Time returned to the present. After listening to Fu Chong's retelling, the four of them were just making calculations in their minds. After all, things had gone by so fast for several years. Who could tell whether there were any changes in the process.

There was still some time before evening, and Gu Qingyan wanted to go to the kitchen to see today's preparations, so she spoke to Xu Shaolin and left the main hall.

The kitchen is very busy at the moment. A series of processes such as picking vegetables and washing vegetables are being carried out in a queue. Inside, all kinds of pots and shovels have been prepared. The stove is on fire and the oil is heated in the pot.

Gu Qingyan walked into the yard leisurely, looked at the smoke, and knew that everyone was busy working. Not far away, she saw a figure ordering everyone in an orderly manner. Gu Qingyan took a few steps closer and shouted: "Nurse!"

The woman heard the shouting, turned around and saw Gu Qingyan coming, and hurriedly walked over: "My little aunt, what are you doing here, so smoky?"

The woman was Gu Qingyan's wet nurse, her surname was Shen. She was the third eldest child in the family, so she was called Shen Sanniang. She took care of Gu Qingyan when she was born. Later, she came to Taohuajian and worked as a nanny in Gu Qingyan's courtyard. The mother-in-law in charge is also responsible for the food in Gu Qingyan's small kitchen. She has a son who is now one of the twelve ghost guards, named Dongxin.

Because he was busy taking inventory these days, he was seconded to be in charge of the big kitchen. When Gu Qing was craving for snacks, he could only go to the big kitchen to get some.

"I think the meat cooked by the wet nurse is dry, so I stopped by to take a look at the preparations for dinner." Gu Qing put the cigarette butt on Shen Sanniang's shoulder and said.

Shen Sanniang took Gu Qingyan's hand and said softly: "If you want to eat, just let Su Xin come and get it. Why go there yourself? I'm here, don't worry."

Gu Qingyan walked into the kitchen and said, "Well, I'm not worried about anyone else. I just want to remind the wet nurse that there are many people in Taohua Stream now, so I'm afraid some people will take advantage of it. It's the easiest and easiest way to eat." It’s fatal, the wet nurse needs to be careful before serving it.”

After walking around for a while, it seemed normal, so Gu Qingyan went outside. Shen Sanniang responded to Gu Qingyan, knowing that she was worried and comforted her with a few words: "Master, don't worry, I'm keeping a close eye on you."

"Thank you for your hard work, nurse."

After Shen Sanniang sent Gu Qingyan out of the kitchen, Su Xin came over with small steps: "Master."

"What's wrong?" Gu Qingyan asked.

Su Xin also raised her body slightly towards Shen Sanniang and saluted, and said: "The manager of Jinghua Village asked to see the master in the courtyard and said that he would bring something to the master."

Gu Qingyan thought for a moment and realized that she hadn't asked Jinghua Village to do anything recently. She said goodbye to Shen Sanniang and went back to Jingxinyuan with Su Xin. As soon as she entered the courtyard, she saw Song Zhizhou, the manager of Jinghua Village, holding a The pallet stands in the courtyard.

Jinghua Village is a jewelry making shop set up under Taohua Stream. There are many branches in Nanwan. Song Zhizhou is the general manager. This person has a strong personal style in jewelry design and polishing skills, which makes Jinghua Village The jewelry for children is exquisite and unique compared to other jewelry stores. It is quite popular among ladies and ladies from famous families. As a person, Shang Zhizhou can be said to be an old man. He talks about people and ghosts, and is very tactful, but he has no bad intentions.

Seeing Gu Qingyan coming from the corner of his eye, Song Zhizhou responded quickly and said hello: "Greetings to the fourth girl."

Gu Qingyan likes to joke with Song Zhizhou, because he can always pick up on what he says: "Every time you talk like this, Mr. Song, I think you are back in the palace again." This is a metaphor for Song Zhizhou to be in the palace. Father-in-law.

"Four girls, your status in my heart is just average!" Gu Qingyan walked into the room, and Song Zhizhou followed suit.

Gu Qingyan came into the room and sat down, and continued to talk to Song Zhizhou: "Okay, don't be poor, what do you have in your hand?"

Song Zhizhou brought the tray, put it in front of Gu Qingyan with both hands, and opened the red cloth covering it. Gu Qingyan looked over and saw that there was an exquisite half-eye mask inside, fixed with silver chain lines. Take a closer look.

Underneath, the pattern of the mask is carefully carved and looks like some kind of animal.

"Is this a blue luan bird?" Gu Qingyan asked softly.

Song Zhizhou nodded: "Exactly."

"Good carving work." Gu Qingyan praised, the tail feathers of the blue luan bird are clearly defined, and the whole green luan bird has a lifelike shape of flying upward.

"What do you think, Miss Four, of this design?" Song Zhizhou asked tentatively.

Gu Qingyan was stunned: "It's very good. I've always been reassured by Manager Song's design."

Song Zhizhou smiled: "The fourth girl really made a mistake this time. The design this time was not mine."

As he spoke, he took out a design drawing from his pocket and handed it to Gu Qingyan. Gu Qingyan took the drawing with hesitation, opened it and took a look. It felt like he had seen this writing somewhere before. Looking to the side, he saw a few lines.

The familiar handwriting in small characters made Gu Qingyan smile.

Holding the drawing in one hand and the mask in the other, he looked at it carefully: "When did it happen?"

Song Zhizhou thought back for a moment and replied: "A month ago."

Gu Qingyan thought about it, wasn't it more than a month ago when they first arrived at Qingquan Villa? They should have accidentally mentioned the birthday issue that day, and Han Yan went to prepare it.

After putting away the mask, Gu Qingyan said: "This can't be considered private work."

Song Zhizhou handed over his hand: "Yes, everything that should be accounted for has been accounted for."

Gu Qingyan nodded, it was nothing, and Song Zhizhou retreated.

Su Xin came up and took the mask to put it away, and asked Gu Qingyan if she needed to wear it recently.

Gu Qingyan said: "You won't be using it for these two days. Let's change it to this one on the day of the trial."

Su Xin made a note in her mind, put the mask away, took a booklet and handed it to Gu Qingyan: "Master, this is the name of Diancui Building after its liquidation."

During the few days when Gu Qingyan was away, Su Xin was not idle either. Dian Cui Lou collected all kinds of rare treasures in Peach Blossom Stream. Su Xin took people to inventory them and rearranged the categories into a volume. At the end of the inventory

The gifts that Taohuajian wants to give to each of its bosses can be selected from here.

Gu Qingyan flipped through the book and admired Su Xin's meticulousness. Each item was classified in detail, and the quantity was clearly marked. The supplementary booklet also sorted out the number of items that had been rewarded in the past, so that it could be given to Gu Qing.

Let me use this as a reference.

"You are really a careful person." Gu Qingyan said, with a smile on her lips, a hint of shyness at being praised.

In previous years, almost everyone rewarded Datou in the same way. Last year, Datou had a golden toad, a wish-fulfilling vase, and one hundred taels of silver. This one hundred taels of silver is called the money to attract wealth, which means that there will be a lot of wealth in the coming year. Except

In addition, there are also other items for each manager in charge, such as gold and silver threads for clothing, high-quality tea cup sets for tea houses, etc. There are ways to prepare these things, Xu Shaolin and the other grown men can think of it.

I felt a headache, so I left the job to Gu Qingyan.

There was no one else who could do the job, so Gu Qingyan had to take over. Fortunately, he had Su Xin to help him. In the past few years, the two of them chose a combination and created several looks. In the past two years, Gu Qingyan also let it go.

It's up to Su Xin to do it, she can just check and make the decision.

"This year, I have prepared an ingot fortune tree and an ice jade roller with the same one hundred taels as usual. Next to it, I have prepared feather embroidery thread, coral strings, and glass lamps..." Su Xin gave Gu Qing the same cigarette.

Having said that, it was already clear how to match them.

Gu Qingyan nodded while listening. After Su Xin finished speaking, she said, "Prepare as you said."

"Yes." Su Xin was about to collect the book when she heard Gu Qingyan say: "Have you sent someone to invite some gentlemen and ladies?"

"Already gone." Su Xin responded. Today, everyone has arrived at Peach Blossom Stream, so naturally they sent someone to invite Gu Ning and the others to come over.

Gu Qingyan stood up and said that she wanted to go around Dian Cui Lou. As she walked along, she chatted with Su Xin: "Have you sent someone to clean the yard?"

"Don't worry, Master, everything is packed. The items that need to be added have been added. I also talked to the boy who went to the villa to take the luggage over." Su Xin said.

Gu Qingyan nodded: "Prince Yu should still arrange it in Rongyuan?"

The Banyan Garden is not far from Gu Qingyan's Jingxinyuan. It turned out to be a place where the royal family came for leisure and accommodation. It was always left to be cleaned by someone on weekdays. In the past two days, people gradually came in and out of the Banyan Garden.

"Yes, King Yu arranged the Banyan Garden, and Master Han arranged the Yishan Residence." The Yishan Residence, the Banyan Garden, and Jingxinyuan are like three corners, and neither of them is far from Jingxinyuan.

"Well, Prince Yu should tell me when he gets to Taohua Stream soon." Gu Qingyan said, although she was bound to be the first person to see Prince Yu, but just in case, Gu Qingyan still thought it would be better to give him another warning.

The servants at Diancuilou were sorting things out. According to the schedule, Su Xin would come this afternoon to tell them how to allocate things, so they made an open space first to facilitate the operation. While they were doing this, they saw Gu Qingyan in front of them.

He came over first, and everyone saluted in unison: "See you, Miss Four."

"No need to be too polite, Su Xin will tell you about this year's allocation later, thank you for your help." Gu Qingyan always talks less distanced to insiders, with a bit of politeness and respect for everyone, so everyone also

Respect Gu Qingyan.

After saying that, she nodded to Su Xin, leaving Su Xin and the others busy in the front, while she wandered around the building. Don't forget the gifts for the elders. She remembered that she collected a lot of good things this year.

I have brought back Diancuilou.

After searching around, Gu Qingyan saw two brocade boxes on the shelf. He opened one of the maroon brocade boxes with dark patterns and found a pair of jade bracelets lying quietly inside. Gu Qingyan remembered that this seemed to be King Yu.

One of the rewards was given to the princes of the royal family during an attack by the Kingdom of Dian.

Su Xin's peripheral vision was always on Gu Qingyan. When she saw Gu Qingyan stopped, she quickly pulled away and said, "Master."

When Gu Qingyan saw Su Xin coming over, she said, "It's for the master." After saying that, she pointed at the pair of jade bracelets. When Qianhuayu was a child, she rarely wore jewelry. When Gu Qingyan asked, Qianhuayu always said that people from the Jianghu world were the best.

Fighting, bumping into precious ones will make you feel distressed. But now, Qianhuayu no longer has to fight. What woman doesn't like jewelry and jasper.

As for her mother, she usually has a lot of jewelry, so there is no shortage of these things. Gu Qingyan opened another brocade box, which was a fragrant powder pottery box, but there was no powder in it: "Why is this here?"

This thing was made by Gu Qingyan when she went out with Xu Shaolin and entered a pottery shop. She was bored and asked an old craftsman to teach her how to make one. To be honest, this box was ugly and useless, but it happened

Was brought back.

Su Xin shook her head. She really didn't know about this thing. The manager of Dian Cui Lou heard the sound and came over. He quickly explained with a smile: "Girl, this is what the owner of the valley brought back for him to keep." (Unfinished)
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