Chapter Forty-Eight: Song Lady's Shop

The proprietress was eager to take it over and study it carefully, but she was a businessman, and she knew that it would be a bit less authentic to do so: "Can I see it?" ”

"Yes, it's not difficult." Huang Mi smiled and put the flower on the hand of the proprietress .

The pink flowers, made into a rose shape, were scalded and I don't know what was used to stick to a polished and smooth wooden hairpin. There are two straps floating underneath that are also glued on, the method is very simple, but it is clear that it is also heartfelt, and it looks like a real flower on the head.

The proprietress was a little reluctant to let go of the flowers: "Can I take a look at the other flowers on your heads?" "Since you've already stretched out your hand, let's just shame once.

Huang Mi looked at the flowers in the hands of the proprietress, this is soybeans are idle and have nothing to do with them, soybeans love to smell and beautiful, and the family can't afford hairpins, the three sisters try to make their own clothes, anyway, make the leftover cloth of clothes, and don't feel wasted.

Now even pineapples can make up a flower that is very different, so Huang Micai doesn't think it's anything unusual, but it's her business to show her flowers to the proprietress, and she can't make decisions for her sisters.

Huang Mi smiled lightly and shook her head at the proprietress: "I can't be the master of this, you have to ask my sisters and them." ”

"If a few little girls don't mind, I can buy ......" The proprietress blushed a little, feeling that she was treating a few teenage girls like this.

"If the shopkeeper wants to see it, you don't need to buy it, just buy the cloth and give us some discounts." The soybean generously plucked a flower from his head and handed it to the proprietress .

This is the shape of an orange-red alocasia flower, with a thin filament in the middle to circle out an arc, and it should be a very fine bamboo to the touch, and the flowers are not large, so there is no feeling of soft collapse, and the little girl also made a yellow stamen in the middle of the flower.

After only looking at the two kinds of flowers, the proprietress felt more and more interested: "If I provide bits and pieces of cloth, you can make these flowers for me, is it feasible?" ”

The proprietress didn't think about buying these flower styles, one was easy to imitate, and the other cost money for her to find someone to do. And the four flowers on the heads of these four little girls are obviously different, which shows that they are very eager to make hair, give them better fabrics, maybe they can make more beautiful styles.

"How?" Huang Dou didn't make a sound, but Huang Tao was interested.

"I have a lot of scraps of cloth in my shop, and a batch of unevenly dyed satin, if you help me make flowers, simple Wuwen, complex Bawen. For every new flower, I'll give you fifty wen. ”

The price given by the proprietress is quite high, you must know that the fabric is hers, and the best-selling flowers in the store are only one for twenty yuan, and there are also two or three yuan on the merchant's stall.

"What about this little bear?" Pineapple suddenly took out a bear from the small basket she was carrying.

This bear is the third bear that her sisters helped her make, the first one was stolen by a bad dog, and the second one went to the water to play in the lake last time, and my sister didn't let her fish, so she made another one.

Pineapple already has a quirk, that is, you can't sleep without a bear at night, and changing a bear is like quitting milk once, and it won't be finished without tossing for two or three days.

Later, Soybean made a little monkey for her, and the little rabbit couldn't take away her love for the little bear. When she came out this time, she heard that she was going to take a boat, and she was afraid that the bear would fall into the lake again, so she specially carried a small basket to put the bear in it to sleep, and covered a small quilt made by the third sister for the bear.

"Pretty cute little bear, you made it yourself, you are really the smartest sister I have ever met." Although the proprietress thinks the bear is very cute, but her shop sells cloth and custom-made clothes, and when she sees the flowers on the four heads of the sisters, she thinks that there are a large number of scraps of cloth in the store every year, which is quite wasteful, so it is better to use it.

The cotton cloth rag head will be bought back to paste the sole or something, and the satin silk cloth rag head, the larger one can be used as a handkerchief, and the smaller one is the chicken ribs, which is a pity to abandon and cannot be used.

She really wants her to focus on these little things, and she doesn't think it's very cost-effective. It's another thing to make a few new head flowers to attract customers, but it's another thing to really make a living.

Seeing the proprietress smile and hand the bear to herself, Huang Li's heart was indescribably disappointed, in her heart, her little bear was the best companion, and there would be people who didn't like it.

"Shopkeeper, I see what's going on with a small independent passage in your shop?" Huang Dou stood at the door, looking curiously at a small house by the door of the cloth shop.

It's a bit of an exaggeration to say that the hut is about a little more than a meter, and an aisle of less than two meters, with some groceries piled up inside.

"This is the aisle left by my family when I built the house, and I used it upstairs, and then the business in the store was good, so I made stairs from the back from the newly built house, and this was abandoned because it was inconvenient to enter and exit.

Tear it down and merge it here, and I'm afraid of moving the wall, the upstairs room is not firm, don't demolish it, it's too narrow to put here, it's useless, you can only push the stairs and put groceries, idle here.

The two storefronts of the proprietress are a small building, and when it was originally designed, a small door was opened at the door, and the wall was built to go upstairs. Later, the business of the store expanded, and a small building was built in the back, and a staircase was opened directly in the back.

In this way, the ladies of some large families can drive the carriage in directly from the back alley, and go upstairs directly from the yard to customize clothes.

In the front store, male customers or customers from ordinary families will not hinder the transaction in the back, and it can be seen that the proprietress is a person who can do business.

"If we're going to rent you this stairwell, how much does it cost a year?" Soybean tilted his head to look at the stairwell, and then at the proprietress again.

"Rent?" The proprietress was stunned: "Are you going to rent this stairwell to sell these headdress flowers?" ”

Sure enough, the proprietress with brains, as soon as she talked about renting, she immediately thought of the purpose of soybeans.

"Beanie." Huang Mi pulled Huang Dou's sleeve, she knew that this sister had a lot of ideas, but it was not a trivial matter to rent a house and open a shop in Xiangyang Mansion, even if it was a stairwell that looked useless.

"It's okay, eldest sister, I'll ask, if it's cheap, rent it, even if it's not cheap." Huang Dou smiled and shook the hand of the eldest sister Huang Mi.

"Little sister, my stairwell is 1.8 meters, if you want to rent a small shop, the price is ......," said the proprietress frowned.

She didn't expect that such a stairwell could also be rented, and those who could open shops on this street were not ordinary shops, and most of them were businesses from large families or wealthy families.

In a shop like her house, the annual rent of a room is more than 30 taels of silver. There are better ones, and there are hundreds of taels, and this stairwell that has been abandoned here is about to become her heart disease.

There are at least two or three shops here, which can't attract large households to come in and out, and they feel that they are not high-grade enough. When her family bought this building, there were only two stores, which was already not big.

The house was demolished and rebuilt, the cost was too great, and if it was not demolished, the position of more than one meter in this stairwell has been idle, which is a pity.

Fortunately, the back alley is spacious enough, and the backyard is used to build a connected building, so that the depth of the shop, which is only more than four meters deep, is expanded to more than eight meters, so that it is not so cramped.

"Shopkeeper, if our sisters rent it, we will specialize in selling silk flower trinkets, or this kind of bear toy. If our business is good, the little girls in Xiangyang Mansion will know that there is such a small shop here, so to speak, there are only benefits and no disadvantages in your store. ”

Seeing that the proprietress hesitated, Huang Dou directly pointed out the key points. The stairwell of the proprietress can be rented to others, but what kind of person it rents to, what kind of business it does, and whether it can bring benefits to her shop is completely different.

"Okay, I like your coolness, so let's do it, such a four-meter-wide shop costs 38 taels of rent a year. Although this stairwell is a little narrower, it is also nearly two meters wide, and you give me eight taels of silver. ”

"I don't have these eight taels of silver in vain, and I can give you the scraps of cloth that I don't use in my store. Although it is of little use in my hands, it will certainly be of use to you, and perhaps these scraps of cloth will be sold every year, and it will be enough for your rent. ”

"Five taels." Soybeans stretched out five fingers, we only have so much money.

"Little girl, you must know that this street is the most prosperous street in Xiangyang Prefecture, I don't have an inch of land here, it is quite good, you just set up a stall in front of me, the wind and the sun are exposed, and you have to pay two or three taels of silver to the yamen for a year."

In fact, the proprietress doesn't care about how much rent she can rent, she cares more about the big cake that soybeans painted for her, if this small stairwell business is good, it will indeed bring her benefits not a few taels of silver.

A big family can make a big order, and she can earn more than half a year of chewing!

"Sister shopkeeper, you rent this store to us, don't say five taels, even if you don't want a penny, you will only make money and not lose it." Huang Dou felt that he was shameless to save money, and called a sister who was about the same age as his mother.

Don't say it, this trick will work anywhere, the proprietress heard such a little girl call her sister, and laughed wildly: "Don't, you can just call me Aunt Song, my eldest daughter is older than you." ”

"Aunt Song, where is your mother's house? My mother's surname is also Song, and she is from Xiaosong Jiazhuang, Nanshan Town. "Soybean, who is shameless, immediately began to pull on his relatives.

"Hey, that's my family, I'm a girl from Da Songzhuang, Nanshan Town." When the proprietress heard it, she couldn't help but feel funny.

"Oh, Aunt Song is the same as the old lady of our Qian family in Nanshan Town." Huang Dou turned his head and explained to the two sisters, in fact, he also told the proprietress that they were also from Nanshan Town.

"Yes, the old lady of the Qian family is my cousin, but she has branched out, you little girl is really smart, and she has the temper of our Song family." The more the proprietress looked at the soybeans, the more she liked it, if her girl was so smart, she would not be worried in the future.