Chapter 369 Business is bad?
Not many people went upstairs. After Shi Tingyu took Gao Feng and others upstairs, he poured tea for them.
Gao Feng thanked him and then looked at the paintings one by one.
What he wanted was a landscape painting, so that he could do things with a backer. Moreover, the painting could not be too small. If there was no suitable one here, he would have to ask Shi Tingyu to paint it.
Fortunately, landscape painting was Shi Tingyu's specialty, and she had a lot of them in her reserve. In the end, Gao Feng picked a painting of red leaves on Fengshan Mountain.
"This is good, it shows good luck, and the size is suitable."
The size of Shi Tingyu's painting of red leaves on Fengshan Mountain is not as big as the one sold to Baiyun Hotel, but it is much larger than the average painting.
At Shi Tingyu's current price, it would be no problem to sell it for eight thousand.
Shi Tingyu said, "This painting costs 8,000 yuan, but Mr. Gao is also my old customer, and this is the first business after the opening, so I will give you a 10% discount."
The price of a painting dropped from 8,000 yuan to 7,200 yuan. Although Lu's mother felt distressed, she didn't say much.
In business, she still listened to her daughter-in-law, who had a plan in mind.
Gao Feng smiled and said, "Thank you, Teacher Shi."
Although he didn't need the 800 yuan, he was happy in his heart.
The next step was to sign the contract and pay the money.
When signing the painting purchase contract, Tingyu made some oil prints and placed them in the gallery, so that when someone came to buy the painting later, they could take it out directly.
Lu Weiguo helped to put a sold label next to the painting to prevent people from coming to buy it later.
Gao Feng is a straightforward person. After the contract was signed, he asked his assistant to go to the post office to handle the transfer.
An hour later, the assistant came back and took out the transfer certificate from the post office.
"Mr. Gao, when are you going to pick up this painting?" Shi Tingyu asked.
Gao Feng thought for a moment and said, "In the afternoon. I happen to have a car from the factory passing by this afternoon."
So far, the first order of the Space-Time Gallery was completed.
Then another person came upstairs and bought a meticulous flower and bird painting by Professor Qi for 3,000 yuan.
Professor Qi's painting was not big, and he didn't manage his fame very much, so the price was not too high.
This time, the other party bought the painting and took it away directly. The painting was not big, so he could just take it and go.
Selling two paintings in the morning was already a surprise to Shi Tingyu.
Not everyone can afford to spend thousands of yuan these days.
Those who bought Professor Qi's paintings were obviously wealthy, but there were not many such people.
The crowd gradually dispersed until lunchtime.
Shi Tingyu took her family to a state-owned hotel for a meal.
She originally wanted to invite the people who came to celebrate to dinner, but no one agreed.
There were too many of them, and a meal would cost a lot of money, and none of them were willing to spend so much money on each other.
The family did not go back home in the afternoon, but stayed in the store directly.
While there was no one in the store, Shi Tingyu took out the camera and took a few photos of the family members.
The photo she took of Lu Weiguo was his profile. He was standing in front of a painting, with a focused expression. He no longer looked so imposing from the front, but his profile had more bone beauty. Shi Tingyu quickly and accurately pressed the shutter.
Then the family took a group photo.
Lu's mother suggested that Shi Tingyu and his family of three take a photo, and she helped take the photo. Shi
Tingyu taught Lu's mother how to operate the camera, and Lu's mother seemed very interested.
Although she was quite old, her heart that welcomed new things was not old at all.
After taking the photos for Shi Tingyu and his family, Lu's mother seemed to be not satisfied yet.
In her heart, she was silently planning when to go back and have a good chat with the old man. She was also someone who had taken photos for others with a camera.
In the afternoon, several more people came to look at the paintings, but not many bought anything. Only a few spent 100 yuan to buy two student works on the first floor.
Shi Tingyu watched Shi Wenxue introduce the paintings.
After the customers left, Shi Tingyu pointed out a few of her shortcomings.
Shi Wenxue is a very motivated person. She secretly took note of what Shi Tingyu said and tried to do better next time.
When Qian Xiaohua collected the money, he had to look at the big reunion several times, always afraid of receiving a fake. Fortunately, the business was not busy and the time was not tight.
Shi Tingyu did not say much, this kind of thing will be fine after getting familiar with it.
Shi Tingyu and his family waited until half past five to get off work before leaving.
The six security guards rented a house together. The attic above was for the night shift workers. The six people were divided into three groups and took turns to work the night shift. The other four people cooked dinner and sent it to the two people on the night shift.
Everyone was well arranged.
After returning home in the evening, Shi Tingyu was in the room with a notebook to make a summary.
She found that the student works with relatively low prices sold more.
But she couldn't relax the recommendation of high-priced works. The sale of one high-priced work could make up for dozens of low-priced works.
Later on, more and more people were doing business and more and more wealthy people, and the business in the store would get better and better.
She could also hold an art exhibition on the anniversary of the store opening. The ticket money was one part, and if the paintings could be sold, it would be another part of the income.
She calculated today's income. Her paintings sold for 7,200 yuan, Professor Qi's paintings were 300 yuan, and the three student paintings were 15 yuan, a total of 7,515 yuan.
However, 90% of the price of her paintings cannot be counted in the gallery's income. In the end, she personally received 6,480 yuan and the gallery received 720 yuan.
So in the end, the gallery's income was 1,035 yuan.
When Lu's mother heard this amount, she was stunned. This month, it must be more than 30,000 yuan.
Oh my goodness, Xiao Xiao almost couldn't bear it.
Shi Tingyu said: "The final monthly income depends on the specific situation in the future."
Shi Tingyu couldn't say whether it would rise or fall in the future.
After all, the newspaper has not been published yet.
The next day, "Jinling Daily" published the news about the opening of Shi Tingyu's Space-Time Gallery.
Shi Tingyu paid for the advertisements in the newspapers, which lasted for a week.
Newspapers were very popular in this era, so the publicity was quite effective.
In the next two days, the paintings on the second floor sold well.
Two or three paintings were sold every day.
Don't underestimate these two or three paintings. The paintings on the second floor are priced at more than two thousand due to their size, content and effort. The daily income of the second floor has stabilized at around eight hundred. It was not
until a week later that the gallery began to enter a silent period.
Shi Tingyu also breathed a sigh of relief. She didn't want to sell her paintings anymore if people bought them.
Too many paintings were flowing into the market, which was not good for her.
She was also planning to hold an art exhibition on April 18th next year. If all the paintings were bought, how many paintings would she have to paint this year to catch up?
Shi Wenxue, Qian Xiaohua and the six security guards were all worried when they saw that the business these two days was not as good as the previous two days.
Finally, Shi Wenxue told Shi Tingyu about this when he came to the gallery on his day off.
They had nothing to do in the gallery every day and felt guilty about the money they took.
Shi Tingyu simply held the first meeting for the employees in the gallery since it opened.
The theme of the meeting was how to calm down in the relaxed work.
He Dalin, the leader of the six-member security team, raised his hand and said, "Sister-in-law, you have to support so many of us. What will happen if the business doesn't open? If you have any ideas, just tell us and we will definitely help you."
Shi Wenxue also said, "Yes, boss, you see I'm idle every day, and I'm a little panicked."
Shi Tingyu pressed his hand, then pointed to the display wall and said, "Look at our display wall. If we continue to sell, our gallery will really have nothing to sell and close down."
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