Chapter 40: Saffron and Su
The next day, Jianqiu happily came to ask Su Rongyi to name the newly opened shop.
Su Rongyi was reading a book of words.
picked up the pen and wrote the words "Flower Moon Spring Breeze" on the paper and handed it to her.
Jianqiu felt that this name had a high-end feeling that she couldn't say, and said excitedly: "Miss, what do you mean by this?" ”
"Say? No. ”
Su Rongyi was very calm, and she raised the book in her hand.
When she named Lang Yu Zhai, she also took which poem she read from.
Jianqiu was speechless, and looked at Su Rongyi with blank eyes.
How can there be a feeling that the glorious image of a young lady is collapsing more and more?
Su Rongyi stretched out his hand, "There are a lot of these poems and lyrics in the Su family, I'm really tired of reading them, you accompany me to change a few copies." ”
Jianqiu leaned over mysteriously and said, "Miss wants to see fresh?" Do you want a slave to help you? ”
"Where are you going?"
Jianqiu was very proud, "How many miscellaneous dramas in Jinling should be, I guarantee that you can't watch them day and night, even if they are performed in the theater outside, they are all based on popular stories." ”
Su Rongyi also knows the taste of Jiangnan people, "Another good story of a talented and beautiful woman?" ”
In fact, she prefers to read idle books in the Northwest than these. In the stories of the border herdsmen and the Hu people, there will always be various grassland animals incarnated as people, either going to the herdsmen's houses to make trouble, or taking the owner to find treasures and so on, which is very interesting.
Doesn't Miss have a yearning for these beautiful love stories? Jianqiu looked at her lack of interest thoughtfully.
Honeysuckle came in with something in his hand.
There was obviously a look of embarrassment on her face, "Miss, this is sent by the young master of the big table, saying that his flint bag is too simple, let you look at it and embroider a pattern......"
Su Rongyi is good at Shu embroidery, and it has been less than a day since the news came out.
Does he have an opinion about himself?
Su Rongyi glanced at the half-worn black flint bag and said, "Go pick out some brocade and make another one." ”
"This ......" Honeysuckle felt inappropriate, after all, they were cousins with different surnames.
"He is the eldest young master of the Bai family, can he lack such a thing? He just wants me to make amends. ”
"Reparations?" The two girls don't know what to do, when did they offend him?
And the young master has always had a good temper, so why do you still have to deal with girls.
Su Rongyi also thinks that he is a strange person, but he doesn't hate it, in this family, she can still tell who is good to her and who is not good to her, at least Bai Xu's mother and son have no ill will towards her.
She has always been such a person, reporting straightforwardly, so it is not unbearable to face his sudden young master's little temper, anyway, he has to do it.
Su Rongyi asked Xu Xia to go out with a note and hand it to Xu You, asking him to prepare to play the plaque of Huayue Spring Breeze, and Jianqiu followed Su Rongyi to hide it with a few books after reading.
"Take the box I asked Boss Qiu to hand in last time, and let's go around Mrs. Gu's."
"It turns out that Miss is looking for this thing for Mrs. Aunt?"
Originally, I didn't think about it so much, and now it's nothing to give it to the Su family, but it's just a reciprocation.
Su Shi opened the box in surprise.
"It's ......"
A familiar scent hits the face.
The small box looked like clusters of slender bright red stamens.
"It's saffron, I used to see a small tube of saffron balm in my aunt's hand, thinking maybe you like this thing, but unfortunately you only got some, it's a bit of a waste to make incense, you take a few sticks of soaked water and drink it a few times a day, it's also very good for the skin of the body."
Su Shi didn't know, "Can this thing still be soaked in water to drink?" ”
"Yes, it is originally used to make medicine, it is very expensive, only take the small stigma of the flower, and not every flower is long."
Su Shi thinks he is well-informed, but he doesn't know any of this.
"Have you ever seen this flower? Where is it planted? ”
Su Rongyi said with a smile: "Auntie, this flower is very precious, and it can only be planted further west in the Western Regions, and it is impossible to see it in the Great Zhou." ”
She had seen saffron dried and brought back by someone before, and she had heard that it was even more beautiful and vivid when she was alive.
Su Shi's face showed pity, "Then the tube of balm in my hand ......"
No wonder she finds this balm very easy to use, nourishing the skin, and the fragrance is unique, which is very good for her spleen and stomach. It turned out to be really made of medicine, but because she had such a little bit in her hand, now she only used a piece the size of a fingernail, which is a pity.
She looked at the box in her hand, raised her eyes and looked at Su Rongyi, and said in her heart that this girl is very capable, and she does know what she likes.
Su Rongyi didn't think as much as she thought, "Auntie, I'm afraid that the nobles in the palace may not be blessed to use it, and a tube the size of a small thumb can't be exchanged for a big yellow croaker." ”
Su Shi was slightly surprised, she knew that this thing was rare, but she didn't expect Jin Gui to be like this.
Su Rongyi originally asked Qiu Qingkong to spend his grandmother's efforts to get such a little, and he was also inspired by the Su family, thinking that he might be able to use them to make incense, but when he got his hands on it, he found that this was not a wise move.
She vaguely remembered that she had heard that saffron was once a spice for the imperial dishes of Emperor Gu Xirong, obviously it could be made into incense, but Su's balm tasted very light and dispersed quickly.
If she wants to use saffron to make money like Su Hexiang back then, I'm afraid she will have to wonder if she can match it with other spices, and ensure its unique fragrance......
Su Shi was stunned when he saw her, and he couldn't help coughing.
Su Rongyi came back to his senses.
Su Shi smiled lightly: "It's hard for you to have a heart, it just so happens that I am going to celebrate my birthday in a few days, and I like this gift very much." ”
Su Rongyi didn't expect that he could still hit crookedly like this, so he had to laugh.
Before leaving, she said to Su Shi again: "Auntie, let's find a well-informed doctor to take a look, this thing has not passed through the doctor's hands, you should not use it lightly." ”
Su Shi thought to herself, what a ghost girl, she is not the second wife and the third wife, why would she say such things.
"You dare to take it, what am I afraid of?" Su Shi said: "I also want to thank you. ”
Su Rongyi's smile flashed, and he saluted and went out.
Su's mother said, "Mrs. is very fond of Miss San." ”
Su Shi snorted, "What do you like, there are too many thoughts in my head." ”
"But it's also upright."
Being told by the old servant that he was in his mind, Su Shi also sighed lightly, "It is indeed rare." ”
Clever but upright people are simply rare.
Su Shi thought of his eldest son, and everyone thought that Su Shi also liked Bai Sheng, who was beautiful and could read, and had a clever mouth, but only she knew that among her children, only Bai Xu was really like her.
The mother next to her guessed again, "The third young lady is not wronged by our young master." ”
"Mouthy." Su Shi was light, but he was not angry.
He was also a hard boy.