Chapter 809: Chapter 809: Could it be Imperial Kinsfolk? Chapter 809: Chapter 809: Could it be Imperial Kinsfolk? During her menstruation, knowing she was deficient in qi and blood, Su Yunjin was very careful to nurture her body. Su Yunjin possessed medical knowledge and knew which medicines she should take to recuperate.
Su Yunjin had prepared some herbs and needed to take them every day, thrice a day. One evening, while she was decocting medicine in the kitchen, Mrs. Chu and her group arrived, bringing steamed buns with them.
Su Yunjin asked Gu Ya to accept the steamed buns, then fetched some candied fruit she had prepared early in the morning to give to them. “Younger sister, these are just some candied fruit I made when I had nothing else to do; take them back and share them with father and mother, half for each.”
Mrs. Chu looked at Su Yunjin with surprise.
“Third sister-in-law, you can actually make candied fruit?” Candied fruit in town was not cheap, and no one in the village had ever made such a thing. Unexpectedly, Mrs. Chu could not have imagined Su Yunjin would know how to make candied fruit.
Su Yunjin could make candied fruit. But it was something she had learned to make in modern times. Fearful that Mrs. Chu would inquire too much, Su Yunjin made an excuse on the spot, “Younger sister, I’m just fumbling around with it; I don’t even know if you’ll like it or not!”
Mrs. Chu had tasted the food prepared by Su Yunjin, and had also drunk the fruit wine brewed by her. Anything made by her third sister-in-law had never failed to be delicious.
In fact, the techniques she now used to sell steamed buns at the market were all taught to her by Su Yunjin, so she had no doubt that the candied fruit made by her would be tasty.
“Third sister-in-law, since you made these candied fruit, I’m sure they will taste good,” Mrs. Chu said, lips pursed in a smile.
Gladly accepting the candied fruit, she left.
Medicine was still simmering on the stove. Su Yunjin lifted the lid of the medicine pot to check on it; the heat was just about right. To avoid burning her hands, she found a cloth to hold the pot by its sides.
Su Yunjin picked up the medicine pot.
She then found a clean bowl and poured the medicine from the pot into it. Gu Ya sent off Mrs. Chu and his younger brother Gu Jianghai. When he came back, he saw his little wife pouring medicine into a bowl.
Hearing his little wife say this medicine was for nourishing her body, Gu Ya smelled the bitter scent of the medicine. With several jars of the little wife’s homemade candied fruit in the room, Gu Ya knew which ones tasted sweet and fragrant. Without waiting for his little wife to ask, Gu Ya took a bit of each type of the candied fruit she had made.
“Yunjin, the candied fruit is here. After you finish your medicine, you can use this to sweeten your mouth,” Gu Ya put the items in front of his little wife, and Su Yunjin gulped down the medicine in her mouth.
The candied fruit Gu Ya brought over came just in time.
Su Yunjin took a piece and ate it.
The bitterness in her mouth was immediately gone.
For the last few days, Gu Ya had been taking care of the business in the shop. Su Yunjin had her period and was resting in the backyard. Then she got busy with brewing fruit wine and had no time to manage the business in the front shop.
In the meantime, Wu Xinxin had gone to find Gu Ya twice, and both times had been sent away by him. After two unsuccessful attempts, Wu Xinxin, less enthusiastic, went back to hang around with her older male cousin Zheng Yuan.
After eating two pieces of candied fruit, Su Yunjin asked Gu Ya, “Husband, how has the business in the shop been these past few days?” She didn’t really need to ask; Su Yunjin could guess.
Definitely, business at the shop was still lukewarm.
Speaking of business.
Gu Ya suddenly remembered something.
“Yunjin, I forgot to tell you, today a man came to our shop and ordered fifty jars of fruit wine in one go. He asked us to deliver them to his residence tomorrow.”
If a tavern had ordered fifty jars of wine, Su Yunjin would not have found it strange. But it was peculiar for a private household to order so much wine.
“Husband, who is it that wants so much wine at once?” The wine at their shop wasn’t cheap; fifty jars would cost several hundred silver.
What average family could afford such a large sum?
Su Yunjin continued to pop candied fruit into her mouth as she inquired with Gu Ya.
“The Qi Residence.” When his little wife asked, Gu Ya handed over the order that man had given him today.
Su Yunjin saw the two large characters on the order.
If her memory served her right, the Qi surname belonged to royal and noble families.
Could it be that the person who ordered her fruit wine was from the royalty or nobility?