Chapter 2 Chapter Two

Yan Wei blurted out, "What is this?" After finishing speaking, she consciously slipped her tongue, if this thing is a common item in Jiang Country, wouldn't that reveal that she is not from Jiang Country?At this time, her father was not around, and there was no one to smooth things over with other words. Yan Wei looked around in embarrassment, and blushed again. Seeing that Yan Wei blushed, the girl also became shy. She lowered her head slightly, put her hands half-curled up by her left and right cheeks, and twisted her body, which was both cute and playful.I just heard her say in a low voice: "Well... this is called 'silk paper', it's a small thing in the boudoir, you men are naturally unfamiliar...it's made of silk dregs, it's made of boiled silk, and it's made of fine cloth. Wash it, filter out the silk residue, spread it flat on the stone, and dry it in the sun, that’s it.”

Picking up the silk paper, Yan Wei felt that it felt like a silkworm cocoon. It was slightly yellow in the white, less than half the size of a palm, and a monogram was printed with cinnabar on one corner, which was a simplified shape of a hollyhock flower. .Yan Wei was very curious about this thing. Yang Guo also raised silkworms and boiled silk, but had never heard of this kind of silk paper, so she asked, "Can this...can replace silk for writing?" The girl put her hands on her chest, swayed from side to side, and said: "That's not good, this thing is not strong, it will melt when it touches water, but if there is something inconvenient for the girl to whisper to others, I like to write it on it and pass it on." , After reading it, as long as you throw it in the water, you can leave no trace."

Hearing what she said, Yan Wei suddenly had a very strange idea: Could it be...the one who handed this thing to father just now was a woman? Seeing Yan Wei groaning and not speaking, the girl was even more shy: "Ah...you don't like to hear these things, do you? Little things about the girl's house are meaningless..." Yan Wei hurriedly said: "I love to listen...does this thing have any other uses?" "Yes!" Seeing that Yan Wei was interested, the girl immediately raised her brows and said, "It's soaked in flower juice lip balm, so it's very convenient to carry with you. It's good for applying lips and smoothing your face. You can throw it away after use."

Although Yan Wei usually doesn't like to put on makeup, she is a girl after all, and it's her nature to like these things. Suchang also loves to study these things with Lu Jin. Hearing what the girl said, I also feel excited, thinking that I can learn how to make them and bring some back , as a gift for Violet Lu.Just as he was about to ask in detail, he thought that he was a young man at this time, and it was a bit weird that he was so interested in these cosmetics, so he swallowed the words that came out of his mouth abruptly. Suddenly, I heard a man calling from far away: "Xiaokui..."

The girl agreed: "Come on!" Turning to Yan Wei, she said, "My brother is calling me! I'm leaving!" After saying that, she hopped and walked away. That direction was the direction of the long embankment that she passed just now, Yan Wei followed her back and looked over, but didn't see anyone.For some reason, a sense of melancholy suddenly appeared in my heart, like a cloud of fog that locked the light and everything became blurred. Yan Wei held the sachet in a daze for an unknown amount of time, when she suddenly felt a big hand shaking in front of her eyes. Yan Wei was startled, and looked up, and there was a man standing in front of him, with short stature, small eyebrows and small eyes, and a big mole on his lip, but his hands and feet were abnormally big, which looked a little funny.

"Has Hun'er been hooked away?" The man said with a smile, showing his yellow teeth. Yan Wei frowned, a little annoyed, but it was inconvenient to attack, so she just kept her face sullen and didn't speak. The man didn't take it seriously, and continued to say: "Give me this sachet, and I'll exchange ten sachets, okay?" The man was spitting, and there was a faint breath. Yan Wei frowned again, and wanted to cover her mouth and nose with her sleeves, but felt that the gesture was too powdery, so she turned around and didn't look at the person. Unexpectedly, the man turned to Yan Wei again and said, "You see, you only have such a sachet, which is too shabby. Walking all the way home, I don't know how many people will laugh at you. Look at them, Dozens or hundreds of them are hanging around your waist. If you don’t bring a dozen or so, how can you be ashamed to confront them? I’m kind. You take these ten and just exchange this one for me. .” As he spoke, he grabbed a handful of sachets from his bosom and stuffed them directly into Yan Wei’s hands.

Yan Wei couldn't bear it any longer, and was about to explode when a hoarse voice next to her said, "Don't trust him, he lied to you." When Yan Wei turned her head to look, she was a tall, pale-faced thin man, leaning against a tree, with his shoulders slightly inward, his back a little hunched, and hissing when he spoke. Before Yan Wei could open her mouth, the old yellow man yelled loudly: "What kind of onion are you? What's your business?!" The thin white-faced man smiled and said, "If the road is uneven, someone will shovel it, and if the situation is uneven, someone will take care of it. I just can't understand you trying to deceive this country boy with sweet words."

Yan Wei was a little unhappy when he heard that he was a country boy, so she asked, "How do you know that I am a country boy?" The white-faced thin man said: "The water grass pattern embroidered on your clothes was popular in Zeyi three years ago, and no one wears them now. Your clothes are still so new, and you still wear them like a treasure on Sheri. It’s from a remote country, am I wrong?” Yan Wei thought to herself, this Jiang country is really rich, and no one wears the embroidered clothes three years ago. If in Yang country, it is very common for middle-level people to wear a piece of clothing carefully, and it is very common to wear it for three to five years.After thinking about it, the people of Jiang country usually wear hemp or silk and linen clothes, which are more durable than pure silk clothes. This kind of pure silk clothes will rot if they are worn for a year or two.

Seeing that Yan Wei didn't speak, the thin white-faced man continued: "Besides, if you are a native of Zeyi, how could you not recognize this 'Three Flying Satin' that can only be found in the royal palace?" "Three flying satin?" Yan Wei carefully looked at the fabric of the sachet in her hand. It was solid and dense, and it shone like pearls in the sun. Flying satin". The thin white-faced man said again: "You silly boy, you don't even recognize Sanfei Duan, you don't even know Princess Xiaokui, you really have no eyes..." "Princess Xiaokui?!" Yan Wei was taken aback. Was that girl just now a princess?Going out to Wangchengye alone like this?Just talk to civilians openly like this?Yan Wei thought of the princesses she saw in the Yang Kingdom Palace, wearing tall wigs, wrapped in layers of silk, with pale faces, silent and smiling, spit out a few words occasionally, also the kind of condescending His tone of voice, at best, is dignified and dignified, at worst, it's like a wooden clay puppet.Yan Wei never dreamed that such a lively and generous princess existed in the world.

The thin white-faced man seemed to appreciate Yan Wei's shock, and smiled triumphantly. Huang Banya on the other side became impatient, and said: "Because this is something in the palace, I exchanged it for ten sachets. The price is clearly stated. You are innocent, so don't come here to make trouble." Yan Wei smiled contemptuously, and said, "I'm afraid the value of this sachet is so precious that you can't exchange a hundred of them." The thin white-faced man gave a thumbs up and said with a smile: "Brother is indeed a smart man! The three flying satins are nothing, but this embroidery technique is the best in the world. In the entire Jiang Kingdom, there are only Princess Xiaokui and a few in the palace. An embroiderer understands."

Yan Wei raised the sachet and looked at the sun carefully, and saw that the embroidery thread was extremely thin, and it was embroidered with the warp yarn of the fabric. Looking from one direction, the embroidery thread blocked the warp yarn, and it was pink and white. The flowers are delicate and charming.Seen from the opposite direction, the embroidery threads and warp yarns are colored at the same time, and the flowers appear pink and purple mixed with pink and light blue warp yarns, which is really ingenious. Seeing that Yan Wei kept looking at the sachet from different angles, the white-faced thin man must have understood the beauty of this embroidery, so he said: "This embroidery method is only owned by Jiang Guo in the whole world, and it is a secret that is not passed on. You can imagine it." The value of this sachet, Princess Xiaokui only gave out one sachet a year since she joined the Autumn Club for the first time the year before last, the kid who got it in the first year sold it and exchanged it for a big house; The boy I was holding was a son of an official family, and he kept it as a family heirloom; in the third year, I didn't expect that you, a boy from outside, won the lottery." After hearing this, Yan Wei felt that the sachet was even more precious, so she pinched it tightly with her fingers unconsciously. Seeing this, the thin white-faced man said with a smile: "Don't worry, I won't take it from you. But if you listen to my advice, you'd better sell it. There are too many people coveting this thing. If you bring it back to your hometown, This road is not peaceful, if someone grabs you hard, you will be beaten, why don't you exchange some gold, silver, pearls and jade, or buy a house." Huang Banya was stunned when he heard what the white-faced thin man said, and he didn't know what kind of medicine he was selling in his gourd. Yan Wei blinked, but she didn't know what the thin white-faced man wanted to do. The thin white-faced man smiled slightly, took out a gold cake from his bosom, and said: "Pure gold, how about changing your sachet?" Yan Wei was a little puzzled, she just looked at him and didn't say anything. The white-faced skinny man touched Yan Wei's forearm with one end of the gold cake, and said, "Hold it, bite it, and see if it's real gold. If you want pearls, I have them here too. The price is not cheap. I really can be regarded as a child without deceit!" Yan Wei shook her head and said: "I won't sell it, I want to take it back and show it to my father." As she spoke, she put the sachet into her arms. Unexpectedly, a pair of big hands stretched out from the side, and tightly strangled Yan Wei's wrists. Yan Wei felt the pain, so she let go, and the sachet fell straight into the grass.I saw that hand let go of Yan Wei's wrist in a flash, and with a single touch, he easily held the sachet in his hand without letting it get a speck of dust. Yan Wei turned her head to look, and saw a big black-faced man standing beside him with two followers.The black-faced man inserted his thick black fingers like a mallet into the mouth of the small sachet, stirred it inside, and laughed loudly: "Who threw this sachet? It looks so handsome, since there is no owner. Son, then I'll take it." Seeing his vulgar words and actions, Yan Wei felt disgusted, so she reached out to grab the sachet, but the black-faced man raised his hand, and Yan Wei snatched nothing. "Give it back to me! It's mine!" Yan Wei shouted. "That's mine..." The black-faced man squeezed his throat, pretending to imitate Yan Wei's tone, and then laughed and said, "You said it was yours, so it's yours? Just call it, see Does it agree?" After that, he put the sachet on his nose, narrowed his eyes, and inhaled exaggeratedly loudly. Yan Wei jumped up and grabbed it again, but she couldn't reach it, but her nails scratched two bloodstains on the face of the black-faced man.The black-faced man was furious and pushed hard, Yan Wei kicked back five or six steps, and sat down on the grass.This fall was not light, Yan Wei only felt dizzy and could not struggle for a while. The black-faced man pouted his lips to his left and right attendants, and the two men rolled up their arms and sleeves, and they were about to start after a few steps. The idea that suddenly popped up in Yan Wei's mind at this time was to hug her head and protect her chest, not to let them find out that she was a girl, and not to let herself be too seriously injured... Xin Dao was indeed a doctor who was bewildered Come on, at this time, shouldn't you get up and run?But I just felt that my legs were weak and I couldn't stand up. "Stop!" An angry shout came from his ear, the voice was not loud, but clear and clear, full of majesty.