"Sister Shui'er, let's go downstairs to find a box, and Sister Yu'er stays here."

Yu'er's mouth immediately pursed, and he muttered in a low voice: "Looking for a box is not carrying a box, why don't you call a slave to go?" ”

As soon as Yun'er's Danfeng eyes stood up, Yu'er immediately shut up and obediently handed over the key. After a while, Lan'er, Hui'er, Jing'er, and Shui'er carried two large cardboard boxes, came in from the hall, and put the boxes on the workbench.

"Oh! You have so much strength to lift such a large box? The fish saw it from the corridor and admired the little sisters too much.

"Sister Shui'er opens the box."

The box is very light, about the same as the one containing foam blocks. Yun'er looked at it and said, "These are all styrofoam soles, you don't need to put them on the upper directly, I will teach you this skill later." In addition, you can also use it to hook slippers and sandals. I'll teach you how to hook slippers first, Sister Yu'er, there's a box on the floor in the bookcase, and there's a small basket of colored threads in it, you can get it. ”

Yu'er promised to bring the basket for the colored thread, and Yun'er explained while demonstrating, and taught the method of hooking slippers to a few little sisters. The slippers she hooked out were something that a woman in the Qing Dynasty had never seen, and they were hooked out of three colored threads. Yun'er said that you can hook out a lot of patterns, which can be monochrome or colored, and you can also use silk to make uppers. It feels strong and durable, but also beautiful and innovative.

After the master's demonstration, the little sisters hurried to get the crochet needle. This is also a new skill, which is very suitable for Han Chinese women to wear.

Seeing that the five little sisters could accept this skill, Yun'er taught the skill of hooked shoes to the eight grandmothers, and the grandmothers did not promote this skill to all the girls in the house, but in the front and rear courtyards and Mrs. Chen's courtyard, so these fifty or sixty girls were immersed in the excitement of "learning without tirelessness" every day.

Very few people in the Qing Dynasty wore slippers, although slippers appeared before the Tang Dynasty. Maybe they don't think it's shoes, but the fish and water taste the sweetness, and when they get up at night, they pull to relieve their hands, and they don't need to carry their shoes, which is very convenient.

Yun'er also taught them the practice of cotton slippers and fluff slippers, Yu'er Shui'er is an expert in making shoes, and the master can dial it at a moment. Just use the notched awl and a very strong nylon rope that the master gave earlier, and use a sewing machine to line the upper of the shoe, and then you can tie the shoe. Up and down a rope, an awl to bring the rope below, and then from the sole direction to the upper rope down, each needle size is larger than the previous shoes, Yun Master said, styrofoam sole to make shoes needle size than Xu larger, small love open. The speed of this shoe is too fast, if you don't have to make the upper, you can make more than five pairs of shoes a day.

This calculation is relatively coarse, not as delicate and strict as embroidery, but if the thick branches and leaves are thick, it is easy to hook the upper crooked and wrinkled. Of course, the stitches should be uniform and flat, and the larger stitches and the smaller stitches are not beautiful.

Yun'er sent the four boxes of soles that were carried over one after another to the girls and grandmothers in the front and back yards, and the four boxes were gone. This work can be done after dinner and before going to bed, you can make slippers or cloth shoes, the upper must be delicate and beautiful, and of course the material of the upper is also responsible for Yun'er. There are more colored brocades and plain brocades in the wooden box, and the width suitable for making shoes will be distributed to everyone as soon as possible. There is also a very stiff brocade cloth that can also be used as an upper.

These days, Ling Juan has been recuperating in her own residence, and she hasn't followed Yun'er much. She has a lot of professional books in her hands, and she wants to read and remember all of them, so she keeps reading them. I missed several skills, but Shui Er personally came to make up for it.

The women who would be there were not only timid, but also face-loving, and they all made the shoes they were responsible for very exquisite. They put a cotton insole on the sole, and then the upper of the shoe, so that it looks good and does not look awkward, and the plastic does not touch the foot. All kinds of foam-soled shoes are light and beautiful, not only Han women will like it, but also women from Manchu families. got Ruiqian's cloth village, and as soon as it was put on the shelves, there was a long queue of stands. Ruiqian never thought that his cloth village would be used as a shoe store, and he didn't know how many skills Sister Yun had learned in that foreign land. Tian Liang sent Ruiqian a few pairs of specially processed foam soles, crochet slippers, and satin shoes with straps, which immediately became samples for Ruiqian's mother, daughter-in-law, and daughter. It's just that crocheted slippers are slower and in short supply. By the time the female dependents of some large families got the news, they had already sold out. The billboard reads: "Slippers are out of stock, sorry." ”

Cousin Fujin, who has never been to the house, is here. In addition to his uncle's family in the capital, Fujin's relatives also have an aunt who lives in Xicheng. This cousin is the daughter of Fu Jin's uncle, that is, the niece of Fu Jin's mother, two or three years older than Fu Jin, although she is in her forties, she can vaguely see that she was also a beautiful woman when she was young. Mild-tempered, not good at talking, but very kind. Her husband's family is in Tianjin, and the two of them and three children live together and run a pickle garden.

Due to the different status, this cousin entering the palace is the same as Grandma Liu entering the Grand View Garden, which is novel and inferior. Her social status is very low, that is, the common people. Fujin's mother is a small jasper, and her husband was just an ordinary officer when she got married, and later inherited her father's leadership. Fu Jin's mother is naturally the Commander's Wife. She didn't expect that her daughter would become the prince of Fujin in the future, everything was destined, and everyone had their own blessings and opportunities.

With the consent of the prince, Fu Jin told his cousin a few recipes for Yun'er to make pickles for her, and her cousin was so moved that she cried. One more skill is one more guarantee of survival. At that time, it was "one trick to eat all over the world", and Fujin also gave his cousin a few recipes for Korean pickles, of course, it should be called Korean pickles. My cousin and Fu Jin were very close when they were young, and they were divided into superior and inferior when they got married. Fu Jin took his cousin to walk around the house and look at the flowers in the garden.

"Sister Xiu'er, you are really blessed, your brother-in-law's status is so high, and he is so good to you, and he is more affectionate than ordinary people. I can see that the prince pities you very much. ”

"Yes, the prince couldn't be better to me. The prince married Sister Yun'er, Sister Yun'er gave birth to a son and sealed the son, and later gave birth to a pair of dragon and phoenix fetuses, and the prince still treated me the same as before, and did not dislike me because I didn't give birth to a son. ”

"It's rare for a brother-in-law to have such a character."

"Cousin, you will come often in the future, and if you have any difficulties, just tell me directly. I have the ability to help you now, so you're welcome. ”

"Sister really has something to ask you. Your brother-in-law is a scholar, and he is not a material for business at all. It's just that a few sons and a son-in-law can still manage it, and there are no relatives in Tianjin, so I want to come to the capital......"

"Wow, even though my sister is here, I have one more relative. Uncle is my relative, but he is a member of the court and the father of Concubine Tong, so it is not easy to live closely with us. It is said that Qin Hui still has a few friends, and I really don't have many sisters here who can talk to him. Sister Yun'er and I are good, but we are too different in age, and we serve a husband, so there are some things that we can't say casually. So it's best if you can come to Beijing, let the prince send someone to find a house for you, and your brother-in-law in Tianjin must also have his own family, and the house and shop will be handed over to relatives to take care of, and you will come to the capital to develop. If you want, sell goods to us, and if you want to do it yourself, become a franchise store. ”

"Isn't that too much trouble for you? Can he agree? ”

"Don't worry about this, the prince is the most benevolent, and anyone who asks for him will be willing to help. Do you have any trouble leaving Tianjin? ”

"Don't mention it, our family's pickle garden is bitter for the neighbors, and they have a relative of the prefect as a backer, and we ......"

"Then what are you hesitating about? Come on. ”

"Do you have the final say in the house? The prince's brother-in-law, Fang Fujin, is young and beautiful, and has three children, so he is much tougher than you, right? ”

"You think too much, Sister Yun is better than me everywhere, but this is a knowledgeable person, she has an excellent character, and she has never said a bad word about me in front of the prince. You'll know when you see tomorrow. ”

"It's not good, my sister has big feet and ugly face."

"Look at what you said, do yourself like this? You stay in the house for a few more days, and then you come and go as often as you move in. We are cousins, close relatives, and come to me when we have difficulties. You play for a few days first, and don't rush back. I said to the prince when I turned around. ”

Fujin's affairs and the prince said that there is nothing that should not be promised, but relatives are going to come to defect, and people are not here to pump Feng, nor are they to buy officials, but to help find a house and open a shop, this matter, Mr. Bai will easily do it. There are several well-connected purchasers in the house, what can't be done?

It was done in less than a month, and my cousin's family moved to the capital to still run a pickle garden, in addition to their previous reserved items, they also made some new pickles and sauces according to exotic recipes, and the business was very prosperous.

If you want to say that Fujin's cousin's pickles are still learned from Fujin, Fujin learned them from his grandmother who is full of personality. This old lady is not pampered, and she has a lot of skills, such as yellow sauce, plate sauce, sticky bean buns, kidney bean cut cake, and eggplant sauce...... All of them have been inherited and carried forward by Fujin. Everyone knows that the sauce of Ruiwangfu is particularly delicious, not to mention the pickles that come out of this sauce: pickled mustard greens, pickled cucumbers, pickled celery, and pickled radish are the four major series. So that's what Fujin's cousin's reserved items are. Those who have eaten it still want to eat it, and it is a very mellow Kanto flavor. My cousin's neighbor couldn't see that people were better than him, so one night, he ordered a few men to go into the backyard of his cousin's house in Fujin and fill the sauce jar with cold water. Fight a lawsuit over a few jars of miso? I don't think it's worth it, because I already knew that there was a backstage. It's not impossible to ask for help from the prince's brother-in-law, and the cousin's family doesn't want to cause trouble to Fujin. But it's not good to do it there any longer.

It is said that a good man has three gangs, and it is not easy for a person to jump out of a dry well, but if someone reaches out and pulls him or gives him a ladder, it will be different. My cousin's family is still the same few people, but with the help of Wang Ye Fujin, it can't be the same. Her family used to operate several sauces such as yellow sauce, bean paste and plate sauce, which are often eaten by ordinary people, as well as mustard greens, cucumbers, radishes and other pickles. There are more than a dozen recipes for Fujin to make pickles for his cousin. The prince didn't let his cousin Fujin sell pickles on behalf of him, because the price of pickles was relatively low, and the dividends were too small, so he let them do it themselves, and when they shared, the processing fees and operating expenses all belonged to the cousin. Of course, there is a copy for the emperor, and it was agreed with my cousin in advance, and it is also the nature of the franchise store.

My cousin and brother-in-law are both very capable and hard-working people, pickled pickles and miso are all done by a few people in their own family, two sons, two sons, two daughters-in-law, and a daughter-in-law and son-in-law all came to the capital. If you have such a big-rooted relative and don't rely on it, who else can you rely on?

Fu Jin successively copied down the recipes for the softly packaged pickles and sauces that the master put in the prince's study, and the specific quota cousin explored in practice. Among them: salad dressing, chili sauce, hawthorn sauce, caviar, noodle sauce, hoisin sauce, watermelon sauce, sesame sauce, sweet noodle sauce, pizza sauce, date sauce, fragrant sauce, red yeast sauce, pearl sauce、...... But I was so happy with my cousin. The more varieties the customers have, the wider the choice, the more they can sell, and the more money they can make.

I thought that my cousin would not take care of her because of her high status, but she turned out to be more enthusiastic about helping her than anyone else.

At that time, people were very self-disciplined, and there were people who bullied others, but there were still many kind people, who would think about others and don't cause trouble to others. Cousin Fujin is like this, she really can't get by, and she will soon have no livelihood before she comes to find her cousin. Where did I think my cousin would be so helpful.

Grandma Liu in "Dream of Red Mansions" was also very inferior when she entered Jia's mansion, but fortunately, she voted for Jia's mother's fate, and the draw was quite successful, but it was also the price of being teased, and no one in the prince's mansion treated her relatives like this.

The concept of the prince is to take advantage of the convenient conditions to help whoever he can. It's generally about helping others when they need it. There is a saying that "the rich are not benevolent". Many rich and powerful people are arrogant when their careers or power are at their peak, and they look down on people who are lower than themselves, but if they help others at this time, they will accumulate good results, just like Jiafu accidentally helped Grandma Liu once, Wang Xifeng's daughter escaped the tragic fate of laughing in the Qinglou. There is a folk saying: "Good money is hard to give up". Very few people can give one or two pieces of silver for food, and very few people can give ten yuan. But if an important person in a rich man's family is kidnapped by bandits, they will give as much as they want.

What was difficult for Cousin Fujin to solve by himself, Prince Fujin easily settled it. (To be continued.) )