NFBE Chapter 116 I want to sponsor your poetry reading!
Chapter 116 I want to sponsor your poetry reading!
Jiang Yuwei heard what the waiter said, and then she understood why Shopkeeper Li was so abnormal today. It was Ge's Paper Shop that was causing trouble. Did they regard themselves as a thorn in their eyes and a thorn in their flesh? Then I must let them know that if they provoke me, Jiang Yuwei, they will be kicked on the iron wall.
Jiang Yuwei thanked the waiter and urged Ning Huaizhi to hurry to Xu's house. Manager Li had wasted too much of her time, and if they didn't hurry up, it would be too late to cook lunch.
Ning Daya looked at the car full of papers with a sad face:
"Sister Yuwei, you said that the Ge's Paper Shop has been targeting us like this. What should we do in the future? Is it possible that we can't sell all this paper?"
Jiang Yuwei waved her hand and said:
"It doesn't matter. Paper is not food anyway. It won't go bad. We can just sell it slowly. There will always be a way."
Jiang Yuwei was thinking hard about what to do with the papers when Ning Huaizhi drove the ox cart to the gate of Xu's house. Manager Zhang was pacing anxiously at the gate with his hands behind his back. He looked up and saw Jiang Yuwei, so he hurried forward and said,
"Yuwei, why are you here at this hour? Go to the kitchen and prepare the food."
Jiang Yuwei nodded and was about to leave with Ning Daya when she was stopped by Manager Zhang:
"Yuwei, why do you have so many papers in your car?"
Jiang Yuwei turned around and smiled:
"To be honest, Manager Zhang, I have a paper mill at home, and we make all this paper ourselves."
Manager Zhang nodded and reached out to touch the paper:
"Yuwei, your paper is very good. How much is it? I want to buy some. We don't have enough paper for today's poetry gathering."
Jiang Yuwei's eyes lit up when she heard this, and she waved her hand and said:
"I'm not selling this paper. Let me sponsor all the paper for today's poetry gathering!"
Manager Zhang looked up and asked in confusion:
"sponsor?"
Jiang Yuwei smiled and took out ten pieces of Yuwei paper and stuffed them into the hands of Zhang Guanshi:
"Manager Zhang, this paper is called Yuwei Paper. Please take it in and give it to them. I won't charge you for it, but if they ask, please tell the scholars that this paper is called Yuwei Paper."
Manager Zhang understood what Jiang Yuwei meant and nodded with a smile:
"Okay, I get it. Don't worry, Yuwei. I will also explain your delivery of paper to our Second Young Master."
Jiang Yuwei really liked talking to smart people like Zhang Guanshi. She seemed to have thought of something and hurried back to the oxcart to get a piece of gold powder paper and a piece of flower and grass paper and handed them to Zhang Guanshi:
"Manager Zhang, I have one more thing to trouble you with. My gold powder paper and floral paper are very unique and special. Only our paper mill can make this kind of paper. So I would like to ask you to talk to the second young master and ask the first and second place winners of today's poetry competition to write their poems on these two pieces of paper respectively."
Manager Zhang lowered his head and took the paper handed to him by Jiang Yuwei. He looked at it carefully and nodded repeatedly:
"Good, good paper, it is truly unique. I will go talk to the Second Young Master right away, he will definitely like it!"
Manager Zhang went into the mansion holding the paper to look for the second young master. Jiang Yuwei took Ning Daya to the kitchen of Xu's mansion.
As soon as Jiang Yuwei entered the door, she was met with Li Pozi's reluctant face:
"I really can't understand what Zhang Guan is thinking. He has a cook in his house, but he insists on hiring some random people from outside to cook for the guests."
Jiang Yuwei glanced at Mrs. Li, then walked past her and said calmly:
"If you can't figure it out, don't think about it. What can your pig brain figure out?"
Just as Li Pozi was about to start scolding, Sun Zhaodi, who had followed behind her, pushed her aside:
"A good dog doesn't block the road. Don't make any more trouble today. If you delay the serving of the dishes, I'll tell my wife about you. If you think the beating you received last time wasn't enough, do it harder!"
Mrs. Li wanted to open her mouth to refute, but when she thought about the last time the lady punished her, she felt that her butt was still hurting, so she had to grit her teeth and swallow the anger, spat hard on the ground, and went about her own business.
Seeing that she had driven away Mrs. Li, Sun Zhaodi pushed Ning Daya, who was following Jiang Yuwei, away as if to take credit:
"Sister Yuwei, don't be afraid of that old lady Li. She is just a paper tiger with a strong appearance but a weak heart. With me watching over her, she can't do anything!"
Jiang Yuwei turned around and glanced at Sun Zhaodi indifferently, nodded slightly and ignored her.
Seeing this, Sun Zhaodi hurriedly came up to Jiang Yuwei and said with a smile:
"Sister Yuwei, Manager Zhang has assigned me to help you today. Just tell me what you need."
Jiang Yuwei looked at Sun Zhaodi and said calmly:
"Just wash the vegetables first, and then come over to light the fire. Be quick."
Manager Zhang had specifically instructed Jiang Yuwei that since there were many people today, Jiang Yuwei had directly prepared twenty dishes, namely spicy crayfish, peppered preserved eggs, flavored eggplant, candied sweet potato, sweet and sour pork, honey chicken wings, Longjing shrimp, braised lion head, stir-fried pork slices, Kung Pao chicken, spicy chicken, braised fish, steamed cabbage rolls, cold bean sprouts, cold shredded vegetables, tiger skin chicken feet, spicy pig's trotters, steamed egg with minced meat, tomato dumpling soup, and tofu pudding grand slam.
The ingredients for some of the dishes here were prepared by Jiang Yuwei from home, and there were also some dishes that Ning Daya could help cook. Sun Zhaodi was also a perceptive person and helped wholeheartedly, so although there were more dishes this time, the three of them worked together and finished them quickly. Jiang Yuwei was afraid that there would be any trouble when serving the dishes this time, so she simply watched from the kitchen herself and let Ning Daya and Sun Zhaodi be responsible for serving the dishes.
Jiang Yuwei breathed a sigh of relief only after all the dishes were served.
At this time, Manager Zhang also came to the kitchen:
"Yuwei, you've worked so hard today. I see you've cooked a lot of new dishes, and our Madam is very pleased with them. So come with me to the front hall and wait for the guests after they finish their meal, then go and receive the reward. If there's a chance, you can also introduce your Yuwei paper. Today, several scholars asked me about the origin of the paper, and I explained it to them one by one."
Jiang Yuwei was very moved to see that Manager Zhang really took her words to heart, and thanked him repeatedly:
"Thank you, Manager Zhang. Yuwei will never forget your kindness today. From now on, just let me know if you need anything."
Manager Zhang waved his hand and said with a smile:
"It's okay, it's just a small favor. The Second Young Master really liked the Yuwei paper you sent today, and he praised me as well. I have to thank you for this. I only hope that if our master wants to taste your cooking again in the future, you won't refuse when I invite you."
Jiang Yuwei smiled and said:
"It is my honor to be appreciated by you, and I will naturally not refuse."