"Is it delicious?" Jiang Yunniang asked.
Yingbao nodded: "It's delicious."
Jiang Yunniang smiled and said, "I'll make a few more later and you can give them to your parents to try."
"Okay." After eating a meat pie and drinking a big bowl of vegetable soup, Yingbao's stomach was already very full.
"Aunt, why are you the only one busy? Where are my eldest cousin and my second cousin?" she asked.
Jiang Yunniang said as she was making meat patties: "They went to the Washe to sell meat patties."
"Oh." Yingbao nodded. This is not bad.
At this time, uncle Zhang Jia came over from a distance and said to Jiang Yunniang, "Give me some money. Hong Shao has a fever. I want to take her to the pharmacy for treatment."
Jiang Yunniang glanced at Zhang Jia coldly, "Where do I get the money?"
Hongshao is the concubine's daughter. She is almost two years old and has been sick and coughing frequently recently.
"How come there is nothing? Where is the money you earned today? I think you deliberately don't want to give it to her so that Hongshao will die of illness, right?" Zhang Jia glared at his wife.
Jiang Yunniang glanced at her husband and sneered, "The money I earn is not even enough for you to eat Wu Shi San once, how can it be considered money?"
Zhang Jia became addicted to Wu Shi San at some point and had to take a dose every few days, then spend the whole night having sex with his concubine.
Now pus-filled blisters have begun to form on Zhang Jia's body and neck, and the fishy stench can be smelled from a distance away.
Jiang Yunniang was so disgusted that she was planning to rent two small houses elsewhere and move in with her children.
Zhang Jia was furious when he saw his wife insulting him. He pointed at her nose and cursed: "You vicious woman! I should have divorced you in the first place!"
"Divorce me?" Jiang Yunniang sneered: "Just try it!"
Not to mention that she has three brothers to support her. If she is really angered, she will sell the mother and her two children.
Zhang Jia looked angrily at Jiang Sanlang and Jiang Cheng who were standing at the door of the shop. He clenched his fists again and again, but in the end he didn't dare to hit anyone, so he turned and left.
Yingbao finally understood why Aunt Jiang set up a stall in front of her shop.
Because if she went somewhere else, she would definitely not be able to keep her money.
Not only will Zhang Jia come to demand it forcefully, but the gang of ruffian relatives from the concubine's family will also come to cause trouble.
My aunt set up a stall in front of the shop, which completely prevented such things from happening.
Moreover, she can put the tables and chairs into the shop when she closes the stall every night, and give the money to her eldest nephew for safekeeping, thus killing two birds with one stone.
Jiang Sanlang narrowed his eyes and watched Zhang Jia leave. Then he said to Jiang Yunniang, "Close the stall early today and go to Dacheng's house for a simple meal in the evening. Dacheng will be engaged tomorrow, so you can come with the children."
My nephew's engagement is a big deal. Since my aunt is right next to him, it seems inappropriate not to invite him to a meal to get to know him as a relative.
Jiang Yunniang nodded, "I'll clean it up right away."
My eldest nephew is engaged, and his wife is the daughter of a famous pastry shop in the county.
Although my parents didn't come to the county town, my eldest sister-in-law and two younger brothers and sisters-in-law were there, so I had to prepare a decent red envelope.
The next day, Dacheng and the matchmaker brought gifts and personally drove a horse-drawn carriage to the pastry shop to pick up Manager Qiu and his family.
Today is actually a day to ask for a date, which means the two families agree on the wedding date.
The dishes on the four banquet tables were all prepared by several cooks hired by Jiang Cheng. They were beautiful and sumptuous.
Sitting at one table were the male elders of the two families and two matchmakers.
One table was occupied by the female relatives of the two families, including Yingbao.
The other two tables were for the boys in the family, and Jiang Yunniang's two sons also sat with them.
Jiang Yunniang's husband Zhang Jia also came and sat at the table with the male elders, but he said nothing and just drank.
At the table, the two families discussed the children's wedding date, and finally set it on the 22nd day of the twelfth lunar month.
People say it is good to have a good wife during the Chinese New Year. Shopkeeper Qiu said happily that he would let his daughter go to the Jiang family early to kowtow to the grandparents and ask for New Year's money.
The wedding date was naturally based on the woman's opinion. Uncle Jiang nodded in agreement without hesitation and said that a new house had already been prepared in his hometown and all the necessary items were new, so the child would definitely not be treated unfairly.
Shopkeeper Qiu naturally had no objection.
It took him a lot of hard work to catch Jiang Cheng, the rich son-in-law. Now that he has finally succeeded, he can't wait to send his daughter to the Jiang family.
Over the past year, Jiang's specialty shop's business has been booming, and it has quickly surpassed the Rongfu pastry shop which has been in business for decades.
Not to mention anything else, just the fact that Jiang Cheng bought a large house with two entrances in the county town in a short period of time. Which 18 or 19-year-old kid could do that
So he took a two-pronged approach. He let his daughter do the job of delivering the cakes. Even though the goods could be delivered in one go, he asked his daughter to make two more trips and deliver them more times so that she could have more contact with the young man.
On the other hand, he tried every means to invite Jiang Cheng to his home for dinner, and asked his wife to cook delicious food for him. In addition, he showed concern for Jiang Cheng, and soon won Jiang Cheng's heart. The two young people inevitably got along better and better.
Shopkeeper Qiu thought proudly that it was a good thing that he acted early, because the old man in the silk shop was still looking for someone to inquire about Jiang Cheng's affairs.
I know the old man's situation best. He has several daughters waiting to get married.
Because Jiang Cheng often went to the pastry shop to pick up goods for a period of time, he was seen by them, so the young ladies would always come to the specialty shop intentionally or unintentionally, saying that they wanted to buy pastries.
Their own pastry shop is right next to their house. The pastries are cheap, freshly baked, hot and fragrant.
Instead of buying the cheap and delicious pastries, they ran two blocks away to the specialty shop to buy them.
Humph! Sima Zhao's intentions are known to everyone!
Shopkeeper Qiu picked up a glass of wine and said to Jiang Dalang with a smile: "Come on, my dear, let's have a drink together."
Jiang Dalang quickly raised his glass to toast him: "Okay, relative, I'll drink first as a token of my respect." Then he tilted his head back and drank it all.
After drinking two cups with Jiang Dalang, Manager Qiu drank two cups with Jiang Erlang and Jiang Sanlang respectively, and then toasted to Jiang Yunniang's husband Zhang Jia.
Zhang Jia sneered, muttered something with his tongue sticking out, tilted his head back to drink a gulp of wine, and smashed the cup to the ground.
Everyone suddenly fell silent.
Seeing this, Jiang Yunniang and her eldest son hurried over to hold him, apologizing to everyone: "I'm sorry, my husband is drunk and confused. I'll take him back now!"
After saying that, he pulled Zhang Jia and walked out.
Jiang Cheng paused for a moment, then stood up to harness the carriage and send them back.
Jiang Dalang and his brothers all looked unhappy.
In fact, they had no choice but to ask Zhang Jia to come over. After all, he was Jiang Cheng's uncle and he had not divorced Jiang Yunniang.
I didn't expect him to be so rude and lose face in front of his in-laws and the matchmaker.
Shopkeeper Qiu didn't mind and tried to smooth things over with a smile.
He has been in business for many years. What kind of people has he not seen
People with such low character like Zhang Jia will not achieve much in the future, so I don't even bother to bother with him.
"I'm sorry to have embarrassed you." Although Manager Qiu didn't care, Jiang Dalang still had to apologize to him.
Shopkeeper Qiu shook his head and said, "Don't worry, my dear relatives. We are all family now. We will have many relatives visiting each other in the future. We will meet people with all kinds of tempers. It's nothing strange."
"Yes, yes. A drunkard is the most rude. When he sobers up, he won't remember anything." The two matchmakers agreed with a smile.