"Sister...sister..." Qi Chen took a deep breath and stared in disbelief at the shop name on the signboard - "Liu Lixuan".
God! She...his five-year-old sister Jinxi actually fell in love with a mirror here. A glass mirror that was only the size of her hand, edged with willow wood, and cost ten taels of silver!
Twelve taels! He and his eldest brother’s monthly allowance combined was only twenty taels. But this little girl asked for ten taels as soon as she asked. How could he feel so embarrassed!
But it was he who said it himself: Let her choose as she pleases, and if she finds someone she likes, he will give it to her...
The problem is, how could he have imagined that a little girl of no more than five years old would choose such an expensive and useless glass mirror as a gift.
She thought that all little girls of her age were only interested in those colorful and extremely cheap ribbons, headbands and willow grates sold in street grocery stores...
It was his mistake! He shouldn't have spoken so openly!
What to do now?
"Brother, I want this! This one can see my face, it's not as blurry as the mirror at home!" Jin Xi pretended to be reluctant, holding the only remaining small glass hand mirror in "Liu Li Xuan" and looking at it with a smile.
By Qi Chen.
Glass mirror! After walking around Qianmen Street, the only thing that caught her eye was the spiritual sustenance of modern life. No matter what, she wanted to take it down!
Twelve!
It is said that her cheap father's annual salary is one hundred and eighty taels. On average, with a monthly income of fifteen taels, her purchase would cost her cheap dad more than half of his monthly salary.
After hearing her reasons for insisting, Qi Chen couldn't help but roll his eyes.
Nonsense! How much is the bronze mirror in your home worth? Such a small glass mirror is enough to buy all the bronze mirrors in your home, and there is still more!
"Xi'er, how about..." Qi Ke received the look of help from his younger brother, sighed softly, and tried to persuade him.
"Little girl, have you fallen in love with this hand mirror?"
After receiving the report from the waiter, the head shopkeeper of "Liu Lixuan" came out from behind the counter, stroking his gray beard that floated to his front, and smiled at Jinxi to confirm.
"Yes. Grandpa, can it be cheaper? Look, my brothers and I only have so much money left on us..." When Jinxi heard this, he immediately felt something interesting. He immediately took out the purse Mo'er handed over and poured it out one by one.
There are two small grains of silver inside, looking up at the shopkeeper, with eyes full of longing. Say yes, say yes! Sell her for two taels of silver.
"That's easy to say!" The shopkeeper nodded with a smile. This mirror was put on consignment by a customer in his shop. It had been sitting there for almost ten years before he met someone who was willing to bargain.
Although he immediately returned the eight taels of silver, the customer also said that as long as someone was willing to buy after seeing the price of "ten taels", he would be willing to sell it. No matter what the final transaction price was.
Huh? So refreshing! Could it be that the price of "ten taels" is used to slaughter fat sheep?
Jinxi glanced at the white-bearded shopkeeper suspiciously, and after paying the money, he took the glass hand mirror. After looking at it carefully several times, he was convinced that the mirror was indeed made of genuine silver-plated glass, although it was not as good as
The glass mirrors of later generations were clear and delicate, but also quite good. After all, this was the Qing Dynasty more than three hundred years ago, and she shouldn't be picky.
It wasn't until they walked out of the "Liulixuan" gate that the two brothers Qi Ke and Qi Chen came back to their senses.
Glancing at my sister who was playing with the glass mirror she just got, I couldn't help but sigh: Her level of bargaining is too high. I took out the two taels of silver from the maid's purse and said
It was all the belongings of the four of them. What was even weirder was that the white-bearded shopkeeper actually listened to her words and asked for a glass mirror that cost ten taels, but its value depreciated to twenty taels in an instant.
Who said that this "Liu Li Xuan" does not charge false prices and does not allow negotiation? They followed their sister who had no sense of class and had the courage to step into this "Liu Li Xuan" for the first time. They saw a scene and chopped it off in one go.
A bargain for eight taels of silver. One of the protagonists is their five-year-old sister.
The gap between up and down was too big. The two brothers couldn't help but sigh.
Mo'er weighed his empty wallet, which had been used up in a short while, and looked at Gege with an embarrassed expression, who had no idea about the price of silver taels. His heart was filled with anxiety: How can he go back and explain to Fujin now! Those two taels?
The money was left to Fujin to keep for himself, just for Princess to buy snacks and fruits for a few months.
"Keep it." He was thinking about whether to remind Princess when he saw Qi Ke handing over two taels of silver. This was the pocket money he and Qi Chen had saved in recent months. Since he agreed to buy a gift for Jin Xi,
You won't break your promise.
"This... young master..." Mo'er whispered, not knowing whether he should reach out and take it.
"Since it's what brothers want, just accept it. You don't want E Niang to be angry, right?" Jin Xi winked at Mo'er and persuaded with a smile.
The two brothers Qi Ke and Qi Chen were speechless for a while. Has she already thought about using their pocket money to offset her vulnerability?
"Sister, do you still want to go shopping?" Qi Chen asked weakly with a trembling heart.
"Of course. Didn't you say you would go back after lunch?" Jinxi grinned mischievously. Don't forget there is lunch, dear brothers! If I don't squeeze all your money today, her surname will not be Lin.
!Wow? Her surname is indeed not Lin now?
Well, what the hell! Anyway, if she, a thirty-year-old mature woman, calls a pair of thirteen-year-old twin brothers "brother," she will suffer no matter what. But she has no place to complain, so she has to take them.
Money to make up for her fragile nerves.
"Lunch...lunch?" Qi Chen was dumbfounded and touched the few dozen coins left in his sleeve pocket. That was his last straw. Is it possible that he had to sacrifice even these? What kind of unlucky day was he?
What a day! If I had known before I went out, I should have read the almanac. Maybe there is a reminder on it: Never go out, otherwise you will lose money...
Qi Ke, who had always been calm and steady, was now in a daze.
It turns out that it is possible to extort money from people as innocently as my sister.
If I didn't believe that she really doesn't understand the ways of the world now, otherwise...such a girl will grow up to be a little devil who is tireless in destroying others.
If he marries a wife, he will never marry a woman like his sister. It's too... too overwhelming for him.
She was only five years old! If it took another ten years... Well, he didn't dare to think about it. Anyway, it was not his sister who had to bear the responsibility for his whole life. Her husband should be the one to worry about... He began to sympathize with the man who would be looked down upon by his sister in the future.
The man who falls in love and cannot escape her "devil's claws"...
"Just here..." Jiuxi, who kept snickering, stretched out his plump and tender index finger and clicked on the small store that was almost hidden among the surrounding big stores - "Bianyi Fang", swaggering in the wind.
What was painted on the signboard banner was the "braised oven-style" sliced roast duck that was famous all over the country, both at home and abroad. I thought to myself: Could this "Bianyi Fang" be the same "Bianyi Fang"?
No matter, just try it and you will know. It is her honor as a senior cook to be able to go back three hundred years and taste this sliced-skin roast duck that is admired and worshiped by duck lovers of later generations.
"Sister, my brother doesn't have much money left. I don't know if it's enough for us to have a meal..." It means don't go in and embarrass yourself. It's better to go home quickly and mourn.
Jin Xi patted Qi Chen's belt with a sweet smile. Sorry, she could only reach his waist even if she stretched out her hand, "Brother, Xi'er has a small appetite, a plate of roast duck is enough."
A plate of roast duck! A plate of roast duck costs sixty cents, which is not expensive. But the total net worth of the two brothers is only seventy cents. Which means: they can only watch her eat?
"Hmm...it's delicious! Brothers, are you really not going to eat it?" Jinxi took a bite of the toon sprouts, radish sprouts, crispy-skinned duck with tender meat, and the store's homemade sweet sauce that Mo'er had wrapped for her.
She asked the twin brothers who secretly swallowed saliva and watched her eat the lotus flower rolls made of juice and other fillings.
Why should we eat when we have no money! Qi Ke and Qi Chen secretly cursed, but on the surface they waved their hands politely and declined, "Sister, please eat. Since it tastes good, eat more. Brothers are not hungry yet!"
Are you really not hungry? That’s weird! I accompanied her from Zhengyangmen to the Tianqiao entrance, and during the process, she secretly snatched a glass hand mirror worth twenty taels of silver. I was so hungry that I was weak. If I said I wasn’t hungry, then
They were polite. Who asked her to call them "brother"?
Alas! Two fools! A plate of roast duck was enough for the four of them to fill their hungry bellies, but because of her words, it became her exclusive meal.
Okay, this is the end of the compensatory test. The conclusion is that these two cheap brothers with no brains or skills are really good to her. Oh, it should be said that they really want to be good to their chubby half-sister.
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Chao Moer hooked up his hands and gave her some instructions in a low voice, and saw the little girl happily running over the crowded crowd towards the restaurant's ordering area.
"Come on, let's eat two roast duck rolls to fill your stomach first. There will be a lot of delicious food later." Jinxi stood up, neatly wrapped two roast duck rolls with her little hands, and handed them to each of them who were still in a sluggish state.
The two brothers couldn't help laughing and asked: "What's wrong? Could it be that my brothers don't like roast duck?"
Only then did Qi Ke and Qi Chen come back to their senses, took the roast duck roll from Jin Xi's hand, and ate it with big mouthfuls.
Well, the sliced duck roasted in this crowded and old alleyway shop is not inferior to the famous "Yuelongju" roast duck, and is even more delicious. Is it because they are too hungry? That's why they feel like eating it
Everything smells good?
After three bites were eaten, Mo'er also led the waiter to serve the dishes. Salted duck liver, wine-roasted duck heart, dry-roasted duck four treasures, and a large plate of shredded radish crispy rolls that were both a snack and a staple food.
"Come on, let's all eat hard. Mo'er, sit down and eat too." Jinxi pulled the little maid standing beside her to serve him.
"Gege..." Mo'er waved her hands hurriedly upon hearing this. She was just a maid, how could she eat at the same table as her master.
"In such a crowded place, standing in the way is in the way of others." Qi Chen saw this and spoke slowly. He intended to persuade her to sit down, but his words were not very nice.
"Yes, I will listen to your master today and sit down and have a good meal." Qi Ke also nodded in agreement. It is true that this store is really crowded, and the pestle is blocking the way.
"How is it? Doesn't it taste good?" Jinxi smiled and asked the twin brothers and Mo'er who were enjoying the food.
"Hmm... I have never tasted such delicious roast duck. To be honest, sister, have you ever eaten here before?" Otherwise, how could I fall in love with this humble but delicious roast duck with just one finger?
Where is the store?
"No." Jin Xi shook her head obediently. She just accidentally discovered a roast duck restaurant that has not been buried by history even after six hundred years. You must know that the selection of history is the most harsh but also the most truthful.