Chapter 243 Lost the Sketch
"What are you going to do? I lost the sketch, so of course I have to tell the guests of Linglong Pavilion so that everyone knows what the real jewelry looks like." Ye Mingzhu looked indifferent.
Fu Chengyun was a little confused. After thinking for a while, he glared at Ye Mingzhu: "You are really the kind of person who makes the whole town work for you."
"What are you talking about?" Ye Mingzhu thought his words were offensive. "My blueprints are lost. Shouldn't I tell my customers? What if someone uses my blueprints to make jewelry and scams people?"
Fu Chengyun pointed at her and shook his head, then laughed: "If anyone knew that what they spent a hundred taels on were jewelry maps instead of treasure maps, they would probably vomit blood."
Ye Mingzhu looked down on her and said, "What are you talking about? The jewelry I drew is not cheap when it is made into jewelry."
"You also said it was jewelry, not a drawing. If it was a finished drawing of jewelry, maybe it could be sold for a few taels of silver. But a useless drawing, tsk tsk tsk..." Fu Chengyun shook his head: "Not even worth a tael."
Fortunately, in order to make the sketches look like treasure maps, they added a few strokes on them and even made the paper a little yellow.
Ye Mingzhu didn't say anything this time. Since someone had bad intentions, he deserved to be punished.
Fu Chengyun slowly sipped the tea leaves that he found unpalatable. Ye Mingzhu ignored him and poured out half of the silver in his hand and put it into the purse he carried with him. Then he handed the purse to Ye Wu: "Fifth brother, this is yours."
Ye Wu waved his hand and refused to take it: "Mingzhu, I didn't do anything, how can you charge so much money?"
"Fifth brother, if it weren't for you, those useless maps wouldn't be worth even a penny. This is what you deserve." Ye Mingzhu stuffed the purse into Ye Wu's arms.
Ye Wu was holding the purse, dumbfounded. There were dozens of taels of silver in it. He had never earned so much money in his life.
Fu Chengyun couldn't bear to see Ye Wu's silly look, so he kicked him and said, "It's just a few dozen taels, and you look so silly."
Ye Wu chuckled and said, "Master Fu, I, I have never seen such money in my life."
Fu Chengyun couldn't bear to see his stupid look: "It's just a few dozen taels. If you buy something casually, it will be gone."
"How could that be?" Ye Wu retorted, "My uncle's shoes are worn out, but he's reluctant to buy new ones. I'll buy him a pair later. And my aunt's clothes. My cousin has never worn any jewelry..."
Ye Mingzhu heard him talking about his uncle's family and knew that his uncle's family treated him very well, so when he had money, the first thing he wanted to do was buy things for them.
Fu Chengyun listened to him muttering, and when he heard the names of Jiang Hongyu and Ye Mingzhu, he glared: "Why is there nothing of mine?"
Ye Wu was a little confused: "Master Fu, are you still missing something?"
"Of course I have enough," Fu Chengyun said, waving his fan twice. "If it weren't for me, you wouldn't be able to earn this much money. Shouldn't you give me some?"
"Sure." Ye Wu thought for a moment, took out a few ingots of silver from his purse and placed them on the table in front of Fu Chengyun: "Master Fu, if it weren't for you, we wouldn't have earned this much money. This is for you."
Fu Chengyun didn't expect Ye Wu to be willing to share the money with him. He asked, "Didn't you just say you wanted to buy a lot of things? If you give me all the money, will it be enough?"
Ye Wu nodded: "It's enough. We are just an ordinary family. We can't spend that much money on buying things."
Fu Chengyun looked at him seriously and pushed the money back: "I'm not short of money. You can keep this money. Just remember to count me in when you buy something."
Ye Wu was a little embarrassed: "What does Master Fu want?"
Fu Chengyun glared: "You know what to buy for others, but you don't know what to buy for me?"
Ye Wu really didn't know that what he bought for others were things that others didn't have and were in urgent need of. But in his opinion, Fu Chengyun had everything he needed. He looked at Ye Mingzhu as if asking for help.
Ye Mingzhu smiled and said, "Fifth brother, go to the street and see if there are any rare things. Just buy one for Master Fu. When receiving gifts, the most important thing is the mood, not the thing, right, Master Fu?"
Fu Chengyun snorted and said nothing.
Ye Mingzhu winked at Ye Wu and said, "Fifth brother, why don't you take Master Fu for a stroll on the street and buy him something he likes."
Ye Wumiao understood what Ye Mingzhu meant and looked at Fu Chengyun flatteringly: "Master Fu, how about you accompany me to the street to have a look? You are from the capital, so you must have better taste than me. Besides, if I buy something for you, you can also take a look at it first to see if you like it."
Fu Chengyun stood up slowly: "Okay then, I'll go shopping with you."
Ye Mingzhu watched Fu Chengyun and Ye Wu leave. She packed up and went to the Lin residence next door.
"Sister, I want to announce that I lost the sketch." Ye Mingzhu said to Lin Dongjia.
"Will this affect our business?" Mr. Lin was a little worried.
"A few days ago, some blueprints were lost at my house. To prevent anyone from bidding again, I threw away the rest. Unexpectedly, when I went to the shop today, I heard Sister Chunhong say that some people are selling blueprints now, and some are selling for ten taels of silver each."
Ye Mingzhu paused before saying, "I suspect I lost those drawings."
"What?" Lin Dongjia looked at Ye Mingzhu speechlessly: "How could you just throw away the sketch?"
Ye Mingzhu lowered her head, her face full of guilt. "I wasn't worried that someone would steal them again, so I just scribbled a few strokes on each sketch and threw them away."
"I thought about telling everyone first, saying that the discarded blueprints in our shop were lost, and then holding an exhibition in our shop to display the jewelry made from the new blueprints." Ye Mingzhu looked nervous: "Sister, do you think this can make up for the losses in the shop?"
Mr. Lin had been running the shop for so many years that he quickly realized that this was a good idea.
Regardless of whether the drawings people buy are scrap drawings or not, as long as they lead people in this direction, people will naturally be curious. If they launch new jewelry at the right time, people will naturally come to see it. The more people come, the more people will buy jewelry.
"Mingzhu, what's going on in your mind? How can you come up with such a good idea?" Lin Dongjia's face was full of smiles. She had a premonition that Linglong Pavilion was going to make a fortune.
Ye Mingzhu smiled lightly and shook her head: "Sister, I'm just worried that someone might use the discarded map to do something bad, so I wanted to tell everyone."
She snorted in her heart. Didn't he want her military manual? Just look at what he thought was a treasure map, but it was actually a piece of waste paper. Let's see if he will be so angry that he will vomit blood.
Mr. Lin has already started planning who to send to the shop to pass the message and which young ladies should be notified.
Ye Mingzhu looked at Lin Dongjia getting busy and said goodbye with a smile.
She is only responsible for coming up with ideas, and the specific implementation still depends on Lin Dongjia.
Mr. Lin waved his hand and told her to wait and see the show. Ye Mingzhu walked out of the Lin residence with a smile on her face. She knew that the show was about to begin.
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