"I can't sell it..."
Dongfang was not yet clear, Nie Yunzhu was sitting on the steps in front of the small building, holding his chin and speaking with some distress.
"As Ning Gongzi said a few days ago, I went to the stewards of several nearby restaurants, but they said that no one had eaten this before, and it was too expensive to sell it on their counter."
After all, productivity is not enough these days. Foods such as rice, flour, and grains belong to the concept of satisfying hunger. The price is cheaper, and meat and eggs are a bit expensive. According to the ratio, if two cents a pancake can be regarded as one dollar. Renminbi, a salted egg of ten cents is five yuan a piece, while Songhua eggs are sold for twenty cents under Ning Yi's suggestion, which is close to the meaning of luxury. In these years when well-off people only occasionally eat meat and eggs, such things are naturally difficult to sell.
Of course, there are still a lot of rich people in Jiangning. In terms of brothels, the more popular girls have three passes in the door—that is, three taels of silver, three thousand words—three passes of singing, dancing, playing, and singing, and three passes of going to bed, that is, a total of nine passes at a time. Four thousand five hundred dollars once. No matter how high the price of a girl who sells her body, it is an extreme exception. If she doesn’t sell her body, such as Yuan Jin’er, Lu Caicai, Qi Lan, the former Nie Yunzhu and others, it will be even higher. People are waiting to throw money. If you are stingy, you will not be allowed to enter the door. If you are stingy when you enter the door, you will naturally be ignored next time. Just like Su Tan’er’s brothers, every time they defrauded her with dozens of taels of silver, it was already a huge sum of money for ordinary people, but they really wanted to be extravagant and call a group of friends, that is, once or twice. thing.
People who are willing to spend 9,000 yuan to find a girl may not be willing to eat 20 yuan of Songhua eggs at roadside stalls, but at least it proves that this purchasing power is still available in Jiangning.
If you want to sell the price of twenty cents, you have to find some relatively high-end places nearby, famous teahouses and restaurants, and ask them to help with consignment. But this is a new thing after all. You said that I would sell an egg for twenty cents a piece, and I would help out. I am not a charitable person. Nie Yunzhu used to be very talented in all kinds of talents. If he couldn't get a straight-forward business talk, the consignment of salted eggs for 20 yuan apiece, but the negotiation did not come to fruition. There were two restaurant stewards who didn't talk to her much at all, and there was one who came out to sell pancakes after seeing her pretty. She wanted to do something, so she just walked away.
This was naturally a blow to Nie Yunzhu, who wanted to get rid of his previous identity and work hard to make money like an ordinary person. However, she is also stubborn. If ordinary people encounter such a thing, they are afraid that they will consider not selling preserved eggs, but she does not see such a plan. Ning Yi was sweating profusely running all the way, playing with a copper plate in his hand, and then smiled: "Speaking of which, I made a bet with someone recently, saying that this pine flower egg will be sold within a month. "
"Sell out?"
"Well, at least twenty or thirty are sold every day."
"...Uh." Nie Yunzhu thought for a while, then laughed, "I will try my best to sell 30 of them. Actually... Maybe I can deposit a batch to Jinfeng Tower..."
Nie Yunzhu obviously hesitated for a while before saying this. What she was thinking at this time was obviously different from what Ning Yi was thinking. In her opinion, Ning Yi has a good personality and is a maverick, humorous and witty genius, but he has nothing to do with business. Now that he invented this Songhua Egg, he asked himself to help sell it, perhaps to boast to others. If it wasn't for the fact that there was nothing she could do, she probably wouldn't consider Jinfenglou again. Although the mother in the building complied with the contract and did not force her to do anything, it is not necessarily a good person. It is not easy to repay the debt, but in any case, using such a relationship is probably what she can think of at this time. The only way out.
When Ning Yi heard her talk about Jinfenglou, he was stunned for a while, and then he understood: "No need for that." He shook his head, then pointed to the shed where the carts were parked, "Let's close the stall early today at noon. , pack the car, it's too simple now, it won't sell for twenty cents."
"Package?"
"Uh... just decorate it at will."
Nie Yunzhu nodded and expressed his understanding with a puzzled look...
After school at noon, Ning Yi went to the market to eat, and then bought various paints, large and small brushes, and brushes to Nie Yunzhu's side. Only then did Nie Yunzhu know what he was going to do. After washing the car in the afternoon, Ning Yi made a simple composition with chalk. After thinking about it for a while, he moved a low stool and sat down to start writing.
Nie Yunzhu couldn't help at this time. He just squatted by the side for a while and looked at it for a while. When he returned to the room and saw Hu Tao, Hu Tao said, "Young Master Ning wants to paint on the car to sell Songhua eggs?"
"Think so."
"But, can paint paint well..."
"A lot of lacquerware is not also painted with lacquer, Ning Gongzi... I want to come here and have some experience..."
Nie Yunzhu was actually a little worried. Qin, chess, calligraphy and painting were the study of elegance, but Ning Yi's painting skills were a different matter. Given his current reputation, painting on such a small cart was only to sell the pine eggs. If anyone knew , I am afraid that he will be criticized again. The better the painting, the greater the risk.
On the other hand, Hu Tao's mood is actually not good. She has been worrying about Miss recently. Ever since Yuan Xi confirmed that Ning Yi, who was in contact with the young lady, was the number one talent, and that she was truly talented, her worries had been increasing day by day. As far as she is concerned, although she also wants to marry Erniu earlier, she is not at all relieved that the young lady has no home. Now the young lady seems to have a good impression of this person, but what kind of thing is this, as the young lady said: you can't marry.
The identity of the other party is a son-in-law, and even if the young lady likes him, there will be no results at all. The more talented the person is, the more the young lady will fall into, but she will not be able to like others. The Su family is in a big situation. This matter, come to the door, what can I do on my side, thinking about it like this, I am more and more anxious.
Ning Yi also called Nie Yunzhu out once, and asked her whether the stall should be called "Nie Ji" or "Zhu Ji". Nie Yunzhu thought about it and chose Zhu Ji.
In the evening, the sunset light shines from one side of the bend of the Qinhuai River, and the decoration of the car is finally completed. When Nie Yunzhu looked at it in the past, she felt a little stunned: She had never seen the style of this painting before!
It's not that the painting is too bad, but the painting is too good and too bizarre. The composition of the painting on the car is three-dimensional.
With paint these days, it is natural to have various patterns of lacquerware, either delicate or rough, but the car in front of me is definitely unique in the entire era. The picture is actually simple, but a few bamboos symbolize the corner of the bamboo forest after the rain, hidden in a mist, and on one side there is a picture of a preserved egg cut into four petals, but it is not very lifelike. The words "Zhu Ji Song Hua Egg" float on the screen - but the picture is three-dimensional.
For Ning Yi, it is just a simple method, controlling the proportion of each part of the picture to be unbalanced to achieve the effect of the bamboo forest inserting into the field of vision. It's a floating effect, but the preserved egg is not well-painted, and it can't match very beautiful and appropriate colors for a while, so I can only make it look as beautiful as possible. Because the paint mix will appear blurry, Ning Yi carefully added clear black lines to the edges of the different patterns, which instead creates a more obvious conflict and three-dimensional effect. If this car is pushed out, it will definitely attract the attention of passersby at the first time. Moreover, it is different from the mainstream paintings. Others will only think that it is a trail thought up by a businessman, and will not think that it is a picture carefully drawn by a certain genius.
The conditions are limited, but looking at the surprised look on the other party's face, in general, Ning Yi is still satisfied with the results. Probably remembering Ning Yi's eccentric taste in music, Nie Yunzhu said, "Liheng's approach to painting is actually the same... Uh, so strange, this style has never been seen in Yunzhu before, but it's almost like he wants to get out of a car. It just grows out of the wall…”
For things like pictures, if you follow a more realistic style, the impact at first glance is simple. It's not the same as taste in music. Nie Yunzhu just wanted to reach out and touch the pillar, but Ning Yi stopped her with a smile, and then pointed to the awning above.
"The paint isn't dry, but you can't touch it. The awning on top needs a different look. I'll go buy it tomorrow. You can't do business with the paint still dry these days, uh... We need something, nice little bowls. Dish, various sauces, vinegar, tofu, various ways to eat, look clean and beautiful, um, this is the first step..." Ning Yi calculated, "After these things are done, let's solve the stubborn problems of the restaurant. The problem of transformation…”
In the afternoon of the next few days, things will be done step by step, beautiful dishes, purchasing various sauces, and matching various eating methods. Ning Yi came every afternoon, and Nie Yunzhu also seemed happy, but Hu Tao was not happy, and complained to the lady in the evening: "Miss, it's not worth buying those things at all..."
Ning Yi chose very beautiful dishes. In the eyes of ordinary people, they were not very practical and expensive. Although half of these things were paid for by Ning Yi, it was considered as a shareholding, but in the eyes of walnuts, this It doesn't make any sense either. There is not much money at home, so if you save some to use, the lady can still use it for a long time, but now, it is simply that Ning Yi is spending money arbitrarily for granted, and the lady is unwilling to refuse, so she can only follow. Let's go, then Young Master Ning doesn't care about wasting money, what can the young lady do, wouldn't she spend her last net worth.
"If you want Hu Tao to tell me, that Young Master Ning must be very talented, there is nothing to say about this. But he may not know business, we are just setting up a stall, how can there be so much attention, miss, you can't accompany him to fool around. Now! We can't afford to fool around..."
"Ning Gongzi is a person with real talents. Since he is so confident, I will naturally believe him. Before the end, how do you know that he has nothing to do with Hu Tao?" Say so.
"Have you seen a lot of talented people, miss?" Hu Tao retorted, "It's talent to learn, and doing business is doing business. Don't those talented people still gamble and lose money in the end. Although Hu Tao doesn't understand, but see Much more, there are so many stalls on the street, they are all like this, those big restaurants, or brothels, are not the same at all. Miss, that Ning Gongzi entered the merchant's house, I heard that his wife is very responsible in the Su family. Awesome, maybe he just can't take this breath and uses the young lady as a test..."
"Shut up!" Nie Yunzhu's eyes narrowed, interrupting her speech.
Hu Tao stood there and pursed her lips for a long time, tears rolled down her eyes, then she gritted her teeth and choked out: "Miss, you know, you can't marry Ning Gongzi, if you can marry, then Hu Tao will not be able to. said… "
After saying this, there was no sound in the room for a long time, Nie Yunzhu was sitting on the edge of the bed, leaning against the bed frame next to her, her eyes changed occasionally, after a long time, the lamp shadow swayed, and she closed her eyes forcefully: "I I know..." When he opened it again, he smiled slightly.
"Hu Tao, go to bed too, it's getting late..."