Chapter Forty-Eight: The Waterdrop Hairpin
The next day, Lei Lei and his three children were sent to the school, and Brother Changlin and his family went out to buy materials by the way.
Calculating the time, it was still early, so Li decided to go around the street first.
She walked aimlessly, but unconsciously walked to the door of Fumanlou, and happened to meet the money shopkeeper who was about to go out. Li Miaomiao stepped forward to say hello and wanted to leave, but was stopped by the money shopkeeper, "Miao Miao, wait a minute, I was just going to look for you in the store, and now that I have met, I will save it." ”
"I wonder what the money shopkeeper is looking for me?"
"I'll send you something," he said, pulling out a small delicate box from his bosom.
"What is this?" Li Miaomiao asked.
"This is a gift prepared by the owner, and it should have been given to you yesterday. But yesterday your shop opened, and there were so many people coming and going, I forgot about it."
Hearing Gu Xingyun, her tone couldn't help but be a little anxious, "What about others?" Why don't you send it yourself? ”
"There are some things that the owner left yesterday and the night before yesterday, so I didn't catch up with the opening of your noodle restaurant", looking at Li Miaomiao's expectant eyes, the shopkeeper Gu sighed, and added, "The return date is uncertain." He could see the affection in this girl's eyes for her own host, but it was precisely when she saw it that she felt even more regretful. The identity of the owner is not simple, and they are likely to be in deep love.
Leaving silently again, and the return date was uncertain, Li Miaomiao's heart felt like someone had been punched heavily, and it was uncomfortable. didn't ask anything more, said goodbye to the shopkeeper Gu and went back to his shop.
Holding his breath in his heart, he didn't open the box, but put her in his arms, the closest place to his heart.
Now there are no customers in the store, in order to divert his attention, Li Miaomiao talked with Shopkeeper Zhu, "I heard that Shopkeeper Zhu is a talented man." ”
"What kind of show is not talented, it's just a false name", Shopkeeper Zhu replied abruptly.
Somehow, although it was only two short sentences, listening to his tone, Li Miaomiao inexplicably felt a little sad. It seems that this is also a person with a story.
It was inconvenient to dig deeper, so he deliberately changed the topic, "I still have two younger siblings here, who are younger, so I think that Shopkeeper Zhu can give some pointers in his spare time, not to mention the words of gaining fame, he can read and break words, and distinguish between right and wrong." ”
Shopkeeper Zhu happily agreed, "Naturally, it's good, don't say anything else, I still have a little bit of effort to teach the two little dolls to read and hyphenation." "He doesn't have any children at home, but now that he's older, he likes to spend more time with them, and he feels good when he sees them.
She wanted to send Xinxin to Mr. Zhang to study, but this kid may be because of his father, he is very resistant and doesn't want to say anything. Li Miaomiao chose this compromise method, and waited for the opportunity to enlighten him, which was very wrong to kill the world's scholars.
Besides, after getting along these days, she thinks that Shopkeeper Zhu is still a good person, with decent speech and demeanor, and is very sincere to people, I believe he will be a good gentleman.
Let Xinxin and Yanyan simply toast a cup of tea is considered an apprentice, but this move provoked the shopkeeper Zhu to red-eyed.
"What's wrong with the shopkeeper?" Li Miaomiao asked with concern.
"It's okay, people are getting older, and it's easy to be sentimental", Shopkeeper Zhu put away the sorrow in his heart, straightened his face, and replied.
said that there was nothing to do, Li Miaomiao guessed that he must have remembered some past, and it must not be a happy thing to make a seven-foot man red-eyed.
Li Miaomiao gave the two children a look and asked them to accompany them to talk, and after a while, the shopkeeper Zhu was amused by the child's innocent words and smiles, and she was completely relieved, sure enough, the most healing children in the world are children.
Although there are not as many customers today as yesterday, there are still a lot of them. Most of the people who came were merchants passing by and people who worked in the town, and her noodles were delicious and generous, which was naturally attractive.
After the store closed, I settled the account with the shopkeeper Zhu, and the income of more than three taels of silver today is also a lot.
In the next 20 days, the business was very stable, and at least three taels of silver were net every day, and there were more than four taels when the market was held.
In this way, she made a hundred and two taels a month, of course, not only for the money from selling noodles, but also made some food, including braised tofu, braised eggs, and braised chicken feet, all of which can be used as snacks, and customers who have enough time sometimes have a few drinks in her shop.
This is still the inspiration provided by some merchants, many of them come to eat noodles and order side dishes or something, but they naturally don't have them in the store.
Li Miaomiao also had the idea of adding some stir-fried vegetables to the store, but she was vetoed just thinking about it. They have too few people, and the only people who can use them in the kitchen are her and Sister-in-law Changlin, and they are almost too busy just making noodles.
So, I came up with this simple method, and lo-mei is very simple to make. Many customers like to eat it, and some even take it away.
On the day of the monthly money, it was originally planned that the shopkeeper Zhu would have one or two taels of silver a month, and Changlin and his family would have six hundred yuan. But this month's income is good, she directly gave it up, Zhu shopkeeper became two taels of monthly money, and Changlin's two sons were one tael of monthly money.
The three of them were very happy, especially the two of Changlin, although the shopkeeper Zhu had risen a lot, they were not jealous, after all, the two children were also studying with him now, and even the two of them were asked by Li Miaomiao to recognize some words in their free time, and they naturally couldn't ask for it.
After settling the monthly money, Li Miaomiao sent another piece of braised meat to each person, and the month was completely over.
From August 15 to September 15, every day, everyone is very hard, Li Miaomiao decided to close the store tomorrow for a day, give everyone a day off, take a day off, she herself really needs to take a break.
In the afternoon, Li Miaomiao bought a lot of food, picked up a few children from school, and the group returned to the village.
At night, she coaxed several children to sleep, but she herself did not feel sleepy.
It was a full moon night again, and the moonlight outside the house was exceptionally bright, pouring in through the window, and the ground seemed to be covered with a layer of silver frost.
I couldn't sleep at all, so she got up and went back to her room, recently she was exercising her two children to sleep alone, Xinxin naturally had no problem, Yanyan always didn't leave until she fell asleep Li Miaomiao. When Lei Lei came back today, the three children were lively, so they squeezed into a kang and fell asleep.
When I returned to my room, I couldn't hold back and took out the box hidden at the bottom of the box.
She really doesn't like this kind of imminent relationship, and wants to give up.
After enduring it for a month, I finally couldn't bear it anymore when I couldn't sleep tonight, and I opened it carefully, only to see a white hosta lying inside.
Li Miaomiao picked it up gently, and the tentacles were warm, it was the best mutton fat jade. I saw a magnolia flower carved on the hairpin tail vividly, and the tassel hanging down was actually three delicate water droplets.
Sanshui Chengmiao, this intention is sweet in Li Miaomiao's heart, but it is full of confusion.
Can you have such a relationship? Not to mention that Gu Xingyun's identity is a mystery, will there be a lot of trouble around him, just say that he disappears at every turn, which is also what he likes the most.
However, at this moment, feelings still prevailed over everything, she inserted the hairpin into her bun, looked at the bronze mirror, and was really satisfied.
Let's talk about it later, and they didn't find out their feelings for each other.
After looking at the mirror for a long time, she took off the hairpin and put it next to the pillow. After a while, he fell asleep with sweetness.