Chapter 112: The richest man in Xia
Pei Yan thought she was going to ask herself what she was going to do, but she didn't expect to ask this.
Removing a little disappointment between his eyebrows, he reached out and pinched Qiao You's white and tender fingers, and said, "Not yet, but your guess is right, that kid surnamed Xie is not a good thing." ”
The people he sent out followed him for two days, and Xie Xiaogongzi was very vigilant, thinking that he often did this kind of thing.
The man himself had a private house, which he should rarely visit, and there was nothing unusual in it.
But it was because there was no abnormality that Pei Yan felt strange.
The person sent out came back to report that Xiao Gongzi Xie was careful all the way, for fear that others would follow him to that house, in this regard, there is no weirdness, it is weird.
Hearing Pei Yan's words, Qiao You said in her heart Sure enough, she could see at first glance that the kid surnamed Xie was not a good person.
"But then we're just guessing, and we have to find a way to confirm it." Pei Yan knew that Qiao You cared about her sister and his father, so she would naturally do her best to do it.
Qiao You nodded, said a few more words to Yan Pei, and then he left.
Back in the restaurant, because it was the first day of opening, some dishes, the price of wine was relatively cheap, so there were more people, fortunately, there were more weddings in the restaurant, and I took care of it.
The seven or eight cooks in the back kitchen were also people Qiao You was looking for, most of them were women, honest people of forty-five or sixteen years old, and they signed a contract with her, and during the period when she was working in the restaurant, she would never be able to leak the recipes of her dishes, otherwise, she would have to pay a huge amount of compensation.
Those cooks are honest people, Qiao You is not worried, but there are a few men who are also cooks, after all, she can't find all the women to come over.
"Little Er, bring me another borscht." A guest at a table waved and shouted.
Before Xiao Er could respond, someone on the side shouted: "Xiao Er, I still want a this, watermelon fried ice." ”
"Okay, a few guest officers, wait a minute."
The guy answered, quickly wrote down a few dish names, and went to the back kitchen to report to the cooks.
At the gate, the girl in a pale pink dress was a little pale, but the smile on her face was sincere, she was a little surprised to see the restaurant full of people, and walked to Qiao You's side and smiled: "Qiao You, congratulations, this business is good." ”
"Thank you." Seeing that it was Xia Ziyan, Qiao You smiled, glanced at her, and saw a few little maids behind her carrying boxes, with red silk tied on them, which looked like they should be gifts: "What are you sending?" ”
Xia Ziyan smiled, and then asked people to carry the things to the warehouse in the backyard.
"It's a white jade porcelain vase and a set of white jade bowls, I don't know what you like, but your cooking is delicious, so I'll give you this."
"Feelings, you still have to come to my house every day to eat in the future?" Qiao You asked her with a sneer.
Xia Ziyan smiled at her, and her eyes slowly looked like she was flirting with a woman from a good family.
Jokes are jokes, thank you or thank you, Xia Ziyan sent the white jade porcelain bottle, I am afraid that the price will be expensive, "Thank you." She thanked Xia Ziyan.
Before Xia Ziyan could politely say a word, a man in a white robe walked in at the gate, followed by four or five small servants, carrying a box with red silk tied on it.
The person who came was none other than Yuan Ziyi.
"Cousin!" Seeing Yuan Ziyi appear here, Xia Ziyan ran over directly: "Didn't my aunt not let you come?" ”
Although the misunderstanding was solved, my aunt probably felt that she had lost face because of Qiao You, so she still didn't like Qiao You, and now she knew that Qiao You's restaurant was open, and she specially instructed the people in the house not to let Yuan Ziyi go out.
Why did he come here with a little servant, and it seemed that he had prepared a big gift.
"Sister Qiao, this restaurant is very angry because you cleaned it up." Stepping into the door of the restaurant and looking at the layout and decoration inside, Yuan Ziyi only felt that it was novel and good-looking.
But there's a platform in between, what is this going to do?
Xia Ziyan only felt that she was being ignored, obviously it was the question she asked first, why did her cousin pretend not to see it?
It's weird.
"Nature is useful." Qiao You didn't say the role of this platform, anyway, it's just listening to music and storytelling, and there is nothing to see next to it.
"Cousin, what did you give Qiao You, open it and take a look!" Xia Ziyan walked to the side of the big box and knocked on the lid of the box, listening to the sound, it was very heavy.
She figured that it might be porcelain or something, otherwise she wouldn't have used such a big box.
Yuan Ziyi waved his hand and directly asked people to open it in the restaurant.
The people who come here to eat all have some status, and most of them recognize Yuan Ziyi's identity.
Seeing that he actually gave gifts to the cook girl who worked under him in the past, they all looked over curiously.
When the box opened, it was not the gold and silver jewels they had imagined, nor some precious porcelain ornaments, but a jar of specially treated flower petal powder.
Qiao You smelled the smell of cooking, which was the fragrance of roses.
Here, too, there are roses!
"This was transported by water in Lingnan this time, and the flower wine brewing of our Yuan family's restaurant is made of this kind of long clothes flower, the taste is sweet and rich, and no wine can compare with it." Yuan Ziyi slowly introduced.
Don't look at such a small jar, but it weighs 30 catties, but at most, a 30-pound long coat flower can only make five or six catties of flower wine.
In addition, every year, the best kahoi flowers in the flower field are used.
In an acre of flower field, the petals are picked and ground out of about twenty or thirty catties, but the most tender petals must be selected, without any flaws in the petals, so that such a powder can be ground out at most three catties.
And the place where this long-coat flower grows is also very steep, and it must be the best in spring. There's no way they can grow more.
Even if there are a lot of them, the taste is not as good as in the Lingnan area.
Therefore, the flower wine produced by their Yuan Mansion every year is only five or six larger jars, because the powder they receive every year is only eighty catties.
It can be said that they gave almost one-third of the flower wine to Qiao You.
Of course, the flower wine brewing is not cheap, most of the Yuan family's flower wine brewing is bought by the palace every year, and their Yuan family has not much left to drink by themselves.
A pound of flower wine can be said to be worth thousands of gold, and it is the most expensive wine in the world today.
Others don't know the preciousness of this, Xia Ziyan likes to drink flower wine the most, and naturally understands the preciousness of these more than 30 catties of powder.
"Cousin, if you brought it here like this, your aunt won't know about it, right?" Xia Ziyan asked him in a daze, and she could already think of the bloody scene of her cousin being scolded by her aunt.
However, this time, it was not what Xia Ziyan thought.
The powder of this long clothes flower was sent by Mrs. Yuan Ziyi at the behest of Mrs. Yuan, and there is an element of reparation in it.
"My mother asked me to give the girl to make amends for your sins." Yuan Ziyi bowed solemnly to Qiao You.
Qiao You hurriedly helped the person up.
For the long-coat flower in his mouth, Qiao You thinks it should be the name of the rose here.
After all, the color of this long coat flower powder, as well as the taste, and even the few fresh and tender fragrances under that rich fragrance, Qiao You will never forget it.
She used to like to make her own wine, and her grandparents who loved her the most liked to drink the rose wine she brewed the most.
"Then thank you Mrs. Yuan for me." She said lightly, she still didn't have a good feeling for that Mrs. Yuan, after all, the contradiction between the two of them was not shallow.
Qiao You had long known that these two people would come, so he specially reserved a room for the two of them, and personally cooked some meals and sent them over.
On the other side, in the Yuan Mansion, Mrs. Yuan, who was waiting for Yuan Ziyi to come back and listen to the news, was really restless at this moment.
Sitting in the lobby of the main hall, it seems that there has been an hour, although it is only the hour of lunch, but she always feels that time is too slow.
This Yuan Ziyi, why hasn't he come back, and the two of Xia Ziyan are not lost, why haven't they come back.
I don't know what Qiao You's attitude is when the stubborn little girl accepts her apology, she shouldn't hold a grudge against Xia Zishu's behavior, right? Mrs. Yuan held the handkerchief in her hand and thought uneasily.
It didn't take long for Mrs. Liu to come running from outside. A slightly obese face was a little anxious.
"What's the matter, didn't the young master come back?" Seeing Mrs. Liu come back, Mrs. Yuan hurriedly looked in the direction of the back of her body, but there was still no one.
She always felt that she was going to see through it.
Mrs. Liu gasped twice, and only then did she say one by one: "Madam, Master Xia, Master Xia's sedan chair has arrived at the door." ”
"Big brother!" Hearing Mrs. Liu's flowers, she sat up from the chair with a "poof", and sure enough, a wealthy middle-aged man in a black robe walked in with some guards outside.
"Big brother, long time no see." She immediately greeted her, although her own relationship with Xia Yusheng was very ordinary, and the relationship maintained by her two nieces over the years.
"Hmm." Xia Yu responded, and then found a place to sit down casually.
Dressed in a black brocade dress, it looks heavy, with a black python embroidered on it, and it looks hideous and scary, but Xia Lisheng's own appearance is kind and delicate, and he can't see any ugly appearance when he is old.
Xia Yusheng didn't want to talk to her so much. But now I have to be polite on other people's territory. "I haven't seen you for so many years, but you're getting more and more energetic."
After saying this, Mrs. Xia smiled and did not speak.
There was a sudden silence in the main hall.
The scary people in the room also noticed that something was wrong with the dull atmosphere, and one by one they lowered their heads and did not dare to speak.
After a while, Xia Yusheng remembered her purpose, "What about Xia Zishu, why didn't her father greet her when he came, and Ziyan, what kind of system did these two children become?" ”