Flowers are expensive

Chapter 104 Long Cuiyue

"Are you awake?" Man Ting pushed open the door and walked in, holding a bowl of porridge in his hand.

Lihua suddenly grinned, and all the strangeness disappeared in an instant, because her beloved Xie Manting was there.

"Hurry up and get up, finish your porridge and go."

"Going to town? Is Yutao going too?"

"Ah."

Lihua took a sip of porridge, suddenly remembered something, raised her head and asked, "Master Xie, have you been here these days? Just waiting for those bandits to come and kill you?"

"Yes." Man Ting nodded.

"Stay here, Jin Hui won't be suspicious? Don't those robbers wonder why you stay here? They are so stupid that they are willing to jump into the trap by themselves? Isn't the IQ of the robbers too low? point?"

"I can't go ahead, so no one will doubt it."

"Why can't you go?"

"I asked Dongping and Manxiang to seal off the mountain road ahead, making it look like a landslide."

"Ah?" The porridge in Lihua's mouth almost spit out, "Xie Daxia, don't tell me that you caused the landslides along the way, right?"

Man Ting nodded calmly and said, "Yes."

"Why...why?" Lihua was a little puzzled.

"This can take a long way around, delay time, and also allow the robbers to follow my route and enter the trap I arranged."

Lihua took a deep breath, blinked her eyes, stared at Man Ting's face for a long time in amazement, and said a word: "Xie Daxia, you are so insidious!"

These words came out of Lihua's mouth, without the slightest malice, but even more cute and interesting, making the whole room laugh.Man Ting said: "Only those who can't beat others will cry and call others treacherous."

"Is...really?" Lihua suddenly felt that her worldview was a little different from that of her family, Mr. Xie, as if they were not on the same level.So, she had to ignore her world view and continue to drink her porridge.

Man Ting seemed to see the small whisper in Li Hua's heart, smiled at her and said, "I'm good at being mean to anyone, but I'm not mean to you, you just need to remember that."

Lihua's small room was instantly filled with happiness and satisfaction, and she responded with a standard morning morning glory smile.Man Ting seldom uttered such slightly nasty words. To hear such a sentence early in the morning, she already wanted to burn incense and thank Buddha.

After finishing the porridge, everyone tidied up and prepared to set off with the robbers and Jin Hui.Dongping and Manxiang hurried back with their shovels dripping with sweat.Dongping wiped his sweat and said to Man Ting: "Brother Man Ting, the road ahead is cleared, we can pass."

Man Ting nodded and said, "Take a breath before leaving."

Dongping put down the shovel, smiled flatteringly at Yutao beside him and said, "Yutao, bring me a bowl of water, brother is exhausted!"

Yutao asked curiously, "Are you that tired?"

"Oh, you don't know, it's really fun to be blocked. It's blocked after three times, five and two, but it's difficult to dig it out. It took us a lot of effort! Look at our sweat, you You should know. Be obedient, Yutao, bring me a bowl of water." Dong Ping said with a smile on his face.

Man Xiang raised his eyebrows when he heard this, and bumped Dongping with his arm.Dongping turned to look at him blankly and asked, "Manxiang, what are you doing? Are you having arm cramps?"

"If you want to drink it, pour it yourself! If you don't ask that girl Zhang who is engaged to you to pour it for you, what are you ordering Yutao to do?"

"What does it have to do with you that I order Yutao? Yutao is not your wife, right?" Dongping turned his head and smiled at Yutao again.Yutao wanted to be full of anger on purpose, nodded and said, "Isn't it just a bowl of water? Brother Dongping, wait a minute, I'll go to the kitchen to get it."

"Thank you, Yutao!" Dongping said with a smile.

Yutao glared at Manxiang, then turned her head and went to the kitchen.Man Xiang was so unconvinced that he almost wanted to beat Dongping up.When Yutao came back, she really had a bowl of water in her hand, and without looking at Manxiang, she handed it to Dongping and said, "Brother Dongping, drink it slowly, if it's not enough, I'll go get it."

Man Xiang was so angry that his head was on the top of his head, so he simply turned around and walked aside, not looking at the two of them, so as not to be full of anger in his stomach.

The group quickly set off on the road.They did not follow the previous path, but took a relatively quick shortcut under the leadership of Uncle Cui.Although there were many cliffs and narrow roads along the way, they arrived in the town smoothly after two days.

According to the usual rules, the whole group stayed at the Fugui Inn in the town.After settling down, those who sell goods sell goods, those who gamble money gamble, and those who take care of personal matters, in short, everyone is busy with their own affairs.

Lihua's first thought was to sell goods, and she had to free up her cosmetics in order to make money!Manting wanted to deal with Jin Hui and the others with Ma Liuhaitang, so Man Xiang was asked to go with her and Yutao.

Manxiang and Yutao were still angry, and both were stubborn people, so they refused to say a word to each other along the way.

After being instructed by others, Lihua found a cosmetic shop called Cuiyuelong in the town.After the three of them entered the door, the curtain leading to the backyard was opened, and a young woman of about 25 came out with a smile and asked, "Are you here to look at things? Just right, a new batch of goods arrived yesterday. Not bad, why don't you take a look?"

Lihua said straight to the point: "Miss Boss, we are not here to buy goods, we are here to sell goods."

"Selling goods?" The woman's crescent-like smiling eyebrows were even more crooked, and she said cheerfully, "I'm afraid you've come to the wrong shop! I'm selling cosmetics here, not a warehouse, nor a wine shop or a leather shop. It's useless for me to collect your goods."

"What I sell is not wine or skins, but cosmetics."

The woman was stunned for a moment, then covered her mouth and smiled, and said: "It's not that I don't look down on your makeup fans, the things here are all brought in from the city, and they are already the best. Besides, I This is the first time I saw someone selling cosmetics, where did you come from?"

Lihua smiled and said: "Don't worry about where we come from, just take a look at our makeup first, if you don't like it, we will leave immediately, without delaying your time."

"Oh?" The woman looked at Lihua in surprise, and said after a moment of consideration, "It sounds like a business, okay, you all came to my place anyway, so take it out and have a look." Let’s go! But let me put the ugly words first, if the goods are not what I want, and if I say something bad, don’t scold them.”

"Don't worry, it's our business if the goods are not good, why are you scolding you?"

"It's refreshing!"

Lihua took out two boxes and put them on the counter.The woman looked surprised when she saw the box. She quickly picked it up and put it on her palm, looked at it and said, "This box is really beautiful! The plum blossom on it is really beautiful!"

Lihua secretly rejoiced, it was natural, Tian Yisheng spent several days drawing one by one, it was pure natural, handmade, low-carbon and environmentally friendly!

"Let's take a look at what's inside," Lihua said with a smile, "No matter how beautiful the box is, it's just a decoration, and the things inside are real."

The woman cast a few appreciative glances at Lihua, nodded and said, "It seems that you are also a businessman, right? You speak candidly enough, and I like dealing with straightforward people!" That box is a box of powder, white as snow, with a faint fragrance.

She sniffed it first, then hooked it a little with her long nails, and slowly spread it on the back of her hand.Just by looking at the movements, you can tell that he is a veteran in the powder industry.She blended very slowly, as if she was feeling the fineness of the powder.It wasn't until Yutao and Man Xiang became impatient that she raised her eyes, nodded calmly and said, "I didn't expect it to be pretty good!"

Lihua had already noticed the surprise that flashed in the woman's eyes, although she concealed it very well, she didn't want to be seen by Lihua.Lihua smiled and said, "If you're interested, you might as well make an offer!"

After pondering for a while, the woman said, "Your stuff is good, and the box is pretty, but it's still worse than the stuff from the workshops in the city. If you want to sell it, I'll give you two hundred coins." How about one?"

"Two hundred Wen?" Lihua said with a slight smile, "Isn't your price too low? It seems that you don't really want to make this deal with me, so forget it. I like to be straightforward. Yes, I'm too lazy to bargain, what a hassle!"

"Hey!" Seeing that Lihua was going to accept the box of makeup, the woman laughed and said, "Since it's a business, how can you just talk about it? Let me take a look at what's in your box!"

Another box contains ten pieces of silk rouge tablets, which are obtained by soaking hollyhock flower juice with this year's new silkworm cocoons.As soon as the lid of the box was opened, a faint fragrance came out.The woman took a deep breath and asked, "Is it the scent of wild roses?"

"Your nose is really sweet. It is indeed the scent of wild roses."

"It smells so good!" The woman couldn't restrain her inner excitement and joy, "How did you get it? Generally, there is no fragrance on the rouge slices, or the fragrance is very faint. Your rose fragrance is really good." Thick." She dipped her ring finger in some water, pressed it lightly on the rouge sheet, and evened it out on the back of her hand.

The rouge made by pear blossoms is peachy in color, looks very bright and bright, with a youthful feeling.After the woman saw it, the corners of her eyes revealed the joy a woman should have for her favorite makeup.Lihua smiled and asked, "Miss Boss, what do you think?"

The woman immediately retracted the look at the corners of her eyes, and put on a calm look and said: "It's good to have something good, but the color is not red enough. I'm afraid it won't sell for a good price. You feel dissatisfied when I set the price just now." Ting, why don't you set a price yourself."

"It seems that the proprietress is really not sincere, let's forget it, anyway, we have to go to the city in two days, so we might as well use the city instead." Li Hua said and put away the two boxes.Yutao and Manxiang were a little anxious, thinking that they would not sell it?The price hasn't been discussed yet!
The woman didn't panic, she still looked at them with a smile on her face.Seeing that the woman had no intention of keeping her, Man Xiang hurriedly asked Li Hua, "Sister-in-law Si, are you really not going to sell it? Are you going to sell it in the city?"

Lihua said: "Yes, this town can't sell at a good price. Go back to the city and have a look. Anyway, Ma Liu said that he will go to the city in two days!"

When the woman heard the word Ma Liu, she frowned, rolled her eyes, hurriedly walked out of the counter, stopped Lihua and the three of them with a smile and asked, "Are you from Zique Village?"

Lihua nodded and said, "Yes, how did the proprietress know?"

"Hey, once I heard you talking about Ma Liu, can I not know? Every time he goes out of the mountain, he comes to me to buy some makeup and powder for his wife. He is a regular visitor!" The woman's smile became more attentive.

After she sat down with the three of them, she said to Lihua, "Don't mind. In business, it's common to meet to lower the price. I see that you are a straightforward person, and you are from the same village as Ma Liu. I won’t play those sloppy eyes with you, let me just tell you a real price. Your powder and rouge are indeed good, but there are also shortcomings. Although the powder is delicate but not slippery, it should not add mica powder or Talc powder?"

"I know that adding those two things to the powder will make the powder more creamy, but I would rather not be smooth enough than to add those two things. Women's skin will be more ugly when they get old and fade. I improve I added glutinous rice flour to the recipe of Yingdie powder, which was popular in the palaces of the Tang Dynasty, and it is smooth enough without hurting the skin, so why not do it?"

(End of this chapter)