Time returned to the present, after listening to Fu Chong's retelling, the four of them only made calculations in their hearts first, after all, a few years have passed in a flash, who can tell whether there are variables in the middle.

There was still a period of time before the evening, Gu Qingyan wanted to go to the back kitchen to see today's preparations, said a word to Xu Shaolin, and left the main hall.

The kitchen is busy at the moment, a series of processes such as picking vegetables and washing vegetables outside are lined up, and all kinds of pots and shovels have been prepared, the stove is on fire, and the oil is hot.

Gu Qingyan entered the courtyard leisurely, looked at the smoke rising, and knew that everyone was busy, not far away saw a figure commanding everyone in an orderly manner, Gu Qingyan walked a few steps closer and shouted: "Nurse!"

The woman heard the shouting, turned around and saw Gu Qingyan coming, and hurriedly walked over: "My little aunt, what are you doing here?"

The woman is Gu Qingyan's nurse, surnamed Shen, the third in the family, so there is a name called Shen Sanniang, Gu Qingyan was born to take care of her, and later followed to Peach Blossom Stream, who was the housekeeper mother-in-law in Gu Qingyan's courtyard, and was also responsible for the food in Gu Qingyan's small kitchen, and had a son under his knees, and now he is one of the twelve ghost guards, called Dong Xin.

These days, because he was busy with inventory, he was seconded to be in charge of the big kitchen, and when Gu Qing wanted to eat a small snack, he could only go to the big kitchen to rub it.

"I want the dried meat made by the nurse, so let's take a look at the preparation of dinner." Gu Qing's cigarette butt leaned on Shen Sanniang's shoulder and said.

Shen Sanniang took Gu Qingyan's hand and said softly: "If you want to eat it, let Su Xin take it, why bother to run by yourself." I'm here, don't worry. ”

Gu Qingyan went to the kitchen and said: "Well, I don't worry about it, I just want to remind the nurse that there are many people in Taohuajian now, and I am afraid that some people will take advantage of the loopholes, and eating is the easiest and most deadly.

After walking around, it was normal, and Gu Qingyan went outside. Shen Sanniang responded to Gu Qingyan, knowing that she was worried and comforted a few words: "Don't worry, master, the old woman is in charge."

"It's hard work."

After saying that, Shen Sanniang sent Gu Qingyan out of the kitchen, and Su Xin stepped over in small steps: "Master."

"What's wrong?" Gu Qingyan asked.

Su Xin also bowed slightly to Shen Sanniang, and said, "The head of Jinghuazhuang asked to see the master in the courtyard and said to send something to the master."

Gu Qingyan thought about it, she didn't seem to have let Jinghuazhuang do anything recently, so she said goodbye to Shen Sanniang and went back to the Pure Heart Courtyard with Su Xin. As soon as I entered the courtyard, I saw Song Zhizhou, the head of Jinghuazhuang, standing in the courtyard with a tray in his hand.

Jinghuazhuang is a jewelry shop set up under the peach blossom stream, there are many branches in Nanwan, Song Zhizhou is the general manager, this person has a strong personal style in jewelry design and polishing skills, which makes Jinghuazhuang's jewelry children exquisite and unique compared with other jewelry stores, but quite a famous and noble lady and lady love. Song Zhizhou can be described as an old fritter, talking about people and talking nonsense, very sleek, but not bad.

Yu Guang saw Gu Qingyan coming, and Song Zhizhou reacted very quickly and asked for peace: "Say hello to the fourth girl." ”

Gu Qingyan likes to joke with Song Zhizhou, because of what he says, this person can always pick it up: "Song Zhangshi, every time you talk like this, I think I'm back in the palace again." This is secretly comparing Song Zhizhou to the father-in-law in the palace.

"Where is the fourth girl, your status in my heart can be average!" Gu Qingyan went to the house, and Song Zhizhou also followed.

Gu Qingyan entered the house and sat down, and continued with Song Zhizhou: "Okay, don't be poor, what do you have on your hand?"

Song Zhizhou took the tray, put his hands in front of Gu Qingyan, uncovered the red cloth covered, Gu Qingyan took the opportunity to look over, and what was presented inside was a delicate half-eye mask, fixed with silver chain threads. On closer inspection, the pattern of the mask is finely carved, and it looks like some kind of animal.

"This is Qingluanniao?" Gu Qingyan asked softly.

Song Zhizhou nodded: "Exactly."

"Good carver." Gu Qingyan praised that the tail feathers of the Qingluan bird were distinct, and the whole Qingluan was lifelike in flying upwards.

"What do the four girls think of this design?" Song Zhizhou asked tentatively.

Gu Qingyan was stunned: "It's good, I have always been very relieved about the design of Song Zhangshi."

Song Zhizhou smiled: "This time the four girls are really wrong, this time the design is not mine."

As he spoke, he took out a design drawing from his arms and handed it to Gu Qingyan, Gu Qingyan took the drawing suspiciously, opened it and looked at it, the feeling of this pen seemed to have been seen somewhere, and then looked to the side, a few lines of familiar handwriting in small characters, Gu Qingyan smiled.

Holding the drawings in one hand and the mask in the other, he looked carefully: "When did it happen?"

Song Zhizhou thought back for a moment and replied, "A month ago."

Gu Qingyan thought about it forward, wasn't it just when they first arrived at Qingquan Villa more than a month ago, it should have been that day when they inadvertently mentioned their birthday, and Han Yan went to prepare.

Accepting the mask, Gu Qingyan said, "This can't be considered a private job."

Song Zhizhou arched his hand: "Yes, everything that should be credited to the account has been entered."

Gu Qingyan nodded, there was nothing wrong with this, and Song Zhizhou retreated.

Su Xin stepped forward to take the mask and put it away, and asked Gu Qingyan if she needed to wear it recently.

Gu Qingyan said: "You don't need to use it for these two days, let's change this on the day of the trial."

Su Xin wrote it down in her heart, put the mask away, took the booklet and handed it to Gu Qingyan: "Master, this is the name of Diancuilou after the liquidation." ”

Gu Qingyan was not there for a few days, Su Xin was not idle, Diancui Lou collected all kinds of treasures of Peach Blossom Stream, Su Xin took someone to count it, reorganized the categories into a book, and selected the gifts that Peach Blossom Stream wanted to reward each person at the end of the inventory.

Flipping through the booklet, Gu Qingyan appreciates Su Xin's meticulousness very much, each item, a variety of categories are detailed, and the number of quantities is also clearly marked, and the sub-book also sorts out the number of objects that have been rewarded in the past, so as to make a reference for Gu Qingyan this time.

"Really a careful person." Gu Qingyan said, Su Xin pursed her lips and smiled, a hint of shyness to be praised.

In previous years, almost everyone was the same as rewarding the big head, and last year the big head had a fortune golden toad, a ruyi bottle, and a hundred taels of silver, which was called the opening of money, which means that the next year is also a source of money. In addition, there are other things according to the different responsibilities of each manager, such as gold and silver threads in the direction of Yijin, and high-quality tea cup sets in the direction of tea houses. There is a way to prepare these things, Xu Shaolin and a few of the big men felt a headache when they thought about it, so they threw this job to Gu Qingyan.

There is no one else who can do it, Gu Qingyan also had to take over, fortunately, there is Su Xin by her side, a few years ago, the two of them chose a combination together, and they made a few appearances, and in the past two years, Gu Qingyan also let Su Xin mainly get it, she can check and decide.

"This year, we have prepared a hundred taels of money for the ingots fortune tree and the ice jade roller as usual. There are feather embroidery threads, coral strings, and glass cups on the side...... "Su Xin said to Gu Qingyan the same, and how to match it has been made clear.

Gu Qingyan nodded while listening, and after Su Xin finished speaking, he said, "Prepare according to what you said." ”

"Yes." Su Xin was about to accept the booklet, and then heard Gu Qingyan say, "Have you sent someone to invite a few lords and ladies?" ”

"It's gone." Plain heart should be. Today, everyone has arrived at Peach Blossom Stream, so they naturally sent someone to invite Gu Ning and them over.

Gu Qingyan got up and said that he wanted to go to Diancuilou to take a turn. Along the way, he chatted with Su Xin: "Have you sent someone to clean up the yard?" ”

"Don't worry, the master has packed up, the items that should be added have been added, and I also said a piece to the little guy in the past and then came over." Su Xindao.

Gu Qingyan nodded: "King Yu is still arranged in Rongyuan?" ”

The Banyan Garden is not far from Gu Qingyan's Pure Heart Courtyard, which was originally a place where the royal family came to relax and stay, and it has been kept as usual on weekdays as long as someone cleans it, and in the past two days, the Banyan Garden has gradually had people in and out.

"Yes, King Yu arranged the Banyan Garden, and the owner of the Han Shaozhuang arranged the Yishan Residence." Yishan Residence, Banyan Garden, and Pure Heart Courtyard are like three corners, and the two places are not far from Pure Heart Courtyard.

"Well, King Yu will tell me first when he arrives at Peach Blossom Stream." Gu Qingyan said that although she was bound to be the first to see King Yu, just in case, Gu Qingyan still felt that it would be better to tell her again.

The subordinates of Diancuilou were sorting out their things, and according to the time, Su Xin would come to tell them how to distribute them this afternoon, so they first vacated a vacant space to facilitate the operation for a while, and while they were doing this, they saw Gu Qingyan walking over first, and everyone saluted together: "See the four girls." ”

"Don't be polite, Su Xin will tell you about this year's distribution in a while, and I have to thank you." Gu Qingyan always has less sense of distance from insiders, with a bit of politeness and respect for everyone, so everyone also respects Gu Qingyan.

After speaking, she nodded to Su Xin, leaving Su Xin and the others busy in front, while she walked around the building, and the gifts for the elders could not be forgotten, she remembered that she had collected a lot of good things this year, and she took them back to the Cui Lou at that time.

After looking around, Gu Qingyan saw two brocade boxes on the shelf, opened one of the jujube red dark pattern brocade boxes, and a pair of jade jade bracelets were lying quietly inside.

Su Xin's afterglow has been on Gu Qingyan, and when she saw Gu Qingyan stop, she hurriedly pulled over: "Master." ”

Gu Qingyan saw Su Xin coming over and said, "For Master." After speaking, he pointed to the pair of jade bracelets. When she was a child, Qianhuayu rarely wore jewelry, Gu Qingyan asked, Qianhuayu always said that the children of the rivers and lakes, fighting, killing, and touching the precious ones would be distressed. And now, Qianhuayu doesn't have to fight and kill anymore, which woman doesn't like jewelry and jasper.

As for her mother-in-law, there are a lot of jewelry on weekdays, and there is no shortage of this thing. Gu Qingyan opened another brocade box, but it was a fragrant powder pottery box, but there was no powder in it: "Why is this here?" ”

This thing was Gu Qingyan who went out with Xu Shaolin at that time, entered a pottery shop, and was bored with idle hands and asked the old craftsman to teach her to make one, to be honest, this box looks ugly and can't be used, but it was brought back.

Su Xin shook her head, she really didn't know about this thing, and the manager of Diancuilou on the side heard the sound, and hurriedly explained with a smile: "Back girl, this is what the valley master brought back for him to keep." ”