Chapter 77: Buying and Selling (Seeking Collection)

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  Wei Zhen furrowed his brow and pondered for a moment before saying, "What is Qingyao's surname?"

  Fu Jiong's expression didn't change much, and he said weakly: "Follow grandfather, surname Fu."

  Wei Xiao's eyes lit up and he said, "If Qingyao changes back to her original surname and restores her ancestral home, do you think your father will agree?"

  Fu Yan suddenly understood Wei Xiao's meaning, thought for a moment and shook his head: "Father is very stubborn, probably won't agree, let alone allow me to marry Aunt. Two years ago, someone came to propose to my sister, but was beaten by Father and thrown out."

  Wei Zhao was taken aback, not expecting the prime minister to be so stubborn. He had broken someone's leg over a daughter who had been kicked out of the house. However, it was easy to understand why he wouldn't allow Fu Yang and Qing Yao to be together - after all, their social status had already been determined and couldn't be changed. In Da Qi, unless one was willing to defy convention and face public scorn, there was no way for the two to be together.

  Wei Zhuo sank into deep thought for a long time, and for a while, he couldn't think of any good solution. He patted Fu Yang's shoulder and comforted him, saying "Don't worry so much, you're still very young now. What's most important for you right now is to focus on achieving something, only then can you hold your head high and negotiate with your father, and give Qing Yao happiness."

  Fu Jiong's face was taken aback, looking at Wei Xiao with some surprise, and said: "Teacher, you, support me?"

  Wei Xiao smiled faintly: "Yes, people with feelings will eventually become a family, you have to believe in yourself, otherwise Qingyao won't know what to do."

  Fu Jiong's face immediately changed, and he mustered up a lot of courage in his heart. He nodded solemnly and said, "Qingyao always says I'm useless, I must make something of myself to show her." After finishing speaking, he turned his head and stared intensely at Wei Zhao.

  Wei Zhuo nodded and smiled, "Good, this is what a man should be!" After finishing speaking, he turned his head towards the outside of the house and said, "You can come in now."

  Two little maidservants with keen eyesight were whispering to each other not far from the gate. As soon as they heard Wei Zhao's shout, they immediately ran over.

  Wei Zhao looked at Wan'er and said, "Did you bring it?"

  Wan'er nodded and pulled out a stack of silver bills from her bosom, carefully counted them, and then handed them over.

  Wei Zhao handed it over, nodded again, and handed Fu Rong 1,500 taels of silver. With a solemn expression, he said: "To do great things, first do small things well. Here is 1,500 taels of silver, don't rely on any connections or bribe anyone, just rely on yourself to get me a winery. This is 500 taels, no matter what means you use, buy another wine building."

  It's not just Fu Yang, but also the two little girls on the side who were left speechless.

  The wine workshop can be bought for 1,500 taels, but the wine building costs at least 2,000 taels. With only 500 taels offered, the gap is really too big, it's a bit too much to ask.

  Fu Yan didn't mind these so-called inferior occupations, if he did, he wouldn't have taken Wei Zhao as his master. However, letting him go shopping alone for the first time, he had no idea what to do and was completely at a loss.

  The two little maids were also quite surprised. The young master usually messed around at home, but this time he actually wanted to go buy wine from the Wine Workshop Tavern.

  Fu Jiong hesitated for half a day and was still somewhat at a loss. His lips trembled as he said, "Teacher, I..."

  Wei Zhuo waved his hand and said with a decisive tone, "Alright, it's settled then. Let's eat, come on, let's eat together."

  Wei Zhao finished speaking and turned around to walk towards the table. Xiang Qiang heard this and immediately rushed over.

  Fu Jiong saw Wei Qiao turn around, gritted his teeth, clenched his fist and swung it heavily, and followed with a serious face.

  Xiangliang quickly arranged the dishes and then very efficiently served Wei Zhao with bowls and chopsticks, and placed a stool.

  Wei Zhuo sat down and invited Fu Yang to sit down as well. Seeing the little girl completely ignoring him, this young master, and staring at the chicken leg, thinking about how to deal with the increasingly arrogant little girl, he picked up his chopsticks and went straight for the oily and shiny chicken leg.

  The little girl's big eyes opened wide, her face tense.

  Wei Zhao took a bite without hesitation, then looked up at the little girl's face, which was quite worried, and stared at her with wide eyes: "Write two hundred more words today, not one less or you won't be allowed to eat dinner."

  The little girl's face immediately fell as soon as she heard it, and she muttered a low "oh" before walking towards the study room.

  Fu Rong had silver tickets hidden in his sleeve, with a worried look on his face. He couldn't use his connections or bribe anyone, this was really troublesome and could cost him his life.

  Wei Zhao didn't pay attention to these, eating on one side and thinking deeply, waiting for a while to go to the back to arrange the fabric, then going out at night to see Li Xilian, saying what should be said, so as not to misunderstand later.

  Wei Zhao quickly finished eating, turned his head to look at the little girl who was holding a pen and writing seriously, then turned his head to Fu Yang and said: "Read less of the Four Books and Five Classics, take out some time, read more other miscellaneous books, and it will be beneficial for you to have a broader view."

  Fu Yan's face was strange, and he nodded. He thought that other teachers and Confucian scholars considered these miscellaneous books to be heretical and strictly forbade their disciples from reading them. But Wei Qiao actually encouraged him to read less of the Four Books and Five Classics, and more of miscellaneous books. This teacher was indeed unconventional.

  Wei Zhao didn't bother with all that and instructed Wen'er "Don't disturb me if it's nothing" before heading alone to the backyard.

  Fu Jiong soon settled the matter and told Wan Er about it. With a bundle of silver notes in hand, he left with a heavy heart.

  As soon as Fu Yang went out the door, Xiao Ya immediately threw away her pen and ran over with a mischievous look on her face. Seeing the remaining chicken leg on the table, she burst into laughter.

  Wan'er glared at her with a bad temper, closed the door, and leaned over to whisper: "You're still eating, write tonight's words overnight."

  Xiangliang heard this and immediately lost her appetite, scrunched up her face to think for a while, and finally put down the chicken leg, with a bitter expression, she walked back to the study.

  Wan'er looked at her pouting little mouth, smiled and covered up the remaining half chicken.

  Wei Zhao arrived at the backyard and looked at the big and small things in front of him. He rolled up his sleeves and walked in.

  The records of dyeing methods in the "Dye Flower Book" are numerous, including direct dyeing, mordant dyeing, re-dyeing, and anti-dyeing. Moreover, the dyes used are generally plants. Xiaoyao had brought over quite a few, saving Weizhao a lot of trouble.

  Wei Zhuo crouched down, carefully distinguishing, this is purple grass, purple perilla dyed purple, this is fivefold son dyed black, this is pagoda tree flower, gardenia dyed yellow...

  The steps of dyeing fabric are generally divided into four stages: boiling, washing, bleaching and dyeing. Wei Zao took out the cloth from the Wei family and conducted a reverse analysis to determine its color system, colorfastness, and dyeing degree...

  Then he took out the fabrics of Chen Chu's two families and made a reverse inference for comparison.

  Steaming, soaking, sunning... after more than half a day, Wei Zhao finally roughly distinguished some differences in the fabrics of the three families: Wei, Chen and Chu.

  The fabric of Weijia's home emphasizes practicality, fit, coolness, breathability, and durability, but the color is not diverse enough, and some are too heavy to be light.

  The Chen family's fabrics emphasize appearance, are often colorful and elegant, but also prone to wrinkles, not durable, and easy to fade.

  The fabric of Chu's family has a combination of the advantages of both families, it is light and warm, bright in color, with relatively fixed colors that do not fade easily.

  Wei Zao would carefully record his thoughts every step of the way, and stay in the backyard until nightfall.