Entered the attic, it was a small hall. The maidservant went up the stairs to call someone, and Li You looked around, this small hall has windows on three sides, one curtain on one side, the light is very good, there are some potted plants in the corner at random, and there is an incense burner in the middle. The curtain inside was half stretched diagonally, and the inner room was about the style of a study.

Not long after, I heard a noise. When I looked up, I saw Miss Guan with a book in one hand and a railing in the other hand appearing in the stairs and walking down. At this time, she was wearing a slanting bun on her head, wearing a light purple narrow sleeve collared short undergarment, no outer shirt, and a plain Luo skirt tied to the slender waist, revealing a small silk-embroidered soft shoe tip when she moved. A home-looking outfit, simple and comfortable.

Getting closer, Li You clearly saw a good appearance, which can be described as trimming his eyebrows and slanting into his sideburns, his starry eyes are full of horizontal waves, his snow skin is lined with flowers, and his face is graceful, which matches the image in his mind.

She doesn't usually meet here, right? Li You suddenly remembered this troublesome problem, and looked around the house carefully, and found that the furniture here really did not have the style of a living room, and it was a pure private territory, so he was relieved. After all, he is her husband, so he naturally has special treatment.

Li You bowed his hand, and Miss Guan invited Li You into the study over there to sit down and talk.

Both of them casually put the things in their hands on the case next to them, Li You took advantage of this to peek at it, and the scroll in Miss Guan's hand was nothing else, it was a copy of "Tanhua Collection". At that moment, Li You smiled and said, "Does Guan Niangzi also like to read my poetry collection?" ”

Miss Kwan replied, "Feel free to flip through it." As the saying goes, poetry and words, the concubine remembered to see her husband's poems. ”

Li You asked curiously: "What do you see?" ”

"This book is the work of wild bees and butterflies, and there is nothing to say." Miss Guan said: "It is a song of gold powder in the southeast and fifteen states that has not been included in the collection, and it has slightly shown the husband's unwilling heart. In the past, the concubine had a misunderstanding of her husband. ”

Li You was proud in his heart, so that you rejected me at the beginning, and finally realized my benefits, so he joked: "You once commented on me that I have four sentences: competing for the wind and selling pretty, being frivolous, opportunistic, and not seeking progress. What about today? ”

"The first two sentences are still the same, and the last two sentences can be removed if they are opportunistic and do not seek progress."

Li You laughed, in her eyes, is it really a career-oriented man who is attractive.

But I heard Miss Guan boast again: "My husband dares to sell himself for glory, which is beyond the level of opportunism and not seeking progress." Besides, Mrs. Liu heard that it was very ugly, and Mr. Liu was also a difficult person to deal with. can withstand these, which shows that the husband's surname has grown a lot, and he has a little bit of perseverance, and a good man should be like this. ”

Li You's laughter stopped abruptly, is this irony or praise? Why can't he tell the difference?

Miss Guan sighed, how to please a man is really hard to die, who let the number of lives blame him is his husband and his own concubine? Just found a reason to praise him for being effective, or don't you tell him your name again? said: "It's a pity that you and I have no fate and don't become husband and wife." Now you can tell your husband that the concubine has two embroidered words and embroidered embroidery. ”

In ancient times, what was the situation when a lady in the boudoir could take the initiative to tell a man her real name? At least it was in her heart, Li You couldn't help but rejoice when she thought about it, although her kind of recognition seemed very weird.

The mouth first praised: "Good name, there were poems in the previous generation: several boudoir embroidery households, who leans on the Zhu Lou on the river." "Seducing women with poetry is his forte, and it really comes out of his mouth.

Guan Xiuxiu asked without any reaction: "Is this song very famous?" Over the years, the husband has been the third person to recite this poem in front of the concubine. ”

Incomprehensible... Be a fly in the ointment... The third...

Who are the first two? For the sake of face, Li You was embarrassed to ask. But he deeply realized that the eldest lady in front of him and the happy woman he had seen were by no means a creature...

If you can't talk about feelings, let's talk about business, so Li You changed the topic and said: "A few days ago, you should know about the group of fucheng scoundrels rushing to buy raw silk in the West Water Silk Shop?" ”

"The concubine naturally knows, but she doesn't care. My silk shop is also engaged in the dental business, but this raw silk is sold in Fucheng or in this county, and it is the same silver tael, which is not much different. ”

Hearing this, Li You remembered that when the scoundrels in Fucheng and the people of the county were fighting, the shopkeeper and the guys in the town were watching the lively scene on the side, and it turned out that they were all in this state of mind.

"But there's a secret matter, do you know?" Li You continued: "Several big machine households in the city partnered with Yan Juren and gave the county government 5,000 taels of silver, just to indulge the people of Fucheng to buy raw silk. At this point, he shut up and sold it.

Miss Guan subconsciously frowned and pondered when she heard this, and after a while, before Li You could speak again, she guessed: "Could it be that several partners want to swallow and encroach on the small machine households in this county?" ”

So easy to guess? It's a luxury to expect her to learn to pretend to be crazy and cute, Li You replied boringly: "Yes, that's right, those small machine owners are having a hard time now." I felt there was a business opportunity in this industry, but I didn't know where to start. You see what you have in mind, and you and I will do it together. ”

Guan Xiuxiu pondered for a while, her family only bought and sold goods and had some dental business, and she didn't know much about the inside of the machine.

"The merger of machine owners can not be considered, after all, it involves mechanics, looms, etc., and we are not in this way, so it is really inconvenient." Miss Guan soon had an idea: "So the best business that can be done is to supply raw silk to the machine owners, and then use the raw silk to blackmail the machine owners to underwrite the finished silk woven by each family." One in and one out, the profit must be considerable, and so on is to combine the raw silk trading and silk trading two lines into one share. But this method is only feasible when there is a shortage of raw silk in the market, and it can only be done for three or two months, and when the raw silk is sufficient and available everywhere, it will be useless. ”

Li You said: "I've also thought about this, but the official is the acting inspector." However, there is a difficulty, and the cost required is huge. On the one hand, the raw silk is sold to the machine owner, and the silk is purchased for export, and the amount of silver required on both sides is really not small. If too many people are found to cooperate, the profits will be shared. ”

"My husband was wrong. The trouble in this matter is not the silver, but the cost is probably not a problem. Miss Guan's face was relaxed and very confident. She stretched out her palm to the servant girl waiting next to her, and the servant girl tacitly conjured an ivory bead abacus and put it in Miss Guan's hand.

Under Li You's gaze, Guan Xiuxiu skillfully shook the abacus beads and quickly toggled. I saw her jade onion-like fingers dancing lightly and rhythmically, and she picked up her nails coated with Kodan flying up and down, and the red dots flashed, and Li You's eyes fluttered when he saw it, and he wanted to touch it.

After a while, Miss Guan reported a string of numbers, "Each flower machine is said to use three taels of silk, and now the raw silk goods are less expensive and more expensive every two and a half cents, and the county's looms are worth 1,500 yuan, and the raw silk is equivalent to 225 taels of silver." In the calculation of three horses, it is necessary to take out the raw silk capital of 675 taels of cash first, and prepare a number of silver to pay for miscellaneous items and hoard excess raw silk, and the total amount should be less than 1,000. This is the approximate cost of covering the county's raw silk and satin, unlike the thousands of silver dollars that the husband said. ”

She seems to have forgotten something...

"This is just a package of raw silk, and you need to count the silver taels needed to purchase the finished product." Li You reminded that this young lady is unreliable, don't be in vain.

Miss Guan chuckled and said, "Husband is wrong again, you are really not a businessman. This raw silk is in my hands, and I can barter. Which machine owner uses raw silk, it is necessary to take the finished product out on credit, which is regarded as taking raw silk and arrears to exchange the silk of the machine owner, why do you need another cost? After selling the silk and satin, there is an account, and then the arrears are paid back to the owner. Moreover, there is a shortage of raw silk is compelled, even if the silk is purchased on credit from the hands of the machine owner, the price can still be pressed to the lowest, but when the export is resold, the price can be raised because the total amount is less. It's all about the profits that you can't get in the middle of nowhere..."

For these, the outside baggage can only listen, the explanation of the beauty warbler and the swallow language is more comfortable than the man's saliva flying sideways. In the end, I finally understood the meaning, in other words, I rented the machine owner's mechanic and loom, and then gave him the raw silk, and after weaving it, I first recovered the finished product, sold it, and then paid the machine owner a little rent that would not die of hunger.

Guan Xiuxiu made a slight estimate and faintly found that there was an unimaginable huge amount of income, and in the face of theoretical profits, Miss Guan's calm mood gradually became turbulent.