In October, the autumn mood is getting stronger, and the osmanthus flowers on the osmanthus tree fall to the ground.

A few days ago, Feng Lao'an specially instructed Zijuan to invite the master of the south embroidery room in the city to come into the house to make autumn and winter clothes for the wives and girls in each room and courtyard.

Feng Lao'an originally invited the master to enter the mansion for the Qi family, and the tiger brother grew bigger and bigger, and the needlework of the embroidery lady in the house was not as good as the master outside, so he specially invited the master in.

But if you only do Qi and Hu'er, you can't help but say that on the day of Qi's tailoring, he also called Gu Yutang to go over, and made two pieces.

Because Cai's Brother Sheng and Brother Bai had just returned from Luoping, Feng Lao'an also told the master who came in the embroidery room to make a few clothes for them.

Because it has become colder and colder outside in the past few days, the north wind is blowing, and Gu Yutang is too lazy to go out and stays in the house all day.

On weekdays, if you don't read a few books that Ah Hua just bought from the market, to pass the time; Or he personally cooked a few dim sum and sent them to the Lin family, Feng Lao'an, and Jiang Zhiming's house.

On this day, Gu Yutang instructed Ah Hua to send a few snacks to the back room to Jiang Zhiming, who had just come back.

Ah Hua, who had been blowing the cold wind outside for a few hours, had already grabbed his tearful nose, and his ears were also red from the cold, so he went straight to the stove when he entered the house, and before he wiped away his tears and nose, he put down the food box in his hand and dried his hands.

"Girl, just now when I went to the back room to deliver snacks, the son of the Jiang family asked Brother Shi to bring me a box of shortbread and mung bean cakes, saying that Feng Lao'an sent them to his house, and the son of the Jiang family couldn't eat it, so he allowed one to come out." Ah Hua said, and opened the red lacquered wood carved box next to him.

The box looks very extreme, not only carved out of the carving, but also painted with colored lacquer on the top of the mandarin duck playing in the water, the mandarin duck is also painted vividly.

Gu Yutang didn't look at the box, and when he opened the box, he saw two delicate dim sum inside, one was soybean shortbread, and the other was mung bean cake from Tianxiangfang printed with a mold on it.

Without waiting for Ah Hua to hand her chopsticks, Gu Yutang took a piece of mung bean cake with his hand and tasted it, only to feel that although the mung bean cake was sweet but not greasy, the softness and hardness were moderate, and there was a layer of red bean sugar filling in it, and the red beans had been boiled to the point that they were no longer red beans.

After Ah Hua put the dim sum on the top of the high table, he saw the words Tianxiangfang printed on the mung bean cake with a mold, and said.

"Girl, isn't this Tianxiangfang our century-old store in Chengjiang? Their mung bean cake and soybean crisp are unique in the world, and every time they go back to the New Year and celebrate the festival, their wife will order a steward to order snacks at their house. ”

Gu Yutang heard Ah Hua say that this Tianxiangfang is a century-old store in Chengjiang Mansion, and said that she would eat the dim sum of Tianxiangfang during the New Year and festivals in the past, but why didn't she have any impression at all? It was also the first time she had tasted the snack.

"Ah Hua, you said that every time your mother goes back for the New Year's Festival, she will order the steward to go to Tianxiangfang to order dim sum, but I have never eaten this dim sum, and I have never seen it!" Gu Yutang had a question in his heart, so he asked Ah Hua.

Ah Hua sighed first, and then said slowly.

"It was many years ago, and it's common sense that the girl doesn't remember. On this day, the dim sum of Xiangfang was originally the old man's favorite food, and his wife had to put this dim sum every time he went back to the New Year's Festival. ”

As soon as the words fell, Ah Hua said again: "It's a pity that one year in the Mid-Autumn Festival, the master didn't come back, and he never came back after that." The steward was worried that when his wife saw this snack, she remembered the past with the master, so she stopped the supply of dim sum with Tianxiangfang. ”

It turned out to be what was going on, no wonder she had never seen this snack before. From Ah Hua's later words, she also knew that the first time her mother and father met, it was for snacks, when her father went to Tianxiangfang as an apprentice, and her mother went to buy Tianxiangfang's dim sum, and when her mother saw her father, she liked her father.

It's a pity that the taste of dim sum is still the same, but the people who eat it don't know where it has gone?

Gu Yutang ate a few pieces, but he couldn't eat anymore, so he put the dim sum back into the food box, and asked Ah Hua to go down and share it with a few people on the cold winter solstice.

As soon as Ah Hua came out of the house, Da Han walked in in a panic, holding a letter in his hand, which was handed over by the porter. "Girl, the little guy who was waiting at the concierge came over early this morning, holding the letter handed down to the girl by Chengjiang in his hand, and when I saw that the girl was back, I sent it over."

Da Han's face was full of smiles, and he handed the letter to Gu Yutang.

After receiving the letter, she read it carefully several times, the letter was written down by Cai's mother to her, saying that Gu Yucheng was about to end, and the people from Liang Wangfu had come to pick him up, and now Yuli was in the eldest uncle's house, and the eldest uncle's mother took care of herself.

My mother quarreled with my father several times in the ancestral hall and fell ill, so my mother had Uncle Yang Ding by her side to take care of my mother.

When Gu Yutang was about to put down the letter, he suddenly found that the letter had been opened, and the official seal on it was a little misaligned, as if it had been opened and read by others, and when the letter was resealed, he was in a hurry, resulting in the official seal on the top not being aligned.

Da Han said that the letter was sent by the porter early this morning, but now it is noon, and so many hours have passed in between, could it be that Da Han opened the envelope and read it privately?

Handing the letter to Da Han, Gu Yutang still asked tentatively, "Da Han, has anyone else read this letter except me?"

Da Han didn't know why Gu Yutang asked like this, shook his head, and said, "Girl, no!" When the letter was delivered, the slave maid had been carrying it in her pocket, and no one else had seen it. ”

Gu Yutang looked at Da Han's appearance, and it didn't seem like he was lying, but this letter was indeed opened by someone without permission, if it wasn't for her, who else would there be?

Could it be the little guy who delivered the letter? But the little guy knew that the letter was brought to her, would she open it and read it privately?

Although Gu Yutang didn't want to doubt Da Han, he still asked: "Da Han, tell me honestly, has this letter been opened and read?" This morning, the little guy sent a letter, is this what it looks like?"

As she spoke, she turned the envelope over and showed Da Han where the envelope was sealed. The official seal on the head is indeed uneven, as if it has been torn apart.

Da Han glanced at the somewhat uneven official seal on the envelope, and said, "Girl, the slave maid never opened your letter without permission!" Even if you borrow ten guts from the slave and maid, the slave and the maid will not dare to do such a rebellious thing. The girl treats the slave and the maid well, although the slave and the maid have not read, but they also know it, and the slave and the maid also understand the truth of the gratitude. ”

"But this letter only passed through the hands of you and the porter, if you didn't open it, could it be the little guy?" Gu Yutang said, and was about to call Ah Hua, who was waiting outside, to come in and ask her to ask the little guy in the concierge to come over and testify.

She didn't want anyone to eat inside and outside her house, so she had to do this in order to prove Da Han's innocence.

After Ah Hua came in, he glanced at Gu Yutang, then at Da Han, and privately opened the girl's letter, this is big or small, I don't know what the girl should do?