Spring scenery in the fields

Chapter 163 Buying Zongzi

"I started selling it after people bribed me with money and leaked the design. Then people started selling it in their shops."

"I have to suspect that the style was leaked by them. I dare not tell them the new style now."

"Miss Ji, please think of a solution for me. I have been thinking about it for several days but can't think of a good solution."

Ji Wenhe asked, "There should be an embroiderer in the shop that I'm friendly with, right?"

Yang Yun nodded: "Yes, there is, but the money offered by the other party is too much. No matter how good their relationship with me is, who can keep silent when a silver ingot is placed in front of them?"

"That's a problem, it's a bit difficult to deal with."

And there’s no point in signing a confidentiality agreement. There are so many people, no evidence, and no one admits it. What can you do to them?

Ji Wenhe frowned and thought, and suddenly an idea came to him.

"Boss Yang, do you know Shen Wanqing? She can embroider. People in the village say she is an expert at embroidery."

Yang Yun thought for a moment and said, "I've never heard of his name. If he comes to my house to pick up the goods and sees him, maybe I'll recognize him."

"She has two younger sisters, three sisters."

After hearing what she said, I suddenly remembered: "Isn't her name Li Chunhong? Her husband often beats and scolds them."

"Yes, yes, yes." Ji Wenhe looked at her in confusion, "But how did you know? How did the news of our village spread to the town?"

Yang Yun smiled and said, "I heard that from them, because every time she worked for me, she would take a lot of money back home."

"I asked the people I was traveling with about this. Embroidery is hard work. With so much money, you have to embroider day and night when you get home. That's when I heard them mention this."

"The three girls in their family are good at embroidery. There is also a little girl from your village who is also good."

"If Boss Yang thinks their embroidery skills are suitable, why not let them take it back and do it? The newly hired embroiderer in the shop will quit."

"And this matter is kept secret. I don't believe they can find out about our village and dig out the pattern from them."

"What you said...let me think about it."

Yang Yun touched his chin, walked back and forth in the yard a few times, and stood in front of her.

"Miss Ji, I want to get the work back through you. You don't need to tell me what style you will come up with in the future. Just ask them to make a new one and bring it to me at the end of the month."

"They are in the fabric shop. You can choose any color you like. There are also needles and thread."

Ji Wenhe agreed without thinking, because she could only make money if the products sold well.

"Tell me the price and how many you want to embroider in a month."

After asking clearly, she went to cut the cloth.

When I came to the front shop, two little girls were looking at embroidery.

When Shen Suya saw her coming out, she stepped forward and asked, "Sister-in-law, what style did you get?"

"Like this." He took out a ready-made pattern from the basket. "Two for one cent. Do you know how to style this?"

"Yes, I will teach my sister-in-law when I get back."

"Well, thank you."

"Sister-in-law, why are you being so polite to me?"

Shen Qingdai came over: "Sister-in-law, shall we leave now?"

"Let's go. He won't be here for a while. Let him get the rags."

After Shen Rongshan went to the market to buy pork, he would come to the shop.

She had already told Yang Yun that when she saw someone coming, she should hand the things to him and let him wait for them at the rice shop.

There were two styles and forty pieces in total, and she made seventy cents. Once the shop started making hanging dolls, she guessed her dolls would not sell well.

The two discussed that the large puppet style would be sold at the beginning of the month, and Yang Yun would release the small hanging puppet style shortly afterwards.

The embroiderers in the shop did not resign, and now that they are no longer allowed to do the work, they no longer have to worry about the styles being leaked.

There are still a lot of bracelets left on the shelf. I made thirty cents and sold them immediately. After I sold them all, I would consider whether to continue doing this.

Including the fifty-four cents from the silk net, he made a total of more than a hundred cents.

The three of them came to a stall selling rice dumplings.

The boss was wrapping zongzi and greeted enthusiastically: "Sir, do you want to buy plain zongzi or zongzi with candied dates?"

There are four different sizes of rice dumplings on the cart, and the small ones are slightly larger than eggs.

Ji Wenhe asked: "Boss, are the sizes and flavors different?"

He pointed to the small zongzi on the side and said: "The small ones have pure zongzi and candied dates, and the big ones are the same."

"How much is one?"

"A pure glutinous rice dumpling is four cents, and a candied date dumpling is seven cents."

"The big ones here are six cents for a pure glutinous rice dumpling and ten cents for a candied date dumpling."

"The big ones are so expensive." Shen Suya looked distressed, "I'd better buy the small pure glutinous rice dumplings."

"I'm the same as you." Shen Qingdai agreed.

Ji Wenhe thought about it and decided to buy both pure glutinous rice dumplings and candied date dumplings.

"Boss, are the things you put on here cooked or raw?"

"Some are cooked, some are raw."

She asked again: "Boss, can you show me the candied dates?"

The boss smiled and nodded, pointing to the pottery jar in front of him: "This is the candied dates."

The three of them walked over and looked into the pottery jar.

Ji Wenhe looked around but didn't see any icing on the candied dates.

Suspiciously asked: "Boss, are these candied dates wrapped in candy? How come I can't tell at all?"

"Don't worry, sir. Each date is coated with sugar. The sugar has melted in the hot weather."

"But don't worry, the candied dates are soaked in sugar water, so they are sweet. They won't deceive you."

"Okay, can you give me a discount if I buy more?"

The boss wiped his hands with a towel and said, "Sir, our business is small and doesn't make much money. How many do you want?"

Ji Wenhe looked at the two people beside him: "You buy first."

She wanted the boss to re-wrap the rice dumplings with candied dates, otherwise she would take the pre-wrapped ones for fear of being cheated and having no dates inside.

After they bought the dumplings, they said to the boss, "I want them raw. Please make them with candied dates for me again."

"Then take four small pure glutinous rice dumplings and four candied date dumplings."

The boss nodded happily: "Hey, wait a moment, sir."

Shen Suya pulled her sleeve and said, "Sister-in-law, you bought so many."

Ji Wenhe smiled and said, "Two per person, and we only eat it once a year."

Shen Yuanshan told her that he wanted to eat two rice dumplings, and she promised to buy them for him, two for each of them.

"The candied date rice dumplings are too expensive, I can't bear to buy them."

She bought two pure glutinous rice dumplings, one for her and her mother, as her father and elder brother were not at home.

Shen Suya looked at the street boredly, and suddenly patted her arm: "Sister-in-law, there are people selling eggs there."

Ji Wenhe looked in the direction of her finger and said, "Let's go buy some eggs later."

After the dumplings were wrapped and the money was paid, the three men came to the old woman.

She sat at the entrance of the alley with a basket in front of her.

Ji Wenhe squatted down and asked: "Auntie, how many eggs are left?"

The old woman counted them, looked up and smiled, "Twenty left."

Put the basket in front of her.

"Then I'll take them all." Then he asked, "Auntie, do you have a lot of chickens at home?"

"I have eight."

"Then what do you feed them? They lay so many eggs."