Fengqiwu of the Red Chamber

更新时间2014-6-422:54:27字数：2034

After Xifeng and Xue Pan met his uncle and aunt, they bought imported goods together. As for the price and quality of these goods, Uncle Xue was an important person. After ten years of traveling and doing business, this uncle who is always smiling can be regarded as a well-known figure in this coastal area.

With such a relative at their side, Xifeng and Xue Pan quickly spent all their money and turned it into a carriage full of foreign goods.

Xue Pan didn't understand business at all, and he followed Xifeng and Zhang Dehui to buy and sell all the exquisite fabrics and jewelry that were not available in China. Xifeng even used a few pieces of lipstick and perfume for women from those merchants' wives. In exchange for Chinese porcelain and tea, one of the foreign ladies was holding a delicate urinal, happily looking at the patterns on it, looking like she couldn't put it down, Xue Pan shed tears for her in his heart: she You must not know what this exquisite porcelain is used for?

In the end, Xifeng and the others bid farewell to Uncle Xue, and returned with a full load of round pearls each given by Uncle Xue. It feels so good to return home!

Lemon started worrying along the way, frowning every time.Xifeng squinted her eyes and looked at the little girl whose face was wrinkled into a bun, and said with a smile: "You are so sad, are you afraid of going home and being punished?"

Lemon glanced at Xifeng angrily, and said in an angry voice: "I'm just a servant, no more than a young lady, just a few words from the master and wife. If I go home, it's no wonder my mother doesn't beat me to death with a big stick." !"

Xifeng laughed loudly, "Nurse Du has always been strict with you, but now that she is old, a few hits won't hurt much, just treat it as a physical exercise."

Lemon's eyes widened angrily, "I've only stood with the young lady a few times. How can I survive the hard work? When I meet my mother's stick, I only have a bruised nose and a swollen face. If you can't get out of bed after being beaten, look at the young lady." Take someone out to mess around."

After finishing speaking, he turned his head away and said nothing to look at Xifeng again.

Xifeng smiled and opened the folding fan, fanned herself lightly, and said to herself: "I don't know if my parents are angry, but I have to think of a way not to be severely punished."

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The early morning of this day was exceptionally quiet. The Wang family's clothing store and jewelry store had just opened their doors. Several employees were busy tidying up the storefront, but there was a sound of horseshoes outside.

A young man rubbed his eyes carefully, and cried out, "Mother! It seems that our second son is back."

The other guys and the shopkeeper rushed out of the store. The handsome young man who just jumped off the carriage refreshed was the second young master of their family. He suddenly disappeared and reappeared. Afterwards, he followed several carriages and seemed to be pulled back. Quite a few things.

The shopkeeper kicked the little guy next to him, "What are you still doing in a daze, why don't you go home and announce the good news." The little guy was stunned by the kick, regained his senses, and quickly ran to the palace.

Here, Xifeng was sitting at a soy milk stand leisurely, drinking soy milk and eating deep-fried dough sticks, feeling very comfortable.Several drivers who followed the car, together with Lemon and the servants who had just got off the car, were sitting beside each other, enjoying the breakfast in their hometown.

The number of pedestrians on the street gradually increased, and some ladies and ladies also came out in carriages to buy jewelry and cloth, and gradually customers came to the shop in front of the Wang family.

When the time came, Xifeng wiped her hands with a handkerchief, turned around and gave some instructions to Lemon, who called the servant and the shop assistant, and said loudly: "The foreign goods that the young master just brought back from the coast are all Rare things, you should be careful when you move them, if you break a little bit, your lives will not be enough to pay for it!"

A few young men answered yes, chattering and drinking for a while, it was very lively.

A few passers-by who were shopping heard that there were new foreign goods and gadgets in the store, and they all couldn't hold back and poked their heads out to look inside.

To say that Chinese people are good foreign goods, since ancient times, they have been used by nature.The Silk Road is actually a road for trading foreign goods and domestic goods.In the Han and Tang Dynasties, foreigners were called "Hu people", because the Silk Road at that time came from the Western Regions, so they were called "Hu people".

After the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the Maritime Silk Road appeared. Because it came from the sea, it was called "foreign", and foreigners were called "foreigners".

To cross the ocean, you must rely on ships. People are used to calling "foreign goods" "imported goods", and this is the reason.The ancients in China tended to be conservative in their thinking, and they were very wary of foreigners, but they loved foreign goods to a certain extent.

Today's imperial palaces, palaces, nobles and other places are all filled with all kinds of Western things.Because, the first person who likes foreign goods is the emperor.Therefore, in such a society, those who are able to gain fashion and use "imported products" first are usually the powerful and wealthy class, and they are always the pioneers who lead the trend of consumption.Then, more foreign goods came, and the consumption spread to the affluent middle class. Then, foreign goods became commonplace, and then they spread to the consumption field of ordinary people.

Therefore, in the Qing Dynasty, those who had foreign goods at home were a symbol of the family's political status and economic strength.

The boy and the guys unloaded the goods in the carriage one by one, including the authentic scarlet carpet; and all kinds of woolen leather, woolen, serge, velvet, velvet, etc...

The jewelry box at the back is even more decorated in a foreign style, all of which are carved with foreign beauties, or some children with bare buttocks and small wings;

In addition, there are all kinds of crystal and glass products, which are dazzling and crystal clear, and people on the street are stunned by the sight, wishing that the Wang's shop will be tidied up immediately, so that I can rush in and buy all those good things back home Among them, because the most people in Jinling City are rich people, I am not afraid that your things are expensive, but I am afraid that your things are not rare enough.

Those young ladies and wives were even worse, some weighed the price of the clothes just now, and some simply ordered their servants to go home to get the money, for fear that they would not be able to grab the jewelry and clothes they liked after opening the shop.

In fact, in terms of clothing, women have always been the bravest spenders. First, they are willing to spend money, second, they dare to let others spend money for them, and third, they are never satisfied.In any era and in any society, women are the backbone of consumption for various fashion items.It was so in the past, it is so now, and it will not be different in the future.

Sitting on the second floor, Xifeng looked at the crowds of people in the shops below, she couldn't help shaking her head and said with a smile, "It's true that rare things are valuable!"