The speaker's voice was crisp and clear, and it sounded very clear in the slightly noisy lobby on the first floor.
After hearing this, Qiao Mingjin looked towards the man.
A little boy of seven or eight years old, dressed in rich clothes, was pointing at them. Qiao Mingjin looked at this child with some familiarity.
Just as she was thinking about it, the child quickly ran in front of her.
"Didn't you come to my house to sell eggs? You just string the eggs into bunches and sell them. I even bought four bunches from you. Don't you remember me?"
The little boy looked up at Qiao Mingjin with his chubby face.
Qiao Mingjin suddenly realized.
It turned out to be the fourth young master of the Zhou family.
When I first sent firewood to the Zhou Mansion, Master Zhou bought four of the first bunches of eggs he produced, and was rewarded with a tael of silver.
After Qiao Mingjin remembered it, she smiled and said, "It's Young Master Zhou. Of course I remember you. Why don't you go to school today?"
"Sir, I have something to do today. What goodies are you selling today? My classmates were all rushing to get the skewered eggs last time! Do you have anything more interesting?"
That young master on Thursday looked at Qiao Mingjin with a look of anticipation.
When Qiao Mingjin didn't know how to answer, a man in the corner shouted: "Wenxuan!"
The child turned his head to look at the sound.
Qiao Mingjin also took advantage of the situation and looked towards the sound.
Wow, what a handsome young man!
Straight blue Hangzhou silk embroidery, a jade crown for hair, a belt inlaid with jade pieces, a piece of mutton-fat white jade just hanging down from the waist, a pair of dark gold silk auspicious moire shoes on his feet, the whole person is sitting upright
There, the atmosphere is noble.
At this time, there were all kinds of people sitting on the first floor. People like him, who should have been sitting in the private rooms on the highest floor, were sitting among this group of people, and they didn't feel that they were being discounted at all. On the contrary, they felt a sense of disgrace.
Not to be underestimated, he stands out from the crowd.
The man was a little unhappy when he saw Qiao Mingjin looking at him blankly. But when he looked at Qiao Mingjin's face, he could not see the woman's greedy following eyes like ordinary women.
It seems to be purely an appreciation. Appreciation?
Zhou Yanqing frowned again.
When did he become just a thing for people to watch?
He felt uncomfortable when the woman clung to him, and he also felt a little uncomfortable when the woman looked at him boldly.
Looking at her delicate face, her bangs were wet from the rain and stuck to her forehead, her clothes were also wet from the rain, and even her shoes were soaked. She looked embarrassed, but she didn't seem to be disgusting.
Zhou Yanqing looked her over, then turned to drink tea.
That Thursday, young master Zhou Wenxuan saw that his uncle had stopped talking, so he happily turned to Qiao Mingjin and asked: "Are you here to sell umbrellas? Can you still make fun things?"
Qiao Mingjin looked at him and smiled, and said: "Not today. But next time I do something fun, I must go to the Fourth Young Master. It's raining outside today. I wonder if the Fourth Young Master wants to buy an umbrella?"
Zhou Wenxuan came out to play because of his uncle, and he didn't know if he wanted to buy it now. After hearing Qiao Mingjin's words, he turned around and ran back to ask his uncle.
The people in the hall had already wanted to ask when Qiao Mingjin and the others came in, but they restrained themselves when they saw someone talking to them.
When the little boy who was talking to her walked away, they all asked: "Is the lady's umbrella for sale? How much does it cost?"
Someone simply got up and walked towards Qiao Mingjin.
"It's for sale. It's raining so hard, you guys must not have time to prepare, right? If you have something urgent to go, you can buy an umbrella and take it with you."
Someone came up to look at the umbrella the sisters brought, and opened it to look at the pattern on it: "Little girl, how much does this umbrella cost?"
Some guests teased Xiao Wan'er.
Xiao Wan'er was not dissatisfied, she stretched out a small hand towards the person who asked the question, spread her fingers, and shook it towards the person who asked the question. Her big dark eyes blinked at the person who asked the question.
Seeing her cute look, the man imitated her and opened his hand with a smile and asked: "How much is this? Is it five cents?"
The little thing shook his head violently: "It's not five cents. Five cents will be a loss! It's fifty cents!" As he said that, he stretched his hand towards the person who asked the question, and his pink and white fingers were spread out like five noodles.
People in the hall laughed after hearing this.
On this rainy day, everyone is hiding here. I have drank several pots of this tea and it is not fun.
When Qiao Mingjin and the three of them came in, everyone in the hall looked at them. They were watching them selling umbrellas and hearing such cute words from the little girl. They were all very happy.
The man who asked the question laughed and said, "Young girl, you still know how to make a loss? You lost money after selling five cents, but what should you do if fifty cents is too expensive?"
After hearing this, Xiao Wan'er turned to look at her mother.
Qiao Mingjin just looked at her with a smile and said nothing.
I don't know where this little thing learned "losing money". She never taught her. She must have learned it from Mingheng in the market.
Xiao Wan'er couldn't get any hint from her mother, so she shook her head and said to the man: "Wan'er doesn't know either. But my mother said that if it keeps raining, we won't be able to go home and will have to live in the city.
So I have to earn money for accommodation.”
Qiao Mingjin couldn't help but feel sour after hearing this, and almost burst into tears.
When they were talking and discussing in the store just now, my daughter had been quiet. Unexpectedly, she had heard everything in her head.
A three-year-old child remembers words so well, speaks them so fluently, and knows her hard work...
The man who asked the question, after hearing Wan'er's words, glanced at Qiao Mingjin and stopped talking. He took out a handful of silver coins in his wallet and handed a dime to Wan'er: "Here, take it, uncle will buy it for you."
of an umbrella.”
Xiao Wan'er happily took the silver coin, looked down at it, and then raised it to the man: "This is only one, so many!" She gestured with one hand again.
The people in the store laughed again.
Someone teased her: "Come here, give it to uncle to trade with you. You give uncle one, and uncle will give you so many!" He imitated her and stretched out his palm to gesture with her.
Xiao Wan'er actually took a few steps forward, and everyone laughed again when they saw it.
Mingyu blushed and went to catch her back.
Qiao Mingjin said to her: "This is a dime of silver, which can buy two umbrellas. Fifty pieces are copper coins, which are round and have a hole for threading a rope. Do you remember Wan'er?"
The little thing nodded in understanding.
She said to the person who gave her the silver dime: "Uncle, I want to give you another umbrella." She really stood on tiptoes to pull the umbrella handle.
The man then said, "No, can you give the little girl some sweets with the extra money?"
The little thing understood this, so he grinned and thanked the man: "Thank you, uncle."
"No thanks."
The man touched Wan'er's head and walked out with an umbrella.
Soon some people came over to buy umbrellas from them, and they all gave the money to Xiao Wan'er and teased her with a few words.
The little thing couldn't close its mouth. It looked like the umbrella was getting less and less, and its eyes were almost squinting together.
That Thursday, the young master soon came over with a tael of silver and bought three umbrellas. A boy quickly walked out with the umbrella. He must have gone to arrange a carriage.
Zhou Wenxuan, the young master on Thursday, grabbed a handful of candies and gave them to Wan'er: "What's your name?"
"My name is Wan'er."
"Here, here is something to eat. Next time your mother makes something interesting, let your mother deliver it to our house." After saying that, he helped pull out the purse from Wan'er's arms and stuffed a few pieces of candy into it without any explanation.
Got in.
Qiao Mingjin was selling umbrellas. She glanced at her daughter out of the corner of her eye and ignored her. It seemed that children had better contact with children.
When Young Master Zhou and his uncle walked towards the door of the restaurant, when they passed by Qiao Mingjin, Zhou Yanqing glanced at Qiao Mingjin briefly.
It's just that Qiao Mingjin didn't pay attention and only focused on selling umbrellas.
Not long after the two people walked out, all the umbrellas brought by Qiao Mingjin and Ming Yu were sold out. Even the umbrellas they held were bought.
Finally, it turned out that one person really wanted to buy something urgently, so Qiao Mingjin sold him a handful, and the three of them finally kept only a handful.
