Shi Qing led Yun Zhi to step over the threshold, and Xiao Er saw the two of them at a glance.
The reason is the same, it's really that the two of them don't look like characters that can be raised by the feng shui of their small county town, whether it's their clothes, temperament or appearance.
Xiao Er's eyes lit up, feeling that there was a big order in the store.
She immediately came out from behind the counter, her flattering and bowing attitude was completely opposite to that of the middle-aged couple just now.
The woman in the husband and wife is too feminine, just want to buy a dress for the snobby mistress to see!
"What kind of clothes do you want, I can recommend it for you."
Xiao Er pointed to a row of expensive fabrics and brightly colored finished clothes not far away, and motioned to Shi Qing, "Would you like to take a look here?"
Oh, there are two faces.
Shi Qing said, "I want to go shopping first."
Instead, the husband and wife next to him picked out a piece of clothing. The man asked Xiaoer, "How do you sell this?"
Xiao Er glanced back and felt that it was too cheap to make any money, so he turned his head back again, looked at Shi Qing intently, and asked enthusiastically, "Is there anything you fancy?"
The man's expression froze, his face froze, and he put his clothes down silently.
Shi Qing looked at Xiao Er, "He asked you the price."
Xiao Er squinted, and said in a drawn-out voice that could be heard by everyone in the room, "It's cheap, it's not worth much."
The woman glared at Xiao Er, "You!"
The man immediately hugged her arm and dragged it out, "Let's go."
I shouldn't have stayed to take another look just now.
The two walked out with their heads down, as if they had done something wrong, their faces were ugly.
Xiao Er cast a sideways glance, then scoffed, "I don't have money to buy any clothes."
She looked at Shi Qing, with an earnest smile on her face again, "You choose."
Shi Qing raised his eyebrows slightly, took a deep look at Xiao Er, pulled up a chair and sat down, leaned against the back of the chair and raised Erlang's legs, "I think the one here is pretty good."
She points to bunts that are cheap but durable in fabric.
These are sold to hard laborers.
Xiao Er paused slightly, looked Shi Qing from the beginning to the end again, and said with a dry smile, "The guest is a noble person at first sight, why don't you buy some good clothes."
She said, "Those are worn by poor people. They are not worthy of your temperament. You might as well take a look at the new products in our store. They are all popular styles in Beijing."
"The capital style?" Shi Qing habitually reached for the teacup, but Nai He picked it up and saw that it was empty.
Xiao Er came to his senses and immediately shouted, "Hurry up and bring hot water to the distinguished guest."
Standing beside her, she bent down and said, "Wait a minute, the tea will be here soon. Why don't you choose your clothes first?"
Shi Qing nodded, looked up at the clothes hanging on the wall, "The blue one—"
Xiao Er's eyes lit up, "Do you want the blue one?"
Sure enough, he was a rich man with a good eye, and he immediately took a fancy to the most expensive ones.
Shi Qing shook his head, "No, it's too cheap, and the fabric is average at first glance."
"..."
Shi Qing looked at each one, "The red one is too dark, and I'm not eighty years old, so it looks too old-fashioned. The blue one doesn't work either—"
"The popular styles in the capital are all gimmicks."
When the tea was brought up, Shi Qing took a sip of it, with disgust on his face, "It's too hot."
Xiao Er, "..."
It was the first time for her to serve such a difficult person, and there was no one in the clothes in the room. Are you here to buy clothes or to find fault
It's not as good as the poor couple just now, at least they don't have so many things.
"Which one do you like exactly?" Xiao Er asked with a suppressed temper.
"I said I'll take a look first, and you insist on letting me choose." Shi Qing was speechless, and asked her back, "Do you think the money of the distinguished guests is so easy to earn?"
"Shiqing." Yun Zhi looked outside just now and found a pawn shop.
He came over and sat beside Shi Qing and asked her, "Can a pawn shop really be used as clothes?"
The tone is ready to move.
Yun Zhi held his arms with one hand and pinched his chin with the other, his eyes were dimly lit, and he thought thoughtfully, "If there is no money in the future, I will pawn the clothes."
Why didn't I think of it before.
Walking in the rivers and lakes with the sky as the bed and the ground as the bed, what do you do with such good clothes
Shi Qing wowed, "Young Xia is really not a fastidious person, he wants to be a dress."
In fact, if she asked her to tell her, instead of using it as clothes, she might as well dig out the gems from his sword and sell them for money.
Although Yunzhi didn't hold the sword today, but met Shang Shiqing's eyes, he subconsciously put his hands in his arms and made a gesture of protecting the sword, with a full face of guard, "No."
Shi Qing smiled, "Excellent."
Xiao Er has been standing on the sidelines to watch the two talk, and his standing posture has gradually changed from the initial posture of bowing with his chest in his arms to looking at people with his chin behind his back.
She thought it was a big fish, but it turned out to be two shrimps.
Poor men have to make clothes, and poor women have to let men go out to sell themselves. They are not as good as the shabby-looking couple just now.
These two people are probably deceiving only by their appearance, there is not half a person in their pockets, maybe they don't know how the clothes came from.
Xiao Er curled her lips and looked at the two of them again. Although the clothes on her body seemed to be of high quality, they were already wrinkled. No one who is really rich would wear this.
She felt that she had lost her sight.
She was blind for nothing. She just nodded and bowed to serve her, and she was picked on for a long time.
Shi Qing looked at Xiao Er again, and handed her the teacup, "Change it to a warm one."
Xiao Er smiled, "Don't you think the tea is too hot?"
She said angrily, "If you want to drink cold water, there is a well in the alley on the left. You can drink your fill. Our store sells clothes, not tea."
"If you don't have money, how can you pretend?"
Yun Zhi was stunned for a moment, and asked Shi Qing hesitantly, "Is she talking about us?"
Sure enough, it was far away from the capital, so someone dared to talk to Shi Qing like that.
The little Erli ignored Yun Zhi, and waved his hand in a sultry gesture, "It's not summer yet, why are there so many dirty things?"
Yun Zhi's quarrels were never as good as Shi Qing's, so he looked at Shi Qing.
Shi Qing sighed, "Xiaoer, you didn't have this attitude just now."
"That's because I was wrong," Xiao Er said, "I thought you were a nobleman, but you are just a poor ghost."
Shi Qing smiled, "I'm a poor ghost, so are you the shopkeeper?"
Xiao Er was full of impatience, "So what if I'm not?"
Shi Qing was surprised, the smile on his face faded, and the teacup in his hand hit the coffee table heavily.
"It turns out that you are not the shopkeeper. Looking at your face, I thought the whole store and even the whole county belonged to you."
"You don't even have the shopkeeper, so you dare to use yourself as a dish. If this shop is yours, wouldn't the small ditches in the entire county not be able to accommodate your big Buddha?"
Xiao Er glared at Shi Qing, full of hostility, "Who are you talking about?"
Shi Qing clicked his tongue, "Can't you hear who I'm talking about? You have to point to your nose to know it's you?"
"It's understandable as long as your brain is not good enough, Xiaoer. After all, even if you are tied to the door, you can't even look after your home."
"If you don't want to work, just shut up. People spend money to buy clothes, not to listen to your ridicule."
"If you have the ability, don't be a second child. If you don't have the ability, learn how to be a human being before opening your mouth to speak."
Shi Qing leaned back in the chair and put his hands in his arms, looking at her, "I gave you shame and didn't need to ask you a few words, but you are shameless and don't speak human words."
"I take you as a person, you don't even pretend to be."
"It's Xiaoer's work, who are you giving a face to? I owe you money, or I slaughtered your house. Did I say that I can't afford clothes? You start with a nose that is not a nose and an eye is not an eye." .”
Xiao Er was so angry that he opened his mouth and gasped, but couldn't get in the words, and his face turned red.
She has always scolded others, when has she ever been scolded like this!
Her chest rose and fell violently, and she said sarcastically, "What are you trying to do with your mouth? If you are really rich, why don't you buy clothes?"
Shi Qing raised his eyelids to look at her, and raised his eyebrows slightly, "If I have money, I won't give it to you."
Does she look like someone who is in the middle of the law
Xiao Er laughed out loud, "I said that I had no money for a long time, so why are you pretending? I have seen people like you a lot, so don't come in next time if you don't have money."
"So as long as you have money, you can get in?" Shi Qing said clearly, "You said this yourself, don't regret it."
Xiao Er first irritated the customer with her attitude, and then used the provocative method to ridicule her. No matter whether the other party buys clothes or not, she will not suffer.
Maybe a lot of people were so excited that they didn't plan to buy it, but they just gritted their teeth and bought the clothes.
A lot of business in the store is done in this way, and the shopkeeper also turns a blind eye to this, pretending not to see it.
After a long time, Xiao Er's arrogance was fueled.
When Xiao Er heard what Shi Qing said, a triumphant smile appeared in his eyes, "I definitely don't regret it."
"It's fine if you don't regret it." Shi Qing took out the silver from his pocket and played with it in his hand.
Xiao Er's face froze, but he insisted on maintaining the contemptuous expression just now.
In fact, the knee is already weak.
I thought her method was too effective!
Shi Qing pointed to the row of expensive clothes and the row of durable clothes, "Take them all down for me. Although I don't like it, I can give it to others."
Xiaoer's eyes lit up, and he shouted back, "It's business, come and help."
Yun Zhi looked at Shi Qing suspiciously, especially staring at the ingot of silver with pain, thinking that she acted impulsively, "If you are angry, just beat her up to vent your anger, why are you really spending money?"
"Pay money to buy happiness."
Shi Qing said to Yun Zhi, "Wait for me here."
She walked toward the door, stood on the steps and looked out.
Unlike the capital city, most of the beggars in small counties are within easy reach.
Unless officials came from above and the local county magistrate sent someone to drive them out of the city, most of the time, they would sit or lie in the shade of the walls of restaurants and inns on the street.
It was the afternoon, and the beggars were scratching their calves with nothing to do, watching the pedestrians begging on the street.
One of them was leaning against the wall with grass in his mouth, obviously the leader.
Seeing Shi Qing approaching, the beggars suddenly became enthusiastic and shouted whatever.
Needless to say, Shi Qing is really not used to it.
She walked directly towards the beggar leader, and half squatted down to talk to him, holding up the hem of her clothes, "I ask you to do me a favor."
All the clothes in the shop were taken down and hung on the long hangers, Shi Qing came back from outside.
"Can you touch the fabric of this clothes?" Shi Qing stretched out his hand and twirled it twice.
Xiao Er's expression was completely different from before, with a smile all over his face, "Of course."
Xiao Er was excited, and it seemed that he was going to make another big deal today.
Shi Qing smiled, raised her hands and clapped, facing Xiao Er's puzzled gaze, Shi Qing said, "I bought my clothes for them, so they have to touch them to see if they like it or not."
"Buy, who did you buy it for?" Xiao Er suddenly had a bad feeling.
"Of course they are."
Shi Qing pointed his chin towards the door, and a dozen beggars appeared outside the shop.
The smile on the corner of Xiao Er's mouth froze for a moment, his face changed, and he made a gesture to drive away, "Go away, who told you to come here."
The shopkeeper hates these beggars the most, if she sees them, she will definitely get angry.
Shi Qing sat back on the chair, and said slowly, "I let you, are you paying or grandma, what's wrong with letting them choose clothes if I pay?"
She said to the beggar chief, "Let them choose what they like."
After getting the order, the beggars immediately rushed forward, and the few waiters in the shop couldn't stop them at all.
The beggars touched left and right, and commented, "This is not bad."
"This is fine too."
"Touch this piece quickly, the material is comfortable."
Xiao Er suddenly panicked and wanted to drive them out, but there were too many people and he didn't know where to start.
Especially when this group of beggars heard that they could choose clothes, no matter whether they were wearing them or not, they first touched a few with their hands, and then pulled the material to make gestures on themselves.
The whole store was in chaos in an instant, and a group of people gathered around the door watching jokes.
"It deserves it, let her be snobbish."
"That's right, someone has taken care of her."
"That Xiao Er always treats the clothes buyer as a beggar, and now that a real beggar has come, she dare not kick him out. It's really retribution."
The shopkeeper of the clothes shop rushed over when she heard the movement, and when she arrived, the beggars had all chosen their clothes.
"Is it possible to rob a shop in broad daylight?"
The shopkeeper shouted loudly, "Xiao Er! Where is Xiao Er!"
Xiao Er shrunk her body and was deliberately pushed and shoved by a group of beggars. She walked over with great difficulty and shouted feebly, "The shopkeeper."
"What's going on here?" Seeing the chaos in the shop and the people outside, the shopkeeper slapped his thigh angrily, "Where do these beggars come from?"
Xiaoer's eyes flickered, he hesitated, "I..."
She couldn't say that it was because of her snobbery that she attracted a group of beggars.
Xiao Er looked over at Shi Qing, and said vaguely, "She said she would buy the clothes."
"Even if you buy it, you can't let beggars in. What will people think of my shop when it is spread?" The shopkeeper followed Xiaoer's gaze and looked at Shi Qing.
It is estimated that it was a disturbance.
The shopkeeper winked at the servant next to her, and signaled her to go to the yamen to call the yamen servant over, today's loss is not in vain.
While sending people out, Chao Shiqing, the shopkeeper, came over.
The shopkeeper is in his forties this year, he is relatively fat, and he bowed his hands to Shiqing with a smile, "Dear guest, this is a clothes shop, not a soup kitchen, can we let all the beggars go out?"
Shi Qing was puzzled, "They are here to buy clothes, why can't they come in? Your little one is too much."
The beggars followed suit, "That's it."
The head of the shopkeeper was buzzing, especially when the weather was getting hotter and the beggar didn't like to take a bath, so his body smelled bad.
The shopkeeper frowned tightly, and raised his hand to cover his nose, "Then those who have been touched..."
She also wanted to blame Shi Qing.
Shi Qing stopped her, "That's not how business is done. Besides, your store never said at the beginning that you have to buy after you touch it."
"Clothes are worn on the body, how can you do it if you don't try it? And they just touch it without trying it on."
The shopkeeper's face froze, and he looked at Shi Qing, "You are making unreasonable words."
Shi Qing smiled, "Look at what you said, I'm being unreasonable."
"..."
She played around so confidently that the shopkeeper choked.
"I see that you are not like a local, and the fabrics you wear are also high-quality. Your lord has a lot of knowledge, why should you be as knowledgeable as a little girl." The shopkeeper said, "I will ask her to compensate you. You pay the money, so that everyone has no loss. .”
From the corner of the shopkeeper's eyes, he caught a glimpse of the yamen servants coming outside, and immediately became confident, "Otherwise, it will be bad if we make trouble in the yamen."
Shi Qing not only saw people coming from the yamen, but also saw Mi He and Ya Qing coming.
Mihe walked to Shi Qing's side, and whispered in her ear, "Little master, I just drove the car to the inn, and when I came out, I saw Magistrate Cao waiting outside the door to welcome you."
It is not a secret that there are imperial envoys from Beijing, and if you calculate the time, you can guess that they will arrive in two days.
Shi Qing clicked his tongue.
And the shopkeeper next to him was complaining to the yamen servant, saying that Shi Qing let a beggar come in to rob him, and was unwilling to pay after touching the clothes.
The two yamen servants who came looked at Shi Qing, "Is there such a thing?"
Shi Qing never got up from sitting, "Everyone is watching outside, ask them if I gave you any money?"
The yamen servant turned his head to look over.
The people watching at the gate shouted together, "Give it."
Among them, the beggars were the loudest.
"..."
The shopkeeper paused slightly, his face froze, "This..."
The yamen servant looked at the shopkeeper in puzzlement, as if he didn't understand why she would do such a thing like throwing a stone at her own foot.
If you don't give money to make trouble, you can still arrest him.
Now a group of people testify and say that they have given money, so it is impossible for a group of people to help lie.
Someone outside the door shouted, "Magistrate Cao is here."
Everyone lined up on both sides to make way.
The shopkeeper and Xiaoer were overjoyed for a while, thinking that the locals would help the locals when the county magistrate came, but in the end—
Seeing Magistrate Cao, who was wearing a blue official uniform, walking from the crowd, went straight to Shi Qing, and saluted respectfully.
"?"
Everyone was at a loss.
County Magistrate Cao said, "I don't know when the Lord is here, if you are lost, please make amends."
Shi Qing smiled, "You came here in time, it's not too late at all."
County magistrate Cao said with a dry smile, "The lower officials have been keeping people watching the surroundings to ensure that I don't neglect Mr. Shi."
She changed the topic and looked at the crowd, and the official prestige was put on, and she asked in a deep voice, "What's going on?"
The shopkeeper and Xiao Er were already dumbfounded, and looked at Shi Qing in disbelief.
Such a young man is actually an adult!
Shi Qing said, "Look, everyone said to relax your eyelids, don't always do Chi Qian's bastard things."
Xiaoer bowed his head and did not dare to speak, but the shopkeeper agreed, "Yes, yes, sir, the lesson is right."
Shi Qing pointed to the clothes touched by the beggars, and motioned to Magistrate Cao, "It's all here, you say yes."
"..."
Magistrate Cao's eyelids twitched, and he lowered his head to take out his money bag.
The shopkeeper looked at Shi Qing in surprise, "My lord, you..."
She thought it was over.
"The lesson is the lesson, and the compensation that should be given is the compensation. It's not easy for anyone. Besides, if your family doesn't have this business attitude, you won't be seen as such a lively scene."
Shi Qing said, "In the future, don't always look down on people, take a wider road."
The shopkeeper nodded, "You are right, we will change it."
Shi Qing thought of something, and said to the shopkeeper, "There is one more thing..."
After she finished talking to the shopkeeper, she took people with Cao County Magistrate and left.
The county magistrate Cao has come, and if you want to make an unannounced visit, you are deceiving yourself.
When Shi Qing passed by the door, he took an extra look at the beggar leader behind the crowd.
The other party was looking at her all the time, when he saw her, Halal looked over, with joy in his eyes, he clasped his hands together with her, and thanked her nondescriptly.
Everyone left, and the shopkeeper sat down on the chair that Shi Qing had sat on and let out a sigh of relief.
The waiter beside him glared at the onlookers at the door, and stood up again, "It's not over yet!"
"come here."
The shopkeeper waved to Xiaoer.
Xiao Er walked over, "Shopkeeper, I really don't blame me for what happened today, how could I know that she is an adult, otherwise I wouldn't use that trick to provoke her..."
Thinking that Xiao Er had recruited this matter, the shopkeeper raised his hand and slapped her across the face.
The sound of "pa" made Xiao Er lose his head.
"Idiot, let you look down on people every day! You kicked a rock this time!" The shopkeeper pointed at her, "Be careful with my attitude in the future. If the situation like today still exists, you can pack up and leave. .”
"By the way, the Imperial Envoy also told you about one thing, and asked you to do it by name. If you can't do it well, you won't receive this month's monthly payment."
As soon as Xiaoer heard about the money, she didn't even cover her face, "You said you said, I will change it if I do it, and I will definitely change it."
Shi Qing didn't know what happened in the shop, she sat in the carriage and went back to the yamen with Magistrate Cao.
On the way, Yun Zhi asked her curiously, "What did you say to the shopkeeper before you left?"
Shi Qing squeezed a cherry and tasted it, Mihe just bought it, it was quite sweet.
She just stuffed it into her mouth, her voice was a bit vague, "I asked Xiao Er to apologize to the husband and wife we met when we first entered the store."
Yun Zhi was slightly taken aback, he didn't expect Shi Qing to remember such a trivial matter.
He called himself a young hero, but in fact he didn't listen very carefully at that time.
Yun Zhi scratched his ears inexplicably ashamed, but his heart softened a little because of Shi Qing's actions.
He said, "You will definitely be a good official in the future."
The tone is extremely serious.
Shi Qing smiled, deliberately teasing him, "If I am a corrupt official and a bad person, will the young man want to kill his relatives righteously and then become a widow himself?"
Yun Zhi saw that she was being unruly again, and leaned back against the wall of the carriage, with a slight smile in his eyes, "Your father will take care of you."
"Have you learned how to sue your parents?"
After Shi Qing swallowed the cherry in his mouth, he lowered his head again and picked a big one from the plate, and brought it up to feed Yun Zhi, "Taste it quickly, it's so sweet."
Yun Zhi's eyes fell on Shi Qing's reddish lips after eating the cherries, he clenched his fingertips, bent down on the small table, pinched the cherries and stuffed them into his mouth, "I'll eat it myself, I don't want you to feed it."
When the two went to the yamen, the waiter in the clothes shop had found the husband and wife.
Panting, she stopped the two of them, "You guys are really easy for me to find."
The woman among the middle-aged couples immediately stretched out her hand to protect her husband, and asked vigilantly, "You, what do you want to do?"
Xiao Er opened the bag in his hand, revealing the clothes inside, which were exactly the ones the two of them had taken a fancy to before.
The man shrank behind the woman uneasily, and said anxiously, "We only touched it, and it didn't get dirty, so why did we buy and sell it by force?"
The woman also said: "If you are so unreasonable, we will go to see the official!"
What Xiaoer is most afraid of hearing is the word "official". She quickly said, "I'm here to apologize to you two. I was wrong today. I shouldn't humiliate you so much. This is my apology. You accept it." Come down."
The woman and the man looked at each other in disbelief.
"I shouldn't look down on people." Xiaoer showed his attitude regardless of whether he was sincere or not.
Men really like this dress, and after looking around, there is nothing more suitable than this one.
He looked at the woman hesitantly, saw her nodding, and finally took out the copper coins to pay the due amount, and said softly, "We can't take advantage of you."
There was no sarcasm, no ridicule, and no peace of mind to accept the clothes.
Xiao Er was stunned, looking at the copper plate in his hand, his face felt a burning pain.
She didn't have the face to take the money, and stuffed it back into the woman's hand, speaking quickly, "I was wrong about what happened today, I'm sorry."
Then ran away.
The couple later found out what was going on. It turned out that it was the young adults who had only met once to maintain their insignificant dignity.
Originally, the two went to the city to buy things, but they were humiliated. It was impossible to say that they didn't feel uncomfortable at all.
Now the pimple in my heart seems to be gone because of this dress.