Chapter 303: The same rouge and powder as the Empress and the Imperial Concubine
But since it was Maner who wanted to buy it, it can be said that she and this horse are destined to be together.
She wouldn't have the heart to hurt Man'er's heart.
Before Tong Huaqiong suggested letting Ma stay, Chen Sufen spoke first.
"Mom, Man'er is a child and doesn't know much. Let my second brother take the horse back."
When Maner heard that the foal was going to be abandoned, she hugged the foal's neck tightly and looked at Tong Huaqiong with pitiful eyes.
Tong Huaqiong said: "Since I bought it, I won't return it. Otherwise it will hurt the child, so I'll just keep it."
When Maner heard this, she smiled and said, "Thank you, grandma."
Liu Yue'e felt uncomfortable.
The first and second wives are treated differently in the mother-in-law's heart.
Without knowing the truth, the mother-in-law scolded her husband and complained that the pony her husband bought was not good enough.
Why does it work when it comes to Maner?
This is too double standard.
Man'er is really the princess of the family. She spent one hundred and fifty taels of silver to buy such a sickly pony. After her mother-in-law knew the truth, she not only did not scold her, but also did not mention returning the pony.
Tong Huaqiong came up to the foal and observed it carefully.
Gu Dashu said, "Mom, this foal is mainly premature and weak, but not sick."
Tong Huaqiong touched the foal's head. The foal felt Tong Huaqiong's kindness, licked Tong Huaqiong's hand with its tongue, and was about to stand up on its four hooves.
Tong Huaqiong's heart softened.
If someone gave her one hundred and fifty taels of silver again now, she would not give it away.
"It's Dashu, please ask a veterinarian to come to your home and take a look," said Tong Huaqiong.
Since she decided to keep the foal, Tong Huaqiong decided to raise her well.
She didn't care whether it was a war horse or not. As long as the horse could pull a cart when it grew up, she would be fine. She didn't expect it to go to the battlefield.
Gu Dashu went out and came back in less than a cup of tea.
Following behind him was Lu Zhaoyang and a black-faced man.
"Mom, I just went out and met Brother Lu. He brought a veterinarian to see the foal." Gu Dashu said.
Tong Huaqiong and Lu Zhaoyang greeted each other.
Lu Zhaoyang smiled and said, "I agreed to help Aunt Tong choose a horse, but she chose a sick foal. This is Veterinarian Tan, the veterinarian in charge of horses at the Herdsman Department. I asked him to take a look at this foal."
When Tong Huaqiong heard Veterinarian Tan, she couldn't help but take a look at him and felt that he looked very familiar.
"Does Veterinarian Tan know Master Tan who lives under the big locust tree on Tianshui Street in Pingchuan County?" Tong Huaqiong asked.
"That's my cousin." said Veterinarian Tan.
Coincidentally, they are all acquaintances.
These two brothers are interesting, one is a veterinarian and the other is a castrator.
When Veterinarian Tan heard that Tong Huaqiong was an acquaintance of his cousin, he treated the foal very carefully.
"I estimate that this foal is only two months old. Judging from its skeleton, it could be a war horse." Veterinarian Tan said after examining it. "It doesn't have any serious illness. It's just too weak due to premature birth. If you take good care of it, it may grow into a good colt."
"It should have been drinking mare's milk, but it's hard to buy. You can only feed it with feed. Be careful when feeding it. Chop the feed into small pieces, soften it, and wet it before feeding it. It has a weak stomach and can't eat hard feed."
After that, he prescribed a few pills and handed them to Tong Huaqiong, and told her to mix them with the feed every time she fed the baby.
Tong Huaqiong remembered the biology knowledge she had learned in her previous life. A two-month-old foal is considered a young colt. A foal can only be weaned six to seven months after birth. Now the foal at home is still in the foal stage drinking breast milk.
Fortunately, the one-month-old foal can eat feed, otherwise Tong Huaqiong would not be able to find a mare to feed it.
Since Veterinarian Tan said that the foal could grow into a good horse if raised carefully, Tong Huaqiong chose to believe him.
Tong Huaqiong decided to go into the space at night to search for information about raising a foal to see if she could feed it some more nutritious feed.
After Veterinarian Tan examined the foal, Tong Huaqiong ordered Gu Dashu to bring the consultation fee.
Veterinarian Tan said that Mr. Lu had already given it to him.
He refused to accept it, so Tong Huaqiong had to give him two boxes of cakes.
Lu Zhaoyang came to Tong Huaqiong when no one was paying attention. He wanted to tell Tong Huaqiong that he had already talked to Mr. Lu and would not mention the marriage with Gu Taohua again.
Gu Taohua saw Lu Zhaoyang talking to Tong Huaqiong, so she put her hands on her hips and walked in front of Tong Huaqiong. She didn't say anything, but kept looking Lu Zhaoyang up and down.
When Lu Zhaoyang thought of what Gu Taohua said about him not being able to give birth to a son, he was so scared that he took Veterinarian Tan and ran away.
Gu Taohua laughed out loud.
After Lu Zhaoyang and Veterinarian Tan left, Tong Huaqiong instructed Gu Dashu to bring the foal into the house.
The autumn evening breeze was chilly and she was afraid that the foal would be frozen.
The happiest person who was happy that the foal could stay was Maner.
She also knew that it was because of her willfulness that her second uncle spent a large sum of money to buy the foal.
"Grandma, I will take good care of the foal." Maner hugged the foal and said to Tong Huaqiong, "I will raise it to be strong and healthy, and when it grows up, it will pull the cart for you."
Tong Huaqiong smiled and said, "Okay, let's raise the foal to be strong."
The shop in Fucheng has opened, and in the past few days it has become a new internet celebrity shop in Fucheng.
He Chao and Hong Xiaoxi are in charge here temporarily, and Tong Huaqiong feels that there is no big problem.
Therefore, she planned to return to Qinghewan the next day as originally planned.
The Mid-Autumn Festival is coming in a few days. When I come to the capital, I naturally have to buy some things from the capital to bring back.
Even though she had only been in the city for a few days, many distracting things had already happened and she hadn't had a good time yet.
Tong Huaqiong planned to take advantage of the time from dusk to night to have a good stroll, buy some silk, spices, and Chinese medicinal materials, and also go to Lu Zhaozhao's rouge shop to buy some rouge and powder.
In addition, she also wants to see if there are any new business opportunities in the city.
Tong Huaqiong took Gu Taohua and Chen Sufen shopping.
She didn't bring Liu Yue'e with her.
Once Liu Yue'e shows a good face, she can't put herself in the right position. Tong Huaqiong just stood up for Liu Yue'e because of the matter between Xianxian and Gu Dashu two days ago, and she turned around and interfered in Gu Taohua's marriage.
So she had to give Liu Yue'e a little cold shoulder from time to time to let her know that she should not interfere in things that were not her place.
Tong Huaqiong, Gu Taohua and Chen Sufen went to a silk shop to buy fabrics, went to a silver shop to pick up the jewelry and head ornaments they had made earlier, and finally went to Lu Zhaozhao's rouge shop.
This was Tong Huaqiong's first visit.
The Lu family’s rouge shop is very large, filled with a wide variety of rouge and powder.
Since the Lu family was an imperial merchant, one of their most important businesses was to provide all kinds of rouge and powder to the empresses in the palace.
As a queen in the palace, the rouge and powder she uses must have high requirements. While creating a beautiful makeup, it must also have skin care functions. Mr. Lu got the secret recipe of the palace's rouge and powder, and the quality of his rouge and powder is much better than other rouge and powder shops in the world.
Originally, the Lu family's rouge shop in the capital city only did business with the ladies from wealthy families.
After Lu Zhaozhao took over, she changed her strategy and started to do business with everyone, from wealthy families to ordinary people.
Inspired by Tong Huaqiong’s “mooncakes that even the prefect loves to eat,” she launched the same rouge and powder as the empress in the palace these days.
This gimmick attracted almost all the ladies and ladies in the city.
Who doesn’t want to have the same rouge and powder as the queen and the concubine?