Chapter 47: The Second Entry into Xiangyang
Especially the uncle, when he meets a teenager like Tu Watson who often runs on the dock and does business and deliveries, he will definitely jump up with joy.
It's a pity that he has already been to Xiangyang Mansion last time, and this time Huang Laohan is not embarrassed to take his old son with him.
Tu Huasheng chatted with Huang Delei and Zhao Dashan, but he didn't feel bored by taking the boat, and got off the boat and repeatedly invited everyone to go to the Tu family's grocery store to play.
Originally, this time it was purchased for the year before, and Huang Laohan also wanted to buy a knife for self-defense for his children and grandchildren who were about to travel far away. Tu Huasheng's proposal, Huang Laohan was also moved, and the group got off the boat, and the Tu family's carriage was already waiting on the shore.
Tu Huasheng asked the four Huang Mi sisters to get into the car first, and a few of them took care of a car and followed behind.
The two cars arrived at the Tujia grocery store, stopped, and Huang Dou was the first to step out of the car. Tujia Wharf is located on Zhengxing Street, facing the West Market. There are all peddlers and pawns here, and there are many people with ordinary families. The Tujia grocery store occupies five stores, and the variety of goods in it is extraordinarily complete.
From farming gear, to fishing gear for boats, to daily groceries for household use, there is almost everything. The four young men greeted in the store, since Tu Huasheng could deliver goods with the ship, Tu Huasheng's father rarely followed the ship, and most of the time he was in the store to help.
A group of people picked and picked in the Tujia grocery store, and they were reluctant to come out for a long time, and they had almost all the daily groceries you could think of. The complete range of goods and the many styles make soybeans impressed.
Seeing the young man accompanying the guests to look for goods in the store, Huang Dou felt that this one-to-one service was good, but he always felt a little unsatisfactory.
The shelves around it are high to the top and stuffed with all kinds of goods. There are three shelves in the middle, and it is very inconvenient to divide a store into three rooms, and it is very inconvenient to walk back and forth. However, the distribution of goods is quite reasonable, the daily use of the family is together, the farming equipment is together, and the fishing equipment of the boat is also together.
After thinking about it for a long time, I remembered that there were only four guys in the store, plus Tu Huasheng's grandfather and father, two old and young shopkeepers, and there were only six people. Like the Huang family, nine people came together this time, and the four young men were a bit insufficient.
Fortunately, the four Huang Dou sisters basically walked together, one guy was enough, the four brothers of the Huang family were greeted by Tu Huasheng and a buddy, and Tu Huasheng's father accompanied by Huang Laohan's side, and the remaining two guys greeted other guests.
If there are more than a dozen customers coming in at once, each with their own needs, it will be a bit inadequate for these few people to take care of these five large stores.
"Brother Tu." Huang Dou beckoned to Tu Huasheng. Tu Huasheng is only fifteen years old, but because he often walks outside, he has to be young and old first, and when he saw the Huang Dou sisters, he was not embarrassed to approach, and they were all accompanied by Huang Delei.
Hearing Huang Dou call him, he hurriedly beckoned a guy to come over to accompany the Huang family brothers, straightened his clothes and walked over: "Sister Huang Dou, what's wrong?" ”
"Why can't your shop be changed to release goods like this?" As he spoke, Huang Dou took a pen and a piece of paper from the shopkeeper and drew them on the ground. She painted the supermarket model of later generations, placing the shelves in this way, which greatly makes use of the space, and is convenient for the store guys to guard, one guy can stand in the middle of the passage and take care of two or three rows of shelves.
Tu Huasheng originally watched Huang Dou draw on the paper on the ground with a pen, and frowned slightly, not knowing what this little girl was doing. When you see the soybeans on the ground, draw the shelves, channels, and write the distribution of goods on each shelf. Suddenly, I felt that the end of what I had been looking for but couldn't find was there.
Two people, squatting on the ground to write and draw, until Huang Laohan and a few people picked up good things and were ready to check out, Huang Dou reluctantly drew the structural distribution of the five stores: "I just think it's more convenient, as for how to do it, I have to change it according to the actual situation." ”
Tu Huasheng nodded frequently, and as soon as the soybeans were finished, he immediately picked up the paper from the ground, regarded it as a treasure, dried it, and blew it. Huang Dou looked at his cherished demeanor, and couldn't help blushing a little, although she drew the line quite straight, but in the end it was a brush, and the straight line she drew was always a little angry.
But the words are okay, I can barely read it, and I don't feel ashamed.
When the Huang family fully satisfied their desire to buy, made an appointment with the Tu family, and came to pick up the goods tomorrow, the family went to the inn where they used to live again, and booked two rooms with two beds. Four or five people in a room can be squeezed.
When the Huang family left, Tu Huasheng took out the paper in his arms and spread it on the counter to study it carefully. The two masters of the Tu family, seeing that Tu Huasheng was looking seriously, also stretched out their heads to look. As soon as I saw the soybeans drawing this piece of paper, I felt that this method was feasible and saved manpower.
When he knew that it was painted by the girl of the Huang family, Old Man Tu couldn't help but slap his grandson on the head: "You kid, don't say it early for such a big person." "Thinking about it, tomorrow the Huang family will come to get the goods that are enough to buy today, and my heart has settled down again.
The girls of the Huang family, whether they are big or small, seem to be good, including the smallest, they all look like they are very tutored. Well, if Watson wants to make friends, let them make friends.
Tu Huasheng didn't know that his grandfather and father had already estimated the boys and girls of the Huang family in their hearts, and he was carefully studying the paper. Because of the rush of time and the limited technology of soybeans, I only drew a general pattern, and everything had to be carefully reframed according to the current store area and actual situation.
In the evening, Tu Huasheng was still drawing, and he felt that soybeans gave him an inspiration, not only the supermarket model of the store, but also how to make others choose among the many wholesalers when he went to various villages and towns to deliver goods.
There is nothing that is not okay, it just depends on whether you work hard or not, and whether you use your heart.
At noon, they had a simple meal at the inn, and in the afternoon, the Huang family and his party began to go shopping. Huang Laohan took his eldest grandson and second grandson to visit daily groceries and blacksmith shops, and Huang Dou led his sisters and sisters to visit jewelry stores, fabric stores, and ready-to-wear stores.
They have never been too far away from Huang Laohan and the others, and there will always be two little followers Huang Delei and Huang Deluo outside the door.
In fact, the four sisters didn't have much money, and this time they came out, and one of the parents gave them fifty silver dollars for their pocket money.
If you buy snacks, the money will definitely be enough, but if you want to buy something a little more valuable, it will be stretched.
Seeing that everyone's money was relatively tight, Huang Dou simply proposed that the four sisters put their money together. Fifty wen for four people per person, which is not much, put together, 200 wen, I feel that there is a lot.
When I met a sugar gourd seller, I first bought six strings for ten cents, which was originally a string for two cents, but they couldn't stand the soybeans and they were poor, so they bargained and bought six strings of ten cents.
Although Wang Dani's family also makes sugar gourds in Nanshan Town, I always feel that the sugar gourd in Nanshan Town is the taste of Nanshan Town, and the sugar gourd in Xiangyang Mansion is the taste of Xiangyang Mansion.
The six young brothers had a string of sugar gourds, and the yellow rice and yellow peaches were still a little shy at first, and they felt a little embarrassed to eat on the street, so they thought about taking them back to the inn to eat. But the soybeans are so fragrant that they eat them, and the pineapple closes her eyes and licks the sugar gourd, and the mouths of the people who watch it are full of green water.
Look again, occasionally one or two teenage ladies pass by on the street, and the one that takes a sugar gourd to gnaw on is called Huanchang, and the yellow rice and yellow peach also let go of their reserve, and followed the soybeans all the way to gnaw.
When I walked around, I saw a store selling fabrics, which seemed to be made into ready-to-wear clothes.
The sisters ate the sugar gourd outside, dipped their handkerchiefs in the water brought by the grandmother of the roadside stall, and wiped their hands carefully before they dared to step into the store.
The shopkeeper and the guy in the store are all women, the shopkeeper is in his early thirties, he has a bit of a posture, and he is dressed up, and the whole person looks more beautiful.
I saw four little girls come in, and two more boys stood at the door. The proprietress raised her eyebrows, the dresses were all new, but they were all ordinary cotton fabrics, indicating that the little girl's family background was average.
Look at the four with silver studs, two big ones also with silver bracelets, the proprietress has a fierce eye, and at a glance you can see that the earrings and bracelets are Rong Baoxuan's, indicating that this is a favorite girl's family, probably a rich man in the countryside with a little spare money.
The proprietress originally wanted the guys in the store to greet her, a group of little girls, who didn't seem to have any money in their hands, probably just came in and had a look.
If Huang Dou knew that the proprietress thought so, he must have shouted in his heart, the proprietress was really powerful, and she guessed accurately, such a proprietress didn't say that she opened a store to sell goods, but she went out to tell fortunes and fortunes for others, and it was estimated that she could earn a good income.
Before the proprietress could make her eyes, she saw three orange-red silk flowers on the head of the little girl who led in. Obviously, it was made of scraps of cloth cut from the top, and I didn't know how to do it, so the proprietress hurriedly greeted her, and looked at it carefully while talking to the four.
"Little sister, do you want to come and see or do you want to buy something?"
"Shopkeeper, shall we take a look?" Huang Dou tilted his head to look at the proprietress .
"Okay, it's okay, just look at it." The proprietress said and looked at the heads of the other three little girls.
Oh, my mother, who is this, so ingenious, the flowers of the four little girls and the four shapes are all made of scraps of cloth to make clothes, but the styles are different.
The fabric is an ordinary fabric, but it has the effect that people only think that the flowers are beautiful, but they do not feel that the fabric is cheap. If you replace these flowers with satin silk cloth, the effect will definitely be amazing.
The proprietress also makes ready-to-wear clothes by opening her own fabric shop, and there are often fragments of cloth in the store, which are basically useless.
After all, a businessman is a businessman, others see the beautiful surface, but she sees the business opportunity through the surface.
"May I take the leap of the tongue and ask, who made the flowers on your heads?" The proprietress felt in her heart that these four little girls should have a clever mother or aunt in their family.
"The four of us sisters did it ourselves." Huang Mi didn't think there was anything, reached out and plucked the flower on his head and handed it to the proprietress.