Chapter 47: Pu Xin Nan
The shopkeeper was full of admiration: "Great calligraphy and great poetry! How much do you plan to sell this, Miss Mo?"
Li Wanyue said frankly: "I don't know much about this business, please give me a price based on the quality of this ink."
The shopkeeper was silent, thinking about the price. Xie Yan said, "Shopkeeper, this ink is better than the worst ink in your shop. What do you think?"
The shopkeeper looked at him and nodded, "That's right. How about I give you three hundred coins a piece?"
Now it was Li Wanyue's turn to be surprised. The man's offer was much higher than she expected.
Firstly, she is not a professional ink maker, and this ink is just average at best. If it weren't for the fact that there are so many poor people in this small county town and it is not easy to go to school, people would not care about the quality of the ink, as long as it can be used to practice calligraphy. If it were a wealthy family, her ink would probably not be accepted by others.
Secondly, the store also needs to make money, and she expected that two hundred wen would be high enough, but she didn't expect to be offered such a high price.
Thinking about the money she could earn from twenty-six yuan, she smiled with her eyes curved.
"Thank you very much, boss. I have twenty-six ink sticks here."
Xie Yan, who was standing aside, looked at her with his eyes smiling into crescents, not hiding his joy of making money. He was bright and generous, not pretentious, and unconsciously raised the corners of his lips slightly.
"If you have more ink sticks in the future, feel free to send them to me. I will still charge you the same price." The shopkeeper said, and then looked at the clerk: "Let someone inspect the goods."
"Yes." The clerk responded, took the basket and went to the side to check the goods.
Li Wanyue looked at the shopkeeper.
Seeing that she had something to say, the shopkeeper asked directly, "Miss, do you have anything else to say?"
Li Wanyue smiled and nodded: "The last time I came here, I saw that the goods in your store were not marked with prices. I had to ask the shop assistants for the price of each item. In fact, many scholars are not rich and are shy, so they are embarrassed to ask the price one by one.
What I mean is that if there is a small label in front of each item with the name and price of the item, people visiting the bookstore will not need to ask the store owner about the price. They will also know whether they can afford the price of the things they want to buy.
In addition, the layout of the first floor of the store is not arranged by category, but divided into three areas: high, medium and low. Although this is convenient for the purchasing habits of rich and poor people, it also makes some people not want to come in.
Most of the people who come in are scholars. Most of the scholars are aloof. Even in the academies in the county, there are some people whose families are not well off. When they come into the store, if they can only choose items in the low-priced area, most of them feel uncomfortable and are afraid of feeling uncomfortable when meeting rich classmates. It would be better to arrange the items by category, which may have a different effect.
Of course, this is just a small suggestion from me, please don't blame me for being nosy."
She didn't want to meddle in other people's business, but the price the shopkeeper gave her was very high. Based on her observations during her two visits to the store, it was such a large bookstore, but there were not many people in the store. This could not be because the students of the academy had not finished their classes at this time.
She made some suggestions, but whether the shopkeeper was willing to change was up to him.
At this time, the waiter had inspected the goods and came over to report.
The shopkeeper quickly wrote the receipt and took out some silver: "Thank you for your suggestion, young lady. Please sign the receipt."
Li Wanyue signed and took the seven taels of silver and eight hundred copper coins.
"Thank you. We'll take our leave first." After saying that, Li Wanyue and Li Sandong turned around and left.
It was not until Li Wanyue's figure disappeared that Xie Yan withdrew his gaze, picked up the pen and started writing on the paper.
The shopkeeper was full of admiration: "This girl is really smart, why didn't I think of it? Her idea is very good, we must tell the boss immediately and have someone prepare it."
Then he looked at Xie Yan and whispered, "Master Xie, if our young master comes back, you must say a few words for me. The lowest quality ink in our store is not even priced this high."
I don't know what this young master is thinking? Their store already has a fixed supply channel. When the clerk told him that someone was selling ink, he just wanted to take a look. If the quality of the ink is acceptable, he can lower the price and buy it, and have someone take it to the academy in the town to sell.
Unexpectedly, when he was about to offer a price, this man said this. Isn't it obvious that he wanted to help the girl?
Although there is some profit if you buy at this price, it’s not much.
However, considering the practical advice given by this girl, it was still a good deal.
He is confident that if they make some changes to their store, it will definitely attract customers.
Xie Yan responded: "When he arrives, I'll talk to him."
The shopkeeper heaved a sigh of relief and immediately went downstairs to arrange the price tags.
Li Wanyue came downstairs, picked up two handwritten copies of "Three Character Classic" and "Thousand Character Classic", six cheap brushes, a stack of straw paper, and paid one tael, five hundred and eighty coins.
Li Sandong had seen how he could earn a hundred taels of silver once before, so he remained calm this time.
But when I think about how these few pieces of ink were sold for more than seven taels of silver, I still feel that studying is too expensive.
"Sister, with just this little bit of pine soot and deer glue, I can actually earn seven taels of silver." Li Sandong was a little excited.
Recently, following his sister, he realized that there are various ways to make money.
"After deducting the cost, the materials cost nearly two taels of silver, and with the labor, I only made five taels of silver."
"Do we need to take manpower into account? We're just staying at home anyway, and other than the materials you bought, the rest is barely even a cost."
"As long as you put in the effort, it's a cost. We only used a small part of the deer glue we boiled last time, so there's still a lot left. Let's buy some more ingredients and make some ink sticks."
Li Sandong nodded excitedly. If he could make another twenty or thirty pieces, he could earn some money.
Li Wanyue said: "Now that the family debt has been paid off, parents don't have to worry anymore. When the time comes, let mother leave some money for you and your elder and second brothers."
Li Sandong shook his head: "No need to give me any money. Give all the money you earn to mom. I don't have much use for money."
"If you have money in your pocket, you won't panic when you encounter problems."
"Okay, I'll listen to you, sister." Li Sandong smiled innocently.
"Let's go buy some rice and noodles, and some food for the kids."
"good."
As they were talking, they saw two figures walking towards them. Their eyes met and their faces suddenly darkened.
"Bad luck." Li Wanyue spat out two words and was about to leave with Li Sandong.
When Gao Zhiyuan saw her, he thought of the last time she looked at him with disdain.
Oh, even though she said she disliked him, she still came to find him eagerly, and even followed him all the way to the county town.
If you want to get his attention by playing hard to get, there should be a limit.
He stepped forward and said unhappily, "Li Wanyue, why do you have to follow me wherever I go? You're just haunting me. Can you please stop playing hard to get? I won't fall for it."
Pu Xin's appearance made Li Wanyue laugh.
"I really envy you for having such an impenetrable face. You have an ordinary appearance but a confident heart." Li Wanyue glanced at the woman beside him and said, "You can accompany people to the jewelry store now. I guess you have money. Then you should pay me back the money you owe me."
Gao Zhiyuan choked. This man actually dared to mock him for being shameless.
He said in a cold voice: "Don't think I don't know what you are thinking. You asked someone to find out my whereabouts and came to bother me. I tell you, don't dream. Look at yourself like this. Don't show up in front of me again."
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