Chapter 273: The Opening of a Small Shop (2)
Suddenly, a woman's scream startled Nalan Donggui a lot, thinking that this woman's wallet was stolen. Hurriedly came over to take a look, and it turned out that this woman had found the siu mai bun.
"Second aunt, come and see, how do other people's purses work? The petals inside can be seen clearly. There are two small pink flowers on the neck of the purse, which are like the real ones, and we don't have such a purse in the Qing Dynasty. Little second brother, can you take it down and take a look? β
Nalan Donggui wanted to laugh very much, and a purse was worth a surprise.
The pro-soldier Zhan Ling took one of the roasted wheat buns for the lady and put it on the counter. Who would have thought that the middle-aged woman known as "Second Aunt" also screamed. She had seen the exotic headdress on the glass counter. Exotic people call it headdress, the price is extremely low, they are relatively low-grade stalls, most of them are made of plastic, but also stainless steel and alloy. But the shape is quite beautiful, and it is also inlaid with dazzling rhinestones. Exotic women rarely wear jewelry, and almost no one wears long chain earrings to work or do errands. But the women of the Qing Dynasty are different, especially the women of rich families and eunuchs, almost all of whom rely on men for survival. In this way, you have to use your youth, beauty or other strengths to win over men, so as not to let yourself fall out of favor. Therefore, I pay attention to my own image, and if I can't reach the beauty, I have to shine brightly.
The woman known as the second aunt was at least thirty-four or five years old, but she was firmly attracted to the headdress at the first sight of the counter. None of the headdresses placed inside are precious jewelry such as gold and silver, pearls, jade, enamel, and coral produced in the Qing Dynasty, but they are also beautiful and incomparably new. For example, the pink and yellow crystal glass butterfly hairpin. In the middle is a circle made of yellow and white sequins, and then the two wings of a butterfly formed by peach-colored pale pink plastic colored beads. On the whole, it is a pearl hairpin, and the workmanship is quite delicate and beautiful. Even the bride will not look shabby when she wears a sedan chair. In addition, there are silver onion bead lace hairpins, dripping glazed studs, beaded head flowers, rhinestone combs, word clips, chalcedony pendants, children's hairpins, phoenix rhinestone hairpins, pins, step hairpins, combs, children's wigs...... The eyes of the second aunt widened at the eldest and the eldest one by one, and she couldn't hear what the "niece" next to her said. I've never seen such beautiful jewelry! It is completely a style and material that the Qing Dynasty does not have.
"Little second brother, can you take out two of them?"
"Yes, but you have to be gentle with your hands."
"It's nature. How much does this butterfly hairpin cost? β
"This butterfly hairpin is 200 Wen."
"How much? Two hundred texts? The second aunt couldn't believe the price that the shopkeeper said, she thought that she would have to get at least ten taels or eight taels of silver, only two hundred wen!
"Little second brother, I want to buy all the jewelry on your counter, can you make more concessions on the price?"
"This sister can't help it, our owner said that these things were brought back from a far, far away, so that the sisters in the capital can buy new goods from exotic lands, so they must be supplied in limited quantities, and each person can sell two kinds of four pieces at most."
In fact, the prince did this to prevent someone from changing hands for profit. Many businessmen are very easy to find business opportunities. But the goods bought by the three princes are not for these people to make a fortune, and they are cheaper to bring back from afar, so they won't sell them at a high price? But many of these things are plastic products, and they are sold high, and some of them are unconscionable. Although no one knows their reserve price, the prince does not want to be mercenary. Because he has already made a fortune, the antiques that were sold for 20,000 taels of silver in the Qing Dynasty were sold for millions of taels in foreign lands, and they are too much to tolerate. The only way to limit supply is to put an end to the bulk purchase of goods by some merchants and make a profit.
The second aunt was speechless, she wanted to make a profit, but the owner of the store had long expected that someone wanted to make a profit. Then buy it in the required quantity, what can be done?
More and more women approached the headdress counter, and there were soldiers and guards in the crowd who were secretly maintaining order watching the movements.
An old lady in her fifties asked loudly, "Which one is the shopkeeper?" Can you tell me what that white, crooked thing is hanging on the counter? β
Donggui almost burst out laughing, this old lady is really interesting to talk about, Donggui himself doesn't know that the store sells white things with bends. Hurriedly asked kindly: "Auntie, which product are you talking about?" This one? Or is it this? Ah, it's this, it's socks. β
Everyone laughed "coaxingly", and the old lady was upset and scolded loudly: "What are you laughing at? You're not as good as me, so I dare to ask, did you know it was a sock before this? Nalan shopkeeper, you have to take it down for the old body. β
"Okay, okay, you wait. These socks are called nylon socks, which are loose and tight, and are particularly comfortable to wear. Wear a pair on the bottom foot, you see? β
"I'm wondering how to try. The feet are fluffy and smelly, isn't it a pit person if you don't buy it after trying it? Hey, look at it, Auntie, it's really ironed on your feet, and there are no wrinkles at all. It's really elastic, how much is a pair? Twenty texts? It's not expensive, it's not expensive, my aunt buys a hundred pairs. By the way, forget about the limited edition. How many pairs do you say you can sell for aunts? β
"Seeing that you are old, I will sell you five pairs, so that you can settle the account. Five pairs of one hundred wen. β
"Five pairs is five pairs, this is a hundred Wen." The old lady said in her heart, "Tomorrow I will ask my son to come and buy five more pairs." The day after tomorrow, the daughter-in-law came, such white, ironed socks, and put them on when she went out, but she could hold them when she was respectful, even if she gave gifts. She didn't want to resell.
If the old lady really thinks so, Donggui really has no problem. He also didn't know the old lady's daughter-in-law. But such a general do not dare to resell in the capital, the shopkeeper means that there is an owner behind him, the goods are the owner, who knows what it is? If you take it to other places to sell, it is not enough to pay for entangling and accommodation.
The old lady looked at the socks on Donggui's feet seriously, and asked him to lift the trouser legs up, thinking that it was really good, and it was clean when he looked at it.
After Donggui finished sending the old lady, he "hula", and twenty or thirty women of different ages poured in, all of whom wanted to buy socks. It seems that the socks brought back by Yun'er are very marketable.
"Shopkeeper, what's in this box?" A young man who seemed to have a good family asked, it seemed that he had just come to see the excitement.
"This is poker, that is, foreign cards."
"Can you take a look below? How do I open it? β
"Of course, I can open it for you."
"That's what the cards are all about? Can you teach me the next trick? β
"Yes, you see that there are points on the cards, this one is called plum blossoms, this is a square, this is a heart, this is a spade, ......" Donggui taught this is a new "fighting landlord", very simple, young people's brains are also very good, as soon as they hear it, they happily say: "Buy, buy, how much?" β
"Two hundred wen."
"Expensive, isn't it?"
"This gentleman, scarce is expensive, this thing is absolutely not available in our Qing Dynasty, you see that the cards are very smooth lacquer, the paper is also very thick and hard, it can be used for half a year. Doesn't this entertainment save money compared to others? β
The young man understood it a little bit, and said very clearly: "Yes, it is much more expensive to drink flower wine than this." Okay, I'll buy two boxes. β
The counter of the pro-soldier exhibition spirit is to sell the goods of the Dragon Boat Festival, although it is not as asking about the east and west as the counter of Nalan Donggui, because the sachets, purses, colorful threads, small brooms, and paper gourds are all things that are available in the Qing Dynasty, that is, the paper gourd is different from the Qing Dynasty.
Many of the goods in Nalan Donggui's small shop are novelties that the Qing Dynasty does not have, and there are many people who come to see the excitement and inquire about the price, and Nalan Donggui's introduction to these goods may have been repeated hundreds of times, which is really tireless. When people ask, they have to answer, and on the first day, their voices are hoarse. It seems that it is not easy to do anything.
Yu'er Shui'er, Yue'er, Lian'er and Lan'er, the three paper gourds that had been sticking for several days, were sold out in one morning, mainly because the prices of the goods here were cheap, a little higher than the retail prices of exotic places, in order to make up a whole number to settle the account. Yun'er thought that the people of the Qing Dynasty were not good at accepting that no one would buy it, and the information feedback came back and quickly remedied, or it would be stopped the next day. In this way, the seven or eight little sisters in Yun'er's room are not enough, and the processing scope is still expanded.
At noon, the prince went to Yun'er's room to sit for a while, and asked her if there was anything she couldn't do, and Yun'er told the prince about the shortage of seasonal goods in Nalan Department Store. The prince said: "It's easy to do, let those maids and wives in the Fujin room and courtyard go into battle, you will be responsible for supplying raw materials, but you must make the accounts clear." I went back and said to Fu Jin, or that girl should pick your gift again. β
"Thank you for your kindness."
In this way, forty or fifty maids and wives in the front and rear courtyards were used. Yun'er was only responsible for supplying raw materials, Ling Juan and others were responsible for selecting the goods, and then Mama Lin and Yu'er took the two little servants to send them to the dormitory in Fujin on a flatbed tricycle. Mama Lin has the best way to deal with Mama'er, don't look at Mama'er's ugly speech, but she is often choked by Mama Lin and can't answer correctly, and she can't remember what words to use to fight back for a long time. So she was really a little afraid of Mama Lin. Fu Jin not only didn't get angry with Mama Lin, but also admired Mama Lin's quick wit, and told SΓΉ Er: "Don't think about embarrassing people when you have nothing to do, your little knowledge is really not enough in front of Mama Lin." Master Yun sent us raw materials for work, you just need to participate in the processing, make a few big bucks is serious, you must be grateful! β
According to the prince's instructions, Yun'er went to Fujin's room the next afternoon to say goodbye, and told her that the goods in the Xinuan Pavilion downstairs were used to taste dishes in Fujin, not only with fish and water, but also with Ling Juan. There are many things that Yun'er hasn't used yet, so Ling Juan will answer them.
"Sister, my sister asked the prince if the government also paid some money to buy some raw materials for handicrafts, and the prince said that he would not use it first. But this sister is too unconcerned, how can she strangle you like this? β
"You think too much, those things that Yun'er bought back are involved in the prince's business. However, if the government buys some Qing materials from our Daqing market and mixes exotic materials, it will not attract people's attention. β
"My sister is very thoughtful, I really should mix it with our Daqing materials. Sister Ming'er ordered people to go to the silk and cloth villages to buy some cloth from the Qing Dynasty......"
Before Fu Jin finished speaking, Fu'er came and said, "Aren't you doing this in vain?" β
Fu Jin was anxious at that time: "Shut up!" Masters, how can you interject when you speak! What is white filling? How much has Master Yun filled in vain since he came back? Did you say that she was a good son? Get out! β
Mama Zheng hurriedly came to persuade: "Fujin, you really don't need to be so angry with Fu'er, she has always been brainless, and you know it, even Master Yun will not think that you asked her to say this." Hurry up. Master Yun, don't be careful, the hooves of the beard are all used to in the mother's house, and Fujin is not easy to manage, after all, it is the cousin and daughter-in-law of the prince. β
Yun'er smiled: "Why should I be careful? Fujin, you really don't deserve to be angry. Yun'er bought those things and came back for everyone to use, it was not Liu Bei's smashing of children to buy people's hearts, it was the mission of the prince. In fact, Yun'er is most afraid of trouble, and she can't hide in the house and only paint. The character of the beard has a strength, it is very transparent, and he can say what he thinks in his heart. Yun'er didn't think about anything for nothing, so she just thought that she would just use up her best to stop getting moldy and attract insects and mice. Yun'er thinks that your current feelings are more anxious, which is not good for your health. You should be calm, if you can trust Sister Ling, let her give you treatment. β
"My sister also feels that her heart is burning these days, and she wants to do this and that, and she can't grasp the focus."
"Don't be impatient, there are a lot of things to do, you can't eat a fat man in one bite, go with the flow."
"My sister is a little impatient. Do you think Mr. Ling can adjust his sister's current condition? How does she see a doctor? β
"She thinks about the whole picture of women's psychology and body, and in that parlance, focuses on the prevention of women's diseases. She has studied traditional Chinese medicine, maternal and child health care, and women's psychology, which is different from the way we see a doctor in Langzhong. β
"Can you invite her to check my sister's pulse?"
"Of course you can, Sister Yu'er, you go back to the backyard and ask Mr. Ling, just say that Fujin asked her to take the pulse."
"Yes, the slave will go immediately."
When Ling Juan was young, she came and asked Fu Jin to say goodbye, Fu Jin asked Ji Er to move the embroidery pier to Ling Juan, Ling Juan thanked her, took her pulse for a long time, and said to Fu Jin: "Your love is a little unstable now, it may be that the prince has been out for a year without news and is too worried." This is understandable, whose husband has not heard from him for a year, and his wife can still be at ease? But now that the prince has returned home, you should quickly put your heart down. It's easy to say, but it's hard to do. Reassuring that for people in Buddhism means letting go of a lot of worries. But if you can do it, you'll have peace of mind. Your pulse is overthinking, leading to stagnation of the liver and qi. It's not very strict, and you don't have to be sick. Ling Juan JianyΓ¬You soak in water with roses and drink it for half a month. Do you have menstrual irregularities, liver and stomach pain, hot flashes and sweating, irritability, insomnia and dreams? β
"Mr. Ling is really capable, it's all right, is it easy to treat?"
"Good cure, good cure, you can rest assured. Ling juanjian yΓ¬ you use ten roses each time to steam it, just to treat your irritability, roses can regulate qi and relieve depression, promote blood circulation and dissipate stasis, the main treatment of liver and stomach pain, eliminate endocrine disorders, long-term use, the beauty effect is very good. If your condition is not regulated, it can cause abdominal distension and pain, qi reversal, nausea and vomiting. β