Chapter 94

June of the 11th year of Tianyou in the Sui Dynasty

The weather in the imperial capital has been hot, which makes men prefer to go to the streets. The beautiful young women wear the most beautiful gauze skirts, expose their white necks, and show their graceful steps. The street is full of small Manyao and rouge. Naturally, it is necessary for the prodigal son to wander around the street trying to capture the beautiful food.

Another reason why Chang'an city is becoming more and more lively is the most important. In three days, the martial arts academy will start the examination.

That night, after Chen Ya hurt the big dog, he disappeared and didn't know where to hide. The people in the Imperial Guard Office and the love yamen secretly pulled a net to search, but they didn't find it. One reason is that Chang'an city is too big, and the ability of chenya is another reason.

There is medicine from the Imperial Guard. The injury of the big dog has been controlled. Shen qingfan needs rest. He has injured two people around him in a month after entering the imperial capital. Fang Xie really doesn't know whether Chang'an city should be his own blessing or disaster. People close to him were seriously injured one after another, but he was also appreciated by his Majesty the emperor of the great Sui Dynasty. Maybe he could fly to the sky as soon as he entered the martial arts academy.

Even if they can't enter the martial arts academy, several university scholars are still waiting.

With only three days left before the exam, Fang Xie must calm down and prepare. With some knowledge of his previous life, he is basically a little confident in dealing with arithmetic, liberal arts and painting, but there are also two examinations that he is basically unsure of: music and etiquette, coupled with his not brilliant martial arts... It is difficult to make a big splash when he takes the exam in the martial arts academy.

After reading behind closed doors in the shop for a long time, Fang Xie felt that his head was almost going to explode. A while ago, Huai Qiugong, the Minister of rites, specially sent someone to give him a Book of rites. He looked through it for several days, but the cumbersome things made his head huge. After reading it for half a day, I still don't remember much.

Take the seemingly simple thing of seeing a gift for example, the rules are dazzling. People of the same generation bow down and bow their hands, how to stand their legs, how low their head is, and even have rules where their eyes look. I bow a few times, bow my hands a few times, how to stand my legs and how to lower my head... The detailed and strict distinction makes Fang Xie more and more upset.

He simply threw the book aside, spread a piece of rice paper on the table and drew several pictures with charcoal. After painting, he rolled up the rice paper and stuffed it into his cuffs, got up and greeted them and went out. Walking slowly along the bustling street, looking at the pleasant Yingyan on the street, she felt much better. The posture of those girls and young women who move gently can make it more and more difficult for men to hide the animal's heart under their dignified expressions.

Fang Xie went into a tailor's shop, found an old tailor who was well-known in the nearby streets, unfolded the picture he had just drawn in front of him and asked, "can you do this?"

The old tailor looked at the picture of Fang Xie and asked him, "did you draw it?"

Fang Xie nodded.

The old tailor said well, then picked it up, looked carefully and said, "although the picture you drew is very awkward, I have to say that such clothes... No one dares to wear them even if they can be made. Can you tell me what the name of this clothes is?"

"I call it... Cheongsam"

Fang Xie smiled and said, "will women look beautiful?"

The old tailor put down the picture and blushed: "too much exposure..."

"Don't care how much you show, you say whether it's beautiful or not?"

The old tailor was silent and nodded: "I've never thought that clothes could do this in my life. The Sui Dynasty only stipulated that people should not wear brocade clothes or Hu clothes. In addition, there are no other strict requirements... But you're still too bold. I'm afraid that once you make it, you'll be scolded immediately. No matter how brave a woman is, she doesn't dare to wear it in the street."

"I'll let my women wear them at home to relieve my boredom, okay?"

Fang Xie smiled and said.

"OK! The government can't control it!"

The old tailor put the picture away, looked at the solution and asked tentatively, "do you want to find a promising job?"

"What?"

Fang Xie asked.

The old tailor approached Fang Xie and said solemnly, "I still lack an apprentice..."

"Stop dreaming."

Fang Xie stood up and said, "I'm a student in the martial arts academy!"

The old cripple was stunned and couldn't help but hug his fist and apologize: "Disrespectful and disrespectful... Well... It's OK to make this dress, but it needs preparation. After all, it's difficult to reach the point where the clothes on your drawing look the same. It may need to be modified many times. The cloth consumed is a lot of expenses. I have to grope, so I have to waste a lot of time... If these pieces are made, twenty Liang!"

"Five hundred Liang."

Fang Xie stretched out five fingers and gestured.

The old tailor looked at Fang Xie with the eyes of a fool and thought he had heard wrong.

"Five hundred liang?"

He asked.

"Well, five hundred Liang... But you gave me five hundred Li."

Fang Xie smiled and said: "You give me 500 taels of silver. I'll take these clothes after they are made. But you can keep the picture and continue to make it. I don't care how much the clothes are sold. But if you sell more than 200 clothes, I'll take 30% of each one later. Of course, because you are the first person to buy the picture, I'll give priority to selling it to you in the future... I don't have any Lack of fresh style, "

"Aren't you sick?"

The old tailor looked at Fang Xie and asked with contempt on his face.

"I want it all"

At this time, a voice came from Fang Xie's back, with an atmosphere: "I'll buy all the good styles you have in the future. I'm going to let the firm start the ready-made clothes business recently."

Surprised, Fang Xie looked back and found that Wu Yidao didn't know when he was standing at the door of the tailor's shop.

"It's a waste not to do business for a good seedling like you."

Wu Yi looked at Fang Xie with a look of appreciation.

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San Jin Hou Mansion

Sitting in the Pavilion by the Xiaohe pool, Fang Xie was lucky to taste one or two single branch dahongpaos that could be exchanged for a house. He tasted them a little and asked Wu Yi, "is there one or two silver for this small bite?"

Wu Yi smiled and said: "It's not a matter of how much money you can take in a mouthful... Even if you have money, give me one hundred Liang, five hundred Liang, one thousand Liang, ten thousand Liang, and I can't buy it if I don't like it. I have the remaining two or three kilograms of the single branch Dahongpao every year, in addition to the few kilograms given to the palace. When I'm in a good mood, anyone just asks Wu Yidao to take out your single branch Will be stingy. If I'm not happy, I don't care about dignitaries. "

"Domineering"

Fang Xie flattered.

Wu Yidao couldn't help laughing at these three words, pointed to the tea cup and said: "Wuyi Mountain Dahongpao" refers to the tea picked from the tea trees on the cliff of Wuyi Mountain. Because of the unique geographical location, special soil and special climate, the tea trees are also special, and the taste of tea is more special, with a faint sweet scented osmanthus fragrance. Even if the tea produced in other places is a good tea that can be called the best tea, it will lose its taste after brewing seven times at most, but Wuyi Mountain is big The red robe can be washed nine times and the tea still has a lingering fragrance. "

"The so-called single branch Dahongpao is a young girl with body fragrance who needs to be specially pointed out when picking. She only climbs up in single clothes and carefully looks for the most perfect piece of tea on each tea tree. After picking it, she can't put it into the appliance, but put it into the underwear pocket specially sewn close to her chest. Often, at the end of the day, the girl can't pick more than ten or twenty branches. Because Because she is very tired, the girl will sweat, and her body is so fragrant that the sweat is fragrant. "

"Tea has the fragrance of sweet scented osmanthus, plus the fragrance of young girls. Naturally, the fragrance of Dahongpao is not comparable to that of other tea leaves. Moreover, each tea tree selects the best tea and is fried by the most experienced tea frying master. The process is very complicated. It's strange that it's not expensive."

After hearing Wu Yidao's explanation, Fang Xie picked up the tea cup and smelled it under his nose: "is there really a girl's body smell?"

Wu Yidao said with a smile, "that's bullshit. Sao Qing literati need this artistic conception. Naturally, they have to say so. If you say it was picked by a man with beard and sweating all over, who still drinks it?"

Fang Xie chuckled and said that Wu Da's richest man was also a wonderful man.

"I just looked at the picture you drew. It's really... Innovative and bold."

Wu Yidao pointed to the sketches drawn with charcoal on the table and said, "but if such clothes are made, if the pimps of brothels in the capital are invited to come and have a look, they must be willing to pay for them. Wearing such clothes, the girls in the building will add at least five points more enchanting and charming."

"Er... This dress is very serious."

Fang Xie said seriously.

"I'm serious, too."

Wu Yidao looked at him and smiled: "Such clothes are too bold. Think about it yourself. Who dared to wear them at first? It must be the popular girls in the brothel, because they dare to show their most beautiful side without reservation. The so-called good family women naturally dare not dress casually. If it weren't for the red tea move, the girls' Tulle skirts were fascinated by all who had been to the red tea move Men, how can they fill the streets with gauze skirts in spring? "

"This is a process."

Wu Yi smiled and said, "the old tailor can't see the value of the clothes you painted, so he can only open that small tailor shop all his life. I just said that after making these clothes and selling them to those brothel women, he will make a small fortune at most. Because soon the tailor shop will steal to learn, and it will be like this gauze skirt in Chang'an City in two years."

"Tell me, how can we make the most of these clothes?"

He asked Fang Xie.

Fang Xie was silent for a moment and said, "go to the government for approval first. The style of this dress is unique to me. No one can do it except me, or it will be theft."

"The Sui Dynasty didn't have this rule."

Wu Yidao thought for a moment and said, "but it reminds me that I'll write a fold and hand it to you tomorrow. In the future, such unique ideas will belong to whoever thinks of them. The imperial court should protect them and can't be used by anyone."

Fang Xie was ashamed and said that he had forgotten that there was no law to protect patents in the world. However, Wu Yidao immediately thought of the importance of this point, and his businessman's accurate vision had to be praised. He is the richest man in the Sui Dynasty. He has a lot of talents. It's not difficult to think of any good ideas. With the protection of the imperial decree, he will be of great benefit in the future.

"You continue"

Wu made a gesture of invitation.

Fang Xie pondered for a while, leaned over and whispered a few words in Wu Yidao's ear. Before he finished, Wu Yidao's eyes were getting brighter and brighter. After Fang Xie finished his thoughts, the rich San jinhou couldn't help clapping his hands and said: "As I said before, if you don't do business, you will really spoil your talent... So, if you can't enter the martial arts academy or adapt to the way of survival of the imperial court, you can come to me and I'll leave you a shopkeeper position. You know that our shopkeepers are all over the Sui Dynasty, and there are not 10000 or 8000 people employed by the firm... You can take the shopkeeper position Yes, there are only ten people. "

Fang Xie smiled and said, "let's talk about the salary of a year before we talk about it."

Wu Yidao couldn't help laughing.

Smiling, Wu Yinyu, the eldest lady watching the fish playing across the lotus pond, couldn't help being curious. She came over and asked, "what makes dad so happy? Tell me."

Wu yidaoshun pointed to the drawing on the table and said, "after discussing with Fang Xie, who should wear this dress first, which shocked the whole Chang'an city."

Wu Yinyu picked up the drawing, looked at it, and then praised, "what a beautiful dress, Dad, I want to wear it when I make it!"

Wu Yidao's face turned black and said with a smile: "how can this..."

"Why not?"

Wu Yinyu asked Fang Xie, "do you think I can wear it or not?"

Fang Xie looked at Wu Yidao and didn't dare to speak.

"Yu'er, don't make trouble."

"If you don't let me wear it, I will..."

Wu Yinyu hesitated and threatened, "I'll tear up the picture."

Wu Yidao pointed to Fang Xie and said, "he can draw."

Wu Yinyu stamped her foot angrily and went to the lotus pond and said fiercely, "if you don't allow me to wear it later, I'll jump down and die with this drawing!"

Die together

Fang Jie has a black line in his head and says that this girl is really strong.

Wu Yi hurriedly got up to persuade Wu Yinyu. Wu Yinyu said don't come here. I'll jump when you come here. Fang Xie said quietly, "that's to scare you?"

Wu Yidao said seriously, "you're wrong. She really dares to jump. Although the pool is not deep, it's troublesome to get all over the mud. The key is that if she gets cold, it's bad in case she gets sick. Let's not go there. She's just a child's temper... Just enough in a moment."

"You haven't thought about the way to make her never jump into the lotus pool?"

Fang Xie asked.

Wu Yi frowned: "unless she changes her temper, how can it be? If you have a way to make her don't have to jump into the lotus pond to threaten me in the future, I'll try to help you enter the martial arts academy."

"Then let me do it."

Fang Xie got up and left the pavilion, then went to the lotus pond, turned his back to the eldest lady and Wu Yi, unscrupulously untied his pants and threw a bubble of urine into the lotus pond

"Shameless man!"

The eldest Miss Wu Yinyu scolded with a red face, turned and ran away.

Wu Yi twitched at the corners of his mouth. He didn't know what to say.