Beloved Concubine

Chapter 64
"This is the brown sugar cake?" Xiaoshi picked up a piece and tasted it: "Mmm, it's delicious!"

Chen Xiao also tasted a piece.

It doesn't have the softness of modern cakes, but a bit crispy.Chen Xiao tasted that it should be flour mixed with brown sugar water, sesame oil, and eggs, and then baked.

Chen Xiao said to Fang Yu, "You should try it too."

Fang Yu doesn't like dessert very much, but Xiao Xiao asked him to try it, so he would try it.

Chen Xiao looked at Fang Yu with a smile, and said, "I think you are idle all day, why don't you make another oven!"

"oven?"

"It's just a tin box with a fire up and down, and the door can be opened to put things in and bake." Chen Xiao said while gesticulating.

Fang Yu frowned and looked at her, and said "oh" for a long time, as if he had understood.

"Understood, go back and start doing it."

He quietly asked the anaconda again.The white boa described it to him.

"Sister, what can the oven be used for?" Little Stone asked.

"It can be used to bake pastries."

"Sister, you can also make pastries?" Xiao Shitou was pleasantly surprised.

"Yes."

"Then why didn't you make pastries before?"

"Because there is no oven."

It's not entirely because there is no oven, the main reason is that most of the pastries that Chen Xiao likes to eat are puff pastry.Busy with the small restaurant business every day, teaching them how to cook, how can I have so much energy for this and that.

You can't become fat if you eat one bite, take things slowly.What's more, Chunji Courtyard is already a little crowded. The cakes are not made to eat, but to be sold. There is no place to build an oven in this small courtyard.

"By the way, I told you to go to the store, how is it?" Chen Xiao asked.

"There is no suitable shop at the moment. There is a good shop on Xinda Street, but they only sell it and not rent it, and they have to sell it together with all the houses behind it."

"So the whole house is sold?"

"Yes."

"How big is that house? How much money does it cost?"

"There are three yards, about the size of Aunt Shen's house. It costs 5000 taels of silver."

"So tall!" Chen Xiao was speechless.She once asked Mrs. Shen that the construction of her yard cost more than 7000 taels of silver.

"Yeah, so don't think about it."

Little Stone knew that they didn't have that much silver.Let alone 1000 taels of silver, I'm afraid I won't be able to get it out.

The guests came in one after another, and Nie Feng led the group to the second floor.

On the second floor, facing the stage, there are four private rooms, the two in the middle are larger and can seat sixteen or seven people.The private rooms on both sides are slightly smaller, and can seat eight or nine people.

Chen Xiao and the others were in a slightly smaller room. When Nie Feng led someone past their door, one of them stopped suddenly.

"Little stone?" Then look again: "Miss Chen?"

The person who came was Gao Can.

"Boss Gao!" Chen Xiao greeted him with a smile.

Gao Can nodded to Chen Xiao, then asked Xiao Shitou:

"Why are you here?"

"I came with my boss, what's the matter?" Xiao Shitou ignored Gao Can.

Gao Can glanced at Chen Xiao and Fang Yu, and continued to move forward to their private room.

Fang Yudao: "Gao Can is here, so should Min Hong and Li Mingyu come too?"

Nie Feng introduced the relationship between these three companies last time.The Sheng'an and the Longshun are trying their best to win over the Dingtai.

Mainly the Longshun, they want to get logging rights and mining rights.The Sheng'an prevents them from getting more privileges.In short, these two families seem to be friendly on the surface, but they are actually fighting openly and secretly.The previous big shopkeeper of Longshun even offended the emperor, so far, Longshun is no match for Sheng'an.

Chen Xiao also knew the relationship between these three families, and said, "Come here!"

Min Hong and Nie Feng are both from South Vietnam, they can be regarded as one lineage.

"Oh, by the way, Gao Can is also the owner of Yihongyuan." Chen Xiao suddenly remembered.Nie Feng once said that there are three owners of Yihong Garden: his brother-in-law, Gao Can, and Boss Lu.

"Is Gao Can the boss here?" Xiao Shitou was a little surprised.

"Yes."

Chen Xiao looked at his expression and saw that there was a worried look on his face, but it disappeared soon.

Nie Feng brought Gao Can up first, and then Min Hong and Li Mingyu.

Not surprisingly, Min Hong saw Chen Xiao.

"Ms. Chen, I didn't expect you to be here!" Min Hong seemed a little enthusiastic, as if the two of them knew each other very well.

"Master Min." Chen Xiao nodded with a smile as a greeting.

"Ms. Chen is different from ordinary people!" Min Hong praised in a tone of voice.

But this is a brothel, so it can be seen that there are other meanings in his words.

Chen Xiao smiled, but didn't answer.

Min Hong looked at Fang Yu and said, "Ms. Chen's husband is not an ordinary person." He smiled with a deep meaning.

Fang Yu didn't greet him, and his face was expressionless.

Min Hong said: "Come over for tea later."

After speaking, he left with the others.After a while, there were voices greeting each other from the next door. It seemed that Min Hong, Li Mingyu, and Gao Can were in the same private room.

On the stage, a woman began to play the piano on one side of the stage.It seems that she is not performing, the sound of the piano is equivalent to opening music.

One after another, every private room on the second floor is already occupied.Chen Xiao also saw Boss Yang of the Da Ma shop. He came with another group of people and sat in the private room on the side.

Chen Xiao and the others were eating dried fruit and chatting, when a tall slender woman came to their room with a little girl.

"I met Mrs. Chen and Mr. Fang." The tall slender woman saluted the little girl.

"Miss Qingqing, why are you here?" Chen Xiao put down the peanut in his hand and smiled.

"I heard that the three younger brothers are here today, so I brought my younger sister here to express my thanks."

Lian'er walked up to Xiao Shitou and the others, and squatted down to salute.

"Thank you brothers for saving your life."

She lowered her head, not daring to meet Xiao Shitou and the others.Because they saw the worst side of her.

"No thanks, no thanks, we didn't do anything, it was our two masters who saved you." Xiao Shitou waved his hands quickly.

Lian Er came over to salute Chen Xiao and Fang Yu again:
"Thank you to the two masters for saving your life."

"you are welcome."

Chen Xiao looked at the little girl in front of her, feeling sorry for her.Fortunately, Captain Xu is dead, and there will be no next time.But whether there will be a second "Xu Xianwei" is hard to say.

Qingqing saluted and said: "We will perform later, so let's take my leave first."

"En." Chen Xiao nodded and watched them leave.

Chunhong asked Xiao Shitou: "You guys came back up, what happened?"

"It's nothing. I just saved someone."

Chunhong didn't want to say anything when she saw him.Judging by the way those two women are dressed, they should be brothel women!

She suddenly felt that she should not come today.She felt that the woman was in the brothel, and danger was always around her.

At this time, there was a rush of gongs and drums on the stage, and the performance was about to begin.

There are fourteen girls accompanying the guests in Yihong Garden, and some of them only accompany the guests in drinking and performing arts, not at night.To accompany you at night is to sleep with you.

People like Rong'er and Xin'er are no longer virgins, they accompany wine, entertain, and accompany them at night.But they also choose guests to accompany them at night, not everyone will accompany them.

People like Qingqing are still virgins, and currently they are only performing arts.But it's a matter of time to stay with her at night, and she only sees who she will choose to "break the melon" when the time comes.

In addition, there are girls in Yihong Garden who do not accompany guests, such as young ones like Lian Er.But after a few years, she will also follow the path of Qingqing and Ronger.

(End of this chapter)