The Happy Life of Small Officials in Northern Song Dynasty

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The two stepped into the shop, a clerk stepped forward and cupped his hands and said, "Master, come to the shop, do you want to pull some cloth?"

Just as Xiao Sui'er was about to speak, Su Jin grabbed her sleeve and shook it, smiled and said to the clerk, "I don't want to buy cloth for the time being, but I'm tired from shopping, so I just came in to have a rest."

The guy immediately changed his face and said: "This is a cloth village, not a teahouse. If you are looking for a place to rest, you can go to a teahouse or restaurant to rest. We are here to open for business."

"According to what this little brother said, if you don't buy cloth, you can't enter this cloth shop?" Su Jin smiled.

"Does it need to be said? Just like you, my son, our cloth village can just be converted into a teahouse. Please come out quickly, and don't delay my family's business."

The guy felt that the young man was a little baffled. He was tired of shopping and came to rest in the cloth store, and he was plausible. Xiao Sui'er couldn't hold back anymore, and wanted to argue with her small chest. Su Jin glared at her. Tell her to be quiet.

"This little brother, you open the door to do business, and you should greet Sanjiang guests with a smile on your face. How can you speak against the guests? This is probably not the way to treat guests."

"Young master, you are here to find fault. In such a hot day, I think you'd better stay where you are cool. You don't buy cloth but you come here to make noise. How to do business is our Su Ji's business. Who are you? onion?"

Su Jin now somewhat understands the reason why the cloth shop is empty. With this way of doing business, it is a miracle that the cloth shop can keep opening.

The guys behind the counter in the store saw the two of them arguing and came over to try to persuade them. The two mature and prudent store guys saw that although Su Jin was wearing a blue shirt, but his demeanor looked like that of a wealthy family, so they stepped forward and took the rude little girl away. Guy pull back.

"Call your shopkeepers here." Su Jin sat down on a wooden chair in the corner of the store with a big thorn in his hem, and turned his face to look at the bustling crowd outside the door.

The little guy quit and shouted: "Are you being naughty? How many things does my shopkeeper have to do, and you want to see him as soon as you say?"

Without any warning, Su Jin slammed the table and shouted: "Even if your shopkeeper is in the bridal chamber right now, you have to call me out."

When all the guys heard Su Jin's words, they were completely provocative. Naturally, they were united at this juncture, and they all pointed and scolded Su Jin, accusing him of being presumptuous.

Xiao Sui'er showed her aggressive nature, jumped up in front of everyone with her hands on her hips, and scolded coquettishly: "What's the matter? I don't want to eat this bowl of rice anymore, do I? My eyes are covered in mud from the moat, right? I don't even look at it." Look who is in front of you? Whose job are you holding?"

When the guys heard that something was wrong, a guy in his forties quickly stepped forward and cupped his hands when he saw the opportunity: "May I ask who are the young master and the young lady?"

"Blind your dog's eyes, this is Mr. Su, the young master of our Su Ji. As for this girl, you don't need to know." Hiccup, there was a full belch, and the image was undoubtedly damaged.

Su Jin's stomach cramped with laughter, and he couldn't laugh out of it. The nine clerks had no time to care about this hiccup. They heard that this young man was the young boss, and they almost fainted. The thief met his own relatives. Husband, here's something to see.

The arrogant young man stood there with a face ashen. Someone had already gone to the back room of the store to invite the big shopkeeper. , crying secretly in his heart, hurried to the front.

Seeing the shopkeeper's big belly and round waist and lazy flesh, Su Jin knew at a glance that he was a person who didn't want to use his brain. Looking at him, he felt angry.

"I don't know that the Young Master's family is here, and it's so rude. Zhang Deli has seen the Young Master's family."

"Do you know me?" Su Jin asked lightly.

"I met the young master at the young master's birthday banquet a few years ago, and I haven't seen the young master's outstanding talents in the past few years." Zhang Deli accompanied him with a smile.

"Go, put up the door of the shop, and hang a small board to indicate that it will be closed for half a day today. I want to find out how you run my Su family's cloth shop." Su Jin is not in the mood to listen to his flattery. Seeing these people as their own, sooner or later they will end up on the streets and become beggars, which cannot be ignored.

Zhang Deli nodded and bowed with a smile on his face, turned his face, his complexion became ashen, and shouted at all the clerks: "Hurry up and get on the door panel?"

A clerk brought fragrant tea and served it to the seat, Zhang Deli sat on the opposite side with his body sideways, and all the clerks stood on one side with their heads tilted.

"Master Zhang, how is the business of our cloth shop recently?" Su Jin asked lightly, blowing the tea in the teacup.

"This... business is not easy right now. There are no less than twenty or thirty cloth shops in Luzhou City, and the competition is too fierce. Due to the high price of cloth in our family, business has not been very good recently, and the profits are extremely meager." Zhang Deli had a frowning face, and the facial features on his fat face were crowded together, which looked rather funny.

"Why is the cloth price of my Su family so high? Is your purchase channel different from others'?" Su Jin asked strangely.

"This...the purchase channels are no different, but I, Su Ji, have always been dealing in high-end fabrics, such as damask, silk, silk, silk, brocade, satin, etc., and rarely involve low-end fabrics, so sales are limited."

Su Jinxin said: It turns out that our family is still operating in the high-end market, but judging from the size of Luzhou Prefecture and the prosperity of the streets, it shouldn't be so depressed. There must be deep-seated reasons.

"According to shopkeeper Zhang, should we sell low-grade fabrics to increase profits?"

"I think it should be. Although low-grade fabrics are cheap, the advantage is that the price is cheap, and the people's daily necessities. With the decades-old signboard of my Su family, I will definitely compete with others." Zhang Deli seems to be full of confidence. , but Su Jin could clearly see that he was talking casually and perfunctorily.

"Besides that, shopkeeper Zhang, do you have any other good suggestions?"

"This...not for the time being. The business strategy was originally formulated by the wife of the boss, and I just waited to implement it." Zhang Deli was extremely cunning, and pushed the responsibility to the ground, as if he had nothing to do with the bad business now. same relationship.

Su Jin frowned and said, "I see, it seems that shopkeeper Zhang has tried his best."

Zhang Deli laughed and said: "That's natural. My Zhang family's grandparents have been in charge of the expensive house for three generations. Diligence and loyalty are the family motto, so there is no need to say anything."

Su Jin smiled slightly and said, "Okay, there is one more thing I want to ask you. Just now when I entered the store, I encountered a strange thing. Someone actually kicked me out of the store because I didn't buy cloth today. What is this?" reason?"

Zhang Deli pretended to be surprised and said: "How could this happen? Who is so rude and ruined my reputation as Su Ji?"

Then Lie said: "It's a villain. The villain is irritable because of trivial matters at home. He offended the young master. How to punish him is up to you."

Zhang Deli cursed: "You are still reasonable, settle the wages immediately and get out of here."

The young man's face was ashen, he bowed his head and walked back.

Su Jin inspected his words, and called out to the young man, "Brother, please stay."

The young man stopped and turned to Su Jin and saluted, "Young master, I, Chen Gui, was the one who was rude just now and ruined Su Ji's store style. I apologize to you."

Seeing him like this, Su Jin admired this man's heart, waved his hands and said, "What happened at home that made you absent-minded when you were working?"

Chen Gui bowed his head and said: "To be honest, my old lady has been ill for several months, and the water and rice have not been exhausted in the past few days. The villain is ashamed of being a son of man, so I feel so depressed that I offended my boss with my indiscretions."

"What disease, why didn't you treat it?" Su Jin asked with concern.

"Old rheumatism, there has been no money to treat it, and it has been delayed until now. If it is not treated, it will not be long." Chen Gui has tears in his eyes, and his heart is sad.

"No money for medical treatment? Why don't you borrow money and things from the cabinet, don't you just watch him die?" Su Jin felt strange, as long as the symptoms of diseases like arthritis are not particularly serious, the symptoms can be relieved completely, and spending on the cabinet A few pennies is extremely simple. In this era, filial piety comes first. He believes that Mrs. Wang will never refuse.

"The villain mentioned it to shopkeeper Zhang, but...but..." Chen Gui hesitated.

"It's a joke, the money on this cabinet is the owner's money, how can it be used to withdraw at will for your mother's medical treatment, you have to withdraw five pennies if you ask, your salary is only three pennies a month, in case you twist your ass and run away , do you want us to take the blame for you?" Zhang Deli sneered.

"This... the villain didn't say that shopkeeper Zhang did something wrong, but that the boss told me the truth when he asked me about it. In fact, the brothers knew who I was, Chen Gui, and paid life-saving money on the counter. The villain didn't have time to be grateful, so what would do that ungrateful thing."

"Knowing people, knowing the face but not knowing the heart, how can I know what you think in your heart? I am thinking of my boss, and this is my responsibility as the shopkeeper." Zhang Deli said righteously.

Chen Gui remained silent, with a look of disapproval, and the faces of the other guys also showed indignation.

Hearing this, Su Jin couldn't bear it any longer. He had already figured out Zhang Deli's character clearly. On the surface, this person looked loyal, but in fact he was extremely mean, selfish and cunning. How can such a person be entrusted with such a heavy responsibility for those fake big empty words to perfuse himself, even disregarding the life and death of the clerk's family.

Su Jin slammed the table for the second time, cursing: "You bastard, you are inhuman."

Zhang Deli turned his head to Chen Gui and said, "Look, the boss is calling you an asshole, why don't you hurry up?"

Xiao Sui'er blushed, pointed at Zhang Deli's nose and scolded crisply: "Young master is scolding you, you bastard, and you still call others, a bastard who will die."

Zhang Deli pointed to his nose and said, "Me?"

"It's you." Su Jin put the tea cup heavily on the table and said, "If you don't care about me for a while, the whole world will be so cool; if you are so cool, what face do you have to justify it."

"Young master, I am here to protect the interests of our Su Ji. If everyone is like this, how can we do business? If he takes the money and flees, wouldn't it be bad luck for everyone?"

"Bah, after all, you're still afraid of losing yourself. If you say something to protect the interests of my Su family, you are ruining the reputation of my Su family. If this matter gets out, people will say that my Su family is only profit-seeking for the rich and unkind."

Su Jin got up abruptly and said: "Master Zhang, you are not suitable to be the manager of my Suji Cloth Village. From now on, you can resign and go home. I will pay you three months' wages as severance pay, and you will hand over the account immediately." You can leave now.”

Zhang Deli didn't expect the situation to take a turn for the worse. He originally thought that this nerdy young man who only knew how to read and practice calligraphy would be fooled by him, and he would prevaricate it with a few casual words, but he didn't expect that this kid was shrewd in his bones and ruthless enough to attack him. He abandoned himself in just a few words It's like wearing shoes.

"Young master, don't be too extreme in doing things. My Zhang family has been helping your Su family's property for three generations. You are crossing the river and demolishing bridges, unloading mills and killing donkeys; you have no right to drive me away. I am the shopkeeper who opened the incense case for the old lady. I can't rely on your words." Then drive me away, and I'll go to Madam to judge." Zhang Deli roared angrily, the fat on his body trembled with rhythmic hopping, like ripples on the surface of the water, rippling layer upon layer on his body.

"I think you are confused. The Su family's property is my Su Jin's property. If I have no rights, who has the rights?" Su Jin looked at him with a smile and said.

"Let's see!" Zhang Deli knew that it would be useless to continue talking, so he took off the blue mandarin jacket that symbolized his identity as the shopkeeper, threw it on the cabinet, and slammed the door away.

Everyone was silent, even Xiao Sui'er stuck out her little pink tongue. After serving the young master for so many years, she has never seen the young master so imposing.

"Young master is so charming when he is angry." Xiao Sui'er secretly thought with stars in her eyes.