"I reckon it's a wealthy family from town coming to ask for Yao's hand in marriage. You didn't see it, the procession of the carriages was huge. I only had that kind of procession when the Zhao family from town married the Wang family from the next village."
Aunt Fang spoke with great conviction and vivid detail.
Someone in the crowd chimed in:
"What Aunt Fang said makes sense. After all, our Yao is so outstanding, it's normal for people to come and propose marriage."
"When I passed by the Pei family just now, I saw what that man looked like. He was really good-looking, tsk tsk tsk, way better than that kid Qingshan from our village..."
Qingshan, who was listening to gossip in the crowd: I didn't do anything to you...
Pei Yao became increasingly confused. Someone was asking her for marriage?
How could she not know?
What is all this nonsense?
"Auntie, was that person really looking for me?" Pei Yao couldn't help but ask, unable to suppress her doubts.
Aunt Fang thought for a moment, then said seriously, "Yes, I saw him directly..."
Aunt Fang suddenly stopped and slowly turned her head to look at Pei Yao...
When the others saw that Aunt Fang stopped talking, they urged her, "What's wrong, Li family's daughter-in-law? Why did you stop halfway through your sentence? Continue!"
"That's right, did Li's wife choke on a toad?"
Aunt Fang pointed somewhat guiltily to Pei Yao beside her, and everyone suddenly realized that the voice that had just spoken was Pei Yao's...
Although these people weren't saying anything bad about Pei Yao, they just felt inexplicably guilty.
Especially since the person involved caught them red-handed.
Everyone scratched their heads awkwardly.
"Yao, Yao, you're back."
Aunt Fang even stuttered a little when she spoke.
Pei Yao looked at everyone with an innocent expression, somewhat puzzled as to why they had stopped talking.
Pei Yao asked again, "Aunt Fang, did you really see that person go to my house?"
Aunt Fang nodded quickly, then shook her head, somewhat guiltily saying, "I didn't actually see it with my own eyes; I just heard about it..."
Seeing that they were unreliable, Pei Yao had no choice but to take the mint leaves and walk home by herself to see what was going on.
When Pei Yao arrived home, the scene at the entrance of the courtyard was indeed much as the villagers had described, with several horse-drawn carriages parked there.
Moreover, the carriage looks quite luxurious.
Pei Yao walked to the door with some doubt, and heard hearty laughter coming from inside.
That laughter sounds familiar...
It sounds familiar...
Could it be that someone has actually proposed marriage to me?
Pei Yao had a few question marks in her head, then shook her head to shake the thought away.
Stepping into the courtyard, Pei Yao noticed several unfamiliar faces.
Yunniang and Chen Fang were facing Pei Yao, while a group of people were sitting at a table in the courtyard, talking about something.
Pei Yao felt that the two unfamiliar figures with their backs to her looked very familiar, but she couldn't remember who they were for a moment.
But she soon found out who it was.
Yunniang spotted Pei Yao walking towards them at a glance and waved to her happily, "Yao'er, come here quickly."
As Yunniang called out, the two figures with their backs to Pei Yao turned around.
Pei Yao recognized the two familiar, devilishly handsome faces immediately.
"Young Master Lin, Young Master Gu, what brings you to my house?" Pei Yao exclaimed in surprise as she looked at Gu Mingqian and Lin Shaoqing.
How could these two know where I live?!
Could it really be a marriage proposal? Pei Yao shook her head, banishing this absurd thought from her mind.
When Lin Shaoqing saw that it was Pei Yao, he immediately got up and walked over, his eyes shining as he looked at Pei Yao: "Miss Pei, you're back."
Pei Yao nodded, her face full of confusion.
Unlike his previous cold treatment, Gu Mingqian's tone was noticeably gentler when he saw Pei Yao this time.
"Miss Pei, it's been a long time."
Gu Mingqian was dressed in a white robe, and his long black hair was tied on top of his head with a silver-white hair crown, making him look elegant and refined.
Gu Mingqian had a faint smile on his face, but his eyes couldn't hide his appreciation for Pei Yao.
Pei Yao calmly replied, "Long time no see."
His face remained filled with doubt.
Seeing the confusion on Pei Yao's face, Gu Mingqian quickly explained, "Miss Pei, it's like this..."
Gu Mingqian came this time to get another batch of goods from Pei Yao. The first batch he got from Pei Yao became an instant hit almost immediately after arriving in the capital, and the first, second, and third batches sold out very quickly...
Gu Mingqian thought Pei Yao's products would sell well, but he didn't expect them to sell this well!
It's selling ridiculously well.
So he quickly traveled directly from Kyoto by waterway to get the goods again.
Traveling by water from Kyoto to Lingnan takes quite a while, about two months round trip.
To save time, Gu Mingqian didn't even rest when he came over.
Pei Yao knew that Gu Mingqian would definitely come back to order more goods from her, since she was very confident in her lychee wine and ice jelly.
She just didn't expect it to happen so quickly.
Pei Yao listened to Gu Mingqian's words and looked at the faint dark circles under his eyes, and couldn't help but sigh.
This guy is already so rich, yet he's still working so hard...
"How much goods does Young Master Gu want?" Pei Yao asked.
Don't worry about the seeds of the Pili fruit. The harvest season for Pili fruit is relatively long, and right now is the perfect season for the fruit to ripen.
There's no problem with lychee wine. Pei Yao's family has a whole room full of dried lychees, all of them peeled and pitted, pure lychee flesh. Not only does his family have them, but other villagers' families also have a lot. Previously, because Pei Yao's family couldn't store them all, many villagers had stockpiled their goods at home.
Even if the villagers have run out of supplies, they can still collect some from other villages. Some people who love lychees will dry some during the lychee harvest season every year.
So the raw materials aren't in a rush, it's just that it takes time to make them.
Gu Mingqian came here this time to take more goods back with him, planning to make a big splash in Kyoto and bring his Gu family's reputation in the business world back to its peak.
The Gu family owns several large restaurants in the capital, and they are all very famous restaurants, frequented by high-ranking officials and nobles.
So when the ice jelly and lychee wine arrived at his restaurant, they were sold for dozens of times the original price.
Pei Yao only sells a bowl of ice jelly for ten coins, while Gu Mingqian sells it for one tael of silver.
Pei Yao sold lychee wine for one tael of silver, while Gu Mingqian directly sold it for many times more to the female relatives of high-ranking officials and nobles.
These people have no shortage of money, so this amount of money is nothing to them.
For them, being able to eat such novel things with such a small amount of money was simply too good to pass up.
Some wealthy people who love the flavor of lychee even offered high prices to snatch up lychee wine.
Gu Family Restaurant's reputation has soared once again in Kyoto!
"Two thousand more jars of lychee wine, and twenty thousand catties of ice jelly seeds!"
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