Dressed as a blacksmith

When Qiao Yuan woke up, his mouth was twitching in pain. Seeing that Yu Dameng was still sleeping soundly, he kicked him awake angrily, "My mouth is hurting like hell, you're still sleeping! Still sleeping!"

Yu Dameng was pinched to the ground by him, and he hurriedly looked at his mouth, it was bright red and moist, it looked like there was no injury.

Seeing his worried and nervous eyes, Qiao Yuan became less angry, and hugged him and moaned, "I don't want to move anymore, you put on my clothes."

Yu Dameng willingly waited for him to dress and wash.

After eating, returning to the shop, Qiao Yuan started to make steamed buns, and at the same time checked Ming Xu Mingchen's practice results.Mingchen is better, and even learned Mingxu's style. Mingxu is generally good, and it will be better with more practice.Qiao Yuan taught them each a new style.

At that time, the shop had just opened, and the little boy from yesterday came to the door, and said in high spirits first: "I'm in a hurry to see, it's too early."

Qiao Yuan simply led him to the private room upstairs, and told him to bring him various snacks, a pot of milk tea and a pot of hawthorn juice tomorrow morning.

The milk tea is warm, with both tea fragrance and milky sweetness but not greasy.The hawthorn juice is sweet and sour and very appetizing, which suits the young master's appetite.Satisfied, he said with a smile: "My name is Chu Li, Chu from Chu State, and Li from Liming."

Qiao Yuan couldn't help laughing, and also briefly introduced himself.

Chu Li didn't hold back, and let him do some work beforehand.

After he left, he called the waiter beside him to sit down, and the two started to move immediately.

Chu Li loves soft chicken cakes, which are delicious and soft. He muttered, "I'll bring some back to Ah Hou later. Ah Hou also likes sweets."

As he talked, he thought of that bastard Pei You, who taught him to waste money every day since he returned from a trip to the Northwest.He thought for a while and said to the waiter: "Tell me, if this shop is opened in Shengjing, can it make money?"

The waiter replied: "Yinu thinks it's possible, especially the steamed buns on the day I came to the guest house. If it's in Shengjing, it's okay to ask for a thousand taels. As for these small snacks, the price can be raised a little bit. Small profits but quick turnover, and it’s easy to sell, ordinary people in Shengjing are much richer than here, and they can afford it.”

The more Chu Li thought about it, the more he felt it made sense. If he could earn money, let's see if that bastard Pei You dares to teach him a lesson!If you want to borrow money when you return to Beijing in the future, you must ask him.But he didn't know how to do business, so it's not good to mention it hastily, so he thought about going back and asking Pei Yi to help him with ideas.

After Pei Yi heard him talk about the cause and effect, he laughed and teased him: "Our Ninth Highness actually cares about money."

Chu Li was furious, "It's not all your brother's fault! For the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet, I only made a few extra clothes, and he thought I wasted money, and said I don't know the suffering of the people!"

As he talked, he became weak, "But I was born with gold and jade."

Pei Yi comforted him, "Ah You has a donkey temper, and his mouth is not forgiving. Maybe he has seen a lot of people's suffering in the Northwest. At first glance, he saw the luxury of Shengjing, and he couldn't get used to it."

Chu Li yelled unhappily: "Then he still praises other people's clothes for looking good!"

Seeing his appearance, Pei Yi couldn't help laughing.The two grew up and said they had a good relationship, but when they got together, they would quarrel all day long; if it wasn't good, they still missed each other.Last time, Pei You asked him insinuatingly in the letter if Chu Li was still angry.

Pei Yi turned to talk about serious business, "I was also interested in the matter you mentioned about Yu Qiao's memory before. I wanted to wait and see for a while to see what tricks Brother Qiao can do. Now that you have brought it up , let’s prepare some gifts another day, pick a time when someone’s house is not busy, and then come to visit.”

"Everything is up to you!" Chu Li became heartless again.

On the other side, Qian Yun also went to Yuqiaoji with the picture of the birthday banquet that he had drawn under his oversized dark circles.

Qiao Yuan was a little surprised: "The painting was finished so quickly?"

"The pattern you explained is not difficult to draw. I have already drawn a lot of pictures after I came to the guest building."

Qiao Yuan carefully looked through the patterns, and found that the patterns were very practical, so he readily paid him money.

Holding the one tael and a half of silver in his hand, Qian Yun felt that his hard work all night was not in vain!

With the pattern, Qiao Yuan started to train other people.The preliminary plan is that everyone has to learn how to knead gourds and ingots. Lin Cuifen and Li Xiumei will learn how to knead lucky bags one more time. Then they will give priority to making lucky bag buns. This is a little more complicated than the other two.

On this day, the butler of the Lu Mansion came to the door again, and he fell in love with the various samples made by Qiao Yuan. After Qiao Yuan introduced the picture album, he was even more sure of it, and began to ask for the price.

"The price of this layered one is the same as that of Lai Kelou. It costs 100 taels. There are a total of [-] for one step and one scene, and each is three taels, and each one is ten coins for tipping."

The Lu Mansion is in the shipping business, so it can be said that they are rich and powerful. Steward Lu didn't seem to blink his eyes when spending the money. He nodded immediately and said, "We want two thousand rewards."

In this way, the total is 180 taels. After the contract was signed, Qiao Yuan received 90 taels of fixed money, and he was in a good mood. "Don't worry, Steward Lu, we, Yu Qiao Ji, will definitely take care of this matter!"

Steward Lu happily stroked his beard and said, "I don't know if there are meat muffins in the shop. I heard that strong tea with muffins is fashionable in the city."

This is all thanks to the hard-working publicity of the shopkeeper Yuhu Chunzhu!Fortunately, he knows how to eat. The aroma of tea relieves the sweetness of the bean paste in the meat muffins.In the past two days, as soon as the meat muffins came out of the oven, they were sold out as soon as they were put on the shelves. If it wasn't for the severe shortage of staff in the shop, Qiao Yuan would have wanted to increase the daily output.

However, the current hunger marketing method with a daily limit of [-] pieces seems to be quite good.In the future, when there are enough people, we will develop new varieties.

"Steward Lu report the number, and I'll send someone to the house tomorrow." Qiao Yuan said apologetically.

Steward Lu smiled and shook his head, "That's not necessary, the shop is busy with everything, don't bother the shopkeeper, I will send a boy to pick it up tomorrow. The ladies in the house are so sweet, the master and young master are so salty, and there are all kinds of pastries. There are only sixty pieces, and the others each come in ten catties."

Qiao Yuan was overjoyed, he liked this kind of scheduled business the most, and politely sent Steward Lu away.

"Boss, what's the good thing? So happy?" After getting along with each other for the past few days, Mingchen is no longer afraid of Qiao Yuan.He knew that as long as he worked hard, his boss would actually have a good temper, and he would treat them politely, never belittling others in his words.

"Big business!" Qiao Yuan said happily, "You guys are busy!"

Ming Chen said: "Don't be afraid!"

Ming Xu quickly expressed his loyalty, "I...I'm not afraid either!"

Qiao Yuan briefly talked about Xialu Mansion's ordering pastries for tomorrow, and then said: "Work harder these few days, and wait for the shop to recruit people."

The chicken cake takes Meng Bei's time, so it won't take long to bake it tomorrow morning.And now Mingchen already knows how to make meat muffins, and with him, there will be more than enough for tomorrow.

It's just that the tired Ming Xu got up early every morning, Qiao Yuan said embarrassedly: "Tomorrow afternoon the shop will not be busy, you go to the tailor shop last time and buy two cotton-padded clothes, it's getting colder and colder gone."

Ming Xu and Ming Chen smiled and thanked their boss. They also have cotton clothes to wear this winter!

It is said that the well in the old house has been dug for water, and it just needs to be deepened and strengthened.In order to avoid the over-enthusiasm of the villagers, when Qiao Yuan and Yu Dameng returned home from work, they didn't go there to join in the fun, and went straight back to their small home.

Just came back all the way, and Father Yu was also there, and the two of them were not close.

Now, as soon as he got home, Qiao Yuan tied the door and took Yu Dameng back to his bedroom to look at the money.

Embarrassed, Yu Dameng also took out from his pocket the dividends from the iron shop that Father Yu had just given him for the ten months of this year, "Father said that I can't earn it all year round, and I will keep 30 taels of living silver in the account. The iron shop is settled every month. This is the silver money of the ten months, a total of 37 taels, all of which are here."

He had been busy making money before, but Qiao Yuan hadn't thought of this.In this vile feudal society, if a brother is a husband and wife, if he is stronger than the man in charge, it will make the man in charge lose face.

But he was not used to the man's bad temper, so he immediately pushed Yu Dameng to sit on the stool, straddled him, and forced him to ask: "I ask you, I earn more money than you? Do you feel uncomfortable?" ? Do you feel ashamed?"

Yu Dameng put his arms around Qiao Yuan's waist, grinned and said, "How come? My husband is so amazing!" He paused and said, "But sometimes when I see you so tired, I feel that I am useless. "

"Don't say that!" Qiao Yuan covered Yu Dameng's mouth, "Why are you useless? If you weren't by my side, what's the point of me making money? What's the point of me living here?"

Now Yu Dameng covered his mouth, "Don't say that."

Qiao Yuan bit his finger, and said again: "I don't do this not just to make money. It's because I like it, do you understand? It means that I will be happy when I have something to do. I don't want to be like other brothers. Riwo stays at home and doesn't come out."

"I understand, just like my elder brother likes reading, I also like making ironware."

"And——" Qiao Yuan's voice changed, and Yu Dameng's ear was already raised. If he dared to have any objections, he would definitely be tortured. "I'll make more and more money in the future. Is it possible that you still don't want to live with me? Don't you want me to be your husband? Huh?"

Yu Dameng became anxious now, and hurriedly said: "I thought, I didn't mean that!"

Qiao Yuan shook his head, "I understand, but you have to be confident. You are very powerful. You have skills to make a living. You have served in the army, fought in wars, defended your home and country, and you can read and write."

"Anyway, in my heart, no one can compare to you!" Qiao Yuan added.

Everything that was said before was no match for Qiao Yuan's last words, and Yu Dameng's smile almost went behind his ears.

Then he hesitated for a moment, blushed and lowered his head to grab the little husband's mouth.