Chapter Thirty-Three: The Shrewd Ancient Merchant
Lin Yu doesn't know much about spices, but he knows a lot about perfumes. Her friend in the dormitory in college is a perfume lover, and her family is very good, and her family has a collection of nearly 1,000 bottles of various perfume essential oils, and then after graduation, she abandoned her major and went to France to study perfume. Under the influence of such a person for four years, Lin Yu still has a certain understanding of perfume.
In fact, there are quite few people who specialize in selling herbs and spices in Rong Xifang, most of them are sold together with rouge gouache, and the scale of a few stores is not small. Lin Yu and Qingqing discussed it for a while, and asked others again, and the first one looked the largest, and it was also a three-story building like the previous silk village, and the decoration was also very luxurious.
This service is more meticulous than the previous silk village. As soon as you enter the door, the teenage and twenty-year-old girls who are in their twenties are at least handsome, and there are a few who are very beautiful, wearing uniform water-green clothes, painted with light makeup, and with a modest smile, which makes you look as if you are sorry for them if you don't buy something when you enter the door.
However, Lin Yu is really not very interested in rouge gouache, and it seems that most of the ancient fat powder is added with lead powder, and if you use too much, it will be poisoned by heavy metals, but rouge makes her very interested. Contained in a small and delicate round porcelain box or jade box, not like the big red in TV, but different shades, from pale pink to close to black heavy brown red, there are dozens of color numbers, plus different types and quality, there are hundreds of kinds, placed on a stepped shelf, it looks very spectacular. Not only Lin Yu, but even Qingqing couldn't help but stop and admire, although she was a native of ancient times, she had never been to this kind of place.
The girl who was standing there selling rouge saw the two of them stop, and hurriedly came up to recommend, the price ranged from ninety-nine yuan to hundreds of taels, and the best one was made of the most colorful rouge flower juice with rose flower juice and other flower juices, and also added high-quality pearl powder and I don't know what ore fine powder was made. I don't know how to do it, not only the color is moist like fresh petals, but also makes a pearlescent effect.
However, Lin Yu couldn't afford this kind of rouge, and there was no need for it, so the girl just showed it to them and put it back in its place. Lin Yu asked her which one had the best sales, and she smiled and said that it was the one with one hundred and ninety-nine and the one with three taels of silver.
"You show it to me." Lin Yu basically didn't wear makeup in his previous life, but he couldn't help but buy lipstick, which was barely a hobby, but it couldn't be compared with the classmate who went to France to study perfume.
The girl took down a few small boxes from the shelf and showed them to Lin Yu, "This is one hundred and ninety-nine yuan, and it sells the best colors." ”
It turns out that this price is so cheap because of its small capacity, and the round box of white porcelain is the size of a thumb, and the amount of rouge contained in it is naturally not large.
"The rouge in this kind is the same as the one in a single box of six hundred and eighty-eight yuan, but the amount is only one-fifth of that kind, and it is made of good rouge flowers and spices."
Lin Yu took it in his hand and looked at it carefully, and found that several colors were indeed beautiful, and the round box was also very exquisite, with a red peony on a white porcelain background, and a hole for wearing a rope at one end. "What about three taels of silver?"
The girl went around to the back of the shelf and took out a red brocade box, and then opened the box to show Lin Yu, Lin Yu was even more surprised, this is clearly a string of jasper bead bracelets, but the beads seem to be a little big, with different flowers carved on it.
"Look closely." The girl couldn't help but laugh when she saw the question on Lin Yu's face. "There's something else to this bead."
"I see." After Lin Yu looked at it carefully, he found that this jade bead was not punched from the middle and threaded with silk threads, but had a hole at each end and was made of gold and silver threads. And the jade beads can be separated from the middle, Lin Yu tried to unscrew one, and found that he was surprised, the jasper beads with the size of the dragon were separated from the upper end, and the lower part was filled with red and bright rouge, not to mention how beautiful it was. Qingqing couldn't help but take it and look at it, and soon couldn't put it down.
The rouge girl interjected at the right time, "Although the rouge in this is not as good as three hundred taels, it is also excellent, a string of beads has twelve colors, and the beads are carved with twelve flower letters, from spring to summer, the color is also from light to dark." The one in the girl's hand is the one with a brighter color, and we have older ladies who use it, and the color is heavier than this, but it is of the same quality. ”
"If you don't like this rouge and it's not good enough, you can also buy this twelve-flower trade wind bead chain to hold other rouge, which is the most expensive rouge, you can also do it. And if you need to show your uniqueness, we can also customize your own style, or if you have a good design, we also accept customization. ”
Lin Yu really obeyed these ancients, and she did business so shrewdly, and she, a reborn person who was used to seeing various business strategies, also sighed to herself.
"Isn't your bead chain like this Twelve Flower Letter imitated by other fat powder stores?" Looking at the booming business of this store, Lin Yu suddenly thought of a question.
"Naturally, there are, but how can the rouge they sell be as good as the rouge of our flower letters." The girl smiled, product quality is the key. "We have Zhuangzi in Rouge Mountain, and we have Zhuangzi and branches in Dacheng."
"I see." Lin Yu smiled, "I've been bothering you for a long time today, take two bracelets with twelve flower letters." ”
"What about the color?"
"I want bright colors." Lin Yu turned his head to look at Qingqing, "What about you?" ”
"Nature is bright." Qingqing really likes this rouge, so she didn't object.
The sales girl went to pick up two boxes, asked the two to check them, and then packaged them and handed them to the two, and also gave the two of them a small box of incense powder and a box of facial fat, which is a box larger than the longan beads, and it is a trial pack at a glance.
"Is this lead powder?" Lin Yu opened the incense powder and looked at it, and found that he had no ability to distinguish the ancient incense powder at all.
"No, we don't have lead powder in Huaxin, the low-grade ones are mostly rice flour as the main material, and the high-grade ones have jasmine seed grinding incense powder, and there are other types." The girl said patiently.
Lin Yu nodded, and no longer rubbed off, and went to the place where spice sachets were sold with Qingqing, this place was larger than the area of selling rouge, but there were slightly fewer people, and before the two of them walked over, a woman in purple rushed in front of them like a gust of wind.
"Get out of the way." The people behind her also pushed Lin Yu away quite unceremoniously, and it seems that these slaves also uphold the family style of her master.
Lin Yu frowned, and when he looked at it, he was still an acquaintance. However, she was not very good at recognizing people's faces, so she whispered to Qingqing's side and asked. "Hey, do you see if that county lord made a fuss in Silk Village before?"