Red House Farm Stay

Qing'er made seven zodiac cartoon dolls, Jia Zhuo put together a potted Dolo plant, and Wang Gou'er bought some gift boxes as gifts, which would be a decent New Year's gift.

Because it was given to Mrs. Qin, this time Mrs. Liu took the two girls with her.Originally, it didn't matter whether they would meet or not, but after waiting for a while, they saw Xiaocai running over excitedly, leading them to see Mrs. Qin.

"Madam likes that potted plant very much, and those toys are so interesting." Xiao Cai was talking all the way.

Mrs. Liu couldn't help being stunned. She always felt that it was too petty to send potted plants that could not be eaten or drank. She never thought that Mrs. Qin would really like them.There are also those toys that she thinks are weird, and she once wanted to stop them from being included in the annual gift, but until now, she was still worried that Mrs. Qin would think it was perfunctory.

"Miss Qing'er, who is ingenious and ingenious, is here." It was the big maid beside Mrs. Qin who spoke, and she joked openly during the New Year's Eve.

"Sister laughed at me again." Qing'er pursed her lips and smiled. She must have been at a loss when encountering such teasing before, and now she knows how to respond.

"Come in quickly." Mrs. Qin not only invited them in, but after they had finished greeting them, she also looked at the seats.Liu only dared to lean half of her butt on the edge of the bench, anyone could see how nervous she was.

"It's our youth's blessing that Madam likes it." Jia Zhuo saw that Mrs. Liu could not be counted on, so he hurriedly spoke to avoid embarrassment.

"I think the most blessed one in your family is the mother who gives birth to good children." Mrs. Qin said a few words with a smile.

Then he pointed to Doro and asked, "This thing is a rare item. I heard that it was ordered by people from Jinling early in the morning. This gift is too expensive."

Mrs. Qin knew at a glance that she could be liked by the master. Mr. Qin liked flowers and plants very much, but he was always restrained and never revealed his preferences.I only asked the rough envoy next to my wife to go there a few times in private, but I gave up when I didn't make an appointment, and refused to reveal my identity.

"I didn't expect Madam to really like it. To be honest, Duo Luo was planted by a girl herself, and what she offered was just her heart. As for how to sell it outside, it's all a business method, and it's not something a girl can consider."

Jia Zhuo deliberately underestimated Doro's value, which made Liu next to him anxious.Since it's not easy to buy, why don't you let the county magistrate's wife take over the Wang family's love? Why do you belittle yourself again?But she finally remembered Wang Gou'er's words, she was not sure if she didn't understand, so she shut up.So she glanced at Jia Zhuo several times, but somehow she didn't start talking.

"It turns out that you planted the dolls in Suyunfang. I should have thought about it a long time ago. Anyway, I have received this love. You sisters are all skillful hands. This set of dolls is more innovative than the previous embroidery. , It’s really thanks to your little brains, how did you come up with it.”

Qing'er smiled and narrowed her eyes, was about to speak, but froze when she raised her head.It turned out that the servant girl came out from the inner room, and when she opened the curtain, she revealed a corner of the arhat bed inside.Just when she saw a set of four kang screens on it, although she only glanced at it, Qing'er was sure that it was the work she embroidered for Bai Xi.

Jia Zhuo didn't understand why Qing'er stopped talking all of a sudden, and hurriedly continued: "It was our sisters who saw the twelve zodiac signs sold in other people's shops, and suddenly had a flash of inspiration, and tried to make them. It is also because of the generosity of my wife, this Only then dare to take it out and show your eyes."

"This kind of appearance, other people can't wait for it. Anyway, the more I look at it, the more I like it. This pair of red and sapphire bracelets is a pair. I wore it when I was a girl. Seeing how close your sisters are, I think it's just right for you." .”

The maid turned out to have gone to the inner room to bring out the box, which contained a pair of silver bracelets inlaid with red and sapphires, and distributed one to each of the sisters.

Jia Zhuo and Qing'er quickly stood up and looked at Mrs. Liu.Only then did Mrs. Liu suddenly realize, and said with a look of panic, "How dare you accept the gift from Madam."

"Why don't you dare to accept it, put it on and let me have a look." Mrs. Qin urged with a smile.

Jia Zhuo and Qing'er hurriedly saluted, "Thank you, Mrs. Madam." Then they put it on their hands.

Seeing Mrs. Qin serving tea, Mrs. Liu took her two children and said goodbye.When Xiaocai sent them out, Jia Zhuo and Qing'er also gave each other New Year's gifts.

Qing'er brought her a pack of crisp candies and a velvet flower, and Jia Zhuo gave her a padded jacket, and said in a low voice, "You know my craftsmanship, don't dislike me, I wear it when I'm on duty at night, Get warm."

"Thank you very much. This year's cotton has soared. We dare not make new ones, and the old ones are not warm. Your quilted cotton is considered to have saved my life." Xiaocai accepted it with a smile, and gave it as a gift them.

Qing'er hesitated for a moment, then asked Xiao Cai: "I saw a kang screen in Madam's room just now, I don't know where I got it from."

Xiaocai gave Qing'er a strange look, "It's a gift from someone else, why, is there a problem?"

When Jia Zhuo heard the kang screen, he immediately realized it. No wonder Qing'er's expression was wrong just now, and he immediately said, "Four kang screens in ink and pastels?"

Seeing Qing'er nodding, Jia Zhuo sneered and said, "The third grandma of the Zhao family really has a heart." Knowing that the Wang family will also give Mrs. Qin a New Year's gift, there may be some embroidery pieces embroidered by Qing'er.Didn't she find Qing'er's embroidery work from Mrs. Qin?

As a result, sending Qing'er's embroidery work before Wang's family, isn't it a clear embarrassment for Qing'er.Fortunately, they had Doro, and Jia Zhuo didn't want Qing'er to work hard, so he changed the doll, otherwise he would be laughed at after a hard work.

Xiaocai waited for Jia Zhuo to tell the person who sent Kangping, glanced at Qing'er, and reacted.He couldn't help but stumbled and said: "No wonder when she came that day, the elder sister in the room said that she was eccentric, I dare say that's the case."

Seeing that there was no one around, he told them secretly, "Grandma Zhao's third is weird, you should avoid her, I heard that she won't let go of even her own sister."

Fa Xiaocai didn't say why not let Fa Xiaocai go, Jia Zhuo said gratefully: "Originally she spent money to ask Qing'er to embroider this kang screen. It's her business whether to give it away or not. In fact, it has nothing to do with us. It's just You must understand that it is hard to explain, if we had known that she would do this, we would not accept this job at all."

Xiao Cai said "Oh", "Isn't Qing'er's elder brother going to end? I think in the future, I will not pass on the embroidery work of the girl's family."

"Thanks for your reminder, we really didn't think of these things." Jia Zhuo shook Xiao Cai's hand and blinked at her.

From the beginning to the end, Mrs. Liu was at a loss.

After returning home, Jia Zhuocai said: "Auntie, think about it, how could Xiaocai know about Ban'er's end."

"That's right, how did she know." After being clicked by Jia Zhuo, Mrs. Liu moved, but still didn't understand.

"Madam Qin knew that Ban'er was going to end, so Xiao Cai was telling us that she knew." Jia Zhuo could only continue to explain.

Mrs. Liu seemed to understand, but suddenly became excited, "Does this mean that the county magistrate's wife will help?"

"I don't dare to say that." Jia Zhuo covered her mouth with his hands in fright, and stomped his feet repeatedly. He was only glad that this was at his own home. It would be terrible if someone listened to it outside.

"Don't say it, don't say it, I won't say it." Liu quickly waved her hand, knowing that she had said something wrong, but she understood that Mrs. Qin's mention of this matter was definitely out of good intentions.

As for Mrs. Zhao San, compared to Ban'er's end, her affairs didn't even make a splash.

A few days later, Mrs. Qin's mother-in-law came over and said that his family liked the bacon made by the Wang family last year, and they even asked about it this year.So Mrs. Qin came over and asked if they did it this year, and if they did, could they share some of it.

Mrs. Liu naturally agreed, turned around and wanted to get it, but was stopped by Jia Zhuo who heard the movement, "Mother, please go back and tell your wife that it will take two or three days before we can get it. people sent."

"Then thank you in advance." The old woman smiled, glanced at Jia Zhuo, and then went out.

Mrs. Liu was puzzled, "Isn't there a ready-made one at home?"

"Ask Uncle to take the board with you some other day." Jia Zhuo pursed his lips and smiled, held Liu's hand, and said in a low voice, "I guessed wildly, and I don't know if Master Qin took this opportunity to point out the board. son."

Only then did Mrs. Liu suddenly realize that she was almost in trouble, and sighed again: "I didn't know before that people who obtained meritorious service were different from others. They didn't have two eyes and one mouth, but now I seem to know. People talk with twists and turns, and people who don’t have a good brain can’t even use their ears.”

"Isn't this just my random guess? Auntie doesn't have to take it seriously." Jia Zhuo smiled and went to the backyard to continue serving her Doro, with Qing'er helping her.

Since he came back from the county magistrate's house, Jia Zhuo told Qing'er to stop what he was doing, and there was no need to embroider anything except for the family.I couldn't take it out even though my hands were itchy enough to embroider.Qing'er is young, if Ban'er really has fame, when Qing'er reaches his age, he won't be a peasant boy.

It's better to pay attention to these things in advance, so as not to save a few taels of silver and leave a handle for the future husband's family to talk about.

Sure enough, a few days later, Wang Gou'er took Ban'er to deliver bacon to the county government. Mr. Qin "coincidentally" was at home, and "coincidentally" heard that Ban'er was studying in school, so Ai Cai eagerly asked him to go into the study to test his homework .

Mrs. Liu waited anxiously at home, and kept asking, "Why haven't you come back yet?"

"If you want me to say, the longer you stay, the better." Jia Zhuo poured tea for Mrs. Liu, "Auntie, sit down and rest for a while, the longer the time, the better my guess is, maybe the county magistrate is right I want to accept him as a young apprentice."

"You girl, you know how to make me laugh." The little apprentice was, of course, joking.Mrs. Liu also knew, sat down and drank a sip of tea, and couldn't help sighing: "It's our parents who delayed him, otherwise it would have been two years earlier."

Doesn't this mean that the rescue of Jia Zhuo was delayed, and even Qing'er could hear it, so she took a look at Jia Zhuo to see that there was no abnormal color on her face, so she was relieved.Complainingly, she glanced at her mother, but as a result, Mrs. Liu was completely unconscious, and was still rambling about Ban'er's study when she was a child.

Jia Zhuo shook his head slightly at Qing'er, and smiled, expressing that he didn't care.

"Why are you all waiting here?" The yard door was not closed, Wang Gou'er pushed the door open and came in, saw the three people in the main room, and when he asked, he knew that grandma was asleep, the three mothers were worried, and were waiting for them to come back.

"Ban'er." Jia Zhuo couldn't help looking at Ban'er.

He showed his white teeth with a smile, "I happened to meet Mr. Qin, and he tested me for a while. When he talked about his exams back then, I was so happy that I forgot the time."

As soon as Jia Zhuo heard it, he knew it in his heart. This is tantamount to teaching experience, and this kind of experience is what Baner lacks the most.

Ban'er was in a hurry to write down his experience, so everyone dispersed.

After the Chinese New Year, Wu Yan sent over the ledger, "I never expected that there would be so many people coming from Jinling to order." This family is a wealthy family, and that family is a famous upstart.

Wu Yan really had no choice but to bite the bullet and come in order. Whoever pays the money first will have the goods first, and accept the reservation.She looked at their orders, according to Jia Zhuozhi's speed, it would take at least half a year before all of them were delivered.And in the middle, there are still new reservations coming in.

"There are a lot of rich people in Jinling, so it's nothing to them." A large pot of Duoluo is only two or three hundred taels of silver. For those aristocratic families, it's really nothing to give as a gift.

"Isn't it? If it wasn't for my grandfather and his old man, I would really be terrified." Wu Yan nodded. Before they set the price, they gritted their teeth and stomped their feet, comforting themselves.

Now it is really fulfilled, it is low, but it is not easy to rise again.

"It's troublesome for the old man, I should go and kowtow to the old man myself." Jia Zhuo took the opportunity to thank Wu Yan for her help and trouble.

If it weren't for the fact that Li's family was a scholarly family, his grandfather had a little reputation, and Li's father was an official in other places, and the county magistrate of Wannian County was quite famous, it would be embarrassing to do anything, Wu Yan's shop might have died soon. The impatient man was turned upside down.

This is also where Jia Zhuo is lucky. If she is asked to deal with it, in the face of absolute strength, her little cleverness is really not enough.

"You have to hurry up, the richer and more powerful you are, the more impatient you are." Especially since they have long been used to wanting what they want, and they can get it right away.

"I'll try my best." Jia Zhuo sighed, who knew that the orders would explode all of a sudden, but the growth of plants is such a process, no matter how anxious you are, you can only wait for it to grow slowly.

"I'll go and have a look." Every time Wu Yan came, she would go to see Doro in the backyard. She could see it with her own eyes. She knew how long the supply would be in the future, and she could feel at ease.

After Wu Yan went back, she brought a clay pot and put it in front of her. A red lip plant inside was broken into several petals and planted in the pot separately.

"Young Mistress, this basin has changed color already." The servant girl reported.

"Take it out and bury it." Wu Yan nodded, not surprised.

"Yes." The servant girl lowered her body and hugged the pottery pot out, feeling astounded, the five liang of silver was gone just like that, the young mistress really thought that a new one would grow in this way.

When the door curtain was lifted, Li Rong walked in, frowned and said, "What do you want to do?"

"I always have to keep a hand." Wu Yan looked up at him, not feeling guilty, but looked directly at him, admitting frankly, "I'm an insecure person, I thought you knew it earlier."

Li Rong hesitated for a while, then softened his tone, "I thought you were friends."

"We are friends, so I won't do anything to friends unless... Of course, I don't want to be that day. I'm not stupid, but she's not stupid either. Two smart people, it's better to be friends forever, Otherwise God knows what will happen, what do you think?"

"I think so too." Li Rong sat down, looked at Wu Yan and him, and said unnaturally: "What are you looking at, I haven't set the meal yet, I'm hungry."

"Yes, I'll go to the kitchen and cook some side dishes from our hometown for my grandfather." Wu Yan smiled slightly and went to the kitchen.

That night, Li Rong stayed.After the wedding, the awkward situation of the young couple living in a study and a new house is over.

Wu Yan didn't study Duo Luo's sub-planting any more. Although Li Rong looked unhappy, he didn't refuse Wu Yan's move to have his luggage moved back to the new house.

The whole Li family was completely convinced of this young lady, they subdued the old man and the old lady, and then subdued the young master.The business of the dowry shop was so booming that even the master who was far away wrote a letter and asked, what is Doro.Why did a group of people who stayed in the capital write to him in the same year to insinuate, thinking that he sent someone from his jurisdiction to send it back to his family.

After the Chinese New Year, after Baner returned home, it took longer and longer to light the lamps.Jia Zhuo also refused to let him help him with work, anyway, it was enough for Planting Doro to have her and Qing'er.

Wang Gou'er tidied up the backyard, leaving only a piece of sweet pepper for planting, and made wooden shelves for the rest of the place, and put Doro for them.Jia Zhuo saw Wang Gou'er's carpentry work, and then he knew where Ban'er's craftsmanship came from, and it was a family tradition after working for a long time.

"Uncle can do everything." Jia Zhuo squatted in the backyard to watch him make the last wooden frame, while Qing'er helped pass the tools.

"When I was a child, my family environment was fine. My father wanted to support me in my education, and always hoped to restore the glory of my ancestors." Wang Gou'er was in a good mood, and a smile appeared on his face when he thought of what happened when he was a child.

"The name my father gave me, with a single character named Shi, represents his expectations. Unfortunately, I am not a material for studying. Later, when I saw that my family was in decline, my father couldn't do anything except study. He simply threw away his books. I have studied. Carpentry, I have learned farm work, and worked as a middle-class person. In this life, status, money may leave you, only this craft can never be separated from you.”

It was rare for Wang Gouer to say so many words, and Jia Zhuo said with emotion: "There are so many skills that you don't overwhelm yourself, and they are never out of date."

"That's right, too many skills don't overwhelm you." Wang Gou'er laughed, and finished all the carpentry before Ban'er came back. When Ban'er came back, there would be no more noise in the house, for fear of disturbing him while studying .

The clerk from Suyunfang came over and said that it was the order of the boss, knowing that someone from the Wang family was going to end up, so he sent a set of stationery for the exam.

A bamboo indigo is a metaphor for rising steadily.Three writing brushes, engraved with Lianzhong Sanyuan on the pen holders.A piece of inkstone, on it is the toad palace.A piece of pine smoke ink, on it is also the inscription on the gold list with four small seal characters.

A piece of good rice paper is pressed at the bottom, and there is even a small hand stove for heating.

"That's too thoughtful, I'll go to thank your boss another day." Jia Zhuo saw the thing, thought about it and took it away.

Show it to Wang Gou'er, and then say: "I will buy a similar return gift in a few days."

"In a few days, I will steam the Zhuangyuan Cake, and give some to neighbors and acquaintances. You also send a box to them, so you can get a good fortune."

After hearing Wang Gou'er's words, Jia Zhuo knew that there was this custom. The whole family went to battle and made white cakes that looked like ingots, and put a red dot on it.

The custom is nothing more than the number one scholar rushing to send you off, or being rescued from hunger, a piece of white rice cake saving your life, and so on.In the end, it continued to become a current folk custom. The family steamed several trays and distributed them to the neighbors around. The cleaner the food, the better.

The Ma's house next door was quiet for a while, because Ma Meng took many people to Andu Mansion, and after coming back years ago, there was a burst of excitement again.Ma Meng loves drinking, making friends and entertaining guests. There are often carriages parked in front of his house.

Jia Zhuo carried the No. [-] Scholar Cake over, only to find that the Ma family was entertaining guests again.This time, the invited people seemed to be still wearing the clothes of city gate soldiers. It seemed that Ma Meng's communication had gone a step further, and they had reached this level.

After sending off the neighbors, I sent some to Suyunfang, distributed some to the shopkeeper and the shopkeeper, and said with a smile: "It's not worth anything, I made it myself, you can eat it while it's hot, and give these to your boss for me."

"I'll deliver it right away." The clerk took the basket and ran to Li's house quickly.

The blues sent by the man were quickly delivered to the yard of the young master and young mistress, and the Li family invited Li Rong to sit in the restaurant at home.Li Rong was forced to suffer terribly, but at least his knowledge improved, which made the old man of the Li family firm in the direction of cultivating his grandson.That is to use force, put it under the eyelids and stare at it, and can no longer relax.

Finally when the time came, Li Rong escaped from his master's clutches. When Li Rong saw someone bringing in a basket, he couldn't help curling his lips, "Such an ugly basket was sent by my natal family."

"It was sent by the guy at Suyunfang, who said it was the No. [-] cake made by the Wang family girl, and it was for the young mistress..."

Li Rong couldn't hear what the maid said behind her, "Put it down, get out."

"Yes." The servant girl didn't know what she said wrong, she put down Lanzi in fright, and retreated tremblingly.

"No. [-] Cake, No. [-] Cake..." Li Rong looked at a group of No. [-] Cakes, and suddenly ran out. He had only one thought, he was going to end this year, and he must end.

Mr. Li stared at his grandson, "Are you serious?"

"Yes, my grandson has thought about it. Even if I don't get it this year, it's okay to find the feeling and get used to it. Next year, I will definitely get it."

"You're right if you think like this." The old man's brows stretched out. Although the time for registration has passed, there is still more than a month before the exam will start, and the Li family can still do this little trick. of.