Chapter 183: A cure-all
The matter of the third elder brother should not happen for a while, Ruolu remembered what she said to Yu Toad, and after the year, she found a day with good weather and asked Yu Toad to go out and walk around. Women, love shopping and love to spend money are regardless of the times, who invented the term "cure-all"? It's really what she wants.
Both of them abandoned the car and rode horses, if the bird did not bring the girl, he asked Qi Landao for two guards who knew kung fu to follow, but Yu Toad did not bring anyone over there.
At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, there were not too many restrictions on women, especially Manchurian women, who could go out shopping. Ruolu hadn't been out for a long time, so she simply threw the child to Hua Shu and them to take care of, she made up her mind that she would have a good day of shopping today.
The two of them first looked for a teahouse, which was not the peak of passenger flow at the moment, although there were three or five tables in the lobby, but the private rooms were still empty. Ruolu threw a piece of broken silver to Xiao Er, and Xiao Er naturally greeted him with a smile, especially taking care of their room.
"Yu Toad, let's leave the horse here in a while, go to the shop on the street, have lunch, and then go to the suburbs for a walk, okay?" Ruolu used a piece of refreshment, and the taste was not bad, but she was raised by the cook in the palace to be a little embarrassed, and she used a piece and stopped touching it.
Yu Toad nodded, had no opinion, and said, "It's all up to you." β
The private room where the two of them were located was facing the street, early in the morning, and it was still in the New Year, and there were not too many shops on the street. Ruolu swept around, and saw that there was a jewelry shop not far away, although it was not as famous as the famous Linlang Pavilion in Beijing, but it was also a little famous, and the Linlang Pavilion had not yet opened after the year, it was this one.
After making up their minds, after the two of them left the teahouse, Ruolu took Yu Toad and went straight to the jewelry store.
There were not many guests at this meeting, and the guy who took care of the shop saw Ruo and the two, and saw at a glance that the two were well dressed, and hurriedly stepped forward to greet them.
Ruolu waved his hand and said, "Don't bother, let's take a look for ourselves." β
The guy replied and said, "The two distinguished guests will look at it casually first, and the small one will give you two a pot to make a good Ming Qian Longjing." As he spoke, he went to the side.
Ruolu pulled Yu Toad around the shop and said, "Look, is there anything you like?" β
Yu Toad didn't look very interested: "In the past few years, I have gotten older, and I don't like these gold and jade things anymore, and there is still a pile of ashes in the house." β
If the crane nuns, ignores Yu Toad's stubble, and chooses to look at it. Just picking, the guy has turned back, and said sweetly: "Two distinguished guests, you look slowly, the small shop has just arrived in a lot of new styles recently, if you are tired of watching, the little one will serve you two to rest over there and drink tea." β
"Do you have any nice stuff here that you don't want to put on the counter?" Ruolu asked.
"Oops~" The guy shouted exaggeratedly, patted his thigh, and said, "Look at your master, you are an expert, you wait a while, the small one will be fetched for you." β
Ruolu didn't wait in place, pulled Yu Toad and went to the counter together.
The big boxes and small boxes were placed on the counter one after another, and after a while, five or six boxes were opened, some were rosewood, some brocade, and some were yellow pear, and the sizes were also different.
Open the box one by one, there are hairpins, bracelets, earrings, etc., if the crane takes a fancy to a hibiscus jade begonia hairpin, this hosta flower is a pretty color, and decorated with trembling beads with cloisonnΓ© butterflies, it looks lovely, quite spring-like.
Seeing that Ruolu picked up the hairpin, the man praised Ruolu for his good eyesight, saying that this hairpin has in the sky and nothing in the ground. Ruolu didn't pay attention to him, and only compared the hairpin to Yu Toad's head, but Yu Toad dodged slightly.
"This one is too delicate for me." Yu Toad said softly.
"What's wrong with this, how old are you, I don't like to look at it like this!" Ruolu said as he put the hairpin back into the hairpin box, and his companion said, "I want this one, wrap it for me." β
The man naturally responded again and again, and he made a big business at the beginning of the New Year, and the boss will definitely reward him with a few taels of silver.
Out of the jewelry shop, the two of them casually visited a few stores, and Yu Toad was pulled into a rouge gouache shop by Ruolu, and after a while, the two walked out with a large bag.
Yu Toad followed Ruo Lu, quite helpless, she could see that Ruo Lu was going to dress her up again before she would stop.
If she couldn't resist Ruolu, Yu Toad didn't squeak anymore, and she was taken all the way into Ruijin Cloth Village.
A guy stepped forward to greet him, Ruolu took out a slip from his purse and handed it to the guy, saying, "I ordered two sets of clothes last month, and I came to pick them up today." β
The man looked at the list, and then led the two of them aside to rest, and said, "Wait a minute, the younger one will bring the clothes you ordered." β
The guy walked away, and Ruolu whispered to Yu Toad: "This is the industry of the Ninth Master, and the craftsmanship may not be as good as the tailor in the palace, but it is also good." β
Yu Toad nodded and didn't say anything more.
After a while, the guy brought a little girl and a middle-aged woman over, and said to Ruolu: "This is the girl and mother-in-law in the store, the two of them can try on clothes in the store, if there is anything that doesn't fit, you can tell them, and the little one will retire first." β
Ruolu nodded, and the girl saluted with her mother-in-law and Ruolu, and asked their opinions.
Ruolu handed the peach-colored set to Yu Toad, and kept a set of sky blue for himself, and said, "This one is ordered according to your size, you can try it." Seeing that Yu Toad wanted to refute, he hurriedly pushed her to try on, and led the little girl to try on clothes.
The two came out almost at the same time, Ruolu looked around Yu Toad, and said, "The craftsmanship of this house is good, and the clothes fit very well, do you think there is anything inappropriate?" β
Yu Toad looked down and said, "It's not bad." β
Thinking of something, Ruolu was a little gloomy: "No matter how good the embroidery is, it can't compare to perilla, but it's a pity that it's ......."
When Yu Toad heard this, he was also a little sad. Seeing this, Ruolu hurriedly broke the atmosphere, and said to the mother-in-law and the little girl: "Do you have a dressing mirror and a comb?" Can you lend us one? β
"Naturally, there is, the two distinguished guests will wait a while, and the slave and maid will bring it to the two." The two answered, the little girl went to get something, and the mother-in-law stayed behind to fold the clothes that Ruolu and the others had changed first, put them on the table next to them, and then retreated.
When the little girl took the mirror and the comb, Ruolu said: "Leave it here, we will delay your place for a while, you can go by yourself, don't worry about us." β
The little girl responded: "The two distinguished guests please take care of yourself, if you have any orders, just call the slave and maid." With that, he exited the house. (To be continued.) )