Ye Zhuo heard the news from Yang Jianxiu's side and discussed with Ye Yuqi: "Please visit this site."

  Ye Yiqi frowned and said, "Your disciples have only learned for a few days, they can't do anything, and they can't help you. You want to practice jade carving again, and also give them lessons, how can you have time to design jade carvings for others? Don't overwork yourself."

  "This is nothing to worry about. Let's just set a rule for ourselves and go out, designing only ten pieces of jade material per month, which won't take up much time."

  "This approach is not bad." Ye Yuqi nodded, "However, if there are twenty people coming to the door, who you design for and who you don't design for is also a problem. You need to set up another rule in this regard, whether it's based on first-come-first-served or based on the price of jade materials. If it's based on time sequence, how to collect money, you should think about it together."

  "Uh-huh." Ye Zhuo handed a paper to Ye Yuqi, "This is the charter I've drafted. Grandfather, take a look and see if there's anything that's not thorough or unreasonable, and I'll make revisions accordingly."

  Ye Yiqi took the paper and first saw the name on it, called Qiaosi Hall. He nodded in approval: "This name is good. At a glance, you can tell what it's for." After finishing speaking, he carefully read the content written on the paper again, and after reading it, he nodded: "Not bad, you've thought of everything."

  In this charter, Ye Zhuo proposed that the design qualification be obtained in the order of first come, first served, but the condition is that the jade material provided to her for design must be worth more than 1,000 taels of silver; after the design drawing comes out, a fee of one-tenth of its value will be charged, i.e. for jade material worth 1,000 taels of silver, the design fee paid is 100 taels of silver. The higher the value of the jade material, the more expensive the design fee will be. This is the same as the way the carving and processing fees are collected.

  The price threshold of one thousand two is based on the overall level of the town's workshops. Medium-sized workshops in Nanshan Town have the largest proportion, and this type of workshop can often receive jade materials worth one thousand two. However, these workshops do not have professional designers like Niejiabao's large-scale workshops, and can only follow their jade carvers' designs to carve some ordinary decorations. Ye Yuzhang's workshop is one of them.

  From the several jade carvings designed by Ye Zhuo for Ye Yuzhang in recent months, it can be seen that with Ye Zhuo's design, the profit margin of those jade materials worth one thousand two silver coins has been greatly increased. In the past, after deducting the processing fee of the jade carver, the maximum profit from carving them into ornaments was only two or three hundred silver coins, and sometimes even just a few dozen silver coins. But with Ye Zhuo's design, the minimum profit is four or five hundred silver coins, and the maximum profit can be as high as one thousand two silver coins.

  As the saying goes, "A thousand pieces of gold cannot buy a good head." Those customers can't be bought with this piece of jade carving. The deciding factor is still the design and craftsmanship of the work. If he particularly likes the style of that jade carving, it doesn't matter if he spends more money. That's where the profit lies.

  With a design fee of only 100 taels of silver, you can get a profit margin of several hundred taels of silver. Even a ten-year-old kid can understand this math.

  And a rule that only designs ten pieces per month can also make these jade carvings scarce and in demand, without the phenomenon of flooding the market and causing prices to drop.

  So, Ye Zhuo's design workshop business can be expected to be booming. Moreover, it only takes a short period of time for her designs to spread throughout the entire South.

  "Ah, if only we had a shop on Jade Street, it would be great to open your workshop there, no need to worry about business being slow. But don't worry, Grandfather will go and take a look around these few days to see if there's any suitable storefront." Ye Yuqi thought of the shop that Nie family gave him, and felt a slight regret in his heart. If only he wasn't so stubborn back then, and spent money to buy that shop, it would be very useful today.

  "No need, grandfather. Just hang a sign above the Jade Carving Workshop and have two old jade carvers specialize in recording customers' names and collecting jade materials inside the workshop. I'll design some posters with our workshop's name, business scope, and charging information for you to distribute to those workshop owners."

  "It's alright." Ye Yuqi nodded in agreement. With this arrangement, the reputation of Yu Zhuo Fang would become more and more renowned, and Yu Zhuo's business would also get better along with it.

  Moreover, there is no need to buy another house, which saves expenses and makes management more convenient. Otherwise, he would have to run back and forth and really couldn't take care of it. Ye Zhuo himself was busy and not suitable for showing his face, so naturally he couldn't come to manage this matter. As for other people, he simply didn't trust them.

  It's most appropriate to invite an old jade carver to collect jade materials. Jade carvers do physical work and can only work until they are sixty years old, after which their hands lose strength and they have to retire and take care of their grandchildren. Therefore, as long as the price is reasonable, it's possible to invite the best old jade carvers to come out of retirement. These old jade carvers have dealt with jade materials for most of their lives, have a keen eye, consider problems comprehensively, and are the most suitable people to be in charge. Two people can work together, supervise each other, and prevent problems from arising when collecting jade materials.

  "When will you be ready to choose?" he asked again.

  "There are still four days before my mother gets married, let's choose a day after she gets married. It won't make a difference to rush for just this little time. Besides, we also need to invite the jade carver and post the announcement, which will take several days to prepare."

  Ye Yuqi nodded: "Then I'll go find someone to look at the calendar, and also find an old jade carver." After finishing speaking, he stood up and left. And Ye Zhuo returned to his room to start designing the poster.

  Not long after, Ye Yuqi returned and said to Ye Zhuodao: "The most suitable one is..."

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  Ye Zhuo handed over the well-written post to him: "It's been a hard two days for Grandfather."

  "Haven't you seen? Grandpa's body, it's getting better and better." Ye Yuqi patted his chest, and the two of them burst out laughing. Indeed, since opening up the workshop and having a spiritual outlet, Ye Yuqi's body had been getting better and better.

  After Ye Zhuo finished laughing, he said: "The contract signed by these two old jade carvers, we still need to discuss it carefully. After the discussion, let Yu Bo take a car to pick them up and sign the contract."

  "This indeed needs careful consideration." Having gone through what had happened, Ye Yuqi felt that Ye Zhuo's proposal was extremely necessary.

  Then came the busiest time for the Ye family. Ye Yuke and Ye Zhuo were busy with the opening of Qiao Si Guan, while Gu Shi and Zhao Shi were busy with Zheng Manwen's marriage. However, amidst the excitement and busyness, everyone was also worried about Du Haoran who had not returned yet.

  Yang Jianxiu was a county magistrate, and his wedding was quite lively. Although he and Zheng Manwen were both remarried and didn't want to make a big fuss, they just wanted to receive the guests, pay respects to their elders, and invite relatives for a meal. However, the townspeople wanted to curry favor with the new county magistrate, so they brought red envelopes uninvited, catching the Yang family off guard. Yang Jianxiu's nephew quickly ran to the wine house to invite the chefs from both families, bringing ingredients with him, and only then was the wedding successfully completed.

  On the Ye family's side, Ye Yuzhang and Jiang Shi came to congratulate with thick skin. As for Ye Ming, thinking of Zheng Manwen's current glory, he thought of his own downfall, got drunk at home, and didn't want to go out for over a dozen days, afraid of being ridiculed by others.

  The opening of the Qiaosi Hall was much more low-key compared to the wedding, with only a notice being sent out and a string of firecrackers set off on the day of the opening. A special area was also reserved for the two old gentlemen in the Yu Zhen Fang. That was all there was to it.

  But for those who do business, they rely on their keen sense of smell and vision. Some people with quick minds started thinking about this problem after receiving Ye Yuxi's post and inquired about the prices of Ye Zhuo's jade carvings in the past. Although they wondered why Ye Zhuo didn't help design for his own Jade Carving Workshop, expand its scale, and put all the profits in his pocket, but instead helped others make wedding dresses. They still brought some jade materials over to try it out. So on the first day of Qiaosi Hall's opening, they received five pieces of jade material. This made Ye Yuxi very happy, and he immediately sent the jade materials to the mansion in Qingyun Alley.

  The alley of Qingyun Lane is wider than that of Ziyu Lane, and carriages can drive in directly. When the carriage stopped in front of the house, Ye Yiqi saw Zhao Shu standing at the door, talking to three men. The three men looked very wretched, their clothes were not only tattered but also stained with blood.

  "Zhao Zhong, these are......" Ye Yuqi leaned on his cane and walked over.

  "Oh, old master. I saw these few people at the gate of Du Gongzi's house, so I came out to ask, but didn't expect it was actually Du Gongzi and them." Zhao Shu hastily explained with a smile when he saw Ye Yiqi.

  Because she was worried about leaving Ye Zhuo alone with a group of young boys in the courtyard, Zheng Manwen kept both Zhao Shu and Zhao Shu's wife here, not taking them to Wanfu Alley.

  "Du Gongzi?" Ye Yuxi turned his head, looking at the three men with suspicion. The three of them seemed to have appeared out of nowhere, their clothes tattered and their faces covered in stubble, making it hard to tell who was who at first glance.

  "Old Master Ye." One of the tall men spoke up and raised his hand in a salute.

  It's Du Haoran's voice.

  "Is this really Master Du? Where did you come from? How did you end up in such a mess?" Ye Yuqi was shocked. He thought to himself that something was wrong, thinking that Du Haoran had been pursued by the Nie family and quickly looked around, seeing no one nearby, he pulled Du Haoran towards Zheng Manwen's original residence and said in a low voice: "You'd better not go back home for now, hurry up and come to my place to hide."

  Du Haoran didn't know what Ye Yuxi was thinking, but he felt a little moved and smiled: "Old Master Ye, it's okay, we just came out of the deep mountains. There are many wild beasts in the mountains, and they're all thorny, so that's why our clothes are like this. It's not that someone wants to kill me."

  At this time, Aunt Zhao in the courtyard was walking out with Ye Zhuo, and whispered: "Miss, don't go out for now, let's see how things develop first. Those three people, they don't seem like good people."

  Thank you Fang and Guang Han Gong Zhu for the peace charm reward!

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