Chapter 49: Preparing to Hire
Li Ziyu thought that Sister-in-law Xiang wanted a large amount of puppets this time, and it would definitely not be possible to do it by herself when she went home. If you hire someone to make a puppet, the cost is correspondingly much higher.
What's more, if the puppet is really popular, the cloth head and broken cotton in the auspicious cloth village will definitely not be available. As far as she knows, there is only one cloth village in Xiangsao's side of West Lane, and there are also several cloth villages on the east side of Huating Street, Tongji Street in East Lane, and Xingtan Road. If you can't buy rag heads and broken cotton, the deal will be done. The cost of making a puppet from batches of cloth and cotton is too high, and if she can't sell it at a price, she will have to lose money at that time.
She never dared to underestimate the wisdom of the ancients, although there are many modern puppets, but she knows only a limited number of them. The puppet method is not complicated, as long as you buy the puppet home, you will know how to make it and what fabric to make it from. It won't be long before imitations pop up. Therefore, she must buy all the rag heads and broken cotton in the cloth village in Shiyan Town as soon as possible to ensure the smooth completion of the first batch of puppets. Therefore, the first thing she wants now is to hurry up to other cloth houses to buy cloth heads, thanks to the fact that when she went out, she was afraid that the few taels of silver left last time would not be enough, so she took ten taels of silver, or she was really blind.
He Xiang's sister-in-law ordered the cloth head and broken cotton of the auspicious cloth village, and the sister-in-law Xiang deducted the money for the cloth head and broken cotton, and the remaining three taels of silver were given to Li Ziyu. Li Ziyu and Sister-in-law Xiang said that the cloth head and broken cotton should be put in the cloth village first, and Li Ziyu went out in a hurry.
Li Ziyu first went down Huating Street to the cloth village in the east of the street, this cloth village is called Colorful Star, mainly engaged in all kinds of silk and satin, and also engaged in coarse and fine cotton cloth and cotton, of course, there are quilts, cotton clothes and other finished products, it is a high-end cloth village.
Li Ziyu was in a hurry to buy rags and cotton, and she didn't think about it carefully and went in when she saw the cloth village.
The Colorful Star Cloth Village is very quiet, the three storefronts are elegantly decorated, the counter is half a person high and three feet wide, and all kinds of satin fabrics are neatly placed on the counter, a man in his forties who looks like a shopkeeper is standing on the counter and playing with an abacus, and two fourteen or fifteen-year-old men are sorting out the fabrics.
Seeing Li Ziyu come in, one of the young men saw that she didn't speak, and continued to fiddle with the fabric. Another young man looked at her dress, frowned, and asked:
"What for?"
Li Ziyu showed a sweet smile on her face: "Excuse me, do you have cloth heads and broken cotton here?" ”
"No, no, go out, anyone dares to come in" The young man muttered as he came out of the counter, stretched out his hand and pushed Li Ziyu out.
Li Ziyu pretended to be pushed, but shouted in her mouth: "Shopkeeper, your cloth head is useless anyway, sell it to me." ”
The shopkeeper at the counter looked up at her, looked her up and down a few times, and then lowered his head and pulled the abacus again.
Now the little guy is even more energetic, and he has no scruples about starting, and the force of pushing Li Ziyu is much greater than before: "It's useless to call the shopkeeper, get out quickly"
Li Ziyu's footsteps moved slightly, easily avoiding the young man's hand, and the young man used too much force and almost fell to the ground. When he saw that Li Ziyu still dared to hide, he couldn't help but be annoyed and angry: "Damn, you are a cheap girl in the countryside, you dare to hide from your uncle, you are impatient, right?" ”
Li Ziyu looked at him coldly: "Keep your mouth clean!" You call me a cheap girl, how much more noble are you than me? I'm still free, you're just a slave to others. Why, if I come in to buy something, you can not sell it, what does it mean to live impatiently? Do you still want to kill people? Aren't you afraid that the reputation of the cloth village will be damaged? Or do you have nothing to fear, and there is nothing you are afraid of in Shiyan Town? As she spoke, Li Ziyu suddenly remembered the Sun family, and said in her heart, it won't be so unlucky, could it be that this cloth village is really the Sun family's failure?
Just thinking about it, the shopkeeper came out of it with a smile and played a round field: "Little girl, you don't remember the villain, I will apologize for our guys for you." It's just that we really don't have rag heads and broken cotton in our cloth village, because we sell them in batches, why don't you go to another cloth village to have a look? ”
Li Ziyu stared at the shopkeeper and wondered why he was so respectful. Whether it is the Sun family's shop or not, she doesn't want to make things bigger, and she is an enemy. So she didn't have to pay attention to the people, and turned around and walked out of the shop.
Fortunately, Li Ziyu went to several cloth houses on Tongji Street and Xingtan Road, and bought all the rags and cotton at the price of five cents per bag. After counting, there were more than 20 bags, because there were too many, Li Ziyu went to White Horse Street to hire an ox cart, and went to each cloth village to put the things he bought on the cart. By the time Li Ziyu arrived home in an ox cart, it was already in the middle of the day.
The sisters and brothers happily moved the things they bought home, and Li Ziyu paid ten cents for the car to the driver. The coachman, an old man in his fifties, happily took his salary and drove the ox cart to the original road. Li Ziyu saw him go away, so she went home with the last two bags of things.
After entering the house, Li Ziyu did not close the door as usual, but entered the courtyard with the door open.
In the hall, Xiaoshan, Xiaowen, Xiaowu, Xiaohu and Xiaolan all looked around the cloth bag with great interest, and when they saw Li Ziyu coming in, they gathered around and asked:
"Eldest sister, what did you buy?"
"Eldest sister, why are there so many? Is it something to eat? ”
"Big sister, take a look, open it"
Li Ziyu touched her younger siblings' heads one by one, which was her usual way of intimacy with her younger siblings. At this time, she said apologetically: "The eldest sister was too busy today and didn't buy anything to eat." Next time, next time the eldest sister will definitely buy it. ”
Xiao Wu immediately said sensibly: "Eldest sister, we are not greedy. Don't buy it in the future, save some. ”
Xiaohu followed closely and said, "Don't buy, don't be greedy." ”
Xiaolan leaned on Li Ziyu's leg tightly, and also stared at her round eyes and said, "If you don't buy it, you won't be greedy." ”
"Okay, eldest sister knows." Li Ziyu touched Xiaolan's slippery face and said with a smile.
Xiaoshan looked at Li Ziyu and asked, "Eldest sister, why do you buy so many things?" Is this a rag head and a broken cotton? ”
Xiaowen's eyes rolled, and a bright light flashed: "Sister, the puppet has been sold?" ”
Li Ziyu nodded, with a heartfelt smile on her face: "Xiaoshan, Xiaowen, I made a contract today, and as you guessed, the puppet was sold." Jixiang Buzhuang asked for the first batch of sixty, which is the appearance of the six puppets in your hands, ten for each of them. ”
"Great!" Xiaoshan almost jumped up with joy, and then frowned, "But, sister, when will you be able to finish it alone?" ”
Xiaowen also frowned, and the little adult seemed to think about it, and said with some hesitation: "Sister, I'm thinking that we can't hire someone to do it?" ”
Li Ziyu nodded happily: "Yes, I just wanted to discuss this matter with you." ”
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