Chapter 36: Palace Dress
Seeing Li Wanzhu away, Huantong pulled An Xiruo and Lian'er into Shaohua Pavilion.
Shaohua Pavilion has a total of three floors, the first floor is an ordinary shop, there are some cheap materials, simple style, and the price is cheaper.
The workmanship and materials on the second floor are more exquisite, most of them are the best fabrics of Shangqu, as long as they are not special materials for the palace, as long as they are willing to spend money, they can be worn. Generally, young ladies from families and prestigious families can go to the second floor to buy clothes.
Almost no one has ever been to the third floor, because only high-end customization needs to go to the third floor to talk in detail, and the price is naturally high. It is also during major festivals that the young lady of the rich family will spend a lot of money to customize a set here.
The three of them were taken to the second floor, which was also the place where Phantom Tong took the creek last time.
"The two young ladies want to see what kind of skirt, I have a newly made winter dress here. The good cloud fox skin is made of big yu, and there is a yellow silk makeup skirt, and this feather satin pleated Ruyi moon skirt is also good. ”
The shopkeeper greeted him very warmly, gave a detailed introduction to the three of them, and showed the clothes one by one.
"It's all good, take one of each for this girl." Phantom Tong said and pointed at Yilian, and then continued to admire the clothes on display.
"Shopkeeper, these clothes are not special enough, can they be customized."
"Of course, you and I will come to the third floor." With that, the shopkeeper led Phantom Tong to a stairwell in the corner of the room and lit a candle.
There are about a dozen steps down the somewhat narrow staircase, and there are two carved wooden doors in folio. The shopkeeper blew out the candles and placed the candlesticks on the small table by the door. The hand pounded on the wooden door a few times, and with a slight push, the door opened.
The sunlight couldn't wait to squeeze out of the open cracks, and the inside of the house was a different world.
As soon as he entered the house, Huantong took out the pavilion master order given to him by Meng Junsheng and showed it to the shopkeeper of Shaohua Pavilion.
When the jet-black ironwood token appeared in front of the shopkeeper, he was stunned for a moment, and then he reacted to the identity of the person in front of him and hurriedly saluted.
"Shaohua Pavilion Fahrenheit see Pavilion Master." The shopkeeper put away his flattering smile, and his expression became much more solemn, "I don't know what the pavilion master commands." ”
"The younger one downstairs is my sister, and she will take care of it more in the future." Phantom Tong casually found a seat and sat down, after all, this shop is also his, and it doesn't matter if he is presumptuous.
Sure enough, Shopkeeper Hua didn't say anything, and still stood in place very respectfully.
Phantom Tong played with the armrest of his chair, only to feel smooth and shiny, as if he had been repeatedly stroked many times.
"Yes, Pavilion Master."
If you say anything superfluous, the shopkeeper Hua didn't say a word.
"Also, the second Miss Li of Master Li's family, the secretary of the Ministry of War, the skirt she just bought, is ready to be sent to the Li Mansion with the same one as soon as possible."
Shopkeeper Hua still just replied simply, and Huantong looked at Shopkeeper Hua and nodded with satisfaction, looking like he wanted to speak and stopped.
"Does the Pavilion Master have any questions?"
Auditory hallucinations hesitated for a moment, and slowly spoke: "But can you really make clothes?" ”
"Of course." As he spoke, the shopkeeper pulled out a big shelf, which was filled with all kinds of different materials, "What you want, Shaohua Pavilion can make it." ”
After the shopkeeper introduced the fabrics, he took out a bunch of pamphlets, all of which were full of patterns. In the face of these things, the shopkeeper Hua is like a treasure, but Huantong can hear it in the clouds.
The shopkeeper was excited, and Huantong pulled through the booklets, closed them one by one, and looked at the shopkeeper Hua apologetically.
"I don't understand any of this, I just want to make a set of gorgeous clothes that can be worn at the New Year's palace banquet, and give it to a girl wearing a strong suit."
The shopkeeper looked at Phantom Tong with some embarrassment, and thought for a long time before he spoke: "Pavilion master, we can't do it without size." ”
"That's not easy."
I saw that Huantong took off the brush hanging on the table, dipped it in the ink, and wrote down An Xiruo's size on the rice paper on the table without hesitation.
Shopkeeper Hua took the piece of paper and read it several times before he cautiously asked, "Is this accurate?" If it's just an approximation, the effect will not be good. ”
Helped An Xiruo buy clothes once, these numbers have long been engraved in Huantong's heart, facing the shopkeeper's question, Huantong just chuckled, "Naturally no problem." ”
When Phantom Tong returned to the second floor, Yilian had already tried on five or six clothes, and was looking at a row of skirts that were not locked.
"What's the matter, sad face." Phantom Tong walked up to Yilian, looked at her, and looked at her clothes.
"Miss Lian'er thinks these dresses are very good-looking, and she can't make a choice, so she is worried."
An Xiruo on the side went through the whole process and answered Phantom Tong's question for Yilian, who was still thinking hard.
"What's so embarrassing about this, since Lian'er likes it, she will wrap it up and send it back to Situ Mansion."
Phantom Tong beckoned to the guy and instructed him to wrap up the few clothes that Yilian had tried.
Yilian, who was frowning just now, is now smiling, looking at the guy's bag of clothes and constantly reminding him to be careful.
"I want to enter the palace to greet the emperor and queen in the New Year, are the palace clothes ready?"
Yilian looked at Huantong with a frightened expression, and her smiling face disappeared in an instant.
"No, I forgot about it."
"You, you can forget everything." As he spoke, he hung on Yilian's nose.
Yilian looked at Huantong pitifully, her big eyes flickered, as if to say, brother help me.
"Well, who made me your brother?"
Huantong felt a little tired, but he still called the shopkeeper Hua, measured the size for Yilian, and chose the fabric and style.
While Yilian and the shopkeeper were discussing the embroidery and details on the clothes, An Xiruo pulled the sleeves of Huantong's clothes.
Phantom Tong turned his head and looked at An Xiruo with puzzled eyes.
"This year's Chinese New Year, can I go to the palace to be on duty." The voice is very small, if it weren't for the good ear power of Huantong, I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to hear what An Xiruo said.
Phantom Tong thought to himself, the clothes are all prepared for you, what do you say? But on the surface, he pretended to be confused.
Seeing Huantong's expression, An Xiruo felt that he was indeed abrupt, and smiled awkwardly.
"It's okay, I want to go back first."
Phantom Tong looked out the window, then nodded and said, "It's really not early, let's go back." ”
By the time Yilian finished dealing with the clothes, An Xiruo had already left.
"Brother, why don't you stay with Sister An for dinner. If you go on like this, when will I have a sister-in-law? ”
"I'm not in a hurry, you're in a hurry, and you're going to eat."
After saying that, Huantong directly pulled Yilian and walked out, completely ignoring that Yilian was jumping in a hurry.
At this time, the Imperial Palace, the outer courtyard of Huakun Palace.
"Your Highness, you can find a way to let your sister enter the palace during the New Year's palace banquet."
An Zhiruo's eyes were full of expectation, so that the three princes couldn't bear to refuse her request.
The third prince is still as gentle as jade as always, and his gestures are so perfect.
"I can give it a try." The sound is like the murmuring of water from the distant mountains, soothing and clear.