Chapter 40 Re-raising Costs
There are four people in the family, and after racking their brains for a few days, they haven't come up with a way to coax their younger brother, but Ye Zhiqiu has the ability, but after an hour of hard work, this is the little young master who is happy and resentful in the Xiao Mansion actually has a temper. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info not only obediently eliminated the anger in his stomach, but also obediently drank medicine without making noise.
The younger brother is the meat of Xiao Chusu's heart, just because he competes with himself is enough for Xiao Chusu to feel distressed for a long time, and now Ye Zhiqiu has persuaded her younger brother for her, Xiao Chusu should be grateful in his heart.
While thanking Ye Zhiqiu for his help, he sighed that his three stinkers were not as good as Ye Zhiqiu's Zhuge Liang, but they gave the three brothers a headache.
They don't know the famous and decent heads of the rivers and lakes, even if they really want to untie the knot in their brother's heart, they are willing but powerless. Besides, it's not just that the three of them can't think of a way to do this, but the eldest sister is also upset about this matter, but she doesn't even have a useful way. As far as the younger brother is concerned, the eldest sister, like them, can't compete with Ye Zhiqiu, Zhuge Liang. It's just that they only dare to say it in their hearts, as for the face.
Don't be kidding, if you let the eldest sister know that they slander in their hearts, you will ask the eldest sister to pick up the skin.
Thanks to Ye Zhiqiu, the year has arrived, and Ye Zhiqiu has no urgent matters, and finally under the retention of the head of the Xiao family, Ye Zhiqiu stayed in the Xiao family for the New Year. Ye Zhiqiu stayed in the Xiao family for the New Year, Xiao Chuning was very happy, after all, this is a well-known gentleman sword on the rivers and lakes, and if he can be taught and taught by him personally, even a few tricks are enough to be the envy of the knights of the rivers and lakes.
Xiao Chuning is a teenager, his body is the most healthy, even if he has internal injuries, as long as he takes care of them for a month, no matter how serious the internal injuries are, he can be properly healed. A few dollars a day ginseng raised, this month of recuperation, Rao is serious internal injuries have now healed.
Xiao Chuning is very active, but he can't be bored for a few days, and he wants to go out, if it weren't for Xiao Chu's calmness, he insisted that he stay in bed honestly and lie on the bed for half a month, this active and restless Xiao Young Master is afraid that he would have turned the Xiao family upside down a long time ago.
Finally got the approval of the eldest sister, and it can be regarded as being able to leave the suffocating room, Xiao Chuning's first thing is to carry his sword, go to the garden to find Ye Zhiqiu, and make trouble Ye Zhiqiu personally teach swordsmanship. Swordsmanship is the foundation of chivalry, if it weren't for the fact that the disciples of this sect categorically had no intention of teaching, it was also Ye Zhiqiu who was a gentleman, and his temperament was also warm, so he could stand Xiao Chuning's repeated request and gave him a few tricks.
However, thanks to Ye Zhiqiu's allocation, Xiao Chuning, who has something to do, is not so idle and noisy, otherwise a broken heart of Xiao Churui, plus a short-tempered Xiao Chuning, if these two people are mixed together, who knows how much the world will have to turn this year upside down.
Chu Ning's matter is also settled, Cangteng's kind of deceitful sect, Xiao Chuning said that he would not go back. In that kind of place, if you have the courage to trick him for five or six years, if you don't rush up and burn the entire sect to the ground, he will feel that this damn place is cheap, let alone return there.
Although the Xiao family has a lot of silver, it is not so much that they have to ask others to help them spend it if they can't spend it themselves. So this Cangteng directly made Xiao Chuning disgusted, his body was just sharp, everything about Cangteng was burned to him, even the pigeon who came and went to the house with Cangteng and specially transmitted letters for himself was all roasted and eaten by the little young master.
According to Xiao Chuning's words, he felt disgusted when he looked at these pigeons, but he pinched the eldest sister and felt wasteful, so he simply slaughtered them all on the night of the Chinese New Year's Eve, so as not to make more trouble the more he looked.
The knot in the younger brother's heart opened, this year was naturally smooth, although the second brother who was far away still has no news, but for this second brother who has never seen before, Xiao Chu didn't think much about it. I only know that the second young man of the Xiao family has always been like this, so I don't particularly care about it, I just care about these bastards in the family, don't take the opportunity to make trouble for them.
After all, I have been alone for many years, if I have a few more brothers, although I am troubled, I finally feel at home.
It's been a lively year, and I don't know if it's because Ye Zhiqiu stayed in the Xiao family for the New Year, or if the limelight has passed. This year, in addition to comfort, I didn't see thieves coming, so it was lively.
Spring has also arrived, and Xiao Chusu has always been suspicious of the accounts of the tea shop. It's just that because of the thief a few years ago, and there is no evidence at hand, she has been putting this matter on hold. Now that spring is approaching, and it's time to buy spring tea, some unclear accounts are now cleared.
This year's accounts have been reviewed from the new one, and since the cloth workshop has been replaced with a new shopkeeper, the business of this cloth workshop has been getting better day by day, not only has it returned to the good business of the past, but it is even much better than when Master Xiao was alive.
This Li Xiaosan is a sweet-mouthed master, because his family has been poor and suffered, so he can get the position of shopkeeper, and he has always regarded Xiao Chusu as a living benefactor in his heart. He is even more diligent and cautious in his work. is a guy in the cloth workshop, he is familiar with the cloth factory business, plus he has a thief in his brain, his mouth is sweet, and he can speak well and not put a shopkeeper on the shelf. With the support of Sun's shopkeeper's private profits for several years, the business of the cloth workshop has expanded several times in just half a year.
Xiao Chusu is very accurate, this Li Xiaosan is indeed a person who is good at business, and he is really grateful to Xiao Chushou, so the matter of the cloth workshop is handed over to Li Xiaosan, and Xiao Chusan is at ease.
There is no need for Xiao Chu to worry about the cloth workshop, but the tea workshop is here.
It needs to be rebuilt.
Spread out the accounts of the tea shop over the years, one after another, and after scanning the account books on the table at a glance, Xiao Chuxuan shouted outside the house.
"Xiangzhu."
Hearing the young lady's summons, Xiang Zhu immediately entered the study, and walked to Xiao Chu's side, Xiang Zhu asked, "Miss, what do you command?" ”
"Hurry up and prepare the sedan chair, I want to go to the tea house."
"Teahouse?"
After a slight pause, he looked at the accounts on the desk, and after glancing at them, Xiang Zhu said clearly: "The eldest lady has made up her mind to investigate?" ”
"yes, it's been a few months, and it's time to do it." After a pause, Xiao Chushu said: "There is no evidence, and the accounts are done simply, and I don't even bother to make any fakes." Even if I wanted to investigate this matter, I couldn't find a suitable opportunity for a while. But now, the opportunity has come, and now is the season to choose spring tea. Spring tea, when the tea shop is newly selected, it is necessary to choose, then it is time to check the cost. ”
The accounts are innocent and the cost is raised, because the half of the fake has not been made, but Xiao Chusu doesn't know where to start. There is no reason, it is necessary to rectify it, if it is clear, it is fine, if it is not found out why, then the trouble is still yourself. It wasn't a good time before, but now that spring tea will be on the market, it's a once-in-a-lifetime good time.
If the cost is high, the profit is small, which is a taboo for businessmen. In the past, the cost of purchasing and purchasing was desperate to minimize the cost, but now there are people who wantonly swallow the cost under their noses, and if such a bad trend is not controlled in time, the business will not be done.
The spring tea was on the market, and it was the best time for Xiao Chusu to check the whole tea workshop, and he immediately took care of it, and then retreated to prepare the sedan chair.
After the sedan chair was ready, Xiao Chuxuan got on the sedan chair and went to the tea house. Because the new year has just passed half a month, the new tea has not yet been listed, so the business of the tea shop is not as prosperous as the previous year, and the guys are leaning on the crosswood, closing their eyes and taking the opportunity to be lazy.
Every time the eldest lady came to the teahouse, she came quietly, because she didn't know that the eldest lady would have to come here today, so when she saw the eldest lady enter the teahouse, those guys who took the opportunity to fish almost jumped out of their throats.
was busy and busy, and was afraid that the eldest lady would think that they had nothing to do and deduct their wages. People are inert, this is human nature, so sometimes when business is not very prosperous, the guys are lazy once or twice, and Xiao Chuxuan doesn't see it at all. Entered the teahouse and asked a guy from the side, Xiao Chusu asked.
"Where is Shopkeeper Tang now?"
"Back to the eldest lady, the shopkeeper is now in the inner courtyard."
"The Inner Courtyard?"
"Yes, it's not spring, and it's time to buy new tea, so the shopkeeper is discussing spring tea with Brother Tang in the inner courtyard."
"Oh! Discussion? So I've come to the right time. ”
The man's words caused Xiao Chu to murmur softly, the murmur was not loud, and the guy didn't really hear it, and when he was suspicious, he asked if he wanted to let him into the inner courtyard first, but Xiao Chusu stopped him. Raising his hand to signal that he didn't need to make another trip, Xiao Chuxuan said, "No need, I'll just go in by myself." ”
After speaking, he turned his head and bowed a little at Xiang Zhu, and Xiao Chuxuan walked towards the inner courtyard. In the inner hall of the inner courtyard, Xiao Chusu had been here before, and now he was familiar with the road, but in a moment, he arrived in the inner hall. Before he arrived, he heard the voice of the shopkeeper Tang and his nephew talking in the inner hall.
"Uncle, you can leave it to me with confidence, this spring tea selection was not done by my nephew in which year. This time, the nephew must also do it properly, uncle, you can settle a hundred hearts. ”
"Well, I'm relieved that you're doing things, I've lost you in the past few years, otherwise I'll run inside and out, and I don't know if my old bones can stand this kind of toss."
"Uncle has the grace of reinvention for his nephew, and the nephew should solve problems for his uncle. Not to mention that it is just running for my uncle in the spring and autumn every year, so that he can go to the knife mountain and go to the oil pot, and the nephew is also happy. Even if one didn't step into the inner hall, just listening to the sound of this talk, he knew what kind of flattering and evil smile this Tang shopkeeper's nephew had on his face.
With such flattery words, Xiao Chusu and Xiang Zhu naturally felt disgusted, but the Tang shopkeeper was obviously quite useful, and he smiled a little more in his tone. With a smile in his words, the shopkeeper Tang said: "Bah, bah, what are you talking about going up the knife mountain and going down the oil pot, it's so unlucky." You are my own nephew, is it possible that I can still ask you to go up the knife mountain and go down to the oil pot? ”
"Yes, yes, bad luck, bad luck, uncle loves his nephew the most, and his nephew knows this. Look at my nephew's mouth, what kind of nonsense I just said, uncle, don't take it to heart, just think that my nephew just let out a fart. Those bad words, uncle, don't put it on your heart. ”
"Don't worry, I won't take those words to heart, after all, we have the same surname, and my own family has no more than these."
"Yes, yes." He was busy answering for a moment, and then paused slightly, and after a moment's pause, the nephew's tone was noticeably more depressed. Gently suppressed in a voice, as if testing something, the nephew said: "By the way, uncle, what I told you yesterday, you ......"
"Yesterday, you mean that this year's Yuanzhou sent the principal and interest accounts in advance, but it was approved?"
"Yes, uncle, you don't know, the tea farmers in the far continent are becoming more and more tricky and hateful. This year, the wages have risen year by year, and the price has been okay in the past, and the price is fair, but in the past few years, I don't know how, those tea farmers are like reaching out to grab silver, and the price has risen, and it is several percent, and they don't even have to turn their eyes. If we are not happy to give money, they will go on strike, which is really angry. If it weren't for the efforts of the bear master of the far continent to suppress it, my nephew and I had to work hard to push the price down by one or two points, and this is where we have the price we have now. But uncle, you also have to know, those tea farmers are the most arrogant, as long as the silver rises in a year, they want to increase the silver every year. No, I asked Xiao Er to go to Yuanzhou to explore, and these tea farmers will have to increase their wages again this year, just like the accounts sent by Master Xiong, and they will increase by another tenth. ”
"What, it's gone up by 10% in one breath this year."
How tricky this tea farmer is, he has heard his nephew complain over the years, and the shopkeeper Tang understands it in his heart, so he heard his nephew mention the silver yesterday, and he has some spectrum in his heart. But I had a spectrum in my heart, and I never expected that this rise would be one into two silver.
Immediately, the shopkeeper Tang was furious, moved his body to re-photograph the table, and the shopkeeper Tang said: "Diao Nong, those tea farmers are Diao Nong, the price last year was already outrageous, and this year I want to increase it by another percent." If this amount of silver rises by them, I won't be able to do the business of this tea shop. ”
"That's it, the nephew sent out Xiao Er said the same thing, but the tea farmer just didn't follow it and wanted to raise the price. Moreover, the tea farmer also said that if they were not given a wage increase, they would not work, and the wages given by others would increase by 20%. As far as our Xiao family is concerned, they are also used to it, and they only have a one-percent increase in face. ”
"The next family has risen by 20%, just us, only by 10%?"
"yes, yes."
"Fortunately, those farmers and businessmen still have a little conscience, but this success is too much." With hesitation in his words, it seems that this silver pair makes it very difficult for the Tang shopkeeper to do. As soon as these sad words fell, the nephew hurriedly said: "This year's salary has risen too much, uncle, otherwise we will suppress this tea this year?" ”
", our tea shop is still pressing, what are we selling this year? Drink the Northwest Wind? ”
"But the tea."
"Give, the wages of this tea farmer are all paid, not to mention that it is one percent higher, even if it is two percent higher, we have to give it. Our Xiaojia Tea House is the first tea house in Beijing, if there is not enough tea on the counter this year, it will not make people laugh to death. After a while, you go to the counter and put on the silver, how many sticks you want, all in all, I want to see enough spring tea. ”
"Come on, my nephew will do it now."
As soon as Tang's shopkeeper's words fell, his nephew was busy responding, and the uncle and nephew chatted very much inside, but the smile on Xiao Chusu's face outside the house was about to frost.
Shopkeeper Tang didn't have any brains, Xiao Chuxuan knew, but she really couldn't imagine that in a few words, he could make people stunned. What he said just now was extremely ridiculous, and Shopkeeper Tang believed it if he was so ridiculous. To tell the truth, the tea shop has been so tossed by this uncle and nephew, and it has not collapsed until now, Xiao Chusu really doubts whether the ancestor of the Xiao family has appeared and supported it all the way.
While listening, he sneered, and when the words in the room were behind, and the nephew was about to leave the hall, Xiao Chuxuan walked up. I pulled the door, and when I saw it, it was the eldest lady with a pestle outside, and the nephew's heart almost jumped out of his throat. His face turned pale instantly, and he stiffened for a long time before his nephew said.
"Big ...... Miss. ”