Delicate Flower Chapter 189: Ideas
Yu Tang thought of the letter that the eldest wife asked Mrs. Shen to send, and of Gu Xi's chance encounter with the eldest lady in the greenhouse... Could it be that Gu Xi's goal from the beginning was Pei's parents' room?
At this moment, she even began to doubt her own judgment.
The fourth lady hesitated and said: "Probably not! When she was at home, Sister Gu had never seen the eldest aunt. How could the eldest aunt propose marriage to the Gu family? Didn't it mean that the Yang family had taken a fancy to Sister Gu? Speaking of which, Sister Gu's family and ours are pretty well matched. The eldest aunt must be worried that her eldest cousin will not find a suitable family after he leaves the service, so she is in such a hurry. Besides, the Yang family and the eldest aunt know each other. After all, most of them are from the capital, thousands of miles away, and I don’t know what the other person’s character is like. The eldest cousin will stay in Lin’an for a long time. If the other person’s character is flawed, it will be really troublesome. . I think this is good. (,) At least I know the basics. We won’t be short of people for poetry gatherings in the future!"
After she finished speaking, she smiled happily and covered her mouth with a handkerchief.
The second young ladies also laughed. Only the third young lady lowered her eyes, twitched the corners of her mouth, and smiled reluctantly.
Yu Tang thought she was feeling uncomfortable, so he handed her a wet handkerchief stored in the box and asked her to wipe her forehead, which would at least make her feel better.
The third lady took the veil, hesitated for a moment, and whispered to Yu Tang: "Sister Yu, I feel very uneasy."
Yu Tang listened to her carefully.
The third lady whispered: "I have heard before that someone wanted to be a matchmaker for the eldest cousin, but the eldest aunt refused. Now the Yang family and the eldest aunt have taken the initiative to arrange marriage with the Gu family. You say, Could it be that something happened to the Yang family?"
Yu Tang said depressedly: "It's hard to ask openly about this kind of thing. The marriage between the eldest son and Miss Gu is already over..." Even if Pei Tong and his cousin are really in love, there is With the fate of my parents, I can only keep these feelings in my heart.
After all, the third lady is still young, and she always feels that the beauty of flowers is the real thing, and she feels a little unhappy in her heart.
Fortunately, Ku'an Temple was in sight. They got off the mule cart, changed into a soft sedan, and arrived at Ku'an Temple.
Then Yu Tang saw Hu Xing, the third manager of the Pei family.
He was standing at the gate of the temple talking to the abbot of Ku'an Temple.
Seeing the female family members of the Pei family coming, he ran over quickly, stood in front of Yi Laoan's sedan, and said respectfully: "Our Laoan can't come over, because I'm afraid that if you have something to do, the errands around you can't be found. You asked me to come here to help you. If you need anything, just ask the maid next to you to tell me. I will follow you all day long and listen to your orders."
Yi Laoan nodded with a smile and said: "Then I'll trouble the Third Manager."
"Oh, look at what you said, you're offending me." Hu Xing said diligently, and he served Yi Lao'an into the temple gate.
Ren Yi Laoan pointed to a section of dirt road in front of the door and said: "I think, let’s not say whether we sell Buddhist incense or not. This road needs to be repaired first. It takes so much effort every time I come here. Where can I buy Buddhist incense?"
Hu Xing said hurriedly: "I will tell the third master when I get back."
The host of Kuan Temple was full of surprise.
Yi Laoan nodded with satisfaction.
Yu Tang and several ladies from the Pei family followed behind them and whispered.
"It is said that the Yang family has not left yet," the third lady still pulled Yu Tang, "my great-aunt and third uncle must be having fun with the Yang family, so there is no way they can come over today."
Yu Tang thought it should be like this.
"When I heard that the Yang family was the matchmaker, I immediately exploded." The third lady continued in a low voice, "The Yang family hasn't settled their own marriage yet, so they started to take charge of our Pei family's affairs. ...Fortunately, it turned out not to be the case, otherwise I really don’t know how this matter would have ended."
The second young lady who was walking in front of them with the fourth young lady suddenly turned around and snorted: "What's so difficult about this? Isn't the marriage not finalized yet? Just say that the two of them don't get along."
Yu Tang chuckled.
Miss Wu said: "Second sister, you are not doing this right. You can't go back to your parents' house even if you don't agree with them. You will be looked down upon by your husband's family. You should find the people from the Yang family and teach them a lesson." , let them correct it."
She spoke childishly, and her little face was taut, as if a child was pretending to be an adult. Even the maids and women serving around them couldn't help it, and they all lowered their heads and smiled silently.
But the fifth lady still didn't know anything and said: "What's wrong with you? Am I right? This is how my grandmother taught my aunt when she and my uncle were angry."
Yu Tang couldn't bear it any longer, and took Miss Fifth's hand and said, "What you said makes sense. Let's follow him quickly. I don't know what Yi Lao'an and the host said. Can incense be made in Ku'an Temple? By the way, Miss Third, you are in charge of this matter. Have you brought all the incense-making tools? Will it be you or Miss Second who will teach the people in Ku'an Temple how to make incense? ”
After hearing this, the third young lady understood the elegance and immediately said: "Second sister and I both teach you, so it's faster. I gave the incense-making stuff to the person in charge, you should have brought them all, right?"
Yu Tang called Shuangtao: "Go and ask if everything is ready?"
The two peaches responded and left.
Everyone’s topic shifted to teaching people at Ku’an Temple to make incense.
Yu Tang breathed a sigh of relief.
The third lady smiled straight at Yu Tang.
Yu Tang also laughed when he thought about the scene just now.
Ku'an Temple tidied up an unused main hall as a place for making incense. Everyone in the temple came, including nuns on one side and lay people on the other. The second lady taught the nuns how to make incense, and the third lady taught those nuns how to make incense. Lay people make incense.
Everyone’s talents were immediately revealed.
Except for the layman surnamed Li, everyone else was clumsy. Some were afraid of wasting the spices, and some were afraid that they could not do it well. After teaching for a long time, only the layman surnamed Li could keep up with the whole process.
This is completely different from what everyone expected.
After teaching for a long time, the second young lady and the third young lady began to become impatient. Yi Laoan and the second lady also frowned.
Yu Tang saw that this was not possible, but she recalled the timidity hidden in her bones when she first entered the Li Mansion in her previous life, which made her even more clumsy than usual, and she felt the same way. But she can also understand the feelings of the second young lady and the third young lady. Both of them are very smart, and the maids and wives around them are also shrewd people who have been carefully selected. They can instruct others to do what they want with just a look or a word. It's no wonder that they were impatient when they met the people in Ku'an Temple who were afraid of their hands and feet.
We have to find a way to change this situation.
She stared at the hands of several lay people, and her heart moved, as if she was blessed, and an idea suddenly came to her mind.
Yu Tang looked around and saw the woman named Jin who had been with the second wife all year round. She thought about it, walked over quietly, called "Aunt Jin" and said, "I see If this continues, we probably won't make much progress even if we explain it here today. I do have an idea, but I don't know if it's appropriate or not. I'd like to ask Aunt Jin to help me come up with an idea."
Since Aunt Jin is the second wife’s confidant, she knows more or less what Pei Lao’an and the second wife say about Yu Tang. She glanced at the second wife who was accompanying Yi Lao’an and the host master to talk, and said enthusiastically He smiled and said: "How about I take you to the second wife's place? I am a mother-in-law, so Miss Yu just calls me auntie. I don't have the knowledge to think it's appropriate!"
Yu Tang knew that he had met another understanding person and said with a smile: "You have eaten more salt than the bridges we have walked. Let me tell you first. If you think it is appropriate, we can go to the second place. I said in front of my wife, if I feel it is inappropriate, please help me check it, so that I don’t say the wrong thing and be embarrassed in front of Yi Laoan."
Mr. Jin hurriedly said "I don't dare" a few times, but she listened to Yu Tang's words.
"I saw that the steps of making incense are just a few steps." Yu Tang said calmly, "They looked at the back and forgot about the front. I think it was probably because they were too nervous. If it were normal, it would be fine. Teach them slowly, but the second and third ladies are about to start classes soon, and you may not be able to come over every day to teach them how to make incense. It is better to divide the steps of making incense into several parts, and let them learn only a small part each, so that it is easier It’s easy to remember.”
Mr. Jin's eyes lit up, she pulled Yu Tang and went to the second wife: "This is a good idea! Miss Yu will tell the second wife, and there will be nothing wrong."
Yu Tang breathed a sigh of relief and said it again in front of the second wife and Yi Laoan.
Yi Laoan and the second wife also thought it was a good idea, so they called the second young lady and the third young lady to come over and told them Yu Tang's method. Their eyes lit up, and they turned around and started arranging their hands, teaching each of them to learn only a small part.
Yi Laoan smiled happily at Yu Tang and said, "You kid, you don't know what you usually eat and drink, so why are you smarter than others? Such an idea can be realized immediately I figured it out."
Yu Tang smiled humbly and said: "It's just a flash of thought in my mind, I don't know if it's good or not. Now I'll ask two elders to help me make up my mind."
The second wife was also full of praise and said: "This is very good. If this Ku'an Temple can make Buddhist incense, you will be considered a first."
Yu Tang was humble again.
The speed of making incense was obviously faster, and the first batch of incense sticks was quickly produced.
Miss San said: "This is called Eight Treasures Incense. It contains eight kinds of spices. It is similar to the Eight Treasures of Buddhism. Most people will like it very much when smelling it."
Mr. Jin tried to order one. ~IndoMTL.com~The fragrance of Buddha is long-lasting, and it also contains a little bit of sandalwood fragrance.
Sandalwood is a very valuable spice.
The abbot of Ku'an Temple couldn't help but ask: "Is there any sandalwood added?"
"No." The third lady smiled a little proudly and said, "How about I found the recipe from an ancient book? It smells like sandalwood, right? It's actually a compound incense. From now on, in your temple With this recipe, you can create the smell of sandalwood."
Yu Tang's heart skipped a few beats as she listened, and combined with her past life experiences, she felt that this was not a good thing.
She looked at the expressions of the people around her.
Sure enough, someone was listening carefully, and among these people who listened carefully, they all had sharp eyes, clean clothes, and neat hands and feet.
If this incense recipe is handed over to Ku'an Temple, it may not be able to be kept.