"It's been such an embarrassment?" Zheng looked at the shopkeeper Man, and his lips pursed slightly. Since she was in her parents' house, she began to learn to take care of the shop, and the shop in Beijing has been growing up with her.

If all these things said by the shopkeeper were true, then although the gold and silver shop would not be destroyed immediately, it had already reached a situation where it was almost impossible to make money, and the situation was very embarrassing.

"Yes, I didn't expect it to be ...... in just half a year" The shopkeeper was ashamed, if he hadn't been driven away by Xiao Zheng's and Jiang's shopkeepers so quickly, but persisted for a few more months, Xu is shop would still be as prosperous as before, even if he couldn't earn two thousand taels a year, more than one thousand taels could still be had.

"How much silver is left in this shop?" Zheng asked the shopkeeper to open the silver cabinet in the shop, looked at the two rows of silver ingots scattered on the top, only about five hundred taels, and sighed slightly, "Let's go back and have a look." ”

When he took over the gold and silver shop before, Zheng had already seen the remaining jewelry in the shop, and there were not no exquisite jewelry, but there were many less.

The newly made jewelry, either the workmanship is rough, or the quality of the gemstone is not good, the jewelry that could be sold for a set of one hundred taels, because of one reason or another, the cost remains the same, but it can only be sold for seventy or eighty taels, which is a difference of twenty or thirty taels of profit.

Huiya doesn't know how to do business, but she is extremely studious, although she doesn't understand what her mother is doing, but what her mother has seen, what she said, what kind of expression the shopkeeper has and how to answer, Huiya has all remembered it in her heart, thinking about going back and thinking about it slowly, and then asking her mother.

Now that her mother is going to the workshop, Huiya naturally follows behind Zheng silently. After passing through the shop and the first courtyard, we came to the courtyard used as a workshop at the back.

It was completely different from the last time I came, and now in the workshop, there was a lot of tinkling noise, and Hui Ya listened to it roughly, and there were at least six or seven masters doing the work at the same time. And that's not even counting the full shopkeeper who is said to be the most exquisitely crafted.

"The proprietor is here, let them stop all the work they are doing and come out to salute the proprietor." The shopkeeper stood in the middle of the workshop and said very imposingly. His voice was very loud, and before he could go from room to room, the beating in the workshop slowly stopped, and then one after another craftsmen came out of the room.

"The owner!" The craftsmen are old and young. After seeing the Zheng family one by one, they immediately bowed respectfully to the Zheng family and Hui Ya, with an excited look on their faces.

"Get up, I'm here to see how the gold and silver shop is doing, so I'll let the shopkeeper take me to the workshop to have a look." Zheng smiled at the craftsmen and said, in their most difficult time, these craftsmen did not abandon themselves and left, which can be regarded as very conscientious, Zheng knows that the current predicament of this shop cannot blame them, and his attitude is very kind.

"The owner is kind!" There was a gray-haired beard. The craftsman in old clothes trembled at Zheng, and then led Zheng to the craftsman's room.

Huiya silently followed behind, carefully observing. There are two kinds of craftsmen's rooms in this gold and silver jewelry shop, one is a large workshop, in which there are two rows of six craftsmen's tables, on which are placed all kinds of gold and silver threads, hairpin rings and flower buckles and other accessories, and small pieces of finished jewelry, which is obviously a relatively low-level craftsman doing the work.

Inside the large workshop, there are two separate workshops, both with bright windows and a spacious craftsman's desk. When Huiya listened to the introduction of the shopkeeper, she picked up a hairpin that had not yet been completely completed from the craftsman's table, and looked at the colorful butterflies on it, and knew that this was a more advanced craftsman. Let's say it's full of shopkeepers, and let's say the old craftsman's workshop just now.

The jewelry made in the high-end workshop is obviously more beautiful and the materials are more precious, but the butterfly is beautiful and the workmanship is good. But it didn't have the kind of touching heartstrings that made Huiya unable to walk at first sight.

Hui Ya pursed her lips and looked at the butterfly hairpin with a little distraction, and all kinds of ideas were racing in her mind, thinking about how to make this delicate handiwork play a greater role, thinking about how to make her own gold and silver shop lively again, and she didn't even listen to what her mother and the shopkeeper said anymore.

Now the dilemma in the shop, Huiya already has a vague impression in her heart, and what her mother said to the shopkeeper is too profound, Huiya can't understand it, so she simply told her mother to leave, went out of the workshop, and walked to the shop with the maids.

Walking into the shop, looking at the sparse customers in the shop, the words of a pair of rich ladies who were choosing hairpin rings attracted Huiya's attention.

"Look at this hairpin, how beautiful this hairpin is." The young one smiled and raised a hairpin and said excitedly. Seeing that although she was wearing a seventy percent new satin skirt and only two or three pieces of jewelry on her head, all of which were still silver and not very valuable, Hui Ya knew that the rich lady did not have much money.

"It's good-looking, this golden hairpin can be exchanged for ten silver hairpins, not to mention that this hairpin is so big and heavy, it will cost twenty or thirty taels of silver, no matter how much you like it, my mother won't buy it for you." The older one should be her own sister, although she dotes on her sister very much, but she nodded her nose and let her know that she can't afford this hairpin.

"Aren't I just looking...... The pattern of this hairpin is more beautiful than the hairpin at home, I have never seen such a beautiful golden hairpin......" The young one obviously knew his own situation, and reluctantly looked at the hairpin, but still put it down, and instead picked up a small silver hairpin next to him, but his eyes always glanced in the direction of the golden hairpin.

Huiya watched from the side, her heart moved slightly, the hairpin pattern is very beautiful, so she will like it, do you want to buy it? Hui Ya thought about it for a while, her eyes lit up, when she went to Yinque Tower to pick out jewelry, it seemed that she would really buy a piece or a set of jewelry because of the beauty of the patterns, or the freshness of the patterns, or simply a certain piece of clothing that matched her own.

"If the two ladies like the style of this hairpin, there are still similar ones in our store, but they are much lighter, I will show them to the ladies." The female guy who greeted next to her did not look down on people because the little sisters couldn't afford to buy expensive golden hairpins, but said softly and slowly in a clear voice, and neatly took out a slightly smaller golden hairpin from the counter next to her, and handed it to the sister's hand, and the pattern on the head of the little hairpin hairpin was no different from the little girl's fancy.

"This golden hairpin is hollow, and the pattern of the hairpin is very similar to this solid hairpin, but the price can be half cheaper...... "The female guy gushed about the introduction, so that a pair of little sisters were moved, and after a few hesitations, they bought the one that the female guy later recommended.

Huiya looked at the way the female guy spoke, and only felt a faint sense of familiarity in her heart, but she couldn't tell where she had seen her. (To be continued.) )