Chapter Twenty-Three: A Chance Encounter at the Night Market
Banniang was not interested in these, and besides, the sisters-in-law Wu and Zhu also did some at home, so they stood aside, just waiting for Qi Niang to finish picking up, so that they could continue shopping. The boys were naturally impatient to look at these trivial little objects, and when they saw Banniang and Qi Niang stopping in front of the car, they walked away. Banniang was afraid that there would be too many people to get lost, and it would be another trouble, so she shouted behind the three of them: "Jue'er, ninth brother, don't run around, follow the fifth brother, take care of some Huang'er." ”
Jue'er finally let out a "hey" and took his younger brother Huang'er's hand, but Jiulang waved his hand impatiently: "Eighth sister, take care of yourself, don't get lost." ”
"Eighth sister, you see that this Baisuo weaving is so delicate and interesting, let's sell more, everyone wears it when we go back, and I wrap some around Xiao Shi in my hand, okay?" Qi Niang took a lot of Bai Suo and asked Ban Niang, who was staring at Jiu Lang on the side.
Banniang was about to answer, but she was patted on the shoulder, startled, and heard someone laugh crisply in her ear: "Zeng Banniang, you also came out to visit the night market?" ”
The voice is clear and graceful, like the cry of a nightingale, which makes people feel very comfortable when they hear it.
Banniang looked back, and there was a fifteen or sixteen-year-old woman in front of her, wearing a blue summer shirt, with a falling horse bun on her head, only a peony flower white hosta inlaid with emeralds, and a faint smile on her slightly rounded face, which looked crisp and dusty. Isn't it the samurai Sanniang?
"Sister Wu, why are you?"
Wu Sanniang held the fan in one hand, knocked her head with the other, and laughed crisply: "You are allowed to come out for a walk, and I am not allowed to come out for a walk?" ”
Seeing that Qi Niang was also standing on the side, he smiled slightly, and looked towards Qi Niang Yingying: "It turns out that Qi Niang is also here, and San Niang is polite." ”
The words are affectionate, and the actions are also intimate, as if they have known each other for many years, and the three people who are not familiar with each other seem to have narrowed the distance all of a sudden.
Qi Niang hurriedly replied: "Qi Niang has seen the third lady, and I dare not be the third lady's gift." ”
After seeing each other, Wu Sanniang asked, "The two younger sisters are also here to buy things?" ”
Banniang nodded: "Yes, I was busy a few days ago and didn't have time, so I didn't come out until tonight." ”
Wu Sanniang smiled and said: "It's okay, I'm bored at home, so I led the maids out for a walk, and you didn't buy the fan, right?" I took a fancy to a lot of fans in the shop in front of me, and I was tempted to buy a lot, thinking that if I couldn't send them all, it would be a waste, so why don't I share some of you? ”
"What's so embarrassing?" Banniang smiled and declined.
"There's nothing to be embarrassed about," Wu Sanniang beckoned to the two maids who followed behind her, and saw that both of them were holding a lot of fans in their hands, "Banniang promised to draw a pattern for us Tai Ruixiang again, although this fan is not worth anything, it should be my thank you gift." You know, Banniang's pattern, I can make a lot of money. ”
Qi Niang still had to excuse herself, but Banniang was busy on the side: "That fan can win Sister Wu's eyes, it is naturally excellent, then we are welcome to accept it." ”
Wu Sanniang is a cheerful person, and if she refuses to excuse herself, she will be stingy.
Seeing that she agreed to accept it, Wu Sanniang was also very happy, the obvious eight ladies and her character are compatible, those women who slander famous families she has not seen, twisting and pinching, and talking to them, it can really kill people in a hurry. Zeng Banniang is like this, but she looks amiable and cute.
Wu Sanniang said politely: "Speaking of this, Banniang, when will you be able to draw those patterns?" I'm in a hurry. ”
It's really urgent, Banniang smiled back: "After the day of the Dragon Boat Festival on the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, on the morning of the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, I promised to send Sister Wu to the shop." ”
"Then it's settled. By the way, Lu Niangzi didn't say the price last time, and my sister doesn't have to worry, as long as I fancy it, thirty yuan a piece, if the business is good, it will rise in the future. I wonder if my sister thinks it's feasible? ”
Banniang also thought that if Wu Sanniang was good at doing business, she would naturally raise the price if she took the initiative to ask for a picture, but she didn't expect her to be so refreshing, and it rose by ten times at once. said with a smile: "Sister Wu is atmospheric, how can my sister be a person with a small belly, thirty times is already a high price, I will also do my best to paint, but I want to satisfy my sister." ”
Because he had been talking for a long time, Wulang turned around, and he was a little worried about Banniang and Qi Niang, so he turned back to look for her sisters, and saw that the two were talking to Wu Sanniang, who almost bumped into Wu Sanniang at the gate of the house that day, but nodded slightly towards Wu Sanniang, and stood aside and waited.
That Wu Sanniang knew that the two sisters were followed by their brothers, and the young man in front of him was the flying figure imprinted in his mind, and he saw the real person again for a while, and the smile on his face was no longer bright, but he added three points of shame, and also blessed the body of Wulang Yingying, Wulang was still holding on, and when he saw the lady saluting him, his face was slightly red for a while, but fortunately, in the night, Banniang and Qiniang didn't care, so they mixed up.
Wu Sanniang didn't want to say more, so she called the maids who were waiting far away behind her to come forward, took two strings of tied fans and handed them to Qi Niang's hand.
Waiting for Qi Niang to take it, Wu Sanniang said: "I've been gone for half a day, and I'm tired, and I'm sweating, so I'll go back first." Qi Niang, you go shopping first, and when you are free another day, go and play with me. ”
Banniang smiled: "I'll go after the Dragon Boat Festival, and the jewelry pattern is just right for my sister." ”
The three of them saluted, Wu Sanniang nodded to Goro again, and went with the two maids.
Qi Niang looked at the more than ten neatly folded fans in her arms, and was a little worried, she still had to buy a lot of things.
Banniang's eyes rolled, the fifth brother is not good at labor, Jue'er is a nephew, but she can call it. So he called Jue'er and Jiulang, who were squatting on the ground not far away and didn't know what to study, and said, "Jue'er, come and help your seventh aunt get something." ”
Jue'er is an honest child, although he is only half a year younger than Shi Niang, but the generations cannot be messed up, usually Shi Niang has any strength and physical work, and he has instructed him, this sad child is very polite, and there is no time that he should not be.
As soon as the words fell, Jue'er couldn't care about the new and interesting things, and got up and went straight to Banniang's side.
Lisuo took a stack of fans in Banniang's arms, and Banniang asked, "Jue'er, what are you three looking at?" ”
"There's an old man there selling some lacquer boxes, and Uncle Nine thinks it's funny, so he pulls me and Huang'er to see it."
Lacquer box? Anything related to the family can arouse her interest.
Banniang's eyes lit up, and she was about to rush over along Juelang, and then she thought about it, Bai Suo Aihu and other sisters-in-law and her mother also made some, but they also had to buy some more to keep their relatives and friends with their children to come to the door to send, it was not appropriate to let Qi Niang buy things here alone, anyway, he was not in a hurry, so he said to Wulang, who was waiting on the side, "Fifth brother, come and accompany Sister Qi to buy something, I'll go shopping with Jue'er."
I heard Qi Niang muttering softly: "How can you take other people's things for nothing, and you must not do this in the future?" Sanniang took the money to buy the drawings, she already owes her a favor, how can she survive in the future? ”
Banniang sighed, Qi Niang is good at everything, but she can't be clear about this.
If you want to say that you owe favors and money and goods, there is really a question of who owes whom.
It is true that the martial family bought a few jewelry patterns from her, which can be regarded as a gift in the snow for their own family, but the problem is that the benefits brought by those sets of patterns to the martial arts family are not only a hundred times the money she paid for the patterns? Besides, this time Wu Sanniang came to ask her for the pattern again, and she also took the initiative to raise the price, she didn't sit on the ground to start the price, to say that this set of patterns, even if she received fifty times, with Banniang's calculations, it was not much, but it was a long-term cooperation, Wu Sanniang came out of thirty times, which was reasonable, and she should go down.
In doing business, the emphasis is on the two clear, and then leave a line in everything, and then have some affection to meet in the future. She accepted Wu Sanniang's thin gift precisely because of this intention.
What's more, in business, she and the martial arts family just take what they need, otherwise, why would she be a martial artist Sanniang, why would she be so courteous to her twelve-year-old baby? It's just that they need each other.
"Seventh sister, didn't you hear that Gangwu Sanniang was in a hurry to get that pattern? I took her a few fans, and it wasn't worth anything. ”
Qi Niang glanced at her: "These fans, many of them are actually Shu brocade, I am afraid that one is not less than two or three hundred Wen, in the end, we still owe the love of the three ladies of the martial family." ”
She's thinking about making me owe some favors, so that she can act better in the future, okay?
"Sister, alas," Banniang stroked her forehead, "aren't you going to buy Baisuo?" ”
The little merchant over there is also urging: "Does the little lady still buy it?" Don't buy the trouble to let go, don't get in the way of small guests. ”
"Buy." Banniang replied sharply, thinking about what Juelang said about the lacquer box stall, and pushed Qi Niang over, "Seventh sister, you hurry up and pick, I'll go to the ninth brother to have a look, it's not far away, you can squeak if you have something." ”
didn't wait for Banniang to speak again, and went straight to Jiulang.
Over there, Jiu Lang saw that the martial artist Sanniang was leaving, and he turned around and shouted, "Eighth sister, come and have a look." These lacquer boxes are really delicate and elegant. Why don't we pick one and give it to my mother as a birthday gift? ”
The beginning of June is Zhu's 34th birthday.
Banniang stepped forward quickly, and a few people surrounded the stall, commenting on those lacquer boxes, and some people paid the money to take the goods and leave.
These boxes are all carved with plain lacquer, and there are also plain lacquer painted landscapes or Meilan, bamboo, chrysanthemum, and four friends in the cold year, but what Banniang sees is not the style of the box, but the carved lacquer. After looking around, I also appreciated it in my heart. couldn't help but look at the stall owner, and asked, "Uncle, may I ask you that these boxes are self-made lacquer and self-carved flowers?" ”
The old man is ignorant of the customer, others are looking for a price, he only quotes, not exaggerated, if you buy, just collect money and deliver the goods, if you want to bargain, he glanced at people lightly, only two words: "not two prices." ”
Some customers are very bored, and they think the price is too high, so they have to abandon their belongings.
Jiu Lang was afraid that this old man would ignore Banniang, who listened to Shi Niang's question, but his eyes lit up, turned his head, looked at Banniang, and showed a rare smile: "Why does this little lady ask this carver and lacquer worker?" ”