Little lucky girl from the peasant family: Queen Splendid

Chapter 4 The nobleman in that car
Ding Lao Er waved his hand, puffed up his chest unconsciously and said with a smile, "Mom, have you forgotten what your son does? We are just building a small tea shop, and it is not a good yard. Cut some broken wood from the mountain, Let me tell the masters and brothers again, come here to help for a few days, our house will provide food and housing, and it will be built in seven or eight days. As for the pots and pans, it will not cost a lot of money. After all the calculations, there is Seven or eight taels of silver is enough."

After hearing this, Mrs. Lu felt relieved and stopped objecting.So the whole family looked at Mr. Ding, waiting for him, the head of the family, to make a decision.

Old Ding was silent for a long while, and finally nodded and said, "Since we are going to open, let's hurry up and gather together. The caravans that went to the south to buy new year's goods have returned recently, and there are many people on the road."

"That's great. I'll go find someone to chop wood tomorrow." Ding Laoer replied immediately with a smile.

Ding Wei also hugged the old lady's arm and begged, "Mother, my sister-in-law and I will go to the city to choose pots and pans, okay?"

"Sure, but first you help your second brother choose the place, and you have to say hello to Li Zheng."

"Your mother is right. Prepare some gifts when you have chosen a place. I will go to Lizheng's house." Old man Ding gave instructions and went out with his hands behind his back. He has been used to it for many years.

With such a major event settled, everyone in the Ding family became busy.On the second day, Ding Wei wore a coat and walked along the official road all morning. When she came back, her face was flushed with cold, but she chose a good place.It happened to be four or five miles away from the entrance of the village. A small creek had flowed for many years, and the soil brought down by the river from the upper reaches had been impacted into a flat place, much higher than the river bed, just enough to build a spacious wooden house.The back of the house is close to the river, so it is very convenient to fetch water for guests to drink horses or wash things.

That night, Lao Ding took his second son to Lizheng's house in the east of the village with a piece of meat and a jar of wine.

The old mountain col is full of roots planted by the victims who fled during the severe drought in the south a hundred years ago. The surnames are mixed, and they get along for a long time on weekdays. They marry each other, and they get along harmoniously.

The wife of Lizheng's family was also surnamed Ding. She had no one to rely on after being displaced from the south, so she married Wu Dasheng who had retired from the barracks with a disabled leg.Wu Dasheng was quick-witted and had some pension money in his hands. After Lao Lizheng passed away, he moved around a bit and took Lizheng's seat.Now the two sons born to the couple are married, and their lives are very prosperous.

Lizheng's wife is about the same age as Lao Dingtou and has the same surname, so she really treats Lao Dingtou like a brother.As soon as they saw their father and son entering the door, they quickly asked them to pour tea into the room and talk.

Wu Dasheng was not a mean person either, as soon as Mr. Ding and his son explained their intentions, they immediately left the wine and pork behind.The land is not big, and there is no way to grow crops, and the long grass is usually left for nothing, so why can't he make it convenient for Shun Shui's favor?

Mrs. Lizheng even smiled and said that she would go to the shop to try something new on the opening day.I've heard people in the village say that Ding Wei is good at cooking, but she hasn't tasted it yet.

Ding's second son was clever, so he immediately said, and let his sister Steamer Steamed Buns deliver it tomorrow.Mrs. Lizheng didn't refuse. So far, the Ding family's opening of a shop has been cleared in the village.

The people in Laoshan'ao have always been digging food out of lumps of soil, and no one has opened a shop for business for many years.As soon as the news that Ding's family wanted to open a tea shop came out, it immediately became a hot topic on the heads of all the kangs.Of course, there are those who are envious, and those who say sour words, and so on.

The Ding family didn't take these matters to heart, and the whole family mobilized to get busy.Because some of Ding's second masters and senior brothers were coming to help, Mrs. Liu and Mrs. Li took their children to live on Wei'er's kang, and emptied out of the wing room for the guests to stay temporarily.

Ding Boss and Ding Lao Er brought the acquaintances from the village who came to help to go up the mountain to chop wood. Ding Wei tossed the radish and cabbage at home in different ways. In fact, he didn't put many slices of meat, but everyone praised it He kept his mouth shut and said that with Ding Wei in the Ding family, it was as easy as pinching a hand to open a shop to make money.

It is said that everyone gathers firewood with high flames, and Ding Laoer is usually a man of the world, and his master and brothers will not hesitate to help.The wood was brought down from the mountain, and the shop was built in just seven or eight days.

There are three wooden houses in a row, two of which are connected to make the lobby, and one is used as the kitchen.There was also a place behind the house to be used as a sundry storage, and the stove and fire wall were built with green bricks according to Weier's suggestion, and the house became warm as spring in a short while.The newly made wooden table was not painted because of rush work, only a layer of tung oil was applied.Unexpectedly, after placing it well, it will show a different kind of clean and soft.

Ding Wei took her two sister-in-laws into the city and found a large grocery store. After some bargaining, they bought fifty sets of blue and white bowls and plates, a dozen clay pots, and many pots and jars.Although it cost a tael more than the budget, on the day of serving wine to thank guests, the white and fat meat buns were placed in elegant bowls and plates, together with those oily and fragrant lo mei, served on the table to entertain neighbors and several masters , Immediately won everyone's praise, no matter how you look at it, it is much cleaner and more luxurious than the dark pottery bowl at home.

During the past few days, Mrs. Lu took the children to cook and lost a lot of weight, but she still insisted on stepping on the heavy snow to go to the neighboring village to find the well-known fortune teller Song Xiazi for a divination, and chose the first day of the twelfth lunar month opened.

In the early morning of that day, before dawn, Ding Wei got up, chopped sauerkraut, mixed meat, kneaded dough, and was so tired that she was sweating profusely before finishing preparing the ingredients.Mrs. Lu and her two daughters-in-law also had dark circles under their eyes, obviously they didn't sleep well last night.The three of them went to the tea shop with one carrying a basin, one carrying a stuffing pot, and the other carrying a jar of pickles. As for old man Ding and Boss Ding, they lived in the shop and never came back.

Ding Wei scooped up a scoop of rice chaff and mixed some rotten cabbage leaves, fed the chickens and ducks, and coaxed Dabao and Fuer to eat half a bowl of porridge. What did she think at the end? It was as if grass had grown in her heart. She didn't want to see it with her own eyes. The shop opened for customers, but it just couldn't calm down.

Seeing that the sun had risen to mid-air, she couldn't bear it anymore and sent the two children to the next door, asking her acquaintance Grandma Sun to take care of her for a while.

Grandma Sun is a shrewd and hard-working old lady, but unfortunately she is young and widowed, her biological daughter married far away, she walks a lot with Ding's family on weekdays and gets along very close.Seeing Wei'er like this, she responded with a smile.

Ding Wei didn't dare to delay, so she ran to the tea shop stepping on the heavy snow without her coat on.As a result, she saw five or six carriages parked in the open space in front of the tea shop from a distance, and her eyes couldn't help but glisten.When I got closer, I heard the cheerful greeting of the second sister-in-law from the room, occasionally mixed with the voice of guests clamoring for more buns, so I felt more confident.

She lightly ran to the window to see what was going on in the house, but unfortunately the window was closed too tightly without a single gap.

Ding Wei was a little disappointed, and when she was about to turn her head to go home, there was a sudden coughing sound from the carriage next to her, hoarse and heavy, which made her feel difficult to breathe.She pondered for a while, but she still couldn't resist her curiosity. She stepped forward and asked in a low voice, "Excuse me, are there any customers in the car? The shop is clean and warm. Would you like to come down and rest for a while?"

The people in the car were silent for a long time, and finally a clear female voice responded, "No need, we just stop for a while, buy some food and then go on the road."

"Oh, that's because I interrupted you." It was really affectionate, Ding Wei stuck out her tongue in embarrassment, and when she wanted to talk again, she saw the old lady in the door looking over here as if stretching her head.

She was so frightened that she quickly picked up the corner of her skirt and ran home. In her panic, she didn't realize that the window of the carriage opened a gap slightly at some point, and a pair of dark and cold eyes covered her back. take back.

The cold winter wind was tricky and cold, and it sneaked into the carriage through the gaps in the windows, blowing the little maid sitting opposite her shiveringly.She couldn't help persuading her in a low voice, "Master, you're not in good health, it's better not to blow the cold wind."

Hearing this, the man by the window slowly closed the gap, turned to cover his body with fur, and continued to flip through the book at hand.The old butler, who was also stretching his neck to look out, tried his best to suppress the panic in his heart, gave the little maid a hard look, and reprimanded in a low voice, "There are no rules, the master's business is something that you, a servant, can say casually." ?"

The little maid pouted aggrievedly, and wanted to refute a few words, but when she turned her eyes to the handsome and cruel man, it suddenly turned into two streams of spring water, soft and warm, wishing to drown the man in it before giving up.

The old butler sighed secretly, really wondering if it was wrong to take this granddaughter to take care of his young master.But since the person has already picked him up, and it's not easy to reveal the young master's current whereabouts, he can only let it go for a while.

"Uncle Yun, do you have something to say?" The man who was studying suddenly spoke for some reason, with a deep and mellow voice, which made the little girl's heart beat faster and her face turn redder.

The old housekeeper turned pale with shock, and reluctantly explained, "I have nothing to do with this old slave, but just looking at the beautiful mountains and rivers here, and the simple folk customs, it's a good place to live in seclusion."

The man tapped lightly on the window lattice with his slender fingers, glanced at his legs under the robe, and ordered after a while, "Since Uncle Yun likes it, find a place to live near here."

"Ah, it's too remote here, why don't you find a county town..." The little maid subconsciously objected, but the old housekeeper slapped her on the arm and responded, "Just listen to the young master, when that happened that day Near here, that person is just suspicious, and I'm afraid he wouldn't expect us to live here."

The man glanced at the old butler lightly, then continued to look down at the book.The old butler quietly wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, feeling very dangerous!My young master has a thousand troops and horses for five or six years, but it is really not so easy to deceive, and he must be more careful in the future.However, thinking of the woman just now, he couldn't help looking forward to it...

Ding Wei didn't know that she had brought a new resident to the village with her words just now, and when she returned from Grandma Sun's house to pick up her nephews Dabao and Fu'er, she began to look forward to the sunset.Maybe God couldn't bear her to suffer too much. Not long after noon, Mrs. Lu came back with Mrs. Liu and Mrs. Li.

The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law could barely close their mouths, and they shouted loudly as soon as they entered the door, "Wei'er, Wei'er, come out and take a look, our money box is full."

(End of this chapter)