Future Planning

  Zhou Yuan was displeased as soon as he heard it.

  "Young master, this is not right. Why have all the other families paid up except for mine and Zhang's? What kind of logic is this?"

  "It's just that at the time you said it wasn't enough and we all waited, now you're doing this, aren't you making things difficult for me?" Zhang Lao Cai also chimed in from the side.

  Liu Yuanlang sneered and said, "Is that so? Why do I only remember you saying that you would sell the two of us to a brothel, and then early in the morning, you led the way to cause trouble, and these past few days, you've been sending people to keep an eye on us. With just this, if I don't give you some trouble, I wouldn't be happy."

  Zhou Yuan waved the IOU in his hand and said angrily, "Take a good look! This is written by your deceased boss himself, with his fingerprint and seal on it. Are you still trying to deny it?"

  "Didn't I just say that I'll return fifty taels to you today?"

  "Right"

  "Is today over?"

  "Not yet, what's wrong?"

  Liu Yuan smiled and said: "Right, I didn't say I wouldn't pay you back. You two can bring people to my place to collect debts at dawn today, why can't I return it to you at the last minute today? Everyone present heard it today, at 3 o'clock tonight, if you don't come to take the money, that's your business. Now you can leave."

  For people like this, Liu Yuanke didn't bother to be polite. You can do one thing, I can do fifteen things too. Anyway, I don't plan to deal with such people in the future. These days, letting them send someone to monitor Liu Yuan has made him furious.

  I must get this off my chest.

  "Haha, okay, I'll take this certificate."

  "Anyway, there are still two big shots, Zhou Yuanwai and Zhang Lao, outside. Nothing else is abundant, just time."

  "If they don't come within three minutes, it's as if they've given up, and then we won't have to give them the silver either."

  "Alright, you win this time, ugly is just ugly, wait for it."

  Those who speak for the sake of money are often those who take advantage of others' misfortunes and do all sorts of bad things, so everyone has a poor impression of them. Neither Zhou Yuanwai nor Zhang Lao Cai saw anyone speaking up for them here, and that Liu kid was also talking nonsense, but after uttering some perfunctory words, the two slunk away with their tails between their legs.

  "To be honest, these two old men have gone a bit too far. If it weren't for them, I wouldn't have had to stoop so low today. Well, goodbye everyone, and you two, please forgive me. When your esteemed family's business reopens, I'll definitely come to patronize it again."

  Tea shop owner Chen Li also said with a guilty face: "We are all fellow villagers, this time it's really not very kind of us. I have to offer incense to Manager Yuan. Alright, next time you come to my store to buy tea leaves, I will definitely give you the most favorable price."

  After finishing speaking, he respectfully lit a stick of incense in front of the mourning hall before leaving.

  "I also burn incense before leaving, next time you come to my place to buy meat, I won't sell you any bad ones."

  "Money is tight, forgive me."

  ............

  After everyone left, Liu Yuan picked out 80 taels of silver from the pile. Here are 50 taels belonging to Zhou Yuanwai and 30 taels belonging to Zhang Laocai. Liu Yuan wanted to teach them a lesson, so he deliberately waited until late at night to return it to them.

  After taking out eighty taels, what's left is theirs to dispose of as they wish.

  A few days ago, even copper coins had to be used sparingly, but now the remaining pile of silver and copper coins on the table is like a snowflake, with two people counting it three times, totaling 323 taels of top-grade silver coins and 1,356 wen of copper coins.

  Those copper coins were what the silversmith didn't fill up completely, and the money master said with a smile that he would fill them up with copper coins.

  "Liu Shixiong, you're really amazing." The young woman looked at Liu Yuan with a dazed and grateful expression. This man had said he would pay back the debt within seven days, and he actually did it. Not only that, but there was still so much left over.

  As soon as she saw the money, the young woman thought of the scene when Liu Yuan and Qian Zhang were at odds with each other. Originally, she had thought that if they could sell it for two or three hundred taels, even one hundred taels would be very satisfying. She hadn't expected Liu Yuan to be so stubborn, insisting on five hundred taels, and then later demanding an additional three hundred taels, making a total of eight hundred taels. If she had gone to negotiate, she estimated that they could have gotten two hundred taels and still been overjoyed.

  Liu Yuan's confident and self-assured demeanor made Xiaoxiao's eyes sparkle with admiration.

  "Big brother, what about all this silver now?" The young woman asked, looking at the pile of silver on the table.

  "You can do whatever you want."

  "Me?" The little girl said in surprise.

  Liu Yuan nodded and said: "Right, this silver, you can spend it however you want. If there's something delicious, nice clothes, or fun things, just tell me what you want and I'll buy it for you."

  "Big Brother..." The little girl's eyes suddenly turned red.

  "What's wrong? You were talking so well just now. Your eyes turned red all of a sudden, did someone bully you? Let me help you get revenge."

  The little girl wiped her eyes with her hand and hastily explained: "No, no, brother, I just..."

  "It's just some sand in your eyes, it's nothing."

  "Is there anything you want to eat or wear? Tell me, and I'll buy it for you."

  "No, no, no, I don't want to, brother. I'm not interested in these things now. If we have money, it's better to properly manage the shop left by my father. He always said that he left it for me as a dowry... With this money, we can stock up and then invite a master craftsman to slowly get started."

  The young lady's eyes turned red again: "I think that if my father were still alive, he would be very happy to see the prosperity of the Golden Jade family."

  "Please sit down, Master Liu?" Liu Yuan shook his head and said: "No need, the best master is here."

  "Who?"

  "It's me, I'm not exaggerating, in all of Yangzhou, if you ask who is second in terms of skill, no one would dare say they are first."

  Little girl shook her head and said: "Brother, this is impossible, you are my father's disciple, what level my father is at, others may not be clear about it, but I should know, can this work? I know that the master who sits in the hall charges a high fee, but why do we still have to invite him?"

  It turns out that the young lady also has self-awareness and knows what's going on.

  Fortunately, Liu Yuan had already thought of a countermeasure early on.

  "Little girl, do you know why Master borrowed so much silver?"

  "Why?"

  Liu Yuan said with a face full of admiration: "That's because Master has developed a new technique, so he borrowed all that money to practice and study. Actually, he had already succeeded in his research, but Master secretly asked me for help, so I also learned it. Unfortunately, Master passed away before becoming famous, what a pity! Don't worry, little lady, we will definitely carry on the golden family legacy left by Master."

  "This, really?"

  Liu Yuan "seriously" nodded and said: "Really, how can you not believe that my craftsmanship has received the true transmission from Master?"

  "Believe me, brother, I believe you. Whatever you say, I'll believe you." The little girl wiped away her tears and muttered: "Dad, dad, I knew it. You must be very powerful. It's those people who misunderstood you. You're the best, the best."

  ........”

  As expected, she's a good daughter, always thinking of her old father in a positive light.

  But Liu Yuan also secretly let out a sigh of relief. With the dead master as cover, his own top-notch craftsmanship could finally be showcased again.

  Yuan Zhanggui's craftsmanship is nothing to mention in front of himself, and no one dares to compete with him on the entire Jinshui Street or even in all of Yangzhou. It's not a matter of clever hands, but rather a matter of technique.

  In ancient times, the emperor considered agriculture as the foundation of a country, emphasizing agriculture and suppressing commerce. This is the main reason why merchants had low social status. The entire industry of Tang Dynasty was very poor, and the jewelry industry was even more struggling to survive. Now, the styles, designs, craftsmanship, and matching of jewelry in the market are still in their infancy, compared with the highly developed jewelry technology in the 21st century, it's like heaven and earth apart.

  For example, the current jewelry manufacturing industry in the Tang Dynasty is still stuck in some basic processes such as cutting, grinding, clipping, stringing, and engraving, which is a rough and simple model. By the 21st century, it has developed into processes such as mold opening, wax making, sanding, stone setting, electroplating, and flower carving. Take stone setting as an example, it has developed into many mature expression techniques such as wax setting, force setting, claw setting, micro-setting, inlay setting, nail setting, and tube setting.

  Although lacking in tools and some conditions not yet mature, none of these are a problem for Liu Yuan, who is very confident that with his own skills he can absolutely take the lead in the newly developed Tang Dynasty and create his own beautiful life.

  In the past life, Jinyu Liangyuan had high requirements and good treatment. It was an ordinary small workshop, but others would go to great lengths to get in. Only those who came out of Jinyu Liangyuan could easily become a master-level person in those small factories. And Liu Yuan was one of the best among them.

  Yeah, tomorrow I need to order some special things and process them myself when I get back. I need to have a set of tools that are unique to me.

  Liu Yuan had an excellent plan early on.

  Look at your own hands, slender fingers, flexible, powerful, the conditions are excellent, this is a pair of clever hands, this is a pair of hands born to make jewelry, even more clever than Liu Yuan's hands in his past life.

  As long as you work hard, there will be some achievements.

  After the crisis was resolved, at Xiaoniang's repeated request, the two of them invited a guarantor and went to the government office to make a statement. Xiaoniang willingly transferred half of the ownership of the Jin Yu family business to Liu Yuan's name. Xiaoniang had originally wanted to transfer all of it to Liu Yuan, after all, what was left by Boss Yuan was only a liability, if it weren't for Master Brother Liu Yuan stepping in, it would have been gone long ago. However, Liu Yuan firmly disagreed, and in the end, this property was divided equally between them, which can be considered as sharing the same boat and going through thick and thin together.