"I can't say that, to say that the help is on both sides, it is my first fancy to your flowers and lace. Do you know www.biquge.info? This skill of the little fairy is not at all in our Europe, and you Qing Guo calls that scorpion tail unique. In Europe, there are many countries that are very rich, such as Italy, Switzerland, France, etc., if the ladies and ladies are not happy to see this lace and faint? They all wear skirts, and if these flowers and lace are sewn on the hem, cuffs, and neckline of the skirt, it is really beautiful! As he spoke, he closed his eyes and began to revel.

Bing'er and the others bent over with laughter. This Mr. James has always been unable to understand Chinese grammar, and he is very good at always saying "good too", but he can't say "too good." ”

Mr. James laughed heartily and continued, "You know what? Ruan's sister-in-law's white thread was asked by me to sell on behalf of her, and a friend of mine who was a yarn factory owner asked me to bring it to Qingguo to see the market, so you can use this thread to hook flowers and lace, and then I will bring these finished products back to Europe to sell, and then return the thread to him at a price that exceeds the cost, so isn't this equivalent to selling his thread? You can use the white thread to hook the beautiful flowers, I can pack the ticket, your lace must have a market in Europe! I'll do this business with you, but in large quantities, a lot, understand? The price will definitely not be low, you can rest assured, I will not let you lose money. ”

"Yes, we are afraid that you will not be able to sell it...... Isn't that a bit risky for you? ”

"That's the difference between us Westerners and you, don't be angry. You Qing people and even Asians are all calm and stable, and there is no sense of adventure. How can this make life richer? I'm sorry, I'm not saying that you guys are bad, it's the difference between Easterners and Westerners......"

"Okay, okay, don't explain, we understand. If it's you who bring the lace back and are guaranteed to make money, why not do it? It's you, not us, who risk this thing. So we'll take the thread back and start processing, the price, we're all old friends......" Bing'er patted James on the shoulder comfortingly.

"Nope! No, no! We are old friends, but I will definitely give you a fair price, you Qing people have a saying called 'brothers settle accounts', you say a price, I think it is appropriate to set it, anyway, it can't be less than 10,000 flowers. ”

"We haven't sold lace either, so can you tell me a price? Looks like you're pretty good at doing business. ”

"Is that good? Each round and square flower is given a processing fee of 30 Wen, and the lace is the kind of ruler of your Qing Dynasty, one foot and 30 Wen, how about it? Think I'll add it if it's missing? James said to Cher.

"Don't, don't, think about it, when we were in the capital, the women in the family also hooked flowers and lace to sell, but most of them were hooked out of the sachet for sale, and the processing fee you gave thirty wen was a little more, because the material was yours; But if it is eight flowers together and hooked into a handbag, thirty wen is too little, because it takes more than four times more time than the sachet, and it takes a very dense thickness and a carrying belt. I mean you pay 20 yuan for each sachet, but you have to pay 80 yuan for the handbag. "Cher is very good at business, and she doesn't sit at a loss just because James is a friend. It's not that James likes to take advantage, he doesn't know what a handbag is.

"Little fairy, do you have a sample of the handbag you said? If you didn't have it for a while, would you do it? ”

"Of course, I'll hook it out for you and you'll know what's going on."

"I'm sure it's going to be beautiful."

"Not only is it beautiful, but it's also functional, I promise. It's such a big little bag, in your words, wearing an incredibly beautiful dress with the same series of handbags, it's really incurable. ”

"Oh! Then your price will be less, and our women there often have a small bag in their hands, which can hold money and cosmetics, but it is leather and fabric. The price of leather bags is very expensive, it costs tens or hundreds of francs, eighty yuan, too cheap, two hundred yuan. ”

"Two hundred wen is too much, if it is our own line, two hundred wen is okay."

"It's set at 200 wen, and I will be very beautiful when I think about it."

"Two hundred is really too much, or one hundred and fifty. How about I set the price when I hook the sample and show it to you? ”

"Okay, yes, too. Don't worry too much, my customers are rich, I can't let you suffer, thank you little fairy, and these girls. You go back and start immediately, remember, 10,000 flowers, 10,000 feet of lace. Do I have to pay a fixed fee? ”

Bing'er spoke: "You gave us all the white lines first, isn't this the fixed money?" The time is uncertain, because only Xue'er will, and others have to learn now......"

"It's okay, I understand, you guys take your time, and it's good to finish it before I go back to Europe. If the line is not enough, look for this Ruan Auntie. I hope you have as many flowers and lace as possible, that's all, do you have a car? If not, I'll hire a car for you? ”

"Thanks, no, we have a car, waiting over there."

The outline said, "I'm going to get the car here." ”

Back at the station, Xue'er held a meeting with Bing'er, Outline and other pillars to discuss the processing of lace. 10,000 hooked flowers are 200 taels of silver, and 10,000 feet of lace are also 200 taels of silver, a total of 400 taels!

Usually, people's expenses of two taels of silver a month are not bad, and four hundred taels of silver can be spent for more than ten years. But they are people who are away from home, adding up to more than 30 people, in addition to the cost of people chewing, there are also the cost of carriages and horses, as well as the cost of medical medicine, and there are unspeakable expenses. In this way, the cost will be large, but there are many people, and there are more people who participate in the processing of crochet flowers, and there will be more money.

In addition to Xue'er, Qing'er, Kumei, Shi Dan, Bing'er's mother and sister, Shu'er, Zhu'er, and then the little sisters of Zhou's old uncle Wuqiao's team, there are still a lot of people, there are fourteen, plus six people from Ami, a total of twenty people. 10,000 flowers, 10,000 feet of lace, on average, each person has to bear 1,000 finished products. Fortunately, Mr. James was not in a hurry to ask for time, and he did not sign any contract, nor did he stipulate that he would be fined liquidated damages if he failed to complete the contract. In the end, an old friend has face, and this face was earned by Bing'er.

Xue'er and Bing'er negotiate a business with Mr. James, and Xue'er will be able to teach everyone the art of crocheting. It was still working in the house, it didn't have to be rain or wind, and it was suitable for girls to do it, and all the girls cheered. This job is not the same as playing tricks, juggling or acrobatics, no matter how exciting and dangerous it is, after the performance, people don't give you money, you don't have a rut, and the hook flower is different, especially for people like James, people bring all the white lines, trust you, let you use it with confidence, then you must give money after the work, and if you don't give money, you won't give him goods. That grasp is too big, and there will be no ruffians smashing the field, thanks to Cher!

In fact, Xue'er also has arrangements for the men in the team, they will not be idle, they can weave baskets and baskets, straw shoes, and use corn husks to weave some other daily necessities. The cost of straw weaving is very low, and Yunnan's bamboo, straw, corn husk, and rattan are a natural warehouse, which is inexhaustible.

"Let's start with crochet flowers, I'm responsible for teaching crochet skills, let's start acting." Xue'er speaks and does things very much like a small mother, neatly and neatly. Not only is his speech clear, but he is also concise and concise when he lectures: "Sisters, the skill of crochet should start from the most basic stitching, which may be a little awkward at the beginning, because it is a new skill, and the interlacing is like a mountain." These crochet hooks were brought by my mother when she rescued me, and she didn't expect them to be used, so she didn't bring much, but there were enough of us for twenty of us, and I'm sorry, but my mother and sister were included. Qualified one gives a processing fee of 20 yuan, and I don't deduct everyone's money, how about it? ”

"No, no, Sister Xue'er, you took out this skill, and you have to work for the master for three years to learn to shave your head. If you don't have a penny, we won't be able to do well, and besides, there is no rule for teaching apprentices and starving masters. Shi Dan said sincerely.

The other little sisters also agreed with Shi Dan's opinion.

Shi Dan continued: "Xue'er, you must have a share, if you don't want it, we won't participate." In this way, we all hook out a flower and you give ten cents, and Aunt Zhao and Sister Lu'er earn processing fees. Have you ever seen a boss who doesn't want to be paid? Want to starve to death? ”

"Okay, okay, I didn't think it through. My mother is a good hand, and Sister Lu'er is young, and my mother and I have to bear the part that can't be completed. ”

Before Xue'er finished speaking, Lu'er stopped doing it, and said with her small chest: "Sister-in-law, Lu'er can finish it!" ”

Su Wenjuan smiled and pulled her daughter into her arms: "What kind of skills do you know?" We don't know if we can learn it, so we can do it? ”

Xue'er said: "Mother, you can definitely learn it, but you are not familiar with it at the beginning, and it will get better slowly." Now hair needles, hair threads, a person with a needle and a ball of thread, first learn and then formally process. Bing'er, you can help me send it to everyone. Cher said.

Bing'er looked at Xue'er: "I said Mrs., your old man assigned tasks, why don't you seem to have my business?" ”

Mingming, Xiao Liuzi, and Xiao Linzi also looked at Xue'er dissatisfied.

"Are you male or female?"

"You should know this very well." Bing'er said.

Everyone ate and laughed. Xue'er blushed: "I'll you...... If you learn badly, mother, scold him well! ”

"Scold! Talking nonsense, not afraid of jokes. ”

"Yes, I won't dare next time." Bing'er pursed her lips and looked at Xue'er pitifully, looking cute, "You can't let us men be idle, right?" ”

"You obviously have the ability to be a man, you don't have to mix with a woman. Isn't your skill at weaving cornskin sandals also useful? You can sell it for money, or you can exchange it for eggs, peanuts, and broad beans. ”

"Wow! How did you forget? This place has all kinds of products, it's really, holding a golden rice bowl to eat! There is no corn husk and no bamboo. ”

The outline asked Bing'er very bluntly: "I'm afraid no one dares to wear straw sandals made of bamboo, right?" ”

"Did I say I made straw sandals out of bamboo? Baskets, baskets, my mother is better than me. ”

"You do your business quickly, my mother still has to learn how to hook flowers."

Xue'er hurriedly said: "Then the soldiers are divided into two ways, the male compatriots and Bing'er learn to weave straw shoes and baskets, and I will teach the female compatriots to crochet flowers." Okay, okay, now the book is back to business, ladies and gentlemen, the crochet flower begins! Look at the movement of my hands, first pick up the thread, and pick it up with the little finger of my left hand at a distance of half a foot...... It's okay, I'll do it again if I don't understand it......"

Xue'er is very patient, teaching one action at a time, step by step. This crochet is completely different from needlework, and Su Wenjuan, who has always been ingenious, always feels that her hands are cramping.

"Mother, you're too nervous, you don't have to, relax. When I was in the house, my mother said that her fingers were about to be rolled together when she learned to crochet flowers, but she was too nervous, and Xue'er would not punish you with money. ”

Everyone laughed, and Su Wenjuan said: "My mother still thinks that she is old, and she is so stupid that she only has three fingers left." ”

"Mother, the road is already there, you see, it's so winding." It's still a child's mind, and Lu Er learned it first.

"Show your sister-in-law, right?" Wen Juan was afraid that she would become proud.

Xue'er happily touched the top of Lu'er's head: "Yes, our Lu'er is so smart." ”

Everyone only learned for a day and a half, and after being familiar with it for a long time, they began to officially process the hand hook flowers. Xue'er has learned about ten kinds of patterns, and there are five or six kinds of lace, which is completely enough.

It turned out that I was worried that the road would not be able to keep up, so I became the first to become a hand. The little hand was very nimble, and the crochet needle was stainless steel, shining straight and shining. On the first day of formal processing, she hooked out 20 round flowers of exactly the same size! Others are no problem, even Xue'er, who is the head of the sect, is not willing to be left behind. The total result of the first day was 400 round flowers. Twenty per capita. One by one, they forgot to sleep and eat, and they even wanted to save time for eating. If the flowers can be completed in 20 days at this rate, the lace is easier to learn than the flowers, because it is narrower, but it is very troublesome at the beginning, and if you don't get it right, you will love to curl or take the shape of a fungus, and you can't get a stitch. However, practice makes perfect, and once you are proficient, you will be strengthened. One by one, these girls are full of enthusiasm and begin to use new techniques to process crochet products. Practice makes perfect, just like an ancient text in "The Oil Seller" says: "Without him, the hands are familiar." It means "for no other reason, it's just familiar." ”

Of course, the more familiar the hand, the better, especially the skill of crocheting flowers, the stitches of the flowers hooked out by hand are generally large, not deformed, and the stitches are tight. The novice hook out is loose.

But the white flowers hooked out by the twenty female generals under Xue'er were evenly on the ground, beautiful and clean, snow-white and snow-white. When they hooked their first flower, it was as black and dirty as a fish. One is that the hands are raw, nervous, sweaty, and the fingers themselves may also be stained with dust. So Xue'er demanded that her hands must be washed before crocheting.

Yun'er, who was far away in the capital, probably didn't expect that this skill she had inadvertently learned when she was in a foreign land would actually become a project that could do border trade. In fact, the art of crocheting flowers really came to China from Western countries, or it may have been transmitted from Chinese ships to the West first, and then the Westerners came back. There are many things that go unanswered.