Chapter 125 Doing Something
"This Wei Youshan was born into a poor farming family, but he was very intelligent. He would go to the school after work to eavesdrop and learn. He passed the examination at a young age. Wei Youshan wanted to study and take the examination for a scholar, so he hoped that his clan would provide financial support. However, the clan leader said that he could pay for the examination, but he could not afford the cost of studying."
"Wei Youshan had no money to support his studies, so he left Weijia Village and went to Jiangnian County to find a job copying books to make a living. The year before last, Wei Youshan came to Hedong Prefecture six months in advance to participate in the college entrance examination. Here, he copied books and sold poems while studying. He eventually passed the examination and entered the Jiangnian County School."
"Because Wei Youshan passed the imperial examination and was still young and unmarried, many people came to propose marriage to him. In the end, the one who was scheduled to marry Wei Youshan was the daughter of a wealthy businessman named Qiao in Jiangnian County. The two of them had gone through the formalities of marriage, and a few days before the wedding, the Qiao family discussed with Wei Youshan the carriage and sedan chair for the wedding, as well as the money and gifts. But they discovered that Wei Youshan was not in the small courtyard that the Qiao family had bought for him."
"At first, the Qiao family thought Wei Youshan had gone out for some reason, but they hadn't seen him for two days. When they went to the county school to inquire, none of the teachers and classmates had seen him. Only the neighbors said that they heard a quarrel in Wei Youshan's yard that morning, and then there was no movement. But they didn't worry about who had come or when Wei Youshan went out."
"After hearing about this, the Qiao family was afraid that Wei Youshan had been murdered by criminals, so they searched everywhere for him, but they could not find any news. They could only report Wei Youshan's disappearance to the county government, and even posted a reward list at the gate of the county town in the hope of finding Wei Youshan. As a result, more than a month later, Wei Youshan's body was found in a well in Hedong Prefecture."
After listening to Xing'an's story, He Yanxiu nodded, "I remember that I seemed to hear Prefect Qu talking about something like clothes, but is there anything unusual?"
He Yanxiu was busy with the affairs of the Mint and didn't worry about other things. He just overheard a few words by chance, but didn't take it to heart.
As a personal servant, Xing'an naturally had to be He Yanxiu's eyes and ears, so he paid attention to these things and found out everything.
"The clothes are ordinary clothes, but they don't seem to fit well and seem a bit long." Xing'an said, "But speaking of the clothes, the material seems to be good and the workmanship is quite exquisite. Wei Youshan is poor, but he can afford such good clothes. I wonder if the Qiao family bought them for him..."
"I see." He Yanxiu nodded slightly.
Xing'an was confused when he saw He Yanxiu like this. "What does Second Master mean by this?"
"Go do something."
He Yanxiu ordered. ——Su Yujin's sour radish and old duck soup was soon served on the table.
During the stewing process, I suddenly changed my mind and decided to use the sour radish and duck soup as the base of the pot and have a vegetable hotpot.
Duck meat is slightly cool, and drinking duck soup in spring can reduce noise and relieve internal heat. Add some vegetables and cook it, and it has a light taste and is comfortable to eat.
Su Yujin asked Ai Cao and Qing Kui to prepare tofu, spring bamboo shoots, spinach, lotus root slices and other vegetables suitable for hot pot.
Ai Cao hesitated for a while and said, "Miss, when you were busy in the kitchen just now, the Second Master came over and saw that these two clothes were made for him, so he asked Xing'an to take the clothes back first."
"Yeah." Su Yujin nodded.
She would rather go there specially to deliver it.
"Did the Second Master say whether the clothes were suitable?"
"without……"
He just didn't look very happy when he left.
When Ai Cao was hesitating whether to tell Su Yujin about He Yanxiu's serious expression when he saw the mandarin duck purse, He Yanxiu and Xing'an had already entered the house.
"I used pickled radish and stewed old duck as the base for the hot pot. I was wondering if Second Master would like it. I was thinking whether I should ask Second Master to come over for lunch."
Su Yujin smiled in a very servile manner.
"What a coincidence! I was just wondering what you were going to cook for lunch today, so I thought I'd give it a try." He Yanxiu sniffed the aroma coming out of the pot, "It seems to taste good."
The sour taste of pickled radish and the fresh fragrance of duck linger in your nose, making you salivate.
He Yanxiu suddenly felt hungry and was looking forward to lunch, so he simply sat down. Without waiting for Su Yujin to lift the lid of the casserole, he impatiently picked up the chopsticks and prepared to dig in.
Looking at He Yanxiu with a faint smile on his face and his eyes full of his usual gentleness, Ai Cao blinked.
How come the Second Master didn't look unhappy at all, but rather a little...happy? Could it be that when she saw the Second Master's unhappy face earlier, it was just her eyes were blurry?
Ai Cao scratched his ears, then went to prepare bean curd skin, white jade mushrooms and other food, and rolled some noodles by the way.
It is most comfortable to cook some noodles at the end of this kind of hot pot and eat a bowl of hot noodles.
The beauty of April is gone, especially because of the light rain last night, the ground is covered with petals of various colors.
By May, the weather will start to get hot and people will change into thinner summer clothes, so many people will order summer clothes at this time, which makes Linglong Pavilion very busy at this time.
They need to purchase cloth and various silk threads, receive various orders, measure at customers' homes, come back to cut, embroider, and sew, then wash, iron, and deliver them to customers.
The busiest people at this time are the embroiderers.
Dozens of embroiderers are busy in the embroidery room. The slender and smooth needles in their hands are decorated with long silk threads, which fly up and down on the flat cloth stretched out on the embroidery frame. All kinds of patterns come to life on the embroidery cloth.
Only Madam Fang was staring at the petals falling outside from time to time.
Madam Yun beside her patted her on the shoulder and said, "Why are you still in a daze? If you can't finish these tasks, I'm afraid you won't even have time for dinner."
She added, "You seem to be absent-minded these days and your work is slow. Although you can finish the work by staying up late at night, it is very harmful to your eyes to embroider in front of the oil lamp all the time. You may not make much money, but your eyes will be damaged in a few years."
Let her suffer from it, anyway she doesn't want to be an embroiderer anymore and make clothes for others.
Seeing that Madam Fang was indifferent to her persuasion, Madam Yun became more and more worried. "You used to be very hardworking. You refused to even take a break for a cup of tea. After finishing your own work, you would take on more. Why have you become more lazy recently?"
"Could it be that the silver is not attractive enough and can no longer motivate you to make money?" Madam Yun simply joked.
yes.
Silver is really not fragrant enough.
This silver is smelly, and even anyone who touches it becomes smelly.
Madam Fang bit her lower lip, and a few beads of blood came out.
(End of this chapter)
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