Chapter 135

135 get the best customer

Ziyu's eyebrows picked and looked at Shen Qingru's eyes with a trace of bad: "what? You're not going to sell it?"

Shen Qingru ignored the provocation in her words and replied with a smile: "girl, this embroidery sells for one or two silver."

Ziyu sneered and looked around Shen Qingru's face. It seemed that she wanted to estimate the origin of the other party. After half a ring, she slowly said, "do you know that you can't even sell a silver or two in the market?"

"I know." Shen Qingru nodded and said with a smile, "that's why he came to Wucheng guard's residence to sell." anyway, everyone knows that Wucheng guard has money. He doesn't make money for nothing.

This almost rogue answer almost made Ziyu happy. Sure enough, as her family said, there were evil people in poor mountains and rivers. There is nothing else in the frontier fortress, but there are many cheeky people.

"If you don't want to sell, just stand outside. Sister Ziyu is busy here." the little servant girl of the city guard's house is very clever. Seeing the purple moon's face showing displeasure, she hurried up to drive people out for her.

"Girl, these embroidery will never be sold to anyone except chengshoufu." Shen Qingru was not angry and calmly explained to ziyue. The purple moon was slightly stunned. Who would you sell your embroidery to? What do you mean by telling me?

Shen Qingru patiently explained to her, "this is a unique embroidery in Suzhou. Wu Chengshou is from Jiangnan. I think you know something about it. Are these embroidery worth the price? If you can't make up your mind, you can take it to your wives and ladies."

Ziyue couldn't make up her mind. Hearing this, she looked at Shen Qingru suspiciously for a moment, but heard the other party cut the nail and cut the railway: "such a good thing is not appreciated in the frontier fortress. If the city guard doesn't buy it, I'd rather burn these embroidery than sell it on the market!"

The purple moon stagnated, but the woman in front of her didn't dare to look down. She hesitated, picked up a Yingluo from the small basket, whispered to the little servant girl around her, turned and returned to the city guard's residence.

As soon as the purple moon left, the vendors around the city guard house were anxious. How could the buyer go back before the business of the city guard house could open? The knife like eyes stared at the "culprit" Shen Qingru. Shen Qingru stood in the middle of the crowd and calmly accepted the malicious eyes from all directions.

However, this situation lasted for a few seconds. When Sanger, who bolted the last mouthful of sugar gourd, stood up in front of Shen Qingru and put his right hand on the scabbard intentionally or unintentionally,; The eyes from all directions suddenly became much friendlier.

Well, the frontier people are so knowledgeable

The time of two incense sticks passed, and the door of the city guard's house was still closed. Aster looked anxiously at Shen Qingru, but saw that her young lady was closing her eyes and recuperating, a leisurely look.

"It's time to come out soon." the young lady seemed to be aware of her doubts and explained to her in a low voice.

Since the young lady opened her mouth, aster waited patiently. She also heard from Shen Qingru about sister-in-law Huiwen and sympathized with their orphaned and widowed mother's difficult situation. If the young lady can find a high price buyer for sister-in-law Huiwen's embroidery, the life of sister-in-law Huiwen's mother and son will be much better in the future.

The side door of the city guard's house opened again with a "squeak". The big servant girl ziyue who came out of the door still had no expression and went straight to Shen Qingru: "I want all your embroidery."

There was an uproar around. They were all watching jokes. Is the little girl crazy? One or two silver is enough to buy a cow in the frontier fortress. How dare she ask for one or two silver for this worthless rag?

But the purple moon girl agreed!

Shen Qingru smiled and motioned aster to pass the embroidery in the basket: "forty five pieces in total. Thank you, girl."

The servant girl beside ziyue handed over a ingot of silver. Shen Qingru took it over and weighed it, and conveniently collected it in her purse. When she turned to leave, the purple moon stopped her.

"This girl, can you come into the house with me?" ziyue's tone was very kind, not aggressive. Shen Qingru obeys kindness and nods with a smile.

Ziyue looked at her calm expression and felt more and more that her young lady would look at people. The young lady had told herself to buy some embroidery at the right price and play in the room. However, the customs of the frontier fortress are rough, and exquisite embroidery can't be seen here, so the young lady didn't report any hope.

But the embroidery that the girl sells on the door today is exquisite, and the price is too high. Ziyue couldn't make up her mind, so she had to pick up one and take it to the young lady for her to have a look.

Miss Wu took Yingluo for a look and asked ziyue what kind of person she was selling embroidery. Ziyue answered truthfully, and said Shen Qingru's words "if the city guard doesn't buy it, she'd rather burn it than sell it at a low price". Miss Wu lowered her eyes and thought, "how many of her embroidery, according to the price she said."

The purple moon widened her eyes and looked puzzled. The embroidery seller is obviously asking exorbitant prices. Even if the young lady likes it, she should be allowed to make a counter-offer. How can the young lady directly agree?

Miss Wu smiled gently, pointed to the Yingluo and said softly: "This is the embroidery style of Suzhou area, but it is different from ordinary Suzhou embroidery. You see, the flowers on the Yingluo are all similar to the broken branches and flowers of various famous artists in the Tang, song, yuan and Ming Dynasties. The format and color matching are very elegant and fresh, which is by no means comparable to the gorgeous craftsman of ordinary Suzhou embroidery. The old sentence of old people chanting flowers is inscribed next to each flower. All of them are embroidered with black wool, with cursive characters, kicking, turning and weight , even breaking is the same as writing... "

"Such embroidery is the best of Suzhou embroidery." Miss Wu concluded, and her fingers wandered on the Yingluo: "the owner of this embroidery is a woman who knows a lot of writing and ink and a smart man“

Knowing the value of these embroideries, he wisely chose the buyer of chengshoufu. Without hesitation, he offered a high price and was bold. He also told himself that these embroideries are unique and will never appear in the market through the mouth of ziyue. The owner of these embroideries is not only smart, but also knows the hearts of the people.

A silver or two is not expensive.

Ziyue gradually turned around at this time. No wonder the girl always stressed to herself "never sell at a low price" I wanted to tell you that these embroideries are unique. Although she doesn't go out on weekdays, she often gets together with the wives and young ladies of some officials in the frontier fortress. These officials don't say anything, but they secretly shout in their hearts. Their clothes are newer, their jewelry is unique, and their hair is finely combed

The food and clothing expenses of the frontier fortress are not exquisite. Young ladies often "hit their clothes" at parties. Therefore, uniqueness has become the primary requirement for their young ladies when buying clothes and jewelry.

However, the merchants in the frontier fortress can't only sell to the city guard's house, so the collision of clothes still happens from time to time. Every time ziyue sees her young lady frowning back to the house, she can guess that her new hairpin is the same as that of Miss Zhang, or the pattern on her clothes is heavier than that of Miss Li.

Ziyue almost admired the young woman who sold embroidery. She left with miss. She was about to turn around and buy all the embroidery, but she saw her young lady waving to her.

Ziyue hurried forward. Miss Wu signaled her to come over and quietly ordered her to say a few words.

Following ziyue, Shen Qingru entered the city guard's house. The accompanying little servant girls quickly brought some snacks. Shen Qingru looked down and saw that rose pine nut candy, Poria cocos cake and emerald sweet cake are all unique snacks in the south of the Yangtze River. Ziyue personally poured Shen Qingru a tea. Shen Qingru nodded his thanks and took a sip of the tea cup.

The tea in the cup is curly like a snail, the color of tea is silver and green, the entrance is refreshing and fresh, and the color of soup is green... It is Biluochun, a famous tea in Suzhou.

Ziyue observed the expression on the young woman's face through the dense tea gas. Seeing her looking over, she explained with a smile: "this tea is brought by my master from Suzhou. Our house always feels that the tea here is boring and can't be used to eating. It's still the tea of my hometown."

Shen Qingru also smiled: "the frontier fortress is cold and bitter. The tea is thick but tasteless. How can it compare with the famous tea in Lord Wu's hometown?" he sniffed the tea fragrance gently: "the name of Biluochun is as real as it is. It really scares people."

The purple moon was stunned. Biluochun is also known as Dongting tea, but locals call it "frightening people's fragrance". It is said that in the early years, a Buddhist nun in Gusu went to the mountain for a spring outing, picked several pieces of tea, made it fragrant, and blurted out the phrase "frightening people's fragrance", which became the original name of this tea.

Later, however, the tea became a royal tribute. The emperor despised the name "frightening people's fragrance", so he waved his pen and renamed it "Biluochun". However, the people of Suzhou generation have long been used to the name and most of them call it "frightening people's fragrance".

Miss, you guessed right. The woman selling embroidery is by no means an ordinary frontier fortress woman.

"I haven't asked the girl yet..." ziyue opened her mouth gently and looked at Shen Qingru.

"I'm a foreigner. I came to the frontier fortress with my husband after I got married." Shen Qingru replied with a smile, "this embroidery was also sold by my husband's colleague's widow on my behalf."

"Oh..." ziyue nodded. No wonder she felt that the woman in front of her was noble, and her demeanor was not like an ordinary border embroiderer. It turned out that she came here after getting married.

"Don't worry, I can fully represent my sister-in-law. If you have any requirements, you can tell me directly." Shen Qingru said slowly.

The woman is really a smart man. Ziyue is relieved. It's easy to talk to a smart man.

"My lady wants your sister-in-law to help embroider some personal things."

"Embroiderers are just like these. It's important to keep it secret." ziyue whispered.

Shen Qingru nodded knowingly. She guessed what Miss Wu wanted sister-in-law Huiwen to embroider.

"This is the deposit." ziyue nodded. The little servant girl beside her picked up a plate of silver and put it in front of Shen Qingru. There were a hundred liang of silver shining in the snow.

Shen Qingru calmly collected the plate of silver and nodded to ziyue: "don't worry, miss. I'll tell my sister-in-law exactly what Miss Wu told me."

Ziyue politely sent her out of the Wu house. At the moment of walking out of the Wu house, Shen Qingru suddenly thought of a question: "ziyue girl, I want to ask, has your house never bought this kind of embroidery before?"

Ziyue turned in surprise: "No. There are few embroideries here, and there are few good ones. Our young lady has always wanted to buy them, but she has never met any good ones."

Shen Qingru nodded, thanked ziyue, and turned away with Sanger and aster.

Ziyue's words proved one thing. The treasure Pavilion never sold the embroidery collected from sister-in-law Huiwen at a low price to the city guard house. The city guard house is the only customer of the frontier fortress who may buy Embroidery at a high price, but the treasure pavilion has never sold to the city guard house. Where did sister-in-law Huiwen's Embroidery go?

Does Zhenbao Pavilion really cost a lot of money to transport back to the capital for sale?