"What good or evil can there be in selling umbrellas?"
Perhaps because there had been no business for a long time and it was rare for someone to talk to him, the old shopkeeper said a few more words: "You should be tourists coming to Fufeng Town, right? It's normal that you don't know about the Jade Umbrella Pavilion. Eight months ago, the young master was trapped in a gambling house and even mortgaged the secret recipe for making oil umbrellas. When the people in the gambling house saw that the young master could not pay the gambling money, they gave away the secret recipe. Alas..."
The old shopkeeper sighed, feeling an inexplicable melancholy in his heart.
After all the umbrella sellers knew the Qian family's secret recipe for making umbrellas, they even made better umbrellas than the Qian family's and sold them at a lower price.
The Qian family was originally a big tree that attracted the wind. They were squeezed by the umbrella merchants in Fufeng Town, and they lost their competitiveness and suffered a setback. The Qian couple was so angry with the young master that they fell ill. Now they take medicine every day to keep themselves healthy. They can't even find their son who ran away, so how can they take care of running the shop?
"People should not do things that are against their conscience, otherwise the retribution will come sooner or later." When the Qian family was powerful in the past, they suppressed too many merchants. In the end, they were suppressed by those merchants and ended up in the current situation. It is really sad and lamentable.
Having said this, the old shopkeeper refused to say anything else.
Seeing this, Baili Yanqing didn't ask any more questions. He held the umbrella and walked out of the Yusan Pavilion with Su Chenyu.
The moment she stepped out of the Yusan Pavilion, Su Chenyu suddenly turned around to look at the old shopkeeper who was still sitting behind the counter. For some reason, she always felt that the old shopkeeper knew something and that there was something behind his words.
The rain came quickly and went away quickly. When Su Chenyu and Baili Yanqing arrived at Shenfei, the rain just stopped. Baili Yanqing put away the umbrella and went into Shenfei with Su Chenyu.
As soon as you enter the door, you can feel the completely different atmosphere between Shenfei and Yusan Pavilion.
The lobby is spacious and does not seem crowded even with many guests. The environment is elegantly decorated with many embroidery works, each of which is very delicate.
Seeing Su Chenyu and Baili Yanqing come in, a waiter immediately came up to greet them: "What would you like to see, my two guests?"
"Is that all?" Su Chenyu took a glance and asked.
Seeing that Su Chenyu and Baili Yanqing's clothes and accessories were not something that ordinary people could afford, the waiter immediately understood: "They are all custom-made items. Would you like to take a look?"
Seeing Su Chenyu nod, the waiter led the two of them upstairs.
Compared with the first floor, the decoration of the second floor is obviously more luxurious, but not tacky. The second floor should be specially prepared for wealthy people.
"My elder is going to have a birthday, and I think this screen is nice. Can you make a screen suitable as a birthday gift?"
Since it was a custom-made item, there must be a sample. Su Chenyu caught her eye on a screen at first sight. This screen was embroidered using the flying needle embroidery technique, and it was obvious at first glance that it was not an ordinary item.
The clerk saw that Su Chenyu had taken a fancy to the screen and reminded her, "Young lady, you really have a keen eye, but this flying needle embroidery method is different from the ordinary embroidery method. If you want to customize a birthday screen, the price will not be less than three thousand taels."
"Price is not a problem." Su Chenyu asked, "I want the person who embroidered this screen to make a new one for me to celebrate my birthday."
Even if the embroidery method is the same, the results will be different if the embroiderer is different. The embroiderer who made this screen must be very skilled, and even the embroiderers in the palace may not be able to match her.
The clerk was a little embarrassed: "This screen was embroidered by Shopkeeper Yin himself. If you need Shopkeeper Yin to make a screen, the price will be doubled."
The clerk was thinking that even if Su Chenyu could afford it, Yin Jiuniang might not agree. After all, Yin Jiuniang was making clothes for the wives of officials, so how could ordinary merchants afford to hire Yin Jiuniang?
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