Niu felt that his family background was not very bad now, and he could be invited to Mufu by the prefect's wife as a guest, and he could be regarded as a figure with a face in Pengzhou City, and he must not be compared with others.

So Niu spent 50 taels to buy two ready-to-wear clothes, and spent 100 taels to order three clothes of the latest style.

When Niu returned home after buying clothes, he immediately began to change his clothes and look in the mirror.

When Liu Dahe heard that such two fancy clothes cost fifty taels of silver, he was so distressed that he couldn't help asking:

"Is this garment made of silver thread? It's worth the money. ”

"What do you know, I see that you still have the same vision as when you used to be in Liujia Village, and you haven't improved at all-" Niu Shi pointed to the colorful and colorful peonies on his clothes and said, "Just this good embroidery is worth a lot of silver." ”

After Niu Shi got dressed, he turned around twice in front of Liu Dahe and asked, "How is it?" Is it good-looking? ”

Liu Dahe nodded without hesitation, "It's good-looking, it's good-looking, but-"

Niu Shi looked at the mirror again and again, and complained: "This mirror should also be replaced, Dahe, haven't you seen it, in the Mingyue Garment Shop, the mirror is one person high, and the person who reflects it is clear, saying that it is a mirror from the West, which costs hundreds of taels of silver." ”

After Niu finished changing her clothes, she began to try on jewelry on her head in the same way, and she still had twenty or thirty gold and silver headdresses.

Niu Shi found a little maid to help, and tried everything in this way, but found that there was no one to his liking, and he couldn't help sighing.

She took a golden hairpin and complained: "The color is dull, and the style is too simple, and you will definitely be laughed at when you wear it."

Niu picked up the gold silk eight treasures and saved the bead bun again, "Although this style is good, it is not brilliant enough, most of the people invited in the wooden mansion are people with status and status, and they will definitely be compared if they wear it." ”

Niu put all the jewelry back in the box, thinking of the Mrs. Lu he saw in the Mingyue Garment Shop during the day, and he paid a few hundred taels of silver without blinking his eyes, if only he could spend silver at will like that.

Thinking of this, she couldn't help but complain to Liu Dahe, "Don't you see, how magnificent other ladies are?" I've been married to you all these years, and I'm still dressed like a country woman, and you don't know how to help me buy some clothes and jewelry. ”

Speaking of this, Niu hid his face and cried, his voice hoarse, "I live too aggrieved." ”

Liu Dahe: "Didn't you have a relationship with Mrs. Feng?" Or borrow a few from her. ”

"If you wear a piece of jewelry, you have to find someone else to borrow it, it's not a shame to lose it, and besides, Mrs. Feng is much older than me, and her jewelry must be old-fashioned."

Xiao Qi heard that there was a lot of noise in the house on his father's side, so he knocked on the door and entered the house.

"Dad, mother, it's so late, what's going on?"

Niu Shi held the silk handkerchief and pressed the corner of his eyes, "The prefect's wife invited me to come over to the mansion as a guest, but your father is unwilling to buy me jewelry, and I don't even have a fashionable piece of jewelry." ”

Xiao Qi thought about it, the current economic situation, multiple pieces of jewelry is not a big deal, and it is indeed necessary to dress up when she goes to Mufu, so she went back to her house, took a silver ticket of one hundred taels from her purse and went to the main house, and handed it to Niu's hand.

"Mother, this hundred taels, you can use it to buy the jewelry you like."

Niu's was immediately happy, "It's still a girl's caring." ”

On the second day, Niu went to the Mingyue Silver Building opposite Qixi Building, and looked at it on the first floor for about an hour, very dissatisfied, "Man, do you have any better, these are too ordinary, not brilliant enough." ”

The shopkeeper came over, beckoned, and asked the guy to go and entertain Niu himself.

"Madam, you are so discerning, these ordinary jewelry really can't match Madame, please Madame follow me to the second floor."

The shopkeeper led Niu and the little maid to the round table on the second floor and sat down, "Give Mrs. a cup of osmanthus nectar." ”

The man brought the tea, and the shopkeeper personally held it in front of Niu's, Madam, you take a sip of tea first, and I will go and get the new jewelry in our store to let you have a look. ”

The osmanthus nectar is very sweet, the heat is just right, it is not hot at all, and when Niu Shi finished drinking the water and put down the phase cup, the man immediately removed the cup.

The shopkeeper came over with a dark carved box and put it on the table and opened it.

A set of jade bracelets with excellent water heads was presented in front of Niu, with a little emerald green floating flowers on them, and a pair of jade-inlaid earrings in the box, which were inlaid with drop-shaped jade and the color of the bracelet were very close. There is also a step shake with a jade bead pendant, and at a glance, you can see that it is a set of bracelet earrings.

Niu liked it at first sight.

"How much silver?"

"Fifteen hundred taels of silver."

Niu Shi hesitated, "Shopkeeper, this price is too high." ”

The shopkeeper glanced at Niu's and saw Niu's eyes staring straight at the jewelry in the box, so he said: "This set of jewelry is well-selected, and the cost is very high. ”

Because Niu likes this set in the box very much, he doesn't have the heart to look at the others.

"It's cheaper, I'll consider it."

Shopkeeper: "Madame looks like she came out of a big family, and only this high-quality jade can match Madame's ......"

Niu was praised by the shopkeeper in words, and felt that the bargain seemed to be a bit off, so he gritted his teeth and asked for it.

But Niu only brought two hundred taels of silver tickets with her, but it didn't matter, there was still a box of silver given to her by Boss Feng at home.

So Niu said: "Shopkeeper, these two hundred taels will be used as a deposit first, and the things will be sent to the Liu family in the south of the city, and I will settle it with you." ”

The shopkeeper has been a shopkeeper in this Mingyue Silver Building for several years, and I haven't heard of any Liu family in Pengzhou City.

Niu pointed to Qixi Lou and said: "The owner of Qixi Building, Deputy Liu, is my daughter. ”

The shopkeeper thought about it, and the woman in front of him really looked a little similar to Deputy Liu's head catcher.

"The little one has eyes and doesn't know Mount Tai, Mrs. likes this set of jewelry, and she doesn't need to pay a deposit, just take it directly, and the silver money can be settled another day."

This is too much in line with Niu's wishes, and he immediately left with the little maid holding the box.

The shopkeeper here asked the bill to be sent to the Qixi Building.

In the Qixi Building, Xiahou's shopkeeper received the bill from the opposite side and looked sluggish.

Man: "The woman who bought the jewelry is the mother of your owner, Deputy Liu." ”

After Xiao Qi got off the government in the afternoon, he discussed with Hua Xi'er Feng Xiaogongzi and Mu Ziqi in Qixi Building.

The shopkeeper of Xiahou called Xiao Qi alone to say something: "Little Qi girl, in the afternoon, the shopkeeper of the Mingyue Silver Building opposite sent a bill, a total of 1,500 taels of silver. ”

"I asked the guy on the other side, and it was Mrs. Liu who bought a set of jade ornaments from them today."

When Xiao Qichu heard Xiahou's shopkeeper say the three words of Mrs. Liu, he couldn't react at all, and it took a while to understand that the three words of Mrs. Liu referred to his mother.