Friendship between women is very strange, especially women in this era.
Once you make friends, you will arrange the seats for the older sister and younger sister.
And one thing that makes Xu Qing feel strange is, is his wife really that old?
She is a sister wherever she goes.
Xiao Ruxue just called his wife sister, but now Long Bing'er and Li Mingyue also call their wife sister.
My wives will naturally call them sister.
Fortunately, only women are called that.
The same cannot be said for men. At best, they are Brother Zhang, Brother Li, Brother Xu, and Brother Xiao.
Anyway, except for "Water Margin", he has never seen a man call each other brother.
It is not uncommon to call someone younger than you directly brother.
These two titles reveal a somewhat unclear ambiguity.
No matter how bad it is, the titles are still the wise brother and the foolish brother, or the eldest brother and the second brother. It is absolutely impossible to call him brother and brother in the Chu country.
Long Bing'er became lazier and lazier, lying on the table all day long, like a lazy cat.
Day after day, all I did was lie down except for eating.
That's it, what about the military commander?
I really don’t know if she will be able to pick up a weapon after returning to China.
After finishing the meal, Li Mingyue went back to her room to rest. Long Bing'er didn't have her own room in Anding's Mansion yet, so she went to the kitchen to bring a basin of crushed ice as usual, and then shamelessly went to squeeze in with Li Mingyue.
After Xu Qing and Su Qian returned to the bedroom, they looked at Su Qian with empty hands and said, "Didn't you get the glass, madam?"
Su Qian shook her head and said, "I gave the last one to Xuan'er, I don't like those."
Xu Qing nodded shamelessly and said, "That's right, I definitely prefer my husband to Lady Liuli."
Just when Su Qian's face turned red and she stretched out her hand to hit this talkative husband, Xu Qing suddenly thought of something and opened the door and walked out, saying: "Madam, please wait for me for a while while I go get something for you."
Not long after, Xu Qing came back holding a small box.
Then Xu Qing opened the box and found a pair of colored glaze rings that looked exactly the same. The only difference was in color. One colored glaze ring was cyan, and the other was translucent and colorless.
The workmanship and carvings of this pair of pendant rings are more exquisite than those of the glazed utensils just mentioned.
Xu Qing put the colorless ring on Su Qian's waist. The colorless and translucent ring looked like white to outsiders against Su Qian's white skirt. As for the cyan ring, Xu Qing wore it on Su Qian's waist.
On your own waist.
In the State of Chu, although the rings worn by women were the same ornaments as those worn by men, their names were different. Men could call them jade pendants, but women wearing them had to call them forbidden steps.
The forbidden step is also something that women use to regulate their behavior. If the rhythm of the jewelry is disordered, the woman realizes that her behavior and walking posture are a little out of shape, and she can adjust it immediately.
But now Su Qian has two ornaments on her left and right waist, one is a glass pendant given by Xu Qing, and the other is a white jade pendant given by Xiao Ruxue.
Su Qian smiled and said: "The woman next to me only wears one ring to prevent her from walking, but I wear two rings at the same time. It is a bit unethical."
Xu Qing looked at Su Qian innocently: "That lady won't have the heart to take off the jewelry she gave her husband and wear the jade pendant given by Xue'er, right?"
Su Qian gave Xu Qing a helpless look, then took off the mutton-fat jade pendant given by Xiao Ruxue and put it away, leaving only a glass pendant on her waist: "Is your husband satisfied now?"
Xu Qing took out the green pendant and put it on his waist with satisfaction.
Just now, when Su Qian hesitated, he was ready to raise the question of who should be saved first when he and Xiao Ruxue fell into the water at the same time.
Unexpectedly, the lady took off Xiao Ruxue's jade pendant without any hesitation, making it impossible for her to ask anything.
Sure enough, the lady still loves him.
At noon, Xu Qing hugged Su Qian and had a nice sleep, then went to the study to draw up the invitation.
There are many people to be invited to this glass exhibition, and protective measures must be taken. Otherwise, if one of these glass is stolen, it will be a huge loss.
Today's colored glaze is like the silver notes currently circulating in the Central Plains.
The manufacturing cost is very cheap, but it cannot be manufactured casually just because the manufacturing cost is cheap.
Once there is more colored glaze, its value will drop rapidly.
After drawing up the invitations, Xu Qing handed them over to the Emperor of Chu, who then distributed them through the hands of the imperial court.
Some of the invitations also flowed into the hands of wealthy private businessmen under Xu Qing's arrangement.
Of course, it is not given for free, but the price is copied first, and the one with the highest price in the end gets it.
three days later
The residence of Zhou envoys
The deputy envoy of the State of Zhou looked at the invitation in his hand. It clearly said: Da Chu was in trouble last year and the national treasury was empty and unable to make ends meet. His Majesty was deeply saddened to part ways with him and took out all the colored glazes in the royal family's collection to hold an exhibition. At that time, the price of the colored glazes will be displayed.
The higher one will get it, and all the silver they get will be put into the national treasury, which will be used to provide disaster relief and benefit the people.
The deputy envoy of the State of Zhou smiled when he saw this: "Well, the treasury of the State of Chu is so empty that it wants to sell off the royal treasures. Hahaha, God bless me, the great Zhou! God bless me, the great Chu!"
The deputy envoy of the State of Zhou has been in a bad mood these days. The concubine princes that he had never looked down on have actually climbed onto his head. Although the power of the envoy has always been in his hands, there is one person who has the status of an envoy.
Let this concubine prince gain great righteousness.
What's even more disgusting is that even if he was suppressed by this concubine prince on the surface, he was actually able to deal with the tricks behind the scenes with ease.
After several secret operations, not only did they achieve nothing, but they also lost troops and generals.
It really annoyed him to the extreme.
The envoy surnamed Wang on the side said cautiously: "Sir, Deputy Envoy, the State of Chu holds a glass exhibition. If the glass is sold, wouldn't their treasury be rich? Why does the Deputy Ambassador say it is good news?"
The deputy envoy of Zhou State smiled and said: "Liu glide has been a rare thing since ancient times. How much glaze can the royal family save? How much silver can the Chu State raise by selling the glaze? Two hundred thousand taels? Three hundred thousand taels? Even if it is given to
His Chu country doubled it and it was 600,000 taels."
"Even if we collect 600,000 taels of silver, the Chu State still needs to keep a part of the silver to maintain the court. How many soldiers and horses can be mobilized with the remaining silver? By then, I will have a million troops in the Great Zhou Dynasty (millions is an imaginary number, simply expressing the momentum)
), this envoy wants to see how long Chu State can withstand with these hundreds of thousands of taels of silver. Chu State? From now on, I am afraid that it will only be worthy of surrendering to Zhou State!"
Prince Xian's Mansion
Emperor Chu said: "Brother, all the invitations have been sent out. The quantity of glaze Xu Qing has produced is so large that it is estimated that he can sell at least 600,000 taels or more."
The wise king smiled and said: "As long as we have these five hundred thousand taels, the military pay will be enough. At that time, I can do whatever I want. The little Zhou country dares to bark in front of our Chu country. It really does not know life or death! This time we send troops.
, as long as Zhao Guo does not interfere, I can conquer the two cities of Zhou Guo again!"
