Chapter 5: The Funing Brothers
Fu Ye pointed to a handsome young man in his early twenties beside him and said, "This is my younger brother, Ah Ning!" ”
The young man who was called "A-Ning" twitched his face twice, looking very unwilling to be called like this.
"Your brother?" Su Lian blinked, "Is it the younger brother who sent you the garden?" ”
"It's not!" Ah Fu shook his head, "This is my fifth brother, another brother who gave me the garden." ”
"Then your brother is really Doha!" Su Lian almost wanted to roll her eyes.
"It's okay, it's okay." Fu Ye still looks smiling and friendly.
invited Fu Ye and his fifth brother into the house, and more than a dozen entourages were waited outside the house. Fu Ye looked at Su Lai's house as he walked, and shook his head while looking at it, and his younger brother was even more critical, looking very disdainful.
Su Lian didn't bother to pay attention to Fu Ye's arrogant younger brother, entered the main hall, and gave boiled water, no way, he didn't have time to buy tea, only boiled water.
Fu Ye didn't pick it, he drank it, his younger brother glanced at it, and then put it on the table, indicating that he didn't drink boiled water because of his arrogance.
Fu Ye drank it dry, wiped his mouth, and laughed: "This water is exceptionally clear to drink!" There is also a faint smell of peach blossoms. ”
That's nature, the water in the peach source world, as for the fragrance of peach blossoms, it's because Su Lian has drunk fairy honey water with these cups before, so the taste must be a little remnant.
"Isn't it just plain water?" The fifth master pursed his lips, picked up the cup, and sent it to the tip of his nose to smell it, and then the contempt on his face disappeared, and then he was surprised, he lowered his head and took a sip, and exclaimed: "Is there really a peach blossom fragrance?" "Smash it, smash it, smash it," and it tastes sweet. As he spoke, he also drank to the bottom, licking his lips, looking unfinished.
Fu Ye glanced at the hall, originally with an ordinary appreciation of the eyes, this house, although it is a little smaller, there is no expensive decoration, but the furnishings are quite elegant...... He looked at them one by one until his gaze fell on a pot of bluegrass on the long table under the west window.
Immediately, Fu Ye Huo stood up, took three steps and made two steps, and then moved to the west window, his eyes widened, staring at the pot of bluegrass, looking at it for half an hour, and then he trembled and pointed at the bluegrass: "Green cloud, it turned out to be Chunlan's 'green cloud'!" ”
When the fifth master heard this, he immediately looked incredulous: "Second brother, you are not mistaken, right?" How can there be a ...... in such a place?"
"If you don't believe it, come and see!" Fu Ye interrupted his brother with a roar.
The fifth master put down the teacup and walked in, only to see that although the orchid grass only has seven or eight leaves, it has a clear vein, elegant shape, and the root has pulled out the flower stem, and there is a small flower bud on the stem, which has revealed the green. The fifth master's eyes were also full of surprise: "It's really Lulan!" ”
Orchids, red and white flowers, green flowers are very valuable because they are rare! But this thing is common in later generations, and the breeding techniques of later generations are endless, so nothing is rare, Su Lian remembers that she spent eighty yuan to buy it from the flower market and threw it into the Taoyuan world, and now the "green cloud" orchid is as much as a weed. This one is just an ordinary one, the original previous owner planted an unknown orchid in a flower pot, and Su Curtain didn't look good, so he replaced it with such a one.
The look of surprise in the eyes of the fifth master was still there, and he glanced at Su Lian and said, "This orchid is worth a hundred gold, where did you get it?" ”
"Ahem!!" Su Curtain choked on the water, "What?!" 100 gold?! "Rub, but a green orchid, it is so valuable, pearls are worth nothing, such an orchid that is like a weed in the peach garden, it is worth ten times as much as a pearl!!
Su Lian immediately smiled and stretched out his hand and said, "Do you want it?" Take the 100 gold and move away with you! ”
"Deal!" The fifth master was immediately overjoyed, strode out of the main hall, and shouted outside: "Zhang Dechun, come in!" ”
A young man in leather armor immediately ran in and saluted: "Fifth master, you command!" ”
"Point out a thousand taels of silver tickets!"
One tael of gold is equal to ten taels of silver, and one hundred taels of gold is one thousand taels of silver, this kid named Zhang Dechun immediately took out a stack of silver tickets from his pocket, all of which were in denominations of one hundred taels, ordered ten, and respectfully handed them to his master.
Su Lian looked at the ten hundred taels of silver tickets that were handed over to him, and suddenly felt that the money in ancient times was too easy to make a little money.
The fifth master happily held the "green cloud", smiled at his brother with a look of regret, and said: "My mother likes bluegrass the most, and the second brother won't rob me, right?" It seemed that he was afraid that his brother would really come up to rob him, so the fifth master said goodbye and left quickly.
Ah Fu looked at the empty long case, and his regret became even stronger.
Su Lian's eyes moved, and he patted Ah Fu: "Brother Ah Fu, I still have a pot of bluegrass......
"Where?" Ah Fu immediately shook his head from side to side, searching as far as his eyes could see.
Su Lian got up, dusted off his clothes, and said, "Brother Afu, wait a minute, I'll go get it." After taking two steps, he turned back and said, "Don't peep!" ”
Su Curtain turned around and went to the west room, flashed into the Taoyuan world, dug out a strong orchid grass from the soft and fertile soil in three or two clicks, grabbed a white porcelain flower pot and stuffed it into it, slightly adjusted the soil, covered with some moss, and then flashed out.
"Brother Afu, this is the 'Green Peony' Dan, you look at the buds, they are dark green, but the flowers that bloom are larger than the green clouds, and they are still double-petaled, similar to peonies, so they are called 'Green Peony'." Su Lian held a blue and white porcelain flower pot and explained - "Green Peony" is ten yuan more expensive than "Green Cloud".
Earning two thousand taels of silver from the pockets of the Funing brothers, Su Lian was in a very good mood, these people from the royal family are really wronged.
Thinking that there were so many orchids like weeds in the space, Su Lian moved the idea of opening a flower shop, and he had an abacus in his heart. After thinking about it, I still dispelled this idea, according to the tone of the Funing brothers, the green orchid is worth a lot of money, it is a rare object, if you open such a store, so you can make money, but I am afraid that the sensation will be too big, and it will be easier to attract people to covet. Su Lian just wants to eat, drink, have fun, and go to Jiangnan in two years, but she doesn't want to get into trouble, not to mention that she is not short of money now.
The next day, the old man Wang from Wangjiaao came to knock on the door, and she came with several daughters-in-law and girls who had applied for domestic servants.
Because it is a farmer, even the women are darker, they are all powerful, Su Curtain and several daughters-in-law go to the kitchen, cook a dish to show their cooking skills, as for a few girls, Su Curtain asked carefully, none of them are literate, so they decided not to accept the girl, anyway, she sleeps in Taoyuan at night, if it is not good if it is discovered by outsiders.
About a quarter of an hour later, several daughters-in-law brought their own dishes up, and at a glance they were greasy and greasy and directly eliminated without appetite, Su Lian tasted a few and looked at the dishes that were good, and finally pointed to the mushroom soup in surprise and said, "Who made this?" ”
A short and fat daughter-in-law stepped forward, her red and black face with the unique shyness of a peasant woman, and her rough and greasy fat hands wiped twice on her blue-gray burlap skirt before she muttered: "The owner, it's me, the fifth family of the king." ”
It turns out that this is the nephew and daughter-in-law of the old man Wang, and the cooking skills are really good, not only is it moderately salty, but more importantly, the taste is very harmonious to the taste of Su Curtain. Su Lian put down the spoon and finalized: "It's you." ”
Wang's fifth daughter-in-law blushed happily, she rubbed her fat hands, and asked half-embarrassedly: "Dongjia, the salary is ......?"
Salary, Su Lian didn't know the market, so he thought of the palace maid's salary, remembering that the second-class woman's annual salary was six taels of silver, so he said: "How about a month and a half taels of silver?" ”
Wang's fifth daughter-in-law was immediately dumbfounded with joy, and nodded like a chick pecking rice for a while: "Medium!" It's so hit!! ”
Su Lian wiped the corners of his lips and said, "You come over every morning to make breakfast, and after you have dinner in the evening, you can call it a day and go home to take care of the children." If the weather is bad, stay in the row house at the back. ”
Wang's fifth daughter-in-law bowed her waist and thanked her with her mouth closed, and she was busy even when she went to the back kitchen. In this way, Wang's fifth daughter-in-law became a formally employed cook in Su Lian's house.