Xiang Keyu, oh, no, I should say Li Tingting, came to the Qing Dynasty six years ago.
The reason for time travel is very simple. On the night before the graduation ceremony, the sisters in the dormitory had a big party at the bar. She let go and got drunk. On the way back to the dormitory, she accidentally hit a telephone pole and woke up in the Qing Dynasty.
Her soul is worn in the body of Xiang Keyu, who is only ten years old.
At that time, Xiang Keyu had just been sold to the Liu family by Xiang's mother to work as a maid for Miss Liu San. Because she was young and weak, when she was serving the domineering Miss Liu San to wash herself, she accidentally spilled half a copper basin of water.
It also splashed Miss Liu San, so she was beaten twenty times. After she fainted, she was thrown into the woodshed. She had a high fever all night and had the core changed when she woke up.
Li Tingting majored in Japanese in college, and she often watched movies such as "18+". In her spare time, she also watched a few time-travel dramas to pass the time. Influenced by several self-proclaimed fujoshi sisters in her dormitory, she loved watching them most.
Handsome cool guy.
Therefore, when she first learned that she had traveled to the Qing Dynasty, and that it was still the Kangxi period, she couldn't help but be overjoyed. During the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, not counting Kangxi, there were more than ten or twenty handsome princes and elder brothers.
However, the next fact made her greatly frustrated. She didn't dress up as a princess, a lady, a queen, a concubine, as written in the book... she only dressed up as a little maid who was extremely unpopular.
Every day, I was either waiting for Miss Liu San to wash, change clothes, or make up, or I was forced to squat in a corner to sew handkerchiefs, purses, and clothes for Miss Liu San... There was no time to relax at all, let alone leaving the house to visit the beautiful lakes and mountains of Hangzhou in the Qing Dynasty.
Li Tingting couldn't stand it after only a few days, but there was nothing she could do.
It was helpless to learn that his nominal mother had sold him to the Liu family to earn money.
Xiang Keyu's father died early, and her mother was the only one responsible for the household expenses. She had to take care of the elder, while she had to raise the two younger ones.
The harvest in the fields was not good the year before. I almost didn’t even have enough to eat.
As there was no other way, Xiang's mother asked an acquaintance to sell the ten-year-old eldest Xiang Keyu to the Liu family for ten taels of silver and send her to the Liu family, the richest man in Hangzhou, as a maid to serve the young ladies. The eight-year-old second son Xiang Longyu
, stayed at home to help take care of the two elders.
After Li Tingting sorted out her family situation and her own background, she decided to make money to redeem her life. She worked as a maid for a arrogant and overbearing rich girl. How long would it take for her to get ahead? She had to get out of slavery first, and then go back and think of ways to make money.
good.
Based on her experience of shopping on the street every week during college, as long as she has money on hand, she is not afraid of not making a lot of money. Li Tingting is very confident about this.
So, when she overheard that the young cook in the big kitchen was worrying about making new snacks for her uncle to taste, she thought of the Cantonese snacks that would become famous in later generations.
Li Tingting's ancestral home is in Shenzhen, and she has eaten a lot of Cantonese-style and Hong Kong-style dim sum with unique tastes during the New Year and festivals, so she persuaded the chef to make a quite authentic abalone cake.
The eldest uncle of the Liu family is the master of the Hangzhou government office. He likes these snacks on weekdays. When he saw the unique taste and novel style of the abalone cake, he praised the cook very much.
It's a pity that the praise was given, but there was no reward. The cook didn't have it, so Li Tingting naturally couldn't get it.
This made her depressed for several days. She was originally thinking that rich families like to reward money when they are happy. It turns out that they are so stingy. No wonder she made an agreement with the cook to reward him with fifty-five cents. The other person looked weird.
The Liu family never rewards the expression and affection.
However, after thinking that the young cook secretly stuffed a big bag of Hangzhou specialty sesame and walnut cake for her, that was all. It was just a suggestion anyway, so she didn't suffer.
Later, every time my uncle came to visit, the cook would come and ask for her opinion, ranging from abalone cakes, to pineapple cakes, rice rolls, barbecued pork buns, crystal dumplings... Every time my uncle came, the cook would make a new snack.
For three consecutive years, the eldest uncles all came to visit Liu.
Five trips to the house. The last trip was on the New Year's Eve. The eldest son-in-law was happy for a moment and mentioned casually that Mr. Liu, out of respect for his face, sealed a big red envelope for the cook on the spot. There were twenty taels of silver in it. In addition, there were
Let him take the position of chef, which is considered a promotion.
The cook turned around and gave the ten taels of silver to Li Tingting, fulfilling the original agreement.
Li Tingting was naturally happy. She immediately redeemed her freedom and planned to go home and start a big career.
Unexpectedly, there are unpredictable winds and rains, and people have misfortune and good fortune. One of the two elders of the Xiang family passed away in the winter of the 27th year of Kangxi, and the other in the spring of the 28th year of the Kangxi period. They still owed a large sum of medical expenses.
For this reason, Li Tingting changed her name to Xiang Keyu from then on, so she and her sister Xiang Longyu had to work with Xiang's mother to try to pay off the debt.
I work as a female dressmaker during the day and embroider silk handkerchiefs at night. I have to get up early to work in the dark to catch up with the busy farming season. Not to mention that I can't create a career that can't be achieved by eight poles, and I don't even have enough to eat three meals a day.
Xiang Keyu wanted to take Xiang's mother and sister away, but she also thought that they were penniless and had nowhere to live. She had no choice but to make do with life and wait until things got better before making plans.
Unexpectedly, Xiang's mother contracted typhoid fever in the 29th winter of Kangxi. She was afraid of spending money and refused to take medicine. After all, she could not survive the winter and died of the disease. Before she died, she asked the two sisters to go to Beijing to find their uncle to take her in.
After the sisters buried their mother and sold their house to pay off their debts, they took the remaining two and a half pieces of silver and frugally spent all the way. It took them two full months to arrive in the capital from Hangzhou.
The moment she stepped into the majestic gate of the capital, Xiang Keyu suddenly had an intuition that all the previous hardships were God's tests for her, and now was the beginning of her glorious life in the Qing Dynasty.
This is the foot of the emperor, the center of the royal family. As long as you become famous, you are not afraid of not being able to see those royal nobles.
Counting the time, it is only the 30th year of Emperor Kangxi's reign, and the fourth prince is still a teenager. Even if she is not a lady of the Eight Banners and cannot be the legitimate wife and concubine of the fourth prince, with her modern soul, she is not afraid of being attracted.
The hearts of those handsome men from the Qing Dynasty. She could almost see the beautiful scene in the near future when she would be gently embraced by Emperor Yongzheng and pampered...
Thinking like this, Xiang Keyu walked faster and faster, getting more and more excited as he walked, and even forgot about Xiang Longyu. When he found out, his girl had disappeared in the vast sea of people.
She had no choice but to find her uncle's house in the west district of Beijing, and then her uncle sent people out to search for Xiang Longyu.
Xiang Keyu's mother's maiden family was originally from Shanxi. Seventeen years ago, she learned that her parents wanted to marry her to a local rich man over fifty years old as a ninth concubine. She became cruel and followed a southerner.
The young salesman who arrived fled the village.
That salesman was Xiang Keyu and Xiang Longyu's father. At first, the couple and the two elders of the Xiang family had a good life. But the good times did not last long. When Xiang Keyu was three years old, when Xiang's father was purchasing goods in Suzhou,
He was run over to death by a local carriage, and he didn't even know who the perpetrator was.
The two elders of the Xiang family were hit hard by this, and became bedridden and turned into medicine pots. As a result, the Xiang family plummeted and fell into a barren life.
As for Xiang's mother's family, because the little daughter was disobedient, they had already kicked her out and no longer recognized her. However, her younger brother, after the family moved to the capital and life became better, wrote a letter from home and invited her to visit relatives in Beijing.
.
This was the scene where he entrusted himself to his mother before her death.
Xiang Keyu's brother-in-law started his business by selling local specialties from Shanxi. His family's financial situation is pretty good. At least the family lives in a large courtyard with an area of one acre. They also have a servant to clean the yard and a cook to take care of the three meals a day for the family of six.
My life was pretty good, but now I had two more mouths, the Keyu sisters, which added to the burden for no reason. Although my uncle didn't care, my aunt had some objections.
The two argued several times, and Xiang Keyu overheard them. So, she thought about going out for a walk to see if there was any business. Let her continue to embroider and mend with needle and thread all day long, which was really good.
It's too much to bear.
But what she didn't expect was that the tea cakes and cakes sold at Xiteng Teahouse, which was well-received in the capital, actually included several Hong Kong-style dim sums that she had told the chef.
It was obviously a dim sum that I came up with, and it was selling like crazy, but I was in such a miserable state, I really couldn’t accept it!
So, there was the opening scene.
Xiang Keyu believed that she had come up with these snacks. If it was really the tea house opened by the cook, after her shouting, the cook would be flustered, and he might actually give herself dozens or even hundreds of taels of silver as a recipe transfer fee.
If the owner of this teahouse is not the cook, but bought it from the cook, then she must find out where the cook is now. No matter what, she cannot let him get a free advantage. At least it must be 50-50.
Unexpectedly, Jinxi sent her out of the teahouse with just a few thousand pounds, and waved goodbye with a smile, but she couldn't break up with her yet.
Manqing Princess, if she can't get back the money for the formula, she can stay with this elegant-looking Princess and be a manager. Maybe she can use her to meet those elegant and well-off people in the future.
The prince's elder brother...
Thinking of this, Xiang Keyu quickly changed his battle plan. He no longer stared at the snacks, but focused on Jinxi.
After returning to her uncle's house, she looked around and inquired about Xiteng Tea House and its owner.
This inquiry is incredible. Jinxi is the direct descendant of Fei Yanggu, the second-rank general of the current dynasty. Jinxi is the direct descendant of the other shops opened by Jinxi. Jinxi is the prospective direct descendant of Fujin who was appointed by the current emperor to be married to the fourth prince... This information makes Xiang
Keyu was excited and jealous at the same time.
What is exciting is that she was so lucky that she met the future wife of Si Age and the future empress of Emperor Yongzheng.
Naturally, she was jealous of why she didn't wear it on this Princess. If she had worn it on this Princess, she believed that with her ability and charm, she would definitely make Si Age dote on her. She would never do it.
No matter what kind of concubine you take...
However, at this point, she had no choice but to lament. After lamenting for a while, she made up her mind to make good friends with Jinxi no matter what, and use him to successfully climb the big tree of Si Age...
Based on her experience of watching a lot of porn classics, she doesn’t believe she can beat a mere ancient person... (To be continued)