The Pastoral Wife: Holding the Doll and becoming the richest man

Chapter 196 The Wooden Man Outside the Arena
Ming Xiaoxiao chose the flower building in the center of Shuangyang Town, which was not demolished in a while.The flower building was left by the former prefect who threw hydrangea balls to choose relatives, but she didn't expect to throw hydrangea balls in a few days. The prefect was found to be corrupt and sent to the frontier directly, so Hua Lou stayed.Everyone thinks it is bad luck, but Ming Xiaoxiao has first-hand information.

This magistrate was entrusted by the emperor with the important task of leading the army to the frontier. Therefore, although the flower building has not been demolished, and it looks unlucky on the surface, in fact, there are rich people waiting for what this magistrate does. !Ming Xiaoxiao and him should belong to the same camp in essence, so at the suggestion of the emperor, she used this flower building.

Ming Xiaoxiao couldn't find the kind of air arch in his previous life, so after thinking about it, he adopted the form of pulling banners, and then ordered a lot of colored lights to pretend to be balloons.

What Ming Xiaoxiao didn't expect was that there were more than 400 people who came to participate in the preliminaries, which was far beyond her expected number, because in this era, publicity is not so convenient, and people are not so confident. So Ming Xiaoxiao was not very sure about participating in this kind of competition at first, but she suddenly realized that she seemed to have underestimated the ancients.

When Ming Xiaoxiao first sorted out the number of participants, she was really taken aback, but Bai Huitang explained the reason to her: "First of all, it is now, and the weather is indeed getting colder in winter. Although this year is not a disaster year, but It’s not a particularly good year either. Who cherishes food especially in winter? You posted a reward again, a bag of white rice for a family. That’s what many people dream of, so it attracts so many people. Fortunately, You didn't say it at the beginning, as long as you participate, you will have it, otherwise, villages from all over the world will have to come here to sign up!"

Ming Xiaoxiao wanted to agree with this statement, and sighed, she was afraid that she didn't pick the right one in the end, and now she can barely deal with it, but the next year, the next year, the more things to do There are more and more, how can it be possible to always provide new design solutions?

Ming smiled and looked at the contestants below, some of them were still wearing brocade clothes?Is it possible that there is really a lady with more personality who came to participate? Ming Xiaoxiao specially prepared capes for female participants, because in this era, although women can show their faces, it is not convenient after all, especially for some Our young ladies or some girls from declining families may be unwilling to participate in this kind of public competition according to the etiquette, but they are forced to find a job for their livelihood, so they bite the bullet and participate, and their hands may be real. There is no such thing as a hat, so Ming Xiaoxiao prepared these.

I have to say that Ming Xiaoxiao's actions really touched many little girls. This is the place where the emperor and his relatives come to retire, but there are also some who have no source of income, so they have lived a prosperous life for a few years. He was already unable to make ends meet, and he didn't have any business acumen, so he could only hold on to his face. Now that he has such a job, it would be great if he could not be recognized by others.

In order to attract people's attention, besides dressing up, Ming Xiaoxiao also prepared firecrackers, and asked the girls to perform a dance with the most famous local mandarin duck house, so that there would be an opening dance and a closing dance, and he and she spent the first time A big price was paid to let the oiran come over to preside over a series of competition procedures.

Although it shows that the money given by Xiaoxiao is not particularly outstanding, it is the first time for the girls to participate in this kind of event, and it is not a skin business!They just do what they are usually good at, but the money they get privately is much more than what they get from picking up customers in the building, so there are still many girls who are willing to do Ming Xiaoxiao's work.

With slender stature, every girl is amazing!Ming Xiaoxiao abandoned the seductive dance of their brothel, but connected some simple modern street dance moves together.The girls have never seen this kind of dance before, but they have a foundation in dancing themselves, so it took about two or three days to rehearse this kind of dance. The proprietress, Cuigu, saw this kind of group dance and found it very novel, so she offered to ask for a price She said she would give Ming Xiaoxiao a [-]% discount, but Ming Xiaoxiao had to let them use this dance, Ming Xiaoxiao naturally agreed, and she had to teach a few more sections, even if she didn't use other times in her opening performance, it didn't matter.

This transaction was very pleasant, Ming Xiao smiled and watched, the stage had been set up, and the contestants who were already ready knocked the gong with a sigh of relief, the oiran heard the sound of the gong and came to the stage, and then made a gesture.

The energetic sound of playing music came, and the passers-by, who were not very concerned at first, also paid a little attention to the oiran, and in her sweet voice, holding a loudspeaker, said slowly: "Welcome everyone to come to the first big summer fashion design competition, I declare that this competition has officially started, first welcome our girls and bring us the opening dance!"

Although Ming Xiaoxiao spent a lot of money to exchange the loudspeaker from the space, it seems that the effect is good now!
More and more people gathered around. Originally, when they saw the girls from Yuanyang Building, they thought it was some soft dance. Although many men stopped, the women and shoppers didn't care much, and even showed contempt. However, as soon as this group of girls took the stage, they started their performance. A movement was very handsome and clean, and because of the trained waist, there was a sense of softness and continuity of the dance.The girls who passed by were also attracted.

This Huaxia Pavilion has just opened, the clothes they launched last time are very attractive, and this time the girls are wearing new and neat clothes, of course, these are specially made by Ming Xiaoxiao.These clothes are already very neat for the bodyguards, and they are also very suitable for Xiali. They are warm and easy to move around.

So this opening dance created a huge momentum, and the emperor on the opposite side of Hualou looked at the dance below, and showed a satisfied smile, and then he and Cheng Gonggong beside him said: "This group of women can be sent to the mansion. , dance again properly, it’s novel to watch.”

Eunuch Chen was terrified. Did he know that the dancing girl below came from the biggest brothel in the area, so he hurriedly knelt down without daring to make a sound. Seeing Chenggong like this, the emperor sighed in disappointment.

There were more and more people, and it became more and more lively. After the novel opening dance faded away, the crowd did not leave. Instead, they walked to the two sides according to the number of people, and brought up the cloth and paper that had been prepared long ago. The guys moved one table after another.

"Welcome everyone to the site of our design competition. Our competition is divided into three stages, the first is the preliminaries."

As the voice of the oiran came, a scroll was spread from top to bottom from the flower building, with the preliminaries and the requirements for the preliminaries written on it, and the oiran reported the contents of the scroll one by one.

"There are 420 participants this time, and they need to design two sets of clothing, one for men and one for women."

"It's winter now, so this preliminaries are mainly about winter clothing. If someone can't draw, they can make the clothes and fabrics they want in the same time. You can choose here. But if you can draw pictures, we prefer to draw pictures , and all kinds of paints have already selected the style of the clothing here, and the materials and patterns can be written down here. Ten people form a group, and our judges are on this building!"

With the opening of the red curtain that had been covering the Huahua Building of the oiran, there were sitting on it, Ming Xiaoxiao, Ten Princesses and Bai Huitang!
Ming smiled and waved his hand. The game officially started!
The contestants enter the arena, and the oiran personally puts a stick of incense. The contestants have to complete the clothes they made or drew on time within three sticks of incense.

Everyone present looked at the audience nervously, but during this period, Ming Xiaoxiao didn't make everyone in the audience wait. Instead, he asked the oiran to prepare an anagram game. If some literati and poets are interested, you can Come here to guess lantern riddles, and there are corresponding small rewards. Everything in this game is so novel, and there are also exquisite little gifts. You can take this gift. It may be a lady's favorite hairpin, or it may be a man. You need to get what your loved one needs. As the first prize of the bride price, it is usually a pair of jade pendants. That's why Ming Xiaoxiao bought a batch of jade pendants. There are ten winners in total, and they will be opened every half an hour once.

Moreover, these prizes are all customized. When the winner gets the gift, the master will ask the master to engrave the winner's name on it on the spot, and some special verses can also be customized, so the participants are also a lot of.

On the scene, as long as the heat doesn't subside and the crowd doesn't disperse, it's fine. Ming Xiaoxiao and Bai Huitang are both watching the crowd off the stage. Only because they don't understand, the ten princesses who were chased away by the emperor and returned by the emperor's edict are very excited, because She can be with Bai Huitang again, and this time she can see this kind of competition. Although she knows that she is smiling, she has always been weird in her mind, but this is the first time she has seen such a big scene!Therefore, Princess Ten didn't care too much about what Ming Xiaoxiao was doing, but kept dragging Bai Huitang to watch the game off the court.

Bai Huitang glanced at Ming Xiaoxiao worriedly, because this time Li Zhirui was also doing some investigations in the crowd, Ming Xiaoxiao shook his head slightly, while Li Zhirui was constantly investigating those people with doubtful identities in the crowd .

Suddenly, Li Zhirui was taken aback, because the two people in front of him were not real people.Those two people were wearing veiled hats and walking very calmly, but their actions were very strange. Under the thick winter clothes, Li Zhirui saw a piece of wood.

Why are these people here?Aren't they specially prepared for combat?Now why come and hang out in this crowded place?

Wouldn't it be better if real people were sent to investigate?What can these two wooden men do?What to do?

Suddenly, the two of them pulled out their daggers together, just like Li Zhirui had planned to pull out a long knife before, and slowly walked towards the crowd. Li Zhirui's face changed, and he quickly knocked off the daggers of the two of them, and The switch was pressed silently, and the two people remained still.

Originally, they wanted to use this wooden figure as a model for the winner in this competition, and then lifted it up by themselves. Now it seems that they have a better reason to go to the emperor.

The people in the dark didn't see who was subduing the wooden soldier?Because Li Zhirui made some disguise today, and also brought a bamboo hat, and moved quickly, and left with the two wooden men, so the people in the dark just tracked Li Zhirui, entered an alley, and found nothing. After Li Zhirui and the pursuers left, he issued an order with the emperor's guards to let them track these two people anyway. He wanted to bring this thing to the emperor.

The emperor knew about Li Zhirui's actions. Originally, they beat up the emperor's poem to prevent the subordinates from making trouble, but they didn't expect the people behind to release the wooden man. What does this mean?Li Zhirui was afraid that there was some self-destruct device inside the wooden man, so he took a closer look at the wooden man, and found that there was gunpowder inside. Li Zhirui knew how to activate it, but it must be very dangerous if he put it directly in front of the emperor. of.

Li Zhirui removed the gunpowder with his hands. As long as there is no open flame, this pile of gunpowder is useless.Taking advantage of the emperor's absence, he hid this thing.

When the emperor saw this thing, he also squinted his eyes. He heard his subordinates describe the dexterity of this thing. He looked at Li Zhirui and said, "How did you subdue them? Or how do you know how to control them when you tell the truth?" Where is their institution?"

Li Zhirui said very frankly: "Caomin has seen people use this kind of wooden things before, making them look like cows, horses, and the kind of cows and things that are transported. There is a raised place behind the neck to press down, and they don't like it. If it moves, pull it up, and they can drag the food away, so they guessed it at the time, but luckily they were right."

The emperor had never seen that kind of thing, but someone had already used it in Shuangyang Town. He asked Li Zhirui to tell the place, and Li Zhirui also told the truth.This structure was taught to other local people by his two masters ten years ago to transport heavy objects, so he was not afraid, because he didn't show up at that time, and those people naturally didn't know him.

"Do you know how this kind of thing is made?" The emperor asked Li Zhirui tentatively. Li Zhirui looked at the wooden man, frowned, and then replied sincerely: "If we dismantle both of them, maybe we I can find it, but after dismantling it, I’m not sure I can put it back together, so this thing may be useless.”

What Li Zhirui said was the truth, the emperor nodded, but he didn't give the job to Li Zhirui. In his eyes, Li Zhirui only needed to help Ming Xiaoxiao make money. Let's leave it to the tactics department of the palace to study it!

Li Zhirui retreated without nostalgia at all. The place where the gunpowder was originally held was used to hold tung oil, because in this case, as long as one piece is added, the wooden man will be burned if he shoots this place, and will not leave the enemy at all. What is the place for reference, but now he has removed the gunpowder, even if the emperor's people went to study this place later, they can have another theory.

At that time, the pictures he drew before can be directly burned and destroyed, because they are no longer needed.

(End of this chapter)