After Xu Ji left, the others also returned home. Most of the shops were closed, waiting for the New Year. There were not many pedestrians on the road, and they were all preparing for the New Year at home.

Yuan shi and Chen shi lived in the front and back alleys. They usually walked together, and it was the same today. They were talking on the road, and they all said how nice Xu Dong's family treated them.

The two were paid 800 yuan a month before, and the family had already said that the bosses were good and asked them to work hard, and they became the main earners in the family. Now not only has the monthly salary increased by 200 yuan, but the red envelope for the New Year also has 12 taels of silver. , Go back later and say it, the family members must be surprised.

The two were still discussing, this matter is to talk to the family, not to go outside, otherwise it will make people jealous, easy to cause troubles, troubles for themselves and troubles for Xu Ji.

Yuan Shi smiled and said, "I'm sure I won't tell the outside world."

Whoever made money didn't hide it, and if they said it outright, they wouldn't be envied by others.

The two returned home happily, not only brought a lot of food, but also a red envelope of ten taels of silver.

The two families were extremely surprised, and they were told to do a good job in Xuji, to be one with the boss, not to be like the old Sun.

Mrs. Lin also took the eldest girl and the second girl back, and the faces of the three of them were full of joy. These days, Mrs. Lin didn't save much money. For the monthly salary of 800 yuan, she gave the Luo family 500 yuan, and she had the remaining 300 yuan. Money, even though she and her daughter are eating and drinking in restaurants, she still has to buy some daily necessities every month, and she can save more than a hundred dollars, which is already a good time for her.

Now that she has got the twelve taels of red envelopes, she has no intention of returning them to the Luo family. She is also planning to save them. She can save more every month when she gets a monthly salary of one taels of silver next year. In a few years, she will be able to buy a house on North Street and settle down completely.

Luo Da Niu also has a monthly salary, which is 800 yuan a month like Lin's, plus 12 taels at the end of the year.

She knew that Mrs. Lin was saving money to buy a house, and she planned to save all her wages, so that she could buy the house as soon as possible.

The mother and daughter were chatting and laughing, and Mrs. Lin also asked what snacks the two daughters wanted to eat during the Chinese New Year, and she would buy them tomorrow.

Just as she was talking, the smile on Luo Da Niu's face suddenly stopped, and she pursed her lips tightly.

Mrs. Lin looked up and saw that it was Mrs. Luo and Luo Dagen. The mother and son did not know what they were doing, and they were driving back in a donkey cart. Looking at the road, they seemed to be returning from outside the town.

Mrs. Luo naturally also saw the mother and daughter Lin, rolled her eyes, and said with a sneer, "Hey, isn't this Lin and my two little white-eyed wolf granddaughters?"

Lin led the eldest girl and the second girl, and didn't intend to talk to the mother and son. She had nothing to do with the Luo family, and she would not be afraid of them. She took the two daughters and left.

Mrs. Luo went to other villages with Luo Dagen today to see a girl. The girl had fox eyes. Mrs. Luo didn't like it, but Luo Dagen liked it. She seemed to be the only one left in that girl's family, and she asked for twenty taels of silver. Mrs. Luo thinks the bride price is too expensive, but Luo Dagen likes it, and she plans to give the betrothal in the next year, marrying someone to her protégé's son earlier.

On the way back, Mrs. Luo also gave Luo Dagen a bad idea, telling him to go around the girl's house with more goods in the next year to see if he could make rice and cook it. She was the only one in the girl's house. If the girl could Pregnant, even twenty taels of silver are saved.

Luo Dagen was still quite moved, and he was also reluctant to part with twenty taels of silver.

Seeing that her son had listened to it, Mrs. Luo was very satisfied. Now that she bumped into Mrs. Lin and the two little white-eyed wolves, she was still in a good mood and greeted the three of them.

But the three of them ignored her, and Lin's cheap hoof pulled the two little white-eyed wolves away.

Mrs. Luo was a little annoyed, and turned around and said, "Hurry up and send us this month's money. We will marry a daughter-in-law after the year of Dagen. That girl is beautiful and virtuous. When she gets married, she will give birth to a son for Dagen. Unlike you, What's the use of asking for a hen that doesn't lay eggs, let's see if there is a man willing to want you in the future."

Luo Dagen drove the car without saying a word, still thinking about why he would marry the girl without a dowry.

Mrs. Lin didn't care, she only hoped that the girl was a pungent one who could control Mrs. Luo.

She said coldly, "I will send five hundred dollars to you tomorrow."

After speaking, he took the big girl and the second girl and left.

After turning the corner and seeing the mother and son of the Luo family, Miss Luo was very angry, but she didn't know how to curse, so she just said angrily, "Bad guy."

Mrs. Lin laughed and said: "Young girl is not angry, what are we angry about? Hello Mrs. Xu, the sum of the two of us in a year is forty taels of silver. In a few years, we will be able to buy a house and settle down, and our days will be getting better and better. The better, there's no need to be angry with these irrelevant people."

The mother and daughter are forty taels of silver a year, which is a huge sum of money here. If the Luo family finds out, the Luo family will regret it if they keep it.

Lin is indeed not angry, she only feels that the current life makes her full of energy, she only has expectations for the future, and has no fear.

With her daughter by her side, she is not afraid of anything now, nor will she be angry.

It turns out that sometimes it is so simple to take a step forward, but it took her more than ten years to take this step.

After the two girls left the Luo family, the changes in their bodies were the most obvious. They no longer flinched, and began to radiate their own brilliance.

Er Niu also followed suit, "My sister is not angry, she is bad, let's ignore her."

Although the little girl is young, she remembers very clearly what Mrs. Lin told her elder sister. The money earned by her mother and elder sister cannot be disclosed to the outside world. The little sister doesn’t even talk about it, she’s very smart. The mother of the little sister next door who lives on North Street asked her, “Er Niu, your mother earns 800 yuan a month, so Xu Ji should earn more. Er Niu, do you know how much your boss earns every day? Does your boss give your mother any money?"

The little girl shook her head like a rattle, "I don't know, what is the reward? The food made by the master is delicious."

Seeing that she didn't understand anything, the aunts and old ladies next door didn't ask much.

In fact, they didn't have any bad intentions, they were just curious, and they felt sorry for Lin's mother and daughter. They also watched how Lin left the Luo family to start their own family, and they still admired Lin very much.

...

The next day, Xu Qinyu didn't wake up until Chenshi, Wenshi cooked some noodles, and everyone ate some at will.

The evening meal is the New Year's Eve dinner, and the ingredients are all bought. Wen's handles all the ingredients that can be processed by himself, and leaves the rest that cannot be processed in advance.

This year Xu Qinyu didn't eat fried food. She was busy with the restaurant business. Unlike last year, she started to rest a few days ago, so this year she plans to cook a table of New Year's dinner, and everyone should have a good meal.

The New Year's dinner is eaten at Zhu's house.

The two families were not far away, and after Xu Qinyu was ready, everyone brought them over.

Zhu Taishou and Mrs. Zhu came to the old lady's place yesterday. Of course, they didn't bring all their children and grandchildren.

There are too many children and grandchildren in the family, and it is crowded and noisy. The old lady needs to rest, and bringing all the children and grandchildren will definitely disturb the old lady.

In addition, Mrs. Zhu has been calling the old lady to be her mother. She has been calling for more than a month. When the children and grandchildren come, they have to change their words. This matter was spread, and they were simply not allowed to come here for the New Year.

The old lady didn't care about these things either. She was getting old, and spent the New Year with her children and grandchildren for so many years, and now she just wanted to spend the New Year with Shu Niang.

The New Year's Eve dinner was very sumptuous, and the table was full, all of which were Xu Qinyu's specialty dishes.

Knowing that the old lady likes to drink dark rice porridge with brown sugar, Xu Qinyu even made a pot of it. This porridge is really comfortable to drink in winter. After drinking it, the body is warm and the internal organs are unobstructed. It must be good for the body. The old lady drank two bowls every morning, and her complexion was indeed better than when she was in Raozhou City.

The family was eating the New Year's Eve dinner, although Wen's face was smiling, she was still worried about her son.

Xu Qinyu is similar, she also misses her fourth brother.

Fourth brother is like a family member in her heart, where did fourth brother go? When can come back?

If you run a business, why don't you have any letter at all?

In a distant country, Pei Weixuan was sitting on the eaves, looking at the moon in the distance.

He knew that the time here was different from that of the Dasheng Dynasty. In the daytime of the Dasheng Dynasty, it was night here.

It's Maoshi in the morning, and the sky is just turning white, but Dashengchao, it's probably Shenshi, and it's just time to eat evening food, and this year is New Year's Eve, everyone should already be eating New Year's Eve dinner.

Is this year's New Year's Eve dinner also cooked by Yu Niang?

Pei Weixuan was sitting on the eaves, with one long leg propped up, half leaning against the corner of the eaves behind him, playing with a colorful glass hairpin in his hand. The whole body of the glass hairpin is begonia red, but it is much more transparent, and the color is slightly lighter. Because the hairpin is made of glass, it is translucent, and you can see a little golden streamer scattered inside. The head of the hairpin is a round bead, which is also a light begonia color. , There is also a trace of golden light flowing inside.

Although the whole glazed hairpin is simple and light in style, it is a harmonious whole, exuding a soft light, which is really beautiful.

Huo Ye just got up, went out of the room, and was about to practice his sword, when he looked up and saw his highness sitting on the roof, he also jumped on the roof with a swish, and sat down next to the fourth highness.

Seeing His Royal Highness playing with the glass hairpin in his hand, Huo Ye said pleasantly: "Your Highness, have you burned this thing?"

This thing is called Liuli, which was not available in the Dasheng Dynasty, but it is a relatively common handicraft here.

This thing is a handicraft, and these blond people already know that they are from the other side of the sea, and they are unwilling to teach them how to make these handicrafts. He and His Highness only knew that this thing was made by firing, but it was unclear exactly how it was fired. His Highness said that he wanted to burn a hairpin himself and give it to his wife, but those people asked His Highness to burn it himself.

I didn't expect His Highness to be fired. Looking at this glazed hairpin, it is so beautiful.

Even Huo Ye had to admit the beauty of this hairpin. He, a big man, couldn't help staring at the hairpin all the time.

If this hairpin was brought back to the Dasheng Dynasty, it would truly be a unique rare treasure, and it could be sold for ten thousand taels of silver.

Huo Ye actually thought it was an excuse for His Highness to say that he wanted to burn a hairpin to his wife.

Because His Highness only needs to burn it once by himself, and he will understand everything. I am afraid that the whole process of firing colored glaze is now clear to His Highness the Fourth Highness.

Huo Ye really admired His Highness. When he came here, he was not familiar with the place. These people were talking birdsong, but they couldn’t understand them at all. Looking at them was like looking at monkeys. His Highness spent half a month Learn the language here, and you can communicate with these people fluently.

Huo Ye said: "Your Highness, with the skill of making colored glaze by hand, we will also have the ability to make money when we go back."

With money, you can recruit soldiers and buy horses, and you can give everyone a salary without having to live a miserable life.

Pei Weixuan hummed lightly, still thinking about home.

It's been almost a year since he came out, which he didn't expect, he didn't know that overseas countries are so far away from Dasheng Dynasty.

If he knew that there would be such a long delay, he would ask Chen Yi, who was staying on the island, to send a letter to his family.

I hope everyone in the family is safe and sound, and when he returns with these crops and the technology of firing colored glaze, he will send some black-armored guards to secretly protect the family.

The appearance of glazed handicrafts will attract the attention of the capital, and he is also worried that the new emperor and Empress Dowager Fu will find him.

It's best if you don't notice it.

No matter what, the safety of his family comes first in his heart.

"Your Highness, when can we set off to go back?" Huo Ye already wanted to leave this place as soon as possible, not only did he not understand what he was saying, but also the food was unpalatable. He was eating toasted bread and sausages all day long. The smell of birds is almost fading out inside, so I miss the food made by Miss Xu more and more.

Pei Weixuan said: "Wait another month and then leave."

In winter, although the sea will not freeze like ordinary rivers and lakes, there will be cold waves, and the tides on the sea will cause strong winds and huge waves. Going to sea at this time is a dead end.

After the beginning of spring, the beginning of spring begins to warm up before we can set sail and return to our hometown.

It's almost summer when we get back to the Southwest.

Huo Ye heard that it would take another month, and his face was pale.

Pei Weixuan carefully put the glass hairpin in his arms, jumped off the eaves and said, "Go back to the house and eat the morning food."

Huo Ye's face became paler, "Your Highness, this morning and evening food is really unpalatable, everyone has lost weight."

Not to mention it's not as good as Miss Xu's cooking, even the ordinary food stalls in Dasheng Dynasty, I'm not used to eating it no matter how I eat it, His Highness still eats these things with a normal expression every day.

Not only has he lost weight, but His Highness has also lost weight.

His jade-colored skin was tanned on the sea, but after resting here for the past two months, His Highness's skin has turned whiter.

Pei Weixuan didn't tell Huo Ye that he also missed the food made by Yuniang.

Don't just miss eating...

...

On Xu Qinyu's side, everyone accompanied the old lady to finish the New Year's Eve dinner, and they didn't go out to visit the lantern market, so they talked with the old lady at home.

After talking for a while, the old lady became tired and went back to the house to wash and rest.

Xu Qinyu, Wen's family, and sister Ning also came back.

This year Xu Qinyu didn't have much interest in going to the lantern market and doing catering business. She couldn't rest for a few days all year round. Now that she could rest for a few days in a row, she just wanted to rest. In addition, she was worried about the safety of her fourth brother, so she really didn't have the heart to go out to play.

The same is true for Wen's, even sister Ning is worried about her fourth brother.

This year, apart from Mrs. Zhu finding Mrs. Zhu, there is nothing else.

Mrs. Zhu lives there these days.

For the next three days, Xu Qinyu rested at home.

There is no need for Xu Qinyu to worry about going to relatives' homes for New Year's greetings on the first and second day of the new year, it's all Wen's.

The only relatives of the Pei family here are the Wen family and the Zhu family.

On the second room of the Wen family's big house, Mrs. Wen didn't go, and she didn't even go to see Mr. Wen.

The Wen family knew that Mrs. Zhu did not suffer from tuberculosis. If she went back, Mr. Wen and Mrs. Wen would not treat her well, and even teach her a lesson, so she didn't want to come and scold Wen's family.

The third room of Wen's family is Cheng Ge'er's family, and this relative is going to leave. The two families meet almost every day, and they just come to pay New Year's greetings.

It's the same with Zhu's family. They come to pay New Year's greetings and return after chatting for a few words.

These three days passed extremely quickly, and Xu Qinyu felt that three days would be in the blink of an eye.

On the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, restaurants opened.

Although the new year has passed, spring has not yet begun, and the weather is still a bit cold, so they are still wearing thick clothes.

Therefore, there are quite a few people who eat mutton hotpot. Xu Qinyu reckons that this hotpot can last at least a month, and it will become a feature of restaurants in the future. Even in summer, the hotpot can still be eaten. Eating pot and drinking cold drinks in summer is also addictive.

On the eighth day, Mrs. Lu from Raozhou City came to Yuanbao Town.

When summer comes, we will start making wine. We need to find a winery first, and we need a bigger winery. Mrs. Lu can predict that wine can be a big business, so she plans to buy a big winery directly. If there is no For a large winery, you have to find a place to build a winery by yourself.

It was almost noon when Mrs. Lu came. Zhen Wu drove her over in a carriage. She might stay in Yuanbao Town for a few days. Mrs. Lu packed some luggage and planned to stay in an inn near Yuanbao Town for a few days. .

She came directly to Hui Kee Restaurant.

At noon, everyone is taking a lunch break.

The kitchen and the front hall are cleaned up, and the ingredients are ready. Half an hour before the evening meal, Xu Qinyu will cook the soup base, and Brother Cheng and Brother Feng will cut out all the mutton. Everyone can rest.

When resting, Xu Qinyu didn't care, if there was no place in the backyard, she would lie on the bench in the front hall.

But even at noon, there was still a closed sign on the door of the restaurant.

If you don't write it down, I'm afraid that some diners will not be able to make the morning and evening meals, so I will specially choose the noon time to eat.

Xu Qinyu couldn't work hard all day, so she had to rest.

Zhen Wu stopped the carriage, went to lift the curtain of the carriage, and led Mrs. Lu out of the carriage.

Lu Fu was beautiful in life, even though she was almost forty, her skin was fair and tender. She was wearing a white embroidered satin beige, a long skirt of the same color on her lower body, and a cloak. She usually dressed in a dignified and elegant way.

After getting off the carriage, Madam Lu looked at Xu Ji Restaurant, the ground at the entrance was clean, and the open windows were also spotless. She also saw the closing sign hanging on the entrance.

Madam Lu entered the restaurant with her skirt in hand, and Zhen Wu followed without saying a word.

Xu Qinyu is resting in the back kitchen at the moment, not in front.

In front are Mrs. Lin and the others, all resting on the bench.

Yuan Shi heard the sound, sat up from the bench, saw Mrs. Lu and said, "Madam, no diners are accepted at noon now. If Madam wants to eat, she has to wait until evening meal."

Although Madam Lu was dressed in a demure manner, she could tell that the clothes and cloaks on her body were not cheap, but many wives and wives from rich families in Yuanbao Town came to eat, and Yuan Shi thought that some rich wife from her family came to eat.

Mrs. Lu smiled and said, "I didn't come here for dinner. I'm looking for your owner Xu's family. Is she there? I'm from Raozhou City, and I'm talking with your owner about wine business."

When Yuan Shi heard this, she immediately said: "Madam, wait a moment, and I will call our boss."

After speaking, he quickly got up and went to the backyard to call someone.

When Xu Qinyu heard that he was from Raozhou City and was still talking about making a living with wine, he knew it was Mrs. Lu.

Looking at the front hall, it is really Mrs. Lu.

Xu Qinyu smiled and said, "Madam Lu came to see the winery?"

Madam Lu nodded.

Xu Qinyu couldn't help but look at the man behind Mrs. Lu. The man was tall and burly, with dark skin and a good appearance. He should be in his thirties.

After a glance, Xu Qinyu invited Madam Lu to sit down by the window.

Mrs. Lin went to the back kitchen to make three cups of tea, then silently withdrew.

Mrs. Lu explained her purpose, and Xu Qinyu said: "In the twelfth lunar month of last year, I bought a workshop. This workshop was also a wine workshop before, but I used it to cured ham. Now I have used four or five rooms, and there are still ten rooms left. Around the room." She then talked about the size of the wine shop.

Her workshop was a small winery before, and even if it was used to make wine, it would not make much wine.

After hearing about the size of the workshop, Mrs. Lu didn't know enough about the size of the workshop. It's too small. I'm afraid there won't be many wine jars. The finished product will be a few thousand bottles at most, which isn't enough for the caravan to run a few times.

However, the two still went to the North Street Workshop to have a look.

Mo Yu was guarding the workshop today. Hearing the footsteps at the door of the workshop, Mo Yu had already come and squatted at the door, and even screamed. He could hear Xu Qinyu's footsteps.

Xu Qinyu said with a smile to Mrs. Lu, "It's my leopard called Moyu inside. Ma'am, don't worry, it doesn't hurt anyone."

Mrs. Lu also couldn't help becoming curious, and when Xu Qinyu opened the door, Mo Yu became even more excited, spinning around her legs and rubbing her legs vigorously.

Zhen Wu also walked from Mrs. Lu to her side, probably because he was afraid that the leopard would hurt her.

But seeing the big leopard rubbing against people like this, he relaxed.

Mrs. Lu thinks this leopard is very interesting, like a big dog, so close to people, she was a little worried at first, but now she is not afraid at all, and she can't help but reach out and touch Moyu, it feels really good, It's easier to touch than the satin she's wearing. It seems that Miss Xu has fed the leopard well.

Mo Yu rubbed Xu Qinyu for a while, and then the three entered the workshop. Xu Qinyu also showed Mrs. Lu a look at her pickled and fermented ham.

Mrs. Lu didn't care, she thought it was an ordinary bacon leg, but it was still hanging for some reason, and the bacon can be eaten after marinating for a month.

The workshop here is indeed a little smaller. Mrs. Lu knows that it cannot hold wine. Even there is no such large winery in Yuanbao Town. She intends to see if there is enough land in Yuanbao Town to build a winery. If not, You can only go to the nearby villages and towns to find land, and it is still very easy to draw a large piece of land in the village.

Xu Qinyu didn't need to care about the winery that made wine, but she also hoped that the location would be closer and it would be more convenient to go back and forth.

Mrs. Lu and Xu Qinyu could only go back to the restaurant first. When they left, Xu Qinyu told Moyu to look after the workshop. In fact, they didn't need to come and watch during the day. No one dared to climb the wall to go in, but the two were too conscientious. She said that they should take good care of the ham in the workshop, and they even took turns to come during the day.

Mo Yu rubbed Xu Qinyu lightly again, and then lay down in front of the house full of ham.

Only then did Xu Qinyu and Madam Lu leave.

When went out, bumped into a few people in their teens and twenties, who looked like ordinary little rascals on the side of the road.

A few thugs glanced at Xu Qinyu and Mrs. Lu, and then looked into the workshop. They just turned their backs to Moyu and didn't see the Moyu inside, but they still smelled a faint scent of bacon. It is not ordinary bacon. It tastes much more fragrant than ordinary bacon. Although the taste is light, it can be smelled.

Zhen Wu looked at him at a glance, and a few thugs were afraid of him, so Ma Liu ran away.

Xu Qinyu didn't care either, got on the carriage, went back to Xu Ji with Mrs. Lu, and talked for a while, Mrs. Lu said, "I'll go look for the inn and stay at the inn, and then I'll walk around the town tomorrow, take a look Can you find a big winery or land?"

Mrs. Lu left with Zhen Wu.

The two went to the inn to stay first. Zhen Wu moved the luggage from the carriage to the Tianzifang. Mrs. Lu rested for an hour and asked Zhen Wu, "Is it time for Shenshi? Xiaowu, a restaurant opened by Mrs. Xu. You haven't tasted it either, let's go over and try it tonight."