The beauty of the lady

Chapter 48
Jianshui Tong's eyes looked at the rich and noble peony patterns that had been embroidered for nearly a month in front of her with gentle eyes. The bursts were distinct but seemed so illusory. , as washed after the rain in general, still brilliant.

It will be Zhao's birthday in less than half a month. She made this long-smoky satin outer dress for her mother, and she asked Zhao to draw the pattern. I have to say that this mother can complement She can be called a talented woman, although she can't play the piano, but at least among the four arts, the other three arts can definitely be called the talented women among the talented women. Occasionally, when the master goes down the mountain, she will play chess with her mother. As a master of chess, as long as he plays games with his mother, he can win at most three games out of ten.

Speaking of her master, Changchunzi is the Taoist priest of a Taoist temple that is not like a Taoist temple on Yunwu Mountain. The name of the Taoist temple is naturally called Changchun Temple, and there are five disciples after him, one of whom is in charge of cooking. , the other is senior brother Danggui, the little drug boy, senior brother Yun Zhongren and second senior brother Yin Yanqing.

At the very beginning, I met Changchun Zi in the Zhuangzi of the Zhou family, which was brought back from the Western Regions by the Zhou family's caravan. She heard that he was a doctor, so she asked him to treat her mother. Who knew that he would let herself do it? His apprentice, at that time she thought Changchunzi was a charlatan, but after seeing his mother's miraculous recovery in just two months, even Dr. For half a year, I followed him to Yunwu Mountain, thousands of miles away, to study medicine, and this study lasted for two years.

Yunwu Mountain is sparsely populated, the Taoist temple on the mountain is simple and elegant, and she is the only girl, so the senior brothers treat her very well. The Minister of the Ministry of Officials of the second rank is in charge of the dispatch of officials in the court, so he can be regarded as a very powerful yamen.As for the second senior brother, he is the major general of the Jinguo General's Mansion in Jingdu, commanding the twelve guards of the imperial guards, which belong to the emperor's army. He is in charge of the safety of the palace and secretly supervises every move of the officials.

And following these two senior brothers, she also knew a lot about many court officials and the Zanying family in Kyoto, but it was only on the surface, and the inner things were not something a girl like her could know.

The door of the room was pushed open, and a beautiful girl walked in with a teapot. Seeing that Zhou Mei was engrossed in embroidery, she gently put down the tray.

"Miss, Le Zhao is back."

Zhou Mei stopped what she was doing, inserted the embroidery needle into the satin, raised her hand to take the tea Xia Qi handed over, took a sip and said, "Tell him to wait for me in the study."

"Yes." Xia Qifu withdrew.

After tidying up briefly, she got up and went to the study.

When he came to the study room, he saw a very clever looking young man standing in front of the door. When his big black eyes saw Zhou Mei, they curled up with a smile.

"Le Zhao met Miss."

"Is there something to do here today?" Le Zhao is usually in charge of the Zhou family's two grain shops and two antique shops in Yuzhou Prefecture. His father used to be a scholar. Later, when he was out of the examination hall in Qiuwei, the capital, he fell to the ground because of exhaustion and never woke up again. However, several uncles in his family died after Le Zhao's father died. They directly and secretly divided up the property and money in their house, leaving their mother and daughter in a desperate situation. Later, they sold themselves together. It wasn't until Zhou Mei bought the farm where they lived that she discovered Le Zhao's talent and put him in the By his side, his mother, Nanny Lin, was placed beside Zhou Tang to take care of her.

Le Zhao followed Zhou Mei into the study, and brought up the accounts in his hand.

"Miss, the caravan is back. This is the account that Uncle Tang brought back this time. They have already gone home to watch their families. They said they will go again in October, and we can make a fortune by the end of the year."

Opening the ledger, there are detailed accounts of the caravan's transactions this quarter and the buying and selling prices of various items, all of which are very detailed.

The caravan was established by Zhou Mei two years ago. It is nothing more than traveling from south to north to earn the difference. The goods in the north are sold in the south, while the exquisite things in the south are brought back and sold in antique shops. The caravan and the two antique shops can earn about 5 taels of silver. Sometimes the caravan led by Tang Bo will go deep into the Miao border, where the terrain is dangerous and full of miasma. If Tang Bo is not familiar with the Great Yan Dynasty Geographical dart walkers, the danger will be even higher.

So Zhou Mei's price is not low, Tang Bo gets 200 taels a year, while the people below get 70 taels a year.

After reading it, she said to Le Zhao: "This time I'm coming back at the end of the year. Before leaving, I will make two warm cotton coats for the caravan and let them pay attention to safety. After all, there are wives and children at home. Come back for the new year, from next year, let the caravan go three times, avoiding the rainy and snowy seasons."

"Yes, Miss is thoughtful." Le Zhao nodded with a smile.

Even though Miss is only eleven years old and seven years younger than him, he admires her open-minded temperament and thoughtful thinking.

After Le Zhao left, she settled some accounts of the past three years, and found that she had saved 13 taels of silver, most of which were earned by caravans and antique shops, and the two grain shops can earn nearly 1 taels a year. Ten thousand taels, the noodle shop and Xiankeju’s dumpling ears have earned 1 taels in the past three years. Fortunately, they formed a caravan. Otherwise, they are just ordinary small businesses now. Even in Yuzhou Prefecture, there are nearly ten rich gentry worth one million taels.

Now it is in Yuzhou Prefecture, after all, it is not the center of power in the world. After a few years, when the father, mother and brother are older, the whole family wants to move the whole family to the capital. Only when they get there can they be considered as close to the center of wealth. The most important reason is that the humanistic atmosphere in the capital will definitely be stronger. Not to mention that the Royal Academy is taught by the world's top Confucianism, even the ordinary academies are erudite and talented, and they can teach students the six arts. Ordinary Fucheng is difficult to reach.

Since she wanted to study, she would naturally go to a good academy. Although it was inseparable from her own efforts, Zhou Mei still wanted to create the best conditions for her younger brother.

After finishing the work here, she went back to her room to continue her embroidery work. What her father said a few days ago was that she didn't go back for this year's Mid-Autumn Festival. At the end of the year, they wanted the family to go back to celebrate the New Year.

In the past few years, the life of the family has been going well, so every year on Wednesday, Zhuang will give the old man 20 taels of silver for the elderly. In today's Great Yan Dynasty, where prices are very low, 20 taels is enough for a family like the Zhou family. It took two or three years, and it was still a meaty standard.

(End of this chapter)