CHAPTER XXVIII
Things are done, but it is not Du Qiyue's duty to send them over. He didn't mind taking a trip, anyway, it was just a matter of a few steps, and he wouldn't suffer a loss if he could take a few more glances at Wu Mingyao's beautiful cousin, but from the situation just now, it seemed that Du Qiyue knew that the courtyard should not be accessible to anyone, especially a stranger like him. Therefore, Du Qiyue wanted to hand over the tray to the girl who brought him over just now. Who knew that the girl had already quietly left when he entered the kitchen, and there was still a figure there.
Du Qiyue walked up to the cook who had just introduced him to the kitchen and asked, "This sister-in-law, may I ask where is the girl who sent me over just now?" ”
"She is the girl in Aunt Liu's yard, and she went back just now. Lang Jun, what are you looking for her to do? The cook asked.
Aunt Liu? That girl was obviously in Wu Mingyao's yard just now, how did she become Aunt Liu's girl again. Du Qiyue didn't understand these things, so she only lifted the tray in her hand and said, "I want to ask her to help bring these to the Jade Courtyard." ”
"Lang Jun, you'd better find someone else." The cook said.
Where is there anyone else, Du Qiyue stood and looked around, stunned that he didn't see anyone else, so he had to say, "Then ask my sister-in-law to help send someone to send it." ”
The cook laughed when she heard this, she patted the dust on her hands because of picking vegetables, glanced at Du Qiyue and said, "We, the people in the kitchen, are only in charge of cooking the meals of the young master and the young master, and nothing else is our job." This Lang Jun, look at the smell of oil smoke all over our bodies, where is our turn to serve food and deliver food. ”
"And what about these things?" Du Qiyue made a difficulty, there was such a big courtyard in Wu Mansion, how many people he saw along the way when he came in, but at this time, he couldn't find anyone who could help him serve things.
The cook saw that Du Qiyue was young and obviously deliberately embarrassed, so she said: "Don't look at Lang Jun, the kitchen is full of fumes, and those who serve people in the room will not come here." It's past breakfast, and no one is going to go here. I said that since Lang Jun had entered the courtyard of the young master just now, he didn't attract the blame of our young master, so let's go by myself. When you send it to the door of the Jade Temple, there will always be a girl or a waiter who will come out to help you get in. ”
What can Du Qiyue do, so he had to carry it to the Jade Courtyard by himself. He thought in his heart that he would definitely find someone when he arrived at the Shuyu Courtyard, but the gate of the Shuyu Courtyard was open, and the little maids and little brothers who were originally standing under the porch to tease the birds were gone, and the whole courtyard was quiet with a depressing atmosphere, and even the birds did not make a sound.
Du Qiyue wanted to call someone out, but he thought that Wu Mingyao had sent someone to find a doctor just now, and he was afraid that he was being diagnosed and treated, so he closed his mouth again. But if he doesn't call people out, it's not a way for him to stand at this door, and the food in his hand is about to be cold. After hesitating left and right, Du Qiyue finally walked in cautiously.
The old doctor in the room had just finished taking the pulse, and while talking about the diagnosis, he followed Mama Shu Ci out of the bedroom, "...... It's not a big deal, I think it's because the weather has changed a lot in the past few days, and I've suffered a little evil. I changed the previous prescription and took it the same as before. It's just that don't eat more things in the future, the young master is a little too weak now, which is not good. ”
Mama Shu Ci nodded and said to Qin Yun who was following behind; "You follow the doctor to get the prescription and grab the medicine, come back and go to the kitchen to say, you don't need to make up for the ingredients in the future."
"Ugh." Qin Yun responded, but turned his head and saw Du Qiyue standing at the door, he frowned, and said with a disgusted expression: "Why are you here again, don't you get out quickly." Then he shouted outside, "What about the people!?" I was standing all over the yard just now, but now none of them are gone. If you open the courtyard door, you dare to run around, and if you don't come out quickly and pull this person out! ”
Du Qiyue was also holding back the anger in his heart, he obviously didn't offend anyone, but he was brought to this courtyard by a plain calculation, fortunately, Wu Mingyao didn't look for him to be unlucky, and now he has made something good and sent it over, and no one will come to take it, but he was inexplicably pointed at his nose and scolded. In his previous life, Du Qiyue was the chef of a five-star hotel, and he hadn't been scolded for many years, so he put the tray on the porch stool and said with a straight face: "This waiter, although I am a countryman, I may be somewhat lacking in etiquette, but I have been reading for a few years, and I also know what it means to distinguish between right and wrong." Your cousin asked me to cook food for your young master, I couldn't find anyone to take it when I was ready, I came and stood at the gate of the yard for a long time and no one came out. ”
Qin Yun was stunned for a moment and wanted to scold back, but when he heard Du Qiyue's meaning that he was a scholar, he stubbornly retracted the words. Although Qin Yun is a first-class waiter in the Hou Mansion, and he has a bit of an identity in front of others, he is a slave after all. If Du Qiyue was just a rural farmer, he would scold him, but Du Qiyue is a scholar, even if he is just a poor and remote scholar, he can't compare to Du Qiyue in terms of class status. Of course, relying on the power of the Hou Mansion, Qin Yun can scold Du Qiyue, but if he doesn't know how to scold him, I'm afraid that Mama Shu Ci won't be relieved to let him follow his young master in the future.
Qin Yun thought about these things for a moment, and understood that he should have been helped by Du Qiyue's call, but as soon as he shouted just now, the rough maids who were hiding in the pantry behind had already run out, and now they were looking at this side with wide eyes. Qin Yun couldn't get over her face, and asked Du Qiyue with a red face, "Don't you know how to call people?" ”
"I don't know anyone here, who is it called? Besides, I can't afford to call the people of your Gaomen compound, and I haven't been called yet, so I was scolded for no reason. Du Qiyue snorted and said.
Qin Yun's face turned red when she was choked, and Mama Shu Ci saw that he had been taught a lesson, so she stood up and became a peacemaker, and said to Du Qiyue: "It's all because Qin Yun is too dry-tempered, but this is just a misunderstanding, and please don't be surprised by this Langjun." Let Lang Jun bother to make these two foods, and I thank Lang Jun for our young master. If Lang Jun is fine, let me send someone to send Lang Jun out. ”
Du Qiyue is not unforgiving, besides, Qin Yun is Wu Mingyao's cousin's subordinate, if he really cares, he will not give Wu Mingyao face, so he stepped on the steps and followed the words of Shu Ci's grandmother, and asked her to send a little girl to send him out of the house.
After Du Qiyue left, Mama Shu Ci glared at Qin Yun fiercely and drove him to chase the old doctor. Mama Shu Ci is not really angry with Qin Yun, she knows that Qin Yun is worried that Zhao Yiyun's body will be angry and stumbling over someone to lose her temper, but her temperament is not safe enough, and she lost her temper and found the wrong person. No matter what Wu Mingyao does to Zhao Yiyun, they are guests in the end, even if Du Qiyue is just a rural farmer, but the other party is the person invited by Wu Mingyao, Qin Yun's anger at Du Qiyue is to give Wu Mingyao no face.
Du Qiyue followed the little girl out of the house, and happened to meet Lian Ming who came out of the Wang Steward in the outer courtyard, so she stopped and said hello before leaving, this scene happened to be seen by Liuming, who came back from buying vegetables. Liu Ming sneered disdainfully in his heart, walked up to Lian Ming's side and said casually: "This Du Langjun is a rare handsome, but he is a little younger, and he is a poor countryman. ”
Although Lian Ming and Liu Ming also grew up together, he actually doesn't like Liu Ming very much, because Liu Ming has a big heart. As a personal attendant, Liuming will come to things, so he is always more favored by Zhao Yiyun on weekdays, and when he plans well like him, he will be able to find a rich and good family to marry and be the main house, even if their young master is squeezed into this town by the eldest young master, but he is still the second son of the Wu family, the first emperor of the Dafeng Dynasty, even if he is just a warm bed, he must be a girl or brother from a good family, Where is it their turn to be a minion?
So seeing Liu Ming Lian Ming didn't want to pay attention to him, but he was not happy when he heard Liu Ming's words, and the corners of his mouth twitched and said: "Liu Ming, you are a good first-class attendant, you actually go to do some rough work to buy things, if you are seen by outsiders, don't you think that our Wu Mansion can't afford to buy slaves, so we can only let the master's personal attendants do rough work, and lose the face of our house." ”
Liu Ming was scolded by Lian Ming in a roundabout way, and stomped hard and said: "Who do you say is disgraced, I think you are jealous that I have this craft, the young master just likes to eat the side dishes I make, and it is useless for you to be envious!" Hum! ”
"Then you can go and cook your side dishes, I still have work to do, and I don't have time to talk to you here." Lian Ming didn't want to quarrel with Liuming at all, so she said a cold word and turned away, leaving Liuming to grit her teeth angrily.
There is a street called Sanzhu Street in Dahu Town, which specializes in buying and selling livestock and poultry, Du Qiyue went there when he came out of Wufu, and now it is not early, and many people who rushed to the market have gone back, so the street is not very lively, only scattered with some stalls. Du Qiyue didn't look much, and walked directly to a few livestock sheds at the end of the street, which specialized in selling large livestock, and from a distance, you could see the big guys such as cows and horses locked in the fence.
"This Lang Jun, what do you want to buy, I have everything in my livestock shed except for horses, do you want Lang Jun to take a look." As soon as Du Qiyue walked over, a sturdy man with a full beard came over and greeted him warmly.
Du Qiyue glanced at the barn behind the man, and sure enough, there were all kinds of donkeys, and three of them were tied to the nearest place to the fence.
"I want to see the donkey, how are you donkey?"
"Lang Jun, you are asking the right person, the donkey that belongs to my grandson's third family on this whole street is the best. Lang Jun, take a look at these three aconitum donkeys, just a family of three, each of them is uniform and tall, and the fur is smooth and bright. As soon as Sun Laosan heard that there was a door to this business, he suddenly became more enthusiastic, and as he spoke, he pulled the head of the tallest donkey, broke his eyelids and mouth, and pulled his tongue to show Du Qiyue, "This Langjun, look at the spiritual head and teeth of this donkey, they are all good donkeys, if I don't marry my daughter-in-law in two months, waiting to save money to pick up the family house, I am not willing to sell these three donkeys." ”
Du Qiyue doesn't know anything about donkeys, but these three donkeys look really good, they are full of energy, their voices are also loud, their whole body is jet black, their fur is oily and smooth, they are shining in the sun, and they are all very strong, and the muscles on their bodies are bulging out, and they don't need to touch them to know that they must be hard. Du Qiyue looked at it, except that they were a little shorter, and the three donkeys were no worse than the horses locked in the barn on the side.
"This donkey looks good, I don't know what the price is?" Du Qiyue patted the big donkey led by Sun Laosan and said.
"This male horse has 15 donkeys, the female has 16 horses, and the small horse has 10 horses, all of them are good donkeys, and they are working well!" Sun Laosan said.
Good fellow, the price of a little donkey can top a calf, and he remembers that their cow was only ten dollars when he was small.
"This small one also costs ten yuan, I think it's too small, and I can't even grind it when I buy it." Du Qiyue pointed to the little donkey standing in the middle and said.
"Lang Jun, don't look at it small, it has a lot of strength, carrying people, carrying things, pulling carts, and pulling mills, even if you want to plow the field, it may be almost good, but it will be no problem to raise it for half a year."
"Yes, can it move me, this thin leg?" Du Qiyue said critically.
"I'll pull it out and let Lang Jun give it a try, it's no problem to keep it, this back is thick and thick, and it won't be a problem for Lang Jun to ride it for ten miles." As he spoke, Sun Laosan opened the fence, took the little donkey out, and put on a simple saddle made of several pieces of cloth.
Du Qiyue had never ridden a donkey, but he could ride a horse, and he was not hypocritical, so he immediately climbed up and let Sun Laosan lead him around. The donkey was a little short, and Du Qiyue was almost on the ground when he sat on his feet, but he could indeed carry him, and Du Qiyue was quite comfortable to sit on.
"This donkey is okay, but it's still too small, if only it could be bigger." After Du Qiyue jumped down, he touched the little donkey's head and said.
"Then Lang Jun want to buy this female donkey, this female donkey has only been raised for two years, and she can give birth to cubs for several years in the future, so it is cost-effective to buy it back." Sun Laosan pointed to the female donkey and said.
Of course, Du Qiyue knows that it is cost-effective to buy a female donkey, but he will ride this donkey every day in the future, and he will not be able to ride it as soon as the female donkey is pregnant with a cub.
"I fancy this little donkey, it's a little smaller, if it can be a little bigger, it can be ten dollars. With such a small amount of money, you can't use it immediately when you buy it back, and you have to wait, which is not cost-effective. Du Qiyue said.
When Sun Laosan heard this, he knew that the business was basically done, so he immediately stepped forward to negotiate the price with Du Qiyue, and finally the little donkey was bought by Du Qiyue at a price of nine and two hundred and fifty yuan, and he also put a leather chew.