Little lucky girl from the peasant family: Queen Splendid

Chapter 539 Mirror!Mirror!
In the room, Ding Wei was taking Ding Lao Er, carefully pasting a piece of silver foil to the palm-sized glass with transparent fish glue.

Ding Laoer looked at the thick stack of silver foil next to him, and wanted to say that the girl was a prodigal, but he held back.

After all, his younger sister's intelligence has been tested countless times. If it wasn't for that mountain god grandma who gave her an excuse, he even suspected for a while that she was a fairy descended from heaven.

Ding Wei didn't know that her brother was thinking so much, she was very nervous at the moment.

In the previous life, I only saw the mirror making method from some novels, and I just glanced over it at that time. I never thought that one day I would actually operate it myself.

If it is done, Yinzi will have long legs to squeeze into his own home.But if it doesn't work, selling only glass products can also guarantee the use of silver on the island, but it is still a bit slow in the end.

Any primitive capital accumulation is actually inseparable from windfall profits.

The mirror is definitely the most dazzling cornerstone for laying the foundation of Taoyuan Island.

Ding Lao Er has been doing carpentry work all year round, and his hands are dexterous and steady. He quickly pasted the silver foil. Ding Wei picked it up and tried it. The fish glue was applied very thinly and evenly, which was better than she imagined.

So he praised, "Second brother's craftsmanship is getting better and better."

Ding Lao Er was blushed by the girl's praise, waved his hands and said, "It's a trivial matter, not worth mentioning."

Ding Wei pinched the glass sheet wrapped in silver foil with tweezers and baked it on the fire. Ding Laoer waited for a while but still hadn't recovered, so she leaned over and asked, "Have you baked it yet?"

Before Ding Wei could respond, he suddenly saw a man's face on the small piece of glass.

Her hair stood up, a wooden hairpin was inserted, her forehead was wide, her eyebrows were thick and black, her eye circles were dark, and she looked haggard.Most importantly... why does this person look so familiar?

"Ah!" Ding Laoer was puzzled for a moment, but he immediately realized, "This...this...is this me?"

Ding Wei was amused by the surprised look of the second brother, and nodded in response, "Yes, second brother, it's you. How about it, can you see clearly?"

Ding Laoer nodded in a daze, "It's clear, it's too clear."

After all, he finally came to his senses, grabbed the girl's hand, and asked tremblingly, "This thing, this thing..."

Ding Wei didn't make things difficult for her second brother, she gently put the crude mirror into the carved makeup box prepared in advance, and said with a smile, "Second brother, you said that this makeup box sells for 300 taels of silver, is anyone buying it?"

"Yes, of course there is!"

Ding Laoer finally understood the girl's intentions, and excitedly jumped three feet high, "Don't talk about 300 taels, if you meet those ladies from big families, you will go crazy for 1000 taels."

"If this kind of mirror is made bigger, standing five or six feet high on the ground, it can clearly see the whole person, shoes, dresses, hair bun..."

Ding Lao Er started to tremble all over when he heard this, "That will cost 1000 taels... No! 2000 taels!"

Ding Wei also smiled brilliantly, "When the time comes, the money earned will be enough to build a few cities."

"Sister, you are so smart. How did you come up with this idea? It's amazing!"

It's just a layer of silver foil pasted on the glass, and everything that can be illuminated is clearly visible, which is ten thousand times better than a bronze mirror, which is really too clear.

One can imagine how crazy those beautiful women would be if they saw this mirror!
"Sister, hurry up and do it, and it will be a big sale in time for the Chinese New Year."

"No hurry, second brother."

Ding Wei pointed to some unevenness on the mirror, shook her head and said, "Now the craftsmanship is still too rough. First of all, the isinglass is not scraped smoothly. If it is too much, it will delay the transparency. If it is too small, it will not stick well. Thirdly, the silver foil is If it is hand-beaten, it will inevitably have unevenness. I think if the silver foil can be replaced with silver powder, brushed on the glass and dried, the effect may be better."

"Silver powder?" Ding Lao Er frowned, "A gold and silver jeweler came to the island two months ago, I'll go find him right away. He will definitely make silver powder!"

While talking, he ran away like a gust of wind, and almost kicked over Angelica's sewing basket when he went out.

"Sorry, Angelica, I will pay you a new one in the future!"

Before he could finish speaking, Ding Laoer had already rushed to the first floor, and he was so shocked that Dang Gui and Bai Shu were both amused.I don't understand how the second master's fat body is so agile.

Of course, the two were even more curious about what good things their master was thinking about in the inner room...

For two or three days in a row, Ding and Laoer ran between the goldsmith's yard and the stone castle, and occasionally couldn't sleep at night and would keep turning around the ground, muttering words.

Even if he was not busy between the two places, he plunged into the woodworking workshop and made seven or eight makeup boxes, large and small, and a "small screen" shelf half a person's height.

Let alone Mrs. Dong now, even his apprentices, big and small, are full of curiosity.

On this day, after a rain, the sky was fine.

The last experiment of Ding Wei brothers and sisters, Ding Lao Er took the finest silver powder made by a goldsmith, diluted it, brushed it little by little behind the glass, and then put it next to the fire to dry it carefully. girl.

Ding Wei took it in her hand and carefully measured it inch by inch. Finally, she let out a long sigh of relief and said happily, "It's a success, it's finally a success!"

"Ah, great, great!"

Running around for the past few days, and with too much hope in his heart, Ding Laoer became haggard a lot, as if he was two years older.

At this moment, he finally saw the sun, and he was so happy that he danced like a child.

"The fleet is due to arrive in three or four days. My second brother will come over tomorrow to help me make more mirrors. After the inlays are finished, I will return with the fleet and send them to Kyoto as an annual gift."

Ding Wei carefully put the previously made mirror into the makeup box, causing Ding Laoer to ask next to him with a painful face, "This mirror is only for giving away, not for sale?"

Ding Wei was amused, "Second brother, you just sell dim sum. At the beginning, you have to give it away to taste, and you yelled twice. Do you think such a novelty, every family will hide it, as long as people see it, they can't buy it." , that’s how precious it is.”

"Yes, yes, the buyer's appetite is high. Not only do I give it away, I'll make a bigger one and put it in the lobby of Haiyun Pavilion. I guarantee it will break the threshold!"

The more Ding Lao Er talked, the more excited he became, he didn't care about anything, and ran away again.

Bai Shu and Dang Gui had been prepared for a long time, and they quickly hid the sewing basket and escaped.On the other hand, Mrs. Dong, who came over with the account book, was bumped into a stumble, and couldn't help but coquettishly said, "Master, what are you so busy doing, are you in such a hurry?"

Ding Lao Er waved his hand, and ran away without even thinking about saying a word.

Dang Gui and Bai Zhu were left behind to quickly help Mrs. Dong, help pick up the account books, and said with a smile, "Second Madam, you have to make decisions for us. The Second Master kicked a sewing basket of ours earlier."

"Okay, tomorrow I will ask him to find the best one in the workshop and bring it back to you."

Mrs. Dong and Dang Gui were also familiar, and they knew that they had accompanied my sister-in-law through the wind and rain, and they were closer than her sister-in-law, so they held their hands and started talking and laughing.

Ding Wei heard it in the room, and shouted, "What good things are you talking about outside, let me hear it too."

Stepping into the room, Mrs. Dong couldn't help but smiled wryly, "Sister, you have to take care of your second brother. These days, he is like a demon. He doesn't sleep at night and walks all over the place. He doesn't know what he's talking about."

"Sister-in-law, don't worry, I'm done. My second brother has done a great job for me in the past few days, and my sister-in-law will know about it in the future."

Ding Wei raised her hand to pour tea for her sister-in-law, and said with a smile, "I'll make more delicious tonics for my second brother in the past few days. I think he's very thin."

"No, I'm relieved when you say that. Otherwise, I'm going to ask Mr. Wei to prescribe a prescription for calming the nerves."

"Sister-in-law, don't worry. I'll give you a good thing in a few days. Then you'll know what second brother is up to."

"It's so mysterious, it must be the girl who made something good again."

Mrs. Dong didn't ask any more questions, and opened the account book in his hand after joking.Now the general ledger of the entire island is in the hands of Danggui and Yunying, but the three-story stone castle, the food, drink and clothing of the family, as well as the monthly silver and other accounts, have long been transferred to her hands.

"The Chinese New Year is half a month away, and the new clothes and shoes for the old and the young are all ready. Moon silver, etc., how do girls arrange them?"

Ding Wei didn't even think about it, and said directly, "Everyone has worked hard this year. The monthly silver of the new year is doubled, and each person will add two pieces of jewelry. I have already ordered the fleet, and it will be finished in three or four days." Bought back."

Mrs. Dong nodded and said with a smile, "Those who serve by my sister's side are blessed, and never have to worry about being treated badly."

It happened that Dang Gui came over with some snacks, and when he heard this, he smiled and said, "Second Madam is right, we all think that we must have done something good in our previous life, and we only met our master in this life."

"It's not enough to say nice words," Ding Wei nodded her forehead, and joked, "It's useless to please, your dowry is only so much, don't add any more."

"Oh, master, why do you say this again?"

Dang Gui blushed with embarrassment, stamped her feet and ran away, making both Ding Wei and Dong Shi unable to laugh.

"Danggui's marriage has been settled by the Chu family?"

Dong was curious and asked one more question.

"General Chu has already delivered a letter to Old General Chu, probably close to ten." Ding Wei replied, and then turned to business, "Did the Wang family send food?"

"Give it away, the materials for making new clothes for the family of four, this month's silver, and daily necessities are all ready."

Mrs. Dong looked through the account books, and Ding Wei thought for a while, "Send two more horses of material for men's clothes. Maybe Mrs. Wang wants to make two clothes for General Wang and send them to Jinhekou."

"It's still the girl who is thoughtful, I really didn't think of it here."

Mrs. Dong hurriedly wrote it down, and finally talked about the coming of the children of Mrs. Bai and Mrs. Zhao's family.

Previously, Ding Wei agreed long ago, but the island was delayed due to the unrest. Now that the island is getting better and better, they also wrote to ask the family to send the child. It would be even better if the father of the child can come together.

After all, they are all on their own, and they have been doing business with the elderly at home all year round. The island is short of such reliable people.

The two elders were very shrewd, and they agreed almost immediately.

(End of this chapter)