The Li family
The weather in the early morning was still a little cool, and Chunqiu wore clothes that had not been changed yesterday and went out with a titi. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
At this time, the kitchen had been turned off, and the white mist was still mixed with the aroma of food, Chunqiu stood in the yard, moved his nose carefully, and then raised his head with his chest up, took a deep breath, and showed a satisfied smile on his face.
Chunqiu was eating the golden dough cake that her mother had specially cheesed after getting up early in the morning, and at the same time used a bowl to hold the leftover green vegetable balls from last night.
After breakfast, Chunqiu packed up his clothes and officially started a new day's work.
The process of making the ointment is tedious and boring, Chunqiu has been doing it all day yesterday, and the arm joints are still a little sour because of the uninterrupted grinding yesterday, Chunqiu frowned, first rubbed his arm, then swung from side to side, moved carefully, and waited until the sourness was significantly reduced, and then began to add the newly grabbed petals to the stone mill and crush them into juice.
The sound of "creaking" spread throughout the courtyard, and Chunqiu used the empty jar next to it to hold the flower juice, and took advantage of the gap to add flower petals to the center of the stone mill.
The door was pushed open, and Yuan Shi changed her outfit and walked out again, different from the simple and neat one when cooking, her mother is now wearing a brand-new crimson blue skirt, with cloth shoes of the same color, her hair is coiled high, hanging behind her head, and there are two gilded silver hairpins inserted on it, the whole person looks noble and elegant, gentle and virtuous.
The beautiful eyes were raised, revealing a pair of dark and beautiful peach blossom eyes, the eyes were frivolous, Yuan sat and looked around the courtyard, and after seeing the direction of the Spring and Autumn Period, he raised his legs and walked towards the Spring and Autumn Period, saying on the side, "... Qiu'er, are these petals in our house still enough? Yesterday there was a big man on the second floor, and I'm afraid the ointment in the Beauty Pavilion is not enough" From her mother's eager tone, Chunqiu could clearly hear the mood mixed with worry and anxiety.
Chunqiu directly withdrew his hand, looked up at the mother who had come to her side quickly, and replied seriously, "The petals at home are enough, mother, isn't the ointment of the Beauty Pavilion still last for two days?
After listening to Chunqiu's words, Yuan sat down and hurriedly explained, "Mother is talking about the ointment on the second floor, yesterday the eldest lady of the Li family in the south of the city sent someone over, and directly took away more than half of the ointment on the second floor of our house, especially when Mrs. Li left, she also said that she would come over to get it in two days... And the number is not less than these" Yuan said here, directly stretched out his hand to compare a number, glanced at Chunqiu with a little helplessness, and then said, "This Mrs. Li has already given the follow-up silver money, we are in the ointment business, and there is no reason not to accept the silver money when people give it, plus you made a new batch of ointment yesterday, the ointment in the shop can cope with it in the past two days, but... It must be that Mrs. Li can't insist on getting the goods" After Yuan finished speaking, he looked depressed, his brows raised slightly, like these rich and noble families, Yuan's small family is not easy to offend, not to mention that they have now collected money, although... This silver money is not what the Yuan family wants to receive, thinking of this, a trace of despair flashed in Yuan's eyes, and the corners of his mouth unconsciously showed a wry smile, forget it, forget it, what is the use of these things after receiving all the silver money, the most important thing now is that their beauty pavilion must be delivered on time in two days, otherwise, the beauty pavilion that they have worked so hard to build will be destroyed.
It was because of this that Yuan felt depressed and even a little overwhelmed.
Chunqiu listened carefully to her mother's explanation, and at the same time observed her mother's facial expression, and did not miss the helplessness, distress and complicated worry on her mother's face.
But what's the use of this, there is no change on the surface of the Spring and Autumn Period, but I also sighed in my heart, people like their family who have no power and no power, when they do this kind of business, they should have realized it a long time ago.
"Mother, don't worry, we're still in time, don't we have two more days? today I will make the ointment that people are anxious to ask for in the next two days, Ming'er is continuing to do those who are not in a hurry, the petals in our yard are picked a lot, and I am worried that these petals are not used, by the way, mother, if you go to Meiyan Pavilion today and encounter such a large number of people to buy, you can directly talk about Mrs. Li's business, after all, it is not easy for us to do business, one is already reluctant, come again, I think our Meiyan Pavilion will also close." Chunqiu comforted her mother with a smile on her face, and also hinted that her mother could euphemistically drag the Li family into the water.
Although this arrangement will disrupt all her own plans, but Chunqiu can't take care of it so much now, if this batch of ointments is not handed over on time, who knows if this Mrs. Li will secretly use some insidious tricks to make their beauty pavilion unable to open, you know, these are not picture novels, Spring and Autumn can be regarded as really seen, just like the restaurant diagonally opposite the beauty pavilion before, isn't it because of negligence, accidentally offended a young master of a big family, and closed the door directly, now that restaurant has long been replaced by a wine shop, and the business is also very hot。
Doing business in ancient times was not as simple as in later generations, and there were many twists and turns.
In order to successfully open the Beauty Pavilion, the Spring and Autumn Family did not delay the relationship to buy favors, and it was precisely because she knew that the Beauty Pavilion was not easy to do, so the Spring and Autumn She could only do her best to keep their family's Beauty Pavilion.
You must know that the business is booming, looking at the red-eyed, there are many people who want a piece of the pie, there is no shortage of malicious speculation in the Spring and Autumn Period, maybe the reason why the Li family did this is to want to share a spoonful of soup from their hands, otherwise they wouldn't be so eager to directly pack all the ointments on the second floor and take them away. Of course, this is just Chunqiu's own unreliable speculation, after all, no matter how hot the business of Meiyan Pavilion is, it is just a thing that cannot be put on the table with these big families.
Chunqiu plans to take one step at a time, wait and see what happens, whether the other party wants the prescription of the beauty pavilion, or simply wants to buy ointment, they will eventually explain their purpose, it is a fox, and the tail will be exposed, and Chunqiu is waiting for the fox's tail to be revealed.
Chunqiu hurriedly comforted her mother a few words, although her mother's face was still not very good, but it was not as obvious as before.
There is still something to do in Meiyan Pavilion, and it is impossible for the Yuan family to stay in the courtyard for a long time, after talking about the Li family's big list, the Yuan family hurriedly explained a few small orders with Chunqiu, Chunqiu smiled and said that there was no problem, and the Yuan family left.