Shu Blossoms

Chapter 153 First Talking About Business
On the sixth day of the first lunar month in the tenth year of Wei Daxing, the warm sun was blowing, and the spring breeze was still cold.

Zheng Wei hastily changed into a light purple jacket and a dark purple flower skirt, covered her face with white gauze and then put on a veiled hat.

Liao Wennan was also dressed in the same way, but she was wearing a water-red skirt. The two of them were dressed as sisters, like two twin winter lotus flowers, and quietly walked out of the alley.

Sanping and Tong'er stared straight at the back.

"Just let the two of them go out like this?"

Sanping watched the two 'weak' girls leaving the house like this, and asked Tong'er worriedly.

Tong'er curled her lips, "What else? Both of us are not as skilled as Ah Wei."

Sanping choked when he heard the words, he was sent by his own girl to practice in the army for a few months, although he was not yet a master, but these days he was protecting his girl.

Now that he met a girl who was younger than him, he couldn't hold a stick of incense in her hands.

These days, Master Zhao taught him the art, and he also studied hard, but the more he practiced these days, the more depressed he became. It took him a month to practice the boxing well, and the girl was proficient in ten days, and she beat herself so weakly that she couldn't fight back. .

Sanping sighed, resigned to his fate and stayed at home to watch the house.

"I'm not used to wearing a skirt for a long time." Zheng Wei adjusted the hem of the skirt, took off the veiled hat and sat down to rest, "Sanping should borrow a donkey cart to take us there."

"You are still young, you should wear more beautiful clothes like this." Liao Wennan couldn't help praising Zheng Wei's delicate face, which looked more delicate and beautiful against the purple background.

Zheng Wei couldn't help laughing when she heard this, "Sister, didn't you see yourself in the bronze mirror when you went out today, you are so gorgeous and unparalleled!"

The two flattered each other a few words, couldn't help but looked at each other and smiled, and hurriedly put on their caps and continued on their way.

The two sisters carefully walked all the way to the city in order to hide their eyes and ears. Fortunately, the two of them had already practiced these days. After walking for more than half an hour, they found the two cloth shops that Fat Hu mentioned. They chose one with a bigger appearance. go in.

The Buzhuang guys welcomed them in very enthusiastically.

"Are the two girls here to buy the cloth for the Lantern Festival? The cloth here is the latest, and it can also imitate the patterns worn by the ladies and noble ladies in the palace last winter."

The Buzhuang guy lowered his voice and said quietly.

Zheng Wei and Liao Wennan looked at each other, and they both saw the joy in each other's eyes.

It seems they found the right place.

Zheng Wei leaned closer to the waiter, and also lowered his voice, "My sister and I are going to attend the Lantern Festival banquet at Mingyue Tower, your cloth shop may get the clothes worn by Empress He Lai at the spring banquet on the eighth day of the next day."

The clerk looked at them vigilantly, the two were single without servants, and their clothes were considered elegant, but not luxurious.

But the aura of the slightly older girl is so faint that people dare not look directly at it. Although this small girl is eccentric, she is also full of nobility.

The waiter was not sure of their identities for a while, so he didn't dare to neglect them, so he invited them into the inner room after a while, "Please wait a moment, both of you, this matter is too big to be decided by the small ones, so we invite our shopkeeper to come in." .”

After a quarter of an hour, a man in his early thirties came in, wearing a dark gray brocade robe, he should be the shopkeeper of the cloth shop.

When they were looking at the shopkeeper, the shopkeeper was also looking at them, and the two sides made a judgment in their hearts calmly. The man showed a polite smile on his face and walked in.

"My lord, Zhong is the shopkeeper of this cloth shop." Shopkeeper Zhong introduced himself with a smile.

Liao Wennan still sat there calmly without moving, only looked up at him.

Zheng Wei admired it very much, she felt that even her eldest princess's mother did not have such a calm and majestic aura.

She nodded to shopkeeper Zhong, and imitated Liao Wennan's appearance, sitting upright.

Not only was shopkeeper Zhong not angry when he saw this, he brought two bowls of buttermilk in front of them and made a gesture of invitation.

Zheng Wei took a bowl and put it in Liao Wennan's hand, and she brought another bowl and held it in her hand to keep warm.

But the two of them didn't drink, and they really didn't dare to eat outside casually given their current situation.

"Didn't the two nobles come to buy cloth?"

Shopkeeper Zhong stood aside and asked tentatively.

"I'm here to give you a big deal!"

Liao Wennan held the buttermilk in his hands and smelled it lightly, then replied calmly.

Although her voice was soft, it carried an unquestionable deterrence.

Zheng Wei was dumbfounded once again, although they discussed it before coming, Liao Wennan with a stable temperament was in charge of the town, and Zheng Wei was also in charge of bargaining.

But sister's aura is too strong, if not knowing her background, Zheng Wei would have thought she was the princess of the palace!

Sure enough, shopkeeper Zhong bowed slightly when he heard the words, and asked with a more respectful attitude: "I dare to ask you, what you are talking about is the costume of Empress He Lai on the eighth day of the lunar new year."

Liao Wennan looked up at him appreciatively, but this one glance made Shopkeeper Zhong, who had been in business for more than ten years, feel flattered, but he did not lose his mind.

"My lord, I think you know that although there are indeed many wives and girls from aristocratic families who are after the beautiful clothes of the ladies in the palace, there is a taboo about this matter, and it is easy to get into big trouble. I'm afraid we will do the big business you said. Do not……"

Shopkeeper Zhong didn't beat around the bush, and directly pointed out the biggest risk in this matter.

Zheng Wei could also hear that Shopkeeper Zhong didn't want to do this business, but was just worried that he would offend the women in the palace.

"We know the rules better than you!"

Seeing that it was her turn to speak, Zheng Wei stood up and walked in front of Shopkeeper Zhong, saying softly.

She can't be as immovable as a mountain like Liao Wennan, but she has her own cleverness.

"You must have noticed that we are not merchants, but the world is bustling for profit, and we are ordinary people, and we will naturally be short of money. So we naturally hope that peace is the most important thing in this business, rather than causing trouble. Sao!"

Seeing Shopkeeper Zhong's expression seemed to relax a little, Zheng Wei took advantage of the victory and pursued, "Is the shopkeeper interested?"

"Appreciate further details!"

Zheng Wei took out three or four patterns and handed them to Shopkeeper Zhong, after a few glances, Shopkeeper Zhong's eyes lit up immediately.

"It's really exquisite and gorgeous!" Shopkeeper Zhong praised, and looked at Zheng Wei and the two hesitantly, "I still have some doubts, and I hope you can clarify my doubts."

"You want to ask how we know that Empress He Lai will wear such clothes at the palace banquet in the future?"

Zheng Wei expressed his doubts for him, and shopkeeper Zhong smiled a little embarrassedly, "That's right, after all, our master's family is quite well-connected in Pingcheng, but we can't know about the girls on the eighth day on the sixth day. clothes."

Zheng Wei smiled slightly, and waved at him, "Come here with your ears!"

Shopkeeper Zhong took two steps forward, bent even lower, Zheng Wei said something softly, Shopkeeper Zhong looked at them with surprise on his face.

"Later on, the carriage that transports Miracle Doctor Luo back to the palace will pass by. If you have any questions, you can ask them."

The carriages in the palace usually leave the palace directly from Chidao to Bronze Street, and almost never go to the commercial street, Zheng Wei said so, Zhong Guanshi still didn't believe it.

Zheng Wei didn't continue to explain, but just sat upright again, waiting silently.

In fact, Zheng Wei's palms holding the buttermilk were slightly sweating, the agreement she made with Luo Yan this morning was that if the matter was successful, he would send him to Dongshi Commercial Street on a carriage in the palace after leaving the palace, and if it failed, he would go back home directly.

(End of this chapter)