The fragrance of flowers passing through the Red Chamber

"Master, Second Master, we're here." Fang'er's voice came into the sedan chair.

"Let go of the sedan chair." The bearer shouted, and the sedan chair landed on the ground smoothly.

The sedan chair curtain was lifted, and shopkeeper Huang's face with a goatee appeared in front of Xi Ren and Jiang Yuhan, and said with a smile, "You two, please get off the sedan chair."

Xiren and Jiang Yuhan got out of the sedan chair, a gust of cold wind blew past, Xiren shivered, couldn't help tightening the collar of the fox fur cloak, and rushed into the pawnshop without talking much.

"I'm sorry, brother-in-law was rude." Seeing this, Jiang Yuhan was angry and funny at the same time, and quickly apologized to shopkeeper Huang.

"It's okay. It's cold outside, so hurry up and go in too." Shopkeeper Huang said with a smile, not angry.

Hearing this, Jiang Yuhan also felt cold, and hurried into the pawn shop, followed by Shopkeeper Huang and Fang'er.

As soon as he entered the pawn shop, Jiang Yuhan only heard a burst of noise.Following the sound, I saw a few guys talking around Xiren.Xiren stood among them calmly, answering their questions one by one, while taking a sip of hot tea.

"What are you doing around the second master?" Shopkeeper Huang shouted, causing all the staff to scatter with a whoosh, but in order to go far away, they pretended to be working one by one, but kept looking at Xiren, curiously snooping.

"Master, why are you scaring them? I was talking to them vigorously, but I was scared away by your shouting!" Xiren said angrily.

"Second brother, don't complain about shopkeeper Huang, you are too rude. You just ran in to drink tea without saying hello to the master. It's too wrong!" Jiang Yuhan saw the shopkeeper Huang's look of being at a loss. , Immediately lowered his face, reprimanded.

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"Ahem, it's too cold, I forgot for a while." Shopkeeper Huang was about to say something, but Xi Ren spoke first with a hint of embarrassment.Turning to shopkeeper Huang, she bowed embarrassedly and apologized: "Master, I'm rude."

"Second Lord, you're going to kill this old man!" Shopkeeper Huang said hastily, and stepped forward to support Xiren, with a look of panic on his face.

"Master, are you forgiving me?" Xi Ren refused to straighten up, but still bowed and asked.

"Forgive, forgive, you'd better get back on your feet." Shopkeeper Huang had never seen such an unassuming master, even though Jiang Yuhan was always kind to them, but always felt a little alienated.But this second master can cry when he wants to cry, laugh when he wants to, with gusts of wind and rain, but his personality is very straightforward, making it hard for people to refuse the closeness of "him".It's a good thing to have such a master, right?Shopkeeper Huang thought about it secretly.

"That's what you said." Xiren straightened up with a smile, and said: "In the future, you should take more care of yourself."

"The old man knows." Shopkeeper Huang said, looking at Xi Ren who was smiling, dumbfounded.Such a person, can he really be angry with him?cannot!If you can't, you have to wait a little longer.

"Thank you, shopkeeper Huang." Jiang Yuhan looked at Xiren's smiling face and felt relieved.Even if such a slick person like shopkeeper Huang, who has been through many battles, can be subdued by the attackers, then Jin Yunu must not be her opponent.

"Master, why are you being polite to me? The old man likes the second master very much. I will definitely train 'him' well. I believe that the second master will be successful in the near future. At that time, our master and apprentice will join forces, and the Xincheng pawnshop will surely have a prosperous business and a lot of money. Maosheng." Shopkeeper Huang said excitedly.

"Then I will trouble you." Jiang Yuhan said with a smile, and looked at Xiren by the way, with an inexplicable look in his eyes.

"Don't be polite, don't you be annoying?" Xiren couldn't listen anymore, and interjected: "Master, brother, it's getting late, let's talk about business, and rest. Say less."

"Look at me, I was so busy talking to the men that I forgot my business." Shopkeeper Huang suddenly called out as if remembering. "Second Master, come with me, we will go to the accounting room. Master, are you coming too?"

"Well, I'll go and have a look too." Jiang Yuhan said with a faint smile.He was worried, worried that Xiren and shopkeeper Huang would be alone together. Although he respected shopkeeper Huang very much, he had to be more careful when it came to Xiren's safety.

The shopkeeper Huang stroked his goatee and smiled slightly, seeing through Jiang Yuhan's mind, without revealing it, he led Xi Ren and Jiang Yuhan to the account room.

"By the way, Fang'er, go and rest first." Xiren suddenly thought of Fang'er, and hurriedly turned around and said to Fang'er who was looking at her eagerly.

"Okay. Come back and rest quickly." Fang'er finally smiled on her wrinkled face, and said obediently.

"Okay." Xiren responded, no longer looked at Fang'er, and followed Huang's shopkeeper to the account room.

After entering the accounting room, shopkeeper Huang walked to the table, brought over a stack of account books, and handed them to Xiren.Xiren opened the account book and looked at it carefully.It was the first time for her to read the account books.However, I have also learned simple accounting in school, and I still have a concept of ordinary account books.Xiren can understand this simple account book of expenditure and income in ancient times.

Shopkeeper Huang stroked his goatee while observing Xiren carefully.Seeing her seriously flipping through the pages, I was very happy.Children can be taught!It seems that this is a talent that can be created.

Jiang Yuhan stared at Xiren indifferently from the side, and looked at shopkeeper Huang from time to time.Seeing Shopkeeper Huang's gratified expression and Xiren's seriousness, he was also very happy.

After a while, Xiren finally put down the account book in his hand.

"How is it? What can you tell?" Shopkeeper Huang asked with a smile.

"Master, how many branches do we have?" Xiren asked seriously without answering.

"Only this one. What's the matter?" Shopkeeper Huang frowned and said.

"Master, is this account book for this month?" Xiren picked up an account book and continued to ask, but did not answer Huang's question.

"Yes." Shopkeeper Huang replied with a faint smile on his face.

"According to the account books of the past few months, I think the profit of our pawn shop is not high, and even grows very slowly. Master, I don't know why?" Xiren asked suspiciously.Looking at the stack of account books, the income minus the expenses, the remaining silver grew very slowly every month, and even lost money for a few months, and most of the pawned items were not worth much money There are very few valuable items such as jade, antiques, gold and silver jewelry, and there are not many dead pawns. If this continues, it will be meaningless for this pawn shop to continue to open.

"I know this." Jiang Yuhan saw that shopkeeper Huang didn't speak, and hurriedly interjected to explain: "In the capital city, not only our family runs a pawn shop, but also many big businessmen do this business. Don't say anything else, let's talk about Gulou West Hengshu Dian on the main street is a time-honored pawn shop with dozens of branches. Our pawn shop was suppressed by these pawn shops not long after it opened, and the profit naturally grew very slowly. This is due to the good management of shopkeeper Huang. There will be growth, if it is someone else, we will not be able to make a profit, and it will be good if we don’t lose money.”

Xiren frowned upon hearing Jiang Yuhan's words.It is impossible to continue like this. It stands to reason that businessmen should have their ups and downs, but the ancient pawn industry was the most profitable industry, and it should not and should not have the current situation. "Master, brother, I think we should think of some effective ways to make our pawn shop more profitable."

"Oh? Do you have any good ideas?" Shopkeeper Huang asked excitedly.

"Yes, but yes, I don't know if you can accept it?" Xiren said with a smile, no longer maintaining that serious expression.

"Let's talk, don't tempt us anymore." Jiang Yuhan was also very interested in the method of attacking people, and said urgently.

"Okay, I said it." The smile on Xiren's face became more cheerful and brighter: "We can bet on stones."

"Gambling stones?" Shopkeeper Huang and Jiang Yuhan asked in unison.

"Yes, it's gambling with stones." Seeing the puzzled expressions of the two, Xiren smiled smugly, hehe!Watching TV is still quite useful, dear mother, thank you, if you don’t sit in front of the TV every day and watch "Run, Daddy", I really don’t know that there is such a method as betting on stones.It just happens to be used now, and it may make the pawnshop business flourish!

"Second Master, hurry up, tell us, what kind of stone gambling is it?" Shopkeeper Huang urged.His qualifications in the pawn industry are quite old, but it was the first time he heard about gambling stones.

"Yes, second brother, tell me quickly, I really want to know." Jiang Yuhan also urged.

"Don't worry, I'll tell you right away." Seeing that the two were eager to know, Xi Ren was even more proud. He leisurely picked up the tea prepared on the table, took a sip, and then opened his mouth under the eager eyes of the two: " We spread the word that we bought a large number of exquisite stones and then sold them, and if anyone can find jade from those stones, we can recycle them and give an equal price according to the quality of the jade.”

"What are you doing? We are a pawn shop and don't sell jade. If you do this, it will not help our business." Jiang Yuhan frowned after hearing Xiren's method, and looked at Xiren slightly reproachfully. man, said.

"No, sir, don't blame the second master, I think his method is good." Shopkeeper Huang still stroked his goatee, looking at Xi Ren with admiring eyes, his eyes were full of surprises.

"Not bad? Shopkeeper Huang, I think she is messing around. You shouldn't protect her." Jiang Yuhan said that because shopkeeper Huang didn't want to make people sad, so she said with a straight face.

"Hey, hey, you don't believe me that much?" Xiren glared at Jiang Yuhan unhappily, and shouted loudly.snort!Still don't believe me?I am a modern college student with advanced management concepts and knowledge far beyond this era, yet I am looked down upon by an ancient man, hum!Let's see who has the last laugh!