Chapter 109
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Zhao Family Flower Hall.
Zhang Chao sat there bored. There was no kang in the hall, but there were a few couches in front of the couch. The couch was not high, but there were fur mats on it.
Compared to the backrest chair and sofa, Zhang Chao has no love for such a couch.
Bored, he even thought that maybe he could "design" a batch of new furniture and use it after the new cave was built.
Many furniture in the early Tang Dynasty were both Han and Wei styles, and also carried the Hu style since the Northern Dynasties. The most obvious feature was that the Han-style furniture was short in the past, mainly couches, which were suitable for kneeling and waiting. However, after the Northern Dynasties, many Hu styles penetrated. Although there were still many couch beds and couch stools, the legs of the furniture were raised, chairs and stools also appeared, and there were high-legged tables and long benches.
This is also a change from kneeling to sitting down with your legs.
However, the furniture in the early Tang Dynasty was relatively simple in shape, and the crescent stools, waist drum stools and couch stools are more popular nowadays.
At this time, people's daily habits are both kneeling on the ground, and also sitting on the same level, sitting sideways, cross-legged feet, and sitting down with their feet hanging down.
In the past, sitting with erratic feet was a rude sitting posture, and it gradually became common with some northern winds, and furniture also coexisted with high and low shapes.
Zhang Chao is more accustomed to sitting down and prefers to be used to high-end furniture.
Although there were chairs in the Tang Dynasty, they had not yet been truly formed.
There are no chairs, ring chairs, armchairs, official hat chairs, etc., eight immortals tables, drawer tables, and incense.
Zhang Chao felt that he could have a batch of Song Ming style tables, chairs, beds, and kitchen cabinets, which would be both practical and beautiful. Maybe he could also build a furniture shop and open a furniture store at that time.
Thinking of Zhang Chao, he thought it was very feasible, but he also had these materials on his computer. In the past, as a writer, Zhang Chao also wrote about history, so there were a lot of historical materials in the computer, including customs, clothing and furniture. Many experts' books and papers are in P format, with pictures and articles, which means there are detailed design and artworks. Zhang Chao only needs to use a solar charger to charge his computer first, and then turn on the computer and copy it down.
"Zhang Sanlang, our husband and young husband are not in the mansion. Our Si Niang said she would come to talk to Sanlang about buying grain in person, and let you wait a moment and she will come soon."
Zhao Siniang came to talk in person?
Zhang Chao was a little surprised. He had also heard some rumors about Zhao Siniang.
Anyway, Zhao Siniang is very famous in this area of Bashang, but it is not because she is very smart and powerful in arithmetic, but because there are rumors that she will defeat her husband everywhere. Some even say that her mother was killed by her.
In this era, if a woman is involved in such rumors, she will not be able to clean up.
Zhang Chao doesn't believe in these things. There is no scientific basis for anything that can be defeated. As for women born in February, Zhang Chao doesn't believe it even more. It's like people in later generations like to use zodiac signs for things. There are no such things. There are only twelve months a year, and there are only a few signs. It's all nonsense to say that people born in a certain month are like, or people of a certain sign have the same personality. That's all nonsense.
However, since in the era of knowledge explosion like later generations, so many people believed in zodiac science, it is really normal for people in this era to believe in things like the Five Elements and Eight Characters.
Zhang Chao couldn't change others, but he could stick to his own point of view, so he even felt a little sorry for the girl. It was just that he didn't have the chance to meet before, but he didn't expect that today it was Zhao Siniang who came to receive him.
The maid from the Zhao family came to sauté the tea and now fry it.
Make a small stove, a small pot, a tea cake, and then ginger, green onion, orange peel and other seasonings.
Zhang Chao had already gotten used to it. Although he hadn't used to drinking this kind of tea yet, he naturally didn't care about the kind of camellia that Tangren tea lovers pursued.
The maid is a veteran of sing tea and is very skillful in movements, but Zhang Chao just regards this as a performance. He is more accustomed to drinking the fried loose tea of later generations.
Drink green tea in summer and black tea in winter.
Green tea tastes bitter and cold in nature, can eliminate heat and relieve heat, detoxify and remove fire, reduce dryness and quench thirst, and promote salivation and refresh the spirit.
Black tea is sweet and warm in nature, which is beneficial to storing yang energy. Black tea also aids digestion and removes greasiness.
However, at this time, the tea is all tea cakes. When eating, you have to mash it and then add seasonings. There is no fried loose tea, and the tea cakes are all steamed and pressed, and there is even less black tea.
There was no Tieguanyin or Biluochun in the Tang Dynasty, and there was no West Lake Longjing.
There are many varieties of tea today. In terms of famous tea, Mengding tea is the first to be recommended, followed by purple bamboo tea from Hu and Chang Erzhou, and the others include Shenquan Xiaotuan.
There are more than 50 famous teas, and the price of expensive teas is also amazing. A small piece of tea cake costs a few cents.
Zhang Chao thought that when the new tea is on the market next year, he would send someone to the tea area to buy fresh tea, and then stir-fry a batch of loose tea by stir-frying for himself to drink.
"My husband, please have tea!"
The maid had already fried the tea and delivered the tea bowl to Zhang Chao.
Zhang Chao lowered his head and blew the tea foam, then blew away the chopped green onion floating on it, and took a sip.
It's still the same flavor, salty, spicy, fragrant, spicy, and can't accept it.
He took a small sip and then put it down.
Next year, I will definitely send someone to Jiangsu and Zhejiang to pick and make loose tea, so I can't drink such tea.
After sitting for a while, the sound of ringing pants sounded outside.
Zhang Chao turned around and turned his head, and happened to see a young woman coming in.
He is probably more than 1.6 meters tall, and he is wearing a green jacket and skirt. The skirt is tied to his armpits and is supported by his chest. At least, Zhang Chao estimated that Zhao Siniang was very expensive, but unfortunately, this kind of skirt folded her breasts and couldn't see her career line, otherwise she would definitely have a deep groove.
She had a double-ring dangling bun on her head, which was a symbol of an unmarried woman. Her hair was divided into two parts, and she was coiled up and down on both sides of her head.
Zhang Chao is very familiar with this hairstyle. Many unmarried women in the Tang Dynasty combed this hairstyle. It is said that they had it in the Warring States Period. Palace maids and maids also combed this hairstyle.
The TV series "The Legend of Wu Meiniang" that Zhang Chao had watched before, and Wu Meiniang had this hairstyle in it.
The hair is divided into two halves, with a few circles on both sides of the head, and on both foreheads, it is hung down to form a ring.
In fact, this hairstyle is quite good-looking, especially Zhao Siniang's hair is very black and looks very clean. A gold butterfly is inserted on each side of her head, which makes it even more beautiful.
Good reviews for clothes and good reviews for hairstyle.
Looking at her face again, it looks a bit ordinary at first, but it looks very pleasing to look at it carefully. Her eyes are particularly bright and her eyebrows are a little thick.
Zhao Siniang looks a little neat and heroic like this.
"Si Niang has seen Saburo, so she has asked Saburo to wait for a long time. I hope she will forgive her for her crime."
Zhao Siniang came over and bowed her body and bowed.
Zhang Chao quickly got up and bowed to his hands and returned the gift.
There is no screen, no face towel.
Zhang Sanlang is just an ordinary landlord, and Zhao Siniang is just a jasper in the small family, and the two families are neighbors, so there is not so many rituals that are out of sight.
"I heard that Saburo wants to buy 500 stone millet, so he wants it now?"
"Indeed, Si Niang should have known that the court was going to send troops to quell the rebellion in Hebei and Shandong. Many soldiers in Guanzhong received the conscript. My father and the soldiers in Zhangjiagou also received the conscript order. Why don't you buy food and make dry food?"
"The two of us have been working together. Since Sanlang can think of my Zhao family when buying grain, Si Niang is very grateful, but just go directly to the grain shop to buy grain." Zhao Si Niang looked at Zhang Chao.
She was also a little curious about this neighbor.
She was grateful to Zhang Sanlang for taking action when the Zhao family was in crisis, but she always thought about Zhang Sanlang buying the Zhao family's thousand acres of land.
Zhang Chao smiled and said that there was nothing special about facing Zhao Siniang. After all, he was a time traveler, and men and women were equal in later generations, and women in China even had much higher status than men.
He habitually carried some ideas from later generations, and did not deliberately carry them. It was just that his concept of life for many years was somewhat deeply rooted and difficult to change for a while.
In his eyes, he just regarded Zhao Siniang as a business partner, and did not just regard her as a woman.
There is no difference between men and women when doing business.
"That's right. I hope that the Zhao family can deliver these five hundred stones to Zhangjiagou today."
"This is OK, I can arrange for the food shop to deliver food immediately."
After Zhao Siniang finished speaking, she looked at Zhang Chao and waited for him to continue speaking. She knew clearly that Zhang Chao would come here in person, and it was impossible for him to say this just to say this. Just send someone to the grain shop to notify him, and the Zhao family would definitely deliver food to the Zhang family immediately.
She knew that Zhang Chao had other plans, and she was waiting for Zhang Chao to propose conditions.
Zhang Chao sighed for Zhao Siniang's shrewdness and liked her straightforwardness more and more.
"I hope I can get a discount for five hundred stones of grain."
There is nothing to be embarrassed about talking about business, and Zhang Chao won’t be weak when he sees the girl.
"We can follow the old rules and 10% off."
Zhang Chao shook his head, 90% off was a normal agreement. Now Zhang Chao has to get 500 stones at the moment, which is a lot of decimals. Zhang Chao believes that he deserves more discounts.
"At that price, there will be another 10% off."
After the fold, Zhao Siniang felt a little angry when she saw Zhang Chao laughing and quoting this number. Zhang Sanlang was so good at bargaining. He knew the truth about the Zhao family clearly and said a condition that she wanted to refuse but was difficult to refuse.
"Si Niang, five hundred stone grain is not just a single order."
"I can give Saburo another 100% off."
"That's only 96% off, only 95% off."
"Sanlang is good at making up." Zhao Siniang smiled. Just as Zhang Chao thought she would still be tangled and bargained, but she said, "Okay, I'll give in and give it another step, 95% off after the discount. This is an exception. I hope Sanlang can remember the discounts of the Zhao family and take care of it in the future."
Five hundred stones of millet, each dou of 75 cents was originally 375 cents.
"Ninety-five off, a total of 356,250 yuan."
Zhao Siniang also directly reported the discount.
"Just 356,000, the final number of 250 is wiped. When will the Zhao family deliver the food, when will I pay the full amount of cash and silk?"
Zhang Chao took another 250 cents of advantage. Zhao Siniang wanted to fight for it, but when she heard that Zhang Chao was willing to pay the food, she smiled and nodded in response.
"Thank you, Sanlang Zhaohui. I will send someone to notify the grain shop immediately and promise to send the grain here."
"That's good. I won't stay for a long time, say goodbye!"
After the business was negotiated, Zhang Chao was not good enough to stay any longer. He said goodbye and left now, but Zhao Siniang did not try to keep him, so she asked the housekeeper to see her out on her behalf.
"This Zhang Sanlang is really a cunning fox, and he is everywhere!"
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