Chapter 150: The Auction Begins
Lin Yujuan went in and inquired, and everything was expensive. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
"This lady, don't look at the price, you have to look at the quality. This is a Huzhou pen, there are rabbit hair, wolf hair, sheep hair and so on. You see that the workmanship of this is "sharp, Qi, round, and healthy" four virtues. "The shopkeeper's introduction is quite neat, but it's a pity that the eyes are flattering and thrown to the blind man.
Lin Yujuan not only doesn't know anything about how to identify the quality of a pen, she doesn't even know what kind of quality a pen should have. But I guess the guy introduced it like this, and the whole industry must be based on those.
She suddenly felt that she knew too little, or she had seen too little.
So Lin Yujuan asked this guy to introduce her pen, ink, paper, and inkstone one by one, and only bought a set of medium-priced brushes, which cost five taels of silver. It's not that she is reluctant to buy it because it is too expensive, but the gift she gave is too expensive for Jiang Mingde to accept. So the price should be about the same.
After the master and servant returned home, Lin Yujuan handed over this set of pens to Li Dajiang and asked him to send them to Jiang Mingde to thank him for his care a while ago.
When Jiang Mingde returned home that night, the porter told him about Lin Yujuan's gift to him. When he returned to the study, he smiled at the fact that it was a set of brushes. And asked Zhishu to go to Lin Ji to return the gift, and by the way, ask them when the sisters and brothers will go back for the New Year.
As the saying goes: the daughter who marries out spills the water. Since the Lin family has announced to the public that Lin Yujuan has married away from home, it is reasonable to stay in her mother-in-law's house during the Chinese New Year. Lin Yujuan naturally stayed in Yangzhou during the Chinese New Year, but fortunately, Li Dajiang's family was there.
Lin Yusuo is not at home all the year round and is far away from his parents, so Lin Yujuan plans to let him go back to his hometown Qintong after entering the wax moon, so that he can spend more time with his parents.
It's been almost a year since the sister and brother came to Yangzhou, so Lin Yujuan also knows where to find a reliable boatman. She planned to ask Li Dajiang to send Yusuo back to Qintong, and then return to Yangzhou with the ship. The hired boatman must also have a small family in Yangzhou, only in this way can she rest assured.
After Zhishu went back, he truthfully reported Lin Yujuan's plan to Jiang Mingde, and Jiang Mingde listened to it and sat quietly in the study for a long time before picking up the book and reading again.
The owner of the tooth shop that Lin Yujuan found was surnamed Shen, and he originally just came to the city from the nearby countryside to make a living. However, because of some vision, flexible head, and sleek and sophisticated, he opened a dental business that does not require any capital, and his business has been good.
After Boss Shen accepted Lin Yujuan's commission, he also knew in his heart that it was approaching the moon. As soon as it enters the beginning of the lunar month, those wealthy businessmen whose hometowns are not in Yangzhou will leave one after another. So if you want to do a good job in this business, the key is to be fast.
On the first day of the lunar month, Boss Shen of Yaxing sent a message to Lin Yujuan. On the afternoon of the second day of the lunar month, it was held at the Pinyaju Tea House on Dongguan Street, so she must attend on time.
On the afternoon of the second day of junior high school, Lin Yujuan was still dressed in men's clothes and took Lin Yusuo to observe the auction.
When the two sisters and brothers arrived at the door of Pinyaju, they found Boss Shen standing at the door to greet the guests in person. Seeing Lin Yujuan's sister and brother coming, although they were stunned for a moment, they quickly reacted. Let the guys from Pinyaju take them to the hall at the back of the courtyard.
After hearing the introduction of Pinyaju's guys on the way, Lin Yujuan learned that Boss Shen had chartered this place this afternoon as an auction venue. Thinking about it, he doesn't need to list any samples of goods or anything like that, so the façade is not very big, and it is really inconvenient to hold an auction there.
After the guy led the sister and brother to the hall, they retreated to the front, and as soon as Lin Yujuan and her brother entered the hall, they attracted the inquiring eyes of everyone inside.
It turned out that there were already seven or eight people who arrived first, and there were embroidery, costumes, and ready-to-wear garments, all of which were in the clothing industry. Most of them have shops on Caiyi Street, so they all know each other.
Now that I see that Lin Yujuan's sister and brother are a little faced, I don't know where the juniors came from, and they also want to meddle in this business. The two siblings sat down in the back corner, and it didn't take much time to see an old gentleman coming to them.
"The old man is the big shopkeeper of the Hui Pass number, and he was entrusted by Boss Shen to keep the deposit paid in advance by the buyers who participated in the auction this time. After the auction is completed, if there is no bidder, the original amount will be refunded to the buyer. Two little brothers—"
Lin Yujuan didn't expect this Boss Shen to be so thoughtful, if it was for him to collect the cash ticket himself, others would have to mumble in their hearts. Inviting the shopkeeper of this big ticket number to do this invisibly makes the bidders feel a lot more at ease. I really don't know how he got there.
"The big shopkeeper, I'm the seller, come and have a look." Lin Yujuan leaned close to the old shopkeeper and whispered in her ear.
"Oh, oh, I see. The two little brothers sat slowly, and the old man was busy. The old man said hello and walked away.
After a few more people came, Boss Shen came in and announced the start of the auction. Of course, in order to be able to auction at a higher price, I have to say a few more words of incitement.
He unfolded the peacock robe to show it to everyone, "Everyone, isn't this dress beautiful?" Do you know how much silver Gu Panpan bought on his body? One thousand taels!! This latest practice is currently not available in the entire market, and if anyone buys this way of making clothes, it will be a unique business. Not to mention, just our Yangzhou city is enough for you to make a lot of money. Not to mention going south and north along the Grand Canal, whether it is to the rich land of Jiangnan or the prosperous Gyeonggi important land, it will definitely not worry about sales. ”
A boss below asked: "I heard from my relatives that this garment making method has been taken by the Nanjing Weaving Bureau." The person who made this dress a while ago was taken away by the Weaving Bureau in full view of everyone. Wouldn't it be pure trouble if we bought this? ”
Boss Shen was not in a hurry, and opened his mouth slowly: "The Weaving Bureau has already put people back, what does this mean?" It shows that the clothes made according to this method are really good-looking, do you know who the weaving bureau wants to make clothes for? ”
No one in the hall squeaked, even if one or two guessed the possibility in their hearts, they still wanted to hear what Boss Shen said.
"It is the Queen Mother of today, and the Weaving Bureau is to give a gift to the Queen Mother's birthday, so the owner of this peacock dress was invited. Rest assured, this royal family will not compete with the people, and they sent them back to Yangzhou as early as a few days ago. ”
(To be continued.) )