Chapter 90: The porter Du Xiaozhu
"Master, you said this, how could you be born like this, it's really a coincidence, it's really a coincidence, it's so wonderful!" Xin'er was eating the shredded fruits of pepper and salt bamboo shoots, and she didn't forget to clap her hands with her eyebrows fluttering.
Diancui smiled slightly, how can there be such a coincidence in the world, it's just that someone with a heart did it deliberately.
Although some things have not changed in this life, such as An Peiqing still marrying that Ru Yun as his wife, some things have changed, such as letting the adultery between Gui Chuyu and An Peiqing leak out in front of the world early, such as Gui Chuyu can no longer be connived at by the entire Guifu people like in his previous life.
It has also changed a little with her Diancui herself, not to mention that she has been reborn from the inside to the outside along the way, and re-acquainted herself with a group of people who are really good to her, with Xin'er helping outside the house, and there are teachers in the house helping in secret, even if she didn't go to the kitchen of the West Courtyard in her previous life, she didn't know earlier that Yuan Zhiheng and Guifu still had such a relationship, everything is destined to be different.
But she knew that she would marry into An Mansion as An Peiqing's wife in less than half a year, and she should have planned earlier in order to stop her from giving An Peiqing as a concubine.
"Does the master have a new command this time?" Xin'er didn't forget to ask.
"How much silver do you have left?" Diancui did not answer the rhetorical question.
Xin'er replied truthfully, and there were forty-three taels of silver.
"Leave two taels as living expenses, and all the rest go to the wax vendor in the south of the city to buy wax and come back." Diancui commanded.
"Master, you don't have to stay two or two, Xin'er has now changed to a big family to do some helper work, and she doesn't have to worry about three meals a day and a place to live." Xin'er didn't ask Diancui what she wanted her to buy wax for, now she has already recognized Diancui as the master, the master is smart and has ideas, and she will do whatever she says.
Diancui was relieved, and said that you don't go by yourself, you go home first and wait, I will find someone to join you.
Xin'er is a girl after all, not to mention that it is inconvenient to go out to do things, and she is afraid that she will be in danger after taking so many silver and two points of emerald.
The person Diancui is looking for is Du Xiaozhu, a small guy who lives in a house with Lao Diao Tou and is now in the gatehouse of the West Courtyard, because Diancui often goes to Lao Diao Tou to ask for some flowers and plants, and by the way, he sends some delicious food and drink, and Du Xiaozhu is also very familiar. After a long time, she knew that Du Xiaozhu was actually a capable and thoughtful person, but she didn't understand why the second young master, who loved him so much, only asked him to be a porter.
Diancui found Du Xiaozhu and explained her intentions, Du Xiaozhu didn't expect Diancui to trust her so much, she was moved in her heart, but she didn't show it on her face.
On the second day, Du Xiaozhu accompanied Xin'er to the vendor, bought all the wax, and put the wax in the yard where Xin'er rented. As for what this wax is used for, Xin'er doesn't know or say, and Du Xiaozhu hasn't asked, just after the matter is done.
It wasn't until half a month later that there was a rumor of ash in demand in the market, and I heard that because the wax insects on the ash trees were generally infected with a disease, the ash trees in the suburbs of the capital and the ash insects in the neighboring state capitals were all spared.
Nowadays, most of the people use wax for lighting, and even make furniture can not be separated from waxing, and the ash worm is dead, so it can not secrete the wax, and the wax market is not in demand.
"Miss Diancui, I heard that the price of this wax has risen by five cents now." Du Xiaozhu finally couldn't help but secretly pull Diancui and reminded.
Diancui smiled and said, no hurry.
After a few days, the price of wax doubled, Du Xiaozhu couldn't help but didn't ask this time, but he was inevitably anxious for Diancui, and went to the market three or four times a day, lest the price of this wax drop again.
But Diancui was not in a hurry at all, and the letter outside didn't know that the wax had risen to a sky-high price, but he went back to the courtyard and dug the pit where the wax was buried a little deeper, and got up at night to see it several times.
As for whether to sell it, or what to do with it, she still has to wait for her master's instructions.
During this period, Du Xiaozhu deliberately asked for a day off from the steward just in case, went to the ash forest in the suburbs, inquired, and heard that the ash worm disease had not been cured, so he secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and at the same time admired Dian Cui for being so calm, and at the same time annoyed that he was still not calm.
Until one day, Diancui appeared in the gatehouse of the West Courtyard with a smile.
Du Xiaozhu was out of breath and went to find Xin'er.
"The girl said, sell wax!" Du Xiaozhu shouted with joy on his face.
"Hurry up and make a little noise!" Xin'er has been frightened every day these days, and now the yard is not buried with wax, but with white flowers!
After the two of them dug out the buckets of wax in the yard, Du Xiaozhu specially found a fence for Xin'er to bring this time, and put some beards on her face, so she went to see the seller with confidence.
"Brother Xiaozhu, no wonder the master said that you are cautious." The first time Xin'er wore something that Miss Dahu wore, she felt fresh.
Du Xiaozhu carried a heavy amount of silver on his back, and followed Xin'er to the small teahouse, where Diancui was already waiting.
"You two come and have some tea." Diancui smiled and ordered Su Xiang's twist fruit, and the other two plates of mushroom meat buns.
Xin'er and Du Xiaozhu are not such twisted people, they came up and put the burden wrapped in silver into the water of Diancui, and ate the buns with tea.
"Oh, it's a shot, I've been restless these days, I'm afraid that the family will be a bad thief." Xin'er gasped for breath while eating.
Diancui nodded her head and scolded with a smile: "You are unproductive, you are afraid of becoming like this if you have more silver." ”
Du Xiaozhu looked at such a young girl curiously, it was very different from the cautious appearance she usually had in the mansion, as if she had relaxed the hidden elegance around her, and she looked more like an eldest lady than Gui Chuyu. Looking at her appearance again, Du Xiaozhu jumped violently in his heart, and almost choked to death by the bun.
She looks too much like Madame like this! Du Xiaozhu's heart was beating when he only watched.
Why didn't I find out on weekdays, the appearance in the house on weekdays turned out to be pretended by her, she should have been like this!
Generous, confident, compassionate, noble.
Du Xiaozhu suddenly didn't dare to look at her directly, until Dian Cui asked with a smile, "Brother Xiaozhu, what's wrong with you?" ”
If he usually called him Xiaozhu brother in the house, he couldn't help but refute, I am older than you, but now he can't refute it, he feels that his brother is very affectionate, and his face is a little red.
"I don't understand why I bought all the money for wax in the first place, and how I knew in advance that the price of this wax would go up so much?" Du Xiaozhu couldn't help but ask the question in his heart, and bought all the silver wax, and then the ash worm was infected, and he never shipped it in the middle, knowing that the price of wax had increased more than three times before he made a move. Each step seems to have been calculated, and it is not bad at all.
"It should be a coincidence, a few days ago, I overheard the old man say that a lot of ash worms in his hometown died, so I wanted to buy more wax to prepare." Diancui can't say that there are memories of two lives, in the previous life, because of the large-scale death of wax worms, the vendors who have wax in their hands have made a lot of money, she can raise more silver taels, take advantage of this time to make a big profit, but she only let Xin'er use the more than forty taels to buy wax, and the silver earned is just enough for the next use, she has never been greedy.
"This time, the wax was sold for more than one hundred and twenty taels of silver, and after removing the forty-three taels and five dollars, I made a full eighty-two taels," Du Xiaozhu said in order to hide his blush: "I don't know...... What is the use of all this money? ”
In the past, he used to call Miss Cui, but at this time, he didn't know why he felt that it was inappropriate to call her like that, and he couldn't say what was wrong, in short, it was inappropriate.
Diancui smiled and didn't speak, took out two big silver ingots of five taels and handed them to Xiaozhu's hand, and said Thanks to your help, you can take these to buy new clothes.
Although Du Xiaozhu is also a descendant of the returned house, he also gives out new clothes every year, but he has many brothers in his family, and he is reluctant to wear the new clothes at all, so he gives them to his younger brothers to wear, and his gown is still washed and white.
"I can't take this ......" Du Xiaozhu looked at the two ingots of silver in Diancui Baihui's hand, and suddenly felt a little restrained, he just ran with Xin'er twice, no matter how much he waved his hoe, he dug out those waxes, where is it worth as much as ten taels of silver.
"If you take it, you will take it! Where is there so much nonsense. Xin'er couldn't get used to his sudden twisting, so she grabbed the silver and stuffed it into his arms.
"I ...... In the future, as long as there is something, you give me an order, and I will not refuse. Du Xiaozhu took the silver and said solemnly, only his mother lived with his many brothers in his family, and his mother's health was not very good, so he needed the silver.
It's just that for some reason, if it was someone else to give him, he would definitely not accept it, and today Diancui gave it to him, looking at Diancui's sincere eyes, he didn't feel insulted in his heart, he only was grateful.
"Okay, it's just Xiao Xie, your life is still long, and you deserve more." Diancui urged Xin'er to eat more snacks and said.
You deserve more, this sentence is plain, but it is like a stone thrown into the middle of the lake, which makes Du Xiaozhu's heart ripple, and then looks at Diancui's eyes are a little different, but when he is afraid of being discovered, he only lowers his head vigorously.
"You still keep this silver," Dian Cui didn't avoid Du Xiaozhu at all and said to Xin'er: "Part of it is stored in Yinzhuang, and part of it is taken to the suburbs of the city to sell some mountain goods, rent a small stall in the city and hire a guy, remember to only sell mountain goods, not too much each time, sell some sought-after products with good quality, and it doesn't matter if the price is more expensive." Diancui commanded.
"Good!" Xin'er immediately responded again, and the master asked her to do whatever she wanted, she was a fisherman's daughter, and she had never been a tendon in front of her.
"Let's not see each other during this period, if there is anything, let's find Xiaozhu." Diancui said again.
"Huh?" Xin'er was puzzled, and finally asked, "Then what can we meet?" ”
"Today, three months later, I'll see you in this little teahouse, when you're going to prepare to go to a far away, to a place where she ...... grew up."
"Whoa! I see. "When Xin'er was instructed, he had a quasi-Xin'er in his heart.
"Be a person who doesn't want to ask, you should ask the master for a new one." On the way back, Du Xiaozhu, who had never spoken, suddenly muttered that he was just prone to thinking too much, so he was disliked by the second young master.
Diancui smiled, knowing that he was talking about Xin'er: "Xin'er, she is indeed a simple and capable girl, but this world needs simple and capable people, as well as smart and intelligent people, you are the latter, don't be arrogant." ”
Du Xiaozhu listened and scratched his head embarrassedly, how could I be so powerful, but it was easy to think too much.
Thinking more means being cautious, which is good, and Diancui is gentle and comforting. Although Du Xiaozhu is not very old, he is the oldest in the family, there are three brothers and one sister, the so-called eldest brother is like a father, so that he can bear the burden of helping his mother raise his younger siblings at a young age.
For Du Xiaozhu, he is just the most ordinary and low-level porter, he has never been recognized like this in his life, and he has a feeling of being a confidant when he is said by Diancui.
It's just that he doesn't know that the second young master treats him like this and just wants to hone with him, and he will be entrusted with important tasks in the future, so that he can become the same right-hand man as Tong Li, these points Cui know by himself, in this life, she decided to intercept the second young master's Hu and take Du Xiaozhu for her own use, after all, he is his second brother, he shouldn't blame himself, Diancui thought a little cheekily.