Chapter 15: A Big Loss
"It's okay to see it, anyway, as long as I don't admit it, who would believe that Jinling's famous big straw bag is actually a mediocre poetry expert?"
Ning Wuxiao saw that Mei Xiang did not show up.
He tossed the chicken leg bones he had just gnawed onto the roof.
"Mimi, catch!"
"Meow!"
Bone Bone Bone ......
Ning Wuxian listened to the sound of silver rolling to the ground.
Listen.
What a wonderful sound.
"The girl who bought the goods looks very smart, but I didn't expect the guards to be very simple."
At this thought, Ning Wuxian had a little headache.
Because these five words are ready to increase in price.
I don't know if the honest guard girl can be the master.
He looked at Mei Xiang, who walked in around the main entrance, who was tidying up her messy hair.
Looking at each other, Mei Xiang was extremely embarrassed, and her face was red and her voice was like a mosquito.
"Young Master Ning, my young lady asked me to buy poetry."
Climbing on the roof of someone else's house to buy and sell goods is the first time for two people.
Ning Wuxian didn't expose Mei Xiang's lies, and handed the five poems in front of her.
"Let's inspect the goods."
"Goods? Which? β
Mei Xiang took the straw paper and unfolded it to look at it, leaning back and twisting her eyebrows.
No matter how you look at it, it's a ghost drawing...... Alas? It's the word, alas!
"Fortune operator...... Yongmei? β
Mei Xiang was taken aback.
What a word!
It should still be written in accordance with the title of the island.
In the light of the calcium carbide firelight, Mei Xiang thought that this word was written by Ning Wuxian, and a bold idea popped up in her mind.
"Ning Gongzi, it turns out that you sell poems so hard, you have to memorize them first and then write them down before selling."
Mei Xiang took the opportunity to take eye medicine.
"This great talent who writes poems and lyrics really does everything to hide his identity, and it's hard for you."
ββ¦β¦ It's not difficult, it's not difficult, just memorize a few poems, just get used to it. β
Ning Wuxian saw that Mei Xiang didn't think that she was the author at all, but it was also troublesome.
When he saw that the other party had inspected the goods, he stretched out his palm.
"One hundred taels."
Mei Xiang, who had just folded the straw paper, suddenly screamed like a tail that had been stepped on by a cat.
"A hundred taels? Why don't you grab it? Didn't you say that a poem is ten taels? β
She has a hundred taels, but she doesn't want to be wronged by others.
Ning Wuxiao knew that this guard girl's brain was not very bright, so she could only seduce her step by step: "How many words is a poem?" β
Mei Xiang really heard this question mentioned by Miss Ji.
"There are about 20 words in a five-word quatrain, and about 30 words in a seven-word quatrain."
"Then girl, look at my words, how many words are in a poem?"
Mei Xiang's eyes rolled and thought for a moment, and finally because she couldn't do the math, she could only open the straw paper and count it.
Suddenly, the little face collapsed.
That's a lot of words!
I can't count them all.
"Ning Gongzi, you mean, if there are more words, the price will be increased, right?"
"Yes."
Ning Wuxian glanced at Mei Xiang with appreciation.
This girl is not too naΓ―ve.
Mei Xiang suddenly made a difficulty.
A hundred taels is really not much for her, but.
How can there be a seller of poetry sold by words, hasn't it always been sold by "first"?
"Ning Gongzi, I always feel like you're slaughtering a big family."
Ning was unharmed but smiled silently.
Is he doing it so obviously?
"Girl, you can choose not to buy it, in fact, I originally planned not to sell ten poems, but these five poems were written for her after promising your young lady."
Raising the initial funds to make perfume may be difficult for the original body, but for him, there is a way to get people to obediently send more silver.
even let the rival send money to him to spend.
Listening to the meaning of the third brother, the ten poems in the morning caused quite a stir, and the price of these five poems will also rise.
He's not so much selling as giving.
Mei Xiang originally planned to bargain with Ning Wuxian, but when she heard him say this, and then looked at his calm and calm appearance, it seemed that there was really no shortage of this hundred taels, and she suddenly became entangled.
"Girl, if you hesitate any longer, the talent conference by the lake will continue to open, and your young lady's business of selling poetry may not be good."
With Ning Wuxian's set of words, it was unleashed.
Mei Xiang could only grit her teeth and admit that she was unlucky.
"I'll buy it!"
It's a big deal, and the extra fifty taels are deducted from her moonsilver.
Mei Xiang took out a hundred taels of silver tickets from the purse embroidered with the word "Shen" and stuffed it into Ning Wuxian's hand angrily.
Before leaving, I didn't forget to scold him.
"Profiteers."
She lost a lot of money this time.
I don't know who the author of the poem is, and it is possible that Ning Wuxiao will be killed by fifty taels.
The shameless Ning Gongzi turned out to be a profiteer!
"Girl, if your young lady thinks it's expensive, you can get it back!"
Ning Wuxiao did not forget to do a good job in after-sales service.
Accept the 100 taels of silver tickets beautifully, and you don't have to worry about dinner.
"After the idle work is done, the next step is to get down to business and start preparing the tools and materials to be used to make the perfume."
Making perfume is actually very simple, you only need to refine plant essential oils, mix them with alcohol and water, stir and mix them in a container according to a certain proportion, and leave them for a while.
When he was doing a planning event for a well-known perfume company, he visited the factory and investigated the process of perfume making over time, remembering its raw materials and important steps, and adjusting the details himself.
"There is no shortage of flowers used to refine plant essential oils, and alcohol can be purified directly with a burning knife, but there are no stills here, and even the liquor brewed by the government is only about ten degrees."
And whether it is the extraction of essential oils or alcohol, a still is needed.
Since there is none, then make it.
Fortunately, he opened a medical hall, and the boiler set didn't need to find someone to dig a pit, and it could be used after cleaning it and then modifying it.
If you go to the blacksmith shop to get a set of copper pots and pots and lids for cooling water, no one will suspect that he is secretly brewing high-strength alcohol.
"The eldest uncle and the second uncle are just doing miscellaneous work in the government, if only the Ning family had an official, it would be a great achievement to offer the recipe for distilling liquor."
Miscellaneous officials don't need to think about donations.
Because the final credit is only for the top of the top, maybe it will be guarded against, wearing small shoes is light, and it is not impossible to attract the scourge of extinguishing the mouth.
Rather than harm, always remember.
This is not the time when everyone is law-abiding.
Think twice before you do anything.
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The head of the island bridge.
Ji Jin couldn't help but smile and confirmed to Xu Jidao repeatedly: "Mr. Xu, do you really want to review the poems of those students with me?" β
The famous poet king Xu Jidao went to be a referee for a group of unknown students.
How have you ever seen such a ridiculous thing?
She finally regained hope for the talented people who were rejected in the morning, if they knew that Xu Jidao personally audited it, they were afraid that there would be very few people even on the bridge.
It is an honor to be guided by King Xu Shiwang, but if you are pointed at by King Xu Shiwang, you may not be able to raise your head for the rest of your life.
"The two talented men from Jing'an City who landed on the island were dealing with the county lord of Jingxian, and the prefect Jiang drank five large bowls of soju on the song "Breaking the Array" and was already drunk, and the remaining ten talented people ...... Don't mention it, I'm idle on the island, it's better to appreciate the style of Jinling's talents. β
Xu Jidao stroked his beard, quite a fairy wind and bones.
But from time to time, he looked at the papyrus that Ji Jin had been holding in his hand, betraying his true thoughts in his heart.
The true work of the poet!
Shixian is not on the island, what is the use of him staying on the island?
It's better to go to the gazebo and wait.
In case of.
In case the poet immortal poetry is prosperous, play and enjoy, sell a few more poems.
He took the opportunity to ask for it, and he couldn't be regarded as robbing.
Didn't the draft in Miss Ji's hand also come from the name of copying?
He exchanged the calligraphy for the authentic handwriting of the poets, and the students should appreciate his old face.
"Since Mr. Xu has made up his mind, in order to make the students less nervous, why don't we change the way of auditing in the afternoon?"
Ji Jinxin said: Otherwise, I'm worried that King Xu Shiwang, your eyes are full of poems of poets, sit for an afternoon, and you can't look down on the poems written by others, and spread them out, everyone will not say that King Xu Shiwang is demanding, but will only laugh at Jinling's lack of talent.
She thought of the poems she had pointed out in the morning, and if they were slightly revised, they would also have the qualifications to go to the island, but she didn't want to let the pearl be dusted.
Xu Jidao didn't care about the talent who landed on the island at all, he echoed indifferently: "I'm just a jury, and Miss Ji can call the shots for this kind of trivial matter." β