Chapter 225: Mid-Autumn Festival (1)
The shopkeeper Xie in Angelica Pavilion is old, and it is inevitable that he is a little unable to do things. Originally, he had the intention of telling the old man, but it happened that Diancui said that he wanted to return to Angelica Pavilion to live permanently, and the owner himself was in charge, and he retired from this old bone.
Shopkeeper Xie has been here from the capital to be a shopkeeper for more than 30 years, and Diancui felt his loyalty to his homecoming, and agreed to his request to return to his hometown. The account office calculated his wages and this year's dividends to him early, and gave him an additional hundred taels of silver, ten horses of fine Hangzhou silk, five catties of Longjing green tea, and gold and jade noodles to his family.
Before the shopkeeper Xie left, Diancui practiced for him in the largest restaurant in Hangzhou.
After three rounds of drinking, the shopkeeper Xie couldn't help but admire the kindness of returning home to recognize and employ people, and he also wanted to express his loyalty to him over the years. After this feast, it can be said that there is a hearty drink, and the guests and hosts are happy.
Yuan's study.
"How's Madame's reflection?" Yuan Zhiheng asked Yuan Fu in a cold voice.
Yuan Fu said: "Returning to my lordship, my wife regretted it after thinking about it, and borrowed wine every day to eliminate her sorrows. ”
"Drink to kill your sorrows? Indulge in alcohol during the day, and it has really grown. Yuan Zhiheng's eyebrows trembled, remembering the appearance of Diancui after getting drunk, Yuan Zhiheng pulled his legs and ran out.
"My lord, where are you going?" Yuan Fu hurriedly followed.
"Angelica Pavilion!" Yuan Zhiheng said helplessly: "I know that I am wrong, I know what is wrong, what to learn to use wine to kill my sorrows!" ”
"My lord, we have to go to Angelica Pavilion, today Angelica Pavilion is closed," Yuan Fu had to tell the truth: "Madame, they are eating wine in the restaurant......"
Yuan Zhiheng's footsteps paused, and his originally anxious face instantly became gloomy.
"Good! Good! Good! It turned out that she went to the restaurant to eat, and she was very comfortable! Yuan Zhiheng said three good things in a row.
Turning his head and instructing Yuan Lu, "Go and tell the people in Angelica Pavilion that if you don't see Madame anymore and ask her to go out to eat, I will close their shop tomorrow!" ”
Yuan Lu took the order in a deep voice, Yuan Fula hung his head, he didn't lie so that the adult could reconcile with his wife as soon as possible, but unfortunately he missed the stuffing, which made the adult more and more angry.
At this time, Qin Qingqing carried a food box into the courtyard, and today she rarely wore a red silk yarn shirt, and her complexion looked better than when she was next to her.
Yuan Fu listlessly welcomed her into the study.
Qin Qingqing entered the study, frowned almost invisibly, and said softly This study is so messy, how can an adult be a reading director without distractions?
As he spoke, he began to clean up, Yuan Zhiheng was a little angry, and no one wanted to deal with it at this time, so he only focused on the official business in front of him.
"Go and make some refreshing hot tea, adults have heavy official duties, you people should be waiting for your own life," Qin Qingqing quickly cleaned up the study with his hands and feet, turned his head and instructed Yuan Fu: "In the future, this study will be placed like this, and it should not be messed up again." ”
Yuan Fu retreated, searched for a long time to find a red clay stove, and finally made a fire, and boiled tea with sweat on his back under the sun.
"Brother Yuan, the tea is here, take a sip of tea and rest first, and then it's not too late to be busy with official business." Qin Qingqing said softly, leaned over and put down the teacup.
Yuan Zhiheng read the official document for a long time, and the anger in his heart dissipated a lot. I picked up the teacup, took a sip, and put it down.
This tea is not delicious, and the water is astringent and the tea is old.
He didn't know that the water he used to eat tea was not from the well, it was all from the mountain stream to get the clearest and sweetest spring water, and the heat of the tea was also particular. Yuan Fu, who didn't know what was going on, didn't know what to do, but in the past, he used the mountain spring water sent by his wife, but now he doesn't have the mountain spring water, so he can only boil it at will with well water.
The tea was not delicious, Yuan Zhiheng looked up and saw the neat study again, his face was a little strange, and he said to Qin Qingqing: "Although my study looks chaotic, it is not chaotic outside and inside, which ones I often use to see, and which ones can be seen or not...... In fact, it has its own order. ”
Qin Qingqing sneered on his face and said, "I'm sorry Brother Yuan, I don't know, I did something bad with good intentions." But seeing that there is too much dust in this house, someone should clean up with you. ”
Yuan Zhiheng was noncommittal, Qin Qingqing looked at him carefully with a reddish face, Yuan Zhiheng saw the blush on her face, and couldn't help but feel a little awkward, and indifferently looked sideways at the bare osmanthus tree outside in a daze.
For a long time, his heart jumped.
Diancui's fool won't mess with himself because Qin Qingqing is jealous!
Thinking like this, Yuan Zhiheng stood up and jumped Qin Qingqing.
Yuan Zhiheng walked around the study, thinking to himself whether he was going to coax her back?
Where in this world is there a teacher who bows his head to his students and admits his mistakes?
But now she is her own lady, not her own student.
But how can men in this world apologize so easily?
Besides, she is also at fault, since she called this Hangzhou Mansion, she is like a different person, she never tells herself what she hides in her heart, and she doesn't like to rely on her side to beg for tricks and behaves like she did when she was in the capital, and she is still yin and yang when she talks. told her to stay away from those women with ill intentions, she was attracted by others and thought they were all good people; I don't like her to rely too much on the money she has returned home, she prefers to use them to squander it, as if she wants to label the entire Yuan Mansion with the jewels of returning home...... even asked her to wear emerald clothes, and she wore red all over her body every day......
This point of Cui seems to be a horse that has taken off the reins, and it is no longer under his control and control, which makes Yuan Zhiheng very uneasy and helpless in his heart.
In this world, he is alone, and only Diancui is completely his.
Because of this, he didn't want to force it even more. She was happier in Angelica Pavilion than by his side, so he would no longer force her.
Yuan Zhiheng finally stopped walking around anxiously, Qin Qingqing didn't dare to ask more, only looked at him with concern, and when he slowly returned to the front of the case, he lowered his head to approve the official documents, and Qin Qingqing breathed a sigh of relief.
"Qingqing, you are busy with yourself," Yuan Zhiheng said softly: "Tomorrow is the Mid-Autumn Festival, and it's time to go back and reunite with your family." ”
She saved herself, she owes her, how to repay it, Yuan Zhiheng hasn't thought about it yet. She still misses her childhood love and wants to live in her own house, but he will definitely not drive her away.
Qin Qingqing was surprised: "Brother Yuan won't let Qingqing spend the Mid-Autumn Festival with you?" "That Gui clan left with a bad temperament, leaving only Brother Yuan alone in the huge Yuan Mansion, tomorrow is the festival of reunion, and he can't go.
"No need, anyway, I have no relatives for a long time, and this Mid-Autumn Festival has nothing to do with me." It was only after getting to know Diancui that he was barely pulled by her for the holidays, she was not there, what else did he do.
"Brother Yuan, I'm not leaving, there are so many sisters in the family, and if I don't have an inconspicuous young lady, no one will find out." Qin Qingqing said with a bitter face.
As everyone knows, the old man of the Qin family wants to love him, a little girl, the eldest lady of the Qin family has a gentle and generous temperament, and she is also very generous to her.
Yuan Zhiheng had no way of knowing, seeing that she was so lonely, but when she also had her own suffering, he sighed and said If you want to stay here, stay here.
Qin Qingqing couldn't help but go to Zhang Luo's Mid-Autumn Festival banquet tomorrow.
In the Angelica Pavilion, Diancui ate a lot of wine and went back, but he was very sober.
When the shopkeeper Xie left, the owner must have been instructed and assigned, and everyone sat in a group, waiting for Diancui to be sent.
Zhang Daquan was promoted from the second shopkeeper to the big shopkeeper, Zhang Jiu is still the account room, Li Qingshan's attainments in the head jewelry are not under the point of cui, he is temporarily a second shopkeeper, and also a steward in the workshop, responsible for the contact between the front shop and the back workshop. For the accounts of the shop, Dongxue will replace Diancui to do the verification, and in the future, she will have to spare half a day to check the accounts in the shop. As for Rose Suri, although she is by Dian Cui's side, her work is not just as simple as serving Dian Cui's daily life, she needs to listen to Dian Cui's ideas and make patterns for the new head in the workshop.
And Dian Cui, still easily do a hand-off owner, occasionally draw a few strokes, ask about the accounts, and have a lot of time left, Dian Cui decided to go to the teahouse theater in Hangzhou.
She has long been fascinated by the Kunqu opera sung in ink, and she was worried about repairing the house for the first few days and couldn't listen to it, but now she can be regarded as free.
"Tomorrow we will close our doors for another day, and let's make a reunion feast." Diancui burped.
"Owner, the reunion banquet is easy to say, but we are not better than closing the door." As soon as Zhang Daquan heard that he was out of business, he only pumped in his heart, he would close down when he took office, and he must know that the daily net income of the shop was dozens of taels of silver! If you are closed for a day, you will earn dozens of taels of silver.
O silver with white flowers!
Qiuyue and Dongxue glanced at each other, and they both sighed secretly, don't look at Mrs. smiling like this, they must be very uncomfortable in their hearts.
Dongxue looked at it at a glance, and Li Qingshan immediately said:
"It has to be closed! Tomorrow is the Mid-Autumn Festival, when will the Mid-Autumn Festival be closed? Shutdown! ”
Zhang Daquan gave him a blank look, this person doesn't have a backache when he stands and talks, and he has to mumble for a long time if he makes a few less dollars of money on weekdays!
Diancui lazily waved his hand, and everyone spontaneously and methodically went to buy the wine, meat, vegetables, fruits and snacks needed for tomorrow.
Qiu Yue went to fetch the decanted milk and orange juice, filled it with the white jade cup with a thin mouth, inserted a wheat tube, and handed it over.
After drinking, Diancui sighed in a low voice: "It seems that although I am not successful in being a lady, it is not bad to be a lazy master." ”
It is precisely because of her laziness that the maids below are all top of each other, not only able to serve others, but also have their own unique skills. Not only don't you have to worry about her, but you also worry about her all the time......
"Madam, tomorrow the Lord will spend the Mid-Autumn Festival alone in the house, it will be deserted, if we don't go back, we might as well invite him to ......" Qiuyue is a big girl, there are some things that others dare not say, but she dares to say. I'm not afraid of Dian Cui getting angry, and Dian Cui won't be angry if he is soft.
"How could he be lonely, that Qingqing is already in full swing preparing for tomorrow's banquet today, and I heard that he has also invited the families of several adults and colleagues......"
Don't look at the joy of eating and drinking, but she has been paying attention to the movements in Yuan's mansion, and even if she doesn't want to know, there is still Yuan Fu's big mouth.
That Qin Qingqing really didn't know how to count, her wife was not there, so she thought she was a child.
"It's really a tiger who is not at home, and a monkey is the king!" Qiu Yue blurted out, and after finishing speaking, she felt that it was inappropriate, her wife was a kitten at most, how could she become a tiger......
"Seeing you so happy, it reminds me that the good things between you and Xue Dachuan are coming, tomorrow's Mid-Autumn Festival banquet, but the reunion banquet, go and call Xue Dachuan, go quickly!" Diancui grinned.
"Madam," Qiu Yue was not ashamed, only sighed, when did she still care about making fun of herself.
Madame, she was obviously uncomfortable, and she laughed happily with a wine burp.