Seeing the old man's smiling face, Mr. Wen Er thought that there was a show, and immediately said more diligently: "Father, rest assured, the son will definitely manage well. As you said, this is what the mother left to the future granddaughter-in-law, and the son will only manage it for a few years. Later, when the children of the family marry their wives, they will definitely return to Zhao."
It's not a lie for him. As for whether it is for his own daughter-in-law or the niece in the next room, isn't it just him who makes up his mind
The little abacus in Master Wen Er's heart was beating loudly, but the old man suddenly changed his face and scolded: "You think so beautifully! Why can't that shop be rented out? You lied to your father for a fool? Let me say this shop again. Don't come to me again!"
"Father, how's it going..."
The old man said with a sullen face: "I told your brother not to care about the family's ancestral property with you, and he did it! We all know that the Hanlin Academy is very hard, and all the family's property has been in your hands in the past few years. No? Even now that he has been dismissed and returned home, he has not said that he wants to compete with you for the family property. Don't you know in your heart how much of the profits you gave to the shops? What about you? What are your thoughts? Let me tell you straight? If you want to be so dissatisfied, why don't you two separate your family while I'm still here, and I'll just follow your elder brother and the others."
"No!" Master Wen Er immediately refused.
Just kidding, if the family is divided now, the family's property will be divided into two, then he has to draw out some things in his hand
And we all know that the old man has a lot of private assets. He is still strong and strong, and he will definitely not share the private assets. If he was allowed to follow the big room, wouldn't the old man leave it to the big room after a hundred years? !
"If you can't, put away your little thoughts!"
Mr. Wen Er said, "Don't just scold me, eldest brother, they are not as good as you said. My son lost a tin of good tea in his study a few years ago! That's only 10 taels of silver for one dollar." The top Dahongpao!"
The more he talked, the more reasonable he felt, and his voice gradually became louder.
It was a new tea that he was not willing to drink. After going out and hiding for a while, he found that even the tea jar had been taken away.
His study was locked every day, and no one could get in, and he didn't have the guts.
And his eldest brother's study is next to him, and there is a corner door that is connected.
Master Wen Er immediately suspected his brother's head, and I'm waiting to find a chance to stab this matter in front of the old man.
Mrs. Wen suddenly became quiet, no longer pointed at his nose and scolded him, but his face became more and more stern.
The two connected study rooms were specially built by the old man in the past, so that the two brothers could get along more, communicate more, and be respectful to each other. It's just that I didn't expect that now it would become the reason for the younger brother to suspect that the older brother took his own things.
If he thought it was his brother who took it, he would tell his brother directly and ask, and there would be no such misunderstanding. And what is a pot of tea worth for someone like them? Even if the brother took it, there is no need to come to him specially to talk about it.
This method of suing brothers and making small jokes is no longer unworthy of the table, but disgusting.
"I took the tea. You should report the money to the accountant. If you don't go to the public center, I will pay you back from the private treasury."
Mr. Wen waved his hand in a moody mood, and was too lazy to explain that he was making milk tea with Gu Yin at the time, and the second master returned home after a few days, so he forgot to inform him after taking it.
Master Wen Er couldn't dance just now, but when he saw the old man suddenly like this, he didn't dare to say anything else, so he went out immediately.
…
On Gu Yin's side, after talking with the old man, she returned to the big kitchen.
However, they saw Chef Xu and his two little apprentices tinkering with something mysteriously before the case.
However, Chef Xu's body like a mountain of flesh was blocking it, so Gu Yin couldn't see anything.
She didn't go to investigate, she walked to the sink on her own, and washed the dishes and chopsticks that the old man had finished eating.
When Chef Xu heard the sound, he immediately stood up, chased after her and said, "How can I let the little master do this kind of thing, just let my little apprentice do it."
Gu Yin said it was all right, "I'll finish washing my hands and feet."
After Gu Yin finished washing the dishes and wiped her hands, Chef Xu led Gu Yin to the table.
I saw that there were various kinds of food on the desk, dried meat, celery, dried longan, lotus seeds, red dates, and red beans, which were packed in six white porcelain high-rise chassis, all piled up in the shape of hills, and tied with red ribbons. , and there is a jug of wine next to it, obviously carefully prepared.
A blush appeared on Chef Xu's pale face, "I prepared this for the little master, don't worry, I prepared it with my own wages, not the master's!"
For the past two months, Gu Yin did not guard Chef Xu when she was cooking fresh food, and she often gave him advice on a daily basis.
Although there is no picture of him, when the other party takes the initiative to report back, it is still very moving.
Gu Yin's heart was slightly warm, "You have a heart. These things are not cheap. Speaking of which, we haven't known each other for a long time, and you specially said goodbye for me."
The smile on Chef Xu's face stopped, "Farewell? What goodbye? The little master is leaving?"
"Yeah, when I came to work, I told Shopkeeper Wen that I would only work for two months, and the old man knew... No, I didn't seem to have told you. You didn't know I was leaving, are you?"
Chef Xu frowned and said, "I'm apprentice! Little master, don't you know the ceremony of apprenticeship?"
Gu Yin really didn't know that she had never been a teacher in this era.
"Then you are leaving, where are you going?"
"I'm going back to do my own little business."
Chef Xu's eyes lit up and said, "Then I'm not going to do it anymore, I'll go do business with the little master!"
Gu Yin said helplessly: "You can't do my business."
"Why can't I do it?" Chef Xu was anxious, "I know I'm not good at anything, but I'm willing to learn! No one took me to learn it in the past few decades, and I've followed you for the past two months. I have also improved a lot! Of course, my craftsmanship cannot be compared with that of a master like you, but I am fast, as you know, I can use one person for three people, and my little apprentice is like me, one person works for two people Absolutely no problem!"
"Hey, that's not it," Gu Yin explained, "it's because my temple is small, it's really small. I'm still setting up a stall at the dock. The small stall is enough for me and my mother."
Chef Xu's face was full of disbelief, and after a while, he said, "Small, small stall?"
Gu Yin touched her nose and said, "Yes, it's not that there is no one on the wharf in winter, that's why I came out to find work and got here."
"Then when are you going to expand?" Chef Xu frowned as if he was about to cry.
"Come on," Gu Yin said sternly, "I have inquired about it. The price of goods in the area of the wharf is low, and the rent is also low. For a shop in a better market, the annual rent is about twelve taels, and it should be about the same for a few more months. already."
Only then did Chef Xu feel a little more happy, and nodded: "Okay, then when you open the shop, I will follow you!"
Although Gu Yin also has big ambitions, she didn't dare to agree, she only said, "If there is a chance, I would also like to cooperate with you."
"Then about our apprenticeship..."
Gu Yin never thought about accepting apprentices, after all, apprentices in this era are not as casual as later generations.
The Lord of Heaven and Earth is a teacher, and his rank is second only to his father.
Master and apprentice are like father and son - if she accepts Chef Xu, it is equivalent to a mother-son relationship.
She actually has a good impression of Chef Xu. He is someone who really likes cooking and can bear his temperament to learn how to cook. Not to mention, she said that when Gu Yin was making hot pot dips, she had to grind sesame sauce and peanut butter. Gu Yin felt a little irritable when she thought that there was no cooking machine in this era.
He didn't know it at all. He brought his two little apprentices to grind together, and then tasted the sauce, he said it was worth it, and didn't say a word of hard work.
"It doesn't seem suitable. We are a little bit older." Gu Yin considered her words.
"Yes, I thought at first that if I were ten years younger, I would have nothing to do with you as my teacher right away. But in fact, what is age when I think about it? How can you say that there is a Wenxuanxuan?" Chef Xu looked at the two boys. apprentice.
He specially asked someone to ask such a sentence before, but he really couldn't remember it, so he only let the younger apprentice remember it.
The little apprentice immediately said: "There is neither noble nor lowly, neither long nor small, where the Tao exists, the teacher exists."
Chef Xu immediately said: "Yes, yes, no long no less! Although I am a few years older than the little master, but... "
"How old are you?" Gu Yin looked at Chef Xu suspiciously.
Years ago, he was just like a steamed bun, and his fat neck was almost gone after the New Year.
His face was fairly clean, without beards and folds, but no matter how he looked at it, he was a middleman.
Chef Xu scratched the back of his head and said, "I'm only twenty-eight, and I haven't married yet."
Gu Yin: ! ! ! !
"Really, I'm fat and old. When I wasn't so fat before, I was younger. Do you think so?"
The two little apprentices were the two orphans that Chef Xu rescued when he was traveling south and north, and they nodded their heads when they heard the words.
"Really, he wasn't even eighteen when Master saved me, so he was young at that time," the eldest apprentice said.
"Yeah, when Master rescued me, he was in his twenties, and he was in full bloom!" The second apprentice helped.
Co-author Chef Xu was no older than her previous life, and she was only eight years older than her in this life. She also respected him "you" one by one because she thought about his age.
Gu Yin changed her mind after a while, "Then how do you say that you have been learning to cook outside for decades?"
"It's true, I was also parentless and adopted by a group of runners. When I was five years old, they ignored me and threw me into a restaurant as an apprentice. Later, I changed places and learned Isn't it more than 20 years old now? And I also know that I look mature, this is not to say more years, so that I can increase my value. "
Afraid that Gu Yin would not respond, Chef Xu was about to kneel while supporting the table.
Gu Yin stretched out her hand to pull, but did not pull, she called out his two little apprentices to pull up Cook Xu, who was half-kneeling.
"Can I think about this?"
Accepting an apprentice is what you want and I want to do. Seeing that she didn't refuse, Chef Xu immediately smiled and nodded and said, "Yes! You can do it as long as you think about it, I'll wait for you!"
Gu Yin looked at his simple and honest appearance, but for a while it was still difficult for him to accept the fact that he was twenty-eight years old.
…
This day, the old man said that his body was a little uncomfortable and he wanted to rest. He let Gu Yin go to work just after lunch.
When she returned to Zhenyi Lane, Wang was washing the guys who opened the stalls in the yard. Seeing Gu Yin coming back early, she took it easy and said: "You can rest when you're done, and I'll do the washing myself. If you wait for another day in the sun tomorrow, you will definitely not go wrong!"
Gu Yin still rolled up her sleeves, twisted the towel, and helped the Wang family work together.
Seeing that she was a little bored these days, Mrs. Wang kept asking her, "What's the matter? What happened?"
The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law have been living with each other for the past six months, and have become accustomed to discussing with each other in advance.
Gu Yin told Mrs. Wang about Chef Xu's apprenticeship.
Wang couldn't help laughing and said, "What do I think it is, daring is such a thing. Isn't this a good thing? It means that people are convinced and respect you from the bottom of their hearts, so they want to worship you as a teacher! Or you don't like it? Did he become your apprentice?"
Gu Yin said no, "Master Xu is the one I know so far, the best person to learn, and the person who likes to study cooking the most. Except for being greedy, there is nothing wrong with him, and he is a good person."
"That's fine, I think he's a good person. You think, you gave him some advice during this time, he appreciates you, and he didn't think about taking advantage of you in vain. I have prepared the ceremony to recognize you as a master. ."
"He also said he wanted to work with me, but I also told him that I'm running out of people for this little stall now. He said that when I open a shop..."
"Didn't you always want to open a shop?"
"Yeah, that's not a shadow in front of you! And his salary in Wen's family is not low. At that time, I can't take the name of Master and deduct his salary. He has two younger apprentices, if they come over We have enough people to open the store."
Mrs Wang stopped what she was doing and looked at her strangely: "Why do you think so much? You and I swore before me that the next ten or fifteen taels will not be a problem? Why are you suddenly timid at this moment? Woke up?"
Gu Yin smiled, "Maybe it feels like I'm carrying someone else's life all of a sudden, so I'm a little embarrassed."
Wang reached out and patted her on the back, "Then don't want to go that far! Just say that in front of you, he admires your craftsmanship, and you also admire his eagerness to learn, then it's done! Let's open a shop without any shadows. , then let him still work at Wen's house. When he wants to learn, you can just find a place to teach. When it comes to the store, it will open up. !"
Wang Shi is a person with wisdom in life, and what made Gu Yin embarrassed for half the morning is nothing to her mouth.
Gu Yin laughed lightly, "Mother is right, if he wants to learn, I will teach! The next person will think about it later. Our family is going to open a shop and restaurant, so why can't we bring an apprentice?"
The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were chatting and laughing, and they washed everything that had been put on hold for a winter before dusk.
The next day, Gu Yin went to work at Wen's house and recognized Chef Xu as an apprentice. Chef Xu wanted to give her a teacher ceremony. She took the dried meat and longan, and confiscated the other silver coins he sealed. She only said that she was about to leave Wen's house to open a stall. She was very busy at that time, and she didn't have much energy to do it in a short time. Teach him that it will not be too late to give the money when the two of them work together in Japan.
Wang was in charge of buying the ingredients, but this time, he bought less vegetables, because the family was going to sell preserved egg and lean meat porridge, and the price became two cents a bowl. However, in the past few months, his family has a small reputation on the wharf. During the past few days, Wang has encountered regular customers and urged them to go back to set up a stall quickly.
At the end of the first month, everything at home was ready, and Gu Yin also said goodbye to the old man.
The old lady had already prepared her second month's wages.
He has been thinking about other things these days. Gu Yin is a bit stubborn. He only gave her five taels of silver for the New Year. She refused to accept it at first, but he took out his identity as an elder and forced her to accept it on the grounds of New Year's money. down. When he returned to work after the first year, he wanted to give him another red envelope for starting work, but Gu Yin refused to accept it.
Mrs. Wen likes such a person, but when she wants to give her something cheap, she gets embarrassed again.
I can't directly say that my family has a good shop. The second son's bastard's stuff is deliberately released to prevent people from renting it, so this shop is empty now, and I don't want to make a cheap bastard son. I want to rent it to you cheaply.
Gu Yin would definitely not accept it.
The old man thought about it again and again and said, "I heard you say that I want to open a shop in the future. It happens that I have an empty shop here. You can see if you want to rent it. Although we have some friendship, but at the market price this shop is one year. If you want to rent it for twenty-five taels, I will give you a head start, how about renting it to you for twenty-two taels a year?"
This is a very suitable price calculated by the old man for her. Twenty taels happened to be Gu Yin's salary for two months. She seemed to be a thrifty housekeeper, not someone who would spend money indiscriminately. How could she have some leftovers.
If it is not enough for twenty taels, then repair the deed, instead of paying the rent on an annual basis like in the market, paying half a year in advance.
Gu Yin said: "Thank you for your kindness. I do have plans to open a store this year, but I just want to open a shop in the area of the wharf, where the rent is cheap. To tell you the truth, I'm gathering together now, and I can't get a dozen taels."
I saved six taels a year ago, and I paid one or two half of the head tax. Later, when I bought things for the New Year, I had to lose five taels from the old man, so the family saved only half of the money. Now there are forty taels left of that part of the money. But Mr. Wang had already bought rice and noodles, prepared for the stall, and spent some of it. The rest can't be moved, since doing business definitely requires liquidity.
As for Gu Yin's salary for the past two months, it is naturally untouched. Fifteen taels have to be repaired, and the remaining five taels can be saved.
For fifty taels of silver, there are not enough shops in the area of the wharf, let alone the prosperous shops in the mouth of the old man.
Gu Yin told the old man carefully, showing that she was really powerless for the time being, rather than deliberately rejecting his good intentions.
The old man said excitedly: "What a wonderful sir, do you want to charge your family fifteen or two for repairs?"
"It's a juren master surnamed Wen. I heard that it's amazing, but I didn't continue the exam because I didn't want to be an official, and Mr. Wen doesn't accept many students, so the beam repair is a little more expensive."
"Isn't this Hu Man! If you want to be an official, why not take the imperial examination? Don't be a jinshi, so that's why you say that." Seeing that Gu Yin was silent, the old man became anxious and said, "You are all in the text. Home for so long, you don't know my identity?"
Gu Yin said: "Of course I know."
In fact, it was not very clear at first, but there was Chef Xu in the kitchen. When the two were grinding their teeth, Chef Xu had already told Gu Yin about the Wen family.
At that time, he still admired the authentic: "When the county magistrate entered the imperial examination, our grandfather happened to be the current examiner and the county magistrate's teacher. Even if the old grandfather retired now, the county magistrate would panic when he saw our grandfather. Don't talk about the people in our house, there is no one who is not afraid of his old man, only the little master is not afraid of the old man!"
Gu Yin really wasn't very afraid of him. It was naturally during this period of time that she came into contact with him. She knew that the old man was a good person. She accompanies him to eat, drink, play and play, and unconsciously regarded him as an ordinary elder. Second, it may also be related to the first impression. Everyone else knows the identity of the old man first, and then thinks about him. Naturally, they dare not underestimate him.
She is not. When she saw the old man for the first time, the old man was climbing on the stage and arguing with people. Later, he asked Xu and Wang to fight together, leaving the two short legs of the old man to ride a bicycle back and forth in the air. Upside down, he couldn't get himself to the ground.
Such a first meeting, I just wanted to laugh in retrospect, and naturally I wouldn't be afraid of him.
Looking back, Mrs. Wen looked at Gu Yin like a fool, "Since you know, you still invite someone else to be a teacher for your children? Do you know how many students want to join me? I just refused to see you during the New Year. Yes, there are hundreds! Hundreds, do you know?"
It turned out that the old man didn't see guests during the Chinese New Year because he was hiding this, Gu Yin thought to himself, and saw the old man make a high-pitched sound again, her face turned red, and she quickly handed him hot tea, "Don't be excited, take a breath."
Mrs. Wen took a sip of hot tea and calmed down, "What do you think, tell me carefully."
Gu Yin said: "You must be more knowledgeable than Mr. Wen. If my Wu'an is not six years old, but sixteen years old, then I definitely want to win a chance for him. But he is still two months away from arriving. At the age of six, I only read 300,000 with Xu Gongzi next door, how could I have the nerve to let him be your student at this level?"
Can college teachers teach elementary school students? Of course, it can be taught, but it is also too talented, and the thinking of college teachers and children's thinking is definitely different, which is why many parents in modern times, obviously they have a high degree of education, when they help their children who have just started school homework , will also feel powerless and repeatedly collapse.
The old man thinks about it too. He has been a scholar all his life. He is so old. Now let him repeat "Disciple's Rules", "Young Learning Qionglin", and "Enlightenment of Sound Rhythm", he himself felt bored. Not to mention boosting the motivation of the students being taught. In the matter of reading, famous teachers are important, but children's self-motivation is equally important. If you don't let your child want to learn at the beginning, it will be difficult to learn later.
The most important thing is that people can't accept the old age. His eyes have become more and more bad in recent years, and everything he sees has a shadow. Reading and practicing by yourself is exhausting.
The old man pouted and kept silent, and it was just right that Master Wen came over to greet him.
He knew that this was the last day of Gu Yin's work at Wen's house. He wanted to ask the old man if he could lend him the cook for a while, so that he could cook two more spicy dishes to relieve his addiction. This is the kind of spicy hot pot base, and he eats it slowly when he saves it.
The old man laughed when he saw him, and waved in a hurry: "Come on boss, I have something good to help you!"