Chapter 136: Paving (1)

These ten stores belonging to the Rui Wangfu are located in the middle of the Chopping Horse Street, although the flow of people is not as good as the long street but also the prosperous area, the business operated by the tenants is also different, the leather goods tea and wine jewelry are dazzling, although the shops of the Chopping Horse Street are small, the shopkeeper who sells the goods may not necessarily have any background, but the real owners of these shops have no one to provoke, in addition to the Rui Wangfu has ten shops here, like the Zhenguo Hou Uncle Changsheng Hou Hubu Shangshu has shops here, and some of the larger shops are several partnerships, The intricate background behind the invisible constitutes the second most lively Chopping Street in Beijing.

Outside Chopping Horse Street is like a long street, there are generally vendors selling goods in stalls, but no one dares to sell goods in front of these shops, Du Yiyi sat in a sedan chair and looked at the outside of these shops under the leadership of the housekeeper.

"Where do these shopkeepers live?"

Walking to the door of the last shop, Du Yiyi asked the sedan chair driver to stop the sedan chair, and five out of ten closed the door, but it was not a minority as the housekeeper said.

"Some live in shops, some live at home, and they are all people who have settled in the capital." The housekeeper saw that Du Yiyi's face was a little ugly, and thought that she was worried about the rent.

"How much do you owe the most? How much does the least owe? ”

"The most is this spice seller, because the shopkeeper took the money to Jiangnan to pick goods, and owed four months of rent 100 taels, and the least is the winery that sells wine, owes 2 months 50 taels." The butler said and pointed to the two closed shops.

"It's difficult to collect rent, it's better to open this store yourself, housekeeper, in my opinion, this store won't be rented out in the coming year, just open it yourself, anyway, there are so many idlers in the house, it's better to open a shop than to collect rent!"

A shop is rented out according to the size of the area, that is, thirty taels of silver a month, these ten shops are up to three hundred taels a month, if they operate by themselves, the profit is definitely far more than these, although the horse street is not as dense as the long street merchants, the flow of people is large, but there are many people in the place where the Holy Ancestor Chop Horse allusion and the Holy Ancestor inscription, the signboard is well played is the same as can drive to attract these people who have nothing to do all day to consume.

"What does the princess mean? Let's open our own shop? Don't rent anymore? Princess, please forgive me for talking too much, the reason why these shops are rented instead of operating at home is because this manpower is a problem. The housekeeper respectfully lowered his head, and secretly glanced at Du Yiyi's eyes with a bit of suspicion, if this is to be run by himself, how much will he spend.

"When is the lease agreement for these shops? There are so many idlers in the palace, and they are afraid of manpower, and they are poor that is, a few people who can manage things, you don't have to worry about this, there are not a few people in the palace who are shrewd, as long as they add guidance and favor, they can also revitalize these shops. Du Yiyi picked up the curtain on the left side of the sedan chair, and her eyes flashed over the doors of these ten shops, these shops, she can't waste them in vain.

"The longest is also to March and April next year, our shop is renewed in half a year, most of them are renewed in June and July, it is said that there should be a lot of shopkeepers to renew the lease after the New Year."

"Then don't renew it, let them go to find a shop when the time comes, and let them rent those leases until next year, and don't renew them when they expire. You go to the house that sells spices to see, good people have to do it, but you can't do it blindly, see if you can find a way to get the rent back that everyone is happy with, if he is willing to take spices to pay, you can't force it, you can't rob it, you can't hurt people, you can't damage the name of Rui Wangye. “

"Yes! Then the princess, you ......" The housekeeper glanced at Du Yiyi hesitantly.

"I'll just walk around this street, you can walk around these houses, see what they mean, and then come and tell me!" Du Yiyi put down the curtains, got up, lifted the sedan curtains, and walked out of the sedan chair.

Not far from the front of these shops is the place where the Holy Ancestor personally wrote the inscription, the white horse carved from granite and the statue of the Holy Ancestor are like a monument shining under the sun, the people who come and go passing by the statue are all bowing their heads and not daring to have a trace of disrespect, the founding Holy Ancestor is absolutely not allowed to be desecrated in the minds of the people of Dahe.

Compared with the long street, the shops of Choma Street, which is a must-visit place for outsiders to the capital, are much more varied, and things from all over the world are gathered on this street, there are leather goods from Kanto, silk and satin from the south of the Yangtze River, yogurt and cheese from Inner Mongolia, exotic things from the Northwest Silk Road and coastal areas, exquisite and even jewelry and antiques that have flowed down from the past dynasty, everyone can find your favorite here, shouting and selling, so that this street is noisy and unusual.

Du Yiyi brought Mother Xu and Gardenia today, in Rui Wangfu, the only thing she can trust is her own maidservants, and the most stable of these maids is Mother Xu and Gardenia, since she wants to start these shops, she naturally has to hand them over to the person she trusts the most to take care of, although the housekeeper has also worked hard for Rui Wangfu for many years, but he can't fully trust.

The largest of these ten shops is an antique business, the shopkeeper is also imprisoned, but his family is rich, to not much damage, the antique shop has always been half a month without opening the door to eat for half a year, although the antique shop into the less buy less, but can go in more is also a person with identity and family background, just say that the shopkeeper's acquaintance, will be a thousand miles away from the sale of spices and leather goods.

This shop is only a single storey, and Chopping Horse Street is a street built by the statue of Chopping Horse, and there are no people living here, so the structure of this house is also very simple, more than a big house and a small room to live in.

When Du Yiyi entered the door, the owner of the antique shop was talking about business with a person, the customer was wearing a silk satin, his cheeks were oily and rich, and the big emerald wrench on his thumb was even more extravagant, the two pouted their butts and looked at a white jade statue with a yellow mud stone mountain, the customer whispered to the boss and said his opinion, and the fat face was not in contrast to the small eyes that flashed with fine light, the small eyes turned around to look at the white jade statue, and pinched the corner of the table with both hands, very dedicated.

"How about it, this statue of Yueshan, but it is carved according to the real routine of famous paintings, and the material is Lantian jade, what price do you know now of Lantian jade? That's such a small piece of no impurities texture clear and moist to eight hundred taels of thousands of taels, such a big one, enough than my fast print is twenty times more, but the price, is only four thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine taels, buy you is earned, you are the first customer we open today, if you place an order, our store will send a piece of mutton fat jade Fu Shou Lu Xiangyun jade pendant, a rare opportunity, if you miss this time, there will be no next time! ”

The boss put down a piece of white jade tiger seal in his hand, rubbed his palms happily and introduced, this string of introductions heard Du Yiyi was so ridiculous, he couldn't help laughing for a while, this shopkeeper is a person who can do business. She didn't know the price of this Lantian jade, but she had seen this kind of white jade statue with mud in many places. Isn't there anyone selling this thing on the side of the train station, bus station, overpass, street? If this thing really has an antique of a certain year, how can it only know that 4,999 taels can still give a jade pendant?

Hearing the voice, the two people who were concentrating raised their heads, seeing that it was a richly dressed woman, the boss's eyes were shining, and he immediately straightened up and stepped forward.

"This lady, go into the store to see if you like it, it's approaching the end of the year, and the store has a special price? Does the lady want to buy large ornaments or small collections? The small shop has everything from enamel vases to jade, gold, silver and jade jewelry! "The boss knows etiquette very well, and he is half a step behind Du Yiyi at just the right distance, which is not rude but also enthusiastic enough.

"I want to see jade, porcelain, ornaments, accessories, jewelry. You don't need a vintage, but the texture should be good. Du Yiyi turned around twice, and she really didn't like the big ornaments of these porcelain bronzes, but she liked some small things.

"Howler! Madam, look at the things in this row, they are all small, there are vases, utensils, accessories and jewelry, you can see if you like anything. The boss made a gesture of please.

"Boss, I bought this thing." The voice of the customer who turned the table and watched for a long time sounded as soon as the boss immediately ran towards the end as if he had rewarded the clockwork, Du Yiyi smiled, looked at the things on the shelf, she didn't know much about antiques, she couldn't guarantee the authenticity of these things, and besides, her original intention today was not to buy things, just to see the business status of these bosses.

The shelves are divided into two rows, the top is jade, the bottom is porcelain, and the bottom is marked with a small piece of paper, there are dozens of taels of hundreds of taels and thousands of taels, which is much more expensive than the price she saw in the jewelry store.

The boss ran over happily, and collected things in his arms while running, obviously the business had been completed and the boss had made a lot of money.

"Boss, do you have the real thing in this shop? I look at the jade object I just saw, it doesn't look like it's real! Du Yiyi walked and picked up a small gilt porcelain bottle on the shelf, which looked like it should be a nose pot, and when you opened it, you could smell the smell of tobacco leaves from the nose.

"This lady can't talk nonsense, everything in the small shop is genuine, and she never buys fakes!" The boss raised his head confidently, looking at the service on his wife and the accessories on his head, although the clothes were luxurious, but the jewelry was only a gold hairpin, it seemed that it was only the wife of a small family, whether it was a noble person from a large family. He thought so in his heart, and his eyes were even more confident: "The snuff bottle in Madame's hand also has a history of a hundred years, or left when Dahe was first established, I also spent a high price of four hundred taels to buy it, and it is not expensive to buy five hundred taels, this gilt snuff bottle is made of white porcelain, and the two sides of the bottle are painted with a picture of a spring boudoir woman, and the delicate and delicate hair is visible, it is considered to be a fine product in the snuff bottle, if Mrs. likes it, how about I give Mrs. a special price of four hundred and fifty taels?" ”

"Boss, you're not honest." Du Yiyi smiled and put down the snuffbox in his hand, and took a step to look at it again.

"What do you mean, ma'am?" The boss glanced at Du Yiyi, and his face was very displeased.

"What is the price of Lantian jade, five thousand taels can buy such a vintage Lantian jade carving? The boss can catch the psychology of people to get cheap, but it's really clever, I look at these things, I'm afraid they are all old! ”

Yi'e, the boss who followed on the side, looked at Du Yiyi again, and saw that she was sincere, as if she was not playing with him, could it be that this is also an expert?

"How much silver does the lady think it is worth?" He asked tentatively.

"I don't know how many taels, it's too much work to be old, I haven't exposed the boss's fraud, how can the boss thank me?" Du Yiyi's eyes lit up, and she picked up a simple and simple mutton fat hosta in front of her.

The boss snorted coldly, I thought she was going to do something, but it turned out that she was just going to extort a sum of money, and it didn't seem to be a good person. "Madame wants to damage my reputation and extort money, so Madam is not afraid that I will go to Shuntianfu to accuse you of framing and blackmail?"

"I'm blackmailing, you're cheating, can the boss really go to Shuntianfu?" Du Yiyi turned around fearlessly, took the hairpin in his hand and said.

"Madame, don't deceive people too much, do you know who the real master of my shop is? The real master is His Royal Highness the current Rui Wang, I see that the lady's dress is also a big family that can contact the king's grandson and nobles, you have to think clearly! ”

The boss confidently raised the corners of his mouth.

"Bold!" As soon as Mother Xu drank it, she immediately said when she saw that Du Yiyi didn't make a sound: "This is Princess Rui, how dare you be rude?" ”

Princess Rui? The boss glanced outside the house, and did not see the guards wearing armor or the familiar figure, he also heard of the name of Princess Rui, and he did not act perversely according to common sense, but if he wanted to say that the person in front of him was Princess Rui, he didn't believe it.

"You are Princess Rui, and I am still Lord Rui! Take advantage of it and go somewhere else, don't come to me. The boss snorted disdainfully, with his hands on his chest and a look of displeasure.

"Really?" Du Yiyi sneered and inserted the hairpin of mutton fat jade into the bun.

"You are not welcome in our store, please go somewhere else!" The boss took his hand, and his sharp eyes were firmly fixed on the hairpin on Du Yiyi's head.

"Bold!"

Xu's mother blurted out a bold word, and Du Yiyi stopped Xu's mother: "If the boss really does this business, there is no need to open this store." Mother Xu. Let's go! Taking off the hairpin on the top of her head, Du Yiyi took the lead out of the store, and Xu's mother followed quickly and rolled her eyes at the boss.

"What are they?" The boss snorted coldly a few times, brushed his sleeves and entered the back room.

"Princess, why ............"

"Mother Xu, we're not here to quarrel with them, just take a look, I'm just testing whether this boss will do business, go to another house to see!" The owner of this antique shop not only defrauded customers, but also deceived people under the reputation of King Rui, and this shop must not be kept.