Reborn peasant girl: I became rich overnight by traveling to sea

Chapter 16 An Embarrassing Request

After returning to Guo's house, Chang Pingning thought about Meng Xia's performance, and murmured in her heart: How could Meng Xia, who had killed her in the previous life and wanted to snatch Dong Xiuyuan from her, seemed to be a different person?There was a 180-degree turn in attitude.

Moreover, Meng Xia should have met Dong Xiuyuan before.

Chang Pingning thought of the straw baubles that appeared at home.

But why didn't Meng Xia go to Quyuan Village to find Dong Xiuyuan? The position of "Mrs. Dong" has been vacated. If Meng Xia wants to become Mrs. Dong, there will be no obstacles.

However, Meng Xia's abnormality did not confuse Chang Pingning for a long time. She still had other things to do at the Guo family: selecting sea urchins for cyclamen, cooking for her younger brothers and sisters, and putting away the sea urchins that Ye Xiuying gave her for sale. of silver money.

An irrelevant person is not worth spending so much of her emotions.

Until the evening of the next day, when Chang Pingning and Ye Xiuying went to Liu Mansion to deliver seafood again, Meng Xia, who was in charge of collecting seafood, stopped her.

"Madam Guo, please take a moment to speak." Meng Xia called to Chang Pingning with a smile, "I recently need a helper to help take care of the kitchen. The salary is negotiable. I wonder if Madam Guo has time?"

Although Chang Pingning did not feel hostility from Meng Xia, she was still resistant to Meng Xia's approach.Chang Pingning subconsciously took half a step back: "I'm sorry, uh, Mrs. Liu, I have to follow my mother-in-law to the town to deliver sea urchins during the day. I'm afraid I won't have time to come back."

After saying this, Chang Pingning regretted that she should not have clearly stated that she went to town to "deliver sea urchins."

Sure enough, Meng Xia also had a hint of doubt when he heard this: "Send sea urchins?"

But Meng Xia's doubts quickly turned into new doubts: "Did you really marry into the Guo family? Is your mother-in-law Guo still very good to you?"

Meng Xia's attitude was as if the two were once close friends and met unexpectedly in Guojiacun after not seeing each other for many years.

Such a familiar attitude made Chang Pingning feel disgusted: "If you don't bother Madam Liu, if there is nothing else, I will go back first." After saying that, he nodded at Meng Xia casually and went to Guo's house. direction.

Meng Xia ran to Chang Pingning with a sincere expression, "I'm sorry, I thought you were the doctor's wife who saved me in the hospital. Now it seems that I have mistakenly admitted the wrong person. My name is 'Meng Xia', what about you?"

"Chang Pingning." Chang Pingning raised his eyes and looked at Meng Xia, "I don't know any doctor. I married into the Guo family when I was young."

Meng Xia's expression was still sincere: "That's because I recognized the wrong person. I'm very sorry."

After listening to Meng Xia's words, Chang Pingning nodded, walked around Meng Xia, and prepared to return to Guo's house.

In her last life, her relationship with Meng Xia was not good enough for her to speak her mind, let alone who the "doctor's wife" in Meng Xia's words was.Although she thought so, Chang Pingning couldn't help but think of the person she had come into contact with who was closest to a "doctor", a medicine boy from Quyuan Village.

When the Chang family first proposed marriage to Chang Pingning, the medicine boy was the first person she proposed to marry.I heard that he had established a foothold in the town's drug store a few years ago. When people in the village need help with medical treatment, they will respectfully call him "doctor".

But the medicine boy had nothing to do with her after they met.

Chang Pingning felt that Meng Xia must have recognized the wrong person and was not reborn like her. ——Otherwise, words such as "Dong Xiuyuan" and "Dong Shusheng" would definitely be mentioned. How could "doctor" be mentioned?

Back at Guo's house, Ye Xiuying asked: "Girl Ning, what did the Liu family's cook say when she left you?"

"It's nothing." Chang Pingning thought for a while. She didn't want to talk about the part where Meng Xia admitted to the wrong person. After all, Meng Xia's words were quite rude, as if a close friend was questioning her remarriage and was unreasonably worried that her mother-in-law would treat her badly.

"She felt that there was too much work on the stove, so she wanted to find someone to help her, and asked me if I was willing." Chang Pingning looked at her mother-in-law, "I didn't agree. She didn't say how much she would pay, and her attitude... was just like that. , from a wealthy family." After saying that, Chang Pingning was worried that Ye Xiuying would scold her for pushing away the money-making opportunities, and added: "And I have to follow you to the beach in the morning and deliver goods in the morning, so I don't have time to catch up. Go to Liu’s house.”

After listening to Chang Pingning's words, Ye Xiuying nodded: "The cook at that house may have thought that the Liu family is in the capital... Ning Yatou, if you don't want to get in touch with that cook who doesn't know the heights of the world, send your stepmother to deliver overseas goods to the Liu family. also."

"Thank you, mother." Chang Pingning nodded and thanked Ye Xiuying, "I will definitely pick up an extra bucket of sea urchins tomorrow morning."

The next day, when Chang Pingning came back from town with Ye Xiuying, there was no sign of the Liu family looking for a cook from the chats among the neighbors.

But the Liu family proposed collecting sea urchins today.

A few ladies didn't understand why sea urchins were so valuable, but since the Liu family would bid for them, they just went to the beach to pick them up.

Chang Pingning and Ye Xiuying looked at each other and planned to talk about it back home.

"Ning Yatou, Chef Liu doesn't know how to make sea urchin fried rice, right?" As soon as she returned to the Guo Family Dean, Ye Xiuying closed the door.

"Mom, her name is Meng Xia." Chang Pingning corrected Ye Xiuying's name, "Maybe Chef Wang's 'sea urchin fried rice' was inspired by her." Chang Pingning thought about it for a while.

"Remember, the first time you took me to a restaurant to deliver seafood, the restaurant errand boy mentioned that there was a cook who wanted to work at Cyclamen for a while, and she also submitted a bunch of dish names to Cyclamen The shopkeeper, but the shopkeeper of Cyclamen didn’t want her.”

Ye Xiuying nodded: "Yes, Chef Wang's sea urchin fried rice was figured out from the name she reported."

"So I guess that after Meng Xia was rejected, she stayed near Cyclamen, staying at some wealthy families, and invited herself to be a cook in their houses. That's how she came to the Liu family." Chang Pingning analyzed.

But the Liu family is no longer a noble family.

But Meng Xia didn't know.

Chang Pingning was speculating on Meng Xia's psychological activities.

"Ning Yatou, remember to remind your mother tomorrow and tell Chef Wang that maybe someone else knows how to make sea urchin fried rice and purchased sea urchins in Guojiacun." Ye Xiuying's expression was serious, "We can't let him think that we leaked the recipe. Out."

After a while, Chang Pingning heard Ye Xiuying add: "From tomorrow on, our sea urchins will still be sent to the town. Tell Chef Wang about this too."

Chang Pingning nodded, seeing Ye Xiuying's serious expression, he felt that some profitable businesses could only be done for a short period of time, and it was difficult to do it for a long time.

In the evening, after Ye Xiuying came back from the Liu family, she told the Guo family that the price of sea urchins collected by the Liu family was lower than that of cyclamen. The Guo family could just continue to sell sea urchins in the town as usual.

Another day.

When Chef Wang saw that the sea urchins delivered by the Guo family's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were much less than usual, he couldn't help but take the initiative to ask what was going on. Unexpectedly, he was told that his "sea urchin fried rice" might be overshadowed by that of a villager. Overshadowed by the cook.

In order to thank Ye Xiuying for the information she took the initiative to tell him, Chef Wang personally cooked a table of meals for the Guo family's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, and made an embarrassing request during the dinner.

(End of this chapter)