Ling Xiaorou asked the maid to set up a beauty couch in the courtyard, and sat on it with her legs stretched out.

Although the injury was not very serious, the position of the injury was on the knee, and every step of pulling the injury would make her grin in pain, originally she was very afraid of pain, and she simply didn't want to leave until she had to take a step.

When she heard the little maid who went out to buy things for her say that the young lady was pregnant, Ling Xiaorou felt faint, she didn't have a deep friendship with the young lady, and she didn't have much of a good impression of the young lady after the previous-for-tat experience with the young lady.

It's just that I sent some bayberry that has just been pickled for a few days, and most of this pregnant woman likes it. And she herself did not go over on the grounds that she was injured and could not walk.

all knew that she was injured by Miss Gao, and at that time, she was hugged by King Ning Yuan in a hurry, and the things were delivered, and no one would really pick on whether people came or not.

Qu Hongxiu originally wanted to come over to see Ling Xiaorou when she got the letter, but it happened that there was news that her sister-in-law was pregnant, and she was afraid of being picked on by the young lady, so she naturally rushed over as soon as possible, and after seeing the young lady, she came to see Ling Xiaorou directly.

Seeing that Ling Xiaorou was half-lying on the beauty couch, and the little maid next to her was fanning and feeding, she was so uncomfortable, she smiled and said, "Sister Rou'er, you will enjoy it, but you will suffer that Miss Gao." ”

Ling Xiaorou also heard what the maid said, after He Louyuan left from her, he directly asked people to pack and send Miss Gao, who was reluctant to leave, and did not forget to let people pass the message to the old lady of the Gao family: this time it was Miss Ling Biao who was kind-hearted and did not want to embarrass the Gao family, if Miss Gao would not walk well next time, he could help her ask for advice for Miss Gao.

But what does Miss Gao have to do with her? He's a complete stranger.

The sisters talked and laughed, and Qu Hongxiu even took the plate with sugar-pickled bayberry in the maid's hand, ate one for himself, and fed Ling Xiaorou one.

Although the sugar-pickled bayberry is sweet and sour, it can't stand it if you eat too much, and after eating a small plate, Ling Xiaorou asked people to change some salt and boiled peas to eat.

Qu Hongxiu ate a few mouthfuls of salt-boiled peas, and still thought that it was good to pickle bayberry in sugar, but it was a pity that Ling Xiaorou originally pickled a lot of bayberry, but she had just sent a lot to the young lady, and there was not much left.

Qu Hongxiu asked Ling Xiaorou to tell her the method of pickling bayberry, and she asked people to go back to pickle, especially after listening to Ling Xiaorou said, as long as the jar of pickled bayberry is buried in the ground, you can still eat this kind of sugar-pickled bayberry in winter, and she even said that she would make dozens of jars to store, compared to the dried bayberry in the past, this kind of sugar-pickled bayberry is really delicious.

It is even more that people immediately go to the street to buy the fresh bayberry, and there are also many jars for pickled sugar bayberry here, which are scalded and washed with boiling water, and put aside to control the water.

When the big and plump bayberry was bought, Ling Xiaorou instructed the maids to carefully soak the bayberry in light salt water for a moment, then wash it to dry off the surface moisture, and then put a layer of sugar and a layer of bayberry into the jar.

This time, Qu Hongxiu let people buy back a lot of bayberry, and it took ten jars more than one foot high to install it, and the sugar in Qu Fu's library was also used up, and let people buy a lot of sugar, just wait for tomorrow to let people collect bayberry and then do it, then they can't eat it all, and after the bayberry is out of season, it is also very good to sell it in the shop.

Except for one jar to be kept for a few days to eat, the rest were buried under the root of the courtyard wall where they lived.

Ling Xiaorou also taught her several ways to pickle plums and boil jam, and then she could also sell them in the flower and fruit shop, and the taste of shredding plum meat or jam into pastries was also very beautiful.

Qu Hongxiu was originally delicious, Ling Xiaorou taught carefully, it didn't take long for Qu Hongxiu to draw inferences, Ling Xiaorou felt that if she could take care of the shop with her heart, only one flower and fruit shop would make Qu Jiafu's oil flow.

After talking about the pickling of various fruits for a while, a maid came in to report that someone outside had come to pass on the master's words, saying that the master had invited Ling Xiaorou to go to the study to see him.

Ling Xiaorou looked at Qu Hongxiu, and her expression was a little tangled.

Although she is now the righteous daughter of the Qu family, she is really not familiar with Master Qu, and when she thinks of the negative news about her godfather in her previous life, Ling Xiaorou doesn't want to go over.

Qu Hongxiu directly refused for her, "Don't go!" You said that Sister Rou'er was seriously injured and had difficulty walking, so she would go to see her father another day. ”

The maid went out to spread the word, and Qu Hong's embroidered face was gone, and the interest in talking to Ling Xiaorou about various delicacies and jam making before was gone.

Qu Hongxiu didn't say anything about Ling Xiaorou and didn't ask, who knows what kind of moth came out of her scumbag father, anyway, the old man is a pervert, and it's still good to see his own little appearance.

Master Qu was in a hurry in the study, but what he was waiting for was the news that Ling Xiaorou was missing, and he smashed a tea bowl on the table angrily.

After sitting for a long time, I couldn't think of where I could get two thousand taels of silver, but there were really no two thousand taels, and one thousand taels would be good to redeem Lingxiu.

Finally, thinking of what Mrs. Qu said before, selling the old and welcoming the new, gritted his teeth, stamped his feet, and asked people to find people's teeth, and pick up the young, good-looking, bad family background, and unborn to sell first.

For a while, the backyard was crying constantly, in addition to the young concubines of Master Qu to be sold, even the maids and mothers-in-law who were waiting for the concubines were also sold.

Fortunately, these concubines were all bought by Master Qu for money, and the deed of sale was also in his hands.

When Mrs. Qu received the letter, the person was taken to the gate of the house.

sighed heavily, since you love to toss, let's toss, these concubines are all out of the house, and her ears can stop and stop, as for whether it will be rumored that she can't tolerate people and sell all the concubines, to be honest, even Master Qu doesn't care about the reputation of the Qu family, what else does she care?

In the past few days, she has been exhausted by Master Qu's toss, she is really too lazy to care, there are fewer people in the house, and she can be quiet and quiet.

Old Man Qu pinched the three hundred and fifty-five taels of silver obtained from selling concubines and maids-in-law, and he couldn't imagine that after selling so many people, he hadn't even made up half of the silver to redeem Lingxiu, and if he didn't get the silver together, Lingxiu was ransomed by the merchant from the capital, this can't be like digging his heart?

In the end, he still hit Ling Xiaorou with the idea.

Since the lady said that he couldn't get two hundred taels in the house, it was useless for him to force it, but the daughter-in-law could get the silver, but the daughter-in-law had the wife and the eldest son to protect him and didn't dare to provoke.

Now there is only the newly recognized righteous daughter who can take out the silver, only King Ning Yuan, he doesn't have the courage to ask King Ning Yuan for silver to redeem an oiran, so he can only hope that the righteous daughter will come to take this silver.

But Ling Xiaorou didn't come here at all under the pretext of being injured, could it be that he still had to go to the courtyard of the righteous daughter? Alas, no matter how shameless he is, he didn't dare to do this when he heard others talk about King Ningyuan's love for his righteous daughter.

In the end, after thinking about it, there was no other way but to borrow it outside.

On this day, the weather was fine, and the flower and fruit shop, dim sum shop and beef noodle restaurant that had been talked about by the people of Gao County for many days opened at the same time, in addition to the beef noodle restaurant ten cents to eat a bowl of fragrant noodles, the price of the flower and fruit shop and the dim sum shop are not ordinary people dare to walk in.

A piece of puff pastry with sweet and sour jam is 100 yuan, and a piece of fresh fish fillet is 1 tael of silver...... Just looking at it is already deterrent, how big a bunch of fish do you have to buy for a tael of silver.

However, although people's things are expensive, they are also expensive, as long as you eat a bite, you will feel that your silver is worth the money, although the business is not as hot as when Furong Building opened, the guests of three or three taels to close the account, only the dim sum shop earned nearly 100 taels of silver on this day, and the beef noodle restaurant earned less than 20 taels, and I am afraid that it will earn more this month.

Of course, these accounts are firmly held in Mrs. Qu's hands, even if Master Qu wants to intervene, he can't intervene, who let him don't care about anything over the years, and now everyone in the house is looking at Mrs. Qu's head.

On the same day, Master Qu also welcomed Lingxiu into the door with a small sedan chair, but Mrs. Qu was busy in the shop all day and completely ignored it. It wasn't until the three shops opened that Mr. Qu knew that he had chosen the day of Yinglingxiu on the same day as the opening of the shop.

Because of the anger with Mrs. Qu before, I didn't discuss this matter with her, I thought that when the people entered the door, I would make an appointment with three or five friends to have a few drinks, which could be regarded as a formal crossing of the road for Lingxiu, but when the friends who made the appointment arrived at the house and asked the chef to cook a table of dishes, I was told that now the flower and fruit shop is open, and the cook is recalled by Miss Ling to be the head of the flower and fruit shop.

Master Qu was on fire in his heart, but it was no wonder that Mrs. Qu, who let him not even say hello before, so he had to ask the cook in the house to prepare a table of wine and food, but he couldn't eat as much as the taste at the family recognition banquet.

I was teased by my friends for not being able to manage the affairs of the house, and I didn't know about such a big thing as the opening of the shop.

With the strength of the wine, he asked the little guy to go to the flower and fruit shop to call the cook back to cook, but the little guy sent to the flower and fruit shop was blasted out without even entering the door, and the flower and fruit shop refused all male guests, even the man of the host's family was also not allowed to enter.

even made people say that Huaguofang is Miss Ling's shop, and the cook is also Miss Ling's person, and she will not go to Qu's house to wait in the future.

Master Qu made a faceless fuss, and it was inconvenient to attack in front of the guests, until the guests dispersed, he went straight to Mrs. Courtyard, where he waited until late at night, and Mrs. did not come back, so people went to inquire, but it turned out that the business of Huaguofang was good today, and Miss Ling left Mrs. and Miss in Huaguofang to stay, and did not come back.

In a fit of rage, Master Qu smashed a few more cups, and returned to Lingxiu's yard with anger, and was complained by Lingxiu crying and crying.

Although Master Qu finally scraped together enough 1,000 taels of silver to redeem Lingxiu, the 1,000 taels of dowry promised before was really powerless.

But the few concubines left in the backyard are either old and yellow, or they can't sell a few pieces of silver if they don't look good.

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