On the second day, An Ying went to Gaosheng Street. Half of the street here is a tea shop and half of the street is a medicine shop. Several big tea shops in Huzhou are on this street. In Pingting Street next door, there are There are tea shops and hotels for drinking tea. An Ying went to Zheng Yishun Tea Shop, the largest tea shop on Gaosheng Street. She found out clearly that the owner Zheng Ping was the manager of this Huzhou tea shop.
An Ying bought two packs of honeysuckle at the medicine shop opposite Zheng's tea shop, saying that he was going back to make water to drink, and then stood at the door of the shop. Not long after, a man in green cloth came from the street, followed by a boy carrying a bundle. An Ying looked at it for a while, then walked forward.
The man in green cloth was Zheng Ping, the owner of the tea shop. He just received the new model from Fujian that day, so he hurried back to the shop. Unexpectedly, he was stopped by a little girl at the door of his store. The little girl raised her hand to signal him to stop, and said slowly: "Manager Zheng, please stay."
Zheng Ping raised his eyebrows in surprise and said, "Whose child are you from?"
An Ying: "My daughter is the eldest daughter of An Tinggui. She is here specially to wait for Manager Zheng. Manager Zheng must also know about my father's affairs. You see..."
Zheng Ping was about to leave. He didn't want to talk to the little girl on the street. He stopped when he heard An Tinggui's name. He couldn't help but look at the little girl again. He originally wanted to be the owner of the tea shop in An's family. The wife passed away, and there were only a few young children at home. Unexpectedly, the An family daughter was quite capable and found herself in front of her store.
Zheng Ping said: "It turns out to be the eldest girl from Brother An's family. This must be the first time we have met. The girl has good eyesight and recognized me at a glance. We all feel very sorry about your father's matter, but this case has been decided by the Ministry of Criminal Justice. There is nothing we can do to investigate." After saying that, Zheng Ping took off a cloth bag from his waist and said, "You are staying in an inn, and there are some copper coins and silver here. Take it and pack more, and let Brother An Be more comfortable."
Seeing this, An Ying couldn't help but sneer in her heart, pretending to be charitable, if she really meant it, why wait until now to think of something to do.
"Thank you very much, Manager Zheng. I still want to ask Manager Zheng about something. You see..."
Before An Ying could finish speaking, Zheng Ping waved his hand impatiently and said, "I still have things to do. Your father's affairs still have to be dealt with by the adults in the Ministry of Justice. We, the merchants, can't go against the government. You girl." It's really hard for you to move around like this, so just go back to the inn and wait for news." After saying that, he walked towards the shop. The boy behind took the cloth bag and handed it to An Ying. He also blocked the road. Seeing Zheng Ping about to Return to the shop.
Zheng Ping, who was planning not to see the eldest daughter of the An family in the future, suddenly heard a burst of crying, and the voice of the eldest daughter of the An family floated miserably: "Manager Zheng, why did you leave like that? When my father was taken away by the government, he told me that if I encounter anything, I can go to Manager Zheng to deal with it. What should I do now that you are gone?" The voice was so sad that those who heard it shed tears.
Zheng Ping felt like his forehead was throbbing. People in the surrounding shops leaned out to take a look. Pedestrians around him also stopped, and he felt that more and more people were surrounding him. Zheng Ping immediately asked the waiter to call the maid in the shop, and half-draged and half-invited An Ying into the shop.
Zheng Ping's tea shop is much larger than other street tea shops. In the front is a place for buying and selling tea cakes, in the back is a tea place, and there are seating upstairs. There are even high tables in the four corners of the lobby, with potted flowers and copper ornaments placed on them. There are also paintings and calligraphy hanging on one wall. An Ying was arranged into a private room upstairs by the maid. A beautiful woman was sitting at the table, ladling tea soup. Seeing An Ying come in, she pushed the tea soup over and said, "This is the eldest girl of the An family. Stop crying. Let's have some tea soup first." The beautiful woman glanced sideways at Zheng Ping and said, "Master, whatever happens, first give me some tea soup." The girl's family has been invited to talk, so why is there such a commotion in the street? What will the girl's family say about her husband's family in the future? Those who don't know, what do you think is wrong? "
An Ying thought to herself, what a powerful woman. I also saw that there were windows in the north and south of the private room, and the south window faced the street. No wonder I knew that I was making trouble outside. The north window faced the yard behind the tea shop. There were several people talking there, and there were some things piled under the corner of one side.
Zheng Ping took off the sweat towel from his waist, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and said with a flick of it: "Miss An, it's not that I'm unjust, but you also have to see who this matter has offended."
"Oh, I really don't know who I offended. Tell me, Manager Zheng." An Ying took a sip of tea and sat upright in front of the table, feeling like a student in a private school.
Zheng Ping simply didn't know how to send this girl away. He grabbed the tea soup and took a sip, and then said: "This is an order personally issued by Master Su of the Ministry of Punishment. We don't know what happened. Does Miss An know? This has happened in previous years." It was handled by Mr. Fu Yin, and it has been like this since this year. Who knows, it was only a month after handing it in, and we all thought that the new mold was fine by the boss. We were just about to use the new mold, and this happened. . It’s useless for you to ask me about this matter. Look, how many new molds of tea cakes are pressed in my backyard, and they are all the best purple bamboo shoots." After saying this, Zheng Ping let out a long sigh. .
An Ying sneered and said: "Fortunately, I came to Mr. Zheng to ask, and now I figured it out. I was still thinking, my father is an honest man, so how can he have the enthusiasm to make new molds to please me? Everyone asked my father to explore the path first. If it goes smoothly, he will do it. If it doesn't go well, my father will be unlucky. Fortunately, my father treats you as a brother. What Mr. Zheng did is really unreasonable."
Zheng Ping's face turned pale and green for a while, then he put the thick tea bowl in his hand heavily on the table, "Miss An, let me advise you, a girl's family should not do such publicity. Your father is nothing like that. It's a different model, and it's not a waste. Go back and wait. Besides, your Anjia tea shop is not the only one. We are all watching the news. When the time comes, our tea shop brothers will naturally clear things up. Those of you I don’t like to hear those words, and I don’t want to hear them in the future. Now you can go out through this door. Your father and I are also friends. If something happens in the future, I will take care of your siblings and I won’t have anything to say. Do you understand? "
An Ying stood up, smoothed the pleats at the corners of her skirt, and said slowly and leisurely: "You understand it when you listen, but you don't understand when you look at it. It's called dredging. I haven't seen any dredging in these days. If I hadn't come here, I don't even know what's going on when you come here. Even though I don't like to hear what I say, I know it doesn't sound good. It's not as good as my father's life." An Ying took the copper coins that the boy had just brought and the The broken silver was still on the table, and he said, "Let's just forget about Manager Zheng's care. Our siblings really can't bear it."
After that, An Ying left the Zheng family's shop, but when she went downstairs, she took the wrong direction and walked straight into the backyard of the house. She only heard the woman's voice floating above her head: "Miss An's family, You remembered the wrong way." An Ying raised his head and smiled and said, "That's right. Your store is big, so it's really hard to remember the way. I just happened to come here to take a look at your tea cakes." As he said that, he walked in. In the side room that I just took a look at, I saw boxes of goods piled up, and some were wrapped in silk. An Ying looked at the pattern on the box and opened a box. Before he could open the goods wrapped in silk, he heard the noise outside and knew that Mr. Zheng was coming.
An Ying immediately sealed the box, walked out of the wing, and said to Master Zheng, "I'm sorry, I went in the wrong direction. I just looked at the tea cakes you mentioned, and they are really good purple bamboo shoots." It's a pity, it's a pity." Zheng Ping sighed and said, "Look, I didn't lie to you. Look at my batch of good purple bamboo shoots. If it takes too long, it will be difficult to process. No. I know how to resolve this matter." After saying that, he sent someone to send An Ying out of the tea shop.
An Ying returned to the inn room and took out a small book from his bag. Inside was the pattern of this year's Fujian molds, including square, round, copper coin style, hexagonal style, and some with butterfly patterns. , some are embossed with peony patterns, and some are embossed with auspicious words. The last page is the most exquisite dragon and phoenix dumplings, a small round cake, but the size of a palm, depicting extremely complicated dragon and phoenix patterns. Today in Zheng Ping's shop, they drank this kind of tea cake. An Ying remembered that when the beautiful woman was scooping out the tea soup, she had half a cake of tea cake left with this pattern on it.
An Ying thought to himself that this matter seems to have become complicated.
