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 the situation is, the titles are still the wise brother and the foolish brother, or the eldest brother and the second brother. In the Chu country, it is absolutely impossible to call them brother and brother.
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 get 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 who had 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 like my husband more than Madam 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, I will 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 Chu State, although the ring worn by women is the same ornament as that worn by men, their names are different. Men can call it jade pendant, while women wearing it have to call it banbu.
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 waist, one on the left and one on the right. 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 prohibit 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 Xue'er gave her, 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 around 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 issue 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 final price 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 read: Da Chu was in trouble last year, and the national treasury was empty and unable to make ends meet. Your Majesty is deeply saddened to part ways with you, and will take out all the colored glazes in the royal family's collection for an exhibition. At that time, the price of the colored glazes will be displayed.
The one with the highest score 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 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 rarity 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
If he doubled the money from Chu State, it would be six hundred thousand 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 it 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 sufficient. At that time, I will be able to do whatever I want. The little Zhou Kingdom dares to bark in front of our Chu Kingdom. I really don't know whether to live or die! This time I send troops.
, as long as Zhao Guo does not interfere, I can attack the two cities of Zhou Guo again!"