Sister Xue of the Red Chamber

Show off your talents and seek to decorate Jinlou for the elder brother's grandparents

Baoxuan drove away a monk and Mrs. Xue only thought that those two were here to extort money, but there was something on her mind.

After the monk left together, Xue's mansion invited a doctor to see Baochai. Although he was not very sure about the symptoms of lung fever, he still had seven or eight points.Later, there was a recipe for boiling water with reed roots, and the doctor said, "Even if there is no disease, it will not hurt if you drink it", so Baoxuan ordered people to stew it every day and send it.It really worked wonders, Baochai's asthma and cough were all healed after one month.It's just that Mrs. Xue's worries have become more and more serious since then.

"Grandmother" Baoxuan came over and squeezed Mrs. Xue's shoulders. "Why is grandma always frowning these days, but what's wrong with Baoxuan? Baoxuan has grown up so much, and it's the first time that Baoxuan has taken care of such a big matter, so you have to take care of it! If you give birth to Baoxuan because of this If you stop Bao Hyun's errand, then...then Bao Hyun will be angry too!"

"You ghost girl!" Mrs. Xue couldn't help laughing, "There is nothing to worry about. You are just meddling in some family affairs, how big a mistake you can make! Grandma will explain it to you today, if something goes wrong You have your grandmother backing you up! You, just rest assured!"

"Then Baoxuan has to thank grandma first!" Baoxuan hurriedly bowed, and then said again, "Since grandma loves Baoxuan so much, why not...let's dote on Baoxuan more!"

"It seems that Baoxuan didn't come here today to comfort grandma, but to ask for something! Oh, this is really heartbreaking!"

"grandmother……"

Bao Hyun did come here today for something.In the past few months, he has been in charge of the rewards and punishments of the servants in the mansion. After a long time, Bao Xuan has a bit of professionalism.Ever since the original regulations were implemented in the mansion, except when someone made a mistake or made a contribution at the beginning, Baoxuan needed to be labored. However, no one questioned the regulations after ten days. Please trouble Bo Hyun.In his spare time, Bao Xuan thought about opening a shop, and now he has an idea.

"Grandmother, Bao Xuan has been busy these days!"

"Too busy? You're not in charge of the family's rewards and punishments, why are you so busy? If you have any evil ideas, just tell them. What kind of tricks are you playing with grandma?" Mrs. Xue said with a smile.

"It's not that grandma helped Baoxuan! That day, grandma helped Baoxuan to formulate the regulations for rewards and punishments. After all, Jiang is still old and hot. He didn't even have a single omission, and he was praised by the whole family! No, there is. Such a good charter, what do you want Bao Xuan to do! Bao Xuan is idle, his bones are sore!" Bao Xuan had a flattering face.

Mrs. Xue pretended to be angry, "Well, are you praising me or yourself? I haven't changed the regulations much! You said half a car of good things, but you didn't say anything about what you came here for today. No matter how dishonest you are, grandma won't help you!"

"Baoxuan knows I was wrong." Baoxuan saluted with a smile, "Grandmother, Baoxuan wants to open a shop, specializing in women's hairpins, rings, hairpins and bracelets, and also sell some clothes, skirts and jackets, so as to earn some private money. "

"For a family like ours, even though your father has a title now, he is still from an imperial businessman's background. The girl's house has a few shops, as long as it doesn't spread, it's fine. Just one thing, this kind of shop, don't talk about it." In Jinling City, our family has also opened two. If there is no good charter, how can we open it."

"Bao Xuan thinks that when selling some things in the shop, one is particular about the word 'du', and there is only one piece for each style; secondly, it is different from other stores, it pays attention to the word 'expensive', and what we do is the business of a wealthy family. Finally, let the things in the shop become a symbol of a person with status!"

"Sounds really good, after all, it's our Xue family's child." Mrs. Xue agreed very much, "Talk to grandma again, what else do you have in mind?"

"Then Baoxuan should be a grandmother! Grandma should choose a good shop for Baoxuan, and find some skilled craftsmen!"

"Ghostly spirit, do you still have to make an inch?"

But Baoxuan has thought about it for a long time, and now he has a plan, "Baoxuan has an idea now, if it succeeds, grandma will definitely reward Baoxuan!"

"How to say?" Mrs. Xue wondered.

"Baoxuan runs a shop at a girl's house. Although she hides it from the outside world, I'm afraid she can hide it from the first day of junior high school, but not the fifteenth day of junior high school! It's better to find someone to take on the name. Baoxuan thought, at the beginning, there was no one. If you have success, someone with a heart will come to investigate. Instead of taking advantage of others, it is better to wait for the shop to become famous and then let the word out, saying that the elder brother opened it to find some jewelry to honor the elders or to give to the younger sister. Such a shop."

"That's fine." Mrs. Xue nodded repeatedly.

"Baoxuan has another meaning in it. As an imperial merchant, it would be good if we pick some exquisite and unique jewelry from the shop. And Baoxuan also knows in his heart that my grandmother has been paying attention to Baochai these few days. The matter worried about my brother's cough and asthma. Baoxuan thought that if one or two of them are lucky enough to get the favor of the nobles in the palace, we can also ask the nobles to send an imperial doctor to treat my brother."

"If it can be done, it will be a great thing!" Mrs. Xue said pleasantly, "It's hard for you to think so thoughtfully."

Seeing Mrs. Xue Tai was happy, Baoxuan mentioned another matter: "There is one more thing, but it is for Baochai. Although Baochai doesn't need to learn some Four Books and Five Classics, it's just that as a daughter of everyone, she must know some Acupuncture female red, chess, calligraphy and painting, poems and songs, can't wipe the face of the family. It's just that... Mrs. Wang... can't read. Even if Baochai can't go to the study, she should invite a female gentleman back teach some."

"You worry about them." Mrs. Xue sighed, "Forget it, just hire a female gentleman. If you say anything else, I won't listen to it. The only thing you say is right. You can't lose me no matter what. Xue family's face!"

In the past few days, the most popular restaurant in Jinling City is neither a restaurant nor an antique shop, but the Jinlou, which has only been open for two months.

The Zhuijin Building was originally a scene of the Grand View Garden, but now there is not even a shadow of the Grand View Garden, so Baoxuan took the lead and used it.

This brocade building is not like other jewelry shops, although the Xue family had two ready-made jewelry shops, Baoxuan picked and picked again, and finally ordered someone to vacate a restaurant with three floors, it is really "" floor".

On the first floor of Zhuijin Building, Bao Xuan didn't let people move him at first, it was still a restaurant.The tables and chairs are all ready-made, but there are two pots of tea on the table, which are used to greet the servants, nurses, and coachmen who follow when our grandma and miss go out.These people cannot go to the second floor, let alone the third floor.Therefore, there is only one shopkeeper, one waiter and one accountant on the first floor.

The second floor sells some hairpins, hairpins, hairpins, Huasheng, Huadian, Buyao, combs, flat squares, etc., as well as bracelets, earrings, and necklaces.There are not many Yingluo, because the items sold in Zhuijinlou are unique, Yingluo also has to pick and choose, because even if you are hard-hearted and find a skillful hand, you can't weave it back.The second and third floors are served by the shopkeeper's wife, known as Mrs. Zhu, with a group of maidservants.

However, only a few people have set foot on the third floor since it opened, and only one guest is accepted a day, and there are two days out of every seven days.If you want to go to the third floor, you must send someone in advance to make an appointment with the shopkeeper, and Mrs. Zhu will receive you in person.The third floor was opened two months ago but there were few reservations. It was actually the owner of the Zhuijin Building who made a rule that only those who bought more than 1 taels of goods on the second floor within a year could make an appointment for the third floor.The wives and ladies of each family are still showing off their skills and begging for pocket money, in order to fill up the quota as soon as possible; but there are also a few wealthy families who spent a lot of money and entered the third floor, but all of them returned satisfied, which is really full of praise .

"Mrs. Zhang, what a coincidence to meet you here!" Two small sedan chairs stopped at the intersection and greeted.

"It's Mrs. Li. Oh, what a coincidence. I wanted to come to Zhuijinlou to buy a bracelet today. Look, it's not all at the door of the shop. I just remembered that today is the fifteenth day. Zhuijinlou Out of business! What a misfortune!"

"You said that this Zhuijin Tower is not doing a good business, why is it closed on the first and fifteenth day of the Lunar New Year?"

"Did you see the notice posted when Zhuijin Building first opened? People said that jewelry styles will be accepted on the first and fifteenth day of the Lunar New Year! Hey, look, the person who entered the Jin Building from the side door is the wife of Sun Xiucai on the East Street." Mrs. Chen. She was originally from a scholarly family, and she is good at painting. I heard that she drew a hairpin pattern on the fifteenth day of last month and wanted to try it. Unexpectedly, the owner really liked it, and Mrs. Zhu also said that this hairpin If you can type it out, you will be given a full twelve taels!"

"Twelve!"

"That's right, all the things sold by Zhuijinlou are unique! His family has to sign a document when they receive a pattern, stating that no third person has seen this pattern before or since, and it is the person who drew the pattern." It’s impossible to do one yourself!”

"No wonder he dared to claim that the jewelry is unique! It's just... the style of the ten taels of silver is so irritating, I wish I could draw a picture and send it away!"

"You think so beautifully. On the first day of this month, someone who received a letter brought a stack of pictures. They are not polite. They only want three of them, and the prices vary according to whether they are good or bad! Wouldn't Lou's reputation be ruined..."

Baoxuan sat on the third floor of the Zhuijin Building with a cultivated mind, smiling and listening to the chatter of the people downstairs.At this time Mrs. Zhu came up, "Miss, Mrs. Chen is here. You said you wanted to meet..."

"Understood, bring her up here! This Chen's painting is really good! Don't let other shops steal it!"

Baoxuan talked with Chen Shi for most of the day.At dusk, Xue Pan came to pick up the girl and went home.

"Baoxuan! Baoxuan! It's getting late, it's time to go home!" Xue Pan rushed straight up to the third floor of Zhuijin Building, and the shopkeeper couldn't stop him.Of course, he didn't dare to stop this nominal owner.

"Brother!" Baoxuan hurriedly called to him, "Brother is being reckless again! It's getting colder today, brother, you have to pay attention to your body, Wanmo don't run like before! Watch out for your cough!" Perhaps it was because That incident back then; when Xue Pan was born, he didn't cry in time, and later Mrs. Xue interrupted him, and everyone in the room was shocked, and no one remembered it for a while. Mrs. Tai blamed herself every time she saw Xue Pan coughing and wheezing, wishing she could replace her with her own body!

"Yes yes yes, it's all up to my sister! It's just that it's getting late, my sister should go back home with me earlier!" Although Xue Pan was a little careless, he listened to Bao Xuan's words very much, wishing he could hold Bao Xuan in his palm Here, for fear of losing my sister!

Xue Pan sent Bao Xuan to Mrs. Tai, greeted Mrs. Tai and went back to her yard, leaving Bao Xuan to talk to Mrs. Tai.

"Grandmother, Baoxuan talked with that Chen family today, and promised her 100 taels. Her husband is going to take the provincial examination, and she is short of money. She also knows that if his husband becomes an official in the future, he will be a noble person in the palace." The opportunity to show your face in front of you is something that others can't ask for."

"She's quite a wit."

"She is indeed smart, I only hope that she can use all her talents to draw all those good styles! We can also upload the things and ask the nobles to favor us and invite the imperial physician for my brother!"