Queen of Nongmen: Hexagrams determine the universe

Chapter 58

"We can open tomorrow," Ye Qiongdan said with a smile, "Thank you for your word."

"You're welcome," the county magistrate swallowed, "I miss the food you brought last time."

"If my lord likes to eat, I often send some to you, just for fear that you will get tired of eating." Ye Qiongdan said kindly.

"Then there's no need," the county magistrate shook his head, and said honestly, "It's not easy for the common people to do business. My lord can't eat for free."

After Ye Qiongdan left, the county magistrate stroked his beard and glanced at the master beside him: "Are there many things to do tomorrow?"

"Nothing to do tomorrow." Master said after thinking for a moment.

"Well, let's arrange it. During this period of time, my lord wants to go to various towns and understand the people's sentiments." The county magistrate nodded with satisfaction, "Let's go to Qili Town first, after all, it is our Dalong Chaobei Grand Canal. starting point, are you right?"

"Your Excellency is wise." The Master nodded quickly, but thought to himself, Your Excellency would like to eat the food from Miss Ye's house, right?

After Ye Qiongdan returned to the shop by the pier, he handed over the house deed and land deed to Ye Qinghan.

When the second daughter-in-law saw the house deed and the land deed, her eyes were straightened: "Oh, girl Dan, what kind of shit luck are you on? You actually cured Mr. Zhao's strange disease and used this to get this apartment. The house deed and title deed of the shop, this is really amazing! What kind of business shall we do in the future? Isn’t it more profitable to sell the shop and collect rent every month?”

"You count rent collection and business, which one can make more money?" Ye Qiongdan said coolly.

"Then why don't we sell this shop and let's rent the shop next to it? Isn't the money already in hand?"

"This shop has good Feng Shui."

"You're the only one who knows Feng Shui?" The second daughter-in-law sneered, "You can barely read a few words."

"I'm determined not to sell the shop. What's more, I don't need the money to sell the shop." Ye Qiongdan looked at Ye Qinghan, "Brother, did you pawn those jewelry?"

"It's done, exactly 200 taels of silver." Ye Qinghan took out the bank note and handed it to her, "Take the pocket money."

"200 taels of silver? Where did it come from?" The second wife looked straight at her again.

Ye Qiongdan briefly explained what happened this morning, and the second daughter-in-law laughed so hard that she couldn't straighten her waist: "Sure enough, this villain will have to be tortured by the villain, and the sister-in-law is finally at a loss! Girl Dan, you did a good job! You should Ask for more money to make her more miserable! For a person like her, it is not a pity to die poor!"

The eldest daughter-in-law used to bully the second daughter-in-law. The second daughter-in-law wanted to resist, but the old man and the old lady were on top of her. She is also much pleasing to the eye.

"By the way, can this relocation dinner be changed to another date?" After laughing enough, the second daughter-in-law said while eating melon seeds, "The second child said he still has some work to do, and he won't be back until a few days later."

"Second Uncle treated us well back then, so let's change the day?" Ye Qiongdan looked at Ye Qinghan inquiringly.

"En." Ye Qinghan nodded following her intention.

Because they had to notify everyone again when the date was changed, the two went back to Shanghe Village early, re-arranged an auspicious day, and told the people who wanted to have a banquet.

In Xushi, the old house of the Ye family.

In summer, the days are long and the nights are short, even at Xu time, the sky is still very bright. After everyone finished their work in the fields, the women went into the kitchen to work, while the men chatted in the village.

From afar, someone saw Dafang's two grandsons walking towards here staggeringly with Ye Fengxian in their arms.

"I...I still want to drink...I won't go back...I want to fall drunk in the arms of the beauty...Go...I will be scolded if I go back...I can't go back...Go back...they know I'm being abused Expelled... this year's exam is even more hopeless... what will they think of me..." Ye Fengxian said with his tongue out.

"Father, I can't blame you for this! You can just obediently let your son help you continue walking and help you go home, okay?" the eldest son Ye Jigang said helplessly.

"Yeah, Dad, let's go back, grandpa and grandma will definitely find a way to solve this matter for us," Ye Jiwu, the second grandson of the big house, said nonchalantly, "Besides, Dad, don't you always think that your studies are too heavy for you? Are you tired? Just take advantage of the time of being fired and play a little longer at home."

Ye Jiwu didn't like reading at all, so he thought about going through the back door in the future and asking the family to spend money to find the county magistrate to donate a child.

During the conversation between the three, the villagers vaguely guessed something, so they couldn't wait to gather outside Ye's house to watch the fun again.

Ye Jigang felt very embarrassed in the crowd watching, and he was too embarrassed to get angry with them. If he got angry, wouldn't he appear ashamed and angry?
The two brothers helped their father back home with difficulty. Ye's big house set up a big table in the yard. Just as the food was served and was about to have dinner, Ye Fengxian stumbled in and overturned the table as soon as he stretched out his hand. The whole table was covered, the food on the table was scattered all over the floor, and the pots and dishes were also broken.

Ye Fengxian was originally a scholar who had no strength to restrain a chicken, but when he suddenly lifted the table, he staggered, and fell directly into the chicken fence, and his forehead was poked by the wooden stake of the fence. blood.

"Oh, my eldest son, what's wrong with you?" The old lady hurried up to help him.

"Get out of here! Get out of here!" Ye Feng first became drunk, and even his own mother began to push hard, making her unsteady on her feet and sitting on the ground with her buttocks, causing her back injury to recur , and started shouting again.

"What's going on? It's not a holiday today. Why did you three father and son come back like this? How unbelievable!" The old man was very angry and knocked on the ground a few times with his cane!

"Grandpa," Ye Jigang looked at him in embarrassment and said in extreme embarrassment, "We...we were expelled from Jingde Academy..."

"What?" The old man was agitated and almost lost his breath.

The eldest daughter-in-law came over quickly and patted him on the back to comfort him.

"What's going on?" The old man asked with a livid face.

"This morning, the dean of Jingde Academy suddenly summoned all the students, and in front of everyone, he talked about an incident that happened at Mr. Zhao's house last night..." Ye Jigang bit the bullet and told the story, " The dean was very angry, thinking that our Ye family treated his brother's life as a joke, so we should be severely punished."

"How could this be?" The old man's face was pale and he was on the verge of falling.

"Injustice! Injustice! What injustice! Ye Qiongdan, a debt collector, knew that she would bring such misery to our Ye family. We should have strangled her to death when she was born," the old lady resentfully said. Said, "Old man, we must not let her go! We must not let her go!"

The old man was immersed in grief and did not speak.

The eldest daughter-in-law almost tore the veil with her hand, she calmed down for a while and said: "This matter, first of all, that little bitch Piaoxu can't handle things, if this matter is hidden from the sky and nothing happens again, then we Will the few scholars in Dafang get into trouble? Second, of course, Ye Qiongdan is merciless. She cured Mr. Zhao’s strange disease in a blind cat and a dead mouse. Why didn’t she take the opportunity to intercede with our Dafang? ? If she is unkind, don't blame us for being unrighteous!"

In fact, if Ye Qiongdan didn't know that Da Fang and the old couple had thought of beating her to death, and then claimed that she had died suddenly, and then dragged her body to Mr. Zhao to make amends, in exchange for Mr. Zhao not taking his anger out on Mr. Zhao As a result of a scholar, she will plead for them.

But at that time, she had learned such a cold and cruel truth from that maid. If she repayed her hatred with kindness again, then she would be a second fool who deserved to be murdered!

"Shut up Piaoxu to the woodshed, and don't let her eat or drink for three days!" The old man really hated Piaoxu, and his tone was extremely tough.

Piaoxu cried and defended herself, but she didn't get anyone's mercy. The big and round daughter-in-law proudly pushed her into the woodshed and locked the door of the woodshed.

"Isn't Ye Qiongdan's shop in the town going to open tomorrow? Let's go door-to-door and smash things, so that her shop can't be opened!" said the eldest daughter-in-law viciously.

Although the old man felt that it was a bit embarrassing to do so, he remained silent in the end.

The next morning, the pier shop.

Qili Town is the starting point of the Dalong Chaobei Grand Canal, and there are always people coming and going by the pier no matter what day it is.

At the end of Mao Dynasty, the guys from Chengbei Carpentry Shop moved in a newly made elm plaque. They removed the plaque of Chenji Dry Grain Shop by the wharf and put up a new plaque—Jiuwei Restaurant.

As soon as the plaque was hung, it immediately attracted discussions among many literati.

"Food has eight flavors, but this restaurant is called Jiuwei Restaurant. I don't know which flavor it has?"

"That's naturally the 'don't be a taste' in my heart, the taste of life."

"This name is wonderful. I think the person who came up with this name must have an exquisite heart. It's just that a person who has poetry and books in his stomach should have a noble temperament, so how can he open a vulgar restaurant for the inferior people? "

……

Ye Qiongdan heard the words, and said to the group of literati outside the door: "Wealth should be considered for its origin, and heroes don't ask where it comes from. The value of a food does not depend on the ingredients themselves, but on the delicious taste it brings to people. It is the same as the ingredients. , everyone is born unequal, but everyone’s sense of taste is the same. We love sweet, sour, and salty, but not bitter, astringent, and fishy. It’s as if each of us has the right to read. Men read, In the early days, she was the farmer, and in the evening, she went to the Tianzitang; women who study, can also do business and teach in the private sector, and in the palace, they are even more valuable as the emperor's secretary."

"So, why don't you put aside your prejudices and witness the miracle of taste brought by these ingredients? Don't you see that Gao Tang's mirror is sad and white, and the morning is like blue silk and the evening is snow. Life is full of joy, so don't let the golden cup be empty to the moon!" Ye Qiongdan Pointing to a framed picture in the store, he said, "Look, even the county magistrate has eaten my family's food, and he specially mentioned the four words 'ingenious' for my family's food!"

"What a rich man, think about the reason, and the hero doesn't ask where he came from!"

"It's a good life to be happy to the fullest, don't let the golden cup be empty to the moon!"

"This young shopkeeper is really a wonderful person! If we don't taste their food today, it will seem that we are vulgar. Come, come, let's try the food that even the county magistrate is full of praise for. How delicious the food is!"

……

After hearing Ye Qiongdan's remarks, those literati and inkmen already admired her very much. After hearing that the county magistrate also ate her family's food and admired it very much, they were even more eager to try it.

(End of this chapter)