Chapter 132: Gambling

Mo Li was a little surprised and raised his eyes to look at Yuan Yangyu: "So, is Master Yuan planning to take over that Yuan Muniang's battle post?" ”

"Five years ago, she thought she had succeeded in her studies and designed to humiliate me, and then she went out of me to set up her own door. And in the past five years, she has secretly opposed me again and again, and now she dares to give me a war post, how can I not accept it. Yuan Yangyu sneered, put down the flower scissors in his hand, and then picked out a silver filament, carefully gathered into the shape of a flower, "I called you over today to inform you that this time the flower banquet will be preceded by the word 'bucket', and the time will be postponed for a few days, and the guests at the banquet will be twice as many as I told you before, so you don't have to ...... the cost of this banquet."

"Master Yuan doesn't have to be polite to me." Mo Li hurriedly stood up, "Let's be honest with Master Yuan, if I can see a wonderful flower fight and get to know so many powerful people, it will be a great advantage for me, so I hope Master Yuan will not be polite to me on this silver." ”

"You're worried that I won't be able to use the 'Eighteen Scholars' in your store." Yuan Yangyu sneered, then walked over and patted Mo Li lightly on the shoulder, "The 'Eighteen Scholars' is the flower of the competition I selected, you are a very caring little girl, and I probably understand what you really ask for." I know your difficulties, so there are some things that you confess frankly in front of me, I won't dislike it, and the person I hate most in my life is the person who hides the traitor in my heart."

Mo Li pinched a cold sweat in his heart, and secretly said that he was fortunate that he didn't blindly flatter and flatter before, otherwise it would be really self-defeating now.

"There are three fights, one fight, that is, Yuan Muniang and I are faster and more skillful than whose hands are faster; A bucket flower type, that is, to take out the flowers of their own fighting, by whom is more realistic; The third is to fight with the raw materials, that is, your 'eighteen soldiers' and the materials she will use. ”

"I can still understand this fighting technique and fighting flower type, but what kind of fighting method is the raw material? Isn't it more expensive than anyone's material? "No mistakes, no skipping words.

"No, it's more difficult than anyone." Yuan Yangyu glanced at Mo Li, then walked over to the fabric resting on the eighteen scholars, and continued, "When ** asked Lord Xie to intercede, I didn't want to deal with you. It's not that I'm high, but interlaced like a mountain, you think my craftsmanship is ingenious, but you don't know that fake and real flowers have never been made with finished materials. What this means is that if you want to make a flower that is fake, it is best for the florist to choose the blank by himself, dye it himself, and even find a variety of fibers by himself and weave the right density by hand, so that it is more convenient to make the real with the fake. And this finished product is completely devoid of these conveniences, so the difficulty can be imagined. ”

Mo Li was stunned, and after Yuan Yangyu finished speaking, he smiled: "It's just that I think about it again, and it's okay for me to give it a try." ”

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After coming out of Baihuayuan, Mo Li let out a long sigh, Han Sidao really made a good move this time, he could actually think of taking advantage of the grievances between Yuan Yangyu and Yuan Duniang to turn the flower banquet that belonged to the "Eighteen Famous Scholars" into a flower fighting banquet. Mo Li leaned on the carriage and pondered for a while, and then snorted lightly with a smile, as long as the word "fight" is added to everything, then whoever loses and who wins, until the real result comes out, no one dares to say absolutely.

And since this flower fighting banquet was proposed by the other party, even if Yuan Yangyu is confident, there are not many variables hidden here.

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Two days later, before Yuan Yangyu's invitation was sent out, the fact that Baihuayuan would hold a flower fighting banquet on November 15 was like growing wings and flew all over Yongzhou City. This is naturally the result of Han Sidao's secret operation, first, he was worried that Yuan Yangyu would not accept Yuan Duniang's battle post, so he spread the news first, and then Yuan Yangyu had a great reason, so he had to take over this battle; The second is to hope that it would be more in line with him if he forced Mo Li not to participate in this matter, so that in the end, this matter would become his stage alone because of Mo Li's prompt.

"The owner, do you really want to participate in this flower fighting banquet? Otherwise, find an excuse to quit, let's not get into this troubled water. Jia Hei naturally knew at this time that if Yuan Yangyu was going to lose, then they would not just lose money for nothing, I was afraid that Han Sidao would take the opportunity to discredit the eighteen scholars. At that time, if he had said a sentence: If it weren't for the eighteen soldiers, Yuan Yangyu would not have lost. Hey, then Yunshang Pavilion can bear it, and the loss of Master Yuan will all depend on Yunshang Pavilion, not to mention the second master of the Shixing workshop, I am afraid that the two will have to make a feud because of this

"Why?" Mo Li had already obtained the list of guests who would be invited to the Douhua Banquet from Yuan Yangyu, and at this time she was calculating how much silver she would probably put in advance for this. And now, every time she makes a stroke, her heart hurts, but when she sees the identity background of one by one on the list, she feels that this stroke is worth it. If it weren't for this flower banquet, how could she have such a big face to invite so many nobles, and because of the word "fight", this flower banquet is no longer a small banquet for women to exchange feelings, and nearly half of the guest list sent by Yuan Yangyu are male guests.

However, this rough calculation shows that she will spend at least two thousand taels of silver on this flower banquet, and when she finally put down the pen, Mo Li still sighed softly in her heart. The business in the store has not really gained a foothold, she spends so much money, it is false to say that she does not play the drum at all, but if she wants to make a name for herself in a short period of time and win over a huge network of power and connections, she has to do it. Han Sidao is not easy to deal with, and her own family is not easy to deal with, not to mention the accidental death of her grandfather's father back then, there is still a fog in her heart, what she wants to do is not a simple business, but a real hard fight.

After Mo Li put down the pen, he frowned slightly, and his right hand crackled on the abacus for a while.

The more than 4,000 taels that I earned from the Yongzhou Weaving and Dyeing Bureau before spent 2,000 taels on the purchase of goods in the south, and then Mo Liujin's funeral also cost nearly 2,000 taels. Then during this period of time, due to the various dots of the opening, as well as the subsidies at home, etc., the more than 4,000 almost bottomed out. If it weren't for the fact that some time ago, she took advantage of Aunt Xue's matter to blackmail 8,000 taels of horses from Wang Dahu and started the transaction, otherwise the whole family would have been in and out in the past six months.

Fortunately, a few days ago, she really negotiated a deal of more than 7,000 pieces of silk for Master Mo Er at the winter banquet, and she also got the difference of more than 6,000 taels two days ago. Now excluding the cost of the flower banquet of 2,000 taels, there are nearly 5,000 taels of silver in her hand, 5,000 taels......

"The owner's? The proprietor's? After Jia Hei crackled, he saw that Mo Li didn't pay attention to him, so he took a closer look and found that this aunt was actually distracted, so he walked over and stretched out her hand and shook it in front of her. The red bean on the side took a step forward and kicked him, and said angrily: "What are you going to do?"

"Ouch, you can also get off your feet" Jia Hei exaggeratedly hugged his calf and rubbed it several times, until Mo Li raised his eyes to look at him, he stood up and said, "You have come back to your senses, how about it, have you calculated this account?" Do we really want to be involved in this? The owner, if there is a case here, everything we have worked hard for this time will be in vain."

Mo Li smiled slightly: "If you don't take risks, how can you make a big profit, is it possible that Shopkeeper Jia is cowardly?" ”

Jia Hei was stunned for a moment, and then immediately wiped his face and said: "Hey, what am I afraid of, it's not spending my money, I'm not thinking about you, and my brother." Let's put it this way, if you are not happy, can my brother be happy? And if my brother is going to be happy, I will also think about it, and this red bean, you see from the owner, what she sees is going to become a black bean again."

"You, you, you, what nonsense are you talking about" Red Bean's face really turned black all of a sudden.

"Alright, you two don't bicker." Mo Li glanced at Jia Hei, deliberately ignored his previous hints, and then said, "Okay, then you go and prepare, after you go to the account and send the silver to Baihuayuan, and then go to the second master Mo to tell me that I want to act as an agent for eighteen people and participate in shares, let him write the deed, and I will go over to press the handprint in the afternoon." ”

"Does the owner think that Second Master Mo will really agree?"

"Of course." Mo Li stood up as he spoke, "Didn't you just say it quite clearly, to put it bluntly, it was for his Shixing Workshop, if he didn't agree to let me help, it would be a matter of time before the Shixing Workshop fell." The second master Mo is not as good as the third master of Mo to buy **, and his son Mo Yuan also followed him, only with long craftsmanship and not long eyes. And although Mo Bao, the son of Master Mo San, is useless, the Han steward next to him is a top ten master, and there is also Master Mo's side. After all, the stakes are here, Second Master Mo knows better than me in his heart, my second cousin is actually a person who understands, but his temperament is a bit axial, and sometimes he can't turn around, so you can talk to him well. ”

Jia Hei listened to Mo Li's call, and immediately said in his heart: Yes, I can't compare to you compared to my mouth.

"It's okay to say that the agent is just that the owner wants to participate in the shares immediately, isn't it faster?"

"The timing is just right." Mo Li said softly, and then asked Jia Hei to come forward, "If this matter is successful, my participation in the shares will also be equivalent to finding a big backer for him, why can Master Mo San and Master Mo force him step by step to such a point?" It is because for a long time, Second Master Mo has been on the side of power and has no real backer. In the past, when the three brothers did not break up, those personal contacts were basically communicated by the other two. Mo Li said, and wrote a thank you word on the table, "Didn't you also quietly inquire some time ago, this adult sent directly from Beijing is not obvious now, but what he really relies on is not the Xie family, what does this mean, Second Master Mo will understand." ”

Jia Hei was silent for a while, and then said, "How does the owner plan to win over ......?"

Jia Hei really didn't know how far Xie Gexian's special care for Mo Li went, but Mo Li's attitude made her feel that there didn't seem to be any ambiguous relationship between the two.

"Since Steward Han wants to make things bigger, then I will accompany him to the end." Mo Li stood up and opened his mouth to say, "Let's find someone to help open the bet, set up a gambling game, let everyone really participate, bet on winning or losing"

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