Chapter 14 A Matchmaker Comes to Your Door

As you can see, the Qixi Festival is approaching, and Shen Shaoguang, who was used to the holiday economy in his previous life, naturally prepared in advance.

The wood molds for the Qixi flower cake made by the carving master have arrived. Shen Shaoguang and A Yuan carefully polished these molds for burrs, oiled them, cleaned them, dried them, oiled them, cleaned them, and dried them again. The poplar mold of La La has some color, but it is impossible to make it appear a beautiful and moist reddish brown for a while.

A-Yuan is still a child, and loves a set of wooden molds. "Little fish, cranes, turtles, and tigers, if you want to make them, you can't bear to eat them."

Shen Shaoguang told the truth, "It's just a good thing. The stuffing is still the red bean paste, mung bean paste and jujube paste you usually eat."

Since following Shen Shaoguang, A Yuan has eaten a lot of various rice cakes. From the beginning, he wanted to swallow them all in one bite, and now it is normal.

"It looks good, but it tastes delicious." Ah Yuan smiled.

Shen Shaoguang also laughed, is this little girl almost right? Indeed, when it comes to eating, "color" still ranks ahead of "scent" and "taste".

It is also for this reason that Shen Shaoguang specially went to the West City to find a carver master to make these sets of molds, a set of seal characters for Fu, Lu, Shouxi, a set of plum orchid, bamboo, chrysanthemum, peony, rose flowers and plants, and a set of cranes and tortoises. A set of fish and tiger animals, as well as a set of characters such as Rahula, Weaver Girl, Cowherd, and Moon Palace Fairy.

The carvings were all drawn by Shen Shaoguang himself.

Although Ye Ting has hard daily work and poor material conditions, its cultural software is good. There are internal teachers who specialize in teaching palace servants.

In the beginning, the doctors of the internal teaching were held by scholars. Among them, there were many erudite scholars - those who could get in front of the emperor, but also some really talented and learned. After all, how many scholars in Nanguo could there be?

In the year when the late emperor collapsed, these inner-teaching doctors in Ye Ting became eunuchs and palace maids. Shen Shaoguang sullenly wondered if Gong E and the inner-teaching doctors had some kind of teacher-student relationship, but they did not hear about it later. wind.

Among the teachers who were changed later, there was a palace maid in her 40s, with gray hair on the temples, very quiet temperament, not very talkative, excellent cursive handwriting, excellent seal script, Shen Shaoguang devoted herself to practicing calligraphy with her for several years. This teacher is also very good at playing the guqin, but unfortunately Shen Shaoguang has no spirituality in music. Shen Shaoguang guessed that this teacher did not know what his background was, and he might have been a family member of a criminal who did not enter the court.

Shen Shaoguang has the foundation of the original body and carries the memory of his past life. He used to be highly valued by several doctors. Unfortunately, this talented female reserve became more and more vulgar. In order to stutter, she plunged into the imperial kitchen...

Thinking of the expressions of the doctors looking at "Zhong Yong", Shen Shaoguang smiled, playing Gong Dou Bo Future with his talent and appearance? That is the origin of the battle, and few people have ever returned it. In fact, speaking of it, it is rather cowardly.

Shen Shaoguang's Qixi Festival has not yet passed, but he has ushered in a matchmaker first. It wasn't anyone else, it was Lu Sanniang, who sold the head.

Mrs. Lu is a very interesting person. She is a little jealous of Shen Shaoguang's money, but Shen Shaoguang is her big customer, so she doesn't dare to offend Shen Shaoguang clearly, but she can't help but stab her from time to time. However, Shen Shaoguang is not a gourd with a saw mouth, but a fine three-stringed string. The articulation trained in the palace must be articulate and melodious. Every time Lu Sanniang provokes a defeat, she will stab at it again and again. He was pushed back by Shen Shaoguang, and so on.

Shen Shaoguang once enjoyed bickering with Lu Sanniang, but it was actually quite a happy thing to be a little jealous, because it represented the affirmation of his own success, and of course because of such a bit of bad taste - I liked your look. I'm not pleasing to the eye, and I can't get rid of my appearance.

This time, Lu Sanniang came "repaying grievance with virtue".

"This marriage is really good! Yang Lang's silk and satin business has a shop in the West City, and his family also employs slaves and maids. He is sincere and capable, and he is dedicated to finding a neat wife. You are not a neat lady. The little lady? It's a match made in heaven." Lady Lu smiled and pushed Shen Shaoguang a little, waiting to see her shy.

Shen Shaoguang nodded, "This marriage sounds really good."

Although she didn't see a shy look as expected, Madam Lu felt relieved when she heard her agree with what she said - it's rare to see her so honest.

"It's just that it's a little scary how such a good marriage can fall on the head of a fatherless orphan girl of mine."

Mrs. Lu leaned over her body and leaned close to Shen Shaoguang's ear, and Shen Shaoguang let her lean.

"I heard that he came to our workshop to find someone that day and ate your Yujian noodles, so I remembered it. This Langjun knows my family Langjun, so he asked me to ask you what you mean."

"For the sake of a few jade-pointed noodles, I decided to marry the cook back home. Later on, I met someone who sold steamed cakes, someone who cooked houto, someone who roasted mutton..." Taking a bunch of cooks' wives and concubines, Shen Shaoguang was amused by his own idea. .

Mrs. Lu knew that Shen Shaoguang was not easy to fool, so she told her the truth in the end, "He is older than you, about forty-five, but Lang Jun is older and knows it hurts people."

"The previous lady has been gone for half a year, and I have seen a few ladies. Either this is not good or that is not good. I didn't expect to be waiting for you. You are the lady of the house when you enter the door, and you don't have to work hard on the streets to make a living. "

As she talked, Mrs. Lu really felt that the marriage was all right. Although the Yang family's house is a bit remote, it is true that there is a shop in the West City, and there are indeed a few servants and maids in the family. Yang Qilang is really capable, much older than the bride, and she looks so pretty. , only those who love her are the ones who fall into the honeypot? It's not like myself, the wind and the sun have been smothered by oil smoke and fried my head.

Seeing that Shen Shaoguang did not speak, Mrs. Lu threw out the "leftover daughter theory": "You are old and you don't have parents to respect you, so you have to plan for yourself, don't miss it because of shyness. In the future, if you are older, We can only fill in the house for those 60 or 70 people."

Shen Shaoguang, who was just nineteen years old, took a sip and nodded. Mrs. Lu was really eloquent, giving people the feeling of living a life in a few words. Suddenly I remembered the "year of peach and plum" that Lin Shaoyin said when he left the palace, so, in the eyes of you Tang people, is nineteen years old or not?

Shen Shaoguang, the older leftover girl, was attacked for a while, and refills some sour plum soup in Mrs. Lu's cup with a good temper, and said with a smile: "I am old, and my temper is stubborn and weird. There are fifteen or sixteen girls in Mrs. Lu's family, right? Why don't you talk about this Yang Langjun? You know the bottom line, only better."

"How did that happen—" Mrs. Lu subconsciously retorted. I felt offended that my daughter was associated with a forty-something business widower. My family's Ayu is very old and beautiful, and she is going to marry a young man who is studying and studying. If the man passes the exam, Ayu will be a jinshi lady!

But Mrs. Lu immediately reacted, this was just Shen Shaoguang's teasing, and she was even more angry, feeling like she was being kicked by a donkey while feeding grass with good intentions.

Thinking of "a young man who reads and becomes an official", Madam Lu's sullen face revealed a sarcastic smile, "Isn't the little lady thinking about those decent men who come to buy your pancakes every day? I advise the little lady to rest here. Good-hearted. Which of them is not married to a girl of the right family? Although you are beautiful, you can only be a concubine when you go. As a concubine, you have to serve the eldest wife every day..."

After a while, Mrs. Lu thought about several kinds of life for herself, and Shen Shaoguang felt that it was necessary to stop, "Miss Lu doesn't think that with my ability to make money, can I be a rich family by myself? Buying a house and buying land, happy comfortable?"

"..." Mrs. Lu didn't think that Shen Shaoguang really thought so, she just thought it was an excuse, but when she thought of her new shop and Yujian noodles, she couldn't find anything to refute for a while.

"I've been interested in a different business in Zhongnan Mountain for a long time." Shen Shaoguang had a serious face.

Madam Lu shook her hands and returned as usual.