Seed dealers in ancient times

Zheng Jiang stopped and grabbed Zhang Fu who was passing by: "Go, go and greet Li Kesheng."

Zhang Fu was full of doubts: "Didn't Mr. Chu say hello? These days, Li Xiucai was greeted by Mr. Chu. They are familiar with each other, and Li Xiucai is willing to greet Mr. Chu. How inappropriate I used to be."

Ever since Zheng Jiangting and Chu Xian were young neighbors, and seeing Zheng Jiangting treating others like a big brother every day, he stopped guessing about the relationship between the two. Come here, anyone with a discerning eye can tell that Li Xiucai likes Mr. Chu.

He couldn't help gossiping: "Li Xiucai was born Zhou Zheng, and he has the elegance of a scholar. He is already a scholar now. I heard that Li Xiucai's poems and prose are excellent, and he is also highly valued by his master in the academy. Given time, maybe he will pay him back." If you can win a juren, you will be a master at that time. I see Mr. Chu and Li Xiucai as suitable."

Which little brother doesn't want to marry a young official who knows how to read and respect.

Zheng Jiang stopped and glanced at the smiling guy beside him. Didn't he say earlier that he and Brother Xian were a couple?How could it be said in a blink of an eye that Chu Xian was right with someone else? "I used to be like a boring gourd, but now how come there are so many words, what is suitable for them!"

"Why isn't it suitable? I'll just say it. Even Fourth Master Jia said that the two of you are very compatible. My aunt said the same thing yesterday, and..."

"What's there, what's there! Hurry up and greet the guests, if you don't learn how to cook well all day long, your eyes will only grow on these things!"

Zhang Fu was stunned by the scolding, what happened to the gentle and gentle Master Zheng in the past, he said bitterly: "Master Zheng, are you jealous?"

"You kid..."

Seeing someone raise his hand, Zhang Fu hurriedly shrank his neck and ran away.

Zheng Jiang stopped to stare at him, and went to the back kitchen angrily.Zou Yun was chopping vegetables in the back kitchen when he saw his son and asked, "I'm back."

"En." Zheng Jiangting replied absent-mindedly, paused, and said again: "Mother, do you think Brother Xian and Li Kesheng are suitable?"

The movements of Zou Yun's hands were slightly sluggish, and he glanced at his son in surprise: "Why did you suddenly talk about this today?"

Zheng Jiang stopped and said: "Li Kesheng comes to the shop every day. Seeing that the day of the provincial examination is approaching, he is not fully focused on the scientific examination. It is possible that he came all the way here purely for the desire of tongue."

Zou Yun raised his neck and glanced outside, then he understood what he meant.

"Brother Xian is young and beautiful, and he can read and write to settle accounts. Many younger brothers are not necessarily as good as Brother Xian, but they are born lower. This Li Xiu is a scholar, with a clean family background and a good life. , and there is a great possibility of becoming a Shangguan master in the future, in my mother's fair view, it is quite right."

Hearing this, Zheng Jiangting's emotions did not dissipate, on the contrary, he became even more bored and panicked. The thoughts in his mind were very dangerous. People around him now said that Brother Xian and Li Keshengdeng seemed to be lovers. Whether he was used to hearing the misunderstandings about him and Brother Xian or something, he felt frustrated that his wife had suddenly become someone else's wife.

He was restless, looking at Li Kesheng was even more annoying.

"Stop, stop!"

Zou Yun yelled several times before Zheng Jiangting realized: "The dishes are going to be mushy."

"Huh? Oh."

Zheng Jiangting took the spatula and hurriedly shoveled the vegetables into the plate, Zou Yun picked up the plate, and when he walked to the door, he suddenly smiled, she turned around and said, "Did you have other intentions for Brother Xian? "

"What? No, no... no, mother, what do you say?"

Zou Yun said with a smile: "You didn't say that when I was with Li Xiucai, I was out of my mind. Didn't you really want to dominate Brother Xian and let him be your accountant for the rest of your life?"

"I don't think so!"

Zou Yun didn't twist people to forcefully admit it, and suppressed the smile in his eyes: "Well, that's really my mother's misunderstanding. Didn't you say that you wanted mother to recognize Brother Xian as a godson? These days, mother is busy and confused. I haven't had time to talk about it all this time, so today my mother will tell Brother Xian about it, and if my mother speaks, he will agree."

"Mother!" Zheng Jiang stopped raising his voice consciously, showing a complete refusal.

When he was thinking about how to refute, he saw Zou Yun covering his mouth and smiling, and he realized that he was deliberately provoking him.It's too early to say it, why wait until now to say it.

"You wooden fish brain should also be enlightened. If you really have thoughts for other people, you should show it well. Can people who are hiding you know it? If you don't hurry up, I'm afraid you will go to someone else's house to manage accounts."

After Zou Yun finished speaking, he went out, while Zheng Jiang stood still, his brows furrowed.

Not long after the recruitment notice was posted, people applied for the job one after another the next day. Two cooks came one after another. One was a little older, about 50 or [-] years old, and the other was quite young, probably in his early twenties.

Zheng Jiang asked the two of them to make a simple dish to see their knife skills and cooking skills. As expected, the older ones had a longer working experience, and the taste of the dishes was better. After the assessment, he probably knew it in his heart, and then He started to talk about the wages and treatment of his own restaurant: "Our restaurant has a small shop, and the cook's salary is four cents and five cents a month. It will go up after the cooking is done. Just focus on lunch. Do you have any questions?"

The older cook frowned obviously: "Four cents and five? I have been a cook for 20 years, so the shopkeeper's wages are probably a little low."

"It's about this price in a small restaurant. This master can ask around for the price."

The cook didn't answer, he knew the market of course, but he heard that the business of this restaurant was booming recently, so he just wanted to see if the wages would be higher than that of the same restaurant, it seemed that it was nothing more than that, if so, then He might as well find a bigger restaurant, it's really too small here.

"If that's the case, then I'll go back and think about it."

Zheng Jiangding knew that the talk had collapsed, but he didn't feel sorry for it. He had seen these long-serving cooks when he was in Fuyue Zhai. He doesn't need to work for a long time, he has to teach the dishes here anyway, as long as he can cook and have knife skills, his requirements are not high, so he prefers younger cooks.

After the cook walked away with his neck held high, the only one left was the young one. Zheng Jiang stopped politely and said, "I haven't asked what the master's name is yet."

"My name is Zhou Haixin, and the shopkeeper calls me Xiao Zhou."

Zheng Jiang stopped to see that the man was older than his current body, and it was not easy to call him Xiao Zhou, so he called Master Zhou: "Is the condition of our restaurant as good as you want?"

Not long after Zhou Haixin was a fledgling, he used to work as a cook in a restaurant. At the end of the year, the family talked about getting married, and they were busy for a while. The business of the restaurant was sluggish, so he was fired on the grounds that he took a few days off. up.

After the beginning of spring, there are not many places to recruit cooks in the city, so I finally found this place. I didn't expect that the competitor was an experienced chef. I didn't have any expectations. I didn't know that the old cook thought the salary was low.

"Satisfied, satisfied."

"It's so good, Master Zhou can come to work tomorrow."

The young people talk more bluntly, and they settle down in a few words, and both sides are quite harmonious.

Zheng Jiang stopped to see the man out and returned to the shop. He was going to find a blacksmith to make some serrated knives for cutting potatoes. He just turned around and saw a round box on the ground. He bent down to pick it up and opened it. The fragrance hits, and there is a paste-like thing inside.

He was wondering what it was, when he saw Zhou Haixin, who had left, looking around for something and turned back.

"Master Zhou is looking for this again?"

Seeing the box in his hand, Zhou Haixin breathed a sigh of relief: "Exactly, exactly."

Zheng Jiangting returned it intact, and Zhou Haixin said embarrassedly: "This is the powder and ointment that my wife told me to bring back before going out. The shopkeeper laughed at me."

"Master Zhou and his wife are really loving."

After Zheng Jiang stopped watching the people leave, his eyes were deep. He remembered that Cai Lin also took Brother Lin to buy them before. Do girls and brothers like these things?

In the evening, after seeing off the last table of guests, Brother Xian closed the account book, and he turned his head: "Brother Zheng is going back?"

Zheng Jiang stopped outside to drink tea: "You go back first, I have something to do."

Brother Xian came out from the counter: "What's the matter?"

"No, just clean up. You go first." At the end, he called Zou Yun again: "Mother, go back with Brother Xian first."

Zou Yun wiped his hands: "Aren't you going together?"

Zheng Jiangting waved his hand while drinking water.

"Then buddy, let's go first."

Chu Xian was a little unhappy, because the two of them hadn't talked about Li Kesheng all night, and now they didn't even want to go home with him. He pursed his lips and turned away without saying a word.

After Zhang Fu finished washing the dishes, Zheng Jiangting was the only one left in the shop. He said, "Master Zheng, why don't you go with Madam, just let me clean up the shop."

"It's okay, I'm not in a hurry."

Zheng Jiang stopped in front of the counter to look around, and then went to the back kitchen to clean up. Seeing that Brother Xian and Zou Yun had completely disappeared, he resolutely left the key to Zhang Fu, and ran out of the street by himself.

Zhou Haixin said that there is a shop called Fushuanglou on the main street, which sells rouge, gouache, gold and jade hairpins.

When he was looking for the past, he saw the signboard from a long distance. The door was not yet closed at this hour, and the road was illuminated by four big lanterns hanging at the door. Currently, there are not many guests in Fushuang Building.

Zheng Jiangting walked over stiffly, wondering how to get in so that it would not look so abrupt, after all, it was the shop that the girl and brother loved, so it was really embarrassing for him to go in and pick things up like a big man.

However, before he could come up with a countermeasure, the clerk at the door greeted him very enthusiastically to go inside, as if he would not let go of both male and female guests.

Zheng Jiang stopped coughing dryly and buried his head into the shop. The thin, short white-faced boy said in a crisp voice, "Does the guest want to buy rouge powder or gold and silver hairpins?"

From the past to the present, Zheng Jiangting has never set foot in this kind of place. He only feels that there is a hole in the sky when he enters the door. There are extraordinarily many lanterns, and the boxes of various colors of rouge and gouache are dazzling: "I'll take a look first, take a look."

"It's okay, we can watch it at will in Fushuang Building, the first floor is rouge and gouache, and the second floor is jewelry."

Zheng Jiangting himself couldn't see why, so he wandered around the first floor with his hands behind his hands, but he could only turn to his younger brother for help: "What do younger brothers usually like?"

"If you're a young boy, you don't usually use heavy gouache. You can use a box of good rouge to lift your complexion and it will look good. And a balm, you can have a fragrance everywhere on your body. What do you think? "

Zheng Jiangting didn't know that there were so many particulars. He only knew that Brother Xian was born very white, and he really didn't need water powder. As for the balm, he didn't seem to need it either. The last time Brother Xian smelled good after taking a bath , It smells good, I don't need other balms anymore.

The rouge is good, the rouge can just add some color to the sick brother Xian, and he must look better.

Leading his little brother to see people without talking for a long time, but don't be patient. Firstly, it is for business, and secondly, the man in front of him is tall, broad, and handsome. Who wouldn't want to have a few more conversations with such a man?

"Is the guest officer choosing a gift for your sweetheart?"

"Ah?" Zheng Jiang's ears felt hot, and there seemed to be warmth in his heart: "Bring me some boxes of rouge."

The little brother didn't get a positive answer, but he was slightly disappointed when he saw that his posture was almost inseparable, so he smiled: "We have more than a dozen types of rouge in Fushuanglou, guest officer..."

Zheng Jiang stopped: "Okay, there are a lot of people buying it."

作者有话要说：感谢在2021-02-0715:49:08~2021-02-0819:39:41期间为我投出霸王票或灌溉营养液的小天使哦~

Thanks to the little angels who irrigate the nutrient solution: 25 bottles of Wenxi; 20 bottles of mischief; 1 bottle of Ouhuang for clapping for love, Xiaxia, and Yaoyao; thank you very much for your support, I will continue to work hard!