Of course, there is no shortage of fields for Gu Yin at the moment, and it is strange that this is actually a pepper field.
Before the ship of Gu's boat went to sea, Wu Qingyi asked Gu Yin what he wanted to get from overseas, and Gu Yin said that he wanted some pepper seeds.
Peppers are so expensive these days, but no one has grown them locally, and I don't know what went wrong. She thought about getting people to collect some more varieties, and then she could start trying to plant her own seeds.
Unexpectedly, this thing has been cultivated long ago, and the number is still so large, planted by mu!
Looking at Gu Yin's happy smile, Wu Qingyi knew that she was right, she really liked it.
Later, Mrs. Lu helped her sister-in-law to apologize, she was really embarrassed, and she felt ashamed to see Gu Yin.
She asked herself that she was really kind and didn't want to use the name of the British government to oppress others, lest the mercenary in the shopping mall would come forward to flatter and flatter Gu Yin and Wu Qingyi's interest in coming out to have fun.
The only thing that was missed was that the arrogant and arrogant sister-in-law also followed and offended them again and again.
Wu Qingyi doesn't wear a mask now, and when she's around Gu Yin, she also looks docile.
But the reputation of the evil ghost generals is still illustrious, and it is really not something that people like them can afford!
But it was too late when she wanted to know the sister-in-law - Miss Lu was already annoyed with her, so she didn't give her sister-in-law a chance to speak. Besides, she was surrounded by friends and companions, so Mrs. Lu was really not good at speaking out in front of people.
Gu Yin was overjoyed because she got acres of pepper fields, and she didn't worry about this trivial matter. Anyway, the little lady Lu didn't ask for anything, and she couldn't buy a horse in front of her, but Wu Qingyi was brought down by her own horse. . He was proud of playing polo, but also lost to Wu Qingyi, who had never learned before.
She just asked Mrs. Lu about the origin of this pepper field.
Mrs. Lu invited someone to whisper a few words, and she came back not long after she went out, and brought back the news that Gu Yin wanted.
"This pepper field is the highlight of Liu's family. I just asked people about it. It seems that the old Mrs. Liu liked spicy food, so I bought a lot of it from the ocean-going ship, and invited a lot of people to try to plant it. After several years of experimentation, it was finally considered a success. Later, when Mrs. Liu passed away, this pepper field will naturally fall into the hands of future generations. The planting conditions of this pepper are strict and it is difficult to promote it. The Liu family in the jewelry business didn't like it either, so they gave it away as a fresh lucky draw."
Gu Yin couldn't help sighing after hearing this.
The truth that "oranges in Huainan are oranges, and oranges in Huaibei are oranges" is generally understood. Modern people have never felt any difficulty in planting these exotic species. It is because of technological development and progress, and they are still standing on the shoulders of predecessors. , learning from the previous experience.
I don't know how many years of groping to get an exotic species suitable for local cultivation.
It is a pity that those farmers have worked hard for so long, and the final fruits of their labor have been given away at will by the children and grandchildren of wealthy families as a playful lottery.
But fortunately that day, the pepper fields finally fell into her hands, and naturally they would not bury them.
It's just that they don't know that the farmers who grow peppers are still there. They have such valuable experience, and they can get other things from outside, and they can also plant them.
It was already mid-afternoon, the polo meeting was coming to an end, and Mrs. Lu had to entertain the guests to eat, drink, and rest, so Gu Yin didn't ask her to ask any more.
Gu Yinwu thought about the pepper field, and when he came back to his senses, he found that Wu Qingyi had already eaten a rabbit's leg.
Seeing Gu Yin looking over, Wu Qing praised it contentedly: "The outside is charred and the inside is tender, fat but not greasy, Madam's roasted rabbit is really good."
This was the first time Wu Qingyi called her "Mrs." in front of people. Gu Yin gave him an angry look, and then asked the little lady Lu Cai just now, "How did she say that you sacrificed your life to win polo?"
Wu Qing's face flashed a trace of unnaturalness, but Gu Yin asked, and he didn't want to lie, so he said: "There have been several times when their cousins cooperated, and they were about to dribble the ball away, but I used brute force to take them away. Stopped. But I still have some experience in equestrianism, so I wasn't injured at all. And I wouldn't risk my life, as she said, at most just fall off the horse and let the horse kick."
Gu Yin thought it was the little lady Lu who was exaggerating, and she couldn't help but change her face when she heard this—
What does it mean to be kicked at most by a horse
Falling from a horse can really be a big or small thing, ranging from broken arms and legs, to serious loss of life.
Of course, with Wu Qingyi's martial arts, he would definitely be able to save himself if he really wanted to fall.
But Gu Yin was still not very happy. Although Chili Tian was what she wanted, it was absolutely not important to him so that he would care about his own safety in vain.
Later, Mrs. Wen Er and the others came to chat, but Gu Yin didn't talk to him any further.
In the evening, the polo meeting was over and everyone went home.
Wu Qingyi stopped riding horses, and accompanied Gu Yin in the carriage.
Gu Yin was indeed a little tired. After getting on the carriage, she leaned on the pillow and closed her eyes.
It wasn't until she entered the city and was about to return to the British government that Gu Yin opened her eyes.
As soon as she opened her eyes, she met Wu Qingyi's gaze.
He was looking at her carefully, and when the two of them met, Wu Qingyi immediately averted his eyes guiltily.
Perhaps the word clever is extremely inappropriate for his age and stature, but this idea immediately popped into Gu Yin's mind.
It was as if she had raised a big dog in her shop in her previous life. Every time it made a mistake, it stole the kitchen's food or chewed on something, and it was like this after being reprimanded by Gu Yin.
Gu Yin bent her lips, Wu Qing thought she laughed, and could not help but let out a long breath, and asked her tentatively and softly, "Aren't you angry anymore?"
Gu Yin said, "I wasn't angry either."
Not to mention angry, after all, he did it just to make her happy, it was his intention, she got what she wanted without any effort, and it was really unreasonable to be angry with him again.
"But don't do this next time." Gu Yin paused and continued, "It's not worth it, you know?"
Wu Qingyi nodded solemnly and explained: "Actually, I didn't think about it that much at the time. I just heard people say that the lucky head, thinking that you would like it. Looking at the Lu family brothers and sisters who won several games at that time, no one dared. Fight with them. I thought that Mrs. Lu was arrogant, and if something got into her hands, she probably wouldn't sell it even if she bought it with money later on. That's why I wanted to give it a try."
"Forget it, I don't want that, thank you anyway. I like this gift very much."
Gu Yin said and took the initiative to hold his hand.
The small, soft hand approached for the first time, and the soft finger pads gently scratched his palm. Like comforting, like teasing.
"Don't make trouble." Wu Qingyi grabbed her nonsense fingers, but her voice was a bit lower than usual.
Gu Yin smiled with frowning eyes and asked him, "Why did I make trouble?"
I still learned the trick from him. If she's doing shit right now, what's the matter with him doing that earlier
As he asked, Gu Yin's eyes rolled, and with a sly smile, he stretched out his fingers to make circles at the mouth of his big palm.
Wu Qingyi's eyes dimmed, and he grabbed her hand and pulled it.
Before Gu Yin could react, Wu Qingyi pulled him into his arms, and the sound of his heavy and rapid breathing suddenly amplified in his ears.
"What are you doing?" Gu Yin reached out and pushed him, her voice subconsciously softer than usual.
"No more fooling around. Or I'll-"
"How about you otherwise?"
The atmosphere was a little charming, and Wang's loud voice came from outside.
"Da Ya, Da Lang, what are you two doing? Why haven't the two of you come down after the carriage has been parked for a long time?"
Immediately, the charming atmosphere disappeared.
Gu Yin noticed that his hand was loosened, so she sat up from his arms and pushed him with a smile, "Get out of the car soon, Wu Dalang."
The darkness in Wu Qingyi's eyes faded, and he got off the carriage at the urging of Wang Shi.
After getting off the carriage, he stretched out his hand towards the carriage again, and Gu Yin took his hand and followed him down.
Just seeing the small interaction between the two of them, I didn't need to ask any more questions, and I already guessed that the two of them got along well today.
"How did you play?" When Gu Yin got out of the car, Mrs. Wang took her by the arm and took her back to the backyard.
Gu Yin glanced at Wu Qingyi, Wu Qingyi lifted her chin in the direction of the study in front, and motioned for herself to take a rest.
Gu Yin smiled at him.
Although the two of them didn't speak, the atmosphere between the two made even Wang shi crooked.
On the way back to the backyard, Gu Yin told Wang Shi what she had seen and heard today.
Later, she went to wash and change clothes, and took a short break for a quarter of an hour. Both Wu An and Gu Ye came back from school.
The two little guys are at the age of play, so they should be more curious than Wang, and they will definitely follow up and ask.
When he got home today, Gu Ye didn't ask, not only did he not ask, but he took Wu An aside and whispered to him with his ears.
He said it for a long time, Wu An said with a small face and very serious: "Then I will think about it."
Gu Ye nodded and finally added: "Anyway, I think it's a good thing, so I think of you first."
Instead, Gu Yin looked curious and asked them what they were discussing
Gu Ye opened his mouth and hesitated, but finally said: "It's not that I don't talk to my mother, it's that this matter may not happen. And it's not a big deal, my mother is tired today, I'll wait for my mother to be free before meeting my mother. Say it well."
Gu Yin saw that he was getting more and more organized, so she didn't ask any further questions.
Not long after, there was an evening meal in the main courtyard, and Wu Qingyi also came over from the front courtyard.
Wu Qingyi is not a talkative person. Everyday his family gets together to eat and drink. Like Wu Zhong, he rarely interrupts.
The same is true today, the only difference is that he will look at Gu Yin from time to time, and Gu Yin will also notice his sight at the first time, look back at the first time, add a bowl of soup for him, or pick up a chopstick Cai, the two of them looked at each other and smiled in tacit understanding, and everything was silent.
So that everyone rested at night, Gu Ye washed up, then ran to Gu Yin's house and asked, "Did Uncle tell my mother what I said?"
Gu Yin had just finished washing her hair, and was wiping her hair with a dry cloth in front of the dressing table. She nodded and said, "He always had a smile on his face when he went out today. He just told me when I saw him and asked."
Those words were indeed what he said. Gu Ye scratched his head, stood beside her and watched her wipe her hair for a long time. His legs were sore behind him, and he moved a small twig to sit again.
Gu Yin's hair was waist-length, and it took a lot of time to dry it.
Her hair had been drying for almost an hour, and her waist and knees were sore and weak when she sat in front of the dressing table. When she got up, she stumbled twice because her legs were numb.
Gu Ye was shocked, he got up since he was a child, and quickly supported her.
Gu Yin looked at him with a stern face, so serious that he was different from usual, and couldn't help laughing: "What's the matter?"
"Mother was too careless," Gu Ye said while frowning, and he solemnly helped Gu Yin to the bed.
Gu Yin picked up the tea cup on the bedside table, "The polo club is really good in the daytime. Before I left, I asked Mrs. Lu, and Mrs. Lu said that the polo field is usually open to ordinary people, and she gave me a little money. You can go inside and play, and polo and sticks will be provided. Next time, I will take you and Wu An with you.”
Gu Ye took ten days off, every ten days off, and Wu An took five days off every five days.
Gu Ye's eyes lit up at first when he heard the words, but then he thought about it and said, "Then let Uncle take us there, and my mother has a good rest at home."
This is so strange, Gu Yin is suspicious while drinking the warm tea. In the past, this little brat only pushed Wu Qingyi out. How can the relationship be so good now? Abandon her as a mother outside
"After all..." Gu Ye paused for a while, and finally said, "After all, mother is about to give birth to a baby, so you have to pay attention to your body."
Gu Yin choked a mouthful of tea in her throat and coughed!
Gu Ye hurriedly smoothed her back, and said old-fashionedly: "Mother is going to be a mother again, but you can't be so reckless, you can't stand still, and you're choking on tea, how can you be reassured? ?"
Gu Yinshun was out of breath, put the tea cup back on the small table, picked him up, and said with a smile, "What a baby, what a mother again, where did you hear this?"
Gu Ye was held by her in her arms, but he didn't sit still like usual. Instead, his small arms and calves exerted force together, pulling on the edge of the bed and standing up, for fear of pressing her stomach.
"I asked others before." Gu Ye explained with a blushing face: "They say that when men and women stay alone, they will have babies."
Gu Yin couldn't help laughing, she held him in her arms and weighed him, "How could there be a baby in one place, because you are young, it is inconvenient to tell you a lot of things, so I can only say Probably, it's not what you think. Your uncle and I just went out to play alone for a day, where is the little baby?"
Only then did Gu Ye relax, lying in her arms without struggling any more.
The more Gu Yin thought about it, the more laughable it became. It was originally said that this little brat always interrupted when she and Wu Qingyi were alone, but the co-author had listened to those words!
"So mother and uncle being alone together does not mean that there is a baby." Gu Ye analyzed it seriously, and asked again, "Then how can we have it?"
It's no wonder that the person he asked would fool him and explain this to a six or seven-year-old child, which is really embarrassing.
Gu Yin paused for a while, and then said, "At least you have to sleep in one place."
Gu Ye nodded understandingly, "Then I understand."
It was getting late, and Gu Yin quickly sent the curious baby back to her own room to sleep.
…
The next day, Gu Yin got up and went to Shiweitian first.
The drama on the fifth floor has been performed for several days, and every scene is full.
Of course, this is not the fact that talk dramas suddenly replaced the status of traditional dramas in the hearts of the common people, but the theater is not big at all, and sofas and chairs are placed loosely to ensure the audience's experience, so Only a few dozen people can be accommodated.
There are not many places, plus the reputation of "Kindness", so it is very lively. In fact, the number of spectators is only a fraction of that in the theater.
Of course, the customer base of Gu Yin's drama is the same as the customer base of the entire Shiweitian Restaurant, and the tickets are much more expensive than the ordinary tickets in the theater. Snacks like hawthorn or sweet rice cakes.
In this way, wealthy people can come over for entertainment at any time, and ordinary people in Beijing are willing to spend this money during festivals. So the profit is lucrative.
Yesterday, she had a meeting with Mrs. Lu and the others, and Gu Yin knew a lot of popular words from them, and she also heard them tell some stories.
Taking advantage of the actors' break today, Gu Yin asked everyone to concentrate on the backstage and asked them what they thought of the new play.
In the past, new plays were arranged in the theater, and it was less than half a month or a month.
There are also people in the troupe, and if they are people, they will slack off. It is even said that they have just changed careers at the beginning, so Gu Yin is quite worried that they will not be happy.
What Gu Yin expected didn't happen, Brother Xiaofeng agreed, and everyone else was happy, even Chu Manrong didn't say anything else, they all started to imagine new costumes and asked for it.
In fact, it is not difficult to understand that people from the foreplay class beg for food from the class leader. The class leader takes the big head, and a group of them divides the head. Work hard, and earn less than a fraction of the salary.
Now that Gu Yin shares the accounts with them, it is much more fair, and everyone's income has increased significantly than before.
Especially for the main characters in the play, Gu Yin has set up the same system as Yashe on the third floor. The audience can buy cloth flowers for ten cents in the restaurant and give them to them.
Don't underestimate the income from giving gifts. Brother Xiaofeng can receive hundreds of flowers at a time, and Chu Manrong, the heroine, is much stronger than the former Huadan, and the audience of the opposite sex is particularly good, and he can receive several a day. ten flowers.
Once the income comes up, people will naturally not feel hard.
Finally, a new book called "Tale of Two Foxes" was set. From the name, you can know the direction of the story. It is a story of two fox spirits, one big and one small, entering the world.
Gu Yin asked people to go to the bookstore that day to inquire about the author of the book.
The people in the bookstore were unhappy at first, thinking that Gu Yin was trying to poach and refused to reveal a word.
But it was the shopkeeper Zhou who went there. He had nothing to say about his ability to deal with people. He first made a friendship with the bookstore owner, and when the other party was willing to listen to him, he explained his intentions carefully—he was not here to poach, but to cooperate.
If the drama adapted from "The Tale of Two Foxes" is a hit, then the original book sold by the bookstore will also be a big hit.
Clearly a win-win situation.
In addition to the guarantee of the signboard of Shiweitian, the owner of the bookstore finally relaxed and revealed the author's news.
At noon that day, Gu Yin met the author of the book, a middle-aged scholar surnamed Jiang.
Through the people in the bookstore, Gu Yincai knew that this scholar not only wrote "Tale of Two Foxes", but also wrote a lot of books before, and they are also not worried about sales.
In modern times, it would be a best-selling author, and he should be a master of money.
But the scholar in front of him looked nearly forty years old, but his face was yellow and his muscles were thin, and the scholar's robe on his body was not only washed and white, but also patched.
Anyway, it looked like a very difficult time.
Gu Yin asked the shopkeeper Zhou to take Mr. Jiang downstairs to have a meal, and then asked people to go out to inquire about it. Only then did they know that the current scholars who write scripts are usually sold directly to the bookstore.
Such as Mr. Jiang's words are twists and turns and bizarre, the quality of the story itself is excellent, and he has written other best-selling books before, and a book can sell for dozens of taels.
But Mr. Jiang was quite arrogant. He refused to sell all the books he wrote to the bookstore. Instead, he was considered to be cooperating with the bookstore. For every book sold, he got a share of money.
This kind of cooperation model is certainly feasible. In modern times, Mr. Jiang will definitely make more money than selling out in one breath.
But the bad is bad. There is no such thing as copyright in this era, and the relevant laws are not perfect. After he became famous, the book sold well, and when he turned around, someone wrote exactly the same thing, and he dared to sign a pseudonym similar to his. , so that ordinary people can't tell the difference.
In addition, the people in the bookstore generally push the books they bought out. The more they sell, the more they earn. For Mr. Jiang who insists on cooperating and not selling out, they are naturally not so enthusiastic.
Therefore, Mr. Jiang's pen name is very loud, but his life is not satisfactory.
After a thorough inquiry, Mr. Jiang sat down and ate a big meal under the reception of the shopkeeper Zhou.
The so-called cannibalism is soft and short-handed. Mr. Jiang did not show his arrogant side, and asked neither humble nor arrogant: "I don't know what the lady asked me to come here?"
Gu Yin went straight to the point and proposed that he wanted to buy his book and arranged it into a drama, and then invited Mr. Jiang to watch the "Kindness" in the afternoon session to let him understand what a drama is.
After watching the well-rehearsed, Mr. Jiang's attitude became more friendly, and he was very willing to cooperate with Gu Yin.
Both of them are refreshing people. Gu Yin took advantage of his time to go to the drama to have someone draw up a deed. The deed is still divided according to Mr. Jiang's share system and the revenue from the theater tickets.
Of course, seeing Mr. Jiang's situation in dire straits, Gu Yin set up an additional guarantee of 10 taels of silver, that is, even if one of the theater tickets could not be sold or the drama could not be staged for other reasons, Mr. Jiang could also get this income. It's enough for half a year of chewing.
This contract book is much more generous than what the bookstore signed with him. After Mr. Jiang signed it, he also took over the follow-up script work.
The last is the costumes of the new play. This time, the costumes cannot be purchased directly according to the costumes of the current people like "Kindness". After all, the protagonist is a goblin, and it has to be customized.
Gu Yin asked Xiu Niang from the house to take them to the restaurant, and asked them to measure Xiao Feng and their size, and then explained to them the effect she wanted.
The ability of embroidering women is also beyond doubt, but the difficulty lies in the fact that the drama is unprecedented, and the kind of stage costume that Gu Yin wants, which is completely different from the characteristics of the dynasty and is completely different from the costume, also has no precedent.
It's not like when she was writing the script, Gu Yin was able to re-enact the "Thunderstorm" script for everyone to demonstrate - her drawing level is not as good as that of Wu An, Wu An has not yet been able to draw people, not to mention Gu Yin. The sketches were okay, but the servants were obviously stumped.
Afterwards, Mr. Jiang still helped. He studied painting in his early years. Before writing a playbook to make a living, he was selling calligraphy and painting on the street.
However, Mr. Jiang also said that his painting level is also very average, otherwise he would not be able to sell calligraphy and painting and would not be able to earn money for a living.
Gu Yin asked people to get pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and let Mr. Jiang try it.
The affairs of the new play were properly arranged. The business on the first and second floors was looked after by the shopkeeper Zhou, while the third floor was handled by Ge Zhuer.
Gu Yin gave herself another day's leave, and the next day she was going to go outside the city to see the chili field that Wu Qingyi won back for her!
…
In the early morning of the next day, Gu Yin and Wang Shi said hello and were ready to set off.
Wang Shi smiled and waved her to go quickly.
She didn't tell her to be safe all the way, to be careful out of the city, etc.
Gu Yin felt strange when she saw her smile. Not long after she left the main courtyard, she saw Wu Qingyi who had already waited in front of the second gate, who was also ready to go.
She finally understood.
"You're on leave again today?" Gu Yin stepped forward briskly, although she was happy, she still said, "You're not better than me in your own restaurant, so why don't you take leave like this?"
Wu Qing commented on her, and his eyes were also full of smiles, and he explained solemnly: "Going to the polo club the day before yesterday was a leave of absence, not today. It was me who changed the days of Huo Mu with my subordinates."
"Then next time I'm out of town..."
"Next time, maybe I happen to be sick and report sick at home."
"The dignified general is so lazy." Gu Yin grabbed his fingers and squeezed.
The two stopped talking and walked to the shadow wall near the gate of the British government.
The carriage that the coachman had prepared for Gu Yin had already stopped, but before they could step out the door, another gorgeous carriage stopped.
A graceful middle-aged woman with her hair in a high bun came down first, followed by a young girl in a red dress, and finally Mrs. Lu.
Mrs. Lu has always had a lively and forthright disposition in front of others, but today she is a little timid and keeps her head down.
The middle-aged woman said a few words to her, "My hands and feet are slow and I can't do anything well", and Madam Lu hurriedly got off the carriage.
Gu Yin recognized Mrs. Lu and the arrogant little lady Lu, so she guessed that the woman in the middle was the old lady of the Lu family.
She looked at Wu Qingyi helplessly, thinking that she might have to go out later.
The Lu family is a wealthy businessman in the capital, and the silk and satin shop run by Mrs. Lu's house is nothing in the Lu family's business.
But in the end it's just a businessman's house, it's generally impossible for such a family to hand over the pilgrimage to the palace.
But since Mrs. Lu came, Gu Yin sold her face and let them all come in.
Mrs. Lu asked her servants to carry several gifts, and she came up to say that she was here to make amends.
Mrs. Lu, who was beside the escort, blushed with embarrassment, and she didn't say a word.
Gu Yin is not a fussy temperament, and it is true that the little lady Lu only used her words and did not get any advantage.
Since the other party specially came to apologize, this matter will be revealed.
After entertaining them for a quarter of an hour, Gu Yin said that she still had things to do, so she sent them out, and then immediately got into her own carriage with Wu Qingyi, and went to the pepper field that she was thinking of!