The Landlord And His Wife

Liu Xuer is now both surprised and happy, looking at him with big eyes and smiling: "How much is it?!"

Shi Cheng smiled and pointed to the counter: "At the end of June, two sachets were sold."

Liu Xuer exclaimed in surprise: "Really?!" She hurriedly ran over to see, sure enough, only two of the four sachets she had made before, she ran back in surprise: "Then why didn't you tell my father? Make him happy too!"

"Surprise you! Besides, when you go back and tell your parents, your parents will definitely think that you are very capable, and I can't steal your limelight, hahaha!" Shicheng said with a laugh.

"Why can I sell two sachets at once?" Liu Xuer was excited, and then asked strangely: "It's been a few months, and I can't sell one before, why suddenly Just sold two?"

It stands to reason that the Ghost Festival and the Girl's Festival have little to do with the sachet.

Shicheng said: "You should have seen the purse today, the picture is to put things in it, it is summer now, the sachet purse can be filled with calamus, mint, fenugreek, etc. Mosquito repellent, in addition, if the sachet is filled with orchids and sweet-scented osmanthus, the eldest girl likes it." He whispered: "80% of the time, I will go to hook up with my lover on Tanabata..."

Liu Xuer stretched out her hand and hit him, and then she suddenly realized that she was only thinking about festivals and solar terms, but forgot to pay attention to the seasons, now in summer, as Shicheng said, purses and sachets are filled with fragrance Thick flowers and plants repel mosquitoes, which is why purses and sachets sell well by accident.

She regrets a little: "I didn't embroider a few purses this time, and the sachets have never been sold or embroidered before...and I felt it was too troublesome. Not to mention the pouch, it takes seven or eight days to embroider one."

Shicheng said: "Then you don't have to regret it, it's sold out! There's nothing you can do if it's out of stock. Today is a trial run, and you'll know everything next year." He laughed again: "I also have purses in the goods, but they are not as delicate as yours, and the craftsmanship is far worse, but they are also cheap, 300 yuan each, and my purses are also selling very well these days."

Liu Xuer let out an 'ah', and hurriedly asked him to take one to see for himself, the price difference is so far, can others buy their own? !

But when Shicheng brought it over to take a look, she suddenly realized that this kind of purse did not look like it was carefully embroidered by people, the material was worse than her own, and the embroidery was even more average. The purse is embroidered with flowers in the center and on the four sides, as well as dark patterns, and the patterns are also exquisite. But this kind of purse is just a simple embroidered flower on it, and it is the same, nothing else. It is indeed far worse than my own in terms of refinement. It sells for 300 yuan, and my own 800 yuan is not expensive at all.

Liu Xuer nodded and said: "It's really not the same... Where do you buy all these goods in your shop? Is it made by someone from a nearby village?"

Shicheng shook his head: "How is it possible, how much can be made like that? Some things are like purses, handkerchiefs, etc., all of which are imported from the south, and there are looms in the south, these things are It is made in batches, even if the embroidery on it is artificially embroidered, it is all the same, and it is all made by the embroidery mother of the embroidery workshop, so it is naturally not so delicate."

Say it."

Liu Xuer smiled and nodded, and said, "No, I have no guts to compete with you! I'm already content to drink some soup!" He asked, "What about the other things?"

"I found out that people in this county like to go out to buy things on the day of the festival. The more people there are, the more crowded they are, and the more they want to pay."

Liu Xuer laughs, when are people like this! Just to have a good time.

The two talked and laughed for a while, and Shicheng took the morning account. When Liushu and Liulin came, Liushu took the Liu family's own account, and Shicheng settled their account with them. The two sachets are only four taels, plus the others, there are more than 3,000 yuan. This time, before the serious festival, it has already received more than 7,000 yuan.

This time, Liu Xuer was not too excited. She still paid the rent of the cabinet. This time, she paid it for three months when she had money, and it was handed over to the end of this month.

For household use, this thousand yuan was exchanged for one or two whole pieces of silver to save. After a lot of tossing, more than seven taels were all gone. Apart from saving one or two, they only had a few hundred coins left.

But this is not the beginning of the festival yet! The festivals in July and August are all about going out to visit the lanterns. The more people come out, the better the business will naturally be.

Several people are confident. Uncle Chen came back from dinner and asked them to go to dinner. This time, there were no adults with him, so Shi Cheng seriously wanted to invite a few people to dinner.

Willow is still a little muttered, Liu Lin has become addicted to being a clerk these days, and he doesn’t care about eating, always wondering if the shop will be busy now? The two were unwilling to go too far, and they were unwilling to eat too expensive. In the end, Shicheng could only invite a few people to the nearby shaozi noodle stall, each of them ate a bowl of saozi noodles, and then Back to the shop.

Uncle Chen looked at them and asked Shicheng in a low voice, Shicheng asked him to go to the jewelry store over there to help, and it was convenient for a few people here. Uncle Chen also meant it the same way, he agreed to go over there.

Several people guarded the shop in the afternoon. Not to mention Shicheng, Liu Lin is already very sophisticated, greeting guests and so forth, generously.

Willow is keeping accounts here. He has already bought an account book. Willow Xuer leaned forward to look and saw that his writing was neat and tidy.

"The prefect has already been transferred, but my father said that it is not busy for the time being. Although he is gone, the remaining forces are still there, waiting for a year or two. Also, my father eats After this big loss, I am a lot more cautious, and I feel that even if it is business, don’t be too early, and let people pay attention…” Shi Cheng whispered to Liu Xu’er here, as long as the two of them whispered. At that time, he always had a bit of a combination of local and foreign in his speech: "What he means is that the piece of the countryside cannot be thrown away. The fields and orchards still have to be operated, and they should even be expanded."

Liu Xuer asked: "Is your mother unhappy?"

Shi Cheng nodded: "Of course I'm not happy, my mother can't wait to move to this big house in the city now! I've already asked someone to clean it up, if it wasn't for my father's support, it would have to pass. Let's talk about Nian... My father's meaning is that it's too obvious to move out right away, it's a bit abrupt, and it's like a countryman at the beginning, and suddenly there is a house and a shop, even a villager is a little embarrassed to meet. "

"Where was your mother born? I'm sure you still want to be in the city?"

Shi Cheng nodded: "It was already January and February of next year when I was born, so I should have gone to the county seat." He paused and said: "We are not so hidden now, Xiao Chen. I have already returned to the jewelry shop over there to continue working as a clerk, and I am basically in charge of the shop here. There is also the courtyard where I live. In fact, our family has already bought it, but it has only been bought for a long time. , I'm still cleaning, my mother meant to renovate it, my father felt it was too public... still discussing."

He said to Liu Xuer: "So, don't worry about where you live. Your two brothers and I live very safely. The gatekeeper at the gate of the courtyard is our servant."

Liu Xuer nodded and sighed again: "Maybe you moved to the city this year... Suddenly you have changed from a countryman to a big family, and there are already servants, and the courtyard is deep. what!"

Shicheng sneered: "So what? I'm not living in the city now? You can come as you want! Besides, if you want to move to the city, It's not that difficult. The courtyard where I live now has thirteen rooms in total, the main room, the back room, the backside room, and the utility room. It only cost 80 taels to buy it. If you really want to move to the city, there are so many. The kind of house without a yard is also a row of three main rooms. There is no problem for a family to live in. That kind of house costs thirty or forty taels, or even the location is not good. buy it."

Liu Xuer was stunned: "Twenty taels is expensive enough, how much skill can our family have..."

Shicheng said without waiting for her to finish: "Right! You don't know yet, do you? Your third uncle and your third aunt live in the north of the city, just bought the one I mentioned. A two-bedroom house with three rooms in a row, living with another family, it still has a yard, it is estimated that it cost about thirty or forty taels."

Liu Xuer then remembered that there were still two people, and shook her head: "I almost forgot about these two." Has the house of thirty or forty taels already taken the third aunt Jia? All the household belongings are used up? But thinking about it, I think it's impossible. Even if the third uncle and the third aunt are helped by the third aunt's family, it is impossible for them to have thirty or forty taels at once. This matter... I feel strange no matter how I think about it. She shook her head, too lazy to bother about these two.

Shicheng laughs.

Liu Xuer sighed and said, "I know what you mean, but in the end our family is only from a poor peasant family, and now we have barely managed a profitable business. I haven't seen the silver ingot before, and now I can go back with the whole ingot, which is already very good. But I asked my parents to accept it all at once and move to the city, and they also spent dozens of taels of silver to buy a house. ...It is estimated that this idea is impossible for a while, and at least we have to have the strength, the backing of money that can afford a house, and the continuous source of money, so that they can think about this aspect. ...So, it's still early! Let's not talk about that for now."