Chapter 45 Small Cart
“Can’t sell it...”
Dongfang Weiming, Nie Yunzhu sat on the steps in front of the small building, holding his chin and saying with some distress.
“A few days ago, just like Mr. Ning said, I went to see the stewards of several nearby restaurants, but they said that no one had eaten this before, and it was too expensive, so they wouldn’t let it go to them. Sold on the counter.”
After all, productivity is insufficient these days, and food such as rice, noodles and grains are not available. It belongs to the concept of satisfying hunger, and the price is cheaper. Meat and eggs are a bit expensive. According to the ratio, if a pancake costing two cents can be regarded as one yuan, a salted egg costing ten cents is five yuan. One, and the Songhua eggs were sold for twenty cents under Ning Yi's suggestion, which is close to the meaning of luxury goods. In this era when well-off people only occasionally eat meat and eggs, it is naturally difficult to sell such things.
Of course, there are still many rich people in Jiangning. As far as brothels are concerned, the more popular girls have to enter the house three times - that is, three taels of silver and three thousand coins - sing, dance, and sleep three times, which means a total of nine Guan, four thousand five hundred yuan a time. No matter how high the price of a girl who sells her body is, it is an extreme exception. If it is a girl who does not sell her body, such as Yuan Jin'er, Lu Caicai, Qilan, and the former Nie Yunzhu, the price will be even higher. There is no limit to this, but there are a lot of them. People are waiting to throw money. If you are stingy, you will not be able to get in. If you are still stingy after entering, you will naturally not be tolerated next time. Just like Su Tan'er's gang of brothers extorted dozens of taels of silver from her every time, which is already a huge sum of money for an ordinary person, but if you really want to be rich and have a group of friends, it only takes one or two times. things.
People who are willing to spend nine thousand yuan to find a girl may not be willing to eat twenty yuan of preserved eggs at a roadside stall, but at least it proves that this purchasing power is still available in Jiangning.
If you want to sell it for twenty cents, you have to find some relatively high-end places nearby, famous teahouses and restaurants, and ask them to help sell it on consignment. But this is a new thing after all. You say I sell eggs for twenty cents each to help. I am not a philanthropist. Nie Yunzhu used to have great talents. She was beautiful and could be considered a talented woman, but these abilities are natural. I couldn't negotiate the business in a straight-forward manner, so the consignment of salted eggs for twenty cents each was not concluded. Two restaurant stewards didn't talk to her at all, and one saw her beauty but came out to sell pancakes. He wanted to do anything to her, so she just left.
This is naturally a blow to Nie Yunzhu, who wants to get rid of his previous identity and work hard to make money and live like an ordinary person. However, she also has a stubborn temper. If most people encounter such a thing, they may consider not selling preserved eggs anymore, but I don't see such a plan here. Ning Yi was sweating profusely from running all the way, playing with a copper plate in his hand, and then smiled: "Speaking of which, I made a bet with someone recently, saying that these preserved eggs can be sold in a month. ”
“Sell it?”
"Well, I have to sell at least twenty or thirty pieces every day."
"...Eh." Nie Yunzhu thought for a while, then laughed, "I will try my best to sell thirty pieces, actually... ...Maybe we can deposit a batch to Jinfeng Tower..."
Nie Yunzhu obviously hesitated for a while before saying this. What she was thinking at this time was obviously different from what Ning Yi thought. In her opinion, Ning Yi has a good personality and is a maverick and humorous talent, but he has nothing to do with business. Now that he has invented these preserved eggs, he asked himself to help sell them. Perhaps he was bragging to others. This is also human nature. If he cannot sell so many, he will lose face. If there was really nothing she could do, she probably wouldn't consider Jinfeng Tower again. Although the mother in the building abides by the contract and has not forced her to do anything, she is not necessarily a kind person. It is difficult to repay a favor, but in any case, using such a relationship is probably what she can think of at this time. The only way.
When Ning Yi heard her talking about Jinfeng Tower, he was slightly stunned, and then he realized: "It doesn't have to be like this." He shook his head, and then pointed to the shed where the trolley was parked, " Let's close the stall early today and pack the car. It's too simple now and can't be sold for twenty yuan."
"Pack it?"
"Uh... just decorate it randomly."
Nie Yunzhu nodded and expressed his understanding with a puzzled look...
School was over at noon, and Ning Yi went to the market to eat and then bought something. He picked up all kinds of paints, large and small brushes, and brushes and came over to Nie Yunzhu. Only then did Nie Yunzhu know what he wanted to do. After washing the car in the afternoon, Ning Yi made a simple composition with chalk. After thinking about it for a while, he moved a low stool and sat down to start writing.
Nie Yunzhu couldn't help at this time, but occasionally squatted beside him to watch for a while. When he returned to the room and saw Hu Tao, Hu Tao said: "Master Ning wants to paint on the cart to sell preserved eggs?"
“I think so.”
"But, can paint be used for painting well..."
"Many lacquerwares are also painted with lacquer. Mr. Ning... I think he has dabbled in this way..."
Nie Yunzhu actually Wei Wei is a little worried, Qinshu Painting is an elegant art. Whether Ning Yi is a good painter is another matter. Despite his current reputation, he only paints on such a small cart to sell the preserved eggs. If others find out, he is afraid that he will be criticized again. , the better the painting, the greater the risk.
On the other hand, Hu Tao is actually not in a good mood. She has been worried about the young lady recently. Ever since it was confirmed on New Year's Eve that Ning Yi, who was interacting with the young lady, was the number one talent and was truly talented, her worries had been growing day by day. As for her, although she also wanted to get married to Er Niu as soon as possible, she was not at ease at all since the young lady had no place to live. Now the young lady seems to have a good impression of this person, but this is nothing, as the young lady said: she can't marry.
The other party is a son-in-law, and even if the young lady likes him, there will be no consequences at all. The more talented the man is, the deeper the young lady will fall into, and she will not be able to like others. The Su family is in a great situation. , if the other party's wife finds out about this and comes to her door, what should she do? Thinking about it this way, she becomes more and more anxious.
Ning Yi also called Nie Yunzhu out once during the process and asked her whether it would be better to call this stall "Nie Ji" or "Bamboo Ji". Nie Yunzhu thought about it and chose Zhu Ji.
In the evening, the sunset shines from the side of the bend of the Qinhuai River, and the decoration of the car is finally completed. When Nie Yunzhu went to look at it, she felt a little stunned: she had never seen the style of this painting before!
It’s not that the painting is too bad, it’s that the painting is too good and too bizarre. The composition of the painting on the car is three-dimensional.
With paint these days, it is natural to have various lacquer patterns and styles, either delicate or rough, but the car in front of you is definitely unique in the entire era. The picture is actually simple. It is just a few bamboo trees symbolizing a corner of the bamboo forest after the rain, hidden in the mist. On one side is a scene of a preserved egg cut into four parts, which is not very lifelike. The words "Bamboo Remembered Songhua Egg" float on the picture - but the picture is three-dimensional.
For Ning Yi, it is just a simple technique to control the imbalance of the proportions of various parts of the picture to achieve the effect of the bamboo forest inserting into the field of vision. The five words "Bamboo Remembers Pine Flower Eggs" combined with the floating shadows, there is a It had the effect of falling or floating in the mist, but the painting of the preserved egg was unsatisfactory, and I couldn't match it with a beautiful and appropriate color, so I could only make it look as beautiful as possible. Since the paint will look blurry when mixed, Ning Yi carefully added clear black lines on the edges of several different patterns, which in turn creates more obvious conflict and three-dimensionality. If this car is rolled out, it will definitely attract the attention of passers-by immediately. And it is different from mainstream paintings. Others will only think that it is a trick thought up by businessmen, but not that it is a picture carefully drawn by a certain talented person.
The conditions were limited, but looking at the surprised look on the other party's face, in general, Ning Yi was satisfied with the results. Probably thinking of Ning Yi's weird taste in music, Nie Yunzhu said: "Li Heng is also so good at painting... well, it's so strange. This style has never been seen by Yunzhu before, but it almost seems like he wants to learn from Ning Yi. It looks like it is growing on the car wall..."
If you adopt a more realistic style for things like pictures, the impact at first sight will be simple. This is different from taste in music. Nie Yunzhu wanted to reach out and touch the pillar, but Ning Yi stopped her with a smile, and then pointed to the awning above.
"The paint is not dry, so don't touch it. The awning above needs to be changed, and I will buy it tomorrow. You can't do business if the paint is not dry these days, uh... we need to prepare Some things, beautiful small dishes, various sauces, vinegar, tofu, and many ways to eat them, look Look clean and beautiful, well, this is the first step..." Ning Yi calculated, "After these things are done, we will solve the stubborn problems in the restaurant..."
The afternoons of the next few days , things are done step by step, beautiful dishes, purchasing various sauces, and matching them with various ways of eating. Ning Yi came over every afternoon, and Nie Yunzhu also seemed happy, but Hu Tao was not happy. When he arrived in the evening, he complained to the lady: "Miss, it's not worth buying those things..."
Ning Yi chose They are all very beautiful dishes. In the eyes of ordinary people, they are not very practical and the price is expensive. Although half of these things are paid for by Ning Yi and are considered as stock investments, from Hu Tao's point of view, this does not make sense. There isn't much money at home, so if you save some money, the young lady can still use it for a while, but now, it's just like Ning Yi is spending money randomly, and the young lady doesn't want to refuse, so she can only follow. Let's go. When the time comes, Mr. Ning doesn't care about wasting money. What can the young lady do? She will also spend the last of her wealth.
"As for Hu Tao, Mr. Ning must be very talented and learned. There's no need to say that. But he may not know how to do business. We are just setting up a small stall. How can we be so particular about it? Miss, you can't accompany him to fool around. No! We can’t afford to mess around..."< br>
"Master Ning is a man of true talent and learning. Since he is so confident, I naturally believe in him. How do you know Hutao that there is nothing he can do before the end?" In fact, Nie Yunzhu didn't have any confidence in his heart, but naturally, I can only say this about Hu Tao.
“You don’t see many talented and learned people, Miss?” Hu Tao retorted, “Talent and learning are talents and doing business is doing business. Don’t those talented and educated people also lose their money by gambling and end up penniless in the end. Hu Tao Although I don’t understand it, I’ve seen it a lot. There are so many stalls on the street, and they all look like this. , those big restaurants or brothels are completely different. Miss, when Mr. Ning entered the house of a merchant, he heard that his wife was very good at managing things in the Su family. Maybe he just couldn't bear it and used the young lady as a test... ..."
"Shut up!" Nie Yunzhu interrupted her with a focused look.
Hu Tao stood there with her lips pursed for a long time, tears rolling down from her eyes. Then she gritted her teeth and choked up and said: "Miss, you also know that you can't marry Mr. Ning. If you can, miss." , let’s not talk about Hutao..."
After saying this, there was no sound in the room for a long time. Nie Yunzhu sat on the edge of the bed, leaning on the bed frame next to her. Her eyes occasionally changed. After a long time, the lamp shadow flickered, and she closed her eyes hard: "I I know..." When he opened it again, he smiled slightly.
"Wutao, you should go to bed too, it's getting late..."****************
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