Chapter 41 A big enemy has arrived (still in PK~please help me to top the list)
On the way to Yinzhuang, Zhou Shaoyu gave Xie Yanyan some knowledge about Yinzhuang.
There are no silver notes now, but the prototype of "universal deposit and exchange" has already existed.
Simply put, a private tycoon runs a silver shop where everyone can deposit silver. The silver shop issues a receipt and collects a custodial fee.
With the silver withdrawal voucher, one can go to the various branches of the silver shop to redeem the silver. However, if one withdraws silver from another place, another large fee will be charged.
If you do not withdraw the money when it is due, the storage fee will be deducted until the deposit is fully deducted.
Zhou Shaoyu, Xie Yanyan, Li Rong and Ma Qiao went to Shengtai Silver House together to handle the silver conversion procedures.
2,000 bars of soap were sold today, earning a total of 23,108 taels. After deducting the soap cost paid by Xie Yanyan, the profit was split 70% to 30%. In the end, Li Rong took 15,000 taels, and Xie Yanyan kept 8,108 taels.
Li Rong and his men decisively deposited the silver in Shengtai Silver House.
If they wanted to withdraw silver from Shengtai Silver House in Kyoto, they would have to pay a large amount of storage fees and escort fees.
Nearly a thousand taels, enough to last for two lifetimes.
Liu Mingjie was distressed and had a headache. He was also troubled by making too much money.
Zhou Shaoyu suddenly asked Xie Yanyan: "How do you save your money?"
Li Rong and Liu Mingjie both looked at Xie Yanyan. Yes, they could still come back, but Third Miss Xie might never come back.
"I'll go back and discuss with my father how to deal with this." She saved, saved in her own space.
Xie Yanyan’s 8,000-horse carriage was pulled to the inn.
I don't know what he said to Xie Anfeng. After a while, Xie Yanyan asked Xie Yong to drive the carriage out of the inn.
Zhou Shaoyu thought she was going to deposit money and asked if she needed help.
Xie Yanyan shook his head and said no.
After they went out, Xie Yongcai asked, "Sister, why did you ask me to drive the carriage?"
"Lord Li trusts me enough to allow me to move around freely. I will seize the opportunity to go for a stroll."
In fact, she had transferred the silver to the space in the inn. The carriage curtain blocked the view, so Zhou Shaoyu didn't know that her carriage had been empty for a long time, and Xie Yong didn't know it either.
The two of them wandered around the street aimlessly for a few times, and Xie Yanyan found Huangfu's rice shop.
Nanyang City is more prosperous than Yangcheng. The area of Huangfu’s rice shops and the amount of grain stored in granaries are much larger than those in Yangcheng.
After watching, they returned to the inn.
Zhou Shaoyu thought she had come back after depositing the money, but before he could say a word, the man went out again with her family.
She said, "Prince Zhou, please wait a moment. I will give you something later. I will take my sister-in-law and nephew out to eat something first."
"good"
Except Jiang Shuang, Xie Yanyan called all his family members.
After saying hello to Li Rong, the carriage left the inn.
The little bun looked outside happily and said excitedly: "Auntie, can I buy some candy?"
"Can."
"I want a windmill."
"good."
"I also want a kite."
"good."
"Can I have the bronze bird carriage?"
"Can."
"Aunt, you are so nice."
Well, I'm fine indeed.
Song Lingling touched the little boy's head and said, "Asheng, don't take the bronze bird carriage. It will bring trouble."
Xie Yanyan didn’t even know what the Bronze Bird Chariot was, but she had money now, so she bought it!
There are many gadgets in ancient times, all of which are handmade, simple and extremely ornamental.
Xie Yanyan found it very interesting. She also had toys in her previous life, but those were industrial products, different from the handmade ones she had now.
Today's toys are simple and vivid, and each one is a work of art.
She bought it for Xiao Baozi and also for herself.
Clay figurine sets, bronze bird carts, hand-painted kites, embroidered flowers, birds and fish, and various woodcarvings of figures...
Whatever the little boy likes, whatever the little brother likes, and whatever she likes, she buys it all.
Even Song Lingling had some desire in her eyes, and she did not hesitate to pay the money to buy it.
What was there for the small vendors on the whole street to not understand? Here came a great enemy who loved handmade products, no, a great connoisseur, and they all took their own things and presented them to her.
"Miss, look, these are the katydids my grandfather made. His craftsmanship is top-notch in the whole Nanyang city." The man selling the woven gadgets was a teenager about her age. He was wearing shabby but clean clothes, and had a pair of bright eyes.
Xie Yanyan was amazed by the weaving. The katydids, grasshoppers, roosters, tigers, and even human figures were lifelike.
Only in ancient times could one see such meticulously handmade products.
The most important thing is that the stall owner does not have the inferiority complex of a poor person, nor the cunning of a businessman, but is purely sunny and positive.
"I want them all." He took all the ones on the weaving stall and those placed behind him.
"Thank you, Miss."
The young man's eyes brightened even more. He took a straw lattice and placed the straw flowers, insects and people on it.
That straw shelf is a work of art, a mini version of an antique display cabinet with exquisite craftsmanship.
The boy calculated that all the things cost only 100 coins in total.
Less than half a tael of silver.
"Miss, look at these paper-cuts. Are they beautiful? Flowers are in full bloom, dragons and phoenixes are auspicious, and there will be surpluses every year."
The middle-aged man selling paper-cuts saw her buy all the straw weavings from the young man, pointed at the paper-cuts on his stall, and looked at her eagerly, "My mother is over 70 years old. She has always helped brides cut red paper. Everyone buys New Year's window decorations from my mother."
Xie Yanyan took a look at his stall. The paper-cuts were indeed good, but there was nothing that caught her eye.
In her impression, there were many folk artists in later generations who were good at paper cutting, and their works were much more exquisite than these.
However, there was a shop opposite with a sign hanging in front of it with the words "Carved Red" written on it, which aroused her great interest.
Carved red is the same as carved lacquer!
Those carved lacquer plates, cups and containers are brightly colored and exquisite to the point of being outrageous.
By the 22nd century, this craft had long been lost, and every time a lacquer box was unearthed during an archaeological excavation of a large tomb, it was regarded as a treasure for historical research.
The production process is complicated and it took hundreds of years to reach its peak. It is now considered the earliest lacquerware.
It can only be found in places like Kyoto and Nanyang City. It is not cheap and is considered a luxury item.
She liked them and still went shopping, buying them all.
Xie Yanyan didn't bargain. She paid the money and told the shopkeeper to pack everything for her and put it in front of the counter. Someone would come to pick it up soon.
When she entered the store to look at the lacquerware, she did not ask Song Lingling and the others to follow her, and sent them all to eat hot noodles.
After leaving the store, she went to find Song Lingling.
As he walked, he put all the lacquerware into the space.
The little boy was so excited that he was like a puppy that couldn't stop wagging its tail. He touched this, took that, and kept saying excitedly, "Uncle, these are all mine."
Xie Lingyu was playing with a little man that he couldn't turn over, but he said, "I think my sister's marbles are more fun."
Amidst the jokes, Huangfu's rice shop was looted again.
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