Chapter 62 Visiting the House
Wen Zhen saw that they were all a little nervous: "Grandma, relax, you said that Master Guocheng is a good person."
Mrs. Wen nodded and cheered up: "Let's go."
They went there in an ox cart, left the cart at the town gate, and walked to Cheng's house.
At the gate of Cheng's house, a servant had been waiting there for a long time. When he saw them coming, he hurried over to greet them: "Miss Wen, you are here."
"Come on, take me to see your master."
The servant walked in front and led the way: "Please follow me."
In the flower hall, Master Li Cheng and Scholar Shen were drinking tea.
Master Cheng looked at him and said, "Mr. Shen, you have to help me speak well of him later."
"You really think highly of me. I don't have that much face."
"After all, you are more familiar with their family than I am, so you can have a say in their affairs better than I can."
"That being said, it doesn't depend on others' willingness."
Master Cheng sighed, "I asked my son, and he said that the only time she was able to invite her to a birthday party was because she was short of money. Now that she's not short of money, I'm afraid it will be difficult to invite her."
Shen Xiucai put down the bowl and said, "Tell me honestly, did you invite them here today to express your gratitude, or do you have some other purpose?"
Mr. Cheng hesitated a little: "I, I also want to invite her to come to my house and be my cook."
Shen Xiucai smiled and shook his head: "This girl is not the kind of person who will stay quietly in one place."
Before Mr. Cheng wanted to say something else, the servants from the mansion came to say that the Wen family had arrived.
Shen Xiucai stood up and said, "Let's go and welcome her together!"
"Let's go!" Mr. Cheng also stood up and walked towards the door of the flower hall.
Wen Zhenyi was the one who met Master Cheng. The Wen family had only heard of him but had never seen him. However, when they saw that Mr. Shen was there too, they felt a lot more at ease.
Old Man Wen and the others greeted the two men: "Mr. Shen, Mr. Cheng."
Wen Zhenyi and the other three juniors bowed respectfully and greeted them: "Grandpa Shen, Master Cheng."
Mr. Cheng smiled and said, "Don't be polite. Please come in."
Everyone followed him into the flower hall and sat down. The maid served them tea and cakes and then left.
Mr. Cheng looked at the people from the Wen family and said, "I invited you all here today to thank you for helping me have an unforgettable birthday."
Old Man Wen smiled and said, "Mr. Cheng, you are too polite. We are just doing the job for money."
Master Cheng smiled and waved his hand: "There are many people who get paid to do things, but there are very few who can do things beautifully."
Old Lady Wen said: "We cannot accept Mr. Cheng's praise. We just want to do things well when we are paid. This is the only way to justify the money we received."
Mr. Cheng smiled and nodded: "I heard that you sell breakfast every day in the market?"
"Make a living."
Mr. Cheng looked at Mr. Shen and gave him a wink.
Shen Xiucai said helplessly: "Brother Wen, Master Cheng invited you here today for another matter."
Old Man Wen was a little slow to react: "What's the matter?"
"I want to invite Yi Yi from your family to work as a cook in the Cheng Mansion. You can ask for the monthly salary."
Wen Zhen had already guessed it when she arrived. She put down the teacup in her hand: "Grandpa Shen, Master Cheng, I'm sorry, I have no intention of becoming a cook in someone's house. I prefer a free and easy life."
Master Cheng said with some regret: "Ah! In this case, I won't force Miss Wen. I just want to ask, if I want you to help me prepare the banquet in the future, is it convenient?"
"Let's talk about it later. If I agree to it now, and then I can't come due to other things, it will spoil your fun."
Master Cheng was so conflicted! If that were the case, it would not be so easy to eat the food she cooked in the future. How could a gourmet like him bear this?
Seeing that he looked unhappy, Mr. Shen pulled his sleeve on the table.
Mr. Cheng immediately perked up: "In that case, let's talk about it later. Please don't be polite at today's thank you banquet."
As soon as the words were spoken, the maid came out with a tray and served the dishes.
Speaking of it, the cooks in the Cheng family are all very good. They just have fewer cooking techniques, but when it comes to steaming and boiling, they have already reached the pinnacle.
It should be like this if you go to a famous restaurant abroad to eat.
After Master Cheng tasted the food cooked by Wen Zhenyi, he originally thought that the cooking skills of the chefs in the mansion were all excellent, but now he found it bland.
The Wen family enjoyed the meal very much. Although their cooking skills were certainly not as good as Wen Zhenyi's, they also had their own strengths.
After dinner, Wen Zhenyi and the others also stood up and said goodbye.
Master Cheng escorted them out of the flower hall and turned to the housekeeper and said, "If the Wen family sets up a stall to sell food in the future, you must buy it back for me."
The butler saluted respectfully: "Yes, Master."
Shen Xiucai also left, preparing to leave with Wen Zhenyi and the others: "Brother Wen, are you going back to the village?"
"Yeah, do you want to go back?"
"I need to go back, but I'm going back to the private school to call Han Xing first."
"We'll be waiting for you at the town gate. You can take our ox cart back."
“You bought an ox cart!”
"Yeah, it's for convenience."
"Okay, I'll go to the city gate later."
Wen Zhenyi and his family walked out of the town alone.
"Grandpa, grandma, mom and dad, I want my brother and Xiaoman to go to a private school."
The whole family stopped at once and turned to look at her.
Wen Yongnan frowned and said, "Yi Yi, I can read, and I don't want to take the imperial examination."
"Sister, I can read too, although not many." Wen Yongman's voice sounded like a mosquito's hum at the end.
Wen Chengwen didn't know how to answer, so he could only look at this and that.
Wen Zhenyi smiled and said, "Brother, Xiaoman, going to a private school is not about passing the imperial examinations. It's just that these books contain a lot of principles of life and a lot of knowledge that we don't usually come into contact with."
Wen Yongnan was even more puzzled: "We can buy books and read them on our own. There's no need to go to a private school."
"It's not that you can't read, but you'll have fewer friends, brother. You can also make your own connections in a private school and have a different life experience."
Wen Yongnan didn't say anything else, just thought quietly.
Wen Yongman pulled her hand and said, "Sister, why don't you just go learn it and teach me?"
Wen Zhenyi looked down at her and said, "Reading and learning to read are a kind of inheritance. They allow you to better understand the world, let you know the wisdom of your predecessors, and also allow you to make up for the shortcomings of your predecessors and pass it on from generation to generation."
"I can teach you, but everyone has different interests. Besides, the private school has the Six Arts of a Gentleman. Don't you want to learn horseback riding? If you don't go to the private school, no one in your family will teach you how to ride."
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