Chapter 135: A Different Way (2)
Peony got rid of his lowly status, and the Zhou family knew what a shocking thing his son had done, and Master Zhou was angry and drove Zhou Chengkun out of the house. This is not fake, the Zhou family opened an ancestral hall and removed Zhou Chengkun from the family tree, but now, Zhou Chengkun and Danniang rented a small courtyard outside to live.
Danniang washed all the lead, even if she was dressed in cloth, she did not hesitate to do things, and now she is still doing things for Wen Jin, one or two silver a month, if she doesn't squander it, they can live a life of eating fine rice noodles and wearing silk and satin, useless is a scholar, Zhou Chengkun is idle at home every day, waiting for the lady to come back, and accompany him to sing poetry and harmony. He was originally a playboy, and he didn't have the temperament of a normal reader, and he didn't feel that he was eating soft rice, and his life was quite leisurely.
Zhou Danniang saw that the man had lost a prosperous life for himself, but she didn't complain a word, and her heart for Zhou Chengkun was even stronger, and the two raised their eyebrows and lived happily.
Wen Jin sent the pianist over, and then said goodbye and left, Zhou Chengkun rarely had a pianist at home, and he couldn't wait to ask Danniang to sing a song for him. After all, a cappella is not as good as music.
"There's still serious business, wait for us to complete Mr. Qian's task, and then have fun."
"Okay." Zhou Chengkun nodded regretfully in agreement.
Danniang took out the paper given by Wen Jin, on which was written the benefits of kiwifruit to the human body, as well as the wonderful taste, Zhou Chengkun thought about it, revised it until midnight, and finally made it.
The next day, Danniang showed it to Wen Jin, but was vetoed. "This is too literary, I can't understand it at all, I want the kind of catchy that you can understand as soon as you hear it, otherwise, who knows what you're singing?"
Danniang thought about it, and she was right, so she went back to discuss it with the man.
In the following days, the Bailan girl came as promised, and Meilanfang sent another pianist to accompany her, this is also a young girl, it is said that she was also trained by the bustard before, but she didn't expect to pour her voice and couldn't sing, so she had to change to a violinist.
Wen Jin taught Bailan sentence by sentence, and occasionally instructed a few sentences, although there was only ** sub-image, and she couldn't sing Teresa Teng's grasp of poetry feelings, but it was already very moving.
Wen Jin could see that not only Bai Lan, but even the pianist was excited. After practicing for two days, the bustard hurriedly came, and a housekeeper in the house of the pomegranate flower trading house was willing to listen to Bailan sing a song, promising that if it was really as good as the bustard said, he would recommend it to the master.
The old bustard took Bai Lan for a trip, and when he sent it back, he almost dropped his jaw with laughter: "It's okay, there's already a post over there, saying that I would give a reward of twelve taels, Mr. Qian, didn't you say that there are still two songs?" ”
"Hmm!"
Wen Jin taught Bai Lan another song "Water Tune Song Head".
Wen Jin chose these two lyrics because he knows who made the lyrics, Teresa Teng's other songs are too vernacular, and in this time and space, they obviously can't be graded.
In the evening of this day, Danniang came over with the lyrics, Wen Jin looked at it and was overjoyed, this time, not only did it be popular, but also playful and catchy, and the song was a match made in heaven.
"Danniang, can you help me rehearse the dance? This song is best for several girls to be together, holding a plate of kiwifruit, everyone singing and dancing, and finally, just make the action of offering peaches. ”
Danniang thought for a while: "Good idea, since it is a birthday celebration, it is indispensable to offer longevity peaches, this song, maybe everyone who does birthday will sing it in the future." “
"Of course, my kiwi won't sell. Hehe, 'the peach in the sky descends to the earth', who doesn't want to taste it. ”
Danniang covered her mouth and chuckled, she and Zhou Chengkun were so good that they were so good that they heard Wen Jin praise the man's lyrics for being beautifully written, and she was also honored.
Wen Jin's preparation time was particularly tight, and Danniang went all out to rehearse the new show for Meilanfang in the next three days, until those little girls practiced until their legs were swollen before they barely passed.
The shopkeeper of the pomegranate flower trading house, acting in a low-key manner, did not invite a few guests, the reason why he called the musician was just that his mother liked to listen to music, and he had to meet the old man's wish.
Wen Jin sat in an ox cart, stopped at the end of the alley, watched the group of people from Meilanfang go in, waited for an hour, and didn't see anyone come out, she almost wanted to break in to see what was going on.
"Don't worry, Childe, that song is so good, maybe the old lady wants to sing it a few more times."
"Oh!" Wen Jin barely endured it, she didn't even have a pomegranate to calm down.
It's no wonder that Wen Jin is in a hurry, this year's fruits have been on the market in large quantities, and she has to make thousands of catties of jam now, and she has no chance to find other ways.
Success or failure is in this move, desperate, Wen Jin came up with such words in her head, and in the end, she even thought of a word - "dog jumping off the wall", she couldn't help laughing, if her trick was successful, shouldn't Shen Millions of dogs jump off the wall.
Waiting is the most anxious, Wen Jin's brain ran away, time flew by, the people of Meilanfang finally came out, Wen Jin only saw that the old bustard's walking posture was about to twist Yangge, and he understood that the plan was a great success.
It's because of the success of people's performances, and she doesn't know how her ads are doing.
It was easy for the others to walk to the intersection, and the pomegranate came out of the ox cart: "Mother Chu, the kiwi fruit has been offered?" ”
The old bustard's brain was still dizzy, and he was stunned for a long time before he smiled and said: "Oh, it's the pomegranate girl, and the kiwi fruit has been offered, and some people praised it on the spot, saying that it is not a fairy fruit that is less in the sky and less in the earth." ”
Seeing someone on the road looking this way, Pomegranate quickly retracted his head: "When we inquire clearly, it is indeed as you said, and the deposit will be returned." ”
"Thank you, Pomegranate Girl!" Today, in addition to getting the twelve taels of silver that was said, the guests who listened to the music also gave a lot of rewards, Bai Lan sang seven or eight times in a row, and her voice couldn't stand it, so she stopped, and she now has thirty taels of silver in her purse, thinking that those guests are wealthy, one or two two, or even five taels of silver are thrown over so without hesitation, she is excited and just wants to shout.
The pomegranate bustard had a loud voice, and his face was red with anger, and his heart said that if you don't speak, no one will treat you as a mute.
Ordinary people call her Pomegranate Girl, and there is absolutely no ambiguity in listening, but when the bustard calls her like this, doesn't she become that kind of woman, this stinky woman, why is she so inattentive when she speaks.
"Let's go!" Wen Jin gave an order to Shi Qiwang, who was driving the car.
In the afternoon of the next day, Sun Yanping came panting: "Childe, childe, the pomegranate flower firm asked us, do you want to distribute some fruits to them?" ”
"How much do they want?"
"Someone said, let's give as much as we want, let's give a thousand catties a day for the time being."
Pomegranate clapped her hands happily: "Oh my God, it's finally sold." ”
The capacity of the pomegranate flower firm is still large, and after two days, the sales volume has become 15,000 a day.
Since the kiwi fruit was ripe, Wen Jin let people go back and forth every day, and when they arrived in Minghu City, they were ripe before they had time to sell, so they peeled the skin to make jam, and now, she finally stopped worrying about being anxious and unable to sleep at night.
Pomegranate began to distribute kiwifruit, Shen Million knew for the first time, he was also present at the birthday banquet that day, those women dressed as fairies, one of them carried a tea tray covered with red silk, walked up with singing and dancing, and sang "Kiwi, fairy fruit,...... When the heavenly immortals came down to earth to carry the sedan chair for the birthday star, his head buzzed, knowing that this time, he was defeated by Qian Wenjin's men again.
This dead child, why do you have so many tricks, and even a ninth-rate singer can use it as a pawn to fight against him?
Even if the shopkeeper of the pomegranate flower trading house is not publicized, and the old mother celebrates her birthday, there are still four tables, three tables for men and one table for women, in addition to their sisters, there are also the wives of the shopkeepers of several large commercial houses in Minghu City.
The words of the two songs, they have long been familiar with them, but as soon as the tune changed, it turned out to be so beautiful and touching, they were not people who lacked money, and a dozen taels of silver were not taken seriously.
Honghuafang found that Meilanfang's business suddenly boomed, and quickly inquired, only to know that someone taught them to sing two new tunes, so that they could hear it, and now, the rich and noble families in Manminghu City couldn't help but want to feast their ears.
The old bustard of Honghuafang, with a little trick, let Hongjiao learn the two tunes, but unfortunately the taste of Hongjiao's singing is too different from Bailan, and it also costs money, people naturally have to listen to it, and Honghuafang's business has plummeted.
It's not that Hongjiao has a bad voice, just imagine, sing Teresa Teng's songs by singing folk songs, or the kind of rigid and dogmatic singing, instead of carefully understanding the meaning of the song, and can't reflect its connotation and feelings, how can it be good?
The old bustard of Meilanfang found that not only those two songs were popular, but also praised the kiwi song and dance program, which was also very popular, the business here was good, Wen Jin's kiwi fruit sold quickly, and for a while, there was almost no need for the pomegranate buddy to recommend, and someone named to buy kiwi.
When sales were at their peak, Wenjin Orchard was sold short, and people had to wait to eat kiwi sauce in winter.
Wen Jin didn't take the opportunity to launch kiwi sauce, just to press it, and when there was no fruit in winter, it would sell at a high price.
The pomegranate firm was very good at making money, and in the end it tripled the price, more than Wen Jin expected.
Wen Jin gave Danniang twenty taels of silver as a reward, but was sent back: "Zhou Lang asked, does the son have any good tunes?" ”
Wen Jin was reluctant to teach people sentence by sentence, so she asked Danniang to take the piano over and let her learn to recognize the simple score, and then she copied "Tales of a Small Town" and "Sweet Honey" in the past.
However, Wen Jin is not free, she knows that Danniang has no money, but Zhou Chengkun can turn this into money, he rewrote the lyrics of the song and sold it to the largest flower building in Minghu City, a song of thirty taels of silver. This person is very interesting, give Wen Jin twenty taels, and take ten taels himself.
After that, Wen Jin stopped and said that she would never do anything else, but Zhou Chengkun suddenly realized that he had written a few tunes, which were quite beautiful and sold at a high price.
Hmph, men don't dare to have money, the first thing Zhou Chengkun did after he achieved something was to lock Danniang at home and not allow her to show her face.
Danniang was unwilling: "When Mr. Qian was down, he reached out to help a lot, I can't cross the river and tear down the bridge, so that she is sad." ”
Zhou Chengkun is not so resolute, just talk about it, who thought that after two days, he suddenly followed Danniang suspiciously, and was soon discovered.
"Lang Jun, what do you mean by this?"
"Danniang, Qian Gongzi is young, handsome, and versatile, you can't fall in love with her, right?"
"You fool, how could I fall in love with a girl-sissy?" Danniang said to Wen Jin in her heart, I'm sorry, you do have some sissy, I can see it.
Zhou Chengkun saw Danniang "belittle" Wen Jin so much, so he was relieved.
Danniang is a very economically minded woman, the man earns money, and spends it indiscriminately, and buys clothes, and eats and drinks, she hurriedly stopped it, coaxed Zhou Chengkun to hand over the money to her to take care of, and later, Zhou Danniang bought a small courtyard with an upper room and a row of side rooms in the inner city, and also bought a rough mother-in-law, and lived a good life.
Wen Jin is also having a very comfortable time these days, the kiwi fruit was sold for 15,000 catties, and he got more than 4,000 taels of silver, as well as 2,000 catties of kiwi sauce, which will also be a big income.
When the weather was cold, Wen Jin handed over the kiwi sauce to the pomegranate flower firm for sale, and at the same time, gave the pomegranate flower shopkeeper a gift.
The business of pomegranate flowers is big, there are no less than a dozen merchants like Wen Jin, and the shopkeeper didn't care about this gift, just glanced at it casually, and was ready to let the entourage put it away.
A delicate cigarette pouch bag, so that the old shopkeeper couldn't help but pick it up and look at it carefully.
Isn't this the same material as Liao Sangongzi's belt? Even the pattern is exactly the same.
Since Liao Sangongzi was dressed in a soap-colored brocade robe, with dark purple and a gold chain belt, the shops selling clothing and accessories in the city were crazy, and they asked here, hoping to buy the goods, but unfortunately, the pomegranate flower dug three feet into the ground, and I didn't find where to buy the belt.
There is nowhere to find the iron shoes, and it takes no effort to get it, the shopkeeper Fan smiled, and instructed the housekeeper behind him: "Let Keqin take my post, go to the Qian Gongzi who sells kiwifruit, and ask her to bring some belt samples, and come to our house tomorrow." ”
Keqin is the housekeeper's eldest son, and now he is the shopkeeper of Fan Da's shopkeeper, when he heard that the master wanted to reuse his son, he couldn't help but be overjoyed, and hurriedly bowed and saluted: "Yes!" The minion will go and pass the word. ”
As soon as Steward Zhou went out, the personal chief came in again to report: "Liao Sangongzi's little servant is here again." ”
"Please!"
Chang Sui was a little stunned, Liao Sangongzi liked the purple and gold belt very much, but unfortunately the azure caftan he liked did not match the dark purple, and he wanted to buy a lighter color belt, but unfortunately, his purple gold belt was originally a gift, and it was not good to ask the Lu family to inquire, so he could only hope for the pomegranate firm, he had let people come three times, and the big shopkeeper had not found a suitable next home, this answer was so simple, is it ......
The master's mind is not something he can guess, so he agreed and hurriedly went out to spread the word.
The shopkeeper of Fan Da really didn't guess wrong, and Wen Jin came to Fan's Mansion the next day with more than a dozen high-quality belts that she thought.
The shopkeeper Fan saw that it was all gold and silver, and he was a little regretful, and he asked Wen Jin: "Why are there no jade accessories?" ”
"This-" Wen Jin pondered slightly, "I don't know if it can get into the eyes of the nobles, this buckle can be inlaid on it, just replace the top one." As he spoke, Wen Jin took out a buckle inlaid with Hetian jade from his small leather bag, and replaced a silver buckle with grass green snakeskin: "What does the shopkeeper think is good?" ”
"Well, yes, anything else?"
Such jade buckles are all custom-made by Yinlou, one costs more than a hundred taels of silver, Wen Jin has only three on hand, she took them all out, one is sapphire-inlayed, with a dark green snakeskin belt, and the other is a ruby inlay, with a purple and red background gold pattern belt. The latter one was dyed by Wen Jin with herbs, she just gave it a try, but she didn't expect the effect to be surprisingly good, and she got such a peculiar color.
Ruby and sapphire belt buckles, each one costs two hundred taels of silver, Wen Jin has on hand, funds are limited, and there is no law to make more high-end belt buckles.
The shopkeeper Fan was very satisfied, and whispered to Wen Jin: "Take your things and accompany me to the Governor's Palace." ”
Wen Jin was overjoyed in her heart, carefully put the open belt into the box one by one, put it into the sheepskin suitcase, and followed the shopkeeper Fan out of the door.
His own simple ox cart could not be sitting, so Wen Jin followed Fan Da and sat in his wide carriage.
All the way to Liao's Mansion, Wen Jin behaved like a restrained and overjoyed little businessman, Fan Da shopkeeper didn't look at her much, otherwise, this person has already become old, how can he not see that Wen Jin is a girl?
Although Liao Sangongzi is very favored by his parents, no one dares to mess with him in Minghu City, but he treats people very modestly, and the little servant took Fan Da Shopkeeper and Wen Jin to wait in the outer hall, and he quickly walked out.
Wen Jin and Fan Da shopkeeper met each other, and Liao Chengtian seriously invited Fan Da shopkeeper to sit down, so Wen Jin took out the things and let him choose.
He regarded Wen Jin as his entourage, and Wen Jin had to follow the instructions of the shopkeeper Fan to take out the three high-end belt buckles.
The Governor's Mansion is rich and rich, and the third prince of Liao is extremely favored, and he has never been wronged in money, and all of a sudden the three belts are in his eyes, so he said lightly: "Stay, Uncle Fan, such a good baby, you actually pressed it for three or four months to show me, it's really stingy." There was a bit of coquettishness in the tone, it seemed that they were still very familiar.
"Hehe, this is not my baby, but this Qian Gongzi's."
Wen Jin was surprised that the shopkeeper Fan was so generous, and directly gave the business to herself, instead of hiding it and profiting from it, and then, she figured it out, with the familiarity of Liao Sangongzi and the shopkeeper Fan, he still has to give gifts to these three belts, how dare he ask for a price to do business? Liao Sangongzi glanced at Wen Jin, originally inadvertently, but he didn't expect that he was conceited to be the most beautiful man in Minghu City, but he saw a man who looked better than his eyes.
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