six-fingered peasant girl

Chapter 102 Cao Mingzhu

With advice, it was a big county again. Su Liu quickly received two donkey skins for less than three taels of silver. He also heard from the donkey skin seller that it was going to be winter. Gradually, there will be more meat, and she made an agreement with the donkey skin seller. In the future, if there are donkey skins, she will take as much as she wants, and the price is still very impressive.

When she came to the county, she received two donkey skins. Su Liu was very happy, and sent someone to send them back to the inn, while she and Ning Guang walked around slowly.

Changping County is a large county with a population of more than [-]. It is also the central axis of Gyeongju. There are many merchants coming and going. This is how Cao’s water transportation started. There are many ships. There are many merchants, and the economy is naturally prosperous. The local tyrants, gentry, That's too much.

Unlike Baise Town, where no one walks around in the afternoon, Changping County is a big county after all, and there are many squires. Even though it is near the end of the Shen Dynasty, there are still many girls and boys in silk and satin walking around.

In fact, Ning Guang is not bad looking, tall and tall, with distinct facial features. Although he has a cold face, he has attracted the eyebrows of many girls along the way, making Su Liu sour.

Glancing at the person around him, but seeing that he didn't look sideways, as if he didn't notice, he couldn't help but feel funny again, because he felt jealous for no reason.

"Go in and take a look?" Ning Guang suddenly stopped.

Su Liu looked up, Bazhen Hall, the door was wide open, but it was a jewelry shop.

It is a woman's nature to love beauty, and Su Liu is no exception. She just came here because she has a lot of cash and is usually busy with work, so Su Liu doesn't have a special preference for jewelry, but Su Xiao likes to dress up.

"Alright, the little girl asked me to buy some nice jewelry for her." Su Liu walked in with a smile.

At this point, there were not many people in Bazhentang, there were only a few, and the guy was coping with it, with a look of impatience in his eyes, maybe he didn't make a good choice after looking at it for a long time.

Seeing Su and Liu coming in, he raised a smiling face, but after carefully looking at Su and Liu's clothes, his smile narrowed a bit, and he said, "What do you two want to buy?"

"Let me take a look first." Su Liu smiled lightly and looked around.

The shop is very large, and all kinds of pearls and jade jewelry are dazzling, and besides jewelry, it also sells some gadgets for girls' boudoir home decoration, such as pearls and jade inlaid mirrors.

Su Liu turned around slowly, while Ning Guang stood aside, holding his chest with both hands, like a door god.

Seeing a pair of rabbit-shaped jade pendants, Su Liu remembered Su Xiao's jumpy temper, and said, "Brother, please show me this pair of ear pendants."

Hearing this, the man hurried over, took out the pair of pendants from the cabinet, and said with a smile: "Miss has good eyesight, this pendant has just arrived, look at this carving, it's lifelike, it's not expensive, it only costs eight Two denarii."

Su Liu was slightly startled, the earrings were made of ordinary jade, and it didn't look particularly bright, but it was so expensive, as expected, it was in the city, where every inch of land was expensive.

It's not that Su Liu didn't have eight taels of silver. Although she liked it in her heart, she didn't show it on her face. She just put it down with a smile and looked at others.

When the guy saw it, he said, "If the girl really likes it, the price can also be negotiated."

"I'll take another look." Su Liu said lightly.

When the guy heard this, his face became a little ugly, and he muttered something. At this moment, the two women who were watching in the store called him over.

"Girl, auntie, you've been looking at it for half an hour, and the price really can't be lowered. Our Bazhentang is not a stall set up by that hawker, so how can we have the price you said? This one point You get what you pay for, if you don’t like it, go to the market tomorrow, and you can probably buy it in Dongjie, but Shuitou, it’s definitely not very good.”

Su Liu looked over, the girl was sixteen or seventeen years old, wearing coarse clothes, dark skin, seemed embarrassed and hesitant, in front of her was a silver hairpin, probably because of what the assistant said, she pinched the corner of her clothes and bit her lip in shame, Beside her, there is a middle-aged woman who is also wearing patched clothes.

"Brother, let it be less, my daughter is getting married, and I want to give her a dowry decently." The woman begged softly.

"A tael of silver is still too expensive? Let's go, it's fine if you don't buy it, I have other customers."

"Mother, forget it, I don't want it anymore, I save it to buy meat for my father and younger brother." The girl gritted her teeth and reluctantly handed back the silver hairpin.

"It's really bad luck." The clerk took it and cursed: "You dare to enter the Bazhen Hall without money, you are a poor ghost."

The mother and daughter stiffened and walked out blushing.

Su Liu looked at it and shook her head, suddenly lost interest: "Brother Ning, let's go, don't buy it."

Ning Guang was taken aback, but didn't ask anything, and followed her out.

At the door, the mother and daughter were talking about something, the girl just covered her face and cried, the mother had a sad face, gritted her teeth, and wanted to rush into the store, the girl held her tightly and shook her head.

"Why?" Ning Guang was a little puzzled.

"This Bazhentang, the service attitude is so bad, even if there are beautiful jewelry, I don't want to buy it. Just wait and see, this store will definitely not survive." Su Liu snorted, maybe, she just couldn't see it. Get used to the way that guy looks down on people like a dog.

Ning Guang frowned, looked back, and said, "Then go to another house."

"Girl, please stay."

The two were about to leave when someone stopped them suddenly. Su Liu turned her head, but at some point, a sedan chair stopped beside the sedan chair, and a pretty maid stood beside the sedan chair.

"You called me?" Su Liu pointed at herself.

The servant girl gave her a generous blessing and said, "Miss, my lady has an invitation."

Su Liu and Ning Guang looked at each other, but they saw the maid lifted the curtain of the sedan chair, reached out her hand, and put a slender hand like white jade on her hand. Immediately afterwards, a woman came out of the sedan chair.

Looking at the girl at first glance, Su Liu hissed, "Be good, what do you call a city and a country, this girl is it.

She was about sixteen or seventeen years old, and she had a melon-seeded face with a bun and exposed temples, light eyebrows and eyes with spring, her skin was as soft and greasy as gentle jade, and her small cherry mouth was not pimpleable but red, delicate and charming.The two strands of hair around her cheeks gently brushed against her face in the wind to add a bit of seductive charm, and her nimble eyes were watery, revealing intelligence and alertness.She was wearing a light green long dress with light blue peonies embroidered on the cuffs, a few auspicious clouds drawn out by silver threads, a row of blue sea clouds at the hem, and a wide piece of light yellow brocade wrapped around her chest. , the body gently turned the long skirt to spread out, and her gestures were as graceful as willows blowing in the wind, presenting a family of beauties.

Standing in front of her, Su Liu suddenly felt ashamed. This is really beautiful, like a piece of beautiful jade, and she just wants to cherish it.

Not only did she feel this way, even the mother and daughter looked at her enviously.

The woman walked forward with the maid's hand, and when she saw Ning Guang, she was taken aback for a moment, but smiled generously, then looked at Su Liu, gave a slight blessing, and asked, "I don't know why the girl said this." The store can’t keep going? But it’s because the jewelry is too bad?”

Su Liu was slightly stunned, and said with a smile: "Jewelry is naturally good, but the bad thing is the attitude of the shopkeepers. The worst thing to do when opening a shop is to look down on people with a dog's eyes, and smile all over your face when you are well-dressed, shaking your head and tail. The shy people in the middle of the world will speak ill of each other. May I ask how many people like this kind of shop? Even if I have money, I don’t want to spend it here. There is more than one shop here. Customers spend money to buy services. It's Shuxin." She pointed at the mother and daughter again, and said: "Take the mother and daughter as an example, they can't afford it now, and they may not be able to afford it in the future, but now this shop has offended them, and in the future they will be able to afford it." Now that the money is gone, will you come to this store to buy jewelry again?"

Seeing the thoughtful look on the woman's face, she snorted again: "It's too short-sighted to judge whether a person has silver or not just by superficial skills. In business, the emphasis is on honesty. In a word, customers are God."

"God?"

Uh, Su Liu coughed and said, "In other words, customers are everything, they are the parents of food and clothing."

"Girl is so young, it's really interesting to talk." The woman covered her mouth with a handkerchief and smiled.

Su Liu smiled back faintly, and wanted to leave, but at this moment, the shopkeeper and the guy in the shop all ran out, and saluted the beauty respectfully after all: "Miss."

The woman withdrew her smile, her eyes fell on the flattering guy, she sneered and said: "I wonder why the business in the shop has gone so badly, it's because of people like you. Shopkeeper Yan, you look at people with such a dog's eyes Low man, I don't need Bazhentang, you just settle his wages and let him go."

The guy was startled, and hurriedly fell to his knees and begged for mercy, while the shopkeeper just smiled along with him, and gave him a hard look.

The beauty ignored him, glanced at the mother and daughter standing in the corner, smiled and said, "I don't know what jewelry you chose? Shopkeeper Yan, take it out and give it to them as an apology, and it will be in my account." Su Liu said: "Girl, if that's the case, would you like to visit this shop again?"

The mother and daughter got a silver hairpin without spending a penny. They couldn't help but knelt on the ground and thanked each other.

Su Liu was also stunned, smiled, raised her feet and walked into the shop again, chose the earrings she was looking for, and picked out two silver hairpins and one with gold wire twisted flowers and tassels. I bought the cheapest price, but the woman didn't show up again.

In the evening, Su Liu, Ning Guang, Song Xiao and the others went to the Cao family arena to watch the excitement. The arena was very high and was already full of people. .

Under everyone's anticipation, Miss Cao Pingting walked out, lifted the veil on her face, and gave a generous blessing to the audience.

Seeing the alluring beauty of the woman on the stage, Su Liu exclaimed, "Is she Cao Mingzhu?"

(End of this chapter)