Chapter 383: The Rich Lady's Party
Most of the rich ladies look quite polite, at least they will smile and nod when they see them, Shang Muli chuckled, no wonder, their wealthy nobles pay attention to etiquette, and smiling is the most basic etiquette.
Guo Duo was very unconfident and awkwardly pulled Shang Muli to sit in the corner, and a waiter poured them wine, she drank it all at once, and it could be seen that she was very nervous. Shang Muli felt funny, hurriedly took her hand, and said, "Don't worry, I see that these young ladies are very mature, and no one will deliberately embarrass you." ”
"You don't know. Guo Duo sighed, some of them haven't figured out each other's details yet, and it will take a while before they start a war. This made Shang Muli feel even more funny, okay, okay, then let's see what they will do later.
Everything was normal at the party, the rich ladies toasted each other, chatted, talked and laughed, and there was not much heresy. Shang Muli relaxed his hands and drank the juice in the cup, very happy. I'm busy, but now that the store is not busy, it's good to take a break. Just as she was relaxing and drinking juice, a hostile look suddenly shot over, Shang Muli was startled, and looked up to see that there were several rich ladies approaching.
"Yo, isn't this Guo Duo? Is your family still selling noodles recently?" It was the Miss Li family who said this, and the family was doing business, what kind of business it was, they didn't ask, they met once at the party last year, and at that time she grabbed Guo Duo and attacked.
"Miss Li, you're here this time, I'm so glad to see you. Guo Duo raised her glass, her hands trembled slightly, it seems that she is afraid, Shang Muli frowned, what is there to be afraid of, isn't it just that she is rich, Xiao Duoer's family is also in business, and it is not necessarily who has money in her family.
"Yes, I'm glad to see you, and I think of you when I think about the last time you played a game at a party, and you clumsily tore your clothes. Miss Li laughed, and the few young ladies standing with her also laughed. Guo Duo lowered his head, not daring to look up at them laughing at him for a long time.
Shang Muli immediately couldn't sit still, and before she could speak first, the people over there came directly, and in their eyes, her dress was really shabby. Miss Li looked at her playfully, "Shouldn't you be Guo Duo's friend?" Before she could answer, Miss Li continued: "Ah, Guo Duo, those who are close to Zhu are red and those who are close to ink are black, how can you have such a vulgar friend!"
Say she can, but say her friends, no. Guo Duo shook his head and said loudly: "She is Shang Muli, I temporarily pulled her over today, so I didn't dress up well, don't look at people by the table, she used to be the famous Miss Shang Moujia!"
"Shang Mu family?" Several women on the other side were stunned, the Shang Mu family is so famous, of course they know, but the master of the Shang Mu family died a few years ago, and the entire Shang Mu Mansion has fallen, only Shang Mu Sijue supports and takes good care of the family business, but this Shang Mu Li has been driven out a long time ago. "It used to be ...... It's not ...... now" Miss Li emphasized, she didn't understand what was the use of Guo Duo saying that she was Miss Shang Moujia, did she want to say that the phoenix in the water was stronger than the chicken?
Shang Muli's face had already become ugly, she didn't expect these so-called rich ladies to be so vulgar, she looked up at Miss Li carefully, and suddenly applauded funny.
Everyone didn't know why she suddenly applauded, and they all looked at her very strangely. Shang Muli also looked straight at each other and did not dodge. She stood up suddenly, clapped her palms, shook the bracelet on her hand, and said proudly: "Ladies and gentlemen, do you know how much the bracelet on my hand is worth." ”
These eldest ladies are all dressed to stretch out their hands to eat, and they can't tell what kind of jade this is. They all frowned tightly, but Miss Li was disdainful, grabbed the jade in her hand and looked at it for a long time, thinking that she was wearing such a simple dress, and it was estimated that this jade was not a good jade, so she said: "Miscellaneous jade, what value can it be?"
Applause again, Guo Duo bit her lip and glanced at Shang Muli worriedly, she knew that the jade in her hand was a cheap jade worn from the store, but she didn't expect this Miss Li to recognize it.
"It's really a good eye, I don't know if it's inconvenient to ask Miss Li what kind of business is in her family. This sentence seems to be a compliment, but others don't know what Shang Muli is thinking.
Miss Li was also stunned, this Shang Muli didn't look at ease at all, her eyes were round, and she didn't know what she was planning. After all, it was a compliment, and she smiled proudly with her chest up, and did not answer the question directly.
The corners of Shang Muli's mouth hooked, and he said funny: "I guess your business hasn't been doing much recently, right?"
"What do you mean by that?" Miss Li was angry and glared at her fiercely, Guo Duo pulled her arm with some fear, and asked Shang Muli not to say anything.
"Kava stone and serpentine are similar in composition, low hardness, soft texture, low density, and often skin color will be confused with Hetian white jade, which is deceptive. Shang Muli took the jade bracelet in his hand and introduced. What is kava stone, they have never heard of it before, they are all big ladies who do not go out of the door, how can they know this, not to mention, this is not a cheap jade that is not famous.
"This jade is just cheap jade, if I'm not mistaken, the earrings on your ears are made of kava stone, right?" Shang Muli suddenly stared at the jade pendant on Miss Li's ear and said.
Several women beside her immediately turned away from her in disgust, as if she had been humiliated, "You are talking nonsense, how can my earrings be made of kava stone?"
It turned out that she was wearing cheap jewelry, Guo Duo suddenly stood up and introduced: "Ah Li used to work as a jade connoisseur, and now she has opened a jade shop, her judgment is definitely not wrong." As soon as she was introduced, the rich ladies nodded one after another, Shang Muli and they seemed to have heard some things about her, her own family was in the business of jade, and after leaving Shang Mou's mansion, her business in jade still did not stop.
Miss Li saw that everyone had such an attitude, and quickly changed her words: "This earring was given to me by my friend, maybe she was deceived and thought it was Hetian Baiyu!"
"You don't need to pretend, I've taken a rough look at all the gems on your body, including the fabric of your clothes, they are all cheap things, and you don't need to pretend to be a rich person, just be an ordinary person. Shang Muli is not sarcastic about her, it's just that she looks too annoying in her eyes, and she has heard that there is a Li family in Shanghai that has gone out of business, she told this matter, that Miss Li finally collapsed, the perfume company that Shang Muli said is her family, she is now a down-and-out lady, and she came to pretend to be noble to attend the rich lady's party, and what is even more ridiculous is that she also took the initiative to stir up trouble.
Miss Li, who was said by Shang Muli to be self-conscious, knelt on the ground, she just wanted to get out of here quickly.
Guo Duo sympathized with her, but Shang Muli looked at it coldly, such a person was self-inflicted, and his family no longer had that condition, so he didn't know how to be self-reliant, so he worked hard to earn money to support himself, and bought these cheap things to slap his swollen face and become fat.
"There's nothing to attend at this party, let's go back, little Duo'er. Shang Muli pulled Guo Duo out, this place is not worth staying for a second. Guo Duo didn't like this place very much, otherwise he wouldn't have had to pull Shang Muli at the beginning. Along the way, Shang Muli kept educating her.
"Let me tell you Xiao Duo'er, you must not participate in such gatherings in the future. "There's no point, and if you go in, you'll be inexplicably targeted.
Guo Duo nodded embarrassedly, "I don't want to participate either, or not my mother!"
"Tell my aunt that this kind of gathering is just to teach you how to compare, if you really want to improve your temperament or something, it is better to ask a tutor to learn arts, science, music and theory. ”
"Ah...... Reasonable. Guo Duo lowered her head and pouted, she couldn't tell her mother about it, if she really arranged any courses for her, she wouldn't have so much spare time to come to Shang Muli.
Guo Duo returned to the glass jade shop with her, the person introduced by Liu Duchao was reliable, the two girls couldn't be idle for a moment, when there were no customers, one of them held a rag, wiped here and there, and didn't stop. When he saw them coming back, he hurriedly gathered around, pinched his shoulders and beat his back, and served tea and water, which was too diligent.