Chapter 11: The Man Behind It
"Everybody line up! Don't line up well, our store refuses to sell spring breeze cloth! ”
Lu Yuan shouted with difficulty.
Lu Yuan originally thought that cloth was not as good as firewood, rice, oil and salt, although there would be large families ordering in large quantities, ordinary people would not be too keen to buy new cloth.
But what Lu Yuan didn't expect was that after the spring breeze cloth woven by the shuttle loom was passed on by everyone, the people of the entire Linqing City rushed to buy the cloth.
Linqingzhou was the premier prosperous market town in the Ming Dynasty, and most of the people in the city were engaged in business, and naturally the economic level was not low.
What's more, now Lu Yuan himself has advertised that he will increase the price after selling it at a nine-percent discount in the early stage, so that the people are scrambling to buy such a cloth back, in order to buy it cheaper now.
Even the girls in Honghualou let their maidservants or good friends come to buy the spring flower cloth of the Lu family.
Lu Yuan could only let these people line up to buy.
And the people who bought the cloth were surprised: "Queue, what queue!" ”
"That's right, what is queuing, where did you get so many rules from your store, let's buy your cloth, aren't you happy, why don't you give it convenient!"
"Big deal, I'm not buying it here!"
The people couldn't accept queuing up to buy, and some of them with strong personalities turned around and went to other cloth shops, but because they found that there was no spring breeze cloth in other stores, they had to turn back.
And this time.
The customers who stayed here to buy cloth lined up under Lu Yuan's arrangement.
Some of them regretted turning back, secretly saying that if they didn't go to another store, they might have been in the front of the queue earlier.
This way.
Uncle Fei has already started selling spring breeze cloth.
Tang Ying also came to the Lujiabu shop, and she and her maid dressed as men also learned from other customers and began to queue up to buy.
When Tang Ying arrived at the front, Lu Yuan was surprised to see her: "Why are you here?" ”
"Can't I come and buy cloth, brother?"
Tang Ying smiled.
Lu Yuan had no choice but to lead Tang Ying into the house and handed Tang Ying a piece of paper on which he had written on it.
Tang Ying took it and took a look, only to see that it was written: "The immortal in the Moon Cave sews a robe, and the autumn lady wipes the traces." Shy and silently complained to whom, tired of leaning on the west wind and the night was dark. ”
Tang Ying fell silent after seeing it, but her heart was extremely shocked, and she couldn't help but raise her head and ask Lu Yuan: "This is also what she wrote?" ”
Lu Yuan nodded.
"Then she is the confidante of the world brother?" Tang Ying asked, a little disappointed in her heart, she thought that the literati Lu Yuan knew were really great talents such as Cao Zhi and Xie An, but now that she read this poem, she only felt that Lu Yuan knew a woman.
Lu Yuan laughed: "How can I have any confidantes, I am a layman, I can't compare to your brother, this is written by him in a woman's voice, if the little sister thinks it is good, appreciate it, if you don't think it's good, it's nothing." ”
Lu Yuan was not wrong, this "Song of White Begonia" is Lin Daiyu's masterpiece in "Dream of Red Mansions", and the author of Dream of Red Mansions is Cao Xueqin, but it is not written by a man in a woman's voice.
Tang Ying also felt that what Lu Yuan said was reasonable, and wanted to ask a few more words, but saw that Lu Yuan was cutting clothes, and it was the same style as the dress he gave him that day, so he smiled and asked: "Brother Shi wants to make clothes for me again?" ”
Tang Ying blushed as soon as he finished asking this sentence, and he regretted his words a little.
"Little sister misunderstood, this is not for you, this is what I plan to do and prepare to sell as clothes, if my little sister is interested, you can help me draw some patterns on the clothes, I can find someone to sell them, I can't even dress in one style."
Lu Yuan said this casually, Tang Ying became interested and agreed: "Okay! When I go back, I'll give my brother a few tricks. ”
Lu Yuan didn't know how to draw, and he didn't know what tricks girls liked, so he thought that it would be more suitable for Tang Ying to be in charge of dress design than himself, so he said: "I will give you a salary in the future, how about silver a month, two or two months?" I won't let you do it in vain! ”
Tang Ying's colorful clothes were a little envious, thinking that although I said that although I said that the big girl next to the girl, it was only one or two months of silver, and the girl now only drew a pattern for her aunt to get two taels of silver a month, which is also too good.
"Good! Brother, Tang Ying retires! ”
Tang Ying said that he went out, but then he couldn't help but turn around and look at Lu Yuan: "Brother Shi, my little sister has something to ask for, I don't know if Brother Shi can help." ”
Lu Yuan didn't raise his head: "You say." ”
"After a while is my mother's birthday, I don't know what gift to give, thinking that giving my mother a poem is excellent, my family is full of poetry and books, if there is a good poem, my mother naturally likes it very much, I don't know if my brother can ask your friend to help write a poem, my little sister is stupid, I can't think of a good one."
As Tang Ying spoke, he simply turned around and stared closely at the pair of eyes under Lu Yuan's thick eyebrows.
"It's easy!"
When Lu Yuan saw the clothes in front of him, he immediately remembered a suitable poem of the Qing Dynasty, so he said it casually, and then read it:
"The robe is still tight, and the scarf is torn but still warm. The reunion can't bear to be moved and demolished, and there are old thread marks on the loving mother. ”
Tang Ying listened to it for a while, muttered in his mouth, and for a while, a jade face was full of smiles: "Brother Shi's memory is so good, very readers can't reach it, thank you Brother Shi for the gift!" Please thank you for that friend for me. ”
Tang Ying really went back to the carriage as he spoke, and when he saw Caiyi coming up, he couldn't help asking, "Caiyi, do you say that what he said is true?" ”
"I don't understand what the girl asked," Caiyi replied.
Tang Ying saw that it was not good to ask again.
Here, Zhang Heng, who happened to come over because he saw the carriage of the Tang Mansion, couldn't help but darken his face when he saw Tang Yingyan coming out of Lu Yuan with a smile just now.
Seeing that the business of Lu Yuan's cloth shop suddenly became so hot, he felt even more unhappy, and he couldn't help but secretly worry that if the Lu family got better, would Lu Yuan really be able to repay his family's silver, and even buy a dowry to marry his cousin.
Zhang Heng also asked people to go to the Lujia cloth shop to buy a spring breeze cloth.
Zhang Heng is ready to find out the defects of this spring breeze cloth, such as the clothes are not durable or wear-resistant, and they are not even warm.
So, Zhang Heng immediately asked his tailor to make a cotton coat from the spring breeze cloth woven by this flying shuttle loom, and then, Zhang Heng asked people to hammer with sticks, or even tear directly, and compared it with other cotton clothes, but found that other cotton clothes were not hammered for a long time and were torn, and they would tear when they were pulled, but the cotton clothes made of this spring breeze cloth could not be hammered and torn.
"How is this weaved, no wonder it is so strong, so densely woven! How could his Lu family weave such a cloth, how could this be possible! ”
Zhang Heng roared almost in despair, and after trying to wear it for a while, he found that the warmth was better than ordinary cotton clothes, which made him even more unacceptable and very uncomfortable.
But for Song Yuqing, when he knew that there was a good texture and wider cloth like Chunfeng cloth, he seemed to have found a mountain of gold, and he was very comfortable, he originally wanted to directly use the forces behind him to take away Lu Yuan's weaving workshop and weaving technology, but after hearing that Lu Yuan was the future son-in-law of Tang Jin, the director of the Ministry of Literature and Selection, he still gave up this idea and came to Lu Yuan in person.
"Song Yuqing? Uncle Fei, do you mean he's very powerful? Lu Yuan handed the post to Uncle Fei and asked.
Uncle Fei nodded: "Behind him is the one surnamed Zheng in Fujian, and they have the final say on the whole sea, and even the imperial court can't do anything about them." ”