Chapter 21: Her Gift
"Is my son-in-law up?"
Liu Hualou got up early in the morning and went into the kitchen, and at dinner yesterday, Yue Xi commented on a few dishes he made one by one, and he felt that he had benefited a lot, and when he was lying in bed and sleeping, he began to think about making a few more specialty dishes today for her to taste.
The porridge he cooked was about to be enough, and Liu Hualou asked loudly from the kitchen, he knew that the curtain must be standing outside waiting for his orders.
Sure enough, as soon as he finished speaking, the cheerful voice of the curtain came in from the door: "Get up, he has already gotten up!" also asked me to send a basin of water to wash, this time I guess I was out of March Street a long time ago! ”
"What!" Liu Hualou rushed out of the kitchen and yelled at the curtain with a smile on his eyebrows: "Why didn't you come here earlier? ”
"Huh?" Curtain You was dumbfounded when he was scolded by the master's voice, and then his eyes turned red: "In the past, when the benefactor wanted to leave, the son never asked...... Why is he different......"
"She ......" Liu Hualou spoke, and finally swallowed the words back.
With a calm face and a fine sweat, he quickly walked through the patio and entered the small building: "The porridge simmering in the pot is poured, she is gone, and I have no appetite alone!" ”
He stood at the door of the kitchen with his head down, and only then did he raise his head when the master's footsteps were no longer audible, still with a smile on his face!
He turned around and looked in the direction where Liu Hualou had left, then stepped into the kitchen, walked to the stove and reached out to remove the lid of the pot, he leaned over and shook his head on the pot and sniffed: "Poured?" What a shame! This is cooked by Childe's own hands, since you don't have an appetite, it's cheaper for me......"
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In the distance, when Yue Xi saw the two closed back doors of the Prime Minister's Mansion, the old man's ox cart delivering vegetables had already stopped there.
Raising the curtain on the car window, Yue Xi looked at the sky and felt that the old man seemed to have come early today.
The carriage drove unhurriedly through the street, and this time she did not get out of the carriage, until she walked out again, Yue Xi asked, "This is the only way to go to Xingqing?" ”
Yue Xi looked outside, then paid the money and got out of the car.
Xingqing Town is the first town outside the northern city of the imperial capital, where there is a large area of fertile land, and many of the people in the mansion in the imperial capital have purchased some land in Xingqing to enclose the farm, and then raise some slaves and maids to put in the village to grow grain and vegetables.
When the crops and vegetables are ripe, part of them is for the government to eat and drink, and some of them pay taxes, and if there is any surplus, they can sell it, which is a lot of income every year.
Han Xiang did not have Zhuangzi in Xingqing.
Yue Xi observed the Xiangfu coldly for a few days, although she didn't see anyone who could enter and leave the Xiangfu casually, but she heard the man in charge of the house with a pleasant face and a pleasant face to the old man who delivered the vegetables and instructed the variety and quantity of vegetables to be delivered to the mansion tomorrow.
Yue Xi roughly estimated in his heart how many people can be fed with three meals a day if these vegetables are cooked, and he can't help but be surprised: according to the guards outside the Prime Minister's Mansion, the inside of the Prime Minister's Mansion should also be tighter, why does it seem that there are only 100 people eating?
After calculating the size of the Prime Minister's Mansion again, Yue Xi grinned: Since the Prime Minister has sent people outside, there must be places that cannot be monitored by guards in such a big place in the Mansion! As long as there are omissions, it is easy to do......
The weather in June was very hot and dry, although it was still early, and the sun was already shining brightly in the sky, and people were about to sweat at the slightest movement.
Yue Xi knew that there was something wrong with her body, so she didn't make a big move, she walked slowly forward with the shade of the tree on the side of the road, she stopped before passing by a stall to buy melons and fruits, picked a few red-pointed peaches and picked up a dozen ripe chestnuts, and the aunt who looked at the stall saw that she paid the copper money very happily and did not bargain, so she looked at her and gave Yue Xi a small wattle basket containing those things.
A few things were put in, and Yue Xi saw that there was still a place to buy two more melons.
"In the future, my aunt often sets up a stall here, selling fruits and vegetables grown in my own field, you will go to my aunt to buy them in the future, and I will never lose your share here!"
After receiving the copper coin, the middle-aged woman greeted enthusiastically.
"Okay." Yue Xi smiled and nodded in response.
She didn't want to eat fruit, and this time she came out to buy these things, and it would be a burden to carry them if she really encountered something urgent, but she still bought them, and she bought a lot.
If nothing else, just smile at the sturdy woman who looks at the stall and is a little similar to Du Sanniang.
Yue Xi just wanted to see her more......
Holding a basket of fruits in his hand, Yue Xi pressed the hat he was wearing on his head, walked in the shade of the trees that were getting narrower and narrower, looked back from time to time, and finally watched from a distance when he was about to reach the north city gate, and the ox cart that delivered vegetables to the Xiangfu followed unhurriedly.
When the ox cart passed by him, Yue Xi picked up the hat on his head, and while fanning the wind, he begged the old man who was driving the car: "Uncle, I want to go to Xingqing Town, take me a ride by the way......" As she spoke, she raised the wattle basket in her hand: "I invite you to eat melons, fresh!" ”
"Hehe, come up!"
It's almost to the north city gate, out of the city is Xingqing Town, the old man is a good person, stopped the ox cart and beckoned Yue Xi to go up: "These things are also fresh for you to live in the city, every household in Xingqing Town grows melons, our place has good water and soil, and the melons planted are much sweeter than elsewhere!" ”
"I've heard about it, I've heard about it......" Yue Xi sat sideways in the car, put the basket aside, and he casually echoed the old man: "My family has just moved into the city, and the population is large, and just buying vegetables every day gives me a headache!" ”
"When I bought in the market in the morning, I heard those aunts and aunts say that the vegetables and vegetables from Xingqing Town are good, no, I rushed over to take a look, if I found the right person, I thought that I could send some vegetables and fruits to my house for a long time, and I would save myself from running to the vegetable market every day."
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I run to the vegetable market every day. ”
"Oops! That's a coincidence! The old man listened to Yue Xi's words and was so happy that the wrinkles on his face deepened: "Housheng, the old Han's family is from Xingqing Town, and my family's dishes are specially sent to the nobles in the city. It's not as good as ......."
"It's not that I can't trust you, I have to go and see it to rest assured." Yue Xi was not in a hurry to agree, she just wanted to follow the old man to his house to have a look, and she must not let go of an opportunity to sneak into the Prime Minister's Mansion......
There is no reason to push the business out in front of him, the old man consciously picked up a deal in vain on the road, and was naturally very happy, and drove the ox cart with Yue Xi straight to Xingqing Town, and when he entered the town, he didn't even enter the house, so he let Yue Xi into his own vegetable garden!
The sun was blazing on his head, Yue Xi was in a green vegetable field, and he only felt that the land under his feet was steaming, and it was up and down that it had become a pot of porridge!
She frowned and stood aimlessly looking around, as if she was observing the quality of the vegetables, but in fact she wanted to find a shaded place to escape the heat.
"This is all our land!" The old man said with a very broad wave of his hand and said proudly: "If you are in love, I will be able to send you to the house after lunch." ”
"Oh?" Yue Xi's heart moved and asked, "Do you also go to the city to sell these?" ”
"Where is the ......" the old man smiled and waved his hand: "There is only the old man and his three sons to serve such a piece of land, and when the farm is busy, they feel that there are not enough people, where can they sell it themselves?" It's just a crispy melon that the lady from the noble family who I sent the food had to eat, and I had to send it after I ate, how dare I delay it......"
"Then ......" Yue Xi's eyes grunted and he had an idea: "Then send some to my house by the way......"
She walked to the cucumber seedlings supported by the bamboo pole, reached out and pinched a small green cucumber, broke it in half, put it on the tip of her nose and smelled it, and nodded: "Not bad!" ”
"That's it this cucumber, in the future, I will send a basket of top flowers with thorns every day, my daughter-in-law has a bad mouth, so I love to use this!"
"Anything else?" The old man felt that he was just a few steps away from others, and he could talk about such a long-term business, which was the result of good intentions, so he inquired more enthusiastically.
"Let's send such a big basket first, today's vegetables are enough to eat at home, and when you deliver the dishes, I'll see what is missing at home, and you can send it tomorrow!"
"That's fine!" The old man immediately nodded and beckoned Yue Xi to go back to eat with him.
Yue Xi immediately waved his hand and refused: "I have to go back quickly, my daughter-in-law is here ......" Yue Xi stretched out his finger and pointed to his head and sighed: "Stupid...... If I don't go back, he won't eat......"
"Alas!" The old man also sighed with her: "Every family has a difficult scripture, you are kind in the future, and the ladies in the family are like this and treat her like this, sooner or later there will be good rewards!" ”
Yue Xi smiled bitterly and shook her head, noncommittal, and after paying a fixed fee of two hundred yuan, she turned her head and walked out of the vegetable field where various vegetables were grown.
"Hey, the afterlife!" The old man understood the number of copper coins, and the man in front of him had already walked out of the distance, and he hurriedly opened his throat and called out to her: "What is your mansion?" ”
"Oh, look at me!" Yue Xi patted his head and said, "Chengxi, Junfu." ”
Without hesitation, she reported the address of the Ying Su Courtyard: "You must remember that you have to send baskets of cucumbers on time every day, if I am not there, you can just look for my daughter-in-law, he will recognize this thing when he sees it......"
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In the evening, the old man sent two large baskets of melons to the prime minister's mansion and hurried to the west of the city.
When Ying Su returned to the courtyard in the carriage, he heard the voice of a man arguing with his housekeeper from a long distance: "The old man will still blackmail you for a basket of cucumbers when he is old?" I won't talk to you much, you invite your son-in-law and wife out, you ask your son-in-law, is it what he said, his daughter-in-law loves cucumbers! ”
“!” Ying Su sat in the car and only heard a raised eyebrow, he reached out and lifted the curtain of the carriage to look out, and then let the carriage stop at the gate of the courtyard.
"And what does the boy who asked you to send these things look like?" Ying Su asked in the car.
"What does it look like?" The old man raised his head and thought about it before saying: "The slender and slippery figure, people are also born white, but they are too thin, and it seems that it is not very good to look at the body." ”
"Hmm." Ying Su turned his head and smiled: "What did she ask you to send me?" ”
"To you?" The old man tilted his head and looked into the car twice, and was reprimanded by the driver who drove the car in a deep voice: "What to do?" Back off! ”
"Oh oh oh!" The old man understood, it must be a female dependant sitting in the car, and it was really unruly for him to look at people like this.
Turning around and carrying down a basket of cucumbers picked at noon on the ox cart and placing it next to the carriage, the old man wiped the sweat on his head and said, "Madam, take a look, the boy said that you will understand as soon as you see this......
Picking the curtain, Ying Su only glanced out, and a basket full of small cucumbers with thorns on the top came into view, and he couldn't help frowning and thinking: Why did my lady get these things for me......
"This ...... Yuexi! This question only had an answer in Ying Su's mind, and His Majesty the Emperor immediately turned red with anger, and the word 'Yuexi' almost overflowed from between his teeth: "But there is something better than a cucumber for you to use here......
Annoyed alone in the car, Ying Su regained his calm, and he said to the steward outside the car: "Take it, whatever this old man sends in the future, you are not allowed to move!" If you send it to my room, it will be ......."
"Yes!" The steward lowered his eyebrows and complied, and hurriedly beckoned someone to come over and carry the basket of cucumbers in.
"Fang Cai, it's me who is rude!" Seeing Ying Su's carriage enter the mansion, the steward who was still frowning at the old man hurriedly walked over with a smiling face: "This is a reward given to you by my master!" ”
In the steward's hand was a silver ingot or two: "In a while, I will follow you back to see the vegetable ......"
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