Xiao Yu stood outside the courtyard gate, watching the beautifully decorated car disappear behind the trees, his brows furrowed slightly. The scorching sun was blazing, but she didn't realize it.

After all, it's too simple.

Xiao Pei next to him comforted: "Ah Yu, are you okay?" It's so sunny outside, and it's in the house. It is estimated that those people are just bluffing because they have not achieved their goal and are displeased for a while, so they don't have to take it too seriously. ”

Xiao Yu turned his head and smiled at her: "It's okay." ”

Xiao Pei smiled gently, took Xiao Yu's hand and walked into the house. She comforted Xiao Yu on her lips, but she didn't know the bottom in her heart, she had heard a lot about bullying and forcibly taking things, and her own poor family had nothing to rely on, so she didn't know what to do if there was really something.

Thinking like this, I am even more worried.

After sitting under the tree for a while, Xiao Yu put down the needle and thread in his hand and asked, "I remember that there is a big clay pot at home?" ”

Xiao Pei thought for a while, nodded and said, "But the one you brought back last time and said it was extremely sealed?" It's been sitting next to the cabinet in the east room, I thought you forgot about it. ”

"It's just right to soak sour bamboo shoots." Xiao Yu smiled, got up and walked into the house.

Xiao Pei was a little surprised. Those people haven't been gone for long, and the words are still in their ears, so Xiao Yu has started to make another rare thing to make money? Won't it be too eye-catching?

Because the sour bamboo shoots could not be stained with oil, Xiao Yu took out the clay pot and carefully cleaned it with other utensils, put it under the sun to expose it, and took a shovel and a small bamboo basket to dig bamboo shoots behind the mountain. Xiao Pei said according to Xiao Yu, peel the bamboo shoots clean with only a few sharp ends, cut them in half, and put them on a clean dustpan in the hall to dry.

Xiao Yu carried a wooden bucket to the mountain to fetch spring water.

When Xiao Yucheng went home in the evening, neither of the sisters mentioned what happened in the afternoon, but he was very interested in the sour bamboo shoots that were going to be made.

The next day, Xiao Yu put the dried bamboo shoots into the clay pot, and then slowly poured the spring water that had been left overnight into the altar until the bamboo shoots were submerged, and the remaining small half bucket of water with white precipitation at the bottom was discarded. Then close the lid and fill the rim of the jar with clean water to prevent air from entering.

"Okay, don't touch it, you can eat it in ten days." Xiao Yu clapped his palms.

Xiao Pei and Xiao Yucheng said in unison: "It's so simple? ”

Xiao Yu nodded and smiled: "Yes, it's not difficult, the key is to be able to think of it, and the same is true for cold powder." ”

Xiao Yucheng thought for a while, and said after a while: "Do you plan to sell this sour bamboo shoot too?" There are many bamboo forests nearby, and few people eat this bamboo shoot, if the sour bamboo shoots taste good, it is also a way to make money. ”

Xiao Yu shook his head and said, "Although it is delicious, it is better to eat it yourself for the time being." ”

Xiao Pei also nodded again and again when he heard this.

Seeing the difference in the expressions of the two, remembering that Xiao Yu said a few days ago that he would not be too much silver, but now he put a money-making income and did not move, Xiao Yucheng was puzzled and asked, "But what happened?" ”

Thinking of the incident of the previous afternoon, Xiao Yu was silent.

Yesterday I came to visit the shopkeeper of Zhiwei Zhai. Zhiwei Zhai is also a more famous pastry shop in Yong'an County, this summer is adding cold drinks, I learned that Lan Kwai Fong's fairy grass jelly is from the Xiao family, I specially drove here, hoping to buy the recipe.

Xiao Yu naturally politely refused.

The shopkeeper Hu was a short and fat man in his forties, looking kind. He smiled and said, "Second Miss Xiao might as well think about it again." The old man understands that the contract between your Xiao family and Lan Kwai Fong is only for two months, and Zhiwei Zhai will definitely be able to give you a satisfactory price and will not let you suffer. ”

Xiao Yu said: "After all, it is an ancestral recipe, if I don't have it in my hand, I will be ashamed of the clan." At the beginning, Lan Kwai Fong also planned to buy it at a high price, but I never sold it, and now it is the same. ”

"The old man didn't know this. But girl, think about it, your Xiao family ancestor has this secret recipe, why did we never know that there was fairy grass jelly? Is it because it's not easy to make? But the Xiao family provides twenty catties and Lan Kwai Fong every day, but I don't see a few of you buying raw materials or being very tired, and it is not very difficult to think about it. Shopkeeper Hu said unhurriedly.

Xiao Pei's eyes widened next to him.

Xiao Yu's expression was slightly cold, and he said with a smile: "It seems that Zhiwei Zhai investigated very clearly in advance. I don't know what the shopkeeper thinks? ”

"Don't dare." Shopkeeper Hu bowed his hand and continued, "Have you ever heard of the girl's guilt? The old man thinks that the reason why the ancestor of your Xiao family didn't use this secret recipe is that he knows this. The recipe of fairy grass jelly is so rare, it is okay to advertise it widely, and the world knows that no one will covet it, but I and other ordinary people, who have no power and power, if they want to monopolize the benefits, they are afraid that they will cause trouble because of wealth. ”

"What do you mean?"

Xiao Yu understood, Zhiweizhai just felt that the Xiao family had nothing to rely on, and there should not be such a good thing as the secret recipe of fairy grass jelly. It was not unreasonable, and she was not angry, nor did she agree to sell it to him, but asked without humility or arrogance.

Xiao Pei opened his mouth to say something, but finally held back.

"The girl is so smart, she should know what the old man is referring to."

"Please also ask the shopkeeper Hu to make it clear."

Shopkeeper Hu was quite calm, and said: "Then with all due respect to the old man's bluntness, the Xiao family has no foundation, and it is not a good thing to keep the secret recipe of fairy grass jelly, maybe in the end, if you can't keep the recipe, it will cause trouble." It's better to sell it to me. ”

"What the shopkeeper said is not unreasonable. But I'm a little curious, why does Zhiwei Zhai think that it must be able to keep the secret recipe from disaster? Xiao Yu asked.

"Zhiwei Zhai is doing the business of pastries in the city, and it has a relationship with many nobles." Shopkeeper Hu heard Xiao Yu's tone a little loose, and smiled proudly, but he didn't say who was Zhiweizhai's backer.

"Thank you for the reminder today." Xiao Yu smiled faintly, "It's not that the Xiao family has no connections. What's more, selling ancestral secret recipes is a big deal after all, and my sisters and brothers have to think about it. Moreover, the deal was negotiated with Lan Kwai Fong first, and if the price was right, it would be negotiated with it first. There is a shopkeeper to run this trip, walk slowly. ”

It's a send-off.

Shopkeeper Hu's face changed slightly, and he still said politely after all: "That girl has to think carefully, I know that the price offered by Wei Zhai will not be lower than that of Lan Kwai Fong." ”

Xiao Yu has been thinking about this since yesterday afternoon. She knew that the Xiao family had nothing to do with any dignitaries, and she had no support at all.

As the shopkeeper Hu said, it is not a blessing for a commoner to get something valuable that is not worthy of his status, but it will invite calamity, persecution and plunder by greedy and powerful people. What's more, nowadays there is a difference between the noble and the low, in the eyes of those high-ranking officials and nobles, the grass people are as low as ants and can be trampled on at will.

It's just a snack, and the rich and noble family also boasts of being high, so they won't come directly to rob it, but if someone thinks that the secret recipe of the Xiao family is in the way of their own wealth, it is possible to clean them up.

Thinking of this, Xiao Yu was even more worried.

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