Farmer's Ruyi Manor

Chapter 108: Zixuan's Annual Ceremony Letter (4)
Xiaohua thought to herself, forget it, come out as soon as you come out, with the second uncle's current ability, it is more than enough to build an ordinary house, and there is no need to go back to see Liu's face.At worst, go live at her house first, anyway, the house is big.In the future, there will be a day when Mrs. Liu will regret it. He is really a brainless guy with no eyesight at all. Can't you see that the second uncle's temperament is different from before?Is it even better to dress than before?

Ruyi Restaurant will be closed on the 26th of the twelfth lunar month.After operating the store for more than 4 months, the profit in the first two months was about 80 taels per month, and in the last two months, due to the addition of wooden barrel rice and claypot rice, the profit was more than 100 taels per month.The net profit in these four and a half months has reached more than 400 taels. Xiaohua took the excess as year-end dividends and sent them to the money shopkeeper. Everyone got a few taels of silver. At such a young age, besides wages, he was able to get so much money, and he was immediately overjoyed.

And Xiaohua received 280 taels of silver in these four months, and the remaining 120 taels went to Huang Haoran.In addition, Xiaohua borrowed all the interest from the plum wine that was sold at Huang Haoran's place. Because Xiaohua wanted to try it out, during the Laba Festival, she pretended to be a small urn of plum wine and tried it for sale. It was sold for 10 taels of silver.Huang Haoran wanted to discuss with Xiaohua and serve plum wine to Fushou Restaurant, but Xiaohua shook her head because she had other plans.

Unexpectedly, 28 years ago, someone came to give New Year's gifts, and saw that there were all kinds of cloth, food and other items on the carriage, and they were even rich. "Miss Xiaohua, this is a New Year's gift from our young boss and Master Biao." Then he took out some tea and handed it to Xiaohua.

"By the way, Master Cousin's gifts were all sent from Kyoto on a fast horse. It was just the young master's New Year's gifts, so they were sent together."

"Oh, I see, Shopkeeper Liu invites you to drink tea inside." He told Ah Hong to make tea.Then he called out Ah Qing and the second uncle, and moved the things in.Since the second uncle has separated and has no place to live now, he will live in Xiaohua's house during the Chinese New Year. Anyway, the family is big now.Grandma is happy to see that the family is popular, and her illness will be better.

Xiaohua is very curious, hasn't You Zixuan always looked down on herself?How can I give myself a new year gift.But after thinking about it, maybe it was because of the business relationship with the Du family.

Xiaohua looked at the list given by the Du family and You Zixuan, and there were other letters.What Du Yuchen wrote was nothing more than blessings and caring greetings.And You Zixuan's letter completely stunned Xiao Hua: "Here is the New Year's gift, you are so ugly, you must be curious why I gave the New Year's gift, right? Cough cough... I have a little bit of meaning for you, Young Master, so You grow up well and you must become beautiful, otherwise you will be sorry to me, little lord. Remember, after you grow up and become beautiful, you can only be my woman. I will visit you every year, little lord, remember to miss me. In addition Attached is a portrait of me as a little lord, so as not to forget me, remember to look at it every day!"

Could this be the legendary love letter?Xiao Hua instantly petrified.Looking at the letter and portrait, an inexplicable feeling floated in my heart.

In the end, Xiao Hua thought about it and wrote a letter to Du Yuchen and You Zixuan respectively. Du Yuchen said that he had received the New Year's gift, thank you, and so on.And You Zixuan's reply was to draw a shrimp in front, tied with a string, and an egg tied to the string.In addition, there are two words: "start up."

It is said that after You Zixuan got the reply letter, he studied it for a long time, but he still didn’t understand what it meant, so he called Shuqi No. 2 to study together, and the result was that the girl Xiaohua didn’t know many words, so she could only use drawing. Draw to represent.It's just that both of them don't understand what the painting is about, and they can't figure out the word Qikai even more.

In the end, You Zixuan carefully put away the painting, and placed it in the dark compartment of his study as if it were a treasure.In fact, You Zixuan has been working hard ever since he returned in October. At that time, he tried hard to ignore all kinds of shocks that Xiaohua brought him, but the more he wanted to ignore, the clearer he became.So after thinking about it for a long time, I decided to face up to my feeling and want to go with it.

But when I think of Xiaohua, a little girl, her family is poor and her class is low, but she really knows more than him, the young master of Wanhou Mansion and the eldest son of the Du family in Qingzhou City.This is not to be underestimated. In order to catch up with her pace, he went back and started to work hard, which made Hou Ye feel very relieved.

Ruyi Restaurant offers spring rolls in February of the lunar calendar, especially on February [-], the day when the dragon raises its head.Through the line of the county magistrate, the business of Ruyi Restaurant is getting better and better.Xiao Hua gave a preferential policy to the county magistrate's family, all the county magistrates and their family members will get a [-]% discount.Originally, Xiaohua thought about exempting all of them, but the county magistrate is quite honest, so he firmly disagreed, and finally got a [-]% discount.

With the propaganda and endorsement of the magistrate, how can it be bad?Not to mention that Ruyi Restaurant itself has good cooking skills, and there are new styles from time to time, which is not something that can be done in ordinary restaurants.

Of course, there are other small restaurants now, and the restaurant has claypot rice and wooden barrel rice.Due to the wrong method, the taste is still not as good as Ruyi Restaurant, so the reputation of Ruyi Restaurant is known to outsiders.Now many foreigners pass by Shuiwan Town, and they will go to Ruyi Restaurant to eat some dumplings, claypot rice, wooden barrel rice or spring rolls.

The first day of March in Yangchun.

Xiaohua stood by the paddy field, watching Aunt Wang's family (except Xiaocao), Ah Qing, Brother Songgui (the eldest son of the village) and the Shi family, Chen family and Wu family touching it together when the bamboo shoots were harvested. water chestnuts.

For these three families, Xiao Hua paid them 10 big money a day.As for Aunt Wang, except for Uncle Changgui and Brother Ronghua who are paid 3 taels of silver a year, everyone else, including Aunt Wang, are paid according to their usual wages.Except Ah Qing, Wang Changgui and Rong Hua, everyone else counts money.

Seeing the luxuriant water chestnut grass, Xiaohua was very excited, not knowing how much output these few acres of paddy fields would produce.Everyone touched for a day, only touched 2 acres.

Xiaohua discussed with Jingniang, and took Ahong to the stream to see the water chestnuts over there. If it was good, they would dig them back together when the time came, so as to earn more income. Jingniang agreed.Now Xiao Zhuzi is more than 3 years old, well-behaved and sensible, just watching grandma at home.

After working like this for a few days, after digging up all the water chestnuts, Xiao Hua handed out the money.Everyone took the money and left happily.

Xiaohua looked at the piles of water chestnuts and felt a headache.Fortunately, in February, Uncle Chang Gui and Brother Rong Hua had already dug a large cellar.But at this time the cellar was already full, Xiaohua thought about calling Huang Haoran and shopkeeper Liu over in a few days, selling some first, and processing the rest to make other things.

In addition, there are dried bamboo shoots and bamboo fungus that they have to come and get by themselves.Xiaohua thought that her own ox cart was still slow, and thought about selling the water chestnuts to buy a carriage.He also thought that it would be better to buy a cooking woman to come back to take care of her, and also thought that grandma's condition was getting worse, so it would be better to get Dr. Lu to live at home, so that grandma's illness would also be taken care of.

(End of this chapter)