Crossing should also be very low-key

Zhang Xiaoyue is worthy of being the prince's favorite male favorite. Not only is the yard the largest, the landscape is the best, and the things he uses are also of the highest quality.Compared with here, the yard he lives in is simply a warehouse!

Li Qingjiu carefully looked at every decoration in the room: vases, ink paintings, jade stones, potted plants, screens, curtains...everything is more beautiful than the antiques in the museum.Although I used to study engineering, I still have some appreciation for these antiques.Although his appreciation ability is only divided into three levels: "this is very ordinary", "this is beautiful", and "wow, this is super beautiful".

"Just take two or three and sell them. You shouldn't have to worry about food and clothing for the rest of your life, right? Brother Yue, when I'm about to be sent out of the palace someday, can you give me a few unwanted ones?" Although he is currently In saving money, earning only [-] to [-] yuan a month, after all, it can't compare to a one-time windfall of millions!

"Take the things that the prince gave you and sell them outside, you don't want to die?" Zhang Xiaoyue drank the most high-end wine in her room.

Tea, said tepidly.

"My lord has so many things, how would he know if one or two things are missing?" Although Li Qingjiu coveted these treasures very much, he did not reach out to touch them as he was polite when appreciating works of art. "Wow, this jade unicorn is so finely carved, I didn't expect people nowadays to have such skills! Well, if you take this out and sell it, you will definitely get a good price."

"My lord doesn't know, but the butler will remember it clearly."

"Ah yes, I forgot that there is a butler in the palace..." Thinking of that cold butler, Li Qingjiu was immediately discouraged.According to the laws of TV movie graphic novels, characters such as the butler, steward or deacon are not to be underestimated. They are usually memory geniuses and have a telepathic connection with their masters.In addition, some are good at strategy, some are amazing in martial arts, some have unique skills, and even more powerful ones can fly over walls, fight against angels, and cross the world of Yin and Yang!Don't mess with it, don't mess with it.

"Don't look, just be honest! Come and drink tea."

"Why didn't you think of asking the prince to discount all the items?" Li Qingjiu sat at the table, still looking at those antiques reluctantly.

"Discount?"

"It means to exchange them for silver or copper coins! Otherwise, these things cannot be sold."

"I'm not as snobbish as you. These are all gifts from the prince. To me, the prince's wishes are far more important than the price of the item itself." Zhang Xiaoyue turned slightly to the window, and said in a loud voice full of emotion, probably No matter who was outside heard this.

Once again seeing the skills of senior executives in consolidating the customer base and gaining popular support, Li Qingjiu sighed in his heart, so he had to drink tea silently with his head down.

"Oh, this tea is delicious!" Li Qingjiu couldn't wait to praise after taking a sip of hot tea. "You can smell the aroma of tea even before you drink it, and after drinking it, the taste in your mouth is different from what you just smelled. Oh, it's back to sweetness! It turns out that tea really does turn back on sweetness! "At that time, Li Qingjiu, who had only drunk bottled tea from Baote, was an eye-opener.Unexpectedly, the delicious tea is really as exaggeratedly delicious as advertised. After drinking it, it seems that even the mood has improved, and the whole person feels comfortable and relaxed.

"For you to know the goods, this tea is worth two." Zhang Xiaoyue snorted softly, knowing that this person must have never drank tea of ​​this level, so she took it out and asked Ah Cong to brew it for him.

"Are you counting in taels? How many copper coins do you need for taels?" He had vaguely heard that tea leaves are priced at a catty or half a catty. It must be very expensive if you count one tael or one tael?

Zhang Xiaoyue smiled sweetly and held out two fingers to him.

"Two copper coins?" Yaoshou, one tael of tea leaves sells for two hundred yuan, and one catty costs three thousand two coins. It's quicker to grab!Thanks to Zhang Xiaoyue who can afford it, it really is different with a monthly income of [-].

Zhang Xiaoyue shook her head and smiled even sweeter.

"Twenty copper coins?" Li Qingjiu swallowed his saliva thinking that there would be an extra zero behind the price just now.

Zhang Xiaoyue still shook her head, and then said the answer word by word, gently and clearly.

"It's two taels of silver a catty."

Li Qingjiu stared at the small glass of liquid in his hand with wide eyes.

Two taels per catty....Is that why he said that "Two" refers not to the weight but to the price?Two taels of silver, that is, two thousand copper coins, converted into the currency value of that era is 20... He is so fucking expensive!

"Two taels of silver can buy several cows. You use it to buy this kind of thing that will disappear after you drink it?" He kept looking at the tea in the cup in horror, distress and excitement. The excessive impact made him feel a little dazed.

"Isn't the cow you're talking about eating nothing but pulling it out?" Zhang Xiaoyue's quick response has always been one of Zhang Xiaoyue's strengths.

"But you won't eat several heads at once!" The inflated balloon couldn't be poked, and Li Qingjiu stood up even more excitedly, staring at him with wide eyes.In that era, he saw on TV that a piece of brand-name clothing cost tens of thousands, and a bag cost hundreds of thousands.But now that such an extravagant and absurd thing is happening in front of his eyes, and he is forced to participate without knowing it, the feeling is very different.

"Oh, so you will be angry too?" Faced with his excitement and anger, Zhang Xiaoyue was not affected at all, and still smiled sweetly.He leaned on his chin with one hand, raised his head slightly, and looked at him playfully. "Also, your eyes are quite big!"

"You!" Only then did Li Qingjiu realize that he was too excited, even the habitual eye-shrinking skill had been unknowingly exhausted, and now he probably couldn't pretend to be able to go back, so he simply didn't pretend. "I'm telling you now that you are a waste, why should I shut my eyes? I tell you, there will be retribution for waste! Even if you can make a lot of money now, if you don't know how to save, save and manage money, etc. How will you live when you can't make any money?"

When he mentioned this kind of thing, he couldn't control his emotions, because this kind of thing happened to his father, and in the end, even he suffered along with it, and this crime lasted for more than [-] years.

"Hey, don't be angry, this tea was also given to me by the prince. I can't buy it for two taels of silver a catty!" Zhang Xiaoyue seemed to have seen enough, and then stood up slowly, holding his shoulders to comfort him He sits down. "Look at you, you're like a fireball. If I had known you would care about such things, I wouldn't have entertained you with such expensive tea."

Hearing Zhang Xiaoyue's explanation, Li Qingjiu slowly regained his senses, and then realized that he seemed to have scolded the wrong person.

"I'm sorry Brother Yue, I'm so excited, it's obviously none of your business." The culprit was that bastard prince again, Li Qingjiu scolded him a hundred times in his heart.

"It's okay, it's worth being scolded wrong if you can see your beautiful eyes clearly."

Li Qingjiu lowered his head with some guilt, but decided to use the eye-shrinking skill again.Seeing this, Zhang Xiaoyue didn't say anything, just smiled.

"Actually, I'm not used to eating these expensive things. Before I entered the palace, I cheated on eating and drinking in the gambling house. When I'm hungry, the food tastes good. I don't think it's better if it's more than ten times more expensive. Eat. It’s just that since the lord has rewarded you, don’t eat for nothing! But I’m not interested in eating alone, can I ask you to accompany me in the future?”

"Of course!" Knowing that Zhang Xiaoyue didn't care about what happened just now, and hearing that his background and his own were also in the same boat, Li Qingjiu readily agreed.

Hearing that he agreed so simply, Zhang Xiaoyue smiled brilliantly, and immediately ordered A Cong to bring a bunch of pastries, cakes, preserved meat and other food, and explained the prices he heard one by one, making Li Qingjiu more and more frightened.

"How's it going? Doesn't this golden candy cake taste good?" He asked as if offering a treasure.

"Well, it's very expensive." Yaoshou's thing costs three hundred yuan for a small...

"...What about this brown sugar sesame oil pancake?" Unwilling to give up, he asked again.

"Well, it's very expensive." One of the mud horses costs [-] yuan?Still hollow!

"...this black pepper sliced ​​beef..."

"Well, it's very expensive." Isn't it just beef jerky, beef jerky? Even if you use 5000 yuan a catty of beef to make beef jerky, it's still a piece of beef jerky. Is this necessary, brother?

Zhang Xiaoyue slapped the table pretending to be angry.

"I'm asking about your own feelings, not the price of the food."

"Myself? Oh, I think the current me is very expensive." The food I ate just now should add up to several thousand yuan. Li Qingjiu felt that he seemed to have comprehended another realm, and he was more dazed than before.

In order to restore his normal conversation ability, Zhang Xiaoyue asked Ah Cong to pour him a glass of water for him to drink.

"This glass of water is free, is it better?"

Li Qingjiu quickly drank the glass of water in two or three gulps.

"Well, it's much better, it's half off." He said incoherently.

Zhang Xiaoyue shook her head with a smile, told Ah Cong to take away all the expensive food, and decided to only treat him to drink water for the next month.

"Okay, stop thinking about whether it's expensive or not, have you decided what gift to give the prince yet?"

When picking things at the grocery store yesterday, Li Qingjiu said that the most valuable things he couldn't buy were the most valuable. In fact, he probably didn't want to spend too much money on buying things to give to the prince, so he didn't buy anything in the end.

"Although we haven't decided yet, we already have a general direction!" Li Qingjiu immediately regained his sanity when he thought of the perfect strategy that he and Ah Shun had discussed after staying up all night.

"Oh?" Zhang Xiaoyue was full of interest.

"I want to send something that I personally made but poorly made to the lord, so that I can show that I have put my heart into it, and won't make the lord too happy and fond of me and make a deep impression on me. How about it, this is a good idea Right?" Li Qingjiu said triumphantly.The ideal gift in his mind is probably Zhu Zhishan's picture of the divine bird and phoenix.

"...." Zhang Xiaoyue's smile froze.He still can't understand why Li Qingjiu can evade the prince's attention so sincerely and thoroughly. "Well, when do you plan to give it to the prince? Do you want to give it privately before the banquet, or at the banquet?"

Ah Shun had already told him about the banquet last night.Because many people come to the mansion to congratulate the prince every year, there will be several birthday banquets held a few days before the prince's birthday, and there are limited visitors for the birthday banquet every day.Their male favorites were placed on the day before the prince's birthday together with the concubines. It was also an occasion where few people from the North and South Courts could see each other, and it was also a chance for them to compete with each other.As for the prince's birthday, it is reserved for his relatives, and no outsiders will be seen.

"Please, give that kind of thing to the prince face to face at the banquet? I'm not too tired of living."

"..." Basically, to classify the gift to be given to the prince as "that kind of thing" is itself a matter of expressing that one is too tired of life──Zhang Xiaoyue and the two servants are silent in their hearts thinking.Fortunately, Li Qingjiu has long practiced the skill of "transmitting sound into secrets", and the dangerous conversations will never be heard by the hidden guards again.

"Okay, then I'm looking forward to your gift. Don't forget to let me see it before giving it to the prince!" Such an interesting thing, he must see it first.

"Of course, with Brother Yue's suggestion, I will be more confident." After explaining his strategy, Li Qingjiu asked casually, "Then yours is also ready?"

I remember what Zhang Xiaoyue said yesterday about "a gift that cannot be given out due to some reasons", and looked at him with weird eyes, which made him afraid to ask what the gift was, but it is always okay to ask if it is ready?

"Sigh, the one I originally thought of couldn't be delivered, and the one I thought of later might not be able to be delivered in time..." Zhang Xiaoyue glanced at Li Qingjiu on the opposite side with the end of her eyes.It should be too late, right?Although he really wants to send out the things that the prince wants to know the most at present as a gift...

"It's either that you can't send it out or it's too late. Brother Yue, why are the gifts you thought of so troublesome?" Li Qingjiu muttered, bowing his head and drinking another glass of boiled water.

"Yeah, it's really troublesome, but I just happened to meet..." Zhang Xiaoyue responded in a softer voice, and at the same time scanned the person in front of her from top to bottom.

"Hey, what did you just say?"

"Nothing, just say whatever you want."

Just about to talk about something more, the housekeeper's cold voice suddenly came from outside.

"Mr. Li Qingjiu, the master tailor is waiting in your yard to take your measurements. Would you like to invite him over?"

The palace will make ten sets of clothes for the son and wife every year, two sets for spring, summer, autumn and winter, and one set for the New Year and the prince's birthday banquet.As for the inner clothes and the clothes that I usually wear in my own yard, I first choose the ready-to-wear clothes that fit my body shape and try them on. If there are any parts that don't fit, I ask the tailor of the palace to modify them.But because he was used to wearing ready-made clothes, he didn't let anyone modify them. Therefore, the tailor of the palace has never had his size, so he came to him to measure it today.

"No, no, no, no, no, I'm going back!" Li Qingjiu, who was not used to the high-end clothing service of "custom-made at home", got up and bid farewell to Zhang Xiaoyue. "Then I'll go back first, you have a good rest."

"Hmm. Do you want to bring some food home?"

Thinking of the things he ate just now, Li Qingjiu smiled wryly and shook his head.

"No, I'm still expensive!" After he finished speaking, he nodded to Zhang Xiaoyue, and then hurried away with Ah Shun.

Looking at his leaving back, Zhang Xiaoyue frowned slightly thoughtfully.

Writer's words:

If Xiaojiu really presented the picture of the divine bird and phoenix, he will wait to be punished by Wangniao...=v=/////

(It’s more than 6 words, and the emotional drama between the prince and Xiaojiu hasn’t even been written, but the relationship between Brother Yue and Xiaojiu has been cultivated well.... How decent is this! __/ *turns the table*)