Chapter 1123: Rushing to the Market
Later, I inquired about the time of the market in two towns that are not too far away and not close, which are the first day of the new month and the last day of the month.
In terms of time, it is not as good as Dong Xiaoman's expectation of going every ten days, and he will not feel tired and fresh. But we're not big guys, and we have to follow the rules of the game. Therefore, Dong Xiaoman took Dong Xiaogang to the market on the first and thirtieth days of each month. On the fifteenth day of every month, he left Pumpkin Ridge with Chu, of course, it couldn't be a lonely man and a widow, and he had to take Erya, a little girl.
Dong Xiaoman bought a lot of ordinary durable fabrics from cloth merchants, and put on a few fine fabrics with bright colors and gorgeous soft touches. Because Chu Li is a scholar, Dong Xiaoman has prepared pen, ink, paper, and inkstones, so that he can sell these, or simply sit by the stall and write letters on behalf of others.
Dong Xiaoman's main product is naturally the food in her dim sum shop, and the business in the store has long been handed over to Dong's father and mother to take care of. The work of making dim sum is also hired to do it, in fact, there are no core skills, but Dong Xiaoman is looking for honest and reliable people, such people value reputation and will not easily change jobs.
Erya looked at the dim sum stall, Dong Xiaoman was in charge of the cloth stall, and next to it was Mr. Chu Li's stall. There are not many people who come to buy pen, ink, paper and inkstone, but there are many who write family letters.
Because Dong Xiaoman wants to build momentum, it is not charged for Chu Li to write letters to people. It is an obligation to do good deeds, and the people in the kung fu bazaar who have only been doing it for half a day know that the one who sells cloth and the one who sells dim sum is the same, and the boss is really and benevolent, and there is a scholar at home who specializes in helping people write letters.
Therefore, Dong Xiaoman's business is very good, but fortunately, there were not so many people in the hearts of the ancients, although he was jealous of other people's good business, he couldn't say anything. First, people are indeed more capable than us. Able to help people write and read letters for free; Second, there are indeed scholars in the family, which is a great character.
Out of respect for scholars, Dong Xiaoman's business will not be destroyed by any ruffians.
And Chu Li's economic situation is much better, and on this day of every month, he has to take out some money to buy shares with Dong Xiaoman. The first day, when Dong Xiaoman picked up the child. will tell Chu Li how much the total cost of the products to be sold the next day is. Chu Li paid three points of money, plus he had to do heavy work to carry goods and drive carriages to see stalls and write letters. So when dividing it, he counted forty percent, of course, Chu Li, a big man, did not agree with a woman who sympathized with him so much.
After the worst, Dong Xiaoman still made a tough decision, and they scored four or six points. Since doing business is about fairness. What to say outside words or sympathy or the like, except for making people feel that the two people are not innocent, there is nothing else to listen to.
As soon as Dong Xiaoman said this, Chu Li was shocked and secretly scolded himself for not thinking about it and being as good as a woman's family. So every month, Chu Li can earn as much as three taels of silver. In a year, Chu Li is completely enough to go to Beijing to catch the exam, and Dong Xiaoman can earn twelve or three taels of silver a month.
Chu Li calculated this, and had to admire Dong Xiaoman, who was very talented in business. And she is a special person who protects her shortcomings. Anyone who is kind to her can get benefits.
When selling cloth, Dong Xiaoman's promotional method is to buy a good piece of material and give two beautiful head flowers. When she buys an ordinary piece of fabric, she gives a head flower, and the price of the head flower is not cheap, and each one costs three cents. Of course, three cents are one, five cents are two, and seven cents are three. Five out of ten.
Five cents for ten cents looks cheap, but the cheapest linen is only ten cents a horse. Dong Xiaoman's hair flower is not made of fine satin, but cotton cloth that is not cheap. A piece of cloth is only seventeen or eighteen, so it is quite a lot of tweed.
Dong Xiaoman is not stingy with money, and at the beginning, he also took the rags at home and asked Mrs. Wang to help make it. I drew a picture on the paper with benzene in my hand, and then told Mrs. Wang. Mrs. Wang is skillful, and she is beautiful with a few tosses.
Because the head flower began to be small, some girls didn't dare to sell it if they wanted to buy Dong Xiaoman. The country girl didn't have the money to buy a golden hairpin and a silver hairpin, so she could save a few dollars to sell some eggs and fruits, and she could make up the money she spended.
Dong Xiaoman simply bought several brightly colored cloths. One by one, they are dismantled into strips of cloth. I drew more than a dozen or twenty pictures, and I used all kinds of flowers and bows.
After the later period, Dong Xiaoman simply used a mix and match, embroidering flowers with red thread on black fabric, and using white coils to make small white polka dots on blue cloth strips, and even the same style and style emerged.
What a flower, a sachet. Handkerchiefs, money bags, all of them are in the same style. As soon as such a product came out, many girls to be married were immediately overjoyed.
However, there are pros and cons to everything. It takes a long time to buy this thing once before you can buy another, and it's not difficult to make it yourself.
The only thing that Dong Xiaoman's products can win today is that the materials she uses are good, so the sales can be maintained.
After some tossing, Dong Xiaoman suddenly found that he could open a clothing store according to this style. Anyway, I have seen a lot of them in later generations, and I can use them completely.
When I told my mother and Mrs. Wang, I thought that I could open it with the support of the two of them. But he didn't want the two old men to scoff at him: "Anyone who can open a shop, the embroidery in his hand is naturally excellent." Your three-legged cat's kung fu, you can't even make a more delicate belly pocket and still open a store? ”
Mrs. Wang has always spoken sharply, Dong Xiaoman had already been prepared, but she didn't expect to be so venomous. Dong's mother has always been a tolerant person, she persuaded: "It's almost enough, now your wine shop is rented out to make money." Your Jidi Garden also made your brother look good, and the money in the school also made a lot of money. Look at the three days you go out every month, you are tired like something, although you make a lot of money, don't go too far. ”
Mrs. Wang also frowned and said unhappily: "Although I like you very much, but no one is perfect, so I don't like your stubborn temperament." You are a woman with three children, are you not afraid of gossip when you run out every day? Don't forget, your man is not at home, you are not upright, not afraid of shadows, you have to think about what people think of your children. ”
Dong Xiaoman sat in the corner in a muffled voice, but what they said hurt her a little. She is only twenty years old now, and the beautiful years of her life have just begun. If she is like an old lady to care for the elderly at home, she is not willing, if she is old-aged, it is okay, like the grandmother of a big family, she is more comfortable with a wave of her hand.
But what's wrong with earning money with your own hands? Why do you have to think about those reputations, thinking about it, Dong Xiaoman cares most about her children.
She is a gossip of the Dao, and in her previous life, there were still people talking behind her back about which person's mother was not good, and she ran away with others and didn't want him. In fact, his parents divorced, but at that time, there were many ignorant people and the man deliberately slandered him, so the boy hated his mother very much.
There was also a girl, her elementary school classmate. Her father was not good at housekeeping, and he honestly planted those three or four acres of land. But she has an older brother above who still has to get married, and one below her who is still in school. So her mother ruthlessly went to work in other places and did chores in other people's school canteens. It's just that she can only go home during the winter and summer vacations, but the neighbors around her don't think so and say that she doesn't do good things when she goes out. Otherwise, how can an uneducated woman make money?
When she was a child, she heard a lot of children talking about the girl and despised her. She had been to their house and had seen her mother. A very fat woman, very bad tempered and scary. She thought that everyone in that industry could look like anything, and when she grew up, she figured it out: what kind of hunger and thirst do you have, so that she doesn't choose food to pick an old, ugly, fat and black person?
Therefore, the past or present situation of parents can have a different impact on their children. She also knows that she is not good enough, which is also the same reason that she has always said that she is separated but does not dare to really be separated.
This is a feudal society, and this is not the Tang Dynasty where the people are open. No matter what the reason for her, a divorced woman can't get the respect she deserves.
She is not one of those crossing girls, otherwise she would not be able to work step by step for several years before she can live a life that is basically well-off.
"I saw someone that day, it should be my brother-in-law's former childhood sweetheart." Dong Xiaogang finished eating, hiccuped and said.
"What's wrong with her? Are you doing well, where did you see it? When Dong Xiaoman heard this, he hurriedly asked a few questions.
"I look good, why are you so nervous?" Dong Xiaogang looked at Dong Xiaoman and was very nervous about this topic, which was quite strange. Sitting up, he asked with a look of urgency: "Are you still afraid that your brother-in-law is talking about others?" I don't think so, my brother-in-law has long forgotten about those things. ”
Dong Xiaoman is worried about this, but he just knows how he came over. What I did back then, I know best in my heart.
She is a complete junior, although she is not voluntary, she still inserts into the happy life of two people. I wanted to learn the characters of the novel freely, but she was still selfish, and she couldn't afford to gamble.
So she would rather pretend to be weak and virtuous, and she has to seduce Erlang to fall in love with her. Now think about the bad things between my mother-in-law and daughter-in-law and concubines, those superb relatives, and those family affairs that I can't laugh or cry about. Will it be retribution for himself, if he hadn't appeared, wouldn't Cousin Xianglan have married a bad old man? Won't you almost be killed?
Seeing that his sister was thinking about things in a trance, Dong Xiaogang got off the kang and walked in front of his sister and stretched out his five fingers and shook them.
Dong Xiaoman glanced at him impatiently: "Let me tell you, why are you so abrasive?" ”RQ
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