They ate together and rested in peace.

Lying in bed at night, Xiaoxing cried and shouted that his mother could sleep among his father and mother before he was kicked out by his father, but it would not be long before he would give up the place to his younger brother, and he would be kicked out to sleep alone. Xiaoxing was greeted by several uncles one after another today, and he was already tired and snoring. Little Fanxing slept in the cradle next to the bed, and the little guy who had been making a fuss all day had already fallen asleep.

After Liu Yao took a bath, he saw that Du Xiaoxi was fiddling with the clothes he would wear tomorrow, so he walked over and wrapped his arms around Du Xiaoxi's waist from behind, and rubbed his chin directly on Du Xiaoxi's shoulder.

"It's rare for dad to come once, stay a little longer and then leave."

Du Xiaoxi nodded, yes, her father thought the same thing.

Daddy Du has decided to stay a few more days to carefully investigate how his daughter is doing, if it is not good, they may have to threaten one or two with strong force value.

"I am in charge of compiling books in the Hanlin Academy, and I will be much more idle in the future, waiting for the spring to prosper a little bigger, and our family of four will go to the suburbs of Beijing to play. Uncle bought a peach blossom village a few days ago, and we went to see the peach blossoms. ”

Liu Yao's self-esteem made him report good news to Du Xiaoxi but not bad news.

Except for the cronies who were personally pointed in by the emperor, most of them relied on Enyin to get a good reputation. In addition to the emperor's henchmen who were responsible for drafting the holy decree and giving advice to the emperor, plus the officials in charge of the scientific expeditions of various counties and state capitals, the vast majority of them were idle officials who compiled and revised books.

Liu Yao was pointed out as having too many considerations of the emperor to explore flowers, and there was real talent and learning, but with the emperor's considerations, it changed its taste.

Liu Yao didn't know at the time that there was also the emperor's element of compensating Master Xile, who became a young man, full of spirit, and infinite scenery.

It wasn't until later that he knew that he had been hit hard, and later Du Xiaoxi encouraged him and his son was born, so that he didn't get depressed.

Now these hidden drawbacks are slowly revealed.

Liu Yao came out too early, and when his classmates and friends were still struggling to raise people and jinshi, he was already officially an official. Most of those classmates are from Shanshui County, Liu Yao has not returned for many years, and gradually cut off contact. As for the officials of the same term, they are somewhat unjust in their hearts. In addition, at that time, Liu Yao rushed home to get married after the palace examination, and did not stay in Kyoto to participate in various banquets like everyone else. After that, Liu Yao soon became the county magistrate of Hongxing County under the operation of Uncle Liu, and the others also went their separate ways. As a result, Noldor's same year was not a friendship.

This time, Liu Yao entered the Hanlin Courtyard and Uncle Liu secretly took care of him, and the people in Beijing didn't know who, and they looked at him with colored glasses on their faces.

The head of the Hanlin Academy automatically classified Liu Yao as a related household and threw him directly into the compilation office where he lived his free life. Of course, Liu Yao said that the compilation of books is still bigger, and he is now only responsible for proofreading, which is a book by book typo.

Du Xiaoxi only knew that Hanlin Qinggui, but he didn't know how he was inside, and he was very happy for him when he saw that Liu Yao didn't sit on the cold bench when he just went. What's more, in addition to those who have been famous for centuries since ancient times, the rest are literati.

The higher realm is like Li Bai and others, with countless masterpieces, widely praised and respected when he was alive. It is almost Guan Hanqing, Wu Chengen, etc., who sing big operas and write scripts, and may be despised by literati when they are alive, but hundreds of years later, everyone knows it, and the popularity of his works is unimaginable.

If Liu Yao is a book, it is still the official version, and it is more likely to be handed down. Maybe thousands of years from now, we will also be the wives of great celebrities! After all, the three wives and four concubines of ancient celebrities can make the modern brick family study thoroughly, and we are still the only wife!

Liu Yao saw that the corners of Du Xiaoxi's eyes and eyebrows were full of smiles, and he didn't think he was useless, so he bit Du Xiaoxi's ear very excitedly.

Gentle rebuke, silent all night.

The next day, Liu Yao followed Uncle Liu on a business trip.

Daddy Du didn't have time to educate his son-in-law before he could educate him, and Daddy Du scolded angrily, if he wasn't in a hurry, he didn't believe that he couldn't catch anyone.

After breakfast, Du Xiaoxi directly beckoned Daddy Du and his brothers to go out.

Xiaoxing followed, Xiao Prosperity was too young to be afraid that he would be taken care of by the old lady and aunt, and in this regard, Daddy Du's angry eyes were about to pop out. Knowing that people are rare, your son still stuffs it into other people's arms, isn't this a sheep in the mouth of a tiger! He's a stupid girl!

Du Xiaoxi plans to take his brothers to see his own shop. Well, the shop that gave birth to a son.

Du Xiaoxi has three shops in Beijing, and two Zhuangzi of almost 100 acres in the suburbs of Beijing. There are eleven shops in Shanshui County, and there are two Zhuangzi with a total of about five or six hundred acres. In short, if she returns to the county, she will definitely be a proper rich woman.

It took three big carriages to load the big brothers away, and called the little steward to show the way, and the group went straight to Fang City after leaving the house.

In the past, although he knew that there was a shop under his name, Du Xiaoxi had food, drink and monthly expenses and directly went to the account office for reimbursement, but he did not manage the shop. Now Du Xiaoxi is excited, and he directly wants to take care of the shop himself. Of course, Du Xiaoxi's management is currently only responsible for debt collection, and the rest is still in accordance with the usual practice.

The three shops Du Xiaoxi only knows that they are a jewelry shop, a clothing shop, and a pen and ink shop, all of which are common livelihoods that are decent and not easy to have problems.

There are good and bad places in the market, and the bad thing is that similar stores are gathered together, and the competitive pressure is not ordinarily large.

The group entered the jewelry store, and Du Xiaoxi suddenly realized that he should take care of his own business more.

The shopkeeper's surname is Wu, who is about fifty years old, and has probably been with gold and silver for a long time, with a pair of small eyes shining brightly.

Hearing about Du Xiaoxi's identity, he saluted respectfully, and said very happily: "Young lady Da'an, but what are your orders?" ”

To be honest, Shopkeeper Wu is still a little confused about the young lady's intentions, several streets around here are famous women's streets, from eight-year-old girls to eighty-year-old ladies on the street, there is everything, after all, women love beauty without age.

The streets are almost full of women, except for the second-rate and real ladies who come to see the little lady for free, serious men go to the street to accompany the old lady and daughter-in-law. It's really rare for a little woman like Du Xiaoxi to bring an old man, a child and eight men, I don't know if I think this is going to kick the gym.

The shop is not big, and the front and back yards of the unified square city are not located in the private route because they are civilians. Shopkeeper Wu led everyone directly into the backyard.

The backyard is small, except for a guy who lives here who has a hut, and the rest of the hut is for miscellaneous items and a thatched house. The clean stone slabs are paved with clean stones, and the largest area in the courtyard is a stone table and four stone benches, in addition to a few dry flower pots placed at the base of the wall and the unfinished gray and white snowfall, there is no extra place in the whole courtyard.

Du Xiaoxi helped Father Du to sit down, Brother Du and Second Brother sat down, and the other brothers could only stand like Shopkeeper Wu.

Du Xiaoxi took a sip of tea and said to the shopkeeper Wu: "Take my father and brothers today to see, how does the shop work, is the business good?" ”

Shopkeeper Wu looked at the few big men standing next to him and the little baby in his arms, and thought to himself that the rumors were really true, there were so many maiden brothers of the young lady, no wonder they were so easy to raise.

"Young lady, the jewelry in the store is for the people, the price is real, and there are customers entering the door every day. These months coincide with the golden nine and silver tenths, and it is the New Year in a few days, which can be said to be the best time of the year for business. ”

It's not an expensive and damn fine product, but how many people in Kyoto have small profits and quick turnover, and the daily income is also a lot. According to Du Xiaoxi, last month's accounts, the three shops, except for the pen and ink one, each had thousands of taels of silver.

Shopkeeper Wu continued: "The jewelry in the shop is sent directly from the house, we never have to worry about the supply, if the young lady wants to know, you can ask the uncle." ”

This Du Xiaoxi knows that Uncle Liu has saved some money in Beijing for so many years, and there are also a few good clothing and jewelry shops, which will also bring a lot of low-priced goods when they are purchased, and some of the old goods in the shops will also be packed and thrown to other small shops.

The group walked around the shop and then moved to the next place, 'Jinyifang'.

Shopkeeper Wu looked at the group of people who went away and felt sad for a while, the old man gave the shop to the young lady They knew it, but there was no difference between the past two years and before, and the young lady had never been there, and they didn't take it seriously. The grandson of the shopkeeper Wu is now working as a reception boy in the shop, and he originally thought of taking over his class in the future, but now it seems that he is mysterious. Ay! I hope that the master can see that he can arrange a good job for his grandson for the sake of his hard work!

'Jinyifang' is one of the few clothing shops in the market, and it is famous for selling most of the gorgeous silk silk yarn from Nanling.

Dashang Nanling silk yarn is the most colorful and colorful, because it has to go through a long sea or expensive beams, making it extremely expensive. Also because of the high freight costs, the goods of the conditional merchants are also mainly high-quality products, but the Jinyifang is mainly second-class goods, and from time to time there are lower-priced high-grade products for sale, which is very popular with the families of small officials and small riches.

Laixing led a group of people through several streets, on both sides of the road are clothes, jewelry, rouge and gouache shops, and on the road are young and old ladies and old women, which really live up to the title of women's street.

Lai Xing looked at the group of people around the gate of the Jinyi Fang, and said to Du Xiaoxi carefully: "The young lady is in front of the Jinyi Fang." ”

Du Xiaoxi looked in the direction pointed by Laixing, and subconsciously frowned when he saw that the beautifully decorated door was surrounded by a group of people.

"Let's take a look!"

Du Xiaoxi took Daddy Du and his party and walked over quickly, and the people around saw that Du Xiaoxi was leading a group of strong men and quickly automatically gave up their places to let them in.

In the store, two half-used butterfly love flower silk were thrown on the ground, one pale pink and the other goose yellow, both of which are delicate colors that little ladies like.

Two pairs of people stand opposite each other, one side is a middle-aged woman in her forties who is dressed in powder and grease, and the other is a little lady with a light veil covering her face.

Du Xiaoxi asked the woman standing next to her who was watching with relish and talking to the woman next to her from time to time: "Sister-in-law, I heard that the brocade in this shop is very good, and my sister-in-law wants to buy her some good satin when she gets married next month, what's wrong?" Why so many people? ”

Du Xiaoxi has a festive little round face, holding a child in his arms, and the man who follows him also looks like a simple and serious person.

Seeing Du Xiaoxi ask this, the middle-aged woman said excitedly: "Oops! Big girl, you can find the right one! Just now I happened to be in the shop to buy materials for my daughter, but I saw it from beginning to end. As she spoke, the woman pointed to the little lady who covered her face with a light veil and said, "Do you see?" It's the little lady who just came over with two half-used silk, saying that it was a pink material bought here in the summer, and she thought the material was good, and she bought a goose yellow material a few days ago, but this goose yellow material was worn and had a rash. ”

As she spoke, the woman couldn't help but add her own opinion, "Oops! This little lady has been wronged, you didn't see two red rashes on her neck and wrists, it looks pitiful! ”

In order to show his true gossip attributes, Du Xiaoxi asked curiously: "This little lady covers her face, is her face also long?" ”

The woman waved her hand, "No, it's not a good thing after all, it's not good to show your face!" ”

Du Xiaoxi nodded in agreement.

Seeing that Du Xiaoxi agreed with her point of view, the woman continued: "This little lady came in with two pieces of silk, saying that the first one was used well, and the latter one was used with a big red rash. This little lady usually has nothing to taboo, that is, she has delicate skin and clothes to be worn well. Her maid found that the rash happened to be on the neckline and wrist, so she wondered if it was a problem with the material. The maid threw the material directly into the hot water and scalded it, but the color faded! ”

The woman showed off her ingenuity, "If you want me to see what this little lady said, it must be true, everyone knows that silk cannot be washed with hot water, and if the store is shoddy, ordinary people really can't find it." And this rash is only covered by a jacket on the neck and wrists, and if it is summer, this little lady must not have a rash all over her body. ”

Du Xiaoxi nodded in agreement, the big jacket he wore in winter, if it was really a problem with the material, it was really difficult to find.

"Oh, big girl, you don't know that the proprietress of this shop is fierce, look! Look! ”

Du Xiaoxi turned his head to look over and saw the woman in the store who was greased and powdered kicking the material under her feet, pinching her waist and saying angrily: "How come our Jinyifang is also a seven- or eight-year-old shop, but it is the first time that we have encountered this kind of thing when we have opened the store for such a long time." You say it's our problem! Who knows if there is something wrong with it! ”

Hearing this, many onlookers frowned, whether it was the store's problem or not, this attitude towards customers should not be.

"Also, although the goods in our store are unique in the Northland, everyone knows that some dyeing shops also imitate the patterns in our store to sell. Who knows if you bought a fake and deliberately said it was our material. ”

The little lady stomped her feet angrily, and the maid next to her didn't expect that the shopkeeper who usually smiled at everyone would be like this, you must know that she brought a few more people! (To be continued.) )