Bright Spring

The shopkeeper was stunned for a while, he might not be able to accept such a good thing in the world for a while.When he came back to his senses, he put away the paper, nodded and said, "Success!"

Zhu Gaoxu reached out and pressed his wrist, "You can't take this thing away, make a copy."

The shopkeeper immediately turned his head to call for someone to write a pen, ink and paper.

Zhu Gaoxu said: "Shopkeeper Su made two written documents, one of which states that he obtained the skill of making soap from the Shouyu Sinan Department, and voluntarily paid the patent fee according to the imperial court's 'New Industrial and Commercial Law'. It is good to make it clear, and don't make troubles in the future. We are also troubled by oppressing the common people."

"How dare you?" The shopkeeper said with a smile.

Zhu Gaoxu went on to say: "Once something is made, you have to provide a detailed process step and submit it to the Fake Museum of the Southern Security Department for archiving. We will send someone to pick it up."

The shopkeeper was busy copying it, and then said: "Tonight, the villain is hosting a small banquet, and I invite the adults to honor it, how about we talk about it in detail?"

Zhu Gaoxu frowned and said, "Isn't it already over?"

The shopkeeper thought for a while, and asked with a strange expression: "I don't know your honorable name?"

Zhu Gaoxu smiled and said: "We are not afraid of the shopkeeper's repudiation, just sign and stamp on it."

After saying that, he stood up, the teacup on the table was full, and he didn't take a sip of the tea outside.The money in the small box was left behind.

"By the way, take away those rouge powders in one box." Zhu Gaoxu turned his head and glanced at Zhang Sheng.Zhang Sheng bowed and bowed.

After working for a while, it happened that Mrs. Xue had just dressed up in Tiansu's pink and rouge and walked into the lobby.When Zhu Gaoxu looked at her, he felt that her face was white and shiny, with beautiful eyebrows and red lips, making her look even more beautiful and delicate.He thought to himself that this thing is really useful.

The store waited for a group of people to send them out, Zhu Gaoxu and Mrs. Xue got into the carriage, and took a bundle from Zhang Sheng.

The carriage drove slowly out of the crowded street again.After a while, Mrs. Xue finally couldn't help it, turned sideways gently, took out a bronze mirror from her arms, and looked at the face in the mirror carefully, her cheeks were slightly flushed, as if she had just drunk A few glasses of wine.

Zhu Gaoxu asked, "Do you like it?"

Lady Xue hurriedly put away the bronze mirror, and when she turned her head, her gaze was a little wandering, and she nodded silently.

Zhu Gaoxu handed over the burden: "Let's get to know each other for a while. Before that, I was more casual and didn't prepare anything. Please accept this little trick, Mrs. Xue, and wish our cooperation between the government and the people a success."

Mrs. Xue took a look, then raised her head and said, "Master Hou just bought the powder? So much?"

Zhu Gaoxu nodded his head easily.

Mrs. Xue refused: "The slave family asked before, and the price they set was too expensive. The slave family will not be paid for nothing, how dare you ask for it?"

Zhu Gaoxu said: "Don't pay too much attention to some small gifts."

The two pushed back and forth, Mrs. Xue looked up at Zhu Gaoxu, and the carriage suddenly became quiet.Mrs. Xue, who had a low eyebrow and pleasing eyes in front of Zhu Gaoxu, also boldly looked him in the eyes for a while, but Zhu Gaoxu felt a little uncomfortable, and felt that the atmosphere was a little weird.I didn't know what to say for a while, only the noisy noise outside and the "grunt" sound of the swaying wooden wheels of the carriage.

Chapter 976 That's Not What It Means

The air was obviously very noisy, but Zhu Gaoxu seemed to be very quiet.Probably because he didn't pay attention to the voices outside, only noticed that Mrs. Xue was silent.

Mrs. Xue finally spoke, but her voice became smaller and smaller, "I used to think that my family would never become that kind of person. The neighbors made irresponsible remarks, and my family had a clear conscience. But..." She suddenly took a deep breath , raised his head and said, "The slave family is not that kind of person."

Zhu Gaoxu suddenly didn't know whether to take the package containing the rouge and gouache box in front of him, or continue to push it.He thought for a while and said, "Then I'll send it to someone else."

Lady Xue buried her head in silence.

The atmosphere was a bit awkward, so Zhu Gaoxu looked around and talked about it, and said with a smile, "This name is quite interesting. It should come from a sentence, 'There is Suzhou and Hangzhou under heaven', so it is called Tiansu."

Lady Xue asked in a low voice, "Who said that?"

Zhu Gaoxu said, "I can't remember. By the way, the pipa song we heard last time came from a Song Ci. The literati who wrote that Ci also wrote a poem praising Suzhou and Hangzhou. I still remember a few lines." He thought about it for a while In the book I read in Rouyi Hall, I chanted, "Xingsheng in the southeast, the three Wu cities, Qiantang has been prosperous since ancient times... there are three autumn osmanthus, ten miles of lotus. Qiang pipes make the sky clear, water chestnuts sing at night, play and fish for old people and lotus babies."

Mrs. Xue seemed to be very interested in his reciting poems, her eyes relaxed a lot, and she listened carefully.

Zhu Gaoxu took back the embarrassing burden and put it on the wooden table, pretending to be relaxed and said, "I didn't mean that, I didn't think much about it before, I thought about getting to know each other once, and it will be very difficult to meet again in the future, so let's go So I bought some presents." He then said in a joking tone, "When I saw a beautiful woman, I couldn't help but be a little more courteous, but it really didn't have ulterior motives, Mrs. Xue really thought too much."

Mrs. Xue's face was a little red, and she gently turned her head away.Zhu Gaoxu said again, "The Xue family is good at making glass mirrors, and you will not be short of this money in the future."

She still didn't make a sound, and the carriage was silent again.Zhu Gaoxu didn't say much anymore.

After a long time, the carriage approached the shop of Xue's house again, and the groom yelled "Woo!" from the front.

Zhu Gaoxu suddenly noticed that Mrs. Xue's eyes were also very red, and hurriedly asked, "What's wrong?"

Lady Xue turned her head, and couldn't help but choked up as soon as she opened her mouth, "Is it really gone?"

Zhu Gaoxu was suddenly a little at a loss, he said, "It's not that I don't want to meet. We have discussed the business, the main thing is that it is difficult to have a chance."

He paused, and then said with a little emotion, "Sometimes it's like this, and we always say goodbye by fate, but everyone has their own business, so goodbye is not easy to talk about? Maybe we won't see each other when we grow old."

Unexpectedly, when Mrs. Xue heard this, she burst into tears.

Zhu Gaoxu said, "What did I say wrong?"

But Mrs. Xue's shoulders kept shaking, she couldn't stop, and she cried more and more sadly.

Zhu Gaoxu stretched out his hand, intending to comfort her, but suddenly hesitated again.At this time, Lady Xue suddenly leaned against him, put her face on his shoulder and cried for a while.Only then did he reach out and stroke her back, waiting for her emotions to pass.

After a while, she finally calmed down.

Only then did Zhu Gaoxu move his face closer, and smelled the fragrance on her body carefully, and it was indeed very similar to the fragrance on Miao Jin's body.Miao Jin is right, the main reason is the smell of this powder.

Lady Xue grabbed his hand, put it on her chest, and said softly, "You are always watching, anyway, this is the last time..."

Zhu Gaoxu did not dare to make mistakes, and was very cautious and passive.

After a while, she sat upright, took out a mirror and a handkerchief and carefully adjusted her makeup.Then she pointed to the burden and asked, "Who is Master Hou going to send?"

Zhu Gaoxu froze for a moment, thinking that he definitely couldn't give it to his concubine, after all, it was something that others didn't want; Mrs. Shen probably didn't want it to be chosen by others, and she was not short of money.He murmured, "I haven't thought about it yet, but it's a pity to throw it away, and just find a woman."

"Then you send me off." Mrs. Xue said.

Zhu Gaoxu said, "It was originally for you, but I don't like forced women."

"Thank you, Lord Hou." Madam Xue picked up the bundle, got up very simply, and walked out of the carriage with a bent waist.When she lowered the curtain, she turned her head and looked at Zhu Gaoxu again, and then left without looking back.

Zhu Gaoxu opened the corner of the curtain, looked at the door of the shop for a while, and then patted the wooden board in front.Soon the groom's yelling came in, and the carriage began to move.

On the way back to the palace, he gradually felt that the experience of these days was a bit trance.He thought that he seemed to have a lot of emotional words, but he didn't expect the words to be so simple.

It's like never seeing her.

In the days that followed, Zhu Gaoxu had almost no time to think about Mrs. Xue.As the year approaches, things get more and more complicated.All kinds of sacrifices and ceremonies alone are enough for him to be busy, and he has to entertain relatives of the clan during the New Year.

This year's New Year's Eve is particularly lively, with lanterns and festoons in the palace, the royal family seems to be celebrating the festival every day, and the capital city has been festive and noisy for more than half a month.

Around the Shangyuan Festival, the naval fleet transporting firearms and supplies also set sail to the north one after another.At the beginning, Zhu Gaoxu personally went to the port to see off the soldiers, but he didn't care about the next few batches.However, his mind has been hanging, and he can only wait patiently for the result of the Liaodong Campaign.

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