Chapter 42: The Clever (Part 2)
Taking advantage of the busy work of Brother Qi, he walked to the two county magistrates silently and asked softly: "I wonder when the next competition will be held?" Wang Laohu had already left angrily, and did not even explain the following.
The more you see the silence, the more cute you feel, and said with a smile: "Let's meet at Shanyin Wharf tomorrow, and Wang Guifa will announce the next question." As he said that, his old face smiled like a daisy and said: "Don't be late again."
Silent nodded and smiled, "It must be."
Before they knew it, most of the hour passed, but no one said, "You are out of date." They looked at the hands intoxicatedly. Under the ten rough fingers, the gold was as obedient as dough, allowing the craftsmen to shape it into various shapes at will. Gradually, everyone realized that he was going to create a pair of golden hairpins, but what they looked like would have to wait and see.
After a while, he finally breathed a sigh of relief, put down the small carved knife and scissors in his hand, and said tiredly: "A pair of golden hairpins with a double phoenix, please take a look at it." Someone presented a blue velvet tray, gently placed the pair of golden hairpins, and sent it to Chen Mo and the two county magistrates.
The three of them looked closely and saw that the tops of the pair of golden hairpins were plum blossoms, and the petals and stamens were all very delicate. On the center of the flower, there were a pair of lifelike phoenixes, one with a mouth tied to a longevity fruit and the other with a mouth full of square victory. The bodies and wings of these two phoenixes had beautiful layers of curled patterns, just like real feathers. Several gorgeous long-tail feathers were on the bird's tail, which set off the pair of phoenixes with great nobility.
Standing on the stamens, these pair of phoenix birds can tremble at any time as long as the hairpin moves slightly, as if they want to flap their wings and fly high. They can be called a magical axe.
The three of them were intoxicated for a while and let the people come up to appreciate one by one. The viewers were amazed and admired. Even the craftsmen had to give their thumbs up and praise him, "It's amazing." Although it seems not unusual to live in a few big shots, they can't do their life so meticulously in such a short time.
One of the big kids said cautiously: "Your technique seems to be from the Song Dynasty court."
Brother Qi nodded embarrassedly and said, "The ancestor once gave the Empress of Huizong a phoenix crown."
It immediately caused people to get gasping for breath. I didn't expect that I would be a descendant of a national player.... Then I remembered to ask: "Is your Gao surname a name?"
"My surname is Tian. I have forgotten my original name for a long time, so I will call me Tian Qi." Brother Qi whispered.
Silent couldn't help but smile and said, "Brother Qi, why didn't you tell me this earlier?"
"Later, the Song Dynasty moved south and our family became a slave to the destruction of the country, and its skills gradually became loose. It was really shameful to our ancestors." Brother Qi lowered his head.
He nodded silently and smiled, "Let's see how the bottle is?" As he said that, he uncovered the black cloth covering the bottle, and the thin-necked glass bottle turned golden.
Brother Qi used his little fingernail to press the gold paper on the inner wall of the bottle neck evenly and flatly, so the task was done. Silence passed the bottle to everyone, hey! The gold paper was sticking to the inner wall of the bottle, and there was no gap at all.
The craftsmen were completely convinced, and everyone asked in surprise: "What kind of texture is this?"
Brother Qi couldn't say it, so he had to seek help from silence. silence nodded and smiled: "This kind of glassware is very crisp and brittle. How can hard things be hammered on it? Only mercury is soft but heavy. It will not damage the glass when it enters the bottle and shakes it. It can perfectly paste the gold foil on the wall of the bottle and create a thin and tough layer of gold amalgam on the inner wall. It can not only support the gold foil to never deform and fall off, but also neutralize the toxicity of mercury." As he said that, he bounced the gold foil and said: "Although it will slightly erode the inner surface of the gold foil, it is still intact from the outside."
After this matter, the two county magistrates were impressed and made an appointment with Chen Mo to see each other again the next day, and they parted.
Chen Mo and Shen Jing went to help Brother Qi pack up their things, and wanted to go home. However, several merchants came over and asked if the bottle and the pair of hairpins were for sale. Chen Mo asked Tian Qi to make these things to borrow the sensational benefits? He had to strike while the iron was hot and use this enthusiasm to sell it at a good price.
After some bargaining, the bottle was sold for three or three cents, and a pair of gold hairpins bought five or seven cents, which totaled nine taels of gold.
After handing over the money and delivering the goods in the other hand, the three of them got on the bus with satisfaction and embarked on the road back home.
I was silent all the way, Shen Jingle, and Tian Qi laughed. After digging out the capital of four taels of gold, I made a total of five taels of gold. Five taels of gold, and it would be forty taels of silver! What a huge sum of money!
Next is the time to divide the spoils.
He smiled silently and said, "I will take half of this money and I will take half of it, Brother Qi, you will take half of it yourself."
Tian Qi shook his head and said, "I don't want to use it, I don't want it at all."
"It's all the skills of Brother Qi, you should take the big head." Chen Shu shook his head and smiled.
"Yes, please keep it. Don't you want to open a small shop? Just use this as your capital, and it's okay to stick to it for a few months." Chen Jing also smiled and said, "With your skills and the signboard you played today, you won't have to worry about not being able to continue to operate!"
This was Tian Qi's long-cherished wish, but he was no longer moved and said seriously: "My little husband gave me the opportunity to be a new person. This is more precious than a thousand gold. If you still have to be greedy for money, it would be better to ask me to kill him!" His decisive expression made Chen Jing look at him with admiration.
Chen Si knew that such a person had a right idea and smiled bitterly: "But we both did nothing, I really feel ashamed of it."
"Since we all feel uneasy to take this money," Chen Jingwei thought, and said with a grip: "Let's do this, we invest all the money in the gambling house to buy us, we will win, make some profits, and lose money if we lose."
"Good." Chen Si also clapped his hands and said, "In this way, I feel at ease."
"What if I lose," Tian Qi asked timidly: "I mean if it is."
"Can you not take some risks?" Chen Shu laughed and said, "Anyway, we have invested ten taels of silver, so it's better to have fun!" He had nothing at all, and losing is just a return to the original... This is a typical bachelor's idea.
"What ten taels? I've put five taels in total, and they've all been invested in big shots." Chen Jing said in surprise: "Have you bet again?"
"No. How can I have any money?" said silently: "I heard from the county magistrate Hou that Shanyin Xingfa also received a bet of five taels? I thought you had added another three taels."
"I left those two taels behind." Chen Jing frowned and said, "I'm afraid that if we lose, we can still have a good meal to comfort us."
"Someone actually looked at us before..." The sole thought, silent in disbelief: "Who is so visionary?"
Chen Jing almost fell off his seat and smiled bitterly and said, "Tian Qi, did you see it? If you have thick skin, I still can't compare to silent."
However, Tian Qi said seriously: "The villain thinks that my little husband is right, that person is too insightful."
"Why have you never spoken for me?" Chen Jing couldn't help but wail.
Standing opposite to the Fengyin Building of Kuaiji is Tianxiang Pavilion in Shanyin. The two restaurants have the same height and the same layout, but the difference is the internal style, one is elegant and the other is gorgeous. It may be that each flower is in his eyes, and the two stores are very good in their trading.
It was already early, but today many people delayed the meal because they were greedy for watching the fun. Therefore, the hall was still full of diners. People were having dinner while talking. The topic was always around what they saw and heard earlier, and they couldn't help but exclaim, savoring the wonderful details of the time and drinking.
In a corner of the hall, a man wearing a big straw hat and a coarse cloth dress sat alone. In front of him was a plate of fried stinky tofu with a strange smell, a plate of dried green fish with a fragrant aroma, a small plate of moldy carp that was not lost in dust, and a small jar of flower carvings were drinking happily.
He stretched out his fair and slender left hand, picked up a chopstick of golden-colored stinky tofu, and chewed it very seriously, with an expression that seemed to be extremely enjoyable. He then picked up the wine cup and drank it all, and he felt so comfortable that his whole body shivered.
When he heard the people around him praise the silence as "Qing Teng Second", a smile appeared on the corner of the man's mouth, and he could only hear him whispering to himself: "It turns out that there is a record in Yi Jianzhi, and I thought this method was originally created by me."
As he said that, he took out a golden glass bottle from the bamboo basket at hand and started playing with it casually. He heard him murmur, "I think this is better." After taking a sip of wine, he saw a piece of paper on the ground. It turned out that he was taken to the ground when he was just taking the bottle.
He bent down and picked it up. It turned out to be a gambling ticket, which said, "Five liang of bets will be lost. If you lose, Shanyin will pay ten if you buy it, and you will never regret it." He stuffed the bottle and gambling ticket back into the basket. The man smiled and said, "I originally wanted to cheat for you, but it seems that I was self-indulgent." After saying that, he threw down a piece of silver, pulled the brim of the hat down, and then carried the basket on his back, and stood up with a wine jar. He was so tall.
When I walked to a table near the door, someone suddenly said surprise: "Brother Wenqing, are you back?" But a scholar drinking man accidentally caught a glimpse of the fair face under the straw hat.
The noisy hall was quiet for a moment, and people looked over and said excitedly: "Is it Xu's Prodigy? Is Xu's Prodigy back?"
The man stood helplessly, coughed dryly, and the hall returned to quiet. People were waiting for him to turn around, but the man suddenly screamed, "It's not me." Then he ran away.
Chapter completed!