Tibetan Sea Pearl

"I brought you a gift." Su Qing opened the cloth package, and took out the soil instrument bought on the way to share with everyone, "This is a wooden comb for my mother. I made it myself in a wooden comb shop. It is made of black sandalwood. Wooden, it is the most comfortable for my mother to comb her hair. This is the fragrance dew I bought for my sister. It is packed in a small bottle. In order to prevent it from being broken on the road, I wrapped several layers of it with cloth inside and outside. This is for my brother-in-law. , this is for Sister Gui, and this is a bracelet for Ah Yue, which is made of blue and white porcelain."

Su Yue took the bracelet from Su Qing, and it turned out to be made of porcelain. The round porcelain beads were painted with blue and white flowers, and they collided together to make a crisp sound.

"This is for Hongjiao." Su Qing took out a string of bracelets from the package, which was also made of porcelain, but the round porcelain beads were a little smaller than Su Yue's, and the blue and white patterns were different.

Even the red bananas had gifts, and everyone happily thanked Su Qing.

Mrs. Wang picked up the black sandalwood comb that Su Qing made for her, and combed her hair twice. As Su Qing said, it was very comfortable to comb, and she felt sorry that Su Qing must have spent a lot to make this comb. He said with a smile, "My son, don't do it to your mother next time. If you break your hand, your mother will feel so sorry."

The answer to Mrs. Wang was the "gurgling" sound from Su Qing's stomach.

Mrs. Wang slapped her forehead, "Look at me, I was so busy talking, I forgot the business."

Su Yuanshan and Su Qing were busy on their way home. They probably hadn't eaten a meal for several days. Mrs. Wang handed the wooden comb to Su Yue and asked her to help put it away, then turned and went to the kitchen to cook.

Su Yu asked Su Yong to take Sister Gui into the kitchen to help.

Su Yue hugged Sister Gui, sat around the round table with Hong Jiao, and listened to Su Qing's story on the road.

"We travel during the day and rest in the official post at night. There is no place to sell food on the mountain road. When we are hungry, we have to eat dry food. If we are lucky enough to see the village, we can go into the village to beg for a bowl of food at the villager's house. The family members met on the road were very nice, not only gave us enough to eat, but also brought out their own food for us to eat on the road." Su Qingyue said more and more interest.

Su Yue was fascinated by what she heard. When will she be able to go out like Su Qing and see the outside world.

"You don't know, I've eaten rice cakes made of glutinous rice." Su Qing said while gesticulating with his hands, "Jiangxi is different from us. Every family likes to eat rice noodles..."

Soon, Wang Shi and Su Yu prepared a table of hearty meals and served them on the table.

Mrs. Wang felt sorry for Su Yuanshan and Su Qing who hadn't had a warm meal for several days. The portion of the meal was prepared more than usual, and they took out the shochu left at home, and the whole family sat around lively like a festival. Had dinner.

After drinking and eating, Su Yuanshan took out something from the cloth package and put it on the table, "Our Su family's prosperity will depend on it in the future."

Mrs. Wang thought that Su Yuanshan drank two more glasses at the dinner table and was a little drunk, so she went up to help him, "Father, look at what nonsense you are talking about, if you drink too much, go back to bed and lie down for a while, and I will cook the bowl Sober up soup."

Su Yuanshan waved his hand, smelling of alcohol, "I bought it for 500 taels of silver."

Everyone was stunned, just this small cloth bag, what is worth 500 taels of silver?Could it be gold?

Su Yue suddenly remembered that in her previous life, when Su Yuanshan came back from Jingdezhen, he brought back a bunch of lumps of earth, which he said were pigments for firing blue and white flowers.

Su Yue hurriedly stepped forward to open the small cloth bag that was wrapped three layers inside and three layers outside, and it turned out to be a pile of dirt bumps.

"This bag of blue and white pigments was bought from a big businessman I knew when I followed your grandfather to Jingdezhen. How can ordinary people find the way?" Su Yuanshan said.

The rest of the people were a little disappointed. When Wang saw that 500 taels of silver had been exchanged for a pile of black dirt, his eyes darkened with distress, and he supported the wall.

Su Yong knew that Wang's love for Yin Zi, so she stepped forward to help Wang to sit down on the armchair, and looked at Su Qing, Su Qing knew the matter about buying paint.

Su Qing had no choice but to bite the bullet and tell Wang what happened.

"At this time, the blue and white pigments came from the West, and there was no market for them. It was hard for my father to ask an old acquaintance to find out that someone had blue and white pigments. The person asked for 800 taels, and my father bargained with him, and finally returned. 500 taels..."

Su Yuanshan didn't like haggling the most. How much water must be in it to return the paint from 800 taels to 500 taels? Su Yue winked at Su Qing, and Su Qing smiled at Su Yue with a guilty conscience.

"Ah Qing, don't bully me." Wang said angrily, "As for your father's temper, I don't know. I'm afraid he took out 800 taels of silver on the spot, and he was still anxious that he wouldn't be able to buy good things."

Su Yuanshan had long expected that he would be scolded when he returned home, so he took out his usual tricks and sat there with a dark face and didn't speak.

There is a mother who is angry, she still has to coax her, so as not to get angry, Su Yue comforts the angry Wang, "My brother said that the blue and white pigments at this time are all from the West. How far away is it for us, crossing the ocean, you can’t buy it with money, dad can buy this small bag of paint with 500 taels of silver, it depends on his good luck.”

"You know how to help your father talk." Wang was so angry that smoke rose from his head, "500 taels of silver is enough for our family's expenses for a year. Your father doesn't care about the house and is a shopkeeper. He doesn't know that firewood, rice, oil and salt are expensive."

Seeing Wang swearing and swearing and mentioning him again, Su Yuanshan had no choice but to lower his head, trying to reduce his sense of presence.

Su Yu also came over to persuade, "This bag of blue and white paint, if you can burn blue and white, 500 taels of silver is worth it."

This bag of blue and white paint not only failed to burn the blue and white paint, but also wasted a good porcelain kiln in the Su family. Su Yue recalled the past life, knew that the 500 taels of silver had been wasted, and hesitated whether to dump this bag of dirt on the banana tree Down?

This was exchanged for 500 taels of silver, so he poured the 500 taels of silver under the banana tree, and let Mrs. Wang know about it, and she was so angry that she passed out.

Su Yuanshan was thinking about the blue and white paint, and after being scolded by Mrs. Wang all night, he got up early the next day and went back to Sujia Village.Su Qing wanted to see how the paint was fired into blue and white, and followed Su Yuanshan back to the kiln.

At home, Mrs. Wang is in charge of the money, Mrs. Wang settles accounts in the room, and Su Yue stays with her in the room, watching her plan. Mrs. Wang doesn't know a lot of Chinese characters, but she can make good plans.

After Su Yuanshan took out a large sum of money to buy paints, the situation at home was already stretched. Fortunately, the business in the shop has improved compared to before. There will be two or three transactions every day, which can maintain the expenses of the family. At this time, I want to save more It is difficult to use a sum of money for business turnover.

Such a large sum of money was enough to make Mrs. Wang forget about food and drink, and was angry for several days, until the lady salesman posted a post asking her to drink her grandson's full moon wine, and then she calmed down.

After scolding and scolding, and getting angry, Wang decided to let go of it and brought Su Yue over to have a wedding.