Peasant Girl Bookseller

Chapter 87 Sales
Mai Xiang finally escaped the Wan family and his party, Liu took Jiufeng to live in Wan's house for two days and then came back, bringing back ten taels of silver and two bolts of silk, it was a worthwhile trip.

Because Mai Xiang left a message at the Temple of the Reclining Buddha, she did not go to the Temple of the Reclining Buddha for the past two days, but stayed next door to study and make wind chimes with Liu Huilan.The wind chime was inspired by the pendant. The longevity flowers hang upside down one after another, like small bells. Mai Xiang couldn't help but think of the wind chime.

Mai Xiang thinks that if this wind chime is finished, when an auspicious ornament is hung under the eaves, and the breeze passes by, and the crisp sound of metal collisions can be heard, it is estimated that it will be favored by these boudoir ladies. I ran around Changning Town and couldn't buy the copper and silver bells.

Unexpectedly, when Mai Xiang was worrying, two guests came to the house suddenly, and they also came in a carriage. The boy who drove the carriage, Mai Xiang, knew him. He was the entourage of the boy on the white horse. This woman, Mai Xiang, had never met before. up.

The mother-in-law's attitude was a bit arrogant, and when she saw Mai Xiang, she didn't even smile, and said with a straight face: "Miss Mai Xiang, our master has something to ask you for."
Mai Xiang looked at the attitude of the other party, and was about to refuse, then glanced at the young man again, sighed, and had no choice but to bow her head.

"Our master said, we will send the girl back in a while." Seeing that Mai Xiang was about to enter the house, the mother-in-law said again.

"Our master wants to ask Miss Mai Xiang to do me a favor." Seeing Mai Xiang's reluctance, the boy explained.

Mai Xiang guessed that the other party must have taken a fancy to the manga in the hands of Abida or Addis, or the rich pig, but didn't think about it any more, and followed the woman into the carriage.

About a quarter of an hour later, the carriage stopped at a small gate in the yard. After entering the gate, there were two small rooms, one bright and one dark, on the right hand side. with.

"Young lady is waiting here. I'll report to our master." After finishing speaking, the woman left without even looking at Mai Xiang.

The boy ignored Mai Xiang, he was chatting and joking with the porter boy, and glanced at Mai Xiang from time to time.

Mai Xiang listened attentively for a while, and what the two of them were talking about was who had a good job, who and who got benefits from going out with the master, etc. Mai Xiang didn't catch any useful information.

Fortunately, the window was open. Through the window, Mai Xiang took a look into the yard, but couldn't see anything except flowers and trees. It seemed that the yard was not as big as usual.

Mai Xiang sat for about a quarter of an hour, only to see two servant girls coming over with pens, ink, paper and inkstones, and a few minutes later, Hong Rong came slowly with Yong Jian.

"Girl, why didn't you draw those pictures for me?" Yong Jian ran over as soon as he saw Mai Xiang, and asked without thinking.

"Master, I just drew it casually, and I don't know who likes it or not." Mai Xiang understood the meaning of the other party.

"I like it. You can draw me some fun and funny pictures. I will reward you when you finish the pictures."
Mai Xiang almost didn't roll her eyes when she heard that, the kid is not very old, but his tone is very loud, and he is always rewarded.

But Mai Xiang looked at the pair of uncles and nephews, sat down obediently, looked at the pen and ink on the table, and Mai Xiang became worried.

"Draw quickly." Yongjian urged.

"Well, do you have any charcoal pencils, because I only learned to draw with branches, and I don't know how to use this brush yet."

Mai Xiang's explanation dispelled Hong Rong's doubts. Originally, he was skeptical that Mai Xiang, a farmer's child, could learn to paint. It turned out that he really taught himself with branches.

The maid next to her listened, and went out again, and found a charcoal pencil for Mai Xiang. Mai Xiang drew a set of stick figures of "Little Tadpole Looking for Mother", and wrote notes with charcoal pencil.

"What is a tadpole?" Yong Jian asked.

Hong Rong was also questioned, he had never seen a frog, he had only heard the cry of frogs, where did he know where the tadpoles were?
Mai Xiang had to explain to them again.

"It's not fun, it's not funny, it's too childish." Yongjian was not interested.

Mai Xiang thought for a while, and had to draw another set of funny pictures of "Father and Son". On a rainy day, the father and son didn't bring an umbrella. When they saw a boy holding an umbrella in front of him, the father put his head under the umbrella, and the son followed him. Behind the buttocks, the boy’s umbrella was getting lower and lower. The father could only lower his head and stick his buttocks. The son just put his head under his buttocks to hide from the rain. Finally, when the father got angry, he picked up the boy and let him ride on him. He held an umbrella around his neck, while his son followed him closely.

Mai Xiang thought she would explain a few words to the other party, but Yong Jian saw it lying on the table and laughed, and patted the table while laughing, "Haha, I laughed to death, I laughed to death, this pair of idiot father and son, what are you doing?" Don't grab other people's umbrellas? Even running is better than this."

Seeing that the little one was satisfied, Mai Xiang raised her head to look at the big one, while Hong Rong turned her face away. Mai Xiang saw his shoulders shrugging constantly, and the maids on both sides covered their mouths, wanting to laugh but not daring to laugh. Laughing.

"One more, one more." Yong Jian laughed enough, and ordered again.

"Master, it's the last one, and I don't have so many jokes." Mai Xiang drew the comic version of "Teasing You" this time, so I wrote some notes on this one, and Yongjian laughed and danced when he saw it.

"Okay, let's get down to business." Hong Rong and Yong Jian sat down after laughing enough.

"Ah? Is there still business?" Mai Xiang thought that she had successfully completed the task.

"It's like this. An old man in the family is celebrating his [-]th birthday this year. We want to give some unusual gifts. Gifts don't matter whether they are high or low. As long as they are rare and funny and make the other person happy, that's good. Why don't you help us think about it? Idea?" Hong Rong said.

"This? Can I ask if the other party is a man or a woman?" Mai Xiang originally wanted to ask the other party's identity, but the pair of uncles and nephews in front of him acted so mysteriously and kept their identities secret, Mai Xiang couldn't even enter their house. Just receiving herself at the porter of Xiaomen, Mai Xiang put away her curiosity.

"female."

Mai Xiang remembered the wind chime she was making, and said: "A few days ago, I gave Gege's grandmother a pair of pendants, with a wishful knot on the top and a longevity flower on the bottom. The old lady likes it very much. After I came back, I thought about it for two days. It would be great if the longevity flower was made of silver or copper bells and hung under the eaves. When the wind blows, the collision of the bells will make a metallic sound. Unfortunately, I can't find a place to make bells. Since you said it, why don't you try it, I will draw a picture for you, you can make a copper bell and a silver bell, and see if the sound of the copper bell or the silver bell is better The sound is nice, and besides, after the bell is finished, you can draw some patterns on it."

After Mai Xiang finished speaking, she drew a bell for them and three wind chimes.

"Well, I don't know whether you like it or not. I have a pattern made of silk in my hand, but there is no bell. But when I hang it up, the wind blows and blows the flowers away. I think it's pretty pretty. .”

"Pretty good looking?" Yongjian raised his head and asked, never heard of such words.

"Oh, this is the dialect of the south, and I learned it from the teacher next door." Mai Xiang hurriedly explained.

"Well, I'll send someone to go home with you to pick it up now." After Hong Rong finished speaking, he turned around, and the maid handed over a purse. Hong Rong opened it and then looked at Mai Xiang.

Because Mai Xiang came out in a hurry today, she was wearing ordinary cotton clothes, looking like a village girl.

Hong Rong frowned slightly, and said, "That's all for today, I'll return to the capital another day and I'll give you some thank you gifts."

After hearing this, Yong Jian hurriedly said: "Uncle Ba, I also have money, I told her I will reward her."

After Yong Jian finished speaking, he untied a purse from him and threw it into Mai Xiang's hand.

Mai Xiang took the purse, pushed it back, and said, "Forget it, just let me make the young master happy."

"Don't tell me, I have money, I'll take it if I give it to you." Yong Jian pushed the purse back to Mai Xiang.

Mai Xiang didn't want to push back and forth with him anymore, as if she was so noble, and she was a poor man who came here for money, so it's not good to be hypocritical to arouse the interest of these two people, so she simply took this It's not bad to give the other party an impression of love for money.
Hong Rong also handed the money bag in his hand to Mai Xiang, and still sent his mother-in-law and servants to send Mai Xiang back, and brought back the longevity flower pendant by the way.

After seeing off the guests, Mai Xiang opened the purse and saw that there were five or six pieces of silver in it, which was only two or three taels of silver. .
Hong Rong's purse contained only two small silver ingots of one tael. No wonder Hong Rong would say, "Thank you for the gift, I will make it up later."

It seems that Mai Xiang will not be able to avoid these two for a while, which is not a good thing.

Besides, after the mother-in-law took the longevity flowers back, Hong Rong hung the things under his eaves. Unexpectedly, there would be no wind, so he specially ordered two maids to fan the hangings, looking at the long string of flowers hanging upside down like lanterns. The little flower swayed in the breeze, and Hong Rong nodded in satisfaction.

At this time, Yong Jian was sitting in Hong Rong's study, looking at Mai Xiang's cartoons, laughing and asking, "Uncle Ba, where do you think this girl got these jokes? With this ability, in fact, this "Little Tadpole Looking for Mother" is also very interesting, it's hard for her to think about it."

Hong Rong was looking at the Longevity Flower in the yard. Hearing this, he casually said, "Didn't you hear that she learned it by herself? A person who herds pigs and sheep every day, deals with these things all day long, can't you?"

After Hong Rong finished speaking, he felt something was wrong, and added: "But this girl is indeed quite smart."

"Uncle Ba, do you think we can buy her to be our maid, so I can listen to her tell jokes every day?" Yong Jian said suddenly.

"This?" Hong Rong remembered, Amu Xin seemed to like this girl very much, why didn't she buy it and keep it with her?Is it because this girl doesn't want to be a maid?
But this girl has such talents, and she probably earned a lot of money in the Temple of the Reclining Buddha. At least her complexion looks like a normal person, much better than when I first saw her.

Hong Rong was entangled for a while about why A Muxin didn't buy Mai Xiang to be a maid, and for a while he was entangled whether being a maid was a good thing or a bad thing for Mai Xiang.

"Forget it, I'd better do the important thing in front of me first." Hong Rong said to himself.

(End of this chapter)