Chapter 73 Camellia
"In exchange for the desserts on the Canglan River." Yan Juan told the truth.
"Don't be joking!" When Li Cheng heard Canglan Jiang's tone, he was so confused that he felt as if he was sinking into an abyss. How could he not know that in the past few months, she had been promoting desserts in the name of Fan Xuelan.
Yan Yao shrank when he shouted, but instead of flinching, she stretched out her hand to touch her back. Her sad eyes could not hide the cunning, and she said coquettishly: "Brother Cheng will tell you when you carry me back."
Fan Xuelan, the leader of the Canglan River, is she? Li Cheng thought for a long time, but still squatted on his back and carried Yan Jue. No matter whether he answered it or not, he had to be sent back after being entrusted by others.
Yan Jue, who lay on Li Cheng's broad shoulders as she wished, was carried out of the Jingzhao Palace. Yin's frailty was so pitiful, and behind him was Ye Xiu, who was covering his chest with a broken waist and still erecting his waist, slowly Walk back to Dongshi Street.
"Who has wronged me?" Ye Xiu fully expressed the pain after being whipped, shouting angrily all the way.
Yan Yan was satisfied with Ye Xiu, the drama queen, he understood what she wanted to do with just one movement!
Now that she has been paraded in the streets, she has to go back to the streets to regain her aura!
Li Cheng was walking in the market and listening to everyone pointing, and he suddenly realized that this kid was using him to find a place!
Prince Cheng carried him all the way back to Junzixiao, this girl is very good at calculating!
When passing by the cosmetics shop that was rumored to be causing trouble in the morning, there was a hanging belt outside Yanyan Square for three people to pass. There was also a man wearing a three-color jacquard brocade with a cross-collar long coat sitting on it, not afraid of the cold. Still insisting on crying at the door, my voice became hoarse from crying.
Yan Juan, who had gone out without wearing a cloak, was shivering from the cold on Li Cheng's back. Her lips and teeth were trembling and she said, "The trouble is not over yet?"
"Girl, don't you want to show off?" Li Cheng also knew that the baby on his back had no warm clothes. If he walked on, his aura would not be found yet, but his sick aura would be found first.
Yan Juan looked up and saw that the sky was getting dark. Although it was not snowing, the cold in the north was still too much to bear in winter. Then she looked at the woman at the door who had her bun in a ponytail and was messy from crying. Her face was covered with acne. She was crying with excitement and her face was flushed... ...
She was fully equipped to sit at the door and cry! Look how hot she is!
After Yan Juan whispered in Li Cheng's ear, Li Cheng called the boy over and explained: "Go to the market and buy dark flowers. There is no limit to the variety."
"Yes! I obey, little one." The boy accepted the order and quickly disappeared into the crowd.
As soon as they entered the store, the shopkeeper Shen Hua immediately ushered the people into the inner hall on the second floor, took a cloak rolled with animal hair, and put it on Yan Juan and Ye Xiu, who was turning blue from the cold. The maid outside the door also hurriedly handed Tang Pozi a warm cloak. hand.
"Shopkeeper Shen is so patient. It doesn't bother her to cry like this." Yan Jue was shivering from the cold, but she didn't forget to praise her.
Shen Hua said respectfully, calmly and calmly: "Girl, you have complimented me, and you have probably said everything you need to say. The customer still won't leave. I thought he wanted to make another fuss. Instead of making noise across the street, why not warm up in the store?" Just wait so as not to disturb the customers in the store."
Yan Juan nodded with understanding and said with a smile: "Shopkeeper Shen is transparent."
"I just checked the bottle that the woman brought, and it is indeed our blue and white porcelain bottle." Shen Hua came closer to Yan Jue and whispered, "The bottom of the bottle cannot be hidden from others."
Each batch of blue and white porcelain bottles is glazed and put into the kiln by Gui Wushan Workshop. The seal on the bottom of the bottle indicates the date of production. Even if the customer brings the bottle back to be washed and re-bottled, there will be no trace of special color on the bottom of the bottle. Remember, no one else can fake it.
The woman outside was holding a bottle from a year ago, saying that it was Huiyan Lu that she bought in the store last month. There was no purchase record, and there was no sign of refilling the color on the bottom of the bottle. Although the contents in the bottle had a similar taste, But it’s not Huiyanlu either.
After being exposed by the shopkeeper, the woman sat in front of the door reluctantly and cried to everyone that she had been deceived.
Who deceived whom? Shen Hua didn't want to know, and he didn't have the time to care.
"It was my fault that I forgot to teach the shopkeeper how to check Hui Yanlu. I will ask the woman to leave in a moment. Shopkeeper Shen came and asked me to bite my ear." Yan Juan's little hands, which were no longer gray, finally turned red. Wave to Shen Hua.
After the two of them chatted for a while, shopkeeper Shen raised a bright smile and resigned, returning to the first floor to prepare what Yan Ju requested.
"What's the point of this girl?" Li Cheng tapped Yan Juan's forehead with his fan.
I just asked the boy to buy flowers, and now I ask the shopkeeper to prepare water, two white jade cups, and a grinding pot.
Yan Juan covered her aching forehead and said, "Brother Cheng, just watch."
The curtains in the inner room on the second floor were half-opened and the first floor could be clearly seen. After shopkeeper Shen got the tools, the boy finally bought a dark red camellia and hurried back, trembling and handed the tea to the shopkeeper.
"Shopkeeper Shen, this camellia is priced at 200 taels. It's too expensive. Xiao Shunzi took advantage of your reputation to get it on credit. The flower marketer said that when the county prince is happy with it, he can take it and repay it later!" Xiao Shunzi said. Nervously twisting the hem of his clothes.
Where else can I find camellias that bloom so beautifully in late winter besides Qi Flower House in Dongshi? The flower shop’s 200 liang sign is still hanging. If he wasn’t wearing a rusty Yanyanfang robe, he would be such a dick. I rushed to buy flowers, but I was afraid that I couldn't even bring out a single blade of grass in the flower market.
When Shen Hua heard that it was two hundred taels of silver, his hand that was about to reach out to pick flowers slowed down, and he bent down and looked at Yan Jue on the second floor.
Yan Juan nodded with a careless smile and told her to go ahead and do it boldly!
How can the flowers produced in the winter in the North not be expensive? What she wants! This is the expensive effect!
"Invite the lady outside, and invite some fellow villagers to come and witness." Shen Hua asked the boy to lay the long table horizontally to block the door, facing the people in the market.
As soon as the boy shouted, several villagers gathered and whispered.
"Auntie, please give me the Huiyan Dew in your hand." Shen Huafu asked.
Aunt Hua hid the bottle and said angrily: "I don't! This is evidence that you are plotting to kill me!"
Shen Hua smiled as he wished, and said to the boy behind him: "Take an unopened bottle of Huiyanlu and bring it over."
After receiving the order, the boy took out the Huiyan Dew that had just been put on the shelf at the rear in full view of everyone.
"Do you know, folks, that a bottle of Huiyan Dew costs thirty taels?" Shen Hua asked the folks in front of him.
"Why don't you know? My wife wants it in her dreams, but she can't afford it!" Wang Er's sudden shout at the end of the street caused a burst of laughter.
"Can any of you folks recognize the sign on this Foding Mountain Tea plant?" Shen Hua asked again.
"Qihuafang is asking for two hundred taels of blue and white brand." Li San from West Street shouted at the price of the Buddha's Top tea, and everyone gasped.
"Yes! Thank you, folks." Shen Hua bowed his hands in thanks and continued, "Everyone in the neighborhood knows today that this lady Hua said that she started using Yanyanfang Huiyan Lotion last month, which caused her face to be full of acne. The sores and dark marks have not gone away. Even though I have checked the account books and the blue and white vase, they are not from our Yanyanfang. No matter how I explain it, Aunt Hua doesn’t want to believe it, so I ask all the fellow villagers to help Shen Hua prove it!"
After Shen Hua finished speaking, he reached for the tea on top of the Buddha. The waiter stopped him in horror: "Shopkeeper! Two hundred taels!"
Shen Hua glanced at the boy and yelled angrily: "I have to pick two thousand taels!"
So, the two hundred taels of Buddha's top tea was picked off and put into the mortar amidst the sound of everyone gasping. The more they fiddled with it, the more distressed they became. They kept cursing Mrs. Hua in their hearts, but they still kept a bright smile on their faces.
After pounding and pounding, Shen Hua saw that the purple sauce Yan Jue mentioned had appeared, so he added water and filtered out the deep purple juice into the white jade cup.
Shen Hua took a deep breath, feeling sorry for the two hundred taels, and said, "Brother Wang, come on."
"Hey!" Wang Er quickly passed through the crowd, came over and asked: "What's wrong with the Shen family girl?"
Shen Hua smiled and handed out the unopened Hui Yan Lu. "Here! Open it in front of everyone!"
Wang Er exclaimed: "Thirty taels! Just open it like this?"
"Open! Two hundred taels have been destroyed to keep Yanyanfang clean. Are you still afraid of these thirty taels?" Shen Hua glanced at Wang Er.
"Okay! I'm sorry for saying this to you!" In front of Madam Hua, Wang Er carefully untied the mouth of the Yanlu bottle, the seal-engraved rice paper with three small characters of Yanyanfang printed on it, and untied the red tie on it. It was broken.
Aunt Hua pretended to be calm and looked at it, holding a square handkerchief that was already soaked with sweat in the winter. How could it be possible to spend money to buy this thirty-tael bottle of Hui Yan Lu? Let alone how to open it?
"Sister Shen, it's ready! Are you coming again?" Wang Er held the thirty taels in his hands and trembled, trembling more than the cold wind.
"Please watch, fellow villagers! I, Shen Hua, have to stop here!" Shen Hua called on everyone to come forward, and the crowd was so crowded that there was no room for them. "Brother Wang, help me pour some Hui Yan Lu into the white jade cup on the left."
After Wang Er poured Huiyan Lu into the cup, nothing changed in the cup.
"It's your turn, Madam Hua! Pour the Huiyan Dew in your hand into the white jade cup on the right."
Aunt Hua's hands were shaking worse than Wang Er's. With so many people watching, she had no choice but to pour some in. She saw that the purple color in the white jade cup gradually faded into cyan, which frightened her back again and again.
"You must have done something wrong!" Aunt Hua pointed at Shen Hua and cursed.
Shen Hua seemed to have expected this. He smiled at the white jade cup on the left and said, "Ms. Hua, you can pour it again."
Mrs. Hua held the bottle tightly and didn't move at all, and the crowd in the market started to make a noise.
"Pour! Just wait and see!"
"Pour it down quickly! Let everyone see!"
Aunt Hua twisted her knuckles until they turned white. She was pushed away by her fourth aunt on the street next to her and said, "Quick! I'm waiting to get home to prepare dinner!"
Forced to do nothing, Aunt Hua had no choice but to pour a little more Huiyanlu into the white jade cup, which also faded into cyan color amidst the uproar of the crowd.
"Aunt Hua, if you want to extort money, you have to have a sense of proportion! Look at this demeanor, it's just to match your Zhao Mazi!" Li San sarcastically said without leaving any moral integrity.
Aunt Hua, who was said to be guilty, had no steps to go down, and cried loudly: "You have no conscience! You are bullying ordinary people like this!"
When Shen Hua saw her reluctance and crying, he smiled and said: "Ms. Hua, if this still doesn't convince you, let's go to Jingzhao Mansion! How about we ask the official to come and judge?"
Chapter completed!