Chapter 96 Part 4: Ye Third
Jiang Li noticed the softness in Ye Ming Yu’s gaze and her heart moved. Ye Ming Yu’s att.i.tude towards her softened, which was a good thing.
Ye Ming Yu took the initiative to get along with this niece very happily, and Jiang Li was not forceful and rough as Ye Ming Hui said. He had traveled a lot for many years and had seen many arrogant and willful n.o.ble daughters. On the contrary, Jiang Li was extremely gentle and her appearance was soft and warm. This warmth was different from his other niece, Ye Jia Er. Ye Jia Er was steady and upright, while Jiang Li looked especially bright. Her vision seemed different from ordinary boudoir ladies’, somewhat appearing more unique. She’s a girl who very much had “style”.
Not solely because she was Ye Zhen Zhen’s daughter, Ye Ming Yu was fond of this girl from the bottom of his heart.
He scratched his head, suddenly recalling something and said: “I haven’t given you anything for your return this time. My caravan brought many small gadgets from the sea.” He seldom felt embarra.s.sed, “But you came from Yanjing, these things cannot be considered as rare things. I just bought things that I deemed interesting. Don’t know whether Ah Li will like them.”
Ye Ming Yu naturally bought things as he pleased. Even if he followed the ocean fleet to go out to sea and trade, it was also unruly. When he decided and calculated, he didn’t consider whether it would be profitable or not, simply relying on his preference.
Jiang Li smiled: “Interesting things are much harder to come by than precious things.”
“You said it right,” Ye Ming Yu was in favor of Jiang Li’s sentence. He called the servant boy next to him: “Ah Shun, go and bring that trunk here!”
Really having an energetic temper.
Jiang Li smiled but said nothing. She nicely said a few things to this uncle Ming Yu, deepening the affections a little bit. This way, third master Ye would stand by her side and help her to “repair the old” relationship with the Ye family.
Ah Shun and Ye Ming Xuan’s servant boy, Ah Fu, must be brothers, they resembled each other, but their dispositions were entirely different. Ah Fu was just like Ye Ming Xuan, polite and astute. But Ah Shun was like Ye Ming Yu, crude hands and feet. He came very quickly while moving a mahogany trunk. There were many of these kinds of trunks inside Ye Ming Yu’s caravan before.
Ye Ming Yu ordered Ah Shun to open the trunk, then asked Jiang Li while smiling: “Ah Li, which one do you fancy? Uncle will give it to you.”
The Ye family members seem to like saying this sentence a lot? Jiang Li thought to herself, Ye Jia Er brought her to Li Zheng Tang and said if she takes a fancy to any of the bolts, she would give them to her. Now, Ye Ming Yu also said if she takes a fancy to any of the gadgets, he would give them to her. Perhaps this was precisely wealthy families, rich and imposing, also very generous.
Jiang Li lowered her head to look into the trunk.
Inside the trunk, there were several scattered unknown gadgets. There were some pearl opals, which could be considered valuable. There were also western lenses. There’s a small wooden box; when the mechanism was pressed, a small figurine stood up from inside the box and started dancing, it was very amusing. There’s also something like a long tube, as Jiang Li took it out to see, Ye Ming Yu said: “This is a thousand flower tube. I’ll teach you how to…….”
Before the word “use” could be spoken, Jiang Li had already put the gadget on her eyes with familiarity and turned the roller around.
Ye Ming Yu choked and Ah Shun looked at Jiang Li with surprise. Even the experienced Ye Ming Yu could not figure out how to use this gadget at first. The Jiang family’s miss cousin seemed to be very skillful, could she have seen it before? But didn’t that sea merchant say that almost no one knows this gadget in Northern Yan?
“Have you seen it before?” Ye Ming Yu asked.
“No.” Jiang Li said with a smile: “But I saw someone recorded it in the travel notes. Actually, this is still the first time that I hold it in my hand.”
Xue Zhao was fond of these unusual and weird things very much and liked to read various books behind Xue Huai Yuan’s back. This habit of his caused many books to be stored at home and Jiang Li also learned many unusual things through them.
Ye Ming Yu appreciated Jiang Li even more, feeling that Jiang Li had a kindred spirit with him.
Jiang Li picked up another thing that looked like a sh.e.l.l. This sh.e.l.l looked very unique, just like a peac.o.c.k’s feathers, bright and colorful. A fine brilliance appeared with a careful look under the sunlight. It was clear and gleaming, comparable to the opal when put side by side.
“This is a peac.o.c.k feather.” Ye Ming Yu saw Jiang Li scrutinized the sh.e.l.l in her hand and immediately said: “this time, I bought this from the sea caravan. I saw that this thing is exotic and good-looking, so I bought a lot, all the trunks in the room contain those. But after I came back, I asked around. Upon hearing that this was a sh.e.l.l, people could not open a price. The gold and silver money I used to buy these peac.o.c.k feathers, this time would probably suffer losses.” He sighed deeply.
Jiang Li disagreed. Ye Ming Yu only saw this peac.o.c.k feather as rare and beautiful, but it would not change the fact that it was a sh.e.l.l. Without a doubt, even the dullest opal was more valuable than the most beautiful peac.o.c.k feather. However, Ye Ming Yu probably had never asked anything about business matters, and had no understanding about business matters, so it was really normal to produce this kind of funny and embarra.s.sing thing. Just no idea how the eldest master Ye and the second master Ye would look after they saw the trunks full of sh.e.l.ls.