"The inscription on the post is from the Xiao family, but the accessories in the greenhouse are all marked by our Ling family." Zheng Xi said.
Ling Qingyu's fingers began to knock on the edge again unconsciously, and asked: "Is this Xiao Rong's or Xiao Cang's idea?"
"It's Mrs. Xiao, and Mrs. Xiao is still sitting in the Xiao Mansion in Bianjing. This time, Mrs. Xiao means that although no one in the direct line of the Xiao family is in the official career at this plum appreciation meeting, the collateral line is still For some forces, if they only invite these middle and low-level officials, the Xiao family will lose face." Han Bian said, and then sighed slightly, if he didn't borrow the Xiao family's courtyard, there would be no such troubles, but indeed, there is no Xiao family. In your early years, who will care about your Ling family
"This is not right, please adjust our accessories as soon as possible, and withdraw all the accessories that cost a thousand taels, and the quantity should not be too much. Choose some exquisite styles that Bianjing does not have, and put them on. Withdraw all of them, the value is between 200 taels and 1,000 taels, um, just keep 200 pieces. I will pick out three sets of jewelry later, and you will reserve a greenhouse for these three sets. For the price, the bid is based on the way that the highest bidder wins." Ling Qingyu said.
"Why?" Zheng Xi asked unconsciously, in this case, more than half of the accessories would be withdrawn.
"I'm afraid the ornaments you prepared are worth millions of taels of silver, right?" Seeing Han Bian nodding and Zheng Xi still a little confused, Ling Qingyu said: "Old Madam Xiao is harming us, we intended to give some Things go out, but if high-ranking officials come, how dare those officials accept them? The things we put there are worth millions of taels. The model makes everyone think that we are just propaganda. Hundreds of thousands of taels of silver is not a big scale. We win with ingenuity. Mr. Han, if there is someone who is kind to us, we will follow up and establish a relationship."
After saying so many words in one breath, Ling Qingyu was a little out of breath, and hurriedly took a sip of ginseng tea from the teacup.
"Han understands, Mrs. Xiao is trying to use us as a scapegoat to protect her Xiao family from disaster, and we will make adjustments right away. Master, please don't show up at this plum appreciation event." Han Bian nodded road.
"I know, I'm just going to have fun at that time, and it's up to Brother Han." Ling Qingyu smiled, not to mention that her current body can't do that kind of exquisite entertainment, even if she can, wait, I remembered a key point, Ling Qingyu Asked: "This time, are the male and female guests together? Or are they separated? Who will receive the female guests?"
"There is no specific separation. The plum groves in the Xiao Family Plum Garden are one piece. If they are separated, you will not be able to see all the beautiful scenery. In the past, the Xiao Family did not separate them on purpose when they entertained guests." After thinking for a while, Han Bian said.
Well, that means that the current Bianjing is actually not so strict between men and women. I have seen many women showing their faces on the street. This way, it is much easier to handle. Women have always loved jewelry, but the ones who pay are all man! Ling Qingyu nodded and said, "Have you found the girl who introduced the accessories?"
"Well, I brought Bai Wei and the others here, and a few from Hangzhou and Suzhou Yinlou. They are all familiar, don't worry." Zheng Xi said. The concept of sales lady was also taught to them by Ling Qingyu. Wearing uniform clothes, a sweet-looking and eloquent girl who is not very beautiful can be a model without making those female customers feel jealous or ashamed.
"Then let's go first." Han Bian got up and said. Adjusting the accessories is not a simple job, it is equivalent to re-selecting all the accessories, which must look special but not too expensive.
Xiao Mansion.
Xiao Rong hurriedly stepped into the main house, and said to the big maid at the courtyard gate: "Miss Ruizhu, please give the old lady a message, Xiao Rong asks to see you."
"Master Xiao, wait a moment, I'll go back to the old lady." Rui Zhu responded, opened the curtain and turned around to walk to the main house.
"Old lady, Manager Xiao is here." The room was bustling with excitement, Mrs. Xiao was leaning on the soft couch, watching the little girls talking about a box of jewelry sent by the Ling family.
"Oh?" Mrs. Xiao looked outside the door and said, "I want him to answer outside the door."
"Yes." Rui Zhu saluted, went outside, and said to Xiao Rong: "What is the old lady asking you?"
Looking at the room, Xiao Rong felt a little bitter in his heart, suppressed what he had thought up, and said a little loudly: "Xiao Rong wants to ask the old lady to give the old slave a copy of the guest list for this banquet, so as not to cause any inconvenience. I offended the nobles at the right place." Originally, it was good to invite some middle-level officials, and the level of hospitality was also arranged according to this arrangement, but when I saw the posts sent out today, there were Zhen Guogong's Mansion and Ningyuan Marquis Mansion, Xiao Rong was directly frightened Breaking out in cold sweat, he knew the old lady's thoughts best, maybe she was going away with the intention of harming the Ling family, the young master is still in the Ling family, the old lady doesn't even care about the young master? Is she still not giving up? The master's body is already like this, and she still wants to marry him and have children
After waiting for a while, Rui Zhu came out again, handed a list to Xiao Rong, and said: "Here is the list, the old lady said, if you mess up this time, you don't have to come back."
"Old lady, that Xiao Rong is gone, I can see the sweat on his head." Nanny Li turned her head from the door and smiled at Mrs. Xiao.
"Yeah." Mrs. Xiao snorted coldly, and she was even more displeased with the old steward in her heart. If it wasn't for him, how could Cang'er never come back from Hangzhou? That evil son must fight her to the end. When the bitch died, he was unwilling to marry and fill the house. The bitch's father committed the crime of treason, and he refused to ask him to throw the bitch's tablet out of the ancestral hall. Now the Xiao family is being targeted by the queen mother. However, as long as he marries another family and has a good marriage, he can avoid it with the Xiao family's century-old reputation, but that wicked son still refuses, and only focuses on protecting Xiao Se. Okay, if you don't think about the Xiao family, let me think about it, doesn't the Queen Mother just want money? The Ling family has a lot of money, and if they open a silver house at will, the things they produce are millions of taels of silver. With the Ling family here, what is our Xiao family
"Ruiqin, send a message to Wang Xiang and Dong Xiangfu, as well as Cheng's residence." Mrs. Xiao sneered. Let me see what kind of plum appreciation banquet a merchant can hold.
Xiao Rong took the list and went to the plum garden. Although the plum garden is the property of the Xiao family, it is still some distance away from the Xiao mansion. After reading the list carefully on the way, Xiao Rong couldn't help but sigh in his heart, old lady, what are you doing? I want to get rid of the Xiao family. The post I posted this time is in the name of the Xiao family. Although the accessories are all with the logo of the Ling family, the convener is the Xiao family after all, and Xiao will be the one who loses anything. Home honor, lady! It really is a woman!
Arriving at Demei Garden, seeing the familiar servants of the Ling family coming and going at the door, Xiao Rong was stunned for a moment, not all of them had been arranged, what was the mover doing? After asking the guard at the door, Xiao Rong went to the greenhouse to find Han Bian.
This greenhouse is the most exquisitely arranged one, but the hundreds of ornaments that were originally placed in it have disappeared, and only three desks have been replaced.
"Mr. Han? Who are you?" Xiao Rong asked with the list in his hand, looking around.
"We made adjustments and rearranged them." Han Bian laughed. He was not sure what role Xiao Rong and Xiao Cang played in such a vicious idea, if they were also involved in this matter, then he must reconsider the layout of the Ling family in the north, now Xiao Rong knows too much.
"Hey, that's why I came to you. You see, this is a guest invited by the old lady in private." Xiao Rong sighed and handed the list to Han Bian.
After reading the list, Han Bian's first feeling was to withdraw the plum appreciation banquet, and let the Xiao family suffer the consequences. But after thinking about it, the news had already been revealed to some officials who have started to make friends with each other. If they don't do it, It's not good either, so he held back his anger and said, "I don't know what the Xiao family meant by this?"
"Mr. Han, don't get me wrong. I just found out about this, and our master didn't know it at all. It was all the old lady's idea. Mr. Han, I have no problem with you canceling it. Anyway, this is the fault of the Xiao family." Rong sighed.
Hearing what he said, Han Bian's complexion slightly improved, and after pondering for a while, he said, "I'm going back to discuss this matter with the head of the family, but Manager Xiao, we don't need to ask your boss to transfer the goods this time. Madame knows, and in order to ensure safety, we have completely closed the plum garden in the past few days."
Ling Qingyu is here? Xiao Rong breathed a sigh of relief, and said: "Naturally, this is the way it is. Don't worry, Mr. Han, the old lady will not know." First get rid of the old lady's eyes and ears, old women who are not successful enough to fail!
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Bird's nest is a good thing, but eating it every day will make you tired, especially the bird's nest that can't be stimulated and has no taste at all, it's even more boring!
Ling Qingyu stared at the bird's nest in front of him, looked up pitifully at Yan San and then at Yang Zhao, and said, "Can you change the taste? Mutton is also very nourishing! Didn't Zhao say that he brought a lot of sheep? Give me something to eat." OK?"
Ling Qingyu had already guessed that the business in the market was good, but he didn't expect it to be so good. The value of the spiced tea last time in the market was estimated at three million taels, which was double the price in Hangzhou. Han Bian respectively The 800,000 taels of goods in Xiongzhou were exchanged for 3,000 war horses, 10,000 sheep, and fur jewelry worth 300,000 taels of silver. The transactions in Dai County were even more powerful. The goods of one and a half million taels of silver were directly exchanged with the other party for 8,000 war horses, 100,000 sheep, Juduo's fur jewelry and other things. Why is it called Juduo? . The other 700,000 taels of goods were sent to Dangxiang, and the exchanged 12,000 horses were directly allocated to the soldiers of the two battalions in the past.
Most of the sheep and Han Bian were sold to merchants in Bianjing. It was time to eat mutton in winter, and the price was good, and the price of those furs was doubled when they were transported to Bianjing. The best ones were kept, and a lot of clothes were made for Ling Qingyu to keep out the cold.
"Otherwise, clear stew should be okay?" Seeing her pitiful appearance, Yang Zhao asked Yan San hesitantly.
"She is currently deficient in qi and blood. Shi Fang said that she should not replenish too much all at once, but only eat clean and nourishing food." Yan San said unmoved by her.
"Then isn't this bird's nest also a great supplement?" Ling Qingyu pouted.
"This is specially for nourishing the lungs. There is a big hole in your lung, don't you want to mend it?" Yan San held the bowl in front of her, stared at her and said, "Hey, drink it." Seeing that she turned her head and refused to drink, she sighed : "After you drink this, I will go to stew mutton for you."
Yang Zhao's face darkened, and what he said was so sweet, but the result was the same!
When Han Bian and Zheng Xi came back at night, the stewed mutton had turned into mutton hot pot.
While listening to Han Bian talking about the situation, Ling Qingyu looked at the list carefully. This old lady of the Xiao family really thinks highly of the Ling family. Are you asking for trouble? The Ling family is nothing more than a new maritime merchant, so it doesn't matter if it is vulgar, but the Xiao family is a century-old family, the descendants of the Xiao family in Lanling, and they are not afraid of leaving tongues in such behavior.
"It's too late to separate people at this time." Putting the list aside, Ling Qingyu frowned, and said, "Since Mrs. Xiao doesn't care about the reputation of the Xiao family, we don't have to care so much, but if it is true that these powerful people If you all come, it will make the officials we invite feel uncomfortable, which is not good. In this way, it would be better to turn the plum appreciation party into a garden party."
"A garden party?" Zheng Xi was puzzled.