Chapter 264 It's delicious!

However, this kind of thing, Qiu Chen didn't plan to verify it. After all, she never thought that she would have anything to do with the high-ranking royal family, even if she received the title of a third-grade lady, she has never become the consciousness of the official class.

After lunch, Qiu Chen was checking a plot of colorless glass that had just been burned out with Yang Shumeng in the kiln house in the backyard, and a word came from the front yard, and Qin Zheng invited her over.

After Tang Wenyong left, Qin Zheng has been extremely quiet, not only did he not go out, but he never even came to the kiln room in the backyard, he read books in the house every day, or set up chess games by himself...... That way is more regular than before the wound healed, Qiu Chen also secretly slandered, a generation of famous generals is about to transform into an ancient otaku, yes, Qiu Chen, who received the message, was very puzzled, I don't know what happened to Qin Zheng suddenly looking for him.

In the west room of the main house in the front yard, Qin Zheng sat on the kang alone, as usual; Unlike usual, he wore a luxurious silver silk embroidered knurled brocade robe and tied a jade belt today...... Sitting there like that, he suddenly became back to the majestic and profound Jingbei general, rather than the peaceful and stable Jingbei Hou.

In addition, Qiu Chen's gaze swept over, and he was stunned to find that the small objects that Qin Zheng used to use in the Xili room were gone, and the originally small room seemed empty.

Seeing Qiu Chen come in, Qin Zheng glanced at her, motioned for her to sit down opposite, and then calmly and soothingly poured her a cup of tea with a pot in his own hand, and pushed it to her side.

"Thank you!" Qiu Chen habitually thanked him.

Qin Zheng raised his head and looked at Qiu Chen slightly pursing the corners of his mouth, as if he wanted to pull out a smile, but he couldn't succeed.

"I'm going to Zhengding City early tomorrow morning to meet the three princes, this time...... Maybe you can come back soon, or maybe you will be able to return to the capital on an errand...... I still leave Qin Li and Qin Yong to you, if there is anything to be dealt with, even if it is handed over to them, they can't handle it, just let them send me a message as soon as possible. After Qin Zheng paused for the first sentence, the words that followed him became smoother. These peaceful and even nagging words, if Qiu Chen hadn't heard them with his own ears, he would hardly have believed that they came from the mouth of Qin Zheng, who was not smiling......

"Uh, okay, I got it." Stunned, Qiu Chen responded dryly.

After agreeing, Qiu Chen's brain speed recovered a little, only to find that his answer seemed to be a little too coping, so he hurriedly explained: "I didn't plan to do anything a year ago, but I just went to Fucheng to have a look, and I would stay at home most of the time...... I don't think anything will happen. ”

Qin Zheng didn't continue to discuss this issue with her, looked at Qiu Chen, and said, "The third prince Yang Jingyu, who was twenty years old at the time, was only three months younger than the second prince Yang Jingyong, and was proud of his intelligence and cleverness. Moreover, there are many romantic and talented people who boast of marrying a wife at the age of seventeen, and now there is a front and two sides in the house, and there are countless concubines and kabuki...... Moreover, he only likes women from good families, especially women from good families who are outstanding and innocent, and most of the concubines and kabuki in his house are collected from the people......"

Qin Zheng said so much at a great length, Qiu Chen would really become a pig if he didn't understand it.

He was admonishing her to restrain the rest of the family and avoid going out as much as possible, which would lead to calamity. In addition, he is afraid that there is only one other reason, that is, Lin Xianniang, the fifth lady of the Lin family. A woman from a good family with an innocent net worth is still a stunning person, and such a person looks like she was made for Yang Jingyu......

Qiu Chen nodded and thanked solemnly: "Thank you Master Hou for reminding me, I will carefully restrain everyone in the family...... Well, just take refuge in Liujiaao! ”

Qin Zheng secretly breathed a sigh of relief, looking at Qiu Chen and wanting to remind him one more step, but he didn't say it after all. She could understand his reminder, she must have noticed something, with her means and knowledge, but she didn't pay attention to it, and she would naturally deal with it carefully.

After this topic was finished, Qin Zheng's expression relaxed, and asked: "Now that it is about to enter November, everything at home is decided, is it time to start preparing for the New Year?" Tell the gentlemen, take the children into the mountains to hunt, hunt some game, and by the way, see if there is any good fur? ”

These days, there are no major events in the family, and small things are constant, especially the affairs of the Erkui family, I always feel a little depressed. Hearing about the hunt, Qiu Chen also felt yearning, and couldn't help but relax and smiled: "Okay, let's see the good weather, and after a while, I'll ...... with the gentlemen."

Qin Zheng didn't wait for Qiu Chen to finish speaking, so he answered: "I'll go and discuss it with the gentlemen." I heard that Mr. Ding's chess skills are good, so I happened to ask him to talk about a few games. ”

Such an easy-going and relaxed Qin Zheng is really abnormal, and it is really ...... Scratching your head. Qiu Chen looked at him stunned for a moment, then nodded stiffly.

Qiu Chen looked at Qin Zheng's pure room...... Come to him, there is nothing but tea.

"Mr. Yoding, the prince, came over to talk, set a time to tell someone to speak, and also asked someone to prepare some refreshments."

Qin Zheng followed Qiu Chen's gaze around his room, and didn't understand what Qiu Chen was looking at, he was surprised, but when he heard her say this, he frowned slightly, and finally understood, he showed a trace of discomfort, and a somewhat surprised expression flashed, and then he smiled with his eyebrows widened, nodded and said, "Okay!" Just look at the paving! ”

Qiu Chen returned to the backyard, asked Yufeng and Qingxing to take out all the furs in the warehouse, and selected more than a dozen brightly colored and heavy materials, and discussed with the Liu family and the Zhao family to make new clothes for the New Year.

"One of our families makes two bodies and one big sweater. I also had to choose two pieces of fabric for the three gentlemen and send them over...... Mr. Pan and Mr. Tang are both with their families, and Mr. Ding is not short of these two clothes, presumably the family will also make them for him, so we don't have to worry about doing them. ”

Zhao looked at Liu and said with a smile: "I don't have to do it...... I'm bulky now, and I can't wear any clothes, and besides, if I do it now, I won't be able to wear it next year, so it's a pity to have such a good material. ”

Qiu Chen looked up at Zhao's slightly bulging little belly, and her clothes that were tightly strangled on her body, still grinning, looked at Liu's again, and said with a smile: "Second sister-in-law's words are not right, our women are the most beautiful when they are pregnant, where is it ugly?" Besides, the second sister-in-law has to dress comfortably now...... Oh, by the way, fur may not be good for children, so let's make three silk cotton clothes for the second sister-in-law, which is soft, warm, and not cold. ”

Liu looked at the tight clothes on Zhao's body, and nodded with a smile in his eyes: "Just listen to your sister, you are bulky now, it is better to be comfortable!" ”

The mother-in-law spoke, and the Zhao family couldn't refuse, and promised to thank Qiu Chen with a happy face, so she chose the clothes and materials with Liu and Qiu Chen.

Pick a good one for the family, Qiu Chen called into Qingjiang's house and explained the materials.

Qingjiang's family touched the soft and thick silk and satin material, praised it repeatedly, and said: "Madam, there are only two of us in our family...... To be honest, the two of us are okay to do ordinary needlework, but the embroidery is a little worse, so it is a pity to hand over such good materials to the two of us...... I heard that the county and the city have a special embroidery for people to do the work, the embroidery is exquisite, if you can invite two embroiderers to do embroidery, I and Ma specially cut and sew, this dress is really exquisite and beautiful! ”

Qiu Chen was slightly surprised, and then nodded approvingly: "What you said is true, and it is also your duty...... Okay, it's up to you, send a message to the past, and let Daxing find a few embroidery girls to come back...... How many embroiderers do you want to invite? ”

After a pause at this, Qiu Chen said again: "Don't hold on to these clothes, our family's bedding, drapery, tent and so on for next year have to be prepared in advance, just invite a few more this time and embroider them in advance, and it will be cheaper for you to sew them and pick them up when the time comes." ”

In modern times, she especially likes those exquisite Suzhou embroidery and Shu embroidery, but in modern times, there are very few people who can embroider, and exquisite embroidery is even rarer, and the real high-end and exquisite embroidery are made into handicrafts and decorative paintings, who is willing to make clothes to wear on the body...... Well, she's not used to wearing too much embroidered clothes now, but that doesn't stop her from liking fine embroidery. If you really want to find a truly exquisite embroiderer, you might as well make a few embroidery interstitial screens, ornaments and the like to put them in the house, which is also pleasing to the eye!

The Qingjiang family was stunned, and then laughed: "According to what Mrs. said, there are more people who need to use it...... Well, the clothes will be made out a year ago, and our family likes to be plain, so it's enough to touch three people. As for curtains, bedding and the like, there is a lot of embroidery work, and the patterns are not good-looking. ”

Slow work out of fine work, embroidery such fine work is even more urgent, besides, embroidery looks at only holding an embroidery needle is not tired, in fact, the most tiring eyes, but also tired waist, shoulders and cervical spine, people who do embroidery work all year round have lumbar spine, cervical spondylosis, vision is also degraded early, it is because of this, many embroidery girls over forty, eyes are broken......

She likes to embroider and refine, but she can't bear to force people to survive like that......

Listening to Qingjiang's words, Qiu Chen slowly summed up. This time, I simply found a few more embroiderers, especially to find a few embroiderers who are really good...... It's best to be able to sign the deed, no matter how old Man'er is, he can also learn needlework, and Yufeng, Qingxing and a few little girls can also learn it...... Well, pick a few clever little girls and learn them specially...... In the future, it will be much easier to use needlework at home.

Seeing Qiu Chen of the Qingjiang family, he was silent, and couldn't help but say: "Speaking of which, the embroidery girl in the south is really good-looking...... Embroidered like flowers, embroidered grass like grass, embroidered cats, birds and other living creatures are even more magical, the eyes are vivid, with brilliance, just like life...... Although our embroiderers here also have good ones, after all, they are coarse, and they are not as delicate and fine as those made by others. ”

Qiu Chen turned his eyes back and looked at the Qingjiang family and smiled: "What you say is really ...... When you say that, it seems that you have seen the good embroidery work in the south? ”

The Qingjiang family smiled and said: "Don't hide it from Mrs. I, when I was in the Liao family, I was just a second-class daughter-in-law, and I did some ordinary sewing work on the needle and thread...... Sometimes, the lord's house also brought some clothes from the south, and they saw some of them...... At that time, the embroidery lady of the Liao family who was good at embroidery also tried to embroider, but she didn't have that kind of work......

Qiu Chen nodded and said with a smile: "Your needlework is also excellent, so you don't have to belittle yourself so much." Well...... This matter is in a hurry, and I have to ask someone to find someone slowly...... The New Year's clothes let Daxing first find a few embroidery girls from Fucheng to do it, and then find a few embroidery girls from the south to do it, and then make next year's tent curtains and so on. When the embroidery girl comes, you also see that our family has this heart, and follow it to learn hard...... Buy a few more clever little girls to come over, and follow them for a few years, and then our family will use embroidery work, so we don't have to go outside to find someone. ”

Qiu Chen also thought that in the future, Man'er's little girl, companion room, etc., must start carefully selecting and preparing for cultivation. This aspect is more difficult than saving those things, and you have to work hard.

The Qingjiang family received the material and went down, Qiu Chen instructed Yufeng to lay down the paper and pen, and then groaned slightly, and wrote a letter to Yun Jichen, mainly talking about the situation of the workshop, how much it could produce before the year and other affairs.

After writing the letter, Qiu Chen picked it up and read it carefully, made sure that there was no mistake, took the envelope and sealed it with fire paint, and ordered someone to call Zhao Jiu in, and asked him to send someone to send the letter to Fucheng and hand it over to Daxing, and asked Daxing to find a few embroidery girls to come over. Zhao Jiu took the letter and repeated Qiu Chen's message, and after making sure that it was correct, Shi Li retreated and arranged for someone to go to Fucheng.

After doing this, Qiu Chen breathed a sigh of relief, took a sip of the tea handed by Yufeng, suddenly thought about it, turned his head to Yufeng and said, "I remember buying some pine nuts and hazelnuts from Fucheng, as well as watermelon seeds left in the summer, and pumpkin seeds left after the autumn, go find them...... It's getting colder and colder day by day, let's think about stir-frying, eat a little when we have nothing to do, it's stronger than those dim sum, not tired! ”

As soon as they heard the snacks, without waiting for Yufeng to reply, Qingxing and a few little girls had already brightened their eyes, and they agreed repeatedly, and hugged Yufeng to the treasury to look for dried fruits.

When Yufeng brought a few little girls back with a few little girls to carry the dried fruits, it was almost lunchtime.

Nowadays, the family is short of manpower, and the most important thing is not needlework, but the big kitchen. Every day, I have to cook meals for dozens of people in the family, and I have to boil hot water for drinking and washing in each room, which is unbearable. After lunch, he took the girl in the backyard and the Liu family, and after picking and choosing, he started making it himself on the stove where the water was boiling in the ear room.

Pumpkin seeds should be boiled with five spices and salt, dried and then fried. Watermelon seeds are boiled and dried. Pine nuts, peanuts, hazelnuts, etc., are stir-fried in clean fine sand. After a busy afternoon, although the little girls were tired, they were still smiling and happy. The dried fruits made according to Mrs.'s method are not delicious, and Mrs. also directly gave them a portion for each of them, asking them to take it back to eat for themselves or for their families to taste, how can the little girls not be happy.

Qiu Chen was also tired, he was full of fireworks, asked for hot water to take a bath, changed into clean and comfortable clothes, drank a cup of tea to quench his thirst, and then pinched a few watermelon seeds to taste.

At this time, the watermelon seeds are big black melon seeds, one by one full and fat, soaked for an hour, and after boiling for 20 minutes, they are taken out and drained, and put on the kang head to dry. Qiu Chen tasted two and put them down, the taste was still good, and it would be delicious to dry some more.

The pumpkin seeds are similar, they are not delicious if they are not fried at this time, and Qiu Chen is still satisfied with the taste after tasting them. The pine nuts that she was looking forward to the most did not live up to her expectations, and the plump pine nuts were very fragrant after being fried...... It's just that she doesn't want to fry it, and the pine nuts have a smaller crack, and it's hard to eat.

After eating two with great difficulty, Qiu Chen put them down, while thinking, draw a picture and find someone to make a few clips to open the husk, pine nuts, hazelnuts, walnuts These dried fruits are all good things, and it is good to give more to the elderly and children in the future.

He handed the fried pine nuts to Laurel and Haruka, and asked them to pick out two plates of the ones that had been well opened, and carried them to the West Room. One plate was tasted by the family in Xili, and the other plate was handed to Zhao for her to take back to the room and eat slowly. Pine nuts are rich in oleic acid, linoleic acid and rich protein, and also rich in calcium, phosphorus, iron and other trace elements, the elderly and children are very beneficial to eat, and it is even more beneficial for Zhao to eat more when she is pregnant.

The family tasted the pine nuts happily, and after dinner, Qiu Chen didn't accompany the two old men, went back to the house and looked at the watermelon seeds that had been dried, and asked Yuegui to pack a box of pine nuts and go to the front yard.

After entering the house, Qiu Chen took off his cloak and handed it to Yuegui, naturally sat down opposite Qin Zheng, opened the box with a smile and pushed it in front of Qin Zheng: "I just fried it this afternoon, can you taste it?" ”

Qin Zheng put down the book in his hand, lowered his eyes and looked at the two dried fruits in the box, and raised his eyes to look at Qiu Chen for a moment: "How to eat this?" ”

Watermelon was not popular at this time, and watermelon seeds were naturally not eaten yet. Pine nuts, rich and noble people have a long history of eating, but these masters are afraid that no one has the patience to peel and eat them one by one, and what they see and eat is estimated to be the net pine nuts in the snack of the dish, and they don't know how to start when they see things with shells.

Qiu Chen smiled happily, pulled a large opening in the pine nut, broke it along the crack, poured out the pine nut kernel and pinched the skin, and then put it straight into his mouth, and ate sweetly: "That's it!" ”

Qin Zheng watched Qiu Chen pick another pine nut and peel it off and eat it, he was stunned, a smile flashed in his eyes, he lowered his eyes, raised his hand and twisted a few pine nuts at random, held them in front of his eyes and looked at them, twisted one and pinched it hard with the thumb and index finger of his right hand...... There was a muffled crack, Qiu Chen, who was eating pine nuts, looked over in surprise when he heard the sound, and saw Qin Zheng's embarrassed expression, and slowly let go of his fingers, and the pine nuts were even broken into foam......

"Uh......" Qiu Chen was surprised, and then picked a pine nut with a better opening and showed it to Qin Zheng, "You don't need to pinch it so hard, it seems to be open like this, it seems to be open, it won't hurt the nuts inside, and it will be opened with a light break." ”

Qin Zheng looked at it seriously, twisted another pine nut and put it between his fingers, controlled the strength, slightly forced, and there was a crisp sound, Qiu Chen stretched out his hand under his signal, and a pine nut with the skin cracked to the right amount fell into her palm.

"Worthy of ...... Sure enough, the kung fu is good, with such strength, just right! Qiu Chen instantly rejoiced, praised vaguely, broke open the pine nut shell, peeled the pine nut kernel inside, and handed it to Qin Zheng, "You taste it!" ”

Qiu Chen originally wanted to hand it to Qin Zheng, but he didn't want people to think about it at all, as soon as he stretched out his head, he opened his mouth and ate the pine nuts with Qiu Chen's fingers, and his warm lips even rubbed against Qiu Chen's fingers...... A strange feeling arose in an instant, and after Qiu Chen was stunned, he quickly retracted his hand and said calmly: "You try again, just like that!" ”

Qin Zheng looked at the woman opposite's cheeks that instantly turned red and panicked, and her eyes instantly became moist and bright, and lowered his eyes to hide the thick joy and smile in his eyes, as if he didn't ask: "It's delicious!" ”

Pine nuts are delicious! Just now, the feeling of her lips brushing her fingers...... It's even tastier!

Finding the control point of strength, Qin Zheng pinched the pine nuts again, and in the crisp sound, a bunch of pine nuts were held in front of Qiu Chen by a thin and slender hand, all of them seemed to be open, just right.

Qiu Chen had already taken off the embarrassment just now, and happily took the pine nuts that had been pinched, secretly rejoicing in his heart, such a talent is much easier to use than fruit clips...... While his fingers flipped and flipped a few pine nuts and handed them over—but, this time, instead of pinching one and sending them over, he held them in the palm of his hand, and handed them down with his palm downward.

Qin Zheng stretched out his hand without moving, his palm facing upward......

He didn't make any more small movements, he just watched, his hands were big and slender, but Qiu Chen's hands were small and round, and the delicate skin was so smooth, like the finest mutton fat white jade, it was so small and delicate in the palm of his hand...... He wanted to hold this small hand, and from then on, he held her hand, looking at the morning sun and the twilight moon, and the summer flowers and winter snow......

However, he didn't move, just watched quietly, as if he wanted to freeze this picture of a big hand holding a small hand in his eyes and imprinted it in his heart.

Qiu Chen let go of his hand, and only two or three pine nuts fell in his palm, and most of them actually stuck to the slightly damp palm...... She has a feeling of wanting to cry without tears, why does it always happen in such a very embarrassing situation?

Then, Qin Zheng also noticed her situation, smiled slightly, and said, "I'll help you!" ”

The slender fingers were completely on it, and the pine nuts were pulled from her small palms......

Qin Zheng had a faint smile on the corner of his mouth, raised his bright eyes to look over, and saw that Qiu Chen was stunned and didn't retract his hand, he simply turned his hand over, turned Qiu Chen's palm over, carefully twisted off the last pine nut in his palm, and then naturally pulled a handkerchief and wiped Qiu Chen's hands......

Finally, a certain woman who was frightened one after another woke up, quickly retracted her hand, and wiped herself with a handkerchief: "Xie Lu Xie, I'll just come by myself!" ”

Qin Zheng's eyes darkened slightly, he picked the corners of his mouth, nodded, one by one, and ate his own benefits with great elegance and comfort!

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It's time to eat...... Ha Luha, you guys move the small bench and get ready to watch the big show play......