Everything on Pei Yan's side was going on in an orderly manner according to his assumptions, while Yu Tang's side was a little flustered.

First of all, she couldn't figure out whether things were going well on Pei Yan's side, and secondly, the family's shop failed to catch up with the prosperous market before the Spring Festival this year - because the eldest uncle Yu Bo stayed in Jiangxi for too long, and when he came back, he had already entered the lunar month, so they hurried and hurried to choose the twentieth lunar month to open, but according to the usual practice, the twenty-second and third days of the lunar month, the shops in the bazaar in the days before the new year will be closed, and they will not open until the fifteenth day of the next year. This year's business is not profitable, so I can only open it before the year and ask for a good fortune.

Because of this, Yu Tang was also called by his uncle to help in the shop for two days.

In the words of her eldest uncle, she doesn't know how to do business, but she can't understand the family's money exchanges: "Even if you recruit a son-in-law to come to the door, how much money the family makes a year, whether it is a loss or a profit, you must know it in your own heart, otherwise it is easy to be fooled." ”

Yu Wen and Chen both felt that it made sense, and asked Yu Tang to wear coarse cloth clothes to keep accounts in the back warehouse, and asked Yu Tang: "In the future, I will come to the shop every five days, and you have to know what is sold in our shop and how much money is made for each thing." ”

Yu Tang shook his head in his heart when he heard this.

Is it any wonder that everyone is reluctant to be a door-to-door son-in-law?

Their family is also kind, but this son-in-law doesn't know where it is, so he began to guard against everything, Ren is willing to come to their house, as long as he is not a fool, he will feel uncomfortable when he is treated like this, and what kind of trust and dependence are he talking about?

If there is no more basic trust and dependence between husband and wife, what can we talk about?

Perhaps, recruiting a son-in-law may not be able to solve all the difficulties.

Yu Tang was thinking about it in his heart, and at the same time he stood at the door of the warehouse with the account book to register the goods in and out.

When Yu Tang's grandfather was still there, their family had their own small workshop, and they could also make items with complex craftsmanship and craftsmanship such as picking red, but when his grandfather died, his father had not yet been admitted to Xiucai, and the master who had been in the family for two or three generations was suddenly poached by a century-old shop in Suzhou, and only his uncle knew how to pick up red. However, their heirs are thin, and his uncle's temperament has become more and more cautious after this incident, and several apprentices have been working at home for more than ten years, and he is still hiding and unwilling to teach the apprentice completely.

The eldest uncle didn't try to recruit talented apprentices, but pinned his hopes on Yu Yuan. Yu Yuan has honestly learned the craft for a few years, but I don't know if it's because of talent or because the eldest uncle is not good at being a teacher, Yu Yuan's craftsmanship is mediocre, but not as good as her eldest uncle's eldest apprentice Xia Pinggui.

Xia Pinggui was an apprentice in the Yu family at the age of six, two or three years older than Yu Yuan, and was the apprentice of Yu Tang's grandfather's son when he was alive, and lived in the Yu family when he was young. Later, Yu Tang grew up, considering the difference between men and women, Wang asked him to move to live in the shop. Changxing Street is watery, and the Wang family would rather arrange him to the Yu family's old house than let him move back to the Yu family.

This time the shop was completed, and Xia Pinggui moved back to the shop with a few junior brothers.

Although Xia Pinggui and Yu Tang don't meet often, they grew up together, and occasionally go to Yu's house, they will also meet Yu Tang. Seeing Yu Tang helping to keep accounts at the door of the warehouse, he asked the rough envoy in the shop to pour a soup and handed it to Yu Tang: "Miss, the weather is too cold, you cover it, be careful of catching a cold." ”

In the entire lacquerware shop, except for the people of the Yu family, Yu Tang only knew Xia Pinggui.

She smiled and thanked Xia Pinggui and took the soup woman.

Xia Pinggui's honest and loyal face smiled, said "You're welcome", and continued to urge the young men at home to put the goods into storage.

Yu Tang saw that there were still two square tables with black lacquer and plain surface in the warehouse, and she couldn't help but ask Xia Pinggui: "Why can't our family still sell furniture?" ”

When she was a child, she used to go into the storeroom when she came to play with her father. In her impression, the storeroom was full of shelves, and on the shelves were all kinds of large and small lacquerware boxes and boxes, ranging from nine-compartment boxes for snacks to boxes for rouge.

Why does it look like a grocery store now?

Xia Pinggui hesitated for a while, and saw Yu Bo and Yu Wen standing in front of the shop discussing the furnishings, so he lowered his voice and said: "We are too close to Hangzhou City, and now Luodian is becoming popular outside. ”

Yu Tang didn't understand.

Xia Pinggui explained to her: "In the past, those who married their daughters and daughters-in-law always had to buy one or two boxes with red paint to pack things, but since the people of the Sheng family in Jiangxi opened the shop to Hangzhou City three years ago, it has become popular to buy boxes in Hangzhou. ”

After all, the family is a lacquerware shop, and she also knows about it, so she polishes it with snail shells and seashells and inlays it on the box. The snail shell shimmers in the light with a colorful luster, with a jewel-like brilliance, and some people who have a good face and can't afford to buy a treasure box will buy this instead.

But there are thousands of people's preferences, and some people with heritage don't like jewelry, not to mention that the inlaid is not a gem but a substitute for gemstones.

Yu Tang thought for a while and said, "Could it be that the Sheng family has any new technology, and Luodian can be sold much cheaper than Pick Red?" ”

Xia Pinggui's eyes showed appreciation, and he said admiringly: "The eldest lady is so smart. Indeed, as you said, their family has now made a kind of 'lining color ydan ', the natural color is much cheaper than the general ydan , if you want other colors you can customize, and the custom is much more expensive than the general color. Not only made a name, but also made a business. Now in full swing, I heard that the Zhejiang Political Secretary sent a 12-fan screen of birds and phoenixes during the Qianqiu Festival. Speaking of this, he hesitated for a moment, "However, our shop is mainly a pattern, and it hasn't ......changed for many years."

This was said tactfully, but Yu Tang still understood.

She said: "You mean, our family's red removal process is not good?" ”

Xia Pinggui replied vaguely with a red face, and Yu Tang didn't hear what he said clearly, but he understood.

She didn't say anything for a while.

In her previous life, their shop was sold after it was burned, and she didn't know what their family's business was, but later Yu Yuan made money, and her eldest uncle wanted to revive the family business, but he died before her eldest uncle could build the family business.

Now that their family has spent a lot of effort to rebuild the shop, and they have spent a lot of money to buy a lot of goods, they can't survive, right?

This is the last thing she can bear.

It took the same amount of time, the same amount of effort, and no one else did it well.

You have to find the reason and find a way.

She looked at the various utensils piled up in the warehouse and sighed in her heart, she didn't want to take a few more glances at these goods, let alone those who bought things?

I wonder if I can postpone the opening and find a way to readjust the goods?

Yu Tang pulled Wang aside and asked her quietly.

Wang smiled bitterly when he heard this, hugged Yu Tang, and said in a low voice: "Good boy, you have a heart." Your uncle has been in business all his life, how can he not know these truths? But we still owe the Pei family money to repair the shop, where is the extra money to buy. Besides, good utensils are kept by various shops for the treasures of the town store, how can they be easily sold to our family? Even if it is sold to our family, and some merchants take a fancy to it, our family can't do it, but it is easy to cause trouble, so it is better not to put it out. ”

Yu Tang was stunned for a moment and said, "Is it because there is no silver?" ”

Wang paused, and his voice lowered: "It's not exactly silver, or there is no one at home to ......."

It's just that I don't have this craft at home.

This is the same as Xia Pinggui said.

Over the years, the shop has been run by the eldest uncle, she is afraid that she will ask deeply, the eldest aunt's face is gloomy, and after a few words, she returned to the shop with the eldest aunt, and found an opportunity to pull Yu Yuan to say to herself: "How about the craftsmanship of the masters invited back from Jiangxi?" Do you think you can do it with just a few people? ”

Yu Yuan has also been worried about this matter for the past few days.

He said: "The craftsmanship of those masters is average. One of them is not bad, but he is good at painting gold, and our family started as a red-picker. Daddy's meaning, depicting gold is cheap. I feel like I'm putting the cart before the horse. ”

Each lacquerware shop has the characteristics of each family, it took several generations for their family to make the reputation of red, and at this time it was changed to paint red, and it is also a craft that their family is not familiar with, Yu Tang agrees with Yu Yuan's point of view.

Yu Yuan and Yu Bo have argued several times over this matter during this time, and Wang stood firmly on Yu Bo's side, and said something like "If you want to hurry, you can't do it, first make some money with gold painting, and then find a way to find some of your uncle's Xiucai friends to help draw some new red patterns, and the shop will be able to ease up slowly" and something like that. Now that he suddenly met someone who wanted to go with him, the resentment he had suppressed on weekdays suddenly became a little unbearable, and he couldn't help but say, "I don't know what Daddy thinks?" No matter how good the gold painting is, it is not our family's craft. Losing their roots like this, what foothold does the Yu family have? ”

In their previous lives, the two fathers and sons quarreled about this.

Yu Tang smiled: "Didn't you say that you were going to Hangzhou City to open a shop?" Let his flood be gushing. ”

Yu Yuan's face turned red, and he said, "If Daddy insists on going his own way, I will go to Hangzhou City to open a shop." After speaking, he was afraid that Yu Tang would misunderstand, so he hurriedly said, "This is not what your sister-in-law meant." It's my own meaning. She can't be my home yet. “

Yu Tang looked at him as if he had no silver three hundred taels here, and laughed.

Yu Yuan realized that he had said the wrong thing, and he also laughed shyly.

Yu Tang felt that this was not necessarily bad.

In his previous life, Yu Yuan had proven his ability and failed to convince his uncle, and in this life, he was still a kid who followed his father to learn art, and it was impossible to convince his uncle.

Rather than the father and son having an unpleasant quarrel, it is better to separate for the time being and run their own businesses, anyway, this business is ultimately left to Yu Yuan.

Of course, Yu Tang is also a little selfish.

She wants to be like Jiang Ling in her previous life, to be a strange woman who can make money to support herself and her family.