When he reached the entrance of the Song family, Dr. Yao smelled the fragrance wafting out and quickened his steps to enter.
The fragrant smell was coming from here.
Xu came out of the hall with the rice, just in time to see him staring at the steaming pot and cooker, and wanted to laugh a little. That was Yue’er’s stew for the boy who was working in the mountains, so Dafu Yao wouldn’t want to eat it too, would he?
“Madam Song.”
Dafu Yao also saw her and hurriedly arched his hand.
Xu had told him many times not to let him address him like that, but Dafu Yao insisted, so Xu stopped correcting him.
“That’s Yue’er’s stew, if Dafu Yao wants to eat, I’ll serve you some.”
The word “thank you” was on Dr. Yao’s lips, but he swallowed it again. He had come here to eat whatever the Song family gave him, so he couldn’t be too picky, otherwise what if Miss Song didn’t invite him to eat here in the future?
“Thank you, Madam, no need.”
“Then you can sit in the hall.”
Doctor Yao followed her into the hall, a large eight immortal table was set in the middle, eight dishes were on the table, Master Song and Grandma Song were sitting on the top seat, Gu Yi and Song Wan Yue were sitting at the bottom of them both.
“Old Master Song, Old Lady Song.”
“Come and sit down, dinner will be served soon.”
Dr. Yao consciously sat down at the bottom of Gu Yi’s table, and almost straightened up when his eyes happened to sweep over the dishes on the table.
“Tighten up a bit.”
Gu Yi took in his look and warned him in a voice that only the two of them could hear.
Doctor Yao reluctantly withdrew his gaze and looked at him with accusing eyes, Miss Song could cook so many delicious dishes and the young master had not even told him about it, it was so unethical.
Gu Yi ignored him.
If he had tasted such delicious dishes made by little girl, would he not think of asking little girl to make them for him every day?
Xu brought up the last two bowls of rice, and Song Lin and Song Shen came in behind her with two large plates of steamed buns each and placed them on one side of the table.
When the two sat down, Elder Song beckoned with a smile, “Eat.”
Doctor Yao was just about to reach for his chopsticks when Gu Yi gave him a sidelong glance, and Doctor Yao retracted his hand again, waiting for Elder Song to pick up his chopsticks and Gu Yi to pick them up before he reached out again.
At first he was reserved, after all, this was the Song family, he wanted to leave a good impression and not to disgrace the young master.
But as soon as the chopsticks of boiled meat entered his mouth, these thoughts instantly disappeared, the rules and manners were all gone, and he ignored Gu Yi’s glare, all he could think about was the fragrant smell.
He took on the momentum of the day he had grabbed the spicy skewers from Mr. Wei and swished his chopsticks around.
Song Lin was also restrained, as Dr Yao was half of Yue’s master, so he couldn’t go too far, but as he watched Dr Yao eat chopsticks after chopsticks, not even stopping, with the intention of eating all these dishes into his own stomach, Song Lin’s hand movements were also unconsciously faster.
Seeing the two of them doing so, Song Shen’s eyes slithered around a few times and then joined in.
The crowd could only see the chopsticks of the three of them fluttering on the table.
“Ahem ……”
Gu Yi covered his mouth and coughed in warning.
Dr. Yao didn’t hear.
“Cough cough cough ……”
Gu Yi reminded again.
Dr. Yao still didn’t hear.
“Cough cough cough cough ……”
Gu Yi continued to remind.
Doctor Yao finally heard him and took the opportunity to glance at him while he was putting vegetables in his mouth, “Young master, if your throat is uncomfortable, you should not eat spicy dishes, lest it gets worse.”
Gu Yi, ……
……
The Gu family boys carrying shovels up the mountain had long been seen by the village people, very curious about what they had found on the mountain, took the time to come up the mountain to see, and were surprised to see that they were digging for tea blues.
When the Gu family boy saw someone, he didn’t care and continued to dig with his head down.
The men stepped forward with great courage, “What are you digging these for?”
One of the boys raised his head and replied, “Our young master has heard that feeding the pigs with tea blue will make them grow stronger, so he asked us to dig it up and try it out.”
“The roots are not edible.”
“We know that these can be used as firewood when dried.”
It turned out that the Gu family were so thrifty, and the few people who had come up the hill seemed to know some great secret, you looked at me, I looked at you, and the one who had just spoken stumbled again and asked, “Do you want, do you want us to help you?”
“Thanks a lot, no.”
Several people quickly descended the mountain.
By the time Dr Yao had eaten and drunk enough and emerged from the Song family, word of the Gu family’s frugality had spread throughout the village.
By evening, the tea blues had all been dug up and two large wagons had been filled.
……
Since Song Ming left that day, Huang Si would go around in front of the Yue Hak Loi Restaurant every day after he got off work at the gambling house, watching more and more customers waiting in line to eat hot pot day by day, his eyes were red.
He bought two boxes of good dim sum and took them home with him, saying to Song Lian, “You haven’t been home for a long time, so I’m free today, so let’s take the kids and go back to see our mother-in-law.”
Song Lian was not very willing to go back.
She had been resentful of Song Ming’s daughter-in-law since she had failed to bring Daya back last time, and did not want to see her at all.
“Let’s go, didn’t we say that mother-in-law has been lying on the bed for months and is only now getting better, so we should go back and take a look too.”
The two of them took the children and rented a carriage to go back to the Song family village.
The village people had long been used to horse-drawn carriages entering the village and were not as surprised as they had been at the beginning when they saw them. The main thing was that the village people had found a way to earn money again, and that was to cut firewood and sell it to the Song family, who needed a lot of firewood for their workshop, which was constantly smoking all day and night.
The carriage came to a stop in front of Song Ming’s house.
Song Ming was skulking around the courtyard and couldn’t stop looking up at the workshop.
He was scratching his head in anxiety every day, but that fool had not learned how to make the other two bases after so many days, so one alone would not sell for that much money, and it might even be discovered.
When he saw a carriage coming, he didn’t care, and only when it stopped at the door did he look over.
“Brother!”
Huang Si lifted the curtain and jumped down from the carriage.
Song Ming’s heart jumped and he subconsciously glanced in the direction of the Song family, hurriedly tugging Huang Si to his house, “How dare you come over here?”
Huang Si lowered his voice, “I’m just in a hurry, aren’t I? It’s been so many days, but there’s no movement from big brother, so the buyers are getting anxious.”
“I’m more anxious than you! That stinking b*tch said there are several soup bases and she has only learnt one of them.”
“One will do.”
Huang Si couldn’t wait, firstly to earn money, and secondly because he wanted to get back at the Song family.
In all his life, he had suffered losses at the hands of the Song family, and he couldn’t swallow his anger until he got his revenge back.