Jiang Yunzhu was indeed very tired. She went to bed at around 11 o'clock last night and got up at 3 o'clock this morning. She has been busy till now. So even though she knew Shen Fengming was beside her and even though she reminded herself to be alert, she still fell asleep involuntarily when she sat on the stool.
Her breathing was steady, her long eyelashes drooped, her red lips slightly parted, and she looked calm and peaceful.
Shen Fengming's gaze quickly swept across her lips and fell on the white paper in front of him.
A sweet sleep.
"Zhu Qin, You Xu, He Lu, Shi Zhang." Jiang Lin and the others read. Jiang Yunzhu's eyelashes trembled and she sat up straight.
"Kong Cao Yan Hua, Jin Wei Tao Jiang."
Jiang Yunzhu understood that Shen Fengming was teaching them the Hundred Family Names. He was serious about it. To keep accounts, the first thing to do was to know the numbers, and the second was to be able to write names.
She glanced at him secretly. Did he notice that she was sleeping
Shen Fengming showed no strange expression. From her angle, his profile seemed to be drawn with a pen, with beautiful and firm lines. His eyes were like cold stars, deep and bright.
He probably didn't notice it, she breathed a sigh of relief and looked at others.
Jiang Lin was studying very seriously, concentrating on his studies. Jiang Yunxue was also very excited. This usually well-behaved and timid girl seemed like a different person at this moment, with fire in her eyes.
Jiang Wu, Jiang Wu's little head nodded back and forth, and Jiang Yunzhu shook his head.
Then she met a teasing gaze from Yang Sheng.
Jiang Yunzhu was slightly stunned. What did he mean
"Okay, that's all for today." Shen Fengming said at this time.
"Young Master, you've worked hard. Come on, drink some water." Chen had been listening to the noise in the room. When she heard that it was over, she quickly brought the prepared tea to Shen Fengming. Shen Fengming taught Jiang Yunzhu and others how to read. All her gratitude and thanks were in the tea.
The tea was of very poor quality, but Shen Fengming seemed not to notice. He took the tea bowl and took a sip.
Yang Sheng came close to Jiang Yunzhu and asked in a low voice, "Can you teach me this skill of yours?" Maybe he could use it in the future.
"What skill?" Jiang Yunzhu didn't understand.
Yang Sheng laughed, "You are only capable of sleeping with your eyes open!"
Did she sleep with her eyes open? At most, she squinted her eyes. No, he knew she slept? Jiang Yunzhu looked at Yang Sheng.
Yang Sheng’s expression says it all.
Jiang Yunzhu wanted to cover her face with her hands. Suddenly, she thought, no, Yang Sheng had already found out that she was sleeping, so what about Shen Fengming...
She looked towards Shen Fengming and met his dark eyes.
As expected, he discovered her. Jiang Yunzhu quickly retracted her gaze and lowered her head. She swore that she really didn't mean it.
“Tell me, why are you…” Yang Sheng wanted to ask more, “Let’s go!” Shen Fengming put down the tea and stood up.
"What?" Yang Sheng asked a little confused.
"Get down to business." Shen Fengming said as he walked out.
Yang Sheng understood what he meant and his face drooped. Wasn’t he doing the right thing now
Why aren't you leaving yet? Shen Fengming turned around and looked at him, with this expression in his eyes.
"At least wait for me..." Wait until he learns Jiang Yunzhu's skills!
Shen Fengming didn't say anything, just looked at him.
"Well, why is my life so miserable?" Yang Sheng howled and followed Shen Fengming.
"Are they going out to collect grain?" Chen asked, looking at their backs. "Didn't they say they would wait until the servants arrived before collecting?"
Jiang Yunzhu frowned and said nothing.
In the evening, Shen Fengming and Yang Sheng came back. Shen Fengming took out a map and marked something, while Yang Sheng lay slumped in bed and didn't want to move.
Jiang Yunzhu had prepared meals for them. This afternoon, she bought them a chicken, and now was the perfect time to cook three dishes with one chicken. The chicken breast was used to make Kung Pao Chicken, and the chicken thighs were shredded into thin strips and mixed with carrots and cabbage to make a cold salad.
Originally this dish should be made with cucumber shreds, but there were no cucumbers at this time of year, so she tried cutting the tender vegetable hearts into thin shreds, which was also very refreshing.
Finally, they made a soup with the chicken rack and paired it with two plates of pancakes, which was almost enough for Yang Sheng and Shen Fengming to eat.
Sure enough, Yang Sheng became energetic as soon as he saw the dinner. His mind was completely on the food and he even forgot about learning skills from Jiang Yunzhu.
Jiang Yunzhu stepped back.
When Jiang Cheng came back in the evening, he heard that the guest merchants who were staying with him had taught several children to read and write, and he was very grateful. He had thought about teaching children to read before, but a child wanted to go to a private school, and the annual tuition was ten taels of silver. For him, this was as far away as a dream, a dream that could never be realized.
Now the dream has come true
"You must study hard and never make others angry." He warned Jiang Lin and the others, especially Jiang Wu, because he was young and might not understand these things.
Jiang Wu nodded timidly. He seemed to have fallen asleep during the calligraphy study in the afternoon. Was the older brother not angry
The more I thought about it, the more guilty I felt, so I decided to study hard tomorrow.
Jiang Cheng didn't tell Jiang Yunzhu anything. He felt that she was very sensible and didn't need him to say anything.
Jiang Yunzhu stood there. Well, she knew she was wrong and shouldn't sleep. Even if she knew those characters, it would be good to learn calligraphy from Shen Fengming.
This is a rare opportunity. His calligraphy was praised by Lord Chang.
After giving the instructions, Jiang Cheng took the children to the side room to thank Shen Fengming.
"Gentlemen, I am really sorry to cause you trouble. The children are ignorant. If they do anything wrong, you can punish them without hesitation," Jiang Cheng said sincerely.
In ancient times, strict teachers produced excellent students, and beatings produced filial sons. When teachers punished students, parents would not say a word, and sometimes teachers even punished parents together, and no one thought there was anything wrong.
On the contrary, if the teacher does not punish the students, the parents may still be unhappy and think that you may not be teaching hard enough.
Yang Sheng had been punished a lot when he was in school. Now when he heard him say this, his face looked strange.
"We may not be able to stay here for too long." Shen Fengming said.
Jiang Cheng understood, but was still very grateful to him.
After thanking them a few more times, he left with Jiang Yunzhu and others so as not to disturb Shen Fengming's rest.
After they left, Yang Sheng drank tea and asked Shen Fengming, "Miss Jiang slept in the afternoon, why didn't you punish her?"
"How to punish?" Shen Fengming asked.
“This…” Do I need to ask him this? Yang Sheng almost spit out the tea in his mouth. What’s the punishment? Of course… Suddenly, he felt something was wrong. He looked at Shen Fengming and met his eyes.
His eyes were as cold as a pond.
Yang Sheng shuddered and smiled awkwardly, "Didn't you punish all the people from our Qilin Guard who made mistakes in the past?"
"They are just ordinary people," said Shen Fengming.
"Then it is only right for the teacher to punish the student."
"I'm not her teacher." I just taught her for a few days.
Yang Sheng lost his temper, and he shouldn't have argued with him about this matter.
"I was wrong, I was wrong, okay." He surrendered.
After Jiang Cheng and his friends had dinner, they started to get busy again, kneading dough, cutting vegetables, and preparing for spicy soup and fried oil buns tomorrow morning.
This busyness lasted until the hour of Hai.
Yang Sheng was lying on the bed, listening to the busy sounds in the kitchen outside, and said to Shen Fengming, "They are really hard-working!" It's much harder than their Qilin Guards, especially Jiang Yunzhu, who is busy all day long.
He suddenly understood why Jiang Yunzhu fell asleep in the afternoon, and felt a little regretful. He regretted that he shouldn't have kept asking her about her sleeping habits, and also teased Shen Fengming about this matter in the evening.
"Yeah." Shen Fengming said lightly, seemingly without any emotional ups and downs.
Yang Sheng sighed. Talking to him was no better than talking to a stone.
Is it hard? If someone asks Jiang Yunzhu this question, she will answer, "It's hard." But as long as she can get through this period, when the takeaway business picks up and she doesn't have to make breakfast anymore, things will be much better.
So the future is bright and Jiang Yunzhu no longer feels hard.
The next morning they went to set up the stall as usual, and today they made meat pancakes. Some people who wanted to eat meat pancakes bought one to eat when they saw that they finally had them today. Some people were afraid that they would be gone tomorrow, so those who originally didn't want to buy or wanted to buy one decided to buy one or two immediately.
Therefore, the meat pie is selling particularly well today.
"Yunzhu, how did you come up with this idea?" Chen praised. The idea of selling meat pancakes every two days was really amazing. A meat pancake cost six coins, and selling one was equivalent to selling two bowls of spicy soup. She clearly felt that the money in the money jar today was much more.
Jiang Yunzhu smiled and said, this is just small money.
Soon, a big customer came.
It was the long-faced soldier who followed Deputy General Zhao. He came over with a food box in his hand, handed it to Jiang Yunzhu, and asked, "Boss, did you make porridge or meat pancakes today?"
"Meat pie." Jiang Yunzhu took the food box and said.
"I need thirty meat pancakes and eight bowls of soup. Please prepare them for me and I will carry them to the mountain." said the long-faced soldier.
So many? Jiang Yunzhu had already made some extra meat pancakes today, but it was still not enough!
"How many are there? I want them all."
Jiang Yunzhu counted them, "There are still nineteen."
It's only one third away, the long-faced soldier sighed. He had arrived early, but didn't expect to be late anyway.
"Forget it, give me all, and give me forty oil-fried buns left." The long-faced soldier thought for a while and said.
This was obviously a meal for seven or eight people, so there must be new guests. Jiang Yunzhu understood and asked Chen to serve the soup while she went to prepare meat pancakes and fried buns.
"By the way, I need to order food from you at noon. Please make the meat pie first, and I will tell you when it is ready." The long-faced soldier said again.
Jiang Yunzhu's heart moved slightly, and she asked him casually, "What's the matter? You look very anxious."
The long-faced soldier was about to complain, but seeing that there was no one around, he lowered his voice and said to Jiang Yunzhu, "It's okay, it's General Wang who has gone crazy and insisted on searching the entire mountain to catch suspicious people.
Isn't this making everyone busy?" At this point, he sneered, "There are no suspicious people. There are so many of us guarding here. Whoever dares to come and make trouble must be tired of living."
After hearing this, Jiang Yunzhu paused while cutting the meat. The suspicious people must be the two people in her family!
She didn't ask any more questions and finished making the meat pies.
Over there, Chen also served the soup.
Put the soup into the food box. As for the meat pancakes, simply put the meat pancakes back into the pancake basket, cover them with the quilt again, and hand them to the long-faced soldier.
"It's not easy for you to carry this, Jiang Lin, you go with them and send them off." Chen called Jiang Lin with a smile.
"Okay." Jiang Lin took the meat pancakes in the basket and said.
The long-faced soldier smiled at their thoughtfulness. "Don't worry, I still need to tell you about lunch. By the way, how much is this meat pie and soup?"
"Nineteen meat pancakes, one hundred and fourteen coins, eight bowls of soup and forty oil-fried steamed buns, twenty-four coins, a total of one hundred and thirty-eight coins." Jiang Yunzhu said.
The long-faced soldier paid the money, then took out a piece of paper and a silver coin and handed it to Jiang Yunzhu, "There are a few dishes here, and one bowl of the boiled meat from yesterday. You can make the rest as you like, just make enough for eight people.
Take this money first, and I will refund you when the meal is delivered."
It turned out that the five soldiers had eaten the dishes prepared by Vice General Zhao and his three companions yesterday and found them delicious, but eight people had three dishes and no one was full. The five soldiers felt bad about it and said that they would pay for a table of dishes today and invite Vice General Zhao and his three companions to eat.
They didn't know Jiang Yunzhu, so they asked this long-faced soldier to run errands and bring breakfast.
Jiang Yunzhu weighed the silver, which was more than half a tael. She then looked at the note. There were five dishes, namely pork elbow, scorched meatballs, braised pork with pork belly, sweet and sour pork tenderloin, stir-fried kidney, plus a bowl of boiled meat. Well, it was all meat.
There must be enough money to cook enough food for eight people. After Jiang Yunzhu saw it, she had already figured out what to do.
After seeing off the long-faced soldier, Jiang Yunzhu continued to sell soup. Someone else who wanted to buy meat pie came later and regretted it when he heard that they were sold out.
Thanks to the big business from the long-faced soldier, all of the Jiang family’s food for the day was sold out before noon.
They packed up and prepared to go back.
At this time, a man came driving a donkey cart. It was Xu Qingshan.
"Closing up the stall so early today?" he asked in surprise, then hurried over to help clean up.
"We had a big customer today and bought a lot." Chen smiled, then became annoyed, "You haven't had breakfast yet, right? I should have saved a bowl for you."
"No need, auntie, just sell whatever you can. I'll just go home and eat something." Xu Qingshan said quickly.
Everyone packed up together and soon finished packing. Xu Qingshan moved the things onto his donkey cart.
"This is so embarrassing." Chen said while pulling something.
"Aunt, I have to go back anyway, it's on the way."
Chen let go and looked at Jiang Yunzhu who was busy on the side. She understood!
Although Jiang Yunzhu didn't see it, she heard the conversation between Chen and Xu Qingshan. She frowned slightly. She didn't want to trouble Xu Qingshan.
The crowd rode back in the donkey cart and soon arrived at Changshi Village.
"Aunt, are you going to town today? I'm going to town to buy some tobacco leaves for my father." At the gate of Jiang's house, Xu Qingshan asked while helping Chen unload things. That meant that if Chen and Jiang Yunzhu went to town, they could still ride in his donkey cart.
Jiang Yunzhu was going to town, Chen smiled.
Jiang Yunzhu was surprised that she still didn't notice anything unusual. Xu Qingshan had just been to the town yesterday, and he was going again today? He was probably sending her off on purpose.
She had some feeling about Xu Qingshan's feelings for her, but he never said it, and she didn't want to bring it up herself.
She should find a chance to tell him clearly. She was about to refuse immediately.
But how could she refuse? She really had to go to town.
Just then, a male voice said, "Miss Jiang, are you going to town? How about we take you."
Looking up, I saw Yang Sheng and Shen Fengming riding two horses, leisurely coming over from that direction.
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Zhu, Qin, You, Xu, He, Lu, Shi, Zhang." "Kong, Cao, Yan, Hua, Jin, Wei, Tao, Jiang." From the Hundred Family Surnames.