Mrs. Lan made a table of breakfast, a pot of red bean porridge boiled to a rotten and soft consistency.
Just tasted the first bite, Aily’s stubborn face immediately eased down, and honestly reconciled with Mrs. Lan, after all, the people are food for the day, living here, the future meals have to count on Mrs. Lan.
“My name is Aily, and I was picked up by Sister Amelia from Yunnan.”
Sister Lan is a good-tempered person, naturally she will not bother with children, “Just call me Sister Lan, in the future we all live under one roof, we all get along well.”
“Well, Mrs. Lan, I want another bowl of congee.”
“Okay, I’ll go serve it to you.”
“I’ll just go by myself, where’s the kitchen?”
Aily took the bowl and ran in a flash in the direction pointed by Mrs. Lan.
“This girl, furtive.”
Sister Lan smiled, “I’ll go check it out, don’t fail to find it.”
“Sister Lan, wait a minute,”
Amelia Bright looked at the large, fragrant basket of eggplant boxes piled on the tabletop and asked, “Are there any more eggplant boxes in the kitchen?”
“Yes, there are many, what’s wrong ma’am?”
“Send some over next door later, there’s a new neighbor next door.”
“Yes,” remembering this, Emily Guan immediately took over, “When you send it over there, by the way, remind them that they should not do any decoration at night, that we have a baby here.”
“Hey, okay, I’ll send it over right now.”
Sister Lan wiped her hands on her apron and walked straight towards the kitchen.
Bohdi Olson asked.
“Is there a new neighbor next door?”
“Well,” Amelia Bright nodded, “or so Emily told me.”
“Yes, I woke up early in the morning and heard the sound of things being moved next door, and recently there have been a particularly large number of people coming to open inns on this side of Miyun.”
At that, Bohdi Olson frowned and
“There are more people coming to drive, and this town doesn’t have the same feeling as before.”
“No.”
All three are a little worried.
Amelia Bright, in particular, spent all her summers here as a child, so she has a special affinity for the town of Miyun.
“The local people in town want to get out, so when someone comes to buy a house to rent, they are quite happy to do so, and very few people consider that their house is old and has historical value.”
Bohdi Olson nods.
“It can’t be helped, the people of Miyun Town rely on the mountains to eat mountains and water to eat water, so many temptations outside these years, who want to go out and see, the town can’t keep people.”
“So I want to run a jewelry design course in town, combine the characteristics here, and teach a new group of designers who have a completely different philosophy in jewelry than those outside.”
“Training designers, that’s not something you can do in a day or two, is it?” Emily Guan’s tone was a bit stunned.
“Of course, a good designer, without more than ten years of refinement, it is impossible to have even a complete design concept, this thing just do it slowly.”
“I think it’s good,” Bohdi Olson took over, “one has to have something to do that one can work for a long time, it’s not like investing in a business.”
Amelia Bright is not just talking about setting up jewelry design classes, the qualification of the course has been done, the backyard house are also in the renovation when the public, the rest is the problem of enrollment.
As the discussion was going on, the voice of Mrs. Lan came from the courtyard.
“Ma’am, Miss Guan, Master Bohdi Olson, this is a gift back from the neighbor next door.”
“Isn’t this the dim sum from Lai Fu Xuan?” Emily Guan looked at the dim sum box brought back by sister-in-law Lan and looked surprised, “Are the neighbors from Hounslow?”
Mrs. Lan nodded her head.
“I did not see the neighboring proprietor, only a servant-like man, listening to the accent is Hounslow people, said to open the inn, but the boss is usually very busy not often come.”
At that, Emily Guan nodded thoughtfully and directly opened the box of snacks, took a piece of mung bean cake and tasted it, nodded with satisfaction.
“Try it, it’s really delicious, Amelia, don’t you like Lai Fu Xuan’s dim sum the most.”
Amelia Bright grew up in Hounslow, a century-old store specializing in dim sum, and the queue at the door was as long as a long line every day, and you couldn’t get it anywhere else but Hounslow.
She tasted a piece of pea yellow snack and her eyes immediately lit up.
“It’s really authentic Lai Fu Xuan dim sum.”
“Absolutely authentic, I just ate two days ago, this is the taste,” Emily Guan eat happy, as if they have forgotten the morning still dislike people engaged in renovation things.
“It seems that this new neighbor is quite sophisticated in terms of food, so we can come and go often in the future.”
Amelia Bright, however, did not say anything, and looked at the box of snacks with a somewhat complicated gaze.
What a coincidence! This box of snacks is all of your favorite kinds, and even the two that most people don’t like to eat happen to be right in there.
A naive thought flashed through her mind, but it was only a second before she rejected it.
How is it possible?
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Half a month later, Little Ann turned a month old, and the renovation of the jewelry design class Amelia Bright opened at the Cheng residence was completed and officially put into enrollment promotion.
Because the enrollment is only for the children of Miyun town, so only a sign was set up at the entrance of the Cheng House, and then asked the mayor to help broadcast a little to inform the town’s population of the enrollment of the Cheng House.
The publicity is also considered in place, but the response is mediocre.
“It’s been a morning and not a single person has come to register.”
Bohdi Olson and Emily Guan were sitting in the courtyard of the Cheng house, the gate was open, and they could see very openly the people coming and going outside, and there were also many people looking at their admissions promotion, but no one came in.
“Why?” Emily Guan looked puzzled and
“These children are rarely in high school after junior high school, most of them go out to work to earn money, is it better to learn this craft than to go out to work?”
The two of them were talking, Aily just came out to take out the garbage and passed by, sniffed at them and looked at them.
“You guys are just standing around talking, the family can’t even afford to go to school, how can they let the girls to learn what craft, must be sent out to work early, if the family has a brother, the money earned have to send back to save for the brother’s wedding.”
After saying that, Aily carried the garbage out the door.
Emily Guan and Bohdi Olson were left frozen, and the two looked at each other in enlightenment.
Although Miyun is a suburb of Hounslow, but here the relative development is still very backward, to come here to the inn are foreigners, the local people actually live quite hard, patriarchal thinking is indeed a lot.
Over lunch, the two told Amelia Bright about the incident.
“I didn’t think it through,” Amelia Bright frowned, “and if it’s true that patriarchy doesn’t want a good place for girls, then it’s a difficult thing to do.”
“What age is this, why is Miyun still like this?” Emily Guan couldn’t help but spit out, “It’s not like we can go knocking on doors one by one to reason with them.”
“Did Aily tell you guys about this problem?” Amelia Bright suddenly asked.
“Hmm.” Bohdi Olson nodded and looked at Aily, “This girl is usually furtive, but this is quite a reasonable analysis.”
Aily gave him a blank look, “It’s obvious that you guys don’t know the hardships of the world.”
As they tussled, Amelia Bright suddenly thought of something and asked Aily
“Is there anyone who speaks that the town would absolutely listen to?”