The two were discussing, the bolt opened the door and walked in, the little face was blown red by the cold wind, Rui Xue smiled, "Where did you go to play, if you don't come back, you will be punished for copying books." ”

The bolt scratched his head, "I copied half of the account book for my father." ”

Sister-in-law Zhang chirped, "Your father is lazy again, since you followed the master to learn and read, he has been idle." ”

The bolt laughed a few times, it was not easy to say that his father was not, he was just about to raise his feet to boil water to do work, and suddenly remembered that there was someone behind him, so he hurriedly turned around, and shouted while lifting the door curtain, "Master, a guest has come to the door." ”

"Oh, come in." Rui Xue got up, raised her eyes and saw two people walking in front of the door, the person in front of him was a young man in his twenties, tall and thin, wearing a crown of red and blonde hair, his face was like a silver basin, sword eyebrows and phoenix eyes, his nose was thin and his lips were thin, and he was wearing a set of royal blue brocade robes, the cuffs and placket were embroidered with silver threads, and in the slightly dim light of the stove, there was a faint light. A gold-painted paper fan in his hand, swaying regardless of the season, echoing the crown of red and blonde hair. Rui Xue smiled secretly, I don't know whose son this is, I think he is also a wild and uninhibited person who likes to swagger on weekdays.

Behind the young man was a young man in blue clothes and trousers, fifteen or sixteen years old, with a round face and round eyes, born with a smile, and was smiling and probing his brain to look at everyone in the room.

The bolt led the master and servant to the south house, and when the boy passed by Rui Xue's side, a bright light flashed in his eyes, as if there was a surprise, as if there was a surprise, the corners of his mouth turned up slightly, and then he walked calmly into the house.

Rui Xue raised her eyebrows, but she didn't take it to heart, she made a pot of good tea with her own hands and asked Sister-in-law Zhang to send it in, but when Sister-in-law Zhang and the plug came out, she said, "Master, this guest looked at the name of the dish on the wall and asked very carefully, we couldn't answer, so he wanted to invite you in." ”

Rui Xue was stunned, two months after opening, the guests who came to the door were very easy to get along with, and today it will not be picky and difficult to serve, right?

She washed her hands, tidied up her dress briefly, and then opened the door and walked in, the young man was sitting on the cotton cushion of the kang head with a curious face, looking at the wooden sign on the wall, and the round-faced little guy was squatting on the ground, as if studying how the kang was coiled.

Rui Xue retracted her gaze, bowed, and said with a faint smile, "What do you have to tell the guest officer to call the slave family in?" ”

When the young man heard this, he looked back, raised his eyebrows and smiled, "The boss lady is really good, she can make new things in such a simple place, and I admire it." ”

The guest officer praised it, but it was cold and difficult in winter, so he thought of some vulgar ways to deal with it. Although the small shop is simple, the food is still very clean, so the guest officer might as well order first. ”

The young man opened the folding fan with a brush, looked at Ruixue who was half-bowed his head, and said with a smile, "That's good, I have a quirk for eating on weekdays, and I don't ask about the ingredients, and I always feel uneasy in my heart." Please tell the proprietress about the ingredients and methods of the mapo tofu first. ”

"Mapo tofu is a spicy dish made by stir-frying tofu and minced beef, and finally hooking it with bone broth."

"Tofu? What's that? ”

"It's a dish made of cow beans, and it's tender and delicious."

"Oh, cow beans? It's the first time I've heard that things that are fed to animals can be made into dishes? You can't poison people, can you? ”

Rui Xue heard that in addition to surprise, there was also some contempt in his words, so she replied, "In the first few disaster years, the people only ate cow beans to save their lives, so it can be seen that cow beans are not poisonous. Besides, a lot of things, just haven't been found to be used correctly by smart and unbiased people, it's not that the thing itself is useless. ”

Is this a mockery that he is a biased person? The smile on the corner of the young man's mouth deepened, "It's really taught, what the boss lady said." It's just that I'm curious about how this cow bean is made into tofu? ”

"Forgive me, this is a method handed down by the ancestors of the slave family, and it can't be easily passed on." Rui Xue was a little impatient in her heart, whether it was in her previous life or in this life, what annoyed her the most was two kinds of people, stinky and narcissistic, and stingy, obviously this young man took up both of them, and he always seemed to have an indescribable sense of banter in and out of his words, could it be that he had some purpose to find out the situation? She guessed like this, and her tone became a little cold.

The young man raised his hand slightly and arched it, apologizing without sincerity, "Ah, I was thinking about it for a while, just curious, and didn't mean anything else." ”

"With such a noble and upright person as the guest officer, the slave family will naturally not suspect that you have any despicable intentions. If the guest officer is not in a hurry to order, he will sit down and have a cup of tea first, when he has chosen, and then call Xiao Er, there is still something to do outside the slave house, so he will not accompany him. Ruixue nodded and bowed, about to retreat.

The boy was pondering where he could see the word integrity from himself, but suddenly heard that Rui Xue was leaving, and hurriedly stopped him, laughing and said, "The boss lady stays, and she is not a tiger and a leopard jackal, so don't be afraid." ”

Rui Xue regarded him more and more as a good-looking disciple, disgusted in her heart, and said half-sarcastically, "The tiger, leopard and jackal are more sinister than the people, the guest officer stopped the slave family, but after choosing the dishes, if you are worried about the shyness in your pocket, the slave family still has tofu soup and hair cakes prepared for the laborers in this store, and the six pennies are full." ”

The young man was choked, this woman is a good mouth, thinking that he spent a lot of money on Chu Gongzi, and when he was also regarded as a coolie by others, he was annoyed in his heart, and casually pointed to the wooden sign on the wall, and said, "When has this son been short of silver, put all the dishes in your store!" ”

Rui Xue lowered her eyes to hide the ridicule in her eyes, it was a pity that she had a good skin, it turned out that it was a straw bag inside, and she was wronged after being stabbed a few words, she was so slanderous in her heart, but she replied, "Wait a minute, the meal will be ready soon." ”

After speaking, he turned around and pushed the door and went out.

The young boy opened the gold-painted fan with a "snap", shook it twice quickly, and said angrily, "Wangcai, do you think Gongzi and I look like a person who can't afford to eat?" ”

No, I think you are more like a disciple, Wangcai looked at his son's flushed face, holding back a smile to death, but said with a serious face, "How is it possible, the most romantic and golden person in this Lingfeng City is the son, didn't he also reward the peony girl with a pair of jade bracelets worth five hundred taels in the Cuihong Mansion the day before yesterday, no one in this city knows, no one knows." ”

When the young man heard this, he seemed to be angry, and he was silent for a long time and suddenly burst into laughter, "This woman is interesting, why did this son lose his temper." After speaking, seeing that the corners of Wangcai's eyes and eyebrows were smiling, he raised the fan and knocked on his head, "Okay, you Wangcai, you dare to laugh at the master, and you will be punished for starvation today." ”

Wangcai smelled the aroma from the stove outside for a while, his stomach was already growling, and when he heard his son-in-law say this, he immediately stepped forward to bow down, slapped his beard and slapped the horse, and tried his best to figure it out, and finally made the master smile, and breathed a long sigh of relief in his heart, hoping that the food in this small shop would not disappoint his efforts.

Sister-in-law Zhang and Bolt heard that the boy ordered all the dishes in the store just now, and they were all shocked, although there are not many dishes in the store, but how can there be twenty kinds of dishes, can their master and servant finish eating?

Rui Xue tied an apron, prepared to stir-fry, and laughed quietly, "If they can't finish eating, they will give it to the Xu family brothers, let's just cook and make money." ”

Sister-in-law Zhang and Bolt also laughed, and immediately stepped forward to help, lighting the fire and picking vegetables.

In less than half an hour, the low table in front of the young man was filled with dishes one after another, and every time the bolt was served, he tasted it, and he didn't say good or bad, and he was so anxious that he stared at those novel dishes so closely, he only felt that his belly was so hungry that he stuck to his back.

After putting down a large bowl in the middle of the table, the bolt smiled and saluted and said, "Objectively, this is the last dish, roast beef with radish, please use it slowly, if there is something, call the small one to come in and serve." After speaking, he was about to turn around and go out, but the young man stopped him and asked with a smile, "Little second brother, I heard it outside the door before, you are still literate and hyphenated?" Can you make a fuss? ”

"Hui Gongzi, the little one followed the master to learn abacus and make accounts, and he only learned a few hundred words, and he didn't know how to make a fuss." The bolt replied respectfully.

"Oh, that's not bad, a little guy like me can't read a single word." The young boy smiled even more kindly, and even did not hesitate to belittle his little guy and praise others, after all, the bolt was a child, and his face turned red when he was praised like this, and he hurriedly waved his hand, "The boy praised it falsely, and the little one is also a stupid one, thanks to the master's good teaching." ”

"Oh, who are you studying from, it won't be the boss lady just now, the woman has long hair and short knowledge, the little second brother should change the master, don't be able to complete it, and delay a good age."

As soon as she heard him say this, her face turned even redder, but she was ashamed just now, and now she was angry, the master was half a mother in her heart, how could she allow outsiders to slander her, so she frowned and argued, "My master is not long in hair and short in knowledge, my master doesn't need to calculate accounts, and he can write letters and recite poems, which is better than the old account room in the city..."

Halfway through the bolt's words, Sister-in-law Zhang's voice suddenly came from outside the door, "Bolt, if the guest officer doesn't give orders, come out to help, and the north house is a guest." ”

The bolt answered, gave a hasty salute, and went out with a stinky little face.

The young man slowly picked up a chopstick and shredded potatoes and put them in his mouth, not knowing what he was thinking, the corners of his mouth curled higher.

After a long time, he looked up and saw Wangcai's hands stirring the corners of his clothes, his mouth pursed, looking like a wronged little daughter-in-law, and he couldn't help laughing, "Okay, just now it was just to coax that little two to speak, I don't really think you are illiterate, let's eat." ”

Wangcai's face immediately turned cloudy and sunny, picked up a bowl of japonica rice, picked up a few dishes far away from the master, and ate it in a big gulp, praising it with a smile from time to time.

After the meal was over, the master and servant put down the chopsticks and went out of the kang, Rui Xue was standing behind the counter to sort out the accounts, and when she saw them coming out, she picked up the abacus, looked at the wooden sign on the wall, crackled and dialed it a few times, and then said with a smile, "Thank you for your patronage, a total of seven taels and thirty wen, thirty wen and a fraction of the head are wiped, and the son pays seven taels." ”

The young man waved his hand, and Wangcai immediately took out a silver coin of ten taels from his arms and put it on the counter, and the young man said slowly, "The taste of the dishes is not bad, and the remaining three taels will be used as a reward." ”

Rui Xue picked up the silver and thanked her lightly, "Thank you for the reward, welcome to come again next time." ”

The young man originally thought that she would insist on not rewarding the silver, and was even ready to fight a few more words, but unexpectedly, Rui Xue accepted it lightly, provoking him to feel like a punch on the cotton with nowhere to focus, very deflated, so he leaned forward and said with some frivolity, "This son asserts that there must be a time to meet the boss lady in the future." ”

Rui Xue took a step back, still smiling and said, "That must be when the guest officer comes to the shop again." ”

The corners of the young man's mouth twitched, and he smiled, "It's hard to say." With that, he turned around and lifted the curtain and went out the door.

Sister-in-law Zhang put up the saliva that she had endured for a long time, took a sip of it, and said angrily, "This son looks so decent, but I didn't expect him to be a disciple, and next time I come back, I will beat him out with a big broom." ”

The bolt was also full of anger, and stepped forward to carefully look at the master's face, for fear that the master would be angry.

Rui Xue swept the silver in her hand, but comforted them, "There are far more than 10 million people in the world, how can they all be good people, there are always a few scum." Open a store to do business, it is inevitable to encounter such a thing, don't be angry, there are a lot of items today, and when you are free in the afternoon, let's make dumplings. ”

Bolt heard the word "dumplings", immediately full of smiles, he can listen to Zhang's sister-in-law said several times, the master wrapped dumplings fragrant, but has not been eaten, today thanks to the blessing of this apprentice, can actually get his wish, instantly his heart of anger disappeared by half, and asked again and again, "Master, what kind of dumplings do we wrap?" Is it tasty? ”

"Stuffed with cabbage and pork, of course it's delicious." Rui Xue laughed at his childishness and took him to clean up the private room, and sure enough, more than half of the dishes on the table were left, and some of the dishes only moved twice.

Rui Xue said with a smile, "Let's choose one bolt and keep it for the stomach pad at night, and my sister-in-law will also divide a few things, so as not to have to go home and get angry." The rest is packed up and given to the eldest brother of the Xu family. ”

Although the plug has an errand for the father, the leisure is idle, but the oil and water are not much, there are three younger siblings at home, the monthly silver is dotted with Shangguan, and there is not much left after the ceremony with relatives and friends, and the family eats very simple on weekdays, and it is rare to see meat, so I don't mind eating leftovers from guests.

Sister-in-law Zhang is from a poor background, it is good to be able to eat a full stomach on weekdays, and even the leaves and grass roots have been eaten in disaster years, not to mention that the farmer has the custom of sharing leftovers to help others when they are married and funeral, so naturally they have no dislike.

Therefore, the two happily divided the radish stewed beef, chicken stewed mushrooms, scallion fried mutton and other good meat dishes with almost no chopsticks, and the rest were folded in a small clay pot to prepare to give away.