243. Iron Umbrella
Within a few days, the story of Luo Coffin Baner holding a small pink umbrella and the face of the Saint was spread.
Many people laughed it off when they heard this. Of course, there were some people who were so idle that they passed on it. There were even those who verbally despise it, as if they did something shameful.
Luo Yong also knew that he had many enemies in this Chang'an City, and it was inevitable that he was trampled down. For example, this incident changed a little as it was passed down. Many people secretly said that Luo Yong was gay in this person and showed off his appearance in front of the saint.
Luo Yong:... He is indeed gay, but he really has no idea about people with a lot of wives and children.
Luo Yong sighed and complained to his colleagues: "Do you think I'm afraid of tanning? I'm afraid of tanning. I'm young and haven't married yet..."
"Black spot?" His colleagues were also a little surprised when they heard this.
"Natural." Luo Yong said with confidence: "How many people have been sunburned under the sun for a long time? Looking closely, most people have dark spots on their faces."
After hearing this, those people looked at their own carriage and then at the servants who had been running errands with others all year round. Sure enough, some people had dark spots on their faces.
It’s not bad now. Men of this era are so sexy. Don’t think that if they don’t hold umbrellas in hot weather, they don’t have sex. On the contrary, this is actually a sex bag.
It's such a hot day, such a big sun, it's obviously more comfortable to hold an umbrella than not to hold an umbrella. Why don't they fight? If there are servants, they don't let them fight? Isn't it just to make themselves look free and unrestrained, casual and handsome? Of course, there are also rough men who are purely troublesome, so let's not mention that group of people for the time being.
At this time, to be honest, appearance was still very important. At this time, the imperial examination system had not played a huge role as in later generations. If young people now want to become officials, the conditions are very simple. One is that they have a good background and the other is that they have the ability.
Needless to say, there is no absolute judgment of a person's ability, but there is no absolute standard for judging whether he is capable or not.
One is the evaluation of the superior, and the other is to look at the person's fame. Fame has many factors that affect things, such as prominent background, broad friendship, very beautiful appearance, good poetry, and other talents, etc.
In this environment, the atmosphere of pretending to be handsome can't be stopped. People with good appearance and conditions are naturally more popular in this environment.
If you want to be good at it, appearance is very important! Whether it is young students or middle-aged and elderly scholars, there are few who do not pay attention to appearance.
Luo used this long spot to scare many people. Although the coffin board was a bit unnatural, he always spoke more reliable.
So many people took the attitude of believing that they would rather trust them than believing that they would not be able to go out and buy umbrellas.
If you want to say that in Chang'an City, in addition to the merchants who specialize in wholesale oil paper umbrellas and oil cloth umbrellas in the West City, there are other oil paper umbrellas with the most variety and the most complete styles. It is naturally the north and south groceries.
The place in the West City is so big, and the stalls of merchants are also very large. They have to pile hundreds of oil-paper umbrellas there. It depends on different styles. Often, there are several shops, and there are convenient places where there are groceries in the north and south.
On the second floor of North and South Grocery, there is a whole row of shelves that are specially used to sell umbrellas, long-handled folded single-layer umbrella surfaces, double-layer umbrella surfaces, plain colors... everything is available.
Recently, there are more customers who come to their grocery store to buy oil paper umbrellas than usual, and the main ones are the plain long-handled umbrellas used by men.
In response to this phenomenon, Luo Yong specially customized a batch of high-end men's parasols.
The production cycle of umbrellas is short. As long as you can attract enough umbrella makers, you will be able to ship them quickly after rushing to work.
For special high-end umbrellas like this, one is usually more than 30 to 50 cents, and it is very common for more than 100 cents to be expensive. Correspondingly, the profit will naturally be relatively high.
Previously, Naro used that little pink umbrella to make a fuss when the people heard about this, their noses were so angry that they were crooked.
Some people wrote lyrics to mock those who held umbrellas on sunny days, saying that their wives were not masculine, but when they wrote about them, everyone still had to hold umbrellas. After all, their faces were their own. If they really showed dark spots, those bastards who wrote lyrics could not be responsible for them.
In June of that year, various oil-paper umbrellas emerged one after another in Chang'an City, so it was fine to go on the streets. When the court was in court every day, the officials basically had a umbrella.
After all, it is quite a distance from the main hall where they went to court to the palace gate where they left the palace. The summer in Chang'an City is so hot, and the sun is so strong in June of the lunar calendar that it can simply roast people to make oil. It is obviously much better to block it with a parasol. Besides, almost everyone is holding an umbrella now, and seeing it too much, it naturally feels very ordinary.
In the palace, the princes also asked the palace servants to go to the city to buy various umbrellas and came back. The emperor received a few umbrellas from his son, and he was very happy.
Over the past period of time, the emperor's old man sat in the palace and knew everything about what happened to the little pink umbrella.
This is like this Chang'an City. It's not a matter of storm. This time, the storm did not cover him, so he just watched the fun.
In a blink of an eye, more than half a month has passed, and no one cares about the small pink umbrella in Luo Coffin Board. The topics related to umbrellas are probably who looks good, who is vulgar, and what new umbrellas are launched in North and South Grocery.
At the end of June, I heard that a disciple of Luo Yong brought new technology from Lishi to make automatic umbrellas.
When they came here this time, they brought an iron umbrella from Lishi. It is said that as long as they press the mechanism on their hands, the iron umbrella can be opened by themselves in a flash.
At the beginning, this umbrella was placed in grocery display in the north and south, and was not for sale. Many people had gone to see the fun. They said that when the umbrella was opened, it was like a storm, and the umbrella bones were opened in a flash. It was so cool.
Unfortunately, there are few people who have truly witnessed this scene. Because in less than half a day, the iron umbrella was bought by people from Duke E's mansion, namely the General of the Right Wuhou, Yuchi Jingde.
After General Yuchi got this iron umbrella, he couldn't let go of it, and his love was no less than the children's first toy pistol in their lives.
I heard that he brought this iron umbrella in and out all day long, sunny and sunny days, blocking the rain on rainy days, and cloudy days he also wanted to keep it with him: "Look at it, it's dark, it will rain again in a while, so I'll take the umbrella with me."
Within two days, the emperor asked Xuan Yuchi Jingde to come to the palace to face the saint. General Yuchi took his iron umbrella and went there. With such a big sun, how could it be possible without holding an umbrella? Didn't that boy say that he would have dark spots on the sun all day long.
But before he entered the hall, he was stopped by the guards. His big umbrella was made of iron, about three feet long, and was more than half a foot thick when combined. He held it in his hand and weighed about ten pounds. This thing can be used as a weapon, so how could he be carried to the saint so big?
"Oh, this is an umbrella." General Yuchi was helpless, but the palace had the rules of the palace. If you don't let him take it, you won't take it. At worst, I'll just put it here for a while and take it away when he comes out.
"Cruff."
At this time, the palace gate opened, and a temple man walked out of it and said to him with a smile: "The saint asked the general to go in quickly, and take the iron umbrella in."
"..." When Yuchi Jingde heard this, the signs were not right, and he immediately said: "No obstacle, no obstacle, the guard said he would not let him take it, I will leave it here."
"Take it in." The temple man said, "The saint heard that the general had obtained a strange umbrella and was about to see the truth."
Yes, I can't escape it.
Yuchi Jingde had no choice but to go in with an iron umbrella.
After a while, when he came out from there, his hands were empty, and there was no umbrella.
The emperor said that the craftsman would tear down his beloved iron umbrella and study the mechanisms there, and return them to him after the research was completed. General Yuchi protested, worried that those people would break his umbrella and would not be repaired back then.
The emperor said he was stingy. Last time he had just got a pair of boots, but the other ministers didn't let him see him. Yuchi Jingde left in his clothes. Did he not say a word at that time? Why couldn't he borrow an umbrella from him this time?
"Oh..." On the way out of the palace, General Yuchi couldn't help but sigh.
Chapter completed!