Chapter 76 Is this really a word?
"You, you are Xiao Ling?" Chu Ang asked again and again uncertainly, and got an affirmative answer from Xiao Ling. At the same time, he took out the seal. Chu Ang did not ask any more questions, and took out the letter that he had protected all the way from his arms. The letter was a little wrinkled.
Chu Ang said: "This is the letter that Miss Xiao asked me to deliver."
Xiao Ling immediately recognized the handwriting of Xiao Jiuyue. He said, "Please come in." Xiao Ling invited Chu Ang into the house. After taking a few steps, he heard Chu Ang's cooing. Xiao Ling said, "Jia En, go to the kitchen and get some food."
"Okay." Xiao Jiaen responded, and soon came over with rice congee with shrimp and scallops.
"This, this is so embarrassing." Chu Ang swallowed his saliva. He had been frugal along the way, saving as much as he could. He came here safely, but this was the first time he saw rice!
"Eat it! You've worked so hard to deliver it, so I can't let you go empty-handed." Xiao Jialing handed over the shrimp and scallop rice. "It's just that there are so few supplies in Lingnan, I'm worried you won't be used to it."
"It's okay, it's okay, I'm used to eating anything." Chu Ang saw that Xiao Jialing was not being polite, so he took the rice soup and started eating it in big mouthfuls. As soon as he took a bite, the slightly salty rice soup made Chu Ang pause. This, this taste...
"There are a lot of seafood in Lingnan." Xiao Jialing explained. When they first arrived in Lingnan, none of the six of them knew how to cook. The seafood made them want to vomit, but it was much better than the hard steamed buns they had to chew on the road!
Gradually, they learned how to make rice porridge. Not only is it simple, but most importantly, it doesn't require much rice.
If there is not enough rice in a bowl of rice soup, just add more soup to fill your stomach.
It was thanks to Xiao Jiuyue that he sent the supplies, otherwise Chu Ang wouldn’t have been able to eat rice soaked with so little water today.
"I understand, I understand." Chu Ang didn't dislike it. Although it had a fishy smell, it was at least rice. He quickly ate the soaked rice.
Xiao Jialing went back to the room and read the letter with Old Man Xiao. Old Man Xiao said, "How come this poem is so mixed up?"
"Grandfather, Yue'er and I once read a miscellaneous book that said something was written in code." Xiao Jialing took a sharpened piece of charcoal, found a piece of rag, and copied the letter word for word.
After a long time, a complete letter appeared on the tattered cloth. Unlike the letter of safety sent by Master Meng, this letter was written in more detail.
"Yuer, you've learned how to do business." Xiao Jialing read the copied letter in one glance. After reading it, he sat down on the chair and asked, "Yuer, are you asking about the Xiangcheng dike breach?"
"Grandfather, Yue'er still wants to redress Dad!" Xiao Jialing instantly understood her plan. He said anxiously, "No, Grandfather, since the other party has put the blame on Dad, they must have a trick up their sleeve. What if Yue'er..."
"Jia Ling." Old Master Xiao's voice was deep and deep. Slowly, Xiao Jia Ling calmed down. Old Master Xiao's voice sounded again: "Yu'er has always been sensible in what she does. Take this time when delivering the letter for example. Yue'er would not be impulsive. But the messenger in the yard should be asked carefully."
"Grandfather is right." Xiao Jialing immediately stood up and went outside to get close to Chu Ang. Taking advantage of the fact that the New Year was approaching, Xiao Jialing successfully kept Chu Ang.
The Xiao family's old house.
Xiao Jiuyue looked at the account books and silver that Tang Tian had specially sent over, and asked the maid to help her write down the plan for the candy shop next year and some new pastry recipes she had come up with!
"This candy shop doesn't look that big. How can it possibly make so much money?" Lian Xin looked at the thick stack of banknotes. If this was the profit of the entire candy shop, she would believe it, but 30% profit...
Lianxin felt that her mind was a little confused.
"Do you think the fifty taels of silver from the lottery were really given away for free?" Xiao Jiuyue counted the silver bills, and there were a total of nine hundred taels of silver!
This is less than two months' worth of money. Fortunately, the Tang family has a lot of manpower and they found many pastry chefs in such a short time. Otherwise, the customers crowded in the candy shop would not be able to buy anything even if they wanted to!
"Today is also the day when the villagers distribute money, right?" Xiao Jiuyue raised her eyes. There was a cold wind outside the window, but the smiles of Aunt Shi and Aunt He yesterday always warmed her heart.
The people in Fu'an Village sold the oranges and the women who had nothing to do at home went to the workshop to can oranges and earn more money, while the men picked up their hoes and went to the mountains to dig winter bamboo shoots!
The silverfish and winter bamboo shoot soup at Fengchunlou alone is enough to buy up all the winter bamboo shoots in Fu'an Village. In addition, other restaurants followed suit and developed many ways to eat winter bamboo shoots. For a time, the winter bamboo shoots in the mountains became gold nuggets.
"Yes, right at the workshop entrance. I could hear everyone laughing even from the entrance. The money was distributed in baskets!" Luo Kui jumped out immediately after hearing this topic, her face filled with excitement and excitement. "Miss, you didn't see it. That scene was truly thrilling!"
Xiao Jiuyue raised her eyes and smiled faintly: "When you received your money yesterday, you smiled even happier than them."
"Hey, hey." Luo Kui took out a snack from his pocket and said, "Miss, this is what I bought at the county yesterday. It's cat ears. Look, it's crispy and delicious!"
"Try it." Xiao Jiuyue looked at the familiar cat ears and asked, "Where did you buy them?"
"An old lady was selling it. I tried one and it was super crispy and delicious." The woman squinted her eyes while eating. "How is it? Is it delicious?"
"Not bad." Xiao Jiuyue nodded and asked, "Have you arranged the New Year's Eve dinner for tomorrow?"
"Don't worry, miss. I'll do everything you tell me to do. I guarantee that tomorrow we'll have a lively New Year's celebration." Lianxin was full of energy. This was the first New Year's celebration since the young lady took over the family. Lianxin was eager to make it a lively one so that no one could find fault with it.
Luo Kui also said, "I have already cut window paper-cuts with Mother Yu and the others. Tomorrow morning, I will hang up the red silk."
She and Lianxin are responsible for decoration and dishes respectively, and the division of labor is very clear.
"Yeah." Xiao Jiuyue felt relieved after hearing that they had arranged everything properly. She looked through the account book, made a form directly, and pulled Xiao Jiayuan over to serve as a soldier!
Xiao Jiuyue used a form from later generations. Not only did it look clear at a glance, but most importantly, it could also teach Xiao Jiayuan how to do accounting.
"Sister, this is easy. I can do it." Xiao Jiayuan copied the contents of the account book word for word.
Xiao Jiuyue took a look at these capital numbers. If the characters were small, she wouldn't notice them, but when they were large, writing them would become slow. She said, "Jia Yuan, today I'm going to teach you a new way to count."
"This is one." Xiao Jiuyue directly compared the Arabic numerals to one, two, three, and four, writing them all clearly and distinctly, and said, "If it is one hundred and three, it is 130."
Xiao Jiayuan looked at the crooked Arabic numerals and asked, "Sister, are these really words?"
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