The ancient life of a master craftsman

However, most of these drawings are women's clothing, as well as hairstyles and hair accessories. They seem to know women very well, which makes Hu Fulang feel weird.

After he finished reading, he was still a little bit reluctant when he returned the drawings to Li Enbai. Among them, there were two patterns that even a little brother like him couldn't help but feel a little bit excited about, let alone beautiful women.

"Linfeng's painting skills are superb, you can sell these drawings in other stores, and you can sell them for a lot of money..." Hu Fulang knew that he couldn't offer a high price, and these drawings were worth the high price.

Not wanting to take advantage of his younger sister's relationship, Hu Fulang endured the pity and recommended another shop to Li Enbai, which was the shop he went to sell clothes before, Liu's cloth shop.

Li Enbai shook his head, "Hu Fulang listen to me first, and then it's not too late to make a decision."

"Let's not mention anything else, Hu Fulang should know that I will take the entrance examination for children in February next year, right?" Li Enbai looked at him and nodded, and continued, "If someone finds out that I sell paintings and sketches for a living, do you think I still have a chance? Is it the imperial examination?"

The emperor of the current dynasty emphasized literature over military affairs, and attached great importance to the imperial examinations. Although he also vigorously developed the economy, the literati always had some strange rules, including the saying that they would not compete with the people for profit.

The scope of this sentence can be large or small. If you just use your own agricultural products to exchange for your daily needs, no one can make a mistake. However, if someone like Li Enbai directly cooperates with merchants, once someone finds out, it is easy to cause disastrous results. good public opinion.

It's not to blame Li Enbai for being cautious, but because there is Chen Yingcai, a white-eyed wolf in Xinglong Town, who is used to planning ahead instead of repairing it after a disaster.

Hu Fulang also agrees with his statement, for example, the masters of Xinglong Academy often make comments about inferior merchants. This is also the behavior that Hu Fulang despises the most, it is the feeling that a bunch of poor ghosts hate the rich.

If it weren't for the fact that the business status is no longer considered cheap, it is estimated that what those people said was even more exaggerated.But still in white clothes, living in poverty?

Hu Fulang does not admire scholars as much as many ordinary people do. He likes one thing to another. A scholar may have poems and books, but without merchants, everyone's life will not be as convenient as it is now.

He felt that no scholar would have to run on merchants in a grotesque manner. Even the emperor said that merchants are not cheap and no different from ordinary people. Those who have read a few books just want to lose a few words...

After thinking about it, I said, "If it's inconvenient for you, I can sell it for you. Liu's Cloth Shop is the shop of Liu Yuanwai, the richest man in our town, and the prices are always fair." Hu Fulang strongly suggested.

Xinglong Town is not big, and there are no more than five cloth stores and clothing stores in total. Among them, Qianxiu Pavilion and Rumeng Embroidery Workshop are small shops that can only make ends meet, but have no profit, so they cannot digest so many new ones. The other two are Liu's Cloth Shops, and the other is Zhang Ji Cloth Shop.

Liu's Cloth Village happened to divide Xinglong Town from south to north, while Zhang Ji was in the center of the town, and Zhang Ji's boss also had a restaurant, which was Chen Yingcai's father-in-law.

Therefore, Hu Fulang didn't mention Zhang Ji at all, he didn't want Linfeng to send money to Zhang Ji!

Li Enbai shook his head again, "No, Hu Fulang, Linfeng thinks it's most suitable for you to entrust this sketch to you. You will keep it a secret for Linfeng, won't you? You should be able to see the value of these sketches. If possible, Linfeng doesn't want anyone to know This sketch is my own."

He flattened the drawing and showed it to Hu Fulang, "The person on the painting cannot be drawn by me."

A scholar drew a bunch of portraits of women, and spreading them would not be a good talk, but would directly brand him a good/sexy impression.

This is the most important but also the least explicit.

Fortunately, Hu Fulang knew a little bit about it. It's good that the things on the drawing don't make money. Once they make money, someone should dig deep into the source of the drawing.In that case, if he sells it to others or keeps it for himself, the trouble is the same, but the benefits he gets are different.

Keeping it to himself, he can still get a chance to revitalize the store and sell it to others, it's just that Li Enbai got some money himself.

What Li Enbai wanted was to bind interests. As long as his and Hu Fulang's interests were the same, he didn't need to emphasize the secrecy, and Hu Fulang would do it well.This is not harmful to Hu Fulang, why not cooperate?

After thinking about it, Hu Fulang didn't hesitate anymore, "Okay, then I'll have the cheek to keep the drawing!" He added, "However, Linfeng, how do you plan to sell the drawing?"

"There are two ways. One, I don't need a fixed amount of money. I just want to share dividends. There is no age limit for dividends. That is, I will be given a corresponding amount of money for every style in the painting after I sell. We can discuss this amount. The other method is the manuscript fee plus dividends, in this case the amount of dividends is relatively small, and the period is three years."

Li Enbai talked about the two ways that he had thought up a long time ago. He would not suffer from either way. The styles of clothes are constantly being updated. Whether it is as long as the dividend is paid or the bonus is guaranteed, he will make money.

"Frankly speaking, I prefer Hu Fulang to choose the second option, because I am in a hurry to spend money now, and I want to renovate the house in the near future." Li Enbai said very frankly.

This kind of candid and accurate communication to Hu Fulang, he didn't think about which method was most beneficial to him, but directly chose the second method, "Then the second method, let's discuss the draft fee and dividends. How many?"

Hu Fulang is a vigorous and decisive person, he will do what he decides immediately, and he will have the tenacity to persevere, so he can support a store that has lost money to the point where there is only one employee left.

He felt that Li Enbai's sketches, even if he was a little brother, wanted to try them on, then there would definitely be many people willing to buy them.

So after they negotiated, Li Enbai and Hu Fulang wrote the deed on the spot, signed and pledged, and each kept their own copy.

Li Enbai packed the 30 taels of silver that Hu Fulang had given him, and just about to say something, he saw Hu Fulang hurriedly took the drawing and walked to the back hall of the shop. After a while, a handsome boy came out with Hu Fulang.

Hu Fulang introduced to him, "This is Zhou Jin, the tailor in our shop. I just thought that if these sketches can be made, I have to let Xiao Jin have a look. I might as well ask him to come out. If there is anything I don't understand, I will ask first." .”

Li Enbai looked at the bright red mole under Zhou Jin's eyes, and couldn't help frowning, "Hu Fulang, isn't this appropriate?"

This Zhou Jin was probably a little younger than Hu Fulang, but his hair was partly upturned, which meant that he was not married yet, and meeting a man so carelessly would not be good for his reputation.

Moreover, besides the embroidery workshop, whose master chef would be a little brother?

But Li Enbai didn't get entangled in this, and saw that the little brother hid behind Hu Fulang awkwardly, and Hu Fulang was also troubled, so he simply said, "Well, brother Zhou, take a look at the blueprint first, and I'll come back in two days." When in town again…”

"Brother Zhu!" A familiar voice came in, and the figures of Yunli and Brother Qing appeared outside the door, "I'm so mad! Brother Zhu, I..." Yunli's words stopped abruptly, and his eyes Back and forth between Li Enbai, Hu Fulang, and Zhou Jin.

However, Brother Qing seemed to have undergone a sudden change. His angry face suddenly became bright and radiant, and he didn't care about Yunli. He let go of his feet and ran to Zhou Jin, "Brother Xiao Jin, long time no see. You're handsome again."

As soon as Hu Fulang saw Brother Qing's expression and his involuntarily sweet mouth, he let out a feeling of helplessness on his forehead.

"Brother Qing, don't make trouble, we are talking about serious business."

Brother Qing didn't care about this, he took Zhou Jin's arm, "What's the matter? Little Brother Jin, let me listen~"

Brother Qing is half a year younger than Yunli, and he is petite and dainty, a little shorter than Yunli, with a round face and round eyes. Even if he likes to gossip, he is not annoying.

Zhou Jin was crooked by his arm, and a helpless smile appeared on his face, "I, I, and, and Brother Zhuzhu, talk about business! You, you, you, you can't, can't, listen."

He managed to say a word, but he still stumbled, Li Enbai finally understood that this little brother stuttered, that's why he looked a little timid.

"So it's about business... oh... boring." Brother Qing let go, tilted his head and pressed on Zhou Jin's shoulder like a bully.

Zhou Jin stood still and let him hold him down, and stroked his hair with the other hand, "I, I, embroidered, hair band, blue, blue, blue."

Brother Qing immediately became happy, "Really?! I want to see it, I want to see it! Last time Brother Xiao Jin gave Brother Xue a headband, I have been coveting it for a long time!"

He and the little tailor had already chatted intimately, and Li Enbai and Yunli explained the reason why he came here, and then remembered that he had an angry face when he came in, and his cheeks were flushed with anger, so he asked him, "You Why didn't you tell me when you came to the market today?"

Yunli paused, but it couldn't be said that his father didn't let him go to Brother Li, so he said, "I wanted to find Brother Xiao Zhu temporarily, but when I first arrived in town, I ran into that bastard Chen Gouxeng!"

"I'm so pissed off, his daughter-in-law has a big belly, and he still has the face to flirt outside, that's it! If I didn't run fast, I would definitely be entangled by him, it's so annoying!" Thinking of Chen Yingcai Looking at her own eyes, Yunli shook her head vigorously, not wanting to mention this person again, it was disgusting.

He is very lucky now, fortunately he didn't marry him, otherwise, wouldn't he have to endure watching him go out to hook up in the future?

Thinking about it this way, all his remaining sadness about being divorced dissipated. This kind of person shouldn't let him marry a wife and have children!Save yourself from hurting others.

Seeing his angry face, Li Enbai guessed that he must have been disgusted and not taken advantage of, so he changed the subject, "I drew some clothes for Hu Fulang, and I'm going to talk about the details with the tailor in the shop, do you like it?" what colour?"

Brother Qing over there replied loudly, "I know! Pears like red!"

Yunli rushed over angrily and pinched the flesh on his cheek, "You talk nonsense again, let's see how I deal with you!"

Brother Qing struggled in a hurry, and yelled inarticulately, "Let go, let go! Brother Xiao Jin, pull him away!"

Zhou Jin took a step back, smiled secretly, and spread his hands to show that I can't control it.