Chapter 15 Wild Ginseng

Yu Shi took a sip of tea and said with a smile: "You see it's like this, this Mid-Autumn Festival is coming." Last year, the moon cakes sold by your dim sum shop were quite novel, and our second wife thought that the dim sum master would also develop new products this year, so it was better to buy the secret recipe of the moon cakes to Juxian Lou, what do you think?"

After speaking, Nie Xiaofan felt that this matter was wrong after a little thought.

Not to mention that there are still more than two months before the Mid-Autumn Festival, it is the secret recipe of moon cakes, no matter how novel it is, it is from last year. Why did Lian buy it? Besides, the staple food of Juxian Building is not a big one, so what are you doing with that unjust money?

Nie Xiaofan thought for a moment and said, "The moon cake recipe is from last year, and it's not worth a few dollars, if the aunt wants it, the niece should serve it." It's just that it was developed by my grandmother, and I'm afraid I have to ask her old man first.

It's just that I'm still in the filial piety period, and it's inconvenient to go out, if it's an aunt."

Nie Xiaofan is not shirking, her grandmother's dim sum used to be a must in the Zhou Mansion, and now she has come out to open a shop, and the dim sum masters are all taught by her old man himself. That recipe was naturally developed by her old man.

Before Nie Xiaofan's words fell, Yu Shi continued: "That's exactly how it should be! Girl, when you go out one day, your wife will accompany you, and no one dares to say anything!"

Yu agreed so happily that Nie Xiaofan was a little suspicious that the second wife was just going to ask her out. However, with Lian's company, he will indeed listen to a lot of noise from the old lady.

In the end, the two discussed that the Lian family would pick up Nie Xiaofan five days later, and the old lady also said it to the Lian family. After this is done, Yu Shi said goodbye with a smile.

Nie Xiaofan sat on the verandah, holding a needle and pricking the piece of silk again, while thinking about his grandmother Nie.

It is said that she has served Mrs. Zhou since she was a child, and she is the son of the Nie family. Back then, she followed Mrs. Zhou from the Nie family in Changping to marry the Zhou family in the capital. It can be regarded as accompanying Mrs. Zhou for decades. After the Jiang family went, the old lady didn't let the Jiang family come to the door, because she hadn't seen her grandmother yet.

Nie Xiaofan was lame with needle and thread, she wanted to learn a legendary mandarin duck playing in the water purse. The original owner has also studied for a long time in his memory, but the original owner is weak, and many embroideries are not formed. Now it's Nie Xiaofan. Nie Xiaofan also wants to learn embroidery, not to become a master, so as to fulfill her last wish.

Nie Xiaofan worked hard for a long time, and he wanted to embroider a simple little red flower to practice his hands, but an hour passed, and the simplest flower branches were not embroidered. Tired and sweating.

Liu Xin gently fanned her and occasionally pointed. Nie Xiao'e came over at this time.

As soon as Nie Xiaofan saw Nie Xiao'e, he knew that she was an expert, and brought a full set of embroidery tools, and Liu Er also brought an embroidery frame.

Nie Xiao'e smiled and said, "I'm afraid you don't have it here, so I brought it...... I'll use this embroidery frame for you. ”

Nie Xiaofan didn't know how to use it, so he politely refused. Nie Xiao'e didn't twist either, set up the embroidery frame, threaded the needle and thread and began to embroider.

She embroidered a small kang screen with lotus leaves. Nie Xiao'e has a wonderful posture, a pair of skillful hands with needles up and down, and the line is flying. At that time, the wind blew the bamboo forest and made a 'salsa' sound, and Nie Xiao'e still flew the needle and thread, as if everything in the world had nothing to do with her. Nie Xiaofan was stunned for a while.

thought that Liu Er was here to serve Nie Xiao'e, but I saw Liu Er sitting behind Nie Xiao'e, and she also became a female celebrity.

At this time, Nie Xiaofan couldn't ask Liu Xin to fan her anymore, and she put down the practice in her hand. instructed Liu Xin to prepare refreshments and other things for Nie Xiao'e's master and servant, and Liu Xin commanded the little girl to put a basin of ice next to Nie Xiao'e. Nie Xiao'e smiled gratefully, lowered her head and continued to embroider the lotus leaf.

Nie Xiaofan saw that Liu Er seemed to be making sachets, so he unconsciously approached and saw that Liu Er was uncomfortable. Nie Xiaofan was shocked and rude, and hurriedly retreated and sat down.

Nie Xiao'e saw that she was bored, so she slowed down the speed of the line and chatted with her.

"I heard that you and your aunt are going to see your grandmother in a few days?"

"Well, it's for the mooncake recipe. ”

"When it comes to business, if the old lady knows, it's another toss. If she looks for you, you will push it to your aunt. Our grandmother doesn't care about anything for money. ”

Nie Xiaofan nodded. Asked the doubts in his heart: "Although our family is not a big family in the capital, fortunately, we are also a squire in Changping." I remember that our ancestral house in Changping was very magnificent, why did my grandmother still do it?"

Nie Xiao'e stopped the needle and sneered: "Now, I'm afraid there is only that house left!"

From the time the second master was seriously ill, the old lady Nie began to sell his ancestral property. The children and grandchildren thought that he was going to hire a doctor for the second master, but they never saw the money from the second master selling the ancestral property. And the old lady tried in vain to take the second wife's dowry after the death of the second master.

In the past few years, the property of the public high school has been sold for seventy-seven eighty-eight, so he wants to pick up money from the Jiang family, and the Jiang family's mansion has been mixed, but it is appropriate to deal with it. Now that the Jiang family is gone, the old couple is not even willing to take out the money for raising their granddaughter.

No wonder even Aunt Mei, mother and daughter, who have always been untreated by the Jiang family, began to read the Jiang family.

"Is it so poor?" Nie Xiaofan was a little incredulous.

It's still two generations of officials, but the ancestral property has been wasted.

Nie Xiao'e lowered her head again and embroidered, and said, "This Nie family, whoever is poor will not be poor." I heard that the old lady went to my father this morning and said that you won't even give her a ginseng!"

"You deal with it carefully, she will make trouble for her, if you compromise, it will be more comfortable for her to ask you for things in the future. Don't clash with her head-on, and ask that Mama Jiang, who is as thick-skinned as her, to deal with her. ”

Nie Xiaofan sighed in her heart, although she was an adult who understood these truths. But in Nie Xiao'e's eyes, she is still the sister who has been ill for a long time and is ignorant of the world, she is not afraid of provoking suspicion, so she simply plans for her.

Nie Xiaofan sighed once again for the original owner.

In the afternoon, Nie Baijun really came to the Bamboo Fragrance Courtyard. Nie Xiaofan was tired for a day and had a headache, so he asked Mama Jiang to deal with it.

Nie Baijun opened his mouth and said about the wild ginseng, it turned out that the Jiang family had found a wild ginseng for Nie Xiaofan before the accident. After Jiang's accident, the ginseng went to Mrs. Nie's treasury for a few days, and Mrs. Nie never forgot it. Nie Baijun didn't know the inside story, and was coerced by Mrs. Nie to search for her daughter.

Mama Jiang was not polite, and directly took out the account book of the medicine supplements that Nie Xiaofan ate. Not to mention, even the ginseng is not less than twenty taels a month. In the past few months, I have relied on ginseng soup to hang myself, and I have eaten as many as five or six hundred taels. Mama Jiang's meaning used to be on Mrs. Zhuangzi. Now that he has returned home, the expenses are naturally paid by him, who is a father.

Where does Nie Baijun have money, he has given all his money to the old lady, and if he wants to go out for a drink, he has to borrow money from Aunt Mei. He hesitated for a long time, and said in a voiceless voice: "She has money!"

Mama Jiang rolled her eyes contemptuously: "No matter how rich our girl is, it is also left by his wife." You're her father, what's wrong with buying some medicine for her?"

Nie Baijun was speechless, he thought that his daughter had been ill for a long time, and there should be no shortage of ginseng around him. But he forgot that he had never fulfilled his father's responsibilities.

Mama Jiang came back and said this, and Liu Xin and Liu Yu were very angry.

"Girl, this is the ginseng that counted you in the first place!" Liu Yu said.

"The girl was like that at that time, and the old lady was still thinking about that wild ginseng!" Liu Xin also said.

Nie Xiaofan also had a headache, and said, "What do we have, how much silver is it worth, the old lady's door is clear." This time I count ginseng, and next time I don't know what it is. In the future, if there is anything on the old lady's side, it will all be handed over to Mama Jiang to deal with. Got it?"

The three of them nodded, and Nie Xiaofan felt a little calmer.

If the old lady is reliable, Nie Xiaofan can't wait to leave everything to her, so that she can be idle.

But now my grandmother is like that. Let's not mention that she and Nie Xiaonian will need money to start a family in the future. If the Jiang family knew that the old lady had taken possession of his things, he would probably have to jump up from the ground and take her away!