Forty-two, make glass mirror

Zhou Xuan brought the third brother and the fourth brother back to the Zhou Mansion. He was in a good mood and said, "To celebrate your brothers' dear brothers, I will give you a special Zhenlong question - uh, third brother, how many Zhenlong games have you got from me now?"

Sanchi said: "Back to the master, there are already five games of Zhenlong."

"Ah, there are already five games, and I only have 36 games in total Zhenlong!" Zhou Xuan said: "It seems that I have to save a lot, otherwise I will be exhausted by you brothers in less than half a year. Then you can shoot the pp and leave, will I be wronged!"

The Siqi said angrily: "Zhou—Master despises us too much. Are our brothers such people?"

Zhou Xuan smiled and said, "Is it okay to just kid? Fourth, your skill in cultivating your mind and nature needs to be strengthened. Don't be like a fighting insect and you need to be full of teeth and aggressive. You have to learn like you can't touch it. You are indifferent to ordinary teasing. Only by touching its pp will you get angry, hehe."

Zhou Xuan entered the private courtyard where the three and four cynical people live. Both brothers are used to life ascetics and do not need to be served by maids. There are only two brothers in the courtyard.

After Zhou Xuan left a complicated and arduous question, he went back to the inner courtyard. From a distance, he heard the sings of music and music. It was the fifth time that he entered the house, y and Wuyi, were adjusting the strings and singing and dancing.

Zhou Xuan went to the third place to ask his father-in-law and mother-in-law for his feelings, and asked if he would argue with the two elderly people over the backyard playing and singing?

Mrs. Qin said: "It's okay, the old woman also likes lively. She won't feel noisy from such a distance. Nowadays, the house is big. If she was in the same yard as before, she would feel too noisy."

The lady has no objection, so Dr. Qin naturally won’t say anything.

Zhou Xuan came to the Fourth Courtyard and saw that there was no one there, and even a little girl could not see them. He went to the fifth place to listen to music and watch singing and dancing.

The moon is as bright as day, and the house is exquisite. The group of graceful women wearing gauze and silk spread their sleeves in the sound of silk and bamboo, walking charmingly. The scene is as beautiful as a dream.

Zhou Xuan stood by the gate of the yard and watched for a while before being discovered by a Wu Yi, and said in a sweet voice: "Young Master Zhou Qicha is back!"

The other dancers also shouted happily: "Mr. Zhou Qicha, Mr. Zhou Qicha——"

I don’t understand what happened to these dance ys. I don’t call them Mr. Zhou, but I like to call them Mr. Zhou Qicha!

Zhou Xuan was surrounded by a group of graceful beauties, just like the top fashion designers and models on the T-shaped stage came out to finish their curtain call. He was really successful in his career and was full of pride.

Rui Chu was still here, sitting with Yang Xiaopin on the carpet covered by the corridor playing flute and flute.

Zhou Xuan asked with a smile: "Rui Chu, you always stay here. The boss of 'Miaoyin Building' will not scold you?"

Ruichu, who was under the moon, had two more eyes on the black lips and tears, and smiled and said, "I know that the boss of Miaoyin Building is Ruichu's aunt. Ruichu's honor is Ruichu's honor to be able to enter and exit the Zhou Qicha Young Master's Mansion. Moreover, the two wives are also very kind to Ruichu. Ruichu wishes that she could hold the young master's disciple like Master Yang."

Ruichu still called Yang Xiaopin the master, Yang Master, it's really awkward.

Zhou Xuan saw that Qin Que and Ren Zi were also sitting in the corridor with beautiful clothes, and there were little girls standing in a circle behind him.

The sound of silk and bamboo rose again, and Zhou Xuan personally came to show the dancers to walk on the cat steps, which made the yard full of laughter with "Princesses".

At the hour of Hai, Zhou Xuan sent two carriages to send these ten WuYi back to Pingkangfang, but Ruichu wanted to keep the sheep accompanying master.

Qin Que said: "My husband hasn't taught me and Sister Zhen'er to play Go for a long time. Let's teach us tonight."

Yang Xiaopin and Ruichu followed him to the fourth yard and said they wanted to learn chess, and little girls such as Xiaomei and Xiaoju also said they wanted to learn.

In this way, the popularization of Go in the Zhou Mansion was in full swing, which made Qin Que sometimes use the maids to call the maids, but after a long time, no one responded. He walked to the maid's room and took a look. Several maids were sitting on the floor playing chess, and they were fighting red.

So a rule was set that the maids could only play chess if they were free at night, with a maximum of two games a day.

Zhou Xuan has been running two sides these days, and the "Super Qiu Zhantang" has been "unable to touch" and won consecutive victories, and is invincible. Those insect battles were mainly organized by Sichi and Tang Xiaosan. Although they are not as prosperous as the Double Ninth Festival in Hongzhou, they have made more than 1,500 taels of profit after ten insect battles in five consecutive days. The current "Super Qiu Zhantang" has surpassed the other three insect clubs in Jiangzhou, becoming the largest insect club in the three prefectures under the Fenghua Protectorate.

"Mufeng Society" Boss Feng took the initiative to join the "Super Qiu Zhantang", using the "Mufeng Tower" in the city as the branch of the "Super Qiu Zhantang". Zhou Xuan's plan to acquire Jiangzhou insect club won the initial battle.

However, after winter begins, crickets will gradually die, and the insect club will be deserted. The "Super Autumn Zhantang" can still be maintained. Xia Cuihua's teahouse and restaurant business are very prosperous, and the branch "Mufeng Tower" will close.

Zhou Xuan and Boss Feng discussed with him and considered to turn the "Mufeng Tower" into a cockfighting hall. Cockfighting can be fought all year round, especially in winter and spring. There is nothing to do in the farming season, and the year is approaching, and the trend of cockfighting is extremely strong.

Boss Feng agreed to plan this matter, and paid a lot of money to hire chicken guests and buy famous cockfighting cocks, and planned to open a cockfighting restaurant after the business of the Winter Wart Club was closed.

The signboard of "Yunchang Women's Clothing" has been prepared, and it will be launched on September 22nd.

From September 20th, Jiangzhou is like a festival. There is a promotion every morning and afternoon. The female musicians are parading. Walking in front are four strong men carrying a huge plaque three meters wide. The plaque is covered with red silk and written with large ink words:

"Rich skirt feathered clothes, made by the Emperor of Ming Dynasty, were once a prosperous Tang Dynasty, and now I look at Yunchang women's clothing!"

The curtain card is followed by a huge band with big drums as the core, which is full of sound and singularity, creating a joyous atmosphere.

The drum band was followed by ten charming dancers, one by one riding tall horses, with silver saddles and jewel-like straps, which were magnificent and dazzling. The dancers were all wearing fashionable buns, jade-like crowns, and various strange skirts. Some held flower drums in their hands, and some held Long Ruan Qinse.

Whenever they arrive at a vast expanse, these ten dancers will get off the horse and line up, walking back and forth gracefully amid the drums and music, with gorgeous dresses and unprecedented appearance.

The onlookers were shoulder to shoulder, and their eyes were straight and they were talking.

At this time, dozens of employed idle men explained to everyone that this was a new dress for "Yunchang Women's Clothing" newly opened by Jinfengfang. It is said to be the legacy of Tianbao in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, and many noble ladies in the city were rushing to buy it.

After the three days of parade, the entire Jiangzhou City learned the name of "Yunshang Women's Clothing". Every day, women went to Jinfengfang to see the skirts and looked at the price. When asked about the price, they were shocked. They were divided into three levels. The high-end ones sold at thirty taels of silver per set, and the beads inlaid on the dress were also brilliant; the mid-range ones sold at about five taels of silver; the low-end ones were also more than one tael of silver.

"Yunchang Women's Clothing" has not officially opened, and the dresses inside are only viewed and not sold, but many women have already reserved their names to pre-order them.

On September 22, the golden signboard of "Yunshang Women's Clothing" was hung. Although the Protectorate and the Governor's Office were inconvenient to send people to congratulate, they sent a large flower basket of more than one person as Zhou Xuan said. Zhou Xuan himself ordered people to write on the red silk, "Fenghua Governor's Office congratulated the opening of "Yunshang Women's Clothing" and "Jiangzhou Governor's Office congratulated the opening of "Yunshang Women's Clothing". Even if Lin Dai and Xu knew about this, it would be harmless, so he just laughed it off.

Lin Heishan and Lin Hanyun were naturally coming, so Lin Hanyun specially wore that purple skirt, which was pretty and charming, changing the image of Miss Lin Er's little servant in the minds of the people of Jiangzhou.

After a whole day, more than 200 sets of autumn skirts in "Yunshang Women's Clothing" were sold out. Zhou Xuan spent more than 1,500 taels of silver. The huge dance y parade was immediately effective. The sales on the first day were 2,800 taels of silver. Those high-end autumn skirts were bought by women of officials. The mid-range skirts were very attractive to the brothel women in Pingkangfang. If they don't wear "Yunshang Women's Clothing" it would be tasteless.

Abu's sixth concubine, Sara, was very good at calculating the accounts, and soon calculated that the net profit of selling 200 sets of dresses on the first day was 5 taels of silver.

"Five taels of silver!" Zhou Xuan laughed.

Renzi frowned and said, "Husband, how can we earn five taels of silver after we sold so much?"

Zhou Xuan smiled and said, "If it is not counted for this thousand five hundred taels of invitation to dance, please advocate and invite the idle guys' money. We have made a lot of money this time. This kind of parade propaganda is enough twice a year, and the rest is net profit. But don't expect to sell 200 sets of dresses every day. If you can earn 50 taels of silver a day, you will succeed. Take your time, don't worry, women in the whole Tang Kingdom will wear our Yunchang women's clothing in the future. The money is not enough now, otherwise you have to raise all the ten dances and go to the states and counties to promote them everywhere."

The dress was tight and plump and seductive. Hu Ji Shara looked at Zhou Xuan with her big green eyes and exclaimed, "The wisdom of Mr. Zhou is really unmatched. My husband has been in business for twenty years and does not know the benefits of such a big publicity."

Zhou Xuan said: "Brother Abu is a genius among merchants. It is not that he could not imagine the benefits of promoting this way, but that he was restricted by the secular world and was afraid of being ridiculed. The status of merchants is too low. This is very unfair. People value agriculture over commerce, which is all simple. If possible, I will fight for the merchants of the Tang Dynasty to be equal to that of farmers."

Hu Jishara looked up at Zhou Xuan with her faint green eyes, and she looked at her with great respect. Zhou Xuan couldn't stand it. Why did this woman in black look at people like this? It was simply imaginative.

"Yunchang Women's Clothing" currently has twenty tailors, each of which sews separately. It takes two or three days for one person to sew a dress. Zhou Xuan asked the twenty tailors to divide them into four groups, each of whom was responsible for a part of the dress, and finally they were paired with the most exquisite tailors into a dress. This is the simplest and lowest-level assembly line, mass production. Those tailors are specialized in making the same. Practice makes perfect, and the faster they are done. Originally, twenty people could not sew eight dresses a day, but now they can sew fifteen sets a day.

When Abu heard his concubine Sara talk about this, he came to observe it. When he went back, he used this method to his colorful glass workshop and the Young Wingshop Frost workshop. The results were remarkable. He couldn't help but be amazed that Zhou Xuan was a genius.

One morning in early October, Zhou Xuan stood behind Qin Que and watched her dressing up in front of the bronze mirror. The bronze mirror was so blurred that it made the face deformed. Zhou Xuan said half annoyedly to the bronze mirror: "Is this my beautiful Queer? This mirror is simply a waste of people!"

Qin Que smiled and said, "This mirror has been used for a long time. I'll send it to the mirror polishing shop to polish it later."

Zhou Xuan thought of something and asked someone to call Abu and asked him if he could make colorless and transparent glass?

Abu said: "Colorless glass is difficult to make, no one has bought it yet, and the five-color glass looks better."

Zhou Xuanxi said: "You can make it so you can find a skilled craftsman to make a thin and flat piece of colorless glass. It should be very flat, coated with tin foil and mercury on one side, so that it can be used as a mirror. If it is well made, it is ten times brighter than a bronze mirror, it will be a must-have makeup box for the boudoir."

Abu was both surprised and delighted, and asked in detail about the craftsmanship of making glass mirrors.

Zhou Xuan said: "I don't know how to make it. I just knew that I should use extremely flat transparent glass, coated with mercury and tin foil on one side, and the other side could be reflected on others. Just go back and say this to those craftsmen. Try it a few more times, try it a hundred times, or make it a thousand times. This is a rare thing that makes money. Other Hu merchants also have colorful glass, but this glass mirror is only one. Next year, you will follow me to Beijing and use this glass mirror to open the wallets of the two people in the capital."

Abu hurried back and gathered the skilled craftsmen in the glass workshop to figure out the glass mirror. The limited time period is to make the first glass mirror within two months and open a huge silver reward. There must be brave men under the heavy reward. Those glass makers develop it day and night...

In order for Sanchi to replace Fu Yannian to go to war for the top ten chess battles of the Lantern Festival next year, Zhou Xuan took Sanchi to find Fu Yannian first, and asked Sanchi to play in one game with Fu Yannian, killing Fu Yannian to defeat him, and then giving him 100 taels of silver to explain his purpose.

Fu Yannian could not defeat a servant in the Zhou Mansion. He looked ashamed and said, "I am obeying Lord Xu's orders. As long as Master Zhou convinces Lord Xu, he dares not obey the order."

Zhou Xuan went to meet the governor Xu. The governor Xu didn't know that the third brother Zhou Xuan was talking about was the assassin Sanchi who killed people without blinking. He smiled and said, "Xu has no objection, but now Xu cannot control this matter. Master Zhou has to ask Judge Fan of the Protectorate."

But Judge Fan knew that Zhou Xuan's sword slave was a rogue three crazy, so he said: "This is a big deal. Mr. Zhou should go and ask Lord Protector himself."

Lin Dai was very open and said, "Since Nephew Xuan insisted on Sanchi's participation in the chess battle, my uncle promised you that Sanchi's nature has been completely restrained over the past few months. Although Nephew Xuan is not a monk, he has some wisdom to become stubborn. Haha, it is rare."

Zhou Xuan smiled and said, "My uncle, my nephew has something to ask for. My nephew last time married Qin Que, which was quite hasty. On the 22nd of this month, my nephew will marry Miss Su Renzhen, and Qin Que will also be re-entered. My nephew has no other relatives in the Tang Dynasty, so only Uncle Lin has always cared for her. So when my nephew wants to get married, my uncle will participate as the elder of my nephew. I wonder if my uncle is willing to agree?"

Lin Dai stroked his beard and smiled: "This is a great joy for Nephew Xuan. How could my uncle not participate? Haha."

On October 19th, Zhou Xuan took the sewing needle to Mufu Village again. This time it was very different from the last time. He had a great carriage and dozens of maids. When he came to Mufu Village, each villager gave him a gift. Seeing that the sewing needle was so generous, the villagers showed envy and kept praising the sewing needle for beauty and virtuousness. They had seen that sewing needles were rich since they were young.

The sewing needle is dignified and reserved on the surface, and I feel very happy. This is the feeling of returning home in glory. Compared with the miserable appearance of the last time I came back, it was really in the sky and the ground.

When I came to the tomb of my parents and brothers, the shabby loess tomb more than two months ago disappeared. It was replaced by three elegant and solemn tombs. The tomb was carved with stone beasts in front of it, which was very grand.

Zhou Xuan sent craftsmen to repair this. Three days ago, he invited monks from Nengren Temple to do merit rituals to overcome the dead souls. The needle did not know about this. Only then did he hear that, thank you so much that he burst into tears and shouted: "Husband--" He held Zhou Xuan's arm, leaned his head against his shoulder, and was sobbing that he couldn't speak.

Zhou Xuan reached out and shaved the tears on her cheeks and said, "Zhier, don't cry. Today we are here to tell your parents and brothers that Su Renjian is going to get married. She wants to marry Zhou Xuan, the man, and she will be happy for the rest of her life."

Ernine nodded vigorously, took out a silk hand and wiped the tears, and burst into a sweet smile. He held Zhou Xuan's hand, and the two knelt in front of the tomb together. Ernine prayed: "Dad, mother, brother, Ernine and husband Zhou Xuan come to repair the tomb for you. In another three days, it will be the wedding of Ernine. I beg my father, mother, brother, brother in heaven, to bless your husband's life to be safe, live a hundred years, and be free from illness or disaster--"

Zhou Xuan prayed: "Please ask my father-in-law, mother-in-law, and brother-in-law to bless Zi'er to like his son-in-law for the rest of his life and give birth to a noble son soon."
Chapter completed!