Taking the burden from a handmaid, Banqin hurriedly thanked him.

"Because of the Twenty Zen Tea Party, some relatives came to the family, and the Eighteen Niang wanted to accompany the guests, so it was inconvenient to go out these days, so I came to talk to the lady." The maidservant said, "Madame knows that the lady will also go, and the ladies in the family will make new clothes and make one for the lady." ”

"Thank you, ma'am." Banqin thanked him again.

"Then sister, go in, I'll go back, and I'll pick up the lady by car that day." The maidservant said.

The two girls said goodbye and watched the carriage leave, before Banqin turned around and entered the door.

"Who is it?" Xu Maoxiu asked while standing under the porch.

Banqin said the matter, and Xu Maoxiu nodded.

There was another knock on the courtyard door.

"Did you forget something?" Banqin said, and hurriedly went to open the door again, but was stunned.

There was a strange man standing outside the door, and when he saw Banqin, he smiled and walked inside.

"I haven't been here for a long time, this door is really hard to find, I have to forget." He said.

Banqin was so frightened that she hurriedly covered the door to block it.

"Who are you looking for?" She asked.

Xu Maoxiu also looked heavy and walked over.

The man also seemed startled.

"Isn't this the Chen family?" He asked, taking a few steps back and looking up at the plaque.

The door plaque was empty and wordless.

"This is not the Chen family." Banqin hurriedly said, "This is the Cheng family." ”

The man groaned, puzzled, and looked in.

Xu Maoxiu has already walked over.

"What's the matter?" He asked.

Banqin hurriedly turned around.

"Lang Jun, someone is looking for the Chen family." She said.

Seeing Xu Maoxiu, the man outside the door couldn't help but take two steps back again.

"This is not the Chen family. This is the Cheng family. You're looking for the wrong one. Let's inquire again. Xu Maoxiu looked at him and said.

The man looked at Xu Maoxiu and sighed.

"So I misremembered." He said, a little apologetic, and hurried again.

Xu Maoxiu nodded, and the man walked away, still looking left and right, muttering in his mouth, and knocked on the door next to him.

"I don't ask anyone clearly, how can I ask like this." Banqin said.

Xu Maoxiu nodded. The two of them withdrew their gaze and closed the door, and it was only then that the man who asked for directions cast his gaze again, straightened his body slightly bent, and the stranger's panic on his face faded, his brows furrowed slightly, and he turned and strode away.

Xu Maoxiu and Banqin in these doors naturally didn't know.

The maidservant opened the door of the house.

"What's wrong?" She asked.

"It's okay, someone is looking for someone." Xu Maoxiu said, "My sister is awake? ”

The maid nodded, and Cheng Jiaoniang was already sitting in the hall.

"The shopkeeper's initial plan is to carve tofu." Xu Maoxiu said.

"Eagle?" Cheng Jianniang said. "I'm afraid it's not easy to carve."

Xu Maoxiu nodded.

"yes." He said, laughing. "Now Sun Cai is making tofu day and night, Li Dascoo and... Miss Banqin also tried day and night. ”

Cheng Jianniang nodded.

"It's not easy to do." She said, "I don't know if it can be done, only these four or five days." ”

"Li Dascoop's knife work is not bad, but he has never made it so soft, so he is unfamiliar for a while." Xu Maoxiu said.

Cheng Jianniang pondered for a moment.

"Remember to carve it in the water when you do it." She said.

Put it in the water?

Xu Maoxiu sighed and nodded.

"I made a note of it." He said.

Cheng Jianniang pondered again for a moment, Xu Maoxiu knew that she was thinking about things and did not bother, the room was quiet, only the sound of the bamboo bamboo sticks hitting the stones outside came regularly.

"Half celery." Cheng Jiaoniang suddenly shouted, "Remember." ”

The maidservant hurriedly responded, got up and knelt in front of the pen, ink, paper and inkstone on the side.

"Mushroom soup." Cheng Jianniang said, "Put the golden needle vegetables, fungus, cut bamboo shoots and shredded mushrooms..."

The maidservant lowered her head and lifted the pen.

In the palace, the Queen Mother looked at the three people sitting on the ground in front of her.

"How, did you memorize it?" She asked, "It's been a stick of incense." ”

The eldest prince put the pen down.

"Mother, my grandson has finished writing." He said.

The Queen Mother happily asked people to present it, and saw that the handwriting on it was neat and neat.

"Big brother writes well." She said, looking at the other two, pulling down her face and asking, "What about you?" ”

The king of Jin'an also put down his pen with a smile.

"Mother, I'm done too." He said.

The chamberlain hurriedly went to present it, the queen mother swept her eyes, her face was even more ugly, and the handwriting on a piece of paper was sloppy, and only half of it was written.

"Hasn't the Ram been learned? Your Majesty punished you for three days, why can't you even write half a chapter now? She said.

The king of Jin'an County grinned.

"Niangniang, Mr. let me learn it well in a year, but now it's only half a year, and I will definitely memorize it after half a year." He said.

A trace of ridicule appeared on the face of the eldest prince on the side, and he pursed his lips disdainfully, raised his chin a few points, and straightened his figure.

"Niangniang, Niangniang, I have also written." The second prince hurriedly put down his pen, held his paper and shouted, and staggered over.

"Oh, the second brother wrote it well." The Queen Mother praised, looking at the two big characters on the paper.

"It's Brother Wei who taught me well." The second prince said, shaking the sleeves of the queen mother.

The Queen Mother pursed her lips and smiled, and glared at the King of Jin'an who was still laughing.

"Look at you, you still want children to help you out." She whispered angrily, "Go back and study well, and you will know what you can do every day." ”

"Yes, sissy." King Jin'an said with a smile.

The Queen Mother shook her head.

"All right, you go down." She said.

The three sons were busy sitting and saluting and retiring.

Walking out of the palace gate, the second prince held the king of Jin'an with one hand and the eldest prince with the other.

"Brother, let's go play willow shooting." He said loudly.

"I still have books to read." The eldest prince said, stretched out his hand and swept away the second prince's hand, and said with a little alienation.

The second prince sneered.

"Let's go, we're going." King Jin'an said busily.

"The king of the county, the second prince is young and doesn't know how to be diligent. Don't spoil him. The eldest prince said.

That's a big deal. The attendants in the field changed color. But he did not dare to speak, and lowered his head and pretended to be deaf and dumb.

The king of Jin'an County was still smiling on his face.

"Yes, yes." "I'm going to be diligent." ”

"Let's read." The eldest prince said, looking at the second prince with a bit of condescension.

The second prince pouted, stretched out his hand and pushed him.

"I'm not going with you." He said, and ran away.

The attendants were panicked and uneasy, and hurriedly followed.

The eldest prince was swept away. was also annoyed, but he couldn't see it like a child, and turned his head to see the king of Jin'an who was still smiling.

"Waste." He snorted, flicking his sleeves and striding away.

The inner servant followed with Hula, and in a blink of an eye, only the king of Jin'an County was left.

King Jin'an looked at the direction where the two of them were going, and slowly turned around.

"What you are fighting for, the gentleman, why don't you know? On his hand, he said: The master is surrounded by the prince, and the noble brother of the widow is also. Under his hand, he said: This son is wearing a seal, and the county outside the city is also Yin. Who gets the son? The prisoner said: Help meet Ding Ding. Weak. ”

A low chant accompanied the sound of footsteps.

On the other side of the road, there was a one-year-old white and fat waiter who couldn't help but stop.

"Left pass?" He whispered. When I looked up, I saw the tall back of a young man in the distance.

"What's wrong, grandpa?" The little chamberlain beside him hurriedly asked. "Where are you going to turn left?"

"Turn your head to the left, don't read and don't understand anything." The fat chamberlain glared and shouted.

The little chamberlain smiled and shrank his head when he was scolded.

"Grandpa, my grandson is not as good as you are to study, and you can serve Your Majesty." He said.

The fat chamberlain snorted, and then looked at the distant back.

"The eldest prince is only learning Zhou Li now, and the king of Jin'an County will only learn Zuo Chuan next year, and now he has already carried it to Bozhou to ask the prisoner?" He muttered, shook his head again, and smiled, "Up and down his hands, up and down his hands, the people in this palace, which one is not like this." ”

"Grandpa, what's the upper and lower hands?" The little chamberlain asked boldly.

"It's bullshit." The fat waiter glared and scolded, and kicked the little waiter, "Don't leave quickly, don't ask if you shouldn't ask, you're idle." ”

Xiao Nei hurriedly led the way, and the two quickly left.

In the side hall, the king of Jin'an County sat cross-legged, with a book in front of him, the book was not unfolded, but he lowered his eyes and his mouth was thinking, which lasted for a long time until the sound of talking came from outside.

"Your Highness, the man is back." The voice of the chamberlain came.

The king of Jin'an got up and walked out, the house had been pushed open, and a guard sat in, and his face was described as the person who went to Cheng Jiaoniang's house in Yudai Bridge and mistakenly went to the wrong door.

"How?" King Jin'an asked.

"It's not the Chen family, the surname is Cheng, it's a man, twenty-six or seventeen years old, with a northwest accent, and it's a maid who opens the door, and I haven't seen anyone else." The guard said.

No, there was no hope for this question.

King Jin'an nodded and waved his hand.

"It seems that I can only ask Master Chen straight to the point." He laughed.

"The king of the county can't." The guards hurriedly persuaded.

King Jin'an smiled.

"Yes, I know." He said, "I'm not in a hurry, I'll think of other ways, there will always be a way, everything will have a way, it can be solved." ”

The last sentence seems to be self-talking.

The guard bowed his head and bowed to leave, and when he walked outside the door, he couldn't help frowning.

"What are you doing?" The chamberlain asked in a low voice.

The guard shook his head and walked out.

After walking a few steps, I couldn't help but stop.

I don't know whether to say or not to say this matter, he always feels that the Lang Jun surnamed Cheng in Yudaiqiao is a little familiar, with a pair of eyes, as if he has seen it somewhere.

However, maybe it's a mistake, so many people come and go in Beijing, it's inevitable.

The guard took a deep breath and continued to stride away.

As the day was getting midway, Saturday Lang reined in his horse and found himself walking to the Jade Belt Bridge.

"Childe?" The little guy asked.

Liu Liulang took a deep breath, turned over and dismounted, and knocked on Cheng Jianniang's courtyard door.

"You're you again? Do? Jin Ge'er shouted through the crack in the door.

Do?

How did he know what he was doing and came here again!

"Any money?" He asked in a muffled voice.

"I don't lend you any money!" Jin Ge'er said vigilantly.

Liuliulang raised his foot and kicked on the door, frightening Brother Jin to jump away.

Banqin came out when she heard the voice, and opened the door despite Jin Ge'er's objections.

"Childe. The lady is not at home. She said.

"Out of the river again?" Liuliulang asked with a frown.

What does a woman's family run out of every day?

"Yes." Banqin said.

"No. What is missing. Speak. Saturday Lang said.

Banqin smiled slightly.

"Thank you for your concern, there is no shortage of ladies and sons." She said.

Liuliulang exhaled, turned around and left, walked a few steps and stopped, and turned back.

Banqin was standing by the door and closing the door, smiling at Jin Ge'er with her head sideways.

This girl, when did she dare to laugh in front of him again?

And dare to raise your head and speak? The waist bar is also straightened...

The door slowly closed.

Whether it's a person or a thing. It's just a person, it's just a name.

Liuliulang retracted his gaze, took the reins handed by the servant, turned over and galloped off his horse.

The tender white tofu is carefully placed in a bowl of water.

Li Dasco chose a thin bamboo knife from the row of knives of different sizes and materials in front of him.

The people around couldn't help but hold their breath, watching Li Dasco bend over and reach into the bowl and start turning the knife, a little bit of white wool scattered in the water.

Cheng Jianniang's old shopkeeper Xu Maoxiu did not approach, but sat under the porch and looked at this side, and sighed when she heard it for a while.

Li Dasco straightened up and looked at the water bowl in a daze.

"Again." He said.

The girl hurriedly took another piece of tofu.

Li Dasco blinked his eyes covered with red silk slightly, and leaned into the knife again.

"It's no problem to carve a flower." Shopkeeper Wu said, while carefully pushing a bowl over.

The maid sitting behind Cheng Jianniang couldn't help but wow.

"Oh my God. This peony flower is vivid! She said, "Is it really carved from tofu?" ”

"yes, yes. In two days, I practiced it. Xu Maoxiu said, looking at Li Dasco with a little admiration.

I really didn't expect this chef, who didn't seem to have anything peculiar, to have such skills.

"He is an honest man, he is stupid and bored to practice his craft, when he followed the master and apprentice, he was the most useless, he couldn't figure out the new dishes and new flavors, but he practiced the basic skills the most solidly, which is also a gain and a loss, and it is difficult to do both in the world." Shopkeeper Wu sighed.

Cheng Jianniang nodded.

"Then it's good to carve." "What else to do?" she said. ”

"Because it is said to be a vegetarian and an offering in front of the Buddha, Li Dasco feels that the flowers are not new, so he wants to be more appropriate." Shopkeeper Wu said, "I have to carve a Buddha." ”

The maid's eyes widened, looking over there, Li Dascoo changed another piece of tofu, and made repeated attempts without discouragement.

"But it's only four days." She couldn't help but say.

"It's really not good, I use peony flowers after the last one." Shopkeeper Wu said, "Anyway, we mainly rely on the flavor of tofu, which is the icing on the cake." ”

Cheng Jianniang nodded, and the three of them stopped talking, looking at the seriously carved Li Dasco over there.

Banqin here walked into the market with a basket on her shoulder, and someone immediately greeted her.

"There is a new dish today, I specially kept it for Miss Banqin."

"Miss Banqin, come and see these muttons."

"Miss Banqin, I got you the heart, liver and lungs you said last time..."

Banqin smiled and replied one by one, picking and choosing, it was hard to see that this was only the fourth time she had been here.

There were a number of people standing in front of the butcher's shop, among whom were two well-dressed women.

"Zhang Dongjia." Banqin walked over and shouted at Rinchi.

The two women turned their heads to look at her, with a bit of arrogance on their faces, although these rich and noble families were not allowed to be on the table at home, but when they came out, they were superior.

The fat man in the greasy apron walked out and saw Banqin grinning.

"The girl is here, and the things are ready for you." He said, "It's weird, it's clean, why do you want this thing?" ”

"Owner, that's medicine." Banqin said, looking at the two women outside as if inadvertently.

"Medicine? What kind of medicine does this heart, liver and lungs take? The man shouted in surprise.

Banqin smiled and said nothing.

"Miss Banqin, you coax me." The man laughed.

"I'll coax you to do something, it's some tonics." Banqin smiled.

"Make up for what?" The man asked.

"It's nothing, it's healthy, gray hair turns black, whatever." Banqin said.

The man glared, and then laughed.

"How can there be such a medicine?" He said.

The two women who had been standing outside without speaking looked over at this time, and their eyes turned on Banqin.

"No one else has it, but my family has it." Banqin smiled, didn't say more, reached out and took the wrapped things handed by the shop guy, put them in the basket and walked away.

"Who is this?" Watching Banqin walk away, a woman suddenly asked.

Zhang Dongjia, who was about to turn back, sighed.

"I live in Yudaiqiao, and I say that my family's surname is Cheng, and I don't know how many people in the Lu Dao family use a lot of them every day, and they are all heart, liver, lungs or something..." ”

The two women looked at each other.

Surname Cheng...

This surname is now very loud at home, and people up and down know it, because the old lady hangs on her mouth every day, especially after the recovered Tong Neihan came to the house as a guest, listening to the lady in charge, the old man has eaten, and even some people are afraid to get sick or something.

Fortunately, he was persuaded by his wife, saying that Mrs. Cheng is not cured now, and if she really gets that incurable disease, she will really die.

But doesn't Mrs. Cheng live in the Zhou family?

The two women hesitated, one gritted their teeth, looked at the girl who was walking out along the street with baskets, and raised her feet to catch up.

"Hey... Mother Gu, the mutton you want is ready... Ay? What about people? ”

The guys in the shop stood at the door and looked around, puzzled.

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Two chapters in one, no update in the afternoon. (To be continued......)