Chapter 54: The Dowry
As the words fell, a young man walked in from outside the door, Chunyu smiled when he saw it, and hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Brother Zhong, are you here to eat again?" ”
"You little girl, what do you mean by rubbing rice? Your brother is not as good as he was before, and he should entertain me, if nothing else, for the sake of me telling you so many stories, not to mention that he needs to use me now. ”
Xinghua knew that this was the eccentric genius that Chunyu said, so she also greeted each other lightly, and suddenly heard the old man next to Zhong Chunfeng smile and said, "The female doll in Zhong Xiucai's mouth who can make fresh dishes is you?" He praised you as if there was nothing in heaven or on earth, hehe, what a big breath, I don't believe it, old man. ”
Xinghua didn't wait to speak, Chunyu was not happy, pouted and said: "You old man is really not good at talking, even if you brag, it is Brother Zhong who brags, what does it have to do with my sister Xinghua?" What does it mean to be a good breath? Besides, if you don't believe it, you won't believe it, who is still rushing to ask you to believe it? ”
"Hey! This little girl has sharp teeth and a sharp mouth. The old man looked at Zhong Chunfeng and said with a smile: "I learned it all from you, right?" ”
Zhong Chunfeng smiled proudly: "That's." "The apricot blossoms with that expression are embarrassed, and what Chunyu said secretly is really right, no matter how talented this person is, but it is really grotesque, what is there to be proud of following you to learn this kind of thing?
Just thinking about it, he saw Zeng Yuan coming out from behind, and when he saw Zhong Chunfeng, he said: "Do you know that you are back......" Before he finished speaking, when he saw the old man, his face couldn't help but change, and he hurriedly said: "This is the old monster with a spiritual tongue you said?" ”
Apricot blossoms and spring rain are so hanging and falling: the spirit snake old monster? What's going on? They are just girls in the house, why did they get involved with Jiang Yang's thieves in a blink of an eye?
When the old man saw the two of them, his face turned pale. I understood, and said with a smile: "Don't talk nonsense, look at the two girls scared." Do not be afraid. The snake is not the long worm you think, it is the tongue of the tongue, old man, I prefer food, eat all over the world, this year I ate in the capital, and I made a little bit of a thin name in this restaurant and restaurant circle......"
"Ahh You're the old foodie? ”
As soon as the old man introduced himself like this, Chunyu and Xinghua immediately remembered it. They followed Gu Qiluo's cooking restaurant business, so they naturally wanted to learn about the restaurant in the capital, and there was indeed such a strange person among them. It's still Wang Yue'er who said it. At that time, Gu Qiluo smiled and said: "I didn't expect that there are really such delicious people in this world, isn't that just a gourmet?" Well, it's a foodie. ”
The word foodie is very novel and vivid. Therefore, Chunyu did not remember the gourmet. But he remembered the foodie, blurted out at this time, and only then did he know that he was wrong: Zhong Chunfeng invited this old man to come, obviously to promote the good name of Baiwei Restaurant, but he let himself offend with one mouth.
Zheng Na Na didn't know what to say, so he heard Xinghua laugh next to him: "Don't be surprised by the seniors, foodies are the meaning of gourmets." ”
Chunyu couldn't help but look at Xinghua, and secretly said that she was still Sister Xinghua. No wonder the girl said that she was thick-skinned enough to say this without blinking an eye. Although the girl also said that gourmets are foodies, it is no different from talking nonsense when you say this in this tone.
"Foodie...... Foodie ......" The old man repeated it twice, and suddenly laughed and said: "Well said, well said, the old man has a lifelong appetite for food, isn't he just a foodie?" Hahaha, the word is figurative and interesting, to my old man's appetite. Quick, girl, hurry up and fix another table of good things, as long as the old man and I are happy to eat, are you afraid that your Baiwei Restaurant will not be a guest? ”
"It's just a cloud of guests, we only have three tables of banquets here every day." Xinghua explained with a smile, but turned around and went to the back kitchen, while saying: "It's already past noon at this time, presumably everyone is hungry, I'll go cook, Brother Zeng and Mr. Zhong will entertain the seniors first." ”
"My name is Li Tiejun, just call me Uncle Li in the future, what seniors are not seniors." Li Tiejun sat down at the table, shouted with great interest, and then waited quietly for the meal to start.
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The incense curled up, Pearl Amber was sitting next to the smoked cage, and was gossiping and embroidering flowers, when they suddenly saw Gu Qiluo coming out of the back room, the two of them hurriedly got up and said, "The old lady is asleep?" ”
"Fell asleep." Gu Qiluo nodded, glanced at the smoked cage, and then frowned and said: "Now that it's spring, the house is warm, and grandmother doesn't like incense very much, and she is like this now......
When she said this, she saw that Amber's face changed color slightly, and her heart couldn't help but move, but her face was silent and said: "From now on, there is no need to put incense in this smoked cage." ”
"Yes, girl."
Amber's complexion only changed for a moment, and she returned to normal. Gu Qiluo glanced at her without a trace, but didn't find anything else, so he said, "You guys serve well here, I'll go outside to breathe." ”
"Yes. Don't worry, girl, thanks to you these two days, otherwise the old lady wouldn't know what it was like. ”
After Amber Pearl finished speaking, he watched Gu Qiluo go out, and here Amber glanced at the smoke cage, his brows furrowed slightly, but he quickly sat down again and continued to talk to Pearl.
Gu Qiluo looked at the peony in the courtyard for a while, and saw Xinghua and Chunyu hurriedly coming in, and the two of them told what happened in Baiwei Pavilion, Gu Qiluo was just about other things, but he was very interested in that family, and asked in detail about the situation at that time, Xinghua told everything she knew, and finally said: "The girl is a little worried?" The slave maid felt that they were credible, and also made Brother Zeng pay attention, Brother Zeng was a shrewd person, if they were not appropriate, he would definitely find out. ”
"Hehe, I'm not suspicious of that family, there aren't many people who can make you look away, not to mention that it sounds like it's just an ordinary family. I deduced from their situation that the snow disaster in Yunzhou seems to be very strict. ”
Xinghua said: "Isn't it Yan zhòng?" I don't know what grievances there are, a radius of thousands of miles, there was such a big snow in that place, I heard that the dark clouds destroyed the city at that time, the snow was as big as rice balls, overwhelming, and it was a foot thick in a while, and many houses collapsed overnight. Nowadays, in this world, there are many rich people, but more of them are poor people, otherwise there would not be so many people fleeing to the capital, and now I talked to Mr. Li and Brother Zeng, and I knew that there were forty or fifty people who starved to death in the past two days, alas! The treasury is empty, although the imperial court allocated silver to give porridge, but after the officials below have been exploited layer by layer, how can there be rice grains in the porridge? ”
This is exactly what Gu Qiluo wants to know the most, and when he heard this, he hurriedly said: "There are so many dignitaries and nobles in the capital, there are only a few thousand victims, and the court has no money, so don't these rich guys refuse to take out some money to give porridge and medicine?" ”
"Of course, there are such good people, but how many people can really accumulate kindness? As the saying goes, good people don't live long, but disasters last for a thousand years. The soup kitchen shed at the south gate is a line or two, but the girl knows it when she looks at it, they are all official articles, and the porridge is so rare that it can show the figure of a person. Occasionally, there are a few good families, but also can not stand the disaster victims, only two or three hundred catties of grain a day, do it to get done, yesterday Mrs. Zhang also said that the victims of the disaster for this fight, so that I am afraid that even so a few good people do not dare to give porridge again, and in the end the unlucky, or the victims. ”
Because Gu Qiluo is also in charge of the kitchen now, Xinghua and Chunyu often come and go, and they also heard the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law who bought it talk about the miserable situation at the South Gate, plus both of them are from poor backgrounds, and the inside story of these things is very clear, but this is not a happy thing after all, so they didn't mention it in front of Gu Qiluo, and now they heard the master ask, so they talked about it.
Gu Qiluo nodded while listening there, and when Xinghua saw her appearance, she couldn't help but smile and said, "Girl, can't help but feel compassion?" It's just that you should also think about the money in your hand, now the Baiwei Pavilion hasn't made a lot of money, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and today's two tables of banquets, but they have earned thirty taels, plus the silver in our house, how many catties of rice and noodles can be bought for less than two hundred taels of silver? If it is really a soup kitchen, I am afraid that it will be clean before dark in a day. ”
"I don't have any money, but Xiao Jiangbei does." Gu Qiluo smiled more and more heartily: the task given to her by the crown princess gave her a headache for the past two days, and now she can finally complete it satisfactorily.
Xinghua was thoughtful, but Chunyu was startled, and hurriedly said, "Girl, isn't it?" Do you want to use the second master's money to do good deeds? Will he be able to agree? ”
"How dare he disagree?" Gu Qiluo snorted, thinking in his heart that this was his sister's order, plus me, he just didn't want to, and he didn't dare to say it, not to mention that although he looked cold, his heart may not be really hard-hearted, of course, for the Tartars, it must be as cold as winter, but for the people of Great Xia, maybe it is like a spring-like cold heart, otherwise what else is there to talk about defending the family and the country? Hehe, is it easier to earn fame than to do charity? What's more, it also rescued the victims, yes, killing two birds with one stone, this is really a good thing to kill two birds with one stone.
Chunyu didn't know that there was anything about Xiao Jingchun here, and after listening to his girl's words, he couldn't help but admire, and secretly said that it was Xiao Qianhu, who was called a murderer in the past, and now the girl wants to be a fierce woman with a roar of the lion in Hedong in front of him, but this is bold, and there will be no second one in the world, amazing, too powerful.
The next day is the day when the Xiao family comes to be hired, although the Xiao family has a daughter who is the prince's concubine, but in the end it is not a prominent family, and the family is only wealthy, plus Xiao Donghai is a pragmatic and casual person, and he doesn't like luxury, so although the dowry is rich, it is by no means the luxury of those princely families who have caused a sensation in the capital to marry their daughters-in-law, just to show their respect for Gu Qiluo, so everything is just a well-selected high-quality product.
There are two boxes in it, which are mediocre in appearance, but if they are really opened, I am afraid that even the luxurious dowry of those princely families will be overshadowed, which is exactly the spoils of Xiao Jiangbei when he attacked the Northern Hun tribe at the border pass. (To be continued......)
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