Chapter 139 Revealing Wealth
The woman choked and hesitated without making a sound.
"It seems that my sister-in-law still has some sense of right and wrong."
Jiang Anning smiled and said: "I would also like to ask my sister-in-law, which embroidery shop is the embroiderer from? But have you ever registered your identity with the government?"
"What am I doing that..." The woman was distracted by Jiang Anning's words without paying attention.
Jiang Anning laughed twice more: "That's really weird."
"Since my sister-in-law is not an embroiderer in an embroidery shop, nor has she ever registered her identity with the government, and presumably does not make a living by selling embroidery, why can't she be so concerned about the fact that the embroiderer can't earn hundreds of taels in a few years? Are you sure? ”
"I heard what my sister-in-law said so convincingly. She also worked as an embroiderer when I was a sister-in-law, so I know that a small embroiderer can't make any money at all."
The woman's face darkened, and she suddenly felt that she had lost face.
Her tone was very bad: "So, you know very well how much money an embroiderer can make in a year. Are you an embroiderer?"
"Yeah."
Jiang Anning's smile was open and sincere, and the woman choked, feeling even more embarrassed, and became angry from embarrassment.
"You, you... Then tell me, how can a small embroiderer earn hundreds of taels by selling a few pieces of embroidery?"
"There is such a good job to make money, we decided to do it together without saying a word!"
"Isn't it just sewing a few flowers and playing with the needle and thread? Who is a wife who can't do it anymore?"
Everyone had long been fed up with women during Jiang Anning's few words.
But after hearing "make money" and "ways to make big money," they all tacitly agreed to remain silent, wanting to wait and see and hear about ways to make money.
Although what the woman said was unpleasant and full of fallacies, there was one sentence that was at least right.
Which of them can't handle needlework?
Why can Jiang Anning make a lot of money but they can't?
But the government notices are really exaggerated. Is there something fishy hidden there?
"It's just some needlework, it's really not difficult."
Jiang Anning smiled: "An ordinary embroiderer really can't make a few taels of silver throughout the year."
"An ordinary embroiderer can't make much money by making embroidered handkerchiefs, pillow covers, etc. At best, she can sell an embroidery piece for fifty cents. In name, she earns fifty-fifty from the embroidery shop. In fact, The embroidery workshop takes away 60% of the operating costs in the name of commission fees, and the actual money that falls into the hands of the embroiderer is only 20 yuan, not counting the tax paid. "
"I can only make three or five embroidered handkerchiefs in a day at most. If I make pillow towels, I'm afraid it will be a little slower."
"In this way, the most you can earn in a day is one hundred and eighty cents. In a month, you can only earn three taels of silver."
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Three taels of silver! !
Even though Jiang Anning said the three taels of silver were very frivolous, she still couldn't help but shock the women on the oxcart.
Not to mention them, even Uncle who was driving the bullock cart was already feeling excited.
Three taels of silver!
They are those who dig in the soil, with their faces facing the loess and their backs to the sky, and they have been working diligently for a year, but they may not be able to earn even three taels of silver.
Three taels of silver was enough to feed and clothe their family for two years.
And it’s thirty taels of silver a month! !
There are twelve months in a year... Just thinking about this astronomical number, everyone can't help but feel excited and their faces are red. It seems that they are the ones who have earned this money, and they can't wait to drink fake wine to celebrate. Same.
How can it be so profitable to be an embroiderer?
Why are everyone hiding it and not telling them?
Of course, being an embroiderer is not so profitable. To be precise, ordinary embroiderers are not so profitable. Jiang Anning just had other motives, so she deliberately exaggerated.
But this water is not mixed in much.
At least 70% to 80% of it is true.
Seeing that everyone's attention has completely fallen on the income of three taels of silver.
She sighed softly, pretending to be sad: "But the benefits I mentioned have not yet deducted the costs."
"It's good to have an embroidery workshop with a name for the work. The embroidery workshop will reimburse all the materials used."
"If you are an individual embroiderer, you have to bear all the expenses such as sewing tools and so on. After deducting the costs, you will earn less."
Du Chunxue couldn't help but ask: "But even if you can embroider five handkerchiefs in a day, it will be about a hundred handkerchiefs a month, and nearly two thousand handkerchiefs a year. Can these, so many handkerchiefs really be sold?" Going out?”
The woman who was speechless at first and didn't know how to refute Jiang Anning suddenly found a breakthrough, like dew after a long drought.
She said loudly: "That's right, if you say you can sell three to five handkerchiefs a month, I can still believe it."
The woman sneered a few times: "With three taels of silver, how many handkerchiefs should be sold in a month? At least a hundred! How can a bastard buy so many? He still buys them every day, every month, what a fool!"< br>
After hearing what the woman said, the others also felt that it made sense.
Someone hesitated: "You can't sell so many handkerchiefs in one month, right? I've also gone to the embroidery workshop to deliver embroidery products. If one handkerchief can be sold within three months, it's a very good speed." .”
Jiang Anning did not panic at all when she was exposed, and said calmly: "It is naturally impossible to sell so many embroidered handkerchiefs through normal sales channels!"
"But as I said before, the embroidery produced in Jiang'an County is best-selling at home and abroad."
"Not only will merchants from Beijing, Yuhang and other places come to buy the embroidery products from various embroidery workshops, but there are also many big ship dealers who will also send their stewards to buy in large quantities."
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"When big ship dealers come to buy a ship, they usually start with a thousand ships. If there are less, people will still look down upon them."
Jiang Anning smiled faintly: "What's more, this just means small things like embroidered handkerchiefs and pillow covers, which are not worth mentioning. To make serious money, they must be big items!"
"For example, if you embroider a four-panel landscape screen, you need at least two or three panels."
“It could be ornaments, standing objects, albums, or paintings.”
"It also depends on whether the process is complex, whether the pattern is complicated, and how big the format is... these will all affect the price."
Jiang Anning pinched the purse hanging around her waist and chuckled: "A good embroidery, although the process is time-consuming and labor-intensive, but if it is really completed, there is basically no need to worry about selling it. Buying a piece of embroidery A hundred taels of silver is not impossible.”
"Impossible!"
The woman screamed impatiently: "How can there be a fool who is willing to spend hundreds of taels of silver to buy a piece of embroidery that cannot be eaten or drunk? Do you think we are all fools?"
Others couldn't help but murmur along with him.
A hundred taels for just one piece of embroidery?
This sounds too mysterious... That's hundreds of taels, not three or five cents.
If a family like them can spend ten taels of silver to marry a wife, they will be talked about with envy and jealousy for who knows how long.
One hundred taels is more than enough for ten weddings!
With one hundred taels, you can buy dozens of acres of land and become a rich landowner!
The richest squire in Sandaohezi only has more than 60 acres of land in his family.
That's it. I don't know how nourishing and enviable my life was.
How could anyone give up dozens of acres of land in exchange for a piece of sewing work that neither eats nor drinks?
Everyone was confused and couldn't help but murmur in their hearts, thinking that Jiang Anning was most likely deceiving them.
But if we meet each other by chance, what's there to lie about?
There can't be anyone who has so much money that their brains are burning, that they would stupidly listen to someone's boast and then throw all their belongings into it, right?
Jiang Anning saw that they all didn't believe it, thinking that she was talking nonsense, so she was not in a hurry to defend herself. "It is not a shame for my sister-in-law to have her imagination limited by poverty."
She said openly: "When I first learned about the price, I was shocked. I couldn't believe it and didn't sleep well for several days and nights."
Jiang Anning smiled sincerely: "After all, with such a high price, I would never dare to work so hard even in my dreams."
"Sister-in-law, I don't know much about it. I don't know that there are hundreds of pieces of embroidery in the world. I don't blame you. But just because you don't know about it, sister-in-law, it would be too overbearing to insist on saying that there is no such thing."
As soon as Jiang Anning finished speaking, other people in the car looked at the woman.
The woman's face was a little confused, and she became angry: "You damn girl, how can you talk? Do you know how to respect the old and love the young..."
Jiang Anning burst out laughing.
"Why should I compare myself to my age if I can't explain the truth?"
"My sister-in-law's words really don't make sense. If I point out what is wrong with my sister-in-law, which is disrespecting the elderly, then does my sister-in-law's stubbornness also mean that she doesn't care for the young?"
"If you don't love the young and I don't respect the elderly, then we are even, and no one can blame the other."
The woman choked: "You..."
She held a breath in her chest, her face flushed with anger, and in the end she just cursed a few words: "You are young, you have sharp teeth and a sharp tongue, be careful that you will never get married in this life, and you will be left as an old girl at home! ”
The woman thought she had cursed the most vicious words.
Jiang Anning was not annoyed at all: "Then I would like to thank my sister-in-law for your kind words!"
The woman immediately looked at the person as if she were a monster.
Is this girl's head being kicked by donkey's hooves?
Why are you so stupid?
She even scolded her that no one would want her in her life and that she couldn't marry and be an old girl. Why did she look so excited?
The woman suddenly felt a little depressed, as if a heavy punch hit the cotton hard. Not only did it not hurt the opponent at all, but it also broke her waist.
"Can this embroidery really be sold for hundreds of taels of silver each?"
The short, fat woman sitting next to Du Chunxue asked Jiang Anning with warm and eager eyes.
Jiang Anning nodded: "Of course ordinary embroidery is not enough, but those embroidery works made by great embroiderers are exquisite, exquisite and lifelike, not to mention large-scale embroidery such as ornaments and paintings. An embroidered handkerchief may be sold for more than ten taels of silver.”
"Hey, let me be a good boy..."
The women in the car couldn't help but marvel.
I was depressed and didn't know how to save my face, so I suddenly laughed loudly: "You are really bragging, you don't need to draft, you dare to say anything."
"I didn't know, I thought you were Jiang Anning!"
"What's the matter? Which embroiderer's embroidery has been sold for hundreds of taels of silver, and you want to see it?"
“You can really boast!”
Jiang Anning ignored the woman's sour words: "Didn't my sister-in-law just say that Jiang Anning couldn't make such a lot of money?"
"Why is it different from what you said just now?"
The woman choked.
After a while, he said harshly: "When did I say that Jiang Anning can make money? No one can make so much money, no matter Jiang Anning, Li Anning, Zhao Anning or Wang Anning!"
"One hundred taels for an embroidery?"
"Only a fool would believe it!"
The woman had a cold face and kept muttering: "Everyone who believes this is a fool!"
Even though her voice was small, it couldn't stand up to the crowds of people crowded into this small carriage. People were sitting so crowded together that it was difficult not to hear her.
Everyone looked a little ugly.
What if they just believe it?
Who wouldn’t want to earn so much money?
Besides, this little girl doesn’t look like a bad person...
Everyone was silent.
They all hoped that what Jiang Anning said was true.
They can also do needlework!
Isn't that the embroiderer who does needlework?
Embroiderers can make a lot of money, but there's no reason why they can't!
"In this case, does sister-in-law dare to make a bet with me?"
As soon as Jiang Anning said her words, the woman instinctively wanted to refuse.
She glared angrily: I won't bet with you!
Just before he could say the words in his mouth, Jiang Anning heard two index fingers stacked horizontally and vertically: "Just bet ten taels of silver. If I lose, I will give you ten taels of silver. How about it?" ”
The woman swallowed her saliva. If she refused, she swallowed it back into her stomach smoothly along with her saliva.
Ten taels of silver...
This girl must be bragging!
Look at how plainly this damn girl is dressed, how can she look like someone who can afford ten taels of silver?
But...
The woman's nervous palms became clammy.
But what if it's true?
Then wouldn’t she lose money to Dafa?
She thought about it and clenched her fists: "Why should I believe that you can come up with ten taels of silver? Look at the way you are dressed. There is nothing valuable about you..."
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The woman's voice ended abruptly as Jiang Anning took out a fifty-tael banknote and added two pieces of broken silver.
"Bet, bet on what?"
The woman looked at the bank note, her eyes shining with excitement.
"How about I bet on whether there is any embroidery in the world that can be sold for hundreds of taels of silver?"
Jiang Anning smiled and put away the money: "If there is no money, then I lose, so I will give these ten taels of silver to you, sister-in-law."
"But if there is, then my sister-in-law loses, and you have to give me ten taels of silver!"
When she heard that she would be given ten taels of silver if she lost, the woman hesitated.
The man in her family is unsatisfactory. Apart from idleness all day long, he only knows how to drink and have fun. He is a complete lazy guy.
If she hadn't been taking care of the family, the garden and fields would have been abandoned long ago!
But just relying on her alone, working hard all year long, and just relying on the little output from the fields, she can't make much money.
Not to mention, any money the family had would be ruined by that man drinking it away.
Ten taels of silver, let alone she couldn't get it out at all.
Even if she could get it... it's not like her brain was kicked by a donkey's hooves, so why should she hand over the money to others for nothing?
But if you win...
That is, she got ten taels of silver for free.