Flowers in full bloom

Chapter 203 Is it good? Is it good?

Will you personally give me a thank you gift in the future? If so, I will still ask for a thank you gift in the future, isn't that better?" Bai Yunhe asked.

"This..." Hualei was a little dumbfounded, not knowing how to answer. After a pause, she said softly, "Mr. Bai, I feel embarrassed to keep taking your pills, and I have nothing to give you in return. Don't give them to me anymore in the future. I will find another way to help Xiaoyuan."

"Why, Miss Hua? I know you can grow crops and vegetables, raise chickens and ducks, and cook a lot of delicious food. But can you also prescribe medicine for Xiaoyuan?" Bai Yunhe asked exaggeratedly, squinting his eyes.

"Um, no, I don't know how to prescribe medicine. I just feel embarrassed to take Mr. Bai's pills for nothing."

"Then what should we do? Miss Hua can't prescribe medicine herself, and the doctors outside can't prescribe such a prescription. The prescriptions available in the Dingbei Marquis Mansion may not be suitable for Xiaoyuan. Are you going to ignore Xiaoyuan's health for the sake of your own face?" Bai Yunhe did not let Hua Lei go.

Hualei pinched her fingers, feeling a little overwhelmed. After thinking for a while, she asked, "How about this, Mr. Bai, I will buy this pill from you? I will pay you the money, and you name a price?"

"Is that so? That's fine, but what price do you think I should offer? After all, this is a secret recipe given to us by the Imperial Hospital for the Dingxi Marquis Mansion. Although the medicinal materials are not very precious, but..." Bai Yunhai dragged out his voice.

Hua Lei looked at him, her almond eyes slightly widened, as if she was seriously waiting for Bai Yunhe to make an offer.

"It's a priceless treasure, I won't sell it." Looking at Hualei's dim eyes, Bai Yunhai moved closer to Hualei and whispered, "But I can give it to you, only you." After a pause, he added, "I don't want your thank-you gift, I won't embarrass you, okay?"

OK? OK?

Hualei's head was buzzing.

Early in the morning of the twelfth day of the lunar year, Uncle Fu and Brother Kong checked the food purchase list of Dingxi Marquis' Mansion again and again, and sent all the food they needed to Dingxi Marquis' Mansion. Hualei returned to Qingyun Lane, preparing to spend a few more days of leisure. But someone came to the door.

The next day, Hua Lei slept in again. After breakfast, she sat in the study and flipped through some new notebooks that had arrived years ago. Xiao Yuan was on the second floor, finishing his holiday homework.

Mrs. Luo came in and said someone wanted to see Hua Lei. Hua Lei was a little curious. Who was it? Liang Xiangyi took her mother and younger brother and sister to visit her uncle's family before the New Year and said she would not be back until the end of the first month. She didn't know anyone in Shangjing City.

Soon, Mrs. Luo came in with a middle-aged woman in her forties or fifties. She was wearing a dark red dress with a blessing pattern, her hair was slightly gray, her face was wrinkled, and her cheeks were thin. Hualei was a little dazed. Could this person have come to the wrong place? I don't know him?

"Miss Hua, I am the aunt of Rong Jin from Dingbei Marquis's Mansion." The visitor introduced herself. Rong Jin's aunt? Han Qingge's mother? Is she that old? How come she doesn't look like Han Qingge at all?

Hualei was a little confused, but she still politely invited people into the main room and asked Mrs. Luo to serve tea. She smiled and said, "Madam, it's New Year's Day, why didn't Miss Han come with you?"

The visitor was startled, then reacted and explained, "I am Feicui's aunt, my last name is Wei, and Master Rong Jin also calls me aunt." Feicui's aunt? Oh, Hualei turned around and saw that it was the family of Feng, the eldest daughter-in-law of Dingbei Marquis's mansion. Feng's father worked in the Imperial Observatory, and what did her eldest brother do? Oh, he was the seventh-rank official of the Imperial Household Department, in charge of animal husbandry products. Then what was Feng's sister-in-law doing in Qingyun Lane? She didn't have much contact with Feng, the eldest daughter-in-law of the mansion, but she often met Feicui in the clan school.

"Oh, Madam Wei, I'm sorry, I recognized the wrong person, please have some tea." Hualei raised her hand slightly and invited the other party to have some tea. Madam Wei nodded slightly, took the teacup, blew off the tea foam, took a sip, frowned slightly, and put down the teacup.

Hualei looked at her and said nothing. Wei glanced at Hualei who was sitting on the side. She was wearing a simple beige dress with a loose robe of the same color casually draped over it. Her hair was not tied up in a bun, but tied with a hairband, which looked a bit shabby.

He raised his eyes slightly, with a smile on his face, and said, "Miss Hua, I came to Qingyun Lane today because I want to talk to you about something."

"Oh, what's the matter, please tell me, Mrs. Wei." Hua Lei picked up the teacup and took a sip.

"It's like this. I heard that you raise a lot of chickens, ducks and geese on your farm. You also launched braised food and roast duck before the New Year. I heard that business is pretty good. My family wants to open a delicatessen in Nancheng District this year, and we want to sell roast duck and braised food. Miss Hua, what do you think?" Wei spoke.

Hua Lei was a little confused. What do you need to tell me to open a cooked food shop? Oh, do you want to buy goods from me? That's fine. I sell goods anyway. I also roast and stew the food for the Imperial College Restaurant. So she nodded and said, "There are a lot of people in Nancheng District. There should be business, but I guess stewed food is easier to sell."

Mrs. Wei was very happy to hear this and said with a smile, "Miss Hua has a good eye. What you said is the same as what my master said. Look, our family has a shop in the South City District. It's quite big and the location is not bad. If we open a delicatessen, it will definitely work."

Hua Lei nodded, but before she could say anything, Wei spoke again, "Miss Hua, we are relatives after all. You should call me aunt, just like Feicui." Uh, are we that close? Hua Lei was a little bit unable to accept it.

"Miss Hua, the roast duck and stewed food on your farm will start soon, right? Look, in a couple of days I will have two of my shop assistants come to your farm to learn how to make roast duck and stewed food. Please take care of the people on your farm and ask them to take good care of them." Wei said as a matter of course. "Also, write me a list of the seasonings and proportions needed for roast duck and stewed food, so I can go back and buy and arrange them in advance. Otherwise, I am old now, and even if you tell me, I won't remember it." Wei smiled with an apologetic look on her face.

It's not about purchasing goods, but about coming to the farm to learn how to make roast duck and stewed food, and to learn the recipes themselves. Hua Lei looked at Wei and chuckled, saying, "Madam Wei, some time ago, the owner of a restaurant wanted to ask me for the recipe for roast duck, but I didn't sell it. This is my Hua family's ancestral recipe, and I can't sell it."

Wei's face darkened, and then she smiled and said, "What are you talking about, kid? Of course I won't sell the recipe, so I won't buy your recipe either."