Tongzhuang Shili Rice Flower Fragrance

After the small workshop was built, Ming Rou began to concentrate on researching her rouge business.

Zhong Tiantian became her first employee.

In fact, at the beginning, everyone didn't really believe that a little doll like Mingrou could do any business, but seeing Ye Qiuniang's confident look behind her, it was difficult to express any doubts.

The old couple of Zhong's family heard that Mingrou wanted to hire her daughter to make rouge, and they didn't know what to say for a while. After all, they were busy with the farm work at home, but Zhong Tiantian could still take care of the housework alone. A little girl playing at home will not delay anything, but if she goes to help, she may not be able to take care of the housework, and the two sisters on the other side look at the family in a difficult situation. I don’t know if the business can continue. , how could I have the nerve to ask for their money again, so when Mingrou mentioned this matter, the husband and wife hesitated for a long time.

How could Ye Qiuniang not know what they were thinking, and said with a smile: "Whether Rouge's business will do well in the future is not a matter of proof, but since the two of us can afford to build this workshop, naturally we have already given all the rest of the work to you. Think it over clearly, even if you don't hire Tian Tian, ​​you still have to hire someone else, who will pay you the same, so why not use someone we can trust."

Mingrou on the side also added: "Tiantian can do housework at home in the morning, and come back after lunch, and when we made the preparation, Tiantian himself spent some energy to post some money. Give her a dividend."

The more I talked about it, the more it seemed like that. After much deliberation, the parents of the Zhong family felt that the problem was not a big deal, so they stopped insisting. Anyway, the family is close, and if they can earn money, they can also cover part of the expenses. Zhong Lin is about to marry a wife. Well, I haven't saved enough gift money after saving for so long, so many people are rushing to get such a good opportunity.

So Zhong Tiantian's matter was settled like this.

Ming Rou didn't know why A Tao kept coming to help her so enthusiastically every three days. Whether he wanted to or not, he also left a copy for him. After all, there are still many places where he can help It's on.

The red and blue flowers on the mountain are harvested once and grown, and the raw materials are still enough for the time being, but the beeswax, tallow and beef marrow needed for preparation also need to find a fixed source.

Atao said: "There are bee nests on the edge of the cliff in the back mountain. They have been there for many years. According to my observation, there must be a lot of them. Otherwise, let's go find time. The nest was poked, and the beeswax will be used for a year." Not finished."

Hearing what A Tao said, Ming Rou couldn't help but brighten up, the workshop is just about to start up, and everything costs money, so saving a little is a plus.

Ye Qiuniang naturally agreed, but she thought much more thoughtfully. Instead of letting Atao and the two little girls take risks, she hired three beekeepers who are good at rock climbing, prepared enough tools and ropes, and went straight up the mountain He picked all the bee fields on the edge of the cliff and took them home.

At the same time, a neat wooden box was hung under the eaves at the back of the workshop, and the returned bees were moved to nests and kept under the eaves of their own home.

In this way, beeswax will not be inexhaustible in the future.

There was a lot of movement on the day of honey harvesting, which attracted the attention of people around Tongzhuang. As soon as the queen bee was sealed in the box, a group of people came to the house, accusing Ye Qiuniang and sisters of not taking all the honey on the mountain for themselves.

Looking at the mighty crowd, Ye Qiuniang frowned slightly: "There is no owner of this mountain, and everyone can take everything on the mountain. In the past, no one said, why did I spend a lot of money today to ask someone to pick honey back to you?" Just came to the door?"

I'm afraid it's not because I'm jealous, but I still want to get something for nothing.

"Besides, I haven't finished picking honey from that place. If anyone wants it, he can invite someone to pick it himself. It's nothing if they all gather at my house. But since you are so mobilizing people, I can't do nothing. A bowl of honey water to quench everyone's thirst is still available, but if you want to do something else, I'm afraid you can't agree."

In the area of ​​Tongzhuang, almost all the fertile land belongs to the new owner. There is nothing to do in the past. Occasionally, I will fawn on the stewards of the village to get some oil and water. The life is considered happy, and now it is taken by the surrounding households It was just idle to beg for honey. Now that I heard what Ye Qiuniang said, it seemed reasonable, but I felt that I was really not reconciled to making such a trip and returning empty-handed, so I gave it a big hand. Play, make your own way.

"Qiu Niang, all the unowned mountain fields and woodland here belong to the land under the jurisdiction of Leshan County, but no one has bought it yet, so they have not been allocated. But our family is from Tongzhuang, Leshan County. The things on the mountain are naturally shared by everyone, and you can’t monopolize them alone.”

Ye Qiuniang sneered in her heart: "As I said just now, I haven't collected all the honey on the mountain. You want to collect as much as possible, but since I asked someone to collect it, I'm sorry everyone, I can't let it out. of."

After finishing speaking, he said: "These honey collectors haven't left yet. If you want to collect the rest, feel free to invite them to collect it. The lump sum price is [-] Wen."

When everyone heard the price, they were speechless. They went directly to the market to buy honey with these two hundred coins. There was no need to hire someone to pick it on the edge of the cliff. They could only look at the yellow and orange honey on the table while sighing and walking helplessly. Now, only Xie's mother and son on the east side of Zhuangzi are left.

The mother and son saw that other people had left, but they didn't. They sat in the yard without moving their buttocks.

"The honey-seekers on the mountain have a share, so I have to take a catty of honey anyway. My mother has a terrible headache these days, and the doctor said that she needs to drink some honey and send her meals to get better." Xie Da said with a rascal face.

Ye Qiuniang looked at Xie's mother who was in good spirits beside him, and didn't bother to pay attention to them. She just ordered the masters to pack the bees, and left some of the remaining honey for the Zhong family. stand up.

The three masters took their wages and left with smiles on their faces. Ye Qiuniang then went into the house to prepare dinner for the two of them.

Ming Rou was tinkering with these things in the workshop at home, but she never came out.

Seeing that no one paid attention to him, Xie Da felt very unhappy, let it be if he didn't get the honey, and he still had to sit on a cold bench in the yard, feeling extremely unhappy.

Seeing Ming Rou in the workshop by herself, she also followed her in, wandered around the workshop unscrupulously, looked at the neatly hung tools, made a tsk tsk sound in her mouth, and said in a strange way: "What? My family, if you are so rich and come here to farm here in Tongzhuang, I'm afraid it's not someone's old friend who was kicked out by the main wife and raised here to hide her beauty."

Ming Rou saw that not only his mouth was not clean, but he also tampered with his tools, she was very angry.

"You are not welcome at my house, go out quickly."

"Tsk tsk tsk, I don't like to come in this broken house. The little girl Pianzi is young but has a pair of dog eyes. Isn't it true that dogs look down on others?"

Xie Da was very annoyed by Ming Rou's disdainful attitude, and she opened her mouth as soon as she pointed it.

He is a savage and vulgar person, and the family here in Tongzhuang is used to being unscrupulous. Others are afraid of getting offended, so they don't mess with them if they can, which further encourages his tricky and rascal temperament.

Most of the people Mingrou met on weekdays were well-educated and dignified people, and the worst thing was a pious guy like her father, but it was rare to see someone as vulgar as Xie Da, and she couldn't help being a little scared in her heart. He couldn't help but screamed, "Jiujiu——"

Ye Qiuniang, who was cooking, heard Mingrou's voice, her heart skipped a beat, and then she realized that the two hadn't left yet, so she picked up the knife and ran outside.

In the courtyard, Xie's mother turned her legs up like a mountain, and Xie Da was not seen.

She hurriedly rushed into the workshop to see where Xie Da was indeed, and she didn't move, but the man's burly body stood next to Mingrou's petite body, which made Ye Qiuniang feel a sense of anger and crisis in her heart, and stepped over. Take two steps forward to block Ming Rou.

"Xie Da, we don't welcome you in our family, so we should leave as soon as possible. In the future, if you and your mother want to find work in Zhuangzi, then don't cause trouble. Otherwise, I don't mind talking to Manager Tong."

Hearing what she said, Xie Da immediately felt threatened and became even more angry, but what Ye Qiuniang said was the truth. The land they rented from Xie’s family was above the Zhuangzi. Relying on this to earn a little money to live on, if Ye Qiuniang really told Tong Si, she would really be unable to eat and walk around.

Thinking of this, even if he was very angry, he had to suppress his anger and leave the workshop, dragging his mother away cursing.

After watching them leave, Ye Qiuniang turned around and hugged Mingrou, and asked worriedly, "He didn't do anything to you, did he?"

"No, Jiu Jiu, this man is brutal and unreasonable, I hate him."

"Well, this kind of people can't give them a good face, or they will think that we are easy to bully, and they will stick to us like a piece of brown sugar, and they can't be shaken off."

That's what I said, but for a person like Xie Da, it's okay to be restrained by Zhuangzi. If one day this person goes crazy and doesn't care about it, Ming Rou is at home alone, so I don't feel at ease at all.

Mingrou also seemed to see her worry, tugged at Ye Qiuniang's sleeve and said, "The big goose in Tiantian's house is very fierce. I went to their house for the past few months and brought some vegetable leaves to feed it every day. , although it is not yet mature, but at least you don’t want to chase me and run away when you see me, why not buy it from their family and help me guard the yard.”

"Is this big goose so powerful?"

"It's not powerful, even Tiantian's parents can't be offended, and her elder brother has to be careful to deal with it. If you don't know someone well, you may be chased all over the yard by it."

Ye Qiuniang thought it was a good idea when she heard it, and the big goose was very noisy when it made a fuss. Whenever someone approached the house, it would quack, and the timid ones might run away before entering the yard. It's really a good thing for home care.

"Okay, I'll go tell my aunt tomorrow."

"Let's go, follow me to the kitchen, let's cook dinner together." Ye Qiuniang said while holding Ming Rou's hand.

After Ming Rou was so frightened by Xie Da, she no longer wanted to get those raw materials, and let Ye Qiuniang lead her hand to the kitchen.

The rice was already cooked. Fortunately, the soup was boiled on the stove, so it was not overcooked by the incident just now. Ye Qiuniang added a little more water to the pot, then covered the pot, and the pot was ready to be boiled.

"Jiujiu, what are we eating tonight?"

"One soup and one stir-fry."

Mingrou has long forgotten the previous unhappiness, and said with a smile: "Our family can also eat two dishes."

"That's right, Zhuangzi paid me all the monthly money, and I will make up for it in the future to make my young lady hungry."

"Hmm... Jiujiu, why don't you call me Rou'er again?" Mingrou was a little unhappy when she heard Ye Qiuniang calling her Missy again.

It doesn't matter if others call her Missy, Arou or Rourou, even Du Xian's father, who is called Rou'er in front of others, calls her Ming Rou in private, but mother and grandfather would call him Rou'er on weekdays. Only those who are close to her will call her Rou'er, and she will have a special feeling of pampering. Jiujiu also pampers herself, but Ming Rou feels that it is not enough, and she can be more pampered and intimate. She can't tell how close she is.

"Why do you want me to call you Rou'er so much?" Ye Qiuniang leaned over and gently stirred the food in the pot, the red light of the fire reflected on her better face, an indescribable tranquility of time.

Everything looks beautiful right now. In the small farmyard, the pot on the raging fire is boiling with milky white soup. The whole room is full of tempting food. A beautiful and virtuous woman is preparing dinner at home. A smile can make your heart tremble.

Mingrou clutched her heart, her heart beat inexplicably quickened, and she hesitated and said: "My grandfather and mother are both called Rou'er, and I want you to be called that, and I want to be closer to you than my grandfather and mother."

Ye Qiuniang's stirring hands slowed down for a moment, and she gently brushed a strand of hair on her cheek, as if covering up a trace of uneasiness on her face, coughed lightly and said, "Before when outsiders called you that, I didn't want you to People know your identity, since you want me to call you that, then you will call me that in the future."

Mingrou was very happy when she heard that, she stood up from the small bench, ran behind Ye Qiuniang, hugged her waist from behind, put her head on her back, bit her lower lip tightly, and opened her mouth again. The mouth yelled several times in a row: "Jiujiu-jiujiu--"

Ye Qiuniang helplessly reached out and patted the arm that she was afraid of encircling her, and said with a smile, "What are you calling me for?"

"Hee hee, I just want to call you."

Ye Qiuniang let her lie on her back and made a fuss, suddenly remembered that she mentioned Ming Rou's height on her birthday a few days ago, turned around and said to her: "Okay, stop making trouble, stand up and let me Take a look and see how tall you have grown."

Only then did Mingrou stand upright, with her head held high, her hands hanging obediently at her sides, her eyebrows and eyes bent to accept Ye Qiuniang's scrutiny.

"Sure enough, it's so fast every time, it's up to my nose." Ye Qiuniang gestured and took a step back, looked up and down, looked at the two small hills slightly bulging on the little girl's chest, and her eyes flashed instantly. Trembling, quickly skipped and put it back on top of her head.

"In the future, you have to eat well. Tell me what you want to eat. We are not short of money now. Only when we are healthy can we make a lot of money."

"En." Ming Rou nodded heavily, "The fish is delicious, I will eat more fish in the future."

"Okay, when I come back from Zhuangzi tomorrow, I will catch fish for you."