In this way, on the tenth day, the top ten poems were selected, paintings were presented in public, and the top 50 were given pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and this event ended successfully.

The account was calculated in front of Pei Rong, and the 150,000 taels for bidding for ten paintings were removed, and various expenses were removed, and finally 50,000 taels were left.

Looking at the last number on the abacus, Pei Rong couldn't help but applaud: "Admire!"

She skillfully used the psychology of the scholars who were not convinced, and probably regarded Yaji as a imperial examination, and wanted to compete for the top ten, which was far beyond the mind of wanting to paint.

The top ten are posted every day, which stimulates the fighting spirit of the scholars.

But in fact, this is just the beginning for Nan Mo Fang, and the road ahead is still difficult. Liu Yunxiang said.

Pei Rong nodded, "Even if you get off to a good start, there are many declines in the back." ”

"So, I want to work with Boss Pei. ”

Pei Rong raised his eyebrows, "Cooperation?"

"We run Nanmo Studio together, and in the end we make a profit. ”

"But there is already a fragrant Zhai below. ”

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"If you cooperate with me, Nanmo Zhai will definitely be able to surpass Qingxiang Zhai, of course, we can also cooperate with other scholars, and then it will not be my own family who will be on the side of Qingxiang Zhai. ”

Pei Rong lowered his eyes and thought for a while, and then raised his head: "I'm afraid this is not Boss Liu's ultimate goal, right?"

Liu Yunxiang nodded, "Nanhong Mansion, I also want to cooperate with Boss Pei, I have Yunjin, you have channels, I have signboards, and you have connections." ”

Doing business must be profitable for each other to do, depending on whether her conditions are attractive enough to make him willing to offend Anhong.

Pei Rong looked at Liu Yunxiang: "To be honest, at the beginning, Boss Liu said that he wanted to do business with Zaixia, and the first thing he worried about was Boss Liu's ability, but now Boss Liu has eliminated Zaixia's worries, just ......"

Liu Yunxiang interrupted what Pei Rong was about to say, "Boss Pei, let's think about it first." ”

Pei Rong thought about it for a while, "Okay, then let me think about it for a few days." ”

Coming out of Tianxiang Building, Liu Yunxiang returned to Nanmo Zhai, there were many guests inside, wearing plain robes, so a woman wearing a brown cotton skirt in front of the counter was very conspicuous.

"Madam, what do you think of this inkstone?" the man pushed a plain inkstone to the woman, "This inkstone is a good inkstone, but the style is simple, not very eye-catching, if you like it, I will give you a cheaper, five taels of silver." ”

Duan Yan generally costs ten taels of silver, and five taels is indeed very cheap.

Liu Yunxiang didn't care much, walked to the back, and called Chen Chong to him, "Tomorrow, you follow the shopkeeper of Qingxiangzhai to pick up the goods, and then he will introduce you to some of the workshop managers, you take them to find a restaurant, and negotiate the purchase of goods when you drink." ”

Pei Rong did not agree to cooperate with her, but shared the purchase channels of Qingxiangzhai with her, which solved the first problem faced by Nanmozhai.

"That's great, the goods are good, but the quality is good, the price is favorable, it's difficult, the small ones are worried about this!" Chen Chong said happily.

Liu Yunxiang nodded, and when he was about to leave, a group of men came over and asked, "The owner, shopkeeper Chen, that lady only has four taels or thirty Wen, and asked us if we would sell this inkstone." ”

Chen Chong frowned, "When we took it from Qingxiangzhai, it was only five taels, and we didn't earn her a penny, how could we sell it at a loss." ”

Liu Yunxiang looked at the woman, and saw that she looked soft and weak, her face didn't seem to be very good, and she coughed while counting the silver coins in the handkerchief, and at the end, her brows furrowed even deeper.

"Sell it to her. Liu Yunxiang said.

The man went as he went, took the money, and wrapped the inkstone and gave it to the woman. The woman's face showed joy and she couldn't stop thanking her.

The guy pointed to Liu Yunxiang to the woman, probably saying that she was their owner, and the owner asked her to sell her.

The woman turned her head to look over here, Liu Yunxiang was slightly startled, she bowed at her gratefully, and Liu Yunxiang also nodded to her.

Seeing the woman leave, Liu Yunxiang exhaled slightly, the woman had a scar on the left side of her face, which should be hot.

Liu Yunxiang came out of Nanmozhai and went to the Jingzhao Mansion Prison, she brought clothes and food to the shopkeeper Hu, and stuffed a silver ingot for the guard, so he was willing to send these things in.

After coming out of the prison, Liu Yunxiang walked to Jingchuan Garden, and when she passed the market, she saw the woman again. The woman was selling rice cakes, and when someone passed by her, she shouted twice, but her voice was hoarse, probably because she was sick.

Next to her sat an old woman in a brown cotton skirt with a blue forehead wrapped around her forehead, her eyes couldn't be closed, revealing the whites of her eyes, she should be blind.

"How much is left?" asked the old woman.

The woman coughed first and said, "There are a lot left." ”

As soon as the woman's voice fell, the old woman slapped her on the back, "You have long legs, you squint, you run around, you can't sell these, you don't eat tonight!"

The woman coughed again, "Why don't I send you back first?"

"This time and again, people are scattered, and they don't grow brains every day!"

"Ahem!"

"It's not that you are going to catch the medicine, whether you drink the medicine or not, as if our Xi family is abusing you!"

"Mother, I drank it. ”

The woman's voice was very soft, even if she was beaten and scolded by the old woman, she still had a soft smile on her face, and her eyes were moist, she was a gentle woman like water.

It was getting late, and the pedestrians in the market had begun to disperse, and the woman comforted the old woman, and her face couldn't help but be sad.

Liu Yunxiang stepped forward, "I want all these rice cakes." ”

The woman was overjoyed, looked up and saw Liu Yunxiang, hesitated for a moment, and said, "It's you!"

Liu Yunxiang looked at the woman and nodded at her with a smile, "Well, what a coincidence." ”

"There's a lot left, do you want it?"

Liu Yunxiang was about to answer, but the mother-in-law quickly pestled the woman, and the pestle reached her chest, "If people want to buy it, you should quickly decorate it for others and ask so much what to do." ”

The woman was very weak, but the old woman was very strong, so she was pestleed, and her body shook back.

Liu Yunxiang frowned, "Who is this?"

The woman said embarrassedly: "She is my mother-in-law." ”

"It was my mother-in-law. ”

Looking at this, she must be a wicked mother-in-law!

After eating enough of the evil mother-in-law's crying, Liu Yunxiang felt a little sympathy for this woman.

The woman wrapped the rice cake in oiled paper, wrapped five large bags, and then tied it with a rope and handed it to Liu Yunxiang.

Liu Yunxiang gave her a piece of broken silver, and the woman looked at her in embarrassment.

"I can't find it. ”

Liu Yunxiang gave it to her, "Don't look for it." ”

"Then how can it be done, you bought me so much at once, you already take care of me very much, absolutely not......"

Before the woman finished speaking, the old woman interjected: "This lady doesn't care about this money, it's just that it's troublesome, so you can hurry up and stop being verbose." ”

The woman shook her head and pushed back resolutely.

Liu Yunxiang smiled, "Then you can fold the rest into rice cakes and send them to Nanmozhai tomorrow." ”

"But you've already bought so much......"

"We have a lot of family. ”

The woman then took the broken silver and thanked her again and again.

Liu Yunxiang left and walked more than a dozen steps to the courtyard, she looked back and saw the woman carrying a basket and supporting the blind mother-in-law, her body was thin and weak like a wicker, as if the wind could blow it away.

She sighed, there are many people suffering in the world, and her suffering is probably nothing.

Thinking like this, her heart lightened a lot and went towards Jingchuan Garden.

But as soon as she arrived in the backyard, she saw a eunuch and a few guards coming out of the weeping flower gate, and she hurriedly hid.

The eunuch sighed: "Go back and report to the saint, I'm afraid this won't work." ”