Chapter 401: Beggars
As he spoke, he raised his legs and walked through the lobby to the Holly Courtyard, just as the old lady brought a bowl of soothing soup, came out of the small stove room, saw him come in, immediately put the tray, walked quickly to him, half aggrieved and half angry, and said, "You said that you old man, you are idle at home every day, but when Miss is bullied, you are not in front of you!"
Miss and the little master were bullied, and I don't know martial arts, I just want to work hard, this old bone doesn't work, if Miss has a good one, I won't live..."
The old lady wiped her tears as she spoke, where could Amber stand it, she wanted to hug her and comfort her, but it was difficult to start, so she jumped on her feet and shouted, "Oh, don't cry, don't cry, I'm not going to go, I'm not leaving, who bullied the snow girl, I'll sprinkle a handful of poison powder, I'll poison him!" β
Xiao Cui'er and Caiyun Caiyue listened to the movement in the stove, secretly stretched out their heads to look, and then smiled and stuck out their tongues, and ran out to get busy.
The old lady raised her eyes and saw it, and immediately her face turned red with shame, and she glared at Amber with disgust, and went into the house again with the tray.
Amber scratched his head, smiled like a flower on his old face, and shouted at the stove, "Girls, don't forget to bring me a copy for lunch." β
"Got it, Amber." A few little girls responded crisply, giggling more and more crisply and cheerfully, and the old man went to the front yard with his hands behind his back and his beard.
Rui Xue drank the soothing soup, and played with the old grandmother while coaxing the two children who woke up, while watching Jian Wu Qin Xin copy the food list, Qin Xin finished writing, put down the pen, counted them one by one, and said with a smile, "Madam, a total of Kyushu porridge products, four kinds of porridge side dishes." β
The sword dance was then completed, and he smiled and dried the ink, and said, "I have twelve kinds of dim sum here." β
Rui Xue took the order and looked at it carefully, pointed to the cold cake and fried spring rolls and said, "The fried spring rolls will be launched on the day of the spring equinox, the name caters to the solar terms, and it will definitely be a fire." The cold cake is also sold after the summer, and now that the weather is cold, even if it is pushed out, there will not be too many people who order it. The rest is exactly ten kinds, which is enough, and then every half month or month, a new pattern will be introduced, or the filling will be changed according to the season, and it will gradually become richer. β
"Yes, madam, I'll take it tomorrow to stereotype Desheng." Jian Wu took the list, smeared the spring rolls and cold cakes with ink, sorted out the fillings scattered on the table, put them into a small sandalwood box, and finally locked them in the mahogany coat box, and was just about to hand over the brass key to the master, but heard Rui Xue say, "You keep the key." β
Jian Wu was slightly stunned, and then his face showed joy, you must know that in the mahogany box, there are all the silver tickets, jewelry, and even the title deed of the teahouse that can be placed in the master's house.
"Mrs. Xie is trustworthy, and the slave and maid will definitely live up to Mrs. Xie's trust."
Jian Wu saluted respectfully, Qin Xin also got up with a happy face and saluted with her, Rui Xue personally helped them, patted their arms gently, looked grateful, and sincerely thanked him, "You don't have to be like this, but I should thank you, if it weren't for you, our mother and son would be at this time... I'm afraid I'll be separated. β
The old lady hurriedly replied, "Miss, don't think about it, let's come out, and we won't go back in the future." β
Rui Xue smiled slightly, "Mama is right, let's not go back, you have all been wronged with me these days." When the teahouse opens, if the business is good, let's go back to Lingfeng City and open another one, how about it? β
Jian Wuqin Xin naturally said okay, and while the master and servant were talking, Caiyun Caiyue came in with a tray and said with a smile, "Madam, we tried to steam some shrimp dumplings, how about you taste it?" β
Everyone was happy, it was inconvenient to find ingredients in Zhao's house before, so they only studied the transparent dough, and today this is the first time to see the finished product.
Rui Xue took a small shrimp dumpling, looked at the color of the skin, opened her mouth and bit half of it, and after swallowing it, she smiled brightly under the expectant eyes of everyone, "It's done!" β
"Ah, it worked, it worked!" The big and small maids happily hugged each other, and then they didn't use a saucer, they grabbed one and stuffed it directly into their mouths, straight and delicious.
Caiyun Caiyue's excited little face turned red, and she wanted to run back to the kitchen to test a few other things, but was stopped by Rui Xue, "If there are still fillings, just steam some for everyone to make lunch, and the rest will be made tomorrow in the back stove of the teahouse." However, the noodles and soup jelly are ready first and then served, pay attention to confidentiality. β
"Yes, ma'am." Everyone responded, and Qin Xin and Niuniu also ran to the stove to help...
Early in the morning of the second day, Rui Xue changed into a smoke-colored brocade jacket with a pipa button, a long skirt of rattan and green luoluo, and a green satin cloak trimmed with white fox fur, dressed dignified and noble, so she hugged the two children, took the big and small maids, and took the carriage to the teahouse.
After the teahouse, like many shops, there is a small courtyard, the west wing room lives the guy who guards the shop, the east wing room is the account room and the small warehouse, and the two main rooms that sit in the north and face the south, Desheng let people pick it up early and give the master a rest.
The front and rear carriages avoided the faΓ§ade of the teahouse, turned directly to the back street, and stopped in front of the courtyard gate, a few little girls in the carriage were happy to gossip, or they were sleepy in the morning, in short, they did not immediately come forward to serve.
Jian Wu and Qin Xin hugged the child and sat inside, the old mother was in the middle, Rui Xue sat in the back of the car for a rare time, so she reached out and pushed the door open, wanting to jump down, but she felt a little high.
After such a hesitation, a black shadow suddenly popped out of the oblique stab, knelt outside the car door, and shouted, "Your Excellency step on me." β
Rui Xue was frightened, and Jian Wu Qinxin was about to step forward to protect each other, Rui Xue hurriedly stopped them, looked down carefully, the black shadow turned out to be a twelve or thirteen-year-old boy, the little face raised was rare and clean, and the eyebrows and eyes were also very delicate, but the cotton clothes on the body were tattered, greasy and dirty, and they were so black that they were going to shine.
Rui Xue groaned slightly, and jumped down from the side, and the beggar's face was suddenly disappointed, and there was even some despair in his eyes.
However, Rui Xue turned around, but reached out to help him up, bent down to pat the residual snow on his knees for him, and said with a slight smile, "Little brother, it is said that men have gold under their knees, so don't kneel easily in the future." If you are hungry or short of money, you have to work hard, and God will always see your efforts and give you opportunities. β
The little beggar stood stupidly, his mouth slightly open, his eyes widened, he never thought that there would be a noble person to treat him so kindly, Rui Xue looked funny, turned his head and looked around, and saw that there were more than a dozen beggars squatting in the corner of the alley and the wall not far away, so he asked, "Little brother, are there many people begging around here?" β
"Ah, ah, many, there are more than twenty of them around hereβ" The little beggar came to his senses, his lips trembling, and he replied quickly.
Rui Xue nodded, thought about it, and pointed to the teahouse next to her and said, "I am the owner of this teahouse, I may ask you for some help..."
Without waiting for the little beggar to answer, a middle-aged beggar who came over at some point immediately shouted, "The little one is also willing to do things for the nobleman!" β
Rui Xue looked at his two eyes, always glancing into the carriage, as if to judge whether the family was rich or not.
She frowned and took a step back, just as Desheng heard the news and opened the back door, several little girls also jumped down, Rui Xue said to the little beggar, "Little brother, you wait here." β
"Yes, yes!" The little beggar finally understood that he had met a real nobleman, and hurriedly responded with a loud voice and stepped aside.
Everyone entered the main room, the little girls were lectured by the old lady a few words, and then went to the stove with a clay pot full of fillings to be busy, Rui Xue sat in the hall, drank two sips of hot tea, and said, "Desheng steward, there are a lot of beggars around here, do you often go to various houses to beg on weekdays?" β
Desheng is also having a headache about this matter, as soon as he heard the master ask, he vomited bitterness, "Miss, the street where our teahouse is located is a famous commercial street, in addition to pawnshops, silver buildings, silk villages, etc., the most is the restaurant, the teahouse, sell more food, beggars are naturally willing to gather here, sometimes they are hungry, they are blocked in front of which shop, how to move a step, each shopkeeper is a headache."
Tomorrow our teahouse will open, I am also worried, if they smell the smell of food, come to the door to make trouble, but how is it good, not in front of the public, sticks add up. β
Rui Xue nodded, "I saw a lot of beggars just now, and I was worried about this, but I have a way, maybe it can be of some use." β
Desheng was overjoyed, and hurriedly asked...
After a while, the door of the backyard of the teahouse opened again, and a group of beggars had red eyes and flocked to the front, shouting, "We must work hard, and ask the nobles to reward a steamed bun first." The one shouted, "There are no steamed buns, and dry cakes are fine." β
Desheng frowned, his face was solemn, and he waved his hand and shouted, "Shut up!" Back off! β
The beggars shrank back and took two steps back, and then Desheng saw the young beggar standing with his hands hanging down at the base of the wall beside him, so he called, "Are you the boy who spoke to our lady just now?" β
The young beggar hurriedly stepped forward and was about to kneel, but suddenly as if he remembered something, he stood up straight again, bowed, and replied, "Back to the steward, the little one's name is Yu Cheng, and it was the little one who answered a few words from Mrs. just now." β
Desheng nodded, and his heart was also very satisfied, this young man was obviously much more reliable than those old oilmen who had been begging for many years, "Yu Cheng? The name is good, our wife explained, and I will hire you to be our shop in the future... Well, the cleaner is a person who specializes in cleaning, our shop will pay 20 steamed buns every morning, and you are responsible for selecting people to clean the front and back of the teahouse, and if there are leftovers in the teahouse at night, they will also be sent out, which will be distributed by you. Do you understand? β
"Understood, understood!" Yu Cheng was so excited that his body was trembling, and he hurriedly responded.
Desheng turned around and took a set of green cloth cotton jackets in the hands of a young man, handed it to him and said, "This is also an extra reward from our wife, and also, Mrs. said, the opportunity has fallen on you, but you must be able to protect it." β
Yu Cheng was stunned, turned around and looked at the jealous red eyes of other beggars, suddenly understood, and nodded vigorously.
(I saw the encouragement of my friends, to be honest, I blushed, how do I feel that I am suspected of being coquettish and want to be rewarded, woo, Kavin will not say it in the future.)
I went out and walked for two hours, came back and ate a pound of dumplings, slept for two hours, and my mind finally cleared up, forgive me, I didn't go to the book review area before the ending, haha, I want to write the ending in one breath according to my own ideas.
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