Chapter 15 Profiteering
"Ugh!" Gu Jiaoxiang suddenly spoke, Dongyue was startled, took a step back in a panic, and looked at her with a panicked face. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
However, seeing that Gu Jiaoxiang just asked casually, she came back to her senses and replied with a light cough: "The old man came back after noon yesterday, first stayed in the study until almost evening, and after cleaning his clothes, he sent someone to invite the ancestor to come over and open the Buddha shrine, and began to pour wine and sacrifice to the stove, and then accompanied the ancestor to have a vegetarian meal, and after talking with the ancestor in the study, he rested. ”
It is their custom to sacrifice the stove day, which is the day of the 23rd day of the lunar month every year, when the head of the family returns home, personally baptizes and serves wine and tea, and leads all the men of the family to worship the king of the stove.
A few days ago, Gu Deyuan went to Guchuan County, Linxian County with the convoy of Gu's spices, and did not return to his home until the twenty-third day of the lunar month, that is, yesterday, and his return to his home also marked that in another five days, Gu's large and small spice shops began to close their doors and thank customers, and they would not reopen for business until the fifth day of the first month of January.
Gu Jiaoxiang didn't delve into why when she was sick and asleep, how did Dongyue find out about the affairs of yesterday's outer courtyard, but she thought of her father Gu Deyuan in her heart, and she was a little worried in her heart.
Rao is not like a person like her father who spoils his concubine and kills his wife, but she also knows that now Gu Deyuan is her only way to survive in this ancient mansion.
In the past, the Zhang family relied on Gu Deyuan's support, but she did a lot of disgusting things with her mother, but now she is no longer the obedient girl, since she wants to take revenge, she naturally wants to take advantage of the situation. And the only thing she can do in this broken courtyard at present is to borrow the power of Gu Deyuan, the master of the ancient mansion, that is, her own father.
Gu Jiaoxiang sat on the edge of the bed with her gauntlet in her hands, thinking about how she could get into Gu Deyuan's eyes.
At this time in her previous life, she was still asleep because of illness, and she didn't know if there was anything special going on in the house, so for a while, she couldn't find an opportunity to take advantage of it.
Dongyue looked at her young lady and began to be in a daze again, although she didn't understand it, but when she thought of the reward she had just received in her arms, she immediately burst into flames, and said to Gu Jiaoxiang: "Miss, I'll go to the kitchen to have a look." ”
As she spoke, she had already walked out to the door, and this time she went out of the house, and did not assign the maid in the yard with a cold face, but went to the kitchen herself.
When Dongyue came back with a food box, Gu Jiaoxiang was still racking her brains thinking about what happened at this time in her previous life, but she had no clue.
Dongyue put the food box on the table and opened it, took out a bowl of white porridge and a plate of pickles and put it on the table, only to sigh with a little regret and complained: "It's just a moment's work, and the food is cold in the food box." My mother is right, it's going to snow on such a cold day. ”
Dongyue's voice was not loud, but it still reached the ears of Gu Jiaoxiang on the side, only to see her eyes suddenly brighten, and she stood up with some excitement: "I remembered!" ”
"Miss? What do you remember? Dongyue was startled, the lid of the food box in her hand almost fell to the ground, and she asked with a puzzled look after holding it in her hand.
Gu Jiaoxiang didn't pay attention to Dongyue, but was in a good mood and paced left and right in front of the bed.
Dongyue's words reminded her of her previous life, when Yangcheng County had a heavy snowfall at the beginning of the New Year, although the snow was heavy, it only fell for half a night, and it did not have much impact on Yangcheng County.
However, the town a little farther away from Yangcheng County is miserable, because the heavy snow began in the middle of the year to continue, and it fell for three days, and because of the southern climate, a heavy snow that is rare in a hundred years, the people are strange, and the government has not been able to introduce effective control measures in time, resulting in heavy snow, collapsed houses, blocked roads, and the severity of the disaster, which is the worst in Cangxian County.
A natural disaster suddenly fell, and the people were miserable, and by the time the imperial court sent troops to clear the snow, it was already a year later. In Yangcheng County, which is located 100 miles south of Cangxian County, although the people have not been affected, Gu Jiaoxiang knows that there is a Changming incense lamp in her shop, but the raw materials are from Cangxian County.
Changming incense lamp, is the most commonly used incense in the ancestral hall to worship the ancestors of the people's New Year, this incense comes from the ancient incense shop, the exclusive secret recipe is made, because it is combustible for three days, it is most respected by the people, and it is the most popular on the eve of the New Year's Festival.
As soon as this incense came out on the fifth day, the original day of the twentieth day of the lunar month, the raw materials produced in Cangxian County should have been transported to Yangcheng County, just in time for the last batch of orders before the year, but now it has passed the twenty-fourth, four days late, but it has not been delivered, just because the snow disaster blocked the only way from Cangxian County to Yangcheng County, the road was blocked, and the convoy of materials could not pass.
Gu Jiaoxiang remembered that in her previous life, it was because of this incident that the orders of Gu's incense shop could not be delivered on time, which caused Gu's spice business to plummet.
Although Gu Jiaoxiang avoided seeing Gu Deyuan's face because of illness, she also learned about it intermittently after a year.
Now, she thought, his father should be anxious about this incense, with her ability to make incense in her previous life, it would be easy to change the incense recipe for incense. At the moment, if she uses this matter to solve the crisis of the Gu clan, presumably Gu Deyuan will look at her differently.
A good opportunity should not be missed, Gu Jiaoxiang thought of this, and immediately opened her mouth to tell Dongyue to prepare pen and ink, wrote a fragrant recipe with ease, blew the paper, put it on the table, turned her head and commanded Dongyue: "Dongyue, hurry up and serve me to freshen up, I want to go and ask for peace!" ”
"Greetings?" The winter moon is unknown.
"Naturally, everything is a gift for the Son of Man, warm in winter and clear in summer, calm and morning in the morning. I'm also the eldest lady of the ancient mansion now, so naturally I have to go to say hello every morning. Gu Jiaoxiang said with a smile.
The sun is coming out in the west? Winter Moon only has this question now. When did her young lady go to ask for an invitation before?
Although she knew that it was not her young lady who was ignorant of etiquette and righteousness before, and never asked her elders to say goodbye, it was just that the eldest lady in the house did not want to see the young lady at all, and she had long been exempted from the eldest lady's greeting ceremony.
Now the eldest lady is suddenly going to say goodbye? What's going on here?
Dongyue didn't know why, she just thought Gu Jiaoxiang was joking, until she followed Gu Jiaoxiang out of her courtyard and really arrived at the main courtyard, she was still thinking about this problem.
And Zhang, who was being served breakfast in the main courtyard room, heard the maid say that Gu Jiaoxiang came to ask for peace, and suddenly a burst of anger surged, put down the chopsticks in his hand heavily, and said with a gloomy face: "Please be safe?" Who told her to come and say goodbye? ”。
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