After several people finished discussing, Tao Zhimo asked Tian Xiongguang to tie the cart to the horse, let the horse pull the cart away, and the group went on the road.

During the day, Tian Xiongguang pulled the carriage and hurried away. At night, several of their women and children squeezed together and slept on the cart, while Zhou Xiongguang directly laid a linoleum cloth and slept on the grass beside him.

When passing through Xiabi County, Tao Zhimo asked Tian Xiongguang to borrow a blacksmith shop to melt her silver ornaments, and Tao Zhimo took them to the pawnshop to sell, and finally exchanged them for fifty-four taels of silver.

Tao Zhimo was distressed, her silver is the best old silver, is A Ci specially invited the exquisite master to customize for her, the style is unique, ingenious, but now it has only turned into dozens of taels of silver!

Several people saved money along the way, and when they arrived in Baoying County a month later, they still had 50 taels of silver left. After another two days of trekking, the group finally came to the Li family's mother's home, Guixiang Village.

Far away, at the entrance of the village, I smelled a refreshing fragrance of osmanthus flowers.

This village is full of osmanthus trees, and I heard that more than half of them are hundred-year-old osmanthus trees.

Li's younger brother Li Jin made a fortune by selling balsam in his early years, and now he has moved into the county seat, and I heard that he has also opened a small rouge shop. Now only her sister Xiao Li is still in the village, and her life is very prosperous.

After they returned, they lived directly in Li Jin's empty house.

This is an ancestral house, although it is a little old, but it is better to build it well. There is a large yard in the front and back, and there is a well in the front yard, and the soil in the back yard is fertile, but it has not been taken care of for many years, and it is full of weeds.

As soon as they settled, a large wave of villagers came to visit them. Say it's passionate, right? But in fact, it's more lively. The objections are nothing more than those: I didn't expect this Li family to marry a man, and the pair of children born are so good-looking. When Li was born, her grandmother immediately threw her into the dung pit as soon as she saw her face, and it was thanks to her mother who searched for death and fished her up like a madwoman, and Li survived.

Then there is the son brought by her man, I heard that his face is disabled, covered with a black gauze hat all day long, and he always makes people unable to see the appearance, I heard that he is fourteen years old this year, but this figure is too stingy, he looks like eleven or twelve years old, and his body is a little delicate, and his temperament seems to be a little shy, and he doesn't speak much.

On the second day after settling down, Tian Xiongguang took Aman up the mountain to chop wood. And Li's family, before dawn, pulled Xi'er with a big basket on his back and went up the mountain to beat osmanthus with a osmanthus shed and a bamboo pole.

Li said that this osmanthus should be beaten at dawn, and the flower is easy to beat down with dewdrops, and it is still fresh, and it cannot be beaten as soon as the sun comes out. This fresh osmanthus can be sold for five or six cents a pound here.

On this day, Tao Zhimo got up and just washed up, he saw Li and Xi'er coming back with two large baskets full of osmanthus flowers.

Li smiled, and that face seemed to look two points better.

She greeted Tao Zhimo with a smile, and then sifted the osmanthus flowers with a dustpan in the yard with Xi'er.

"What are these osmanthus flowers used for?" Tao Zhimo leaned against the door and asked.

"Spices!" Li said with a smile, "The rouge and soap of the ladies of the big families must be added with osmanthus!" ”

"No one eats it?" Rouge asked casually.

"Eat? Can osmanthus be eaten? Li was surprised, this osmanthus has always been used, and I have never heard of it being edible.

"Well, osmanthus tea, osmanthus wine, osmanthus cake, and osmanthus sauce." Tao Zhimo said, "Osmanthus tea, warm and replenish yang qi, health and lungs, osmanthus wine is appetizing and refreshing, strengthens the spleen and replenishes deficiency, especially suitable for women to drink......"

Speaking of this osmanthus wine, Ananda taught her to brew it, as well as osmanthus tea...... He taught her a lot of things, and she gradually became more energetic. Ananda was like the warm sunshine that shone on her dark and cold world. If there was no Ananda, she would not have been able to support herself in King Yong's mansion for four years.

After this osmanthus wine was brewed, the girls in the house liked to drink it. But later, it was the pottery brocade that offered the wine to the queen at the Hundred Flowers Banquet. The queen took a sip, and immediately Fengyan was overjoyed, and rewarded a lot of things for the pottery brocade. In the end, Tao Brocade came to show off like a proud peacock, she was not showing off the queen's reward, but showing off Nangong Ci's favor for her.

It was precisely because of Nangong Ci's acquiescence that she dared to take this wine for herself.

"In general, this osmanthus is very warm and replenished whether it is brewing wine or making flower tea, and the fragrance is long-lasting." Tao Zhimo smiled.

After listening to her, Li was still a little surprised, as if he was listening to a book from heaven, "I've never heard of this." ”

"How many pounds do you have here?" Tao Zhimo suddenly became interested.

"It is estimated that there are about twenty catties after sifting."

"Then you sell half of it and leave me ten catties." Tao Zhimo leaned down and picked up a few osmanthus flowers to check carefully, although the flowers were small but very full, put them on the tip of his nose and sniffed, the fragrance of fresh osmanthus flowers was restrained and long, "Tonight will be cloudy overnight, and tomorrow let Daddy help me buy ten wine jars and come back, and I will brew some." Next year, I hope I can sell it for some money. Also, help me buy five catties of sugar. ”

"Okay." Li nodded repeatedly.

Tao Zhimo smiled lightly, took the bamboo strips and sifted the osmanthus with them.

In the afternoon, just after Shen Shi, there were people from the Zhuangzi who came to collect osmanthus flowers, and they sold it for fifty yuan after removing what they left behind. Li smiled from ear to ear, he really came back in time.

In fact, the income of the village mainly depends on these osmanthus flowers, as long as you work hard for these months, you can basically not do it in the next year. Of course, this benefit is only available in their village, after all, these osmanthus trees were planted by their ancestors a hundred years ago, and people in other villages can only look at the red.

At dusk, Tian Xiongguang came back with two bundles of firewood, and even Aman was holding a small bundle of firewood. Li asked Tian Xiongguang to follow them up the mountain to fight osmanthus, Tian Xiongguang agreed, and on the second day, he went up the mountain with them and beat nearly 30 catties of osmanthus down.

After returning, Aman was responsible for picking out the impurities in the leaves, and Tao Zhimo was busy sifting osmanthus flowers with Li's mother and daughter. Tian Xiongguang took the cart to the county town and came back with wine jars and sugar.

After Tian Xiongguang came back, Tao Zhimo divided the osmanthus dried last night into ten parts, one catty each, and began to make osmanthus wine with half a catty of sugar. First spread a shallow layer of osmanthus at the bottom of the altar, and then add sugar to the wine, so that seven or eight layers are layered, and then cover the lid and wait for fermentation, and pour five catties of rice wine after three days. It just so happened that there was a small cellar under the ancestral house of the Li family, and when the time came, these wine jars could be put under the ground, and they could be drunk after a year.

"From today onwards, ten jars will be brewed every day until the osmanthus is gone."

"This ......" Li and Tian Xiong have a difficult face, so the expenses are not small.

"Don't worry, this wine can be sold for silver, and many girls will like to drink it at that time." For osmanthus wine, she is very confident. Thinking of the sweet and mellow smell of wine, she was a little drunk, and she wished she could taste such a small cup now.

Li hesitated and glanced at Tian Xiongguang, who nodded, "Listen to Engong." ”

"Thank you, Dad." Tao Zhimo smiled, "I will go up the mountain with you tomorrow to hunt osmanthus flowers." ”

Next, the family of five worked hard, performed their own duties, and felt a sense of happiness.

Tao Zhimo also hurriedly used dried osmanthus to concoct a lot of osmanthus tea, the weather is dry in winter, and he is not afraid of bad when he keeps it.

Two months later, the osmanthus flowers gradually faded, and she had to make some flower teas according to the season every day, such as jasmine green tea, peach blossom black tea, rose tea and so on.

In April of the following year, Tao Zhimo opened an elegant small tea stall on the edge of the official road, selling all kinds of flower tea. She still covered her face with a black veil, and everyone saw her mother's appearance, but he was also ugly with her mother.

At the beginning of September, Tao Zhimo began to sell the osmanthus wine brewed last year, and the business travelers passing by drank it, and they were full of praise.

On this day, the autumn wind is bleak.

As soon as Tao Zhimo propped up the tea shed, he heard the faint camel bell from far and near, and when he looked back, he saw a caravan approaching in the morning light.

This caravan came from the desert, and more than a dozen sturdy camels were carrying a lot of goods on their backs, and the three or two women on the camelbacks were also holding their veils lightly.

What caught the eye was one of the young girls, wearing a snow-white robe, knee-high fur boots, a white feather felt hat, several feathers in the hat, and a snow-colored veil, so that people could not see their faces clearly, and they could only see a pair of beautiful eyes that were shining with anticipation.

She is not as weak and delicate as a woman in the Central Plains, she sits upright on a hunchback, and at a glance she feels that her posture is outstanding, like a bright moon in the bright stars, which makes people's eyes shine.

Tao Zhimo couldn't help but have a word in his heart: elegance is peerless.