Xuan took the third and fourth children back to the Zhou Mansion, and was in a really good mood, and said: "For my brother's happy vote for the Ming Lord, I will give a special game of Zhenlong questions - uh, third, how many Zhenlong games have you got from me now?" ”

The third idiot said: "Back to the master, there are already five rounds of Zhenlong." ”

"Ah, it's been five rounds, and I've only had thirty-six rounds in total!" Zhou Xuan said: "It seems that I have to save a little, otherwise I will be taken out by your two brothers in less than half a year, and then you will slap your ass and leave, won't I be wronged!" ”

The four idiots said angrily: "Zhou-the master despises us too much, is our brother like that!" ”

Zhou Xuan smiled: "Isn't it okay to make a joke?" Fourth, your cultivation of the mind needs to be strengthened, don't be like a fighting insect with a slight pinch of your teeth open, aggressive look, you have to learn like 'can't touch', 'can't touch' is indifferent to ordinary teasing at all, only when it moves its ass, it will be angry, hehe. ”

Zhou Xuan entered the single courtyard where the three idiots and the four idiots lived, and the two brothers were used to living an ascetic life, and they didn't want servants to wait, and there were only two brothers in the courtyard.

Zhou Xuan left a complicated and difficult question of life and death and went back to the inner courtyard, and heard the ethereal sheng song from a distance, which was the fifth domestic prostitute and maiko playing silk strings, singing and dancing.

Zhou Xuan first went to the third entrance to greet his father-in-law and mother-in-law, and asked if he would quarrel with the two old men because of the backyard blowing and singing?

Mrs. Qin said: "It's okay, the old woman also likes to be lively, and she won't feel noisy from such a distance, but now the house is big." If you were in a yard like you used to, it would feel too noisy. ”

Madame has no opinion, Dr. Qin naturally won't say anything.

Zhou Xuan came to the fourth courtyard to see that it was empty, and he couldn't even see a little girl, so he went to the fifth to listen to music and watch singing and dancing.

The moon is as bright as day, the houses are exquisite, and a group of fair women wearing light yarn and silk silk are stretched and charming in the sound of silk and bamboo. It's a dreamlike scene.

Zhou Xuan stood by the gate of the courtyard and watched for a while. was discovered by a maiko. Jiao said in a coquettish voice: "Zhou Qicha Gongzi is back!" ”

The rest of the dancers also shouted happily: "Zhou Qicha Gongzi, Zhou Qicha Gongzi-"

I don't understand what's going on with these maikos, they don't call Zhou Gongzi, they all like to call Zhou Qicha Gongzi!

Zhou Xuan was surrounded by a group of graceful beauties, just like the top fashion design masters and models on the catwalk who came out for a curtain call, which was really successful and proud.

Rui Chu was still here, sitting on the carpet under the porch with Yang Xiaofeng and playing flutes.

Zhou Xuan smiled and asked, "Rui Chu." You stay here all the time, and the boss of 'Miaoyin Building' doesn't scold you? ”

Rui Chu under the moon, that kind of black lip scar makeup still has two points to look at, and said with a smile: "I learned that the boss of Miaoyin Building is Rui Chu's aunt, and it is Rui Chu's honor to be able to enter and leave the Zhou Qicha Prince's Mansion, and the two ladies are also very kind to Rui Chu, and Rui Chu hates not being able to protect the son like the sheep master." ”

Rui Chu still called Yang Xiaofeng a teacher. Sheep Division. It's awkward.

Zhou Xuan saw that Qin Que and Needle were also sitting under the porch in beautiful makeup, and there were little girls standing behind them.

The sound of silk and bamboo rose again, and Zhou Xuan personally went down to demonstrate the catwalk to the maikos. It made the courtyard full of laughter of "card and gege".

At that time, Zhou Xuan sent two carriages to send the ten maiko back to Pingkangfang, but Rui Chu had to stay with the sheep master.

Qin Que said: "Husband, I haven't taught me and Sister Needle'er Go for a long time, so teach us tonight." ”

Yang Xiaofeng and Rui Chu followed the fourth into the courtyard, saying that they also wanted to learn chess, and Xiaomei and Xiaoju also said that they wanted to learn.

In this way, the popularization of Go in the Zhou Mansion was in full swing, so that Qin Que and Needle sometimes wanted to call the girls, but no one responded for a long time, and walked to the Yahuan room to take a look, several girls sat on the ground and played chess, and they were red-faced.

So they made a rule that the girls could only play chess at night, with a maximum of two games a day.

Zhou Xuan is running at two ends these days, the "Super Autumn Battle Hall" side "can't touch" the consecutive battles, invincible, those insect battles are mainly run by the four idiots and Tang Xiaosan, although it is not as prosperous as the Hongzhou Chongyang chess battle, but after five consecutive days and ten insect battles, it has also made a profit of more than 1,500 taels, and now the "Super Autumn Battle Hall" has surpassed the other three insect societies in Jiangzhou, and has become the largest insect society in the three states under the rule of Fenghua Metropolitan Protectorate.

Boss Feng of the "Mufeng Society" took the initiative to join the "Super Autumn Battle Hall", and used the "Mufeng Building" in the city as a branch of the "Super Autumn Battle Hall", and Zhou Xuan's plan to merge the Jiangzhou Insect Society was successful in the first battle.

However, after winter, the crickets will gradually die, and the insect club will be crowded, and the "Super Autumn Battle Hall" can still be maintained, Xia Cuihua's tea house and restaurant are very prosperous, and the branch hall "Mufeng Building" is about to close.

Zhou Xuan discussed with Boss Feng and considered turning the "Mufeng Building" into a cockfighting hall, cockfighting can be fought all year round, especially in winter and spring.

Boss Feng promised to plan this matter, hired chicken customers and bought famous breeds of fighting cocks, and prepared to open a cockfighting hall after the Winter Worm Club closed down.

The signboard of "Cloud Dress Women's Clothing" has also been made for a long time

It will be listed and opened on September 22.

From September 20 onwards, Jiangzhou is like a festival every year, every morning and afternoon each have a preach, women's music parade, walking in front of the ground is four strong men carrying a huge plaque three zhang wide, the plaque is covered with red silk, written in big ink:

"Ni clothes and feather clothes, the imperial system of the Ming Emperor, the Tang Dynasty in the past, now look at the cloud clothes women's clothing!"

Behind the plaque is a huge band with a big drum as the core, drumming loudly and creating a festive atmosphere.

The band was followed by ten enchanting and charming maikos, each riding a tall horse, the horse matching a silver saddle and a jeweled belt, magnificent, dazzling, these ten maiko are all in fashionable buns, wearing pearl and jade tiaras, wearing all kinds of strange skirts, some holding flower drums in their hands, and some holding dragon ruan qinse.

At every open field, the ten maiko dismounted and lined up, walking back and forth to the sound of drums. The dress is gorgeous, never seen before.

The crowd of onlookers rubbed shoulders one after another, and their eyes were straight, and they were talking.

At this time, there were dozens of hired idlers, foaming at the mouth, explaining to everyone that this is the new dress of Jinfengfang's newly opened ready-to-wear shop - "Yunshang Women's Clothing", which is said to be the legacy of Tianbao in the Tang Dynasty, and many ladies and ladies in the city are vying to buy it.

The march came down for three days. The entire Jiangzhou City knows the name of "Yunshang Women's Clothing". Every day, there is an endless stream of women who go to Jinfengfang's "Yunshang Women's Clothing" to see the skirts. When I asked the price, I was shocked, it was divided into three grades, and the high-end price was as high as 30 taels of silver, and the beads inlaid on the dress were also brilliant; The price of the mid-range is around five taels of silver; The low-grade ones are also more than one or two silver.

"Yunshang Women's Clothing" has not officially opened, and the lichen skirts in it are only seen and not sold, but many women have left their names for pre-ordering.

September 22nd. "Yunshang Women's Clothing" gold signboard hanging, although it is inconvenient to send people to congratulate the Duhufu and the Thorn Shifu, but according to Zhou Xuandi's meaning, they sent a large flower basket more than one person high, Zhou Xuan himself ordered someone to write on the red silk "Fenghua Duhufu congratulates the opening of the 'Yunshang Women's Clothing'", "Jiangzhou Thorn History Mansion congratulates the opening of the 'Yunshang Women's Clothing'", even if Lin and Xu Tingshi know about this, it is harmless, that is, they laughed.

Lin Heishan and Lin Hanyun naturally came, and Lin Hanyun specially put on that purple skirt. Pretty and moving. changed the image of Miss Lin Er's little family in the minds of the people of Jiangzhou.

After a busy day on this day, more than 200 sets of autumn skirts in the "Yunshang Women's Clothing" were sold out, and Zhou Xuan spent more than 1,500 taels of silver on a huge parade of maiko immediately. The first day's sales were 2,800 taels of silver, and those high-end autumn skirts were bought by the official eunuchs, and the mid-range skirts were very attractive to the women of the Qinglou in Pingkang Fang, and they were tasteless if they did not wear "cloud dress women's clothes".

Abu's sixth concubine, Sarah, was very good at calculating accounts, and soon calculated that the net profit from the sale of 200 sets of dresses on the first day was five taels of silver.

"Five taels of silver!" Zhou Xuan laughed.

The needle frowned and said, "Husband, we sell so much, how can we earn five taels of silver!" ”

Zhou Xuan said with a smile: "If you don't count the money of 1,500 taels of maikos, please preach, and invite idlers, we will make a lot of money this time, this kind of parade is enough to preach twice a year, and the rest is net earning, but don't expect to be able to sell two hundred sets of dresses every day, and it is a success to make a net profit of fifty taels of silver a day, take your time, don't worry, in the future, the women of the entire Tang Kingdom will wear our cloud clothes and women's clothes, and now the silver is not enough, otherwise you will have to raise ten maiko and go to the prefecture and county to publicize it everywhere." ”

The narrow dress, plump and seductive orchid sara looked at Zhou Xuan with big green eyes, and exclaimed: "Zhou Gongzi's wisdom is really unmatched, and he has been in business for twenty years, and he doesn't know the benefits of such a big publicity. ”

Zhou Xuan said: "Brother Abu is a genius among the merchants, he is not unthinkable of the benefits of such preaching, but is constrained by the world, afraid of being ridiculed, the status of businessmen is too low, this is very unfair, the world values agriculture and light business, that is all shallow, if possible, I want to fight for the same status as farmers for the merchants of the Tang Kingdom." ”

Orchid Sara's slenderness looked up at Zhou Xuan, as if she was extremely reverent, and Zhou Xuan couldn't bear it, how could this woman in black look at people like this, it was just unthinkable.

"Yunshang Women's Clothing" has 20 tailors, each of them is sewn individually, a person needs two or three days to sew a set of dresses out, Zhou Xuan let the 20 tailors be divided into four groups, each is responsible for a part of the dress, and finally by the most skilled tailors into skirts, this is the simplest, the lowest assembly line, mass production, those tailors specialize in doing the same, practice makes perfect, do more and more, the original 20 people can not sew eight sets of dresses a day, now a day can sew fifteen sets.

Abu listened to the concubine Sara talk about this, and came to observe, and went back to use this method in his colorful glazed workshop and Fanghua Eternal Frost Workshop, with remarkable results, and couldn't help but marvel that Zhou Xuan was a genius.

One morning in early October, Zhou Xuan stood behind Qin Que and watched her combing on the bronze mirror, the bronze mirror was so blurry that her face was deformed, Zhou Xuan said half-annoyed to the bronze mirror: "Is this my beautiful finch, this mirror is simply a waste of people!" ”

Qin Queyan

, said: "This mirror has been used for a long time, wait for someone to send it to the mirror grinding shop to polish it."

Zhou Xuan thought of something, and asked people to call Abu and ask him if he could make colorless and transparent glass?

Abu said: "Colorless glass is difficult to make, no one has bought it yet, and five-color glass is better." ”

Zhou Xuanxi said: "So you can make it, you find a skilled craftsman to make a thin piece of colorless glass on the flat ground." It should be extremely flat, one side is coated with tin foil and mercury, so that it can be used as a mirror, if it is well made, ten times brighter than the copper mirror, it will be a must-have makeup for the boudoir. ”

Abu was surprised and delighted, and asked about the process of making glass mirrors.

Zhou Xuan said: "I don't know exactly how to make it, but I know that I need to use extremely smooth transparent glass." One side is coated with mercury and tin foil. The other side can shine on people. You go back and say this to those craftsmen, try a few more times, try a hundred times, a thousand times to make it, this is a very profitable rarity, colorful glass other Hu merchants also have, but this glass mirror is the only one, next year you will follow me into Beijing. With this glass mirror, he will knock open the money bags of the two Beijingers. ”

Abu hurriedly went back, gathered the skilled craftsmen of the glass workshop, pondered the glass mirror, set a time limit, to make the first glass mirror within two months, and offered a huge amount of silver, and there must be brave men under the heavy reward, and those glass craftsmen worked day and night like a desperate development......

In order for the three idiots to replace Fu Yannian, they will go to the top ten capital protectors of the Lantern Festival next year. Zhou Xuan took the three idiots to find Fu Yannian first. Let the three idiots and Fu Yannian play a game, kill Fu Yannian and defeat him, and then give him a hundred taels of silver. Explain the meaning.

Fu Yannian was no match for a house slave in Zhou's mansion, his face was full of shame, and he said: "I will listen to Lord Xu's dispatch in Xiaquan, as long as Gongzi Zhou convinces Lord Xu, he will dare to disobey orders in Xia." ”

Zhou Xuan went to see Xu Tingshi, Xu Tingshi didn't know that what Zhou Xuan said in his mouth was the assassin who killed people without blinking, and said with a smile: "Xu has no opinion, but this matter is not in Xu's hands now, Zhou Gongzi has to ask Judge Fan of the Metropolitan Protectorate." ”

Judge Fan knew that the sword slave under Zhou Xuan was the three idiots of the rangers, so he was embarrassed: "This and this, the matter is very important, Zhou Gongzi should personally ask Lord Duhu." ”

Lin was very open-minded, and said: "Since Xuan's nephew is determined to want the three idiots to participate in the chess battle, my uncle will promise you, the three idiots have been ferocious in the past few months, although Xuan's nephew is not a monk, but he has a bit of stubborn wisdom, hehe, it is commendable." ”

Zhou Xuan said with a smile: "Uncle, the little nephew still has one thing to ask for, the little nephew married Qin Que last time, it was quite hasty, on the 22nd of this month, the little nephew wants to marry Miss Su Zhen, Qin Que also wants to visit the church again, the little nephew has no other relatives in the Tang Kingdom, only Uncle Lin has always loved the little nephew, so the little nephew wants to get married, the uncle will participate as the elder of the little nephew's side, I don't know if the uncle is willing to agree?" ”

Lin smiled and said: "This is a great joy for Xuan's nephew, how can my uncle not participate, haha." ”

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On October 19th, Zhou Xuan went to Mufu Village with a needle again, this time it was very different from the last time, Che Mahe, dozens of servants, came to Mufu Village, each villager gave a gift, those villagers saw the needle so broad, one by one with envy in their eyes, they couldn't stop boasting about the beauty and virtue of the needle, they saw that the needle was rich and noble since childhood.

The needle surface is dignified and reserved, and the heart is extremely happy, this is the feeling of returning home, compared with the miserable appearance of the last time I came back, it is really a heaven and an earth.

Came to the tomb of my parents and brothers, the shabby loess tomb more than two months ago was gone, replaced by three elegant and solemn tombs, carved in front of the tomb with stone beasts guarding, very magnificent.

This is Zhou Xuan sent craftsmen half a month ago to repair, three days ago also invited the monk of Nengren Temple to do merit and dharma, beyond the soul, the needle did not know about this, only then I heard, grateful tears rippled, shouted: "Husband-" held Zhou Xuan's arm, leaned his head on his shoulder, choked and couldn't speak.

Zhou Xuan stretched out his hand to gently wipe the tears on her cheeks and said, "Needle, don't cry, we came today to tell your parents and brother that Su Zhen is getting married, she is going to marry Zhou Xuan, a man, and she will be happy for the rest of her life." ”

The needle nodded vigorously, took out a silk handkerchief to wipe away his tears, smiled sweetly, took Zhou Xuan's hand, and the two of them knelt in front of the tomb together, and prayed to the needle: "Father, mother, brother, needle and husband Zhou Xuan will come to repair the tomb for you, and in three days, it will be the wedding period of needle, please father, mother, and brother in the spirit of heaven, and bless your husband with a safe life, a long life, and no illness and no disaster——"

Zhou Xuan prayed and said: "Please father-in-law, mother-in-law, and eldest brother of needle, together bless needle to like the son-in-law for a lifetime and give birth to a noble son early." ”

The needle couldn't help but smile "Ge", looked at Zhou Xuan with affection, and wanted to say something, but he was so happy that he couldn't say anything.