Rebirth of the little landlady

Chapter 121 Growing up in Solving Difficulties
These days, Yuanbao has been in close contact with embroiderers every day, and he feels very uncomfortable. No wonder many people are unwilling to be craftsmen. This craftsman is really not easy to do.

With the shopkeeper's order, these embroiderers had to leave the house and stay in the yard day and night like they were in prison. They didn't know when they would be able to go back. Even if there was an emergency at home or they themselves were sick, they couldn't go out. , This is the owner's "effective confidentiality measures".

Embroidery girls work very hard, there is no "work break" at all, they work from morning to night every day, and the pay is very meager. The boss of this feudal society really squeezed them to the bone, and they lived a long life. The lowest servants in the Ni Mansion are not as good as them.

Moreover, it is still very difficult for a craftsman to leave his citizenship, just like Li Nan, before he became a craftsman, he broke away from his two sons and put them in foster care with his younger brother's house, in order not to affect the future career of his sons. For this reason, Li Nan offered a lot of property to his younger brother, but even so his two sons were still being abused.

Because of Li Nan's daughter's status, she can only marry a craftsman in the future, because a craftsman has to be recruited at every turn, sometimes in the shop, sometimes even more powerful, and will be from the court. Ordinary people don't want women to show their faces like this for years and months .

So if nothing unexpected happens, the offspring of Li Nan's daughter will also be registered as a craftsman.

Thinking of these ingots made her feel extremely chilled and scared, and she didn't regret joining Ni's residence as a maid at all.

"Oh——" Ni Zhongchang sighed, "You child, what can I say, unless you leave your hometown, otherwise, what difference does it make if you have the paper contract? They may not be better than the Ni family, it's the same everywhere, in short, if you start this way, don't even think about opening your own shop."

Ni Zhong didn't say these words when he was helping the old man as a lobbyist on the eighth day of the first lunar month, and he didn't know what he meant by mentioning them now. Was it because of getting along with Yuan Bao that they became deeply attached to each other?Or is the old man using his mouth to remind in disguise?
Yuan Bao tentatively said, "I don't want to open a shop. I'm exhausted. I can just paint flowers. Does a flower seller have to sign a contract?"

"This..." Ni Zhong pondered, not as if he was perfunctory, but as if he was really thinking seriously, "I have been in business for so many years, and I have never seen you like this. It's hard to say!"

Yuan Bao made a grimace, "That is, if the shopkeeper had met earlier, wouldn't he have embroidered flowers on eggshells?" She once again showed that she was different.

Ni Zhong was amused by Yuan Bao. Seeing that he was in a good mood, Yuan Bao immediately mentioned another matter, "How is the salary of the embroiderer?"

The smile on Ni Zhong's face disappeared, and he looked at Yuan Bao very vigilantly.

Yuan Bao said, "In addition to going out to find designers, they can also cultivate themselves. For example, this embroidery, even if it looks like a picture, what kind of thread and color matching it can choose is a kind of secondary creation. Even if there are certain rules, it will be different. It’s different. When I turned my head back to the needle, the embroiderers asked me to write down the thread and stitch method of each pattern in the same way, for fear of breaking it, but the things made in this way can easily lose their spirituality.”

Ni Zhong was thoughtful, as if he had been persuaded.

Yuan Bao persisted, "How about this, don't give them fixed wages, but calculate the money according to the number of finished products." In fact, it is like this now, "If the embroidery is broken, they don't need to compensate." , There are supervisors on the side, afraid that they will hide embroidery thread and other materials, and deduct wages if they make a mistake, so the embroiderers are all trembling.

"In this way, they can be more courageous. Once their innovations are adopted, or if they are no worse than the original ones, they will be rewarded. Even if they only give a few cents more per egg, it is also an encouragement. The new tricks will become better and better." There are more and more, who knows which one will sell well?" Yuan Bao tried his best to persuade Ni Zhong that she was not out of good intentions, but she really felt that this would be beneficial to both parties, even she herself could learn from other people's innovations. inspiration.

The reward price of "a few pennies" mentioned by Yuan Bao deeply moved Ni Zhong, yes, with only such a small amount of money, you can get a bigger profit, this is a very cost-effective deal!

Facts have proved that such an approach is very clever. The continuous innovation of professional designers and embroiderers has made the embroidered eggs of the Ni family still invincible after many years, and Yuanbao has also emerged from the works of a large number of embroiderers. In the process, I learned a lot of stitches and how to use them, and the embroidery level has made another leap.

The workshop was on the right track, Yuan Bao hurriedly went to work with Li Nan to make patterns, in fact Li Nan had already made quite a few, but he really wanted to hear Yuan Bao's suggestion and see if there was anything that needed to be revised.

Yunjin agreed to give the designer 20 taels of silver for each pattern of embroidered eggs. It's also 20 taels for one painting. Ni Zhong is happy to see the result. This really solves his big trouble.

Such a high price made Li Nan extremely excited. He never thought that being a painter could earn so much money!And everyone knows that copying is easier than innovation. Yuan Bao himself does unpaid work in the workshop, but let Li Nan take the lead in drawing the pattern for a few days.

Although they have not been masters and apprentices for a long time, the cooperation between the two is still very tacit. They screened it once, and more than 40 new patterns solved the problem at once, and more than half of the goal of [-] patterns has been achieved.

"I can finally breathe a sigh of relief." Yuan Bao sighed.

But Li Nan said, "Yuanbao, how can you put all these patterns on my head?" More than 900 taels of silver!

Yuan Bao said with a smile, "Because I'm much richer than the master." Fearing that Li Nan would refuse again, he hurriedly continued, "I'm going to start my own design after two days off. It's all mine."

Li Nan responded with a smile.

Yuan Bao also said, "Embroidered eggs are a new thing, so the pattern is so easy to design. In the future, it will take more time and thought to design a drawing, and it will not be easy to be colorful, and the money will not be so easy to earn. "

"Okay, Yuan Bao, you're really a money junkie," Li Nan nodded Yuan Bao's nose, "In the past few days, we've already made almost 2000 taels of silver, including painting egg belts and designing egg trays!" All the egg paintings were counted on Li Nan's head, and the matching egg holders, Li Nan said that everything should be counted on Yuan Bao's head.

(End of this chapter)