Jiang Zhiyuan thought about it, but still chose to press the matter. Looking at the yellow calendar, tomorrow will be the seventh day of the seventh month of July, and Jiang Zhiyuan went to the horse farm on the outskirts of the city.

After half a month, Guo Xiaoxiao gradually got started with the affairs of Zijinfang, many of which she didn't know about accounts, and with the help of Yarong, she also understood everything. The embroidery girls have also become kind from the previous rustiness.

The weather was really hot, Guo Xiaoxiao was sweating while taking care of the account, and Xiaolan was fanning her with a fan.

At this time, a girl with bright eyes and bright teeth came in at the door, only to hear the girl say: "Miss, the plum blossom you want has been bought." ”

Guo Xiaoxiao glanced up and said, "Okay, just brew it according to the previous method of making tea." ”

The girl said softly, "Yes, I'll do it." ”

The girl is skillful, delicate, and methodical.

"That's right, Zipei." Guo Xiaoxiao took a painting and handed it to the girl, "Hang this painting next to the coffee table." ”

Zipei took it and hung the painting with the other two embroidery girls. As soon as the scroll fell, a delicate plum blossom appeared in front of everyone's eyes. Along with the plum blossoms are a few scattered snowflakes, the white of the snow and the red of the plum blossoms reflect each other, and there are two columns of words in the blank space: the sword edge is sharpened out, and the fragrance of plum blossoms comes from the bitter cold.

Zipei smiled: "This painting of the eldest lady is really wonderful, it must be from everyone's handwriting." ”

Zipei will have two small dimples when she laughs, adding a bit of cuteness to her elegant appearance.

Guo Xiaoxiao smiled and said nothing, and the abacus in his hand was still "clicking". Xiaolan burst out laughing: "What kind of celebrity is this, this is painted by Miss!" ”

Zi Pei was very surprised when he heard this: "Zi Pei didn't know that the eldest lady's Danqing was so good. ”

Guo Xiaoxiao said with a smile: "That's all there is to it, and the others can't be put on the table." ”

Zipei looked at Guo Xiaoxiao, thinking that what Guo Xiaoxiao said just now must be humble. When Guo Xiaoxiao first came, the embroidery girls all said that Guo Xiaoxiao was holding the eldest lady's shelf and did not talk to them.

After these days of contact, Zipei found that Guo Xiaoxiao was actually approachable, and he didn't have the slightest master's shelf, and the ink and blue painting was so good, which really made Zipei admire.

At this moment, Guo Xiaoxiao suddenly felt that the light in front of her was dim, so that she couldn't see the account book clearly.

I heard a magnetic voice say, "Is the owner here?" ”

Guo Xiaoxiao looked along the sleeves of the man, the cuffs had embroidered patterns of green bamboo, the clothes were light blue, and the hair was shawl, which had a bit of the taste of "Seven Sages of the Bamboo Forest". She looked at her face and exclaimed: It's him, Yuan Shaocheng!

"Me." Guo Xiaoxiao took his words, "I am." ”

Yuan Shaocheng glanced at her, saw the abacus and account book in her hand, and said with a chuckle: "Don't you invite guests to sit down?" ”

Guo Xiaoxiao came back to his senses and said busily: "Zipei, serve tea." ”

Guo Xiaoxiao invited Yuan Shaocheng to sit down next to the coffee table, and Zipei carefully served two cups of tea.

Yuan Shaocheng picked up the teacup, opened the lid and blew it, his eyes were staring at the tea, and he saw a few petals floating on the tea surface. Jiang Zhiyuan said: "It's a scorching summer now, how can there be plum blossoms?" ”

Guo Xiaoxiao smiled: "If you have a heart, there is always a way to keep Hongmei, isn't it?" ”

Yuan Shaocheng thought about it, and then smiled lightly at the corner of his mouth, "If you have a heart, there is always a way to keep it", there is no argument for these words!

The tea was too hot, Yuan Shaocheng took a few sips, and then put down the tea cup: "My mother loves embroidery very much, and I heard that the Shu embroidery in Zijin Fang is the best in Yangzhou City, so I came to take a look." ”

Guo Xiaoxiao immediately asked Zipei to take the sample book to Yuan Shaocheng.

"I don't know what tricks Lingtang likes, there are a lot of them in this booklet, and the son can choose carefully."

Yuan Shaocheng opened it and looked at it, only turned a few pages, and then inspected the embroidery hanging on the wall.

Guo Xiaoxiao saw him staring at the wall, so he said: "The samples of embroidery hanging on the wall are all embroidery, so you can take a closer look." ”

Guo Xiaoxiao stood up and walked to the embroidery, ready to introduce Yuan Shaocheng one by one.

Yuan Shaocheng seemed to go in and out of his left ear, got up and looked at it casually, and finally fell his eyes on the painting.

Two rows of hairpins come into view: the sword edge is sharpened out, and the fragrance of plum blossoms comes from the bitter cold!

He remembered that the tea he had just drunk was also plum blossom tea, and secretly said in his heart: white snow with red plum, cold winter against heat, reduce fire!

This little girl is kind of interesting!

He turned around and said, "My mother is used to seeing these tricks, and I'm afraid she won't be satisfied with the old man." ”

Zi Pei hurriedly said: "Zijin Fang can follow Ling Tang's ideas, as long as Childe can provide the pattern and explain the requirements clearly, we can make the effect that Childe wants." ”

"What if I don't get the effect I want?"

"Childe needs to pay two-thirds of the deposit first, and if the finished product can satisfy Childe, Childe only needs to pay the remaining one-third of the deposit to take away the embroidery. If the child is not satisfied, the company will refund one-third of the deposit. ”

"Then your embroidery workshop has eaten up a third of my deposit, and I haven't gotten anything."

Zipei bowed his head and said: "Childe doesn't know, it takes a lot of manpower and material resources to complete a pair of embroidery, so even if the embroidery can't satisfy Childe, it will cost the embroidery girls time and energy......"

"Isn't it a bit out of line with the rules of the industry?"

Yuan Shaocheng asked like this, Zipei didn't know how to answer, because if he gave in at this time, Zijinfang's profits would be damaged, and if he kept the same words, it might make the business fail.

Guo Xiaoxiao spoke: "Zijinfang has always had a good reputation, and I think Gongzi also knows it." Zijinfang, which is based on the principle of credit and customer first, will definitely not charge indiscriminately, everything is in accordance with the rules, it has been like this for decades, and it will never deceive the child. As far as I know, Childe is a doctor. ”

"So what?"

"I have a few words I want to ask Childe, how long has Childe been treating people?"

"Seven or eight years."

"Those patients who went to see a doctor at your place also bought the medicine from you?"

"Basically."

"So is everyone cured?"

"Most of them can be cured, and a few people are difficult to cure because of their constitution."

"Then those who have taken your medicine and still have not recovered, have they asked you to return the money?"

Hearing this, Yuan Shaocheng stopped talking. No doctor can guarantee that all those who take his medicine will be cured. Even if the disease has not been cured, but the medicine has been taken, and the time and energy have been spent, how can there be a refund of the money!

Guo Xiaoxiao smiled brightly: "I think the prince must understand the truth better than me." ”

Yuan Shaocheng looked at her, his eyebrows were curved like willow leaves, his goose egg face was like a bright moon, a small and delicate mouth, and he was good at sophistry! The eyes are bright like water mirrors, the bridge of the nose is high and high, the slender steps are like white cranes in the reeds, and the stride meteors are like loose horses.

Take a closer look at the corners of her eyebrows: arrogance is revealed from between her eyebrows, tenderness emerges from the bottom of her eyes, she is free and easy, and her jaw is silent when she is weak.

After a while, Yuan Shaocheng said, "I'll go back and ask my mother's opinion, and I'll give you an answer." ”

Guo Xiaoxiao bowed slightly and sent Yuan Shaocheng out of Zijin Fang.

When Zipei cleaned up the teacup, he said, "The eldest lady is really good at talking. ”

Guo Xiaoxiao smiled awkwardly, thinking carefully about whether what he was saying just now was inappropriate. Mrs. Guo said that she had two major shortcomings: one was that she did not choose what to say when she was panicked, and the other was that she sometimes made mistakes but refused to admit them.

The crowd on the street outside was bustling, and Zipei's voice interrupted her train of thought: "Miss, can you go to the street to buy lanterns in a while?" ”

Guo Xiaoxiao saw that the girls outside were holding lanterns, but they didn't make a sound.

Xiaolan said: "Miss is the laziest to buy these things, every year Mrs. buys them and puts them in Miss's room." I invited the young lady to put the lanterns, and the young lady twisted for a long time before she was willing to go. ”

Zi Pei said: "The eldest lady is like this, and she can't complain about anything." ”

"Zipei's words won my heart." Guo Xiaoxiao smiled and walked to the counter to continue to manage the accounts.

Seeing that Xiaolan and Zipei's eyes always glanced out of the door from time to time, Guo Xiaoxiao said again: "If you want to go to the street, go ahead, just remember to come back in a while." ”

Xiaolan was very happy, and hurriedly pulled Zipei out.

"Wait." Guo Xiaoxiao stopped them again, "Go and tell the embroidery girls that tomorrow will give everyone a day off on the Qiqiao Festival." ”

Zi Pei raised her eyebrows, thought about it and said, "Isn't this unruly?" ”

Guo Xiaoxiao put his elbows on the counter: "Don't worry, I mentioned this matter to Aunt Yarong, and she agreed to tell you about it." ”

The two couldn't hold back their joy, and hurriedly went upstairs to tell the other embroidery girls. Immediately afterwards there was a commotion from upstairs, and after a while it was quiet again, and I saw Aunt Yarong coming down from the upstairs.

Guo Xiaoxiao bowed his head slightly to her. Yarong said: "These girls have to be in charge of them all the time. ”

"That's what my aunt said."

Yarong walked over and looked through the account book she had made: "Well, the accounts are very detailed, it would be better if they were neat and tidy." ”

"Remember."

At this time, Xiaolan and Zipei went downstairs holding their hands. Xiaolan said: "Auntie, the slave maid and Sister Zipei went to the street to buy things." ”

Yarong nodded, and the two slipped out. Yarong knew what they were going to do without asking.

"The girls have gone to the street to buy lanterns, won't the eldest lady go?" Yarong asked.

Guo Xiaoxiao shook his head: "I put lanterns every year, but it's actually boring." ”

Yarong smiled silently.

"By the way, I drew some flower patterns, and my aunt will see if they can be used to make silk decorations." Guo Xiaoxiao took out a few paintings from the cabinet.

Yarong took it and took a closer look: "These patterns are fresh, I don't know where they come from?" ”

"I read the verse a few days ago and imagined it from the meaning of the sentence." Guo Xiaoxiao pointed to the picture at the top, "Auntie, please look at this one, there is a saying in the Book of Poetry, 'The leaves are pale, and the white dew is frost.'" The so-called Iraqi people are on the water side. So I painted still water lakes, pale reeds, white snow and frost, and people in the water. ”

Guo Xiaoxiao changed the next one and explained: "This one is taken from 'The Peach is dying, scorching its flower', so I think of the colorful fallen flowers and the ten-mile peach forest." There is also this one, which is an allusion from Zhuangzi's dream butterfly and the cuckoo's cry of blood......"

"It's ingenious, it's quite innovative." Yarong nodded in appreciation, "You can let the embroidery girls follow the embroidery." ”

Guo Xiaoxiao was very happy, and at this moment, Jiang Feng suddenly appeared outside Zijin Fang.

Guo Xiaoxiao caught a glimpse of Jiang Feng's figure and walked out.