When Sun Laohuo learned that the wealthy businessman who had given him the golden sword was actually the boss of an acting troupe invited from Xiyong County by Zhang Sanzhuang for five taels of silver to perform, he was furious. Was he spending money specifically to piss him off?
Another five taels of silver?
Okay, this son-in-law has a fat butt, so he will give him five taels of it to beat him!
After Miao Wan left, everyone in the restaurant heard their boss's screams become even more miserable, howling like a dog crying.
In the evening, some diners would laugh at him, "Manager Zhang, where did you fall? Why are you limping?"
Zhang Sanzhuang smiled bitterly, "Where did it fall? It fell under my father-in-law's firewood stick."
Fortunately, Zhang Sanzhuang was only feeling the pain physically. When it got even colder at night, the hot steam from Boxia made the lobby warm and fragrant. There were more diners than at noon, and the comfort in his heart comforted his butt very well.
Boxiagong has always been suitable for gathering together to eat in a lively atmosphere.
As the charcoal fire burns, white smoke from the soup base rises, mixed with various rich and fragrant aromas lingering in the air, making people shiver all over as soon as they enter the door.
Not to mention, after eating the Bo Xia Gong and returning home, the fragrance will linger on your body, and the delicious taste of the soup will linger in your dreams.
Fish and mutton with mutton bone soup as the base can also be made into spicy soup, and pork bone soup can be made into clear soup by adding cinnamon, star anise, onion, ginger and garlic. These can barely be considered four kinds of soup bases and two kinds of double-flavored hot pots.
This gave diners a much wider range of choices, and even the owners of the Gull tribe shops in Wa City came.
Even though the spicy skewers in front were vegetarian, they rarely ate them. It’s not that they didn’t crave them, but some of them didn’t eat anything related to pork. There were also few mutton soup bases at that time.
Now you can eat whatever you want.
The soup base alone is not enough, there are also lamb rolls as thin as a cicada's wing, dense and chewy chicken meatballs, snow-white and tender fish fillets, and various lamb and chicken offal. They are slightly boiled with dogwood oil and sesame oil, and the fragrance can penetrate into your soul.
There are also many more vegetarian dishes that were not available before, such as tofu and frozen tofu, as well as vegetarian tripe and fried bean curd balls. They are rich in bone broth and have the fragrance of vegetarian dishes. They are delicious even without dipping sauce.
Each dish is not expensive, and a large plate of meat only costs ten copper coins. After entering the restaurant, diners order a combination of meat and vegetables. If they finish a dish, they will order another plate. The more they eat, the more excited they become.
The extra pig that Zhang Sanzhuang asked his elder brother to kill yesterday was used as soon as the lights were turned on.
Originally, they wanted to kill two sheep, but they were all used up at noon, so they asked Zhang Dazhuang to kill two more sheep to make up the difference.
Most of the chickens raised by the Zhang family have been killed, and the remaining ones may not be enough for tomorrow's use. They will probably have to go to the countryside to collect chickens starting tomorrow.
It’s easy to imagine that the Zhang family will be very busy again tomorrow.
Zhang Sanzhuang was also happy. It was like watching silver falling from the sky. He was willing to hold the basket and catch it no matter how hard it was!
If you say he was in pain and happy, Su Rina's body was fine, at most she was about to vomit blood from anger.
Ever since the rouge shop started selling new rouge and powder, many of its old customers in the county town have flocked to it.
During this period, many customers have realized the usefulness of the products, and second and third batches of repeat customers have come. Some even buy dozens of sets to give to relatives and friends.
Every day when the two rouge shops opened, maids and servants from various families would line up in front of the doors to buy things for their masters. It had become a common sight in the county town.
Su Rina felt proud. Agula had been living in her house almost all the time recently, which made her feel comfortable both physically and mentally.
Who doesn’t want to have her husband in her room every night?
The brothers Agula and Bayin were just like the princes and nobles of Northern Mongolia. Although they attached great importance to their wives, they had many female slaves and concubines around them.
In Northern Mongolia, children born outside of marriage are raised like slaves and have no inheritance rights. The best they can do is work alongside legitimate children, which basically leaves the wife with nothing to say.
Even if a concubine became too favored, Lady Beimeng could whip her to death, and the men in the family would not care. At most, they would just find a few more favorites.
But Su Rina is different, because she is a princess, Agula respects her more, and the love between them is not as good as that between Bayin and his wife.
So she only had one daughter and one son, which was not as many as the concubines below her had.
Now that Agula can be kept in the house, she is not very old and may even give birth to a few legitimate sons. Su Rina uses the things from Qianjinlou more frequently than the customers who buy them back.
The Chu pottery jar for shower gel is of big-bellied and wide-mouthed style, the size of a palm, which looks very cute. If an average person uses a normal amount once a day, it can last for two to three months. If used every few days, it can last for half a year.
But Su Rina didn't lack the money, so she put it directly in the bathtub, took a bubble bath without any instruction, and then rinsed it with clean water.
After soaking in the bathtub, her body had a sweet smell of milk, which Surina particularly liked.
So she uses up her shower gel very quickly and has already changed to her second bottle in a month and a half.
Normally, it was her maid who took the shower gel, and she herself could not see what was inside. Moreover, the maid was illiterate, so the first bottle did not make any noise.
But this day, Su Rina was in a good mood. She took the jar and hummed a song while scooping shower gel into the bathtub. She scooped out a piece of cloth.
There was a line of blue and purple words on the cloth: Congratulations to this distinguished guest, you have won a prize and can get a bottle of shower gel for free at Qianjinlou.
Su Rina: “…” Eliminate!
Her expression changed instantly. There was a golden message "Produced by Qianjinlou" on the lower right corner of the note.
She was so angry that she threw the pot aside, "Asshole! Qianjinlou is simply alive..."
Before she could finish her words, the bottom of the broken clay jar was revealed in front of her, with a line of words engraved on it: Dear guest, if you collect ten clay jars and return them to Qianjin Tower, you can buy a new bottle of shower gel at half price.
Su Rina: "..." This was the first time she cursed in her heart in her more than thirty years of life.
"Okay! Okay! The Qiao family is tired of living like this!" Su Rina was so angry that she couldn't even take a bath.
She returned to the room with a dark face and smashed all the rouge and powder she had used on the table.
Sure enough, I saw the same words in it, but the collected quantities were different.
Seeing her master so angry, the maidservant beside her whispered, "Madam, there are also scratches on the last empty bottle of shower gel."
Su Rina shouted, "Then why didn't you tell me?"
The maid quickly knelt down and said, "Madam, calm down. I thought it was a pattern. You were talking to the master at the time, so I didn't report it."
Su Rina was so angry that she kicked her away. Agula came in just in time and was puzzled to see Su Rina's furious look.
"What's going on?"
Su Rina snorted coldly, "It's all the Qiao family's clever scheme. They're opening Qianjinlou in Xining Town, so we, the Wuliangha, should be in charge of the county town, right? They don't say anything openly, they supply us with goods at a low price in a nice tone, and then they turn around and tamper with the goods. Get my whip! I'm going to whip them to death!"
Agula didn't understand and glanced at the mess on the table. "How did you plot against us?"
"Look for yourself!" Surina was so angry that her head felt dizzy.
"So much merchandise has already been sold, and almost all the prominent families have come to buy. Who would still come to the Wu Rouge Shop if they saw the words 'Qianjinlou' inside? The Qiao family is really calculating, and it's obvious that they are trying to steal our Wuliangha family's customers!"
Agula understood, but he didn't quite understand why his wife was so angry.
"Didn't we plan to target the Qiao family first? We're not as skilled as them, so what can you use to cause trouble?"
Su Rina: "..." Her face turned pale and blue.
It was she who took the initiative to ask to go to Jufu Restaurant to meet Qiao Ruichen's wife, with the intention of intervening. To be honest, she really had no reason to go there.
The recipe for milk blocks was free, and the recipe for milk tofu was also given to them for free. In fact, because the Qiao family had been collecting wool and sheep dung from the Wulingha clan, the people in the Wulingha tribe had extra money that year.
At the beginning, Qiao Ruichen made it clear that he wanted to use this route to open the gate of General Dingbei's Mansion.
Later, to be safe, the brothers Agula and Bayin turned a blind eye and let Su Rina make a fuss.
Even after learning about the value of Qianjin Building, they couldn't help but intervene and try to lower the price. The fact that the Qiao family could fight back so calmly was already giving face to the Wulingha.
After hearing the news from Bayin, Agula felt mixed emotions. He just smiled and shook his head, "Forget it, Madam, don't be angry. You told me before that we should hold the initiative in our hands so that we can advance or retreat in the future. Since there is no evidence, it is possible.
But what about now? The Qiao family is not easy to bully. If you suppress them and beat them, they will turn around and make you suffer a loss. "
Su Rina was still angry. When she thought about the goods sold by Wu's Rouge Shop in the past two months, it was almost as if she had personally delivered them to Qianjinlou from the customers. Her head was buzzing with anger.
"No, I still have to go to Xining Town. Can't I just say whatever I want to say? I have to settle this account with them!"
"Su Rina, if I tell you directly, will you give up so easily?" Agula stopped her and looked at Su Rina with a frown.
"Have you forgotten how we took down Qianjin Tower? And did you hear what I just said?"
"Are you blaming me?" As the princess of Beimeng, Su Rina usually doesn't want to make Agula angry. That's because she wants her husband and wife to live in harmony. It doesn't mean that she is afraid of Agula.
No matter whether Agula wanted to smooth things over or had other plans, she would not allow herself to be bullied.
She waved away Agula's hand and said, "Let's break up again when I come back—"
Before she finished speaking, she realized, "General Dingbei is colluding with Xifan. Do you have evidence?"
"Yes, but it hasn't been confirmed yet. Things that are not suitable for us to do can be done by the Qiao family." Agula knew that his wife was impatient, so he pulled her to sit down.
"I'm not blaming you. When we first opened the rouge shop, Qiao Ruichen and I had the same idea. Now that he's done well, we don't need the money from these two shops. If your Abu puts pressure on you again, I'll handle it. You don't have to take on everything."
Su Rina was stunned for a moment. When she heard her husband say this, her eyes turned red and the grievance in her heart suddenly came up.
She also didn't want to be so petty, never wanting to take advantage of others and not wanting to suffer any loss.
But the Qiyan clan needed money, and the Wulingha clan had to rely on the Qiyan clan for support, but such a large tribe also needed money and food to support it.
Even if she was a princess, so what? She still had to run back and forth for these yellow and white things. Fortunately, Agula understood these grievances.
Su Rina's expression softened a bit. "We can't just let Qianjinlou plot against us like this. If they can plot against us this time, there's no guarantee they won't plot against us in other matters!"
Agula felt that what Su Rina said made sense. "Let the manager take charge of the rouge shop first. You will leave today and return to Northern Mongolia to talk to Abu."
As the head of the Wuliangha clan, he had to make plans for his family. "If we can ask Han Erduo of the Qiyan clan to station at the border, I will immediately send someone to deliver the message to you when I have news. If necessary, we can imitate the Xiban people and pretend to be bandits. We won't kill innocent people. We can rush into the Dingbei General's Mansion and kill Chen Sixu."
Agula had had this idea a long time ago. He must avenge his Abu and Eji. Chen Sixu has become more and more greedy in recent years. If he replaced him with General Dingbei, maybe everyone's life would be better.
Su Rina originally thought that she had to ask Qianjinlou to compensate her for half of the goods. It was impossible to stop selling them, as that would push customers towards Qianjinlou.
But people in the county town, even if they knew that this was Qianjinlou's product, as long as she also sold it here, not many would go far away to buy it.
Therefore, no matter how Qianjinlou planned, she had to go through Wu's Rouge Shop. She was sure to earn this money!
But what Agula said was right, she knew what was more important.
Su Rina thought about it and agreed.
A few days later, Ruan Jialin returned home to tell Miao Wan the good news, "Awan, come quickly. The owner of the Wu Rouge Shop wants to redeem his prize and exchange his jars for new goods. I heard that the reputation of our Qianjinlou has spread throughout the county. Didn't you see how gloomy the owner's face was? Hahaha..."
Seeing Ruan Jialin excitedly learning the Xining dialect, Miao Wan knew there was more to be happy about. She held Taotao and let her jump around, "What else?"
Ruan Jialin chuckled, "And there's that Lady Agula. I heard she was furious and wanted to cause trouble for us, but she was chased back to Northern Mongolia by the Wuliangha family's master!"
Miao Wan was a little sensitive to the word "drive away". "Isn't Su Rina a princess? So she was driven away like that?"
She is not a saint, but the head of the Wuliangha family is so cruel to his own wife. Will there be any problems if my father and husband trust the Wuliangha family?
Miao Wan is a bit sensitive when it comes to matters concerning her mental stability, and would rather worry about nothing than not think about everything.
Ruan Jialin understood the situation. "Well, that's what I think. People say the Madam went back to attend her father's birthday and left in style. But I was thinking, she was so excited about the business in the county town, and she left so suddenly, it's a bit strange."
Miao Wan finally breathed a sigh of relief. No matter what, it was a good thing that Su Rina left.
Just like Lu Chenxi, every time Lu Chenxi wants to make trouble, Miao Wan feels really nervous. This sister is as stubborn as a donkey, and she won't turn back even if she hits the wall.
"Speaking of happy things, they happen one after another." Ruan Jialin continued with a beaming expression, "Before closing time, someone from Bayin came over and told me to tell you that the treasure you asked him to find has been found!"
Ruan Jialin was curious all the way, "What treasure?"
Taotao was still jumping around, but when he heard the word "baby", he immediately turned around and said to his cousin, "Ahhh, I'm here."
Ruan Jialin: "...Well, besides our Taotao, what else is your treasure?"
Taotao looked at Miao Wan in confusion.
Although she knew her daughter might not understand, Miao Wan denied it righteously, "Except Taotao, of course not—"
Qiao Ruichen just came back and appeared at the door.
Miao Wan immediately changed her words, "No one can compare to Taotao and my husband—"
Qiao Rui also poked her head in.
Miao Wan: “…”
She simply started to flatter, "Anyway, apart from Taotao, my parents-in-law, my sister-in-law, and my husband, I don't have any other treasures!"
Ruan Jialin glanced at Qiao Ruichen silently. He seemed to understand something from the order in which his cousin spoke.
Qiao Ruichen also felt it, but he didn't dare to cut in line like the ones in front of him.
He nodded gently at Ruan Jialin, "It's saltpeter. Bayin didn't send anyone to look for it carefully a while ago. After I told him about it, he found it in the Hehuang Valley."
This thing is used as medicine and is also poisonous. No one in Bayin's possession knew about it before, and no one wanted to take the trouble to look for it carefully.
However, after Qiao Ruichen discovered that there were Northern Mongolian slaves in Chen Sixu's mansion, Bayin immediately became active and found traces of saltpeter in just a few days.
Miao Wan was stunned and speechless for a moment.
Saltpeter?
If it were summer, it would be a treasure, but it’s winter now!
What? Are you going to take it back now and let me eat popsicles in bed?
The author has something to say:
Surina is offline now. I won't write about her in detail later. The extra space in the front is to promote an important plot, which will be here soon~
The second update is around 22:00~
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