Chapter 42: The Rouge of Lin Huaju
The reopening of the rouge shop on Huangli Street is just a trivial matter for the entire Huizhou government, and there are very few people who pay attention to it.
After all, this is a literati world, if Su Wen opened a bookstore, maybe there are students to see if there are new sets of questions, or rare books that others don't have, if Su Wen opens a calligraphy and painting shop, I think there will be people who will patronize it, after all, the state exam is imminent, and when reviewing, the consumption of pen, ink and paper also needs to be replenished at any time.
But on the contrary, Su Wen opened a rouge shop.
Feminine products, especially cosmetics, were very popular in the world before Su Wen, and they amassed countless wealth, but in the Sacred Word Continent, they didn't work.
At the beginning, Su Wen and the three of them were still ambitiously ready to do a big job, the new signboard had been hung above the door, and Su Wen's song "Seeing Huan" was also hung in the most conspicuous position in the shop.
But left and right, half an hour passed, an hour passed, until the whole morning passed, not to mention selling a box of rouge, there was not even a single customer.
In desperation, Su Wen and Tang Ji had no choice but to come outside the store, like vegetable vendors, shouting loudly, hoping to attract business.
"The opening of the new store is a big deal! Half price, only three days!"
"Don't miss it when you pass by!" Lin Huaju's rouge guarantee is high-quality, inexpensive, not to be missed!"
"You can't buy a tael of silver, and you can't buy it, and you can't afford to suffer a loss, if you don't buy it, you're welcome to come in and have a look!"
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All of a sudden, Su Wen told all the advertising words he had heard in his previous life, how did he come about.
Not to mention, relying on the shouts of these two people, it really attracted the attention of many passers-by, and several eldest sisters came in one after another with curiosity to take a look, but after finding that what was sold inside was just some ordinary rouge powder, they immediately lost interest, and it was not until near dinner in the afternoon that Su Wen sold three boxes of rouge.
This business is really not bleak.
Fortunately, this time Su Wen and the others did a business without capital, in addition to the rent of the shop, these rouges were left by the previous owner, so they earned a box by selling a box.
Although I didn't make a lot of money, I still made some progress at the end of the day.
Thinking of this, the three of them also maintained an optimistic attitude for the time being.
It wasn't until two days later that Lin Huaju was still full of people outside, and the three of them gradually felt that things were a little strict, Tang Ji wrinkled his face into a big bun, and couldn't help but lament: "It's not a way to go on like this." ”
Su Wen sat in front of the counter, ignoring the fat man's complaints, but concentrated on holding the ink pen in his hand, writing something on the paved rice paper, Su Yu on the side obediently helped him grind, and the whole person's attention was focused on Su Wen, with a smile in his eyebrows.
Originally, Su Wen came to the state capital to prepare for the state exam, and at the beginning he chose to open a shop, his biggest purpose was not to make money, but to find a way to improve the level of the other six acupoints!
And in fact, although Su Wen has been busy with the affairs of the rouge shop in the past few days, he has never stopped pursuing the Holy Dao.
It is precisely because Lin Huaju's business is cold that Su Wen has a lot of free time, in addition to soliciting customers every day, Su Wen spends all this time on two things.
Read, and write!
Although Su Wen's Wenhai was terrifying enough, Su Wen knew very well that his understanding of the Sacred Word Continent was still very limited, and if he read more books, he might be able to come in handy at some point.
For example, when he was in Ghost Wangpo, didn't Su Wen rely on "Hundred Demon Chronicles" to see through the terrifying illusion?
As for writing, it's to improve the book!
Since leaving Linchuan City, Su Wen has shown the wild grass inherited from Zhang Xu several times, and its effect is also very significant.
Su Wen could clearly feel that the talent and aura surrounding the book in the sea of Wen had gradually transformed from light red to dark red, and I am afraid that it would be able to sublimate into orange if it went further!
What does this mean? It shows that Su Wen's previous conjecture was correct! He has now begun to think about it, and when he has more money in his hands, he must dig out a guqin and improve his position.
It's just that the characters practiced by Su Wen now are no longer cursive, but regular script.
Su Wen naturally has his own considerations, although Zhang Xu's wild grass looks domineering and has an incomparable momentum, but when he was in the state exam, he couldn't answer the questions in cursive, in order to make the examiner who changed the question more pleasing to the eye, so Su Wen began to learn Huang Tingjian's regular script from scratch.
Su Wen, who has rich experience in the college entrance examination, can be described as perfect in every detail.
In addition, the reason why he did not choose the more famous "Yan Ti" and "Liu Ti" in regular script has a very simple reason.
The two poems that Su Wen can perform now, one "Gale" and the other "Minus the Word Magnolia", are both from Huang Tingjian, which is a coincidence and a kind of fate.
Su Wen believed in this kind of opportunity, so among many italic calligraphy masters, he finally chose Huang Tingjian, who was not so high in regular calligraphy.
"Smack!"
Suddenly, a muffled sound came from the table, which startled Su Wen, who was concentrating on writing.
Turning his head to look, it turned out that Su Yu accidentally knocked over the rouge box on the table in the inkstone.
Seeing this, Tang Ji immediately stopped complaining, hurriedly walked to the table and comforted the little girl softly, while hurriedly picking up the rouge box and cleaning up the spilled rouge on the table.
"It doesn't matter, it's just a box of rouge, and the last thing we need in our store is this thing!"
Su Yu was still like a frightened little rabbit, and he did not settle down because of Tang Ji's comfort, but raised his head and looked at Su Wen timidly.
However, Su Wen was like a statue, staring at the inkstone motionlessly.
Tang Ji immediately spoke: "Su Wen, what are you doing, don't blame Xiaoyu for this little thing, she didn't mean it, and besides, it's not a valuable thing." ”
But Tang Ji's voice didn't play the slightest role, and Su Wen still looked like he was in a daze.
At this moment, Tang Ji was really a little unsure of what Su Wen meant, so he hurriedly said again: "Isn't it just an inkstone, when I go to clean it for you, the uncle will personally study the ink for you, it's all right." ”
As he spoke, Tang Ji stretched out his hand to take the inkstone, but he didn't want to, so at this moment, another hand reached out like lightning and grabbed his wrist.
It was Su Wen's hand.
Tang Ji was stunned by this sudden scene, and Su Yu's eyes on the side were slightly red, and he thought that his young master was really angry because he had knocked over the rouge box.
The next moment, Su Wen finally "lived", he let go of Tang Ji's hand, held the inkstone in his arms, and laughed: "Hahahaha, I understand! Why am I so stupid, I didn't even think of this!"
Su Wen hugged the inkstone, walked in front of Su Yu in two or three steps, kissed her on the cheek, and said with a smile: "Xiaoyu, you are really my great lucky star!"
After speaking, Su Wen didn't care about the two little friends who were already stunned at this time, turned around and ran towards the backyard.
After a long time, Tang Ji slowly withdrew his hand that stopped in mid-air, and said with an inexplicable expression: "Xiaoyu, what's wrong with your young master?
Su Yu also stood there stunned, the rosiness of his eyes had not faded, his whole face was flushed, and he didn't react to what happened just now for a while.
Squeaky shook his head and lay on Su Yu's chest, looked left and right, and didn't know what these strange humans were doing, so he had to pay off boredly and continue to daydream.
Besides, Su Wen, after coming to the backyard, first carefully put the inkstone on the ground, and then hurriedly ran to the warehouse to rummage through it.
After a while, Su Wen came back with all kinds of rouge boxes in both hands, squatted on the ground, and opened them all.
Suddenly, the aroma is tangy.
Su Wen held the ink inkstone in his hand like a treasure, staring at the red fat powder that had gradually merged with the black ink, and his eyes became brighter and brighter.
Immediately, Su Wen found another teacup from nowhere, added a small amount of water to it, and then twisted various rouges with his fingertips and sprinkled them into it, stirring it gently with chopsticks.
For a whole afternoon, Su Wen sat in the backyard, pouring all kinds of bottles and cans and other things, Tang Ji and Su Yu looked inexplicable, but they didn't come forward to disturb, but continued to greet business in the front shop, until sunset, Su Yu made dinner, and Su Wen finally stood up, with a relieved smile on his face.
"Sure enough, the rouge in this world is different from the ordinary rouge!"
As he spoke, Su Wen slowly closed his eyes and sank his mind into the sea of literature, and then he was pleasantly surprised to find that on the ink-shaped pattern that represented the painting position, his talent color had really deepened!
"It's done!"
Su Wen secretly clenched his fists, and he finally took the first step in the painting path!
"In this world, there is only ink painting, if I can make rouge into pigment and use it for painting, then it will definitely set off a revolution in painting on this continent!"
"In this way, the improvement of the painting position has finally found its direction!"
Just because Su Yu knocked over a rouge box, Su Wen keenly captured the precious value in it, this is the power of knowledge!
At dinner, Su Wen was silent about Tang Ji's inquiry, he was going to wait until he really researched the pigments that could be used, and then made it public, when Tang Ji knew that the inspiration for these pigments came from today's accident, I don't know if he would be surprised?
In a good mood, Su Wen's thinking seemed to be much broader, and he suddenly said to Tang Ji: "Regarding our Lin Huaju's business, I have an idea, I don't know if it's feasible?"
When Tang Ji heard this, he immediately put the previous accident behind him, and exclaimed, "Really, let's hear it!"
Su Wen smiled mysteriously: "How can there be a business that doesn't advertise? And I just thought of an excellent advertising place to ensure that the signboard of our Lin Huaju will be an instant hit!"
Tang Ji raised his eyebrows and asked, "Advertisement?
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