Chapter 27 Step like smoke and mirrors
The first year of Jiading, the Chinese Valentine's Day.
Bu Ruyan took out a glass mirror and looked at herself carefully in the mirror. The beauty in the mirror had white teeth, red lips, fair skin, and charming between her eyebrows and eyes. Although she had practiced countless times in front of the white bronze mirror and had already been very clear about her appearance, Bu Ruyan still looked at herself carefully in the glass mirror. She was happy, displeased, angry, and pitiful. Her expressions appeared like a lantern on Bu Ruyan's face. After carefully looking, Bu Ruyan fine-tuned the unsatisfactory parts.
In the eyes of others, Miss Bu Ruyan seems to be emotionally excited, but in fact she is very focused inside, and she is completely lost. Of course, a famous prostitute needs to understand poetry, songs, music, chess, calligraphy and painting, but singing prostitutes who only know poetry, songs, music, chess, calligraphy and painting cannot become famous prostitutes. Those self-proclaimed aloof people pursue communication with others as they imagined. Bu Ruyan, who eats this bowl of rice, needs to make those people feel that she has "naturally" the most appropriate reaction. This requires Bu Ruyan's expression and movement to be completely in place. The glass mirror is an excellent tool for Bu Ruyan, which allows her to have the ability to modify the most subtle flaws.
"Miss. Official Zhao Yong asked for a visit." The girl in green walked to the distance and said.
"Please come up." Bu Ruyan replied.
The girl in green walked away, and Bu Ruyan saw herself smiling from the mirror. She quickly dispelled her smile because it was from Bu Ruyan's true feelings. It seemed that overnight, the glass mirror suddenly became popular in Lin'an. There was a book in Bu Ruyan's hand, four times the size of an ordinary mirror on the market. However, Bu Ruyan did not pay a penny, and it was Zhao Yong outside the pleasure boat that he offered to her at this time.
When Zhao Yong got onto the pleasure boat, he saw Bu Ruyan facing the sky like a sister next door, sitting casually at the table holding the mirror while looking at it. The quiet smile at the corner of Bu Ruyan's mouth made Zhao Yong feel extremely satisfied.
Seeing Zhao Yong come in, Bu Ruyan didn't talk nonsense and didn't come forward to greet him. Instead, he got up and gave him a smile, and then started pouring tea. When Zhao Yong walked to the table, Bu Ruyan put the green tea on Zhao Yong's side.
"Thank you." Zhao Yong ran in the sun for a long time and was really thirsty. He picked up the tea cup and drank it in one sip. He felt that the tea was extremely sweet and clear.
"Mr. Zhao, I heard that this glass mirror is more than 30% of the same size white bronze mirror. But I don't know how big the largest mirror is?" Bu Ruyan asked.
"The biggest?" Zhao Yong didn't understand for a moment.
Looking at Zhao Yong's silly appearance, Bu Ruyan pursed her lips and raised the mirror in her hand, "The biggest of these mirrors is not that big, right?"
Speaking so bluntly, Zhao Yong barely recovered some memory from his addiction. "The biggest one I have seen is as big as six in your hands."
"That's great!" Bu Ruyan said. She got up and walked to the table, took out a heavy package from it, and carried it to Zhao Yong with some difficulty. Zhao Yong opened it in confusion and saw that there were two ingots of fifty taels of official silver inside the package.
"Young Master Zhao, this money is a deposit. I want to sell two big mirrors you mentioned." Bu Ruyan said to Zhao Yong with longing eyes.
Zhao Yong said almost instinctively: "Why use money? I bought it and gave it to you!"
"No!" Bu Ruyan showed some chaste expressions similar to chaste, "Young Master Zhao, do you think I don't make money cleanly and look down on me?"
Zhao Yong was shocked and waved his hand quickly, "I have no intention."
Bu Ruyan said with some gratitude: "If Mr. Zhao really thinks so, then take these deposits. Your money is not caused by the strong wind. I know Mr. Zhao is very nice to me, so please don't let me feel sorry for me. Otherwise, when I think of Mr. Zhao in the future, I feel that I have to spend money and I will not be able to see you again."
After hearing this, Zhao Yong finally surrendered at the sincere expression of Bu Ruyan. He said seriously: "Miss Wan'er, the mirror I can get is not expensive. You can buy three sides of this hundred taels of silver..."
"Then I have to go three sides!" Bu Ruyan said decisively.
"...Okay, I'll get you three sides." Zhao Yong got up and left after saying that.
Bu Ruyan grabbed him from behind, lifted the wrapped silver effortfully, and handed it to Zhao Yong.
After seeing off Zhao Yong, Bu Ruyan sat back on the stool. It was very relaxed but very tired to deal with people like Zhao Yong. They were obsessed with them and often made unexpected moves. Bu Ruyan had no experience in dealing with such a guy and could only adapt to the situation. Bu Ruyan was a little surprised, why did Zhao Jiaren actually regard Zhao Yong as a brother? No matter how he looked at Zhao Jiaren, he was not as kind as such.
As a famous prostitute in Lin'an, Bu Ruyan could easily hear the officials talking about things in the officialdom. When talking about Zhao Jiaren, most of the comments were very good at killing, killing nearly 10,000 people. But knowing that Zhao Jiaren destroyed the officials of the Pu family in Quanzhou, his comments on Zhao Jiaren were very decisive and cold.
Bu Ruyan himself could also feel the existence of Zhao Jiaren. The glass mirror that became popular openly and the tampon that became popular through private channels earlier. Zhao Jiaren's tricks in making money, and the quality of the products was extraordinary. At least until now, Bu Ruyan has not seen that Zhao Yong has the advantages that Zhao Jiaren deserves so much.
But Zhao Yong was doing things very quickly. Three days later, he sent three glass mirrors to Bu Ruyan's pleasure boat. He arranged the three mirrors into trapezoids, and Bu Ruyan found that he could perfectly observe his actions from all angles. In the past, his sisters told Bu Ruyan that sometimes she would have a little weird hunchback. Bu Ruyan could not find out that he had this problem. This time, this time in front of the mirror, Bu Ruyan finally saw how he looked weird.
Just when Bu Ruyan felt that he needed to squeeze out all the time to adjust himself, news came that Concubine Yan had passed away, and the entertainment activities in Lin'an City needed to be temporarily stopped. Then another news came, and the right prime minister Jia Sidao returned to Lin'an. The major events seemed to be together. After a few days, the latest news was that the Mongolian Lord Kublai Khan sent an envoy to Lin'an to negotiate peace with the Song Dynasty.
Now the officials' attention is focused on these major events, and Bu Ruyan is so happy that she can calm down for a while. In addition to eating and sleeping every day, she constantly adjusts her walking and standing in front of the mirror, correcting her every frown and smile.
Jia Sidao, the right prime minister of the Song Dynasty, had no time to take care of his every move. The speed of peace talks made him unable to help but recall the previous peace talks. During the Shaoxing peace talks, Yue Fei became a victim. During the Jiading peace talks, Shi Miyuan killed Han Tuozhou and gave his head to the Jin Kingdom. Both peace talks were killed by high-ranking officials in the Southern Song Dynasty, and a feeling of unhappiness made Jia Sidao feel much deeper.
What should come is still coming. When the Mongolian envoy Hao Jing appeared in front of Jia Sidao, Jia Sidao cheered up all his energy to deal with it. After reading the peace agreement handed over by Hao Jing for a moment, Jia Sidao was so angry that he threw the document on the table with a snap, shouting angrily: "What is this!"
Hao Jing glanced at the documents on the table, which were the conditions he listed.
1. The State of Song ceded Sichuan Road and Lianghuai Road to Mongolia.
2. The State of Song surrendered to Mongolia.
3. The Song State attacked Mongolia 250,000 pieces of silk and 250,000 taels of silver every year.
There are other fragmentary clauses.
Hao Jing felt that he could not understand Jia Sidao's anger. These conditions were similar to the Shaoxing Peace Agreement signed by Song and Jin. How could Song accept it back then, but now Song cannot accept it?
Chapter completed!