Reborn in the last years of Kangxi

Chapter 476
Because the new year is only a few days away, more and more people go to the streets to buy new year's goods.

Among the new year's goods, snacks and cakes are indispensable. They are used for offerings to ancestors, visiting relatives and friends, and snacks for women and children at home.

The dim sum in Daoxiang Village has only been sold in the capital for less than half a year, but it is famous for its rich oil and polysaccharides.I bought a pack and kept it at home for ten days, and it was still soft and sweet when I took it out, without changing the taste at all.

This dim sum shop pays attention to "four o'clock and three festivals". Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, and New Year's Day are the peak seasons for dim sum shop sales.

Zongzi for the Dragon Boat Festival, moon cakes for Mid-Autumn Festival, and rice cakes for New Year’s Day, as long as they are able to live, everyone will buy two packs of dim sum for the festival.

Daoxiang Village was opened in early August. It caught up with the season of selling mooncakes, and the thin skin and filling were once all the rage.

Now, in the twelfth lunar month, the rice cakes launched here have become one of the New Year's goods that many people in the capital want to buy.

Speaking of rice cakes in Daoxiang Village, there are lard rice cakes, nut red rice cakes, and white sugar rice cakes. Among them, the lard rice cakes are the best sellers.

Not to mention the delicate whiteness, according to the fillings, there are four kinds of rose, osmanthus, jujube paste, and bean paste. Whether it is an elderly or a child, you can find one you like to eat.

Since it is a good thing, the price is not cheap, it costs [-] Wen per catty.Nowadays, money is expensive, eight hundred Wen is exchanged for one tael of silver, and the eighty Wen is one tael of silver.

Ordinary people, apart from rice grains and silver coins, don't have a few silver coins left in a year, and eating snacks is a holiday.People in the banner have two taels of silver per dime per month, and they are not rich enough to buy snacks and food.

For the dim sum in Daoxiang Village, it’s okay to buy a piece or two to satisfy your cravings. There are not many local people in the neighborhood, and most of them are rich officials and businessmen living in the Qianmen area.

Today, many old neighbors and neighbors gathered in front of the shop in Daoxiang Village.

Seeing him, the old king of the street leaned towards the tail of the team and asked curiously: "This is half a street away, what is the fuss about? Seeing the sky, they are Sichu ([-]:[-] a.m.) Just pretending, it’s almost noon today, why haven’t you opened the door yet?”

Old Zhao, a neighbor in line in front of him, replied: "Naturally something good has happened. Didn't you see the big red paper notice posted in front? The door opens at noon today. Buy lard rice cakes and get half a catty free. Quantity is limited. Each person is limited to two catties, until sold out. Who doesn’t want to pick up a bargain, their stuff is not bad!”

"Hey, that's a good relationship. I bought half a catty last month. My mother and children love this. No, I have to send someone back to call my daughter-in-law and the girl to line up together. Buy a few more catties. It's also decent to walk around." Lao Wang said, opened his eyes and groped around, saw the old neighbor, and hurriedly said: "Second uncle, are you taking a walk? If you go back, please call my family, let She brought her daughter to the front door to look for me, thank you..."

Those who have Lao Wang's thoughts are not designated as one or two.

After all, it's the end of the new year, and a snack box is a must when celebrating the New Year.Dim sum in Daoxiang Village is very popular now, and it is a good thing, who wouldn't want to take advantage of it?
So calling for friends, more and more people lined up at the gate of Daoxiang Village.

When the news of Daoxiang Village's "preferential offer" spread, many students and businessmen living in the nearby guild hall also came to make fun of it.

The street lined up to the end of the street, and even the patrolmen of Shuntian Mansion were alarmed.

There were two stewards in the shop, and they came out with a few servants to count the number of people occasionally, and they were relieved to see the patrolmen from Shuntian Mansion coming over.

These people outside are also worrying, if when the door opens later, everyone rushes forward together, and then tramples and hurts people, it will not cause serious trouble.

The leading catcher was quite familiar with the store manager here, and he stepped forward and said with a smile: "Chen Guanshi, after all, he is rich and powerful. It's a big deal to give away half a catty. I don't care about anything else. Later, you can ask someone to talk about it, set aside two catties for me, and I will take it home to give your sister-in-law a tooth-beating sacrifice."

Chen Guanshi bowed and said with a smile: "Where do we need orders from the chief arrester? Our chief executive mentioned you just now, and said that he wanted to catch up with you and lead people to patrol the streets, so I would like to save you from the trouble of the New Year. Squeeze some more. Don't be afraid of accidents, isn't it afraid of trouble?"

The head catcher heard this, and said: "Didn't you hear that the Earl's Mansion is doing marriage affairs? Why is the chief steward not serving at the mansion, so he still has time to come here?"

Chen Guanshi said with a smile: "Although this stall is our grandma's business, it is mostly managed by the big steward. The old man of the big steward, needless to say, is the old housekeeper in the south mansion; the young man of the big steward's family , it is also very respectable to be an errand next to our uncle when I was young. Because of this, the eldest grandma didn't treat the big steward as an outsider."

The head catcher laughed twice and said, "Since it's the order of the chief executive, what else is there to say? In about an hour or two, I'll take my brothers around here. If something really happens Son, there is no face in the yamen, isn't it?"

Chen Guanshi said: "That's a good relationship, wait for the younger one to report to the senior manager, let him come to thank you..."

*
Compared with the joyful atmosphere outside Daoxiang Village, the atmosphere in the shop was low and slightly tense.

After all, as a "reward", the number of rice cakes needed is much larger than that of Pingru, and the dim sum chefs are already busy with this.

In the inner hall, Han Jiangshi was sitting on a chair, wearing a face scarf, so he couldn't see any happiness or anger.

Cao Fang sat on the side, his face was a little gloomy and frightening.Now, when the Cao family is planning weddings, if there is a life lawsuit in the shop here, it is still a trivial matter that affects the business, and it will be bad luck for the big Chinese New Year.

Annoyed in his heart, Cao Fang glanced at Han Jiangshi, and felt a little admiration for Han Jiangshi.

Being able to prevent problems before they happen and eliminate a catastrophe invisible is also considered a skill.

It was not worthwhile to find her as the head shopkeeper for the uncle earlier, thinking that she took advantage of it, but now it seems that this business shop really needs a helm.

Han Jiangshi looked at Cao Fang's thoughts, and said unhurriedly: "As soon as the shop was opened, Master Cao reminded the little lady that this snack is something to be eaten, and it must not be ignored at all. Otherwise, there will be troubles. , No matter how good a signboard is, it can be destroyed overnight.”

Although Cao Fang started from the shop here, and Cao Fang was also here, but he was responsible for the rest of the shop and the arrangement of manpower, and never intervened in the business, so this was the first time I heard Han Jiangshi say this.

"I can't complain that I have raised a dozen big dogs since the opening. I thought they were used to protect the courtyard. It seems that the shopkeeper was guarding against outsiders at that time." Cao Fang replied.

Han Jiang shook his head and said: "Outsiders are outsiders after all, and those who want to play tricks can't hurt the foundation. In business, the most feared thing is the inside ghost, and that is impossible to guard against. If there is a commotion, it will hurt your muscles. bone."

The two were talking when they heard footsteps, and one of them strode in.

Cao Fang saw that he was holding a piece of paper in his hand, and said, "All confessed? Can I ask who ordered it?"

The person who came was Cao Yong's long follower, Zhao Tong, who had some strengths in interrogating people, and was sent by Cao Yong to be Cao Fang's helper.

Zhao Tong handed the offering paper to Cao Fang and said, "Although this boy is a bit hard-boned, he still recruited. It is said that the steward of Fengrunzhai gave him ten taels of silver to add some materials to the things here. The things here are usually locked in the warehouse. The rule of picking up the goods every time is that a master and two assistants are accompanied by three people. He has no chance to do it. Only the half barrel of oil is used for brushing the baking pan. Outside, I moved my mind and sprinkled things inside."

Speaking of this, he frowned and asked: "Fengrunzhai is also a dim sum shop? Such dirty tricks cannot be tolerated. Do you want to take the uncle's name card and send this kid to Shuntian Mansion? In that case, even the radish With mud, they all slipped up."

Although I thought that the business would be good, and my peers would be jealous, but I never thought that the other party would dare to take the poison to explore the way. This is not as simple as an ordinary rivalry.

Cao Fang snorted coldly, and said: "Is this just to see that the uncle has a good temper, or is he asking you not to take our house seriously? Go back and ask the uncle and grandma for instructions, do you let all cats and dogs jump around in front of you?"

Han Jiangshi was listening, and when he saw the two people say this, he said: "The chief manager is calm and don't be impatient. This matter is not easy to go to the yamen. It doesn't matter how the lawsuit is, as long as the news spreads that someone has poisoned the shop. If we go out, it’s our own brand name that is dirty. It’s hard to say whether the bad guy is really Fengrunzhai, even if he is, the other party uses one shop to destroy six of our shops, and this lawsuit is meaningless.”

"Well, I know, I will go back and report the situation here to my uncle, and I will trouble the shopkeeper to take care of the shop." Cao Fang got up and said.

Han Jiangshi followed suit and got up: "Don't worry, the manager, because the shop is a little expensive here, and a lot of New Year's snacks have been distributed to other shops. Now, just take advantage of this time to sell more New Year's goods."

Cao Fang and Zhao Tong went out, leaving only Han Jiangshi in the room.

She sat for a while, walked to the desk, picked up the account book and the abacus, and continued to calculate the money needed for next spring.

*
Cao Mansion, lobby.

In addition to Cao Yin and his wife, Zhao Jiashi and Cao Yong, even Pingjun Wang and his wife, Sun Jue and his wife, Seshitu and his wife were present.

As a bride, Jing Hui, after paying homage to the ancestors Buddha and the Kitchen God, followed Cao Song to the lobby to meet the elders, determine their names, and recognize their size.

Zhao Jia's mother-in-law sat on the grand teacher's chair in the hall, and Cao Yin sat side by side with Mrs. Li and his wife on the other side.

Jinghui was wearing a bright red flag dress and velvet flowers on her hair, which set off her pink and fair face, making her look extraordinarily beautiful.

Mrs. Zhao Jia met Jinghui in the early years, and thought she was plain. Looking at her today, she is a bit more pleasing to the eye than in the past. After being "double-gifted" by her son and daughter-in-law, she took out an agate bracelet and put it on the tea tray as a gift. A gift for my wife.

Because Cao Yin and Li thought of Li Ding, they felt a little bit concerned about Jing Hui.

It's just that she has already entered the gate of the Cao family, which is the Cao family. As elders, they have no reason to make things difficult even if they don't like it, and they all drink tea.

It took less than half an hour after this circle, Cao Song and his wife finished their ceremony and were sent back to the bridal chamber.Over there, there are other cumbersome etiquettes to continue.

In the mansion here, it is rare for everyone to get together for the sake of a happy event, so naturally there is a banquet to be held here.

Before dinner, several aunts went to talk with Zhaojia in Li's room.Naersu, Sun Jue, and Seishtu were talking with Cao Yin in the front hall.

Seshitu is wearing a heavy filial piety, it is not good to attend the wedding, and he did not come yesterday.

Except for the fact that he came to greet Cao Yin after returning to Beijing, this was the first time Cao Yin had seen him in the past half a month.

Seeing that he has lost a lot of weight, and his eyes are dark, Cao Yin said: "This white matter can't be done in three to five days, and you need to take good care of your body so as not to worry your in-laws and mother. I only got a few old ginseng plants outside the customs. , when you leave in a while, take two back with you."

After hearing this, Seshitu got up quickly and said, "Thank you, father-in-law, for thinking about it. It's all because the son-in-law is unfilial, which made the parents worry."

Cao Yin waved his hands and said, "Sit down and talk, it's the first time you're taking care of such a major event, it's already good to be able to do this. It's just that even though you are young, you should take care of your body. Wealth and prosperity are foreign things, and a healthy body is the biggest thing." luck."

Saishitu respectfully responded and sat down again.

Na Ersu said from the side: "I heard that some days ago there were people making noise, even Uncle Jian was alarmed, how is it now, can I help you?"

Seshtu said with a smile: "The kindness of the prince, my brother-in-law appreciates it, it's all a misunderstanding, and it has already been said."

Cao Yin listened, nodded and said: "Family harmony and everything is prosperous, noisy and noisy, it is always a joke, it is better to make up."

Sun Jue sat on the other side, listening to the greetings of several people, feeling very uncomfortable.Although Yuanwailang, who was promoted to the fifth rank before, was happy, but now compared with Seishtu's sudden high position, he is nothing...

(End of this chapter)