Volume I: Ancient. Dream Frontier Chapter 80 Stealing Silkworm Babies
Early this morning, Xu Promise heard Xi Ting say that Li Zhi went to the Wei Palace, Xu Promise happily changed into the clothes that Li Zhi wore yesterday, and took Li Zhi's silver crown in the dresser box, and slowly tied up his hair, and after dressing up, Xu Promise happily walked around the mansion.
was wandering to the front of the house, and saw a noble son walking outside the door, Xu Promise raised his face and looked, the son approached, Xu Promise found out that it was Qin An, Xu Promise was just about to turn around and run away, he heard Qin An behind him shout: "Childish slave, childish slave, hey!" Hold it. ”
Before Xu Promise could run, he was grabbed by Qin An's shoulder, and Xu Promise turned to Qin An with a helpless wry smile and said, "Why are you here?" ”
"Promise!" Qin An looked at the promise that turned around, shouted with wide eyes in surprise, and asked suspiciously, "Why are you here?" ”
"I asked you first, you say it first." Xu Yu glanced at Qin An and reminded.
"Oh! Okay, okay, let me say first, I'm here to find His Royal Highness the Nine! ”
"Yes! I'm also here to find His Highness the Nine. Xu nodded and said casually.
"You don't stay at home, what are you going to do with him?" Qin An said with a slight anger.
"I've been at home for months, can't I come out and walk around?" Xu Promise raised his eyes and glanced at Qin An and said.
"Yes! It's time to come out and go around, what about the childish slaves? Qin An looked at Xu Yu and asked in agreement.
"Not in the house." Promise replied as he walked.
"Hey! I didn't go in before you did, go, I'll take you out for a walk. Qin An followed behind Xu Yu and said with a smile.
Xu Promise turned around when he heard the voice, and said with a smile: "Okay! Take a walk. ”
"Let's go." Qin An said, walked in front of Xu Yue, Xu Xu happily followed quickly, and the two of them walked slowly towards Suzaku Street.
After a while, Xu Promise and Qin An came to Suzaku Street, Xu Promise looked at the lively street, and sighed with a smile: "Ah! It's better to be outside. Hee-hee! ”
Qin An looked at the clothes on Xu Yue's body, which were a little wide, and said to Xu Yue with a smile: "There is a cloth village in front of you, do you want to go and see it." ”
"Yes! Okay, go, go. "In addition to thinking about Youlan in the past few days, I also want to make a few beautiful clothes for myself, hearing Qin An say this, he hurriedly urged.
After a while, Xu Promise and Qin An came to a shop called Jinxiu Cloth Village, Xu Promise stood outside the door and looked, looking at the many girls in the house, the shop was prosperous, smiled happily, lifted the corner of the robe in front of his feet, and walked in.
"Two sons, what do you want?" The shop guy watched Xu Promise and Qin An walk in, hurriedly greeted him with a smile, and bent down and asked politely.
"Huh? For her, pick out some good fabrics. Qin An looked at the cloth in the room, pointed at the folding fan in his hand, and promised.
"Yes, two sons, come here, these are all new cloths from Luoyang." The shopkeeper pointed to the cloth on one side and complimented the two of them.
Xu Promise looked at the dark cloth, shook his head in disgust, walked to the cloth that several girls were looking at, pointed to a light blue cloth and asked, "Man, how much is this?" ”
"Childe, this son-in-law wants to buy it for the people in the family?" The shopkeeper glanced at Qin An, walked quickly to Xu Promise's side, and asked suspiciously.
Xu Yu was stunned for a moment, then nodded with a smile and said, "Yes, how much is this?" ”
"Childe, this brocade cloth is twenty cents and one foot." The shopkeeper took the light blue cloth and put it in front of Xu Promise's eyes and said.
"Yes, it's cheap." Xu Promise nodded, looked at Qin An behind him, and said casually.
"Huh! Cheap, how do I think it's expensive? Qin An shook the folding fan and said with a smile as he looked at the shopkeeper.
"Is it expensive?" Xu Promise looked at Qin An suspiciously and said.
"This foot is twenty wen, this horse is one hundred feet, this is twenty taels of silver, and it costs three or four horses to make clothes, that is eighty taels, isn't this expensive?" Qin An shook the folding fan, walked back and forth and said.
"It's so expensive, you need so much cloth to make clothes!" Xu Promise looked at Qin An in surprise and muttered.
"Shopkeeper, do you usually buy it like this?" Qin An had a gloomy face, looked at the shopkeeper and asked.
"Oops! Childe, this is a good cloth, if you don't want to buy it, go out, don't bother me with business. The shopkeeper waved his hand to Xu Yu and Qin An, and said impatiently.
"Let's go." Qin An turned around and said as he walked out with the promise.
"Hey! You. Xu Xu didn't want to talk about Qin An, but then he thought that he didn't have so much money, and muttered in a low voice: "Alas! Let's go! I don't have that much money either. ”
Xu Xu walked behind Qin An with a dying heart, looking at the people selling things on both sides, thinking wildly in his heart.
After a while, Xu Promise walked quickly to Qin An's side with a sudden realization, and asked contemplatively, "Do you know where there are silkworm sellers?" It's the kind that can spin silk. ”
"What's that, you ask?" Qin An looked down at Xu Promise suspiciously.
"Raise it! You want to! The cloth is so expensive, if we make it ourselves, not to mention saving money, we can sell it for money if we do more! Xu Promise explained to Qin An seriously.
"Do you really want to raise?" Qin An asked with some incomprehension.
Qin An looked at the promise that nodded seriously, and said helplessly: "Let's go!" I'll take you somewhere. ”
Xu Yu followed Qin An to the gate of Chang'an City, and at the gate of the city, he got into a carriage, and the coachman drove the carriage to the outside of the city.
After a while, Xu Yue got out of the carriage with Qin An's support, and came to a Zhuangzi, Xu Yue looked at Qin An suspiciously, and heard Qin An say: "This is the Zhuangzi that the queen used to raise silkworms, and now it should be the concubine who is taking care of it, let's take a look first." ”
Xu Promise nodded, and followed Qin An to the Zhuangzi Gate, Qin An looked at an old woman guarding the door, and said respectfully: "Old woman, we want to go into the yard and visit the process of raising silkworms, can we?" ”
"Nope." The old woman glanced at Qin An with squinted eyes and said fiercely.
Qin An glanced back at Xu Nuo, took off his purse from his waist with a smile, took out a tael of silver, respectfully bent down and put it in the old woman's hand and said, "Mother-in-law, you are accommodating." ”
"Humph! It's still a bit of an eyesight!" The old woman took Qin An's silver, bit it in her mouth, got up and laughed, looked at them again and said, "After you go in, follow me closely, don't walk around." ”
"Yes, yes, we will follow the old woman." Qin An bent down and whispered.
Xu Yue looked at the old woman twisting her fat body, pushed open the wooden door and walked in, Qin An pulled Xu Yue's sleeve and followed in.
After a while, Xu Yue followed the old woman to a huge room, and saw that the room was full of shelves, and on the shelves were low frames for drying medicine, and the frames were covered with green leaves, and there were maids who spread leaves back and forth in the house.
Xu Promise walked to the shelf suspiciously, stared at the green leaves in the frame, and looked at it for a long time before seeing the silkworm baby hidden under the leaves, and said to Qin An excitedly: "Qin An, come and see, they are so cute!" I'm going to raise! ”
"Shh......h Qin An raised the fan, put it to his mouth and whispered, then glanced back at the old woman who led them in, and found that the old woman walked to the other old woman who was laying the leaves and said something.
Qin An turned around and smiled at Xu Promise, raised his hand and pinched a silkworm baby and put it in his purse, and saw that the old woman was talking, so he reached out and pinched three or four more, and said to Xu Promise: "Enough!" ”
Xu Promise looked at Qin An happily and nodded with a smile, and then looked down at the purse in Qin An's hand with a smile.
"Let's go." Qin An glanced at the people around him again, pulled the promised sleeve, and said in a low voice.
Xu promised to follow Qin An obediently, and the two didn't inform the old woman who had brought them in just now, and walked directly towards the exit according to their memories.
After a while, Xu Yu looked at the wooden door that finally appeared in front of him, and excitedly stretched out his hand to pull Qin An and ran forward.
Xu Yu happily opened the door, and saw that the carriage parked outside the door had been replaced by a graceful and luxurious carriage, and an extremely beautiful woman was slowly walking down from the carriage.
Xu Promise was stunned, Qin An, who was standing behind Promise was even more stunned, and suddenly heard the beautiful woman in front of him say, "Yo! Who are you? ”
"We, we are, we're the children of this farmer, yes." Qin An replied with a stammer.
Xu Promise glanced back at Qin An in surprise, then turned back and looked at the woman in front of him with a wry smile.
At this time, another carriage came from a distance, and Xu Yu saw that the extremely familiar carriage was getting closer and closer, and turned around in horror and pulled Qin An and ran towards the courtyard.
Qin An was puzzled and wanted to ask what was wrong with Xu Promise, so he heard the woman behind him say, "Catch those two people for me." ”
Qin An was frightened and grabbed Xu Promise with his backhand, and ran towards the depths of the yard with Xu Promise, Xu Promise glanced up at Qin An in surprise, and heard the sound of chaotic footsteps behind him, and then understood why Qin An ran away with him.
At this time, Li Zhi, who got out of the carriage, walked to the gate of the courtyard, glanced at the courtyard, and then saluted respectfully to the woman in front of him: "See Concubine Qi." ”
"Get up! I'm tired of you again today. I don't know how my sister used to take care of them. I've been in my hands for a few years, but I still haven't figured them out. Qi Guifei said coquettishly.
"Let's go in first!" Li Zhi straightened his waist, said to Qi Guifei with a smile, and raised his feet to walk into the courtyard.
"Hey! Wait a minute. Just now I saw two disciples, probably people who drugged silkworms. I thought someone was going to catch it, so let's wait here first. Qi Guifei saw that Li Zhi was about to enter the courtyard and hurriedly explained.
"Yes." Li Zhi turned around when he heard the sound and said softly.
After being stunned for a while, Li Zhi looked at the sound of no one grabbing it in the courtyard, and saluted Qi Guifei: "Guifei Niangniang, I don't think there's anything going on, why don't we go in and wait!" ”
"Yes! Good. Concubine Qi raised her eyes and looked at the courtyard, raised her hand and put it on the hand of the maid beside her, said to Li Zhi, and let the maid walk into the courtyard with her arms.
Li Zhi followed Concubine Qi into the courtyard, looking at the place he liked to come to since he was a child, it was still the same, the long bluestone road in the middle, the left side was a huge silkworm breeding room, and the right side was the place where the pupa was dismantled.
After a while, Li Zhi followed behind Concubine Qi, walked to the gate of the sericulture room, and looked at the maids and mothers-in-law who were talking loudly outside the sericulture room, Li Zhi passed through them suspiciously, and came to the door of the sericulture room, and heard the sound of fighting in the room, Li Zhi looked back at Concubine Qi in surprise, lifted the corner of the robe and ran in.