Chapter 167: Seizure of power
"Someone, go to the door, put up a notice. The shop is not open for the time being! Zheng said with a cold face, although the shop will lose some money if it does not open, but what needs to be guarded against more than the loss of silver money if it does not open is that it is hollowed out by these moths inside.
Although the guys in the shop didn't know the Zheng family, they looked like the shopkeeper was submissive in front of the Zheng family, and naturally knew that the owner was real, so they hurriedly put down the matter at hand, and went to the door one by one neatly.
"Count all the inventory in the shop and see if there is any discrepancy with the accounts." Zheng sat in the shop hall, watching the guys coming and going like ants carrying jewelry boxes, feeling impatient, leaving his henchman mother Dong Chengjia here to watch the inventory, and he pulled the team to the backyard.
Zheng's gold and silver jewelry shop is a two-entry courtyard, a typical structure of the front shop and the back factory, the front is a jewelry shop selling things, and the back is a workshop for making gold and silver jewelry.
In addition to the main house of the shop, the first courtyard is where the shopkeeper and the steward live, and the second courtyard is the handicraft workshop.
The shopkeeper Jiang's face was very unwilling, and under the guidance of trembling, Zheng and Huiya and their group entered the jewelry workshop, but they couldn't hear any other movement except for the sound of clanging.
Suddenly, a junior apprentice came out of the house, and when he saw the shopkeeper Jiang, he screamed, and then ran back on his feet.
After a while, a middle-aged craftsman with a goatee on his chin walked out, regardless of the Zheng family and Huiya's children, he rushed to the Jiang shopkeeper angrily, his eyes were red and he hated to pull the placket of the Jiang shopkeeper's clothes, "The shopkeeper, these materials you have recently imported are too much, if you go on like this, what good things can be made, our shop's reputation will be ruined!" ”
"What...... What raw materials are too inferior. Don't make excuses if the craftsmanship is not good, the raw materials I bought are all the best! As soon as the shopkeeper Jiang was told by the craftsman, his face immediately turned white, and he was unwilling to come to the backyard. It's just that I'm afraid that these dead-eyed craftsmen will be said such things.
Shopkeeper Jiang thought to himself, is it easy for him to make some oil and water? It turned out that there was a madman looking at the guy, and he couldn't stretch out his hand at all. In the past six months, I finally drove away the maniac, and there was an insatiable little Zheng, not to mention that Yueyue took money and jewelry, and people still couldn't pick it, if they didn't start with raw materials and buy high and sell low, where would there be any oil and water to fish.
Isn't it just that the fineness of the gold and silver exchanged is almost the same, the quality of the gems is low, the beads are smaller, and as for the sky-high prices, I will say, these stinky craftsmen with dead eyes!
"You, you, you ......" The craftsman was choked by what the shopkeeper Jiang said. Pointing at the shopkeeper Jiang, you and you for a long time, you couldn't say anything, and your face turned red.
"I, what am I, the owner is here, if you don't go and count all the things in the workshop now, the owner will check the accounts!" Shopkeeper Jiang was angry that the craftsman demolished the stage for himself, but he didn't dare to blatantly take him away, because in this workshop, except for him, an honest man. There is no one else who can make a little more delicate jewelry.
Originally, there were five or six craftsmen and a dozen apprentices in the gold and silver shop, but the other craftsmen were all of the same heart as the madman, and they were driven away early. Followed and left.
"The owner?" When the goatee-bearded craftsman heard this, he froze for a moment, and then opened a pair of red eyes, and looked back and forth on the faces of the Zheng family and his party, as if he had a lot to say.
"I'm the owner of this shop. Say whatever you want. Zheng had already made mental preparations before taking this trip, knowing that after this trip, his gold and silver jewelry shop might be about to change blood, so he didn't need to cover it up for the Jiang shopkeeper, and directly let the goatee craftsman speak.
"Owner, are you Mrs. Zhao of Hai'an?" When the goatee-bearded craftsman heard Zheng say this, he asked again as if he was unsure.
"Yes, I am Mrs. Zhao from Hai'an, my maiden name is Zheng, and I am the eldest in the family." Zheng knew that the craftsman with the goatee wanted to confirm his identity, so as she spoke, she took out a purse from her sleeve and took out a golden peony flower from the purse.
The peony flower is only the size of a thumb cap, gold and red are mixed, the brilliance is very beautiful, the craftsman saw this peony flower, and immediately knelt down, "The owner is on top, Huang Laoshi kowtowed to the owner!" ”
Hui Ya looked at the peony flower in her mother's hand in amazement, and wondered if this thing was just like what was said in the book, it was a token or something. Hui Ya's heart was thinking wildly, but she heard the honest man who called Huang honestly, and began to hurt Chen Qijiang's shopkeeper while kowtowing.
There was silence in the courtyard, and there was no even the previous clanging sound, only Huang Laoshi was alone, and the voice of Chen Jiang's shopkeeper was painful. What colluded with Xiao Zheng's family to seize the power of the shopkeeper and drive the shopkeeper out of the shop, and when the goods were purchased, all they bought were gold, silver and precious stones of very poor fineness...... One by one, the shopkeeper Jiang couldn't help but tremble like sifting chaff.
"Shopkeeper Jiang, is everything Huang honestly said true?" Zheng looked at Shopkeeper Jiang, who had fallen to the ground and was shaking, although he still asked, he already knew that Huang was honestly telling the truth.
She stretched out her hand and took a piece of jadeite that was said to be purchased at a high price, although the jadeite was green throughout, there were many large and small cracks in it. If you want to polish such jadeite into decent jewelry, you will lose most of the raw materials, and then look at the purchase price, it is according to the quality of completely crack-free, Zheng's heart sighed.
"Shopkeeper Jiang, you are seeing that I am sick and dying, and I can't take care of the shop anymore, so you fool me with these things, right? You've been in this shop for seven or eight years, if not ten or so, but you haven't heard of me at all? Zheng's face sank greatly, thinking that if he really returned to the West with his life, then these wolf-hearted things inside and outside the family would really be able to give all their dowry to the ink, and what should he do with his children at that time?
"Come on, from now on, the shopkeeper Jiang is no longer the shopkeeper of the gold and silver jewelry shop, go to his room to search for me, how much silver he is greedy for, all of them have to be spit out for me. And the ledgers that come and go, and the two men in the account room, have been tied up for me. Take the master's post and send all these wolf-hearted things to the yamen! Zheng's face was extremely cold, and the words he said hit the heart of the shopkeeper Jiang like ice beads. (To be continued.) )