Chapter Twenty-Nine: Selling Flowers in the Deep Alleys
After a while, the girl who was sent out to buy flowers hurriedly reported: "Girl, girl." β
Zhou Xiaoniang lazily put the poetry scripture in her hand and glanced at her: "What about the flowers?" β
The red-clothed maid lowered her head and replied: "I bought some plum blossoms and narcissus, and they are all kept at the green waist, and the slave maid is here to tell the girl a strange thing?" β
As soon as she heard this, Zhou Xiaoniang became interested, straightened up and said, "Let's hear it." β
The red-clothed maid smiled: "Girl, when the slave went out to buy flowers just now, she saw someone selling jasmine in the alley. β
"Jasmine?" Zhou Xiaoniang glanced at her up and down, and said suspiciously: "You are dizzy, where did Jasmine come from at this time." β
The red-clothed maid immediately shouted: "Ouch, my girl, how dare the slave lie to you, I really saw it, it is indeed Jasmine." β
Seeing what she said, Mrs. Zhou said suspiciously: "It's really fresh jasmine?" β
Yahuan nodded again and again: "It's fresh, the slave maid saw it, the flowers are beautiful, it should be picked early in the morning, and it is not wilted at all." β
Little Lady Zhou pondered for a moment, nodded and said, "Okay, since what you said is so true, then you can go and buy some for me now, if you can't buy them, see how I clean you up." β
Yahuan smiled: "I can buy it, I have asked the little lady who sells flowers to wait outside the corner gate, but I don't know how many girls want to buy, the little lady is a little expensive." β
"Oh, what's your law?" Zhou Xiaoniang asked.
The red-clothed girl looked at her face carefully, and hesitated: "It is said that it is twenty wen a branch." β
"Twenty Wen ......." Zhou Xiaoniang thought about it and said: "It's not expensive, although it is nearly twice as expensive as plum blossoms and other flowers, but it can still be cultivated at this time, and I don't know how much effort and effort it takes, and it is normal to be more expensive." β
Seeing that she was not too expensive, Hongyi breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly asked, "Then how many can we buy?" β
"How much does she have?"
"This ..... The slave didn't ask in detail, but looking at the size of the blue seed, it could hold about forty or fifty branches. β
"Forty or fifty branches.." Zhou Xiaoniang read a sentence, and after a while, she said, "Buy it all." β
"Ah, I bought them all." The girl in red is ringed.
Lu'er on the side hurriedly persuaded: "The girl can't help it, the flowers are already very easy to wither, not to mention that in this cold winter season, I am afraid that I can't raise it for two days without the greenhouse." β
However, Zhou Xiaoniang waved her hand, "It's okay, I have long heard that my mother has a bronze bottle, and the insertion of flowers can last for a long time, I have been curious about it, and now I just want to see if it is true, and I will not practice flower arrangement, just take this jasmine with a color, if it is really well inserted, three days later, I will win back the flower arrangement class." β
Lu'er wanted to say, girl, you are really naΓ―ve, the most important thing in this flower arrangement is the floral vision, not just buy a new flower, and this jasmine may not be able to last for three days, but the words came to the mouth and swallowed back.
One was afraid of dampening the enthusiasm of his master, and the other was afraid of saying too much to dislike, so after thinking about it, he closed his mouth.
The red-clothed girl got the order and happily went out to buy flowers.
Outside the backyard door, Wen Shu, who was stamping his feet in the cold wind, saw that there had been no movement inside for a long time, and couldn't help but wonder if the family didn't want to buy it, or did they think the price was too expensive and wanted to consume her?
When he was hesitating whether to go away or continue to go to the front to sell, he heard the courtyard door squeak open, and the girl with a round face in red came out with a smile, with a little arrogance on her face.
"Flower seller, you are lucky to meet our girl today, I want this basket of flowers."
Wen Shu was overjoyed when she heard this, and immediately sent Lanzi to her, and said: "This sister, there are a total of fifty-two flowers in the basket, and my sister took them together, and I will give them to me, and my sister will give me the money." β
When the girl heard this, she didn't pay the money quickly, but glanced at her and said coldly: "I took so much, and I only gave two branches, and the little lady is also stingy."
Wen Shu's heart suddenly burst into a smile, and he said with a stiff smile: "That sister means ......"
The red-clothed girl raised her chin and said, "In this way, this blue seed will be counted as forty branches, and I will give you eight hundred wen." β
Subtract her 200 wen at once, where is Wen Shu willing to follow, besides, this flower was still obtained by her from that strange world with her little life, how can she sell it cheaply.
At the moment, I was a little angry in my heart, just for the sake of livelihood, but I still smiled and said: "Ouch, sister, the price is boundless, this flower I also came from a Taoist priest, the purchase price is already high, you give me this again, I really don't make any money, this cold winter wax moon, the family is still waiting to buy rice to put in the pot." She made a pitiful appearance.
The red-clothed girl was unmoved, and said coldly: "At this price, you can sell it or not." β
Seeing this, Wen Shu put the basket back, and the smile on his face was gone: "Since my sister doesn't have the intention, forget it, I'll go to another house to ask, just why entertain me." With that, turn around and leave.
She didn't want to buy it, she didn't want to sell it yet.
Twenty dollars of jasmine, she gave two for nothing, which is already kind.
This girl ring wants to eat kickbacks, and it is enough to eat these forty Wen, and it is not conspicuous. Bisheng is a greedy person, and if he gets forty wen, he doesn't have enough, and he wants to take another 200 wen from her.
Hmph, she's still fighting famine herself, but she's not in the mood to care about other people's purses.
When the girl saw that she really turned around and left, she couldn't help but be anxious, but she promised the fifth girl that she would definitely be able to buy flowers back, if she left, where would she go to find this rare jasmine.
Standing in place at the moment, his face turned from red to white and then to red, and finally shouted hatefully: "Stop." β
A sneer flashed in Wen Shu's heart, but he turned around as if he had nothing to do: "What else is there to do with my sister?" β
"Forget it, it's not easy to see you, always be consistent, give me the flowers."
Wen Shu was in a hurry to make money, and he was afraid that the flowers would wilt for a long time, so when he saw that the other party gave him a step, he broke the donkey, turned around and handed the basket back.
The red-clothed girl handed her the money, and then closed the door with a 'snap' without saying hello.
Wen Shucai didn't care whether her attitude was good or not, with the money she had just arrived, she happily walked around a narrow and deep alley on the right-hand side, and there was a stack of dilapidated baskets against the wall in the alley.
She looked around, and saw that there was no one around, so she stepped in, opened the top baskets, and brought out a basket full of jasmine flowers from below, and then restored all the baskets to cover the last untaken basket at the bottom.
In fact, she went out today with a total of three bamboo baskets, but when she walked to the mouth of this alley, she suddenly thought of the truth that rare things are expensive.
If she carried all the baskets in her hands, people would not feel that it was rare to see so much, and if the price did not go up, it would be better to sell them one by one, and after observing them at the moment, she hid the two baskets of flowers in this narrow alley where no one passed.
Sure enough, the little lady of the Zhou family just now didn't know for what reason, she actually bought a basket of flowers, Wen Shu thought about it for a long time, and finally felt that Zuo just wanted to stand out in front of the little sisters, but it was a pity.........
She looked at the bamboo basket in her hand and smiled slyly.
Holding Lanzi and walking out of the narrow alley quickly, this time Wen Shu changed the alley and shouted, in addition to her, there were two little ladies selling flowers in the alley.
After listening for a while, she realized that one sold the most plum blossoms nowadays, and the other sold daffodils.
At this time, several corner doors in the alley had quietly opened, and girls in different clothes poked their heads out.
Wen Shu immediately cleared his throat and shouted: "Sell flowers, sell flowers, fragrant jasmine, insert one in the bottle, increase three points of spring." β
Hearing this shout, not only the two little ladies who sold flowers froze, but also the maids who came out to buy flowers on the orders of their masters.