Qiao Mingjin was quite surprised when she saw Yu Ji's shopkeeper and Zhou Yanqing getting off the carriage at the same time, and they seemed to be familiar with each other.
Zhou Yanqing smiled and winked at Qiao Mingjin, while the shopkeeper of Yuji nodded at Qiao Mingjin.
Qiao Mingjin glanced at Yun Jin and welcomed them home.
Some children followed the carriage from the entrance of the village to the door of their home. Qiao Mingjin thought about it and asked Mingqi to close the door.
The driver of the carriage was also welcomed into the house. The carriage was tied to a tree outside.
The main room was very small, and there were no coffee tables or high-backed chairs from wealthy families waiting for guests to come. Qiao Mingjin asked Yun Jin to move the square table to the courtyard, and also put out the long benches that Father He and others had made in the past few days.
, invited two people to sit around the table.
Father He and Yun Jin were also sitting nearby.
"Sixth Master and Shopkeeper Yu are familiar with each other?"
Qiao Mingjin asked after watching the two of them take a few sips of the coarse porcelain cups they bought from Yunjin and then put them down.
Even though I have added tea sets and tea leaves to my home, it is still more than one block away from the top-quality tea offered by wealthy families.
Zhou Yanqing glanced at Shopkeeper Yu and said to her: "Well, we are familiar with each other. The two families often communicate with each other."
Qiao Mingjin looked at shopkeeper Yu and nodded. He didn't respond and just took the tea and drank it.
Qiao Mingjin stopped talking when she saw this. She only heard Yun Jin telling her about how he met the two of them in the city.
Yun Jin didn’t know Mr. Saturday, but Mr. Saturday knew Mingheng. Today it happened that Mingheng and Liu Qi went shopping on the street and met Yun Jin. When the three of them were walking on the street, by chance, they bumped into each other from the restaurant.
Zhou Yanqing came out.
When he learned that several people were going to Yuji, he kindly told them that they could mention his name to buy things cheaper.
Then we started chatting with Yun Jin.
Then Zhou Yanqing and Yu Ji's shopkeeper looked at the drawings and were very interested, so they followed Yun Jin back together.
Qiao Mingjin glanced at the two people, thought for a while and said, "I wonder what the rules are for you two? You also know that I am just an ordinary country girl, and I don't know much about business matters."
Zhou Yanqing glanced at Qiao Mingjin and said, "You don't look like a country girl at all."
Zhou Yanqing looked at the woman in front of her. She was wearing a simple dress, and her hair was just randomly tied up on her head. She didn't even have a silver hairpin, only a wooden hairpin. Her hair was a little messy, unlike
He has seen women who use hair oil to make their hair smooth and recognizable, without a trace of hair loss.
That's it. But this woman also gives people a feeling that should not be underestimated. Every time he sees it, it gives him a different feeling. It is light, like warm water, and like the daisies in the wild. It is inconspicuous, but it makes him feel...
People can't forget.
Qiao Mingjin didn't take a close look at him. She just felt that every time she saw this man, he seemed to be strategizing and winning thousands of miles away. He seemed to have everything under control.
Shopkeeper Yu Ji was a little surprised when he saw that Zhou Yanqing didn't speak and only stared at the woman. The Zhou family had told him several kisses, but how could he have ever looked at them so closely?
He owes everything.
Although the woman in front of him was different, her conversation and knowledge were extraordinary, and she was not like an ordinary woman. But she already had a husband and a daughter. He didn't think there would be any follow-up between the two.
Shopkeeper Yu Ji’s surname was Yu, and his only name was “ding”. Seeing that Zhou Yanqing was silent, he opened his mouth and said, “We are here for the thing on the little lady’s drawing.”
Zhou Yanqing withdrew his eyes after hearing this, nodded and said: "I heard from Brother Yun that you are planning to find a blacksmith shop to cooperate. As far as I know, in Qingchuan County, Yu Ji's craftsmanship is second to none. No one dares to do it.
It ranks first in front of everyone. And since you want to sell this thing for money, you probably don’t want to sell it only in Qingchuan County, right?"
Qiao Mingjin glanced at him. He was only in his early twenties and looked very experienced. He was worthy of being the general manager of Qingchuan County of the Zhou family. He had dozens of big shops in his hands and was in charge of dozens of businesses.
He is a great shopkeeper with a naturally sophisticated eye.
After hearing this, Qiao Mingjin glanced at him and said, "Indeed, I really want to sell this thing for money. And I'm quite short of money right now. Since you two have come to our house, you must have an idea in mind.
Bar."
After hearing this, Zhou Yanqing looked at her and smiled, saying, "Of course. I just don't know whether Madam Qiao should respond or not."
Qiao Mingjin also looked at the two of them with a smile: "As you said, no one dares to call Yu Ji the second in Qingchuan County. So if I want to make it in Qingchuan County, Yu Ji will naturally be the first choice. Of course.
This is not necessarily true, I can travel to several surrounding counties."
After hearing this, the two people looked at each other, and Zhou Yanqing said: "We both came here with sincerity. Madam Qiao, ask your cousin to bring the drawings to a shop to make it, and divide it according to the piece.
Do you think that if you are in the countryside, you can clearly know how much you have made, how much you have sold, and what the price is?"
Qiao Mingjin looked at the two of them and said, "I really can't control it. That's why I want to find a sincere partner."
Zhou Yanqing smiled and said: "In business, when it comes to interests, sometimes we don't even recognize our parents. What's more, you don't send people to the store to participate in it. Your idea is not practical."
Qiao Mingjin lowered her head and thought about it. Her kind of technology-based investment in shares was common in previous lives, and it was indeed a bit unpalatable in ancient times. These days, status levels are different. Even if you sign an agreement in front of someone with a higher status than you, it is just useless.
A piece of paper.
Zhou Yanqing glanced at her. This woman had a calm look in her eyes. He could have looked at countless people, but he couldn't understand what this woman was thinking.
Zhou Yanqing then said: "Ms. Qiao, have you ever thought about selling this drawing to us? You receive a lump sum of money at one time, and whether it sells well or not in the future has nothing to do with you. As for our sale,
Wherever you go, you don't need to worry about the selling price. Even if the money you sell in the future is not as much as the money paid to you, then we will bear the loss. You have to make one and sell one.
Share, do you think the account books will be true?"
Qiao Mingjin glanced at him and secretly thought that he was indeed a profiteer.
In fact, she had thought about selling out all at once before.
It's just that she doesn't know where this thing will be sold or who will buy it. It's also hard to set a price. If the price is too low, she may regret it in the future. She can only get one if she sells one.
Money may be the most pragmatic.
But as he said, it's not very practical.
Just because it is inconvenient for her to get around in the country now, and with her status, how can she keep an eye on someone else's blacksmith shop every day? And check the account books from time to time?
And if it was sold elsewhere, she could not know how much was made elsewhere and sold, or whether they provided the drawings to be made elsewhere.
Qiao Mingjin thought for a while and then said: "You must also know the benefits of this thing. Since you have found it from the city, you must have come with sincerity. Now let me see your sincerity."
The two men looked at each other, and Zhou Yanqing said: "One thousand, five hundred taels. We buy out your drawings. From now on, where we produce and how much we produce has nothing to do with you."
Qiao Mingjin smiled: "It's five hundred taels more than the abacus. But where does Master Saturday think this thing can be used?"
Zhou Yanqing didn't know why, so he followed her words and said: "This thing is a good thing. If you build a house or build a city wall, how much manpower can be saved if you have it! How about transporting goods from the south to the north, and transporting goods from the south to the north?
Moving goods south is also beneficial to the country and the people."
Shopkeeper Yu Ji gave him a strange look.
"Then Mr. Liu thinks it's worth one thousand five hundred taels?"
Zhou Yanqing almost bit off his tongue.
If you don't say anything, this country girl shouldn't know so much, right? Just looking at her appearance, it's really hard to tell that she doesn't know.
How can anyone who can come up with such a thing not know its purpose?
Zhou Yanqing felt a little unsure.
Yu Ding glanced at Zhou Yanqing, then looked at Qiao Mingjin and said: "Although my family is not as wealthy as his, we can't come up with much money at once, but I am willing to borrow two thousand taels from others to pay Madam Qiao.
If the sales are good in the future, I will pay Mrs. Qiao a bonus at the end of the year."
What's going on? These two people are not together?
When Zhou Yanqing heard this, he became a little anxious and said, "You want to eat alone? Madam Qiao has worked with me before. You have to be on a first-come, first-served basis, right?"
Shopkeeper Yu Ji glanced at him and said, "When Mrs. Qiao was selling firewood to my house, you didn't know where you were!"
Zhou Yanqing was a little surprised. He didn't expect that she would sell firewood to Yu Ji.
He said, "Is your family still selling firewood now? If it's too hard, I'll see which village wants the fat mud and let them transport it."
A few days ago, the Zhou family stopped coming to transport fertilizer and mud.
Qiao Mingjin didn't pay much attention to it. She had to do more important things now, and the fat mud just caused her to be watched closely by the villagers.
After all, this is something that belongs to the whole village. There is no reason why you can sell it for money, but my family can only watch it dryly.
Qiao Mingjin said: "It doesn't matter. My family doesn't provide that fat anymore. I'm busy with other things now."
Zhou Yanqing was a little surprised when he heard this.
For a country girl, other than just tilling the land, pulling weeds from the ground, gathering vegetables and home-raised eggs to sell at the market in her free time, or cutting firewood to sell, what else can she do?
Women, don’t they all stay at home to support their husbands and raise children?
Qiao Mingjin looked at his look and smiled inwardly.
These days, women stay close to home. Women from wealthy families are busy dressing up and participating in various flower banquets. Women from small families are busy taking care of housework and serving their parents-in-law, husband and children at home. They really have nothing else to do.
Quite busy.
Qiao Mingjin thought for a while and asked Father He and others to take out the bamboo carvings they were making.
When shopkeeper Yu Ji came to the door, he realized that several sets of knife engraving jobs he had received some time ago were also from this family.
I thought it was really a coincidence.
As soon as the few bamboo sculptures that were still being carved were taken out, they immediately caught their attention. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendations and monthly votes. Your support is my greatest support.
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