Chapter 480:
Xu Qingqing walked around the store and fell in love with a blue silk skirt, which was the latest model in the store.
Xu Qingqing was also an old customer. The store owner knew that she was the legitimate daughter of General Xu and a wealthy person, so he tried his best to promote this new skirt.
"Ms. Xu, this skirt is very suitable for you." The store owner said with a smile.
Xu Qingqing really liked it. Just as she was about to ask the owner to pack it, a flattering female voice came from behind: "Qingqing, I haven't seen you for a long time."
Xu Qingqing turned around and saw the woman in light green clothes, her best friend Zhang Yiner who played very well before entering the palace.
Originally, the two of them had no intersection because of their identities. Zhang Yiner used to embroider some handkerchiefs and sachets to sell on the street. Xu Qingqing took a fancy to the handkerchiefs she embroidered, and they got to know each other after a few visits.
Zhang Yiner had a set of skills to coax people, and often made Xu Qingqing very happy. Xu Qingqing was always generous to her friends. Whatever Zhang Yiner liked, Xu Qingqing would buy it for her as long as she had enough money.
Zhang Yiner came over with a flattering smile and took Xu Qingqing's hand, "Qingqing, I find you are getting more and more beautiful."
Xu Qingqing looked Zhang Yiner up and down. She used to be much thinner than herself, but now she looked plumper in a tight-fitting dress.
"You seem to have gained weight."
Zhang Yiner's face froze, and then she smiled and said perfunctorily: "Everyone will gain weight after giving birth to a child. When you have a child in the future, you will definitely gain weight."
Xu Qingqing said: "Not necessarily. The Crown Princess did not gain weight after giving birth to twins. She has a good figure. If I have a child in the future, I will not let myself gain weight."
Zhang Yiner originally just wanted to perfunctorily, but she didn't expect to be hit hard. She had never seen the Crown Princess, so who knew fat and thin?
She saw the blue Luo skirt in the shop owner's hand and liked it very much. She held Xu Qingqing's hand as before, and said in a coquettish tone.
"Qingqing, this skirt is pretty and suits me very well."
In the past, as long as she said she liked it, Xu Qingqing would buy it for her without saying a word.
Xu Qingqing glanced at Zhang Yiner's thick waist, and then looked at the green silk skirt in the shop owner's hand, which was a very figure-flattering one.
"How is it suitable? Your skirt is suitable for thinner people. Look at your waist. It's probably too tight and not good-looking when you wear it."
Zhang Yiner was immediately furious when she heard it, but in order to get the skirt, she didn't dare to lose her temper, but smiled and said: "I'm a little fat now, but I will lose weight after a while, Qingqing, we are such good friends, right?"
Caixia couldn't like Zhang Yiner when she saw her. In the past, she always asked the lady to buy her this and that. She was too thick-skinned.
"Miss, it's getting late, we should go back."
"That's right." Xu Qingqing looked at the boss, "Pack this up."
Zhang Yin'er smiled flatteringly, "Qingqing, can we go to dinner together later?"
Xu Qingqing agreed readily, "Okay, I won't refuse if you want to treat me, let's go to Fengxian Restaurant, the food there is the best for my taste."
"Ah?" Zhang Yin'er's smile froze. A casual meal at Fengxian Restaurant would cost several taels of silver, which she could only earn back by embroidering for a year.
"Qingqing, you see I didn't bring any money with me today. You treat me this time, and I will treat you next time, okay?"
Xu Qingqing frowned, "You didn't bring any money, and you still want to have dinner?"
Zhang Yiner smiled awkwardly, "Qingqing, didn't I say I'd go with you? How lonely it would be to eat alone."
At this time, the shop owner took the packed clothes and handed them over with a smile, "Xu Qianjin, the clothes you want."
Zhang Yiner happily reached out to take them, but when she was about to get them, Xu Qingqing took them away halfway. She looked at Xu Qingqing in confusion, "Qingqing, what's wrong?"
"Nothing." Xu Qingqing told Caixia, "Pay the bill."
Caixia took out her purse, took out ten taels of silver and handed it to the shop owner.
"Qingqing, let me take the clothes." Zhang Yiner said, and reached out again but missed.
"No need, Caixia, just take it." Xu Qingqing handed the clothes to Caixia.
Caixia happily took it and hugged it tightly. She almost thought that the lady was going to give it to Zhang Yiner again.
Zhang Yiner looked at Caixia holding the clothes and was afraid that she would forget to give it to her when she went out later.
"Qingqing, give it to me. Caixia must be tired of holding it."
Caixia snorted: "How can I be tired of holding things for the lady? It's not the first time I go out shopping with the lady."
Zhang Yiner thought to herself that it was a good thing that she was more careful, otherwise Caixia would not give it to her.
"This is what Qingqing bought for me. How can I let Miss Caixia take it?"
Caixia held it and refused to give it to her.
Zhang Yiner had no choice but to look at Xu Qingqing and asked with a smile: "Qingqing, tell me if it's for me?"
Xu Qingqing pointed at the pink skirt and asked instead: "Yiner, what do you think of this pink skirt?"
When Zhang Yiner saw the pink skirt, she immediately wanted Xu Qingqing to buy it for her, "It's pretty, it's not bad to buy this one."
"I like it too." Xu Qingqing looked at Zhang Yiner and said with a smile: "I bought so many clothes and jewelry for you, it's not too much for you to buy a piece of clothing for me, right?"
Zhang Yiner, but this shop, the clothes she bought can't be sold without ten taels of silver. She embroidered handkerchiefs for two years to sell ten taels of silver.
"Qingqing, it's not that I don't want to buy it, it's that I don't have any money on me, how can I buy it for you?"
The shop owner smiled and said: "We are all acquaintances, we can buy on credit."
Zhang Yiner glared at the shop owner. She was not stupid, so she paid ten taels of silver.
Xu Qingqing looked at me, Zhang Yiner, with a smile, "Yiner, you can buy on credit."
"Qingqing, don't you have to pay back on credit? How can I have so much money? I embroider those handkerchiefs every day, and I can't even make ends meet." Zhang Yiner burst into tears.
Xu Qingqing looked at Zhang Yiner and cried, just like before, trying to win her sympathy.
"Okay, okay, let's go to Fengxianlou for dinner."
Zhang Yiner wiped her tears, "Qingqing, you are really so good, and you are also my only friend."
Xu Qingqing: "..." The only friend, the only friend who is an ATM.
Xu Qingqing read modern vernacular books and learned a lot of modern words. Zhang Yiner just treated her as an ATM, only taking out but not taking in.
Fengxian Restaurant is a place Xu Qingqing often comes to, and the shopkeepers all know her.
Following the waiter to the private room, Zhang Yiner started ordering dishes as soon as she sat down.
"Buddha jumps over the wall, crystal pork elbow, steamed abalone, ginseng black chicken soup..."
Xu Qingqing listened to Zhang Yin'er ordering dishes that were all signature dishes and the most expensive. She just watched without saying anything and let her order.
After Zhang Yin'er ordered the dishes she wanted to eat, she asked Xu Qingqing, "Qingqing, what do you want to eat?"
Xu Qingqing said, "That's all. I'm not picky."
Zhang Yin'er turned to the waiter and said, "Then give me another steamed preserved meat."
"Okay." The waiter took the menu and left.
After the dishes were served, Zhang Yin'er couldn't wait to pick up the chopsticks and put the crystal pork elbow into the bowl.
Xu Qingqing ate slowly and looked up at Zhang Yin'er. She looked like she hadn't eaten in several lifetimes. But then again, Zhang Yin'er's family couldn't afford Fengxianlou at all. She had been in the palace for so many years, and Zhang Yin'er probably had never been there once.
After Xu Qingqing was full, she wiped her mouth with a handkerchief and stood up to leave.
Zhang Yiner saw that there were still many dishes left, and hurriedly asked: "Qingqing, you don't want to eat anymore?"
Xu Qingqing smiled and said: "Take your time, don't be in a hurry, you can pack up if you can't finish it."
Zhang Yiner nodded happily, "Qingqing makes sense, then I won't be polite."
Xu Qingqing raised the corners of her lips, retracted her gaze and walked out.
Before leaving, Xu Qingqing said to the shopkeeper: "I'm leaving first, Zhang Yiner will pay the bill."
This trick was learned from the storybook. Thinking of Zhang Yiner's face when she had to pay so much silver, she felt refreshed.
The shopkeeper smiled and sent Xu Qianjin away, and turned to go to the private room on the second floor.
The waiter fiddled with the abacus and said: "Miss Zhang, a total of 18 taels of silver."
"You ask Xu Qianjin to pay the bill, and by the way, pack all these." Zhang Yiner pointed to the dishes that were still mostly left on the table. She planned to pack them back for her husband to try, as he had not eaten the food in Fengxianlou yet.
"Mrs. Xu asked you to pay the bill."
The shopkeeper's words fluttered, leaving Zhang Yin'er stunned.
"Impossible, how could Qingqing ask me to pay the bill? When I came here to eat with Qingqing before, it was Qingqing who treated me." Zhang Yin'er stood up and walked out.
The shopkeeper shouted angrily: "You want to eat a free meal? Come on, stop her."
Two burly men stopped Zhang Yin'er at the door.
Zhang Yin'er had never seen such a scene before, and her legs went weak immediately, "What do you want to do?"
The shopkeeper said: "Pay the meal and I'll let you go."
Zhang Yin'er cried immediately, "I'm just an ordinary woman, where can I get so much money?"
The shopkeeper said: "Then it's none of my business. If you go to the government office, I'm right."
When Zhang Yin'er heard that she had to go to the government office, her legs went weak and she fell to the ground.
On the busy street, Xu Qingqing walked happily.
Caixia said happily: "Miss, I found that you have become smarter."
Xu Qingqing adjusted the embroidery on her temples and said proudly: "I have always been very smart, okay."
Caixia nodded quickly, "Yes, yes, Miss has always been smart, but it wasted a lot of money, but it was all worth it."
Xu Qingqing snorted: "I was young and ignorant before, and it's not so easy to take advantage of me now."
Just as the two were talking and laughing, a man suddenly rushed over from the opposite side and snatched the package from Caixia's hand.
"He dared to snatch things in the street under the feet of the emperor, so brave." Xu Qingqing saw her favorite skirt being snatched away and immediately chased after him.
Caixia was hit hard, and when she reacted, she saw the young lady running away, and she hurriedly chased after her, "Miss, Miss."
Xu Qingqing chased all the way to the alley and saw the robber who had no way to retreat. She picked up the wooden stick on the ground. Although she didn't have much kung fu, it was more than enough to deal with a small minion.
Just as Xu Qingqing was about to beat up the robber with a stick, she suddenly felt a sharp pain in the back of her neck, and her eyes went dark, and she fainted.
The man behind her hugged her shaky body.
Mei Yisi came over with a folding fan, looking at Xu Qingqing who had fainted, and a sly smile appeared on the corner of his lips: "Take her away."
But after a while, Caixia could no longer see Xu Qingqing, and she looked around but couldn't find her.
Looking at the busy streets, Caixia immediately cried anxiously.
"Miss, Miss, where have you been?"
When Xu Qingqing woke up, she found herself in a carriage, because the sound of wheels was all around her ears.
The pain in her back of the neck still shows how cruel the other party was.
She had a cloth strip stuffed in her mouth, and she couldn't make any sound.
She suddenly thought of kidnapping and human traffickers, no matter which one, it was not a good thing.
Wouldn't she be so unlucky?
It would be nice if Jun Wuxian was here.
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