Shen Qingqiu thought of the paintings that were popular in every dynasty in later generations, "Why not just paint figures? Paintings of ladies are also beautiful?"
Ah Xiu and Chen Mama both thought it was a bit risky. After all, silk and brocade were expensive. If they couldn't be sold, they would lose a lot. Only Liu gave her daughter face and decided to embroider a fan with a figure. This fan was much more difficult to make than a handkerchief, not to mention that the embroidery on the fan took several days.
After completing the embroidery, Liu also had the ingenuity to hang feathers on the bottom of the fan, which immediately made it look more fairy-like.
Just when everyone thought that fans like theirs would surely sell well, Jin Cai came back dejected. Liu frowned, walked over and opened her basket, and Jin Cai went out with ten fans. Now she came back with ten fans. She didn't sell any of them? ! "Madam, it's not that Jin Cai is lazy. I just told the price, and the girls who were originally looking at the fans stopped looking!" Jin Cai was also angry, "If you don't want to look, then don't look. What else do you say you might as well buy it at Yulou? How much can Yulou have? I don't think the fans we have are any better."
You know, if this fan is sold for one tael of silver, Jin Caiguang can get one penny as commission! Liu was not stupid, and she figured out the trick easily.
"Some people are willing to pay for street goods that cost only ten cents, but if the price is really high, ordinary people will definitely prefer to buy from a reliable store." It doesn't matter whether it looks good or not. If the price is high, ordinary people will naturally want to maintain the value. And the truly wealthy ladies will go directly to famous shops like Yulou, and will never look at street stalls like theirs.
I sold so much silk and embroidery thread in one go, but now I can’t sell any of it.
Even though she had figured out the crux of the matter, Liu was still a little anxious and angry. Before nightfall, a red mole appeared at the corner of her mouth. Shen Qingqiu couldn't stand it anymore and asked, "Mother, do you think our fan is good?"
Liu listened to her daughter's question and thought for a long time. She had gone to Yulou to see the fan before embroidering it, so she naturally made a comparison. "Maybe it's not the best, but it can't be sold."
Shen Qingqiu said: "That's fine, since the product is good, it's just that some people don't know that our product is good. If more people knew about it, we could sell it."
Liu smiled bitterly, it was easy for her daughter to say that. But as she was thinking about it, her eyes suddenly lit up.
Shen Qingqiu wanted to say more, but she saw Liu suddenly put her down and hurriedly ran back to her embroidery room. She didn't know what she was busy with. When she came out again, she hugged her daughter and kissed her hard, "Qiu'er, you have helped me a lot!"
Shen Qingqiu looked at her mother inexplicably: ...She wanted to hint at her and ask her to do some advertising. What was her mother thinking?
Liu was right on the mark. This girl only loved beauty. If someone held a beautiful fan and it became a street scene, people would surely imitate her. Liu was undoubtedly a beauty, and an extremely beautiful one at that.
That day, Liu hired a carriage and brought her daughter down from the downtown area.
She abandoned her usual plain clothes and wore a bright red dress. She was originally an opera singer, and she really showed her figure. Her eyebrows and eyes were full of charm. She was holding a red doll in her hand. As soon as she got off the carriage, she attracted everyone's attention. The men passing by looked at Liu's face, and the women passing by stared at the fan in Liu's hand.
The pair of slender jade hands gently turned the fan handle and the feathers gently brushed across the arms, which was a pleasure to watch.
Not to mention that Liu had sung opera in the past and had learned a lot of fan-twisting skills. When she played with the fan, she dazzled many women the moment she got off the sedan chair. Nowadays, noble ladies love to play with fans in the summer, and naturally they also like to play with fans and twirl them. They don't think their skills are inferior to Liu's, they just think that Liu's twirling is particularly beautiful, and it must be because of the fan!
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