Cheng Li walked up to her. He was tall and blocked the light. The light and shadow intertwined and fell on Yun Qiao, and she smelled the crisp smell of tobacco.
Light and nice smelling.
"Why don't you wait for me? If you want to buy anything, you can wait until I come back to buy it together." Cheng Li's voice was extremely calm, and his forehead was a little shiny, with a thin layer of sweat reflecting the light.
He walked very quickly.
Yun Qiao apologized: "It's really not a good idea to bother my second brother with a personal matter. I thought it would take you a long time to deal with it."
Cheng Li smiled: "It's done."
He glanced at the bag in her hand and asked, "What did you buy?"
"Pocket watch."
Cheng Li: "Send it to me?"
"No, I'll give it to the seventh master." Yun Qiao said truthfully, "Today is his birthday."
The corners of Cheng Li's lips sank inadvertently. He seemed to have noticed it, and smiled to himself: "This watch shop is very expensive. You will give a big gift to the seventh master on his birthday. What about the second brother's birthday next time?"
"Send it too." Yun Qiao said.
Anything the same will do.
Money is an external thing. Once it is gone, it can be earned again.
Cheng Li's smile was a little stiff.
"I have many pocket watches," he said, "I don't use pocket watches. When you were in Guangzhou, you learned hair embroidery. Did you learn it later?"
Hair embroidery is embroidery using hair threads. This is a craft that is almost lost.
Today, a piece of hair embroidery is worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, and there is no way to get it.
"I've learned it." Yun Qiao said truthfully, "My second brother knows that I have a good memory and a stubborn personality. I naturally have to learn whatever I want to learn. I not only learned Aunt Sheng's hair embroidery, but also her doorkeeping skills.
Handmade double-sided hair embroidery.”
Cheng Li couldn't help but admire: "I heard that Mrs. Sheng learned double-sided hair embroidery herself and has been studying it for twelve years."
"Um."
Cheng Li: "You learned it so quickly?"
"Twelve years of pondering, condensing the essence, and then passing it on to me. I stand on my aunt's shoulders, relying on my aunt's height." Yun Qiao said.
The two of them walked out of the clock shop while talking.
Yun Qiao never brags, so Cheng Li nodded in praise.
He asked Yun Qiao for a pair of hair embroidery works as his birthday gift: "Just hair embroidery, no need for double-sided ones."
The hair is Yunqiao's own, and the hair embroidery is a unique craft, which is much more expensive than a gold watch.
After hearing this, Yun Qiao just said: "I don't have time to make too big an embroidery, so how about something as big as a fan?"
"sure."
"Second brother, when is your birthday?" Yun Qiao asked again.
Cheng Li: "Next April."
"I am also born in April." Yun Qiao said, "Are we two in the same month? I've never heard you say that before..."
"I don't really care," Cheng Li said with a smile, "I'm on the fifth day of April, what about you?"
"Twenty-nine." Yun Qiao said.
It's still early for their birthdays, so they can prepare gifts after the New Year. A pair of fan-sized hair embroidery can be completed in half a month, so there's no rush.
Cheng Li asked again: "What gift do you want?"
Yun Qiao didn't want anything. He thought for a moment and said, "Whatever you want is fine?"
"right."
"What about an apartment in Guangzhou?" Yun Qiao asked.
Cheng Li: "To me, a house is the least valuable. You also know that I build houses."
Many houses in Guangzhou were built by the Cheng family, and Cheng Li was responsible for this. He owned a lot of real estate, which was indeed worth nothing to him.
Yun Qiao: "If I go to Guangzhou to settle down in the future, my second brother will choose a good place for me."
Cheng Li: "Of course, I'll leave it to my second brother."
The two talked and returned to the hotel to clean up briefly. Yun Qiao asked someone to take the gift he bought home and give it to Chang Ning.
Changning will give it to Qi Ye.
She and Cheng Li went to have dinner and listen to a play. Cheng Li didn't send her back until the theater closed at eleven o'clock.
When he returned to Xi Mansion, it was almost twelve o'clock. Yun Qiao didn't knock on the door, but just climbed over the wall and entered as before.
When she got up early the next day, she still remembered Xi Lanting's birthday gift yesterday, so she rang the bell to call Changning up and asked her: "Did Master Qi say anything after you gave him the gift?"