’t know if I can postpone the opening and think of a way to readjust the products?

Yu Tang pulled Wang aside and asked her quietly.

Wang laughed bitterly, hugged Yutang, and whispered: "Good boy, you have a heart. Your uncle has been in business for a lifetime. How can you not know these truths? But our repair shop still owes Pei's family. For the silver, where is the extra money to purchase. Besides, the good utensils are kept by various shops as the treasures of the town, how can they be easily sold to our family? Even if they are sold to our family, there is The merchants are fancy, our family can't do it, but it is easy to cause trouble, it is better not to show it."

Yu Tang was taken aback, and said, "Is it because I don't have any money?"

Wang paused, his voice lowered: "It's not all silver, or there is no staff at home..."

It's just that there is no such craft at home.

This is exactly the same as Xia Pinggui said.

The shop has been run by the big uncle over the years. She was afraid that the question would be too deep. The big aunt’s face was blank, and after a few words, she went back to the shop with her big aunt, and found a chance to pull Yu Yuan to speak up. "How about the craftsmanship of the few masters invited back from Jiangxi? Do you think these few people alone can do it?"

Yu Yuan is also worrying about this in the past few days.

He said: "The craftsmanship of the few masters is average. One of them is not bad, but he is good at depicting gold. Our family started as a tick-red. Daddy means gold is cheap. I think it’s a bit of a cart before the horse.”

Every lacquer shop has its own characteristics. It took several generations of talents for their family to make Tiehong's reputation. At this time, they changed to gilding, and the craftsmanship was still unfamiliar to their family. Yu Tang agreed with Yu Yuan's point of view.

During this period of time, Yu Yuan and Yu Bo had argued several times over this matter. Wang stood firmly on Yu Bo’s side and said, “Haste is not enough. First make some money with trace gold, and then find a way to find it. Some of your uncle’s talented friends helped to draw some new red markings, and the shop will slowly get over." Now suddenly I met someone who wanted to go with him, and the grievances he had suppressed in the usual days suddenly became a little overwhelming, and couldn't help but said: "I don't know what Dad thinks? No matter how good it is to describe gold, that's it. It’s not our family’s craftsmanship. If we lose our roots in this way, how can the Yu family stand for it?"

The two fathers and sons quarreled about this in the last life.

Yu Tang smiled and said, "Didn't you say you want to open a shop in Hangzhou?"

Yu Yuan's face flushed, and said, "If Dad insists on going it alone, I will go to Hangzhou City to open a shop." After finishing speaking, he was afraid of Yu Tang's misunderstanding, and said hurriedly, "This is not what your sister-in-law meant. It was my own meaning. She can't be my home yet."

Yu Tang laughed as he looked like there was no silver three hundred taels here.

Yu Yuan realized that he had said something wrong, and smiled shyly.

Yu Tang felt that this might not be bad.

In his previous life, Yu Yuan had proved that he was unable to persuade his uncle. In this life, he is still learning arts behind his father, and it is even more impossible to persuade his uncle.

Instead of the father and son having an unpleasant quarrel, it is better to separate for the time being and run their own business. Anyway, this family business is ultimately left to Yu Yuan.

Of course, Yu Tang is also a little selfish.

She wanted to be like Jiang Ling in her previous life, to be a strange woman who can make money to feed herself and her family.