Chapter 354: A Chance Encounter
The next day, after the family finished breakfast together, Lin Ruhai took his two sons to the front study. Jia Min asked Hongmei to show her the list of prepared gifts, and wanted to see what else she needed to buy in Yangzhou to take to the capital as gifts.
"Wanny! Do you think we should prepare another set of oil diamond jewelry for the lord of Jiayue! Nowadays, Jiangnan is very fashionable to make jewelry made of oil drills, and it is estimated that few people in the capital have worn it! Jiayue's girl likes these new things the most, and she will definitely like a complete set of oil diamond jewelry if she gives her! ”
Wan Mo sat beside Jia Min and looked at the gift list with her, and then said: "Mrs. can go to the jewelry shop here to have a look, if you can meet a good oil drill, you can bring a set back to Beijing for the lord of Jiayue!" ”
"No matter how good the fire oil drill is, it is not as good as the set that the master gave to his wife! If it can't compare to his wife's set, the lord of Jiayue will designate to make trouble with his wife! Hongmei said with a smile.
On Jia Min's twentieth birthday, Lin Ruhai invited a jewelry craftsman from a Western country to order a complete set of jewelry for Jia Min, using the pink diamond and the bag of oil diamonds obtained from Luzon. The pink diamonds are paired with some oil diamonds made of red gold to form a seven-tailed frontal phoenix hairpin, while others are set in a necklace, a pair of bracelets and a pair of earrings. When wearing such a complete set of jewelry, the whole person looks dazzling. Jia Min likes this set of jewelry very much, not to mention how expensive and gorgeous it is, just with Lin Ruhai's intentions for her, it is enough for Jia Min to regard this set of jewelry as the most precious gift in this life.
Thinking of the set of jewelry that Lin Ruhai gave her, Jia Min's face flushed slightly, and she glanced at Hongmei with disgust and said, "You mother-in-law, after becoming a parent, this mouth is becoming more and more clever!" I'll tell Jiayue what you just said, and see how she cleans you up! ”
"Mrs. feels sorry for the slaves and maids the most, and she will definitely not watch the slaves and maids being bullied! What's more, the county lord of Jiayue is good to his wife, and he is not worse than his own sisters, he loves the house and Wu, the lord of Jiayue is looking at his wife, and he can't bully the slave and maid! ”
Jia Min glared at Hongmei angrily, and said to Wan Mo beside him: "Look, this ability is good!" ”
Wan Mo funnily pressed the corners of his mouth with a handkerchief, and then said: "Hongmei, you are getting more and more bold now, and even the masters dare to ridicule!" ”
"That's it! It is! It's getting worse and worse! Hurry up and help me clean her up! Jia Min nodded, pulling Wan Mo coquettishly.
Jia Min amused all the maids and mothers-in-law in the house, Hongmei took the tray brought by the little maid and served Jia Min a bowl of medicinal food on it.
"Mrs. spare the slave! Eat this medicinal food to quench the fire! Hongmei looked at Jia Min with a smile on her face.
Jia Min snorted lightly, took the soup bowl arrogantly, and ate the medicinal food spoonful by spoonful.
After running out of medicinal food, Jia Min took a short rest, and after refreshing, he took the two sisters Mo Lan and Wei Zi, as well as the two maids Xiaoshu and Xiaohua, and asked Fengjia to order twenty personal soldiers to accompany him, and got into her exclusive carriage to go shopping. Leaving Hongmei to take Xiaoqin and Xiaoqi to clean up the warehouse, Wan Mo was also left by Jia Min to rest in the Wenyuan Marquis's mansion.
Jia Min ordered the coachman to go to Qiushuizhai first, Master Jiang Qianli had passed away the year before last, and now Qiushuizhai is in the hands of Jiang Qianli's eldest son. When Jia Min and the others arrived in Qiushuizhai, because Yangzhou rarely saw such a battle, although Jia Min had reduced the honor guard to the minimum, it still attracted a lot of onlookers. The shopkeeper of Qiushuizhai has seen Jia Min, that year Jia Min went to Suzhou with Lin Ruhai to take office, and he was the shopkeeper here when he came to Qiushuizhai via Yangzhou, but at that time, Jiang Qianli happened to be in the shop, and he personally received Jia Min and Lin Ruhai, and he followed to do a miscellaneous. The shopkeeper heard that the guy in the store had come to report that a noble person had come to the door, so he trotted all the way from the backyard to the gate, and as soon as he walked out of the gate, he saw Jia Min who had just gotten out of the carriage. The shopkeeper was stunned for a moment when he saw Jia Min, and then immediately reacted and took two steps forward and knelt on the ground to salute Jia Min, and the guy who came out with him also knelt behind him to salute Jia Min.
"The villain sees the lady of Huigui County! May the mother be well! ”
"Shopkeeper get up, this is outside, don't be so polite!" Jia Min was helped by Mo Lan and Wei Ziyi, left and right, and walked a few steps closer, looking at the shopkeeper who was kneeling on the ground.
The shopkeeper rose up in response, bent over and lowered his head and didn't dare to look at Jia Min's face, and cautiously made a gesture of invitation to Jia Min: "Your county lord, please come in!" The fact that your county lord can come to the small shop will add a lot of color to our cheap land! ”
"The shopkeeper is too polite! Your Qiushuizhai is the most famous lacquerware shop in the Ming Dynasty, if you can be lucky enough to get one or two pieces of lacquerware made by Master Jiang, it is all a matter of stealing fun! Jia Min said and entered Qiushuizhai under the guidance of the shopkeeper.
In front of the gate of Qiushuizhai was blocked by the onlookers, and in the end, Fengjia drove the onlookers away with his own soldiers, and then let the gate of Qiushuizhai out.
In a group of people, the woman in white and her maid who appeared on the dock yesterday watched Jia Min's personal soldiers disperse the crowd with resentment, and then guarded both sides of the gate of Qiushuizhai.
"What a coincidence! We met the county lord of Huigui at the dock yesterday and arrived in Yangzhou, and today I want to come to Qiushuizhai to buy a birthday gift for Lord Fang, but we met the lord of Huigui again! Girl, do you say that we have a lot of fate with the lord of Huigui? The little maid beside the woman in white said.
The woman in white is the new Oiran of Yangzhou City, named Xianshu. Just because she loves to appear in front of people in white clothes, and she doesn't like to talk, she looks high, so many men in Yangzhou City regard her as the white moonlight in their minds.
This Xianshu is indeed different from other Yangzhou thin horses. She was also the daughter of an official family, her father was a poor student who was admitted to the Jinshi, and she was once the magistrate of a county under the jurisdiction of Yangzhou. It's just that when she was a child, her father suddenly died of a sudden illness, and only she and her widowed mother were left in the family, and the relatives in the countryside not only didn't care about them, but also ruthlessly bought her to Qinglou after they returned to their hometown, and her widowed mother vomited blood and died.
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