Chapter 70: Waterloo
The capital city of the Sheng Kingdom had two famous gold-selling caves, one was Wanfang Tower and the other was Chunman Garden.
The girls in Wanfang Tower are fat and thin, and they are both elegant and popular.
Girls can accompany you from poetry and poetry to philosophy of life, and they can also accompany you to drink and play dice. The guests they receive range from literati and doctors to porters and footmen. As long as they can afford a cup of tea, they can all sit inside. sit.
Of course, the flower girl is an additional price.
A cup of tea worth two taels of silver can only allow you to watch the free singing and dancing in the lobby, and you can only stay for a quarter of an hour. When the time is up and there is no other consumption, someone will be invited out.
The girl in Chunmanyuan is Taoyaoliu Mei, who is good at singing and dancing. She is also proficient in music, chess, calligraphy and painting. Her personality is lively, enthusiastic or cold, each with its own style.
However, Chunman Garden only accepts elegant guests, and only those who see the couple hanging at the door are eligible to sit inside.
It is a place that many literati love to go to.
If you want to be accompanied by a flower girl, you have to answer the questions asked by the flower girl, otherwise you won't even see the flower girl's face.
The two families happened to be opening at opposite doors, which was quite a bit of a rivalry.
Just walking through this street, you can smell the mixed fragrance of makeup and powder. The sweet sound of silk and bamboo and the soft laughter of women all make people unable to help but take a look inside.
Tonight, these two places were as lively as ever.
In the lobby of Wanfang Building, there is a fragrant breeze and a bustling crowd, but it does not affect the guests on the third floor.
In the most secluded private room on the third floor, the windows were open, letting in the cool night breeze, which diluted the somewhat smoky aroma and made the bead curtains ring crisply.
Behind the bead curtain, the dishes on the round table were steaming hot, and the copper pot in the middle kept rolling.
The two men sat across from each other.
"I heard that the ambassador likes to eat pork shabu-shabu in a copper pot, so I specially ordered this dish and asked the ambassador to try it. How does it compare with Gao Changguo's?" The speaker was wearing a black mask that covered the upper half of his face, making it difficult to see clearly. Specific appearance.
Anivar, the envoy of Gaochang Kingdom opposite, raised his finger and pointed at his face, "Take off the mask, otherwise, there will be no business negotiations."
He is about thirty years old, with short dark brown hair, high eyebrows, deep eyes and a straight nose. He is a handsome young man.
His loose robe was embroidered with lotus pattern with silver thread. The room was full of candlelight and was extremely gorgeous.
The masked man smiled and said: "Ambassador, don't worry, after the business is settled, I will take off the mask and let the ambassador see my true face."
Anivar was obviously very dissatisfied with this answer. He hugged him with both arms and said, "I am sincere, but you are not. I don't do business with people who are insincere."
He stood up to leave, but the masked man didn't respond. He even stretched out his chopsticks to pick up the hot mutton in the copper pot.
Seeing Anivar walking to the door at a pace that was inconsistent with his height, he slowly swallowed the delicious hot-boiled mutton in his mouth and said:
"Only I can provide what the ambassador wants. Once you leave this door, you will never have this opportunity again. Aren't you worried that the entire Gaochang Kingdom will lose the excellent help of firearms just because of your anger?"
Anivar's footsteps paused.
The masked man continued: "I heard that Tatars have been invading the country and looting in recent years, which has caused a headache to the King of Gaochang. Why don't the ambassador come back and sit down and talk with me while eating?"
Anivar clenched his fists, secretly cursed Shengren for being cunning, and turned back unwillingly to sit down.
The masked man picked up the serving chopsticks and put a chopstick of the mutton into the dry dipping dish, "Ambassador, please have a taste."
Anivar didn't want to eat it, but judging from the masked man's attitude, if he didn't eat the chopstick-shabu-shabu mutton, he probably wouldn't be able to make that deal.
After thinking about it, Anivar picked up the chopsticks, put the mutton into his mouth, chewed it a few times and swallowed it. He opened his mouth to show the masked man, "I'll eat, let's talk business."
"Ambassador, don't be impatient. The business needs to be negotiated slowly. Let's try this fish dumpling again." The masked man deliberately suppressed the arrogance of the envoy of Gaochang Kingdom. Only when he became impatient could the price be negotiated. .
Anivar frowned and stared at the fish meat in the bowl, feeling very dissatisfied with the masked man's nagging attitude.
He suppressed his anger, picked up the fish meat and put it in his mouth.
Seeing him eating, the smile on the masked man's lips deepened, and he introduced the roast duck next to him. Anivar...then eat.
After tasting all the dishes on the table, Anivar completely lost his temper.
Seeing that the heat was coming, the masked man put down the chopsticks in his hand, took out a folded list from his arms, and pushed it in front of Anivar.
"This is something in someone's hand. Let the ambassador take a look first."
Anivar pressed the soup on his thumb, picked up the paper and opened it.
I thought it was a Chinese character that was difficult to recognize, but I didn’t expect it to be Uighur script.
He immediately looked up at the masked man, and his dissatisfaction with being delayed for so long disappeared.
The masked man turned over the two teacups, lifted the teapot and poured two cups of fragrant tea.
"What do you think, Ambassador?"
"Do you really have everything on the paper?" Anivar raised the paper in his hand at him, obviously still doubtful about it.
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Firearms are so important. If used properly, they can even determine the victory of a war. Why are they so easily sold?
If someone in Gaochang State dared to do this, he would definitely cut off that guy's head and hang it on the city tower for public display.
"Of course we have them, Ambassador, don't worry." The masked man pushed one of the cups of tea to Anivar's hand.
Anivar stared at the mask on his face, as if he wanted to poke a hole in the mask, "Who are you? Why do you have these things?"
"I apologize for the inconvenience." The masked man took a sip of tea to relieve his tiredness, and raised the corners of his lips, "As long as the ambassador knows that as long as he can afford the price, I can supply the ambassador."
Anivar looked at the paper and then at him, "Your mask."
The masked person said: "When the business is concluded, the ambassador signs the documents, and pays a deposit, someone will take off the mask."
"You'd better not lie to me." Anivar narrowed his eyes and rubbed the dagger at his waist with his big hand. The threat was self-evident.
The masked man glanced at his waist and said, "In business, trustworthiness is the most important thing. Ambassador, you can rest assured."
Anivar looked away doubtfully and slapped the paper on the table, "It's too expensive, it's cheaper!"
For the next half hour, the two began to bargain fiercely.
The general process is:
Anivar: I’ll buy more and it’ll be cheaper!
Masked Man: Dismissed.
Anivar: If you buy it this time, you can buy it next time, it’s cheaper!
Masked Man: Dismissed.
……
Anivar used all the bargaining skills he learned at Shengguo Caishikou, but unfortunately failed miserably the first time he practiced them.
The mask man has one attitude: the goods are limited, you can buy it or not.
Anivar: "..."
Hey, those ladies at Caishikou lied to me!
"I'll buy it!" Anivar took out a pile of gold leaves from his arms and slapped it on the table with great pride.
Sure enough, there is money.
The masked man immediately took out the documents he had prepared and said, "Please also ask the ambassador to sign and seal it."
Anivar had read the document and was about to stamp it when he heard a loud "bang" and the closed door was suddenly kicked open.
(End of chapter)