Chapter 623: Cousin Mingqin (3)
"My idea is that it's good to look good, no matter how much it's worth. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info put it on and take a look, drink, Young Master Cao San will definitely sigh: 'Whose little lady is this, so Peugeot.' ”
Yun'er couldn't stand up straight with a smile. Mrs. Zhou said angrily: "Poor mouth, when I see your sister Yun, I can't even speak." ”
"Sister Qin, this is true temperament, this is the best. I don't know if you like it so much, I'm so happy. ”
"Of course I like it, and whoever doesn't like it is wood. If Qin'er's two sisters-in-law saw it, it would be a famine. ”
"It's not that my mother said that your two uncles and sisters-in-law, if you want them to do things, they will hide back, and if you want them to find faults, they will run to the front. You just ignore them, quietly, learn and do a good job of the skills that your sister Yun taught you, take it out and sell it quietly, it's serious to get a few dollars, don't be angry with them. Mrs. Zhou instructed her daughter, but she was very disdainful of her daughter's two concubines. Mingqin is a reasonable and good girl, but she has two unscrupulous concubines, and the biggest characteristic of these two people is that the boss is unreasonable and greedy; The second child is greedy and lazy, gossiping.
However, in front of Zhou Mingqin's third young grandmother, she still has to pretend to be a virtuous daughter-in-law. Because the three siblings are a mirror, when they look at each other, they have nothing to hide.
"My aunt is so right, don't get involved in those house fights, it's not good for your body at all. If you can do handicrafts, you can sell them in Brother Ruiqian's cloth estate, and Brother Ruiqian will not lose you in terms of wages, so why do you have a big cousin. ”
"Really? May I? My mother-in-law is a housekeeper, the more the month is given, the less the less, the third young master of our family gets up early in the shop and is greedy for darkness, the eldest and the second child study hard in the cold window, and the oil bottle at home is poured and does not help, the same son, different to be inherited, as if the third young master was brought by the old lady in her mother's house. ”
"Don't be foolish and make your aunt laugh."
While chatting, Tian Liang and Yu'er came, they heard that their aunt and cousin were coming to visit the door, and Tian Liang hurried over as soon as he finished his work.
"Say hello to my aunt, my aunt is auspicious, and my cousin is well."
"Ouch sister, your son is too good, isn't he? is so healthy and handsome, and he is still valued by the prince. Sit down. ”
"Thank you, aunt."
"Miss Yu'er, we've known each other for a long time, I really didn't expect it, you are all blessed people. What is the nephew up to? ”
"It's all a matter of the house, and Liangzi is doing it for the prince."
"Listening to your brother Ruiqian's praise for you, my aunt wants to see you early, and she has wronged you all these years."
"Liangzi didn't suffer much, but he didn't read much, so he couldn't inherit his father's business."
"Don't say that, your brother Ruiqian said that you are quite expert in business, and you know everything else. It's a lot like your father. A son doesn't necessarily have to do a business with his father, this may be arranged by God. ”
"My aunt has a level when she speaks. My brother is not what he says, you don't know, what my brother learns is like. ”
"Master, what are you doing? Is there anyone who praises my brother like this? ”
All laughed. Mrs. Chen said: "Liangzi, this kid is good at everything, but he can't change Yun'er as his master." My sister should also say hello when she meets. ”
Tian Liang said: "This is the number of etiquette, our ancestors are to follow the "benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom, faith, etiquette can not be forgotten." Although she is a younger sister, she is the daughter-in-law of the royal family, and she is a gift from the monarch and ministers. ”
"That's right." The gentleman and the prince came together, and everyone quickly stood up to greet the prince. The prince said to everyone very kindly: "They are all close relatives, so there is no need to give a big gift." Actually, I really hope to be one of the civilians, and if there is any way, I will rush here. I'm still used to it now, and when I just returned to the palace, I wanted to cry every day. By the way, Mr. Zhou's business has not been affected by selling stationery to this king, right? ”
"You're too worried, but because of your stationery, the paper store's business is booming." Mrs. Zhou is also from a beautiful background, and she is not so timid when she sees high-level figures.
Yun'er asked, "Is it true that my aunt said that the paper store business has boomed because of the stationery in the house?" What is it selling? ”
"It's the ink you sent later that didn't need to be grinded, the pigments that came out when you squeezed out, and the rice paper with flowers."
"Rice paper with flowers?" Mr. Chen looked at Yun'er.
Yun'er said: "It's those watermarked letterheads, and there is a faint flower on the corner of the letterhead, which is very elegant." Especially the boudoir girl likes it very much. Literati still like to collect. If Daddy likes it, Yun'er will give you a set. ”
"Is my father a boudoir or a literati?"
"Literati, aren't you a teacher? It is a typical literati. ”
The prince smiled and said: "Mr. is indeed a person in the ranks of literati, but it's a pity that this king can't mix in the ranks of literati." ”
Yun'er said: "Don't squeeze into the literati team through the channel of poetry and songs, just read more Sun Tzu's Art of War, military books and war strategies, so as to be a Confucian general." ”
The crowd laughed. Wang Ye said: "It is very appropriate to say that General Chen Fang is a Confucian general, and my escort of grain and grass is at best a member of the Huotou Army, so forget it." After saying that, he sighed, as if he was sorry.
The prince's approachability made Mrs. Zhou and Qin'er less nervous. Qin'er secretly looked at her cousin-in-law, and felt that this person was very kind and easy to approach, but the kind of kingly momentum between her eyebrows was very obvious, a kind of self-nobility, inviolable nobility. It's not that it's scary, it's awe. Qin'er's mind was wondering how Cousin Yun and her husband, who was twenty years older than her, got along.
Anyway, I left my aunt and cousin for two days before letting them go home. This time, the biggest harvest is Qin'er. He Yun'er learned several skills, and also got a lot of working tools, materials, and gifts. I went back with a full load. Yun'er also brought a resin ornament to her cousin's father-in-law, who deals in antiques. Tell Qin'er that she can let her father-in-law sell it in the store. Prices can range from three taels to five taels. This is a ready-made craft, and the processing fee is already included in it. Of course, Yun'er can't tell Qin'er what the cost of this ornament is. Three taels of silver is equal to six hundred yuan in an exotic land, and five taels is equal to one thousand yuan, a price that is still acceptable to the rich.
Yun'er heard from her uncle that Qin'er's father-in-law has a very good reputation in business, never deceives customers, and is meticulous in profit sharing, even if no one knows the price and does not deceive him. I just want to see if he is like this, and if it is true, I can sell some crafts to him there. Don't underestimate the county seat of Tongzhou, which is the northern end of the Grand Canal, the waterway leading to Suzhou and Hangzhou.
After Qin'er returned to Tongzhou, she handed over the bonsai that Cousin Yun asked her to bring to her father-in-law, and said that she asked him to sell it for her cousin. Qin Er rarely mentioned her cousin before. Don't look at her extroverted personality, but she is as unassuming as Yun'er. It's just that Yun'er and Wang Ye have not mentioned it to anyone in her mother-in-law's family for a year, even her husband Cao Jinxian has never mentioned it. The people in the mother-in-law's family thought that Qin'er's cousin was not allowed to stretch in the palace and was not favored. The prince's side Fujin's father or brother should be an official rank above the fourth rank, and the daughter-in-law's uncle is just a magistrate, even if he serves in the Hanlin Academy, he is only a sixth grade, such a background is really too low. If Yun'er hadn't been young and beautiful and gave birth to a son, maybe she would have been affected by the breeze, and no one would have taken care of her. The prince is a figure above 10,000 people under one person, and it is more convenient to ask for a woman than to change clothes. So I didn't take the cousin of the third daughter-in-law seriously at all.
Who knew that the daughter-in-law brought back a bonsai that was not available in the Manchu and Qing dynasties when she entered the capital once, and she couldn't tell what material it was made of, it was the same as the real scene, which was a shrunken three-dimensional landscape painting. Every pine needle of that pine tree is so delicate and vivid. The squirrel on it is the same as the living one. There are also rocks, streams, wild flowers, and fishermen...... Cao, who has been in the antique business for many years, looked at this bonsai again and again, and wanted to ask his daughter-in-law, what kind of material is this bonsai made of? But I'm too embarrassed to speak. The antique shopkeeper who has been in business for many years doesn't know the material of bonsai? Doesn't it make people laugh out of their big teeth? But he was afraid that the guests would ask him, he couldn't lie, he couldn't tell if he didn't lie, what should he do? Pregnant. I'm embarrassed to ask my daughter-in-law for advice, but I can use my son, and let my son ask my daughter-in-law for advice. So he told his third son what he meant, Cao Jinxian's reading qualifications are very average, that is, he is handsome and young in appearance, but he is much more shrewd than reading in business, and he is superior in dealing with the relationship between his daughter-in-law and her mother-in-law, father-in-law, concubine, and brother in the family. As mentioned earlier, Qin'er's personality is similar to Yun'er, but the difference is that Yun'er reads a lot and has a lot of connotation, and Qin'er is the kind of powerful daughter-in-law. The mother-in-law is a seemingly very kind person, but in fact, she is the most stingy and shrewd, and she can pull out water even if it is a penny.
If there is a head-on conflict between Qin'er and her mother-in-law, it will deteriorate the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law in one fell swoop. It is this Cao Jinxian and Cao San's young master, who reconciles the two sides every time, so that the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law is stable at a relatively harmonious level. There was a period of time when the mother-in-law forced her son to divorce the qin'er behind her back, because she was too powerful and capable, and she was worried that she would be abused by her daughter-in-law when she was too old to move in the future. But Cao Sanshao is absolutely reluctant to take a break from Qin'er, where can he find such a good daughter-in-law who can endure hardships and work, can live, and is considerate to her husband? So he never mentioned half of his mother's dissatisfaction with Qin'er in front of Qin'er, but turned his pity for his daughter-in-law into a more subtle action. In front of his mother, he always said how Qin'er praised her mother's virtue and generosity. In this way, the matter of divorce from a big to a small one, from a small to nothing, and it passed without leaving a trace.
Now that Daddy suddenly wants to ask Qin'er for advice, Young Master Jinxian is strange: Daddy seems to be loyal and pure, but he is still very shrewd in business. It's not that he's good at tricking people, but he can convince guests. From the books, you can know that the turnover rate of antiques in the hands of other antique dealers is very slow, and my father can sell them. In the appreciation of antiques, Dad is a living treasure, otherwise how can he form a family with Zhou's shopkeeper? Daddy asks his daughter-in-law for advice? The sun is coming out in the west? So he launched a family offensive and a love offensive, and finally learned that his daughter-in-law took back a landscape bonsai from his aunt and cousin and asked his father to sell it on his behalf. Consignment sales are not a very new business, so the consignment stores are consignment sales. Some people are forced by life to sell the antiques in their hands for emergencies, but the antiques are not cabbage, so they sell them when they set up a stall. Many of these cases are sent to pawnshops or antique shops to sell on behalf of others, and it is okay to call consignment.
"Daughter-in-law, why didn't you tell me about the antiques you brought back?"
"Who told you I brought back an antique? That's what Cousin Yun asked me to bring back and sell in our father's shop. Call it bonsai, don't pull it on antiques. ”
"Isn't bonsai an antique?"
"Sister Yun said that it was an ornament, and it was an ornament. Whoever thinks it looks good will buy it, and learn from his father in the future, don't keep talking in layman's terms. ”
"What material is it made of?"
"I don't know." Qin'er spoke very impulsively, not that she couldn't be gentle, but she was really angry by her husband going to drink flower wine, and she didn't bother to pay attention to him.
"Daughter-in-law! Are you still angry about that? It's not that I like that kind of place, it's a brother who deadpulled me to. Men, you have to socialize outside. ”
"I don't care if you are paid softly, why do you call a woman's name in your dreams?"
Third Young Master Cao was frightened: "Won't it?" In my heart, Miss Zhou Mingqin and Miss Zhou are the only women I like, and I have been sharing the bed for ten years. Say, "What have I recited?" ”
"Like smoke, there won't be a man with such a name, right?"
"Hey, you scared me, it's not Ruyan it's Wu Yan. It's the young man Wu who often drinks with me, and the young master Wu who runs a leather shop at home. ”
"Don't be sloppy, it's like smoke, it's not Wu Yan, I haven't heard of a man dreaming of calling a man's name, unless...... You damn thing, when did you get the good of Longyang? And the one who is like smoke and ashes, isn't it the woman of that place? ”
"Didn't you say bonsai? How did you get involved in something like smoke and water? What should I do if I marry a big man back? I can't beat others in terms of strength, people are showy in terms of ability, I am Bai Ding, and I am ......"
"You get away from me, you men talk sweetly, who doesn't understand?"
"Don't pay the price, let's talk about the bonsai first, didn't you ask Cousin Yun what kind of material is it made of?"
"You make me think, like, what kind of resin material is it made of? You also know, I can't recognize a basket of big characters, where do I understand what resin is? ”
"You don't mean jade? Nor is it ivory or glazed? ”
"Do you stick your teeth or not? If you ask me again, I won't know anything. ”
"Okay, madam, please rest, I'll shut up.
Seeing that Qin'er really slept, the third young master quietly got up and went to his father's bedroom, and learned it again. Dad said, "No wonder it's only sold for five taels, it turns out to be made of wood." ”
"Did you hear me? It was resin, and the son's understanding was that gold was mined from a lot of stones, and it could not be said that gold was stone. Your bonsai son has also seen it, can the trunk be made into an old man for fishing? Can you make turquoise pine needles? ”
Old man Cao was speechless, admitting that his son's "strong words" made some sense. So he said, "Since the essence of something is something, it cannot be sold for so little silver." ”
"Isn't it up to you to sell more and sell less?"
"That won't do! Entrusted by people, loyal to people, and how much reward people give is their business, and we can't profit from it. ”
"Okay, okay, you can just sell it at the price Qin'er said." (To be continued.) )