Dad, open the door. I'll bring your mistress back for you.

"Birui, that hairpin looks very familiar to me."

Birui originally thought that Shen Chuning felt familiar with the peony-shaped hairpin, but she never expected that she felt familiar with the person wearing the hairpin.

"I'm going to return the jewelry blueprints."

After Birui finished speaking, she walked down the stairs and came to the door. When handing over the blueprint, she pretended to be tripped by someone and fell towards the woman.

The woman was knocked off balance and the hairpin on her head fell to the ground with a clang.

The crowd around was in an uproar.

"How could you be so careless? Why don't you apologize to the Madam? You won't get your monthly allowance this month."

Shen Chuning said this and picked up the hairpin on the ground.

"Madam's hairpin is so beautiful. It's all my fault for not disciplining her properly. This girl bumped into Madam, and I've punished her. Please check to see if the hairpin is broken. We at Wanbaoxuan will definitely compensate you."

Shen Chuning handed the hairpin back and wanted to kneel down to apologize, but Birui was held firmly by her.

The woman hurriedly took the hairpin back.

"You said you would fine me the monthly salary, but who knows if it's true or not? She almost knocked my mother down. You must pay compensation." The young girl following the woman said arrogantly.

"No, no, this girl is also careless. Wan'er, let's go."

The woman looked obviously panicked and tried desperately to hold back her daughter who wanted to come forward and argue.

Shen Chuning narrowed her eyes slightly. Long time no see, Shen Jingwan.

Judging from the performance of these two people, Shen Jingwan should not recognize herself now, but Madam Ru should know her. Does she know her, or does she know the owner of Wanbaoxuan?

"Don't leave in such a hurry. Aren't you going to sell the blueprints?" Shen Chuning stopped the two people who wanted to leave.

"We're not selling it anymore. We have something to do at home, so we have to leave first."

As the woman spoke, she dragged the girl out, but the girl broke free from the woman's hand.

"You want to buy my blueprints? How much can you offer?"

"Did you draw this?" Shen Chuning asked with some disgust, pinching the two pages of paper with two fingers.

"I drew this." The girl puffed out her chest slightly, but when she saw the crooked lines on the drawing, she raised her hand and touched her nose. "It's just that my pen isn't very handy, so it turned out like this. Find someone to redraw it like mine and you'll see how much better it looks."

"Do you have any other designs?"

“What I drew is gone, the rest is in my mind.”

"How much silver do you want to sell it for?"

Shen Jingwan stretched out her right hand first, then thought for a moment and stretched out her left hand.

"One for fifty taels, no, one for one hundred taels."

She saw that Shen Chuning was interested in the two drawings and started asking for an exorbitant price.

The people watching around were shocked when they heard this.

"Hahahaha, she could have just gone and robbed the money, but she took the trouble to scribble two pieces of paper for you."

"My three-year-old can draw better than her. Will I be able to use my son's random drawings to scam people?"

"Don't tell me, they really ran into me. I just cheated them out of 500 copper coins at Zhenbaozhai, but now they're asking for 100 taels of silver at Wanbaoxuan. Are they bullying me just because the owner of Wanbaoxuan is a young girl?"

"Pah, five hundred copper coins! I wouldn't even want it if it were free. But this young lady is quite pretty. If she can accompany me for one night, I might consider giving her five hundred copper coins."

"Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha."

Everyone around started laughing.

When Madam Ru heard these words, her face turned red all the way to her neck. She came to pull Shen Jingwan again, "Wan'er, let's go quickly."

Shen Jingwan held Madam Ru's hand on her sleeve and said, "Mom, someone finally wants my blueprints. Let's go, uncle..."

"Wan'er!" Shen Jingwan was stopped loudly before she could finish her words.

Uncle? Where did this uncle come from? In her previous life, until she died, she had never heard of such an uncle appearing.

Shen Chuning looked at the noisy crowd around her and said, "This is not the place to talk. If you still want to sell the blueprints, come up with me. If you don't want to sell them, then please do as you please."

"Xu Fu, please let the crowd disperse so as not to disrupt business."

After Shen Chuning finished speaking, she turned and walked upstairs.

Shen Jingwan hesitated for a moment, then gritted her teeth and followed.

……

"sit down."

Upon hearing this, Shen Jingwan sat down opposite Shen Chuning, while Xuexue Niang stood behind Shen Jingwan, pinching the hem of her clothes with her hands nervously, her brows slightly furrowed, her teeth biting her lower lip, looking as if she wanted to say something but couldn't.

She didn't ask anyone to sit down. She picked up the tea on the table, took a sip, and said, "Don't even mention 100 taels of silver. Even if it's taels of silver per ticket, we at Wanbaoxuan won't accept it."

"Are you kidding me? If you're not going to accept it, why did you ask us to come up? Is it just to laugh at us?" Shen Jingwan shouted excitedly.

Shen Chuning looked at him and shook her head slightly. How could such a person have pushed her to such a desperate situation in her previous life?

She tapped her fingers on the table.

"Not accepting these two pictures doesn't mean we can't cooperate. After all, you're short of money, right?"

Hearing the words "lack of money", Shen Jingwan's momentum obviously weakened, "How do you want to cooperate?"

"You provide Wanbaoxuan with ten drawings every month, and I will pay you monthly wages. These ten drawings must satisfy me."

“How much can you pay me per month?”

"Our Wanbaoxuan's designer can earn thirty taels a month, so I'll give you twenty taels a month."

"I asked for one hundred taels of silver per blueprint, but now you want me to get ten blueprints every month, but you only give me twenty taels of silver?"

"Nineteen taels."

"How about giving you ten drawings every month that you're guaranteed to be satisfied with, and a hundred taels of silver every month?"

"Eighteen taels."

"The jewelry made using my drawings will definitely be more popular than the jewelry currently sold by Wanbaoxuan. My wages cannot be less than those of the designers at Wanbaoxuan."

"Seventeen taels."

"Just twenty taels, ten drawings a month, twenty taels of silver." Shen Jingwan was obviously panicking.

"Sixteen taels."

"We agreed on sixteen taels, and it can't be changed." Shen Jingwan listened to Shen Chuning trying to lower the price, and finally couldn't stand the pressure and compromised.

"Oh, there's one more condition. We need to sign a contract and file it with the government. All your future designs can only be used by Wanbaoxuan. If you violate this, you'll have to pay Wanbaoxuan 10,000 taels of silver in compensation. You have to know that if your drawings end up in another jewelry store, no matter who sent them out, our Shen family will definitely be able to track them down."

As Shen Chuning spoke, she glanced at Madam Ru intentionally or unintentionally.

Hearing this, Shen Jingwan hesitated again. She had thought that she had many jewelry styles in her mind. Although Wanbaoxuan paid little, it only accepted ten drawings per month. She could go to other places to sell the drawings. If she sold them to more places, she would also have a considerable income every month.

But according to what Shen Chuning said, she could only earn sixteen taels of silver every month from jewelry drawings. At present, she has not thought of any other good way to make money without investing any capital.

"I'll have to think about it some more."