Chapter 153 Luxury goods routine
If Hong's cousin comes, then Hong will be able to ride on their necks by relying on her numbers.
When the others heard that Hong was going to introduce her cousin, they did not hesitate and said they would introduce their own family members.
Hui Niang smiled and said, "You can bring anyone you think is suitable to try. If the work is good, I will keep the person." Before leaving,
Hui Niang left Hong alone: "You said your cousin used to be an embroiderer?"
Hong nodded: "Her embroidery is indeed good, but she accidentally broke her hand when she got up at night some time ago, so she lost her job."
Hui Niang pondered for a while and said, "If that's the case, it's a waste of talent for me. Why don't we let her try to be an embroiderer."
"Embroiderer?" Hong's expression was a little confused.
Isn't the Gan family's job just to sew cloth bags?
Do they have to embroider now?
Hui Niang nodded.
"Here's what I think. Other shops sell sleeping pants at ten taels a pack, and they are so popular. It shows that there are still many wealthy families in Shangjing."
"So I want to launch a batch of more expensive sanitary napkins, fifty taels of silver a pack."
"Fifty taels of silver?"
Hong unconsciously tightened her chin when she heard the price. She pursed her lips and said carefully: "Madam Yu, are you sure it can be sold for fifty taels?"
This is fifty taels of silver.
Fifty taels!
How can anyone spend so much money to buy a pack of sleeping pants?
Hui Niang smiled: "Of course I'm uncertain, I just want to give it a try."
She didn't plan to hire a lot of embroiderers, she just wanted to find one person to test the waters.
She also got inspiration from her husband.
Since her husband can make a lot of money by just changing a seat cover, her sanitary napkins should be able to do the same.
She made some beautiful cloth bags, and only made ten of the same style, not one more.
People are lining up to grab a bicycle worth one hundred taels of silver, so her sanitary napkins worth fifty taels can naturally be sold.
The king is not short of rich people, it just depends on whether she has the ability to take money out of other people's pockets.
[I think this idea is good, it has the idea of selling luxury goods in modern times.]
Gan Tian is very optimistic about her mother.
Hong's cousin Li Niang, as Hong said, was generally very good at embroidery. She perfectly embroidered the several embroidery patterns that Hui Niang carefully designed.
Not only was her embroidery good, but she was also very fast.
After sewing the drawstring, a very beautiful cloth bag was made.
Gan Tian was surprised: [Isn't this the ancient version of Chanel's garbage bag! ]
[It's just that Chanel's bag is pure leather, with more metal elements, and there is no such beautiful embroidery. ]
Hui Niang examined the cloth bag and it was indeed very beautiful. If it was replaced with leather, it would seem to be good too.
However, good things naturally cannot be taken out all at once, but have to be taken out bit by bit.
She had a plan in mind and kept Li Niang.
"Embroidering is much more difficult than sewing cloth bags. How about this, I will give you one or two taels of silver for each embroidery you finish."
When Li Niang heard one or two taels of silver, she waved her hands hurriedly: "Too much, too much."
Hui Niang smiled and said, "Not much. I give you these on conditions."
"First, all the embroidery patterns I give you cannot leak to others, even if you embroider them for your own use!"
"Second, if one day you don't want to work for me, you can't be an embroiderer for ten years, even if I take you as an apprentice."
"If the above two points are violated, you will have to compensate me with ten thousand taels of gold."
These two points were not difficult to deal with, and Li Niang agreed immediately.
"That's fine."
"Today's embroidery pattern is just for you to try your hand, it can't be counted in the finished product, but I can't let you work for nothing."
Hui Niang gave Li Niang some copper money according to the price of ordinary embroidery in the market.
Li Niang took the money and pinched herself hard.
After leaving Huiyan Pavilion, Li Niang hurriedly grabbed Hong's sleeve: "Sister, do you keep your word as the shopkeeper?"
"Can you really give me one or two taels of silver for an embroidery?"
Seeing her cousin's uneasy look, Hong seemed to see herself in the past.
"Don't worry, Madam Yu always keeps her word. She will definitely give what she says she will give."
Hong held her cousin's hand and said as they walked, "Madam Yu is a very good person. She pays us daily wages very quickly and gives us a lot of preferential treatment."
"For example, if you have your period, you can take a leave and you don't have to work but you still get paid. You can also get free sanitary napkins from her every month..."
Li Niang felt a little uneasy after listening to Hong's words. There must be no shortage of such a good shopkeeper. If it weren't for her cousin, she would definitely not be able to be an embroiderer here.
She had to do a good job and must not be rejected by Madam Yu.
"Isn't your brother-in-law suffering from tuberculosis? Or did Madam Yu introduce a doctor to treat your brother-in-law?"
"Your brother-in-law is much better now. I heard from Doctor Su that your brother-in-law will be fully recovered in half a year at most."
Hong was still enumerating Hui Niang's good points. After talking about it, she finally summed it up with one sentence.
"If such a large salary and such good treatment are spread out, anyone who is not stupid will come. Madam Yu is not short of people, so don't think that Madam Yu is a woman who is easy to bully and fool her. You have to do your job well."
Li Niang heard these words from Hong several times, and her ears were irritated, but she did not show any impatience, but listened quietly.
"Don't worry, sister, Li Niang knows."
"Li Niang will definitely do a good job."
Such a good job, such a high salary, if she doesn't do it well, she will be like a fool.
"By the way, if someone asks you about your salary, don't tell them, just say it's the same as everyone else."
"Don't make trouble."
If such a good job were to be spread out, there would inevitably be some jealous people who would cause trouble. If Ni Shi knew about it, she would probably be the first to make trouble.
"Especially that Ni Shi, she is not someone you can get along with. If you meet her, stay away from her. If you really can't avoid her, just pretend to be dumb and don't get to know her too much."
Hong Shi gave a few worried instructions, and when she saw her husband standing under the tree to pick her up, she smiled.
"It's so cold today, why did you come out instead of staying at home?"
Hong Yanfeng, wearing a crescent-white robe and holding a bag of hot cakes in his hand, smiled and handed the cakes over.
"Didn't Doctor Su say that I'm much better now and need to walk around more? I was bored staying at home so I came to pick you up."
After selection, Hui Niang kept ten people to work, and only one of them was a relative of Mrs. Hong.
Mrs. Ni had the most relatives, ten of whom came, but Hui Niang only kept three.
The other women only brought two relatives.
After Hui Niang tried their work briefly, she kept them.