Princess Fortune

Chapter 41
After Xu Tang finished speaking, he looked at Wang Dahua and Xu Mei, and repeated with a calm expression: "Besides this, we have nowhere to go."

Xu Mei opened her mouth, angrily wanting to say a few words, but she didn't think of what to say, and finally swallowed her words forcefully.

Wang Dahua was panicked and helpless.

Xu Tang comforted her softly: "Mother, don't be afraid, I'm responsible for everything."

"What can you do?" Xu Mei couldn't help retorting when she opened her mouth, "You're just a little maid, can you still make a fortune?"

"Why not?" Xu Tang smiled, and pointed at the embroidery frame in Xu Mei's hand indifferently: "This is just one of them. After that, I have other ways to make money."

"Mother's cooking skills are not bad, so we can sell things. One is to make food, and the other is to make rouge and gouache. You choose one."

Xu Tang said it lightly, and Xu Mei felt full of suspicion: "You put it lightly, we don't know how to do this! Don't you know? Rouge powder, if you buy someone else's, who will you sell it to?"

Xu Tang laughed softly: "I used to know how to eat, but you forgot, now I'm in the mansion. How about going to the cook to learn secretly?"

"As for rouge and gouache, it's not difficult. The servant girl next to the young master can do it."

Xu Mei frowned, but still didn't believe it: "Why did they teach you?"

Wang Dahua felt that Xu Mei was a little outrageous, so he opened his mouth and said, "Meihua!"

Xu Tang looked at Wang Dahua and smiled all over his face: "Mother, tell me, which one do you think is suitable?"

Wang Dahua couldn't make up her mind.

Xu Mei remained silent, obviously sulking.

Seeing that the two of them were silent, Xu Tang was about to say that he had made up his own mind, when Xu Jinbao suddenly said, "We can sell all of them. We have a lot of people, so we can set up two stalls at a time. I will help my mother sell food, and my eldest sister can sell it." Sell ​​rouge gouache!"

Not to mention, at such a young age, he is actually very smart.

But when Xu Mei heard Xu Jinbao's words, she immediately became furious and gave Xu Jinbao a hard look: "What nonsense are you talking about? I don't want to set up a stall! How can a girl show her face in public—"

Xu Jinbao was not afraid of her, instead he smiled "hehe" and said, "Eldest sister is so pretty, if you sell rouge and gouache, many people will buy it."

Xu Jinbao is young, but he really knows everything.

Xu Tang burst into laughter.

Xu Mei was flattered, her face turned red immediately, and she never opened her mouth to reprimand Xu Jinbao again.

In the end, he could only rebuke in a half-ashamed and half-angry voice: "You can talk nonsense!"

Seeing that she didn't object so much, Xu Tang sighed, looked at Xu Mei and said, "Eldest sister knows our mother's temperament. If I really go to set up a stall, I don't worry about you, eldest sister, but about mother and Jinbao. "

"Mother's character is too soft, I'm afraid she will be bullied. Jinbao is too young."

Xu Tang sighed deeply: "In our family, there are only eldest sister and me. But I was sold into the house, and it is difficult to go out every day, let alone helping the family make money?"

What Xu Tang said was not true.

But she was not afraid of being tired and didn't want to go, but because of her status, she couldn't go out.

Her other public identity is Miao Jin.

If others look at the magic fortuneteller Miaojin Xiangu, who sells snacks and rouge powder at a stall there—what will it be like?

It's better to set up a fortune-telling stall!

When Xu Tang spoke so clearly, Xu Mei also knew in her heart that these were the facts.

In the end, Xu Mei gritted her teeth: "If I can really make it and sell it for money, what's the point of my hard work?"

After thinking about it, he laughed at himself again: "What do you want to show your face and not show your face? I've been like this anyway, and I can't get married if I get married."

Although Xu Mei was more arrogant and more tempered, when the critical moment came, she still wouldn't lose her temper and was considered responsible.

This is why Xu Tang never hated Xu Mei.

Wang Dahua looked at the two daughters who settled the matter with each other, and heard Xu Mei's self-deprecating words, and felt as uncomfortable as a needle prick in her heart.

In the end, Wang Dahua couldn't help having a sore nose, she lowered her head and burst into tears, and fell into deep self-blame: "It's all my mother's fault, it's useless if it's my mother."

As soon as Wang Dahua looked like this, Xu Mei couldn't take it anymore, so she just bowed her head and started sewing without making a sound.

Xu Tang comforted Wang Dahua: "Mother, don't say that. The family is struggling now, and each of us has to work hard. We have to work together to make a living for the family."

Now that two plans have been decided, Xu Tang has to discuss with them about what to eat.

Xu Tang thought about it, and felt that rice cakes were the most suitable: "Now the family just collects rice. It won't cost much to sell rice alone, so let's make rice cakes."

This one is simple and easy to do.

Moreover, a small one is also easy to sell.

The most important thing is that the price is cheap and suitable for all ages.

Wang Dahua listened to Xu Tang: "Tanghua is right."

Xu Mei got angry when she saw Wang Dahua like this, but luckily she was still rational.

Therefore, Xu Mei also nodded: "Then do this. But how?"

To make rice cakes, you must first have a stone mill.

Grind the rice into powder.

The point is, you have to know how to do it.

Since Xu Tang mentioned this, of course he would.

The Empress Dowager loved to eat this for a while, and it was so delicate and delicious that almost all the maids in the Empress Dowager's Palace had tasted it.

It was a cook in the Empress Dowager's small kitchen who made this snack.

Xu Tang has a good relationship with this cook, and occasionally goes to help out, so he stole a lot of things from him.

If it wasn't for the risk and worry of cooking in the palace, she would have almost gone to work in the kitchen.

Xu Tang came up with the recipe from memory: "Let's just use sugar, rice flour, and glutinous rice flour. Then find someone to order some steamed buns for mother and son."

The mother and son of steamed buns are the key.

That's for making faces.

If the noodles are not well-raised, they will be sour, which is inedible.

"Mother, go and borrow a stone mill. I'll ask someone to buy some sugar tomorrow, let's try making it first." Xu Tang is now a little bit excited - rice cakes are also delicious.

Xu Tang firmly believed that it must be able to sell for money.

Even if it’s not much, it’s still the first step.

"As for the rouge and gouache, I'll go back and convince that girl, the young master, to help her make it. Then we'll sell it and give her a dividend."

Xu Tang arranged these things clearly, which is convincing.

As Xu Mei listened, she also forgot her doubts and distrust, and was almost absorbed in listening.

After all, Wang Dahua is still older and has been cooking all year round. At this time, she also put forward her own suggestion: "I still need a steamer. How big is it? Is it like steamed buns?"

Xu Tang shook his head: "No, let's ask Grandpa Li next door to help us weave a few small steamers."

While talking, she gestured: "The simplest one, just cut it into pieces with a knife. For the more delicate ones, let's make it so big and steam it in a small steamer."

　Our Tanghua is really ingenious~ come, come, let's praise her in a fancy way~ and then praise Ayin by the way!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)