That day, the young couple had just settled the bill for the funeral team who had returned from work. Everyone thanked them one after another and left the Chu family's shop. Only the last two people stayed behind. They were the two brothers of the Liu family from Songjia Village. The two brothers were together. The funeral procession of the young couple who entered was now pushing each other to come to Chu Yi.
"What's going on with the two Liu brothers?"
The older Liu family brother scratched his hair and said, "Boss, we brothers have something to say."
"There are no outsiders here. If you have anything to do, just say it."
The eldest brother of the Liu family looked behind him and saw that no one was passing by outside the shop, so he said with confidence: "Song Laosan from our village, boss, do you still have any impression?"
Seeing that Chu Yi had no reaction and seemed to not remember this person, Liu's brother quickly added: "On the day when we brothers came to our shop to apply for jobs, we insisted on asking the boss to give us money every month. In the end, when we failed, we got angry and left. The one who died!"
Speaking of this matter, the young couple still had some impressions of that person. When they heard the two people mentioning this person in such a mysterious way, they had some guesses in their hearts: "But what did he do?"
Hearing this, the two brothers nodded desperately and said: "Yes, that guy Song Laosan has never been honest. Since the last time he failed to come to our funeral team, he always talked about what he had and what he didn't have in the village after he returned. We, the funeral team, are bad-mouthing."
"That's right. What's the point of saying that we all have no brains? We call the boss and you don't even know that you are playing tricks. You think you have picked up a treasure!"
Shen Luzhu glanced sideways at his fat son who was currently lying on the kang, playing with Li Hua by pawing and pawing each other, and comforted the two of them and said: "Why listen to his villain's words? We ourselves Putting money in your pocket is the serious thing, just think that he is envious of us."
The eldest brother of the Liu family nodded: "The boss lady is right. We brothers thought so at the beginning. Song Laosan likes to say whatever he likes. His mouth is on him, and his hands and feet are on us. He can still stop him." Is it possible for us brothers to make money? But things are getting more and more wrong recently. Song Laosan actually came to see us a few days ago!"
Chu Yi frowned slightly. This thing was a bit strange. Could it be that Song Laosan was really stupid enough to come to the house and stop the Liu brothers from doing their work? "Went to your house?"
Liu's younger brother said, "No, he just entered my yard without saying anything, and then he said something shameless and told us brothers to quit our jobs and work with him from now on!"
The young couple looked at each other in shock. Before they could say anything, the Liu family brother quickly expressed his position: "Of course, how could we brothers agree! If we really quit our job as a funeral team and follow him Song Laosan is really out of his mind!"
"We brothers didn't really take this matter seriously at first. We just thought that Song Laosan was having epilepsy and went crazy, so we didn't tell the boss."
Shen Luzhu asked softly: "Then what did he do?"
"We didn't have any work yesterday. We two brothers had nothing to do, so we ran to the back mountain to catch a rabbit or something. When we were rushing back, we happened to see Song Laosan and Wang Jiang from our funeral team together. Well, the two of us quietly leaned over and listened, and guess what, boss, the two of them were discussing the price over there!"
Liu's brother said angrily: "I guess I hid in the mountains because I was afraid of being seen, but we two brothers bumped into me. This Song Laosan is really a dog who can't change his mind!"
Chu Yi asked: "Then they have reached an agreement?"
Among the people working today is a man named Wang Jiang. The young couple did not notice any difference between this man and the past, and they did not see him come to mention the resignation. They guessed that the price had not been agreed upon, and they wanted to Isn't it just that I want to earn the wages of today's job first?
"It probably didn't work. When Song Laosan left, he was cursing and saying a lot of unpleasant things. But what he did was really disgusting. Why, if the price was right, Wang Jiang would really follow Song Laosan Is it done?"
"And that Song Laosan, he's not a good guy. After he failed to find us, he went to look for Wang Jiang. He might have been looking for someone in the meantime. Why does he just recognize these people?"
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Boss, boss lady, we both feel that something is not right about this. After much deliberation, we still have to tell you that even if we can't do anything, we should at least be more careful. That Mr. Song most likely has a grudge against you, so he deliberately picked people from our funeral team to poach him, maybe he was holding back his bad intentions and wanted to make us pornographic. "
Chu Yi said in a deep voice: "We know about this, and thank you two brothers for telling us."
"We just can't stand the immoral things that Song Laosan did. The boss and his wife just don't think we're too talkative."
Shen Luzhu smiled and said, "It's too late for us to thank you, so why would we dislike you?"
The Liu brothers said what they wanted to say and didn't stay any longer. They said goodbye to the young couple and left the Chu family's shop. When it was time to close the shop, the young couple locked the door of the shop and returned to their courtyard.
It was still a while before dinner, so the young couple simply returned to the room with a baby and a cat. Shen Luzhu put the fat son back in the crib, while he leaned on Chu Yi and chatted: "I really didn't expect that, first of all The one who comes to compete with us for business is actually that Song Laosan that day."
Chu Yi casually pinched the soft flesh on his wife's hand: "I really didn't expect it."
In fact, Shen Luzhu had already anticipated what would happen today when he was preparing for the sale of the funeral team. After all, this sale was different from the previous paper money sale. There was no high technical content and it was not something they had invented. It is normal for people to learn things from others and compete with them.
No matter what age it is, ancient or modern, as long as you make money from what you do, there will definitely be a lot of people following suit and competing with you. But for this kind of thing, the most you can do is say that the other party has learned your own way of making money, but so what, there is no law that stipulates that the transaction can only be done by the first one who comes up with it.
Just like their paper money business, yellow burning paper, white money, etc., any shop that deals with funeral-related business will sell it. People only know which shop sells it, which one sells it cheaply and well, and who does it? Can you still remember who was the first one?
Therefore, the young couple reacted surprisingly calmly to this matter. As long as the other party did not use despicable means to compete maliciously, they could accept it happily.
In response to this, the young couple also thought of a countermeasure early on. A business like theirs can be regarded as a service industry. In addition to the difference in price, what they compete for over time is the sense of service and attitude. If If you can add some services or projects that others don't have, your competitiveness will increase, and you won't have to worry about running out of business.
But on one point, the young couple still agreed with what the Liu brothers said. That Song Lao Sanba was so disgusting that he had a grudge against them, and specifically asked people from their funeral team to poach them. But it didn't matter, if he really poached them Once he leaves, they will recruit again.
Song Laosan kept looking for people from the Chu family's funeral team. In addition to having some dark revenge, he also had a sweet dream of getting people to bring business directly from the Chu family to him. As a result, his plan failed. It was loud, but no one moved it.
Unable to take advantage of Chu Yi and his wife, Song Laosan had no choice but to do the next best thing and start recruiting other people to do the job in his own village. He originally thought that this would be a lucrative business, as long as there were people who could do the work. As a person, he could live a life of counting money at home every day, but in the end he found that he didn't even have the money to buy grave digging tools.
Although Song Laosan's plan was stillborn, not long after that, various funeral teams from nearby villages sprung up like mushrooms after a rain and began to do work in the village.
This afternoon, the Shen brothers came to the Chu family's old house to visit their sister and nephew. The young couple simply did not open a shop. The family set up a square table under the shade of the persimmon tree in the yard, drinking herbal tea and chatting.
Just as he was talking, Chu Ping pushed the door open from outside the courtyard and walked in. He saw the scene in the courtyard. After being stunned for a moment, he said clearly: "I was wondering why you didn't open a shop this afternoon, cousin. It turned out to be the elder brother of the Shen family. They are coming!"
"There wasn't much business to do in the afternoon, so I just stole half a day's leisure."
Shen Songjie waved to Chu Ping and said, "Brother Chu Ping came at the right time. Come and have a cup of herbal tea and some cakes. We haven't been together for a long time."
Small talk. "
Chu Ping was not polite and sat down directly: "It just so happened that I had nothing to do. I just wanted to talk to my cousins about the situation I just learned from the nearby village. Before, each of their families wanted to rob each other. In business, the prices are so low that there are already several people who can't hold on and are losing money. Moreover, if the goods are cheap but not good, then the male workers will earn less. Who can help you? They all work lazily, causing some people to be delayed in their daily chores. It is said that the owner's family has been making trouble in the village for several days, so scared that those people have not even dared to leave their homes recently. You really deserve it!"
Hearing this, Chu Yi looked at his wife and smiled proudly: "Azhu is still smart, and he got all his guesses right. It's right for us not to follow suit and lower the price."
Shen Luzhu smiled sheepishly. It wasn't that she was great, it was just that she had experienced the market economy for a few more years than others.
Hearing this, Shen Songjie also praised: "My Lu Zhu seems to be a genius in business. All the business ideas you have come up with in the past few years have been successful. Thanks to you, my second brother, I really got it." Less light!"
The Shen family's traditional Chinese medicine business and fragrant pill business are now doing well. Whenever the Shen family mentions it, they always sigh. In the past, they were short-sighted and always thought that Shen Luzhu's ideas were unreasonable. But now it seems that his daughter is just a genius. The smartest of the children.
Shen Chuanbai also nodded and said, "Lu Zhu has been smart since he was a child."
Somehow the original chat turned into praising Shen Luzhu's conference. Seemingly sensing his wife's embarrassment, Chu Yi hurriedly changed the subject and said: "We recently launched a funeral team that hired discounts on paper money, and also gave away wooden tombstones. Yes, the business of the funeral team is getting better than before."
"My husband's tombstone is well carved!"
In rural areas, tombstones are rarely carved from a single piece of stone. Most of them are carved from wooden boards, and some are even somewhat perfunctory, with the words written on them rather than carved on them.
Carving a few words on a wooden board was a very simple matter for Chu Yi, so he simply added an attractive gimmick to his funeral team business. Unexpectedly, the effect was quite good.
Holding the coaxing Shen Songjie at the side, he suddenly came up with a bold idea: "Luzhu Ayi, why don't you move your business to the town? There are many people in the town, and you will definitely earn more than in the village." I don’t know how many!”
