Gu Yin just got up at that moment.
The night before, her hands and feet were no longer itchy in the middle of the night. She had the sweetest sleep recently and had a sweet dream.
In her dream, she opened a restaurant that was no worse than Wangyuelou, and even poached shopkeeper Zhou into her own restaurant.
Their red case and white case are two-pronged, and the Wang family helps with other trivial matters. The business is booming, and they are all ready to go to the capital to open a branch.
In her last life, she disappeared when her porridge shop expanded, and opening a branch seemed to be a knot in her heart.
After this dream ended, Gu Yin became more and more motivated, and when she woke up, she was ready to get up.
Then she saw Xiao Wu'an, who was squatting on the head of the bed with his hands dragging his chin.
The little guy looked at her unblinkingly, and immediately turned his back sensible when he saw her awake, ignoring her clothes.
"Why don't you go to bed early in the morning?"
Xiao Wu'an said, "Mother told me to look at my sister-in-law, for fear that my sister-in-law would go out again when she got up."
Gu Yin glanced outside, the sky outside was still gloomy and gloomy, and the wind was whimpering, but at least it didn't snow again.
As she put on her coat, she asked, "Can't you go out if it's not snowing?"
Xiao Wu'an shook his head in an old-fashioned manner, and learned Wang's tone again: "Show your sister-in-law to be honest! If the old lady boils the hot water and finds that your sister-in-law is missing, she will make you a pig head, and during the New Year's Eve You pig head is on the offering table!"
Gu Yin smiled so much that her face hurt.
Xiao Wu'an also laughed, "Anyway, that's what my mother said."
After speaking, Gu Yin took Xiao Wu'an out of the door.
The Wang family was in the kitchen room, with her ears sticking out, when she heard the sound of her door, she immediately walked from the kitchen room to the main room, and urged, "I have the hot water boiled, and the tub has been cleaned. Come and wash! "
In this weather, you don't have to go out after taking a shower. If the cold wind blows, you will definitely get sick.
What else can Gu Yin say? Can only go back to the house to get a change of clothes, into the stove.
Mr. Wang had moved the long table in the middle of the kitchen, the water jars and the baskets for the ingredients were piled up in a corner, the back door and windows were also closed, and cloth strips were tucked into the cracks of the windows and doors.
There was a large tub in the middle. Before Gu Yin could do it by himself, Mrs. Wang helped pour the hot water on the stove one by one, and then poured cold water from the water tank.
When the hot water filled the entire tub, Mrs. Wang sweated on her forehead and said, "Wash now."
Seeing that Gu Yin was ashamed again, she didn't insist on helping with the washing this time, and closed the door and went out.
I took a comfortable hot shower and washed my hair with soap.
The Wang family drove her back to the house to stay, turned around and took a cloth to wrap her hair, and stuffed her with the steamed buns she had just steamed in the morning, and let her sit in the house to eat.
After making sure that Gu Yin looks like this, she will never go out again, so Mrs. Wang is busy with her own business.
It was at this time that Wen Peifeng came over.
He didn't even think about what happened the day before.
He brought the Laba porridge given by Gu Yin to Mrs. Wen.
Mrs. Wen accepted his filial piety and said while eating: "You child is also very caring. I'm at this age, but I only eat two bites less, so why is it worth it when you run around and invite the cook?"
After speaking, the porridge tasted in his mouth, and the old man's complexion changed.
Wen Peifeng thought he didn't think it tasted good, so he immediately explained: "This is the porridge that the little lady cooked at noon, but it was cold, so she put it in the food box for a few hours to reheat it. It may be that the smell is gone. , can the old lady give that little lady a chance and let me invite her to cook a new one again."
Mrs. Wen put down the bowl and asked, "What little lady? Is that the big bear who came with you in the afternoon?"
Wen Peifeng said, "It's freezing cold and the little lady is wearing thicker clothes. In fact, life is very upright."
"Is she born pure and white, with particularly bright eyes?"
In Wen Peifeng's mind, Gu Yin's eyes flashed with a sly smile, and those eyes were indeed smart and clear.
He lowered his eyes and said yes.
Grandpa Wen slapped his thigh, "You bring that big bear... No, you invite that little lady over, we'll invite her!"
Mrs. Wen hates to owe favors the most. When he was released from Beijing, he never asked his colleagues for help.
On the same day, he accepted the favor of the two families, and turned around and forgot their address, so he could only ask the servants to help him find out.
However, although Hanshan Town is small, it has a population of several thousand. Finding two people who do not know the bottom line is like looking for a needle in a haystack.
I thought there would be no more details on this matter, but I didn't expect that the little lady who had cooked the porridge for him actually came to Wen's house on his own initiative-although the Laba porridge had been reheated, Mrs. Wen's tongue was so stubborn. Ah, as soon as you taste it, you will know that this porridge with a lot of effort cannot be cooked by ordinary people.
Then Mrs. Wen went to ask Wen Peifeng to invite someone.
Although poor Wen Peifeng and Gu Yin are acquainted, Gu Yin often goes to buy rice, but it is the most taboo for people to have deep conversations, so in fact, the two sides are not particularly familiar, and he just heard them talk about it. Said to set up a stall at the pier.
The wind and snow were so heavy that day, the canal could not be used for boats for a long time, and there were not even wild birds on the pier.
Wen Peifeng can only ask the residents near the pier.
Although these residents do not seek life on the pier, most of them will buy some food on the pier for convenience.
In this weather, it would be hard for anyone to be woken up. After being scolded by three families, Wen Peifeng found out that the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law probably lived in Jinyi Lane, because someone saw that the Wang family asked Guan Caotou to find a child. Guan Zhaotou would bring back a message when he said that he was going to be undervalued.
Jinyi Alley is a general term, and all the small alleys in that area are included. It is not easy to get this news. Wen Peifeng used to go door-to-door to ask.
It is also due to the reputation of "evil mother-in-law and charming daughter-in-law" that is well known in that area, and he finally found it.
Afraid that each time the other party came, it was two mother-in-law and daughter-in-law. Wen Peifeng thought that most of them had no adult men in their family, so he specially brought an old mother in the house to accompany him.
When Mrs. Wang came to open the door, she was surprised when she saw Wen Peifeng, and asked, "Why did the shopkeeper come here?"
As he spoke, he opened the door and invited people to the main room to speak.
Wen Peifeng has been so busy in the morning, his face is pale from the cold, his nose is red, and he is no longer his usual youthful and mature appearance, and he is quite juvenile.
Wang turned his back and snickered, then turned around and went to the kitchen to grab a handful of peanuts he had just bought the day before and stuffed it into his hands, and also made a bowl of sugar water for him and the old mother.
"There's nothing good at home. Seeing that you're cold, let's eat and drink casually."
Wen Peifeng thanked him, got up to meet him, and asked Wang to press him back.
"You're welcome, you're welcome, sit down and say."
He didn't expect Wang's hand to be so strong, his shoulders felt numb when he pressed it, and the surprised embarrassment flashed across his face.
After drinking a bowl of hot sugar water and warming up his hands and feet, Wen Peifeng exhaled a long breath and talked about his intentions, "Yesterday your little lady passed by our shop and happened to know that our main family is hiring a cook. I introduced her to the mansion, and there was a bit of unpleasantness in the middle, but later our old man liked the little lady's porridge very much, and immediately said he wanted to invite her. That's why I came here early in the morning. "
The Wang family specifically didn't ask Gu Yin about going out to work, so she didn't know it happened.
She knew that her daughter-in-law could make up her own mind now, so she didn't help to agree or refuse, she just told Wen Peifeng and the old mother to sit for a while, and she went into the room and asked Gu Yin.
When Gu Yin was in the house, she heard Mrs Wang talking to people in the patio, but in this day and age, she had just taken a bath and wrapped her hair, so she couldn't go out, so she could only put her ear against the wall and listen. .
When Mrs Wang came in, she saw her head wrapped in a zongzi, lying on the wall, looking very funny.
She didn't find it funny and said, "What weird way did you learn?"
Gu Yin stepped back from the wall and said with a smile, "I sound like the shopkeeper Wen from Daxing Rice Shop is here. What did he say?"
"Usually, you and that young shopkeeper are both old-fashioned, but today it's a lively competition!" Wang succinctly relayed Wen Peifeng's words, and then asked: "What is the unpleasantness? Did you suffer from it outside? Didn't you come back to tell me the grievance? If you are really wronged, don't go, no matter how high she pays us, we won't take that bird's anger!"
"The wages of ten taels a month..."
Wang Shi smacked his tongue: "My dear! So many."
But soon she still had a painful expression on her face: "Long-life kung fu and long-term life, where can the money be earned all at once? Anyway, the innocent people of our family are not sold to the servants of those big families. Don't take that anger!"
Seeing that Mrs. Wang was so distressed, Gu Yin said seriously: "I'm not joking with my mother, the so-called unpleasantness is a misunderstanding. Yesterday, the old man scolded the second master of the house, and the shopkeeper Wen took me over and happened to hear it. The second master felt ashamed, so he drove me away without waiting for me to see the old man."
Gu Yin did not mention that the old man was the old man he met in front of the stage.
First of all, I thought that since the other party specially invited people to invite him regardless of the past, it must be that he didn't care about the past. Second, she heard Zhao's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law talk about the Wen family yesterday, but she didn't listen carefully at that time, but she also heard that the Wen family was very remarkable, and it was the family that the Wang family wanted to cling to. Yesterday, she saw the plaque of the Wen family, and Wen was not the surname of the town, it should be the family the Wang family said.
Her mother-in-law looked amazing, but she couldn't stand it very much. Tell her carefully, she knew that she had treated Mrs. Wen so much, and she might not know how to scare her.
"The second master of that family has lost face in front of you, and when you look back, you can't..."
"Don't worry about this, mother. Since I'm going to cook for the old man, I don't need to be angry with the second master. Otherwise, as a son, he will kill the person invited by his father for no reason. That's not a slap in the face. Besides, as you said, we are not prostitutes. We can do this job if we can, but if I can't, I will come back immediately. Anyway, if you are idle, you will be idle."
During this period of time, Mrs. Wang has gradually become accustomed to obeying Gu Yin's words. Now that she is justified and honest, Mrs. Wang nodded and went out to agree to Wen Peifeng. Because it was already halfway through the morning, Gu Yin had just taken a bath and there was no wind, so she agreed to let her go to work at Wen's house the next day.
After the agreement, Wang sent Wen Peifeng out.
Wen Peifeng and his old mother walked to the alley to take a carriage. When he turned around, his eyes were full of flowers, but when he looked closely, he saw nothing.
He sneered, thinking that he was probably too tired to look at his eyes - it's freezing cold, how can there be children with little clothes hanging around outside