Shuang'er took out the embroidery from the basket and handed it over with both hands.
"Handkerchief, sweat towel." Aunt Zhou frowned, "Such small items are not valuable."
Ruan Mianmian smiled and shook her dangling short legs: "You take a look first and then talk."
Aunt Zhou reluctantly took it, but her eyes widened with just one glance.
"It seems that Aunt Zhou is very knowledgeable?"
On the second floor of Sijiangnan Embroidery Shop, Ruan Mianmian found out clearly that among the handkerchiefs embroidered by her mother, sweat towels were the most expensive. The handkerchiefs cost twenty taels and the sweat towels twenty-five taels.
Four handkerchiefs and two sweat towels can be sold for one hundred and thirty taels. The Jiangnan embroidery workshop was too dark and she only gave her mother one tael of silver, so Ruan Mianmian immediately took the money and switched to another embroidery workshop.
"The embroidery is so good!" Aunt Zhou reached out to touch the pattern and praised it.
We came to the right place, Ruan Mianmian asked with a smile: "What price can Aunt Zhou give for four handkerchiefs and two sweat towels?"
"Young Master, may I ask, where did the embroidery come from?" Aunt Zhou was cautious, fearing that her unknown origin would cause trouble.
Shuang'er was clever. She used the same excuse she used to fool Sijiangnan Embroidery Workshop: "Ms. Zhou, this is embroidered by the grandma in the mansion. Because my young master is sincere, I entrusted it to him specifically, hoping to sell it at a good price."
"It was embroidered by a grandma." Aunt Zhou couldn't put it down when she saw it. "It's such a good craftsmanship. From now on, our Guining embroidery workshop will want all the things she embroiders."
"Then it depends on what price you give." Aunt Zhou's reaction was as expected by Ruan Mianmian.
Aunt Zhou looked over it over and over and said, "Sixty taels of silver."
Shuang'er was stunned. The price was sky-high. This was a sky-high price! In the past two years or so, all the embroidery she had sold to Sijiangnan Embroidery Workshop was only worth sixty taels of silver.
Ruan Mianmian remained calm, shook his head dissatisfied, and then stretched out a finger: "One hundred taels."
"Young master, this price is too harsh." Aunt Zhou looked embarrassed.
Ruan Mianmian deliberately pretended to think for a moment: "One price, eighty taels."
Aunt Zhou also wanted to bargain: "Let's make it cheaper."
"Forget it." Ruan Mianmian jumped off the chair neatly, "I think Si Jiangnan should be interested in these embroideries."
"Young master, wait a minute." Aunt Zhou pulled Ruan Mianmian, "Okay, I'll listen to you, eighty or eighty. From now on, you have to send all the things this mama embroiders to me."
"As long as the price is right." Ruan Mianmian smiled until her eyes narrowed into slits.
"Tell that nanny to put more thought into getting some wedding dresses and the like. The prices are easy to negotiate."
Aunt Zhou personally delivered it to the door, and Ruan Mianmian walked out of Guining Embroidery Shop with Shuang'er in high spirits.
Shuang'er looked in a daze, one tael turned into eighty taels, her feet seemed not to touch the ground, and she felt as if she was dreaming.
"Let's buy some snacks to take back." Ruan Mianmian took aim at the long queue of snack shops on the street.
With a basket full of snacks, Ruan Mianmian returned home satisfied.
In the Guining embroidery workshop, Aunt Zhou looked at the embroidery in her hands and became more and more surprised.
"The capital city is really a crouching tiger, hidden dragon. How can a nun in a mansion have such ingenious craftsmanship? But the pattern, the embroidery method and the way of narrowing the stitches look like Jiangnan style."
After thinking for a moment, Aunt Zhou raised her voice: "Come here, please quickly send these handkerchiefs and sweat towels back to Jiangnan and hand them over to the big boss."
When Zhou Yunning saw Ruan Mianmian and Shuang'er coming back with so many snacks, she couldn't help but give them a few words of advice.
"Mother, we spent twenty taels of silver to buy snacks. Excluding the ten taels of silver I took out, we brought back seventy-five taels of silver."
Ruan Mianmian handed Zhou Yuning eighty taels of silver notes, and Shuang'er took out another five taels of silver and handed it over.
"Where did you get so much money?" Zhou Yuning asked in surprise.
"Sister Shuang'er, you talk to mother, I will give some snacks to my grandparents to try." Ruan Mianmian chose four snacks, carefully put them in the basket, carried them and left.
On the way back, Ruan Mianmian made an agreement with Shuang'er not to mention Guining Embroidery Workshop, and she could tell Zhou Yuning truthfully about the rest.
Walking along the path in front of the door, Ruan Mianmian was debating whether to take the left, right, or middle path when he reached a fork in the road. He looked up and saw someone running towards him.
The visitor stopped when he saw Ruan Mianmian: "Young Master, that's great. I just happened to be ordered to find you, but I didn't expect to meet you halfway."
"Who are you?" It looked familiar, but Ruan Mianmian couldn't remember it for a while.
"I am A Dong."
"I don't know." Ruan Mianmian raised her feet and left.
A Dong wiped his sweat and followed Ruan Mianmian: "Don't you remember, we met outside the old Marquis' study."
"The boy next to my grandfather." Ruan Mianmian remembered, "Grandpa is looking for me?"
"Yes, the old Marquis asked the younger one to come over and send you to Fu'an Hall."
"What a coincidence, I'm about to go there, so help me carry my things." Ruan Mianmian handed the basket in her hand to A Dong, and she jumped ahead.
I bought snacks not only because I love eating, but also because I wanted to thank my grandfather and get some sweet snacks to comfort the old man. If he needs anything in the future, his short mouth should be convenient for eating people. Ruan Mianmian had a wishful thinking.
Ruan Geng was in a good mood when he returned home today. It was rare for Mrs. Ruan to see him so happy.
"Old man, what happy thing happened to you? Tell me, I'll be happy to hear it."
"I just came back from the palace. The emperor praised our Ruan family repeatedly. Looking at the envious eyes of the old ministers, I feel so comfortable. I haven't been so proud in several years."
"You haven't said anything after talking for a long time? Say it quickly, say it quickly."
"A little while ago, a small gadget was sent to me from the West. It's called a Rubik's Cube. It's like our Luban Lock, with nine links that need to be solved. All the civil and military ministers of the DPRK and China were stumped, and we, the Ruan family, solved it."
"Really?" Mrs. Ruan smiled happily after hearing this, "Old man, I didn't expect you to have such a hand."
"I didn't untie it."
"Are they the boss and the second child?"
"It's not Ruan Chan and Ruan Zhu either."
"That must be my grandson Ruan Jin and his brothers."
"Guess again, you'll never guess it."
"It's either Ruan Jin and Ruan Zhao from the first room, or Ruan Chen and Ruan Xiao from the second room. There are only a few people in the house, what's there to guess?"
"It's Mianmian."
Mrs. Ruan was greatly shocked, and it took her a while to recover: "You mean the three-year-old little girl in the third room who can talk just now."
"Yes." Ruan Geng lowered his voice, "Boss and I only know about this, so just keep it in your heart. I also laughed in front of the emperor and did not explicitly say that Mianmian solved the Rubik's Cube."
"Old man, is it just a coincidence?"
"Many civil and military officials were unable to untie it. Besides, Mianmian was playing dirty tricks in front of me and Chan'er. Those little hands were so dazzling that we both were dazzled, but we didn't understand why. You said it was just a coincidence.