open sea

Chapter 93 Sickness

However, Yan Qingyao went door-to-door to introduce these shops to Chen Qianhu in the streets outside the city for more than three miles. Apart from the incorrect painting style, the tour guide was basically good at it.

"Hey, this jewelry store and the pharmacy on Qianjie Street are both old shops in Guangcheng. In fact, they are the same. The shopkeeper of the previous jewelry store hooked up the wife of the pharmacy shopkeeper and gave birth to a baby. She is the current shopkeeper of the jewelry store." Yan Qingyao didn't introduce what was sold in the shop at all, and went around talking to each other, "The two shopkeepers are actually brothers!"

"It's just the surname is different!"

In a very short period of time, Chen Mu had a full and clear understanding of the internal conflicts in the families of the merchants who opened shops on these two streets, and the external conflicts in the neighborhood.

Of course, there is also a comprehensive analysis of the five brothel singers outside the west gate of Guangcheng from the perspectives of background, appearance, skill, technology, and price.

Walking out of the tailor shop, Chen Mu breathed a sigh of relief just after he ordered a set of round-necked cyan brocade embroidered robes and a large black hat, and paid a deposit to pick it up in a month or so.

Before Jiajing 16 years ago, there were no restrictions on the colors of the uniforms worn by officials, soldiers and civilians, except that the three colors of black, yellow and purple were prohibited. However, Emperor Jiajing was a very assertive person and had many prohibitions on clothing colors.

What affected Chen Mu was that fifth-rank military officers could only wear cyan embroidered uniforms on serious occasions where they did not wear official uniforms.

Of course, the imperial court has repeatedly banned this ritual, and not many people care about this kind of thing, but Chen Mu thinks that the system that should be followed must be followed, not to mention... the clothes he ordered are very beautiful.

The location of the clothing shop is excellent, and the air can smell the smell of the sea.

As long as you look to the south, you can see the Beijiang River of the Pearl River across the rice fields at the end of the road. The river surface, which is more than two miles wide, separates Chen Mu from the field of vision that Chen Mujimu wants to look at—the other side of the river is Xiangshan, and Haojing is there.

The little girl took a few steps forward, but Chen Mu didn't keep up. Looking back, she saw that he was staring at the river in a daze, his bright black eyes were rolling in his pupils, and he swayed in front of Chen Mu, pretending to pinch his fingers.

"Chen Saidonkey, I'm pinching my fingers... Ouch!"

Chen Mu raised his hand and looked away, "Speak well."

The two little girls held the backs of their heads in their hands, and they were very cute: "Master Jun, I have to count your fingers, your destiny should be to show off overseas, lead troops to kill Japanese pirates and beat Hongmaofan, and you will definitely be a commander in a few days." !"

"Hey!" Chen Mu sneered, "You can tell fortunes at such a young age?"

Not to mention, at this age, who wouldn't want to have a fight with Beilu, defeat the Jurchen and turn around to grab the tail of the Age of Discovery, the little girl was right in Chen Mu's heart.

"Tch, it's not that my wife counts well."

As soon as she said fat, Yan Qingyao panted immediately, waving her white lotus-root-like arms, seemingly indifferent but actually very useful, "That's because Grandpa Jun's parents were born well, and their names are even better, so you don't even need to report your birthday. The five elements must be short of water and wood, and you should go to sea by boat, which is suitable!"

"You lack the heart and eyes of the five elements!"

Chen Mu laughed out loud, turned around as he walked, and asked in doubt: "I said that the little girl is very beautiful, who learned this full of nonsense from?"

"Who else can I talk to, the customers of the wine shop!"

Yan Qingyao's eyes widened, and her face was full of habit, "The storyteller, the wine guest, and the neighbor's aunt, all chat like this, and the guests like to listen to me because of my lively mouth."

"It's good for you. When others are happy, you find it noisy. Others think that I am not petite, but you say that my family is beautiful!"

At first, Chen Mu thought it was funny that she puffed her mouth out angrily, but then her tone became low in a blink of an eye, "Mr. Jun will surely have a successful official career in the future. The magistrate's ability to open his eyes and tell nonsense can't compare to that of the county magistrate!"

Mr. Chen Jun was very angry and funny in his heart, "I can't compare to the magistrate. The magistrate is only the seventh rank, but the thousand households are the fifth rank! Besides, what does being small and tall have to do with being beautiful or not? ?”

"It doesn't matter!"

"When I was eight years old, my mother was abducted in Yangzhou and sold to a mother who raised a thin horse. According to the first-class raising method, she never tires of food and fine food. You can play swords and punches, you can do anything. You want to sell it to the high-ranking official and earn a thousand taels of silver for your mother!"

"I've been studying for three years, and I've grown taller. No matter how hard I try, I'm still half a head taller than others. I've become a second-class parenting method. I teach arithmetic and bookkeeping, and I learn how to read words and expressions. If I sell to merchants in the future, I can't be a concubine, but I can." With many helpers, I can earn a hundred taels for my mother."

"Two years later, the foot is getting bigger. No matter how much it is wrapped, it is still long, and the crescent moon shoes have to be bigger, alas!" Speaking of this, the little girl sighed, as if she had missed the skinny horse, and said: "Do Learned the third-class raising method, learning female red, making clothes, frying and steaming crisps, making stove food, arranging fruit, serving tea and water."

"Mom said it's not easy to sell. At most, I can sell it to ordinary people for more than a dozen taels, so I can be a wife and lose money." Yan Qingyao spread her hands in a naive manner, "Later, Uncle Yan bought my old lady back and opened a wine shop in Guangcheng. , It’s all useless to learn, it’s useless at all, even keeping an account, Uncle Yan keeps it himself, and you judge it, Mr. Jun, if it’s not for my old lady’s unbeautiful birth, how can I lose so much money!”

Chen Mu's complexion was quite complicated. The little girl was sold by human traffickers into the business of raising lean horses at a young age, and she was bought out after suffering six years of crimes.

If it weren't for Yan Qingyao's appearance of helping the traffickers count the money after being sold, this would have been a rather sad story.

"But if you say that, I think you've made money!"

He really wanted to hold back, but he couldn't hold back anymore, so he burst out laughing.

Chen Mu clapped his hands on the back of his hands and said: "You have lived and lived for free in the hands of human traffickers for six years, so let's not talk about it. Look at the things you have learned and how many skills you have. Human traffickers don't make money, but you do. Well, a dozen taels is enough for food expenses, this skill of not being taboo on meat and vegetables, and appreciating both refined and popular tastes allows you to learn it well, and your money is not enough to find a husband!"

These days, buying and selling people has become a craft. The people who raise skinny horses in Yangzhou are willing to die, but their vision is tricky and classified, and Chen Mu has to be convinced.

"Where is there a gentleman who teaches slaves? If you can't sell it for a good price, what you learn is useless."

Yan Qingyao sighed like a kid, "Mother said at that time that if there were no salt merchants in Yangzhou, a lady like this would not have to worry about marrying, but now it is difficult to marry a good family!"

"It's just a little fart, what are you worried about getting married. It's okay, go back and find you Uncle Yan." After saying that, he walked back to the restaurant, Chen Mu clapped his hands, took out a tael of silver and threw it to the restaurant worker who followed, and said to Yan Qing Yao said: "This is the reward for the girl leading the way, see you later."

Speaking of Chen Mu leading the flag army and marching away, Yan Qingyao's crisp cry came from behind.

"Hey, Mr. Jun will give you money! If you give me the money, you should have said it earlier, and my mother will sing a song for you, and you can also say a paragraph! Mr. Jun, go slowly!"

Chen Mu couldn't help but waved back without looking back.

These Ming Dynasty salt merchants are all stupid aesthetics, they don't look at their faces, but they want to look at their feet - they are sick!
　The changes in social atmosphere and aesthetics in the mid-Ming Dynasty began with the salt merchants in Yangzhou.

　　Good morning!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)