Chapter 247: Seeds

"So fast!" Li Qin couldn't help but exclaim. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

"Yes, the eldest lady knows that you miss her, and she misses you very much. It's just that, alas, now even the general doesn't care about the affairs of the back house, and blindly thinks that the eldest lady has ruined the reputation of the general's mansion, so the eldest lady is afraid that she won't be able to meet the girl before leaving. ”

Although in his previous life, he had never been betrayed by a girl or disliked by his parents in Qingshan Town, but after returning to Beijing, something must have happened. Qin Hui will not bury nails beside her for no reason, and when there is a conflict between sisters, as a parent, she doesn't want to ease and mediate, and she blindly forgives one party and suppresses the other, which is really chilling. Now, she has a bad reputation in Qingshan Town, and it is natural for the general to be harsh with her. It's just that in her past life and this life, Qin Xun was kind to her, and she really wanted to see her before Qin Xun left here.

"I hope that the situation of the eldest lady will be better after returning to Beijing. It's just that this marriage with the Fan family, I'm afraid that the generals won't listen to the young lady's own opinions if they say anything. I just pity her," said Aunt Qu, wiping her tears, "No relatives help her, and the son of the Fan family misunderstands her so much, how difficult it must be for her to enter the Fan family!"

Li Qin unconsciously slowly clenched his fists. Qin Hui, the two of them are really married!

Although Qin Xun is difficult to protect herself, the shop in her hand is still in her own hands. She also said that even if she left Qingshan Town, Li Qin could still continue to go to the shop to sell things.

Li Qin sold them a lot of things this year, in addition to the fungus of all the families in the mountains, there are also very neat mountain vegetables that she made herself. Her various wild vegetables are in good condition, so the boss is willing to give her a high price. In addition, deer antlers, deer whips, deer tendons, etc., and the hedgehogs she raised this year are all a lot of income.

Seeing that the day when General Qin returned to Beijing to report on his work was getting closer and closer, Li Qin asked Yu Fei to help send some things to Qin Xun, including lotus crisp, acacia crisp, beaten cake, rice cake and other snacks that are popular in Qingshan Town today. Although she still didn't see Qin Xun in person, she brought out a letter she wrote to Li Qin.

"My sister Qin'er, everything is fine. Knowing your thoughts, I am very relieved. The pastries are all tasted, tasteful, can't put it down, only sigh that they can't ride the horse and whip, live in the four corners, afraid of getting fat, and stop tasting it. Today, I have a long talk with Yu Fei, and his duty and kindness are also said to be wise if foolish, diligent can make up for clumsiness, foolish and shallow, his heart is very secret, and he can be trusted. Hey, Qin'er is deaf and clear-sighted, stronger than me, and knows the meaning of it, and is happy. The time of parting is approaching, and I am afraid of entering Beijing when I see you again. Special revision of this book, I hope my sister is proper herself, goodbye is good. ”

Li Qin repeatedly rubbed the thin page of letter paper that had been brought out after a frightening experience, and his heart was indescribably moved.

In the blink of an eye, the people of the Qin family left, and time slowly entered the wax moon.

After Laba, the flavor of the New Year has become stronger and stronger.

These days, Ge Boss's business can only be said to be average, because there are garment stores and cloth stores next to it to grab business, this year's rabbit skin soles, insoles are particularly dismal, fortunately, the price is indeed cheaper than others, so that all the goods will not be smashed into the hands.

Although black sesame paste, camellia noodles, sugar snowballs, and sugar peanuts have not been learned by others, but this variety of sugar gourds is more careful than theirs this year, so they can only maintain a small profit.

Li Qin also wanted to help them go further, but this time she received a letter from her brother Li Ren again.

Li Ren's letter was sent to her through Fan Wenqian's hand. Li Qin was a little puzzled, this General Qin returned to Beijing to report on his work, and by the way, he wanted to discuss the marriage of Qin Xun and Fan Wenqian, but this kid was still honestly staying in northern Xinjiang, which really surprised her.

When Fan Wenqian came, he was just in time for Li Qin and Yu Fei to have dinner, Fan Wenqian came with two small soldiers, but he didn't let them into the house, he came in himself to deliver the letter, and stared at a few dishes on the table.

Li Qin made four dishes today, white radish meat rolls, mushu pork, stewed cowpea pickles, and cold cabbage hearts. The main dish is noodles with mushroom sauce.

Li Qin naturally didn't want Fan Wenqian to go for nothing, and although she didn't look down on Fan Wenqian's personality, she was always afraid that if he was still married to Qin Xun in his life, at least her relationship with him would not be so stiff, and she could reconcile them when the time came. So Li Qin tugged at the corners of his mouth, "Commander Fan hasn't eaten dinner yet, right? If you don't dislike it, let's eat some ordinary side dishes." ”

Fan Wenqian was a little embarrassed, but he still said something, someone was waiting outside.

Li Qin smiled, "We've done a lot left and right, if Commander Fan doesn't dislike it, I'll take some back, which can be regarded as a snack for your dinner." ”

"That's the best!" Fan Wenqian responded.

Li Qin has a food box at home, and it was given by the shopkeeper Lin when he went back to get the vegetables from the cup. Li Qin filled a plate like this, and covered the food box tightly before handing it over to Fan Wenqian.

The two sent Fan Wenqian to the door, and Fan Wenqian was also very happy, and said that he could find him in Qingshan Town if there was anything in the future, plus Du Heng was also his best friend, and hoped that Li Qin would not be polite.

After sending Fan Wenqian away, Li Qin didn't care about eating, and directly opened Li Ren's letter.

However, Li Ren's letter didn't have as many words as Qin Xun's letter, and there wasn't even a word, only a simple packet of spicy eggplant seeds!

Li Qin was stunned for a moment, and then laughed.

In fact, Fan Wenqian said that when Li Ren wrote to her, she was still a little worried.

Before, her letter to Li Ren was brought by Du Heng. The Du family army was stationed in the northwest all the year round, and Li Ren was also under their protection. Supposedly, after they were exiled as criminals, they were never allowed to communicate privately. But because of Du Heng's protection, she will be so relieved. But this time, it passed through Fan Wenqian's hands, or rather, I don't know how many hands it passed, and Li Qin really didn't dare to imagine the danger in it. However, the thought that it was a letter written to her by her relatives made her sincerely happy.

Her younger brother, Li Ren, is actually very cowardly. However, he takes great care of his relatives. It can be seen from the several times in his previous life that he stood up for Li Qin and dealt with Wang Changfu. He doesn't have any big ambitions, but he attaches great importance to feelings, Li Qin doesn't think there's anything wrong with this, after all, she is the same now.

Therefore, although Li Ren's letter did not say a word, Li Qin still felt very warm.

Yu Fei was stunned when he saw Li Qin looking at the red and red things, hooked the corners of his mouth for a while, and was also curious to come and take a look. But he had never seen anything of it, so he looked down and smelled it.

"Ahh

Li Qin was so startled by his sneeze that he finally came back to his senses, and then immediately put the packet of spicy tomato seeds on the table with a smile.

"What kind of seed is this, the smell is so choking?" Yu Fei asked as he endured the next sneeze and rubbed his nose vigorously.

"This is the seed of the spicy eggplant, and the spicy eggplant is the fruit that grows, and it is many times spicier than the seeds of mountain pepper seedlings!"

"Why did your brother send you this?" asked Yu Fei.

Li Qin's gaze softened with this question, "Last time General Du Xiao left, I asked him to write a letter to my brother. The letter said that he hoped that when he came to pick me up from Beijing, he would bring some spicy tomato seeds, because there were no them in Qingshan Town. ”

Therefore, Li Ren can't stay longer for a moment, it is said that it will take more than a month to get from here to the northwest, but after calculation, Li Ren should have received the letter and immediately bought it for her, and he couldn't wait for him to come over by himself, so he found someone else to bring it over.

With spicy eggplant seeds, she doesn't have to rely on mountain pepper seedling seed powder to get by. To be honest, that thing doesn't actually taste that spicy, just a little bit of flavor, and it's better than nothing. And after she planted some of them, she found that the yield of the mountain pepper seedlings was too low, and some of them were not worth wasting so much land.

But spicy eggplant seeds are different. When she was in Beijing before, she knew that this spicy tomato really had to bear fruit, and it was a bunch of slurp, and it was especially easy to produce abundantly.

The reason why spicy eggplant is called eggplant is actually somewhat similar to eggplant, especially the seeds. Although Li Qin doesn't know how to grow spicy eggplants, she can grow eggplants after more than a year of life.

There was nothing to do left and right, so Li Qin started the experiment first. Dig some frozen soil from the back garden, and after thawing, start to prepare for the fine (raising) seedlings.

Li Qin put the small nest made of wooden planks on the kang head, and covered it with a lid to give it enough heat while keeping it hydrated at all times.

Sure enough, only five days later, small green seedlings grew inside. Li Qin didn't dare to delay, he couldn't wait to lie on the kang every day, carefully watching how they grew.

The New Year is approaching, and the lotus cake that doesn't stop finally seeing the true face of the lotus cake as a commodity.

They used boxes made of willow wood. Guanyin's jade net bottle is filled with willow branches, so this willow wood is quite Zen. The outside of the box is painted with brown-red lacquer, and then there is the Buddha temple presided over by himself.

The one on each box is different, but each knife and stroke has a strong Zen feeling.

When the box is opened, there are six small squares inside, and there is a box of the same size in each box. The small box and the big box are the same material, but the one engraved on it is the throne lotus.

Then open the small box, inside is folded into the shape of the bottom of the oil paper, on the top of the oil paper, is the ironic, colorful, lifelike lotus cake.

No wonder Le Zhongting asked for nine taels of silver, just this one package, I'm afraid it will be used up to seven taels!

But even so, as soon as the lotus cake went on sale, it was sold out. Later, even if a powerful person wanted to buy it, it was only two words, no!

However, if there is really no more, how can this business continue? So Le Zhongting has launched a new promotion plan, that is, if you spend a certain amount in the cup, you can draw a lottery, and one of the prizes is this lotus cake.

This approach of Le Zhongting is very novel, few people who come to drink and stop consuming are poor money, but even if they are not bad money, no one will get along with the money, and they will still pick up the money that falls on the ground. And this rule customized by Le Atrium makes everyone even more interested, because you don't know what you will pick up. For example, if you spend 500 yuan, you can draw a lottery, 1,000 wen can draw twice, and so on. However, it is possible that you spent two taels of silver and ended up with only four plates of peanut kernels. Of course, it is also possible that after only consuming 500 Wen, I drew a lotus cake that is currently on fire.

This method is very popular, so for a while, the cup is more crowded.

In the middle of the month, the day has come for Orion to pay taxes.

Orion's tax money is calculated according to age. A hunter like Yu Fei who is in the prime of life, the tax money is ten taels of silver a year. And like Ge Changqing's family, after Ge Changqing is thirty-five, the tax will be lower, only seven taels of silver. And Aunt Ge and their mother and daughter are three, and each of them will have to pay three taels of silver in taxes. And Ge Boss and Ge Lao Er also ask for ten taels of silver in taxes a year.

Orion earns a lot, but the taxes are also heavy. Now that there are few families without men this year, their tax money is still missing.

Ge Changqing went to the yamen to intercede with the eldest master, and reduced the taxes of these families by half. Everyone was grateful to Dade again, and they all said that Ge Changqing was more capable of being a man than the Qi family at that time.

During this time, the two lynx grew up, and some of them couldn't stay at home, so Yu Fei put them outside for a few days every three or five days, and when they wanted to come back, they would come back quietly in the second half of the night, and then bring Yu Fei and Li Qin some game they had caught themselves.

It's just that as the year approaches, one day, only the little leopard will come back.

Not only the tigers, but also the prey.

Li Qin didn't have an idea at first, but when it whimpered and jumped on the kang, Li Qin realized that the hind legs of the little leopard were actually injured!

This discovery left both of them anxious. This is in town. There are not even a single fox in the mountains and forests next to the town, let alone any large animals, and not even a shadow can be seen, so what is the difference between these two lynx and the overlord when they enter the mountain? But in this place that no one is worried about, something happened to their lynx!

Both lynx have been by Li Qin's side for almost two years. For more than a year and a half, Li Qin often stayed at home alone, so he developed the habit of talking to the lynx often. So, although the lynx can't speak, most people's words, they have begun to understand. And some of their movements, Li Qin can also understand.