Li Xiaonan and her party had a tight schedule. When they were rushing from Yuezhou to Hangzhou and then to Mingzhou, the letter delivered to Pingjiang City by Yaxing in Jiaxing was transferred to Li Xiaonan, and the weaving shop in Jiaxing entrusted a batch of goods to Yaxing.
The weaver wants to get rid of it.
Li Xiaonan immediately turned around and rushed to Xiuzhou Huating County, which is next to Jiaxing County.
Wan Qing was very puzzled. There were weavers in Jiaxing's tooth shop, so why did they go to Huating County?
Li Xiaonan smiled and asked Wan Qing to guess, but Wan Qing simply refused. She was too short-sighted to guess.
"As the saying goes, a shopping mall is like a battlefield." Li Xiaonan poured herself a cup of tea.
"I've never heard of this saying. It's not a saying, it's what grandma said!" Wan Qing interrupted Li Xiaonan rudely.
"The eldest son of your family thinks this makes sense." Li Xiaonan said with a smile.
"Even if the shopping mall is a battlefield, and the weaver you want to buy is in Jiaxing, but he runs to Huating, what is this plan? Encircle Wei and save Zhao?" Wan Qing asked with a curled lips.
Her eldest son knows how to fight, but he doesn't know how to do business. The eldest son thinks it makes sense, but it may not really make sense.
"Absolutely. First of all, you have read the letter from your eldest son. The reason why the weaving mill stopped working is because they want to compete with your eldest son. In this case, they stopped working as a tactic to sell the weavers, and maybe it was also a tactic.
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"Yes, yes!" Wan Qing kept nodding her head.
"Then before we come out to pick up the weavers, should we inquire first?"
"Of course, if you know yourself and the enemy!"
"We have been to Jiaxing, and Uncle Ertang and I have also been to Yahang. The Yahang in Jiaxing knows that we are buying weavers, so the weaving shops in Jiaxing must also know what kind of people the buyers are.
"Ya Company supports two companies with one hand. We and Zhifang, if we have to favor one, Yaxing will definitely prefer Zhifang, right?"
"We have never been to Huating! So! Let's go to Huating to know ourselves and the enemy!" Wan Qing clapped her hands excitedly.
"Yes, and also, Huating's dialect is similar to our Lijiaji dialect, while Jiaxing's dialect is very different, and many words are incomprehensible." Li Xiaonan said with a smile.
"Huh? Aren't they both Wu dialects? Huating and Jia are different?" Wan Qing was surprised. She couldn't understand any of them, let alone the difference.
"Five miles have different pronunciations, and ten miles have different customs. Have you heard of this saying?" Li Xiaonan asked.
"That means southern Fujian."
"The same is true in Jiangnan."
"You are so thoughtful." Wan Qing praised, "No wonder you are not afraid to meet Madam Shi. You are no less thoughtful than her."
Li Xiaonan glanced sideways at Wan Qing.
"I'm complimenting you. When I was a child, I couldn't understand words. I told my grandma: So-and-so is too ill-intentioned. My grandma said to me: Listen to what you say, is it possible that being stupid and heartless has become an advantage?
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"Having an evil heart is a strength, and a person with a bad heart is nothing." Wan Qing said with a serious face.
"I know how to do business, but I'm not too narrow-minded!" Li Xiaonan corrected her sentence.
"Don't let people say you are too evil-minded. You really have too many evil-minded people." Wan Qing curled her lips.
The next day, when the sun began to set, the group entered Huating County and settled down at an inn. Li Wenru and several senior officials went around to inquire. Li Xiaonan found her own clothes from the box and asked Wan Qing to change into them.<
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Wan Qing is slightly taller than her, and has a slightly larger frame. Fortunately, when Sister Mei makes clothes for her, she always cuts out more than two inches to prevent them from shrinking, to prevent her from getting fat, and to prevent them from getting too cold in the cold weather.
Wearing one must be one inch bigger and one inch fatter. Wan Qing's clothes fit her much better than hers.
Seeing the two people coming out, Awu, who was combing her precious horse in the yard, quickly put down his comb and followed.
"You don't need to be here. We'll just stroll around in the nearby streets and we'll be back soon." Li Xiaonan hurriedly stopped Ah Wu.
After taking two steps, Wan Qing approached Li Xiaonan and asked in a low voice: "Our prince has told you to let Awu follow you at any time. Please take him with you."
"She doesn't speak the local dialect, so it's inconvenient to bring her along." Li Xiaonan answered in a suppressed voice.
"Neither can I!"
"You pretend to be dumb." Li Xiaonan patted Wan Qing.
"Then..." Wan Qing pointed to the inn carefully, and before she could finish speaking, Li Xiaonan looked at her with a speechless face, "You are mute, she is also mute, why are there so many mutes?"
"That's true." Wan Qing suddenly realized, "Where are we going?"
"I'm going to ask. From now on, you will become mute. No matter what people say to you, just laugh and don't talk." Li Xiaonan confessed.
Wan Qing rushed to her lips with the word "good" and hurriedly slapped her back. She looked at Li Xiaonan with excited eyes and nodded repeatedly.
She is going to pretend to be mute!
Li Xiaonan took Wan Qing and walked twenty or thirty steps. She saw a middle-aged woman sitting at the door of the shop, embroidering shoe uppers and looking at the shop. She pulled Wan Qing over and said with a smile in the local dialect: "Sister." The woman suddenly laughed and said, "You little girl, at my age, you are an aunt, not a sister."
"You look similar to my eldest sister, don't blame me." Li Xiaonan smiled and accompanied the gift.
"How old is your eldest sister?" the woman asked.
"Twenty-six." Li Xiaonan replied with a smile.
"I'm more than ten years older than your eldest sister!" The woman's eyes narrowed as she smiled, "What's the point of calling me sister?"
"I want to ask Sister, do you know where I can buy small pieces of silk at a low price, or silk that is not that good, at a cheaper price."
Li Xiaonan lowered her voice and whispered the word "better."
The woman uttered an ooh and lowered her voice and laughed: "Go forward and see the sign of the tea shop. After passing the sign, go east and walk for a quarter of an hour. When you see a grocery store, turn north and arrive.
Enter the second alley.
"The people in that alley are the weavers from Ruifu Weaving Mill. You can buy from them!"
The woman smiled.
"Yes! I understand. Thank you, sister, you are as good as my eldest sister!" Li Xiaonan smiled happily, thanked the woman, and pulled Wan Qing forward.
"What did you say to her? It sounds so nice, like an oriole's cry." Wan Qing was confused.
"Didn't I ask you to pretend to be dumb?" Li Xiaonan tilted her head towards Wan Qing.
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Wan Qing choked, gritted her teeth and nodded.
Li Xiaonan pulled Wan Qing, turned right and then left, and entered the second alley.
In a long alley, one large courtyard is connected to another.
The scale of Ruifu Laohao's weaving mill in Huating County is larger than that of Xiangyun Weaving Mill, which is known as the first silk shop in Jiangnan, with 1,300 to 400 weavers.
The courtyard door is open, people are coming and going, and the alley is filled with the aroma of food.
I’m making dinner right now.
Li Xiaonan pulled Wan Qing through two or three courtyards, picked one, and pulled Wan Qing into the courtyard.
There are about ten families living in this large courtyard. The kitchens are all set up outside. There are old people and men cooking, some housewives are washing clothes, some are doing needlework, and the children are running around and playing. Seeing Li Xiaonan dragging Wan Qing in, the children gathered around to watch.
"Who are you looking for?" a middle-aged woman in the yard asked loudly.
"My sister and I want to buy some scrap silk." Li Xiaonan took a few steps closer, bowed slightly to the woman, and laughed in a low voice.
"What's it for?" The woman looked at Li Xiaonan and Wan Qing.
"My sister is getting married next year. She wants some silk clothes." Li Xiaonan approached the woman and said in a low voice, "My sister is mute and has a very hard life. Our eldest sister and second sister collected some coins.
"Din, our family is poor and there are too few copper coins."
Li Xiaonan's voice became lower and lower as she spoke.
"Your sister was born so well, but she is mute. Can she hear it?" The woman looked at Wan Qing with pity in her eyes.
"I can hear it, and I can probably understand it, just a little bit." Li Xiaonan looked at Wan Qing, who had a silly smile on her face.
"A dumb person is deaf. Alas, this child was born so well, so pitiful.
"I don't have anyone at home who can make clothes. Let me ask for you." The woman stood up and asked in a loud voice, "Who has the material for clothes? I want them in delicate and festive colors."
"I have a piece of apricot skirt material at home." A woman next to me answered.
"I have a piece of raw material at home, which is best for making small clothes." Another woman answered and said with a smile.
"I want apricot skirt material." Li Xiaonan responded with a smile, and continued in a low voice: "Forget about the small clothes."
The woman patted Li Xiaonan and said, "You wait here, I'll go to the courtyard over there and ask you."
The woman went out, and the woman selling apricot skirt material went into the house and took out the material. She handed it to Li Xiaonan, pointed at the material and said: "Since you come to buy from us, you must know the rules here. This material is similar to the material from the silk and satin shop."
It can’t be compared. These two pieces are made of trial woven materials, and the front is uneven about a foot. If these uneven places are made on the skirt waist, you won’t be able to see it.”
"Thank you, sister-in-law. How many copper coins does this material cost?" Li Xiaonan held the material carefully.
"You can give me half a tael of silver. This is the going price."
Li Xiaonan nodded quickly, handed the silk to Wan Qing, took out her purse from her skirt, took out the silver coins, and gave them to the woman.
"Sister-in-law, does your weaving workshop accept apprentices? How can I get a job in your weaving workshop?" Li Xiaonan asked enviously.
"There are no apprentices in the weaving workshop. They are all slaves bought from Ren Yazi." The woman's face darkened.
"It's good, slaves. You live in the city and have good food. As soon as you enter the alley, you can smell the aroma of meat. How wonderful!" Li Xiaonan was filled with envy.
"Oh, what a silly thing to say. Look at those girls, they will be sold to who knows where in two days." The woman pointed to several little girls next to her who were about the same age as Li Xiaonan.
"Ah? Why are they selling it? What will their family do?" Li Xiaonan's eyes widened in shock.
"Who knows?" The woman looked very agitated and entered the house holding the silver coin.
Li Xiaonan stood next to Wan Qing in the yard, looking at each house carefully. Halfway through, the woman who had gone out to find silk for them came in and gave Li Xiaonan two pieces of silk. Li Xiaonan counted out the silver coins and gave them to the woman, including
With several pieces of silk material, Wan Qing was dragged out of the courtyard.
After turning around the grocery store and then the tea shop, Wan Qing looked around and asked in a low voice: "Can I speak now?"
"No, let's talk again when we go back to the inn."
Wan Qing pursed her lips tightly, quickened her pace, and trotted straight to the inn.
