Everything on Pei Yan's side was proceeding in an orderly manner according to his plan, while Yu Tang's side was a little flustered.
Firstly, she couldn't figure out whether things were going well with Pei Yan, and secondly, the family shop couldn't keep up with the prosperous city before the Spring Festival this year - because the uncle Yu Bo stayed in Jiangxi for too long, and it was already in the twelfth lunar month when he came back. They hurriedly chose to open on the 20th of the twelfth lunar month, but according to the usual practice, on the 22nd and 3rd of the twelfth lunar month, the shops in the market will be closed in the days before the new year, and they will not open until the fifteenth day of the next year . There is no profit for this year's business, so I can only open it before the year to get a good start.
Because of this, Yu Tang was also called by his uncle to help out in the shop for two days.
In the words of her uncle, it is fine for her not to know how to do business, but she has to understand the family's money transactions: "Even if a son-in-law is hired to come to the house, how much money the family makes a year, whether it is a loss or a profit, you must know it yourself. Otherwise, it’s easy to be fooled.”
Both Yu Wen and Mrs. Chen felt that it made sense, and asked Yu Tang to keep accounts in the back warehouse in coarse clothes, and asked Yu Tang: "From now on, come to the shop every five days, you must know that everything sold in our shop is What are they, and how much does each make?"
Yu Tang shook his head in his heart.
No wonder everyone is unwilling to be a door-to-door son-in-law
Their family is considered kind, but the son-in-law didn't know where he was, so he started to be on guard in every way. Anyone who is willing to marry into their family, as long as he is not a fool, he will be treated like this. It will be uncomfortable, so what about trust and dependence
If there is not even the most basic trust and dependence between husband and wife, what kind of harmony is there to talk about
Perhaps, recruiting a door-to-door son-in-law may not be able to solve all the difficulties.
While thinking about it in his mind, Yu Tang stood at the door of the warehouse with the ledger to register the incoming and outgoing goods.
When Yu Tang's grandfather was still alive, their family had their own small workshop, and they could make objects with complicated crafts like ticking red. The master chef who had been there for two or three generations was suddenly poached by a century-old shop in Suzhou, and only his uncle knew how to pick red at home. However, their family's heirs are weak, and his uncle's temperament became more and more cautious after this incident. The few apprentices he recruited have worked at home for more than ten years. Overwhelmed by the busy schedule, there are fewer and fewer red-picked objects, and there are almost no high-quality goods, and the business in the shop is not as good as each year.
Instead of trying to find a way to recruit talented apprentices, the uncle pinned his hopes on Yu Yuan. Yu Yuan has honestly learned the craft for a few years, but he doesn't know whether it's because of his talent or his uncle is not good at being a teacher.
Xia Pinggui was an apprentice in Yu's family when he was six years old, two or three years older than Yu Yuan, and he was apprenticed by his son when Yu Tang's grandfather was alive, and lived in Yu's family when he was young. Later, when Yu Tang grew up, considering the difference between men and women, Wang asked him to move to live in a shop. Changxing Street was flooded, Wang would rather arrange him to live in Yu's old house than let him move back to Yu's house.
This time the shop was completed, Xia Pinggui moved back to the shop with a few juniors.
Although Xia Pinggui and Yu Tang didn't see each other often, they grew up together. Occasionally when they went to Yu's house, they would meet Yu Tang. Seeing Yu Tang helping to keep accounts at the door of the warehouse, he asked the rough woman in the shop to pour some soup. cold."
In the entire lacquerware shop, apart from members of the Yu family, Yu Tang only knew Xia Pinggui.
She smiled and thanked Xia Pinggui, and took Tang Pozi.
Xia Pinggui smiled on his honest and honest face, said "You're welcome", and continued to urge the boys at home to put the goods into storage.
Seeing that there were two square tables with black paint and plain surfaces in the storeroom, Yu Tang couldn't help asking Xia Pinggui: "Why can't our family still sell furniture?"
When she was a child, she used to go into the warehouse when she and her father came to play in the store. In her memory, the warehouse is full of shelves, on which there are all kinds of lacquerware boxes and boxes, large and small, from nine-compartment boxes for snacks to boxes for rouge. Have.
Why is it like a grocery store now
Xia Pinggui hesitated for a while, seeing Yu Bo and Yu Wen standing in front of the store discussing the furnishing, then lowered his voice and said: "We are too close to Hangzhou City, and now mother-of-pearl is popular outside again, if you want Ti Hong's family is also particular about craftsmanship, and if they don't sell tables, chairs and boxes, it will be even more difficult to do business."
Yu Tang didn't understand.
Xia Pinggui explained to her: "In the past, those who married their daughters had to buy one or two red-lacquered boxes to store their things. But since the people from the Sheng family in Jiangxi opened their shop in Hangzhou City three years ago, it has become popular in Hangzhou City. (from) I bought a tin box."
After all, the family opened a lacquerware shop, and she knew about the ingots, which were polished with snail shells and seashells and inlaid on the boxes. The snails shone with colorful luster under the light, and had a jewel-like brilliance. Some people who had a good face but couldn't afford a treasure box inlaid with it would buy this kind of shell instead.
But there are thousands of people's preferences, and some people who have a lot of background don't like jewels, let alone gems that are inlaid with conch shells instead of gems
Yu Tang thought for a while, and said, "Could it be that the Sheng family has some new craftsmanship that can sell mother-of-pearl much cheaper than Tihong?"
Xia Pinggui's eyes showed admiration, and he said with admiration: "Miss is really smart. Indeed, as you said, their family has now made a kind of 'lining color 留田'. If you want other colors, you can customize it, and customization is much more expensive than ordinary colors. It has made a name and a business. Now it is in full swing, and I heard that Zhejiang Chief Secretary gave it to them during the Qianqiu Festival. A twelve-panel screen with a hundred birds facing the phoenix." Speaking of this, he hesitated for a while, "However, our shop is mainly based on the pattern, which has not changed for many years..."
This was said tactfully, but Yu Tang still understood.
She said: "You mean, the craftsmanship of our family's picking red is not good?"
Xia Pinggui replied vaguely with a blushing face, and Yu Tang didn't hear what he said clearly, but he understood the meaning.
She didn't say anything for a while.
In the previous life, their shop was sold after it was burned down, and she didn't know how their business was doing. Later, Yu Yuan made money, and her uncle wanted to revive the family business, but he hadn't waited until her uncle took over the family business. He died when he started his career.
Now that their family has spent a lot of effort to repair the shop again, and spent a lot of money to buy a lot of goods, they can't live on their last days, can they
This is what she can't bear the most.
Spent the same amount of time, the same energy, but no one else did it as well.
You have to find the reason and find a way.
She looked at the various utensils piled up in the warehouse and sighed in her heart. She didn't want to take a second look at these goods, let alone those who bought them
I don't know if we can postpone the opening and find a way to re-adjust the goods
Yu Tang pulled Wang Shi aside and asked her quietly.
Wang smiled wryly, hugged Yutang, and said in a low voice: "Good boy, you have a heart. Your uncle has been in business all his life, how could he not know these truths? But we still owe the Pei family money for repairing the shop." As for silver, how can there be any extra money to buy goods. Besides, good utensils are kept by each shop as the treasure of the town store. How can they be easily sold to our family? Even if they are sold to our family, there are Merchants have taken a fancy to it, but our family can’t do it, and it’s easy to cause trouble, so it’s better not to show it.”
Yu Tang was taken aback, and said, "Is it because there is no money?"
Mrs. Wang paused, and lowered her voice: "It's not all money, or there is no one in the family..."
It's just that I don't have this skill at home.
This is exactly what Xia Pinggui said.
The shop has been run by her uncle all these years, and she was afraid that she would ask too much, so her aunt's face was dull, and she hesitated a few words, then went back to the shop with her aunt, and took a chance to ask Yu Yuan to talk about herself : "How about the craftsmanship of the few masters invited back from Jiangxi? Do you think it can be done with just these few people?"
Yu Yuan has been worrying about this for the past few days.
He said: "The craftsmen of those masters are all average. One of them is not bad, but what he is good at is painting gold. Our family started out as a red pick. Dad means that painting gold is cheap. But I think it's a little bit of putting the cart before the horse."
Every lacquerware shop has its own characteristics. It took several generations of their family to make the reputation of ticking red. At this time, it is changed to tracing red, and it is still a craft that their family is not familiar with. Yu Tang agrees with Yu Yuan's point of view.
Yu Yuan and Yu Bo had argued several times over this matter during this time, and Mrs. Wang stood firmly on Yu Bo's side, and said, "Haste makes waste, first make some money with tracing gold, and then find a way to find it." If some of your uncle's talented friends help you to draw some new patterns for ticking red, the shop will slowly recover," or something like that. Now he suddenly met someone who wanted to go with him, and the resentment he had suppressed in the past suddenly became a little uncontrollable, and he couldn't help but said: "I don't know what daddy thinks? It's not our family's craftsmanship. If you lose your family's roots like this, how can the Yu family gain a foothold?"
In the previous life, the two fathers and sons had quarreled over this matter.
Yu Tang smiled and said, "Didn't you say you're going to open a shop in Hangzhou City? Let him be flooded."
Yu Yuan blushed, and said: "If dad insists on going his own way, I will go to Hangzhou City to open a shop." After speaking, he was afraid that Yu Tang would misunderstand, so he hurriedly said, "This is not your sister-in-law's idea. It's my own idea. She can't be my home yet."
Yu Tang laughed out loud when he saw how he looked like he had no money here.
Yu Yuan realized that he had said something wrong, so he also laughed shyly.
Yu Tang felt that this might not be bad.
In his previous life, Yu Yuan had already proved that he was not able to convince his uncle, and in this life he was still a kid who was learning art from his father, let alone persuaded his uncle.
Rather than the father and son having an unpleasant fight, it is better to separate for the time being and run their own business, anyway, this family business will be left to Yu Yuan in the end.
Of course, Yu Tang also has a little selfishness.
She wanted to be like Jiang Ling in her previous life, a strange woman who could earn money to support herself and her family.