Red apricots make spring

Chapter 34 Victory in the First Battle
Teaching Mrs. Liu to cook is not a difficult task. After all, she has dealt with pots and pans for so many years. You only need to be gentle and tell her some tricks to add color and taste to the dishes. She will quickly She can draw inferences from one example and apply it to actual operations, but it is still difficult for her to invent new dishes by herself, but cooking according to the ingredients and seasonings mentioned by Wenrou is already sure enough.

In just two days, Ruan taught her five dishes. Seeing that the day when Li Ruhua's mother came to get money again was approaching, Ruan was anxious and had to urge Aunt Liu to find a chance to go out of the house to sell food orders. .

Speaking of which, for Ruhua's mother, Wenrou doesn't have much affection, and thinks that the poor person must have something to hate. When Ruhua came to a dead end, she was more or less softly forced by her, but Wenrou didn't like the one she had never met before. "Brother", I really feel sorry for the little child, just because he was not reborn into a good family, he didn't live a good day when he was born, and now he is half dead. It's really pitiful, and she can only help Ruhua fulfilled this wish, hoping to take care of Wen Gang's body as soon as possible. When he is older and able to earn money to support his old mother, the burden on her will be relieved. The guilt of occupying Ruhua's body in her heart, It will also be lessened.

Mrs. Liu is still interested in making money from selling food orders. After several times of gentle urging, she went out to "buy vegetables" the next morning. The servant sent her back first, and she herself hurried back at noon, not caring about looking for Wen Rou, and was busy directing the other cooks to prepare lunch.It wasn't until after the meal that she sent Xiaohuan to find Rourou into her room, closed the door hastily, and took out a small cloth bag from her bosom.

"This is—" Rourou felt her mouth dry, she couldn't help swallowing, and said softly, "Is it silver?"

Mrs. Liu glanced at her, opened the cloth bag silently, revealing the four white ingots inside, then lifted the teapot on the table and poured herself a glass of water, sat down and drank slowly.

"How much silver is there here? I'm dazzled!" Xiaohuan stretched out her hand, touched the silver lightly, then withdrew her hand with unsatisfied feelings, and estimated, "I'm afraid there are more than a dozen taels?"

"A total of 20 taels of silver!" Sister Liu finally spoke, but she was not happy, but angry. She lowered her voice and cursed: "The shopkeeper of Zhiweizhai who killed a thousand knives, I curse him to be struck by lightning when he went out, and to burn his house on fire." , give birth without an asshole!"

Mrs. Liu often swears at people, but she has never sweared so viciously. Wen Wen and Xiaohuan glanced at each other, and they were both black.

"Mom, what's going on?" Xiaohuan said weakly, "Didn't you get all the money back? Why are you still scolding me?"

"20 taels—" Aunt Liu jumped up against the table, and the teapot and teacups on the table jumped up. If Xiaohuan hadn't hurried forward to cover her mouth, reminding her that she couldn't speak loudly, I'm afraid that broken voice The roof collapsed with her voice.

"20 taels of silver! I bought five food orders! This one kills a thousand dollars!" Aunt Liu pushed Xiaohuan's hand away, but she managed to lower her voice, but she still couldn't help but hopped and scolded her, angrily said: "You know him What did you say to me? He said that he wanted all the food bills, but he couldn’t give so much money. I was anxious at the time and said he was unreasonable. But he was kind, saying that even if I taught his cook to cook these dishes, it would be useless. The cook didn't sign a contract of sale with him, if one day he ran away and quit, wouldn't the food order be taken to another restaurant? He can't pay the bill for another restaurant!"

"Mother, why didn't you go to another restaurant to ask?" Seeing that she was angry, Xiaohuan asked timidly, for fear that she would turn her anger on her and scold her, which would be a disaster.

"I asked, it's all the same stuff! The shopkeeper of Zuixianlou cried poorly with me, saying that the price of goods has soared in recent years, and business is not easy to do. Finally, after crying, he pitifully took out five taels of silver and wanted to send me away, thinking I was a beggar. Yes! There is also the shopkeeper of Yipinxuan, he said that I don’t know how many restaurants have sold this food list, but tomorrow’s restaurants in the city will sell these dishes. Dang, I'll let the guy kick me out later!" Mrs. Liu finished complaining in one breath, gasping for breath as she rubbed her chest, looking quite pissed off.

Rourou quickly poured water for her, held it to her with both hands, and said, "Sister-in-law Liu, drink some water to calm down first. If you sell it for 20 taels, it's 20 taels, which is not too little. As the saying goes, when you do business for the first time, you do Honesty, when these few dishes of Zhiweizhai become famous, the shopkeepers of other restaurants may have to ask us to sell menus, otherwise, wouldn’t all the business be taken away by Zhiweizhai?”

"That's right, sister Ruhua is right, mother, don't be angry." Xiaohuan quickly nodded in agreement.

Mrs. Liu glanced at the two of them, took a sip of water, calmed down, and said slowly: "Why don't I understand this? It's just that I've had enough of it today, if I didn't want to earn two For money, I have been suppressing my temper, I have covered the fat faces of those shopkeepers with the fried dishes, I am really pissed off!"

Gentlely smiled slightly, took two ingots from the four ingots on the table, placed them on the table in front of Aunt Liu and said: "Sister Liu has worked hard for you today, you can keep these two ingots for Xiaohuan. You don’t have to worry about running out of money to redeem her body or buy a dowry for her.”

Sister Liu patted the back of her gentle hand when she heard the words, sighed and said, "I won't let you pretend to evade, I will accept the money, if you have anything to do in the future, please don't let me know, just let me know. As long as I can help, I will definitely help." As she said, she carefully put away the money, and then ordered Xiaohuan: "Why don't you thank you Ruhua sister soon?"

Xiaohuan looked at Mrs. Liu, then at Wenrou, suddenly twitched, blushed and lowered her head, tugging at Wenrou's sleeves, expressing her gratitude, but she couldn't speak.

With a gentle smile, he stroked her hair, put away the other two ingots of silver on the table, put them in his bosom, and said goodbye to Mrs. Liu, leaving the mother and daughter behind to talk privately.

On the way back, although there was a cool wind blowing in front of me, Gentle didn't feel cold at all, and my palms and face were still slightly hot, which was exciting!She touched the money in her bosom through the clothes, and for the first time felt a little sense of security in this strange world!Money is indeed not everything, but in the situation where she has no money, no relatives and no freedom, these money can bring her infinite hope and sense of security, let her know that she can still make money, even if one day she leaves Zhao's mansion, there will be some money. The ability to survive independently without relying on others!

(End of this chapter)