Chapter VII: Cheating money to attract customers
Hu Xianxian glared at the guy's back, "Run fast!" Knowing I can't spare him. He looked out the door with confidence, "It must be that my previous clothes with small blue flowers on a white background are too plain, I changed into festive clothes to ensure that the guests are like clouds." “
Only then did the others in the Hongbin Building notice her change of clothes, and understood why the guy was scared away, and they were all speechless with surprise from her new clothes.
Her green shirt was covered with large pink flowers, her pink dress was covered with goose-yellow flowers, and when she moved, she could see that the big red embroidered shoes were dark purple flowers.
Sanhua touched her face, so that she closed her mouth and spoke after opening her mouth for a long time in shock: "Miss, your dress is even more sassy than the old bitch who solicited customers at the base of the city wall of the North Gate."
Aunt Hu couldn't see her daughter's appearance at this time, and when she heard Sanhua say this, her heart was on fire, "Xianxian, tear Sanhua's mouth." It's so unruly, dare to say that, Miss. “
Hu Xianxian responded with a "OK", and grabbed a feather duster to hit Sanhua. The three tweeds hid behind Aunt Hu and the third uncle, and Hu Xianxian took care of the elders, so she couldn't beat her at all.
Cheng Haofeng was really annoyed by their quarrels.
He shouted, "Stop making trouble! Hu Xianxian, you are really not festive like that, and it is also fancy and ugly. “
Hu Xianxian stopped chasing and fighting, and asked him seriously: "What should I do then?" How do we get the attention of our customers? “
Cheng Haofeng's expression was a little sad, and he didn't say how to attract customers, but talked about his seventh junior sister Bai Huifeng.
He said that Bai Huifeng likes to wear white clothes, but he is not like the fourth senior sister, who only wears silver-white clothes, which are so cold that people dare not approach. He said that Bai Huifeng would wear all kinds of white clothes according to the four seasons, which was beautiful and elegant.
In the spring, she wears a jade-white robe, and a light yellow shirt is draped over the robe; In summer, she wears a snow-white gauze skirt embroidered with pale red lotus flowers on the skirt; In autumn, she wore a plain white dress with a red veil on her shoulders; In winter, she wears a pink and white robe, and when she goes out, she puts on a fiery red cloak.
Listening to his narration, Hu Xianxian seemed to really see such a graceful and gentle woman wearing different clothes and makeup, reading scriptures and dancing swords in a fairyland-like place.
It's just that she quickly shook her head and shook off the scenes in her mind, looked at the clothes on her body and said, "It's not as good as you say." But if you want to wear as you say, it's not dirty at all, and I can't wash my clothes, so what kind of business do I have? If you think about how to get customers to come to your door, it's useless to talk about it. “
Cheng Haofeng looked her up and down, and said in a deep voice: "You just cover your face." “
Hu Xianxian was angry, "You also think I am a moldy star?" Afraid to see my face? I walk down the street every day and I don't see them all dead, right? “
He didn't apologize, but said quite seriously: "That's because you are still young, and the older you are, the more unlucky the people around you will be." People like to make a fool of themselves, they think that if you can't see your face, you don't exist. Why don't you obey their hearts? “
She flattened her mouth, "It's uncomfortable to cover your face." Also, don't say I'm going to make the people around me unlucky, if that's the case, I'll make you the first to be unlucky! “
Cheng Haofeng smiled when he heard this, "Didn't you brag that I was a master of tricks in the Heavenly Kingdom?" The women of the Heavenly Kingdom are all veiled, why don't you pretend to be the Heavenly Women to help me perform. “
She suddenly patted her forehead and said, "Why didn't I think of it?" I can pretend to be a heavenly girl, and the performance is so atmospheric. “
She immediately ran upstairs, "Sanhua, I'll go change clothes, you wait for me, let's go to the post house to find the caravan from heaven to buy some clothes." Erfat, you go out with the gong to inform the neighborhood, we will officially start the show again in early September. “
She changed her clothes and went out with Sanhua, Aunt Hu heard her daughter's footsteps far away, and said to Cheng Haofeng: "My daughter is talking nonsense and cursing you for being unlucky, why are you still laughing?" Others are going to scold her. “
Cheng Haofeng smiled bitterly and said: "She didn't curse me, she told the truth, I was really the first to be unlucky." “
Aunt Hu sighed, and I don't know if I understood his words.
Hu Xianxian and Sanhua each held a stack of clothes when they came back, and before going upstairs to change their clothes, Hu Xianxian said to Sanhua: "But be careful to wear them, don't break them, these clothes are four taels of silver." “
Aunt Hu gasped when she heard this, "So expensive? I haven't made any money yet, so I'll use it first. “
Hu Xianxian replied: "There is no way." Waiting for the tailor to do it slowly can save some money, but the time can't catch up. This is the new clothes that the merchant's sister prepared for herself that day, and we have to knock us off if we have to buy it in a hurry. “
Cheng Haofeng stretched out his hand to her, "Give me a little money." “
She ignored him in a hurry to change her clothes, and he said loudly, "Miss Hu, give me a little money." “
She turned her head to look at him in disbelief and said sarcastically, "You asked me for money?" What are you going to buy? Aren't you a god? You can turn stones into gold, right? Will you ask me for money? “
Cheng Haofeng didn't hear her ridicule, and stretched out his hand persistently, "If the business is booming, I don't want you to give the head office, right?" Give me the money, at least thirty taels. “
"Thirty taels of silver?" Hu Xianxian puffed out his eyes.
Aunt Hu's face was so overcast that it was about to rain, "Xianxian, what kind of artist did you invite?" When our mother and daughter are fools? “
Hu Xianxian pondered for a while and really handed him a few small silver ingots, "What do you want to do, go back quickly, but if you lie to me, I will make your life difficult." “
She whispered to Aunt Hu again: "Mother, I'll make a bet, anyway, our mother and son can't get rich with more than these thirty taels of silver, and if we don't have these thirty taels of silver, we won't have nothing to eat." “
When it was almost noon, there was still no customer in Hongbin Building, and Cheng Haofeng had not come back yet. Hu Xianxian looked at the fiery sun, his eyes were red and shining, and his heart was like a sinking ice lake.
Sanhua tore off the veil that covered her breath, "Miss, I think you lost the bet." Thirty taels of silver, you only gave me thirty taels of silver for more than half a year. If I had to run too, I would get thirty taels of silver for these few words, which is too light. “
Da Niu looked at Sanhua who had changed, "You can earn forty taels of silver a year, which is very good." Miss never deducts our wages, so you can be content. I have a few fellow villagers who help people dry salt, and after a year of hard work, I haven't gotten the last penny. “
Sanhua pointed at the big cow and said angrily, "Why do you have such a brain? Am I resentful that Miss Resentment gives me less wages? I'm not worth it for Miss. “
Hu Xianxian pulled the veil and said indifferently, "Er Fat, take the brand." Sanhua, you can go wherever you want. Mother, I'll buy you medicine. “
Aunt Hu's eyes were red and she said, "Xianxian, didn't you pack three pairs of medicines yesterday?" Boil, no need to buy. Don't be angry, you're angry, this Hongbin Building can't hold on. “
"I'm not angry," the corners of her mouth turned up, "Am I still smiling?" Mother, I'll help you upstairs to rest first. “
Sanhua saw that their mother and daughter went upstairs and didn't go out, she was listless lying on the table to watch the big cow, the second fat was collecting things, and the third uncle counted the account books that were only a few pages.
The second fat saw Sanhua lying there lying on his stomach and shouted: "Sanhua, are you upside down?" You're too lazy. “
Sanhua stood up "poof", but she didn't help Erfat move the wooden card, she ran like crazy on the street.
The second fat was about to talk about her, but when he looked in the direction she ran, he also ran wildly, shouting as he ran: Da Niu, go and tell the young lady that the guest has arrived. “
When Hu Xianxian came down from the upper floor, Cheng Haofeng had already walked to the door with this caravan of six horses and more than ten people.
Erfat walked from the back door to the stable, and Sanhua led the Tianfang merchant brothers and sisters to the lobby to drink tea.
Hu Xianxian stood at the door and looked at Cheng Haofeng, who was chuckling, with tears in his eyes, and he waved his hand: "Don't be busy saying words of gratitude, treat them first." I bought their wine, and they said they didn't charge for travel, so they wouldn't move here. “
Her tears retracted from her eyes, and she suppressed her voice and said angrily, "What did you say? Let them eat and drink for nothing and live for nothing? “