Ning Xia Qing said calmly: "I personally went to say hello to the second master yesterday, and the second master promised to give us a leniency of our shares and the purchase money of 'merit consummation', so the silver in our account will not be so nervous, and I will not take all the cigarette yarn into the cage, I will leave forty percent of the silver down, you take these to the material next to the point." ”

Dong Zizhen persuaded bitterly: "The master, this is not a matter of whether there is enough money in the account, but now in this season, there is really no need to rush to enter the yarn, in the whole world, there is no cloth chamber of commerce to rush into the yarn in the first lunar day." Why can't the boss wait? ”

Dong Zizhen snapped his fingers and said: "Wait for more than ten days at most, and when February arrives, there will be a lot of merchants from Liuyang County who will come to Liu'an County to participate in the silk weaving market in Liu'an County. ”

Dong Zizhen muttered in a low voice: "Take 10,000 steps back, if the owner loses his eyes this time and buys a large number of cage tobacco yarns early, and the result is that it can't be sold, it will be troublesome...... Moreover, if this is a change of others, even if you look at the yarn, you will add several different yarns...... This is also a great risk. ”

"There is no benefit without risk." Ningxia Qing said resolutely: "When the spring and summer seasons are due, the price of yarn will definitely rise." If we wait until the silk market to buy goods, we won't be able to get the current price. And if the market of silk materials is good at that time, there will definitely be big businessmen rushing to buy goods, and our small Huacaiyuan will not be able to grab it at all. ”

"This ......" Dong Zizhen thought for a while, spread his hands and said: "To be honest, in fact, I originally wanted to buy more silk satin in the future." If we take advantage of this time to buy more other silk satins and turn Huacai Yuan into a shop that mainly sells silk satin, I think it will be better for the development of Hua Cai Yuan. ”

Ningxia Qing immediately smiled bitterly: "Ning's workshop is the production of silk satin, now the second master's workshop and the third master's workshop are wrestling, if the second master wins, we don't have to bother, we can also turn the silk satin into the signature of Huacaiyuan, if the third master wins, the third master will monopolize the production of silk satin, when the time comes, no matter how much we bother, it is impossible to survive in the field of silk satin." ”

"This ......" Dong Zizhen was stunned for a moment, and muttered in hindsight: "This ...... That's right......"

Ning Xia Qing paused for a moment, lowered his eyes slightly, and said with a sour feeling: "When my father was still there, he once wanted to go out on a boat to the south to buy yarn and turn my family's shop into a shop that mainly sells medium and low-grade yarn materials. In the end, although it didn't work out, his idea was right, for this shop, even if it doesn't sell yarn, yarn can't be left behind. ”

Ning Xia Qing endured a sour smile and said: "At least, if there is any mistake in the silk satin in the future, we can also rely on the yarn to survive temporarily." ”

Seeing this, Dong Zizhen didn't want to say anything, so he had to nod and say honestly: "Since the boss has decided, then I'll listen to the boss." ”

Ning Ningqing added: "Moreover, the reason why I want to go to Liuyang County is not necessarily to enter the cage tobacco yarn, I just go to see, in fact, what I want to see the most is the silkworm farm, and the purchase is by the way." ”

Dong Zizhen was a little confused: "Why do you want to go to the silkworm farm?" It's still early to take back the mulberry garden. ”

Ning Xia Qing sighed and said worriedly: "I'm not for myself, I'm for the second master." ”

Ningxia Qingdao expressed the worries in his heart: "The Ning family has always been the eldest master in charge of silk, the second master in charge of weaving, and the third master in charge of shops. Now that the eldest master and the third master have joined forces to suppress the second master, I have heard from the second master that the eldest master has not sold silk to the second master for a long time, and the silk stored in the second master's workshop is about to run out. ”

"Huh? And this kind of thing? Dong Zizhen scratched his head.

Ning Xia Qing nodded and said, "Yes." And the eldest master had already colluded with the third master, before the eldest master did not sell the silk to the second master, the third master's workshop first took away all the silk from other retail investors, resulting in the second master now even if he wants to collect silk elsewhere. ”

Dong Zi was really anxious: "If the second master doesn't have silk, then wouldn't our 'merit consummation' have to be stopped?" ”

Ning Ningqing nodded: "That's why I'm going to Liuyang County to see the silkworm farm and see if I can help the second master solve this dilemma." If it weren't for this, how could the second master easily agree to grace our shares and the purchase money of 'merit'? ”

It is related to whether the "merit consummation" will be discontinued, Dong Zizhen naturally will no longer have any objections, and began to support Ningxia Qingqin to go to Liuyang County to see the silkworm farm.

Ningxia Qing asked Cuiyu to help pack her luggage, Ah Zheng tidied up the family carriage again, and the three of them were about to set off tomorrow. The night before departure, the family of four gathered for dinner.

The old lady's rare words were always silent, and her face was extremely worried. And Cao's couldn't even maintain the calm that he pretended, and the chopsticks were pulled in the bowl for a long time, but he didn't eat a bite. Even Zi'er seems to be very worried, she usually eats three bowls of rice, but she only eats one bowl tonight and refuses to eat it.

Ningxia Qing is a big girl who is powerless, only with a coachman and a maid, and runs so far away, it is strange that the family can rest assured. Even Zi'er understands how dangerous it is to go far away.

The old lady was thinking about things while chewing something, and after swallowing a few bites, she suddenly asked, "Qing'er, are you planning to take Ah Zheng and Cuiyu with you?" ”

"yes." Ning Xia Qing replied calmly.

"That's not going to work." The old lady immediately denied: "It's such a long road, it takes six or seven days to go back and forth, as soon as you go out, we don't even know where you are, we have to worry, you have two people with you?" Where is this?! Didn't you add Cuizhi and Cuiluo to your house, bring them with you? ”

Cao Shi hurriedly said: "I'm afraid this won't work." Cuizhi and Cuiluo just served Qing'er, and I'm afraid they won't serve well. Just bring Lan Ying with you, Lan Ying is more useful, Cui Zhi and Cui Luo pick another one to bring, and the four of them are just right to take the carriage. ”

The old lady thought for a while, and immediately nodded approvingly, and Ning Xia Qing hurriedly stopped with a wry smile: "It's just to go to Liuyang County, you don't have to be so excited." When I got over there, the Luo family took care of me, the Luo family has a house in Liuyang County, the Luo family is the Gu family's in-laws, and the Gu family has a deep friendship, and Mrs. Gu has already sent someone to take care of me. ”

Ning Xia Qing said in a low voice: "The Luo family has promised to take care of me, and the Luo family will take care of me for food and housing. ”

"This ......" The old lady was stunned for a moment, and then said: "Otherwise, the maid will bring a jade, but well, let Gu Feng go with you." It can not only protect you on the road, but also help you take care of the business when you get there. ”

Ning Ningqing hurriedly waved his hand: "There is Ah Zheng, Ah Zheng can not only catch the car, but also protect me, and help me take care of my business." And Uncle Gu Feng is old, let's not toss him. ”

Ningxia Qingchen said: "Now the business in the store is not bad, and the shopkeeper Dong is too busy to be alone, so he has to let Uncle Gu Feng stay in the store to take care of it." Moreover, if Uncle Gu Feng is allowed to go with me, do you want Uncle Gu Feng and Ah Zheng to sit on the wheel together? Uncle Gu Feng is not like Ah Zheng, his body will not be able to bear it. ”

The old lady and Cao glanced at each other, and they both sighed.

Ningxia Qing sandwiched a piece of meat for Zi'er, and asked Cuiyu to serve Zi'er a bowl of rice.

Immediately comforted the old lady and Cao's a few words, assured that he would come back safely, and listed in detail the various reasons why the journey was not difficult, so that the old lady and Cao's were a little relieved.

Ning Xia Qing said again: "Grandma mentioned Uncle Gu Feng, but I remembered something. ”

The old lady asked, "What's the matter?" ”

Ning Xia Qing said: "In the morning, Uncle Gu Feng asked me for something, I should have done it myself, but I have to go out, I'm afraid I don't have time, so I can only bother my grandmother to go to Gufu." ”

The old lady was even more puzzled: "What does Gu Feng need to do in the Gu Mansion?" ”

Ning Xia Qing said carefully: "Didn't Uncle Gu Feng adopt Zhao Xiaobao, he saw Zi'er go to Gu's Academy, and he also wanted Zhao Xiaobao to study, so that Zhao Xiaobao would not be illiterate, and he could have a better future in the future." ”

The old lady sighed: "This child is this age, he has long remembered, and he has a sister, and he is definitely not more dear than the kind of orphan he adopted since childhood." So I thought that Gu Feng just hoped that the child could serve in his old age, but he didn't expect that he would treat the child sincerely, and he actually thought of sending the child to study. ”

Ning Xia Qing nodded: "Yes, Uncle Gu Feng is kind-hearted and sincerely thinks about Zhao Xiaobao like his own father." I pondered, since Zi'er is studying in Gu's Academy, it is better to send Zhao Xiaobao with him. ”

Cuiyu brought the rice, and Ning Ningqing handed the rice to Zi'er, and asked Zi'er: "Brother Zhao Xiaobao will go to study with you, and he will be able to take care of you in the academy in the future, if you have anything, ask him for help, let him play with you, and let him protect you, okay?" ”

Zi'er's eyes lit up, and the melon seeds on her little head were like chickens pecking rice, obviously because Ning Ningqing's arrangement was in Zi'er's heart. Ning Xia Qing touched Zi'er's head, and Zi'er immediately gobbled it up happily. The old lady told Zi'er to eat slowly, and said to Ning Xia Qing worriedly: "But Zhao Xiaobao's identity ......."

Ningxia Qingdao: "Grandma, don't worry, the Gu family has always been kind to the subordinates, if the family wants to send their children to study, the Gu Academy will accept them, so there are many children in the academy who are from the next family." Zhao Xiaobao wants to enter Gu's Academy, which is not very unruly, as long as grandma goes to ask the old lady Gu to say a favor. ”

The old lady nodded and said to Ning Xia Qing: "Okay, you go and do your business, I'll do this." ”

Early the next morning, Ningxia Qing planned to leave as soon as possible, but was delayed by a sudden emergency.

Ningxia Qinggang and Gu Feng finally instructed a few things that needed to be paid attention to in the shop when they were away, and Dong Zizhen suddenly ran in from outside: "The master, the family, it's not good!" ”

Ning Xia Qing was taken aback by Dong Zizhen's loud voice: "What's wrong?" Something to say slowly. ”

Dong Zizhen looked left and right and said, "Master, isn't this a good place to talk about this, let's find a quiet place to talk slowly?" ”

Ningxia Qing knows that it is not too late to go to the cage of tobacco yarn, the sooner you start, the better, the opportunity is changing rapidly, once the day is delayed, the loss may be huge. But Dong Zizhen is rarely so flustered, and Ningxia Qing can't help but listen to Dong Zizhen.

So Ning Xia Qing signaled Cuiyu not to set off first, and then took Dong Zizhen into the waiting room in the Ning family's house.

Cuizhi and Cuiluo served tea, and Dong Zizhen showed a burden to Ningxia Qing with an uneasy face.

Ning Xia Qing opened the baggage, only to see that there were more than a dozen batches of "merit consummation", Ning Ningqing didn't understand, why did Dong Zizhen show himself this thing? She looked at it casually, and saw that the dozen or so batches of materials were of different colors, and the color looked like the rising sun...... Wrong! This is not "merit consummation"!

Ning Xia Qing's fingers scratched on it, making sure that this was not the "merit consummation" produced from Ning Er's workshop, she looked at Dong Zizhen suspiciously and asked, "What kind of material is this?" ”

Dong Zizhen, who had just run back, took a sip of tea in a hurry, almost burned himself, wiped his mouth and said: "Since the New Year, since the opening of major shops, there have suddenly begun to sell 'merit consummation', and the selling price is lower than ours. ”

Dong Zizhen picked them up one by one and motioned to Ningxia Qing: "This is Li Xiuge's 'merit consummation', which is only sold for twenty-two taels." This is the 'merit consummation' of Su Jinyuan, which only sells for twenty taels! You know, the purchase price of the 'merit consummation' we give to other stores is twenty-four taels! ”

Dong Zizhen was indignant: "If it weren't for the fact that a few shopkeepers who entered the 'Merit Perfection' from us suddenly came to me and said about it, complaining that the purchase price we gave was too expensive, I wouldn't have known about it!" As soon as I heard about this, I hired a fresh face to help me buy these materials in Li Xiuge and Su Jinyuan, and found that they really looked very similar to our 'merit consummation'. ”

Dong Zi was so angry that he dropped the material: "I only bought the materials from Li Xiuge and Su Jinyuan, according to the shopkeepers who came to me to complain, at least a dozen shops in the county have begun to sell this cheaper 'merit consummation'!" I'm so angry that someone dares to imitate our material on such a large scale! ”

Ning Xia Qingwei groaned and continued to look at the material seriously: "At first glance, this material is indeed very similar to our 'merit consummation', but as long as you take a closer look, let alone me, even a layman can see that there is still a gap between this and our 'merit consummation'." 'Perfection of merit' is the proud work of the second master, and it is not so easy to imitate. ”

"Who's to say it isn't! How can this compare with our materials?! Dong Zizhen said: "But there will still be some people who can't see this gap, and only buy it with the reputation of 'merit consummation', and as a result, they buy these imitation defective products, so that these merchants who sell imitation products make a lot of money." ”

Dong Zizhen was so angry that he was half dead: "We have worked hard and how many relationships we have gone, so we finally took advantage of the Xue Mansion Business Banquet and the Douhua Club to start the signboard of 'Merit Perfection', and now we actually let these imitations take advantage!" ”

Dong Zizhen clapped his hands and said: "Moreover, they not only took advantage of us with the light of 'merit consummation', but even caused those shopkeepers who entered the 'merit consummation' from us to be very unbalanced. This is unreasonable! ”

Ning Xia Qing sighed: "This kind of thing is very common in this industry, imitations make a lot of money through the reputation of genuine products, but they also squeeze the living space of genuine products because of low prices." ”

Dong Zizhen was very angry: "Yes, I heard those shopkeepers say that those who sell imitation products still have a good word, saying that the net satin was originally a dozen taels of price, but our 'merit consummation' has almost doubled, saying that we are profiteers, but they are the good people who pull the price of net satin to a normal level." ”

Dong Zizhen slapped the table angrily: "Isn't this nonsense!" In order to make the 'merit consummation' famous, just the exchanges between the people at the Xue Mansion Business Banquet and the Flower Fighting Meeting, how much silver did we put into it?! If it weren't for that silver, would the 'merit of perfection' have the fame it has now? The reason why we set the price high is also to make that money back. ”

Cuiyu also became more and more angry the more she listened to it: "If we hadn't made a name for the 'Merit Perfection', would they have made so much money selling imitations?" Their behavior is clearly stealing, but they also turn around and beat us up, accusing us of not being the same! Isn't this picking up the bowl to eat, putting down the bowl and scolding the mother?! ”

Dong Zizhen was so angry that he agreed: "That's it!" If they have the ability, they can innovate a good material by themselves and then promote it themselves! Without that ability, steal our reputation, and instead claim to be righteous against us! ”

"And more!" Dong Zizhen added: "These fakes are not as good as our real products, the luster is poor, the feel is rough, and these broken things are sold under the name of 'merit perfection', isn't this a sign that corrupts us and the second master?!" ”

Ning Xia Qing sneered: "In the business field, there are many unscrupulous people who want to make money. ”

Some black-hearted merchants can't make good things themselves, so they go the wrong way, hoping to use low-priced and easy-to-get fakes to make shoddy products, and the result is often to force the real dealers to die, and also completely ruin the reputation of the real thing.

After the genuine goods were notorious for being counterfeited, no one ever bought the real thing anymore.

However, genuine dealers who have invested a lot of money and energy during the research and production of genuine products are facing a loss because they cannot get a return on the money and energy they have invested before. For those who sell imitations, they have already made a lot of money by selling fakes anyway, and they have nothing to lose.

In the business field, there are countless vicious competition incidents like this. Speaking of which, the reason why the price of yarn has been lowered in recent years is actually because of some vicious competition.