Yun Yao and Qi Bao put two reclining chairs under the osmanthus tree, one for each of them, covered with a thin wool blanket, and while slowly peeling the almonds, they instructed a few rough mothers-in-law to wash the fruits, remove the pits, cut them into pieces, put them in jars, and put the small jars one by one in a huge iron pot to set up a fire to steam.

After filling the pot and lighting the fire, Yun Yao asked Peony to look at the clock on the small table, and she whispered to Qi Bao Bottle.

When the two sisters-in-law were talking about the rise, Peony quietly came over and handed Yun Yao a letter sealed with wax oil: "Madam, a letter from Chang'an." ”

"Didn't your father come here?" Yun Yao was stunned for a moment and thought of something, smiled and took the letter and opened it to read.

"Did your father write it?" Qi Bao asked a question.

Yun Yao shook her head: "No, it's a letter written by an old acquaintance of Chang'an." ”

She read the letter slowly, folded it carefully and put it in her sleeve, and laughed with Qi Baohua.

When he got to the peony and saw that the time was almost up, he asked a few mothers-in-law to open the pot, put special gloves on the lid of the jar that had been steamed together one by one, and then took a clip to put the jar on the long table on the side.

When the jar was a little cooler, a few mothers-in-law sealed the jar with clay and mud, and after doing this, they began to call a few people to move these jars and jars to the kiln for storage.

Seeing that this pot of fruit was steamed, and it was time to eat at noon, Yun Yao asked the kitchen to prepare a few dishes, get some fruit juice and use it with Qi Bao bottle.

Because Yu Long Chengri was not at home, Qi Baohua often came to the mansion to be with Yun Yao, Yun Yao was afraid that she would be tired of running back and forth, so she also cleaned up a room in the back house and had dinner. Yun Yao and Qi Bao went back to the house to sleep.

Qi Baohua went back to the house and fell asleep, but Yun Yao still had something to do.

She asked Peony to find the housekeeper of the house, Mrs. He, and after a while, Mrs. He hurried over, and as soon as she entered the door, she bent down to greet Yun Yao.

Yun Yao smiled: "Have you eaten?" I'm calling you here in a hurry, if you haven't eaten, stay in the kitchen and add two dishes, just say what I said. Ask them to fix two good things for you. ”

He Pozi hurriedly smiled: "I've eaten it." After eating, I just listened to my wife's summons after eating, so I hurried over. ”

Yun Yao nodded: "You are in such a hurry." Peony, you go to the house and bring the half of the bag of dried fruits I left behind, as well as the milk fruits I just obtained, and ask Mother He to take them back for the children at home to eat and play. ”

He Pozi became more and more happy when she heard it, things are more or less trivial. Mrs. He and her family are in charge of the affairs of this house, but there is no shortage of those three melons and two dates. The key is that the master takes a fancy to her, and she also has a face on her face.

"What did my wife tell me to do?"

Mrs. He took the red lacquer food box, found a place to sit down, and asked Yun Yao.

Yun Yao thought for a while and said: "There are still some good small houses in this Suzhou City, and they don't need to be big, and they can be made regardless of whether they are two or three." The key is that the place is good and the construction is exquisite. ”

He Pozi thought for a while: "I really know something about this, there is a Ping master not far from the mansion." A few years ago, he went to Jiangnan with his only son to do business, and the family's house was uninhabitable. I've always wanted to sell it, but I can't negotiate the price, and I haven't sold it yet. ”

Frowning, Mrs. He thought about it for a while: "In addition, there are two houses in Wutong Lane, which are built very well, but one of them is in a hurry to use the money, and the other is a lot of houses that cannot be lived, and they all want to sell them as soon as possible." ”

Yun Yao nodded: "Tell your family to pay attention, find a few more good houses and take a closer look, compare which one is better and buy it, and then send a few people over to clean it up, what is lacking to buy and decorate it cleanly, in addition, find two families to buy it and send it to the bought house to guard the door." ”

Mrs. He didn't dare to ask why, so she hurriedly responded and said with a smile: "When I go home, I will ask our good people to inquire and investigate, and if it is good, Mrs. Ming will be the master." ”

"This matter still has to be bothered by the two of you, so Uncle He has rested more in the past few days, and has taken the time to help me inquire about my life." Yun Yao smiled and said a few words, and then talked about the fact that Qi Laoniu and his family were coming, so she asked Mrs. He to pick a few fine girls and mother-in-law to clean up a yard.

Mrs. He responded one by one, sat down for a while, and saw that Yun Yao's face was a little tired, so she got up and said goodbye.

Mrs. He walked on the front foot, and Peony asked Yun Yao carefully: "What is Mrs. doing in such a hurry to find a house?" ”

Yun Yao glanced at Peony: "Do you remember the Yan Niang we saw earlier in Chang'an City?" ”

"Yan Niang?" Peony thought for a while before remembering: "Is that Yan Niang, who is very good at planting flowers?" ”

"Exactly." Yun Yao nodded with a smile: "She just came to the letter, saying that she had thought of a way to come out of the Teaching Workshop Division, and wanted to defect to us, asking me to help her buy a house in Suzhou. ”

"Mrs. is kind-hearted." Peony thought about the appearance of Yan Niang who she had seen earlier, she didn't look very good-looking, plus she was older, and she looked like a kind person, so she shouldn't be so sweet and coaxing, so she said to Yun Yao: "How good Yan Niang is at planting flowers, if she comes, the slave will also learn the craft of planting flowers from her, and she will also be able to make a living in the future." ”

Yun Yao knew that Peony didn't want to be a slave for the rest of her life, she wanted to be able to marry out and be a good lady in the future, and she knew that she was planning for the future, so she told her: "It's also a good thing to learn some skills, after all, I have a lot of time now, and when I have time, I will teach you to read and settle accounts, and it will be convenient to marry someone to take care of the back house in the future." ”

Peony was overjoyed, and hurriedly knelt down to give Yun Yao a snort, Yun Yao couldn't see this the most, and immediately wanted to help her, but Peony said: "Mrs. told me to swallow these heads, otherwise I won't be happy." ”

Yun Yao had no choice but to let her finish her head and get up by herself.

Peony was still smiling when she got up, and she looked extremely happy.

"Well, I don't think you can sleep today, so you will be on duty at noon." Yun Yao scolded with a smile, then yawned and went to bed.

She slept quite soundly this night, and when she woke up, it was already half of the afternoon, Yun Yao opened her eyes and saw Qi Jing sitting on the edge of the bed looking at her, and first hooked her lips and smiled: "When did you come back?" Why don't you wake me up? ”

Qi Jing helped Yunyao get up, first asked her to sit for a while, brought water and asked her to drink a few sips, bent down and took the shoes under the bed and put them on for her: "It's been a while since I came back, and I didn't call you when I saw that you were sleeping." ”

After Yun Yao stood up, Qi Jing handed her half a bowl of lotus seed porridge and a small steamed bun with vegetarian filling, and said while watching Yun Yao eat the buns: "After all, the affairs of the government have been straightened out, I think there is still a field of heroes, so I want to discuss with you what to plant?" ”

"Hero Tian?" Yun Yao was stunned for a moment, and then remembered that this was the rule of the Great Zhou Dynasty, all civil officials who were officials in other places would reward a meritorious field in the local area, and all the production of this field would be owned by the officials for the officials to support their families: "What was originally planted in that field?" ”

Qi Jing smiled: "I originally planted a fruit tree, and a large area of grapes planted in previous years, I looked at it once, and now it grows very well, and then there is a small part of grain, but this grain is not growing very well." ”

Yun Yao thought for a while and didn't have a clue, so she said to Qi Jing: "I don't know about farming, so you should watch and do it, after all, we don't lack this, you can plant whatever you want." ”

Qi Jing nodded in response, and asked Yun Yao again: "How did Yan Niang write to you?" ”

"Peony, this little girl with a broken mouth." Yun Yao scolded with a smile when she heard this: "Catch up and see that I must have stitched her mouth with a needle." ”

Later, he looked at Qi Jing: "What's the matter, she didn't write to me, did she still have to write to you, do we Qi Zhuangyuan still think about Yan Niang, really, why didn't you say it earlier, if you said it earlier, we brought her early, so that we can make the bed and fold the quilt with you and compose a mandarin song together." ”

Seeing Yun Yao like that, there was obviously a sense of vinegar, but it amused Qi Jing: "You little vinegar jar, I just asked a sentence or two, and you made the room full of sourness, and asked me to say what is good about you, just don't ask." ”

Yun Yao glared at Qi Jing: "There's nothing to say, maybe Yan Niang still thinks I'm more reliable than you, so I will be asked to find a house for her, she said in the letter that she was going to leave for Suzhou soon, or she would arrive in a month or two." ”

"What is she here for?" Qi Jing frowned.

"It's just that I want to have some friendship with us, come and run, it's not easy for her to be a lowly woman who wants to settle down, even if she gets an adult in Chang'an City to get a back house, she has to face the bloody rain and bloody wind and can't live in peace, besides, she is getting older, and now she is getting more and more cold, she has to find a way back." Yun Yao sighed, and still felt quite sorry for Yan Niang's experience: "It's hard to believe that she knows self-respect and self-love very well, and what she entrusts me is just a matter of moving my mouth and effortless, how can I bear to ignore it." ”

Qi Jing smiled bitterly after hearing this: "After all, it's all your reason, since you want to help, you can help, but don't be tired of yourself." ”

Yun Yao hurriedly agreed with a smile, and then the two mentioned the matter of the salt mine, according to Qi Jing's words, he had already discussed with the officials in Suzhou, first built a salt-making workshop, began to secretly reserve green salt, and waited for the storage to be more before thinking of selling it.

Speaking of the matter of green salt, Qi Jing was also very embarrassed: "This salt tea is originally an official business, and most of the salt produced in Suzhou has to be handed over to the court, and the salt is very profitable, if it ...... If the officials of the DPRK and China knew that Suzhou could produce such a lot of salt, they would not know what would happen, and they would not have to come to Suzhou to replace me. (To be continued.) )