Chapter 104: Recovering the Ancient Recipe
The shopkeeper nodded again and again in agreement, "Young lady, you have to think about this, do you really want to stop all business in the lunar month?" And Mama Chang's side, I'm not sure if she knows, and I didn't hide it too deliberately. ”
Layue nodded, "Well, I'm afraid I don't have to wait until Layue," thinking that her mother-in-law was kidnapped by robbers, ten thousand taels of silver is not too much, and it is not too little to say less, and Zhicheng is only afraid that he will hit his head with his idea.
She said seriously, "You also saw it last time, now there are not only displaced people from Ludi, but even begging displaced people have begun to appear one after another in places such as Jindi, where rich merchants have gathered since ancient times and are prolific, besides......" She paused, "Even people like you have heard about this world, but I am afraid that it will not be good, then we would rather make less money and keep the fundamentals before we can keep the green mountains here, and wait until the world stabilizes and then try to plan for the future." ”
The shopkeeper thought for a while and said, "Last time, the young lady said that if the shop is closed, the guys will reward some money and send it away, I think about it or leave Xiaoxi and Xue Hang, the sister and brother, and follow me in the future, just say that it is a distant relative of my family, what do you think?" ”
"This is natural, those two children are lonely, and they are both clever people, I see that the two children of the fruit shop are getting more and more popular." She sighed and thought of the two children who bought garlands, and immediately told yesterday's events again, and finally said, "Shopkeeper Gao, leave a few hundred taels of silver in the account in the past few days to wait for the city to check the accounts, and then help me to give Sister Xiaodouzi and those two children to the temple in Yecheng to find a master to do a magic ceremony." ”
The shopkeeper Gao responded one by one, Layue saw that it was past noon, Mama Chang and Xiaodouzi brought in the meal, so they ate a few bites, and then took the folk gouache formula collected by Lai Qilai Ba sent by the shopkeeper Gao and flipped it slightly, nodded with satisfaction, "I just just found something to do for those two people, I didn't expect that there were really a few extremely whimsical blends in this formula, but it surprised me." ”
"What's more, young lady, you look at the back, when I collected and sorted it out that day, I saw that recipe, and everyone almost jumped up with joy, hehehe, this is a pearl returning to the sea."
Seeing that such a plain and extremely stable person as the shopkeeper Gao was so overjoyed to sell Guanzi, Layue smiled curiously and turned directly to the last few pages to read one by one, and when she turned to the third to the bottom, the book head was written upright with the secret recipe of Xing's rouge for Concubine Yang of the Tang Palace.
Her heart stopped beating a few beats, and she looked at the words in disbelief with her shaking hands, and only after a while did she tremble as if she was talking to herself, as if she was whispering in a dream, "This...... It's really ...... It's that Xing Ji...... It's our ...... The ancestors of the family confessed...... Is it the one you have to get back? ”
The shopkeeper Gao was also so excited that he almost cried, but he had seen it many times now, and he was already able to face this recipe calmly, and he almost fainted with excitement when he first found out.
He nodded with a tearful smile in his eyes, "Yes, exactly, it is the secret recipe of Xing Ji Rouge for Concubine Yang of the Tang Palace, who the old shopkeeper has been looking for all his life." ”
Tears flowed down the corners of his eyes unconsciously, and Rouge cried silently, his father's lifelong wish was finally ...... Unexpectedly...... Actually...... Let yourself find it.
She was incoherent, she burst into tears, and for the first time she was in front of her subordinates, she bit her lip and shook her hands and cried endlessly. Dad, did you see that? Your wish has finally come true, and Xing Ji Rouge can finally hang red letters.
She choked up and ordered to the shopkeeper Gao, "Shopkeeper Gao, hang red for the plaque, immediately, now, immediately go and arrange it!" Even if Xing Ji Rouge is going to close tomorrow, I will see Xing Ji Rouge red. ”
Hanging red is a rule set by Xing Ji Rouge after the original loss of the ancestral party, unless the ancestor finds it one day, it is not allowed to use the red font plaque with vermilion and gold for thousands of generations.
I was happy in my heart, Layue actually closed the store with the shopkeeper Gao and all the guys in the store as soon as possible, and set up several large tables of wine banquets, and even made an exception to put down her body and toast with everyone, drank a lot of wine, and finally rewarded each guy with a big wave of fifty taels of silver.
Ordinary guys are only two taels of silver a month, this is still double the price of the guys in the surrounding shops, and today is a reward of so much money, everyone is happy and can't help muttering in their hearts, they all look at each other and finally look at the high shopkeeper.
Although it is gratifying to find the lost ancient recipe, it is just that the money of fifty taels of silver per person is their salary for two years, and the shopkeeper Gao is a little distressed, so he made a look at Mama Chang.
Seeing that Mama Chang helped the drunk young lady down, she raised a glass of wine and dried it in one go, and took this opportunity to say to the guys, "Now our shop's business has been getting worse and worse since the quality problem in March, and we can't make ends meet every day. ”
When they heard this, they all felt bad.
Sure enough, I listened to the shopkeeper Gao continue, "Now that the loss is really unaffordable, the young lady and I discussed that we will not do it by the end of this year, and the rent of this shop is not going to be renewed." Today's fifty taels of silver per person has this meaning, everyone has worked together for several years or even more than ten years, naturally we can't treat everyone badly, today's meal is my young lady and I thank you for your hard work for Xing Ji Rouge Shop over the years," the shopkeeper Gao said, and he burst into tears, and the guys around him also sighed.
He drank another glass of wine, "If yes...... In the future, Xing Ji Rouge will make a comeback, and my old Gao will definitely invite everyone back door to door, if everyone is willing to come back at that time, if you have not found a place to be high......"
He choked in his throat and raised his head to drink the third glass of wine, "...... It's all in the wine. ”
Everyone in the yard drank crookedly, and the proprietress in the bedroom was not honest when she was drunk, laughing and talking nonsense, and she couldn't laugh at Xiaodouzi, and felt that the young lady was really cute and funny when she was drunk.
Layue woke up in her room, and it was already midnight when she woke up, Xiaodouzi smiled and learned all the things that the young lady said when she was drunk today, and covered her face with a smile, and asked in disbelief, "Is this really the case?" "No way, how could I say something like that?" "Really? Do I really have three toasts in a row? "What else did I say? Don't coax me. ”
Xiaodouzi finally told Layue what the shopkeeper Gao said, and Layue laughed, "The shopkeeper Gao is stingy, and the total amount is only a thousand taels of silver, so I am not willing to do it." ”
"Not really!" Xiao Douzi handed a hot towel to Layue to cover his face, and looked unhappy for the shopkeeper Gao, "The shopkeeper Gao said that now that the old lady has been robbed at home, she will definitely go to the shop to check the accounts and raise money, and when the time comes, she will know that the young lady is so generous to her subordinates, and she will definitely not believe that the shop has been empty for so long." ”
Thinking about it, Layue nodded, "In the end, it's still the thoughtfulness of the shopkeeper, I didn't think about it yesterday." ”