"This is brown sugar cake?" Little Stone picked up a piece and tasted it: "Well, it's delicious!" ”

Chen Xiao also tasted a piece.

It doesn't have the fluffiness of modern cakes, but is a bit crispy. Chen Xiao tasted that it should be mixed with brown sugar water, sesame oil, and eggs, and then baked out.

Chen Xiao said to Fang Yu: "You can also taste it." ”

Fang Yu didn't like desserts very much, but he let him taste them, and he would taste them.

Chen Xiao looked at Fang Yu with a smile and said, "I see that you are idle all day, or you can make another oven!" ”

"Oven?"

"It's just an iron box, there is a fire up and down, and the door can be opened and things can be baked." Chen Xiao said while gesturing.

Fang Yu wrinkled his eyebrows and looked at her, and let out an "oh" for a long time, as if he understood.

"Got it, go back and start doing it."

He whispered to the white snake again. The white snake described it to him.

"Sister, what can the oven be used for?" Little Stone asked.

"It can be used to bake pastries."

"Sister, you can also make pastries?" Small stone surprise.

"Yes."

"Then why didn't you make pastries before?"

"Because there's no oven."

It's not entirely because there is no oven, mainly because most of the pastries that Chen Xiao likes to eat are puff pastry. Busy with the snack restaurant business every day, teaching them to cook, how can they have so much energy for this and that.

You can't become fat in one bite, things are slow. What's more, the Chunji courtyard is already a little crowded now, and the pastries are not made to eat by yourself, but to be made to sell, and there is no place to build an oven in this small courtyard.

"By the way, how about letting you go find the store?" Chen Xiao asked.

"There are no suitable stores at the moment. There is a good shop on New Street, but they only sell and do not rent, and they have to sell it with all the houses in the back. ”

"That's the whole house sold?"

"Yes."

"How big is that house? How much silver? ”

"There are three courtyards, which are about the same size as Shen's mother's house. and fifteen thousand taels of silver. ”

"So high!" Chen Xiao was speechless. She once asked Aunt Shen that it cost more than 7,000 taels of silver to build her yard.

"yes, so you don't have to think about it."

Little Stone knew they didn't have that much silver. Not to mention fifteen thousand, I'm afraid I won't be able to take out a thousand taels of silver.

The guests came in one after another, and Nie Feng led the group to the second floor.

On the second floor, there are four private rooms facing the stage, and the middle two rooms are larger, which can seat sixteen or seventeen people. The private rooms on both sides are slightly smaller and can seat eight or nine people.

Chen Xiao was in a slightly smaller room, Nie Feng led someone past their door, and one of them suddenly stopped.

"Little stones?" Then look at it: "Mrs. Chen? ”

The person who came was Gao Can.

"Boss Gao!" Chen Xiao greeted him with a smile.

Gao Can bowed his head to Chen Xiao, and then asked Xiao Shi:

"Why are you here?"

"I came with the owner, what's wrong?" Xiao Shi ignored Gao Can's love.

Gao Can glanced at Chen Xiao and Fang Yu, and continued to move forward, going to their private room.

Fang Yudao: "Gao Can is here, Min Hong and Li Mingyu should also come, right?" ”

Last time, Nie Feng introduced the relationship between these three families. Sheng'an and Longshun are desperately trying to get together with Dingtai.

Mainly the Lonshun, who wanted to get logging rights and mining rights. And the Sheng'an prevents them from getting more privileges. In short, these two look peaceful on the surface, but in fact, they are fighting openly and secretly. The last big shopkeeper of the Longshun also offended the emperor, and for now, the Longshun is not as good as the Sheng'an.

Chen Xiao also knew the relationship between the three families, and said, "Come on!" ”

Min Hong and Nie Feng are both South Vietnamese, and they are considered to be a family.

"Oh, by the way, Gao Can is also the owner of Yihong Garden." Chen Xiao suddenly remembered. Nie Feng once said that there are three owners of Yihongyuan: his brother-in-law, Gao Can, and Boss Lu.

"Gao Can is the owner here?" Little Stone was a little unexpected.

"yes."

Chen Xiao looked at his expression and saw a worried look on his face, but it quickly disappeared again.

Nie Feng first brought Gao Can up, and then Min Hong and Li Mingyu.

Not surprisingly, Min Hong saw Chen Xiao.

"Mrs. Chen, I didn't expect you to be here!" Min Hong looked a little enthusiastic, as if they knew each other very well.

"Min-sama." Chen Xiao smiled and bowed his head, which was regarded as a greeting.

"Mrs. Chen is different from ordinary people!" Min Hong's tone was praised.

But this is the Qinglou, which shows that there is something else in his words.

Chen Xiao smiled and did not answer.

Min Hong looked at Fang Yu and said, "Mrs. Chen's husband is not an ordinary person. He smiled meaningfully.

Fang Yu didn't greet him, and there was no expression on his face.

Min Hong said: "I'll come over for tea later." ”

After saying that, he walked away with the others. After a while, there was a sound of mutual greetings from next door, and it seemed that Min Hong, Li Mingyu, and Gao Can were in a private room.

On the stage, a woman begins to play the piano on the side of the stage. It seems that she is not performing, and the sound of this piano is equivalent to warm-up music.

One after another, there were already people in every private room on the second floor. Chen Xiao also saw Boss Yang of the Malaysian store, who came with another group of people and sat in the side room.

Chen Xiao and the others were eating dried fruits and chatting, and a tall woman came to their room with a little girl.

"I've seen Mrs. Chen and Mr. Fang." The tall woman and the little girl saluted.

"Qingqing girl, why are you here?" Chen Xiao put down the peanut in his hand and smiled.

"I heard that the three little brothers are also here today, so I specially brought my sister to thank you."

Lian'er walked up to the small stone and saluted.

"Thank you brothers for saving your life."

She lowered her head, and her eyes did not dare to make eye contact with the few people on the small stone. Because they saw her worst.

"No thanks, no thanks, we didn't do anything, it was our two owners who saved you." Xiaoshi hurriedly waved his hand.

Lian'er came over again to salute Chen Xiao and Fang Yu:

"Thank you to the two owners for saving lives."

"No thanks."

Chen Xiao looked at the little girl in front of him and felt sorry for her. Fortunately, Lieutenant Xu is dead, and there will be no next time. But whether there will be a second "Xu County Lieutenant", it's hard to say.

Qingqing saluted: "We're going to perform in a while, so let's leave first." ”

"Hmm." Chen Xiao nodded and watched the two of them leave.

Chunhong asked Xiaoshi, "You guys came back, what happened?" ”

"Nothing. It's just to save someone. ”

Chunhong saw that he didn't want to say. Look at the two women dressed, it should be the women of the Qinglou!

She suddenly felt that she shouldn't have come today. She felt that the woman was in the green building, and there was danger around her at any time.

At this time, there was a rush of gongs and drums on the stage, and the performance was about to begin.

There are a total of 14 girls who accompany guests in Yihong Garden, and some of them only accompany wine and performers, not at night. To accompany the night is to sleep.

Like Rong'er and Xin'er, who are no longer virgins, they accompany wine, perform, and stay overnight. However, they also choose guests to accompany them at night, not everyone accompanies them.

is still a virgin like Qingqing, and he is only performing at present. However, it is also a matter of time before she spends the night, only to see who she will choose to "break the melon".

In addition, there are girls in Yihongyuan who do not accompany guests, such as those who are still young. However, a few years later, she will also embark on the path of Qingqing and Rong'er.