Embroidery is also embroidery, also known as needle embroidery, with embroidery needles to lead the color line, according to the design pattern, embroidered on the fabric to form a pattern or text.

To the Ming Dynasty, embroidery is unprecedentedly prosperous, Suzhou embroidery, Guangdong embroidery, Hunan embroidery, Shu embroidery is known as the "four famous embroidery", in addition there are Gu embroidery, Beijing embroidery, Ou embroidery, Lu embroidery, Min embroidery, Bian embroidery, Han embroidery and Miao embroidery, etc., each has its own style, and the embroidery of Ningxian county belongs to the category of Minxiu.

When the two families returned home after dinner together, Zhou put out all the embroideries that came in from the embroidery workshop and looked at them carefully, Shen Xi glanced at them casually, they were indeed all good materials, and the flowers were embroidered beautifully, but as long as you thought about it a little, you knew that it was difficult to have a market.

The most obvious problem, Zhou's embroidery is from the embroidery workshop to buy goods, said that the price is not high, but in fact has been the embroidery workshop to peel a layer, even if someone really needs, those people can go to the embroidery workshop to buy it, why let the vendors intercept a section of profits?

What's more, the most basic skill of a woman in these years is female red, there are not many people who really need to come out to buy embroidery, embroidery, if there is no large-scale order, you can't make any money just by selling it in bulk.

However, Shen Xi did not say anything to the Zhou family.

Businessmen have to suffer losses before they know that it is difficult to do business, Zhou is on the rise, he rashly retorted, Zhou does not believe it, and may beat him.

Sure enough, for the first two days, Zhou went out happily, but after experiencing the dismal situation of only selling one piece in two days and earning back two pennies, Zhou began to face up to whether there was something wrong with this business.

"It's really strange, I think the business of the embroidery workshop is doing very well, why don't we open the stall and no one will come to buy it?"

Zhou was in the room, looking at the colorful embroidery after it was spread out, a little worried, these words seemed to be asking people, and seemed to be talking to himself.

Shen Xi was sitting precariously at this time, bowing his head to practice calligraphy on the small wooden table placed in the center of the courtyard, he raised his head when he heard the words and said: "Mother, you also said that the business of the embroidery workshop is good, but what my mother does is not the business of the embroidery workshop." ”

"What do you little boy know, tomorrow my mother will sell it cheaper, and you should be able to sell a few more...... Well, that's it. ”

Shen Xi stuck out his tongue with a disapproving expression. Originally, a handkerchief embroidered with flowers, birds, fish and insects only earned two cents, and if it was cheaper, it would be a complete loss.

The plague in Ninghua County has just passed, and what the people lack at this time is their daily needs, such as firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, tea, and even cloth, coal, cotton, and other daily necessities.

The next day, Shen Xi came home from school, and the Zhou family had already come back from collecting the stall, and it turned out that even if she lowered the price of embroidery to parity in the morning, no one cared about it at all. She waited on the street for more than two hours, but was asked for a tax of four cents by Jitou, and Zhou simply took the stall back in a fit of anger, and kept cursing the Jitou and the official teeth who ate people and did not spit out bones.

“…… You talk about them, they don't do anything, they charge me four cents for walking on the street, I said I can't sell it, and they don't allow them to pay for a handkerchief, but I'm really angry. ”

Hui Niang heard that Zhou's business was not going well, so she deliberately closed the pharmacy and came to comfort her: "My sister is used to doing business, and she knows that doing business in the city not only has to deal with the government, but also has to deal with the head." Every few days, the head of the market will bring people to the street to collect money, and if there is a New Year's holiday, there will be a gift to give to each other. Because of this, those thieves did not dare to make trouble in the streets. ”

Only then did Zhou know that Jitou didn't deliberately target her, but she just happened to catch up, this time it was really unfavorable, she made two cents and lost four cents, and lost two cents in vain, which is not counting her capital to buy embroidery.

Originally, he rushed out to do small business, but after only a few days, Zhou's enthusiasm was almost worn out.

"Why don't my sister go out and show her face and do the business of setting up stalls along the street?" Hui Niang suddenly said: "My sister runs this pharmacy alone, and she is really a little powerless!" ”

"My sister has no husband, and I am afraid of provoking gossip when I invite outsiders, so it is better for my sister to come and help...... It doesn't matter if my sister wants to be paid, or if she is half of the owner and divides the profits, in short, my sister helps take care of the pharmacy, and my sister can take time to accompany Xi'er more. ”

Zhou's face was full of shock! Although the scale of Hui Niang Pharmacy is not large, after the outbreak of the plague, the pharmacy has long been famous, and the people in the city seem to recognize the most authentic qualifications for the medicinal materials sold by Hui Niang Pharmacy, and there are many customers every day. In addition, even the pharmacy where the county magistrate gave a plaque no one dared to open the offense, which avoided the dumping of peers.

This was the time when the pharmacy business was booming, but Hui Niang was willing to divide the business and let the Zhou family do it together, which made her a little flattered.

"Sister, this isn't good......"

"What's so bad?" Sun Huiniang said with a smile, "If my sister wasn't lucky enough to meet my sister's family, let alone doing this business, I wouldn't even be able to keep the shop and yard." ”

"My sister is so busy now, and I often feel exhausted and overwhelmed. Sister should be considerate of her sister and come over to help! My sister doesn't treat my sister badly, and in the future, we will share the profits of the pharmacy fifty-fifty? ”

"No, no, then I'm really going to be poked in the back!"

As soon as Zhou heard that it was fifty-fifty, she knew that it was not appropriate even if she wanted to invest in the pharmacy again. It was originally a free deal, but now Hui Niang wants to give her half of the proceeds, and she doesn't want to accept it.

In the end, the two women pushed me to let me, and finally agreed that Hui Niang would give 30% of the profits of the pharmacy to Zhou. In this way, the Shen family became the shareholders of the pharmacy, and the Zhou family finally had a legitimate livelihood, and there was no need to be a female celebrity or set up a stall along the street to sell.

After the plague in the south, the stock of medicinal materials in the pharmacy has been seriously insufficient, and with the current booming business, it will be out of stock in a few days. Therefore, it is necessary to purchase medicinal materials from other places to replenish the stock, which requires capital.

Zhou's has bonus points, but she also has to take out the silver that Hui Niang gave her before to use it as the working capital of the pharmacy.

A few days later, a new batch of medicinal herbs arrived.

The price of this batch of medicinal materials is more than double that of half a year ago. After the medicinal materials entered the pharmacy, Hui Niang was very worried, she didn't want the price increase to make it difficult for the villagers to bear, but the purchase price of this batch of medicinal materials was very high, she had just let Zhou's shares as the owner of the pharmacy, and she didn't want Zhou's to lose money.

"Why don't we sell the herbs at the purchase price? The price of medicinal materials in the pharmacy outside has basically tripled, and although we are a little sorry for the people to sell the capital, we are fortunate that we are not losing money. ”

Hui Niang discussed with Zhou, but she actually wanted to get Zhou's consent. After all, to open a business, you also need to count labor and miscellaneous taxes, and if you don't make money, you will already lose money.

Zhou didn't have many ideas, Hui Niang was far more experienced than her in running a pharmacy, and she agreed without any opinions.

So Zhou's as the second master of the pharmacy, also began to come out to run the shop, she is illiterate, the bookkeeping needs to be responsible for Hui Niang, she first has to learn to remember the name of the medicinal materials, what medicine to put where to remember clearly, which requires Zhou to be able to recognize the words outside the drawer containing the medicinal materials.

In the first few days of her pharmacy business, Zhou was learning to read and write every day, which was a huge challenge for her, who was illiterate.

When Shen Xi came back from school to help in the pharmacy, Zhou would usually pull him and ask him what the words on the outside of the drawer were.

Zhou knew that he couldn't slack off on this, so he studied very hard.

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