In the next few days, Ziyu made a lot of progress on her side, and she went back to the house from time to time to report. For a while, the entire mansion paid attention to the radiant purple jade. The only one who didn't stand out was Yin Hong.

Because Yin Hong is busy, she has to take care of the girl, train the little girl, and more importantly, train the chef.

Because the Chen family's restaurant is already under construction, Yin Hong will soon go to the restaurant to take charge, so it is necessary to hurry up and train the little girl who will take over the girl, and also train the chef. Therefore, Chen Cai bought four mothers-in-law who can cook and four servants who can cook in advance, so that it is easier for Yin Hong to teach.

The Bai family is very good at employing people, and announced to all the subordinates of the Chen Mansion early in the morning that Ziyu and Yin Hong would step down from the position of the big maid and appreciate to the chief steward. Originally, the big girl Yueyin was one tael, the second-class was five hundred wen, the third-class rough envoy was two hundred wen, and there were four sets of clothes in another year.

Now the chief steward has five taels of silver per month, and can participate in the year-end dividend. As soon as this ordinance came out, the inner and outer courtyards were boiling. There are all kinds of thoughts. Now, looking at Ziyu, Yin Hong not only has many monthly cases, but also keeps going in and out, very majestic, and I have all thought about it.

Chen Wenhui found that the flying light around her would also be stunned. One day, Chen Wenhui was writing big characters at the desk in front of the window, and when she turned her head, she found that the flying light that accompanied her to do needlework suddenly pierced her fingers.

Chen Wenhui smiled: "Sister Feiguang, you needle god can also prick your fingers." Feiguang rubbed his fingers and said: "Look at what the girl said, I have long been afraid of pricking my hand, I learned to keep time when I was a child, and I don't know how many times I pricked." ”

Chen Wenhui put down the pen, took the flying embroidery, and looked at it carefully. I saw that it was an embroidered belt, and at first glance it was embroidered for myself. Because the size is small.

This belt is made of peach satin as the base, and it is embroidered with treasure flowers, peach blossoms, plum blossoms, some are fully open, some are half-open, and some are flower bones, one by one the flowers are fresh and spiritual, and they are almost finished.

Chen Wenhui couldn't help but marvel at Feiguang's ability again.

Chen Wenhui said to Feiguang: "Sister Feiguang, are you envious of Sister Ziyu and Sister Yinhong?" ”

Feiguang looked at the master he had taken care of since he was a child, and somehow, swallowed the words of resignation that had already reached his lips and said in an exclamating voice: "It's envy." We are all sons of the Chen family. The Chen family has been multiplying for a hundred years, it is a big family, I don't know how many children are born in the house, my mother and son are ordinary servants, there are no relatives who are in charge, and there are many sisters and brothers in the family, so I was selected by my mother to be an errand boy when I was very young. Ziyu and I, Yin Hong, as well as the blue lines in the eldest young master's house, the blue water in the second young master's house, and the green frost in the lady's room, were all brought out by the married sister Shui Hong who stayed in the house. We learn the rules and tricks together. Now, both Ziyu and Yinhong are out of breath. Of course I envy it. ”

After saying that, I was taken aback, what was wrong with me, I actually told this to the girl, she is so young, can she understand? Unexpectedly, Chen Wenhui just nodded when she heard this, her eyes were full of understanding. Moreover, Chen Wenhui also said: "Sister, in fact, you don't have to be envious. You all have a skill. Sister Ziyu is proficient in farming, so she went to Zhuangzi to be the chief steward. Sister Yin Hong has superb cooking skills, so she is training people, and after a while, she must be the chief steward of the restaurant. Sister, you also have this ingenious embroidery. ”

Feiguang said strangely: "Girl, I am very confident in my embroidery work. But what is it, it's just to make a few nice clothes. Chen Wenhui said: "A while ago, you also saw the girl from the Wang family who came to us as a guest. What do they think are good clothes in the Exquisite Workshop, how do they compare to what you do? Feiguang said disdainfully: "The style, color, and embroidery are far from good." Chen Wenhui nodded and said, "Yes, then why don't we make a fuss about this?" ”

Feiguang said: "But opening an embroidery room is not profitable." I knew it when I was in Kyori. There are a few very famous families in the capital, the Feng family, the Ma family, etc. are just ordinary families, but they are richer than ordinary people. Chen Wenhui shook her head and said, "The embroidery room we want to open is different from theirs. I would like to divide the embroidery room into three parts. One part is tailoring. It is to cut the clothes and distribute them to the embroidery room of the second courtyard for the embroidery lady to complete. Then, take it to the shop and sell it. All the clothes are divided into three classes. The first class is called Baoyi. The materials are exquisite, the embroidery is exquisite, and it is specially tailored for large families. But the specifications are released by us on a regular basis. The second class is called brocade. Styles are sold in different seasons, and they are made in advance according to the size and size and displayed in advance. The material is medium, the embroidery is average, but the style is novel. The third class is called beautiful clothes. The material is ordinary, there is no embroidery, and the price is cheap, but because of the large number of cuts, it saves the fabric and saves money than making clothes at home. Feiguang was dumbfounded.

Chen Wenhui didn't speak, and raised her hand to call Qiu Bi, who had just been promoted to a first-class girl, to make a glass of water for herself. Then he held the lotus-patterned celadon cup extorted from his eldest brother Chen Wenjun and tasted it carefully. Feiguang was stunned for a quarter of an hour. Chen Wenhui stood up, pulled Feiguang to her chair and sat down, then found a stack of Xuelang paper, and handed her a pen.

In addition, he said to Qiubi: "Qiubi, go and bring the little abacus that my mother taught me to calculate accounts in our house to Sister Feiguang." Qiu Bi is now very familiar with the things of the girls in the house under the cultivation of Feiguang and Yinhong, and immediately found them and put them in front of Feiguang.

Chen Wenhui said to Feiguang: "You should think about my words. See if there's anything else to add? Qiubi and I are going to the front mother's place. After saying that, I went out with Qiu Bi. The rest of Feiguang was flustered for a while, and when he saw the snow wave paper, he hurriedly grabbed the pen and paper and wrote out the thoughts flying in his head. After writing it, I feel that it can't be done, erase and rewrite, and erase it after writing. That's it, write and erase. It wasn't until the time of the lantern that Chen Wenhui and Qiu Bi came back from the front and saw that Feiguang was still writing.

Chen Wenhui saw the green shoots guarding the house. Feiguang wrote while drinking the tea made by the green buds, nodded, and asked the green sprouts: "Has Sister Feiguang been here all along?" Green Bud took the lantern from Qiu Bi's hand and replied, "Yes." Sister Feiguang has been writing here since the girl left. I watched it for a long time, so I soaked my sister in water, and my sister drank it without speaking. Later, when it got dark, I lit the lamp. My sister didn't listen to me all the time, and I didn't eat in the middle, so I had to ask the kitchen to leave food for Sister Feiguang. ”

Chen Wenhui smiled and came to Feiguang. Stretched out his hand and pulled out Feiguang's pen and said, "Sister Feiguang, I've been thinking about it for an afternoon, but if you have any ideas, it's better for us to listen to them than for you to think alone." ”

At this time, Yin Hong also came in. She had already heard Cui Qiao talk about it in the courtyard. As soon as he came in at this moment, he leaned over to Feiguang and said, "Feiguang, are you crazy?" ”

Feiguang ignored Yin Hong, frowned her delicate eyebrows, and said to Chen Wenhui with a snow wave paper full of words: "I have thought about what the girl said. Let's talk about this beautiful dress first. Ordinary people make clothes, and they are reluctant to throw away a lot of scraps of fabric, but they don't have much use, that is, to occupy the sole of a shoe. If we do a large number of pieces, the same color, the same style to make ten pieces, then we can save another piece of clothing. Besides, there are very few ordinary people who buy a piece of cloth, most of them buy a set of clothing like this, or even just a long shirt to buy clothing. We can buy ten horses, or even 100 horses, and the wholesale and retail prices are different, so maybe ten pieces can save two pieces, so that there is a profit of 30%. ”

Chen Wenhui nodded and said: "What Sister Feiguang said is that although there are three profits, we still have to deduct labor, lamp consumption, shop rent, taxes, etc., so there is actually no thirty percent of the profit, but one percent must have." Although the profit of one or half percent is small, it is also objective when calculated for thousands of pieces. Feiguang nodded and said, "Yes, yes." It's just the profit of the beautiful clothes. The brocade clothes should be better, so that the same color and style sit down, because the style is good, the clothing workmanship is better, and the price is naturally higher. It's more profitable. It's just that the quantity is not as big as the beautiful clothes. ”

Chen Wenhui immediately said: "Although the amount is smaller, the profit is larger, and the two offsets are only more profitable." But the key to this is not the price, but the style. Feiguang said: "Don't be afraid of the style, we have a letter from our family in Kyungri every month, which naturally brings the most popular styles in Kyung, but these are not available in Anseong." Chen Wenhui said curiously: "Isn't there any news in Ancheng in the capital?" ”

Feiguang smiled: "Girl, you don't know this." The clothes and jewelry in the world are all in the palace as the like. Don't you hear that 'the king of Chu has a thin waist, and everyone in the palace is starving to death.' 'The popular style in the palace, the big family, the Xungui family is the first to know, and then the ordinary officials know, and when the people and rich families know, they don't know when. There are people in Anseong who are in Kyung, but there is no first news from the big family, just looking at the rich families, of course they are lagging behind. ”

Chen Wenhui suddenly realized. It's no wonder that the Bai family has been in Ancheng for more than a year, and he can still lead the trend. It turns out that the birthplace of fashion here is in the aristocracy, and wherever it is like in the previous life, fashion is from France and Italy Fashion Week. This ensures the style of the brocade clothes, but it is a good thing. Feiguang said: "Actually, the most profitable thing is Baoyi. Needless to say, there is nothing to compete with us with our embroiderers. And the amount of this is smaller, so you can do it finely. So, girl, I calculated for a long time, it should be possible to do it. ”

Yin Hong listened to it for a long time, and she was already confused, what "treasure clothes", "beautiful clothes", and "brocade clothes", she was dizzy. At this time, he hurriedly interjected: "What are you talking about, why don't I understand a word, is the girl crazy with Feiguang?" ”

Feiguang sneered, and hurriedly explained the matter in its entirety, and then talked about what was just discussed, and asked Yin Hong to make a reference. Yin Hong listened, muttered for a while, and said, "It's good, but there's one more thing in it." ”

Feiguang and Wen Hui hurriedly asked something. Yin Hong said: "Feiguang is covered in iron, how many nails can you hit?" Just a flying light can't be done, and the job of embroidering the girl is not something that can be learned in a while and a half. It's not the same as my cooking job. I can start there and learn the side dishes. Embroidery is not easy to learn. Feiguang immediately became discouraged when he heard this. But Wen Hui said confidently: "I have already arranged this. ”