The sound of cars and horses came from a distance, and the shadows of the trees in the alley behind the warehouse were mottled, and the two figures were sitting there holding a bowl of jelly and eating slowly.
"Several stores in Jiangning City have to walk around every day to take care of them. Dad brought them here before. If you really want to take care of these, you have to spend a lot of time to understand everything that you should understand. Now the young masters in the family don't If a few can really manage the store, I can manage these, and I can take care of any shopkeeper's hand... "
Across the low wall, the shadows of trees, and the ditch, you can faintly see the situation on the market over there, and there is a noise. Ning Yi came here after class at noon today, and the two of them were eating jelly in the back and chatting for a while. Su Tan'er didn't usually eat snacks, but at this time it was like she was on the corridor on the second floor of the small building at night, holding a small bowl while talking trivially. From the origin of the fairy dress to the ratio of some dyes.
"There is a description in Xijing Miscellaneous Notes that the origin of the immortal skirt is because of Zhao Feiyan. In fact, the skirts before the Western Han Dynasty did not have such folds, but it is said that once Zhao Feiyan was dancing, the skirt was pulled by a palace maid, and there were wrinkles. , it looks better when you jump, and later the women in the palace followed suit. However, the folds of the skirt were not what they are now. In the Tang Dynasty, there was a kind of beautiful pattern, which required seven more steps than the current skirt, but it was worn. Sometimes it's a little troublesome to pay attention to…”
"The white and blue of today's clothes are not simple colors. It is very troublesome to dye this white color. There are 23 processes in total. The first choice of dye is very special. No sulfur or lime is used... Blue is easy to dye. , but here is the color between turquoise blue and sapphire blue, using the very expensive dark blue star color stone, the kind that is placed on the screen on the second floor at home, if it is used for eyebrow painting, it is valuable. There is one on the side, and a very small box costs fifteen pieces…”
When Su Tan'er was at home, most of the time, she would talk a little bit about the parents, talk ill of a bunch of stupid cousins, or scold business partners or something, and she looked a little wicked when she was eating. At this time, she was only talking about things related to printing and dyeing, weaving, and garment making. She could talk about Ning Yi's body casually. She was not in the attitude of endorsement, but she understood these things very well. How much effort has been spent on this, Ning Yi was holding a half bowl of jelly, and it was quite interesting to listen to this nineteen-year-old woman in the name of her own wife.
The transportation in the warehouse in front continued, and there seemed to be a loud noise from the streets on the left and right side of the warehouse in Xin Shi. Su Tan'er just turned her head and glanced at Ning Yi, and said with a smile: "There are often fights here, and sometimes people will die, let's not go to see..."
There was a hint of pleading in her words, Ning Yi nodded: "Well, so as not to be accidentally injured." Xing'er looked at the atmosphere, smiled and ran away. Only then did Su Tan'er turn her head and shout inside, "Don't get hurt."
While there was a vague sound of chaotic fighting, while there were still busy cars and horses, the two sat in the back alley chatting, listening to the cicadas in the autumn, watching the mottled light and shadow falling from the tree gap, those The sound seems to have become a little distant. The jelly was not delicious. Su Tan'er took a sip and held it in her hand without touching it. The trees were idle for a while. If the city gates were closed, they would be even busier. "
"Don't you want to be more leisurely after closing the city gate?" Ning Yi ate another spoonful of the half bowl of jelly that had been in his hand for a long time.
"The city gate was closed for a month a few years ago. At that time, I was still young, but I felt bored." Su Tan'er looked at him, "Could it be that Xiang Gong forgot this?"
"Can not remember."
"What kind of person was Xianggong supposed to be before? I can't imagine..."
"Probably a nerd, maybe the stupid kind, or the same as it is now... Uh, what are you thinking in that look?"
"I went to see Xianggong before, with Xiaochan and Xiaojuan, to find out what kind of person Xianggong is." Su Tan'er thought for a while and laughed, "At that time everyone really said that Xianggong was a bookworm, I secretly I went to see Xianggong once, and I saw it from a distance, but I couldn't go up to talk, so I don't know what the Xianggong was like at that time... Xianggong was walking with his head buried in it at that time, I don't know that Xiaochan and I were on a carriage not far away Open the curtain to see you."
There were screams in the distance, shouts such as "killed", like a chaotic background sound, Ning Yi thought for a while, smiled and didn't speak, Su Tan'er tilted her head: "Xiang Gong is angry already?"
"No, I just thought things were interesting."
Su Tan'er nodded and smiled knowingly: "My concubine also finds it interesting." In the words, there seemed to be a little emotion, and the mood was a little complicated. Of course, this complexity may be different from Ning Yi's mind.
Not long after, the arresters from the yamen came over quickly, dispelling the fighting ahead, and probably arrested some people. In the evening, Ning Yi and Su Tan'er walked through the warehouse to the front door. The street had returned to its normal bustling state. The workers who carried the goods came and went, and the person in charge of the store shouted and directed the work as before. While passing by the warehouse, a small incident happened.
It was a wooden frame that didn't seem very stable at first. When the two of them passed by, they shook a few times. Because there was a guy on the opposite side who was loading a large piece of goods, they couldn't control it for a while, and it was shaky. Ning Yi saw it. Su Taner, who wanted to help her with her hands, was walking a little ahead and was looking at the goods on the other side. She probably turned her head and noticed this, and almost at the same time she took a step back, trying to push Ning Yi away. .
This may be a subconscious action, because she didn't even have time to say a word, she finally squeezed Ning Yi to a stop, and couldn't fully support a large bag in front of her, the white cotton spindle fell out of the pocket, all It was some light things, and one of them hit Su Tan'er's head. Su Tan'er squinted her eyes and shrank her neck. Then she whispered, "Ah..." and then said, "Xianggong..." The two were almost leaning against each other on their backs. After a moment, Ning Yi took a step back.
Even if a whole bag of cotton spindles fell and hit someone, it probably wouldn't be a big deal, but the subconscious blocking turned out to be a disservice, which made Ning Yi somewhat amused and implicitly strong. After a while, Ning Yi said with a smile: "Do you know that it would be troublesome if something else was smashed on it?" Su Tan'er just tilted her head and smiled lightly: "I saw that it was the cotton spindle that passed by. Well."
"Oh." Ning Yi nodded, then laughed again, "It's a disservice..."
"Understood..." Su Tan'er made a slightly embarrassed expression.
It's just a small thing, after tidying up the slightly messed up hair, it seems to have passed like this.
As the sun went down, after talking to shopkeeper Liao, Su Tan'er and Ning Yi found Juan'er and Xing'er together. They picked up a few large and small boxes to get on the carriage and went home. They were still busy on the pier. Most of the gangsters have to be busy until around midnight before they can rest.
It was nearly half July, and I went back to Su Mansion all the way. Along the way, I could see a lot of stalls selling paper, bamboo, and money. Now the victims are coming, and there are many pedestrians with all kinds of sad faces. Beggars and refugees on both sides. After returning to the Su Mansion, there were quite a few unfamiliar faces in the huge mansion. Only when entering the door, more than ten people waiting in the gatehouse came to talk to Su Tan'er, and Su Tan'er also smiled. Nodding to say hello, Ning Yi was content to accompany her, and after a while, Xiao Chan, who had probably been busy all day, trotted out from the courtyard gate on the sunset side, smiled and waved her hand, and then quietly squeezed into the crowd, silently. He moved quietly behind Su Tan'er.
On the way back to the yard, Xiaochan also had to chatter about the situation at home, which relatives encountered any difficulties. Some of them are closely related to the big room, either by Su Boyong's side, or by Su Tan'er's side. It is said that a young master from a distant house has been hanging out in Jiangning City in recent days. Today, he went to a casino to cause trouble and was detained. His mother is not easy to ask Su Boyong for help. I heard that Su Taner has always been a good talker here. , and now also begged over, Su Tan'er had to frown and asked the amount of money involved, and then asked Xiaochan to find a Sun Huyuan in the mansion who was better at handling such things.
Similar things often happen, especially in these few days, there are more than one or two cases. Before dinner, the Sun Nursery named Sun Er came over, and after learning about the specific matter with Su Taner, he took Zhang Yin. Tickets go out. Before dinner, Su Tan'er went to her father's place. After dinner, it was nighttime, and all kinds of people came to visit, relatives far and near, these **** all left, so that Su Tan'er could go back to her room to deal with some documents and accounts to be processed.
Many times Ning Yi actually thinks this kind of busyness is very interesting. For people who really have intentions and goals, such as Su Taner, this kind of busyness will not cause much problems for her in normal times. Seeing her skilled To deal with these things, Ning Yi occasionally thinks of his former self. However, in recent days, after all, it has been a little overloaded.
Prepare for the ancestor worship in July and a half, arrange and deal with the affairs of some big family relatives, the city gate will be closed, the most important thing is probably because of the progress of the imperial business affairs. At midnight this day, Su Taner's room Before the light was extinguished, Ning Yi read the book for a while and went for a walk in the yard. The autumn night is cool. He recently practiced the Qigong breathing method taught by Lu Hongti. He has not seen any destructive results, but he is in good spirits. He walked to the corridor under the eaves of Su Tan'er and stopped. Sigh slightly.
The window of Su Tan'er's bedroom was open, and the desk was placed in front of the window. The light of the oil lamp trembled slightly on the table. In the warm yellow light, Su Tan'er was lying on the paper of several letters, and she was already asleep at this time. A little messy hair on the temples.
Ning Yi stood in front of the window and looked at it for a while, then he blew out the oil lamp on the table, the window went dark, and the bright moon shone in the courtyard. Just as he was about to turn around and leave, the rear seemed to sense the change of light, and there was a sound of "uh", Ning Yi turned around, Su Tan'er also sat up with difficulty, stretched out his hand and rubbed his eyes in a daze. , then sniffed and looked out the window.
In the moonlight, there was a dull look at each other. Su Tan'er's eyes seemed to glow in the dark, but they were not very open, and they were a bit lazy and confused: "Uh... Husband..."
Under the moonlight, it was whispering like a little girl...