The biography of Gu Qi, a poor girl

In the Dakang Dynasty, ordinary people were more accustomed to using kapok racks or reeds as interlayers to keep warm after winter.Although Bai Dizi was planted in the early nine days of the previous dynasty, because of its insufficient output and high price, there are very few people who are really willing to use it to fill the quilt and pillow core jacket.

Li Shun said: "There are some white Diezi, but they are not usually placed on the shop floor. Only when customers want to take some out."

"Baidiezi sells for 150 Wen a catty every day."

Gu Qi did the math and found that a spring and autumn quilt would require at least three or four pounds of lining.If you use white folds, you don't count the fabric, and the lining that is filled with light needs five hundred texts.

If it is to make a winter quilt, it will cost at least eight catties, which is more than a tael of silver.No wonder not many people are willing to use it. After all, if you use reed flower or kapok wool, there is almost no cost.

Gu Qi thought for a while and said, "If it's convenient, Bai Diezi will also prepare some. It doesn't count in the two cabinets. I will prepare another place for placement."

"How much?"

"About [-] pounds." Although few villagers would be extravagantly willing to use white folded zigzag as the lining of the quilt and pillow core, it is warm and comfortable to make a cotton tee, and it doesn't cost much money.

"Fifty pounds is not too much. When the time comes, I will send it to the shopkeeper Gu Xiao along with the cloth."

"By the way. Shopkeeper Li, do you have swatches of ge cloth, muslin, and floral satin?" Gu Qi asked.

"The fabric pattern?" Li Shun wondered, "What did the shopkeeper Gu say?"

When Li Shun asked, it was Gu Qi's turn to be surprised.

Dakang opened the dynasty for a hundred years, and the official family was enlightened.While attaching great importance to agriculture, he did not neglect business, so there were many merchants in Dakang, and the social status of merchants was not low.

In particular, the economic system in Yunzhou Prefecture is complete, the business environment is good, the shops of various colors are lined up, and the businesses are flourishing.

Naturally, Dakang merchants have a lot of tricks in doing business. Take Zhou Li, the eldest young master of the Zhou family as an example. He is young, but he is as smart as an old fox.

The cloth swatch was just an inconspicuous little thing, so Gu Qi took it for granted that there would be a standard copy in Zhou's cloth shop, but he didn't think that there was no cloth swatch in the cloth shop at this time.Or perhaps not yet aware of the flexibility of swatches.

Also, although the Dakang Dynasty's textile craftsmanship is high, it lacks the support of industrial machinery and the output is insufficient. Therefore, for ordinary people, cloth is still very precious.Many families with insufficient income cannot afford to buy a good piece of cloth throughout the year.

In addition, most of the cloth shops have limited types of fabrics and colors. Whenever there are new colors, the cloth shops often directly display the cloth on the shop surface for customers who enter the store to buy. It is true that there is no need for cloth samples at all.

After thinking for a while, Gu Qi asked: "Is there any scraps of today's cloth in the cloth shop?

It doesn't need to be too big, about two inches is enough. Simply mount these pieces of cloth with paper seals like a booklet, which is the cloth sample.

At present, the market can only provide Zhou's two counters for cloth shops, and naturally the number of cloths that can be placed is limited.And if the cloth placed above the cabinet is difficult to pick and place, and it is not convenient for guests to choose, it is better to use these rags to make a cloth sample booklet for guests to read, which is convenient and fast.

If the cloth selected by the customer happens to be out of stock at the counter of the store, they can also provide a reservation according to the cloth sample book number, and then send the pre-ordered cloth together with the next replenishment. "

"That's a good idea."

Li Shun's eyes lit up: "In my opinion, we can not only use rags of today's cloth as cloth samples, but we should take part of all the cloths in the Kubu cloth of Zhou's cloth as cloth samples, and keep them for every cloth shop in the future. A few volumes are convenient to choose.”

"Manager Li is very thoughtful." Gu Qi nodded with a smile.With Li Shun's shrewdness, it is not surprising that he would draw inferences from one case.

Hearing this, Li Shun waved his hands again and again: "The shopkeeper Gu Xiao praised me, I just picked up shopkeeper Gu's idea.

No wonder the eldest young master and Steward Liu had a lot of respect for Shopkeeper Gu Xiao before. It turned out that Shopkeeper Gu was young, but he was able to think about things that others couldn't, and he was a real business expert. "

Gu Qi chuckled: "Then Manager Li is still embarrassed about how Yun Jin and Su Jin should be arranged?"

"Manager Gu, don't mention this again." Li Shun's usual smile like a Buddha's kindness couldn't hold back at the moment: "I was thinking about it for a while. I wanted to let Shopkeeper Gu provide some convenience."

"What convenience is provided?" Gu Qi didn't speak, but Liu Qingshan asked curiously.

Li Shun's face showed a bit of embarrassment: "I originally wanted to put two more clothes hangers on the side of the cloth cabinet, so that I could hang Zhou's Yunjin and Sujin for display."

After that, Xu Shi was worried that Gu Qi was unhappy, and Li Shun immediately smiled and said, "Now that I think about it, what the shopkeeper Gu said made sense before, it's really a waste. enough."

Gu Qi hooked the corners of his lips: "With only a cloth sample of about two inches, it can't show the splendor and wealth of Yunjin."

Li Shun knew that he was wrong, and he didn't care if he was scolded, he just smiled and said: "Two inches is not enough to use five inches, ten inches, enough."

"It's what Shopkeeper Li said over there." Gu Qi smiled and didn't mention anything else.

The clothes hangers of the Dakang Dynasty are wide at the bottom, and the widest place where they hang is three or four feet long.

And Li Shun wanted to put two clothes hangers at first.Apparently, it was because Gu Qi was a bully at the age of seven who didn't understand the way, so he thought that with a few words and not a penny, he would be able to show the greatest benefit to Zhou's cloth line.

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After leaving Zhou's Clothing Line and saying goodbye to Liu Qingshan, Gu Qi and Fengqing found a shop specializing in bamboo weaving gadgets at the back of the market.

Although there are also villagers in Xiaoqi Village who can make bamboo weaving, but the bamboo weaving that is common in farmhouses is the dustpan and back basket.

This shop is in a remote location. Gu Qi asked Mrs. Qin beforehand, and then he found the place after a lot of trouble.

There are no signboards on the storefront, just a small one, and the walls on both sides are covered with various bamboo-woven objects.Looking at the shop today is a woman in her early thirties, with a thin body, wearing a low bun and wearing a light crimson dress. She is holding very thin bamboo strips in her hands and is weaving a short and fat shape only the size of a bowl. A small, round object.

The woman's hands alternated, and the speed was extremely fast. Seeing that Gu Qi and Fengqing entered the store, they only glanced at them, and then continued the work in their hands.

The inside of the shop is very small, except for the items placed, the two of them can't turn around in the remaining space.

Gu Qi looked around, took one of the small square frames that were only one foot long and half a foot wide, and could fit a fist deep, and asked the woman who was looking at the shop, "How much is this frame?"

The woman looked up and said, "Four cents a piece."

"Then what about this in your hand?" Gu Qi asked again.