"How many more cooks do you want to buy?"

Lou Sanjia hesitated, looked at the child who was desperately sucking the grass stalks, and then turned his head to look at the dodging figures in the room. After hesitating for a moment, he gritted his teeth, and said, "Aunt Bai, why don't you let me try?"

White Tooth raised his hand and pointed to the room: "It's not that I don't help. But if you sell yourself, who will give this house of children to?"

The autumn rain is murmuring, the bamboo and wood are sluggish, the plantain is wet, and the duckweed is scattered.

"This book ......" Zhang Lou gasped, and unintentionally twisted off a few beards, making him tremble in pain, and his sleeve almost knocked over the tea cup on the table. "In this book, it is written in a royal ......"

Others may not be able to see it, but Zhang Lou is different.

He turned from a beggar into a small businessman with some spare money, perhaps by his own efforts and luck, but he became a sea merchant after recognizing the Jinling garrison eunuch Zhang Gonggong as his uncle.

To put it bluntly, Panqin sent silver to find a backer, which industry is a big businessman, and there is no backer behind it.

What is the uncle of the clan, the person who recognizes the father and the grandfather abounds, and the businessman's discipline and conscience are the same, they are all things that do not exist.

Eunuchs, there is no one who does not love silver.

This maritime merchant is very rich, very generous, Zhang Lou silver is sent happily, and the father-in-law of Zhang is in place, and this Zhang father-in-law also thinks that Zhang Lou is a material that can be made, and regards it as his own family, in addition to mentioning a few words that do not matter to Zhang Lou, he often talks to Zhang Lou about some trivial things in the palace.

Therefore, as soon as Zhang Lou opened the book, he was frightened when he read less than half of it, the details of court life depicted in this book, the living life of the emperor and the queen mother, how can some places be so similar to what Zhang Gonggong said?

Even more detailed than what Grandpa Zhang said?

But after being frightened, Zhang Lou thought about it, gossip is human nature.

The magnates in Beijing have always had a close relationship with the eunuchs, and this book is from the Rongguo Mansion of the Four Kings and Eight Princes.

He once heard Gonggong Zhang say that the eldest girl in Rongguo Mansion was a female official in front of the queen, and it was reasonable that this book could write about the daily life of the court in such detail.

When Zhao Guoji heard the word royal, he was a little uneasy, and hurriedly asked, "But is there a taboo?"

Hearing this, Zhang Lou felt that his face was gloomy, this was too underestimating him, he was the godnephew of Zhang's father-in-law, if his shop published a book, he would have to worry about taboos and bans, and so on, then there would be few bookstores in the world that dared to publish books.

Therefore, Zhang Lou said: "Where is the Water Margin that kills officials and rebels, and scolds the articles of the saint for being published all over the world, what is wrong with this book?"

Saying that, Zhang Lou sighed: "It's just that thinking about this prosperous and prosperous Yutang, Yutang Golden Horse, and Nanke are all old things, it is inevitably desolate." ”

As he spoke, Zhang Lou frowned, flipped to a certain page casually, glanced at it casually, and immediately hissed a cool breath, and couldn't help but slap the table and say, "I see! This book is really ......."

I couldn't find an adjective for a long time, and suddenly an inspiration flashed: "It's really a wonderful idea." ”

In the blink of an eye, in October, Baoyu was very unhappy because Qin Keqing did not get better, and Japan wanted to play with Qin Zhong. But Qin Zhong and Zhizhi'er, who often come to Rongguo's mansion, are in love, and today when Zhizhi'er and her master enter the mansion to ask for peace, Qin Zhong doesn't go to school, and only laughs with Zhizhi'er.

Seeing this, Baoyu couldn't help but lose interest, led the tea and other little girls, and lazily went to school.

As soon as I got out of the second door, I saw Xue Pan coming, clapped his hands and laughed: "What a coincidence, I just said that I came to inquire if you are at home?" ”

"What is the matter with Big Brother Xue looking for me?" Baoyu asked with a smile.

"Feng Ziying said that there will be a few meetings in the past few days, and it happens that there is nothing to do today, so I asked me to go out with you for a drink. ”

When Baoyu heard this, he hurriedly went to get a set of clothes for him to go out, and said to Xue Pan: "Brother Xue and I will go to the study to sit down, and when I change my clothes, we will go." ”

After Baoyu changed his clothes and ordered someone to prepare a horse, he took the little servant and went out with Xue Pan.

When I arrived at Jinxiang Courtyard, Feng Ziying had been waiting there for a long time, and there were two girls who sang songs to sit together.

They saw each other, sat down to eat, drank three rounds, and the maiden plucked the lute and sang new songs.

After singing a few words, I saw a woman in lake-colored clothes, a light ink skirt, and only two beaded flowers on her head walking up, and said with a smile: "What a kind person, I want to come to you." ”

Feng Ziying was stunned for a moment, and then recognized that this woman was actually Yun'er, a girl she had known in the past, and couldn't help but smile, stood up and toasted Yun'er with a glass of wine, and said with a smile: "It's not that I'm unkind, it's that the little guy said that you don't have time?" I also said that you have a new guest, so you can't look down on me as an old person." ”

Yun'er threw her eyes, shook her handkerchief, and said coquettishly: "What kind of newcomer? The slave family is just trying on new clothes." ”

As he spoke, he twisted his waist, covered his mouth with a handkerchief, and said with a smile: "I heard that you are here, why don't people come out quickly." ”

When Xue Pan saw it, his soul fluttered, he got drunk before drinking, and hurriedly stepped forward to take Yun'er's hand and smiled: "Now that you're here, sit down and eat." ”

Yun'er smiled, sat down next to Baoyu, took a yellow orange, peeled it carefully, removed the white veins on it, divided it into petals, put it in a small saucer, and handed it to Baoyu: "You eat so much that your face is red, eat oranges to relieve hangover." ”

Baoyu hurriedly thanked him. Xue Pan did not suffer from widowhood but unevenness, and said dissatisfiedly: "Don't just give Baoyu, I'm also drunk, feed me two petals." ”

Yun'er glanced at the maid beside Xue Pan. The maid reached out and took an orange, peeled it off, fell asleep in Xue Pan's arms, stuffed a petal in Xue Pan's mouth, and said with a smile: "I'll feed you." ”

Xue Pan's soul flew away, and he didn't care about looking at Baoyu and Yun'er anymore, he only hugged the woman in his arms and laughed.

After eating a few more glasses of wine, Baoyu felt bored, but because Feng Ziying had a treat, she couldn't leave the table, so she had to talk to Yun'er, because she said, "The clothes on my sister's body are newly made? ”

Yun'er poured a glass of wine for Baoyu with a smile and said, "This is the fresh appearance of Jinling, and it is in fashion now." But what's wrong?"

Baoyu took the wine and said with a smile: "The clothes are good, but the color of this rouge doesn't match." ”

Speaking of rouge, Baoyu is full of interest: "This rouge color, the world loves to use bright red, thick cheeks, in fact, this is okay from a distance, but myopia is very gaudy." It is better to use light red rouge, wipe it in the palm of your hand, and pat it twice. It's just that the rouge sold in the market is not very positive in color, or too light, or too thick, and you have to wring out the juice when you buy it, and steam it with flower dew. I'm afraid that my sister will be troublesome. ”

Yun'er rolled her eyes and said with a smile: "What kind of trouble is this? You are also the son of everyone, don't you know how to make rouge in the palace? The petals should be of the same color, and one petal by one is carefully selected, and at most a dozen catties of petals can be picked out of hundreds of catties." In addition, the alum is pounded out of a white jade mortar, and filtered with a fine gauze that is washed and ironed neatly, and there is not a trace of thread. The strained flower juice is then poured into the rouge vat. After that, cut the fine silk cotton cloth into small pieces, fold it in a rouge tank and soak it for more than ten days, then take it out and dry it slowly. When it is dried, not even a trace of ash can be touched, and it will be wasted if it is stained. Is that what it's called tedious and cumbersome?"

Bao Yuqi said: "Where did my sister find out?"

Yun'er smiled: "Guess. ”

Baoyu shook her head, Feng Ziying smiled beside her, and said, "Cousin Ling's family, isn't it for the palace, why don't you ask him? Don't Yun'er bluff you." ”

Xue Pan was drinking heavily, and when he heard this, he waved his hand again and again: "Don't ask me, don't ask me, I don't know." It's better to eat and drink and listen to music. ”

Baoyu had no choice but to have a drink, Yun'er was afraid that Baoyu would be angry, and quietly laughed: "This is what a sister saw from the script, and those eunuchs in the palace said that it was written correctly." ”

Baoyu was extremely curious and asked, "Sister, do you know the name of this book?"

Yun'er smiled: "I can't remember clearly, it seems to be written by a mountain man, or is it written by a guest of Rong?"

Baoyu nodded, kept the name in his heart, and silently ate and drank without mentioning it.

Let's say that Jia Cong told Zhao Guoji yesterday that he was going to leave the house, and Zhao Guoji was waiting at the door early in the morning.

Jia Cong carried a hand stove and wore fur gloves, went out, and saw Zhao Guoji shivering in the cold wind, so he couldn't help but throw the hand stove to Zhao Guoji, and scolded with a smile: "You don't know how to wear more clothes." ”

Zhao Guoji sneezed, shook his neck, and said with a smile: "I thought that when I got to the house, there was a place to bake the fire, and I couldn't freeze anywhere, but I never thought that the weather would become so fast." ”

Jia Cong smiled and was about to speak, when he suddenly saw Jia Rui coming out of the mansion with a sad face, he couldn't help frowning and got into the car directly.

When he arrived at the house outside, Zhao Guoji said to Jia Cong: "...... Bai Yazi introduced a cook, saying that she used to be a top stove and worked as an errand in the eunuch's house, but later when she got older, she asked the master to match someone and let him go. The craftsmanship is really good, usually two or three tables of banquets, it is difficult to resist. Dude look?".