Chapter Seventy-Four: The Old Thing

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He Ningxin has never cared very much about clothes and jewelry, and when she heard Xu ask, she called the big girl Fufeng, and pointed at her with a smile and asked Fufeng. She is my housekeeper, and she keeps my clothes and jewelry. ”

Fufeng bowed to Xu on his knees, went into the house and took two sets of newly made coats, which were hung on a large screen with rosewood inlaid with double-sided embroidery on the side of the house, for He Ningxin and Xu to choose.

The two sets of coats are made of ancient satin from Yaozhou.

On the left side of the screen, there is a rose purple pinched waist fox fur jacket, with a dark blue lotus-colored eight-piece Hunan skirt, with a green silk hanging down the skirt, and a dark green jade yin and yang fish jade pendant.

On the right side, there is a set of apple green covered white fox fur right side short shirt, the collar and cuffs are inlaid with snow-white fox fur, and the bottom is a lake green horse face skirt. The horse face in the skirt is embroidered with a few bends of lilac orchids, which is very elegant.

Xu took two shirts and compared them with He Ningxin, and muttered that the roses were purple and the apples were green and delicate. I think you'd better wear an apple green suit. ”

He Ningxin is naturally indispensable, and said with a smile I will listen to my mother. ”

Xu picked out the clothes, and went to the jewelry box to help her pick out the jewelry, and after looking at it for a long time, she didn't like it, and couldn't help but ask, I remember that every time you had a birthday, I gave you a set of heads, where did all those golden hairpins go? ”

He Ningxin leaned over and went to the jewelry box to check it, and her mind quickly recalled where the girl He had gotten all the jewelry. After thinking about it for a long time, He Ningxin had some clues, and couldn't help but glance at Xu and lowered his head.

A lot of jewelry was "honored" to her second aunt by the original Miss He.

Xu looked at He Ningxin's appearance, it was no good thing, sighed, and said Forget it, anyway, you are young, and I have never given you decent jewelry. In the past, it was regarded as a blessing for you. - I'll find some delicate jewelry to give. ”

He Ningxin nodded obediently and got up to send Xu out.

When she walked to the door, Xu stopped her and said that she would come here, and there was no need to go out. It's cold outside, and you don't have a coat on, so you can't stand it. ”

He Ningxin stretched out her hand to help Xu straighten the neck tie of the brown mink Qiu Dayu, and said softly, don't worry, I won't be in the future. ”

Xu patted her face pityingly, no, turned around and went out.

After a while, the eldest girl next to Xu, Huiqiu, held a burden of playing ink jade silk, and curtsy to He Ningxin and said This is for the big girl, let the big girl take it for a long time, and Ming'er will wear it when she goes out. ”

He Ningxin thanked Huiqiu and asked the eldest girl to help Liu to accompany her to have a cup of hot tea before going out.

Another big girl, Fufeng, took the burden and opened it to see that there was a delicate luodian inlaid mahogany jewelry box.

"Good eyes, this set of heads is really with the girl's apple green dress." Fufeng looked at the head in the jewelry box and was very surprised.

I saw a pair of jasper bracelets in the jewelry box, a necklace made of silver and white gold silk and green jade beads, the chain pendant was a chicken egg-sized cloud steaming green jade, with a pair of teardrop-like earrings, the green seemed to reflect the human figure. There is also a green jade step shake, carved into a peacock to open the screen, hanging with a South China Sea pearl as large as lotus seeds. In addition, there is a mutton fat jade long hairpin, the hairpin head is carved into the appearance of a double-petaled lotus, simple and atmospheric, and the green jade head face is matched to see, more color.

He Ningxin had seen a lot of valuable jewelry before, but it was the first time she had seen such a flawless green jade.

"These are all sent by my mother?" He Ningxin looked at these jewelry carefully and was very surprised. The green pendant in it, the back of the chain pendant is engraved with the word "An'er" in the seal body. The whole piece of green is green and crystalline, and the tentacles are warm, which is really not like an ordinary product.

He Ningxin frowned slightly. She hasn't woken up for long, to be honest, her understanding of the He family is still stuck in her understanding of the He family when her predecessor was Pei Shufan. In the memory of the original owner, Miss He, there is no news of her foreign family, the Xu family, at all.

He Ningxin knew that He Siping was from a cold family, and the Xu family was from the Xu family in Dongyang. The Dongyang Xu family is a family, but it is definitely not a noble. β€”β€”This set of green jade heads, at first glance, is not ordinary, it does not look like it was taken out by the Xu family.

"This set of green jade heads is too valuable, I don't dare to wear it. If there's a mistake, it's a big deal. He Ningxin smiled and took the jewelry box and came to the house where Fu Liu Zhāo'dài returned to Qiu.

Hui Qiu just took a sip of hot tea and was eating a snack.

Seeing that the eldest girl was holding the jewelry box herself, Hui Qiu hurriedly got up and saluted, thanked He Ningxin for the tea and snacks, and smiled to comfort her, the eldest girl rest assured, this jewelry slave was brought from the Xu family to marry with her own eyes. is still the mother, that is, the grandmother of the eldest girl, and put it in the makeup by herself. We have a grandmother many generations ago, an imperial aunt and grandmother who died in both parents in the early days. She was adopted by the first generation of Princess Anjun, and when she got married, Princess Anjun personally gave her this neck pendant as a dowry, and left a message to pass on the daughter but not the child, so over the years, it was passed on to her hand. ”

Huiqiu saw He Ningxin's stunned appearance, and smiled again, of course, it will be passed on to the eldest girl. If the eldest girl doesn't like this look, there are a lot of new kinds of jewelry there. The slave is gone, and the big girl will be given another set. "This piece of jewelry has been on the file in the Fan royal family. The founding emperor Fan Hui once said that even if the person who owns this jewelry commits a heinous crime, he can escape death with this jewelry. It is a thing that is more powerful than the Danshu iron coupon, but it is a pity that the daughter is not passed on to the son.

Only then did He Ningxin understand why Dongyang Xu's family had so many treasures that could not be seen on the market, and said with a smile, where are you talking about? - I can't look at such good jewelry, so I have a pair of white eyes. After speaking, He Ningxin stopped entanglement, and handed back the jewelry box to Fufeng, who was standing behind her, and asked her to put it. sat down in Fuliu's house, talked to Hui Qiu with a smile, and between the words, he asked about the situation of Xu Niang's house.

Hui Qiu understood in her heart, and saw that He Ningxin was finally interested in her grandfather's family, and explained the situation of the Xu family to her in detail.

"You say, Xu ...... When my mother got married, the Xu family in Dongyang accompanied two sea salt nests on the southeast coast? "He Ning Xinxu's family background is really not as ordinary as it seems from the outside.

The salt of the Great Qi Dynasty, in addition to the well salt of the Korean land, is mainly the sea salt in the southeast coastal area. Compared with well salt, sea salt produces a large output, but it has more requirements for post-processing. Moreover, the people of the Great Qi Dynasty said that sea salt was more beneficial to the body than well salt. So good sea salt is worth a lot of money. The well-run Haiyan Nest is like a gold mine, making gold every day.

Unlike the previous dynasties, the Great Qi Dynasty firmly believed that "officials do not compete with the people for profit", so the imperial court did not monopolize the monopoly of salt and iron, but handed over raw materials such as salt nests and iron mines to merchants for development and management in the form of issuing business licenses.

Not to mention the iron mine, the people who take care of the iron mine are all collateral relatives of the Fan royal family. Its business license has never been issued to people other than those with the surname Fan. Of course, as a member of the Fan royal family, if you become a businessman, you are not allowed to step into the official career again.

And the salt nest, the people who run it are miscellaneous. It's just that no matter how miscellaneous it is, it also requires people with some means and background to do it.

It is not for nothing that there are people who hold salt nests in their hands and end up bankrupt and loser.

He Ningxin still knew a little bit about Yanwozi in her previous life, but their Pei family was a scholarly family and didn't stretch out their hands so long, so the Pei family didn't get involved in the salt industry.

And Xu, when he married He Siping, He Siping was just a poor talent, and he had no background to help Xu at all.

But even in this situation, Xu still took good care of the salt nest. Now the two largest sea salt shops in the capital are Xu's private property. - Although the officials of the Great Qi Dynasty are not allowed to do business, they still have no one to take care of a few dowry shops, and it is also tacitly understood by the officialdom of the Great Qi Dynasty.

"The Yan Pavilion in the east city and the sea pavilion in the south city are both industries. The interest in the shop is all private property, and it is not included in the official account of Hefu. "I used to put a lot of effort into letting He Ningxin learn more. But in the past, He Ningxin hated the matter of the grain merchants, and only liked to chant the wind and the moon, and was not close to Xu, Xu wanted to teach her, but she couldn't find a chance.

Now it's rare for a girl to be so interested, of course Huiqiu knows everything, and says everything, and says that if she can't say it clearly, she can ask as much as possible.

He Ningxin thanked her with a smile and went back to the house.

The big girl helped the wind one step earlier, lit a charcoal fire, burned the iron red, sat on the warm kang, and ironed the clothes He Ningxin wanted to wear.

He Ningxin nested on the round circle chair next to her, with a wolf skin mattress on her body, watching Fufeng distracted.

After a while, another big girl, Fu Liu, came in from outside, curtsied and said Girl, second girl, I want to tell the girl. "The second girl of the He family is the daughter of the second wife, He Ningyu. He is only sixteen years old this year, and he is very beautiful than He Ningxin.

Since He Ningxin woke up from falling into the water, she has been very worried about the second room of the He family, which is not embarrassed or embarrassed. It's just that in the end, it's a relative of the in-laws, and it's not good to do too much. He Ningxin suppressed the unhappiness in her heart, got up and asked her to wait outside, and I came after changing my clothes. ”

Before the words fell, a maid with a face like a peach blossom and wearing a cyan armor stretched out her hand to lift the curtain of the warm pavilion, stood at the door and curtsied to the people in the warm pavilion and said that she had seen the big girl, Fufeng, and Fuliu. ”

Suddenly, a girl wearing a green jacket with big sleeves and a willow cotton skirt tied underneath, with beautiful eyebrows, walked in with a smile, and said to He Ningxin, who was getting up from the circle chair in the room, what a big shelf - even I have to wait. ”

He Ningxin nodded and said, "This room is narrow, let's go out." "It was He Ningyu, the concubine of the second room, who came in.

"This warm pavilion is bigger than my bedroom, will I be too narrow? - Xiangzhi, you said yes? There are not many words, "Xiangzhi is the handsome maid who opened the curtain just now, and it is also He Ningyu's personal maid." The master was bickering, and the incense branch was not easy to answer, so he had to smile wryly, stand aside, and stand with his hands down.

He Ningxin saw that He Ningyu didn't listen to the greeting at all, and had already walked to the kang table of the warm kang with a big grin, and looked over to see that Fu Feng had ironed the clothes just now.

Seeing that He Ningyu was uninvited, Fufeng and Fuliu both stood up and curtsyed He Ningyu.

He Ningyu found a vacancy, reached out and fished out the clothes, took them in his hands and took a closer look.

", this apple green coat doesn't line you, so give it to me" He Ningyu couldn't put it down when he took the clothes, and gestured to his body.

She's used to doing these things. In the past, He Ningxin had always been at her mercy. - As long as she lets her second wife, Li out......

Of course, He Ningxin is not what it used to be, and she replied that this is what my mother gave me. What the elders give, can it be given to people indiscriminately? - By the way, two, should you return the clothes and jewelry you borrowed from me before? ”

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