Of course, Pei Yan doesn't just have that little heart.
During this period of time, he was busy improving the craftsmanship of Yu's lacquerware shop.
Immediately after the Mid-Autumn Festival, he asked Yu Yuan to meet at Pei's Teahouse not far from Yu's lacquerware shop, gave Yu Yuan the brochures he had prepared, poured a cup of tea for Yu Yuan himself, and said, "You Check carefully to see if it can be used. If it can be used, the problem of insufficient apprentices and leakage of skills can be solved in the future. However, nothing can be generalized, and my method may not necessarily be safe, but it can Use it first, then slowly improve when you encounter problems later.”
Yu Yuan was overwhelmed by the flattery, and hurriedly bowed his body, thanked Pei Yan, took his brochure, and read it carefully.
After reading it, only the hot face is left.
He has been the young owner of Yu's lacquerware shop for more than 20 years, but he is not as good as Pei Yan, an outsider who has been observing for two months.
Pei Yan broke down all the craftsmanship, and a skilled apprentice led several apprentices. This not only improved the efficiency, but also effectively guaranteed the quality, and also prevented the risk of apprentices who learned the craft being poached.
"Thank you, Third Master!" Yu Yuan poured Pei Yan a cup of tea with admiration.
Pei Yan frowned, and said: "Although I am older than you, I will be your brother-in-law after marrying A Tang. You don't have to be so polite to me."
But the title of "brother-in-law", Yu Yuan really couldn't say it when he looked at Pei Yan's indifferent and perfect face.
Fortunately, Pei Yan did not force him, but continued to talk about the topic just now: "Of course there are disadvantages to this method. I think the masters you invite are all working together. Even if each apprentice is proficient, if several apprentices are friendly Okay, let's go together, the result is still the same. I think that if you really want to start a workshop, the most important thing is to re-establish a reward and punishment system, so that they will get money if they feel that they have done a good job. If you don’t do well, you won’t get any money. They feel that working in your home is safe and secure, so naturally they don’t want to leave.”
It's not easy for him to intervene in this matter.
Yu Yuan, however, has already cast his eyes on Pei Yan's admiration, he is what Pei Yan says, and he doesn't think about it carefully at all. Hearing this, he hurriedly said: "I don't study much, so you should help us come up with an idea?"
But the Yu family can't always rely on him!
It is better to teach a person to fish than to give him a fish.
Pei Yan saw Yu Yuan's restraint, thought for a while, and said, "Why don't you ask Pei Man? Since he took charge of the Pei family, he has re-established some rules for the servants in the family. You can refer to it. "
Yu Yuan thinks this is also good.
It's better than facing Pei Yan.
Facing Pei Yan, he was too embarrassed to ask more questions if he didn't understand.
Pei Yan said: "Then I will tell Pei Man later."
Yu Yuan thanked him repeatedly, called Dr. Tea to come in, and invited Pei Yan to try the most famous teahouse's assorted crisps.
Pei Yan didn't want to eat at first, but he thought that Yu Yuan was his eldest brother-in-law, and there would be more opportunities to deal with him in the future, and the heir of Yu Tang's family must come from their family, so it was necessary to strengthen the relationship with Yu Yuan, so he felt at ease. They sat down, waited for Dr. Tea to serve them refreshments, and casually asked about Yu Yuan's business.
Apart from being in charge of the Yu family's lacquerware shop, Yu Yuan also privately participated in Yao San's grocery store.
He casually mentioned that Yao San bought Zhang Yanyin recently, wanted to try to start the salt business, and was looking for him to invest in shares.
Hearing this, Pei Yan's heart moved, and he thought of the shopkeeper Peng Shiyi was looking for.
He said: "Are there many people here doing salt import business?"
Yu Yuan nodded, and said with a smile: "However, everyone buys a Yanyin together. Although this business makes money, if there is no way to get it, you can exchange it for you according to the rules, that is, earn money. It’s hard money. Yao San dared to do this business because he has a friend who knows a general soldier from Datong, and that general soldier is from Haining.”
Pei Yan is not very familiar with the military officer, let alone a general in Datong.
But he was willing to help Yu Yuan, and said: "Don't worry about it, I'll help you ask the name of the chief soldier first, and see who has friendship with him, and then you decide whether to invest or not."
If this is the case, their business is safe and secure.
What a bonus.
Yu Yuan was overjoyed, and offered a toast to Pei Yan with tea instead of wine.
Pei Yan thought about the matter of shopkeeper Gao, so she simply asked Yu Yuan to tell Yu Yuan about the Gao family, and asked him to help him pay attention: "Look at what this man is doing in Datong?"
He now suspects that the shopkeeper Gao is in the Yanyin business. It's just that I don't know if it's Peng Shiyi's own business or a bureau of Peng's family business.
Yu Yuan complied.
The two chatted wildly for a long time, drank two pots of tea, and then broke up.
Since then, Yu Yuan has been full of praise for Pei Yan, saying that Pei Yan respects Yu's family and doesn't look down on Yu's family just because he was born as a Jinshi.
Yu Tang pursed his lips and laughed.
This guy can always put on airs at crucial times, and based on his performance in front of her family, Yu Tang felt that after he got married, he had to treat Pei Yan well.
The house in Lin'an City couldn't be sold, and Li Duan couldn't live comfortably in Lin'an City, not to mention that Li Yi was still waiting for money to pay for the servants on the road. After the Mid-Autumn Festival, Li Duan went back to Lin'an City in person, and only then did he know that Pei Yan and Yu Tang were engaged.
Li Duan stood in the ruined yard of his own house, and he didn't come back to his senses for a long time.
Such a beautiful girl's house, like a flower, should not grow in an ordinary house or bloom in an ordinary garden.
He just didn't expect that she could marry into such a strong castle.
Thinking of Gu Xi, she also married into Pei's family.
It seems that the two girls related to him have all gone to Pei's family.
Li Duan felt sour in his heart.
He sent someone to Pei's house to post a post.
Pei Yan is not at home, it is said that he has gone to Suzhou.
As for what to do in Suzhou, of course the Pei family would not tell him, nor did he find out.
Li Duan stayed in Lin'an for two days.
During this stay, he waited until Peng Shixi, who came to Laian to find him.
Peng Shiyi had no other intentions, he just wanted him to return the five thousand taels of silver that he "loaned" to Li Duan before.
Li Duan trembled with anger when he heard this, but the Peng family still had a big business, and he had to bow his head under the eaves of others.
"You also know what's going on with our family. How can we have any money to pay back the five thousand taels of silver to the Peng family?" How about selling this ancestral house at home?"
The Pei family said hello, can the house of the Li family still be sold
Peng Shixi sneered in his heart, and said, "Or, you can sell it to me for two thousand taels of silver."
He was going to buy this house as a gift to Pei Yan, begging Pei Yan to let him go.
Li Duan was furious, but he didn't dare to lose his temper, saying: "The price is too low."
The asking price for their house was four thousand taels, and he was going to sell it for three thousand five hundred taels.
Of course, he didn't take the price difference of five hundred taels of silver in the past, but the days of running for his father in the capital made him understand that sometimes even a penny can stump a hero, let alone fifteen hundred taels of silver. Two silver coins will allow them to live a prosperous life for several years.
Li Duan didn't want to appear too weak, so he let Peng Shiyi get ahead, and said with a bit of threat: "The Pei family has always been willing to do good things, but if it's really not good, I'm going to sell this house to the Pei family. I can pay you more money at that time." .”
Peng Shiyi didn't want to anger Li Duan, attract the attention of the Pei family, and cause unnecessary trouble. He said with a cold face: "Alright. Then I'll wait until your family sells the house."
Li Duan asked Peng Shiyi to be sent by the servant beside him, but he stood in the yard without moving.
The loyal servant who followed Li Duan couldn't help but said: "Eldest young master, you just let him go like this? The five thousand taels of silver are their filial piety to the master!"
It's just that this filial piety has something to do with the Peng family asking the Li family to help take back the "Picture of Fishing in Pine Stream".
So Peng Shixi didn't dare to really turn against him, did he
Li Duan looked at Peng Shiyi's back with cold eyes, and said, "If he pushes me into a hurry, I'll go to Pei Yan and tell the suzerain of the Peng family that he asked me for money."
He intuited that the Peng family was not so stingy, and they would ask for money back after giving out.
If word got out, who else could the Peng family count on to help them.
The loyal servant nodded repeatedly.
Li Duan felt that he would die if he didn't see Pei Yan, so he quietly squatted at the pier of Tiaoxi for a few days, and finally waited for Pei Yan.
But this time Pei Yan took a one-masted boat and entered Pei Mansion directly from Tiaoxi Pier.
Li Duan handed over another post.
Pei Yan met him.
He was shameless and asked Pei Yan to buy their house directly.
Pei Yan intended to compensate the Li family's clan house, and bought the old house of the Li family for three thousand taels of silver.
Li Duan was very grateful, and he seemed to sigh with emotion unintentionally: "Speaking of which, all kinds of misunderstandings were caused by the Yu family's "Fishing in Pine Stream". The idea of the Yu family's painting was decided. If it wasn't for the idea of the painting, the second son of the Wei family would not have lost his life. Our family is dead. Now our family can be regarded as retribution!"
Pei Yan's hand holding the teacup paused.
He recited the words "Second Young Master of the Wei Family" several times in his heart.
Li Duan was afraid that Pei Yan would not understand, and explained: "Miss Yu originally had a marriage contract with the second son of the Wei family, and I have seen it. But before the official appointment, the second son of the Wei family passed away. Because of this, Mrs. Yu and Mrs. Wei also married sisters, and Yu Yuan married Mrs. Wei's niece, and the two continued to be in-laws."
Pei Yan had heard about this before, but didn't think much about it.
But listening to what Li Duan said, it felt different.
It seemed that Yu Tang was still thinking about the second son of the Wei family.
Pei Yan clearly knew that Li Duan's words had bad intentions, but he still felt as if he had been stabbed in the chest when he heard it, blood was bubbling, and the pain was so painful that he was speechless.
He smiled and served tea to see off the guests, and when he returned to the study, he was so angry that he walked back and forth a few times and still couldn't calm down, so he simply smashed a few tea cups to suppress the anger in his heart.