Yu Tang spent a long time thinking about it all by himself, until he was called by the Chen family to learn how to make Chongyang Cake.

The glutinous rice and stem rice that have been soaked overnight are ground into a slurry, red and green fruit are cut into silk, brown sugar, chestnut powder, lard synthetic sugar, layer by layer on the steamer... The double ninth cake made by her mother and other people's home Is a little different. Others use brown sugar, red beans and lard to synthesize sugar. Their double ninth cake uses brown sugar and chestnut powder. The double ninth cake is as white as snow, and has the unique aroma of chestnut, not greasy. Especially favored by Yu Wen's classmates. So every year on the Double Ninth Festival, their family has to do a lot of gifts.

Ma Xiu's family was also added this year.

Chen urged Yu Tang: "You go back quickly, and we will go to your Wu Shibo's house for dinner later."

During the Mid-Autumn Festival, the Yu family invited the Wu family to have a crab feast. On Double Ninth Festival, the Wu family invited the Yu family to a crab feast.

The Yu Bo family was also invited.

"Okay." Yu Tang replied loudly, changed clothes, and carried the newly cooked Chongyang Cake to Zhang's house.

Ma Xiuniang hasn't recovered to her former slenderness, but Qing'er is getting fatter and fatter, like a glutinous rice dumpling, her neck can't stand up yet, but she doesn't want to lie in the arms of others, so she has to hold her small head in her arms. Now, she has to walk around, let her look around, or she will cry loudly.

"You must be used to her during her month!" Ma Xiuniang hugged her daughter around the room, and complained about Yu Tang pretending to be displeased, "This is all a debt. Just wait for me." "

Yu Tang sneered at Ma Xiuniang embarrassedly.

Ma Xiuniang finally coaxed her daughter to fall asleep, and hugged her to the nanny, so she had time to sit down and talk to Yu Tang.

"Is your marriage not settled yet?" She is very concerned about this matter, "Or, just leave the cabinet. I see your cousin is really good, he has his support, you can take care of it more from the side, you Dad and your mom will not be left unattended."

Yu Tang didn't want to get married at all now. She replied casually with a sense of interest, and then shifted the topic to the Zhang family: "I heard that Lord Zhang has gone to sit in the restaurant, so will he continue to end in the future?"

Ma Xiuniang is also worrying about this. She said: "Qing'er's father is a material for reading, and he won't end up. Isn't it wasteful. But he is also a stubborn temper. After Qing'er was born, there are too many places to spend money at home. , I want to use the dowry to subsidize the subsidy, but he doesn't agree. Our sister-in-law will be out of the cabinet again soon..."

She sighed.

Yu Tang then came up with his previous thoughts and calculations: "...Can you let Young Master Zhang help our lacquer to draw a few patterns? If you don’t write his name, if someone asks, it’s my brother who painted it. You Do you think it's done?"

Many scholars are ashamed to bend for money. Master Zhang is still just an ordinary scholar. If he is an official in the future, it is an elegant thing to help a bookstore copy books, but it is craftsmanship to help merchants draw patterns for the sake of money. Insulting gentleman will affect Zhang Gongzi's reputation.

If someone else brought up this matter, Ma Xiuniang would drive the person out of the house without thinking, but it was Yu Tang who said this matter. She understands Yu Tang very well, her mouth is tight, and she has an idea. It is trustworthy. But if Young Master Zhang is willing, she can't say it.

"I'll help you ask!" Ma Xiuniang didn't dare to say something dead. "If he wants to, what can I worry about?"

Yu Tang breathed a sigh of relief.

Although the Yu's lacquerware shop was rebuilt, the business was not as good as before. Mainly because of the time when Changxing Street was walking the water, many people in Lin'an who needed lacquer had to go to Hangzhou to buy it. After going there, they found that the lacquer shop in Hangzhou not only sold more things than the Yu’s shop. Also novel in style. Some wealthy people in Lin'an began to buy lacquerware in Hangzhou, and the merchants always made money from those wealthy people. Their shops were not as good as before.

After the Double Ninth Festival, the Pei family came to pick Yu Tang as a guest at the mansion. This time, Yu Tang was prepared. Not only did he bring a few silk flowers he made in the past few days, but also the sweet-scented osmanthus cake made by Chen's family.

This year’s newly-preserved sweet-scented osmanthus candy has a rich fragrance and a fresh taste. It is made into sweet-scented osmanthus cakes, like snow sprinkled with gold leaf, which makes people feel appetite.

Pei Laoan ate two yuan in a row, and Aunt Chen didn't dare to let Lao An eat it again: "Well, you can leave a few yuan for us to taste."

Lao An laughed and rewarded the rest of his snacks.

Yu Tang was very happy and said, "If you like it, I will bring it to you next time I come."

"The main reason is that the sweet-scented sweet-scented osmanthus is well done." Lao Anren praised, "This is also your mother's craft? It seems that her dessert is done well."

Yu Tang pursed his lips and smiled.

Aunt Ji looked at it and called out the tailor who had been waiting in Baosha to come in.

The tailor is a forty-year-old lady with two twenty-five and six-year-old ladies. The tailor was chubby, like a soft steamed bun, and his eyes were almost gone when he smiled. The two ladies are thin and silent, and the other is slender and alert.

When the three came in, they bowed to Lao An and Yu Tang.

Lao An asked Aunt Ji to help the tailor up. After receiving the gift of the two ladies, he pointed to Yu Tang and said to the tailor: "This is my niece, whose surname is Yu." He pointed to the tailor to Yu Tang. Said: "This is the lady boss of Jinlulou in Hangzhou City. Her husband's surname is Wang, so you can call Aunt Wang." As for the two ladies, Lao An pointed to them and didn't say how to call them. Obviously they don't remember them. 'S name again.

Aunt Wang said diligently and immediately: "These are my two apprentices, one of my husband’s surname is Li and the other is Zhou.

Yu Tang stepped forward to say hello.

Aunt Wang repeatedly said that she did not dare, but the two ladies turned sideways, not daring to accept her gift.

Lao An didn't care, and asked Aunt Wang: "I heard that you brought the new material from Suzhou this time. Bring me to see."

Aunt Wang immediately responded, and went with the two apprentices to bring in seven or eight pieces of fabric, and unfolded them one by one to Lao An and Yu Tang: "Look at this month's white bunch of flowers and hanging silk. In previous years, the weaving were not folded branches. The flower is the waterweed pattern. This year the eight treasures of the Buddha are produced. Because the silver thread is used, it looks like a piece of plain silk from a distance. But when you get closer, you can see this pattern... and This one, the dark green silk embroidered with small white chrysanthemums, is quiet and elegant, and it can’t be better to make a cover. This one, the azurite crane-headed Ganoderma lucidum tapestry, winter is here, just to make a cloak. I also brought some mink. Although the breed is good, it is not as elegant as Lao Anren’s mansion. It can be used as a cloak. For me, at most I will make a forehead. Fortunately, it is white and big and small. Can also be used..."

She babbled, the material is new or not, Yu Tang doesn't know, but the color of the material is either black-and-white or dark green. They are all wearable during the filial piety period, which shows that they have taken care of it.

Lao An said critically: "Didn't I tell you that I still have a niece here? Why are they all plain materials?"

Aunt Wang and Yu Tang were both taken aback.

The Lao An had already pulled the stone cyan crane-carrying Ganoderma lucidum tapestry material, disgustingly said: "This color is too old and mature. There is no weaving of four gentlemen or cherries, apricot and plum patterns?"

Aunt Wang responded quickly and hurriedly said: "Yes, yes, yes! I don't know Miss Yu's preferences for a while, didn't I dare to bring too many styles? I will let people go and get them. I can get them early tomorrow morning. To."

Lao An's mouth curled and said, "Wait for you, the day lily is cold. Chen, you took my key to open the storeroom, and choose some materials suitable for the little girl to pick for Miss Yu."

Auntie Chen responded with a smile.

Yu Tang took a breath.

This is no ordinary reward.

She just wanted to push, Lao An had already said: "I like to dress up little girls. Ji, you go and invite the eldest lady and some cousins, and you can make some clothes for one person."

Yu Tang could not refuse any more, thanked Lao An with a smile, and amused Lao An: "Thanks to you, I can wear clothes made by a master in Hangzhou City. I can also show off for the Chinese New Year this year. Up."

The old An Ren chuckled, waved his hand disapprovingly, called Yu Tang over, and discussed the style of the clothes: "I remember the 12 fashionable horse-faced skirts last year, are they still twelve this year?"

Aunt Wang smiled: "This year's fashionable Yuehua skirt is made into pleated skirts like a skirt, but it is spread out like a skirt. This summer, almost every woman in Hangzhou has one. Lao An, you She has a slender figure and she will look good when she wears it."

As she said, she showed Lao An with a skirt, but the corner of her eye looked at Yu Tang.

I don't know what relative of Lao An this Miss Yu is. She has made clothes for Lao An for seven or eight years, and she still sees this young lady for the first time. However, it looks really good! The relatives of Lao An's natal family are tall, this Miss Yu is neither tall nor short, not much like Lao An's relatives. But let Lao An help to make clothes, which shows that Lao An likes it quite a bit.

Thinking of this, she gave her apprentice Zhou Niangzi a wink and signaled her to pay attention to Yu Tang's preferences, and come again next time, so as to recommend fabrics and styles according to Yu Tang's preferences.

Lady Zhou nodded and set her eyes on Yu Tang.

Yu Tang didn't care, thinking that since it was a reward from Lao An, he didn't need to twitch. When Aunt Chen opened Lao'an's warehouse and brought a bunch of colorful materials over, she picked a piece of plain hang silk that was pale and almost washed white, and said with a smile: "This material is beautiful. "

Aunt Chen glanced at Yu Tang calmly, thinking in her heart, it's no wonder that the third master wants to look up at this Miss Yu. Although Lao An asked her to find some bright materials to make clothes for the ladies, she was still in the filial piety period of the old man. Even if she chooses, she shouldn't choose too bright fabrics, so she still took a few pieces of water and green. , Water blue plain fabric. Unexpectedly, this Miss Yu is also a caring person. Instead of picking the Shu brocade and Kesi, she picked this hang silk called Bishuiqing.

Lao An obviously noticed it too, and smiled: "The material is too veggie, it's not suitable for Chinese New Year. I think that pretty blue is good."