my grandmother

Chapter 88
Li Xiaonan followed Gu Yan, watched the two weaving workshops of brocade and jacquard muslin dumbfounded the whole time, asked Zhou Langzhong a bunch of questions, and was satisfied.

"What time is it?" Gu Yan asked casually with a bored look.

"The third quarter of noon." Shi Gun hurriedly leaned forward to answer.

"It's time to eat, what do you want to eat?" Gu Yan turned around and asked Li Xiaonan.

Li Xiaonan was stunned by Gu Yan's question, and then said: "I'll go home and eat, sister Mei should cook."

"It takes half an hour to get to your house from here!" Gu Yan cast a disgusted glance at Li Xiaonan, looked at Zhou Langzhong, frowned and asked, "Are there any well-known restaurants nearby? Oh, yes!"

Gu Yan slapped the folding fan on the palm of his hand.

"I've heard that the food made by you in Pingjiang is very good. I just want to try it. Which kitchen is the closest?" Gu Yan looked very interested.

"Third kitchen, my son is still going to the small kitchen..." Zhou Langzhong said bitterly.

The son of the world wants to have lunch at their weaving department, why didn't he say it earlier!

Now at the third quarter of the noon, meals from every kitchen are brought out. There are [-] kitchens in their weaving department, which kitchen can serve the meals in front of this grandson?
The legend is excellent, that is, the meals are purchased and prepared a day or two in advance, or even a month or two months!

The waywardness of this elder son is really real, there is no falsehood at all!
"Let's go to the third kitchen?" Gu Yan looked at Li Xiaonan and smiled as if he didn't hear Zhou Langzhong's suggestion.

Li Xiaonan nodded repeatedly.

The weaving workshop was as spacious and tall as the big factories of the later generations, and the astonishing jacquard looms were comparable to the assembly line operations of the later generations. She was full of expectations for the canteen of the Weaving Department.

Li Xiaonan nodded, Gu Yan lifted her foot and walked out.

Zhou Langzhong had no choice but to follow behind, struggling to make the best effort. "My lord, there are many people in the third kitchen, so I'd better go to the small kitchen, my lord..."

The eldest son, Gu Yanli, ignored Zhou Langzhong, and followed the lead guide, and went straight to the third kitchen.

After dozens of steps away, a strong smell of boiled cabbage hits my face.

Gu Yan frowned.Li Xiaonan sniffled, turned her head to look at Wan Qing, smiled and said, "It smells like smoked fish, do you smell it?"

Wan Qing lowered her eyebrows and lowered her eyes, pretending she didn't hear.

"Master, you still go to the small kitchen..." Zhou Langzhong was still making the last effort.

The third kitchen is spacious and lively, and the Weaver Girls are in groups of three or four, holding big bowls, sitting at the long table, talking and laughing as they eat.

Gu Yan went straight to the big table where the food was distributed.

The large table is full of large coarse porcelain bowls, and there are three large buckets next to it. One bucket contains brownish rice with blackish yellowish color, one bucket contains boiled cabbage, and the other bucket is piled with large pieces of smoked fish. .

The Weaver Girls took the bowls and took a piece of rice, a spoonful of cabbage, and two pieces of smoked fish in turn.

Seeing Gu Yan, who was dressed in brocade clothes and had an extraordinary bearing, rushed straight over, followed by Zhou Langzhong, the head of the weaving department, and the thick women who were serving meals were frightened and froze like puppets.

Gu Yan carefully looked at the rice, smelled the cabbage, couldn't help it, and took half a step back.

Li Xiaonan craned her neck, looked at the big bucket of smoked fish, and sniffled.

This smoked fish is so delicious!

Gu Yan had already stood in front of boiled cabbage, and there was no way to save it. Zhou Lang calmed down, and said with a dry smile, "Master, would you like...to try it?"

"Smoked fish needs such a big bucket to taste, do you want to try it?" Li Xiaonan turned her head and asked Wan Qing.

She's a little hungry, the smoked fish is delicious!

Wan Qing lowered her eyebrows and lowered her eyes, turning a deaf ear.

Gu Yan turned his head to look at Li Xiaonan, and after a moment, stretched out his folding fan, poking her to go outside, "Go and see their small kitchen."

"That smoked fish!" Li Xiaonan looked back at the bucket of smoked fish.

She hasn't eaten smoked fish from the cafeteria in years!
Gu Yan firmly pushed Li Xiaonan out.

Shi Gun winked at the servant next to him, and the servant immediately took a step back, grabbed Zhou Langzhong, and pointed to the smoked fish. Zhou Langzhong understood, hurried over, and quietly ordered the mother-in-law to bring a large bowl of smoked fish to the front.

Li Xiaonan followed Gu Yan to look at the weaving workshop, asked all the questions she could think of, and then ate a small meal from the weaving department. When she got off at the entrance of Cailian Alley, Shi Gun secretly stuffed her with a big bag The small burden of a bowl of smoked fish is enough for this day.

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Gu Yan got off his horse at the gate of Bieye, and Wang Gui rushed out from the gatehouse to greet him.

"What happened?" Gu Yan asked as he walked in.

Yesterday around Haizheng, one of Yao Wu's brothers rode a horse and rushed to Bieye covered in hot sweat. He asked Shizi to go to Linhai Town immediately, saying that something serious happened.

Gu Yan didn't see him, and only let Wang Gui follow him to Linhai Town.

"The day before yesterday, Yao Wu and the others took over the job of unloading a fleet of silk. Yao Wu found that the amount of silk they unloaded did not match the cargo list issued by the Hangzhou Weaving Department. Yao Wu said he had estimated it. , the silk on board must be 10,000+ silver more than the manifest.

"Yao Wu just found an excuse to delay the unloading of the goods, let people look at this batch of silk, and immediately sent someone to report." Wang Gui replied with his hands down.

Although he was not very clear about the purpose of their elder son to put Yao Wu and others in Linhai Town, but Yao Wu stopped these silks so abruptly and sent someone to report to Bieye, this matter is definitely inappropriate.

Gu Yan suddenly stopped, looked at Wang Gui, opened his mouth, but couldn't speak, only sighed heavily.

With 10,000+ silver, this Yao Wu was caught out of the water!
This idiot!

Gu Yan stopped, took a deep breath and exhaled slowly.

Yao Wu can't be blamed entirely, it's because he was careless again, Nana Nizi can drool over the bucket of sweaty and dirty smoked fish, how can Yao Wu, a poor bodyguard, do well?
10,000+ silver!

Now I can only use my tricks and play out a picture that I have never seen in the world to the end.

"Go to Linhai Town." Gu Yan ordered, then turned and walked out.

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When people are quiet, in the small stone courtyard next to the Linhai Zhenhai Taxation Department.

Only one oil lamp was lit in the main room, and He Chengze, the head of He Ji's old account, sat cross-legged under the oil lamp, facing the account book, and slowly turned the abacus beads around the account.

A burst of hurried footsteps came to the door, the curtain was raised, He Ruiming called Dad, and entered the room.

"Leaving?" He Chengze closed the ledger.

"Just left." He Ruiming sat across from his father He Chengze, "I lost my temper and said that I will deal with it strictly. I also said that I would go to Hangzhou to strictly investigate the Hangzhou Weaving Department. I rewarded Yao Wu with 100 taels of silver."

He Chengze frowned, and sighed heavily for a moment.

"Father?" He Ruiming looked at his father, hesitated, and asked, "What does Father want to see?"

"I want to see the tolerance of our little master, alas." He Chengze sighed again.

He Ruiming frowned, with a puzzled look on his face, "Isn't that good? Shizi is not a scheming man, so we can understand him, isn't it good?"

He Chengze hummed speciously, lost his mind for a while, sighed again, and ordered a little tiredly: "Go and pick some jars of good wine, seal 50 taels of silver, and send it to that Ah Wu."

"Okay." He Ruiming stood up, took two steps back, stopped, looked at his father, and asked with concern: "Father, are you okay?"

"It's okay, you can go." He Chengze said slowly.

(End of this chapter)