Along the way, Ye Jiao did not lift the curtain to look out.
Usually sitting in the car, the little ginseng always likes to look outside, but Ye Jiao has not done so today, for fear that the curtains will be lifted and the wind will blow to Qi Yun.
Now that the Bai Hongguo has not yet come out, Ye Jiao naturally has to be careful about everything when she doesn't hold the life-saving things in her hands.
His husband is only one, so naturally, he must be careful.
Qi Yun could also see that Ye Jiao was nervous, and felt warm in her heart, so she reached out and gently held Ye Jiao's hand.
The little ginseng leaned against the soft cushion and felt the carriage bump, and simply leaned directly on the man's shoulder, muttering, "How long?"
Qi Yun estimated: "It's time for a cup of tea at most."
Ye Jiao still kept leaning on Qi Yun's body, touched the food box with her hand, took out a candied fruit and stuffed it into her mouth, eating with her cheeks bulging, her words were a little vague: "Xianggong, you give I'll tell you what you can see later."
Qi Yun adjusted her posture to make Ye Jiao lean on more comfortably, and then explained to her.
According to folklore, the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first lunar month is a serious day for lanterns, but in fact, preparations have been started from a few years ago.
From the first to the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, this half-month period is used for the people to liven up.
There was a saying in the ancients: "East wind blooms thousands of trees at night. It blows even more, and the stars are like rain. BMW carves fragrance all over the road." This is the current grand scene.
The fireworks in the sky are in full bloom like the stars falling like rain, the lanterns are bright all around, and the streets are full of people, which is the most lively.
Due to the large number of people, there are often scenes of side by side. When you are enjoying yourself, there will be hairpins and accessories that fall and you will not notice.
As a result, there will be people looking back and forth on the street with small lights in the middle of the night, picking up these small leftovers and selling them, often making them a small windfall.
After hearing this, Ye Jiao subconsciously touched the jade hairpin on her head: "This was given to me by the lord, but I don't dare to lose it."
Qi Yun clenched her hand tightly and said with a smile, "As long as Jiao Niang is here, you don't need to care too much about whether other objects are lost or not."
Ye Jiao poked him: "Xianggong's words are wrong. Everything is bought with the money you earn. Xianggong works so hard every day. If he loses it, doesn't he lose his hard work?"
Hearing this, Qi Yun replied solemnly: "What the lady said is true, it's because of her husband's carelessness."
Ye Jiao could hear that he was coaxing herself, but ignored him and touched another candied fruit and put it in her mouth.
At this moment, the carriage stopped, and Tie Zi said from outside: "Second Young Master, Second Young Mistress, we have arrived," his voice paused, "There are so many people outside, I am afraid the carriage will not be able to get in."
Ye Jiao didn't speak, just looked at Qi Yun, waiting for him to make up his mind.
It's just that Ye Jiao didn't know that this was the first time Qi Yun had gone shopping, and it was naturally the first time she had encountered such a situation.
However, Qi Yun looked extraordinarily calm. He stretched out his hand to lift the curtain and looked out. After identifying the location, he said, "Let's go down first, Tie Zi, store the carriage in a wine shop not far away, and go back when you go back. Just take it."
Tie Zi responded and moved the low stool to help the two get out of the car.
Ye Jiao was dressed in a moon-white dress, with a thick jacket and a red cape around it, looking delicate and noble.
On the other hand, Qi Yun's furry fur coat and furry hat wrapped him tightly, but they were all black. If he was in the dark, he might have to blend in with the night.
However, many people on the street were wearing masks, or shaking with objects made of bamboo or white paper, and Qi Erlang didn't think it was too strange.
When Tie Zi went to park the carriage, the two took Xiao Su around the neighborhood.
It didn't take long for Xiao Su to have a few more paper bags in her hand, which were all small items that Ye Jiao bought.
Ye Jiao didn't buy anything to eat, probably because she was raised by a skilled cook at Qi's house, and Ye Jiao is a little picky about food now.
Qi Yun rolled her eyes on Ye Jiao and carefully pulled her little girl, for fear of being washed away by the crowd.
It's okay to lose anything, that is, your own girl must take good care of it.
After a while, Qi Yun saw Ye Jiao standing in front of a jade stall.
It is better to say that it is jade, it is better to say that it is some gadgets that are not popular, ranging from pendants to earrings.
The price is also cheap, mostly in the ten or twenty wen, and looking at the appearance of the jade, most of them belong to the inferior grade.
Although the vendor thought that Qi Yun's bulging bag looked like a big hair ball, but he saw that it was a high-quality fur coat, Ye Jiao was even more exquisite, and immediately put on a smile: "Happy New Year's Eve, Mrs. What do you want? All the good things I have here are brought from Nanyang!"
Because the hawker couldn't see Qi Yun's face clearly, so he couldn't estimate his age.
Qi Yun didn't care either. He glanced at the stall and didn't care much.
Although Erlang Qi has never really walked on the street, he has seen a lot of good things. If it is only an object of this quality, I am afraid he will not even take a look at it.
But now Ye Jiao was staring straight at a stone placed in the corner, and tugged at Qi Yun's sleeve: "That's so pretty."
Qi Yun's eyes followed, and then he raised his eyebrows in surprise.
It is a piece of jade that looks a little unpopular. It is different from other jades that are white or emerald green. It is a jade that looks a little lavender with a thin crack on it. It looks like It's like scraps that have been knocked out.
Seeing that Ye Jiao was interested in this stone, the hawker immediately smiled.
He always said that his stones were brought by the Nanyang caravan, but in fact he is an ordinary street vendor. Where can a rich area entrust someone to go to Nanyang to bring things back? If you die, you just buy some inferior jade that others don't want, or buy some things that others have thrown away.
This stone was picked up by him. He had saved it in his hands for a long time, but he had never found a buyer. I brought it out today just to try my luck.
After all, the color of this piece is not good-looking, and there are cracks. This crack runs through the entire piece of jade. No matter how you cover it up, you can't hide it. He is stingy and reluctant to give it to someone.
So, the hawker was ready to praise his piece of purple jade, but before he could speak, Qi Yun asked, "I don't know where you got this piece of jade?"
The peddler immediately boasted: "This is jade that has crossed the sea on a boat. I spent a lot of money to find it from the Nanyang Caravan. Look at this fineness, this quality, this..."
"Make a price." Qi Yun said lightly.
Seeing him like this, the peddler rolled his eyes and stretched out two fingers: "Two hundred wen, I won't sell it for a penny less."
Ye Jiao didn't know the price of jade, but Qi Yun knew that jade of this quality couldn't be bought at a price.
But Qi Yun calmly said to Ye Jiao: "Jiao Niang, can you give me a silver ingot?"
Ye Jiao immediately took a small silver ingot from her purse and handed it to him. The hawker's eyes widened when he saw it.
Although the silver ingot is small, it is worth at least five hundred cents!
Qi Yun looked at the hawker and said, "As long as you tell me where the jade came from, and make it clearer, I will give it to you."
The hawker didn't hesitate at all, and poured out everything he knew: "I picked it up from a caravan a while ago... No, no, I bought it. They usually go out to sea in summer and return home in autumn. They should be resting now. In a big mansion in the city, the owner's surname is Sun, and I know it as soon as I ask."
Qi Yun nodded, gave the silver ingot directly to the hawker, then picked up the jade and handed it to Ye Jiao, smiling, "I'll send it to you."
Ye Jiao didn't think there was anything wrong with buying things with her own money. After all, the money was given to her by Qi Yun for safekeeping. It was considered two people's money.
But after walking away, Ye Jiao asked him, "Xiang Gong, since he said he could sell it for 200 wen, why do you have to give him that much?"
Qi Yun never concealed anything from Ye Jiao, and explained every detail clearly, and this time was no exception: "I don't want this piece of jade, but news. Now that our wine shop has grown, Qian Yue is no exception. It’s true that there are more and more, but some objects can’t be found easily, and you need to ask people from the caravan to find them, but the things about the caravan can’t be easily inquired, and it’s a blessing to be able to find out from this hawker now.”
Ye Jiao blinked: "Are you spending money to buy happiness?"
Qi Yun held her hand: "Yeah, there are inexhaustible advantages in this world, but when encountering good fortune, you can't be stingy, otherwise it will not be a blessing, but a curse."
Ye Jiao nodded somewhat vaguely and kept it in her mind, waiting to think about it later.
At this time, Tie Zi also came back, and a few people walked towards the center of the town.
There are many lanterns on both sides of the street, and there are also surrounded by juggling stands, and there are many people everywhere.
Ye Jiao kept holding Qi Yun's hand and leaned against him tightly, looking left and right with fresh eyes, but never thought of leaving Qi Yun.
At this time, someone stopped Qi Yun: "But the second young master of the Qi family?"
Qi Yun turned his head and saw a rich middle-aged man with his exposed eyes.
He had never met this person, but Tie Zi had been helping Qi Yun run errands outside. He recognized his identity immediately and whispered to Qi Yun, "Second Young Master, this is the storekeeper Sun of Qianzhuang."
As soon as Ye Jiao heard this title, she remembered, wasn't it the shopkeeper Sun who was framed by the local ruffian who was brought in by the Cai family to make trouble in the wine shop last time
Shopkeeper Sun also tried to shout because he recognized Tie Zi, but when he saw that the big black hairball really stopped, he knew that he did not recognize the wrong person, and took two steps forward, smiling particularly kindly: "Second Young Master Qi is rare to come out, and it's really fate to be able to meet Sun." Then he looked at Ye Jiao and said with a smile, "Second Young Master and Madam are really talented and beautiful, they are a natural pair, and they must be able to grow old together forever. ."
Seeing that he was making a good gesture, Qi Yun slowed down and said, "Take the auspicious words of shopkeeper Sun."
Ye Jiao looked at Shopkeeper Sun strangely, and was a little confused. Her husband's face was already covered, so where did he see the appearance of a talented man and a woman
Being kind to people in the shopping mall is the most basic. Now that he has met his future ally, Qi Yun also talked a few more words: "Why is Shopkeeper Sun visiting the lanterns alone?"
Shopkeeper Sun smiled bitterly: "It's not that I want to be alone. I had discussed with my wife that we would stay in the city to watch the lanterns together, but who knows where she heard that the lanterns here are beautiful, so she insisted on dragging me along. "Isn't it, I came with her, but when she was going to buy something, she took her servants and disappeared, leaving me alone."
Shopkeeper Sun said it was pitiful, and the little ginseng could hear his grievance.
But Qi Yun noticed that he said "stay in the city", and remembered that the hawker had just said that the caravan lived in the mansion surnamed Sun, so he couldn't help asking: "So it turns out that the shopkeeper Sun also has a house in the city."
Shopkeeper Sun said with a smile: "It's just the blessing of my ancestors, and left me a grand mansion of the Sun family. If Second Young Master Qi has some free time in the future, he can go to my mansion to drink tea and enjoy flowers, and Mr. Sun will definitely meet him. "
Sure enough, the caravan was in this shopkeeper Sun's home!
Qi Yun was certain, the corners of his mouth were slightly upturned, but he couldn't see the real thing with a hat blocking it, but his voice was much calmer: "Then there is no need to harass."
Ye Jiao saw the lively conversation between Shopkeeper Sun and Qi Yun, but she didn't open her mouth. She stood beside Qi Yun obediently. She didn't let go of Qi Yun's hand. .
Then I saw a stall three steps away with a lantern hanging on it.
The lantern is a bead lamp, with five-colored beads woven into a net, turned into a jade rabbit shape, and tassel embellishment below, which is particularly eye-catching.
This was the biggest lantern Ye Jiao had seen since she arrived in the town, and she couldn't help but take a second glance.
At this time, several people were attracted by this lantern.
"Ye Tixia, the master and his wife said they were going to see the lights." Liu Rong said beside Ye Pingrong.
Ye Pingrong has been following Duan Wang Chu Chengyun and Duan Wang Fei Meng Shi not far behind. He did not dare to relax for a moment. Hearing the words, he asked, "Aren't these lights?"
Liu Rong pointed to the jade rabbit bead lantern: "Master said I want to see that one."
The jade rabbit lantern hung there, but it was conspicuous. Ye Pingrong immediately said: "Go, follow, and tell the brothers not to leave the master two feet away."
"Yes."