Chapter Eighty-Seven: Two Old Ladies
As soon as the chrysanthemums of the golden stamens spread over Kyoto, people began to return to the busy days, and there was still no one to visit the Xixiang Fengxiangfang, which was one of the topics of conversation during the Double Ninth Festival.
Although many ordinary people are happy to give silk flowers worth one tael of silver during the Chung Yeung Festival, especially the shops on Qingyang Street, which they can't afford to go there if they want to.
But the common people's main daily life is just firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea, if there is a tael of silver, it is better to go to the silver building specializing in jewelry to buy a real silk flower with beads, that is more exquisite than the fragrance of the fragrance of the Xiangfang.
And the wives of powerful families are even more unlikely to look down on these two silver flowers, which look the same as the featureless silk flowers.
In short, Xixiang Fengxiangfang is still in a situation where the door is full of birds.
But the Qinxiang Xiangfang on the opposite side is still doing very well, and there are carriages coming to Qinxiangxiangfang from time to time, which is in stark contrast to the desolation of Xixiangfeng.
Originally, the Hong family thought that Pu Sheng was full of confidence in the operation, and Xixiang would usher in a hot scene, but ...... No.
She had been standing at the door of Xi Xiangfeng since the morning, waiting for the guests to come to the door, but her excited heart gradually became depressed as time passed, and then became numb.
At noon, Hong dragged her two stiff legs to the store, she looked at Pu Sheng, who was not anxious, and Feng Lingxi, who had just arrived at the shop, and asked, "Aren't you in a hurry at all?" Not a single guest from morning until now. ”
Feng Lingxi poured a cup of tea for the Hong family and pushed it in front of her, with a light smile on his face: "Don't worry." ”
Hong felt that he was so anxious that his throat was smoking, how could he not be in a hurry? She poured the tea in one gulp, but before she could swallow it, she saw Feng Lingxi pointing to the door, hooked her lips and smiled, and said, "No, it's coming." ”
Is anyone really coming?
Hong's fox looked at Feng Lingxi suspiciously, didn't you coax me?
When she hurriedly swallowed the tea and turned around, she saw a carriage wrapped in silk on all sides and inlaid with gold and treasured windows drawn by two oily and slippery jujube horses.
Looking at this carriage, you can know that the identity of the person who came is either rich or expensive.
Hong almost didn't choke on that sip of tea, she didn't dare to pat her heart confidently to calm down, and stared at the door with good eyes.
Until he got down from the carriage for about fifty years, he was wearing a lilac elastic ink beaded brocade pattern stand-up collar and sleeved brocade shirt, a dark cotton silk skirt of the same color, and an auspicious cloud bun pressed green hosta on her head, and an old lady with slightly sharp eyes on her dignified face.
"Old woman Wang?" Hong blinked in surprise, completely unexpectedly that it was this big Buddha who came to celebrate the fragrance.
Hong didn't dare to delay immediately, she was worried about three points in her heart, and she was excited to greet her, and smiled at the old woman Wang before saying a word, and asked: "I didn't know that Old Lady Wang would come today, please forgive me for missing the welcome." ”
Old Madam Wang nodded, she glanced up at the plaque, and asked, "Wasn't it called Hong's Xiangfang before?" How did you change it? ”
"Now this incense shop has given up the molecules, but the owner is kind, and let the little woman stay in the incense shop to be the shopkeeper." The Hong family is not a person who has no heart, she did not tell the fact that she still possessed a small part of the Xiangfang, who knows if some inexplicable people will come out in the future to ask for debts from the Hong Mansion.
Mrs. Wang nodded, she didn't care who this shop was, she came today to buy a taste of incense in this happy fragrance and incense shop.
Wang Shoufu as a big tycoon among the courtiers, perennial hard work, getting old, now the body bones are not very good, there is no good sleep for half a year, in the past is mostly light sleep, little sleep, often poor energy during the day, and committed head wind, medicine has taken a basket, and it has not improved, it is really miserable.
But the symptoms of insomnia were yesterday
The Double Ninth Festival has been improved, and last night Wang Shoufu slept soundly for the first time in half a year.
This is a big event in Wang's mansion! Everyone in Wang's mansion knows that as long as Wang's capital does not retreat, the Wang family will be able to stand tall in Beijing.
So, early this morning, almost the entire Wang Mansion was investigating the reason why Wang Shoufu could sleep well.
In the end, I searched and searched, only to find a silk flower with an inconspicuous style, but it can exude a refreshing and refreshing fragrance.
At that time, Mrs. Wang was strange, how could there be such a silk flower in the bedroom?
Until Wang Shoufu's favorite grandson girl who was about three years old in the house, Wang Jiu girl, appeared.
She pointed to the silk flower that everyone was staring at, and said Lan Ying in a milky voice, and only after everyone found Lan Ying did they know the origin of this silk flower.
Lan Ying is a second-class maid who takes care of Miss Wang Jiu, and she was not on duty during the Double Ninth Festival yesterday, so she went to the street with a few sisters in the house to watch the flowers, and saw that Xixiang received a branch of silk flowers for free, and forgot about it when she coaxed Miss Wang Jiu when she returned home.
Miss Wang Jiu couldn't tell whether it was good or not, she just felt that the fragrance of the flower smelled comfortable, so she kept holding it, and when she was playing in Wang Shoufu's house until she was carried back by her subordinates when she was sleepy, this silk flower fell on the small table at the head of Wang Shoufu's bed.
After Wang Shoufu came back from a busy day, he was still thinking about how to survive another sleepless night, but he didn't think about it, he lay on the bed without a quarter of an hour and gradually sank unconsciously, and unconsciously slept until dawn.
The insomnia that once made people suffer was cured without medicine?
Suddenly, the silk flower, which is suspected of improving insomnia, immediately became a lifesaver for everyone in Wangfu.
Mrs. Wang even went out in person and went to Xixiang Fengxiangfang.
When Mrs. Wang saw Hong's family, she asked straight to the point: "What kind of incense did you use to smoke those silk flowers that you sent out from Xiangxiang Workshop yesterday?" ”
Hong Shi was surprised when she heard this, it was because the silk flowers sent out yesterday had taken effect, she stabilized her mind, and recalled the words of Shao Ling (Feng Lingxi's pseudonym when he wore men's clothes outside) before.
"If someone comes to ask about yesterday's silk flowers, they will answer that the incense used in the silk flowers is the exclusive secret of the fragrance of the incense, and it was not intended to be sold, but it was only for the sake of the reputation of the fragrance of the fragrance to give these silk flowers, even if it will be sold for one or two silver and a silk flower in the future, it is also a half-buy and half-give price, and the finished incense is too little, and it will not be sold."
Hong didn't know what Feng Lingxi meant by asking her to say this, she repeated Feng Lingxi's words in a tangled mood, and was a little afraid to look at Old Madam Wang's face.
Because Hong believes that if Mrs. Wang goes to any incense shop, as long as she shows that she likes a certain kind of incense, the other party will definitely give it to Mrs. Wang immediately, where will she be like her own family.
Mrs. Wang thought the same way.
She felt that she had already revealed a little bit of her mouth, and in the future, this incense, Xixiang would definitely be able to send it to Wang Fu on time, and if she would be a little more troublesome, the incense party would let her take a look.
But now the Hong family has no eyesight.
If it weren't for Hong's saying that this incense was made exclusively by Xixiangfeng, it would have been impossible to buy outside, otherwise she would have brushed her sleeves and left.
But now Wang Shoufu still wants this incense to help her sleep, if she really leaves, where can she find such incense?
Old Madam Wang frowned on the ground, she glanced at the big girl on the side, and asked the big girl to come out and beat Hong.
The eldest girl understood, took a step forward, and sarcastically said to the Hong family in a crisp voice: "Our old lady is willing to come to take care of your business in Xiangxiangfang, that is our old lady's kindness." ”
The unfinished words were heard by everyone present, that is
Don't be embarrassed.
Suddenly, another rumbling wheel sound rushed towards Xixiang Fengxiangfang.
The curtain of the carriage was lifted, and a person of the same age as Mrs. Wang came down.
She looked kind, not tall, wearing a stone blue and gold silk skirt, this old lady suddenly saw Mrs. Wang, she couldn't help but raise her eyebrows unexpectedly, and then stepped forward to say hello: "It turned out to be Mrs. Wang, why don't you go in when you come to Xiangfang, what are you doing blocking the door?" ”
Seeing this person, Hong's eyes widened, isn't this Old Taijun Ge!
Mrs. Ge's edict is higher than that of Mrs. Wang, which made Mrs. Wang, who was originally a little arrogant, slightly darken her face, and asked with a straight face: "Then what kind of wind also blew Mrs. Ge here today?" ”
Mrs. Ge and Wang Shoufu are in political affairs because of the problem of the camp, you come and I fight back and forth every day, and the phenomenon that the old ladies of the two mansions can also pinch each other when they meet is no longer surprising.
Just as the Hong family was about to turn from surprise to fright, Gamo walked out of the shop with an elegant smile on his face, and he bowed to the two old ladies who already had a faint smell of gunpowder.
Said loudly: "Mrs. Ge and Mrs. Wang came to the door, which really made the small shop shine, and the big shopkeeper who was happy to meet the two old ladies was a gift." ”
The warm and elegant smile on Pu Sheng's face made the two old ladies who were secretly tense and sharp-witted.
Old Mrs. Ge said directly: "The old body came here because I heard that Xixiang is selling a silk flower, and the fragrance on this silk flower is different.
The old body has a night cough at night, smelling the faint aroma of this silk flower last night, but there is no itchy feeling in the throat in the past, today I want to see if I can buy the finished fragrance with the same fragrance as the silk flower. ”
After listening to Mrs. Ge's words, Pu Sheng was relieved, and secretly said that he really used incense medicine to start the signboard of Xixiang Fengxiangfang, and he had thought about building momentum before, but he didn't expect that his luck would be so good, and he could attract these two big Buddhas, and he thought it was just a few four or five official wives.
The look in his eyes flashed, and he was more sure of his next plan.
"Two old ladies." Pu Sheng clenched his fists again and said respectfully: "Presumably, what interests the two old ladies is the fragrance of the town store pushed out by our store, which is different from the finished fragrance on the market, and it does have the effect of helping sleep."
It's just that this incense is not easy to make, there was some inventory before that was used to smoke silk flowers, and now there are only two boxes left, today Pu is in charge of everything, let the two old ladies take it back to try the incense, if it is agreeable, wait for the new incense to come out, and then come to the fragrance to choose a few boxes? ”
After speaking, Pu Sheng personally went to the counter to take out two fragrant medicine cakes, put them in a wooden box, wrapped them, and came to Mrs. Wang and Mrs. Ge with both hands, and handed them directly to the subordinates around the two old ladies without discussing any price.
Pu Sheng's actions made the two old ladies reluctantly satisfied, the purpose of coming to Xixiangfeng had been achieved, and they didn't want to stay with their rivals, so they each got into the carriage and returned to the house.
After the two carriages left, Hong asked puzzledly: "Since you want to send the finished incense to the two old ladies, why don't you say it at the beginning, and you have to push back and go, isn't this a superfluous move?" ”
Hearing this, Feng Lingxi hooked his moist lips and explained: "Because we want to build momentum, if you don't stop Mrs. Wang from talking at the door, how can you let others see Mrs. Wang coming to us to enjoy the fragrance?" ”
Speaking of this, Feng Lingxi narrowed his eyes slightly, and said slowly to Pu Sheng on the side: "Go and spread the gossip, tomorrow everyone in the capital will hear that Old Lady Wang and Old Lady Ge are fighting for the exclusive secret incense medicine for the sake of happy incense." 2k reading network