Xianyu's leisurely life through books

Chen Shizi waved his hand: "Something happened at home. It's not difficult, but it's a little urgent. I need to leave for Beijing tomorrow."

He was supposed to stay here until the end of the month.

Miss Jiang let out an ah, her face full of disappointment and reluctance.

Chen Shizi didn't seem to see it, he just sighed and shook his head: "It's a pity."

"What a pity?" Miss Jiang asked.

"I thought I could eat cakes, but now I'm out of luck."

Since the opening of Pei's dim sum shop on the [-]th, the supply of cakes has been in short supply.

It is said that only nine cakes are baked a day, and no more than half of them will be baked.

In order to get a piece of food, many people asked the servants to line up in the cold wind early in the morning.

Not only that, the day before yesterday, two servants who came to the store almost at the same time, fought for the last piece of brand, and beat them to the ground.

It's bad luck to see blood in the store.

In order to avoid similar things from happening, Mrs. Pei simply made an appointment directly.

After the news was released, the door of the store was blocked again.

Nowadays, the reservations for cakes are all scheduled for half a month later.

This is still the result of restricting each person to only make an appointment to get two small pieces.

Chen Shizi got the news earlier, and the appointment was five days later.

Miss Jiang couldn't see the loneliness in her sweetheart's eyebrows, and wanted to relieve his worries.

But her own queue was later than Chen Shizi's, six days later.

Tomorrow, her sweetheart will leave with regrets, and she is very distressed to see it.

After thinking for a moment, there was a trace of determination in her eyes.

She must fulfill Chen Shizi's wish!

Miss Jiang was a little relieved when she found out that Chen Shizi would probably leave at Sishi.

The dim sum shop will open the first batch at the beginning of Sishi, so there may be time.

She got up, left the conservatory temporarily, and went to the pavilion where the little sisters gathered together.

I asked a few people about the appointment time for the cake.

Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, and almost didn't speak.

There was only a thirteen or fourteen-year-old girl who said with joy and foolishness:

"Mine is tomorrow, the first batch will be my turn!"

The little girl's surname is Wei, and she is the daughter of the former wife of the county magistrate in Liuyun County.

Miss Jiang's eyes lit up: "Mine is in six days, you change it with me, and I owe you a favor."

Wei San was stunned, and he hesitated after reacting:
"This... this is not ordered by me, it is my mother..."

The mother she was talking about was not her biological mother, but her stepmother.

Now she is begging for life under the hands of her stepmother, and she can only live a good life by pleasing her.

The stepmother has always wanted to eat the cake that has been in the limelight recently. She read it several times and said that it is difficult to make an appointment.

Wei San's news is much faster, and the appointment has already been made.

And this news, in order to please her stepmother, she had already told her stepmother.

The stepmother is looking forward to eating cake tomorrow, but it has been postponed for no reason...

The stepmother must be dissatisfied with her.

Miss Jiang's complexion darkened, and she sternly reprimanded:

"Do you dare to shirk?"

The daughter of a small county magistrate has no influence in the capital, so she looks down on her when she asks her for help.

Dare to shirk in every possible way, I don't know what to say!
The pavilion was as quiet as a chicken in an instant, only the howling north wind was still bitter.

Wei San looked at Miss Jiang in bewilderment, tears were about to fall.

"What's wrong with everyone? The faces are so ugly, is it because we didn't entertain well?"

Hong Shan's voice came faintly with the wind.

Miss Jiang turned her head abruptly, and met Hong Shan's displeased eyes with a bad expression:
"Hong Shan, don't meddle in your own business."

"Today is my Hong Manor's banquet. The master hopes that everyone will feel at home. You are making trouble here, it is too disrespectful to our master... Tell me, what is it, maybe I can solve it."

Wei San stood behind Miss Jiang, looked at Hong Shan gratefully, and was about to speak, but was interrupted by Miss Jiang:

"It has nothing to do with you, it's not a big deal, it's just a small friction between our little sisters."

Fulfilling Chen Shizi's wish can gain favor.

If Hong Shan found out, she would definitely use her relationship with Pei Xiaoxiao to get the cake and please Chen Shizi.

How could she present this opportunity to gain favor with Hong Shan?
Thinking of this, she suppressed the unhappiness in her heart, turned her head and warned Wei San and the women beside her:

"Did you say so?"

Everyone lowered their heads, avoiding her and Hong Shan's eyes.

It can be regarded as the reason for the default "little sister friction".

Wei San lowered his head, his eyes were red.

Miss Jiang waited for a while, and found that Hong Shanyi was still standing outside the pavilion, with no intention of leaving at all.

She stomped her feet, shook her sleeves and left.

Hong Shan is determined to disturb her situation, and it seems that Wei San can't be forced for the time being.

After thinking about it, she turned her attention to Pei Xiaoxiao.

What iron can't shake nine cakes a day...

After all, Pei Xiaoxiao is just a businessman after all.

No matter how you can make a gimmick, isn't it still the best interest?
She didn't believe it, she was the daughter of a dignified family, and she couldn't bend the waist of a merchant girl!
I will go to her home later, so that tomorrow the time will be too tight and the cake will not be delivered to the crown prince.

Hong Shan sneered, and when Miss Jiang passed by her side, she whispered:
"Jiang Da, relying on your family to be a dominator, you are really majestic!"

"Don't mind your own business, the claws are so long, be careful, just like the day in Xishan, you will encounter an assassination!"

Hong Shan snorted coldly and ignored it.

She went to another place and found the maidservant who was serving in the greenhouse to ask questions.

"Chunzhu, did anything unusual happen in the greenhouse just now?"

Just now at the garden side, she saw Jiang Da coming out of the greenhouse from a distance, and went straight to the pavilion.

The servant girl thought for a while and said:
"Just now, Chen Shizi said that he would leave Liuyun County early and return to Beijing tomorrow. He said that he had no luck to eat cakes, so Miss Jiang was a little absent-minded, and went straight to the greenhouse when he came out."

"Is that so?"

Hong Shan recalled it carefully.

When she passed the pavilion just now, she vaguely heard something like "you change with me".

She sneered.

Miss Jiang originally had this idea.

Courtesy?

Hong Shan has no other thoughts about Chen Shizi, but she is happy if she can make Jiang Da feel embarrassed.

After the banquet was over, she went to find Xiaoxiao.

The sun gradually rises high and slowly moves westward.

Pei Xiaoxiao makes three batches of cakes every day, and each batch takes about half an hour from the process of whipping the egg whites, stirring, baking, and cooling.

After the third furnace is down, it is usually almost noon.

After closing the door, just in time to go home for lunch.

Pei Xiaoxiao got up early, and took a nap these days.

Song Yu accompanied her.

In the winter afternoon, it is a good time to hide in bed.

Mother Pei took Song Wen and got into bed too.

The other families in Mingyuan Lane either went out to work, or were in the same mood as Pei's mother, and the alley was quiet inside and out.

Suddenly, the sound of a galloping carriage came from outside the alley, gradually approaching the gate of No. [-] courtyard.

Mother Pei got up conveniently, and was about to go to the east wing when she heard a slightly hasty knock on the door.

"Who is it?" Pei's mother raised her voice and asked.

"Excuse me, is this Mrs. Pei's home?"

A crisp young woman's voice came from outside the door.

Mother Pei pulled out the latch and opened the door.

Outside the door stood a seventeen or eighteen-year-old girl dressed as a maid, and behind her stood a beautiful girl in a Chinese dress.

"Excuse me, is this the home of Mrs. Pei's Dim Sum Shop?" The maid repeated the question again.

Mother Pei instantly understood the intention of the other party's visit, and politely refused:

"Yes, but my daughter... is the owner of the pastry shop. She has already fallen asleep, so it is not convenient to receive the two of you for the time being."

The servant girl was a little displeased, and ordered domineeringly:

"Our girl is the legitimate daughter of Jiang's family, the first family in Liuyun County. I want to talk to your daughter about something. You ask her to get up."