Chapter 46: The Glass Mirror
Walking on the streets of Fuzhou Mansion, Yu Xiaotian's height made him stand out a little from the crowd, which attracted the attention of some people, but Yu Xiaotian was calm, talking and laughing with Steward Li who accompanied him, and looked at this ancient city curiously from time to time.
Yu Xiaotian's landing this time is also the first time he landed in a serious way since he came to this era, unlike the previous landings, all for black work.
And this time he went to Fuzhou City, the purpose was very simple, one was to go to Maoshengyuan's headquarters in Fuzhou City, after all, it was his business, and if he, the big boss behind the scenes, had never even seen the location of his company, it was really a bit unreasonable.
In addition, when he went to Fuzhou this time, he was also busy and relaxed, because he knew that in the next few days, he would be even busier, and if he wanted to set foot on land again in the future, God knew that Lu Dao was going to be the Year of the Monkey.
Of course, there is another important thing, that is, his marriage with Lan'er can no longer be delayed, Lan'er is now committed to him, this kind of thing is nothing in the future life, the big deal is that they live together unmarried, but in this era, it is a big deal.
Liu Laoliu is also a face-loving person, although there are not many people who know this kind of thing, but Liu Laoliu also feels that he can't hang on his face, and secretly finds Yu Xiaotian to mention his marriage with Lan'er again, Yu Xiaotian touched his nose and had nothing to say.
But now he has "made a big deal of bestiality" to put Lan'er on the spot and the law, this excuse is no longer easy to use, so in desperation, Yu Xiaotian had to agree, and let Liu Lao Liu choose a date, and he married Lan'er on Nanri Island.
What's more, Yu Xiaotian also likes Lan'er very much, and when things come to this point, he feels that he must give Lan'er a name, otherwise he will be sorry for Lan'er's deep love for him.
So after arranging the affairs on the island, Yu Xiaotian went ashore by boat, accompanied by Steward Li, and came to Fuzhou City together.
The purpose of coming here is not only to take a rest, but also to buy some gifts for Lan'er, so that Lan'er will be happy.
As a landlord, Li Yi attached great importance to Xiaotian's landing this time, and he himself stayed in Fuzhou City's Mao Shengyuan to personally sit on the arrival of Xiaotian, and let Steward Li, a confidant, accompany Yu Xiaotian throughout the whole process to ensure Yu Xiaotian's safety.
Although in this era, in a city like Fuzhou City, there will be some officers and soldiers at the city gate to check passers-by.
But in line with the principle that money can make ghosts grind, it is not difficult for a person like Yu Xiaotian to enter Fuzhou City at all.
What's more, the Li family's business is big enough now, and there is a relationship between black and white inside and outside the city, and it is a piece of cake to get Yu Xiaotian into the city.
The city of Fuzhou in this era is far less big than the city of Fuzhou in later generations, and it is estimated that the area of a small county town in later generations is about the same, but in this era, this is an important town in the south as the capital of Fujian Province, but it is already quite large, the whole city has a total of seven city gates, in addition to the four gates of east, west, north and south, there are three city gates of Tangjing water, and there are also four water gates, which can be used for ships to enter and exit the city directly.
The water inside the city and the outside of the city are relatively convenient, and once the heavy troops are stationed, it is a fortified city that is easy to defend and difficult to attack.
As an important town in the south, Fuzhou City is also a place where commerce gathers, and the shops, wine shops, teahouses, and prostitutes in the city can be said to be lined up one after another, and there are many pedestrians on the street.
This made Yu Xiaotian, a person who had been out of society for more than a year, feel very fresh, so he simply gave up the car, and directly asked Steward Li to get out of the car and accompany him towards Maoshengyuan.
Not far from the street where their Maoshengyuan was located, Yu Xiaotian saw a shop, which looked like a shop specializing in selling women's products, so he wanted to buy some gifts for Lan'er, so he walked in with his legs raised.
It stands to reason that Lan'er is not short of things now, Yu Xiaotian has taken his subordinates to work at sea for more than a year, and he has grabbed a lot of gold and silver treasures, but Lan'er is used to being simple, although she likes these gold and silver jewelry, but she doesn't like to wear it on her body, so Yu Xiaotian came out this time and wanted to buy her some women's rouge gouache and other things, so that she was also happy.
Steward Li saw Yu Xiaotian walking into this shop with his legs raised, and quickly walked in with him, Yu Xiaotian is now dressed in ordinary clothes, under the smock is a strong suit, and there is a short knife hidden in his waist, the most important thing is that he has grown his short hair a little longer, in order to come to Fuzhou City this time, to be seen by others, so before coming, he asked people to continue some long hair in his hair, and after he coiled it up on his head, no one could see his short hair.
Although he was dressed in very ordinary clothes, but his temperament and figure set off him Zhuo Yue is outstanding, after walking into the store, the guy didn't dare to underestimate him when he saw him, so he quickly greeted him, asked him what he needed, and led him to the store to see all kinds of goods on display.
Yu Xiaotian took a look, this shop is indeed a shop that sells women's things, rouge gouache, copper mirrors and gold and silver jewelry, it is very complete.
So he picked out some rouge gouache casually, let the guy wrap it, the guy saw that he was generous, and the few people who followed him didn't seem to be ordinary people, so he was even more enthusiastic, and he served tea and poured water, and the service was quite thoughtful.
Yu Xiaotian was not polite, Da Ma Jindao sat down, and asked casually: "Although your goods here are relatively good, but there is nothing too surprising, I want to know, do you have any good goods here, you might as well take them out and let me wait to see it?" ”
When the guy heard this, he immediately burst into laughter, and nodded again and again: "This uncle's vision is really high!" These things put out in the small shop are indeed some of the more common goods, although they are good, but they do make people like you look down on them, hehe! I didn't expect this uncle to guess that there are better things in our shop!
Wait a minute, to be honest, our small shop really has a few good things, the small one will be shown to you to take a look, if you like it, the price is easy to say! ”
Yu Xiaotian nodded and said, "Okay, you go and bring it to me to take a look, if it's really a good thing, the price is easy to say!" ”
The guy nodded again and again with a smiling face, asked Yu Xiaotian to wait for a while, turned around and entered the room, and after a while, he carefully took out a few boxes.
Yu Xiaotian saw that these boxes were actually made of good mahogany, just the workmanship and materials of this kind of box, this thing would definitely be worth a lot of money, so he was very curious about what was inside, put down the tea bowl and got up and walked to the table.
The guy opened the box one by one, Yu Xiaotian was a little happy when he saw it, he thought that this box contained something good at first! When I opened it, I realized that it was just a few pieces of glass.
Among them, there are two glass wine glasses that are not very transparent in color, the style is the style of Western goblets, and no one will necessarily pick up this thing on the street in later generations, the color is not transparent enough, not to mention, there is a slight green feeling, it can be seen that the maker has not thoroughly mastered the process of glass decolorization, and when blowing, the bubbles in the liquid glass have not been completely removed, so that there are obviously some bubbles in some places.
The other few items were also glass products, and one of them attracted Yu Xiaotian's attention, and he reached out to pick it up and saw that it was a small mirror with a diameter of less than ten centimeters.
Yu Xiaotian's interest is here, to say that this small mirror is a very ordinary object for him, such a small thing is very cheap in the future, who doesn't have a small mirror like this in a woman's bag, not to mention who doesn't have a few big mirrors?
But in this era, this thing is regarded as a treasure, such an inconspicuous thing, the workmanship is not very good, but it is placed in a box of valuable huanghuali, and it is treated as a treasure.
In fact, glass is not a high-tech thing, the Chinese will make it a long time ago, but in the past, glass was not called glass, but called glass, and later generations and even now the West glass production raw materials and methods are not the same, more is treated as a baby.
Western countries have now mastered the art of glassmaking, and judging from the small mirror we see today, this mirror should have been made in Venice or France.
Yu Xiaotian had seen a historical introduction to glass mirrors before, the first to invent glass mirrors should be the Venetians, Venetian glass craftsmen made the first glass mirror in the world, the clear mirror shocked the world, became the object of the nobles, the Venetians in order to keep trade secrets, issued a decree that no one should disclose the manufacturing method of glass mirrors, and all the factories that made glass mirrors in Venice were moved to an island, and no one was allowed to approach easily.
It is said that when a king of France got married, he was given a small and not delicate glass mirror, which was worth 150,000 francs at that time!
What is the concept of 150,000 francs, a large sail warship in this era, equipped with dozens of cannons, only costs tens of thousands of francs, and a small mirror is fired up by the Venetians at a sky-high price.
Later, the French managed to steal the Venetian's method of making glass mirrors, which gradually lowered the price of glass mirrors.
Now Yu Xiaotian didn't expect to see such a small glass mirror here, which shows that Westerners have begun to export this kind of thing as a commodity to the land of China.
Yu Xiaotian is not a layman for making this kind of thing, he knows the manufacturing process of this thing very well, and now he suddenly saw such a modern product, which made him feel a sense of intimacy, and he couldn't help but look at it a few more times in his hand, and while playing with it in his hand, he asked: "This glass mirror is a bit interesting, what is the price of this?" ”
"This master is really a good eye! This thing is a rare thing, called Taixi glass mirror, the small one is a person with an identity, if this glass mirror is wanted by others, it will cost at least one hundred and fifty taels of silver, if this master really wants it, the small one will be cheaper for you, just one hundred and thirty taels of silver! The guy replied to Xiaotian with a happy face.
After Yu Xiaotian heard this, his hands trembled, and the small mirror suddenly took off his hand and fell to the ground, causing Yu Xiaotian to hurry up to pick it up, and finally grabbed the small mirror in his hand before it landed, so he didn't break it on the spot.
Even so, the man was so frightened that his face turned white, and he quickly shouted, "Ouch! Master, be careful! If this is broken, whose is it? ”
Yu Xiaotian sweated profusely and sneered: "Why is this thing so expensive!" Such a small thing actually costs more than a hundred taels of silver? ”
(Huhu, today is more than 7,000 words, which is the most in recent days, and it was completed with illness!) Give yourself a word of praise! )