Because Liu Yun was a hero who stepped forward and beat away the hooligans who teased Miss Chen, the Chen family was very grateful and specially sent a generous gift. On the one hand, it is natural to express gratitude; On the other hand, it also euphemistically expressed the hope that they would not make a public announcement about the matter. After all, Miss Chen San is about to get married, and if there are any unpleasant rumors at this juncture, the impact will not be good.

The two naturally agreed.

Miss Chen San was terrified at home for more than ten days, and it was not until her family repeatedly assured her that no one saw her on the street, let alone gossip, that she really let go. After that, he was even more grateful to Pei Baoer and Liu Yun, which is enough to prove that they are not people who chew the root of their tongues. She also told her mother in every possible way that when she got married, she must invite Pei Niangzi to come over and comb her hair, and she must give a thick red envelope. Chen's mother was so annoyed by her that she could only agree.

Everyone thought that when the rain passed and the sky was clear, Liu Yun was in trouble.

On this day, he went to work in the cloth village as usual, but he felt that someone was sneaking after him, and he turned back but found no one.

After noon, he had forgotten what happened in the morning, and was playing with the abacus in front of the ledger, when he suddenly heard a familiar voice, which was strange and annoying.

Liu Yun looked up and saw that it was the thin man who was molesting Miss Chen San that day. He didn't come alone, but next to a young man in an indigo silk shirt. The man's facial features are quite good, but his eyes are a little weird, with a little evil spirit, which makes Liu Yun feel very bad.

The thin man pointed at Liu Yun, then turned his head and nodded to the man in blue and said, "Fourth master, it's this rabbit cub!" That day, he almost kicked my life, hey, hey, I told him that you are my godbrother, let him not be too proud, he also scolded me for farting, and said which onion are you......"

This intention of sowing discord is so strong that even a fool can smell it, and Liu Yun frowned when he heard it.

Judging from the clothes, this so-called fourth master seems to be a little difficult to mess with, and I don't know how that ruffian hooked up. Running here today, is it to make trouble in the shop?

The guy in the shop greeted him nervously, "The two guest officers came to the shop, but what do you want to buy?" But he was waved back by the two.

The man in blue glanced at the coarse cloth on the cabinet with disdain, and said disdainfully: "This kind of coarse cloth is not available, cough, I came here today to ask for an explanation for my brother." ”

The shopkeeper was a coward, and when he saw that the two of them were here to trouble Liu Yun, he shrank aside and kept silent, and gave the guy a look to let him step down.

Liu Yun was helpless, so he had to meet the two unkind eyes of the person who came up without humility or arrogance.

The eyes of the man in blue drifted to Liu Yun's face, and he circled around his delicate face, smooth neck, and plain white hands, and then eased his complexion, his eyes were like flies touching honey, sticking to Liu Yun to death. The whole person came up and laughed like a wolf seeing a sheep.

"This Lang Jun is so good-looking. What's your name......

At this time, Pei Bao'er was also being asked for her name, and the question was still a middle-aged Taoist with messy hair, a scruffy beard, and an inexplicable smell all over her body, who was the drunkard Taoist who had a two-sided relationship a few days ago.

"Dare to ask the lady's name? Where is home? ”

She was a little puzzled, looked around and made sure that there was no one next to her, and then she realized that the other party was asking herself.

"Uh, do we know each other?"

Pei Baoer thought of a possibility in her heart, stiffened, and looked at this person carefully, very disgusted. It can't be that the husband of the original owner is such a person, right? Maybe this man is a Taoist priest who lost his wife?

But the Taoist priest said, "Poor Dao looks at your strange face, you should be a person of great creation, but now you have fallen to such a state...... Hmm, your life is quite weird, with abnormal twists and turns, I wonder if you can let Poor Dao take a look at palmistry? ”

Pei Bao'er saw that this person didn't know herself, and her heart was relieved at first, and when she heard what he said, she was a little vigilant.

"I don't believe this, you better find someone else."

She left in a hurry, but she was even more annoyed when she heard the man still talking behind her back, "There will be a disaster coming to the door in the near future". Although I know in my heart that most of it is a deceptive routine, I still feel uncomfortable hearing it.

Pei Baoer's recent days have actually been quite smooth.

With Dani helping to take Xiao Yan'er, it greatly liberated her and Liu Yun, not to mention that Dani can also share some housework, and she doesn't have to rush home to boil water and cook rice after work every day.

Liberated from daily chores, Pei Baoer has more time to tinker with her cosmetics, and recently concocted a new color of rouge, which is orange. Lipstick and lipstick have also been formed, but unfortunately there is no suitable mold to make the shell, and the function of rotation cannot be realized, so it can only be fixed into a thin bamboo tube with a straight paste, which looks very strange, and she is still wondering whether to find a craftsman to help create a batch of molds.

In addition, thanks to the help of her former or current customers, some of the products hoarded in her small workshop have also been sold, and a lot of funds have been returned, and now the piggy bank at home has saved more than three taels of silver.

Pei Baoer is used to wearing no makeup when she goes to Hefu now, but she didn't expect everyone to be even more impressed by her, mainly because she was surprised that she could cover the marks on her face so well. She took the opportunity to sell a few boxes of great concealer to these adolescent girls who were prone to acne and complained that their marks were fading too slowly.

Another Su lady is a competitive person who wants to do her best in everything. In addition to being filial to his in-laws and taking care of housework, he thought about how to win the heart of a good husband. When she lifted her hijab on the wedding night, she was amazed, and the tenderness and amazement in her husband's eyes were a little less the next day. Therefore, she inquired about Pei Baoer's work, and took advantage of the effort to choose the cloth to ask Pei Baoer for her "family heirloom makeup secrets", and expressed a strong desire to buy the dark powder paste that she didn't know the name of.

Pei Bao'er sold her shadow cream and eye shadow from Shanruliu, and when she saw that Amway didn't move her to buy foundation for the time being, she put aside this idea for the time being, and after pretending to be a little embarrassed, she taught her a few simple shadow skills.

The other is the Chen family. The day after Xiaoding, Miss Chen asked her family to buy what kind of eyeshadow from Pei Baoer, as well as the kind of powder in a small box. Miss Chen San is not a fool, she knew that she could be deceived for a while by Pei Baoer's skillful makeup, but she couldn't be deceived for a lifetime, so she decided to practice in the house every day, and vowed to learn to draw her eyebrows and eyes by herself, and she was not afraid to marry into her husband's family when the time came. After getting along for a long time, her dignified and stable image has been established, and she has given birth to a big fat son to stabilize her position, and it is not too late to slowly find an opportunity to show her true face. Coupled with the publicity of the strong woman who sent Pei Baoer home, Pei Baoer is quite famous in the neighborhood near Chen's house, and some women specially came to Osmanthus Lane to buy it.

She put the mad priest's words behind her and turned to think about the location of the shop.

According to her assumption, her shop should at least be at the level of Wang Ji Silk Village, and it cannot be like Duan Ji Cloth Village, which specializes in selling large-scale goods. In the Taiping era, women's money was the best to earn, and among them, the wives and ladies of large families such as eunuchs and wealthy merchants were the most. As long as it's useful, special enough, and cool enough, not to mention a box of a few dollars of silver, it's a few taels, dozens of taels, hundreds of taels, they are willing to buy it! But work on the packaging.

If you can save enough money, it would be good to leave Taixing County and open a shop elsewhere.

Pei Baoer entered her own courtyard while making a small calculation, but found that Liu Yun was already at home. He was playing a game of writing and drawing villains on the ground with Xiao Yan'er, while Dani was washing vegetables next to him.

She was a little curious, "Why are you so early today?" Because Liu Yun has an average talent in numbers, even Pei Baoer thinks that he is not as good as himself after nine years of compulsory education, so he often takes stock and leaves relatively late. Today it is rare.

Liu Yun told her with a humble face that he was opened by the shopkeeper.

"It's only a month today, so I'll calculate a whole month's salary, so that I don't have to go tomorrow."

Pei Bao'er frowned: "What's the matter?" ”

Liu Yun was very reluctant to pick up the important part of today's encounter and tell her, "That's probably it, what is that man's name Hao Er, he recognized the fourth master of the Lin family as his godbrother, and pulled him over to trouble me." ”

He covered up that Fourth Master Lin seemed to be a good man, didn't mention anything about him with some weird thoughts, and finally said a good word for Duan Ji's shopkeeper.

He was also forced to be helpless, the Lin family is a big family in the county, and I heard that Cao Yun was also involved. The shops in the city want to transport goods from the south to the north, which one must not rely on their relationship? Naturally, they don't want to offend this landlord snake casually, and they won't be able to get the goods when the time comes, and they won't be able to do business. ”

Pei Baoer is very indignant, this feudal society with no human rights and no labor law casually fires people, or for this reason!

After thinking about it, she suddenly felt that something was wrong.

"Since the Lin family can participate in Caoyun, why is it nested in our small county? I remember, it seems that this place is only a few days' drive from the capital? ”

Pei Baoer's idea is very simple, why did the Lin family go to such a poor country to "live in seclusion" if they didn't expand their contacts and open up their financial channels at the feet of the Son of Heaven? If the capital here is compared to the imperial capital, then Taixing County is about the mountains of Tongzhou. Can you imagine that a certain business giant likes to stay in the ravines and ravines if he doesn't stay in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou? There is no Wi-Fi here yet! The answer is, no.

"Is it possible that they are just bluffing and have no ability to control Cao Yun at all?"

Liu Yun knew something inside: "His family does have a relationship with the Cao Gang, he was a powerful slave of a wealthy family in the capital, but he seemed to have committed something and was kicked out, Taixing County is their ancestral land, so he went back here." ”

Pei Baoer sighed helplessly, and suddenly realized how terrible the hierarchy of this era was.

For ordinary people like them and the Duan family, the Lin family is already at the level of a big man who can't afford to offend. But the Lin family was still called in front of the original owner of the wealthy family, and when they made a mistake, they were forced to roll up the burden and get out. And the so-called wealthy family, in front of the nobles and even the emperor who are more advanced than them, life and death, honor and disgrace are just a matter of fluttering words.

She barely bothered to complain and think about these ethereal things, but focused on solving the problem at hand first.

"So what are you going to do? Check out the other shops? Or do you want to go back to your old business? ”

Liu Yun scratched his head, and only then did he reveal a little bit of the youth's youthfulness.

"I haven't thought about it yet, let's go to the street and inquire first......"

The next day, Liu Yun hesitated for a while, but did not go out empty-handed, but took out a few picture scrolls from the bookshelf, spread them out and looked at the meeting, and then carefully rolled them up again, hugged them in his arms and walked out the door. He turned onto the main street and walked into a painting shop.

When he first moved to Taixing County, he had not yet found a job as a bookkeeper in Buzhuang, so he came here a few times to try his luck. The guys here are all money-eyed, and they don't like to see a poor ghost like him who comes to sell his paintings. But the boss is a lover of painting, but he doesn't come often, and he has met him once, only that time he successfully sold two paintings.

Therefore, today Liu Yun wanted to try his luck and see if he could meet the boss who loved painting again.

I don't know if it's too unlucky these days, he prayed for a long time along the way, but he still couldn't make his dream come true, and he was sneered at by the young man as soon as he entered.

Liu Yun is a painting idiot, if he was born in a big family, he must be a rich idler who sleeps with the relics of famous families and refuses to let go. But he was born poor, had a bad fate, had no long things, and could only draw a few strokes by himself on weekdays, using the cheapest paper, not to mention collecting some famous works.

He has a good temper, and he can usually respond to the scolding of the shopkeeper with a friendly face, and he should do everything to Pei Bao'er, Yan'er and others. But, if someone says that his painting is not good, he will be angry.

Liu Yun was so angry that his round face was bulging, like a bun, he wanted to reason with that young man, but he couldn't think of any scolding words, so he could only scold the other party angrily, "I don't know what it is!" Rats' eyes! Then he hummed and left.

As a result, as soon as one foot stepped out of the threshold, he saw the man who caused him to lose his job yesterday.

It's really a narrow road!