Blissful Days After Widowhood

    Master Wen Er saw the old man's smile and thought it was a show, and immediately said more attentively: "Father, rest assured, son will do well. As you said, this is what the mother left to the future granddaughter-in-law, The son only manages it for a few years, and when the children in the family marry their wives, they will definitely return to Zhao."

    The little abacus in Master Wen Er’s heart was pounding, but the old man suddenly changed his face and scolded: "You think so beautifully! Why can't that shop be rented out? To be a fool? Don't come to me again if you say a word about this shop!"

    "Dad, 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 in the past few years, all the family's property was in your hands Did he ask a question about the income? 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 how much the profit of the shops you have given you? How about you? What do you have in mind, do you want me to say it straight? If you are still 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?

    And we all know that the old man has a lot of private resources. He is still strong now, and he will definitely not share things in the private library. 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 thoughts!"

    Master Wen Er said: "Don't just scold me, eldest brother, they are not as good as you said. My son lost a can of good tea in his study a few years ago... That's a top-level Dahongpao that costs 10 taels of silver and one coin!"

    The more he talked, the more reasonable he felt, and his voice gradually became louder.

    His study is locked every day, so no one can get in, and he has no courage.

    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, and I am waiting for a chance to stab this matter in front of the old man.

    Mr. Wen suddenly calmed down, no longer pointed at his nose and cursed, but his face became more and more cold.

    The two interconnected study rooms were specially built by the old man, so that the two brothers could get along with each other more, and be more respectful. 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 ask 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 talk is no longer unworthy of the table, but disgusting.

    Mr. Wen waved his hand in disgust, and didn't bother to explain that he was making milk tea with Gu Yin at the time, and the second master went home after a few days, so he forgot to inform him after taking it.

    Master Wen Er just couldn't dance, 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, Chef Xu and his two young apprentices were mysteriously tinkering with the case.

    However, Chef Xu's body like a mountain 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.

     Chef Xu immediately stood up when she heard the sound, chased after her and said, "How can I let the little master do this kind of thing, and let my little apprentice do it."

    Gu Yin said that it was all right, "I'll finish washing my hands and feet."

    When Gu Yin finished washing the dishes and wiped her hands, Chef Xu led Gu Yin to the front of the table.

      , also tied with a red ribbon, and there is a pot of wine next to it, obviously carefully prepared.

     A blush appeared on Chef Xu's white fat 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 every day.

    Although there is no picture of him, when the other party takes the initiative to return, it is still very touching.

    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 it... No, I don't seem to have told you. You don't know that I'm leaving , are you?"

     Chef Xu frowned and said, "I'm apprentice! Little master, don't you know the ceremony of apprenticeship?"

    Gu Yin really doesn't know, she has never been a teacher in this era.

    "Then you're leaving, where are you going?"

    "I'll go back and do my own little business."

     Chef Xu's eyes lit up and said, "Then I won't do it anymore, I'll 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 it, but I'm willing to learn! No one took me to learn it in the past few decades, Following you for the past two months, I have also improved a lot! Of course, my craftsmanship cannot be compared with a master like you, but I am fast, as you know, I can handle three people by myself, and my little apprentice is also like Me, it's absolutely fine to use one person as two people!"

    "Ah, it's not this," Gu Yin explained: "It's 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. already."

     Chef Xu 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, so I came out to find work and came here."

    "Then when are you going to expand?" Chef Xu frowned as if he was about to cry.

     It should take a few more months to save."

     Chef Xu became a little more happy and nodded: "Okay, then when you open the shop, I will follow you!"

    Although Gu Yin also has great ambitions, she did not dare to agree, she only said: "If there is a chance, I would also like to cooperate with you."

    "Then what about our apprenticeship..."

    Gu Yin never thought of accepting apprentices, after all, apprentices in this era are not as casual as later generations.

    Heaven and Earth are the masters and teachers, the master's rank is only second to the 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 really likes cooking, and he can bear the 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 young apprentices to grind them together. After tasting the sauce, he said it was worth it without saying a word of hard work.

    "It doesn't seem suitable. We are a little bit older." Gu Yin considered her words.

    "Yes, at first, I thought that if I was ten years younger, I would have nothing to do with you as my teacher. But in fact, think about it, what is age? Chef Xu looked at the two little apprentices.

    He specially asked someone to ask such a sentence before, but he really couldn't remember it, so he just let the younger apprentice remember it.

    The little apprentice immediately said: "There is neither noble nor low, neither long nor little, where the Tao exists, the teacher exists."

     Chef Xu immediately said: "Yes, there is nothing short! 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 rescued by Cook Xu when he was traveling south and north, and they nodded after hearing this.

    "Really, he was not even eighteen when Master rescued me, and he was young at that time." The eldest apprentice said.

    "Yeah, when Master rescued me, he was twenty, and he was in full bloom!"

    Gu Yin changed her mind after a while, "Then how do you say that you have been learning to cook outside for decades?"

    "This is true, I am also parentless and adopted by a group of single gangs. When I was five years old, they ignored me and threw me into a restaurant as an apprentice, and later I I've changed a lot of places, and it's not been more than 20 years since I learned it? And I also know that I look mature, so why don't I 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.

    "Is it okay for me to think about it?"

    Accepting an apprentice is what you want and I want. Cook Xu smiled and nodded immediately when she saw that she didn't refuse: "Yes! You can think about it as long as you want, I'll wait for you!"

    Gu Yin looked at his simple and honest appearance, and for a while it was still difficult to accept the fact that he was twenty-eight years old.

    …

    On this day, the old man said that his body was a little uncomfortable and he needed to rest. He let Gu Yin off work just after lunch.

      Go, I'll just wash it myself. Wait for another day in the sun tomorrow, and I'll definitely not miss it!"

    Gu Yin still rolled up her sleeves, twisted the handkerchief, 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 lived with each other for half a year, and are used to discussing with each other in advance.

    Gu Yin told the Wang family about Chef Xu's apprenticeship.

    Wang couldn't help laughing: "I thought it was such a thing, daring is such a thing. Isn't this a good thing? It means that people are convinced of you and respect you, so they want to worship you. You are the teacher! Or do you not like him to be 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 skills the most, except for being greedy, there is no problem with other things, and the person is also very good. ."

    "That's fine, I think he's a good person. You think, you gave him some advice during this time, he appreciates you, and doesn't want to take advantage of you in vain. Prepare After the apprenticeship ceremony, I want to recognize you as a master."

    "He also said he wanted to work with me, but I also told him that I am now full of people in this small stall. He said that I will wait until I open a shop..."

    "Didn't you always want to open a store?"

    "Yeah, that's not a shadow! And his salary in Wen's house is not low. At that time, I can't take Master's name and deduct his salary. He still has If the two young apprentices come here, we will have enough people to open the store."

    Wang stopped her work and looked at her strangely: "Why do you think so much? You and I swore before me that the next ten or fifteen years will not be a problem. What? Why are you suddenly timid at this moment?"

    Gu Yin smiled, "Maybe it feels like I'm carrying someone else's life all of a sudden, so I'm a little unsure."

    Wang stretched out her hand 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, that's all That's it! We don't have any chance of opening a shop, so let him still work at Wen's house. When he wants to learn, you can find a place to teach it. When it comes to a small shop, it will also open. He invited those things behind!"

    Wang is a person with wisdom in life, what made Gu Yin embarrassed for half the morning was nothing to her mouth.

    Gu Yin laughed lightly, "Mother is right, if he wants to learn, I will teach it! I will think about it later. Our family wants to open a shop and a restaurant, and we can't bring one anywhere. What about the apprentice?"

    The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were chatting and laughing, and they washed everything that had been put aside 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 purchasing the ingredients, but this time I bought less vegetables, because the family was going to sell preserved egg and lean meat porridge, and the price became two cents per bowl. However, in the past few months, his family has a small reputation on the pier. 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 is ready at home, and Gu Yin also bid farewell to the old man.

    The old man has already prepared her second month's salary.

     Forcing her to accept it on the grounds of New Year's money. 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.

    Mr. Wen likes such a person, but when she wants to give her something cheap, she gets embarrassed.

    I can't directly say that my house has a good shop. The second son's **** deliberately let out the wind so that no one can rent it, so this shop is empty now, and I don't want to be cheap. you.

    Gu Yin will 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 store in the future, but I just have an empty shop here, you can see if you want to rent it. Although we have some friendship , but according to the market price, this shop will be rented for twenty-five taels a year, so 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 for her. Twenty taels happened to be Gu Yin's salary for two months. She seemed to be a diligent and thrifty housekeeper, not someone who would spend money indiscriminately.

    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 renting is cheap. To tell you the truth, I am now gathering together, ten I can't get the two."

    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 only half of the money saved at home was used. 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 wages for the past two months, it is naturally untouched, fifteen taels have to be repaired, and the remaining five taels can be saved.

    Five 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 is it, sir, do you want to charge your family fifteen or two for repair?"

    "It's a gentleman with the surname of Wen. I heard that he is very good, but he didn't continue the test because he didn't want to be an official, and Mr. Wen did not accept many students, so the beam repair is slightly more expensive. ."

    "Isn't this Hu Man! Why don't you want to be an official? Why don't you take the imperial examinations? Don't be a jinshi, that's why you say that." , said: "You have been at Wen's house for so long, you don't know my identity?"

    Gu Yin said: "Of course you 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.

    He still admired the authentic at the time: "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 man retired now, see you the county magistrate. Our grandfather is panicked. Let's not 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 grandfather! "

    Gu Yin is really not 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 very good person. 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 first saw the old man, the old man was climbing on the stage to quarrel with people, and later let the Xu and Wang fight together, leaving the old man two The short legs volleyed back and forth like stepping on a bicycle, but they couldn't bring themselves to the ground.

    For the first time, I just wanted to laugh in retrospect, naturally I wouldn't be afraid of him.

    Speaking back, Mrs. Wen looked at Gu Yin like a second 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? Do you? Hundreds of those I refused to see during the New Year alone! Hundreds of them, do you know?"

    It turned out that the old man did not see guests during the Chinese New Year because he was hiding this, Gu Yin thought to himself, and saw the old man make a louder sound, his face turned red, and he quickly handed him hot tea, "Don't get excited. , take a breath."

    Mr. 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, but sixteen, then I definitely want to fight for him a chance. But he It’s still two months away from the age of six, and I have only read three hundred thousand with the son next door, Xu Gongzi, how can I be so embarrassed to let him be your student?”

    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.

      , he himself felt bored, let alone improve the enthusiasm 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 their old age. In recent years, his eyes have become worse and worse, and everything he sees has a shadow. Reading and practicing by yourself is exhausting.

    The old man pursed his lips and kept silent, and it was just right, Master Wen came to greet him.

      Addiction, it is best to make some spicy hot pot base like last time, save it and eat it slowly.

    The old man laughed when he saw him, and waved hurriedly: "Come on, boss, I have something good to help you!"