Seed dealers in ancient times

The next day, Zheng Jiang stopped working for the first day, changed into clean clothes, and tidied up properly. He was a spirited and handsome man.

Lunch is also taken care of in Fuyue Zhai. After that, no one eats lunch at home, but it saves a lot of expenses.

He fastened his belt, locked the courtyard door and was about to set off, when he saw Brother Xian at the door, who seemed to be waiting for him.

The little brother changed his clothes again today, he was holding a guqin, he said: "You have quite a lot of clothes."

"My mother is very good at sewing. She made a lot of clothes for me before she was alive. In the past two years, I have grown taller, and some clothes gradually began to wear out. If I don't wear many clothes every day, if I grow taller, These clothes should also be packed at the bottom of the box." Brother Xian spoke softly, but he couldn't hear the meaning of sadness. After he finished speaking, he handed the Guqin in his arms forward: "Brother Zheng will give it to me again today. Take the violin?"

Zheng Jiang stopped to think whether his hands were empty or not, so he took it, but he didn't expect the thing to be quite heavy, so he pressed his wrist, and looked at the lightness of the little brother holding it, as if it didn't weigh much.

"In the future, let me bring you the piano instrument up and down."

Chu Xian suppressed the smile from the corner of her eyes: "Then I will thank Brother Zheng first."

"Drinking pear soup yesterday, does your cough feel better?"

Chu Xian nodded: "Ms. Zou's pear soup is delicious."

Zheng Jiangting just smiled and didn't answer.

When the two arrived at Fuyue Zhai, one entered through the front door and the other entered through the back door, not to avoid suspicion, but mainly because they had different errands.

The cooks are relatively idle in the morning, and the busiest time is still at meal time.

After Zheng Jiang stopped, he was arranged to kill fish and deal with chickens and ducks. A group of servants and cooks picking vegetables chatted.

"Master Qiu came to the store yesterday afternoon and didn't look at Mr. Yunrong. He was very angry. The manager made a lot of smiles and finally sent the person away. In the afternoon, he showed his face and scolded everyone when he saw it."

"Oh, you said that Mr. Yunrong upstairs is always out to beg for food, put on some airs, and don't let the young master who gave the reward see him. Seeing that he is sick, it's better to cling to someone earlier. Rich master. Even if you want to be a concubine, that would be better than singing every day. This young life will pass by in a blink of an eye, and when you are old, who will buy it?"

"I don't know if Yunrong wants to cling to a rich master, but that Roujiao girl has written all her clinging thoughts on her face. Yunrong was not there yesterday, but Roujiao took the initiative to ask Ying to sing a little song for Master Qiu Listen."

A group of women giggled, Zheng Jiang paused to let out a sigh of relief, and the people in the back kitchen and the gossip source were all placed in the front hall.

"Zheng Jiang stop, come and slice this big kidney, can you pass the knife skill?"

The chef was calling, and Zheng Jiangting hurriedly put down the waiter in his hand and went over.

The servants who talked long and short stopped their mouths when they heard the sound, and all looked at Zheng Jiangting who was going to chop vegetables, and the conversation suddenly changed, and they turned to him again.

"I heard that this new little chef has never even worked as a cook before. He was introduced by Mr. Yunrong. I'm afraid he is not an old friend."

"Ham, what are you talking about? Although she looks handsome, she is more than enough for a big girl with yellow flowers, but who is Yunrong, who can look at a little cook? I heard that this is the uncle in charge. If you want Otherwise, how could it be so easy to enter Fuyue Zhai."

A few people were discussing in a hurry, and no one could make a difference.

"I'm free again, all the dishes have been washed!"

When Liao Jianzhang came in, he was reprimanded first, and the servants all shrank their heads like quails.

"Take care of everything, Young Master Chou has ordered a banquet for guests today, and prepared all the signature dishes!"

Liao Jianzhang arranged his work in an orderly manner, and finally went to Zheng Jiangting and twisted his waist: "The knife skills are not bad."

"The manager's absurd praise."

Liao Jianzhang said again: "Cook a good portion of your dishes too. Young Master Qiu is generous. If the food is good, your goodness is indispensable."

Zheng Jiangting agreed: "As the steward tells me, I will definitely prepare the dishes well."

Liao Jianzhang nodded and raised his chin: "Zhang Fu, today you will fight with Master Zheng."

"okay."

After saying that, a handsome man ran up to Zheng Jiangting: "Master Zheng, what do you want me to do?"

In fact, Zheng Jiangting can do it alone, but since he has arranged for him to do odd jobs, don't do it for nothing.

Miscellaneous workers like Zhang Fu do all sorts of chores during the day, and sometimes they have to work in the front hall when they are too busy. Although they are the busiest, their salary is the lowest, because they have no strengths in their hands. , not as eloquent as the guys in the front hall, and not as good as the chefs in the back kitchen, who can fry up and down.

Zheng Jiang stopped to see that the man was not very old, so he explained how to light the fire and gave him a light job.

Today is no longer a dish test, and the ingredients don’t have to be timid. He generously took the tenderloin as the stuffing. The meat quality is much stronger than yesterday’s, and there are more fillings. He made a steamed pork tenderloin. Another purse shape was used for frying. Two servings were made. The frying was golden brown and crispy, full of fragrance, steamed in a low-key manner, and the taste was restrained.

Zhang Fu looked at him with eyes full of admiration: "Master Zheng is really amazing."

"What is that?"

Zhang Fu washed his hands, took out the tray, carefully put the two dishes on the tray, and waited for the call to serve.

After a while, the clerk in the front hall yelled: "Young Master Qiu's food is ready to be served!"

The handyman in the back kitchen took the trays and went to the front hall one after another. Zheng Jiang stopped to watch the excitement, and sent out nearly twenty dishes back and forth. Money can't be taken down, no wonder those in charge have to take good care of them.

Zheng Jiang was curious after he finished looking at it, and was about to continue his work, but Zhang Fu suddenly came to send a message: "Mr. Qiu wants to see you, and the manager wants you to go over quickly."

He frowned, he was a cook, not a monkey, how could he go to let people see him, but he had to bow his head under the eaves, even though he didn't want to, he still tidied up and went with Zhang Fu private room.

Fu Yuezhai's private room is really nice, facing the river, a room is as big as his two bedrooms.

At this moment, there were six or seven gorgeously dressed men sitting in the room. The leader was a fat young man with fat round hands resting on the table, with three rings on his five fingers, one gold and two inlaid rings. Putting on the emerald, the man stared straight at the singing stage in front of him.

Zheng Jiangting followed his gaze and looked over, and it was Brother Xian who was playing the piano with his head buried in his head.

Liao Jianzhang was also in the room as a companion. He didn't speak when he came in, but just stood quietly, as if he was listening to the piano carefully.

Zheng Jiang stopped snorting, he was not listening to the piano, he was clearly coveting Brother Xian's beauty, he looked at the people on the stage, stroked the piano silently, and rarely raised his head twice, his eyes were cold.

After a long while, after the song was over, applause resounded in the room, the one surnamed Qiu stood up first, and the rest followed suit: "Mr. Yunrong's piano sound is getting more and more exquisite."

Brother Xian stood up, and was about to salute Qiu Yongnian, when he suddenly saw Zheng Jiangting standing in the room, and couldn't help but frown.

"Come on, come on, Yun Rong sit down quickly, you are tired from playing the piano, you should drink some wine to warm up and rest." Qiu Yongnian graciously opened the stool to welcome Chu Xian to sit down.

"Master Qiu, Yun Rong is not feeling well today, I'm afraid he's going to take care of you."

Qiu Yongnian stared: "Mr. Yunrong is sick, did you see a doctor? The family doctor in my young master's house is good at medicine, so I'll have someone call him."

Chu Xian said indifferently: "Thank you for your concern, master. It's just a small typhoid fever. I've already taken the medicine in the pharmacy. It's okay. I'm afraid I'll give it to Master Qiu when I'm sick. Master, don't get too close to Yunrong."

"It's just that I'm sick. I think it's Yun Rong's sickness. That's my honor!"

Qiu Yongnian smiled so foolishly that it made people feel that it was greasy than the pork head in the kitchen, and he wanted to stretch out his hand to pull Chu Xian in words.

Chu Xian's eyes froze, she dodged sideways, and coughed.

Seeing that the momentum was not good, Zheng Jiang quietly made a look at Chu Xian and told him to put it down on his.

"Hey, Yun Rong!"

Qiu Yongnian followed closely, and after Zheng Jiangting turned sideways to let Brother Xian go out, he blocked Qiu Yongnian's way at the door: "Master Qiu, it's the time when epidemics frequently occur, so you have to be careful, I see Mr. Yunrong is coughing like that, don't really..."

Seeing someone hindering his good deed, the fat man stretched his neck and watched the beauty go away, he was very dissatisfied, but after raising alarmist words, he stopped in the end, but he couldn't make people feel that he was greedy for life and afraid of death, so he stood upright Eyebrows scolded: "What are you!"

"Master Qiu, this is the cook of our Fuyuezhai. You just said that he cooks well. I want to meet him."

Seeing this, Liao Jianzhang hurried forward to smooth things over, fearing that he would be smashed if he didn't speak up.

"What do you see? The rough old man is not a little beauty. Those who see it are disturbed, let him get out!"

"Yes, yes." Liao Jianzhang responded again and again, turned his head and said to Zheng Jiang: "Go out."

Zheng Jiangting took advantage of the opportunity and left the private room, followed by Zhang Fu.

When the two went downstairs, Zhang Fu said cautiously: "Master Zheng, are you okay?"

Zheng Jiangting chuckled lightly: "If there's anything you can do, you can come out to have a meal, and you must look at people's eyes."

He was fine, but he didn't know what happened to Brother Xian. He asked Zhang Fu, "Do you know where Mr. Yunrong is?"

"In the innermost room at the back of the corridor, when there are no guests, the entertainers rest there."

Zheng Jiangting hurriedly looked for it. According to what Zhang Fu said, he did see a lot of girls and brothers who were performing arts, all of them were gorgeous. After wandering around, he didn't see Brother Xian.He grabbed a little brother and asked: "Have you seen Mr. Yunrong?"

"He just left."

"gone?"

The little brother nodded.

Zheng Jiangting frowned, he must have gone home, so it was more reassuring than being here.

After a while, Liao Jianzhang came back, with a horse face, stepped into the kitchen with his front feet, and roared with his back feet.

"You are very capable. You can still show off your skills in front of Master Qiu. This is your first day at work. If you work a little longer in the future, you won't be able to ride on my back!" Liao Jianzhang slammed his face at Zheng in front of everyone. Jiang Ting scolded, not showing mercy at all, everyone was busy with their own business, no one stepped forward to persuade, and no one dared to watch the excitement, Zhang Fu alone wanted to speak a few times, but his words were soft, Not daring to go up, things like stewards scolding people have long been commonplace.

"I didn't get the reward, but I offended people!"

After Liao Jianzhang finished yelling, he went out to continue entertaining guests with abusive words. He said so many ugly things, but he didn't let Zheng Jiangting go straight away.

Apart from this nonsense, the afternoon was quite peaceful, but Zheng Jiangting didn't see Chu Xian coming back all afternoon, and he rushed back after work.

He was clearly worried about Chu Xian, but when he reached the door, he didn't know whether he should knock or not. After hesitating again and again, he finally knocked on the door.

The room was quiet, and no footsteps came out to open the door for a long time, as if no one was there, Zheng Jiangting frowned, and when he was about to knock the door again, a voice came from the room: "I'm fine."

Zheng Jiang felt that there was something wrong with someone through the door. If he hadn't been there today, no one would speak up for him. Everyone succumbed to power and fell into the eyes of money. How could he care about an isolated person? The helpless little brother, I don't know how many times I have suffered like this: "If you are really okay? May I come in to see you?"

There was another silence in the room, and after a while: "Lonely and widowed, what does Brother Zheng want to do?"

"I don't mean anything else, I just look at you."

"Such things happen all the time. I'm used to it. If I really take it to heart, how can I survive until today?"

Zheng Jiang stopped hearing the words, opened his mouth, but couldn't speak, he sighed: "Then you have a rest, call me if you need something."

Brother Xian was standing in the yard, listening to the sound of leaving footsteps, his heart was relieved a lot, but he was a little lost, he wobbled back to the house, and sat down on the chair a little weakly.

Ever since his mother passed away, he had no idea what the meaning of his life was. He put on makeup and powder every day, doing things he hated to earn some money to hang himself, like a walking corpse. He had thought about committing suicide for a long time, but Mother let him live well, mother suffered so much to raise him, and he really didn't want to make his mother sad, so he could only drag the day forward, but with his ability, he could only live, but he couldn't live well .

Back then, Zheng Jiang didn't like to get close to him. In fact, he could probably guess one or two reasons. He couldn't say whether he was happy or unhappy, because he didn't care what he thought at all, just like he didn't care what anyone thought of him.

It's a pity that in just a few days, people have undergone earth-shaking changes. Zheng Jiangting's view of him has changed a lot. Everything is good, but he wants to let him see the most unbearable thing in him. The thought of wanting to escape, not daring to face Zheng Jiang in such a fortunate situation, some things are already different from the past.

Mother taught him how to play the qin, play the pipa, read and write, taught him how to flirt with men, and escape those who have evil thoughts about him, but she never told him that if one day, when there is a desire to rely on someone in his heart, he should How to deal with it.