Chapter 59: Winning [VIP] in One Go
After some inquiries, the three of them stopped at the entrance of the traction building.
Shen Qingshan looked at the little girl who was welcoming guests in the embroidery building. The jacket and skirt she was wearing were bright in color and novel in style. It would definitely look good on his daughter if she wore them.
"Dad, uncle, let's go in." Chen Yao pulled the folds on her jacket, raised a smile, greeted the little girl at the door, and explained her purpose.
At this moment, there was only a very elegantly dressed woman in the building, who was selecting fabrics from the rack, planning to make new clothes for her family at the end of the year.
When she saw the three people coming in, her eyes were full of unconcealable disgust, and she stretched out her slender jade fingers from her fur sleeves.
Without waiting for the woman to speak, Li Niang quickly called over another little girl to help entertain her and took the woman to a private room to choose embroidery patterns.
The three of them were taken by Li Niang to the backyard of the house.
"Please wait here for a moment, everyone. I have to go to the computer room to find Manager Lu." Li Niang poured tea for the three people and left in a hurry.
Huang Songbai and Shen Qingshan took off their backpacks and sat in the side room, feeling a little uneasy, because this room looked like a woman's boudoir, not a place to receive guests.
After drinking the tea, Chen Yao was attracted by the layout of the room. On the antique shelf were white porcelain bottles, several exquisite round fans and a few books.
Before Chen Yao could take a closer look at the patterns on the round fan, she heard footsteps outside the door.
The door was pushed open, and along with Shopkeeper Lu came the fragrance of the wintersweets blooming in the yard.
It was getting dark, and in order to identify the quality of the raw silk, Manager Lu lit the oil lamp as soon as he entered the house.
Chen Yao took out the raw silk from the backpack and placed it in front of her one strand at a time.
The silk threads are of different thicknesses, each one shining in the firelight and feeling very soft to the touch.
Shopkeeper Lu's fair cheeks gradually puffed up as he was satisfied with the quality of this batch of raw silk. "Who introduced you here?"
After putting down the raw silk, Shopkeeper Lu poured hot tea for the three people. With his sharp eyes, he immediately saw that the person he wanted to discuss business with was the young lady sitting in the middle.
"It was Aunt Qin from Qingfeng Town who introduced me."
Upon hearing this, Shopkeeper Lu smiled and said, "So you were introduced by the mother of envoy Liu. Do you make your own raw silk? Do you raise silkworms at home?"
Chen Yao nodded: "We have a silkworm room and a large mulberry forest. This batch of goods is just for you to review. If you are satisfied, we can discuss cooperation."
"You are quite straightforward, young lady. I, Lv Xiufang, am also a straightforward person. I want all this batch of goods. If you can still guarantee the same quality and feel when delivering next year, I will buy it from you at 65 wen per ounce of raw silk. But I want this kind."
Chen Yao looked over and saw that what she wanted was raw silk made from fourteen cocoons.
Just as Lu Xiufang finished speaking and had not yet had time to drink a sip of hot water, a woman came and knocked on the door, asking her to go to the computer room to take a look.
"Please sit down for a moment, the three of you. There might be something wrong with the loom in the machine room. I'll go take a look."
As soon as she left, Huang Songbai immediately stood up and walked towards the door. He gently opened the door a crack, made sure that there was no one outside, and then sat back down.
"Ayao, what do you think of this price?" Huang Songbai felt that although Manager Lu was a woman, she was very decisive when doing business.
A piece of inferior white silk on the market would cost at least two taels of silver. Although he didn't know how many taels of raw silk were used to make a piece of silk, he was sure that the traction building would make a profit.
I haven't heard that they have a machine room? I don't know how many looms are in that machine room.
Chen Yao glanced at the raw silk they had brought and asked her father, "Dad, how heavy do you think this is?"
Without saying a word, Shen Qingshan counted the raw silk in the basket, picked it up and weighed it, and then told his daughter that what they brought was estimated to weigh about 30 kilograms.
Chen Yao quickly calculated in her mind: one tael of raw silk cost sixty-five wen, one catty was six hundred and fifty wen, and thirty catties was nearly twenty taels of silver.
"Dad, uncle, if we cooperate as she said, this batch of raw silk can be sold for twenty taels of silver."
Huang Songbai sucked in a breath of cold air, staring at the raw silk on the table with his eyes wide open, and then a surge of nameless anger surged up in him.
"Ayao, those big families are worse than pigs and dogs. Wanhe Township has become a deserted village because of their oppression. Those slaves who died in the quarry were killed by these beasts."
Even though he was cursing under his breath, Huang Songbai's heart was still filled with deep hatred. Those officials were supposed to be the parents of poor people like them, not executioners.
Huang Songbai's sad face was hidden by his rough hands. Because his fingers were bent and could not be straightened and closed, tears fell from between his fingers, and the father and daughter, who were so burned, also shed silent tears.
I couldn't bring myself to say any words of comfort.
When Lu Xiufang pushed the door open from outside, she found that the three people seemed to have been crying. She was confused and wondered if they had encountered some difficulties at home.
ah.
Just when Lu Xiufang proposed the price, she didn't expect Chen Yao to make the final decision.
The price is one tael and sixty-five wen.
Lv Xiufang calls
Li Niang weighed it on the side and it was a full 32 catties, which was equivalent to 20 taels and 800 coins of silver.
Lu Xiufang directly asked Li Niang and the accountant to take out twenty-one taels and hand them over to Shen Yao.
The two of them drafted a contract, which would last from the beginning of June to the end of December next year, and would require the delivery of 2,400 kilograms of raw silk to the embroidery building at the end of each month.
When Lv Xiufang mentioned this amount, she did not write it down. Instead, she looked up at the three people and asked, "Can you pay it as promised?"
She is a businesswoman. If she fails to deliver the goods on time after signing the contract, she will have to pay compensation no matter who introduced her.
Chen Yao tugged at her cotton trousers under the table, leaning forward slightly: "I'd like to ask Shopkeeper Lu, how many kilograms of raw silk does a piece of satin in your building require?"
Lu Xiufang put down her pen and ink and felt even more satisfied with Shen Yao. If Shen Yao agreed immediately, she would feel that it was inappropriate to sign the deal.
So she told Chen Yao that one piece of silk in her building would require 120 kilograms of raw silk to weave, and then she picked up the piece of raw silk on the table and weighed it.
"This strand of yours must weigh more than a pound. A bolt of silk is made up of a hundred strands of this raw silk. So, you have to send me two thousand strands every month."
Sweat gradually formed on Chen Yao's palms. After wiping them on her trouser legs, she quickly stood up and walked around the table towards Lu Xiufang.
"Manager Lu, on behalf of the people from all the villages under the jurisdiction of Qingfeng Town, I would like to thank you for giving us this opportunity. Don't worry, we will definitely deliver the goods to you as promised with guaranteed quality and quantity." Chen Yao's red eyes were filled with moisture, and she held Lu Xiufang's hands tightly with both hands.
Lu Xiufang felt the wet palms covered with calluses, and then saw the other two big men following behind Shen Yao and thanking her repeatedly.
It made her feel a little embarrassed.
"Then I will draft this contract according to what we agreed on. Take a look at it. If there is no problem, we will put our fingerprints on it."
Chen Yao looked through it carefully, and after confirming that there was no problem, she signed her name and pressed her fingerprint.
The deed was made in duplicate, and each of them kept it safely.
"Shopkeeper Lu, I have one more thing I'd like to trouble you with. Please take a look at the embroidery pattern on this handkerchief. If you think it's suitable, I wonder if you have any embroidery that I can take home to make."
Chen Yao handed over the handkerchief embroidered by Yang Wenying.
Lu Xiufang didn't care about the material of the handkerchief. Instead, she looked carefully at the needlework on it in the light. The picture of mandarin ducks playing in the water was embroidered vividly, with each feather of the wings clearly visible, and not at all rigid.
"Is this embroidered by Madam Shen?"
"No, it was embroidered by my sister-in-law at home. She wanted to take on some needlework."
Lu Xiufang returned the handkerchief to Chen Yao, and then called Li Niang to fetch the Hundred Longevity Picture. "This Hundred Longevity Picture requires a hundred ways to write the word 'longevity'. Does your sister-in-law know how to write it?"
"She can." Chen Yao said firmly. Even if she can't, Yang Jizong will definitely do it.
Lu Xiufang handed the embroidery to Chen Yao, "This Hundred Years of Longevity picture must be made with gold thread. Normally, it should be handed over to the embroiderer in our building, but there are many complicated things to do at the end of the year, so I'm handing it over to your sister-in-law. I hope she won't let me down."
"Don't worry, what about the delivery time and wages?"
"It must be delivered the day before the Lantern Festival. She has thirty-three days to complete the embroidery. As for the wages, it is two taels of silver."
After hearing what she said, Chen Yao finally felt relieved to take over the embroidery work for Yang Wenying, and carefully put the package handed to her by Li Niang into the backpack.
The cooperation was completed, and Lu Xiufang, as the host, let the three people rest in the city for one night before leaving.
Chen Yao looked back at her father, and Shen Qingshan immediately agreed for her, "We do need to reorganize, so please find us an inn in the city."
After Li Niang led the three people to the inn, she had a conversation with the innkeeper and paid the money.
Seeing Chen Yao coming over to decline, she hurriedly explained that this was their usual practice in the embroidery building, and that the innkeeper and Manager Lu were husband and wife, so she told them to stay without worry.
After Li Niang left, Shen Qingshan went to the city gate to bring back the coachman and booked a guest room for him.
After the matter was settled, the four of them had dinner in the inn and then went back to their rooms to rest.
Chen Yao lay in the warm and soft quilt and fell asleep as soon as she touched the pillow.
Shen Qingshan and Huang Songbai, who lived next door and had a huge sum of money of twenty-one taels, took turns keeping watch, fearing that someone would break into their house in the middle of the night.
As soon as the sun rises.
Shen Qingshan couldn't wait to knock on his daughter's door and asked her to wash up quickly, go downstairs to have breakfast and get ready to leave.
Chen Yao was still holding a bowl of porridge when she saw that her father and uncle had already taken dry food for the journey from the shopkeeper - twenty meat buns, and filled several water bags.
When everything was ready, both of them looked at her.
Chen Yao quickly finished the last mouthful of porridge, wiped her mouth, picked up the backpack and followed the two elders.
Accompanied by the driver's scolding, the mule carried them out of Baihe Town and headed home.
Under the guidance of the father and daughter, the mule cart went off the road twice, but fortunately returned to the right path.
The father and daughter, who had quarreled over directions during the day, became loving and filial at night.
After eating meat buns for three days and her tailbone was almost broken, Chen Yao finally saw the city wall of Qingfeng Town.
"Dad, uncle, we are home!" Chen Yao was so happy that she couldn't help but raise her hands and wave her arms to cheer at the guards.
The mule cart slowly drove towards the city wall. When Chen Yao saw who the officer was, she couldn't keep the meat buns in her stomach and vomited them all at the foot of the city wall.
The officer Wang who was checking the pass looked at Chen Yao with disappointment on his face: "Are you pregnant?"
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