He Laoda was originally a person in the rivers and lakes, and his nature was refreshing, and he said that he wanted to reward Du Qiyue, so he really rewarded Du Qiyue with five taels of silver ingots. This is not a small amount, Du Fugui used to earn more than 30 taels of silver a year, and in ordinary people, he already earned a lot of money, 50 taels of silver, and some farmers in the countryside who rely on the fields to eat cannot earn so much money in their lifetime.

Du Qiyue calmly put the five silver ingots into his arms on the surface, in fact, he was almost jumping up with joy in his heart, these days he sold a few good dim sum recipes to Wu Mingyao, and successively got some money, now he has more than eighty taels of silver in his hand, and now with the fifty taels of silver, as well as the ten taels of silver in his purse just now, he also has nearly one hundred and fifty taels of silver. This is definitely a huge amount of money, at least in Dahu Town, Du Qiyue can already be regarded as a small rich man with such a sum of money.

After putting away the money, Du Qiyue did not step down immediately, but took the remaining dough and made a small pot of ramen, sandwiched the remaining side dishes into it and sent it to Boss He's table. This noodle is a lot of work, the noodle soup is authentic, the noodles are thin but very capricious, the stew and fish balls are very delicious, and the boss who eats it smiled and said that next time there is a banquet at home, Du Qiyue must be invited to come over.

Of course, Du Qiyue would not miss this opportunity to make money, and thanked him several times, and said a lot of good things before getting off the stage.

The cooks in the kitchen didn't know about the things at the banquet outside, but Du Qiyue couldn't hide the things about making noodles on stage, which made several cooks feel a little uncomfortable, they felt that it was just a bowl of noodles, and a chef could do it, Du Qiyue also performed on stage, which was inevitably a little too rampant, and it was inevitable that his heart was unbalanced.

So when Du Qiyue returned to the kitchen, he received several not very kind eyes, Du Qiyue didn't take it seriously at all, he was used to this kind of envious and jealous look, and Chef Guangwei looked at him with this kind of look in the past few days. But Da Mao, who was standing behind Du Qiyue, had goosebumps on his body when he was seen by these people, and he was so overwhelmed that he didn't even know how to swing his arms, in fact, there were too many things today that were beyond Da Mao's imagination, and he still had some fog in his mind and didn't react much.

Du Qiyue patted Da Mao's shoulder and comforted his stimulated heart. He can still understand Da Mao's mood now, when he followed his master to cook meals for those upper-class gatherings for the first time, he was shocked by his master's dim sum making skills and those rich people's generous rewards.

After the guests outside had eaten almost the same and no longer had to be served, it was the cooks' turn to eat. A servant came in and led them to a hall by the kitchen, where there were already several tables of wine and food, which had been specially prepared for them to eat. Du Qiyue and the others have been working for most of the day, they haven't drunk much water when they are busy, they are already so hungry that their chests are close to their backs, and the cooks who can be invited here have all seen the world, so everyone is not polite, and they all sit down and eat.

After everyone has eaten and drunk, it is time to get paid. Du Qiyue and other cooks each got three times of money tied with red threads, and Da Mao and other apprentices were each with the same money, which was a very generous move, so everyone said a bunch of auspicious words when they took the money.

Du Qiyue gained the most today, and as soon as he came out of the He family, he hummed happily, and pulled Da Mao to buy a lot of things before leaving the town.

Da Mao has made the same amount of money today, and he is very happy in his heart, the salary of an apprentice has always been small, he only earned half a million yuan by working in Zuifulou for a month, and he didn't do much work on this day to earn the usual two months' money, but he was so happy that he kept giggling on the way back.

"Out of breath!" Du Qiyue snorted with a smile, took out a small purse from his arms and stuffed it into Da Mao's hand, and said, "Take this back to your daughter-in-law and children." ”

"What is this?" Da Mao opened the purse suspiciously, and then called out "ho", the purse turned out to be five small silver things, which were specially used by rich people to reward people. Da Mao immediately closed his purse after reading it, looked at Du Qiyue in surprise and asked, "Xiao Yue, this, this is really for me?" ”

"The purse was given to the two of us by Mrs. He, so naturally you have your share." Du Qiyue said, in fact, he didn't want to give it much, after all, there were five taels of silver in it, but he got so much money at once today, if he really didn't give it to Da Mao at all, it was nothing now, and Da Mao would inevitably feel uncomfortable after a long time. Du Qiyue never used money to test the people around him, because he had seen too many people become ugly for money. And Du Qiyue didn't want others to know that he got so much money all of a sudden, so this money was also Da Mao's hush money.

"But, that's too much, no, I can't take it!" Da Mao said, and stuffed the purse back into Du Qiyue's hand.

Where is Du Qiyue willing to accept it, he stuffed it directly into Da Mao's arms, and said: "You don't know how much Chef Wei has suffered because of me, you are my father's apprentice, he is half of his son, and I am half of my Du Qiyue's brother, I see how much you help me, these are what you deserve, you are welcome." ”

"But ......"

"It's nothing, if you see outside, next time someone asks me to make a banquet, I'm embarrassed to ask you for help." Du Qiyue couldn't help but say.

Da Mao struggled in his heart, and finally didn't return the purse, but he decided in his heart that he must be kind to Du Qiyue in the future.

Du Qiyue and Da Mao did not live in the same village, so the two quickly separated. The village where Da Mao lives is called Peach Blossom Village, which is farther away from the town than Liushuwan Village, and it takes him about an hour to walk back on weekdays, but today because he has so much money on him, he didn't take half an hour to run back home in a hurry.

Da Mao is the only son in the family, his father and mother, his wife and two children, a family of six are crammed into three mud tile houses, although they are poor, they can make do with their lives. Besides, the whole family has a good temperament except for Da Mao and his mother, so there is rarely trouble at home on weekdays. But as soon as Da Mao came back today, he heard his wife scolding his daughter-in-law in the house, so he hurriedly ran into the house to persuade him.

Da Mao's mother Sun was originally scolding her daughter-in-law for being clumsy, but when she saw Da Mao coming in, she aimed her anger at Da Mao, and scolded: "You are not a motivated thing, you still know how to come back, a good apprentice does not do, you have to follow the messy people to go out to pick up work, now it's okay, people don't want you anymore, ah, my life is so hard, without your salary, how will our family live in the future!" ”

"Mother, what are you talking about?" Da Mao heard it in a fog, and he didn't understand what Sun was down.

"You still dare to ask, why did I give birth to you a short-lived ghost, short-lived ghost!" Sun wrung his nose and cried, but he didn't explain things clearly.

Da Mao's daughter-in-law Zhao quietly pulled Da Mao's arm, and said with a sad face: "I came to Shun in the morning, and he said that you went out to the birthday banquet with Chef Du's son without mentioning it to Chef Wei, and Chef Wei thinks that you don't respect your teacher and don't want you to be an apprentice." Boss, can't you go to work upstairs in the future? ”

"You sound like nonsense, even if Chef Wei doesn't want me, the restaurant can't just let me dry the lake, this matter is approved by the shopkeeper." Da Mao immediately said angrily when he heard this.

Seeing that Da Mao didn't know what was wrong, Sun Shi started a fire, stood up from the stool, pulled Da Mao's arm and said, "You go to Chef Wei's house to apologize immediately, go and kneel down and beg him to continue to accept you, and tell him that you will not be with that kid of the Du family again!" Now the whole family depends on you to earn money to support the family, you can't live without this job! ”

Da Mao stood still and didn't move, took out the string of brand-new copper coins tied with red threads from his arms and threw them on the table, and said to Sun: "Mother, even if I follow Chef Wei, he won't teach me, my current skills can find other restaurants and restaurants to work, and no matter how bad I am, I can make dim sum and set up a stall." And there's nothing wrong with me following Xiaoyue, if I don't follow him, I won't be able to make this consistent money. ”

Sun's eyes lit up when she saw the money, where could she still care about crying, she picked up the string of money and carefully clicked it, and after confirming that the amount was correct, she took half of it and stuffed it into her arms, and then said: "This is the reward for going to work?" ”

"Hmm." Da Mao replied sullenly, took out dozens of the remaining money and stuffed it to his father, and then gave the rest to the Zhao family.

Zhao carried most of the copper coins missing, and looked at the copper coins in Sun's hand, feeling a little uncomfortable, but she knew Da Mao's filial piety personality, so she didn't say much, but she planned to hide all the money after returning to the house, and it would definitely not be taken by Sun again.

Da Mao knew what she was thinking when he saw Zhao's face, but he didn't explain, and after Sun completely stopped crying, he pulled Zhao back to the room and quietly gave her the purse. "You received it, don't let my mother know."

Sun's eyes widened when he looked at the six small silver pendants poured out of his purse, and it took a while to pick them up and lock them into the small box where he hid money, and asked, "Why are there so many of them?" ”

"The He family rewarded Xiaoyue with two purses, and Xiaoyue kindly gave me one." Da Mao said vaguely, and did not make it clear to Zhao.

Zhao didn't ask, but hid the small wooden box more tightly.