Chapter 676: Silent Mourning for the Fox in the Mountains and Forests
"This is a bit lacking in morality, you know that the princess is pregnant, and you can't be angry."
"You don't lack virtue when you bully?"
"How can I call this bullying you, you call me my ancestor, you are my unworthy descendant, forget? If you complain, you are not filial to me. ”
"The more you talk about it, the more you get more and more energetic? Okay, when you return to the capital, I will definitely give you a good bed and see it in your study with your own eyes. ”
"You know how to threaten me with this."
"Pathetic married man, I allow you to envy the good life of bachelors again."
"Whew!"
The palace chief patted Gu Yun's shoulder and stood up.
"Husband and wife enemies, two people have one life, my concubine is naturally my biggest weakness, there is no doubt about it, but your weakness is Bai Ko, this is terrible, and it is also very unfair to your young lady in the future, a good innocent woman is involved in your messy relationship, and the root is still in your hesitation and decision, the big husband is a real failure to do this, if something happens to Bai Ko in the future, you will be harmed."
"Nonsense, I still need to say it." Gu Yun patted the weeds stuck to his body, and stood up with an unhappy face.
"Bear with me, it's not long before the New Year, the caravan is already on its way back, let's see what they find and we'll make plans."
"And came back? So fast? ”
"Just set off, it's still far from the capital, if the road is smooth, it is estimated that it will be good to enter the capital in the thirties of the Chinese New Year's Eve."
"It's okay, it's okay, it's better to come back after the end of the first month, and it's better to come back a day earlier."
"Okay, okay, let's stop talking, hurry up and work, catch more foxes and go back to sell them for money, and make money to buy flowers for my daughter-in-law to wear."
"Fuck off, lewd married man."
"Jealous single dog, I pity you ~~~~"
The two young men ran away in a flattering manner, and spent another hard day in the mountains and forests.
Bai Ko got up during the lunch break and went to the dragon tent to serve tea as usual, chatted with the saint about some gossip, told some interesting stories about the market, and the people waiting outside the tent could hear the laughter coming from inside from time to time, and the old man in the palace maid occasionally talked about it in private, and he would sigh as if the white imperial kitchen was still there.
Concubine Zhao Xian called her daughter to drink tea with her in the tent and talked about the children's marriage, the eldest princess hinted to her mother that she didn't want her daughter Shi Tianqi to marry Gu Yun, the purpose of doing so was too obvious, it would lead people to discuss, not to mention that it was not the turn of the woman's family to be the master, Gu Yunan and his wife would not be able to do it if they did not agree, rather than let their daughter suffer such grievances, it was better to find another suitable husband, there are many people in the clan circle who can marry, it is not necessary to marry Gu Yun.
As for the real reason for not marrying, the eldest princess did not confess to her mother, she was still worried about her brother-in-law's messing up the mandarin duck spectrum, especially the two nieces who also wanted to marry Gu Yun, so let them toss it, she herself will not get involved, and she can't afford to lose this person.
Seeing that the eldest daughter was not happy to marry Gu Fu again, Concubine Zhao Xian was naturally uncomfortable, and was interrupted by the eldest princess after saying a few more words, asking the concubine not to say too much in this kind of place, and to wait until she returned to the palace.
Concubine Zhao Xian had to hold back the words back into her stomach sullenly, feeling that she was really old, and the children didn't listen to her anymore.
In the afternoon, the county lord of Jingyun still came to Bai Ko to learn to make a small snack, and the gingerbread made by the girls of the pomegranate club yesterday also wanted to learn, and they also specially brought all the ingredients such as ginger powder, but this kind of dim sum that stirs all the ingredients in order and then bakes it is indeed the most suitable for novices like them, and the only place to use the fire is the first melted butter and the last oven, which is less dangerous.
They want to learn, Bai Ko is naturally willing to teach, and promised to teach them to make pound cakes tomorrow, but she deliberately changed the pound word to half a word, which sounds to them as half a cake, which means that four parts are half a catty weight, that is, eight taels of ingredients, mixed and baked into a cake, that is also an excellent introductory snack, no need to calculate various proportions, just rote memorization, people who are not good at arithmetic will not mistake the amount of ingredients, so as not to explain the origin of the weight unit of pounds.
The ladies ate fragrant gingerbread and happily agreed to tomorrow's appointment.
When the boys came back with their prey, it was dark, and the men who were tired for a day rested early after bathing and eating, and even Gu Yun fell asleep as soon as his head hit the pillow, and in the past few days, he swept the mountains and forests near the camp, and the small animals probably hidden, so he deliberately walked farther away today and brought back a good harvest, so he was even more tired.
Winter hunting was originally a time to exert one's skills, although Gu Yun did not participate in hunting competitions, and the mountains and forests he went to were not used for competitions, and only picked foxes, but their group of people went into the mountains every day to harvest, which made many people joke about the winter hunting in the past few years, and the foxes in this mountain forest were really unlucky.
The saint laughed at such an interesting remark, this was originally a fenced royal hunting ground, there are countless small animals, and it is naturally the ability of their young people to hunt, not to mention that the breeding foxes used to breed are enough to naturally hunt foxes like this, and the foxes are unlucky for a few years.
The next day, the ladies came to learn the pound cake, there was Bai Ko on the side to take care of, naturally a success, soft and delicious, a cake cut into ten slices, a person can eat it all in one breath unconsciously, before leaving, Gong Jingyun also invited Bai Ko to the tent of the Hou Mansion of Fuyang early tomorrow morning, and made three sets of geese for everyone.
The county lord didn't dare to disobey his words, although this big dish required a whole day of preparation, Bai Ko still happily agreed.
When Gu Yun and the others came back from the mountains and forests, they heard that Bai Ko was going to stay in the Fuyang Hou Mansion for a day tomorrow, and they didn't know when they would come back at night, Gu Yun was a little unhappy, and at night he insisted on leaving Bai Ko on duty for the reason of sorting out the business plan, and sent Qinglan and them back to sleep.
At the beginning, the two did discuss some business plans for the coming year seriously, after all, last year they boasted that they went to Haikou, as long as the business of the factory monopolized the capital, they could pay 10,000 taels of tax silver, and this year's factory was completed for trial production, and there was a reason to pay not much tax, if they couldn't pay a good-looking amount next year, someone would definitely take the opportunity to crack down, saying that Gu Yun was bullying the king.
Bai Ko's promise will eventually be counted on Gu Yun's head, no one will say that Bai Ko bullied the king, but he will definitely say this about Gu Yun.
Gu Yun became an imperial businessman at the age of seventeen, before he was just a dazzling rich and noble son in the capital, no matter how much money he made was his personal behavior, at most beware of his means of robbing business, but now the title of the imperial businessman has been added, which makes the original ordinary business have an extra political cover, which is too easy to be attacked.
(Author's note: Published chapters can't directly modify chapter names, and I'm a little embarrassed to find an editor to change them...... Otherwise, let's just leave it at that...... )