Red apricots make spring

Chapter 104 Seeing the old friend again
He paid Mei Xiang one month's wages in advance to help the Mei family's emergency, and the mule cart carried the three of them back to Taihe City.On the way, Wen Gang couldn't help being curious, and asked Ruan Rou, "Sister, what kind of shop are you planning to open again? Are you still selling Taiping Yan and fish balls?"

"It's not for sale anymore." Gentle shook her head and said, "Open a pastry shop. This season is just right, neither hot nor cold, so let's attract some regular customers first."

"Then what am I going to do?" Mei Xiang was worried, she couldn't do anything, even cooking at home, she could only help her mother, washing vegetables, lighting the fire and so on.

"You will know when the time comes." Gentle smiled slightly, closed her eyes to rest her mind, but in her mind she was thinking about the mold pattern that needs to be made by someone to open a pastry shop. By the way, tin foil is also needed, but fortunately, it can be bought here. The price is not expensive.

This time, Ruan Wen didn't make a fool of herself, and asked Wu Tiancai to drive the car to stop at the door of his house, so as not to waste time. When he got off the car, he joked to him: "Do you know the way? Don't let your Mei Xiang be betrayed by me." You have nowhere to look for anyone."

"Miss, you're joking again, how can you!" Wu Tiancai smiled, but saw Mama Wen sticking her head out of the shop, saw him, recognized him, hurriedly came out to say hello, and enthusiastically pulled him in. After eating, I watched him eat two cages of soup dumplings and a bowl of Taiping Yan before I paid the fare and let him go.

There was an extra Mei Xiang in the house, so I had to send her to sleep with Wen's mother. When I got up the next day, Rou Rou went out to find a suitable shop, and found craftsmen to make various molds, baking trays, and iron grates. Mei Xiang helped Wen at home. Mom works.A few days later, she finally found a suitable pavement, so Wenrou hurriedly found someone to build an old-fashioned oven with refractory bricks, and the hardware facilities for opening a pastry shop were almost ready.

As for ingredients, Taihe City is very prosperous, and there are many merchants from all over the world, including some nomadic merchants, so butter, cheese and other things can still be bought, but these days I can’t find all kinds of food flavors and food additives , I had no choice but to make up for it and make pure natural healthy food.

Busy with the operation of the pastry shop, the rest of the shops have been handed over to Xiaohuan for the time being, and let her learn to take care of them. For the convenience of walking outside, this girl had to learn to be gentle and dress up as a man. Unfortunately, she is too delicate. She is weak, and she can't hide the femininity in her bones after dressing up. She doesn't look like a man. Fortunately, Wen Gang often spends time with her after school. Mother Wen often goes out with her when she has a little leisure time. Only then did the tenderness reassure her.

Mei Xiang consciously ate at Wen's house for half a month, and she felt very sorry, so after Ruan Wen opened the pastry shop, she taught her how to bake all kinds of pastries and how to make bread. When I came into contact with this kind of thing, I panicked at the beginning, often burned my hands, or burned the pastry.But Ruan never beat and scolded her, but Wen Yan reminded her to be careful, and bought scald medicine for her to heal her injuries. She was grateful in her heart and worked harder. After three months, not only did she make some decent pastries, but occasionally Can give advice and create new flavors of pastries.

The pastry shop's business is pretty good. After the weather gets hotter, there are still a lot of customers who come to visit. Mei Xiang has the full power of making pastries, and she even recruited two more assistants to be helpers, while following Mei Xiang She was learning the craft while standing at the counter for her, so after working hard for several months, Ruan Rou once again became the hands-off shopkeeper, and she was able to sleep soundly and feel more comfortable.

This afternoon, after finishing her accounts, she was idle and bored. She lay on the counter of the pastry shop and counted the people and cars passing by outside the door. He rolled his eyes and saw a two-horse horse-drawn carriage parked outside the door. He knew it was for business, but he was too lazy to move, so he let the clerk at the cabinet come forward to greet him.

"Guest, what do you want to buy? The store has good nut bread, meringue tarts, matcha cakes, and coconut rings. If you like salty pastries, you can try salty cheese sticks." Seeing the visitor's face, he knew it was the first time to visit, and Pidiandian went up to meet him, and spared no effort to sell some of the best-selling Western-style pastries in the shop. Of course, he did not forget to take into account the taste of the stranger, and accompanied him He smiled and said, "If you want to eat sweet-scented osmanthus cake, chestnut cake, jujube paste yam cake, and butter-soaked snails, our store also sells them."

Cold!Absolutely cold!
After the waiters are so attentive and provide so many pastries to choose from, there are still some people who don't respond at all, and don't even hum?He raised his eyes tenderly and curiously, first saw the clerk standing there with a stiff and embarrassed smile on his face, then in a blink of an eye, saw the tall man in black clothes standing with his back at the door of the shop, whispering towards the carriage seated. The humane said: "There are too many things sold in this shop, you'd better come down and pick them yourself!"

Gentle froze!
After a while, a young maidservant in green clothes and long hair came out of the carriage. She directed the driver to place the pedals, and then carefully helped a girl in scarlet clothes out of the carriage, and waited for her to get off the carriage.

Not too far away, Wen Rou could see the pretty eyes of the green-clothed maidservant, but couldn't see the face of the scarlet-clothed girl, because her face was covered with a thin layer of veil, which concealed her face, Only a pair of apricot eyes full of watery light and eyebrows painted like black in the distant mountains are revealed.

She must be a stunning woman, looking at the pearl hairpin between her temples tenderly in a daze.As for the thumbtip-sized pearl, the soft brilliance made the eyes of the woman in the scarlet dress even more misty.That hairpin must be very valuable!Yes, very valuable!Look at the girl in the scarlet dress lightly moving the lotus steps. Before anyone enters the shop, a burst of elegant fragrance has drifted in along with the wind, suppressing the fragrance of pastries in the whole shop, even the person standing by the door. The guy couldn't help but twitched his nose lightly.

For some reason, Wen Rou felt a little frustrated, and wanted to hide in the inner room to watch Mei Xiang make cakes, but just as she took a step, she saw the man in black clothes turn around, and the two of them met their eyes.

The man in Xuansang glanced lightly over her face, and then lowered his head to look at the various pastries displayed on the shelves.

Wenrou was very embarrassed at first, thinking that she would be recognized, but she didn't have any strange reaction at all, as if she just saw a stranger passing by, her eyes didn't even pause, and of course there was no surprise, doubt, etc. Emotional outpouring.Her embarrassment gradually receded, replaced by a faint sense of loss, but she soon came to her senses and smiled self-deprecatingly.

Why should people remember her and recognize her?Originally, she and him were just strangers who had spoken a few words!What's more, the shop she came to with Mei Xiang today didn't change into men's clothes, so it's even more impossible for others to recognize her at a glance.It's normal for him to react like this, nothing more normal!Genuine took a deep breath, walked to the side of the shelf, and greeted the woman in the scarlet dress casually, "What do you want to buy, Miss?"
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