"He also said that Lord Rui is not a material for business, and he is really thoughtful. There is something to ask you about this palace, a buyer from the Ministry of Internal Affairs passed by the Nalan department store, went in to take a look, and immediately took a fancy to the sachet sold there, this is it, he honored the sachet to the palace, and the palace liked it too much! Is this also made according to the sample? ”

"Yes, you also know that the side Fujin in the house is young, and women of her age like small and delicate things, so I bought a few and brought them back to make them, and the effect is not bad. asked the grandmother who served beside her to make dozens of them and take them to the Nalan Department Store for trial sale, and they actually sold for 200 yuan. Ordinary sachets seem to have a maximum of fifty wen and ten wen and eight wen. ”

"You mean it's expensive to sell for 200 wen?"

"Yes, what sachet can be sold for 200 wen a piece? The original price was 100 wen, because the brocade used to make the sachet was very expensive, and it was made with the effect of Suzhou embroidery, and the colored beads and tassels on it were also very expensive. My prince said that it was almost the Dragon Boat Festival, so I did a little test sale first, but unexpectedly there were many girls who liked it, and it was regarded as a baby who was added to the box when I got married. ”

"Xiu'er, why does this palace sound a little scared?"

"Are you afraid? What are you afraid of? Is what the concubine said very alarmist? ”

"It's not that your words are alarmist, it's that there are more than 20 diamonds inlaid around the blessing word on the sachet, and the price you sell is 200 yuan for a sachet and it's expensive?"

"This is not what the concubine said, it was the shopkeeper of Nalan who told the prince that if he sold for 100 wen, the door frame of his small shop would be squeezed out, and the price must be raised."

"Oh embroidery, this palace is not talking about the price, it is about the diamond on the sachet, you see, this blessing word is inlaid with a circle of diamonds, you are from everyone, the ancestor is a huge rich man in Liaodong, your old commander wife, our Qing Dynasty Gege has not used diamonds to make jewelry, right?"

"Hahahaha......" Fu Jin laughed, leaning back and forth with a smile, unable to speak for a long time.

"What are you laughing at, isn't it a diamond? The people in the Ministry of Internal Affairs said yes. ”

Fu Jin wiped his eyes with a handkerchief, and said with a smile: "No wonder you brought your concubine over early in the morning, it turned out to remind my prince not to lose money." Queen Mother, although my prince doesn't know how many pockets he has, he also knows that the purpose of doing business is to make money, and he wants to make money for the emperor and share the emperor's worries, so he won't be so stupid as to sell a diamond worth a few hundred taels for 200 wen, right? The prince's annual salary can't be compensated as a child's play, right? It doesn't take much, even those dozens of sachets have to pay thousands of taels, and there are still people in our house who are literate and can settle accounts, right? Staring at the master so much that he can't wear pants? Let me tell you, this is not a diamond, it is a gadget called a hot diamond, and the side Fujin said that it is made of resin and glass, which is used to decorate clothing. Women like shiny things, and they burn them on the neckline, cuffs, and bottom of their clothes to decorate them. ”

"Hot diamonds? Isn't a diamond just a diamond? ”

"You say, can a diamond be so hard that it burns on a garment? There are 1.3 billion people over there, who doesn't have them? My lord said that the industry over there is not 360 lines, and there are more than 3,600 lines, and some people are specifically thinking about these people who make women's money. The real diamond in that place, that is, the diamond is more expensive than the Qing Dynasty, can you make money by buying it? There is a large population there, diamonds are very rare, and the price is naturally high, and my prince has no brains to spend ten taels of silver to come back and sell it for two hundred Wen What do we see? Have money and nowhere to spend it? People call it rhinestones, not diamonds fished out of the water, but the meaning of containing water, which is very similar. There are resin and glass, you see this hot diamond is flat, right? There is a layer of adhesive film under it, which melts when heated, and if it is flattened with an iron on the cloth covering it, the drill grain will stick to the cloth and be hot, so it is called a hot drill. Although it's more expensive than Chinese cabbage, it can't be compared to diamond, right? In this way, the concubine will give you a test on the spot, and you also know that diamond is very hard, and it is difficult for any knife to cut it, and it is difficult for any fire to burn it. You just order someone to burn a red soldering iron for the concubine, and then give the sachet in your hand to the concubine as a test, and then the concubine will pay you two for the future, okay? ”

"Don't price, don't price, can't this palace believe you?"

Fu Jin smiled and said, "You can naturally trust your concubines, but you can't trust my lord." Moreover, the concubine was also curious and wanted to see how hard this hot drill was. ”

Fu Jin was quite annoyed in his heart, but he didn't show it on his face at all, and kept talking to the Queen Mother with a smile. But she couldn't believe the prince's words, but she still said it. We use our own silver as the capital to make money for your son, and you are still picky, it's too much, right?

"You say that Hongu is also curious, so try it?" The Queen Mother immediately felt Fujin's displeasure, so she simply didn't pick up the stubble, and said unceremoniously: "That little flower branch, you go to the Shangyi Bureau to instruct someone, just say what the palace said, burn a fiery red soldering iron and send it over." ”

The palace maid Huazhi hurriedly agreed. Here, the Queen Mother still chatted with Fujin quietly: "The side Fujin in your house is really a heart, and I want to buy a sample and come back to do it, so that I can save some silver." ”

"Yes, it would be too expensive if you bought ready-made children."

"That exotic land is really a rich place, and the things that women use to do work are so exquisite, why didn't they buy a little more and come back?"

"My prince wants to buy more, but the silver in his hand is counted, if it weren't for the sale of a few antiques that Mr. Chen brought to the prince, they might even have a problem eating."

"This palace really admires the character of Prince Rui, the emperor is so good to him, he has never asked the emperor for anything, and he has never been pampered and arrogant." The Queen Mother hurriedly praised the prince twice to alleviate Fujin's dissatisfaction.

"My prince doesn't know that the antiques in the foreign land are worth more than the Qing Dynasty, if you know, there are a few dowries in the concubines. If you change more money, you can buy more things over there, and you don't know that there is a decorative material called crystal glass, which is more beautiful than gemstones. ”

"Yun'er didn't buy it back?"

"I bought it, I bought it, but it wasn't much, and we had limited money."

"Alas, people don't have front and back eyes, and they know that antiques are valuable, and there are still them in the palace."

"My prince doesn't dare to ask the emperor for the treasures in the palace."

"Queen Mother, the soldering iron is here." After the eunuch Qiang's father-in-law passed the news, a female official of the Shangyi Bureau brought a soldering iron, which was placed on an iron plate, and the wooden tray would catch fire. But the heat transfer speed of the iron is fast, and the footsteps of the female officer are in a hurry, so they must be hot. When it was brought to the Queen Mother, the soldering iron was still red.

Fu Jin said: "Hurry up and put it down, the ground is brick, it doesn't matter if you put it down." ”

The female officer's face was flushed with the iron, and she could throw the plate away in a few more steps.

Taking advantage of the fact that the temperature of the soldering iron was still very high, Fu Jin put a handkerchief on the soldering iron handle, raised the soldering iron and said to the Queen Mother: "You stand back a little and don't burn you." ”

"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, this palace knows that you often make soldering irons when making clothes." In fact, she wanted to get closer and see clearly, and she didn't dare to burn herself if she gave Tong a thousand dares.

Fu Jin saw her use a strange-looking soldering iron to burn the drill at Yun'er's firsthand. The house called the hot drill is not yet red, so a drill grain is scalded and deformed, and the temperature is too high. The temperature of this red-hot soldering iron seems to be higher than that of a hot drill, so it would be good not to blanch the drill grains. It is precisely because Fujin saw it with his own eyes that he has the bottom in his heart. As soon as the soldering iron goes down, not to mention the diamonds, even the brocade used to make the sachet is burned. Fu Jin couldn't bear it, and kept explaining: "My sister Yun said that the diamond has to be 3,600 degrees to melt, and the temperature of this red soldering iron is only 150 or 60 degrees at most, so it seems that you have to control the heat well." ”

The Queen Mother understood that no matter how hot the red soldering iron was, it could not reach a thousand degrees, and it was impossible for the diamond to change in any way, so she naturally immediately believed in Fujin's test, because the so-called diamond on the sachet had turned into a paste and stuck to the soldering iron.

The Queen Mother smiled: "There are really a lot of good-looking things in the foreign land, but it's a pity that the sachets in the palace." ”

"The concubine will compensate you both."

"Okay, okay, what do you say?"

"The concubine is also the housewife in the house, can't you understand this?"

"No, what this palace means is that those things were bought with the silver of the side Fujin......"

"The concubine doesn't have any face in front of Sister Yun?"

"Hehehe, then the palace will be relieved."

This "rest assured" has a deep meaning, and of course Fujin will not say it.

The diamond matter was solved, and Fujin thought it was okay and wanted to go home with the Queen Mother. But the Queen Mother didn't let her go. Although Su Mo'er said it was very reasonable, the Queen Mother still had a glimmer of hope, that is, to let Prince Rui hand over the things he brought back to the Internal Affairs Office to operate, in order to make more money. Anyway, whoever runs it is sending silver to the emperor's treasury, what yours and mine, are all under the emperor's royal land, I see how your Tong family refuses?

"Xiu'er, Lord Rui is too kind, even if it is not worth much money, but it is very similar to diamond, and no one knows if it is sold at the price of diamond, it seems that he is really not a material for business. The Internal Affairs Department also has a shop on Zhengyang Street, which deals in jewelry, so it is better to take your goods to that shop and sell them, so that the people of the Internal Affairs Office can control the price, and you will not lose money. ”

When Fu Jin heard it, wasn't he going to rob it? But can she get angry with the Queen Mother? At that time, I felt that there was a fire above my head. took a sip of tea, suppressed his anger, and still said with a smile: "Queen Mother, the concubine knows that you are thinking about the emperor and want to add silver to the treasury. But the goods were exchanged for Mr. Chen's antiques, not the property of the prince and the concubine, and the concubine had to go back to the house to say hello. Just now you said that you sold hot diamonds as diamonds, I'm afraid it's not appropriate, right? Of course, your original intention was to add money to the treasury, but if you meet an insider who knows the truth and fake, and you bought it from the shop of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, won't people go around publicizing that you and the emperor are cheating? You also know that those old and young people in the Ming Dynasty have been encouraging people to oppose the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty. If you hold the hot diamond in your hand, there is no weight at all, the diamonds are heavy, you don't need to identify it to know that this is shoddy, and the business of the Internal Affairs Office will be difficult to do, and you have to take the black pot on the back of my prince. ”

The Queen Mother really convinced Fujin, and the other woman either swallowed her anger or made a lot of noise. People still have the heart to quote the scriptures, and in turn put the responsibility on themselves. Maybe I'll tell the emperor soon. If the emperor knows, then nothing can be done. But people are right, shoddy, in fact, the pit is all yourself, and if you are recognized, what face do you have? Although I was a little annoyed, I couldn't let out this kind of fire. Because it was his own fault, he also exposed his dirty thoughts. This Tong is too powerful! It's so easy to refute your own ideas. So he smiled and said: "Yes, this palace is clumsy, isn't it for the silver?" The emperor has entered the Forbidden City, and the people of the Ming Dynasty are not convinced, so forget it. ”

If it wasn't the Queen Mother in front of her, she was at the same level as Fu Jin, and Fu Jin would dare to scratch her face with armor! It's so shameless, it's not the king's land in the whole world, if it's all the king's land that is skillfully taken and plundered, the owner of this king's land is also the king of the dead country! In the words of the hometown swearing, it is full of calves. Fu Jin suppressed his anger again and again, chatted with the Queen Mother for a few more words, and then left.

The Queen Mother didn't lose her face, because she ignored it and gave someone a handle. He said, "It's okay or not, you can go back to your house and rest." ”

"The concubine retired." After Fu Jin gave the salute, he left with a smile on his face as when he came. On the carriage back home, I cursed the Queen Mother a thousand times and ten thousand times in my heart for being an old witch.