After breakfast, Qiao Lan asked Ye Feitian to move out the more than thirty pieces of jade and solve the stones in public. There are few people who know that she is "not one out of ten" in Puxian County, Ye Feitian thinks about her face, and retreats from the people who want to see the excitement, leaving only a few to work.

The tools are relatively crude, just a few files, and the surface layer has to be sharpened off little by little, revealing the stone inside.

Chen Yueya also came over to join in the fun, Qiao Lan asked her to choose two from a pile of stones, and if she had good material, she would play with her. The little girl chose two pieces with great interest, and when they came out, there was really a small piece of jade the size of a finger, which made the little girl smile.

Whether these stones can be produced well, Qiao Lan is clear in her heart, but she is silent, and whenever there are waste stones, she appropriately shows a disappointed look.

When a fist-sized piece of jade opened, there were exclamations one after another, and some people secretly relaxed their tense spirits, it doesn't matter if they can make good materials, what matters is Qiao Lan's mood.

Finally, Qi Xiang was also among the people who breathed a sigh of relief, and when he said it, he just didn't want to see emotions such as frustration, sadness, and disappointment on Qiao Lan's face.

After that, three pieces of jade were opened one after another, although the head and size were not as good as the previous jadeite, but they were also harvested. A few pieces of jade were carefully packed up for the right opportunity to be carved into a vessel.

Qiao Lan is happy, and others are happy.

After Xie Shi said goodbye for a while, Qiao Lan returned to the study and followed her step by step, Feng Qixiang, who had made up his mind to spend in Qiao's house.

"Brother Feng is not going back to Taozhuang?" Qiao Lan stood directly on the threshold and turned around. can barely be at eye level with Feng Qixiang. Feng Qixiang replied seriously. "I have some things to discuss with you. ”

Entering the study, Qiao Lan put on a posture, ready to talk about business. Feng Qixiang really wanted to talk to Qiao Lan about business, but ......

"In the rice field on my big Zhuangzi, there are not enough fish fry, does Brother Qiao have a good idea?" The expression on Feng Qixiang's face was too serious, and Qiao Lan didn't suspect that he was looking for trouble, but this person really didn't look like a person who would care about farming.

Qiao Lan patiently told Feng Qixiang about going elsewhere to find fish fry, and finally solved it. He asked about breeding again. In short, he is like a studious and motivated student, who is tirelessly asking Qiao Lan for advice.

"Brother Feng is really interested in these?"

"Why not? My big Zhuangzi is going to follow Qiaodi's west bank, and I am the owner. It's always bad to have a black eye. ”

"You're good. ”

Touched by Feng Qixiang's attitude. Qiao Lan really explained to him in detail about early breeding and rice and fish farming. Feng Qixiang kept nodding. I don't know if I really understand, or if I don't know how to pretend to understand.

The conversation between the two tends to be flat, gentle and smooth. It looks surprisingly harmonious. At this time, Yu Da, who went out early in the morning, came back, and when he entered the study, he was still holding a porcelain-white jar in his arms. "Master, this is the wine you want. ”

"I'll take a look!" Qiao Lan got up and stepped forward to open the wine jar in Yu Dana's arms, and the rich aroma of wine wafted out with the fragrance of medicine, it was the ginseng antler wolfberry wine that Qiao Lan used to mix with spiritual spring water into two small pots for Ye Feitian and Yu Dana to recuperate.

The last time I bought it was only liquor, but this time, the jar contains whole ginseng, sliced deer antler velvet and a small amount of goji berries, as well as some unknown medicinal herbs. This jar of wine was bought by Yu Dana with the favor owed to him by Dr. Jin, and it cost a thousand taels of silver, which is really not cheap.

Feng Qixiang also leaned over curiously, "This is ...... Medicinal wine?"

"Tongjitang's ginseng, deer antler and wolfberry wine. ”

"Ginseng...... Velvet...... Chinese wolfberry...... Isn't it?!" The look on Feng Qixiang's face instantly became strange. Qiao Lan raised her head to meet Feng Qixiang's strange eyes, and said calmly, "Good things to nourish the kidneys, aphrodisiac, and nourish yin, Brother Feng wants to drink two cups?"

"No need!" Feng Qixiang decisively refused, and at the same time took half a step back, as if this jar of wine was a flood beast. The corners of Qiao Lan's mouth hooked up, and she patted Feng Qixiang's shoulder with her hand, looking like I'm gone, I'm gone, "Hehe, too!"

Being laughed at by her like this, Feng Qixiang became more and more uncomfortable, and became angry, "You are young, what are you doing with this medicine and wine?"

"Wine, what else can you do besides drinking?" Qiao Lan looked at Feng Qixiang with curious and innocent eyes, the latter choked, thinking about it or not, he hurriedly persuaded him, "Brother Qiao, listen to your brother, you are still young, but you must not drink this." ”

"Why?" Qiao Lan naturally knew what Feng Qixiang meant, but she wanted to tease him with her bad taste. "It's just nourishing the body, not spring ......"

"Master!" Yu Dana suddenly said Qiao Lan's words, and gestured to the table on the side, "Can you put this wine here?"

"Uh......" Qiao Lan curled her head and suppressed her playfulness, "just put it there." What did Dr. Kim say?"

Yu Dana put the wine jar on the table and stood aside with low eyebrows, "Doctor Jin said that the recipe of this medicinal wine has been handed down by the ancestors, and it has not been changed at all. ”

"It's good that there's no harm. "As long as the medicinal properties are not compatible, everything is easy to do, I don't believe it, adding fire lingzhi and spiritual spring water, this medicinal wine can still be mortal.

Feng Qixiang guessed the matter from the three or two sentences of the master and servant and his understanding of Qiao Lan, "Brother Qiao, there are already so many medicinal materials in it, do you want to add a flavor?"

"Brother Feng has an opinion?"

"No, no. Feng Qixiang said that he had no opinion, however, when he saw Qiao Lan take out a dark red Ganoderma lucidum, he suddenly had a feeling of spoiling something good, "Brother Qiao, using such a Lingzhi to make wine is really a ruin of heaven." ”

"I have a hunch that this wine will be worth ten thousand gold in the future. Qiao Lan said exaggeratedly. The fire lingzhi had already been washed and drained with spiritual spring water, and she directly put it into the wine jar and soaked it with many medicinal herbs.

If you want to say why Qiao Lan wants to implement it in front of Feng Qixiang, she has to let this jar of wine pass through Feng Qixiang's eyes, so that she can operate it in the future. Since he regards Feng Qixiang as his own, if the spiritual spring can completely heal his damaged meridians. Naturally, she wanted to find a way to help him without revealing herself.

The wine jar was temporarily placed in the inner room of the study, and when there was no one around, Qiao Lan used her spiritual power to take things out of the air, extract half of the wine, and then mix it with ordinary spiritual spring water, and the divine wine in her mind was considered to be completed

Pepper seedlings on the west bank are growing day by day and will soon be ready to be transplanted into the fields. Zhao landlord is a well-informed person, although every time he enters the west bank, his movement is restricted. But he can also guess an approximate one. No, he actually bought pepper seeds from Qiao Lan when he hadn't seen a single pepper seed and a pepper seedling, and the price was random for Qiao Lan.

On the bright moon platform. Qiao Lan took a sip of tea quietly. "Why does Master Zhao want to grow peppers?"

Landlord Zhao didn't want to fight with Qiao Lan. And he went straight to the point, "Brother Qiao, Ming people don't say dark words." The value of this pepper is beyond your understanding. The so-called, it is better to be happy alone than to be happy, Brother Qiao eats meat, and I want to share a piece of the pie to taste, brother" Zhao landlord is more than two rounds older than Qiao Lan, but there is an old brother on the left and an old brother on the right, which has turned the relationship between the two into a year-old friend.

"Master Zhao can speak well, but I don't have many seeds to sell to you. ”

Listening to Qiao Lan's tone, there was a sense of relaxation, and Landlord Zhao was overjoyed, "It's all about how much." My brother has never planted it, and he is not sure if he has planted too much. ”

"I'm not satisfied with you for saying that I have returned the extra pepper seeds to Tang Wenqiang of the Tang family with my monthly money, why don't you go and ask him for some?"

"Ah?!" Landlord Zhao exclaimed, he had asked Tang Wenqiang to find some pepper seeds last year, and asked a few times to no avail, so he didn't ask again, but he didn't expect this kid to return the seeds for nothing, but why didn't he carry these seeds himself, or hide or sell, it is all good. Landlord Zhao felt that Qiao Lan was stupid, but it was too late for him to thank him for being stupid, "Brother Qiao is really righteous." ”

"Just drink water and think about the source. ”

Landlord Zhao hurried back to Lishan County to find Tang Wenqiang to buy pepper seeds, and hurriedly said goodbye.

In the afternoon of this day, someone from the west bank came to visit again, it was Zhong Yunjiao, the second shopkeeper of Taoyuan Restaurant in Beijing.

Last year, he brought more than 100 jars of sauce back to the capital, because the amount is really scarce, can only go according to the original buying strategy, many guests come to visit, just to taste the delicious sauce, the shopkeeper of Taoyuan Restaurant is really sad and happy, happy is that the source of customers is like weaving, sad is that in less than two months, the more than 100 jars of sauce will be sold out, more diners come with excitement, and return with a disappointed mood.

Qiao Lan said that the pepper has to wait for spring ploughing and sowing, Zhong Yunjiao came over in this spring ploughing season, and also brought the deed personally formulated by Huang Yuanchun, the big shopkeeper of Taoyuan Restaurant, to buy all the sauces produced by Qiao's family, one tael per jar of green and spicy sauce, three taels per jar of spicy sauce, and five taels per jar of spicy sauce. Dried spicy fish also drew up another piece of deed paper, three taels of silver a catty. The deed paper is changed every two years.

Qiao Lan happily signed the pledge. In this way, production and marketing are done. As soon as she was happy, she set up a banquet to entertain Zhong Yunjiao, and then Feng Qixiang, a fishy cat, came to the door with clothes and clothes.

Feng Qixiang gave full play to his advantages of being in the elite circle of the capital for more than ten years, and had a good conversation with Zhong Yunjiao. In this way, Qiao Lan couldn't interject. However, she was not idle, and heard the words of the two of them word by word, in order to learn more about the circle in the capital, so as to save one day when she met another "Zhang Qian" and "Li Qian" without knowing it.

Speaking of delicious food, Zhong Yunjiao changed his words and talked about a new dish recently launched by Taoyuan Restaurant, "Although the name is boiled fish fillet, it is not simply boiled fish fillet, which is very particular. If you go to the capital another day, I will definitely do the east and invite you to taste it. ”

Qiao Lan and Feng Qixiang glanced at each other, and both of them had doubts in their eyes. Feng Qixiang asked on behalf of Qiao Lan, "I don't know what is surprising about this boiled fish fillet that makes you so obsessed." ”

"Spicy and fragrant, with an endless aftertaste, it can be called a must. ”

"Is the secret recipe from the Fang family?"

Zhong Yunjiao was stunned, he didn't expect Feng Qixiang to know about this private matter, "How did Young Master Feng know that the secret recipe came from the Fang family?"

"Not only do I know that the 'boiled fish fillet' comes from the Fang family, but I also know where the Fang family got this secret recipe. ”

"That secret recipe isn't the Fang family's ancestor?"

Shopkeeper Zhong said with a smile, the Fang family has been running a restaurant for not twenty years but ten years, why not have any secret recipes until now. Feng Qixiang smiled coldly, "I don't know what the reason is, the Fang family actually gave the secret recipe to Taoyuan Restaurant? ”

"There's nothing inconvenient about it. Something happened to the Fang family's restaurant in the capital, and they wanted our master to take action. We are not short of silver or beauty, so the Fang family gave this secret recipe. ”

"Was it given by Fang Dingkuang, the young master of the Fang family?"

"No, at that time, the young master of the Fang family was busy getting married, and Fang Zi was personally sent by Fang Yunchang, the master of the Fang family. ”

Feng Qixiang secretly glanced at Qiao Lan next to him and found that her face was as usual, as if this matter had nothing to do with her. Qiao Lan really felt that this matter had nothing to do with herself, the secret recipe was given to Fang Dingkuang, and how to use it was his business, but there was one thing she was a little puzzled about.

"I want to know, is your boiled fish fillet spicy from dogwood?" Qiao Lan asked, although she already had the answer in her heart, she always had to ask. Zhong Yunjiao looked at Qiao Lan in surprise, "Could it be that this secret recipe comes from the Qiao family?"

"Yes and no, everything in the world is flexible, how can I be sure that your boiled fish fillet is the boiled fish fillet I once ate. Just from the fact that you can serve boiled fish fillet right now, it's not the same as the boiled fish fillet that I know. ”

Zhong Yunjiao was stunned by Qiao Lan's words, "What's the explanation?"

"I don't know! If I know in the future, I'll tell you. Qiao Lan didn't know in what form this recipe was revealed from the Fang family to the Taoyuan Restaurant, whether it was Fang Dingkuang who kept a hand or his father Fang Yunchang who left a hand, she didn't comment, and it had nothing to do with her.

In the evening of that day, Qiao Lan received a letter from Tang Wenqiang, saying that Landlord Zhao had bought two and a half catties of three catties of pepper seeds in his hand. Two and a half catties of pepper seeds can be planted on several acres of land. Tang Wenqiang was not polite, and asked him for three hundred taels of silver.

Qiao Lan's space, except for the small lotus, everything grows rapidly, and the rice transplanted before has grown to knee height, lush and green, and the growth is gratifying. The planted sweet potatoes have also been entrenched in the ground, growing one sweet potato after another. However, the pepper planted last year, although it is red again, the number is not as much as before, and it can be seen that the crops in the space also have a certain cycle and are not infinitely grown.

In the evening, Qiao Lan used her spiritual power to move one of the three major pieces of jade into the spiritual spring, and the buds of the small lotus slowly swelled from the size of a finger, and finally grew to the size of a fist, and there were signs of blooming.

Although she really wanted to meet the imaginary lotus fairy, Qiao Lan also knew that everything had to be done step by step, so she endured it again and again so that she didn't put another piece of jade. (To be continued.) )