The Daily Life of the Daughter of a Minor Official

Chapter 203 Taking care of selling water

 The scorching summer heat is unbearable.

I thought the business of the morning tea shop on Wenshan Street would be affected. Unexpectedly, not only was there no impact, more and more people came to have morning tea, and there was an endless stream from morning to dusk.

Su Ruojin paid special attention to it. In addition to the regular old customers, there were also many new people. Like the Su family, these people came from the city to escape the summer heat.

Shi Er was thankful, "Fortunately, when the young prince built this small courtyard, he not only diverted water from the mountain spring, but also dug a deep well, so our shop is not short of water."

The business was booming, but there was a shortage of water in the city. Su Ruojin took a look at the two wells in his shop. Whether it was an external well or a deep well dug in, they could be used during the day and soaked in at night. The water level in the well would always be restored by the next day. Go to your original position.

Water! For the source of life, Su Ruojin has never been so grateful to Zhao Lan and Siping as at this moment. She really hired professionals to do the work. Whether it is the mountain spring or the underground water, it seems that she has stepped on the water veins. It is like having a golden finger.

Although there is water, food and ingredients are not as abundant as in previous years. Su Ruojin has reduced the breakfast variety and limited the supply. If guests don’t want to leave, they can sit here and have fun, but they can only add breakfast snacks once at most, and the price is doubled, which is no longer provided. the third time.

Instead of increasing the price without increasing the quantity, the price is doubled for the reduced quantity in order to control the supply of ingredients. As a result, only rich people continue to come to Suji Morning Tea Shop, while those literati with average economic conditions rarely patronize Suji Morning Tea Shop. Remember the morning tea shop.

 Including Shangguan Island, which Su Yanzu asked to take care of.

She didn't come for three days in a row. In order to fulfill her promise, Su Ruojin planned to go down the mountain to see Shangguanyu Island. Now when she goes out, she is always followed by a little kid, two younger brothers, a younger sister, and her best friend Yang Siniang, plus everyone. The girls who followed him almost caught up with a football team.

At dusk, the weather was finally not so hot. Su Ruojin took some food and tea to visit Shangguan Island.

Along the way, the children, who had been suffocated by the hot weather for a day, ran to the villages down the mountain as if they were letting out the wind. Their laughter and laughter floated along the country roads in the small villages.

Su Ruojin found that compared with their joy, in the dusk, the villagers had sunburnt faces and were sad. They all carried burdens and buckets, either coming down from the mountain or driving up the mountain from the bottom.

 They are all people who draw water.

Su Ruojin subconsciously looked up at the sky. The sun had already set. Where the sky connected with the mountains, there was no sunset glow. The sky was clear and white, without even a cloud. Without clouds, there would be no rain.

We crossed the village road and took the road to Shangguanyu’s house.

The beans and millet growing in the farmland on both sides were so dry that they had lost a layer of leaves, leaving only a few leaves on the tips, and no pods could be seen.

 Alas, I can’t look at it. When I look at Su Ruojin, I sigh about how the farmer’s life is.

After a while, a group of children arrived in front of the Shangguanyu courtyard. The door was open, but the courtyard was quiet, as if no one was at home.

Yang Siniang’s sharp eyes saw the little donkey tied by the fence and said, “We have guests.”

Having been in the capital for four or five years, it is normal to have friends. Su Ruojin asked her younger brothers and sisters to play at the door for a while. She asked Sanlang and his attendant Ayu to go in and inform them.

A'yu then walked into the courtyard, and soon entered the corridor in front of the hall. He stood in front of the corridor and called softly: "Master Shangguan... my wife and husband are here to see you."

 There were voices coming from the room next to them. They were not loud, buzzing, and could not be heard clearly.

Ayu entered the main hall in response to the voice, walked back through the main hall.

At the entrance of the small courtyard, Yang Siniang took Su Xiaosi and Su Xiaomei to pick dogtail grass. While picking, they argued about who picked more.

Su Ruojin watched some fun while paying attention to Ayu's movements. Just when he was confused, Ayu strode out and said, "Second lady, Mr. Shangguan is ill, and the doctor is giving him acupuncture."

As soon as Su Ruojin heard this, she picked up her skirt and ran into the courtyard.

 Qiu Shan, a young servant from Shangguan Island, heard the commotion outside and came out to see that it was Mr. Su's capable niece who ran a morning tea shop. He immediately called for help, "Mrs. Su, please save my young master."

"What's up with him?"

"The weather is hot, and the young master's old habit has returned."

Although the defense of men and women in Dayin Dynasty was not that big, it was still not suitable for an unmarried young lady to enter an unmarried man's bedroom. Su Ruojin stopped at the door of the room. Just walking there, the room with only one front window was as hot as a steamer. of.

Without ice or fans, even good people will get sick.

 “Why don’t you move somewhere?”

If Shangguanyu had nothing wrong with him, it would be cooler to sit under the cloister with the breeze blowing from the hall. But with a cough similar to tracheitis, what he fears most is the cold wind in winter and the hot wind in summer.

 It is simply a disease of wealth.

Su Ruojin looked towards the courtyard and asked, "Is there a well? Hurry up and get some well water to dissipate the heat from the room due to the western mountain sun."

Qiu Shan shook his head, "The well in our courtyard has dried up. Now we go to the mountains to find water like the villagers."

Su Ruojin:…

 Two grown men actually live like this? She was also convinced.

Looking at the five houses with stone walls and thatched roofs, if you come here to see the small courtyard in spring and autumn, it will be quite poetic and picturesque, but living here in summer and winter, whoever lives here knows what it is like.

  “Ayu—”

 “Second lady, what’s the matter?”

 “Go to Suji and bring the carriage over.”

Ayu didn’t move, meaning to ask, what do you need a car for?

Qiu Shan asked everyone’s thoughts: “Su Xiaodong’s family is—”

“There is a small inn opposite Su Ji. There are guest rooms with windows in the front and back. You can take the official son to live in it, and then go to my shop to get water from the well and put it in the room.”

"Thank you, Second Lady." Qiu Shan was very happy that someone was making the decision. His master didn't listen to his words, but Su Ji's master always had to give face to his boss, so he hurriedly went to pack his things.

Su Ruojin and others were discussing this at the door. The doctor had already finished acupuncture, and Shangguanyu had woken up from his coma. In the dim light, he saw a bright young lady standing at the door, "Su...Second Lady..."

　　I don’t have the energy to speak.

Su Ruojin sighed secretly. It was no wonder that his uncle was worried that he would be gone as soon as he turned around. Compared with the Shangguan Island he saw three years ago, he was much thinner, and his eye sockets seemed to have sunken circles, which made people unconsciously pity him.

“Sir Shangguan, my uncle asked me to take care of you. I saw that you hadn’t come to Suji for morning tea in three days, so I came over to take a look. I didn’t expect your house to be so hot. How did you come here in the past few summers?”

 It wasn’t so hot in the past few years.

What Shangguanyu wanted to say was that he didn't have the energy. He had an old habit and was coughing so hard that he couldn't breathe. He couldn't eat a meal. He felt tired even when he was lying down.

When the doctor was about to leave, Su Ruojin asked Mao Ya to take out two sugars and dissolve them in boiled water for him to drink. She quickly replenished some sugar to refresh her mind. She went out with the doctor herself, helped pay the consultation fee, and chatted with the doctor again. Chat, please him, if you need him to perform acupuncture again, please don't worry about the time.

When the doctor saw the lady's generosity, he readily agreed, "You are indeed the owner of the morning tea shop. Okay. If you need anything, just call me at the hospital. I'll be there when you call me."

 Luckily for the Suji Morning Tea Shop on Tuowenshan Street, no matter where the 13-year-old lady goes, she has a decent boss with status, and most people will give her face.

After the doctor left, the carriage that Ayu brought home arrived. Two young men half helped and half carried Shangguan Yu into the carriage.

 “I want numbness again…”

Su Ruojin quickly stopped him from being polite and said, "I promised my uncle to take good care of you. You just need to cooperate with me."

The young lady looked domineering. She was really just like Azu. She was an uncle and nephew. Shangguanyu, who had escaped from Black and White Wuchang, breathed a sigh of relief, closed his eyes and rested his mind. The extremely low physical energy consumption allowed him to He fell asleep again while the carriage was rocking. When the carriage arrived at the small inn opposite Su Ji, it couldn't wake him up no matter what, and everyone was so frightened that they thought he had passed by.

Su Ruojin sniffed his breath and felt the steady inhalation. Then he put his heart in his stomach and turned around and asked, "Qiu Shan, your master..." Does this mean that it is often like this?

 Qiu Shan nodded helplessly. Every time he thought that Mr. Shangguan would pass by accidentally, but every time he got through it again, these days were simply frightening and he was almost numb.

The two of them couldn't lift it, so they finally asked Hua Ping to help. They carried him to the best room in the inn. The front and back were ventilated and not stuffy. They also carried well water. During the hottest time of the day, Su Ruojin even asked Mao Ya to send ice cubes to his room. in the barrel.

With meticulous care, two days later, Shangguanyu was finally able to go to the shop and have morning tea as before.

Su Ruojin said to him, "There will be ice in the tea room until evening. You can stay there until dinner and then go back."

Shangguanyu was embarrassed, "I'm going to trouble you."

“Then I will write to the capital and ask my uncle to take you to the princess’s residence. The conditions there are much better than those here.”

"No, absolutely don't." Shangguanyu stood up and saluted anxiously, asking the young lady not to trouble Su Yanzu.

"It's okay if I don't tell him, then you can stay in the tea room during the day and go back at night."

Shangguanyu sighed, "What can I do for the little lady?"

He has no face to live and eat for free!

 I heard that he can draw.

“I’ll teach you how to draw a certain kind of painting. Of course, I only know it, but I don’t know how to do it. As long as you can learn it well and help me paint the painting I want, I’ll pay for the room and board.”

 “What kind of thing?”

 “Similar to line drawing.”

Is Shangguanyu Xindao the kind of look that ordinary housewives want?

When he asked for something, Shangguanyu stayed at Suji Tea Shop during the day and went back to sleep at night. When he went back, he had a big bucket of well water with some ice in it. It was neither hot nor cold, which was just right. His cough basically didn't happen again. .

Everyone is curious about what kind of painting Su Ruojin asked Shangguanyu to paint.

Su Ruojin thought to himself, drawing pictures, but with a smile on his face, "We are in the food business, so we always have to hang a few decent pictures of the ingredients in the store."

 Oh~ So that’s it! It is clear that he is taking care of this poor man Shangguanyu.

 Hua Ping had a frown on his face and looked away from her with disdain, "Second Lady, you tricked me into coming to Dongshan, and you really helped me analyze it!"

Su Ruojin stretched out her hand, "Where's the thing I want?"

Hua Ping sighed and took out a notebook from his arms. This was not a book, but a memoir of Ye Huaizhen. It recorded all the people and things Ye Huaizhen knew about Mr. Ye during the two months the envoy was in Beijing.

Even if she couldn't remember things, she went back to the south to talk to her mother to recall things some time ago. As long as she could remember, she recorded everything. She just came back yesterday.

Su Ruojin was not in a hurry after getting the notebook and asked Chunxiao to put it away first.

 He said to Hua Ping, "Uncle Hua, I want to ask you to help me with something."

"What's up?"

"I went to the foot of the mountain a few days ago and found that there were lonely old people in the village who had difficulty in drinking water. You and Brother Mangzhong took a cart of water to the village below every day and sold it to the old, weak, sick and disabled, two barrels for a penny."

Two buckets of water are just for eating and drinking, so save some, it will be enough for two days.

Yang Siniang asked in confusion, "Ah Jin, a penny is not money at all to you, so just give them water."

Su Ruojin saw that everyone was looking at her, so she asked Su Sanlang, "Brother, tell me why sister wants to receive this penny?"

"Not everyone will cherish something they get for free, but if it is bought with money, even if it is only a penny, they will feel very distressed. Second, my sister said that it will only be sold to the old, weak, sick and disabled. Most people don't listen. You know what it means, so if there is an old, weak, sick or disabled person who has no money, and they come, will Uncle Hua have the heart not to give it to him? "

Yang Siniang seemed to understand but not quite.

Hua Ping gave a thumbs up to the Su family siblings.

 “Thank you for your hard work, Uncle Hua!”

Hua Ping was about to say a few words when Ye Huaizhen said seriously, "I'll go help."

Su Ruojin's eyes suddenly lit up, and his gaze swept towards Ye Huaizhen and Hua Ping. With sincerity, can gold and stone be opened?

After Hua Ping was stunned, the smile on his face could not be concealed, "Azhen—"

“It’s going to be closing soon, why don’t you go and settle the bill.” After saying that, shopkeeper Ye, who was cool and cool, turned around and went to work.

"Here it comes...here it comes..." Hua Ping was as happy as if he had dug a gold mine, almost jumping up and down when he walked.

Yang Siniang finally saw something fishy: "Ah Jin, your Uncle Hua and Shopkeeper Ye..."

Su Ruojin chuckled: "I just saw it."

Yang Siniang pursed her lips, how could she understand this?

Su Sanlang and the others were young and didn’t understand these love affairs, but they were interested in playing. “Sister, I also want to sell water to the lonely elderly people with Uncle Hua.”

"Okay." Su Ruojin had no objection, "As long as you can bear the hardship."

 Is it bitter? Going out was like letting go. Su Sanlang didn't know what suffering was.

Shangguanyu sat in the corner of the tea room, carefully comprehending the physical sketch that Su Ruojin told him. Xiaodongjia drew one, but she said that she couldn't draw, so she only drew a rough idea, which is what it meant anyway.

This means that the plate in the painting should be the same as the plate on the table. It should be the same! It’s really hard to live in Shangguan Island. Is it a meticulous painting? But the little lady said something different.

what is that?

 He looked at the little lady's intention and kept thinking about it.

It wasn't until she went to bed that Su Ruojin had time to take out the notebook that Ye Huaizhen had recorded. Why was this record different from the one she thought about? Why was it all wrinkled? Alas! I don’t understand even if I read it, forget it, I’ll take the notebook and read it and ask questions tomorrow.

 Finally, after a busy day and tidying up, the historians went home from work.

 The weather is very beautiful, the moon is at the zenith, and walking at night is as easy as during the day.

Shi Xiaoer suddenly said to his father, "Dad, I seem to have seen Madam Yang Si and her father today."

 (End of this chapter)