But he saw Qu Biqian, wearing a Xiangfei-colored phoenix-collared cheongsam, meandering from not far away.
Chuntao followed her behind and held an oil-paper umbrella to cover her, while half of her body was exposed outside the umbrella and got wet from the rain.
Mr. Dong is also an old acquaintance of the Qu family, and he knows how this child Qu Biqian fell into the world, but he has never looked down on that kind of woman in his heart.
"Shopkeeper, I know there are some things I shouldn't say, but I just can't help it..."
"I understand in my heart what Mr. Dong wants to say. Xiao Qian is a good girl and I have my own sense of proportion."
Gu Qingdai's heart fell in love with Qu Biqian, and she always felt that she was not a self-destructive person, but just deceived by the world.
When Mr. Dong finished ordering, he stood up immediately and said, "I will go to the teahouse to supervise the work. I will definitely teach the shopkeeper to spend an extra penny."
"Let Mr. Dong worry about it. It's not enough to just save money, the quality has to pass, and the decoration doesn't suit the taste of Luancheng people."
Mr. Dong walked out of the pergola, stroking his goatee, and Qu Biqian and Chuntao happened to walk in too.
"Mr. Dong, did you avoid it because he saw me coming?" Qu Biqian shrugged, as if she was used to this kind of treatment.
Gu Qingdai invited her to sit down and drink tea, "Why are you free today?"
"I told the madam that I was coming to find you, and she let me go very happily." Qu Biqian pulled the handkerchief and wiped the tea stains on her lips.
Gu Qingdai raised her head in confusion and stared at her in confusion.
Qu Biqian moved closer to her and lowered her voice: "You made a name for yourself in our study room that night. It was rumored that even the second master and the third master Fan were jealous of you."
Gu Qingdai spit out the whole sip of tea she just drank. What the hell is this... all about?
It turns out that this is how the scandal spread.
"Our kind of place is the most snobbish. The madam wishes I had more contact with you so that I can help her attract more customers."
Gu Qingdai stretched out her finger and pointed at her forehead, and said clearly: "Should I let you look for a guest who can redeem your life? She has trained you for so many years, just to make this huge sum of money."
Qu Biqian sighed: "The speed at which I can save money will never be able to match the speed at which her prices increase. I don't even know that I am worth so much money."
Gu Qingdai was beyond her reach, and she was not willing to use high-sounding words to frustrate her.
Qu Biqian didn't hesitate too much. Seeing the drizzle outside gradually stopped, she asked Gu Qingdai to go shopping with her in the market.
She was so restrained in her study apartment that it was rare for her to finally get out.
In fact, the Shuyu must have sent people to secretly monitor Qu Biqian. She would never escape from their Wuzhishan.
Gu Qingdai wanted to repay her favor for borrowing her jade ring, so she accompanied her to the most prosperous shopping street in Luancheng.
Along the way, Qu Biqian repeatedly made insinuations, wondering whether Gu Qingdai was attracted to Fan Zheng or Lian Beichuan.
The Lian family, the Fan family, plus the Lu family and the Gong family are the four most powerful families in Luancheng.
No matter whose young master you catch up with, it will be like a crow flying on a branch and turning into a phoenix.
Gu Qingdai couldn't argue, no matter who among them was rich or powerful, she didn't care.
She didn't believe that she couldn't achieve anything on her own.
Seeing that she was impatient with her questions, Qu Biqian hurriedly pulled her into a silk and satin shop in front of her.
The shop was grand and luxurious, and the young man who welcomed them was highly recommending all the latest styles of materials.
Qu Biqian couldn't put it down for several types of materials. Gu Qingdai felt that sending materials was a good choice, so she encouraged her: "How about choosing two pieces to make clothes?"
Qu Biqian had this intention, "Let's have sex more often."
Gu Qingdai quietly pressed the small bag in her hand and thought to herself, the fabrics from this silk and satin shop are not cheap!
There were too many places to spend money on the other side of the teahouse, so she might as well save as much as she could and just buy it for Qu Biqian.
She just wandered off for a while, and Qu Biqian started to quarrel with someone over there.
For a material.
Maybe it is the principle that rare things are more valuable, so the little guy said that this material is out of print and is the best among the best.
The words were so attractive that Qu Biqian and another customer who entered the store were attracted to her at the same time.
That customer seemed to be about the same age as Qu Biqian and had a pretty good figure.
It was Qu Biqian who looked more docile, while the other party looked more arrogant.
The young man stood between the two people and tried to persuade them, but neither side was willing to take a step back.
Gu Qingdai hurriedly stepped forward, intending to say some flattering words to make the other person look beautiful.
But as soon as she opened her mouth, the other party recognized her.
"Isn't this the shopkeeper Gu from Xingshi Teahouse? Why, come and help your sisters deal with me? I was the first to take a fancy to this ingredient, and I can afford it no matter how much it costs."
This "old lady" had a pair of bright fox eyes. She looked at Gu Qingdai up and down. She seemed to have remembered something, and then looked at Qu Biqian next to her again.
Qu Biqian was not afraid, "It was basically the guy who gave it to me first. Why should you stop me half way?"
"Mother," Huo Di shouted loudly: "I just said, you look so familiar. Aren't you the sister from Taoyuan Bookstore? Your name is Qu...Qu Biqian, right?"
As soon as she said these words, Qu Biqian lost all her arrogance.
Tears were already welling up in her eyes, and she wished they could get into them.
There is nothing wrong with her being a sister, but she has always been a clean and pure woman.
But when I went to explain to others, there was a suspicion that there was no three hundred taels of silver in this place.
Hitting someone or not hitting someone in the face, Gu Qingdai understood that this was a painful stab to Qu Biqian.
"No matter who we are, when we go out to buy things, we have to be on a first-come, first-served basis. What do you mean, the one with the highest price gets it?"
"Isn't it possible?" "I" crossed her arms in a contemptuous gesture.
This was what Gu Qingdai was waiting for.
She did not embarrass the young man, but only ordered him to call the person in charge of the silk shop.
The little boy, with a sad face, ran all the way to the back to ask for help.
After a while, a fair-skinned man in his thirties came back with the boy.
He first bowed politely to Gu Qingdai and Qu Biqian, then turned around and bowed directly to the "old lady": "Boss Zhong is here. Sometimes you are not welcomed from afar, sometimes you are not welcomed from afar."
Boss Zhong?
Qu Biqian finally recognized her, and she whispered in Gu Qingdai's ear: "She should be the most popular actress in the Zhong family's troupe recently, Zhong Ling."
What a corner!
"Qingdai, let's go, I don't want that material anymore." Qu Biqian thought she couldn't compete with Zhong Ling.
Gu Qingdai pushed Qu Biqian away, walked up to the man in charge, and asked in front of everyone: "I just want to find out, does the one with the highest price get the materials purchased in your silk and satin shop?"
"Of course not! It's all because this young man didn't know the inside story. In fact, Boss Zhong had reserved that ingredient for us a long time ago." The man in charge insisted on protecting Zhong Ling.
Gu Qingdai responded calmly, "That's what happened. It's easy to handle. Go and pull up Boss Zhong's reservation record and let me take a look."
The man in charge was stunned for a moment, "Uh..."
"Oral reservation? How can that count?"
"There are some. I'll get them for you right now."
"Hey, it's just a notebook, why do you have to run the errands yourself?" Gu Qingdai walked across to him.
The man in charge had no way to escape, so he had to send the boy back to get it.
The boy quickly took it back and wanted to give it to the man in charge, but Gu Qingdai, who was quick-sighted, snatched it away.
She casually flipped through the records above, "On what day did Boss Zhong make the reservation?"