In this era, posting Spring Festival couplets during the New Year is something that every household must do to get rid of the old and welcome the new. Those who have a slightly better family background will also post door god paintings.

The earliest door god paintings were Shentu and Yulei. The new door god Zhong Kui appeared in the Tang Dynasty. In the previous dynasty, Qin Qiong and Yuchi Gong, two door gods closely related to folk legends, began to become popular.

This kind of door god is usually invited to paint, just in simple black and white. If the printing workshop can batch print brightly colored door god paintings, it will definitely set a precedent for the times and become a trend.

As for the colorful and story-like New Year pictures, this era has not yet appeared.

At present, the profit of printing workshops mainly relies on printing and wholesale comic strips to foreign merchants. After all, the market in Ninghua County is too small. With the current scale of printing workshops, Ninghua County and surrounding towns cannot digest the output. Since foreign merchants have mastered the sales channels, those people probably have nothing at the beginning. After a long time, they will definitely reminisce about it, and gradually they will use price reduction and other means to compress the profits of the printing workshop.

According to Chen Xi's intention, if this happens, we must resolutely fight back and let those people know that even if the printing workshop leaves them, we can still make a profit.

When Hui Niang heard the colorful New Year pictures, she couldn't help but ask with some hope: "Xiaolang, tell us, what does this colorful New Year pictures look like?"

"Colorful New Year pictures are similar to those ordinary door god paintings, but they are much richer in colors. And we can improve them and add the content of comic strips to the New Year pictures. The entire New Year pictures are colorful on them, not only with comic strip stories, but also with text or calendars below. Ordinary people buy them and paste them on the wall as wallpaper."

"You stupid guy, since you have such good things, why don't you print a few pictures for us to see?" Zhou Yi couldn't help but urge him to hear that the colorful New Year paintings are so good.

"Sister is too anxious. This is just the idea proposed by Xiaolang. Our printing workshop is doing well now, and it is still early for the New Year, so there is no need to rush to do the New Year painting business. We have colorful comics and colorful New Year paintings as the direction of our future business. Even if those foreign businessmen want to join forces to suppress us, we are not afraid."

Hui Niang was originally worried that Chen Xi would be suppressed by foreign merchants when she exposed her shortcomings. At this time, she finally calmed down and a relaxed smile appeared on her face.

Chen Xi hurriedly said, "Aunt Sun, we still can't take it lightly. Just from the business point of view, we are not afraid of the people of Shopkeeper Su, but after all, they travel around the world and travel vastly, and they are afraid of them playing tricks behind their backs. For example, poaching people behind their backs, or setting fire to our workshops, but what we are most worried about is that they are in contact with the people of the government, or simply being spokespersons for high-ranking officials and nobles on the surface, and we will be in trouble at that time."

Collusion between power and money has been happening since ancient times. When officials have power, they want to make money with power. It is not a good idea to be corrupt and abuse the law, because according to the Ming Dynasty, corrupt officials will be subject to skinning and torture.

According to the court rules, if officials cannot do business, they will rent out their power, or hand over the money to others to act as behind-the-scenes financial support, and at the same time give these merchants political and policy convenience. As long as the officials behind these merchants have a large background, no matter where they do their business, they will have the support of the government.

The people do not fight with officials, scholars, farmers, industry and commerce. The status of merchants was originally not as good as that of farmers and craftsmen, but due to the protection of officials, the status of merchants was actually much higher than expected. Yi Dan really faced it, and the current situation of medicine shops and printing workshops was obviously a mantis arm to chariots.

Hui Niang nodded solemnly: "Then let's be careful in the future. The business has already taken place, so I'd better do it first. After all, this order of 12,000 yuan can also make more than 400 taels of silver."

Hui Niang and Zhou wiped out the previous unhappiness and counted the profits over the past few months. From the beginning of the printing workshop, the profits brought by more than 2,500 taels in three or four months. After deciding the money they bought before the pharmacy store and printing workshop site and the subsequent continuous expansion of the investment, the remaining net profit was still about 2,000 taels.

"Sister, this money is too much, you can take away your share first."

According to the previous share ratio, the profits of Hui Niang and Zhou's family were 460 yuan. Zhou's family made less effort but made a big profit. Last time, the dividend was only more than 300 yuan. Zhou's family already felt that it was amazing, but this time it was a record 1,200 yuan. She could no longer remain calm and refused to accept it.

"You said that you would have so much extra money at hand, how should I deal with it? If someone finds out, you will not be confiscated to your home? If you can't get it in the end, you may accuse me of hiding my private property. Sister, please keep it first, I don't worry about putting it there."

Zhou showed full trust in Hui Niang. Even if it was a large sum of money, she would rather leave it to Hui Niang.

Hui Niang was a little confused: "My sister originally thought that she should expand her business by making money and make the printing workshop bigger and stronger, but at the current scale, it seems to be enough to deal with it. If it expands, it will be extravagant and wasteful. This is really worrying. Xiaolang, you have many ideas on weekdays. Can you tell me how to use this money?"

Shen Xi smiled and said, "Aunt Sun and Mom are so busy every day now, why don't you find some help? As for this money, there is no need to spend it immediately. Let's wait and see first. If you have a way to invest, it's not too late."

Zhou waved his hand and said, "You're still looking for a way? You're running a pharmacy and a printing workshop at the same time. If you run another business, your body will collapse first."

Hui Niang smiled slightly, revealing the dimples on both sides: "Sister doesn't think it's a blessing to be busy? Or Xiao Lang is right. If we have money, we don't rush to spend it, or go back to buy some land outside the city. But before that, I have to go to the dentist to buy two girls. If I had known that I would buy two more last time, I wouldn't have to be so tired these days."

Hui Niang never delays her work, and she will implement it vigorously and vigorously when she decides to do whatever she wants.

The next day, Hui Niang went to find the dentist. After Shen Xi reminded her last time that if she wanted to meet these people, she would first hire a few lie to accompany her to avoid any accidents.

With Huiniang's current status in the city, almost all businessmen have to flatter her. Whether it is doing pharmacy business, rice and grain business, or even running the four treasures of the study, they are polite when they meet Huiniang. Because Huiniang is not only the head of the pharmacy business, but also the hot printing workshop owner. More importantly, Huiniang has a lot of resources for foreign merchants, and it will be much more convenient for them to do business in the future.

With a high status, even the dentist who bought and sold the population respectfully provided Hui Niang with respect. Last time he went to buy a maid, he had to keep any good things for wealthy families. This time Hui Niang went, the dentist almost searched all the daughters of good families, and even had local maids from Ninghua.

Nowadays, girls have a low status and many families cannot afford to support them, so they want to send them to wealthy families to do things, sell themselves, and become a concubine in wealthy families in the future, or become a family member in a few years to marry a servant or a friend in the mansion. This is a grace.

Hui Niang chose two hours before she came back, and this time she brought back two girls.

Unlike when Xiu'er and the other two came before, the two girls' clothes were worn but clean. They were not refugees who fled from the disaster area, but were natives from Ninghua. Both girls looked very thin and illiterate, but they looked pretty and charming.

"If you like it, you buy them. You don't think you're going to buy them. At most, you'll come here to help you with a few years of work. When they grow up, I will choose a household for them and marry them. They will marry them in a grand manner." Back at the pharmacy, Hui Niang looked at the two new maids, and the more she looked at them, the more she liked them.

Zhou glanced at him and sighed, "I'm afraid that the two girls wouldn't be useful in the movie."

"It's okay, we don't need them to do heavy physical work. My sister just likes them to have big feet, so walking is convenient, and it's good to help us share some work." Hui Niang said, feeling a little emotional, because she is a woman who has been pestering her feet, and she will be tired after walking a few more steps on weekdays. She herself has experienced this pain. Even when Lu Xier is old, she hasn't forced her daughter.

During the Hongzhi period, not all women would bind their feet, especially the daughters of ordinary people who needed to engage in farm work, and many of them were Tianzu. Shen Xi knew that foot binding began to become popular since the Song Dynasty, but the degree of enlightenment in different periods of society determined the number of women who tied their feet. It was the heyday of the Qing Dynasty that women had tied their feet.

"Xiaolang, it's your turn now."

Just as Shen Xi was staring at the feet of the two girls in a daze, Hui Niang's soft call made him come to his senses.

"Hmm!" Shen Xi looked at Hui Niang in confusion.

Hui Niang walked her three-inch golden lotus and came to Shen Xi: "Did you forget? The last time Xiu'er and the others came, it was the name you gave me. I asked earlier that these two girls don't have official names at home, so you should pick them up."

Shen Xi didn't think much and blurted out: "Just call Lu'er and Hong'er."

Hui Niang looked at the old clothes on the two girls. They were indeed green and red, but because of the fading, they could not see the original color clearly. She smiled and nodded: "It's pretty good, very appropriate. You are Lu'er, and you are Hong'er. In the future, in addition to me and your aunt Shen, you can call him the young master or the shopkeeper. He must also obey his words. Do you understand?"

"I understand."

Both girls were thirteen or fourteen years old, and they lowered their heads and responded with their heads down when they heard the sound.

Hui Niang took their bags down and handed them over to Ning'er next to her to help collect them. Then she said, "There are not many houses at home. Come here, I will go to the pharmacy to get up and watch with Xiu'er at night. She always needs a companion every night. I will buy you a new bed and bedding for you. Every season I will ask you to go home. After all, I am from Ninghua, and it is convenient to get close to home."

Lu'er was a little anxious: "Madam, when we left home, our parents said that walking out of the house had nothing to do with the home, and if we went back, we would break our legs."

"Oh, that's it"

Hui Niang thought for a while, "That's okay. When you grow up, get married and have children, your attitude towards you will fade. Like Xiu'er and others, you can also make a hundred yuan a month in monthly income, so you don't have to worry about food and accommodation. But if anyone is lazy, I won't spare you."

Hui Niang is easy to talk to on weekdays, but she still shows her dignity in front of her new maid.

"I don't dare." Lu'er and Hong'er saluted.

After finishing the matter, Hui Niang asked Ning'er to take two new maids to the backyard to get to know the environment.

Watching the graceful back disappear behind the curtain, Hui Niang shook her head and sighed: "It's so good to be young. She doesn't know anything and doesn't have to worry about anything. I just thought about it for a few years and I can't get back to my original state of mind."

Hui Niang felt her life experience, and her words were a bit sad. Chen Xi felt very sorry for her, but unfortunately, now he can do nothing, so he can only sigh in his heart.

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