What other ancestral crafts does Chang have? Wang covered his mouth and almost laughed, but he lost interest in an instant, and waved his hand to ask Ah Xiu to hurry up and change his clothes.

The next day, Chang hurried into the town and came back with some fabric.

At the end of the month, Song Ercai did not return and went into the city with his things.

It was still the last time in the cloth village, and Song Er was invited to the back to see the shopkeeper when he arrived.

The handkerchief and purse stitching method brought over this time is the same as last time, but the pattern is brand new, and each one is different.

The shopkeeper was very satisfied and gave the same price as last time.

A handkerchief with a purse for one tael of silver, and a single handkerchief for six hundred dollars.

Song Er saw the shopkeeper's attitude towards these things, and guessed that the goods were sold at a good price last time, although the price was not raised, but it was difficult for the shopkeeper to propose a long-term supply.

Now it looks like it's about to enter the farm, and the embroidery girl is not idle, and I don't know when I will bring something into the city next time.

A single handkerchief can be worth six hundred dollars, and it is difficult that it is not as good as the harvest in the field.

The shopkeeper knew it, and added half a tael of silver to Song Ercai on the total price, asking him not to go to other houses.

Before the shop opened, Song Er knew that he couldn't go too far, so he thanked him.

Sending Song Ercai away, the shopkeeper called the steward and asked him to inform the owner that the goods from last time came again.

"Shopkeeper Liu, since this embroidery is so rare, why don't you ask that person where the embroidery lady is, and it will save trouble if you invite him over."

Shopkeeper Liu smiled: "Who is willing to make embroidery for others with this craft." ”

Song Ercai left Buzhuang, looked at the sky, and drove the carriage to He Mansion in the north of the city.

He entered the city this time not only to ship, but also to go to the owner to pay the account.

Song Ercai came to the gate of He Mansion and knocked on the corner door, and soon entered from the small door.

He stayed in this line for about half an hour, and when he came out again, there was an old little steward by his side.

"Shopkeeper Song, it's not early, let's go eat something first and then leave, just give me a chance to have a treat, and I will have to rely on you in the future."

Tong Wencheng grinned, and a pair of eyes on his round face were about to squeeze into a slit.

Song Ercai nodded politely: "Since Shopkeeper Tong insists, I might as well be respectful." ”

There was an improvement on the medicine garden's side, and Song Ercai thought that he would increase his salary, but he didn't expect to be stuffed with a deputy.

He's a little lost, but this person doesn't look like a person with a heart, so let's just do it first.

"Shopkeeper Song, I'm a little steward at most, don't call me that, you can't afford it, just call me Wencheng."

Tong Wencheng went to the front to drive and let Song Ercai rest in the carriage.

Song Ercai didn't give in and asked him to toss.

The car didn't go far and went to a tavern not far from Hefu.

The two entered the door and chose a place by the window, Tong Wencheng ordered wine and food, and asked Song Ercai to use it first, he went home and said something, and asked his daughter-in-law to clean up the line.

Unexpectedly, he lived nearby, so Song Ercai was silent, and he had some conjectures in his heart.

After a while, Tong Wencheng returned, and Song Ercai poured him a glass of wine and asked, "Is there someone in Brother Tong's family who is doing things in the Dongjia Mansion?" ”

Tong Wencheng drank a glass of wine, nodded and said, "My mother is working in the kitchen, and she is an old man in Hefu." ”

Song Ercai was surprised: "Since he is an old man, Brother Tong should have a better chance, how can he ......?"

It's a small place in town, and it's not a serious shopkeeper, so it's not bad to look at it.

Tong Wencheng sighed: "Although my mother has been doing it for decades, she has redeemed herself when she married my father, and she is not a house slave. ”

Although redemption is a good thing, the advantages that should have been there are gone.

Tong Wencheng didn't know whether this was good or bad, and shook his head helplessly.

Song Ercai persuaded: "Even if it's more difficult, it's a free body after all, after all, your life is in your own hands." ”

"Yes."

Tong Wencheng poured Song Ercai another glass of wine, thinking that he would expect him to say more good things in front of the owner in the future, and whispered a piece of news.

"I heard that dozens of embroidery workshops have been entered by the master family in Jiangnan, and several big shopkeepers on the side of the medicine warehouse in the provincial capital have been transferred for the time being, and it is said that there is a great need for manpower."

"The master of Jiangnan? The main family does not make a living from a pharmacy and medical hall, how can he enter the embroidery workshop? ”

Hearing these words, Song Ercai remembered what Ah Xiu said about his family, it couldn't be related to that side.

"Yes, I heard that it was taken from someone else's hand, but I don't know very well. Although the owner of our county is also surnamed He, to put it bluntly, it doesn't have much to do with that side, and he usually relies on giving some offerings, and there is nothing to do except listen to the dispatch from above, and it is not their turn to speak. ”

The He Mansion in Pingyang County is not big, and the owner is just an eighteenth-line small side branch attached to the He family in the south of the Yangtze River, except for the large medicine warehouse that collects medicinal materials and sells them to the provincial capital in the name of He Mansion, I am afraid that even the main family is not very clear.

Tong Wencheng thought in his heart, every time he mentioned the family in Jiangnan, he sighed, I heard that the old lady of the family was working as a doctor in the palace, and he was dedicated to treating the emperor's relatives and relatives, what a noble scenery.

Song Ercai didn't know much about these things, he was only interested in the embroidery workshop at this time.

"What is the surname of the former owner of those embroidery workshops? Whose industry? ”

How could Tong Wencheng know that, shook his head and said: "I heard that it is also a relative, but I don't know about it." But there is a shortage of people in this family now, let's work hard, maybe we will be picked by chance that day, and we can also be a big shopkeeper. ”

Even the eighteenth-line small side branch that no one knows about in this family, can still be expected to be recommended to be a big shopkeeper in the past?

Song Ercai smiled faintly, and had another understanding of the person in front of him.

The two of them were full of food and wine, and a woman came outside with three children carrying two large burdens.

The woman's face is yellow and thin, and the children are like bean sprouts, which are two contrasts with Tong Wencheng, but they are his family.

The flesh of this family is all on Tong Wencheng alone. Song Ercai smiled, waited for Tong Wencheng to make a brief introduction, and nodded to the woman.

When the woman heard that it was the shopkeeper of the medicine store in Hekou Town, she smiled and said a few kind words.

Song Ercai greeted her for a while, and quickly got into the car and prepared to leave.

Tong Wencheng went to the countryside, and he only came back once in a month and a half in the future, and he felt nothing at first, but when the carriage moved, he looked at the three children and his eyes were red.

"Let's go back."

Tong Wencheng sighed and pulled the reins.

By the time the carriage returned to town, it was already dark.

Song Ercai asked the young man to take Tong Wencheng to the empty room to settle down, and when he returned to the house, he was about to boil water and wash up, when someone looked for him outside.

The person who came was the shopkeeper of the restaurant in the town, and not long ago Song Er asked him to pay attention to the shop, thinking that he came for this matter.

The two went to the road to talk, and the shopkeeper Wu revealed to Song Ercai that the fabric shop on the old street in the town didn't want to do it anymore, and wanted to find someone to shop on the top, if he thought he could talk about it tomorrow.

didn't expect that the fabric shop was going to close down, so Song Er thanked the shopkeeper Wu, and he would go over to take a look tomorrow.