novelhk Chapter 157 Preparing Birthday Gifts
Chapter 157 Preparing Birthday Gifts
Ning Huaizhi frowned and looked at Jiang Yuwei and said:
"Yunyun, I have no say in this matter. Our paper mill has always been run by your sister-in-law. I know nothing about business matters."
After hearing this, Chen Guixiang's eyes widened and she scolded Ning Huaizhi:
"You are the man of the family, and you can't make the decision on such a small matter? Now that your family is getting more and more prosperous, you don't care about the life and death of your parents and your brothers and sisters?"
Ning Huaizhi lowered his head and did not dare to look into Chen Guixiang's eyes. He just remained silent.
Jiang Yuwei saw this and said directly:
"Yes, never mind! When you were planning to move our eldest family to this barren mountain, did you ever care about our life or death? Why do you want me to care about your life or death now?"
Jiang Yuwei said as she looked at Ning Yunyun who was still sobbing and started to speak:
"Xu Ming hit you, you shouldn't have come to your elder brother, your parents ordered you to do it, the matchmaker said it, you should start from the root, wasn't this beastly husband chosen by your mother herself? It's too late to cry now, you might as well save your tears and use them to mourn your husband, don't cry in our yard, it's annoying just to watch!"
Ning Yunyun's eyes turned red when she heard this and she retorted:
"You, you are so vicious, Jiang Yuwei! How could you curse my husband to death! Are you deliberately trying to make me a widow?"
Jiang Yuwei sneered:
"Have you forgotten what you said when your eldest brother came back injured and half dead? Didn't you keep saying that it would be better for him to die on the battlefield than to be a cripple? What? You can curse me to be a widow, but I can't curse you?"
Ning Yunyun's face flushed immediately after hearing this. She wanted to secretly see Ning Huaizhi's reaction, but she was met with Ning Huaizhi's sharp eyes, which frightened Ning Yunyun so much that she shuddered.
Seeing this, Chen Guixiang hurriedly pulled Ning Yunyun behind her and shouted to Jiang Yuwei:
"You only know how to pick on small matters! You have to bring up trivial matters a thousand times! A hundred times! Before we're done!"
Jiang Yuwei glanced at Chen Guixiang and said calmly:
"It's never over! I'm a grudge-holder and I like to keep picking on small grudges. If you have the ability, don't always do those dirty things that make people pick on small grudges! What? Only you are allowed to do it on the first day of the month, but not others on the fifteenth? You've got all the reasons in your mouth. You're the only one who's good and you're full of reasons!"
Chen Guixiang was so angry at Jiang Yuwei's words that she rolled her eyes. Ning Yunyun saw that the situation was not good, so she hurriedly supported Chen Guixiang and walked out of the yard, shouting at Jiang Yuwei as she walked:
"If my mother gets mad at you, I will never forgive you!"
Jiang Yuwei fiercely kicked the stone at her feet, looked at their backs as they left and shouted:
"It's not over yet!"
Ning Huaizhi looked at Jiang Yuwei with a complicated expression and whispered:
"Yuwei, don't be angry. Can you be more careful when talking to your mother next time?"
Jiang Yuwei turned around and raised her eyebrows to look at Ning Huaizhi:
"I helped you out, and you want to teach me a lesson?"
Ning Huaizhi waved his hands and said:
"No, I know you're doing this for my own good, but my mother is getting old, and I'm always mad at her like this, and I'm afraid..."
Jiang Yuwei took a step forward, stared at him and asked:
"What are you afraid of?!"
Ning Huaizhi spoke softly:
"I'm afraid you'll really piss off your mother to death and be branded as an unfilial person..."
Jiang Yuwei understood that in this society, if children are unfilial, they will be cursed by everyone, and even worse, they will be imprisoned. However, she knew her limits. Even if Chen Guixiang fainted from anger, she knew how to give first aid. Thinking of this, she said calmly:
"It's okay. I know what's going on. Your mother is in good health. Don't worry about it!"
After Jiang Yuwei finished speaking, she ignored Ning Huaizhi and went straight to the paper mill in the backyard.
As soon as I entered the backyard, I saw Zhang Tianhe busy chopping firewood, Ning Wu was boiling paper pulp, Ning Daya was responsible for drying paper, Aunt Zhou and Aunt Zhang took Ning Wan to print patterns, and Liu was in charge of binding.
Jiang Yuwei stepped forward and said to Aunt Zhang with a smile:
"Aunt Zhang, I think we still don't have enough manpower. Why don't we ask Zhang Guang to come over tomorrow to do some odd jobs, like helping with the fire or making rubbings of patterns?"
Jiang Yuwei said, then turned to look at Liu and said:
"Liu, if Goudan is free at home, let him come with you tomorrow. I will calculate his wages separately."
After hearing this, Mrs. Liu and Aunt Zhang nodded happily:
"Okay, okay, I'll let them come over tomorrow."
Jiang Yuwei looked at Aunt Zhou again and said:
"Aunt Zhou, you are good at sewing. Tomorrow you will be in charge of binding the book with Liu, and let them do the rubbing work. By the way, you must check carefully when binding. The rubbing patterns must be completely dry before binding, otherwise the ink will bleed through the pages."
Everyone nodded after hearing Jiang Yuwei's instructions. There were many people eating today, and Jiang Yuwei had to be busy cooking in the front yard. After giving instructions, she went to the front yard.
Seeing that Ning Huaizhi was still concentrating on carving, Jiang Yuwei called the fool out to light a fire for her.
Jiang Yuwei steamed two pots of rice, boiled a pot of sour plum soup, made a dish of stir-fried vegetables, a dish of stewed pork ribs with potatoes, a dish of cold eggplant, and a dish of egg and cucumber.
After everything was done, she invited everyone to eat. After dinner, she sent everyone away. Then Jiang Yuwei went to bed and lay down.
She was thinking that she should prepare a birthday gift for the old lady of the Sun Mansion tomorrow, and fell into a deep sleep while thinking about it.
next day
Jiang Yuwei got up early in the morning and steamed two large pots of yellow rice buns, and another pot of wild vegetable dumplings to feed the workers who were rushing to work in the next few days. Jiang Yuwei thought about it and made some dumplings stuffed with leeks and eggs to cook for everyone at noon.
After finishing all these, Jiang Yuwei took off her apron, picked up the backpack and hurried out. She remembered that there were some peonies that had not yet bloomed growing in the sea of flowers where she often went to pick flowers. If she could dig up a few of them, she could transform and cultivate them well.
Then we can use some tricks to make the flower bloom on the day of the birthday party, which would be a very good omen.
After all, he couldn't afford to give other valuable things away. Whatever he had at home, the Sun Mansion would not be short of it. It would be better to give some rare things to make the old lady happy.
While thinking, Jiang Yuwei walked to the sea of flowers. She first picked a few unopened white peonies, then carefully dug them out with their roots, wrapped the flower buds and rhizomes with leaves, and then put them in a basket and took them home.
Jiang Yuwei moved out several flower pots that she had bought in Ping'an Town before, and carefully planted a few peonies in them. Then she found some comfrey juice, safflower juice, alum, gamboge powder and other things and casually painted on the buds of the white peonies.
She followed the same procedure for each plant. After the color dried, she added a layer of alum water to fix the color. Then Jiang Yuwei buried some Atractylodes powder at the root of the flower, waiting for the peony to bloom on the day of the birthday party.
To be on the safe side, Jiang Yuwei moved all the flowers into her own room.