Peasant Girl Bookseller

Chapter 198
"Ji Yun, I have wanted to visit Mr. for a long time. I like Mr.'s calligraphy and painting very much. I came here in a hurry today. I didn't prepare any meeting ceremony. Ji also sent Mr. a picture, and please correct me." Ji Xiaolan after Huai Ci's introduction After the other party, he offered a scroll that he brought.

"Mr. Ji loves me. Cao is just a countryman, an ignorant countryman. He is forced to do a few graffiti strokes due to life, which is not worth mentioning. It is Mr.'s handwriting, which is far superior to Cao. I opened my eyes." Cao Xueqin took the scroll sent by Ji Xiaolan with both hands, opened it on the spot, and nodded more and more.

"Mr. Cao's surname is originally Mr. Cao. Please sit down. Mr. Ji is older than Ji. If there is anything Ji can't do, please give me your advice. Today we will use Miss Mai Xiang's treasure land to cook wine." Talking about calligraphy and painting is also a great joy in life.”

"Cooking wine and discussing calligraphy and painting is indeed a great pleasure." Cao Xueqin laughed when he heard it. He was a casual person, but after hearing Ji Xiaolan's words, it suited his appetite. This Ji Xiaolan is not blindly bookish. Of course, it is not just a philistine spirit of career economics, which is even more in line with Cao Xueqin's temper.

Mai Xiang personally served them dishes, and Cao Xueqin's hearty laughter was heard from a long distance away, and she said with a smile: "Mr.

"My daughter's eyesight can be worse?" Cao Xueqin said with a smile.

"Girl?" Now it was Ji Xiaolan's turn to be surprised, he clearly heard Mai Xiang call him Mr.
"Haha, it's not been a day or two since Cao Mouxiao wanted Mai Xiang to be my daughter, and I had to do it if I couldn't be close." Cao Xueqin laughed again.

"So that's the case. No wonder I feel that Mai Xiang's conversation is extraordinary. It turns out that she is a famous teacher." Ji Xiaolan now cleared her doubts. With such a talented godfather teaching her, how could Mai Xiang's knowledge be worse?

"Godfather, Mr. Ji, this is sweet-scented osmanthus salted duck made by Mai Xiang himself, and duck with sauce. This is dried shredded duck blood soup. This is fried duck gizzards with pepper. Today's dish is mainly duck. , try it carefully and see if it's worth launching." Mai Xiang interrupted the two of them.

The sauced duck is also newly made by Mai Xiang. The salted duck shops in Nanjing basically sell salted duck and sauced duck at the same time, and Mai Xiang's mother is no exception.

"It has always been heard that southerners like to eat duck. There are many ways to eat duck. Northerners know nothing but roast duck. I didn't expect Miss Mai Xiang to have this skill. Yes, yes, Ji is lucky." Ji Xiaolan picked up I took a piece of sauced duck and put it in my mouth.

"If it's really good, can Mai Xiang also ask Mr. Ji for something?"

"Oh, I don't know if Ji can have something that Miss Mai Xiang can appreciate?" Ji Xiaolan looked at herself, and there was nothing but a folding fan.

"It's Mr.'s folding fan." Mai Xiang had already seen Ji Xiaolan's fan with his own calligraphy and painting on it.

"Sister, no." Huai Ci stopped Mai Xiang with a voice.

This Mai Xiang wants to hold a foreign man's folding fan, isn't this also a private gift, how can he live with his face?

Mai Xiang didn't think about this, what she thought was that Ji Xiaolan's calligraphy and paintings are the same as Cao Xueqin's, they are both valuable and can be preserved for her descendants.

"Brother, why not?" Mai Xiang looked at Huai Ci and asked solemnly.

"Why does the girl want Ji's fan?" Ji Xiaolan also asked.

"There are calligraphy and paintings on Mr.'s fan. If Mr. becomes a celebrity in the future, Mr.'s calligraphy and paintings will definitely be valuable, so I want to collect more before Mr. is famous, just like my godfather's calligraphy and paintings. I also collected a lot "Mai Xiang said half-jokingly and half-seriously.

"Haha, since when did my daughter become a money addict? Forget it, Mr. Ji, for the sake of my daughter's rebuttal, write a calligraphy and painting for my daughter some other day." Cao Xueqin laughed.

"It should be, it should be, today I have bothered Miss Mai Xiang, I still owe Miss Mai Xiang a door plaque, I don't know if there is a chance to give it away." Ji Xiaolan also laughed, Mai Xiang is so convinced that he can win the gold list It can be said that it is a great honor for scholars to be famous all over the world.

"Mr. Ji, don't worry, you will definitely be able to send it out. However, one yard is worth one yard. Also, can we discuss it? Since Mr. Ji has started writing, I will write a larger one, haha." Mai Xiang Hee hee smile, get it done.

"Succeed, just say these few words to Miss Mai Xiang, and Ji will definitely write a letter and send it to Miss Mai Xiang." Ji Xiaolan was quite straightforward.

"Then thank you very much." Mai Xiang saluted and went out.

After Mai Xiang left, Cao Xueqin still talked with Ji Xiaolan about the past and the present, from Zhong Yao, Wang Xizhi, to Yan Zhenqing, to Mi Fu, Zhao Mengfu, Wen Zhengming, Dong Qichang, Tang Yin, Bada Shanren, etc., from calligraphy and painting to their lives Anecdotes, the more the two talked, the more lively they became. Of course, the more they drank, the more they drank.

"Happy, talking about other people's business and drinking, I drank too much before I knew it. When I met Mr. Ji today, it didn't seem like a new acquaintance, but like an old friend reunited. It's really a lifetime for Cao to know Mr. Ji." Fortunately." Cao Xueqin has lived for nearly 40 years, and there are very few people who admire him very much.

Because of his lack of fame, all he has studied in his life are miscellaneous books, such as poetry, poetry, novels, biographies, theology, Buddhism, local customs and even medicine, diet, architecture, etc. Unexpectedly, the other party is ten years younger than him. In the next year, he was still a Jie Yuan with a reputation for raising people, and he had learned as much as him, which surprised Cao Xueqin.

Ji Xiaolan was also surprised. He was crowned as a child prodigy since he was a child. He had a very high self-esteem. He didn't expect that the gentleman across from him lived in seclusion in the countryside and learned much more than him. He was said to be a doctor. More worthy of friendship.

Both of them had a feeling of resentment and sympathy for seeing each other, and they drank more than two hours of wine. If Ji Xiaolan was not worried that he would not be able to enter the city gate after returning to the city, they probably would not have left.

Because of the long vacation, Huai Ci missed the shops in the city and Mai Xiang, so he simply stayed at Mai Xiang's house, and rode back and forth between the capital and Ye's house.

On this day, Mai Xiang asked him to bring a few sauced ducks and salted ducks to Amusin and Ula Duomin. Hongrong was still in the Western Regions and hadn’t come back. Amusin had a big belly all by herself. .

Unexpectedly, when Huaici came in at night, he brought back a message that Yongen accompanied the emperor to Chengde, and Uladomin did not accompany him because she was pregnant again. Both she and Amusin hoped that Mai Xiang could go to the city Stay for some days and stay with them.

"Also, the two Fujins have said that the duck tastes very light, and it goes well with rice. They said that my sister might as well open a restaurant in the capital."

"Opening a restaurant in Beijing, where can I find a place?" Mai Xiang knew that the restaurant must be in a prosperous place. In ancient times, there were no advertisements, and the transportation was not convenient.

"Sister forgot, didn't brother tell you a few days ago that we bought another shop at the front door, and the owner of the shop was originally a restaurant, and I haven't cashed it out yet, what a coincidence." Huai Ci said Can't wait for Mai Xiang to enter the city.

"Such a coincidence?" Mai Xiang also felt tempted.

"Didn't my sister say that I want to buy more property? I have been paying attention to inquiring about it, and finally got such a shop for sale. The original owner committed a crime, and the family is in urgent need of money. As soon as I found out, I quickly bought it."

"But where can we find someone right now?" Mai Xiang was tempted, but she didn't want to do it herself.
"Fifth Uncle, Fifth Uncle is the most suitable. Fifth Uncle is going, and Fifth Aunt can go with him, so that Fifth Aunt doesn't have to look at Mammy's face to live. Maybe Fifth Aunt will be fine when she arrives in the capital. "Huai Ci knew where Mai Xiang's weakness was.

"Well, I'll ask about it." In fact, Mai Xiang also felt that it would be best if Wu Fu could come to help her, and it happened that Mrs. Li also learned how to cook salted duck.

After dinner, Mai Xiang took the opportunity of going out to digest food, and went to the old home with Huai Ci. Wu Fu was a little tempted when he heard that his family was allowed to come to Beijing, because he also wanted to change the environment for Li Shi, saving Liu Shi three years. To force her from both sides of the sky, and now he also understands that the income from planting the land for a year is not worth a fraction of what he does for Mai Xiang. If this is the case, why does he still guard the two acres of land?

Mai Xiang didn't expect things to be settled so quickly, Ye Dafu had something to do again, and started to hatch duck and goose seedlings, Mai Xiang sent letters to both the Zhao family and the Ye family, asking them to raise more ducks and geese .

Because of the incident at the restaurant, Mai Xiang followed Huaici into the city again. Of course, she lived in Prince Li's Mansion. Amu Xin knew about it and moved here. With Huaici and Feng Xiang cooking, Uladomin was worried, and sent another person from the palace to help.

Of course, the decoration drawings of the restaurant were drawn by Mai Xiang. She incorporated some modern elements. The upper floor is the private room, and the lower floor is the lobby. There is a special place for retail, so that nearby homes can pack up and go back to try something new.

The restaurant in the capital opened on the eighth day of August, which is the season for eating duck with the fragrance of osmanthus. The words "Fu Yunlai" were written by Yong En. On the opening day, Yong En brought a group of people to congratulate him personally. It has brought some popularity and fame to the restaurant.

The shopkeeper of the restaurant is Wufu. For more than a month, Wufu has been studying accounting with Huai Ci and how to manage the business with Feng Xiang. In the first month, Feng Xiang also specially helped him, until he saw that he had completely mastered it. , Feng Xiang just returned to the bookstore.

Today, Mai Xiang was copying "Dream of Red Mansions" lying on the kang table of Amusin's house. These days, because Amusin is about to give birth, Mai Xiang moved into Baylor's Mansion.
"Miss Mai Xiang, our Fujin sprained his ankle when we were walking just now, and the nanny said that he was pregnant. We Fujin got scared and wanted you to accompany her." Xiaoqing, the maid beside Amusin, came over and said.

Mai Xiang didn't bother to tidy up after hearing this, and hurriedly followed Xiaoqing. As soon as Mai Xiang left, Yong En came with Uladomin on the back. Yong En naturally wouldn't wait at the door of the delivery room, he entered the opposite side of the delivery room Coincidentally, it is the place where Mai Xiang lives, and coincidentally saw the manuscript on the kang table, and coincidentally picked it up.

(End of this chapter)