Chapter Twenty-Seven: The Bed-Warming Maid
Concubine Xian smiled faintly and pondered for a moment: "The concubine has a clever plan, but it is a little more vicious and a little sad. ”
"Just talk about it. Murong Yu was interested.
"Let the woman fall in love with a man, and she will have no more secrets. "Love is a lethal weapon against women, no one wants to escape, even she herself is deeply involved.
A few days later, the weather turned cold, but Chen Mu's small courtyard suddenly quieted down, and few people came to make trouble.
In the winter, you should reserve food and warm clothes, there are small hills behind, early in the morning, Chen Mu and the crescent moon carry hoes and baskets, go to the mountains to hunt for treasures, the red maple leaves fall all over the ground, the feet rustle on it, the plane trees cover the sky, the air in the mountains and forests is fresh, and occasionally you can hear a few birdsongs.
Along the way, picked a lot of fresh mushrooms, but also dug a lot of coarse yams, occasionally dig a few small traps, and when I go back, in case I catch a few fat rabbits and pheasants, at night, stew a pot of chicken and mushroom soup, plus a cold salad shredded rabbit meat, tsk, saliva will flow out.
Wearing the flowers and willows, suddenly heard the murmuring of the water, it turned out that there is a clear river in the depths of this mountain forest, the river is full of pebbles, and small fish are free to shuttle in it. The river was knee-deep, rippling with the occasional red petal.
"It's so beautiful!" said the crescent moon to the brook and jumped happily.
"Add dinner tonight, braised small carp, stewed king eight. Chen Mu pulled up his trouser legs, revealing two snow-white legs and small jade feet, and he broke off a thin tree root, ready to use it to spear fish.
"Miss, I'm here to help too. The crescent moon also did the same, and joined in excitedly.
An hour later, the crescent moon had a depressed face, and her little basket contained only a short fry, while the young lady's basket was full of big fish, and even caught two little kings, seven or eight palm-sized crabs.
"Miss bullies, you didn't know how to catch fish before, and you didn't know how to do housework. "The little crescent mouth pouts the old high.
"Little thing, come on, come on! It's all you caught, okay. Chen Mu smiled at her dotingly, and gave her most of the fish in the basket, this little girl has been following her for a long time, and even her temper has risen. Two people carried baskets and hoes on their backs, walking down the mountain, and suddenly saw tall trees with small fruits full of burrs and thorns, Chen Mu was stunned, ...... this?
"It's a little burr, the thief is stabbing people, and it's very annoying. The crescent moon was full of indifference.
"Have you ever eaten the fruit inside?"
Even the poorest people don't want to pick it, because the fruit inside is old and hard. The crescent moon shook her head, this thing can't be eaten, and everyone in the Great Yan Dynasty knows it. Chen Mu's face was solemn, he climbed a big green tree, picked the small fruit with thorns, and then opened it to take a look, black, round, hard, put it in his mouth and chewed it, the familiar taste came to his face.
Sister's, it's really chestnut!!
"Crescent moon, we're rich!" Chen Mu hugged the crescent moon and almost cried with joy.
"What, what?" This thing doesn't even want to eat livestock, how can it be used to make a fortune, Miss is poor and crazy. In the next few days, Crescent Moon and Chen Mu went to the mountains every day to pick burr thorn fruits, piled them up as high as a hill in the yard, and used scissors to cut the burrs and take out the chestnuts one by one.
Burn the cauldron, mix the fine sand dug from the mountain with chestnut ginseng, and then add maltose, honey, and oil, and the old wood keeps rolling with a big shovel, and the crescent moon keeps adding materials and adding fire, and after half an hour, the sand gradually turns black, and the chestnut also becomes black and shiny, and it also shines with red light, and the sweet smell is also diffused.
Peel off the chestnut skin, put the fried reddish chestnut in your mouth, and smack, "Miss, it's so delicious." The two cheeks of the crescent moon were bulging, and the eyes were about to squint.
"Stir-fry more, tomorrow, let's go to Yanjing to sell fried chestnuts." "With money, this winter will be better.
"Miss, didn't the jewelry boxes we made before sell very well, why didn't you make them?" asked Crescent Moon as she ate.
"When I went to Baili Mansion that day, I glanced at the shops on the street, there are already many new jewelry boxes being launched, the style is not much different from what I did before, this kind of thing is easy to be imitated, it is fresh and chic when it comes out, and it is worthless after a long time. "When there is more supply than demand, it is naturally unprofitable.
What's more, there are many abandoned good sandalwood in the palace, but the sandalwood outside the palace costs a lot of money to buy, and the cost is too high.
"Hey, hey, I don't understand. The little girl smiled stupidly and continued to nibble on the sweet chestnut in her hand.
On the second day, the two of them carried a big bag of fried chestnuts and came to the morning market in Yanjing City early.
"Sugar-fried chestnuts!Fresh, sweet, don't miss it when you pass by!" The little crescent moon blushed with shame, and it was the first time to be a small vendor when she was so big.
The sweet smell emanated from the bag, causing people passing by to look back frequently, a few little dolls were still swallowing saliva, and the shouting finally attracted the first customer, and the people who tasted it said that it was good, more and more people participated in the purchase, thirty wen a small bag, most of the day's work, most of the time has been sold, counting the piles of money in his hand, Chen Mu smiled happily.
"Childe, isn't that a hundred miles of geese?" At the corner of the street, a small man pointed in the direction of Chen Mu, followed by a dashing young man in brocade clothes.
"It's better to choose a day than to hit the sun!" he was about to send someone to find her trouble, but he didn't expect to run into it here, and the young man unfolded the green plum folding fan in his hand and showed an evil smile.
"Bang!", someone kicked the small half bag of chestnuts to the ground, Chen Mu, who was counting the money, was startled, he raised his head, only to see a familiar face in his eyes, sister, isn't this the man who had a dispute with him on Shengyan? They also hid together in the rockery to watch the wild mandarin duck private meeting.
"You're doing well!" Last time, he was still a little yellow and thin, but now that he is out of the cold palace, he is also three points white, Zuo Nanhao sneered.
"Make do with it!" didn't you say that it would be indefinite?
"Baili Yan, you still owe me an old account, I have already thought of a way to repay the debt, sign a thirty-year master-slave contract, and be the bed-warming and foot-washing maid of this son, and this son will torture you every day. Zuo Nanhao smiled with an evil and shameless face.
"What, what old accounts?......" Chen Mu's mouth opened, and the crescent moon hurriedly attached to his ear, and said like and so on.
"He's Zuo Nanhao, that stupid boy with a lot of money, and I have bullied him?"
"Who do you say is stupid? Baili Yan!" Zuo Nanhao's neck was bruised, very good, she seriously hurt his self-esteem again, he would not trample her under his feet in this life, he Zuo Nanhao swore not to be a man.
"Just you! Who made you kick my chestnut? The girl stood up suddenly, straightened her waist, rolled up her sleeves, come on, he had also learned taekwondo for a while in that world, and it was more than enough to deal with one or two people.
"Up!" Zuo Nanhao waved lightly, and groups of thugs came from behind, all carrying wooden sticks, fat and strong, no less than a hundred people, and their eyes were also very fierce, and gradually surrounded them. The crescent moon was paralyzed by this momentum, and barely leaned on Chen Mu's body.
“...... One, two, three, start running!! "Stuff the money into his arms, pull up the crescent moon, and drill into the corner, the movement is very fast, and the stalls next to him are overturned.
"Chase!" Zuo Nanhao was stunned for two seconds, and then immediately led a group of thugs to catch up.
"Go to the second son of the Ning Guofu family to ask for money!" While running, he overturned all the cloth stalls, vegetable stalls, and meat stalls on the roadside, leaving this headless sentence, Chen Mu pulled the crescent moon and fled like the wind. Zuo Nanhao, who was blocked by a bunch of miscellaneous things, hammered the wall hard, the little rabbit cub, he escaped really fast!
"Childe, the end of this alley is at the gate of a temple, and the little one knows a shortcut that can be chased and intercepted. The thugs below hurried to offer their courtesy.
"Very good, hurry up and lead the way. Zuo Nanhao was overjoyed.
Half an hour later, the two girls ran to the end of the alley panting, as if they had thrown them off, and there was an exit ahead, with piles of colorful flags floating and the sound of chanting.
Inside the temple, there is a weak young man who is offering incense, his complexion is pale, his body is thin, and he is followed by two women, a dignified and virtuous woman, wearing a light cyan brocade jacket and a luxurious bead decoration on her head, and the other is a young woman with a gorgeous appearance, with a graceful posture and a lilac smoke gauze skirt.
"May my son be healthy as soon as possible, may the old man be prosperous, and may the Qin family prosper for a hundred years. The woman inserted the incense into the tutelage and prostrated three times with reverence.
At this moment, there was a noise outside the temple.
"The son of the Ning Guofu family robbed the people's daughter, help!" The two girls were surrounded by a group of black-clothed thugs, and a young man in brocade dragged one of the plain-clothed girls, looking very fierce.
"Stop, the blue sky is white, and you are too hateful to kidnap the girl outside the temple. The old abbot of the temple wore a robe and went to check the situation.
"Old bald donkey, why do you need to interfere in the work of this son, it is serious to concentrate on chanting the scriptures and worshiping the Buddha, don't sweep the Yaxing of this son. Zuo Nanhao raised his eyebrows, and his face was a little annoyed.
"How can this be reasonable, Buddha Gate Holy Land, you, you, you?" the old abbot was angry, and the top of his head was about to smoke.
"Stop!" the woman was mixed up by the girl in purple, followed by the young man in white.