Yes, wood carvings are a rare thing to sell.

It's not like bowls and chopsticks that can be damaged. You get one piece if you sell it. If there are too many people carving it, it becomes less valuable.

It is said that the disciples of the church starve to death of the master, so it is normal that Lin Xuniang is not willing to teach outsiders.

Rather than sending the child to be taught by her, it is better to marry her. In this way, both the money earned and the wood carving skills will belong to the family. The children and grandchildren in the future can benefit from it.

However, after Lin Xuniang divorced, she no longer wanted to trust other men. Whenever someone asked her to remarry, she refused without even asking a question.

Under such circumstances, it is almost impossible to successfully secure a match for her.

For a time, many people secretly scolded Hu Qili for being incompetent. Some even thought that he was a mentally ill person.

We have been married for ten years, we have two children, and we are relying on my daughter-in-law’s family business to make a prosperous life. It’s not a bad life. To abandon your wife and children and even the business to ask for a concubine released by someone else’s family is not a mental illness.

What is it?

There are always more solutions than difficulties.

In the next few days, when Chu Yunli took her two children out for a walk to buy groceries, she found that she easily met people.

For example, she was carrying a basket and happened to bump into someone. A man immediately held her arm and said, "Sister, be careful."

Chu Yunli: "..."

But she didn't bother her. She gave her a hand politely, then let go and left. Her attitude was that it was not important to help, so she couldn't even speak.

Once or twice, Chu Yunli thought it was an accident, but three or four times a day, someone bumped into her. If this was a coincidence, then everything in the world would be a coincidence.

After Chu Yunli bought the vegetables and took her children home, she found a good cook. There were only three of them, mother and son, so cooking was not tiring. Chu Yunli also asked her to help clean and bring her with her every day.

The kids go shopping together.

As for herself, she doesn’t go out much.

Therefore, when Mrs. Li went out to have breakfast on this day and saw the brother and sister walking through the market with the cook, she was instantly unhappy.

She has not yet hired anyone to serve her, but these juniors have been served first. Of course, she has also heard that the mother and son are now making money from wood carvings. Although she is jealous, she is also really happy. To put it simply, Hu Qinglin is

She is her favorite grandson. Of course she is happy that her grandson is doing well!

But it's not a happy thing to live a good life without taking her as an elder with her.

After Chu Yunli didn't go out, she did stop for a while.

During this period, I heard that the Hu family’s furniture shop had reopened. Hu Qili specially hired people to make the furniture. After the store opened, it was sold a little more expensive than before. As before, when buying large items, the Hu family

It will be delivered directly to your door.

The Hu family's shop cannot be opened, which has little impact on the Lin family's business. All the furniture made by the Lin family has been sent to the city. No matter how many people make it, they can still accept it, and the price is 20% higher than the original price given by Hu Qili.

After all, the Hu family's business is still not as good as before.

And this starts with the furniture itself.

Father Lin started working as an apprentice at the age of seven. He rarely interacted with others and focused entirely on furniture. He taught his two sons step by step. Moreover, Father Lin was obsessed with furniture and had to do the best.

Give up. Occasionally when he encounters bad wood halfway through, he would rather chop it up and use it as firewood than sell it.

In this way, as long as the furniture is sold by the Lin family, as long as it is not deliberately looking for faults, there is generally no fault.

But the ones in the Hu family's new shop are frizzy and not smooth, and the chairs are rickety and have missing legs. No matter how cheap the villagers are, they don't want such furniture.

Some people even think that the Hu's furniture is the same as before, so they just make a purchase without even looking at it. After taking it back, they find it's not right, so they send it back and insist on returning it.

It's rare for Hu Qili to make a business deal after opening his business, so how can he be willing to withdraw?

But he has been in business for a long time and has learned to deal with things diplomatically. He did not ignore it and only said he was willing to fix it.

But the buyer was still unhappy and had to return it.

The Hu Family Furniture was engaged in business in various villages and could not ruin its reputation. In desperation, Hu Qili had to quit.

After this incident, the Hu family's already poor business became even more difficult to run.

After not opening for two days, Hu Qili, while supervising the hired masters, began to reduce the price of furniture again.

The furniture master he hired was surnamed Li. He was a nephew of the Li family. He had also gone to the Lin family to learn skills before. He was also one of Lin's father's apprentices. However, he was too impatient and refused to change despite repeated admonishments. Lin's father scolded him a few times.

After saying a few words, he couldn't stand it anymore and ran out. Finally, he went to help in various furniture shops in the city.

Hu Qili inquired around and spent a lot of money to invite this cousin back. He used this cousin as a master master, but he never expected that he was a newcomer. Even if he was asked to slow down, he would not do it.

You can't make furniture without faults.

If wood is to be put together without falling apart or shaking, it must be carefully polished and there must be no difference at all. Hu Qili was helpless. He didn't expect that his cousin, who had been making furniture for so many years, would be so unreliable. He had to

Then go to the city to find a carpenter.

Carpenters were easy to find, and he could afford the wages. But when he heard that the carpenters were not in the city, but in Wuli Town, they were not happy.

The craft of carpentry is actually quite labor-intensive. It takes so many years to learn it, and you can't say you will be able to rest easy after you learn it. Furniture in the city is refurbished very quickly. If the carpenter moved to the one-third of an acre in Wuli Town.

As time goes by, you won't be able to do the tricks that the people in the city want.

As for the Lin family's furniture... Father Lin's furniture is simple in style, and the buyers are the most ordinary kind of people. As long as the furniture is good and practical, it is fine, and they are not obsessed with style.

It's nothing like the carpenters in the city.

Hu Qili was in a dilemma. He could either bite the bullet and move his shop to the city. Or, he could find a carpenter who was willing to move to Wuli Town. They said that if people go to higher places and have seen the prosperity of the city, what can they do?

Will he move to Wuli Town?

The Hu family's furniture shop was deserted. When Mrs. Li handed over the money, she wanted to steal copper coins every day and save them. But after opening the shop, she discovered that the box was sometimes empty even after several days.

Mr. Li could not get any benefits and was unwilling to manage the shop.

Hu Qili had to make furniture and sell it, and he also had to figure out how to sell it. It took a lot of time and effort, Zhou Roulan was pregnant, and Mrs. Li refused to help him, so Hu Qili was exhausted mentally and physically from the busy work.

For a moment, he really doubted whether Lin Xuniang was really Wang Hui... The two had been together for more than ten years, and everything went well for the Hu family. After they separated, she herself was living a prosperous life. He was so miserable.

It’s okay to be exhausted mentally and physically, the business in the shop has not improved, and Zhou Roulan still wants to make trouble with him.

That evening, as soon as Hu Qili entered the door, he met Zhou Roulan in the courtyard with a face full of tears.

He rubbed his eyebrows: "What's wrong with you?"

The word "again" made Zhou Roulan detect his impatience. If the two had just reunited, these words would have been nothing. Of course, Hu Qili would not have spoken like this.

Zhou Roulan listened in her ears and looked at Hu Qili's solemn expression. She felt disappointed, but now was not the time to break up. It cost her dozens of taels to reopen the furniture shop. If she didn't coax Hu Qili,

All that money was wasted.

As long as she thinks of this, Zhou Roulan feels extremely heartbroken. She has a gentle look on her face: "Have you sold it today?"

Hu Qili felt his head hurt even more.

"No." He looked irritated: "My cousin doesn't know how to make furniture at all, and he damaged so much of my wood. I still have to hire someone else."

Hu Qili was very patient with Zhou Roulan and explained all the difficulties he was encountering in the shop.

Zhou Roulan felt a little desperate when she heard this. She knew that the Hu family's furniture business was doing well, and she also knew that the people who made the furniture were the Lin family, so she wanted to plot against Lin Xuniang and let Hu Qili kill her, and then the Lin family would see their grandchildren.

For my sake, I will definitely not find another buyer.

When she heard that Hu Qili was opening a shop again, she subconsciously wanted to refuse. Firstly, she didn't think the Hu family could find a reliable carpenter. Secondly, it didn't matter whether the Hu family opened a shop or not, the key was that the money would be used to embezzle her money. If the business

The loss was hers alone.

"Can you please stop doing this? It just so happens that the wood in the shop hasn't been used up yet, so we can still return it."

Zhou Roulan asked with some collapse.

Hu Qili didn't even think about it: "Of course not." Seeing that she was in a bad mood, he hurriedly stepped forward to comfort her: "Don't worry, our business will get better once we find a reliable carpenter."

Zhou Roulan was filled with disappointment.

If carpenters were so easy to find, anyone could open a furniture shop.

At this time, she really regretted marrying into the Hu family. The main reason was that she met a mother-in-law who was not stingy... Mother-in-laws from other families would not dare to steal things from their daughter-in-law.

As long as she doesn't steal, the money is in her own hands. She can do whatever she wants. If she really can't survive, she can take the money back to the Zhou family and marry again. But now, even if she wants to beg, she can't bear to part with such a large sum of money.

Seeing that the business in the shop was bleak, Zhou Roulan was helpless. She simply stayed out of sight and stayed in the backyard without going out.

In the blink of an eye, more than half a month passed, and on this day another wealthy carriage came to the city.

People who saw the carriage at the entrance of the town were a little confused, wondering if they were coming to Lin Xuniang again to buy wood carvings. Those who liked to watch the excitement followed all the way.
Chapter completed!