Shanghai Embroidery Lady

Chapter 114 Modern Girl
This steamed bun shop opened in Chenghuang Temple. It was originally called Changxing Steamed Bun Shop, and later changed its name to Nanxiang Steamed Bun Shop. Since its opening, the business has been very hot, and it is often necessary to wait in line to get a seat.

Ye Zijin and Meng Haoxiang hailed two rickshaws, and when they staggered all the way to the bun shop, there was already a long queue outside the door.

Two red lanterns were hung under the eaves, and several tall pine trees grew outside the store. It was late autumn, and the ground was covered with black pine nuts. While waiting, Ye Zijin kicked the pine nuts and small stones on the ground from time to time to pass the time.

Meng Haoxiang suddenly asked, "Did you have fun today?"

Ye Zijin lowered her eyes and smiled slightly, lowered her head to look at the pine nuts that were going back and forth under her feet, and said, "It's pretty good..."

Meng Haoxiang nodded in satisfaction, and said with a smile, "Then continue next week?"

Ye Zijin raised her head in astonishment, waved her hands and said, "No, no, who will make the cheongsam in the store if you always play like this?"

Meng Haoxiang said: "Just hire a few more masters. To be a boss, you have to look like a boss. Your boss is like an employee. If I want to do everything myself like you, wouldn't I be exhausted? What you have to do It is to know people and make good use of them to grasp the overall situation.”

Ye Zijin refused to accept it and said: "I don't have that big a picture. Shen Ji is different from Baohui Foreign Firm. If I don't do it myself, how can it be regarded as Shen Ji's craft? It will take time to teach a few decent apprentices."

Meng Haoxiang suppressed his smile, and said gently: "I don't want you to be too tired."

The autumn wind at night brings a chill, but Ye Zijin's heart is warm.

At this moment, the waiter greeted the two of them to enter.Ye Zijin ordered two baskets of steamed buns, two pickles and a plate of pickled duck feet.After a while, the steaming Nanxiang steamed buns and side dishes were served, one was stuffed with crab roe and fresh meat, and the other was filled with shrimp and fresh meat.

Nanxiang Steamed Bun Shop has two floors, cornices and bucket arches, gold-painted vermilion railings are antique, and the tables and chairs are painted vermilion, which looks very festive.Even the corner seats in the store were full of people, there was a lot of people upstairs and downstairs, and the waiters were very busy.

Meng Haoxiang took out two pairs of chopsticks from the chopstick holder, rinsed them in the teacup, took out a pair and put them on the plate in front of Ye Zijin.Ye Zijin couldn't help but think of the scene of eating noodles at the roadside stall back then. At that time, Meng Haoxiang asked the noodle stall owner to wash his chopsticks again. Now it's not a roadside stall, he also does the same as usual.But to say that he is fastidious is a bit inappropriate. If a fastidious person can listen to opera like that, it would be better to say that he is a blind fastidious-a warrior.

Thinking of this, Ye Zijin laughed secretly.

"I'm so happy to see the food, happier than to see me?" Meng Haoxiang picked up a steaming steamed bun and put it in Ye Zijin's small dish.

Ye Zijin couldn't help blowing, and pierced the white and smooth skin with chopsticks, and the oily soup flowed out, filling the plate, and the aroma was immediately overflowing.Ye Zijin took a small bite, and his mouth was full of delicious fragrance. When mixed with soup, he could taste the umami taste of chicken soup and a little aroma of sesame seeds.The steamed buns of this restaurant are very particular. It is said that the steamed buns are made of refined white flour and rolled into thin skins, filled with refined meat, and served with crab roe and crab meat or spring bamboo shoots according to the season.The stuffing also needs to be boiled with chicken broth, frozen and mixed in, whichever is fresh, and sprinkled with a small amount of finely ground sesame seeds, whichever is fragrant.No wonder there are so many diners here, and the store has already gained a reputation within a few years of opening.

"Boil it carefully." Seeing that Meng Haoxiang had picked one up to eat, Ye Zijin reminded him casually, "You have to open the window first before drinking the soup. If you're impatient, you'll burn your mouth."

Meng Haoxiang smiled leisurely: "You mean you can't eat hot soup dumplings in a hurry, so when do you think I can eat them?"

Ye Zijin didn't hear the meaning in his words, and while blowing on the food on his plate, he said, "You can eat it after a while."

"That's what you said, so I won't be polite in the future?" Meng Haoxiang stared at her pointedly.

Only then did Ye Zijin understand what he said, blushed and glared at him, and said angrily, "Why do you always like to take advantage of me for no reason?"

The corners of Meng Haoxiang's lips twitched, and he said with a smile, "If I really wanted to take advantage, I would have taken advantage of it long ago, why wait until now, you are still so mean to me, it's really chilling."

Due to the many people around, Ye Zijin didn't bother to argue with him.I just feel that I often quarrel with him recently, and I don't know when I became less magnanimous in front of him.

After dinner, Meng Haoxiang sent Ye Zijin home.

A few lights were lit sporadically in the alley, and the two walked from the intersection to the downstairs of Ye Zijin's house.The two of them didn't speak much along the way, most of them were silent.

"Go up." Meng Haoxiang stopped.

"En." Ye Zijin responded and turned around to leave, but was held back by Meng Haoxiang, and Ye Zijin's heart couldn't help beating in an instant.

Meng Haoxiang just looked at her with a faint smile, "Did you forget something?"

Ye Zijin was confused, looked at the handbag, and said blankly, "I haven't forgotten anything."

Meng Haoxiang sighed in disappointment, and then his eyes shone brightly. Seeing that there was still light pink lipstick on her lips, illuminated by the dim light, it was extraordinarily moist, like two sweet petals, and suddenly felt itchy.

"Since you forgot, let me remind you, don't forget next time." Meng Haoxiang smiled and pulled Ye Zijin into his arms, bowed his head and kissed her lips.

Ye Zijin only felt that his lips were hot, and his face was even hotter like coals. Before he could utter the word "you", it was blocked by his flexible tongue.

His breath filled his nostrils, and this sudden kiss was confusing and suffocating.Ye Zijin was a little flustered, but she couldn't help wanting to respond to his kiss.

The cool wind brushed across his face, and when Ye Zijin opened his eyes, he found that he was still leaning on Meng Haoxiang's chest.She hurriedly broke free from his embrace, bit her lips lightly, and said with a blushing face, "I...I'm going up, you go home early..." As soon as she finished speaking, her face became even redder, and she wished she could run up and hide in the room immediately .

Meng Haoxiang pushed her curly hair back to her shoulders, suppressed a smile, and said, "Well, good night, sweet dreams."

On that night a few years ago, the moonlight was like water, and the ground was full of silver light, and he walked home with him like this.The scene at that time is still vivid in my memory, she was so embarrassed and cautious when talking to him.Now that we're together, it's kind of fun to think about it.

When Ye Zijin returned home, turned on the light, and accidentally passed by the vanity mirror, she was taken aback when she saw her own appearance in the mirror.

"Damn it!" Ye Zijin cursed secretly, and quickly took out a handkerchief to wipe her face.All the lipstick on her lips was wiped dry, and there were a few traces of light pink on her face. No wonder Meng Haoxiang looked at her with that look just now...

The latest issue of Linglong magazine published an exclusive interview with Zhao Zhimei, the empress of foreign songs, and specifically mentioned that gorgeous and elegant cheongsam.Shen Ji's reputation was greatly shaken for a while, and the gloom of the past month was swept away.

"My vision is not bad, right? Did Meng Haoxiang say that you look different after you electrify your hair?" Zhao Zhimei picked up a newly made apple green cheongsam and compared it in front of the mirror.

Ye Zijin thought for a while, and said, "He seems to have said that it feels different."

Zhao Zhimei's eyes were smiling, and the brows were raised slightly, "Didn't he say that you are more beautiful?"

Ye Zijin shook his head, "He didn't laugh at me, I've already made up my mind."

Zhao Zhimei said with a smile: "I used to think that Meng Haoxiang was a master of romance and would definitely make women happy. I didn't expect him to be so incomprehensible that he couldn't even say a word of praise." Zhao Zhimei walked to Ye Zijin as she spoke. , took another tumult-colored cheongsam from her hand, blinked at Ye Zijin again, and said, "Actually, I feel relieved when he is like this. I used to worry that you would be cheated by a man like him. Now it seems He is sincere to you, otherwise how can he be so eloquent in front of you?"

Ye Zijin smiled helplessly, "How can he be so stupid, he always taunts me in different ways, you don't even know that when I meet him now, we will inevitably bicker."

Zhao Zhimei sighed while throwing clothes out of the closet: "I don't even have a crush yet, you flirts, do you want to die?"

"Among the people who are pursuing you, there is no one you like?" Ye Zijin joked.

Zhao Zhimei smiled faintly, "How many good men can there be in a place like Paramount? The fun of men and women is just a joke. Think about Lucy, she was once a smashing song and dance queen, but it's a pity that she died. Later, even the man who loved her the most changed to a famous actress and beautiful woman as his companion, how sad. I would rather be alone than pay others."

As Zhao Zhimei said, she took out a red rose embroidered cheongsam from the wardrobe. This cheongsam was made by Ye Zijin like the white rose embroidered cheongsam that appeared on the stage that day.

Seeing Zhao Zhimei sticking the cheongsam to her body and looking up and down, Ye Zijin couldn't help asking: "Why haven't you seen this red one, does it fit?"

A trace of sadness flashed in Zhao Zhimei's eyes, which was immediately covered up by a bright smile, "How could it not fit you well? It looks too good to me, and I want to keep it as a wedding dress, but I don't know when I can use it with..."

Seeing the loneliness behind Zhimei's smile, Ye Zijin felt sore, and comforted her: "You will always meet that person, and when you get married, I will make you a few different outfits, and I will also wrap up the bridesmaid's cheongsam. "

Zhao Zhimei smiled and said: "You are really good at calculating, and you want to use my wedding banquet to promote Shen Ji, so I won't pay for the cheongsam, and I will let your boy and girl be my pawn." flower girl."

Ye Zijin picked up the windbreaker next to her and threw it at Zhao Zhimei, saying shamelessly, "I'm so ashamed, an unmarried girl is full of brats..."

Zhao Zhimei took the windbreaker and put it on herself, winked playfully at Ye Zijin, and said, "There's nothing wrong with that, you must get married before me, so let's make it clear that I will be a child by then Godmother."

Ye Zijin didn't answer, but felt that the cheongsam she wore with a windbreaker had a special charm, so she changed the subject and said, "Don't you think it looks good in this way?"

Zhao Zhimei sized her up in front of the mirror, and said, "Why does it feel a bit nondescript?"

Ye Zijin walked to her side, and in the mirror was a pretty and charming woman wearing a knee-length cheongsam with water-color plaid satin with a small round collar. The apricot-colored trench coat added a bit of sass.Coupled with curly hair, a few simple pearl jewelry, and white high-heeled shoes, she is simply a trendy yet elegant fashionable girl.

"Do you really think this looks good?" Zhao Zhimei was a little uncertain. After all, it is rare to wear a western dress and a cheongsam together. If you don't wear it well, you will be laughed at by others. Only those nouveau riche who don't know how to dress They will put on whatever is new, but they can't let go of the traditional dress, so they often make some jokes about mixing clothes.

"It's really pretty. It's cool autumn now. It's decent and warm. It's also charming and not tacky at all." Ye Zijin was very satisfied with Zhao Zhimei's outfit, and suddenly saw that Zhao Zhimei took up almost half of her body. He picked out a gray wool beret from the closet and handed it to Zhao Zhimei, "I know you like hats, so you might as well wear them and have a look."

Zhao Zhimei half-believingly put the hat on obliquely, the doubts on her face disappeared in an instant, and she burst into a bright smile, "It's really pretty, then I'll wear it like this from behind!"

Ye Zijin smiled and said, "Maybe those reporters will forget to take pictures."

"Why?" Zhao Zhimei was puzzled.

"Because I'm fascinated by you."

Before long, the cheongsam trench coat with a small red handbag, high heels and beret had become a mod girl icon.This kind of dress can be seen everywhere when walking on the street. Zhao Zhimei has become the representative of this image, and was dubbed the rose of Paris by the newspapers.

With the popularity of Zhao Zhimei, Shen Ji Huafu shop stood out among many cheongsam shops. Ye Zijin introduced the old and brought forth the new, and recruited a few masters who are good at making Western-style clothing. .This kind of selling method is very popular, and customers can also match and order according to their preferences.At the same time, Shenji Huafu Factory produced small accessories such as silk scarves and hats in conjunction with the business in the store. The two sides echoed each other, and gradually became smaller and larger.Shen Kee has become a high-end clothing store after Jinhong Lou, and was even called "the modern girl's wardrobe" by Linglong magazine.

(End of this chapter)