Chapter 103 Gossip (Asking for a Monthly Pass)
"Girl, this one is already the seventh today." Xia Tingyu told Lu Luo.
On the first day of the sixth month, as soon as Lu Luo entered the shop, Xia Tingyu showed her the account book on the counter.
Hangzhou Mansion came to several customers.
One after another, seven came.
Huzhou's bookings for this month are fourteen fewer horses, and Luluo's business has dropped again. It's not the quality of the cloth, it's the fame of the cloth.
The fame has dropped, and the sales of such an expensive cloth will naturally drop.
Qiansizhai's cloth, in fact, has never really risen in reputation, it all relies on some small gimmicks. As soon as the gimmick passed, it gradually sank.
Lu Luo's heart is very stable, and he knows the reason for any change, so he is not worried.
For the guests of Hangzhou Mansion, they came from thousands of miles, and Lu Luo asked Xia Tingyu to receive them politely, but the cloth would not be sold to them for the time being.
"June's are booked, and July's are going to be booked." Lu Luo asked Xia Tingyu to say this.
They come from so far away and can't sell cloth, which in itself is another gimmick.
If you are really willing to buy cloth, how can you wait; If you don't want to buy it, you will regret it when you go back and make a deposit, and you still have to be confident in doing business.
Lu Luo has this confidence, but Xia Tingyu does not.
Xia Tingyu saw that the business came to the door, Lu Luo obviously had hundreds of horses in stock, but she just didn't sell them, which made Xia Tingyu jump in a hurry, afraid that after this village, there would be no such store.
Lu Luo always comforted him.
At the beginning of June, it was midsummer in Huzhou Mansion, and the weather was hot.
The warm and bright sun is like a fire. Roast the leafy leaves to the point of dying. This year is particularly hot, and the slightest movement is covered in sweat.
People near the water's edge can smell the fresh water in the evening, which is particularly refreshing.
In the distance, there was the sound of a pipa, light and elegant, coming out of the gold-powder attic, and the scholars passing by heard it, and their hearts couldn't help but itch, and they looked up. will think: "Could it be Miss Chu Chu playing the piano?" β
Jin Chuchu is a famous prostitute in Huzhou Mansion. Her singing voice is delicate and soft, and she is sought after by talented people and wealthy businessmen from the south, and for a time she has risen to the top and become the most popular kabuki in Huzhou Mansion in the past two years.
It's too hot. Jin Chuchu is debugging the pipa. Next to her sat her mother. and two little sisters of thirteen or fourteen years old.
These little sisters are too young to learn pipa from Jin Chuchu, and they don't know how to be jealous of her. Let Jin Chuchu like it a lot.
"Sister, sing "Butterfly Loves Flowers", the one that Miss Qi'er sang?" The little girl with pigtails smiled and said to Jin Chuchu.
Jin Chuchu's hand was stunned, her face was as if nothing had happened, and her heart was suddenly cut, and a blunt blade slid through the tip of her heart, and the pain was rough and intenseβshe was jealous.
At the same party, I can't hope for the future of ordinary women, and since I have taken this path, every kaki wants to go better and better.
Jin Chuchu was sold to the Qinglou since she was a child, and she became famous three years ago.
Over the years, every time she saw her juniors rising up and surpassing her status, Jin Chuchu's heart had to sting, she was too jealous.
"What's so good about "Butterfly Loves Flowers"?" Another round-faced little girl noticed the strangeness of Jin Chuchu's expression, and hurriedly pushed the little sister.
"The recent guests have come, and they all like to listen to Qi'er's song "Butterfly Loves Flowers", and you should practice more." The old bustard on the side spoke.
Jin Chuchu is even more angry: I have the ability to go to Hangzhou to listen to it, but I still want to listen to "Butterfly Love Flower" if I don't have the ability, it's disgusting!
But she didn't dare to talk back to her mother.
Jin Chuchu sang a song aggrieved, and she had already memorized the words of "Butterfly Loves Flowers".
She was reluctant in her heart, and she sang very reluctantly.
Over there, her little sister listened to it, and after hypocritically praising her, she began to talk about gossip.
"Miss Qi'er is suddenly red, Mom, do you know why?" The little girl with pigtails asked the old bustard.
The old bustard was a little fat, wiped the fine sweat on his forehead with a handkerchief, and said, "How does the old lady know?" Zuo is just a good word for this "Butterfly Love Flower", and the customer who gave her the word is not for fame and fortune."
"No, no!" The little girl with pigtails said, "I heard that it has something to do with our Huzhou Mansion." β
"What's the relationship?" The round-faced little girl asked curiously.
The little girl with pigtails said: "We have a girl in Huzhou Mansion"
"What are you talking about Miss Qi'er, what kind of Xuannu!" The round-faced one interrupted her.
"Aren't you talking, don't interrupt." The little girl with pigtails was displeased, and glared at the round face, "We have a girl in Huzhou Mansion, full of silver hair, and her skills are superb.
I heard that it was she who went to guide Miss Qi'er and changed her fortune; Xuannu also opened a cloth shop, the cloth is very expensive, but her cloth is lucky. The bride wears it, can marry a wishful husband, and gives birth to a big fat boy when she enters the door; If an ordinary woman wears it, her luck will be particularly good.
Miss Qi'er wore the cloth of Qiansizhai, and the luck was better, so Hangzhou Mansion was full of talents, and she got up, Mom, you said it wasn't the credit of the Xuannu? β
When the old bustard heard this, he sighed several times: "Where did you hear this?" β
"I listened to Sister Jinlan." The little girl with pigtails said.
Jinlan is also a kabuki in this Qinglou, and in the past year or so, he has gradually shown a little limelight, only sixteen years old, young and beautiful, but his talent is a little thinner.
The old bustard immediately got up and went down to find Jinlan, regardless of the hot weather, and went downstairs with a gust of wind.
After the mother left, the two little sisters also excused themselves to go and listen to the gossip.
Jin Chuchu sat alone, and suddenly took out all the things he had accumulated over the years to take a look.
She has saved thousands of taels of silver in the past few years, I don't know if this money is enough to invite a Xuannu?
Jin Chuchu is a person with a particularly strong sense of fame and fortune, she has the desire to be motivated, and she also has the ambition to become famous, she is unwilling to be so up-to-the-bottom.
"Even if I can't invite a Xuannu, I have to go to Qiansizhai to cut a few clothes to wear." Jin Chuchu thought to himself.
She knew that Jinlan and the others were already ready to move.
Jinlan and them are all younger than Jin Chuchu, if the old bustard wants to use the money in the Qinglou to invite the Xuannu, he will definitely only invite Jinlan and them, not Jin Chuchu.
Jin Chuchu decided to rely on himself!
Jinlan and the others knew the secret of Qi'er's "fame", and other Qinglou in Huzhou Mansion also knew it.
For a time, many people wanted to ask Lu Luo to tell the hexagram.
Lu Luo denied it, and asked Xia Tingyu to turn people away: "I haven't been to Hangzhou at all, and I haven't told the Qi'er girl to tell the hexagram, let them all come back." β
Lu Luo told the fortune of Miss Qi'er, Hua Yuelou didn't mention it to anyone, but someone asked, the cloth on Miss Qi'er's body was really good-looking, and they all asked where they came from, and Hua Yuelou hyped it up and bought it from Qiansizhai.
Qi'er suddenly became popular, and everyone thought she was lucky.
And Lu Luo has always sent people to promote that she is a Xuannu to build momentum for herself.
Qi'er was wearing the cloth of Qiansizhai, and Qiansizhai was opened by Lu Luo, and the rumors began to say that Lu Luo told Qi'er a fortune.
Unexpectedly, they really guessed correctly.
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