Here, Chen Yuanheng saw that everyone was making rapid progress, and was busy looking for Wang Yihe to ask if there was a familiar cloth merchant. Wang Yihe asked Chen Yuanheng what was going on. Chen Yuanheng told his wife that he wanted to open a garment factory.

He also said that this can solve the problem of more people and less labor in Anseong recently, so he wants to contact cloth merchants and purchase goods in large quantities. When Wang Yihe heard this, he first praised Lord Chen County, who loved the people like a son, and always thought about the people, and recommended a friend of his, Lan Shanghan, the head of the Lan family, the largest cloth merchant in Ancheng. and set a banquet for the county order and Lan Shanghan in the restaurant in the evening, and introduced the two of them. Chen Yuanheng readily agreed.

In the evening, Chen Yuanheng, Wang Yihe, and Lan Shanghan drank together, and the preliminary cooperation plan was finalized at the wine table.

Lan Shanghan was very happy to see it, not only met the county magistrate, but also made a business. In fact, credit is a common thing in this era.

As long as there is a guarantor, it is generally settled three times a year, that is, the Dragon Boat Festival, the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the New Year. Therefore, the big merchants don't get the money until the third festival, and the original intention of the Chen family is to settle once a month, and all merchants are willing to supply. Lan Shanghan was very happy because of the Chen family's checkout method, and specially decided to give the Chen family a discount on the cloth. So everyone drank a great meal.

In this way, everything in the workshop is ready, and once the house is repaired, it can be opened.

Chen Wenhui has to go to inspect with Bai's every day, sometimes to see the progress of the yard, sometimes to see the progress of the kitchen and embroidery, and sometimes to see the progress of the restaurant, which is very busy.

On this day, Chen Wenhui did not go out with the Bai family. Because she received a post. It was written to her by Wang Yaozhen, asking her to go to Wang's house to enjoy the peony together two days later. Chen Wenhui calculated, it is indeed the season of peony flowers. called the mother of the Wang family who came to deliver the post to ask.

The mother of the Wang family entered the house and saw Chen Wenhui wearing a homely lilac-colored jacket and a honey-colored flower skirt, sitting on a Taishi chair with a silver and red flower-sprinkled chair, and asked kindly: "This mother, who have you girls invited?" The mother of the Wang family hurriedly replied: "Back to the girl, in addition to you, our girl also invited two girls from the Lan family, a local cloth merchant, and a girl from the provincial capital. ”

Chen Wenhui asked, "Do these girls have dealings with your girls on weekdays?" I've heard of the Lan family, what does Wanjia do, how did you come here from the provincial capital? ”

The mother of the Wang family hurriedly replied: "These girls and our girls are very good, and they often paint together, enjoy flowers, and gather for birthdays. The girl from the Wan family has only been here for two years, but the girl from the Lan family has been coming and going since she was a child. Wanjia opens our largest silver building in Huzhou, and there are their family's businesses in the entire Huzhou province. This Wan girl is the daughter of Master Wan who has been sent to us in Ancheng by the Wan family in the past two years, and she is the most kind and generous. As soon as I came to Ancheng, I made friends with our girl, and I often came and went. ”

Chen Wenhui saw that although her mother looked around when she entered the door, she answered the question very neatly, so she asked Qiu Bi next to her to reward her with a red seal of 100 yuan. The mother thanked her and went out.

Two days later, Chen Wenhui went to her mother's room early in the morning for breakfast, then went back to the room to change her clothes for going out, and took Qiu Bi and Lu Ya, as well as the wet nurse Zheng's mother, to Bai's room and ask for her resignation.

Bai Shi saw that his daughter was wearing a newly made rose-red mud and gold satin full-sleeved robe, tied with a belt inlaid with white jade, hanging a piece of mutton fat jade mandarin duck pendant, and wearing a garnet-red silk skirt on the lower body, the skirt was bright in color, but it was not as simple and gorgeous as the embroidery, so he nodded.

When he looked at the jewelry on his head, he frowned. Wen Hui combed two corners today, but she only brought two palace flowers. Bai asked Qingshuang to bring his own jewelry clips, chose a red gold collar inlaid with gems for Wen Hui to wear around his neck, and took off the two palace flowers and replaced them with two pearl-encrusted flowers.

put on a pearl earring for Chen Wenhui. In his left hand, he carried a bracelet of mutton fat jade. On his right hand, he wore four small bracelets of identical red gold. Chen Wenhui was unhappy and felt that she was wearing too much on her hands.

Bai Shi hurriedly said: "Hui'er, you are familiar with the girl of the Wang family, but you don't know the girl of the Lan family and the girl of the Wan family, if they have a meeting gift for you, you can give them these three small bracelets, and you will not find it embarrassing to send things." ”

Chen Wenhui understood, and praised her mother for her thoughtfulness. Bai called Zheng's mother again and explained carefully, and allowed Chen Wenhui to go out.

Chen Wenhui arrived at Wang's house and it was almost noon. First go and meet Mrs. Wang and the old lady of the Wang family. The old lady of the Wang family was very happy and gave Chen Wenhui a red gold bracelet as a meeting gift.

Chen Wenhui thanked her and asked Zheng's mother on the side to take it. Later, Mrs. Wang led her way to the garden. In the pavilion in the garden, Wang Yaozhen and the three little girls were already looking forward to it.

Seeing Chen Wenhui, he hurriedly introduced. It turned out that the two girls of the Lan family were sisters, both of whom were the daughters of the head of the family, Lan Shanghan, one named Lan Caiyu and the other Lan Yingyu.

One is thirteen years old, the other is eleven years old. The girl of the Wan family is Wan Meizhen, the daughter of Wan Chengyuan, who is in charge of Wan Chengyuan in Ancheng, ten years old. Chen Wenhui is the youngest, but Chen Wenhui is a northerner, taller than her peers, and these girls are all southern beauties, so they are shorter, so there is not much difference between the little girls.

Mrs. Wang explained to her subordinates again and left.

There are a few little girls left, and everyone has no restraints, and there are more words. Wang Yaozhen said: "Sister Hui's clothes are really good-looking, and the embroidery is first-class. ”

Lan Caiyu said, "Sister Hui, I heard that your clothes are made by the people around you?"

Chen Wenhui saw that one of the Lan sisters was wearing a robe with pink brocade tied with embroidered Baoxiang lace, and the other was wearing a robe with green brocade tied with embroidered peony lace, so she said: "My clothes are made by Sister Feiguang next to me." Her embroidery was learned from the embroiderers in the palace. The materials used in the clothes of the two Blue sisters are really good, almost comparable to the brocades used in our house. And the color is much more tender. ”

Wang Yaozhen said: "Of course, our Jiangnan satin color is the best." I heard that there are also high-ranking officials and nobles in Beijing who came to their Lan family to buy silk and satin. There is also Sister Wanjia, you see how delicate her jewelry is, and Sister Hui can compare to it. ”

Chen Wenhui looked at Wan Meizhen seriously. Sure enough, Wan Meizhen didn't have much jewelry, just a gold hairpin with a new rose, a silver butterfly hairpin, and a ruyi lock on her body. But the silver hairpin is the most eye-catching, the silver butterfly is made of lifelike, the butterfly's whiskers tremble and tremble, and when it walks, it seems that the butterfly is about to spread its wings and fly away. Chen Wenhui and the Lan sisters didn't really like it, and they both asked Wan Meizhen to take it down for everyone to see.

Wan Meizhen took it down funny and handed it to everyone. I saw that the butterflies were piled up little by little with silver wires, so they trembled and were very delicate. Wan Meizhen said: "You said that you came to enjoy the flowers, but the flowers were not appreciated, and you came to hold a clothing tasting conference." Everyone laughed. Wang Yaozhen hurriedly beckoned the girls to enjoy the flowers.

There are indeed many varieties of peony flowers in Wangjia Garden, including Wei Zi, Yao Huang, Poinsettia and so on. Wang Yaozhen introduced to everyone that those strains are single-petaled "splashing ink purple, Fengdan", these plants are lotus-type, "red cloud flying pieces, like lotus lotus", as well as chrysanthemum-shaped "Luoyang Red", rose-shaped "Dewdrop Powder", Tuogui type "Lantian Jade", Jinhuan-shaped "First Case Red", crown-shaped "Zhao Fen", and a peculiar two-color "Erqiao".

It's really beautiful and beautiful. Several little girls were attracted by the beautiful flowers and couldn't stop looking at them. After playing for a while, the respective nurses were reluctant, and they were afraid that their girls would be tired, so they persuaded them to take a break. Wang Yaozhen hurriedly beckoned everyone to rest in the pavilion in the middle of the garden.

The pavilion was built on a mound of earth, which was not high, and was planted with many flowers, mostly peonies. It's blooming at the moment.

These little girls can also enjoy the peony flowers while sitting in the pavilion. Tea and snacks have already been placed in the pavilion. Everyone was tired and hungry after playing for a while, so they hurried to drink tea and eat snacks.

After a while, Lan Caiyu said first: "Such a good flower, let's make a poem couplet." Chen Wenhui was frightened when she heard this, oh my God, are you from here? Take a good look at the flowers and write poems, it will cost people's lives, I knew I wouldn't come.

Fortunately, Wang Yaozhen said: "I don't have your family history, I don't know many words, where can those wet and dry." ”

When Chen Wenhui heard this, she was grateful.

Here Wan Meizhen said: "I can only barely pinch a song, and I can't barely do it once a year, so you might as well spare me." If my big sister is in Anseong, she will definitely be able to do what you want, but I can't. ”

Lan Caiyu had no choice but to look at Chen Wenhui. Chen Wenhui was frightened and hurriedly said: "Sister, don't look at me, I've just been enlightened, where can I know poetry, I haven't learned it yet." ”

Lan Caiyu thought about it, Chen Wenhui is tall, but her actual age is only six years old, where can she poetry. I had to give up. Wang Yaozhen was afraid that she would mention it again, so she hurriedly beckoned everyone to eat in the water pavilion next to the garden. Chen Wenhui and Wan Meizhen, two people who were dissatisfied with the poem, quickly responded. So the group came to the water pavilion to eat.

A large round table had already been set up in the water pavilion.

It was filled with meals. For a while, everyone had to give up their seats again, and after some noise, they finally decided to sit down according to their age. In fact, how can the food of the Wang family be compared with that of the Chen family. But many dishes are fried with soybean oil, and the Lan sisters and Wan Meizhen eat it very fragrantly.

After a while, the little girls cleaned their hands and sat down and gossiped for a while, nothing more than which family's rouge was good, and which family's gouache was fragrant. These are all things that Chen Wenhui has never been exposed to.

Because Chen Wenhui is too young, she has not yet reached the age of using fat powder. Everyone talked for a while, and gave each other some gifts, and Chen Wenhui naturally gave away the four golden hand rings. Among them, Wan Meizhen is the most knowledgeable, and she can see at a glance that it is a product of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, so she shouted out first.

The four little girls thanked them again. Chen Wenhui couldn't help but rejoice that her mother was prescient. At this time, the respective nurses came up to persuade the girls to go home for a lunch break, and everyone could only say goodbye, and they made an appointment with each other to move around more. Then they each took the car home.