There is no special embroidery shop on West Street, but it is paved with ready-to-wear clothes. Before entering the door, Hua Ronghua deliberately raised his head and took a closer look, and there was no word Hua Ji on the plaque.

"How many of you look at clothes or embroidery?" The shopkeeper came to greet the guests in person.

"Uh......" Although she has done a good job of psychological construction, she is still a little embarrassed to say that she is selling things, but fortunately, she wears a veil on her face, and Hua Ronghua is extremely grateful for the decision she made just now.

"Excuse me, do you collect embroidery here?" She asked.

The shopkeeper was stunned for a moment, and then said, "Accept." He looked Hua Ronghua up and down again and asked, "Did you bring the embroidery?" ”

"Brought." Hua Ronghua hurriedly turned around and asked Aunt He to take the embroidery out of the bamboo basket.

The shopkeeper took the embroidery, opened the scarf outside, and saw the lifelike flowers on it, his eyes lit up involuntarily, but when he saw the half-finished petals in the corner, his face froze, "This is not finished!" And the front and back stitches are so different, obviously not embroidered by one person. ”

"Nonsense, this is all embroidered by my lady herself." Aunt He quit and aggrieved Hua Ronghua.

"Embroidered by one person?" The shopkeeper's puzzled eyes looked at Hua Ronghua, and there was too much difference between before and after.

Hua Ronghua was a little embarrassed, "Ahem, I sprained my wrist, otherwise I wouldn't have directly sold this semi-finished product, wouldn't it be more expensive after the whole embroidery?" ”

Hearing this explanation, the shopkeeper was a little convinced, but said with a sad face: "But I can't give you much price for this semi-finished product!" ”

"Look at how much you can give? If I think it's right, I'll sell it. Hua Ronghua felt that it was chicken ribs for him to keep this embroidery, so he simply sold it out of sight and out of mind.

A gleam flashed in the shopkeeper's eyes, "One tael of silver!" ”

"Hey, shopkeeper, that's too little, isn't it?" When she tried the veil in Huaji Embroidery Village just now, Hua Ronghua saw someone next to her who bought an embroidery of about the same size as the one in her hand, but it cost three taels of silver, and the embroidery was not as good as this.

"I said this lady, if your embroidery is complete, don't say one or two, even two or two I will give it to you, but you haven't finished embroidering at all, I have to spend money to ask someone to make up for it, and I won't make much money!" The shopkeeper began to bargain over the piece of embroidery.

"Then you have too few taels, two taels, if it works, I will sell it, if not, I will spend my own money to ask someone to make up for it, and then take it to East Street and sell it for three taels!" Hua Ronghua bit the price.

The shopkeeper pondered it there, the embroidery was taken back, and his wife could make up for it, and then framed it, selling it for five or six taels was not a problem, or some earned, and the casual clothes were embarrassed for a while, "Okay, but let's say it, when you have a good hand, the embroidery will have to be sold to my house!" ”

"Okay, I see." Hua Ronghua was casually perfunctory, took the money and hurriedly left the garment shop.

"Lady, you are so amazing, you earned an extra silver or two in a few words!" After walking for a while, Aunt He praised with a smile.

Lu Yuanniang next to her was also full of envy, she didn't understand how much a tael of silver was more than a copper plate, but she knew that it was her mother who won just now!

"Let's go, I'll ask you to go and eat something delicious." made more money, Hua Ronghua was also happy.

A few people were walking on the street, and Aunt He suddenly pointed to the place not far in front and said, "Lady, let's go there and drink a bowl of soy milk!" ”

Hua Ronghua looked forward, there was a door face in front of him, and there was no plaque, only a banner was hung on it, and he couldn't tell what was written on it.

"Ah, Aunt He is saving me money? I thought you had to ask for a meat bun! Hua Ronghua quipped.

Aunt He was a little embarrassed, and said with a smile: "His family also sells meat buns." ”

"Huh?!" Hua Ronghua was stunned for a moment, then smiled, and went to the shop that Aunt He pointed out in the end.

The shop is indeed very small, it is estimated that it is less than 30 square meters, and the back stove room is not very clear because there are curtains and partition walls. Because only the light came in through the doorway, it seemed that the inside of the room was a little dark.

"Ah, sister-in-law of the He family, why do you have time to work in the master's house?" With a greeting, a white and chubby woman greeted her, "Specially here to take care of my business?" ”

Aunt He hurriedly said, "What are you talking nonsense? This is my lady, I am tired of walking on the street, so I came to you to drink a bowl of soy milk to quench my thirst! ”

Only then did the fat woman see Hua Ronghua walking behind her, and greeted her with a smile, "Ouch, my eyes are really, I didn't even see the distinguished guests greet the door!" Lady please inside, please inside. ”

"Sit down!" The fat woman waved the rag in her hand and wiped the table and stool for Hua Ronghua to sit.

Hua Ronghua looked at the rag that could no longer distinguish the color, frowned, and stood still.

Aunt He seemed to feel it, and hurriedly wiped the table and stool again with the handkerchief she was carrying, and then let Hua Ronghua sit down.

The fat woman smiled a little wryly, "I'll go serve you soy milk." With that, he lifted the curtain and went to the back kitchen.

Hua Ronghua sat down on the stool and asked the people standing opposite, "What do they do?" Why do you keep standing there? ”

"Everything, bricklayers and carpenters, and those who specialize in giving people hard work, aren't my dead ghost men standing there!" Aunt He pointed to a man in the corner who was looking this way and replied.

"Lady, drink soy milk!" The fat woman brought a bowl of soy milk and put it in front of Hua Ronghua, "Lady, drink it, I put two spoonfuls of sugar!" ”

"Yuan Niang, drink it." To be honest, as soon as he saw the hygiene of this shop, Hua Ronghua didn't want to eat anything.

Lu Yuanniang took the bowl and drank it very happily, and Aunt He next to her opened her mouth, as if she wanted to say something.

"By the way, two more bowls for Aunt He, one bowl and the other bowl, Aunt He, you can send your man over, take Yuan Niang, it's inconvenient for him to come." Hua Ronghua is not so much that he can't even afford a bowl of soy milk.

"Hey, thank you, lady." Aunt He thanked her overjoyed, and then took the soy milk handed over by the fat woman to find her man.

"That lady, I still have buns here, and the meat is vegetarian, do you want to try it?" The fat woman wants to sell a few pennies more and does not take the initiative to sell her own goods.

Hua Ronghua asked Lu Yuanniang, "Does Yuanniang want to eat steamed buns?" ”

Bun? Is it the same as what my mother ate for herself that day? Lu Yuanniang's eyes lit up, and she nodded excitedly.

"Then let's have a few more buns, three vegetarians of three meats, forget it, let's all come to meat."

"Okay, six meat buns!" The fat woman happily went to serve the meat buns.

After a while, Aunt He came back with an empty bowl, "My man said thank you, lady!" ”

"It's just a bowl of soy milk, no thanks." Hua Ronghua pointed to the buns on the table, "You can also sit down and eat two." ”

"This ...... I'm a slave, can I sit down and eat? Aunt He rubbed her hand and asked uneasily.

Hua Ronghua was stunned, and then remembered that the rules of ancient times were big, and Aunt He had not served the table for such a long time at the Lu family, so she was a little unhappy, after all, she was taking care of herself, "It's okay, anyway, the old lady is not here." ”

"Hey, then I'll eat it." When Aunt He heard this, she hurriedly sat down and began to eat steamed buns and drink soy milk.

At this time, two more people came in at the door, one was a long-bearded old man in a dark green robe, and the other was a middle-aged man with a fat head and big ears.

The long-bearded old man bowed his waist slightly, and said to the middle-aged man: "Shopkeeper Wang, look at the long tables that can put five or six in this store, it's not small." ”

The middle-aged man glanced around with a look of disgust, "I can't even turn around when I put five or six tables." ”

The old man also knew that the middle-aged man was telling the truth, "This shop was also bought by our family to save money, if it weren't for the family's urgent use of money, it wouldn't be sold, although it is small, but the location is good, how much can you give?" ”

The middle-aged man went to the kitchen again and went around and gave the price, "Fifteen taels!" ”

"That's—that's too little!" The old man was anxious, "You can add more, the family is in urgent need of money, fifteen taels is indeed not enough!" In this way, twenty-eight taels, twenty-eight taels is not okay? ”

"Twenty-eight taels, I don't want eighteen taels! What can you do in such a small place? Just fifteen taels, if you can't find me to sign an agreement, if you can't pull it down! The middle-aged man walked away with a disgusted face.

"Alas!" The old man sighed and sat down on another stool worried.

"I said, owner, don't sell this shop, lease it to us for another two years?" The fat woman came to the old man with a grin.

The old man sneered, "Okay, lease it to you, you can pay me twenty years' rent in one go." ”

The smile on the fat woman's face froze, "How can my family have so much money!" ”

"No money, so much nonsense!"

"Hey, you sold this shop, what about my soy milk and buns?" The fat woman was anxious and shouted to the old man.

"Didn't I say I'll give you back this year's rent?" The old man was impatient.

The fat woman pinched her waist and shouted at the top of her voice, "The rent refund is over, I don't care, I still have half a year to expire, anyway, I won't move, or you will have to give me the moving fee!" ”

The old man was almost so angry that he vomited out a mouthful of blood, his hands trembled, and he pointed at the fat woman and scolded: "Ma, don't mess around here, I just rented this store to you cheaply because everyone is a village, and now my family is in trouble, and I didn't point to you for help, but you still have to fall into the well?" ”

"Hey, how did I fall into the well? Our agreement is obviously signed until May next year, and you can't let me vacate the house for you now! ”

"I—I won't tell you, let your man come to me!" The old man left in a huff.

Hua Ronghua felt like a farce when she looked at this scene, but she had a new understanding of this fat woman Ma, and this whole thing was a scoundrel!

"Hey, sister of the Ma family, what's wrong? Your owner won't rent this shop to you? Aunt He inquired curiously.