Chapter 104: Embarrassment
In June, like a child's face, it will change, last night it was clear and the moon was clear, when I got up early, it was raining lightly in the sky, after Cai Wei got up, I cleaned up, and took Chaoyun to leave the Qin Wangfu in a carriage, and went straight to the Treasure Pavilion. Lewen Novel. しwxs520
When he got there, he saw that Huo Yuan had already arrived, and he was pacing outside the counter on the first floor of the Treasure Pavilion, scrutinizing the things placed inside.
The first floor of the Treasure Pavilion is mainly aimed at middle-class women, and the counter at the back sells gold and silver jewelry, among which there are many gem-encrusted gemstones, but they are not very expensive gems, the gems set are not large, and the size of the gold jewelry is not large; At the counter on the east side, jade, agate, rhino horn, hat and other ornaments were bought; The counter on the west side sells cheap ornaments such as headbands, velvet flowers, hairpins carved from wood and bamboo, and bracelets, which seem to be aimed at customers below the middle class.
When Cai Wei arrived, Huo Yuan had basically finished reading the goods on the first floor, and the price was also estimated by him. Seeing Cai Wei, Huo Yuan smiled softly: "Morning! ”
Cai Wei smiled embarrassedly: "Brother Huo is earlier, I should have arrived first." ”
Steward Dong was already waiting here, and when he saw Cai Wei, he greeted him politely and said, "Miss, let's take a look upstairs?" ”
Cai Wei also has this intention, the first floor is selling some ordinary things, if the rich lady comes, it must not be eye-catching, the second floor must have a lot of fine products, otherwise this treasure pavilion is not worthy of the name of the second largest silver building in the capital!
On the second floor, Cai Wei was not disappointed, the second floor is worthy of being a boutique area, no matter from the point of view of decoration or service, it is more than one grade higher than the first floor. The counters and chair furniture on the first floor are all made of elm, while the furniture and counters on the second floor are made of sour wood, and the workmanship is obviously much more exquisite, as for the jewelry placed on the counter, it is very different from the jewelry on the first floor.
The ingenious jewelry, the dazzling jewelry, dazzled Cai Wei, and even Huo Yuan, who has always been picky, couldn't help nodding in approval.
Steward Dong said proudly: "The jewelry worn by my wife and young lady are made by our own craftsmen, and many wives and ladies of the official eunuch family also specialize in our treasure pavilion to customize jewelry, although Zhenbao Zhai is not as famous as the ingenuity building, if you talk about the master's craftsmanship, it is definitely not worse than the master's craftsmanship of the ingenuity building, but our goods are not as high-end as the ingenuity building." ”
"However, we also have a few good things to press the store."
As he spoke, he flashed into the counter on one side, took out a double-layer carved and painted rosewood jewelry box from the small secret cabinet under the counter, and put it on the counter, opening it layer by layer, which contained two sets of jewelry from the town store in the Treasure Pavilion, because it was too valuable, it had never been placed on the counter, and it was not willing to show it!
"Miss, look at it, the head of this set of jadeite is worn by the lady in the palace, and it is also worthy of it."
Steward Dong pointed to a set of excellent jadeite on the first layer and said.
Looking along his fingers, he saw a set of excellent jadeite, the whole body was emerald green, without a trace of impurities, but the style was a little old-fashioned, it seemed to be prepared for middle-aged and elderly ladies.
"There is also the head of this set of violet jade, yesterday Wuchang Hou's newly married wife came to take a look, and she fell in love at a glance, but unfortunately it was too expensive, and I was not willing to buy it."
It turned out to be the jewelry in Du Wanqing's appearance, Cai Wei couldn't help but take a few more looks, it was a set of eighteen pieces of jade jewelry, all made of deep and shallow purple jade, there are royal purple, blue purple, red purple, pink purple, Roland purple, no matter what color, the jade quality is superior, and the carving is even more exquisite.
Cai Wei picked up a tassel crested hairpin carved with lotus flowers, looked at it for a while, and was impressed by the craftsmanship of the jade carving craftsman.
"Is this set of jewelry also carved by our master in the Treasure Pavilion?"
"Back to the girl, it is exactly, there are three craftsmen like this, we have a total of three craftsmen in the ingenuity building!"
Huo Yuan's eyes fell on the five rows of jade combs, and he said in a deep voice: "In terms of craftsmanship, it is indeed slightly stronger than the Ingenuity Building!" ”
Cai Wei smiled and quipped: "What? Jealous? Want to poach people? ”
Huo Yuan said seriously: "I really want to dig, but the new owner of this Treasure Pavilion is amazing, I don't dare!" ”
The shopkeeper Feng of Zhenbao Zhai said with a smile: "Huo Gongzi is really joking, the craftsmen of your Ingenuity Pavilion don't know how many times stronger than our Treasure Pavilion, how can they take a fancy to our people, hehe......"
The Treasure Pavilion relies on the skillful craftsmanship of these masters to have today's status, if the master is poached, can the Treasure Pavilion still be opened? can't go on, and he, a decent shopkeeper, should naturally go home and eat himself, so even if Huo Yuan casually makes a joke about digging people, Shopkeeper Feng is so nervous that he is facing a great enemy, and he is even more afraid than Cai Wei.
Cai Wei finished looking at the jewelry on the second floor, and saw several masters of the Treasure Pavilion, and felt very satisfied, so she began to discuss the specific matters of acquiring the Treasure Pavilion with Steward Dong.
Steward Dong is very cautious, because his master has a request for others, so he doesn't dare to trust it, and the master has already ordered that as long as he can coax this aunt and grandmother to be happy, he will not stab the emperor about yesterday's incident, and the price will be more.
"Hehe, Miss, look, this shop is worth more than 20,000 taels alone, plus the things on the upper and lower floors, a total of 70,000 taels is more than enough, but my son-in-law said that as long as Miss should undertake what happened yesterday, the price will also make Miss Some."
Cai Wei said: "I am not the only one who saw yesterday's incident, even if I don't say it, I won't tell others if I can't keep it." ”
Steward Dong said: "Those people, Ji Gongzi and several other sons know how to cook, don't bother Miss, as long as Miss agrees, we can negotiate the price." ”
At this moment, Steward Dong's heart trembled, for fear that Cai Wei would give a ridiculously low price, although no matter what the price was, he would have to admit it, but if the price was too low, the prince would be angry with him.
Therefore, when he saw Cai Wei bowing her head and thinking, Steward Dong kept chanting the Buddha in his heart, and he could hardly calm down.
"Seventy thousand!"
Cai Wei raised her head and made a final decision.
Steward Dong was overjoyed, he also thought that Cai Wei would give a price of 56,000 yuan, 70,000 yuan, although he lost a little, but on the whole, it was reasonable to say, and the son of this price would definitely be satisfied.
"Hehe, according to what Miss said, seventy thousand, just seventy thousand, hehe..."
Steward Dong seemed to be afraid that Cai Wei would regret it, so he hurriedly took out the house deed and land deed, and instructed the account office to write the sales documents, and he was very busy.
Huo Yuan smiled at Cai Wei and said, "This price is very suitable!" ”
Last night, he had already found out the reason for Li Gongzi's transfer of the Treasure Pavilion.
Yesterday Ji Gongzi's birthday, a few good noble children made an appointment to celebrate him, and soon after he learned that Jufu arrived, there was a news about Jin Guifei's Qianqiu, several sons were children of the noble family, and they wanted to go back to serve the national funeral, but they were stopped by Ji Gongzi.
Later, there was a matter of Chun Tao's bitch provoking Cai Wei, everyone was annoyed with Ji Gongzi, but they didn't dare to do anything to him, so they had to put a grievance on Chun Tao's body, that Chun Tao was tickled by Cai Wei, and his whole body had been scratched by himself, and he was soaked in chili water overnight by several sons, when he came to the Treasure Pavilion, I heard that the spring peach was no longer good!
After signing the contract, Cai Wei handed over the 70,000 taels of silver tickets to Steward Dong, and the two parties went to the government to deposit the files, because the law of the Great Jin Dynasty: those who buy and sell currency with an amount of 20,000 gold need to go to the government to file and pay taxes.
Cai Wei and Steward Dong each paid half of the tax, and if they kept the file, it would be considered the delivery!
Cai Wei became the well-deserved owner of the Treasure Pavilion, and returned to the Treasure Pavilion, the new owner took office, so she naturally had to say a few words to the shopkeepers of the Treasure Pavilion, she didn't forget the role that the shopkeeper Feng and a certain guy played in it when Li Shanggong framed her for stealing.
"Ladies and gentlemen, from today onwards, this Treasure Pavilion is my home, as the new owner of the Treasure Pavilion, I have to say a few words."
"You are working here again, naturally to make money to support your family, I bought the Treasure Pavilion, but also to earn more silver, everyone is working hard to make money, but although the money is good, please remember, a gentleman loves money, take it. It is necessary to know that ill-gotten wealth is not advisable, it is ours, not a penny is missing, it is not ours, even gold and silver mountains cannot be greedy, I don't care what everyone did in the Treasure Pavilion in the past, but from now on, anyone who violates his conscience, wants to opportunistically, and earns ill-gotten gains, I will not only dismiss you, but also send you to the government to punish you for fraud or theft. ”
As he spoke, his eyes drifted to Shopkeeper Feng and a white young man, both of whom were shrewd and clear people, who didn't understand what Cai Wei was talking about, they all lowered their heads, not daring to look at Cai Wei's eyes, their faces were hot!
After beating everyone, Cai Wei naturally had to appease a few words, she changed her words, and her tone became very soft: "Of course, I hope that there will never be such a day between us, since everyone follows me, I hope everyone can do well, come to work happily every day, go home safely, and when I go home today, each person will be divided into five feet of cotton cloth and five catties of high-quality cotton, which is my owner and your family to say hello!" ”
"Yo, thank you!"
"Hehe, I've been working in the Treasure Pavilion for more than ten years, and I've never met a time when the owner gave us something..."
"The owner is kind to us, we have to work hard for the owner in the future......"
Everyone was very moved, and while they were talking, they dispersed to work...
Huo Yuan followed Cai Wei for a whole morning, Cai Wei naturally wanted to invite him to lunch, and she still had something to ask him. Huo Yuan said: "Why don't you go to my Jufu to eat, there is a new pork belly chicken recently, it is very delicious, you must like it." ”
Cai Wei waved her hand again and again: "Forget it, I went to your Jufu twice in a row, and there was an accident twice in a row, I think I'm going to fight with that offender, it's better not to go." ”
Huo Yuan couldn't allow his own place to clash with her, and immediately said: "If something happens this time, I will give you the resignation of the shopkeeper, how about it?" ”
The shopkeeper of Jufu is the father of Mo Liancheng, who has become the shopkeeper of Jufu, and has gained some dignity, abandoning his wife and losing his conscience, if he can resign, it will not be a good thing.
Thinking of this, Cai Wei agreed to come down, followed Huo Yuan into the car, and went straight to Jufu.
When Jufu's ink shopkeeper saw the big boss coming, he ran out from behind the counter with a humble smile on his face, and greeted Huo Yuan again and again.
Huo Yuan only nodded slightly, said hello to him, and took Cai Wei straight to his private room.
During the meal, Cai Wei had been silently praying, hoping that something would happen so that Huo Yuan could fire the ungrateful ink shopkeeper.
Probably because her prayers were too pious, she was heard by God, and when she was halfway through eating, something finally happened!
Caiwei's menstruation is coming!
Unexpectedly, it was menacing, and it dyed through Caiwei's thin gauze skirt with lightning speed.
Cai Wei sat stiffly in her chair, almost going crazy.
The warm current and heat wave came from below from time to time, but on the table, Huo Yuan was still unconsciously helping her with the dishes, talking to her about some business experience, and saying a few innocuous jokes from time to time.
Cai Wei couldn't laugh, it would be good if she didn't cry, at this moment, even if she was given a palace banquet, she had no appetite, so she only had a bitter face, thinking about how to get out without being discovered by Huo Yuan.
Huo Yuan sensed that Cai Wei was wrong, and asked with concern, "What's wrong?" The face is so bad? Is it the unappetizing meal? Or are you feeling unwell? ”
"Uh..."
Cai Wei froze, hesitating and didn't know how to answer, cold sweat kept coming out of the tip of her small nose, and her lower abdomen began to ache.
Huo Yuan couldn't help but panic when he saw her struggling, his face was very bad, he put down his chopsticks and shouted outside the door: "Rejoice!" ”
Suixi heard the call of his master, and hurriedly trotted in: "Childe, what do you command?" ”
"Quick, go to the nearby hospital immediately, find a doctor to come over, hurry!"
"Yes, Childe!"
Sui Xi agreed, and then ran away.
Cai Wei couldn't hold back, so she had to say embarrassedly: "Brother Huo, actually, you don't have to find me a doctor, I'm just, just, every month, it's like this..." ”
In the next few words, her voice was as small as a mosquito, but it was also heard by Huo Yuan, he was at a loss for a moment, and then suddenly realized that a handsome face was quickly dyed with a thin layer of powder, and his neck turned pink.
"You sit down first, I'll go out for a while!"
Huo Yuan stood up, smiled awkwardly at Cai Wei, and stepped out.
Cai Wei wanted to take advantage of this time to escape, but when she stood up, she sadly found that she couldn't leave, because the back of her light blue flower-sprinkled smoke skirt was already bright red and dazzling!
Not only that, but even the white orchid cushion on the chair under her was dyed like the sunset on the horizon.
She has never been so embarrassed, at this time, she really can't wait to find a crack in the ground to get into, it's all to blame on her, she didn't remember the days when she had her period last time, otherwise, she wouldn't have lost such a big face today.
Cai Wei clenched her fists, turned her back, and wailed, she swore that in the future, she would remember the day when her aunt came, take strict precautions, and never be so embarrassed again!
Huo Yuan came back soon, holding a bag and putting it on the corner of the table, he almost didn't dare to look her eyes, he only said: "This, you put it on first, I'll wait for you outside." With that, he walked out quickly.
Cai Wei opened the baggage, and when she saw the contents inside, she was immediately petrified.
On the top of the baggage, there is a light blue flower-sprinkled smoke skirt with a color close to the one she is wearing now, and a pair of cotton pants, which is nothing, but under the skirt, there is actually a snow-white and clean menstrual belt.
The menstrual belt is two inches wide and five inches long, sewn from white cotton cloth, with a thin layer of cotton in it, and the handiwork is fine, and even the bag that ties the waist is rested with dark chrysanthemums.
Cai Wei had a black line on her head, and she made up for the embarrassing scene when Huo Yuan bought these things, and slapped her forehead in annoyance, she hurriedly changed into this new outfit, wrapped the dirty skirt and dirty pants she took off in the baggage, and by the way, she also wrapped up the cushion that was soiled by her, and hurriedly went out.
Outside the door, Huo Yuan was waiting there quietly, and when he saw Cai Wei, he smiled kindly, but there was still a little embarrassment in that smile.
"Well, it fits perfectly!"
In order to alleviate the awkward atmosphere between the two, Huo Yuan pretended to be relaxed and said.
At this moment, Cai Wei was so cramped that she wanted to cover her face and run away, there was still gossip with him, so she just said to him in a panic and ran away.
Huo Yuan saw Cai Wei run away like a little mouse, his originally slightly tangled face suddenly bloomed with a smile, he had seen Cai Wei playful, he had seen her cold, he had seen her shrewd, he had seen her slippery, but he had never seen her so embarrassed, her expression and movements were interesting and cute, like a little mouse that was forced by a cat, if it wasn't for her being anxious, he was really reluctant to let her go, how interesting it would be to tease her for a while!
Cai Wei sat in the carriage of the Qin Palace, and ran back to the Qin Palace, her menstruation suddenly came, and she couldn't get in touch with the space, and the original plan to throw the Dafang family out of the Great Jin Kingdom tonight had to be temporarily put on hold, and even her own going to Nangong Yi Camp couldn't be realized for a while, these two days, she could only stay in the capital obediently, without the support of the space, many of her ideas could not be realized.
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Inside an old mansion in the capital
Mu Chongfu stayed at the table, eating roast chicken in a big gulp, and scolding Cai Wei's injustice to the family at the dinner table.
"If you want me to say, the Erfang family didn't leave the capital at all, maybe where to hide to enjoy Qingfu, it must be Mu Caiwei's little slut who was afraid that we would get their light, so he arranged us in this place with his back and ignored it, and hid to eat and drink spicy food."
Mu Liankui took a sip of wine, put down the cup, and said slowly: "What are you afraid of when you hide, you ran away from the monk and the temple?" ”
"These days, let's be her furniture, and when the money from selling the furniture runs out, we will sell her house, I don't believe she can hide for the rest of her life? I don't believe they won't come out for the rest of their lives? ”
He put down the wine glass, the little wine burned his face red, and his face was full of energy, which was not at all the same as the appearance of escaping from the famine when he first came to the capital two days ago, and he couldn't help but change the ragged raged clothes on his body into new satin clothes, and even the few sparse white hairs were hairpinned up with a red gold hairpin in the appearance of the landlord.
The big house and the family have changed, they have all put on the silk clothes that they have never worn in their lives, and they have been eating and drinking nonsense in the past few days, eating big fish and meat fiercely, and almost used up all the silver that was used up when the house was full of furniture.
However, the second elder of the Mu family is not ashamed of this, he thinks that this is a matter of course, it is natural for his son to support Lao Ziniang, if the second family does not show up in a few days, he will consider selling the house.
Mu Zhongli took a chopstick of fish and meat, put it in his mouth, and said while eating: "Dad, the deed is no longer in our hands, and it will not work to sell the house, but if they don't come out again, we can rent out this house, and it shouldn't be a problem to rent five taels of silver a month for a big house." ”
"Yes, that's it, let's wait for three or five days, if they still don't come to see their grandparents, let's rent out this house!" Then go to the capital to find them. Mu Chongcai supported his Lao Tzu's decision.
The family stopped thinking about it, and began to eat and drink happily......