Mu Huagui

Chapter 54 Substitution
"Three taels a month, 18 taels a year. After paying the shopkeeper's [-] taels plus a [-]% bonus, I opened this shop for the shopkeeper." Chen Jiao'er looked at the shopkeeper, with the corners of her mouth slightly raised.

"My boss, how can we calculate it like this? These two months are the opening of a new store, and it's not a particularly prosperous time. After a while, it will be fine if there are more customers." The shopkeeper was a little disapproving, but still replied respectfully.

"Oh, the shopkeeper has thought of any way to change the current situation. Before we took over this shop, it was because the owner's business was not good, so we couldn't go on and turn it around. It means that the location of this shop has nothing to do with it. advantage, otherwise the previous store would not have collapsed." Chen Jiao'er asked again.

"This..." The shopkeeper felt unlucky to meet such a master who played cards unreasonably.Sitting at the counter and waiting for customers to come to your door, this is an old rule in the industry, you can't go to the street to yell.

"It doesn't matter if the business is not good. There is always a process to open a new store. Don't think about it. You can sit at the counter and get ten taels of silver a year and bonuses. I think the shopkeeper should pack up. I will follow the contract. I'll give you two more months' wages." Chen Jiao'er didn't intend to talk to him too much, and decisively issued an order to evict the guest.

"You, hmph..." The shopkeeper wanted to say something, but when he thought of the extra two months' wages, he held back his words.Su's mother immediately took the shopkeeper down and settled his wages including handing over the things in the shop.

Su Dazhuang stood helplessly in the hall, wanting to follow him out but afraid that the lady would have some orders.

"Uncle Su, you can be regarded as watching me grow up. Why should you be so cautious because you are from your own family. Sit down quickly and listen to my mother. You have some good ideas, so you might as well talk about them in detail." Chen Jiao'er said warmly.

It may be that Chen Jiao'er's tone dispelled his worries, or it may be that he talked about something he was familiar with. Su Dazhuang went from being embarrassed at the beginning to being in high spirits later.He came up with every idea after traveling to many places and seeing it with his own eyes, and he talked clearly and clearly.

After finishing speaking, he wiped his sweat with excitement, only to realize that he had lost his composure, and smiled awkwardly.After listening carefully, Chen Jiao'er said with emotion, "It's because I don't know people, and I'm still looking for uncut jade everywhere. From now on, Uncle Su will be the treasurer of our Jinxiu Pavilion."

"He, as the shopkeeper, can this work?" Mother Su just heard this sentence when she returned to the living room after finishing the previous work.She knows her husband's temperament too well, he is too honest, and his mouth is not sweet enough.If he does something, he promises to handle it properly for you, but being a shopkeeper is not the same.

Seeing what Mama Su was thinking, Chen Jiao'er smiled and said, "We'll just hire two guys like that if you're glib, we're just a small embroidery pavilion, we don't have any dignitaries here, so it doesn't matter if Uncle Su receives any distinguished guests. "

Cherry couldn't help persuading Mama Su a few words, and in the end, Mama Su calmed down, glanced at Su Dazhuang, and said with a smile, "It's hard for Miss to trust you, and I will do things for Miss well in the future.",

Su Dazhuang didn't know how to say bold words, he just lowered his head and smiled, and thanked Chen Jiao'er with clasped fists.

Chen Jiao'er asked Mother Su to sit down again, and after thinking for a while, she said, "Uncle Su's idea is very good. I'll go outside and collect some embroidery work in the future. I'm willing to exchange some pocket money for farms or small households to collect some. Press embroidery Pay for the quality of work, and the price is all set by Su's mother.

Try to have as many styles as possible, such as flowers, plants, insects, fish, mandarin ducks, etc., so that the guests who come to the door can choose their favorite styles.In addition, I put away all of Su's mother's gold needle embroidery, and specially ordered a cabinet with only three decorations, which are only for viewing and not for sale. "

"Ah, why not sell it?" Su's mother didn't understand, so she turned her head to look at Su Dazhuang, also confused.

"Because things are rare and expensive, if someone inquires about it, they will say that the palace embroidered the embroidered tributes to the palace, which are too precious to make the shop prosperous." When Chen Jiao'er was a slave in the palace, she also saw many good things from the prince. Rich and powerful people love this unique and gimmick-filled thing.

"If someone really wants it." Su Dazhuang said.

"I just said I would ask my boss, and I will reply in three days. All handkerchiefs start at five taels of silver, small ornaments start at ten taels, and large ornaments start at fifty taels." Chen Jiao'er gritted her teeth and quoted what she thought was a sky-high price.

"This, it's so expensive, can someone ask for it?" Mama Su's legs were trembling. She has embroidered all her life, but she has never sold it for this price.

"Is it possible that the same thing as the empress dowager and the emperor is not expensive? If it is expensive, it is right. Uncle must remember that customers who think it is expensive tell him directly, don't buy it, and then don't pay attention to him." Chen Jiao'er was afraid that Su Dazhuang would not understand, so she gave instructions for a long time.

"The last one is the gift method used by the uncle. I think it is feasible. I can also embroider some simple purses. The rich people often ask for rewards. I am afraid that I can't embroider them with my own embroiderer, especially at the end of the year.

Uncle Su can think about the style, color and pattern, and send a batch of purses to the girls from rich families.If it is used well, the owner will buy it in large quantities. "

Su Dazhuang and Su's mother nodded again and again, keeping all these in their minds and preparing to start to do it tomorrow.

"Also, the clerk in the store, double his wages." Chen Jiao'er remembered that when she entered the store just now, she was obviously dressed very ordinaryly, and even the shopkeeper mistook her for an embroiderer who came to sell embroidery.Only this guy doesn't judge people by their appearance, and introduces this and that enthusiastically.

"Hehe, Agui is a capable child. If this lady doesn't say anything, I'm going to give him a raise." Su Dazhuang answered with a smile. This is the waiter he met when he went out to invite people to dinner. At that time, he thought he was special. Clever and sharp-tongued.It was also a coincidence that when the shopkeeper bullied him, he was aggrieved and dared not speak out, so he came forward and invited him here.

"That's good. When we finish our business, we can find another guy, and we can look for him like him." Chen Jiao'er pursed her lips and smiled.

"Well, it will definitely be fine." Su Dazhuang seemed to be cheering himself up, and seemed to want to reassure the young lady, so he finally said such a sentence.

"Ms. Su, there is a guest looking for our boss." The man named A Gui shouted from the courtyard gate.

"Hey, I'll go and have a look." Su Dazhuang went to the front with Su's mother, and after a while, Su's mother turned around and said, "It's not for the two of us, it's really for the young lady, and it seems to be someone from the Dongjun Prince's Mansion."

"How is it possible, what are the people from the Dongjun Prince's Mansion looking for Miss?" Cherry's eyes widened, puzzled.

"The old lady worked in the Dongjun Prince's Mansion, so the material of the servant's clothes should be correct, and the man said that he was an old acquaintance of the young lady." Su's mother's eyes flickered a little. What an old acquaintance, this...

"Let them come in." Chen Jiao'er smiled at Su's mother, of course she could see what Su's mother was thinking, but she didn't know what the situation was.All I know is that if you are really from the palace, you can't hide from him, so why don't you just see why you came here.

"The daughter of the people pays homage to the son, and the son is safe and blessed." Seeing the person, Chen Jiao'er was startled, and hurriedly stood up from the chair of the Eight Immortals to salute.

"Well, no, you two go out." Zhou Mingyuan ordered Zhusheng who came with him, and the cherry beside Chen Jiao'er.It is full of power and influence, as if it is only right and proper.

Cherry quickly glanced at Chen Jiao'er, and jumped out like a rabbit before getting a reply.

"My son is here, I don't know what to order." Chen Jiao'er saw the other party's calm face, and said bravely.

"Don't you invite me to sit down?" Even so, without waiting for Chen Jiao'er to speak, she took the master's seat boldly.

Last night, he suddenly rode to Chen's mansion together, but he didn't go in.After running around Chen's mansion, he returned to Wang's mansion in desperation.

Seeing Chen Jiao'er obediently standing aside like a rabbit today, Zhou Mingyuan suddenly felt in a good mood.

"Chen Jiao'er, I think it's Lu Jiao'er. When did the Lu family come out from Annan, and what are they planning to do?"

"Ah..." Chen Jiao'er was at a loss when she heard it, and spared her another life, but she didn't understand what Zhou Mingyuan was talking about, what about the Lu family, what came from Annan?

"Hmph, I'm still pretending. Tell me, what did you take from our house?" Zhou Mingyuan looked at her slap-sized face, and his bright eyes flickered at him.

I thought to myself, the Lu family is really willing to pay the capital, accept such a beauty as an apprentice, and send it out of the mountain gate, and I don't know what it is for.

"If I say that I don't know any Lu family at all. I broke in accidentally when I was in the palace. When I saw someone coming in, I hid to avoid misunderstanding, and then I didn't take anything. Do you believe it?" Chen Jiao'er said cautiously .

"Of course I don't believe it. I'm about to enter the palace, and I'm still pretending in front of me. Didn't I pretend that I didn't want to enter the palace at the beginning? It turned out that I wanted to enter the palace justifiably." Zhou Mingyuan said angrily.

He didn't believe that the people of the Lu family would be manipulated by an old woman.

"I won't enter the palace." Chen Jiao'er was a little angry. Although he was the son of the eldest son, there was no need to go to him and say something inexplicable, and then blame her.

"Do you think I'll believe it?" Zhou Mingyuan opened his eyes wider and found that she was actually angry.The small face was wrinkled into a ball, like a bun just out of the oven, making people want to reach out...

"It doesn't matter if you believe it or not. You are the son of the world. But I haven't offended you, and I haven't violated the laws of the Great Zhou Dynasty. Why do you ask me these words? Believe me or not, are we...very familiar?" Chen Jiao'er was so angry that she couldn't choose what to say, and then she couldn't help laughing, as if she and him really knew each other very well.

"You, you, I don't care. If you don't make your intentions clear, I won't let you into the palace." Zhou Mingyuan found a hundred reasons for himself, and the last one finally stood up.

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