"Please hand me the blue one." Gao Yi commanded.

After Mahan picked up a powder blue vest from the shelf and served Gao Yi to put it on, he turned around and took the coat in his hand again, and when Gao Yi buttoned the vest, he helped Gao Yi put on the coat again.

Gao Yi looked in the mirror, he was wearing a knee-length long coat, but the hem of the placket was cut into a herringbone shape to drape to the sides, and he was wearing a pair of gray striped pants called "cashmere stripes", a bright waistcoat, and a gray tie. This is the typical morning dress to wear.

Although the morning dress has the word 'morning', it can be worn until 6 o'clock in the evening, and it is the formal dress of men throughout the day. Compared to the same formal dinner dress with a white bow tie, white tank top, hard-chested shirt, black tuxedo, black pants, and patent leather shoes, the morning dress is allowed to be slightly changed within the rules. For example, the coat can be available in black or gray, but the fabric must be a herringbone wool twill. The pants can be black and white checkered, or any combination of black, silver, white and charcoal gray vertical stripes, but if the background color of the pants is black, then the morning dress is not just a morning dress, but upgraded to a morning dress set, which must be paired with a black vest and a black jacket. This suit is worn on formal occasions such as ceremonies, funerals, and the like.

Gao Yi went to the club today, although it was a social occasion, but it was not a formal occasion, so he chose a pair of gray striped pants. The coat is naturally black, and he can't afford two coats, if it's a gray coat, he can't wear it on formal occasions, and compared to gray, black can go with any color.

On the vest, Gao Yi wanted to choose a more relaxed color, so he chose powder blue. Powder blue is actually not very regular, because according to tradition, the vest can only be gray, light yellow or black, but Gao Yi just wants to show something different.

"Hats." Gao Yi said.

"Black or gray?"

"Black."

Ma Han handed over the hat, and Gao Yi put it on and looked left and right in the mirror, his brows furrowed. As soon as the black hat was pressed, the powder blue suddenly wilted.

"Please hand me the gray hat."

After wearing the gray hat, the overall style looks even more mismatched - light gray hat and tie, dark gray pants, black jacket, powder blue vest, four colors are stacked in a disorderly manner, like a coquettish prodigal.

Gao Yi took off his coat, then his vest, and then changed into a light gray vest. He looked in the mirror and put his coat back on.

"Mahan, that silver-gray tie." Gao Yi commanded.

After the silver-gray silk tie with dark flowers was replaced, Gao Yi straightened his hat and posed in front of the mirror.

Mahan handed over the pocket watch. The bracelet has a T-shaped head, which is very convenient to use, just insert the T-head into one of the buttonholes on the vest from the outside and the inside, and then put it up and snap the buttonhole. As for which grommets to choose, either flush with the pocket or at a higher level.

Gao Yi chose a higher position, but he didn't insert the T-head into the buttonhole, because if the T-head was inserted, the button would not be able to use the buttonhole. He inserted the T-head into a button-shaped hole designed specifically for it under the button.

Including the evening dress he wore last week, Gao Yi customized a total of three sets of well-detailed and well-made suits this time, in addition to this morning dress, there is also a three-piece set for daily living. The morning gown alone included a coat, a pair of oxford shoes, two trousers, a dark gray silver stripe, a black dark gray stripe, four vests in black, yellow, gray and blue, a black and gray hat, a dozen shirts, several ties and handkerchiefs.

How much did Gao Yi cost so many clothes? It's hard to believe that it's only two hundred and twenty yuan, and after deducting the one hundred yuan spent on shirts, shoes, ties, handkerchiefs, socks, and hats, the actual cost he spent on customization is only one hundred and twenty yuan. What's even more incredible is that this one hundred and twenty yuan also includes the cost of fabrics. You know, if an Englishman were to order so many and so elaborate clothes, there would be no need to think about it without a hundred pounds, that is, a thousand oceans. The reason why Gao Yi was able to do this was because he sacrificed a big killer - the Ningbo tailor of the Red Gang in Shanghai, and the total manual cost was only 20 yuan, and the remaining 100 yuan was Gao Yi's money for purchasing fabrics.

snapping his fingers, Gao Yi took the cane handed by Ma Han and posed in front of the mirror. It can be called perfect, the clothes fit perfectly to your figure, and you can tell at a glance that it is carefully customized. The only ornament, the bracelet, also adorned the gown, especially the red pendant dangling from the end of the chain. If you look closely, you can see that it is made of a red cloisonné snuff bottle in the shape of a treasure bottle, and his two cufflinks and the brass head of his cane are also inlaid with red cloisonné of the same color.

Walking through a private lab full of bottles and cans of cultivated strains, Gao Yi walked out the door. He had now moved to the large guest room in the front building, and had removed the partition between the two rooms and reunited them into one. The front building is also completely connected, the front building is used as a bedroom, and the back building is used as a laboratory and a breeding room for cultivating important strains.

When I went downstairs, I happened to meet the proprietress, Gao Yi gave her a Western-style hat salute, which made her stunned, and she couldn't say anything if she wanted to say something.

After getting into the carriage, Gao Yi opened his pocket watch and looked at it, the time had just reached nine o'clock. He poked the roof of the car with his cane, and Mahan leaned over from the seat next to the driver outside the car, leaned over the window and asked, "Sir, what are your orders?" ”

"Just according to the map I just gave you, let's go around first."

"Yes, sir."

Mahan took the map out of his bosom, looked at it a few times, and whispered a few commands to the groom, and then the carriage started.

The map marked the location of all the Chinese medicine shops in the concession, which Gao Yi asked Lin Sheng to collect. Although he looks glamorous now, he is actually on the verge of bankruptcy, as long as Ah Jin's work efficiency is a little higher today, and he can make two hundred catties of pear paste candy, he will become a loser again. Fortunately, he can still hold on to his personal credit now, but how to sell the pear paste candy on hand has become a top priority.

The carriage drove fast and slow through the streets of the concession, stopping occasionally for a while, but then it would start again not long after.

Gao Yi didn't even have to go down to ask, he knew that these shops were 100% useless, because these were all shops that sold loose medicines, and none of them sold finished medicines.

The Chinese medicine shops marked by Lin Sheng were all within the range of his feet, so there were not many, and the range was not very wide, but in half an hour, the carriage went around.

Holding on to the back of his seat, Mahan leaned his head into the window again and asked, "Sir, I've been to all the places marked on the map, do you want to go anywhere?" ”

Gao Yi shook his head and said, "No need, let's go to the Scottish Club now." ”

The Scottish Club is located on Extreme Sfield Road and needs to cross the Mud City River, the name of the unfilled river on Middle Tibet Road. The current location of the carriage is on Beijing Road, and going straight along Beijing Road is the Beinicheng Bridge leading to Xinzha Road.

After crossing the Nicheng River from the North Nicheng Bridge, the carriage turned south along a small road, and after a short time, it turned to the right and onto a yellow mud and gravel road with slightly better conditions.

Gao Yi waited for the carriage to drive for a while before he recognized that it was now on Baike Road, that is, Fengyang Road in the later world. If the road is pronounced correctly, it should actually be called Burkiel Road, and it is named in honor of Burkier, the founder of Xiangmao & Co.

The road was newly opened up during the construction of the concession border, and it has not been five years old, and there are no decent shops on either side, just the continuous courtyard walls of some large Chinese-style buildings.

The carriage traveled for another two or three minutes, and Gao Yi suddenly saw that a piece of the courtyard wall outside the window was missing, and a stall was set up on the pavement, and although it was not crowded around, there were at least fifty or sixty people around. There were four large baskets behind the stall, shining silver in the sun, and several men standing in front of the stall threw them from time to time, and a silver thread flashed in the air and fell into the basket. And the goods sold at the stall look like pills one by one, wrapped in white paper on the outside, no matter how you look at it, it looks like pills.

The car was moving very fast, but it only took three or five seconds to pass in front of the shop, and Gao Yi hurriedly picked up his cane and poked the roof of the car. Mahan leaned to the window again, and this time before he could open his mouth to ask, Gao Yi made a gesture to stop.

The carriage ran out another seventy or eighty meters before it stopped, and then slowly turned around and came to a stop across the road from the shop. Gao Yi changed to the other side of the carriage, opened the window, and suddenly a familiar smell wafted in. He didn't even need to look closely to know what he was selling.

Gao Yi looked at the shop opposite, and saw that the door plaque was written with three big characters of "Hujichun", and there were no couplets, but there were two wooden signs next to the door, one wrote "Official Selection of Ginseng", one wrote "Guangdong Medicinal Wine", and there were small characters next to it, one wrote "genuine", and one wrote "Words have no two prices". Sure enough, it's a pharmacy, but the things it sells are quite miscellaneous.

Looking at the stall in front of the door, there is a bamboo pole erected behind it, with a curtain of white cloth on it, and the three ink characters of "Ashina" are written, and the name looks like a Japanese product.

Gao Yi couldn't help but prop his chin on the cane, hesitating.

Just as he was contemplating, he saw two people coming out of the store, and the Chinese Gao Yi next to him ignored it, he was concerned about the foreigner wearing a missionary robe who was currently walking, wasn't that Li Deli? However, as far as Gao Yi knows, he is one of the promoters of the anti-drug campaign in Shanghai, how could he appear on such an occasion?

Gao Yi did not get out of the car to greet Li Deli, but ordered the carriage to leave and continue to the Scottish Club.

When the carriage started to drive again, Gao Yi had a decision in his heart, and the other of himself were rushing around like headless flies, it was better to ask his friends for help, after all, he was now mixed in the top circle of Shanghai Tang, without one, he felt that it was a big problem, and it might be a matter of one sentence when he got to others. For example, finding a pharmacy or something, for a person like Li Deli who has a good eye in China, maybe writing a letter of introduction and approving a note can solve the problem. Besides, why did he hang himself from a tree in a Chinese medicine shop, and couldn't he sell it as Western medicine? Anyway, there is still a lot of Nakeding that hasn't been used up, and it's not difficult to rub a Western-style pill out, and there is no need to change the process, it's just a layer of flour paste in the copper plate.