Rui Qian noticed that there was often a woman in her forties hanging outside the door of the cloth village, and sometimes she would come in to have a look. The guy Dazhang also saw it, and he was a little scared, did he come to steal the cloth at night, and he would be the first to see it?

Ruiqian said no. The eye-piercing shouldn't be so obvious, and besides, the cloth in your own cloth village is a double width of 300 feet, which is very heavy, and you can carry a roll and leave? Which is so easy? Whether you can carry it or not is two different things.

The next day the woman came again, and when she entered the door, she asked, "Shopkeeper, do you have any new cloth?" ”

Ruiqian immediately understood that she was looking to see if there were any new varieties of cloth, and she hurriedly bought them. It seems that the cloth in the house is really very popular.

"This grandmother, there is no new cloth for the time being, and a few new purses have been added, can you take a look?"

"Okay, okay, just take a look. My wife also took care of the slave maid to see if there was a suitable purse. In the blink of an eye, the Mid-Autumn Festival is coming, and the old lady in the house wants these beautiful things as gifts. Oh, these new purses are so beautiful! In this way, the old man bought one of each and brought it back to his wife, and she came to order whichever one she liked, and there were more than 100 people in our house. ”

As soon as she said this, Ruiqian understood that she was here to buy a new purse, and used the cloth as a shield. Is this necessary?

"May I ask what ...... your house is?"

"Shopkeeper Chen, you are really a noble person who forgets things, the slave and maid are the housekeepers and grandmothers of Guo Luoluo's mansion."

Rui Qian thought about it for a long time and didn't think about it, and said with a modest smile: "This grandmother said that she laughed, it's not that the nobles forget things a lot, it's that there are too many people in contact, and they can't remember things at all." ”

The grandmother laughed a lot, it was very exaggerated, and she slapped her thigh and smashed her waist.

The second person came again early in the morning and whispered, "My wife really wants to order." Well, she has taken a fancy to these three purses, a hundred of each, can you tell me a price? We can order more at a higher price, right? ”

"I'm sorry for this grandma, my goods here are all fabrics, that is to say, the women make it with a stitch and a thread, everyone gets up early and works in the dark, I give up the price, and people are busy in vain, this is different from buying vegetables. I'm afraid of rotten. ”

"Hey, do you know how to do business? Isn't it true that the more things are sold, the more profitable they are? ”

"That's not necessarily, if you lose money, the more you sell, the more you lose. Didn't I tell you last time, I'm selling on behalf of others, so I have to sell it at the price that others offer, otherwise how to settle the account? ”

"How about Mama give you some personal benefits?"

"That's even worse. In order to get a little more, no matter how hard others work? My lady is very powerful, she knows that she wants me to kneel on the washboard. "Ruiqian is also very good at joking.

The grandmother laughed again and said, "Okay, okay, then I won't bargain, or according to the price you said, you say a date?" When the time came, the old man came to pick up the goods, and then gave the silver with it. ”

"This grandmother, since it is an order, she has to pay half of the fixed price. Otherwise, if you change your mind temporarily, what should we do? Mazi is not called pockmark, but it is called a pit man. Since it is a fixed money, it is settled. You have to say that you don't want the goods, yes, the fixed money cannot be returned. ”

"I can't see it, the shopkeeper Chen is not as tall as he is."

"Is it very small?"

This grandmother ordered 300 fine purses, each of which was valued at 40 taels, that is, twelve taels of silver, and the fixed money should be 6 taels of silver.

The order mother said again and again, "Then pay six taels of silver, right?" You give a receipt. ”

According to the price of the exotic land, forty wen is eight yuan, which is still not low. But it belongs to the boutique category, and the fabric and decoration of the sachet are very exquisite, that is, the kind of Fu word satin with flower and bird satin and hot diamonds. Of course, it's still earned. said that it would be delivered in five days, but the grandmother paid the money and went back to wait.

The embroidery on the flower and bird satin and the Fu word satin is quite beautiful, and then decorated by hot diamonds, it is the icing on the cake. But those embroideries are woven when weaving, and they don't need to be embroidered by hand, which saves most of the time. But the hot drill is very troublesome, so you have to be extra careful, and the embroidery is burned.

Ruiqian has the right to order one hundred taels of goods, and no matter how large the amount is, it will be decided by the head of the house. However, small orders also have to greet the government, so as to arrange the number of processing personnel and distribute fabric accessories. The processing personnel are arranged by Tian Liang, and the selection of fabric accessories is Yun'er's business.

Ruiqian got a message from the house, otherwise what would he do to deliver it? So he took the sample and came to the gate of the palace. The current royal soldiers have been trained by the acting governor Tian Liang to look like foreign regular army soldiers. Those who stand guard at the door should hold a spear, and the pen tube should stand upright, so that it gives people a very majestic feeling. If this was the way it was, the flower thief wouldn't have dared to come.

Rui Qian came to a personal soldier, hugged his fists and saluted, and said modestly: "This military master is Chen Ruiqian, the nephew of Mr. Xixi Chen, the son of the prince. If you have something to do with the head of the house, can you give me a message? ”

"Isn't this my uncle? The prince and the manager both said, you come to the house and enter the house directly, you don't have to pass it on, the old slave will take you in. Eunuch Xu Gonggong was full of smiles.

Ruiqian has been to the palace several times, and every time he comes, he is polite.

Father-in-law Xu led Ruiqian to the Suzhou mansion where Mr. Chen lived, and the little maid in the courtyard brought Ruiqian into the building, and Father-in-law Xu completed the task and returned to the gatehouse.

It just so happened that Tian Liang went downstairs and took his cousin to his father's study, and his uncle and nephew met to meet his aunt. It happened that Yun'er came back to deliver milk, and the brothers and sisters sat down after the ceremony. Rui Qian went straight to the point and explained the matter of the custom purse in Guo Luoluo's mansion.

"Uncle, there is a housekeeper and grandmother of Guo Luoluo Mansion who went to her nephew's shop and ordered three hundred purses for the Mid-Autumn Festival, I don't know if the girls and grandmothers in the house can complete the ration of three hundred purses in five days. The nephew is a little out of order. ”

The gentleman said, "You are still very bold. There are more than a dozen girls and grandmothers in your Sister Yun's courtyard, and there are more than thirty in Fujin Courtyard, and it is enough for fifty girls and grandmothers in the two courtyards before and after, and one person will share six equally, and it will be completed in three days. ”

"My nephew didn't expect that there was so much manpower in the house, and one talent would be evenly divided into six, hehehe...... But there's less money to make. The nephew also asked the people in the house to come forward, because the nephew didn't understand the things in the house, how to process, how much materials were used, and how much money was used. Three hundred sachets still dare to call the shots, but if there are more, they can't. ”

Rui Qian said very truthfully, and Mr. was afraid that he would get into trouble if he didn't understand the situation, so he said: "Or let your second brother take charge of the order, he and the prince will go on a tour to understand the situation better, and know the cost and quality." You still have a mess of your own, don't divide your heart. ”

"Thank you uncle for your understanding."

"It is a good sign that someone has an order, and if the reputation is good in the future, more officials and eunuchs will come to order."

"My nephew is worried about whether any of the people who ordered the order are upside down. He has earned all the money, and will he not rob our wealth in the future? ”

"If it's in the capital, it's not easy, he will have to pay more than ours, who doesn't buy low-priced?"

"Uncle, they all say that you are an old master, and you are clear about business."

"It's nonsense again, where do I know how to do business, it's the prince who is doing it."

Mr. took his nephew to ask for peace to the prince Fujin, talked in Yiran Building, returned to the Suzhou house where Mr. lived, chatted for a while, and was about to get up and go back. Ruiqian was difficult to come out of once, and his uncle insisted on staying for lunch, and then said goodbye to his uncle and aunt and returned to Buzhuang. Tian Liang and He Yun'er sent Ruiqian to the gate and sent them back to Buzhuang by the carriage in the house. Mr. Ruiqian told Ruiqian that the order must be completed and must be signed by the representatives of both parties before it can take effect. If there is an order, send the guy in the store to inform Tian Liang. Ruiqian is very happy, it's no problem for him to sell on behalf of him, but don't go forward to be the master of the house, in case something goes wrong, he can't afford a small business.

Before leaving, Ruiqian also hugged the baby Beibei for a while, one child in one hand. Yun'er said to the baby Beibei: "This is the eldest uncle, take a good look?" ”

Bei Bei stared at Rui Qian with a pair of dark eyes, and looked at it very carefully, even seeing his chin, he hadn't seen this person, it was strange. Drew Ruiqian laughed.

Yun'er explained: "We Bei Bei are strange why our uncle doesn't have a beard. ”

Even the gentleman couldn't help but laugh.

Because the number of orders is not large, the processing task is completed by the maids in the front and back yards. Before processing, Yun'er gave a sexual lecture to all the old girls involved in the processing:

"Everyone, this is an order from Guo Luoluo's mansion, and everyone must complete it carefully and carefully. It must be completed on time with quality and quantity, and win another credibility for the government. ”

Yun'er asked Mama Lin to supervise the women of Feiyun Building to complete the task of making the sachets ordered. Then let the fish and water prepare enough materials according to the samples brought by the order. It can only be more, not less. There were exactly fifty maids in the front and back courts. Three hundred sachets are an average of six per person, so make ten, and the rest can be left in Ruiqian's store to sell. Ten people and three days to complete, isn't it as easy as playing?

Yu'er Shui'er took Lan'er and the three of them to prepare the materials according to the sample. They are already familiar with this kind of thing. Then prepare the sequins, small beads, size wishful knots, tassels and other ancillary materials, and it is good to start.

Yun'er came to Fujin's room with these materials and told her about the order and the need for women of all sizes in the front and back yards to process fabrics. Fu Jin was very happy when he heard it: "What my sister didn't say, let the girls and grandmothers in the courtyard participate." Just give them the materials to do the work according to your method, and make sure that each of them will take out ten decent sachets within three days. ”

Under the supervision of the grandmothers, the women of the two courtyards got up an hour early every morning to pick up the fallen flowers, and then freshened up for breakfast, and completed their own errands with quality and quantity, and made sachets the rest of the time. One by one, they are very serious. Because Mama Jiao Xi told them that these sachets were the processing task of a batch of 300 sachets set by the shopkeeper Chen of Yulong Buzhuang and a certain mansion, and if they are completed well, there will be a processing fee. Although the quantity is a little less, there is not much money, and there may be a steady stream of processing tasks after doing a good job.

Rejoicing news, the girls and grandmothers are so excited that they are eager to try, but they feel that ten sachets are too little. It's only ten, just like eating is not enough to stuff your teeth. It took two days to complete it all, without supervision, all of them were carefully made, and after the inspection, there was no unqualified. Three hundred sachets plus ten gifts, packed in a cardboard box, plus the cloth sent, were sent to Yulong Cloth Village in a horse-drawn carriage. The order mother opened the box and inspected the goods, nodded again and again with satisfaction, paid the other half of the honorarium, and returned home with the sachet.

Early the next morning, the ordering grandmother came again, which scared Ruiqian a lot, thinking that the owner of the ordering grandmother was not satisfied, and returned the goods. As a result, the order Mama took out the samples of the eight handbags she had bought before, and said that the old lady said that she would order such a big purse, one hundred of each, and this batch of goods was more exquisite than the previous batch, because it was a dowry and dowry for the two young ladies and three young masters in the house, as well as gifts for relatives, friends, and Shangfeng, to put it bluntly, it was mainly for the boss. I will never take it out and sell it. Qing officials were not allowed to do business, and he knew that he didn't want to gamble with the black yarn hat.

Ruiqian hurriedly sent his buddy Dazhang to come to the house to ask his cousin Tian Liang, Tian Liang did not give in, followed Dazhang to Yulong Cloth Village, and signed an order contract for 800 handbags with the ordering grandmother. The processing fee for this batch of handbags is 100 wen each, because handbags are much larger than purses, and there are naturally more materials, and there are more auxiliary materials on them, and the processing time is longer.

Each handbag is counted as 100 yuan. The order mama agreed without even rejecting it. Eight hundred handbags are eighty taels of silver, of course, on the premise that the quality is qualified. The order mother agreed repeatedly, and according to what Tian Liang said, she paid a deposit of forty taels of silver while signing the contract.

With the order, the girls and grandmothers in the front and back courtyards all took action, Yun'er and her second general Yu'er Shui'er, as well as Hui'er, Lan'er, Jing'er, Yue'er, and Lian'er's five maids began to prepare materials. I took out all the gift cloth in the first wooden box that was dismantled in the hall, and found out the similar materials according to the order sample. Tian Liang has already told the order mother that the processed products can only be similar to the samples, not exactly the same. The order mother understands very well, saying that the style is the same as the sample, and the material is similar, but the quality can not be discounted. Tian Liang assured her that the quality of the materials and the quality of the processing would not be lower than the samples.

Half of the handbags ordered this time are small bags that are carried on the shoulder, including upright rectangular, horizontal flat rectangle, square, pig's kidney-shaped, wide at the top and narrow at the bottom, toilet-shaped, candy-shaped, and bag-shaped. The bag is not big, but it is much larger than the purse. The zipper on it is not understood by the Qing people, but they like it very much, it is easy to use, and the appearance is also very beautiful. The most popular thing is that at the bottom of the bag belt, there are small pendants, or small pendants of glass beads, or small animals and humanoid dolls made of cloth, or small flowers of plastic beads, small and exquisite. Wang Ye, Yun'er and Tian Liang all wanted to take this opportunity to hit the fabric products on the market in the house. Otherwise, you can't ask for a price of 100 wen, and the price is not very low according to the Qing Dynasty. It's a novelty, there is no such thing in the Qing Dynasty, it is very applicable, and it will definitely be a favorite of young girls. There is brocade in the Qing Dynasty, but it is not as stiff as the gift cloth, which is 100% chemical fiber products. The senses are magnificent, noble and elegant.

Open the first wooden box, take away all the boards, and take away the gift cloth inside, and the space is immediately more than one cubic meter, and you can step on the seventh layer of wooden box to unscrew the eighth layer of wooden box in the future. Manager Tian Liang didn't have any swagger at all, and he was willing to be a coolie for Yun'er.