Chapter 224

“Hehe, aunt, see what you are talking about. If you want, I can draw some for you anytime. But aunt, I think you’d better do some women’s handbags first. And don’t sell them in town, better ask Qingzi to take them to the county or the prefecture to sell. Find the biggest embroidery shop there, and talk to the shopkeeper in person, sign a long-term contract. If you are interested, I can find a time to talk about the specific details with Qingzi.”

Things like this, as long as they decided to do, they’d take the high-end line. In any ear, women’s money was the easiest to earn.

“What handbags? You mean pouches?”

Wang Jinyu got totally confused. Zhang Qing, on one side, also approached as he heard their conversation. He quite admired this big cousin, only wishing to learn something from him.

“No, it’s bigger than the pouch. Wait a minute.”

He couldn’t explain it using words, so he directly went into the room to take out a self-made charcoal pencil and a pile of rice papers the little buns used to practice their calligraphy, and then started to draw before everyone. Soon, a simple and beautiful square shape handbag appeared. Ling Jingxuan took up the paper and explained to his family who all moved over now, “Look! You can make it with linen of different colors, and then use the silk to embroider a peony on it, and use the silk or brocade as the lining, and use some bamboo skin as the prop in between. After doing the stitches, use some bright color brocade for the edge covering. The handles are simple. Use some cotton sticks wrapping with the brocade of the same color of the linen, both soft and pretty. Finally, the design of the mouth sealing. Take this one I drew for example. Better use button knots like those on our clothes, a combination of linen and brocade, which features both hardness and softness. It could add some sexy and cute feeling to a woman.”

Most important of all, it was cheap using linen as the main material, the slightly expensive silk was just for decoration, and bamboo skin was everywhere, for their initial startup, undoubtedly it was the best choice, and a combination of both would not lower the quality of the handbags, women would like it, as long as one woman used it, there would be more women following the trend, by then, wouldn’t it be easy to make money?

“You know what, this bag looks really good. Usually, when we go out, we’d only take a pouch with us at most, too small to carry a lot of stuff. Only a few copper coins would stuff it full. If it changes into this thing, those little things us women use could all be stuffed in. And the style is good. Jinyue, I think it’s promising. How about you make one first?”

Lady Wang took over the drawing and spoke her opinion first. She really thought highly of her big son now. Take the idea he gave for her family. She heard that after her big brother and his wife went home, they instantly made preparations. And the third morning, they went to town to make a stall. It was just a few days till now. Yesterday, her nephew came to say that they had already earned a few taels of silver already. And the whole family was happy, and had more strength to do things. Since her family’s days were getting better, of course she’d also wish that her miserable younger sister could live better.

“Looks good, I’ll give it a try some other day. Jingxuan, why do you have such a flexible brain?”

Wang Jinyu also nodded and could not help smiling at him. Her parents’ family had already made money because of Ling Jingxuan’s idea. If this handbag was as good as he said, she would certainly make a lot of money, and it was all his credit.

“Yeah, our Jingxuan has a lot of stuff in his head. Your big uncle said their business is quite good. Every day, they’d send rice noodles to the town for quite a few times. They are nearly out of hands now.”

To this big grandson, Lady Sun couldn’t be satisfied, a wrinkled face with full smile.

Hearing that, Ling Jingxuan flashed his eyes, tentatively asking, “Really? That is good. I was still afraid that I gave my big uncle a bad idea.”

He had been so busy breeding the seedlings recently that he had already forgotten about it.

“Bad idea? Yesterday your big cousin came and said, just a few days and they have earned several taels of silver, very busy every day, so he is considering to expand it.”

When it came to the family’s small business, Lady Sun’s smile was even brighter. After making money, their life became better. And then, her several single grandchildren would be able to get married with splendor.

“I see.”

Ling Jingxuan touched his chin pretending to meditate, after quite a while, he suddenly said, “Since they are short of hands now, grandma, why not let Yunya go back to help? You and my grandpa can stay here for some more time. Anyway, we got so many servants and maids here, who would take care of you. You know, doing business, the startup stage is the most difficult.”

Speaking of which, he swept over at Wang Yunya faintly. Her symptoms had become very serious. If he didn’t send her away, something would happen. In an era where a man had to take the responsibility even if he accidentally touches a woman’s arm, he should take precautions.

“Grandma, I don’t want to go back. I want to stay and take care of you.”

Hearing what he said, Wang Yunya instantly turned pale. You could imagine her pathetic look. Facing the whole family’s eyes, Wang Yunya instantly grabbed the old ma’am’s arm and blurted out.

“We’re not old enough to be looked after all the time.”

The old lady glanced sharply at her, thinking that she was covetous of the comfort here and did not want to go back to work. Her face fell down instantly.