Chapter 134

134 a great place to sell things

Huo Qijun raised the radian of the lip angle by another point, and seemed to agree with her words: "what madam said is very true, holding... It's very uncomfortable."

Shen Qingru vowed that she could clearly hear the laughter of the girls around her. She looked at the innocent Hodgson's face across the face and grind her teeth. "You seem to be very idle today, my husband? Is there anything in the camp?"

Huo Qijun smiled like a human: "something, but I remember my wife said something to ask me yesterday?"

She thought of the treasure Pavilion and said, "husband, do you know a shop called Treasure pavilion?"

Huo Qijun pressed his eyebrow and thought, "it seems that I have heard. How can madam be interested in this shop?"

Shen Qingru shook her head: "it's just a little strange. I heard sister-in-law Huiwen say that this shop bought her embroidery, as well as the neighbor's porcelain and medicinal materials... What I doubt is that this shop buys these things and there is no market here. How can they make money?"

"Businessmen have their own way to make money." Huo Qijun didn't lift his head and said faintly.

Shen Qingru blinked embarrassed: "I'm just curious about their ways to make money, husband. To tell you the truth, I've been thinking about how to make money since I came here."

"You don't have enough money?" Huo Qijun was really surprised this time: "didn't I give you so many silver tickets?"

"But we can't sit back and eat nothing." Shen Qingru's worried expression made Huo Qijun cry and laugh. She probably never saw how many silver tickets he gave her, otherwise she wouldn't think the money was enough. That money is enough for them to spend all their lives.

"And not only we, like sister-in-law Huiwen, who are unwilling to accept help from others, but also those husbands who are ordinary soldiers who pay less. These people need to make a living or earn some money to support their families. If I can find a way to make money, I can provide great help to these people and take them to make money and get rich together."

Huo Qijun obviously felt that his little wife's idea was a little naive: "these women and children are weak women and have no skills. How can you get them rich?"

Shen Qingru pursed his lips. To some extent, Huo Qijun is really a man of male chauvinism. He thinks women can't do anything. Not only him, ninety-nine percent of the men in the frontier fortress think so.

She clenched her fist. That's why she had to work harder to make money with the women and children of the frontier fortress and let these short-sighted men stare!

Huo Qijun looked at his little wife rubbing her fists and hands. He looked like he was going to have a big fight. He smiled at the corners of his lips: "madam, since you speak, I'll ask the military division to send someone to inquire about the details of the treasure Pavilion."

Shen Qingru nodded and thanked her husband in a low voice, but saw her husband looking at her with a solemn face and said, "just right, I also have a problem. I want to ask my wife to solve my doubts."

"What's the problem?" Shen Qingru wondered slightly. What would Huo Qijun have to ask her?

Huo Qijun looked at her with a straight face, and his eyes indicated that she would come to her ears. Shen Qingru approached her suspiciously, but he heard the man bite her ear and ask with a smile, "were you happy last night?"

Aster stared at his young lady's red and white, white and red face, and stared at his uncle with shame and anger. My uncle turned quietly and went out. There was a deep laughter outside the door. Why did my uncle smile so happy? The young lady was standing there, gnashing her teeth and looking at her uncle's back.

"Miss, general, what did he say?" aster asked curiously.

"He said he was a fool," Shen Qingru said fiercely, grinding his back teeth. He turned and walked towards the room, leaving a confused aster.

In the morning, Shen Qingru took aster and Sanger, the bodyguard of the general's house, to the city. When Shen Qingru met a sugar gourd seller, he asked aster to buy three strings, and one of them was divided.

Sanger took the sugar gourd and his expression was a little stiff. Shen Qingru and aster are leisurely eating sweet and sour candied haws. When they finish eating, they turn back and find that Sanger's candied haws haven't moved at all.

"Sanger, why don't you eat?"

Sanger showed a smile more ugly than crying. Madam, don't you think sugar gourd doesn't match my brave bodyguard image? Have you ever seen a Xiake with a knife in one hand and sugar gourd in the other?

Sobbing, I feel my face is lost.

Shen Qingru smiled at him: "Sanger, the frontier fortress is short of materials. Don't waste things."

Sanger looked down and thought. He opened his mouth and bit the sugar gourd.

"Oh, Sanger, I ask you, is the residence of the chief executive of the frontier fortress near here?" Sanger just took a bite of sugar gourd and didn't taste the sweet, sweet, bitter and spicy taste. Shen Qingru suddenly asked, he could only "gulp" and almost rolled his eyes.

"Why does madam ask this?" Sanger's tone was full of doubts.

The name of the chief executive of the frontier fortress is Wu Sitong. He is an official of the fourth grade of the imperial court. Although his name sounds rough and arrogant, he is an out and out scholar. Although his grade is lower than Huo Qijun, he is the nominal head of local administration. Nominally, Huo Qijun is in charge of the military, and the chief executive is in charge of government affairs and performs his duties.

On the surface, they went their own way, but actually they used Wu Sitong to check and balance Huo Qijun, which was the original intention of the emperor. Luo Sitong was also a smart man. He knew the emperor's intention well. He was very clever. He would never associate with Huo Qijun unless it was necessary.

But the military and officials in the frontier fortress have long been used to obeying Huo Qijun, and Wu Sitong, the chief executive, has become a dispensable decoration.

Wu Sitong doesn't mind either. He hides in his residence every day to listen to the beautiful girls playing the piano and Sheng, or against the writers singing poetry. He lives a happy life and doesn't care about his identity as a "vase".

Shen Qingru's first stop today is the city guard's house of Lord Wu.

Lord Wu's city guard house is located in the center of the frontier fortress, on the most prosperous street.

The Chengshou mansion is a typical building in the south of the Yangtze River. Viewed from a distance, it is built near the water with white walls and black tiles. Green bamboo is planted in front of and behind the house, and the green shadow is whirling. When the breeze passed, there was a rustle of bamboo leaves, which was unspeakably fresh and elegant.

Wusitong is a family from Suzhou. It has lived in the pleasant climate of Jiangnan for a long time. It can hear the soft language of wunu, eat exquisite dots, and see the scenery of small bridges and flowing water. When I first came to this desolate frontier fortress as an official, I didn't adapt to the bitter climate and poor food here, so I built this Jiangnan style residence to comfort my homesickness.

Shen Qingru stood outside the city guard's house with aster and Sanger. The gate of the city guard's house was crowded with people. It was a noisy scene. It was like people gathered at the gate of the city guard's house to go to the market.

Why is it so busy?

Shen Qingru stopped Sanger and motioned him to stand and wait. Not long after, the small door of the city guard's house opened, and several servant girls came out surrounded by a young woman with a slim figure.

A young woman in her early twenties is wearing a lotus colored silk jacket embroidered with a green calyx plum. It is a Suzhou embroidery process in the south of the Yangtze River. She is wearing a water green skirt. The color and style are quite fresh and elegant. This woman has a beehive waist, a duck egg face, black oily hair, a high nose and a few freckles on her cheeks. She looks very beautiful.

"This is the daughter of the city keeper?" aster looked at the young woman suspiciously.

Shen Qingru shook his head: "it should be the big servant girl in Wu's family."

The folk customs in Jiangnan are far less open than those in the frontier fortress. Wu Chengshou comes from an aristocratic family. The miss of the Wu family should be detained in the boudoir and will never easily appear in public. The appearance of the young woman in front of her should be just a big servant girl with some identity in the Chengshou family.

However, the clothes of the servant girls of the Wu family may not be comparable to those of ordinary officials.

Sure enough, as soon as the big servant girl appeared, the people around the city guard's house rushed up and crowded her: "girl ziyue, this is my new long-life lock. It's meticulous and the patterns are complex. Look..."

"Miss ziyue, look at my gadgets..." the peddler held a small tiger carved in wood and a small windmill made of paper to the big servant girl named ziyue. He sold some rough but interesting toys. "

Shen Qingru guessed that most of the purple moon was a servant girl in charge of shopping. She bought some interesting things for her master.

Most of the noble ladies who have lived in the boudoir for a long time are very interested in these folk things. She once asked her brother to bring back the whole master's powder box and the small stove chopped with clay. My brother once laughed at himself how he likes these things that can pull a cart with more than a dozen copper plates.

Ziyue glanced at the small toys, and then instructed the servant girls around her to leave a few and sent the vendor away. Shen Qingru noticed that the price she gave seemed to be much higher than that in the market. No wonder there were so many vendors in front of the city guard's house early in the morning.

She motioned aster to hand over the embroidery in the basket to ziyue. Ziyue glanced at it at will as usual, was slightly stunned, and picked up a few embroidery from the basket to check it carefully.

Ziyue nodded slightly when she saw it, and made a effort to sign the servant girl to pay. The servant girl took out a ingot of silver from the bag and handed it to Ziwan. The silver was about five Liang, and there were dozens of embroidery pieces. The price was undoubtedly much higher than selling to Zhenbao Pavilion.

The purple moon motioned the little servant girl to pick up the basket, but Shen Qingru raised his arm and said, "wait."

The little servant girl looked at her suspiciously, and even the purple moon came along. Shen Qingru smiled and picked up five embroidery from the basket and handed it to the little servant girl: "my embroidery is one or two silver."

The aster's face changed color suddenly. Is the girl crazy? Embroidery is not worth money in the frontier fortress. The price she paid is much higher than the ordinary market price. The girl even asked for a silver or two?

A silver or two was enough for her to buy the whole basket of embroidery.

"Why? You don't want to sell?" the purple moon raised her eyebrows and looked provocatively at Shen Qingru.