Li Xiaonan followed Gu Yan and watched the two weaving workshops of brocade and jacquard muslin in stunned silence. She asked Doctor Zhou a lot of questions and was satisfied.
"What time is it?" Gu Yan looked bored and asked casually.
"At three o'clock in the afternoon." Shi Gun hurriedly leaned forward to answer.
"It's time to eat, what do you want to eat?" Gu Yan turned around and asked Li Xiaonan.
Li Xiaonan was stunned when asked by Gu Yan, and then said: "I'll go home to eat. Sister Mei should prepare the meal."
"It takes half an hour to get to your house from here!" Gu Yan glanced at Li Xiaonan with disgust, looked at Doctor Zhou, frowned and asked: "Are there any famous restaurants nearby? Oh, by the way!"
Gu Yan slapped his folding fan into the palm of his hand.
"I've long heard that the food you make at Pingjiang Weaving is excellent. I just want to try it. Which kitchen is closest here?" Gu Yan looked very interested.
"Three kitchens, the prince should go to the small kitchen..." Zhou Langzhong said bitterly.
The prince is going to have lunch at their weaving department, why didn’t you tell him earlier!
Now at the third quarter of the afternoon, the food is being brought out from all the kitchens. There are seventeen kitchens in their weaving department. Which kitchen can serve the food in front of the prince?
The legend is excellent, the meals are purchased and prepared a day, two days, or even a month or two in advance!
This prince’s willfulness is truly genuine, not a trace of falsehood!
"Let's go to the third kitchen?" Gu Yan seemed not to have heard Zhou Langzhong's suggestion, looked at Li Xiaonan and said with a smile.
Li Xiaonan nodded repeatedly.
The weaving workshop was as spacious and tall as the large factories of later generations, and the astonishing jacquard looms were comparable to the assembly operations of later generations. She was full of expectations for the canteen of the Weaving Department.
Li Xiaonan nodded, and Gu Yan raised his feet and walked out.
Zhou Langzhong had no choice but to follow behind, struggling and trying his best. "Your Majesty, there are many people in the third kitchen, so I'd better go to the small kitchen, Your Majesty..."
The prince, Gu Yanli, ignored Zhou Langzhong and followed the leader who led the way, straight to the third kitchen.
After a few dozen steps, the strong smell of boiled cabbage hit my face.
Gu Yan frowned. Li Xiaonan sniffed, turned to look at Wan Qing, and said with a smile: "It smells of smoked fish, can you smell it?"
Wan Qing lowered her eyebrows and lowered her eyes, pretending not to hear.
"Your Majesty, you'd better go to the kitchen..." Langzhong Zhou was still making his last effort.
The third kitchen is large and lively. Weaver girls sit in groups at the long table, holding big bowls, talking and laughing as they eat.
Gu Yan went straight to the big table where the meals were distributed.
The large table is filled with large porcelain bowls, and there are three large buckets next to it. One bucket contains slightly black and yellowish brown rice, one bucket contains boiled cabbage, and the other bucket contains large pieces of smoked fish.
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The weaver girls took the bowls and took a piece of rice, a spoonful of cabbage, and two pieces of smoked fish in turn.
Seeing the splendid clothes and the extraordinary bearing, Gu Yan rushed over, followed by Dr. Zhou, the manager of their weaving department. The stout women who were handing out meals were so frightened that they were as stunned as puppets.
Gu Yan looked at the rice carefully and smelled the cabbage. He couldn't bear it anymore and took half a step back.
Li Xiaonan stretched her neck, looked at the large bucket of smoked fish, and sniffed.
This smoked fish is so delicious!
Gu Yan had already stood in front of the boiled cabbage, and there was no room for saving. Zhou Lang's heart suddenly turned, but he calmed down and said with a smile: "Master, do you want to... try it?"
"Smoked fish must be in such a big vat to be delicious. Do you want to try it?" Li Xiaonan turned to ask Wan Qing.
She is a little hungry, the smoked fish is so fragrant!
Wan Qing lowered her eyebrows and lowered her eyes, turning a deaf ear.
Gu Yan turned his head and looked at Li Xiaonan. After a moment, he stretched out his folding fan and asked her to go out, "Go and have a look in their small kitchen."
"That smoked fish!" Li Xiaonan looked back at the bucket of smoked fish.
She hasn’t eaten smoked fish from the cafeteria in years!
Gu Yan firmly pushed Li Xiaonan out.
Shi Gun winked at the boy next to him, who immediately took a step behind, grabbed Langzhong Zhou, and pointed at the smoked fish. Langzhong understood, hurried over, and quietly ordered his mother-in-law to load a large bowl of smoked fish and bring it to the front. Li Xiaonan followed Gu Yan to visit the weaving workshop, and asked all the questions she could think of. Then she ate a small meal from the Weaving Department. When she got off the car at the entrance of Cailian Lane, Shi Gun secretly gave her a large bag wrapped in a bag.
A small bowl of smoked fish makes me satisfied for the day.
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Gu Yan dismounted at the gate of Bieye, and Wang Gui rushed out from the concierge to greet him.
"What happened?" Gu Yan asked as he walked inside.
Yesterday around Haizheng, one of Yao Wu's brothers rushed to Bieye on horseback, covered in hot sweat, and asked the prince to go to Linhai Town immediately, saying that something big had happened.
Gu Yan didn't see him and asked Wang Gui to follow him to Linhai Town.
"The day before yesterday, Yao Wu and the others took over the job of unloading goods for a fleet. They were all silk. Yao Wu found that the quantity of silk they unloaded did not match the bill of goods issued by the Hangzhou Weaving Department. Yao Wu said that he had made an estimate.
, the silk on the ship was hundreds of thousands of silver more than the cargo bill.
"Yao Wu found an excuse to delay the unloading, let people look at the silk, and immediately sent someone over to report the news." Wang Gui lowered his hands and replied
Although he is not very clear about the purpose of his prince putting Yao Wu and others in Linhai Town, it is definitely inappropriate for Yao Wu to stop these silks so abruptly and send people to report the news.
Gu Yan suddenly stopped, looked at Wang Gui, opened his mouth, but couldn't speak, only sighed heavily.
With hundreds of thousands of silver, this Yao Wu was fished out of the water!
This idiot!
Gu Yan stopped, took a few deep breaths and exhaled slowly.
Yao Wu can't be blamed entirely, it's because he was careless again. Ah Nan Nizi can drool over the bucket of sweaty and soiled smoked fish. How can Yao Wu, a poor escort, be any better? p>
There are hundreds of thousands of silver!
Now we can only resort to tricks and act like we have never seen the world before.
"Go to Linhai Town." Gu Yan ordered, turned around and walked out.
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When people are quiet, in the small stone courtyard next to the Taxation Department in Linhai Town.
There was only one oil lamp on in the main room. He Chengze, the head of He Ji Laohao, sat cross-legged under the oil lamp, facing the account book and slowly turning the abacus beads to calculate the accounts.
A rush of footsteps came to the door, the curtain was lifted, and He Ruiming called daddy and entered the house.
"Gone?" He Chengze closed the ledger.
"I just left." He Ruiming sat down opposite his father He Chengze. "He lost his temper and said that he would be dealt with strictly. He also said that he was going to Hangzhou to inspect the Hangzhou Weaving Department and rewarded Yao Wu with one hundred taels of silver." He Chengze frowned, and for a moment, he sighed deeply.
"Daddy?" He Ruiming looked at his father, hesitated, and asked, "What do you want to see, daddy?"
"I want to see the magnanimity of our little master, ugh." He Chengze sighed again.
He Ruiming frowned and looked confused, "Isn't this bad? The prince is not a scheming person. Isn't it good that we can understand him?"
He Chengze gave a vague hum, lost consciousness for a while, sighed again, and ordered a little tiredly: "Go and pick out a few jars of good wine, seal fifty taels of silver, and send it to that Awu." p>
"Okay." He Ruiming stood up, took two steps back, stopped, looked at his father, and said with concern: "Dad, are you okay?"
"It's okay, you can go ahead." He Chengze said slowly.
