Text Chapter 30: East Pearl Head Noodles
Li asked people to find out a set of fairy dresses with bright colors that she hadn't put on her body before she got on last night, and asked Zhihua to change it overnight, and now that Yi'er came over, he forced Yi'er to change it out.
Speaking of the ingenuity of the painting, the Liuxian skirt has been changed to be not big or small, just right, and although Yi'er's body is thin and weak, her face is also a little sallow, but her facial features are delicate and soft, and her eyes are even clearer and transparent.
Li was full of joy, pulled Yi'er in front of him, dipped it in fat powder, and personally applied makeup to her.
After some tossing, Li looked at the fruits of her labor in front of him, very satisfied, and said: "This makeup is the most important thing for women, you can learn everything else later, but this can't be delayed, today we are going out to add a few sets of noodles for you, and in the afternoon, we have to select the maids sent over, it's too busy, forget it, and after this time, my mother will personally teach you to put on makeup." ”
After packing up, Li took Yi'er out of the door.
The carriage stopped outside the weeping flower gate of the second gate, in addition to the two big girls and eight guards, Mama Xu beside the Li family also followed.
Li's side, there were originally four right-hand mammas, Mama Wang was rewarded to Yi'er, Mama Li was in charge of the kitchen, Mama You was responsible for the shift management and training of the personnel, and this Mama Xu was the one who had been waiting by Li's side.
Li took to Wanhua Zhai, the largest jewelry store in Beikaicheng, to not Li Shitu's pomp, but they only came to Beikai after all, and they were not familiar with anything, and those high-quality and low-cost shops did not sound clear at once, so she chose Tianwailou for dressing, and the jewelry store chose this Wanhuazhai, the price must be a few layers higher than other places, but after all, there is a brand effect in it, and the quality should be guaranteed in comparison.
The carriage was parked in front of Wanhuazhai, and the lady who had already received the Li family and others welcomed the Li family and others into the exhibition hall dedicated to receiving female guests, the exhibition hall was very large, with all kinds of glass cabinets, and there were all kinds of jewelry and pearl heads for people to choose and enjoy.
Yi'er is the first time to enter this kind of place, when she followed Jiang Jufang before, Jiang Jufang was not favored in the Xichang Hou Mansion, and she was a concubine born and raised in the outer room, where did she have the opportunity to go to such a place to choose head and face jewelry? It was because she had some feelings in her heart when she walked in, she was already calm, so that she would not be dazzled by the jewels in front of her, but there was always a trance, as if she was dreaming!
There were still a few ladies in the exhibition hall who were choosing jewelry, and when Yi'er helped Li walk in, a few people looked up at them, and they didn't pay too much attention to it, and the lady of Wanhuazhai had already stepped forward to greet her.
Speaking of which, Wanhuazhai can become the largest jewelry silver building in North Kaejo, and it has its own extraordinary place, just take the dozen or so glass cabinets in the exhibition hall, which is not something that ordinary stores can display. What you should know is that glass is a Western foreign product, which is not common in Dahui, regardless of its value, but if you can put so much at once, it is already smacking!
Yi'er basically didn't have any knowledge of the head of the jewelry, she followed behind Li, didn't make a sound, just looked, by the way, she heard the introduction of the lady, and she was already a little dazzled along the way, but at this time Li turned around and asked her if she could see it, she replied calmly: "My mother also knows, I don't understand this, and I don't know which one is good and which is bad?" ”
Li said with a smile: "These things are just decorations, what's good or not, just see if you like it or not, if you like it, it's worth a dime, it's also a liking, and if you don't like it, it's worth a thousand catties, it's also for nothing!" ”
Yi'er nodded, but she looked at those head and face jewelry, they were all jeweled, it was not good-looking, it was indeed a bit against her will, it was good-looking, it was almost the same, and it was not distinctive, where could she choose it for a while?
But at this time, there was a scolding from the front, and then a sharp female voice shouted: "You actually sell this set of heads for eight hundred taels of silver, this is too dark, are you really bullying us are hillbillies who don't understand the market?" ”
Yi'er looked for prestige, and the person who spoke was a sixteen or seventeen-year-old girl, with a flying fairy bun, a pointed face, fair skin, and beauty when she was born, but her eyes were too slender, giving people a feeling of being cold by nature.
In addition to the two maids behind this girl, there is also a beautiful woman who is only about thirty years old, wearing a flowing red skirt and exquisite makeup, and she also said at this time: "Mrs. Liu, we are not here for you Wanhuazhai once or twice, since we are old customers, you will give my family Yuxin a discount on this face!" ”
The Zhiyin Lady named Liu Niangzi had a difficult face, and said: "Mrs. Zhu, Miss Zhu, there is nothing else on this face, but these two East Pearls are the best, you see, such a size, so round and clear, the surface is even more flawless, only such a East Pearl, in the market without one three hundred taels can never be bought, but there are two on this face!" The price of 800 taels is a discount price that takes into account that Miss Madame is an old customer, if Miss Madam wants me to give some discounts, I really don't have this permission, or, Miss Madame, wait a minute, I'll ask the shopkeeper? ”
The girl frowned, threw the head in her hand to Mrs. Liu, and said impatiently: "Forget it, it's so troublesome, I don't want this thing!" Then he turned back and picked up the woman, and said, "Auntie, let's go over there and have a look!" ”
Liu Niangzi shook her head, and after the two led the maid away, she was about to put the head in her hand back into the glass cabinet, Yi'er and Li had already walked over, Yi'er saw the head at a glance, and was immediately attracted, and blurted out: "It's so beautiful!" ”
Seeing that Yi'er was interested, Mrs. Liu handed over the head noodles again and said, "Miss is really a good eye, this head noodles only arrived the day before yesterday, and it was only sold in this store today." ”
Yi'er looked at the head in her hand, especially the two East Pearls, although she didn't recognize them, but the two beads were so beautiful, she couldn't help but look at them over and over in her hand, and said unconsciously: "It's so expensive!" ”
Liu Niangzi said: "Miss also knows, our northern three states first drought and then flood, the origin of Dongzhu Xiaowusu River has also been greatly affected, the production of Dongzhu has decreased sharply, now Dongzhu is rare, many times have reached the point of no market, like such a good appearance of Dongzhu, now the market is really not able to buy money, so this face is more expensive, but there is a reason for the expensive." ”
Yi'er smiled, although she liked this thing, she wouldn't spend a sky-high price of eight hundred taels on her head, and when she was about to hand it back, Li said: "If you like it, just buy it!" Just trouble the lady to wrap it up! ”
Yi'er was stunned, looked at Li, and said, "Mother, this ......"
Li Shi smiled and rubbed Yi'er's face, and said, "Don't worry, a few hundred taels of head jewelry can't empty your mother's dowry!" ”
Seeing that a big deal had been done, Mrs. Liu was smiling, and was about to beckon the little girl to come over and pack, but suddenly heard someone screaming: "Slow." ”
Everyone was stunned, and it was the girl who began to look at this head and face who spoke, and at this time, the girl hurriedly came over, stretched out her hand and snatched the head from Yi'er's hand, and said, "This head is what I saw first, Liu Niangzi, you wrap it up for me, eight hundred taels, I want it!" ”
This happened suddenly, everyone was stunned, Liu Niangzi looked at Yi'er Li, and then looked at the girl who was holding her head in her hand, she was really in a dilemma.
Li Shi was also a little stunned, she had never encountered such a thing before, she couldn't help but be a little annoyed, looked at the girl, and said coldly: "This young lady, you said that you fell in love with this face first?" ”
"It was."
"You liked it first, so why didn't you buy it just now?"
The girl was a little short of words, but she still said arrogantly: "I'll just put it down first, and then go around and come back to pay." ”
Li glanced at Mrs. Liu on the side and said, "I want to ask Mrs. Liu, is that the case?" ”
Mrs. Liu was in trouble, seeing that the things in front of her were no longer something she could handle, she hurriedly gave the little maid on the side a look, and the little maid was also elf, and she slipped into the inner room in a hurry.
At this time, the beautiful woman also walked up, glanced at Li and Yi'er, a trace of disdain flashed in her eyes, and said, "I said that this lady, looking very good, I don't know which family in the house it is?" ”
Li ignored her at all, only looked at Mrs. Liu and said: "Wanhuazhai opened the door to do business, and it is the largest jewelry and silver building in Beikaicheng, I think the business field, talking about the word integrity, now the things here are simpler, I believe that the lady adheres to the purpose of integrity, will give our mother and daughter a satisfactory explanation!" ”
Liu Niangzi's head has begun to sweat, in fact, where can the people who can come to Wanhuazhai be what kind of ordinary people, really talk about identity, any one is not her Liu Niangzi a lady who knows that the lady can afford to offend, the matter just now is really simple, one sentence can be understood, but she knows the origin of the mother and daughter, how dare she say some words!
After thinking about it for a while, Mrs. Liu walked up to Li's side and said in a very soft voice: "This lady, that is the lady of the Lianzhou Mansion and the Governor of Lord Zhu's Mansion, you see..."
Li Shi smiled coldly and said, "The female dependents of the Tongzhi Lord's mansion? What happened to the ladies in the house of the same lord? Could it be that the ladies of the Lord's Mansion can bully others? ”
Liu Niangzi's voice was originally very soft, except for Li and Yi'er, others couldn't hear it at all, but Li didn't lower her voice at all, although she didn't deliberately raise her voice, but the people in the entire exhibition hall heard it clearly, and in an instant, not only Liu Niangzi's face was blue and red, very embarrassed, but even the women and girls in the Tongzhi Mansion were also stunned for a moment.