Back at the Chen family's stall, Su Liniang and Su Shuangshuang had almost finished packing up.
"Husband, is someone deliberately causing trouble?"
"Hmm, don't worry, I think I'll figure out who it is in the next few days."
"Let's put business matters on hold for the next few days."
...
Young Master Gu had someone take a closer look at the number of people entering the store that he hadn't been paying attention to for the past few days.
He nodded with considerable satisfaction.
Then he secretly went to the brokerage firm, hired a few employees, and made careful arrangements.
They moved extremely quickly, found a new location, and in no time had moved all the hundreds of bolts of silk and satin from the fabric store to the new shop.
Above the entrance are several large characters: Gu Family Cloth Shop, with a red silk ribbon tied to the plaque.
The newly hired employees looked apprehensive.
Standing at the door, soliciting business.
A crowd of onlookers gathered on the street.
"Gu Family Fabric Shop, is it newly opened?"
"Let's go in and take a look."
The men who had been guarding the cloth shop saw that the Second Young Master Gu had actually set up the shop and quickly called out, "Brothers, let's go, change into some clothes, and let's go see what's going on."
Soon, the small fabric shop was surrounded.
Those who had just entered also had an arrogant look on their faces, as if they were the ones who discovered it first.
Dressed in fine clothes, Young Master Gu introduced with a smile: "Our shop has just opened. The Qianyun yarn and Huanhua brocade, which were originally worth one tael and two mace, can now be bought for only one tael of silver."
Those people were stunned.
Some people were slightly puzzled: "Isn't it too expensive? Where did the Gu family move from? And there are too few kinds of fabrics, only two kinds. Wang's Fabric Shop and Dachuan Fabric Shop have been on the street for decades and have a great reputation!"
It only costs one tael and one mace per bolt, and that's just the most expensive cloth.
Cheap ones are also available.
Let's go!
Young Master Gu was slightly taken aback and felt a little flustered.
"Please don't worry, everyone. The rest of the fabrics from the Gu family are still on their way. Currently, these two types of fabrics are the best quality from the Gu family."
Affordable fabrics, and others.
He had considered lowering the price of silk yarn, but when selling something, if you start by selling it cheaply, it becomes very difficult to raise the price later.
A man in fine clothes stood in the crowd and called out, "Shopkeeper, give me a bolt of Qianyun silk. I'm your first customer, don't you know I'm entitled to a discount?"
Young Master Gu was slightly pleased.
I looked at the person who had been arranged in advance and nodded slightly, only to see that the other person looked completely bewildered.
"Boss, does this guy not trust us and has found someone else?"
The man, hidden in the crowd, looked sullen!
"Damn it! Someone's stealing our business!"
"Watch out for him later, he's so unruly. If you want to work in our line of work, you should at least pay your respects to the local authorities. Why is he just blindly starting things without saying anything?"
They really don't respect us brothers at all!
Young Master Gu smiled, narrowing his eyes. "Alright, nine hundred coins."
As he spoke, he used scissors to leave an extra length, about the size of a palm, and then cut a small opening in it.
Pull hard with both hands.
Sizzle!
The cloth is torn!
The onlookers chuckled slightly.
"Shopkeeper, your shills are so unprofessional!"
Young Master Gu was slightly taken aback.
The man in brocade robes retorted, "Bullshit! I've seen this silk in other cloth shops, and it even had a bullshit name: Wan Yun Silk."
A bolt of silver costs one tael and two mace, which is much more expensive than here.
Yes, I'm rich, but nobody's going to take advantage of me!
There are many people in the crowd who frequent the area but don't buy anything.
"I think I've seen it at the Wang Family Cloth Shop before, I vaguely remember it!"
The men around the man in brocade also shouted loudly, "Shopkeeper, give me a bolt of Huanhua brocade, I want a discount too!"
Young Master Gu nodded with a smile.
Subsequently, the people in the shop were infected by those people.
People who originally didn't want to buy it started spending generously after seeing many others doing so.
Young Master Gu's lips curled up.
The person the dental clinic arranged was indeed reliable and very professional.
Afterwards, they sent the person away.
The bearded man, seeing no one around, quietly entered from outside, looking as if he had been betrayed.
"Manager Gu, are you worried about whether our brothers can handle things?"
Young Master Gu paused slightly as he fiddled with the abacus.
"What do you mean, Brother Wu?"
The two looked at each other and saw the bewildered look on each other's faces.
After seeing the man off, Young Master Gu pondered for a moment: Could it be that the man really liked the Gu family's cloth?
A secret joy suddenly welled up inside me.
I always said that Gujia's fabrics are extraordinary.
My father is still guarding that small plot of land in Daxing Town and Lushang County, which is meaningless.
Outside the door, the bearded man gritted his teeth and said, "Something's fishy about this. Either they really like Gu's cloth, or they're deliberately trying to sabotage our business, or they're targeting the Gu family?"
His gaze was deep as he looked at the Gu family's plaque, its freshly painted surface gleaming.
"Boss, should we notify the Gu family?"
"No, that kid from the Gu family has been blinded by greed. Didn't you see him just now when he was talking to me, fiddling with the abacus beads?"
Continuing to persuade will only annoy people.
Besides, the more fabric shops that close down each month, the more new ones can open, don't you think?
The boy watching nodded repeatedly.
"Brother, brilliant, absolutely brilliant! So, the employer's enemy is actually our friend! Brilliant!"
Young Master Gu checked the ledgers and had someone record the number of people who entered.
We obtained some data: 36 people entered the store, and 19 of them bought a piece of cloth.
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