Zhu Youzhen and several people left Tianxianglou, hired a carriage to go to Guanqian Street, Guanqian Street is named after the mysterious view behind the street, it is the most prosperous place in Suzhou City, clothing, food, housing and transportation, all the goods in Guanqian Street are the top in Suzhou Prefecture.

On the carriage, the shopkeeper Xu asked Zhu Youzhen very puzzled: "What do you think about the son's purchase of tickets with such fanfare?" Although our Wan Yutai's coupons are not as good as a few big money houses in Suzhou Prefecture, the number is also considerable. ”

Zhu Youzhen smiled and said, "Why did you come to Suzhou this time?" My son is not here to fight the autumn wind, if money can handle things properly, he will not urge me to come over one letter after another. ”

Qiancai's business in Nanzhili is not limited to Suzhou Mansion, let alone Wan Yutai, so there are many things that Shopkeeper Xu does not know, and Zhu Youzhen naturally will not take the initiative to tell him, but Zhu Youzhen's words make Shopkeeper Xu a little puzzled, what this son has been doing all along, no matter how you look at it, is it just a milky boy who has not dried up, could it be a helper invited by Qiancai?

When a few people arrived at Guanqian Street, Zhang Zhiji was still depressed, Shopkeeper Xu was thinking about things, and Zhu Youzhen ignored them, and walked around with Jinxiu along the shops on both sides of the street.

Garment shops, rouge shops, cloth shops, shortbread shops, several people walked all the way down, and these shops were all trading with coupons.

This cloth is bought and sold by the ruler, and the shortbread is bought and sold by the pound, and these coupons can be understood by Zhu Youzhen, but how to buy and sell this ready-to-wear garment and rouge gouache with coupons? Zhu Youzhen led Jinxiu into a rouge shop, except for the shopkeeper and the guys, the rest of the shops were women, just by looking at the dress, you could see that these were all young ladies from rich and noble families.

Zhu Youzhen looked along the rows of shelves with high and low ranks, although he didn't know much about rouge gouache, but just looking at the price marked on it, even the Beijing Imperial Mudhouse was a little inferior, if it was an ordinary person, even if he came in to see it, he would feel luxurious.

Jinxiu followed Zhu after the mail, and a few guys in the store watched the two of them turn around, but they didn't even get started, and a guy came over and asked, "What kind of rouge gouache do the two guest officers have?" ”

Zhu Youzhen raised his head and looked at the guy, thinking that it was indeed a little weird for a big man to go to the rouge shop, so he pointed to the splendid behind him and said, "Ask her, I don't understand." ”

The guy looked at Jinxiu again, "Miss......"

Jinxiu said: "I don't understand either. ”

Zhu Youzhen turned his head to look at Jinxiu, "Is there a woman who doesn't understand rouge gouache?" ”

"It's not that Childe doesn't know, I've never used rouge, and I've only used the perfume that Childe gave me a few times since I was a child."

Seeing this, Zhu Youzhen waved his hand at the guy and said, "Don't call us, let's take a look." ”

Seeing that the two of them didn't look like they were going to buy rouge, the guy didn't want to waste his lips and tongue again, so he turned around and greeted the other guests after Zhu Youzhen finished speaking.

Zhu Youzhen walked around the store a few times, and took advantage of the free moment of the rouge shopkeeper to walk towards the counter.

The shopkeeper had just sent off a wave of guests, and when he saw someone coming over, he hurriedly put on a smiling face and asked, "Has the guest officer been selected?" ”

Zhu Youzhen took out a stack of tickets from his body, and then picked out two tickets with Yue Sefang written on them from those tickets and put them on the counter, and then said to the shopkeeper: "I have two sisters at home who asked me to help them choose two rouges, but I am dazzled by the variety of rouges, and I really don't know how to choose. ”

The shopkeeper picked up the two coupons on the counter and looked at them, and said: "One of these two coupons can be exchanged for good goods, and one can be exchanged for treasures. ”

"Oh? Treasures and rarities? What's the difference? “

The shopkeeper first collected the two coupons, and then said: "All the rouge in the small shop is much better than other shops, but this good is also divided into three categories, that is, the best, the treasure, the best three categories, the best is the best, the best is the best, the best is the best." ”

"In this way, there is nothing inseparable, my two sisters, one is the sister of my sister-in-law, and the other is born to my aunt, naturally it is a good product for my sister-in-law, and the treasure is for the second sister."

The shopkeeper was a little puzzled and said, "Childe is not."

Got it wrong? Treasures are more valuable. ”

Zhu Youzhen smiled and said: "That's right, that's right, it's because of this that the treasures are given to the second sister." ”

Why is that? But what is the contradiction between the son and the sister-in-law? ”

"There's no contradiction, it's just because my aunt's sister is more beautiful."

The shopkeeper gave Zhu Youzhen a thumbs up and said, "Childe is really different, for the sake of Childe being so honest, today I personally selected the best rouge for Childe." The shopkeeper bypassed the counter.

Zhu Youzhen followed the shopkeeper's side, and asked while watching him choose: "So there are only these three types of coupons in the shopkeeper's store?" ”

"That's right, there were many kinds of rouge in the store before, and the price difference was very large, and then this ticket became popular in Suzhou, and I didn't follow the trend here, and the business was much worse, but people bought and sold by the pound, and I can't always make a coupon out of rouge, right? Later, I was forced to be helpless, so I divided all the rouge into three categories, and then launched the ticket, and sure enough, not long after the ticket came out, business was booming. ”

"Why is that?"

"Who do you think you can use my rouge in this store? In addition to the ladies of the rich families of the squires, they are the wives and ladies of the eunuchs, and with the fortunes of those lords, they may not be able to afford my box of precious rouge for half a year, but they can't stand someone sending wow, but if they blatantly carry a few boxes of rouge over, it seems too eye-catching, if they send a few tickets, won't there be no problems? Not to mention sending rouge, it is to send silver, who will carry a silver box of 1,000 taels to the yamen? If you secretly stuff a silver ticket of 1,000 taels, wouldn't everyone be happy without knowing it? ”

"The wisdom of the shopkeeper."

Saying that, the shopkeeper had already picked out two boxes of rouge, and whispered to Zhu Youzhen: "Don't hide it from Gongzi, although there are only three types of rouge in the shop, there are actually many differences in the color inside, which is why I personally selected for Gongzi, and the two boxes I picked for Gongzi are the best of the two categories." ”

As he spoke, the shopkeeper of the rouge shop had returned to the counter, and he packed the two boxes of rouge in two-colored bags, and specially instructed: "This red one is a good product, and the blue one is a treasure, don't make a mistake, otherwise your beautiful second sister will suffer." ”

Zhu Youzhen smiled, and said as if you were a fellow practitioner: "Thank you shopkeeper." After receiving the rouge, Zhu Youzhen leaned on the counter and still chatted with the shopkeeper, at this time the business in the store was not busy, and the shopkeeper was also happy to talk to this interesting son.

After chatting for a long time, Zhu Youzhen pretended to ask casually: "I don't see that there are many rouge in the shopkeeper's store, but I have a lot of rouge coupons at home. ”

"Childe is too worried, this rouge is not rice noodles, a few coincidentally have eaten it together, don't say that I have such a valuable rouge here, even ordinary rouge shops do not see any full, there is so much water in a day, it is a day to catch up with the good time business is surprisingly good, the treasury is enough, even if the treasury is not enough, it is too late to rush to make it."

"How many boxes of rouge can the shopkeeper's workshop make in a day?"

"There are no more than 100 boxes a day, but if you are in a hurry, 200 boxes can be made."

"I wonder how many tickets the shopkeeper has?"

The shopkeeper consciously said a little too much, and hurriedly said haha: "Trade secrets, confidentiality, hahaha......"

"I can guess if the shopkeeper doesn't say it, but it's more than 10,000 if you don't say it, right?"

The shopkeeper leaned his face closer and said, "Over 10,000? At least that's the number. As he spoke, the shopkeeper stretched out three fingers.

"So much? If they all come to exchange, wouldn't it be enough for the shopkeeper to do it for more than a year? ”

"That's a lot? This Suzhou Mansion can afford this rouge lady lady, 30,000 boxes of rouge, even one box per person a day is enough for them to use for a year, who runs out of them and takes the ticket to redeem, it is better than a pile of rouge piled up there and not used up. Besides, who has the ability to use a box of rouge a day, unless it is those prostitutes in the kiln who like to eat rouge on the face of girls. ”

After speaking, the rouge shopkeeper stretched out his hand and pointed to the ready-to-wear shop opposite: "If you are bold, you have to look at the sea blue shop opposite, their ready-to-wear clothes are tailor-made, hand-sewn, several."

A master can only produce two ready-to-wear clothes a day, so they have tens of thousands of tickets, and the people who come to redeem the ready-to-wear are lined up until next year, and they all dare to go out coupons, if it weren't for the good craftsmanship, it is estimated that the shop would have been smashed a long time ago. ”

Zhu Youzhen said: "In that case, why do they still want to take out coupons? Is there anyone still going to buy it? ”

"It's not that the money is at work, it's just a few pieces of rattan paper that sell the price of ready-to-wear clothes, who doesn't care? With the money in the future, doing the current work, the silver is put in the money bank and the printing bureau to eat profits, and the profit is comparable to the harvest of the ready-to-wear clothes they used to work hard every day. ”

Zhu Youzhen nodded, and then asked: "If the rouge is divided into categories, you can still use tickets to redeem it, but every piece of this ready-to-wear doesn't work, so how many kinds of tickets do you need to redeem?" ”

"This is simpler, each piece of clothing is cut to the handmade, then the price is unified and fixed, the difference is in the material, so that how the cloth village sells coupons they sell, just add some silver to the top of the coupons and then change the name of the garment."

Zhu Youzhen lifted the two boxes of rouge on the counter and said: "Today's gossip with the shopkeeper is really a lot of knowledge, it is really better to listen to your words than to read ten years of books, in the future, I will definitely help the two sisters to come to the shopkeeper to buy rouge, and I will leave today." ”

"Childe walks slowly."

Zhu Youzhen greeted Jinxiu with the rouge, and the two left the rouge shop together.

Zhang Zhiji and the others were already waiting impatiently outside, "Fifth brother, I can't figure out where you and a shopkeeper who sells rouge came from to talk so much?" Still talking about quietly touching? Isn't it talking about which lady likes which flavor of rouge gouache? What is there to say about the things of a woman's house. ”

Zhu Youzhen said: "I'm just asking the shopkeeper, what kind of rouge gouache does the round girl like, I wanted to tell you, since you look down on it so much, then forget it." After speaking, Zhu Youzhen ignored Zhang Zhiji and walked straight forward.

"Alas, fifth brother, it's all my mouth, you don't remember the villain, don't be like me." , Zhang Zhiji admitted his mistake while tugging at Zhu Youzhen's sleeve, Zhu Youzhen only looked ahead, and was unwilling to pay attention to it.

Jinxiu saw the two of them secretly covering their mouths and laughing like this, she could hear clearly in the rouge shop, how could Zhu Youzhen ask what kind of rouge gouache the round girl liked.

Seeing Zhu Youzhen's arrogant bullying, and then looking at Zhang Zhiji's pitiful appearance, Jinxiu opened his mouth and asked, "When did Gongzi have two more sisters?" I don't know what the second sister of the son looks like when the fish and geese fall and the moon is shy of flowers? ”

"Xiu'er, you've learned badly, you've learned to turn your elbow out."

"It's right that the son has learned badly, how many nonsense have the kung fu sons made up at this time?"

Zhu Youzhen stuffed the two boxes of rouge in his hand into Zhang Zhiji's hand, and then said: "For the sake of Xiu'er helping you, I will let you go, take these two boxes and keep them for the round girl who will give you in the future, right?" ”

Zhang Zhiji only thought that these two boxes of rouge were specially selected by Zhu Youzhen after asking Chen Yuanyuan, the shopkeeper, about his preferences, so he happily accepted them.

I should know about it, and Zhu Youzhen said: "Does Xiu'er have anything you like?" ”

"I like everything Childe likes."

"Well, my son prefers the big bed in the room, why don't we go back now, and my son will tell you stories on the bed."

"Childe began to talk nonsense again, why do you want to go to bed to tell stories in broad daylight, you can see Childe's appearance and know that he doesn't have any good intentions, if Childe is tired, let's go back."

The whole Guanqian Street is less than two miles, a few people have only entered the street not far away, and they are going back without even half of it, Zhang Zhiji said: "It seems that the front is the Qingfang Garden of Taohuawu, why don't we go over and take a look?" Wouldn't it be a shame to walk so hard in the morning to go back when you got here. ”

Zhu Youzhen said: "Do you want to see the garden or do you want to see the people in the garden?" Do you see a big daylight opera in the garden and open the door to sing? And how many plays I taught you, did you learn? Even if you see someone else's girl, can you sing two more sentences if they ask you to sing? ”

Zhu Youzhen asked a series of words, and Zhang Zhi said with a humble heart: "What kind of shop to visit on such a hot day, or the scenery of Dushu Lake is good, I will call a carriage to go back to the courtyard." ”