A small servant came in to deliver tea, put it on the Nanmu coffee table in Li Tao and Mei Zhiyuan's hand, and withdrew.

"Son, please use tea." Mei Zhiyuan raised his hand to invite Li Tao to use tea, and casually picked up the tea bowl.

Li Tao put down the whip in his hand, picked up the teacup, lifted the lid, scraped the floating leaves on it twice, and took a sip, "The tea is good, it is the taste of Biluochun, but it's a pity, it's not this year's ......," he said.

Mei Zhiyuan is not easy to accept this, how does he know if this is this year's new tea, even if it is, it will be old tea at this time.

Mei Zhiyuan lifted the lid of the tea and took a sip, he didn't drink whether it was this year's tea, "I don't know why the prince came?" He said.

Li Tao scraped the floating leaves on the tea twice, but he didn't drink it, and put the lid on the table, "Who is in charge of your family, is it your father or you!" He said.

Mei Zhiyuan was stunned for a moment and said, "It's my eldest sister who is in charge, what's the matter, does the prince have something to find my eldest sister?" ”

"Oh, I don't have anything to do with her today." Li Tao picked up the horsewhip and gently patted it on the palm of his other hand, "Two days ago, the master fought with someone in the restaurant, and I don't know how it hit your uncle, it's your uncle, right?" He said with some uncertainty.

Mei Zhiyuan smiled and said, "Sort of, the person who was beaten by the prince is my second brother's uncle." ”

"That's it!" Li Tao also smiled, looked at Mei Zhiyuan and said, "Your sister Miss Mei, she said that I beat her uncle." The two of you are not a family? ”

Mei Zhiyuan was speechless, this is accusing him of having no relatives as relatives, and I don't know what happened to this prince to come to their house," the prince laughed. If the prince has something to say, how dare he bother the prince! He said.

Mei Zhiyuan thought to himself, if you have something, just talk about it, and leave early if you have nothing to do, their small family can't tolerate his big Buddha.

The horsewhip in Li Tao's hand stopped clapping his palm, "Didn't I borrow your family's silver a few days ago?" I accidentally hit your uncle again, and I was afraid that your family wouldn't let me take it away, so I came over to take a look, and you were at ease, and I was at ease! He said.

Mei Zhiyuan was not very happy when he heard Li Tao say that their shop did not keep its promise, "That's not going to happen." In our shop, there has been no breach of trust in the hands of my uncle, and there will be no breach of promise in the hands of my eldest sister. He said.

"That's good, that's good!" Li Tao put the horsewhip in his other hand, and whipped it, making a crisp sound of "pop", "What have you men done?!" How to entrust a huge family business to a woman? He turned his head and looked around, as if he was looking for a man from the Mei family again.

Mei Zhiyuan was a little embarrassed and took another sip of the teacup, he couldn't say that his father didn't know how to operate, and he couldn't even take care of a tea shop, let alone say that his third uncle didn't want to take care of the family business in order to be an official, "Before my eldest uncle died, he handed over the family business to my eldest sister to take care of." He said.

"That's it!" Li Tao put down the horsewhip and took a sip of the tea bowl again, "Come on, put down the things." He said.

The two guards stood up, untied the two mahogany boxes on their shoulders, and placed them on the coffee table next to Mei Zhiyuan.

Li Tao lit the two boxes with a horsewhip and said, "Here is a 500-year-old ginseng tree and a 300-year-old Ganoderma lucidum, all of which are gifts for my first visit." ”

"Don't dare to be!" Mei Zhiyuan waved his hand and refused, and said, "I really don't dare to accept such valuable medicinal materials." Please take it back with you. ”

"The things that this prince gave out have never been taken back! Besides, you are not the head of the family, and it doesn't count if you say you will accept it or not. Right? He stood up and said, "I still have some things to deal with, so I'll leave first, and I'll come back to the house to bother me when I'm free." ”

When Mei Zhiyuan heard him say this, he felt bad in his heart, and when he saw that he was about to leave, he also stood up, "Okay, then I won't leave the prince to eat." I'll send you out. He said.

Wan Yun draped the cloak over Li Tao's shoulders and strode outside after him.

Mei Zhigao stood under the eaves of the porch, leaned sideways against the pillar, and stared at the door of the flower hall for a long time to see the snowy scene.

He wanted to go in and sit with that Shizi for a while, but when he saw the guards guarding the door, Mei Zhigao didn't have the courage to enter the door.

Mei Zhigao waited outside for a while, and didn't see Li Tao and Mei Zhiyuan come out, so he instructed his little maid to go in and take a look, but the note was timid and refused to go.

The urging was very strong, and the note said to go to the back window to eavesdrop and eavesdrop, and ran away.

Mei Zhigao was about to go back to the house to get a bowl of hot tea and drink two sips, when he saw his eldest brother Mei Zhiyuan and Li Tao coming out, and he hurriedly stood up straight.

Mei Zhiyuan took the umbrella from Xiao Si's hand, and walked outside sideways for Li Tao.

"Thank you!" Li Tao arched his hand slightly.

sent Li Tao out of the gate all the way, watched him get on the horse, said to him, "There will be a period later", and then beat the horse and whipped into the snow.

Mei Zhigao walked under Mei Zhiyuan's umbrella, looked at the horse that had gone away, and said, "What did he say when he came?" ”

Mei Zhiyuan turned his head to look at him, then stuffed the umbrella into his hand, turned around and walked back, and said angrily: "I didn't say anything, I just came over to take a look." ”

"Didn't you say you were here to apologize?"

"Nope."

"How so?" Mei Zhigao ran a few steps behind, caught up with Mei Zhiyuan and asked what the prince said.

Ruoxue returned to Guanfang Courtyard at the beginning of the unitary time, she went back to her house first, and asked the maid who came in with her, "Have you three young ladies come back?" What are you doing? Is there a small break? She said.

A second-class maid stepped forward and replied, "I came back more than half an hour ago, without rest, and the third lady sent the sixth lady back to the third lady, and when she came back, she drew a picture in the study, and she never called anyone in to serve her." ”

Ruoxue raised her eyebrows and asked, "What about the orange and the pomegranate?" ”

The maid said, "I saw them when I first came back, and I don't know where they have gone." ”

Lian Xin and Peony waited for Ruoxue to take off their cloaks, and went to the jewels such as beaded hairpins and rings on their heads, washed their hands and faces, changed into homely clothes, and went to the study after packing up.

When I entered the study, I saw Ruohong lying on the long desk, holding a quill pen, concentrating on writing and drawing.

Dan Tangerine Pomegranate sat by the charcoal basin not far from the door, and when she saw her coming in, she hurriedly stopped the yarn in her hand, got up and curtched her knees, and said, "Miss." ”

"You're here!" Ruoxue said with a smile: "Just now Lilac said that I haven't seen you two for a long time, I thought you were lazy somewhere." ”

"How dare the slaves and maids be lazy, the eldest lady should not listen to other people's instigation and doubt us!" Dan Tachibana said.

"Don't worry." Ruoxue patted Dan Tangerine on the arm, "You guys go down and have a cup of tea." She said.

"Okay." The two men turned around and went out with the door.

Ruoxue walked closer and leaned over to look, and saw that there were several small square pieces drawn on the paper, with raised notches on the sides, and she didn't know what Ruohong was doing with this.

"What is this?" Ruoxue asked.

"House." Ruohong said slowly: "When I was in the Green Calyx Hall today, I saw that the fourth brother and the sixth sister didn't have suitable toys to play with, and I thought about making some out of wooden boards, which should make them have a good time." ”

When she was a child, her grandparents bought her a set of building blocks for the house, which were made of plastic, square and triangular, and together they were a small house.

She had a lot of fun at the time, and she could assemble several different room types.

Ruohong drew it with a ruler according to her memory, and then cut it out with scissors, tried it, and felt that the triangle was a little wrong, and enlarged the size a little.

Ruoxue looked at the picture she drew, no matter how she looked at it, she couldn't make a house, and then she cut the paper pattern together, but it could be spliced into a piece of paper, looking at the mortise and tenon joints, it looked like the seams on the furniture.

Ruohong told her about the splicing method, the triangle is the ridge, the square is the wall and the floor, and the combination is a small house, which is a toy suitable for children to play.

"Is there a carpenter in the house? If you do too much, you can sell it for money. Ruohong asked

Ruohong took a new piece of paper, measured the size with a ruler, and drew it carefully.

She wanted to make such blocks out of wooden planks, which should be similar to those made of plastic.

"Yes." Ruoxue said.

"That's good, let's make thirty pieces first. Six triangles, twenty-four square. She said.

Ruohong's hand had a lot of paper patterns that she had cut with scissors, a scrap of paper on the ground, and the last two paper patterns were placed a little further away by her alone, pressed with a piece of paperweight.

"Where I used to live, there were many kinds of toys for children, dozens of animal model toys, airplanes, cars, ships, etc. There are more character toys, and I don't know how many new ones will be introduced every year. Ruohong said.

Ruohong said a lot of names of toys again, and Ruoxue asked her what she looked like, Ruohong said what they looked like and function, and Ruoxue didn't figure out what kind of toys they were.

"Anyway, the current process can't be made, and if it can be made, you can make countless money." She said.

"Then this house toy can also make money." Ruoxue is very concerned about things that can make money, and when she heard Ruohong say that she could make money, she was thinking about finding someone to make these things.

"Absolutely." Ruohong said affirmatively.

Ruohong said and wrote the size on the paper, picked it up and looked at it, and handed it to Ruoxue, asking her to instruct someone to make these things.

The people she can command are mandarin oranges and pomegranates, and a few little maids in the yard, no matter how many people are more than respectful, but they are not what she can command.

Ruoxue took it and looked at it, and her subordinates hissed hard, and split the paper in two, "Lianxin." She shouted.

Lian Xin and Dan Tang pushed the door in, they and a few other girls, stood outside the door for a long time and didn't hear the master call them in, anxious about whether to serve tea and pour water inside, didn't call them, but they didn't dare to enter without permission.

Hearing the shouting, the two big maids came in.

Dan Tang stood at the door, waiting for Ruohong to have something to say, the eldest lady came in without calling her, it was wrong! Don't dare to go forward now?

Lian Xin walked up, "Does the eldest lady want tea?" She said.

Ruoxue handed the triangular half to Lianxin and said, "You find a reliable person and go to the outside of the house to find someone to make six of these planks." ”

"The slave knows." Lian Xin took the drawings, turned around and went out.

The other half of the drawings with square patterns were drawn, and Ruoxue beckoned Dan Tang to come and hand it to her, telling her to go to the carpenter in the house and ask them to make the patterns on the paper on wooden boards and make twenty-six pieces.

Dan Tachibana answered the "yes" and turned around and went out.

Ruohong looked at Ruoxue's sister in puzzlement, why didn't she make it in the house, but find an outsider to make it?

Ruoxue said: "It's safer this way." The carpenters may not immediately know what the blocks are for, but it won't take them long to figure it out.

Didn't you say you could sell it for money?

Don't let people know what these are for, and if you can, it's not too late to let people know when they make them and sell them. ”

If you realize later, this is intellectual property protection in disguise. In ancient times, there was no intellectual property protection law, so it was impossible not to be copied by others, and it could only be kept secret temporarily. Once it is sold to the outside, it will inevitably be imitated.

Ruohong thought of those big windmills and asked, "How many of those windmills have been made, and have you taken them out to sell?" ”

"I sold it in the city yesterday, and there are a lot of people who buy it, and I don't know how much it will sell, so let people go to the shop to see it later." Ruoxue said.

If the red oh, it is normal to sell, but soon someone will imitate it, and the cost is cheaper than theirs, and the quality is not necessarily as good as theirs.

Ruohong handed over the paper pattern pressed under the paperweight and another drawing to Ruoxue, and asked her to put it away, maybe it would be useful in the future.

Ruoxue collected the paper patterns and drawings, sandwiched them in a book and put them on the bookshelf, and called the maid to clean up the shredded paper in the house, take them to the yard and burn them.

Ruohong thought about finding a few more toys, which could be made with ancient craftsmanship, which could not only be used for children to play with, but also cooperate with Ruoxue to make money, and also reflect her value in this world.

With money, she can have more say.

Peony came in and returned to Ruoxue, "Li Tao, the prince of King Jin Zhang, came to the house and brought two boxes of tonics, but the eldest young master couldn't push it and accepted it, and it was already in the warehouse." The shopkeeper of the money village sent a note to the eldest lady, saying that 500,000 taels of silver would be out of the warehouse tomorrow, and asked if you would like to take a look. She said.

There were maids back and forth, saying that Mrs. Cao had lifted the grounding of the second wife, and at the end of the year, there were too many things to send to the second wife, and the second wife's grounding was exempted.

Ruoxue said that she knew, and asked the maid to retreat, and sat there flipping through the harvest book of the Grange.

"Aren't you going to be grounded for a month?" Ruohong said.

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