Chapter 30 The Old Lady Vomited Blood
"No problem." Xiao Jiuyue nodded confidently and reminded him, "Manager Zeng, I have one more thing to say. Scarcity makes things valuable. Boiled cabbage soup is very difficult to make, so it's best to limit the quantity."
"Then what about the price..." Zeng Qing looked at Xiao Jiuyue and asked. At this moment, he felt very excited. If Fengchunlou could really move to a higher level, would he be able to show up in front of his master?
"Drunkard peanuts, five coins, braised pig's trotters, forty coins, spicy pig's ears, forty-five coins, and as for the boiled cabbage..." Xiao Jiuyue paused and said, "Three hundred coins."
"Three hundred coins?"
Everyone in the room was stunned, even Lianxin and Luokui thought their young lady had gone crazy.
It's just a bowl of cabbage, and the soup is a little hard to cook. After all, they are looking at the young lady, and not only do they use a lot of ingredients, but the process is also complicated. However, this bowl of boiled cabbage at three hundred coins is much more expensive than meat.
"One coin of cabbage costs three thousand of boiled water. I'm only selling it for three hundred coins, which is already very cheap." Xiao Jiuyue took a sip of the tea and said, "What's more, everyone has a curiosity."
"The more unreasonable something is, the more it goes beyond everyone's cognition, the more everyone is curious." Xiao Jiuyue asked, "Manager Zeng, would you be willing to pay 300 coins for drinking boiled water and cabbage?"
"I'm willing." Zeng Qing nodded without thinking. Not to mention three hundred coins, even if it was three thousand coins, he might want to give it a try!
Zeng Qing now understood and said, "Miss Xiao, then shall we draw up an agreement?"
"Yes." Xiao Jiuyue nodded. Zeng Qing drafted the agreement very enthusiastically. She added a few clauses on the side. After the contract was finalized, Zeng Qing directly took out four hundred taels of silver and handed it forward.
Xiao Jiuyue glanced at Lianxin, who immediately took the banknote. Xiao Jiuyue said, "Manager Zeng, there's one more thing. The cabbage for boiling water must be of very good quality. The village where I live has particularly good cabbage."
Zeng Qing understood immediately after hearing this and said, "Thank you for the hard work, Miss Xiao, in getting the cabbage. The price will definitely not be worse than others."
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After coming out of the restaurant and getting on the carriage, Lianxin collapsed on the carriage.
Luo Kui was even more exaggerated. She supported Xiao Jiuyue and said, "Miss, just now, those four dishes were sold for one, one thousand taels of silver?"
This, this matter, even though she experienced it personally, it still felt like a dream.
"The four hundred taels of silver notes are all on you. Could there be any fake ones?" Xiao Jiuyue leaned against the carriage. She had practiced what she would say to Manager Zeng for a long time last night and had considered every aspect of it.
After she returns, she will have to think carefully about what dishes to use for the remaining six dishes.
"Miss, you are really amazing!" Luo Kui looked at Xiao Jiuyue with admiration.
Lian Xin didn't say anything, but the admiration in her eyes was also revealed. Xiao Jiuyue chuckled and said, "Come on, I'll take you to buy some delicious food!"
Xiao Jiuyue now began to immerse herself in strolling through the ancient streets.
"Delicious!" Luo Kui held the candied haws in his left hand and the sesame cake in his right hand, and ate them happily.
"Luo Kui, please don't eat anymore. Be careful your stomach might burst." Lian Xin touched her stomach. She really couldn't eat anymore.
She had just eaten a table full of dishes at Fengchunlou, and now she was eating candied haws. She couldn't eat anything at all.
"It's okay, just squeeze in, I can still eat it." Luo Kui's eyes narrowed from eating. She turned around and looked at Jin Wu who was carrying the candied haws stick and said, "The young master will definitely be very happy to see the candied haws."
Xiao Jiuyue curled her lips slightly and went straight into a paper shop. She bought two rolls of paper. The weather was getting colder and she probably wouldn't have much time to come to the county, so she bought some more to save herself the trouble of running around.
"Miss, one roll of paper is enough. Would you like to buy two rolls?" Luo Kui looked at the two rolls of paper that Manager Jin carried to the carriage. She thought, "The young master's hands are probably going to break from writing so much."
Xiao Jiuyue picked out a few high-quality brushes and an inkstone for Xiao Jiayuan.
While buying daily necessities along the way, she picked out a string of small-leaf red sandalwood Buddhist beads for her grandmother and a jade comb for her beautiful mother.
When Luo Kui saw the zither shop, she hurriedly took Xiao Jiuyue's hand and said, "Miss, zither, zither shop."
"No." Xiao Jiuyue raised his foot and stepped over, passing directly by the piano store.
Xiao Jiuyue is an excellent musician. This time, something happened to the Xiao family and her piano was destroyed. She hasn't played the piano for a long time. Now, she only has the theoretical knowledge of playing the piano, but she can't put it into practice at all!
Luo Kui's lips moved slightly, but in the end, she didn't say a word.
The carriage was heading towards Fu'an Village. Everyone was in a happy mood. Just as they reached the foot of the mountain, the voice of the chief steward Jin rang out: "Miss, Madam Gan is back."
Xiao Jiuyue lifted the curtain and looked at the carriage parked in front of the Xiao family's door. His eyes were slightly cold and he said, "Speed up."
"Yes." Steward Jin quickened the pace. As soon as the carriage came to a stop and Xiao Jiuyue hadn't gotten out yet, she heard Gan Li's scolding and Jin Wen's anxious voice: "Miss, you're finally back! The old lady is vomiting blood!"
"What?" Xiao Jiuyue jumped off the carriage and ran into the yard while giving orders: "Bring everyone in, no one is allowed to leave!"
Xiao Jiuyue ran through the front yard and all the way to the main courtyard. The cough of Old Madam Xiao, the crying of the beautiful mother, and the worried voice of Mother Jiang made her heart tighten.
"You must not tell Yue'er about this, so as not to make her worry." Old Madam Xiao's voice was weak, and she was still worried about Xiao Jiuyue.
"Grandma." Xiao Jiuyue's eyes were red as she asked, "How could you hide such a big thing from your granddaughter? Madam Xin, how is Grandma's health?"
Xiao Jiuyue anxiously looked at Madam Xin, the only woman in the Xiao family who knew medicine.
"Don't worry, Miss. The old lady is just anxious and angry. She took the medicine the doctor prescribed last time and is much better now. But today, she was upset and…" Madam Xin lowered her eyes and replied, adding, "I'm going to boil the medicine now."
Xiao Jiuyue sat by the bed, supporting Old Madam Xiao, and handed her some warm water while asking, "Mother Jiang, what happened?"
"Yuer, some small things." Old Madam Xiao winked at Mother Jiang.
"If grandma doesn't want to talk, then I won't go out anymore and will stay by your side. If you get wronged, I won't be able to stand up for you." Xiao Jiuyue's words made Old Madam Xiao speechless: "How can that be possible!"
How could it be possible for a girl like her to accompany an old woman every day?
"Young Miss." Mother Jiang couldn't help herself any longer and said, "That Madam Gan came and said she wanted to be your matchmaker."
Xiao Jiuyue's face darkened. Her grandmother was most worried about her marriage. She asked coldly, "Mother Jiang, which family did she say she wanted to marry me to?"
Madam Xiao said comfortingly, "Don't worry, Yue'er. I've already reprimanded Gan Li. No one can marry you off without your approval."
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