"What day are you free? Let's set a date first, and then meet at the door of the post house first, and then I'll take you around the shop. ”

As early as in the letter, Uncle Pei had told him about his free days one by one, Xie Ning searched for memories in his mind, and recalled: "Today is the fifth day of the eighth month, so let's go out on the seventh day of the new year." ”

In fact, Xie Ning has nothing to worry about, as long as he greets Mama Qin in advance. Sooner or later, she had to do it, so she simply picked the nearest one.

"Okay," Pei Xinghai nodded to make a note of it, and sent her out of the carriage.

***

In a blink of an eye, it was the seventh day of the first month, Xie Ning deliberately got up early for a while because she wanted to dress up in men's clothes, she had already discussed with Mama Qin, and everyone in the small courtyard had already unified the caliber, today was not the day to ask for peace, she didn't have to go out, in case someone came to the door on a whim, they still said that Xie Ning was taught by Mama Qin in the room, and used this as an excuse to ask others to visit.

Everything was arranged, and Shainin climbed out of the back wall with peace of mind. Originally, she was worried that there would be a secret guard arranged by King Xuan Qin Xi outside the wall, but after slowly approaching, she didn't see half a figure. I don't know if it's because it's still early, Shainin didn't notice that there was anyone in the shadows.

After going to the post house once before, Xie Ning was familiar with the road, and it didn't take long for him to walk outside the post house and take the carriage arranged by Pei Xinghai in advance towards the west of the city.

Kyoto Castle is east and west, and although the west city is not as prosperous as the east city, it is also a place where people live. Xie Ning's mother's dowry, which was placed by the Hou Mansion, is also rich.

The old house has been leased out, and the two granges are also in the suburbs, which are entrusted to the tenants to cultivate and take care of. There were only three shops, run by her mother's dowry and servants bought from their family.

After discussing with Pei Xinghai, Xie Ning did not plan to go to the old mansion to disturb the cleanliness, nor was he in a hurry to go to the suburban grange before the autumn harvest, and the two hit it off and went to the three shops under the Xie family's name.

In fact, these things are said to be the Xie family's industry, but they are better the thoughts left by her mother. Since her mother went, the Hou Mansion had no intention of taking care of this dowry, although her father would occasionally take some silver taels from it to supplement the family, and most of the income was still saved, planning to leave it to Xie Ning in the future.

Therefore, these things with sustenance have a very heavy weight in Shainin's heart.

The three shops I want to go to today are a tea shop, a silk village, and a fat powder shop.

According to the distance, they first stopped at Jiawenfang in the west of the city. After getting off the carriage and walking a few steps, Xie Ning found a small tea shop under Uncle Pei's inform.

This shop is sandwiched between two restaurants, and the narrow façade is a little dilapidated for no reason. Ordinary horizontal plaques, ordinary storefronts, nothing special. People who pass by rarely stop here.

Xie Ning glanced twice, but he didn't rush in, his eyes circled around the street twice, and after sweeping a plaque, he retracted his gaze, turned to look at Pei Xinghai, and reminded with a smile: "Uncle Pei, is there anything you don't remember clearly?" ”

Pei Xinghai glanced at her and said helplessly: "In your eyes, I'm so easy to forget?" Well, what you want, I've already prepared. As he spoke, he raised his hand and pointed behind him.

Xie Ning looked in the direction of his finger, and knew that he was wrong, so he smiled, turned around and searched from the carriage, and sure enough, he found a burden.

"Thank you Uncle Pei," Xie Ning did not open the burden in his hand, and the top priority was to find a place to change out of the inconspicuous men's clothes on her body.

The two entered the restaurant and asked for a side room. After entering the inner room and opening the baggage, Xie Ning sighed at Uncle Pei's thoughtfulness.

Looking at the two beaded flowers on the top, she couldn't help but smile. It's a pity that her joy didn't last long, putting the bead flower aside, Shainin unfolded the clothes folded into squares, looking at the color that was almost a nightmare unpleasant for her, and couldn't help twitching the corners of her mouth.

Vermilion.

Looking at the bright vermilion rhombic gauze skirt in front of him, although Xie Ning was reminded of many unpleasant memories, she had to admit that the dress that Uncle Pei gave her was indeed extremely beautiful.

The thin and opaque rhombic yarn is layered on top of each other, and although the skirt is down to the ankle length, it is not draggy, there is no dazzling embroidery, and there is no light line of stitches and threads.

Holding this dress that did not match her, the corners of Xie Ning's mouth couldn't help but outline a wry smile. With her appearance, she couldn't suppress the bright color, if it hadn't been pointed out by Qin Feng before, maybe she wouldn't be able to realize this now.

But in addition to that, she had another reason not to wear vermilion. There are many noble ladies in Beijing, all of them are in the prime of life, who does not prefer brightly colored clothes, who does not want to be a well-deserved beauty in the eyes of everyone, but Zhuyu is in front, they are very fond of this vermilion color, and they do not want to wear red clothes on the occasion when there is a person.

It's not that I'm afraid of colliding with each other, but I'm afraid that two identical red shadows will be looked at differently. Where Gu Qingyun is, who would be stupid enough to wear clothes similar to her and become her foil.

This truth was slowly realized by Xie Ning. Gu Qingyun's complexion is overwhelming, maybe for her, it is not the vermilion lining her, but the vermilion lining her. Even Fang Cai, Xie Ning saw this vermilion gauze skirt for the first time, and involuntarily, the figure that appeared in his mind was Gu Qingyun in red clothes.

A knock on the door came into his ears, Xie Ning came back to his senses, and put the skirt in his hand on the table with a bit of a surprise, and was about to ask out loud, Pei Xinghai's urging came from the outside of a wall, "You girl, why does it take so long to change clothes?" ”

Xie Ning looked at the skirt on the table, struggled for a while, and decided to put it on. Although she is not good-looking in vermilion, this is also the clothes specially prepared for her by Uncle Pei, and she can't live up to Uncle Pei's kindness because of this little reason.

Pei Xinghai's voice came again, "Girl Xie, why don't you speak?" Is something wrong? ”

"No," Xie Ning hurriedly denied, "You wait a little longer, I'll change it as soon as possible, and I'll come out later." ”

"Okay, okay," the voice from outside was a little helpless.

While Xie Ning was changing clothes, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart - it was really embarrassing for Uncle Pei to ask him to pick out clothes as a big man.

(Originally, I wanted to write 'It would be really embarrassing for Uncle Pei to ask him to be a big man and pick out clothes and wait for him to change his clothes.' But somehow I thought it was a little weird, so I changed it. ）