Chapter 24: Shopping 2

The shopkeeper went out for a while, and when he came back, he said, "Let the girls wait for a long time." Saying that, six maids each holding something in their hands entered the box in an orderly manner, lined up, so that the guests felt respected and at the same time demonstrated the professionalism of the Qixiu Building, and after the maid stood up, the shopkeeper stood aside and said: "This is the latest five sets of heads in our building this spring." The words fell to hold the head of the five maids one by one to show the head, each one, the shopkeeper will briefly introduce the name of the head category characteristics, and then let the guests see for themselves, there is no meaning to sell to the guests, unless the guests ask, otherwise never make a noise to disturb, Qi embroidery Lou this point to make the guests very satisfied, and other gold and silver jewelry stores pΓΉ blindly sell to the guests different, Qi embroidery Lou just let the guests choose freely, there is a feeling that our jewelry is very good not afraid of not selling, Let the guests feel that Qixiu Lou is very confident, but also show the confidence of Qixiu Lou, especially those noble ladies, usually love to come to Qixiu Lou, is to feel that this way can show their status, because they these noble ladies usually what kind of gold and precious jewelry have not seen, the reason why they come here is just to see the fresh style, it is best to be better than the master in the palace to do? Therefore, since they came to Qixiu Lou once, they naturally didn't want to go to those shops to bargain and squeak like ordinary women to buy jewelry, such an environment made them feel that they were no different from those ordinary women, although later other gold and silver buildings also learned from Qixiu Lou, and Qixiu Lou was still the first choice of these noble ladies, of course, this is a bit far.

The five sets of heads are the head face of the jade flower inlaid with gold and jewels, the head face of the butterfly inlaid with gold and gemstones, the head face of the delicate point emerald grass insect inlaid with beads, the head face of the double luan inlaid with rubies inlaid with gold and silk, and the head face of the white jade inlaid with red coral beads and the double knot Ruyi head. A pair of gold hairpins on the head of the butterfly head of the gold inlaid jewelry, the upper part of the golden hairpin is engraved with an ancient money-shaped pattern, the middle of the front is shallow carved with a flow of cloud patterns, the hairpin is decorated with a white jade pattern, a green jade butterfly, and inlaid with red sapphires and pearls, it looks exquisite and luxurious, the beautiful jewelry makes these girls want to take possession of it immediately, the shopkeeper is very proud to look at the expression of the guests, and the things in their Qi embroidery building are so popular.

The cousin immediately set a more lively delicate point of emerald grass insect beaded head, no intention to ask the two cousins at all, and Sixteen Niang is still very sisterly first asked the two sisters, like that set, let the two sisters choose first, and finally picked a set of gold-inlaid jewelry jade flower butterfly head, as for Seventeen Niang, as a concubine is quite self-aware did not choose, thousands of taels of head is not her concubine want to choose, and finally picked a mutton fat jasmine hairpin, I am very satisfied, As for Xiangyunsha, with the reputation of Qixiulou, they didn't dare to fool them with fakes, unless Qixiulou didn't want to do business, so they just looked at it and let the shopkeeper wrap it up, so the cousin girl and her party were all satisfied with Qixiulou.

The shopkeeper is also very satisfied, more than 3,000 taels of silver into the pocket, back to the owner will be more appreciative of her, happily for the guests to decorate the head, wrap two horses of fragrant cloud yarn, and personally send the guests out of the store, really have to give a hundred points of satisfaction with the service.

Out of the Qixiu Building, the three girls went to Qingfeng Pavilion together according to the discussion before going out and booked a box to listen to the play while drinking tea, Qingfeng Pavilion is a place in Beijing specially for those boudoir daughters to listen to the play, which is full of maidservants, the kitchen is also the lady, and the storyteller is the female gentleman, so those people are relieved that their daughters come here to listen to the play, otherwise even if the Da Rui Dynasty is open again, it will not be open to the point where the female dependents come out to listen to the play.

The three of them soon went up to the box, and as soon as they sat down, the door of the box opened again, and the little maid replied, "The girl from the Chengenbo Mansion sent someone to say hello to everyone." β€œ

"Oh, let people in." The cousin said with some surprise

"Hello girls, my girls know that my aunts have come to listen to the play, and the special slaves and maids have come to say hello to the girls, and invite the girls to come over to listen to the play together." The maidservant of the Chengenbo Mansion said politely.

"Is it just your girl?" The cousin asked

"No, there are also girls from the Hubu Shangshu Mansion and the Wuming Houfu."

"Well, then you go back and tell your girl that we will go over, and listening to the play is just about more people, cousin, did you say yes?" The cousin said

"Yes, if you're happy." Sixteen Niang said lightly, in fact, it doesn't matter to her whether she goes or not, there are just more people in the past, and the play is still the same, and there is no difference.

The seventeenth girl looked at Sixteen Niang with some eagerness, she just wanted to tell Sixteen Niang that they would listen to the play by themselves, and let Sixteen Niang persuade her cousin to stay, who knew that her cousin would decide so quickly, if her cousin got into trouble at that time, how good would it be, I don't know if there are many people.

For Seventeen Niang's anxiety, Sixteen Niang just shook her head, saying that it was okay, and went to the box of Chengenbo Mansion.

After entering the box, a group of girls greeted each other, and Xia Baozhu, a girl from Chengenbo Mansion, said: "Sixteen Niang hasn't seen you for a long time, and you didn't go to the plum blossom banquet last time, so I miss you." ”

"Heh, why are you so interested in listening to the play today, you must know that you are also coming to the play today, so we will make an appointment together." Sixteen Niang diverted the topic and did not answer her words.

"Look at our fate, we don't need to make an appointment, isn't this another listening to the drama together?" Miss Xia Baozhu said mischievously.

"Yes, when it comes to fate, who can compare to your fate like Sixteen Niang?" Miss Lu Huashan of the Hubu Shangshu Mansion said a little sourly.

"What's there, it's better than those who don't have fate." The cousin girl said with some unhappiness when she heard the sour tone of the eldest girl.

Everyone knows the meaning of her words when they hear her say this, because Miss Lu is now nineteen years old and has not yet decided on someone's family, and it is still rare for a girl who has not yet said someone else at such an age, the male is better, and the female is a little disgusting at this age, and generally good people look at each other when they are thirteen or fourteen years old, and they are basically settled at the age of sixteen, so Miss Lu has not been optimistic about each other until now, although it is not because of her own reasons, but because of the delay of filial piety, But it's still hard to see each other, so the cousin's words fell into the box and quieted down, everyone didn't know what to say at once, and Seventeen Niang saw that her cousin was so embarrassed and hurriedly said: "This drama is weird and good, is it newly made up by Qingfeng Pavilion?" ”

Liu Linglong, a girl from Wuming Houfu, hurriedly responded: "This is Qingfeng Pavilion's new play "The Legend of the Wind Fairy", which tells the story of the wind fairy stealing down to the mortal world, and then marrying a farmer, and later being discovered by the Immortal Emperor and sending someone down to escort him back to the fairy world. ”

"Ah, what about the farmer?" Seventeen Niang asked

"Naturally, it's in the mortal world."

"Oh, and ah, a finch fairy saw that they were pitiful, so he built a bridge for them to see each other on the third day of March every year."

"Isn't that finch fairy afraid of being punished by the Immortal Emperor?"

……

The sound of the girls discussing the script sounded in the box again, and nothing unpleasant happened until they returned home.

But it wasn't until she returned to the house that Seventeen Niang breathed a sigh of relief, fortunately, Miss Lu didn't quarrel with her cousin in the end, so it can be regarded as completing the task assigned by her mother, Seventeen Niang thought.