Although Su Qingluan found the most comfortable position, she still felt as if her whole body was falling apart when she arrived at Xie's Mansion.
Fortunately, she has found time to do physical exercises every day since she traveled through time - even when she is the most tired, she still does simple stretching or flat-board exercises in her room to build strength and coordination.
In addition, I had experienced the short-distance version of the "tired boat and carriage" of this era several times before, and I was mentally prepared for the bumpiness of the carriage, so I tidied up my appearance a little and followed the servant into the Xie Mansion.
In fact, Su Qingluan can feel that Xie Zian is a dude who doesn't pay much attention to etiquette. For example, he never pays attention to which door of Xie's house should be entered through with what kind of status. Basically, it depends on which door he is near. Which door does one enter through.
Therefore, Su Qingluan had entered through the front door, side door and even the back door.
But this time it was obviously different. Su Qingluan felt that if she could only enter the door, she would have to wait until the doorman announced, and then asked her to go around to the side door to wait, and then let her in after a while.
Moreover, the expressions of the doorman and the boy made Su Qingluan feel a little different from before.
Su Qingluan saw servants in Xie Zian's house buying water soup more than once before, and some even brought a "takeaway" to the old housekeeper. This also shows that Xie Zian's house is probably his master. He was carefree, and the relationship between the servants was relatively not so serious.
Even a few doormen, because they often see Su Qingluan and often buy water soup, so although they are not very friendly, they can always smile and say hello when they meet.
But this time, they all seemed to have had their souls changed. They suppressed their smiles and lowered their eyes, as if they were afraid of causing disaster if they said one more word. It was as if their souls had been taken away and turned into puppets.
This made Su Qingluan unconsciously break out in a cold sweat.
She squeezed my fist hard, letting her hard nails dig into her palm.
The sharp pain made her sober and calmed her down: It doesn't matter, since her "work" has been recognized by the other party, the initiative is in her hands.
Following the waiter wearing flowers and willows, Su Qingluan has put on her face the professional smile that she used to work as a micro-business customer service when facing difficult customers after she fell ill in her previous life. At the same time, her waist has become straighter.
Then Su Qingluan saw Xie Zian at the waterside pavilion where Xie Zian often spent his days leisurely.
Today, he is wearing a rosewood-colored suit with a straight collar and a straight train. have to say,
No matter how annoying his character is, Xie Zian's fair and tender face is still beautiful. Although this little dandy is only eleven or twelve years old, has a little baby fat, and does not have the aura of a handsome boy, but with his fair complexion and bold facial features, he can still make the rosewood color that originally looks a bit old-fashioned give him a sense of nobility.
The reason why I say "three points" is because although Xie Zian is trying his best to restrain his careless appearance, as the saying goes, "nature is hard to change." No matter how hard he tries to restrain himself, his inner temperament cannot be concealed.
Talking about true nobility... Mu Xingzhi's figure flashed through Su Qingluan's mind, and then he took back his consciousness and saw a very different person present today - a man whose hair was tied up in a bun meticulously. Although he looked dignified, But looking at her, she didn't look like a kind woman at all.
This woman's hair was gray and she looked to be in her forties or fifties. Although she stood beside Xie Zian like many servants, her status was obviously very special - even higher than the old housekeeper.
The woman's clothes were very plain, but when the sun shone on the dark green to almost black material, emerald green lines of longevity and longevity appeared, which made Su Qingluan understand - the woman's clothes looked... It's low-key, but this kind of design with flowing light and dark patterns is probably worth every inch of the fabric.
And as long as Xie Zian wanted to make some indecent habitual movements such as shaking his legs or leaning his body, the woman would look over and without even saying anything, Xie Zian would sit upright obediently - even though it was useless. After a while, he couldn't help but fall back into his old ways, but he never said anything.
To be precise, I dare not say anything.
This was quite beyond Su Qingluan's expectation - after all, as far as she knew, Xie Zian didn't even have that much respect for the old housekeeper!
Three or four guesses about this woman's identity flashed through her mind, and Su Qingluan bowed and said hello to Xie Zian calmly on the surface.
Xie Zian doesn't pay attention to etiquette, and Su Qingluan even dislikes the etiquette of kneeling down at every turn in this era. So under normal circumstances, Su Qingluan would only perform the blessing ceremony. After all, in terms of age, Xie Zian and Su Qingluan were of the same age group, and Xie Zian did not hold a title, so there was no problem in performing the ceremony as a peer.
What's more, because Su Qingluan has a stranger present today - and he is probably the real representative of Party A - Su Qingluan's salute posture is already a bit more cautious and dignified than usual!
As a result, when Su Qingluan stood up, she still saw an obvious look of disgust on the face of the unfamiliar middle-aged woman.
However, due to the angle, Xie Zian didn't notice it - or in other words, he didn't care if he did.
"Mother Zhang, this is Su Qingluan, Mrs. Su, the producer of 'Four Seasons'." Xie Zian casually pointed at Su Qingluan and looked at the serious-looking middle-aged woman next to her.
Although the other party seemed to dislike her, Su Qingluan thought that Party A was the biggest, so she took the initiative to step forward and salute the elders: "Su Qingluan has met Zhang Ma."
This elder ceremony required kneeling down. Su Qingluan knelt down for a long time and the other party did not let her get up. Su Qingluan thought to herself that she had not offended the other party, so she simply got up by herself.
Then, not surprisingly, I heard the other party snort: "Humph, I really don't know the etiquette."
Su Qingluan grinned. Her makeup today was already more powerful than before, and when she smiled so exaggeratedly, she had a scary feeling like a cold grin.
It's very much like the eve of going crazy.
Xie Zian, who had been "baptized by madness" by Su Qingluan once, immediately sat up straight, his whole body tensed up, and stared at Su Qingluan for a moment, looking very afraid that she would go crazy again.
However, Su Qingluan was not a real lunatic. She only showed a "silly and sweet" smile and said to Zhang Ma in the dialect of Huaxi Village: "Hey, Auntie, you are right, we are a peasant girl, a country girl." Rough guy, you don’t have any etiquette. You work for a wealthy family, so you are different from rough guys like us. You, sir, are more generous and can tolerate one person?"
Zhang Ma's face darkened: "No... rude! How can you call me aunt?!"
"Ah? If you don't want to call me aunt? Then you should call me sister?" Su Qingluan glanced at Zhang Ma's face and gray hair, "Hey, sister, you look really anxious. You look like you are fifty or sixty years old." Got it!"
Su Qingluan pretended to be crazy and acted stupidly, Zhang Ma's face was livid, and Xie Zian was snickering from the side. However, he was accidentally caught by Zhang Ma, who struck him with a flying knife, and immediately acted obediently and pretended to be silent.
It's not that Su Qingluan deliberately wanted to anger the other party, but now it was obvious that the other party looked at her with prejudice, so no matter what she did, it might be difficult to satisfy the other party.
But Su Qingluan also understood that the "Mother Zhang" in front of her was just a servant to put it bluntly. The fact that Su Qingluan was picked up by a carriage today shows that his "Four Seasons" jam has won the favor of noble people.
Coupled with the arrogant look of this "Mother Zhang", she probably came to find out how to make jam.
It was naturally impossible for Su Qingluan to tell the other party the recipe - and it was obviously impossible for the other party to violate the taboo directly.
And since the recipe is in her own hands, she will continue to act crazy and act stupid - not to offend or ridicule the other party, but to lower the other party's expectations.
The lower the other party's "expectations" for oneself, the higher the "error tolerance" for oneself.
After all, although the recipe of jam is in her own hands, if an industry chain is formed in the future, the people who execute every link will be her fellow villagers or residents of the town.
The vast majority of these people are very simple civilians. They have no awareness of dealing with high-ranking officials and nobles, and they do not understand the details of the nobles. They will definitely "violate taboos" accidentally - even Su Qingluan thinks that she also so.
Since she can't guarantee that every step will not offend the noble person, it would be "safer" to simply let the other party think that she and the group of people behind her are "rough people who don't know etiquette and only mess around with food."
And it can leave the other party speechless and unable to refute.
Su Qingluan bent her eyes into crescent moons: I'm so sorry, she is so narrow-minded.
After several changes of "titles", Zhang Ma probably felt that Su Qingluan could not be carved out of rotten wood, so she gave up on herself and said: "...you should call me Zhang Ma."
Su Qingluan naturally responded.
Naturally, Mrs. Zhang asked Su Qingluan how to make jam. Su Qingluan briefly talked about the raw materials. Sure enough, Zhang Ma frowned again when she heard that the jam was made from wild fruits.
Therefore, Su Qingluan brought out the rhetoric that she used to deceive Xie Zian before: "Wild fruits absorb the essence of heaven and earth and gather the aura of the sun and the moon."
The effect is still good.
After all, this era is still very in awe of nature.
After being deceived, Zhang Ma accepted the result that the old lady of the Xie Mansion "eats wild fruit jam", and then asked: "The old lady likes 'Four Seasons' very much. How long will it take to make a few more copies?" "
"This..." Su Qingluan's face was full of embarrassment.
A trace of contempt flashed in Zhang Ma's eyes, and she said in her heart: Sure enough, a small-minded village girl has short eyelids. In order to save face, she immediately took out a silver note with a face value of two taels from her arms and handed it over: "The price is negotiable, but it's rare that the old lady likes this bite, and she also wants to give it to her good friends to try."
Unexpectedly, Su Qingluan didn't get the banknote, and still had the sad look on his face.
Zhang Ma thought that Su Qingluan only recognized copper plates and gold and silver, so she pointed at the silver note that swayed in the wind: "This is a silver note. You can exchange it for money at the bank. It's one hundred taels!"
Su Qingluan rolled her eyes in her heart, but shook her head with a wry smile on her face: "Even if Zhang Ma gives me a hundred taels of silver notes, I can't make something out of nothing?"
Zhang Ma paused after hearing this: "What does this mean?"
