pastoral fragrance

Chapter 150
The family's spring farming was almost busy, Han and Xu Nanshan passed by Can'er at home, and Qiuyue and Qiulin took the key to the Rouge Pavilion and went to town.

Now that the spring plowing is almost busy, the things to be busy at home are nothing more than ordinary trivial things like cooking and washing clothes.Mother can handle it at home.The most urgent task now is to spread the reputation of this Rouge Pavilion, so that people in the town can change their inherent thinking about this place.Only in this way, will someone come to ask for rent!
In order to rent out the shop as soon as possible and realize Qiulin's ideal of being a charter woman, she rushed to the town almost non-stop.Mei Xiang, Xu Liu'er, and the others heard that Qiulin's family had bought a rouge shop, and they were all overjoyed.Now that Chun Geng is busy with work, they also want to go and see Qiulin's new store.

Qiulin thought that the rouge and water powder sellers relied on these young and beautiful girls to do more sales. Aren't these lotion sellers in modern times just let those fair-skinned, young and beautiful girls do their signboards to attract business?Some rules are common in ancient and modern times, just think about the experience of Uncle Huang's family before.

So Qiulin didn't reject these enthusiastic girls, and even invited Heyi and Liu Huaihua to the shop together.Originally, He Xiang was also called, but now He Xiang is engaged, and she can't show her face to her before, so she politely declined.

Young girls like to be lively, talking and laughing in groups of three or five, and forgetting all their troubles.Everyone let go of the daily work at hand, and rushed to the town.

There were a lot of people this time, and the originally empty ox cart immediately seemed crowded. A few little girls were sitting squatting next to each other. The bell-like laughter continued for a long time.

Before that, it was the intensive spring plowing, and everyone was so busy that they never touched the ground.Now that the spring plowing is over, everyone is like a bird released from a cage. They are free all of a sudden, cheering and jumping for joy, and relaxing physically and mentally.

On the side of the road, a young man who was still working in the fields heard the girl's laughter, and couldn't help raising his head to look at the bullock cart.Seeing that all the young girls on the bullock cart were smiling like flowers, my heart beat like thunder.Then he hurriedly lowered his head, blushing and continuing to work.

Everyone made a fuss all the way, and finally arrived in the town.Driving the bullock cart directly into the town, Qiuyue went straight to Yanzhi Pavilion, waving her whip.

Walking through a long street, it really belongs to the bustling area of ​​the town. Even if it is not the market season, there are more people on the road than other places.The further you go in, the fewer people there are, and even the houses on both sides of the street seem to be much lower than what you saw just now.

With a long sigh, Qiuyue parked the cart on the side of the street.Looking up at the gold-wrapped door plaque on the side of the street, he gasped and said, "Here we are."

Several female dolls quickly jumped out of the car and looked at the house in front of them curiously.The snow-white walls are very different from the adobe walls in the village, and the roofs of the houses are also exquisitely made, with the four corners raised high, like eagles flapping their wings.The gold-coated door plaque hanging on the door is even more eye-catching. This door is also brand new. It seems that it has just been finished. It is big and tall...

"Wow, this house is not bad, Qiuyue, how did your family get it! This house will cost a lot of money, right?" Mei Xiang was so excited that she almost hopped her feet. This house looks so comfortable. If she lives in it, it should be How comfortable it is!Mei Xiang looked at the room with a thousand emotions in her heart. "This house looks so comfortable, it would be great to buy a house like this in town in my lifetime!"

Liu Huaihua's reaction was similar to Mei Xiang's. Only Xu Liu'er had seen the market, so she didn't feel as much emotion as Mei Xiang and the others. She just looked at it carefully with a pair of watery eyes.The agreeable temperament is not the kind of bluffing, a bit of an ancient lady's temperament, so at the moment it is just standing at the door and smiling slightly.

"Just standing at the door, you can smell the faint fragrance of rouge. It seems that these rouge powders are not as good as those vulgar powders!" It is full of fragrance.

Qiulin smiled and showed a mouthful of glutinous rice teeth, "Come on, let's quickly enter the house." Qiulin urged the elder sister Qiuyue to open the door.

Qiuyue also squinted and smiled, took out the key and went to open the door.This door was replaced by my uncle and the others in the past few days. It was newly made according to Qiulin's statement. It looks tall and big, but I don't know how the lighting inside is.

With a sound of "squeak", the door was pushed open, and the warm sunshine in spring poured into the house along the opened door, brightening the whole room.Qiuyue smiled openly, it seems that what the little girl said is right, there was a gloomy smell when she entered the house last time, it was all because of this relationship, now it has been raised and widened, and the gloomy smell in the house has been swept away .

As soon as the door was opened, the scent of rouge powder became clearer.Although the girls are all from farming families, there are a few girls who don't like these rouge and gouache, so naturally rushing into the house, looking at the exquisitely crafted bottles and jars on the shelves, they couldn't help feeling The urge to do it.

"Everyone, be careful. This kind of porcelain bottle is fragile. Be careful. Take whatever rouge and gouache you like here, and treat it as a gift from our sisters." Qiuyue saw them He couldn't put it down while holding the porcelain bottle, and said with a smile.

Mei Xiang jumped up happily, "Really?" They are usually in the village and don't go out often, where can they see such beautiful rouge and gouache?Such a bottle must be worth a lot of money. My family used to be too poor to eat, so I still have spare money to buy these things?
Qiuyue smiled and nodded at her.

Mei Xiang held up a small porcelain bottle in her hand to show Qiuyue, and said happily, "Then I want this, hehe, thank you Qiuyue and sister Qiulin."

Qiu Lin also smiled, "Thank you, Mei Xiang, you can take a bottle back for your sister too, it's boring for her to stay at home by herself."

Mei Xiang nodded happily, and quickly picked out another small iron box with exquisite workmanship, and put it in her pocket.

Satisfied, Xu Liuer and the others each picked the one they liked, and after thanking Qiuyue Qiulin, they put it away.

After everyone picked up the things, they started to tidy up the shop.It hasn't been cleaned here for several days, there is a thin layer of dust on the shelves, and the floor is not clean.How do you entertain customers like this?
So everyone worked together and started to clean the shop and the rooms in the backyard.Sweep the floor and sweep the floor, those who dust off dust, those who wipe the doors and windows wipe the doors and windows.

In order to sell these rouge and gouache as soon as possible and find someone who rented the shop, Qiuyue and the others planned to stay here for a few more days.After getting the sanitation done, it's already time for lunch.The maids were very slow at work, but their stomachs were also getting hungry quickly, and everyone was hungry.

"Why don't we go out to eat, I see you are all hungry." Qiuyue looked at them and said.

Mei Xiang disagreed, but she frowned and said, "How expensive is it to eat in restaurants outside? We'd better cook at home. We're going to stay here for several days, not a day or two. When I came here, it was agreed that I would sell the rouge powder and find a tenant before I could go home. Mei Xiang was already ready to live here for ten days and half a month.

Heyi also nodded, "Well, then Qiuyue and I will go to buy ingredients, and you can go to rest first." Heyi held Qiuyue's hand, and the two went to the street.

Back at the house again, the talkative Mei Xiang continued to ask: "Qiu Lin, how do you sell these things? We don't know the price yet."

Qiulin was also very hungry at the moment, and replied lazily, "The ones on this shelf are all two taels of silver a bottle, and the ones on the lower level are one tael of silver. And those on the next shelf are all One tael of silver and two bottles. In fact, these goods are very easy to distinguish, and the more exquisite the packaging, the price will naturally not be cheap." This principle is also common in ancient and modern times.

These girls have poisonous eyes. Although they have never used rouge and gouache, they can still recognize the good ones and the bad ones. They are all the exquisite porcelain bottles and tin boxes.

Mei Xiang nodded, "So that's how it is." Pointing her fingers at these shelves, she murmured, "This is two taels, this is one tael, this is one tael and two bottles... I remember !"

Liu Huaihua supported her forehead, and said in a strange way: "Okay, don't count anymore." This girl has counted back and forth for countless times, and if she can't remember, she is really an idiot.

Mei Xiang made a grimace to scare her, "Hehe."

Considering that everyone was hungry, Qiuyue agreed and the two didn't go far, bought some ingredients casually, and rushed to the shop in a hurry.They bought noodles, potatoes and a small amount of meat, as well as condiments such as oil, salt, sauce and vinegar.The water used for cooking was brought to the neighbor's house, and the young woman was kind to others, not only bringing water for them, but also telling them where the water was brought back from.At this moment, everyone is in the yard, the first one is planing potatoes, the other is chopping meat, and the other is washing vegetables. They are very busy.The pots and pans are all left by Uncle Huang and the others.They travel far, and they can't take so many things with them!

After all the ingredients are prepared, the fire is lit.After the pot was heated up, I dug some lard into it, chopped dried peppers and threw it in, and after stirring for a while, put the shredded pork in and continue to fry, and finally poured in the shredded potatoes. Put up the bowl, mix two ladles of water into the pot, cover the pot, and when the water boils, you can throw the noodles in and cook.

It didn't take long for bowls of steaming bowls of potato shredded pork noodles to be served in the hands of a few little girls.Everyone ate happily and happily.

(End of this chapter)