Enter the Room

After impressing the people in Prince Huai's palace with the right method, Song Jiyun nodded with satisfaction.

Prince Huai's Mansion had always ordered porcelain from Li's Kiln Factory, so they lost the business of Prince Huai's Mansion. The loss of money was not big, but their reputation was greatly affected.

She and Zheng Quan were standing on a tree-lined hillside. Not far away was a construction site where dragon kilns were being built in full swing.

"Li Zixiu will not give up just like this." Zheng Quan said.

"I'm afraid he'll just give up," Song Jiyun sneered in her heart, and she said to Zheng Quan, "You and Mr. Zheng will go to Shangrao to finalize the order from Prince Huai's Mansion."

Mr. Zheng is the master painter in their kiln factory.

From time to time, craftsmen passed by them.

Song Jiyun motioned to Zheng Quan and the others to go to the work shed at the foot of the mountain to talk.

Zheng Quan agreed, and while protecting Song Jiyun as he went down the mountain, he said, "When will the Long Kiln be lit? Do you want He Dazhi and the others to keep an eye on it?"

With fragrant leaves and vanilla by Song Jiuyun's side, he could take a breather.

Song Jiyun knew that he was worried about Li Zixiu. She smiled and said: "He is not that stupid. Not to mention whether the dragon kiln can be fired, even if it can be fired, it is not our family's business."

People in Jingdezhen are now waiting and watching. Half of them think that Song Jiuyun can be fired into a dragon kiln, and half of them think that Song Jiuyun has made a lot of money recently and is getting high-spirited, so he is fooling around.

Some kiln factory owners were willing to bet on Song Jiuyun's success. They used many connections to find Song Jiyun and wanted to use her dragon kiln to burn a few pieces of porcelain.

Song Jiuyun was all down.

However, the wages charged are not cheap.

"When to order the kiln, it depends on when the Changjiang gang has finished building the kiln." Song Jiyun and Zheng Quan turned sideways and let a worker pushing a wheelbarrow go first, "Half of the Changjiang masters in Jingdezhen are already in this kiln factory. , if they don’t build it well, they won’t smash our family’s signature.”

She said half-jokingly, nodded towards the worker who nodded gratefully to her, and walked down the hillside.

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When Li Zixiu returned to Liang County and was worried about losing the order from Prince Huai's Palace, he heard that Song Jiyun was going to open a dragon kiln.

He sneered repeatedly: "I haven't learned how to walk, so I just want to run. Don't fall down and get up."

The chief manager who came back from Shangrao with him did not dare to speak.

In the past, Prince Huai's Mansion also asked other kilns to help bake porcelain, but the main porcelain was still entrusted to Li's kiln. This time they went to Prince Huai's Mansion. The chief official of Prince Huai's Mansion was very cold to them, and the chief butler even closed the door.

There is no room for change when it comes to orders.

It is impossible for them to get orders for at least next year.

"I knew that Song Youliang had no good intentions when he sent people to send porcelain to the chief manager of Prince Huai's Mansion every now and then." Li Zixiu gritted his teeth and said, "Now the old one is dead, and here is the younger one. I really thought that The job in Prince Huai's Mansion is so good!"

But as soon as he finished speaking, the old servant of the concierge came in with an embarrassed look and said: "Master, then, then Mr. Wang is here. He said that if you don't go out to see him, he will hang himself at the door of our house and let Jingjing De suppress him. Everyone knows that you bribed him to change the glaze for the Song Kiln Factory, but now you are using him to cover it..."

Li Zixiu was furious and said, "If he wants to die, let him die."

He also ordered the chief steward: "Go and give him a belt!"

The chief manager knew that he was angry, so he looked at the concierge and advised him gently: "Master, please calm down. Mr. Wang is desperate now and is in urgent need of medical treatment. Don't be like him. If you make things worse, After all, it is a human life, and there is no need to go to the Yamen for such a person."

Li Zixiu was stunned and said, "What happened?"

In the past few days, he had been worrying about how to save the order from Prince Huai's Mansion.

The chief manager told Li Zixiu about Yan Ji's glaze shop: "Business is getting worse now. Even if you go to their shop to buy glaze, you are not required to pay a deposit first, and then pay the full price after the porcelain is fired. . Just keep the price very low. The shop will either lose money or have to spend a lot of money. All the business has gone to the Xing family. Mr. Wang is crazy. He tells everyone that you are the one who caused it! I want you. Pay him ninety thousand taels of silver!"

"Why didn't you tell me such an important thing earlier?" Li Zixiu jumped up when he heard this, then came back to his senses and said, "When did I owe him 90,000 taels of silver?"

Even if it is compensation, it will only be enough to compensate him 80,000 taels of silver.

The chief manager complained in his heart, thinking that I told you when you first came back, but your mind was not on it and you seemed not to hear it. What can I do?

But he couldn't say that, so he still said patiently: "Look, why don't you invite Mr. Wang to come in and talk? There are a bunch of people watching the fun outside. After all, it will harm your reputation."

"Let him in!" Li Zixiu felt as if he had swallowed a fly and had to let Mr. Wang come in to talk.

Mr. Wang ran in looking haggard and disheveled. The image is very embarrassing.

"You pay me the money!" He reached out and grabbed Li Zixiu's lapel, "You caused our family's century-old foundation to be destroyed in one fell swoop. We have nothing! Barefoot people are not afraid of people wearing shoes. If you don't pay me the money, I I'll die for you!"

Li Zixiu finally broke free from Boss Wang and cursed: "Are you a woman? You will live or die!" He also said: "Did I hurt you? Didn't you agree happily at the time! Why, something happened now , just put the blame entirely on my head! There is no risk in anything you do. Just make a profit without losing money, how can such a good thing happen!"

After hearing this, Mr. Wang was trembling with anger, and took Li Zixiu to see the official, threatening that if Li Zixiu didn't repay him the ninety thousand taels of silver, he and Li Zixiu would die together.

Li Zixiu was so anxious because of the affairs of Prince Huai's Mansion that he was not in the mood to deal with him. Seeing that he looked like a rogue, there was nothing he could do. But it was impossible for him to pay Mr. Wang 90,000 taels of silver.

He tried to reason with Mr. Wang, but Mr. Wang refused to let go of the ninety thousand taels he had promised that morning.

The chief manager couldn't stand it any longer, so he pulled Li Zixiu aside and said, "The top priority now is Prince Huai's Mansion. If you have the time to chat with him, you will lose more than the ten thousand taels."

Li Zixiu thought this made sense, but he was still a little heartbroken when he was asked to take 90,000 taels in one breath.

He discussed with Mr. Wang: "You also know that I went to Shangrao, where I had to do a lot of work. Now I really don't have 90,000 taels of silver in my hand. Do you think this will work? I'll give you 20,000 taels first. Two months later, I’ll give you the rest.”

Mr. Wang took twenty thousand taels of silver and left.

But the next day, he came again: "I don't believe you. If you don't give me the remaining 70,000 taels of silver, I will go to the official with you."

He also said proudly: "Didn't you say that you don't deserve my silver? Then why did you pay me back 20,000 taels of silver?"

Li Zixiu was stunned by his shamelessness.

But Mr. Wang seems to have found a way to deal with Li Zixiu and follows Li Zixiu every day. Wherever Li Zixiu goes, he will go.

Seeing that this was not an option, Li Zixiu gritted his teeth and gave him the remaining 70,000 taels.

Mr. Wang is at peace, but Mrs. Wang goes around saying Li Zixiu: "He is the root of a bad family! If our master hadn't had no independent opinion, had a soft ear, and listened to his words, how could our family have ended up like this?"

It made the whole Jingdezhen talk about Li Zixiu.

She was still not satisfied, so she ran to Song Jiyun to talk to Song Jiyun about Li Zixiu.