Chapter 30: Old Clothes and New Friends
In the afternoon of the next day, Li Ran carried her old silver cloak and left the Chang'an Marquis's Mansion.
The current Chang'an Hou Mansion, the people of the Manchu Mansion, when they saw Li Ran, their first thought was to retreat, they really couldn't avoid it, and they couldn't be respectful anymore.
This girl almost killed the two little ladies of the Bofu, and she didn't even receive a word of reproach.
Not only did she not reproach half a word, but the emperor also rewarded her with a bunch of snacks and asked her to eat more.
Such a master, made her unhappy, stabbed her with a knife, nine times out of ten, and died in vain.
You can't die in vain.
Zhou E followed behind Li Ran as usual, glanced at the cloak in Li Ran's arms a few times, and did not say a word as usual.
This girl knows a lot in her heart, but why is she holding this cloak?
Li Ran slipped to Linglong Fang first, and saw her turn towards Linglong Fang, and several mothers-in-law hurriedly went to ask the steward on duty.
When Li Ran stepped into the threshold of Linglong Fang, the steward had already trotted out to meet him.
Today's shift is still the same manager Yu.
Li Ran smiled at Steward Yu and said, "Please take a look at this cloak, there are tea stains here, can it be washed?" And here, the hook is off, can you make up for it? ”
Steward Yu took the cloak, shook it open and looked at it, and said with Li Ran: "Girl, this cloak, this old silver is the most unwashed, and as soon as it is stained with water, the color of these embroidery threads will be smudged."
Trumpets just happened to be a new pigment. The plain material is very good-looking, but the embroidery is ruined. Why don't you remove this face and replace it with a new one? ”
Li Ran understood as soon as she heard it, just like luxury haute couture never considered washing it, her cloak couldn't be washed.
A noble lady like Li Qingrou doesn't see dust in the house, and when she goes out, she has a car, and her clothes and shoes like this must be clean and clean, and she doesn't need to be washed at all.
But like her, running around with her legs thrown off all day long, this dress will get dirty quickly.
Is it more expensive to walk around with dirty clothes like her, than to get in the car without going out and never get dust on both feet?
"How much silver do you get for what you say?" Li Ran asked directly.
"Plain pattern without embroidery is very cheap, even with materials, ten taels of silver is enough." Steward Yu replied with a smile.
"Well, then let's do as you say." Li Ran pinched two gold pages rolled into small sticks from the purse given to her by Huo Wenlin, "Do you weigh it enough?" ”
"Yes." Steward Yu hurriedly took it and handed it to a mother-in-law, looked at Li Ran's purse and said with a smile: "This is the fresh appearance of the trumpet just came out before, if the girl likes this, Lao Shen, bring some more." ”
As Steward Yu spoke, he gave Shen Pozi a look, and Shen Pozi understood, and quickly carried a tray of sachets, fan covers, purses, etc., and sent them to Li Ran.
Yu Guan picked up a lotus incense bag in advance, and said with Li Ran: "This incense bag, put some incense pills in it, or incense mouth pills, it is very suitable, this is the latest color style." This little lady in the capital loves to use sachets the most. ”
"Thank you. I don't like smells on my body, I don't eat fragrant pills, and I don't need sachets. ”
Li Ran understood what Steward Yu meant, this was to teach her what things to wear.
However, she never followed the trend and followed the public. At first, she was powerless, she has always been very poor, and then she is not poor, but she has long been no longer interested in the trend, and she has long been accustomed to doing her own thing.
"This one is too small, is there anything bigger than this?" Li Ran swept the things in the tray one by one, picked up a purse and asked.
Steward Yu hurriedly smiled: "No matter how big it is, it's not delicate enough...... The little woman was confused, how big did the girl want to use? These little things are easy to make, but two or three days will be fine. ”
"There are these two." Li Ran held up the purse that Huo Wenlin gave her, and weighed it, it can't be bigger, no matter how big it is, it will be too heavy. After weighing it again, Li Ran put down her purse, circled it around her waist, and asked, "Can you make it into a long strip, you can tie it here, and spread it in the middle, so that you can put more." ”
"That's not hard."
Steward Yu is a very clear person, Li Ran made a slight comparison, and she understood that this girl was asking for more gold pages as she could, and it seemed that she didn't think about anything good or not.
What she wants, this is not called a purse, it has to be called a blanket.
Thinking of the last time Li Ran touched the golden page, Steward Yu sighed secretly, this girl was so lonely, she didn't dare to think about it anymore, and if she thought about it more, tears would fall.
"Don't worry, girl, the little woman understands, the little woman will let her make two first, the day after tomorrow, the little woman will let the little woman send it to the house......"
Steward Yu said that he would send it to the house, looked at Li Ran, and slowed down his speech.
For this girl, the Chang'an Hou Mansion is not a good place, but it is more appropriate for her to come and see it, but she is not good at saying this first.
"I'll come here." Li Ran picked it up very quickly.
"Well, the day after tomorrow girl will come and take a look, if it is not suitable, then do it again, until the girl is satisfied." Steward Yu said with a smile.
The mother-in-law next to her had already weighed the two gold pages, and when she saw that there was a gap, she hurriedly handed a little bit of broken silver to Steward Yu, "Sister Yu, this is looking for a head." ”
Steward Yu took the recovered silver and handed it to Li Ran, who took it and put it in his purse, thanked Steward Yu, turned around and walked out of Linglong Fang, and went straight to Xicheng Wazi.
Li Ran sat in the peony shed again.
Once born, the second time, the woman who was waiting for the Xizi Yajian was ripe, and she simply sent dried and fresh fruits up, made two pots of tea respectively, and put them on their respective high tables for Li Ran and Zhou E.
Li Ran went to Linglong Fang and delayed for a while, and when she sat down, the crowd of visitors had already retreated into the backstage in the boiling excitement.
Momonong's previous song was replaced by an old man and a very young girl, although the old man was old, his voice was soft and fresh, and it was very beautiful.
Momono is dressed in purple today, with a black face, so gorgeous that it makes people dizzy.
Li Ran held her cheeks, looked at Tao Nong intently, and couldn't help but exhale after listening to a tune.
This peach is an incomparable interpretation of what it means to fall into the city and the country, and the red face and the water.
After Tao Nong returned to the stage, Li Ran changed her posture and touched the teapot, about the same time she changed it when she was looking at Tao Nong, it was still hot, Li Ran poured a cup of tea, took a few sips, and a quite familiar voice behind her, "Girl." ”
Li Ran hurriedly turned around.
Tao Nong held the curtain with one hand, crossed his waist with the other, tilted his head sideways, and looked at Li Ran with a smile.
Li Ran stood up.
"Don't you dare." Momonong put down the curtain and came in, bowing to Li Ranshen, "The last time I saw the girl, Momonong couldn't believe it, but now the girl is here again, Momonong is very honored." ”
"There is no Lu family in the world anymore." Li Ran understood as soon as she heard it, and said with a smile while bending her knees slightly to return the courtesy.
"Whether there is or not, just look at each person, you think no, you just don't, I think there is, I just have."
Momonong turned sideways to avoid Li Ran's plausible salute, and pointed his finger out, "Momonong wants to invite the girl to the back for a cup of tea, there are too many people here." ”
Momino raised his chin and signaled to the idlers in the shed who were already crowded, trying to take a look at the private room of the happy house.
Li Ran turned around and looked down, and said with a smile: "I think it's good here, if Miss Taonong is afraid of people looking at it......"
Tao Nong let out a puff and interrupted Li Ran's words, "What the girl said, can I still be afraid of people?" Since the girl thinks it's good here, let's go here, and ask the girl for a cup of tea. ”
Tao Nong said, seeing that Li Ran was going to get a cup to pour tea for her, he hurriedly stretched out his hand to stop her, "Don't dare to be, I'll do it myself." ”
Li Ran smiled and sat back on the chair just now, Tao Nong first dragged over the empty chair, put it next to Li Ran a little behind, poured a cup of tea, and sat on the chair.
The stage was already in a hustle and bustle, and a warm dance was danced.
"You're from Rong'an City here?" Li Ran turned sideways slightly, looked at Tao Nong and asked.
"I stayed in Rong'an City for a few years, before and after the fall of Rong'an City, I was in Xingrongguan." Momonon smiled brightly.
Li Ran was a little surprised, she had read many articles about the bloody battle in Xingrongguan, from various angles, but what she wrote was extremely tragic.
Huo Shuai's army advanced to Xingrong Pass, advanced Xingrong Pass, and overthrew Xingrong Pass, every step was at the cost of a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood.
"How old were you then?" Li Ran looked at Tao Nong carefully, she was so close, she still couldn't judge her age.
"Seventeen, as old as you are now." Momono laughed, "I'll just praise me as a girl." ”
"I don't see your age." Li Ran also laughed.
"It's not just you." Momonong laughed as she spoke, making Li Ran dizzy. "Momonong's age is one of the mysteries of the capital, from seventeen to seventy, there are people guessing it."
Li Ran was slightly stunned.
Since it was such a mystery, that is, she rarely or never told anyone about her age, and now, she told her bluntly!
She didn't think her age was a secret, and she shouldn't have asked what she had just said.
"There's nothing you can't say." Pillow Nong was extremely keenly aware of Li Ran's slight apprehension, and laughed again, "It's not that I haven't told anyone, but they don't believe me when I say forty, and they don't believe it when I say thirty or twenty, they don't believe it either, it's they who want to guess it themselves, but it's not me who is making a mistake." ”
Li Ran smiled.
"My mother is a swagger everywhere." Momonong picked a plate of pear strips and put them in front of him, and his tone was relaxed.
Li Ran couldn't help but raise her eyebrows when she said this.
"For as long as I can remember, she has taken me everywhere, and I can't stay in this place any longer, so I go to another place, and we both do everything.
Later, I met an old pianist in Rong'an City, saying that I had a good voice, it was a pity not to sing small songs, I didn't need money, I taught me to sing in vain, and I also managed to eat and live, so I followed him and studied for nearly two years.
Half a year before Rong'an City was besieged, my mother deceived a person who couldn't be provoked, and our mother and I always took a partial general who always cheered me and followed him into Xingrong Pass. ”