After the New Year, the weather is getting warmer day by day, the long ice moat hanging down from the eaves of the house gradually melts under the sunlight of early spring, and the water turns into water and hits the bricks on the ground, and the ice and snow in the sunny place have already melted, only the shady place is still covered with snow.

On the 25th day of the first month, the family who came to the store to get water tofu sent a letter to Sister Qiu, asking Sister Qiu if there were any new dishes, and their young master wanted to invite Mrs. Mei to go to Huyang.

Sister Qiu is naturally willing to go, and it is more than 100 taels of silver to go back, and she plans to save all of them and buy the land completely, even if this water tofu idea is imitated or unfortunate to give people the idea, she and Jia can also be comfortable as a landlord's wife.

Sister Qiu's impression of Wang Ming is very good, in Sister Qiu's opinion, this Wang Ming is full of heart on the Liufang Building, only thinking about making the ancestral family business bigger and stronger, and being the first, but he is not at all as shrewd as Rong Deyi, full of flattery, and he can't believe a word. And Sister Qiu still thinks that Wang Ming is a bit of a nerd who reads, stubborn and stubborn. After getting acquainted with it, she found that this eldest son is also not a fighter, and he is really a very good person to get along with.

Lin Zhun and Zhang Ruoxu have to study in the college these days, and Sister Qiu took Zhang Yuxiu, Dayin and Donkey to Huyang before dawn. After the opening of the academy after the Chinese New Year, Sister Qiu keenly noticed that Lin Zhun was more attentive to studying, and she went home to help the family when she was resting, but now she only goes back once in a while, and the rest of the time she is racing against time to read.

Sister Qiu is actually quite worried about Lin Zhun, although he is always smiling and groaning, but the little boy's mind is hidden deeply, only telling her that it is good and never saying bad, Mr. Long often praises Lin Zhun for his fast progress in front of Aunt Chunhua, and he has only read this month, which is better than those who have studied for two or three years.

When a group of people arrived at the Hexagonal Building, it didn't take long to get dark, and the Hexagonal Building hadn't opened yet, and the backyard was quietly touching. Because Sister Qiu and they have been here a few times, the guys guarding the door in the backyard all recognized Sister Qiu, and even if it was okay, when Sister Qiu entered the courtyard, she listened to Wang Ming's voice coming from the side room.

"I knew you were coming...... Since you like to eat the dishes cooked by Mei Niangzi, then don't embarrass others when Mei Niangzi comes. It's not easy for a little lady to top, so she has no father at a young age, and her relatives can't rely on it, so she follows her mother to ask for a living......" Wang Ming's tone was a little helpless.

"I know she's your god of wealth, and I won't bother her! It's so long-winded like a mother-in-law! Wang Qi pulled the voice of the male duck in the voice change period, and interrupted Wang Ming's words impatiently.

The young man who followed Sister Qiu ran over, and the sound of heavy footsteps came from the stone slab in the courtyard, and the people in the side room seemed to hear the sound and immediately stopped talking.

"Eldest son, Mrs. Mei is here!" The young man who reported the news spoke loudly.

The sound in the room suddenly stopped, and after a while, the curtain by the door was lifted, and Wang Ming and Wang Qi appeared by the door, walking in the direction of Sister Qiu.

woof

Sister Qiu of the Ming Dynasty smiled and said, "Mei Niangzi came very early!" ”

Wang Qi stood on the side with his hands behind his back, although his face was stinky, he didn't say a word about Sister Qiu, and he looked at Wang Ming's words.

Sister Qiu and the others pretended not to have listened to those words when they just came in, and said with a smile: "Young Master Wang is also early!" ”

This time, Sister Qiu taught the chef to make stewed meat and dried fragrant meat, fragrant dried bean curd is the five-spiced dried tofu dried at home during the New Year of Sister Qiu, which has been sold in the Qiu Ji store with a thousand sheets, and it is also available in Wang Ming's side, the price of the dried fragrant is more expensive than the water tofu, and the sales in the Qiu Ji store are not as good as the water tofu, but it is sold very well in Huyang.

When making braised meat flowers in oil is very long, when the meat is stewed in the pot to collect juice, the rich aroma of meat floats all over the courtyard, and many people are all rolling around their lips, Wang Ming stands in the courtyard, just smelling the smile on his face, he has a hunch that this dish will be more popular than boiled river fish. Wang Qi adhered to the style of the noble young master, standing by the door with his hands behind his back, watching Sister Qiu cooking without saying a word, just a pair of eyes revealing novelty, constantly spinning around Sister Qiu, and when Sister Qiu looked over, he looked at the sky with his arms in his arms. Wang Qiman is wearing a beautiful moon-white satin robe, a red and silver crown on his hair, a jade belt tied around his waist, and a pair of clean calfskin boots on his feet.

Sister Qiu simply didn't care about him and cooked seriously. She added hibiscus when she made fragrant dried meat back to the pot, mixed the color with sweet sauce, and cut the fresh oil green garlic seedlings that had just been pulled out of the snow field when she stir-fried the pot on high fire, with a slight spicy taste in the fragrance, and the color was also pleasing to the eye, which was a good meal.

"It smells so good!" Da Yin and the donkey, who were standing in the courtyard, drooled at each other, looked at each other and smiled, and said in unison: "When I go home, I want Sister Qiu to cook for us again!" "Although they can't afford to go to a high-end location like the Liufang Building, they have Sister Qiu who is even more powerful than the chef of the Liufang Building.

Wang Ming and Wang Qi led the guys to the Liufang Building in front of them with two dishes, and when they left, they told the two chefs in the Liufang Building to make these two dishes, and if they didn't understand anything, they asked Mei Niangzi, and the two chefs said yes one after another. When Young Master Wang Qi left, the atmosphere of the entire courtyard suddenly relaxed, and the big guys all knew that this Young Master Wang Qi had a great difficulty in serving, but it was due to the sin of noble status.

At noon, as usual, Wang Ming invited Sister Qiu to a few half-grown children to eat in the Liufang Building, and when Wang Ming led them into the lobby on the first floor of the Liufang Building, Sister Qiu heard someone behind her shout in surprise: "Sister Mei Qiu?" ”

Sister Qiu turned her face back and looked, just looking at Rong Deyi, Rong Deyi was wearing a brightly colored treasure blue brocade jacket, holding a wine stove in his hand, bending his fat belly, and was diligently pouring wine for the people at the wine table.

Sister Qiu didn't expect to meet Rong Deyi here, so she was polite

looked down, as if he had made a move, he had to follow Wang Ming upstairs.

Someone at the table with Rong Deyi recognized Wang Ming, hurriedly got up, respectfully bowed his hand to Wang Ming and said with a smile: "It's Young Master Cong, you came to the tavern today, I'm glad to meet you!" The contemptible surname is Guo, with a single name and a character, and he is the owner of the Tongliang store in the north of the city. After the greetings, Guo Wen introduced to a few people at the table: "This young master is the young master of the Liufang Building, Young Master Cong!" ”

Rong Deyi's eyeballs were even more rounded.

The people at the table brushed up and brushed up with Wang Ming's arch gloves, some praised Wang for his lack of work next year, and some praised Wang Mingyushu Linfeng, and introduced himself at the same time, Wang Ming smiled and saluted these people one by one, and said very politely: "The big guy is a guest when he comes to me, don't be restrained, if there is anything inconsiderate, just tell our boss!" ”

The few people who came to pat the sycophants naturally understood that Wang Ming had something to do, and immediately thanked them very brightly and returned to their seats.

Rong Deyi couldn't extricate himself from his surprise, and took the opportunity to ask: "Is this Young Master Wang very big?" ”

Guo Wenyi laughed, as if mocking Rong Deyi's loneliness in the countryside, arched his hand towards the direction where the Wang family lived in the west of the city, and said: "The Wang family is the largest family in our Huyang, and there are countless members of the family, so even the prefect and grandfather want to give the Wang family three points of thin noodles. Although this Young Master Wang is not a grandson, he and his peers are a great-grandfather, and they can be regarded as a side branch very close to Changzhi'er, and they are the young master's family of this six-sided building, do you say it's a big deal? ”

Sister Qiu has been to the Liufang Building a few times, knowing that the lobby on the first floor of the Liufang Building is the cheapest, the higher the floor, the more expensive the banquet fee will be, she thought about Rong Deyi's usual in Jiujiang is dragged by 2580000, only to mark on the brain panel "I am a local tyrant", but when he arrives here, he can only be in the lobby on the first floor, Sister Qiu and Zhang Yuxiu led Dayin and the donkey to the pharmacy separately to buy 400 catties of cement gypsum back, several people worked together to lift the sack to the car, Dayin whispered to Sister Qiu: " A few people followed us all the way! ”

These methods of water tofu will not be able to be kept sooner or later, and Sister Qiu is expected to want to go, and the matter of the boiling water tofu workshop should be put on the agenda. Otherwise, when others also sell delicious water tofu, what money will she make?

Today, Sister Qiu got up early, after returning home from Huyang, Sister Qiu was a little tired, climbed to the kang and took a nap for a while. In the courtyard, there was the sound of Jia's rubbing clothes, and the sound of pots and pans colliding in the small kitchen.

Jia Shi turned his face and saw that Sister Qiu was up, and couldn't help but smile and said, "Little lazy worm, you won't wake up until you sleep at this time, look at you can't sleep at night!" ”

Sister Qiu smiled, she was also startled when she woke up, she was alone for a while, but she didn't expect to oversleep, "Mother, why don't you call me?" ”

Jia Shi smiled, rubbed the clothes in the basin vigorously, and said, "It's not like you sleep soundly, like a little grass pig."

。 Just sleep, there's nothing for you to do at home. In fact, she is a heartbroken daughter, and she wants her daughter to sleep for a while, but now no one cares about them, there is no shortage of Sister Qiu's small labor at home, and Sister Qiu can sleep as long as she wants.

At this moment, Zhang Yuxiu poked her head out of the small kitchen, holding a scallion pancake with two bites in her hand, and said with a smile: "Are you awake?" My mother just baked a pancake, come and taste it! ”

"Huh!" Sister Qiu responded with a smile and hurriedly ran over.

Zhang Yuxiu brought a small bamboo basket from the rice stove to Sister Qiu, the bamboo basket was full of stacks of small oil cakes with full brushes, the aroma was overflowing, Sister Qiu picked up one and bit it, and the oil cake was rubbed with finely chopped green onions, which tasted very good.

"Delicious!" Sister Qiu smiled and gave a thumbs up to her aunt who was still rolling pancakes.

Li Ailian laughed and said, "Go, give your mother a taste too." ”

Sister Qiu tore half of a pancake and brought it to Jia's side, Jia's hands were still washing clothes, so Sister Qiu squatted next to Jia's side, tore the pancakes into one by one, and stuffed them into Jia's mouth.

"Look at this kid!" Jia's mouth said that he didn't eat, but if Sister Qiu stuffed it, Jia's all opened their mouths to eat happily, and they couldn't close their mouths happily.

Zhang Yuxiu brought the dishes to the well from the small kitchen to wash, and said to Sister Qiu: "When you go to bed in the afternoon, that fat pier ...... It's Grandpa Rong again. ”

"What is he doing here?" Sister Qiu asked.

Zhang Yuxiu grinned, his smile was full of cunning, "He inquired around the corner and asked how we recognized Young Master Wang Ming." Eh, didn't you look at it, Grandpa Rong was like that at that time, as if the young master Wang Ming we knew was too much, and he also said that the next time he had a treat, he asked us to give it to him...... What's the catch? Oh, referrals! Referral! He also wanted to get to know Young Master Wang Ming. Hehe, if he knows not only the young master Wang Ming, but also the fifth young master of the Wang family, what will it become! ”

Sister Qiu was slightly taken aback, and hurriedly asked, "He came to ask this?" What did you tell him? ”

"What else can I say? You can't tell him the truth! Zhang Yuxiu said with a smile, "My aunt told him that Young Master Wang Ming is taking care of our orphans and widows, and he came to us to buy water tofu. Grandpa Rong brought the things, and my aunt also asked him to take them. ”

Sister Qiu nodded, and found that Rong Deyi had come very diligently these days, greeting him with a smile every time, and holding heavy gifts, even if he had a cold face the previous time, he still couldn't stop him from coming next time.

"Huh!" Sister Qiu sighed, "This is really in response to the old saying, the poor in the downtown no one asks, and the rich have distant relatives in the mountains!" "In December of the previous year, when he did the posthumous affairs of Lao Xiucai's father, Rong Deyi only sent a man to send a handful of money, and at this time last year, Rong Deyi didn't even want to see their mothers, so he sent a daughter-in-law in charge to send them away.

Rong Deyi is a person with a complete idea, and it has almost become his nature to become inflammatory, and he may be happy with him

In his eyes, he deigned to come to the door a few more times and send more gifts, and the Jia family was the big boss of him, and the two families could follow up, but the truth was that the Jia family and Sister Qiu couldn't forget the harm caused to them by Rong Deyi, and they didn't want to make friends with people like Rong Deyi.

To Sister Qiu's surprise, Rong Deyi came again the next day, this time he didn't mention the gifts, only brought two family members, saw Jia's and Sister Qiu smiled very politely, saying that they wanted to eat bean curd and buy water tofu and soybean sprouts.

Waiting for Douhua'er to serve the table, Sister Qiu ran to collect the money, Rong Deyi hurriedly took out a gray satin money bag from his arms, handed it to Sister Qiu, and asked with a smile: "Bao girl, I heard that you recognize Young Master Wang of Huyang Liufang Building?" ”

Sister Qiu smiled and nodded, counted the money from the money bag, and put the money bag on the wooden table in front of Rong Deyi. Hengzhu Rong Deyi all looked at Wang Ming and led them to dinner, if he didn't admit it, he would definitely not believe it, but it would be better to admit it generously, Hengzhu is not a bad thing, let others know that they have a relationship with Wang Ming, those people with bad intentions want to calculate them, and they should weigh their own weight first.

"So, you know each other very well?" Rong Deyi asked tentatively, a fat face was shiny, and the eyes on the face were narrow into thin lines.

Sister Qiu shook her head with a smile and said, "I'm not very familiar." When he finished speaking, he turned his head and left.

"Eh, eh! Treasure girl! Rong Deyi was anxious, and called Sister Qiu loudly, he still had a belly of questions that he didn't ask, such as how did a few of them who had just come out of the countryside get on the boat of Young Master Wang Ming, can you introduce him to Young Master Wang Ming, why did this little girl leave like this!

Sister Qiu hurriedly walked out, as if she hadn't listened to Rong Deyi's shouting, and asked her to listen to Rong Deyi's shouting "Bao girl" more, she had to spit it out.

(End of chapter)