Chapter 53: Drunk without evidence
Ruan Mingyu smiled faintly: "That Hu shopkeeper promised to help Cui Qiao get out of the country and become good, and that Hu shopkeeper's wife has been dead for many years, and after redeeming someone, he plans to marry as a stepfamily, which of the other officials dares to do this." ”
He took another sip of cheese and said, "And when the son is older, he will soon live on his own, and she will not be the hostess in this house in the future." Cuiqiao's choice is wise. But I thought in my mind that the girl still understood Cui Qiao's thoughts, and the head of the winged bird was indeed fulfilling the guest's wishes.
After the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, Ruan Mingyu's drinking situation suddenly increased.
During the Spring Festival, it is also a good time for all walks of life to socialize and have a relationship. With a lot of money and kindness like Young Master Ruan, he even lined up for lunch and dinner, and sometimes there were teahouse talks and flower house singing and dancing programs after nightfall. Often, they don't come back until the next morning.
He learned to be obedient this time, and every time he sent Li Jingshan back to the courtyard before coming out, or asked Ruan Shu to send someone home and then go to the restaurant to find him.
For such treatment, Li Jingshan opened her mouth, and finally swallowed her defense, and every time she looked at Ruan Shu's eyes like a mentally handicapped child, she obediently got into the car.
However, after returning home, after a long night of idleness, Li Jingshan sat in front of the window and watched the moon growing fat and moving westward inch by inch in the sky, and couldn't help but fantasize over and over again in her mind, the scene of Young Master Ruan staggering in front of the wine table and staggering in the pile of fat powder. I felt the pain of being gnawed like a silkworm biting a mulberry leaf, little by little, inch by inch, and it spread through my entire chest.
Sometimes this time is extremely difficult, Li Jingshan takes out a painting book, and the drawings are all in pairs: a pair of mandarin ducks, a pair of butterflies...... Even the swans with their necks intersecting, their slender necks are bent into the shape of a peach.
It was just before dawn that I heard the sound of the carriage coming back from outside the gate.
Li Jingshan got up when she heard the sound and hurriedly went to the kitchen to start boiling water and hot pots. Sure enough, after a while, I saw Ruan Shu and Ruan Mo hugging Ruan Mingyu in.
Li Jingshan hurriedly walked up and asked, "What's the matter?" ”
Ruan Mo saw Li Jingshan coming over to take over, put the arm of the young master on her shoulder, and went out to park the carriage. Ruan Shu and Li Jingshan put the young master on the bed, and then wiped their sweat and said: "Rao is a young master's amount of alcohol, and there are times when he can't stand it, he was poured wine by several shopkeepers in turn, and finally poured them all down, and he also fell." ”
After setting up the people, while taking off the coat for the young master, he said to Li Jingshan: "You go to fetch a basin of water, the young master is fine, you sleep so full of wine, you will lose your temper the next day." ”
Li Jingshan hurriedly went down, and when she was fetching water in the kitchen, she also boiled the decanting soup by the way.
When she came back with the basin, Ruan Shu had already changed into her bedclothes in addition to the soft young master's shoes and socks. Li Jingshan picked up the towel in the basin, wringed it dry, and naturally walked to the side of the bed to wipe the young master's face and body.
Originally, she didn't think anything of it, but when she was rinsing the towel, she accidentally saw Ruan Shu and Ruan Mo standing aside. Ruan Mo still had a blank face, and Ruan Shu's eyes widened as if he had seen a ghost.
Li Jingshan's hand paused, and she asked embarrassedly, "Did I do something wrong?" ”
Ruan Mo shook his head, and Ruan Shu waved his hand busily: "No, no." He rolled his eyes, touched his belly and said, "I've been busy for half the night, let's go to the kitchen first to see what we have to eat." ”
Li Jingshan said: "I steam potpourri cakes and various pastries in the pot, and you can eat them when they are hot. ”
Ruan Shu smiled and pulled Ruan Mo out, "Then Miss Li will take care of the young master first." "It's also very intimate to cover the door.
Ruan Mingyu's wine was good, he only fell asleep quietly when he was drunk, and even his face was only a little more flushed than usual, and on Ruyu's face, it seemed to add a touch of lightness. The lips are as bright as cherries and peaches, and they are moist and devastating.
Li Jingshan suppressed the puffy heartbeat, wiped his face and hands carefully, and was about to change a basin of water, but saw that the person on the bed suddenly became unstable. Startled, she hurriedly turned around to pick him up.
Ruan Mingyu frowned, suddenly leaned forward, and spit out with a wow, and the dirt splashed Li Jingshan's body.
Li Jingshan: "......" said that the good wine is good.
Ruan Mingyu emptied all the soup and water in his stomach, poured it on the bed, and fell into a deep sleep again. But it completely wiped out Li Jingshan's previous work. She couldn't either, so she had to clean up all over again.
When Ruan Shu and Ruan Mo returned to the house after running out of snacks, Li Jingshan had just cleaned up Ruan Mingyu and the house. Seeing them coming, he hurriedly said, "The young master vomited dirty clothes, I changed them for him first." You take care of it first, and I'll have to change my clothes. ”
After that, he didn't care about the surprised eyes of the two people, and hurriedly went back to his room to change clothes.
Ruan Shu and Ruan Mo glanced at each other.
Ruan Shu: "If the young master knows that it was Miss Li who changed his clothes, do you think he will kill the two of us, or will he kill Miss Li?" ”
Ruan Mo: "No. Let's not let him know. ”
Ruan Shu: "But I want to know the answer......
Ruan Mo glanced at him coldly, "You want to be killed by the young master?" ”
Ruan Shu snapped his fingers, "Correct solution!" I also think it's the two of us who are more hanging! He thought about it and said, "Why do I think the young master doesn't seem to be the same to Miss Li?" ”
Ruan Mo turned his head to look at him.
Ruan Shu scratched his chin, "If that Zhen'er changed the young master's clothes last time, I think she would be the one who would be killed......"
Ruan Mo gave him a look of "are you stupid".
"Why is that?" Ruan Shu is diligent and inquisitive.
Ruan Mo gave him another roll of his eyes, "Can the two of them be the same?" ”
Ruan Shu also wanted to ask, Li Jingshan had already changed her clothes and came back. She saw that they were still wearing the formal clothes that accompanied the young master out, and said to them, "You have also been running outside for a day, so go down and rest first." Young master, I'll just keep watch. ”
Ruan Mo looked at the bed, still hesitating, Ruan Shu had already taken his hand and pulled it out, and smiled at Li Jingshan: "Then there is Miss Lao Li." Our brothers are just too tired to do it. As he spoke, he walked out of the door and slammed the door shut.
Ruan Shu grinned as he walked: "You say, what will the young master do if he wakes up and sees Miss Li guarding the house?" ”
"Kill us."
"Then you still come out with me?" Ruan Shu squeezed his eyebrows.
Ruan Mo's thousand-year-old frozen face even showed a hint of curiosity, "I also want to know what the young master will do to Miss Li." ”
"Hahaha......" Ruan Shu slapped Ruan Mo on the shoulder and took him by the shoulder into their room.
Li Jingshan saw that Ruan Mingyu was still sleeping peacefully, so she hurriedly went to the kitchen to boil the sobering soup and put it back in a warm food box. Seeing that he hadn't woken up yet, he wiped the sweat from his forehead again before sitting down at the end of the bed. After tossing for so long, Li Jingshan came up tired, leaning against the bed rail, and unconsciously squinted.
I slept until dawn and Ruan Mingyu woke up.
Young Master Ruan sat up and saw Li Jingshan sleeping at the end of the bed. He was confused for a moment, then frowned, and shouted outside the door: "Ruan Mo! Nguyen Shu! ”
Li Jingshan was so excited in her sleep that she almost jumped up.
"Young Master, ......wake up," she rubbed, rubbed, rubbed, and eyes, and saw Young Master Ruan pointing at her and said, "You! Get me out first! ”
She was startled and reflexively hurried out. I heard Young Master Ruan say sharply: "Call those two bastards in for me!" ”
It's the first time I've known that this person is so angry when he gets up.
Li Jingshan didn't even dare to turn her head back, so she hurried away.
She deliberately delayed in the kitchen for a while, and when she went to the main room with the decanting soup and breakfast, she saw Ruan Mingyu sitting in the hall in full clothes drinking tea from the door of the cave, and there were two small servants standing in front of her with their heads bowed and bent over.
"We were supposed to serve you last night. How did I suddenly have a stomach upset......" Ruan Shu and Ruan Mo had already made a confession, and they were carelessly justifying: "Ah Mo will take care of me." ”
Ruan Mingyu's gaze shot from the edge of the bowl, and fell on Ruan Mo. Ruan Shu hurriedly stabbed Ruan Mo. Ruan Mo nodded expressionlessly.
Ruan Mingyu saw Li Jingshan come in, put down the tea bowl, "Have breakfast first, and settle this account later." ”
Ruan Shu secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and avoided it for a while. Hurriedly went up to help set the dishes.
In addition to taking out the daily side dishes, Li Jingshan also brought out a bowl of decanting soup, put it in front of Ruan Mingyu in an orderly manner, and stepped aside.
Ruan Mingyu was also secretly observing Li Jingshan.
This girl is a piece of jade.
He didn't want to accidentally roll into bed with her and ruin their cooperation. His Ruan family style is strict, and the Jingbao Pavilion is also strictly ruled. If she let the general number know what evil thoughts she had, she would never be able to stay in the Treasure Hunting Pavilion.
Now seeing that she lowered her eyebrows and lowered her eyes, and her behavior was no different from her daily life, it seemed that last night's stay was really just a favor for those two little guys, Ruan Mingyu's heart was slightly relieved. He didn't know how much effort Li Jingshan had spent to hide everything in his heart.
Everyone had their own thoughts, and the breakfast was eaten in a strange atmosphere and ended hastily. Young Master Ruan sang last night, and he wanted to stay at home today to make up for sleep, so he ordered Ruan Mo to drive Li Jingshan to the store on an errand.
There was still a faint smell of wine and fat powder from last night in the carriage. Li Jingshan sat alone and took a deep breath. The tangled and tangled wine smell and fat powder fragrance are like a wisp of thought that she can't ask for.
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In the first month, the mercury refining factory established by Jingbao Pavilion according to the design requirements of Li Jingshan finally started, and began to produce mercury in large quantities. Lai Ching Shan also began to teach gilding in the workshop.
The gilding technique is not complicated. Li Jingshan explained the process in detail, and especially pointed out the matters that need attention, and taught the craftsmen some tricks in the workshop.
Shopkeeper Hung inspected the workshop and praised Li Jingshan for her willingness to teach and teach meticulously. He returned to the side hall and said excitedly to Ruan Minh Yu: "At this pace, we will be able to create a large number of gilt jewelry by the end of February, just in time for the sales season of the Shangsi Festival in March." ”
Ruan Mingyu peeled the peanuts, and only nodded lightly when he heard the words, "You can advance the sales season." This gilding technique is not difficult, and after the launch of the finished product, I am afraid that other stores will soon imitate it. On your side, you must do a good job of keeping your skills confidential. If it is found that there is a leak of secrets, it will be severely punished! ”
"You can rest assured. There is also the mercury factory, and I have also arranged reliable people to strictly control it. It's just ......" Shopkeeper Hong replied: "Young owner, you also know that the method of refining mercury has been carried out by ancient Danfang warlocks, and the gilding technique process is simple, and this process has not been covered for a long time. If it is fast, it will be a year, and if it is slow, it will be almost spread in Minzhou. This will be the market ...... in the future"
After this, the market will be filled with a large number of gilt jewelry, and major merchants are bound to fall into a price war.