farmhouse ditty

Chapter 174

Shopkeeper Wang showed the account book to Second Master Yang, and said, "Master, this is the account book for the past two days. If we finish the next three orders, there will be no more work."

Second Master Yang sat behind the desk, took the account book and flipped through it, responded in a low voice, and then gave instructions.

"Well, Lao Wang, you go down in a while and tell the guys in the workshop to be quicker and finish the rest of the work. We will change jobs later."

Shopkeeper Wang stood at the front, heard Second Master Yang's words, and did not respond aloud. He understood that Second Master Yang was talking about changing jobs, that is, not accepting orders from those big households, but letting the workshop reform the laborious child. Washboard.

In fact, as early as the beginning of last month, if it weren't for the fact that there were still a few orders in the shop that hadn't been cleared out, the master would have called the guys to mess with the work. Fortunately, the master has always taught the guys to work slowly and carefully. I didn't urge the guys in the workshop to hurry up, otherwise I would have waited until now.

Shopkeeper Wang looked at Second Master Yang, his lips moved, he hesitated to speak, he knew it in his heart, he had to wait for Second Master Yang to read the ledger before he could speak, no matter what it was, he had to wait for him to explain. Let's talk when the job at hand is done.

But shopkeeper Wang thought about it for a while, and still couldn't hold it back anymore. He cleared his throat and said, "Master, actually, we still have a few orders later, and Mr. Wu has a new third room. How many do you want?" Cabinet seats..."

Second Master Yang closed the ledger with a "snap", raised his eyes and stared at shopkeeper Wang, threw the ledger on the table,
"Old Wang, didn't I tell you not to talk when I was looking at the account book!"

Shopkeeper Wang looked at Second Master Yang's face, he was not timid, he knew that Second Master Yang had already saved face for him, if he was older, Second Master Yang would have come here by himself.

After thinking about it, he said, "Master, didn't I think that it would be a pity if we pushed the list of Mr. Wang's family?"

Second Master Yang leaned back and leaned back on the chair, and he said, "Old Wang, this Master Wu you are talking about, he will have to add a room later, besides, what about his few sets of household items?" , How much money can I make?"

Shopkeeper Wang pursed his old lips, looked at Second Master Yang, and said to himself, how much money can you earn with those broken boards you hold upside down!
He pursed his old lips, "Well, master, my old man's mouth is broken, don't take it to heart, I just thought of it this time, master, you always said something..."

Second Master Yang looked at him and snorted twice, "Don't enter when you have something to do, and don't leave when you are familiar with it. Old Wang, do you remember clearly?"

Shopkeeper Wang smiled and found himself a chair to sit down on.

"Master, I remember that when you were in our old shop, whenever you received an unfamiliar order, you would always talk about it like this, and when it was over, you would reject the order, regardless of how much money they paid."

Second Master Yang didn't smile when he heard this, but there was already a smile in his eyes, so he talked.

"These two sentences were said by my grandfather before, which means, don't get involved with things you are not familiar with..."

The shopkeeper Wang continued, "Don't forget the things you are familiar with. Hey, I don't know how those big households in the past came up with those messy things. Their lists can't be made in any shop. .”

Second Master Yang seemed to have remembered something too, he hummed and laughed a few times, then looked at shopkeeper Wang, and said in a low voice.

"Old Wang, I know what's on your mind, and you also know my temperament, sir, so don't make yourself uncomfortable."

Shopkeeper Wang couldn't make any sense. If the master had decided on something, even nine cows would not be able to pull it back, so he didn't say anything more.

But this shopkeeper Wang is also an old buddy, Yang Erye looked at it and talked patiently, "Old Wang, remember, I, Yang Er, can't talk too much about things other than this wooden business, but just In our line of business, I won’t be able to miss it!”

"Hey, what the master said is..." Shopkeeper Wang said so, but he muttered in his heart, this washboard is made of wood, of course it belongs to our industry.

Second Master Yang thought about it and said again, "Old Wang, I asked you to call a buddy to watch over that Chu family's workshop, how are you doing with this matter?"

Shopkeeper Wang said, "Master, don't worry, those boys are always watching where to put it, they even know what people have for lunch."

Second Master Yang said with a sullen face, "I gave them money to keep them from working, not because I want to know what the Chu family's workshop had for lunch!"

"That's, that's," shopkeeper Wang replied with a smile, "Master, it's all my fault. What you told those boys to do is written in the back of the ledger. When I interrupted, Master You haven't seen it yet."

Second Master Yang glanced at Shopkeeper Wang, lowered his face, picked up the ledger again, and looked at the back carefully.

Shopkeeper Wang murmured on the sidelines that he was the one who made the bill, and he remembered it better than anyone else, "From the beginning of June, three truckloads of materials were brought in the day before, but no goods were shipped...until the fifth day of the lunar new year, one truckload of 87 boards was pulled out. …Three carts of materials were pulled in on the seventh day, and 150 boards were produced on the ninth day, which is one and a half cars..."

Second Master Yang turned a page, and shopkeeper Wang continued, "On the [-]th, five loads of materials were brought in, and on the twelfth, two loads of boards were produced, and on the thirteenth, they were pulled in..."

Second Master Yang chuckled twice, closed the ledger, and asked shopkeeper Wang not to say any more.

Shopkeeper Wang asked, "What's the matter, master? Is there anything wrong with what I said?"

Second Master Yang waved his hand, pointed to the account book and said, "Old Wang, you remember the account at the back, why can't you find a four, five or six, and worry that we won't be able to mess with this small board?" ?”

Shopkeeper Wang looked at Second Master Yang suspiciously, took the account book and looked through it a few times, "Master, this... my old man really didn't see anything."

Second Master Yang shook his head and pointed at shopkeeper Wang, "Old Wang, Lao Wang, you have really gone back and forth. Look at what is written on the account. At the beginning, when the Chu family workshop was opened at the beginning of the month, it was first pulled in for three days. It took a carload of materials, but it took three or four days to make a carload of boards."

Shopkeeper Wang nodded, "Oh, what the master said is that it seems that the couple produced a lot of defective products at the beginning."

Second Master Yang smiled, and said again, "Old Wang, if you look further down, in the following days, the Chu family's workshop will buy materials almost every two days, and this time there will be fewer products. In the end, it was almost every day that materials were brought in, and boards came out every day.”

Shopkeeper Wang listened, and looked at the account book again. In the next half month, the Chu family workshop did exactly what the master said, but what could this explain?

Second Master Yang probably saw shopkeeper Wang's thoughts, and he said, "Old Wang, you didn't want me to mess with this washboard at first, but you were just afraid that I would mess up the pot."

"Oh, master, how dare I..."

"Okay, old Wang, we are old buddies, and we can put anything on the table."

"Hey, hey, master, I really can't hide anything from you."

"Hmph, Old Wang, I'll tell you today, I made this plan."

"Master, you are..."

"Old Wang, you don't have to worry, and you don't even think about it. The guys recruited in the Chu family's workshop are all part-time workers in the town. Except for some brute force, they have no skills at all, but look, they In the past half a month, the workshop has shipped more and more goods. Although a lot of materials were wasted at the beginning, about [-] boards were made out of three truckloads of materials. You can make a whole car of boards without leaving, and the number of defective products is less and less, Lao Wang, do you know what's tricky here?"

Shopkeeper Wang listened to Second Master Yang's words, thought about it, and said, "Master, are you saying that you don't need any skills to make this kind of work?"

Second Master Yang just laughed. He didn't give Shopkeeper Wang an accurate word, but just said, "Those mud-legged part-timers who learn for two or three days can come to make money under our noses, so what about us? For people who rely on handicrafts to make a living, if you move your fingers casually, isn't it like picking up money on the street?"

In other words, those unskilled people in Chu's workshop can make washboards for sale. For the masters in their wood shop, making a washboard is just like playing Is it?

Shopkeeper Wang thought about it, and immediately laughed, "Hey, master, after hearing what you said, I have a solid foundation in my heart."

Second Master Yang said in a low voice, "Old Wang, do you know what to do?"

Shopkeeper Wang responded, "Hey, don't worry, master, I will remember what you ordered earlier, and I will go to the workshop in a while, and drive out the rest of the work to watch the guys, and then make room to make boards. "

Second Master Yang waved his hand and said, "Old Wang, go back and ask the guys who are staring at Chu's workshop, and ask them if they have seen where are the people who come to build the board? "

Shopkeeper Wang smiled schemingly, "Master, you don't need to order this matter. I sent a guy to guard the horse house earlier. Those merchants from other places who come to our town to buy goods will gather there. Then The boy is clever, and I will find out for you early in the morning."

Only then did Second Master Yang relax for a while, and let out a sigh of relief, "Hey, it's getting more and more difficult to do business now. I've only been away for a few days, and a workshop of Chu's family has popped up in the town. I don't know what it is. Whose mother is it?"

Shopkeeper Wang thought about it and said, "Master, I heard from those guys that this Chu family workshop was opened by a young couple who came from Xiayang Village and came to our town... Still, still Less than two months."

"Hmph, these country bumpkins will use some unremarkable country gadgets to bluff people, and I don't know what kind of madness those who come to buy goods are, just look at their boards..."

Second Master Yang squinted his eyes, thinking that the Chu family workshop was opened by people from Xiayang Village, he sneered, "However, when these country bumpkins met me, their business was considered successful. "

(End of this chapter)