Chapter 6: The Ignorant
Candied date muffin, crispy water chestnut cake, jade preserved fruit, lotus 'flower' cake, cloud bean roll, Takahashi muffin, pork rib rice cake, mille-feuille cake, Dongpo cake......
Ruchu wrote down all the names of pastries she knew on paper, in fact, she didn't make so many, but there were about twenty kinds of pastries, which was enough to support a small shop, not to mention that she also had pastries, cakes, puddings, biscuits, egg rolls, etc. She also plans to open a small corner in the shop when the weather is warmer, set up a yarn shed, and make some seasonal fruits to eat. Anyway, sweets are the favorite of 'girls' and children, and even if it is a new trick to attract customers.
That's it, the pastry shop is in full swing, the old house of Qifu is filled with sweet fragrance every day, and the people in the whole house are also in a happy mood. Even if you're busy, you don't feel tired. Moreover, doing these businesses as early as the beginning has led to local employment, and many 'women' from poor families have been able to earn money to support their families, not only in their in-laws' house, but also in their self-confidence. Naturally, the prestige of the Qi family has also increased a lot.
The most important thing is that the business of the pastry shop is very good, and this kind of fresh dim sum 'flower' is very popular, so the Qi family soon opened branches in several nearby big towns, and finally rented a store in Jining Prefecture.
But in this way, it is necessary to expand recruitment, and the Qi Mansion is even busier and 'chaotic'. So he rented an empty house near Qi's house as a dim sum processing factory, and hired a special 'door' person to transport it. And when the business was good, she was very busy, but Mrs. Qi took the initiative to ask if she was looking for a housekeeper to help, so she called Yang Xi as before.
After Master Hu's business moved to Jining Prefecture, his family naturally followed, and Yang Xi was also married, but he never entered the Qi Mansion, and now Zhixiaotang's business is busy, and he was sent as the chief treasurer, but there is something to do, so he is naturally very hard-working, because he can finally give full play to his talents.
If the business is good, the silver will naturally be earned at the price of running water. By this time, Mrs. Qi no longer felt that she was using the Hu family's money, because she felt that she was the daughter-in-law of the Qi family, and she was the Qi family.
And when the lady didn't mind this, the life of the Qi family was better, not only did they add a lot of maids and servants, and repaired the ancestral house, but the life of the old lady and the lady also changed from hard to leisurely, although they were old every year, but the 'spirit' seemed to be better than before.
And as always, when the business is on track, it can finally rest. Check the accounts every day, inspect the shop every few days, learn to embroider 'flowers' at home (although there is no progress at all), and occasionally sleep lazily, which is a little more comfortable. It's not a good life, at least you don't have to be busy with life, and you can often take the opportunity to visit Daddy Hu Dahai by patrolling the Jining Prefecture branch.
Hu Dahai was relieved to see the 'daughter' so promising, and finally let go of his 'daughter's future life at this moment. The only thing that doesn't feel so perfect is that I have been married for so long and have not come out.
This is a question that weighs on everyone's heart, but everyone doesn't say it, especially the old people on both sides. Probably because she worked too hard to live at the beginning, they couldn't bear to make her feel unhappy anymore. But even so, those emotions, atmosphere, and eyes could be felt as before, so she felt pressure, but she didn't say anything.
If she really doesn't have children, what will happen to her marriage to Xiaoguang? In this era, it is impossible for a man to have no children, especially since he still bears the responsibility of the entire Qi family, as well as the title inherited from that generation......
The days passed slowly in this kind of success and failure, sweetness and bitterness, happiness and worry. In the fall, Ruchu held a grand wedding for Jimei, which was much more lively and pompous than when she married Xiaoguang.
When Mrs. Qi saw this, she felt a little sorry for her, you must know that the eldest son's marriage was really shabby. But Ruchu doesn't mind this at all, getting married, two people falling in love with each other or two people getting along well is more important than anything, and the ceremony can only make people tired. If it weren't for Xiaoguang's family, title, and responsibility, she would have liked the two of them to be in love with the landscape, and it didn't matter if there was a phoenix crown and a xiaxia veil.
In this way, Mrs. Qi and Mrs. Qi felt that she was even more generous and decent, loved her from the bottom of their hearts, and felt that Yuan Jing had a vision, and it was right to insist on marrying her at the beginning.
Seeing that Qi Mei has become a family, and Ruyi has also booked a 'door' to be close, it seems that when everything is calm, new contradictions and troubles come again...... That's the wife Jimei married.
This Xu family was chosen by Mrs. Qi among the many innocent young 'women' of the right age to be married, it can be said that it took a lot of thought, comparison and consideration countless times, and finally it was also decided by Jimei herself in one of the three choices, it stands to reason that it should be very desirable.
At the beginning, it was the same, the Xu family served tea the next morning to respect the elders, and was also respectful to Ruchu, who was a sister-in-law, and everyone looked at it and felt that this girl was good, and Jimei was blessed.
But as time went by, Xu gradually expressed that he was not sensible and inconsiderate, and the 'female' red was not the same as cooking, she was simply a young lady, and she couldn't wait to enjoy the happiness directly when she married into the Qi family, and she didn't mean to take responsibility at all.
In fact, if the 'female' celebrity and cooking skills are not good, you can learn slowly. But whether it will be a matter of degree, whether to learn or not is a matter of attitude. Young husband and wife, Jimei loves Xu very much, but Xu is pampered and arrogant, writes poems and paintings at a sky-high price, and doesn't care about anything at home, teaching her to learn some cooking skills 'female' red, she doesn't pay attention to it at all, and finally even the morning and dusk can be exempted, because the moon is often admired at night, and he can't get up in the morning.
A large family, only her new daughter-in-law 'wife' slept until three poles in the morning every day, and after eating, she cultivated her body and mind. It's not reading, it's playing chess. Let's say a few words about her, she still has a reason: "Doesn't my sister-in-law also do nothing every day?" Anyway, there are people, why should I come? ”
That's it, but as long as there is a little unsatisfactory in the Qi family, how about mentioning it in the mother's family? How the parents pamper and how the girls 'serve'. I also dislike that the Qi family lives outside the town, which is not as convenient as my mother's family to buy things, and I feel how boring it is to not see a few dramas all year round, and I also look down on the Qi family for business, thinking that this is a loss of face for the scholars and the relatives of the official family.
In the Ming Dynasty, the status of merchants was relatively low. Even Hu Dahai and Zhao Sanhong's father, although he is very rich, still has no social status. Fortunately, Hu Dahai has been an official, and the situation is much better, and the Zhao family is now glorious because of Zhao Sanhong, a military attache of the fifth grade.
Still, the so-called "readers" looked down on businessmen. Just like now, the scholarly 'disciple's Xu family looks down on the merchant background, and he also 'shows' his face as before. And because she despised her from the heart, slowly, she didn't respect this sister-in-law anymore, and she didn't even say a word of hello when she saw her, she avoided the side and walked away arrogantly.
Jimei didn't expect that his beloved wife was so ignorant, and she really fell to the Xu family several times.