CHAPTER XLIV
The people over there in the West Courtyard often came to make trouble before, and later they became honest after being rectified by the Yang family brothers and sisters a few times, Jiang Xuehe sent Jiang Hanxiao back, and saw Gu Sixi on the other side of the West Courtyard sneaking his head into his head, and hurriedly shouted out to the big tree, and Gu Sixi's head immediately retracted.
"Madame has something to order?" Yang Dashu quickly came out.
Jiang Xuehe glanced at the west courtyard and said with a smile: "It's nothing, let's go back." ”
Yang Dashu glanced in the direction of Jiang Xuehe's eyes, caught a glimpse of the corner of his clothes, and hurriedly whispered: "Madam, I see that those people in the West Courtyard have always been thieves, do you want me to teach them a lesson again?" ”
Jiang Xuehe shook her head and said, "If they don't cause trouble, forget it, otherwise we won't be able to take care of it." ”
She has been busy with the peach blossom cake recently, so she is too lazy to make trouble with the group of people in the West Courtyard, and she is tired and panicked when she has no benefit, and she is not idle.
Yang Dashu reminded: "Those people are always restless, once they let their guard down, they are only afraid of ......"
Jiang Xuehe smiled: "I know what you're worried about, but we won't let our guard down, and besides, you won't be either, right?" ”
Jiang Xuehe actually doesn't like to intrigue with people, if she wants to say that those people in the West Courtyard are really troublesome, if you want to avoid this trouble completely, it is best to stay away from them, the farther away the better, so far that you can't see it. But she was reluctant to Gu Siyan, they were reluctant, this Gu family was to them the same as their Jiang family's two-bedroom house was to her, no matter what, it was impossible to be willing to give it to others like this.
Since you can't stay away for the time being, and you can't find anything to do, you have to suffer first. When those people in the West Courtyard make a lot of trouble, there is always a way to give them a hard blow at a time, won't they be honest when the time comes?
On this day, Yang Xiaohua and Yang Ermiao didn't come back until dark, and when they came back, the things in the basket were empty, and the expressions of the two of them were also very relaxed and happy, and it was good news at first glance.
"All sold out?"
"It's all sold out!" Yang Xiaohua said in surprise, "It turns out that the lady we met that day is Mrs. Zhixian, today's Peach Blossom Festival was personally presided over by Xu Zhixian, and Mrs. Zhixian was also there, she personally praised our peach blossom cake is good, naturally there are many people who want to buy it back and taste it." When the second brother saw it, he simply sent a bottle of peach blossom brew to Mrs. Zhixian, and Mrs. Zhixian praised it after tasting it, so we sold out of those peach blossom brews at once, and many people asked us when we would go out to sell them again. ”
Jiang Xuehe asked, "Then how did you answer?" ”
Yang Xiaohua scratched her head and said, "I'll tell you the truth, I don't know...... Oh, but the second brother remedied it in time, the second brother said that the peach blossom cake is expensive, and we don't have much at home, but there are still ten jars of peach blossom brewing, and we have to wait for three or five days to brew it. ”
Jiang Xuehe smiled: "It's really good, you also learn from your second brother?" ”
Yang Xiaohua stuck out her tongue and smiled: "I have something to learn, but I can't react when people ask, let the second brother go in the future, the second brother used to be the best at talking in our family." ”
Jiang Xuehe rubbed her head and smiled, "Where can this be?" Didn't you say you were going to do things for me? Then you should study hard. ”
Yang Xiaohua nodded: "I know, it's not that you can't learn so fast." ”
Jiang Xuehe turned her gaze to Yang Ermiao again, and Yang Ermiao hurriedly handed the money she received to Jiang Xuehe, and attached the account book she had made.
Jiang Xuehe was a little surprised: "You actually keep accounts?" ”
Yang Ermiao said: "There are more sales today, and they are not whole numbers, so in case of omission, I will write them down." ”
"It's done well, thank you for your hard work." Jiang Xuehe took a look and found that Yang Ermiao's bookkeeping method was also good, and he could integrate it with himself.
"Madame, this is what I should have done."
"I've worked hard for you today, let's go to the courtyard to eat together. By the way, today I asked Hennie and her fifth sister to do a childcare, did you see? Jiang Xuehe asked again.
Yang Xiaohua said with a smile: "I saw it, thanks to the smiling girl, it attracted the attention of many people at once." ”
"Ruyue is also with them, right?"
"That's right, it's together, Miss Hanxiao left with Miss Haini and Sister Ruyue after buying the peach blossom cake, saying that she was going back to Qingshui County to visit Miss Yingchun, and she hasn't seen her since." Yang Xiaohua said.
Jiang Xuehe couldn't help but worry: "Why haven't you come back so late?" ”
"Then maybe it's the Spring Festival girl who is staying as a guest?" Yang Xiaohua said, "Don't worry, Madam, with Sister Ruyue here, the two girls will be fine." Although Sister Ruyue's strength is not as strong as mine, her martial arts are much stronger than mine, and her eldest brother may not be able to beat him. ”
Jiang Xuehe shook her head: "I heard the third aunt say that although the He family has a rice grain store, the courtyard behind it is not big, and there are not too many people to live, so when they went to visit the second sister, they were never stayed." ”
"Maybe you're going to have dinner and come back?"
Jiang Xuehe felt that what Yang Xiaohua said was also reasonable, the courtyard was not very inconvenient to stay overnight, but it was always okay to invite someone to have dinner together, although in the past, when Uncle Jiang and his wife went to visit Jiang Yingchun, they did not have dinner at He's house, but this did not mean that Jiang Yingchun would not keep dinner, she remembered that Jiang Yingchun was still very filial.
Thinking of this, Jiang Xuehe put this matter behind her and called everyone to the courtyard to eat together. After eating, Jiang Xuehe took the account book given to her by Yang Ermiao and went back to the study to reconcile the accounts, and found that the peach blossom cake was not enough to sell, Yang Ermiao actually rose to seven yuan, and finally sold it all, and the price of the peach blossom brew rose even more, after accounting, Jiang Xuehe found that he had made a lot of money today.
The peach blossom brew she originally set for half a tael of silver and a jar, and according to the current trend, it can go up. However, she is not too straightforward, Jiang Xuehe thought about it, and decided to customize a good-looking bottle for Peach Blossom Brewing, and divide one jar into three or four bottles, so that she can always make more money.
Jiang Xuehe then began to draw the style and pattern of the bottle, but she crumpled more than a dozen paper balls and failed to draw a satisfactory bottle.
"What is this drawing?" After reading what he was going to see today, Gu Siyan found that there were a lot of paper balls on the table, so he walked over and opened one to take a look, "Is this a bottle for peach blossom brew?" Well drawn. ”
Jiang Xuehe shook her head and said, "I always feel that something is missing, and this word is not well designed." This peach blossom only blooms once a year, in addition to peach blossom brewing, I have to make something else, such as pear blossom drunk, chrysanthemum dew? ”
"If you do it according to the season, there are too many names that need to be taken, so it's better to unify them into brews, so that you don't have to rack your brains to think of names." Gu Siyan proposed, "As for making people look at it and come from a family, it's even simpler, you just have to think of a name, design a seal, and print it on every bottle of flower brew." In this way, you will draw the peach blossoms, and I will draw the chapter for you? But you have to think of a name first. ”
Jiang Xuehe was surprised: "You can still draw chapters?" ”
Gu Siyan said with a smile: "I have seen many famous paintings with all kinds of chapters since I was a child, and I thought it was very interesting when I saw them, so I drew one for myself." Later, somehow I became obsessed, and I drew a chapter for myself at every turn, and finally settled on one. But now I haven't painted for a long time, and my hands are a little itchy, I wonder if Xue Niang is willing to give me such an opportunity? ”
"If you're willing to help, I'm naturally happy. The name doesn't have to be too complicated, just call it Hua Yufang, I want to make some flower-related food. Jiang Xuehe smiled and asked, "Why do you want me to paint peach blossoms?" Why don't you take the flowers together? ”
Gu Siyan said with a smile: "The flowers painted by Xue Niang are more expressive than mine, I never thought that Xue Niang's painting skills are so good?" ”
"I can only draw flowers, or the usual ones, but I haven't seen your paintings yet, what are you good at?" Jiang Xuehe asked.
"The landscape is green, but I haven't painted for more than three years, and my hands are raw, so I don't dare to do it." Gu Siyan said, "But the calligraphy has been picked up during this time, so I dare to recommend myself to design a chapter." ”
Jiang Xuehe smiled: "Okay, then I'll leave it to you." If so, can you help me write a poem? About Peach Blossom. ”
"Inscription poems? Flowers are alive, I ......"
Jiang Xuehe rarely saw Gu Siyan lose his mind, and hurriedly said: "Forget it, it doesn't matter if you have a poem or not, you don't need to be sad about it!" I can do it myself! ”
As soon as she said this, Gu Siyan was surprised: "Xue Niang can also compose poems? ”
Jiang Xuehe said indifferently: "I'm just a pastry seller, just toss two sentences to decorate the bottle, it doesn't need to be good, it's really not good, you can use the sentences of the predecessors, so I won't be sad about this." ”
After she finished speaking, she put away the things on the table and reached out to push Gu Siyan: "Okay, it's not early, let's go and rest." ”
"I was supposed to go to rest, but today you're busier." Gu Siyan smiled, suddenly thought of something, and asked with a smile, "By the way, Miss Diao hasn't come back yet?" If she didn't come back, then didn't your fifth cousin and Miss Haynie come back either? ”
Jiang Xuehe was stunned for a moment, her expression became solemn, and she hurriedly went out and called Yang Dashu and her sisters to go out to help find someone.
"Uncle Xiaohua, you go to the third uncle's house first to see if Hanxiao has come back. If not, come back and talk to me, and then go to the Ho Kee grain store in the town and ask. Remember, don't disturb the third uncle and them, lest they be nervous. ”
The Yang Dashu brothers and sisters nodded and immediately went out.
After they left, Jiang Xuehe became more and more restless, although Jiang Hanxiao was playful, he was not a person without measure, and he would never return so late. If they didn't come back tonight, either they encountered something on the road, or something happened to the He family, which made them unable to get out of it for the time being.
I just hope nothing bad happens to them.