Warm Emperor's Favorite: Abandoned Concubine

Chapter 154

It turns out that the person in charge of purchasing in the mansion is my uncle's nephew Feng Qiao, who is in his 30s, with a loyal face but not a duty in his heart, when Feng Qi took over the purchase in the mansion, he immediately claimed that he was sick and ignored him, wanting Feng Qi to handle it by himself. Everyone's food.

Feng Qi was not afraid of this, and knew that this was their blow to her, so she brought Tian'er to the dining room.

The three chefs were already in place, and they sat aside with ugly faces. Normally, this time would be the time for them to choose and order dishes, but today they don't even have a single fresh vegetable leaf. What do they cook with?
Seeing Feng Qi, the aunt who was in charge of the dining room greeted her and said, "See Princess!"

Feng Qi nodded: "Excuse me, why don't you prepare lunch at this hour?"

The steward's aunt said: "The steward Qiao is sick, and he didn't go out to buy today. Now there is no fresh food in the house, and the cooks don't know how to cook it!"

Feng Qi nodded, and checked the items in the dining room, there were quite a lot of dried vegetables and cured meat, as well as some fresh aquatic products and poultry.

These things can still make up a lunch, but now that my uncle and some clansmen are here, I can't even have a vegetable leaf, and people will laugh at me if I don't mix meat and vegetables properly.

"How long will lunch be?" Feng Qi asked.

The aunt in charge said: "It will take an hour anyway, hurry up with the master first, and the rest of the people will be in the back!"

Feng Qi nodded: "My princess will take people out to buy vegetables now, you pack the meat first, and today the live poultry will be from the mansion."

The aunt in charge was a little embarrassed: "But it will take an hour or two to go out and buy it now, I'm afraid I won't be able to make it in time."

Feng Qi looked sideways: "What? You don't believe in this princess?"

"Slaves dare not!" The aunt in charge said that she dared not, but her eyes were not half respectful.

"Hmph." Feng Qi turned around and left the dining room, called a few servants from the outer courtyard and went out.

When I came to the market, many country people who bought vegetables were setting up stalls, and baskets of fresh vegetables were placed there, green and attractive.

"Auntie, how do you sell these cabbages?" Feng Qi asked.

The aunt selling vegetables was taken aback by Feng Qi: "Two pennies a catty...Ah...Miss, do you want to buy vegetables?"

Tian'er smiled and said, "Auntie, we asked about it, of course we want to buy it!"

The aunt blushed: "Miss looks like it belongs to a wealthy family, didn't you go to Jade Garden to buy it?"

"Cuiyuan?" Feng Qi raised her eyebrows, she had never heard of such a garden.

The aunt said: "It seems that the young lady doesn't go out often, rich and noble people go to Cuiyuan to buy vegetables that look down on us country people!"

Tian'er frowned: "What? If we want to buy you, can't we sell it?"

The aunt quickly said: "No, no, no... how could I not sell it, it's just..."

Before she finished speaking, a man in navy blue Duangua came over and said, "What's the matter? You don't want to sell vegetables anymore? How dare you compete with Cuiyuan for business!"

The aunt's face changed: "Sixth Master, I don't have one. Isn't this just telling this lady, she doesn't know the rules of the market!"

Feng Qi frowned and asked: "What? We have to buy vegetables from Jade Garden? Can you buy and sell by force?"

The man known as the sixth master sneered: "It's not about buying and selling by force, as long as you are not afraid of diarrhea, you can buy it, but our market has rules. If you want to sell vegetables here, you must first sell the best quality vegetables." If you sell it to Cuiyuan, you can sell the rest by yourself, and you can’t sell it to a big family privately, otherwise you won’t be able to set up a stall here in the future!”

Feng Qi sneered: "Whose rule is this? The county master?"

Seeing that the master is a loyal person, the magistrate is not a big treacherous person, why are there such unreasonable rules?

Liu Ye said: "Naturally, it is a rule set by the county lord. If there is any problem with the vegetables you bought back, Jade Garden will be responsible for them all. If you bought someone else's food privately, who will be responsible if something goes wrong?"

After thinking about it in her mind, Feng Qi didn't think that this rule was so unreasonable, so she asked: "The dishes with the best appearance in Jade Garden are more expensive than these?"

The aunt muttered: "How can it be expensive? It's even lower than the market price!"

The sixth master stared, the aunt packed up her things and ran away in fright.

Feng Qi shook her head, it seems that today's vegetables must be bought in Jade Garden, otherwise she would not be able to buy them from the villagers.

"Since that's the case, please trouble Sixth Master to show you the way. This lady has never been to Jade Garden for the first time in charge of the family!"

The sixth master cupped his hands and said: "It's easy to say, those who don't know don't blame, come with me!"

Jade Garden is in the center of the market. There is a large yard full of good-looking vegetables. When you enter the house, you can see a wall full of bamboo signs with the prices of various dishes written on it. It’s just that ordinary cabbage is sold Six Wen a catty, which is a difference of four Wen, even if it is of good quality, it is not worth the price because it is inlaid with gold and jade.

The man in the room twirled his mustache with his hand and asked: "Miss looks at the face, I don't know which lady it is?"

Tian'er said: "My lady is the Fourth Miss of the Feng Mansion, and it's the first time I'm in charge of shopping!"

"Oh, it turned out to be Miss Fourth, why didn't the bridge steward follow?" The man's eyes were shrewd and shrewd.

Feng Qi laughed and said, "Because I offended the princess, Manager Qiao will not be reused in the future!" She didn't reveal her identity, but told him that she would be responsible for the purchases in the future, so Feng Qiao would never be able to take this position again.

Sure enough, the mustache's eyes flickered, and he said: "So that's how it is. I've heard that the Feng family has a princess, but I don't know where Guan Qiao offended the princess?"

Feng Qi smiled faintly: "Guard Qiao has done it to himself, although the Princess is not of the royal blood, she is also a member of the Royal Jade Butterfly, and she eats all the top grade food in the palace, and Manager Qiao bought low-quality dishes but still can't serve as the princess's snacks, As a result, the princess informed the old lady that she was dismissed from her post when she got angry."

Bazihu ​​frowned and said, "That's not right, all the food in Fengfu is bought from Jade Garden, how could it be inferior?"

Feng Qi laughed and said: "Just now I found out that the cabbage at the stall outside costs two Wen a catty, and the cabbage here costs six Wen a catty. If he buys a hundred catties outside, it costs two hundred Wen. Cuiyuan bought it for six renminbi a catty, how much difference can it make?" Fengfu buys vegetables once a day, three hundred catties each time, and the cheapest cabbage has to be bought for one hundred catties.Add in other things, then just buying vegetables can swallow up a lot of money.

Anger flashed in the mustache's eyes: "No wonder he only buys two catties of each vegetable every day, saying it is for the master to eat, so it turns out that he used such a dirty trick."

Feng Qi observed the character mustache, although this man is a profiteer, he doesn't seem like someone who can collude with servants, does this Jade Garden have any background?
Hu twirled his beard and said, "Miss must think that the dishes in Jade Garden are expensive, can I explain to you?"

Feng Qi nodded: "All ears!" She wanted to insinuate, but she didn't expect that he would explain herself, so she immediately acted interested!
(End of this chapter)