Su Qing looked at him suspiciously, "How do you earn it?" ”

"It's very simple, it's steamed steamed buns to sell." After Lu Xiaoyi finished speaking, he explained: "Sold with scones, one hot, one cold, one soft and one hard, I don't think the business will be bad." ”

Su Qing smiled, "There are so many restaurants in the city, who doesn't make steamed buns and sell them?" It's not a rare food, I guess I can sell some, but it won't be as good as you think. ”

Lu Xiaoyi said mysteriously: "Anyone can steam steamed steamed buns, but steamed plum blossom steamed buns are only available in my family." So, she told Su Qing about her family's experience of making plum blossom steamed buns, emphasizing that the flower stuffing is special, and made a summary conclusion with the evaluation of Mrs. He Fu, "Our steamed buns are better than the unique taste of the flower filling." ”

Su Qing thought that steaming steamed buns didn't need to show up, just steam them in the inner courtyard and let the iron cow move them to the shop to sell, so he couldn't help but feel a little tempted, "If it's really as good as you say, I can try it." ”

Lu Xiaoyi said excitedly: "If you don't believe it, let's steam some steamed buns at noon and taste them, I still have some thorn roses there." ”

Although Xiao Ding was taking care of Xiao Rui on the side, he was also listening to their conversation, and interjected: "Eldest sister, didn't all the thorn roses be sent to He Fu?" ”

Since the Lantern Festival incident last year, in order to thank the young master of the He family, the Lu family has asked the people in the shop to send some sun-dried thorn roses in the past two years.

Of course, the specific flower picking and drying links are all completed with surplus grain, this kid has been picking thorn roses every year since the day he knew that Lu Xiaoyi likes thorn roses, and he has been picking thorn roses every year, and he has been pitiful for the lush thorn roses in his house, and the small flower bones have been picked all these years. It never blooms.

Lu Xiaoyi grinned and said, "Brother Liang left me some." ”

Xiao Ding is clear, I always feel that there is something strange between the eldest sister and Brother Liang, the first two years she was young, she just cared about playing and didn't care much, now her mind is a little opener, and then looking back at the interaction between the eldest sister and Brother Liang, Xiao Ding seems to understand something, and then observe her father's attitude, Xiao Ding understands even more.

Lu Xiaoyi saw Xiao Ding looking at her with a meaningful smile, and suddenly rose. Both hands rushed towards Xiao Ding like claws. "Xiao Ding, you little villain, are you thinking nonsense again?"

Xiao Ding hurriedly hugged Xiao Rui in front of him, "If you don't think about it, how do you know I'm thinking about it?" ”

Lu Xiaoyi couldn't make out the words. Even though she has always had a thick face. But the little secret in his heart was seen by Xiao Ding. She was still a little embarrassed.

What's more, Xiaoding has always been naïve, well-behaved and unreasonable, and he doesn't know when he opened his mind, which made Lu Xiaoyi happy and worried. The good thing is that Xiao Ding has finally grown up and opened her mind, and the worry is that Xiao Ding's future, I don't know what kind of person she will like, and I don't know what kind of kiss her father and mother will give her.

Lu Xiaoyi was worried from the bottom of her heart, seeing that Xiao Rui was close in front of her, she immediately took Xiao Rui to relieve her worries, and it was another time to touch and knead, Lu Xiaoyi was refreshed, only to find that Su Qing was still waiting for her to follow, she actually digressed because of Xiao Ding's jokes, and put Su Qing aside, Lu Xiaoyi apologized: "Aunt Qing, I'm sorry, I just played around." ”

Su Qing smiled and said she didn't care, and asked Lu Xiaoyi to continue.

Lu Xiaoyi said: "Aunt Qing, let's try it at noon, if it works, you can steam some plum blossom steamed buns to sell in the future, and I will provide you with flower stuffing here." ”

"I just heard Xiao Ding say, aren't you going to send it to He Fu? Add steamed bun stuffing later, can it be supplied? ”

"This is no problem, the two trees transplanted to my house by Brother Liang have already bloomed this year, and I will give them some fertilizer at the end of the year, and they will definitely bloom more next year."

Su Qing asked: "Are it the bushes that Qi Feng and the surplus grain helped you transplant before building the house?" I saw one bush with yellow flowers, and two with roses, and the roses were what you called the thorn roses, right? ”

Lu Xiaoyi nodded, "Well, that's the flower." ”

Su Qing said: "Okay, I'll learn from you at noon, and if it's convenient next year, I'll make some plum blossom steamed buns to sell." ”

The two finalized the cooperation, and went to the stove room to make noodles, Yulan came back from Liu's house, and her steamed buns were all on the steamer.

Yulan smiled and said: "This is still Xiao Yi's food, she went into the city to sell it a few times that winter, but she didn't make much money but froze herself out of illness." ”

Lu Xiaoyi said: "So I didn't do it later, we steamed it and sold it in the city, after all, it didn't sell well while steaming in the city, I thought that Uncle Qi and they had a ready-made shop, but they didn't know how to steam this thing, so I thought that Aunt Qing went to just be able to steam and sell some, we can't make a lot of money, and it's okay to make some pocket money." ”

Yulan agreed with this idea, and said to Su Qing: "What Xiao Yi said is reasonable, if you try to make it, you can concentrate on making steamed buns, driven by the fame of scones, and the steamed bread business will not be bad." ”

Su Qing nodded and said that he had discussed it with Xiao Yi and would try to do it in the next year.

Lu Xiaoyi launched her sour apricot water again, and was immediately vetoed by Yulan, "Don't mention your sour apricot water, when you build a house, boil it out to relieve the heat for the craftsmen, who doesn't take the first sip and sip it?" They all shouted that their teeth were sore. ”

Lu Xiaoyi muttered: "That's because you are reluctant to put sugar, in fact, put more sugar and then use well water to spew it, drinking it in summer is the best way to relieve the heat." ”

Magnolia glanced at her, "Frosting doesn't want money?" ”

Lu Xiaoyi wrinkled her nose and lowered her head, blaming those apricots for being too sour, and she didn't feel sweet when she put a few spoonfuls of sugar at that time, so Yulan snatched the sugar jar in her hand, so that a pot of sour apricot water failed.

Who drank the pot of sour apricot water at that time? Lu Xiaoyi laughed out loud when he thought of the surplus grain, he didn't expect him to eat sour so ferociously, the craftsmen talked about the apricot color change and couldn't avoid it, but he was willing to drink it happily, Lu Xiaoyi suddenly realized why he took out a few apricots to entertain her and Xiaoding when he went to the surplus grain house for the first time, because he didn't feel sour, so he thought that everyone was the same!

The remaining grain is acidophilic, Lu Xiaoyi silently wrote it down.

The following days were as usual, and with the first snow after the beginning of winter, the people of the entire Xiaxi Village entered the state of cat winter.

The number of times people go out is directly related to the cloudy weather, if the sun is sunny, they come out and walk around, the women are gossiping, the men are smoking pipes and talking about meat, and the children are playing games and chasing and playing, and the village suddenly sweeps away the gloom of winter. become alive; If it's cloudy, snowy, or windy, people stay behind closed doors, unless they have to go out, or they stay in warm rooms.

On this day, the north roared, Lu Zhong put on a cotton hat and went out, and when he took back a few processed quilts, his eyebrows, eyelashes and beard were already covered with a layer of white frost flowers, and when he entered the warm room, the frost flowers instantly melted away and turned into tiny droplets.

Magnolia hurriedly stepped forward to pick up the quilt. Lu Zhong said: "No. It's not heavy. ”

Magnolia smiled: "How can it not be heavy?" We made a six-pound quilt, and the eight-bed quilt was nearly fifty pounds. ”

Lu Xiaoyi laughed, "Mother, although the eight-bed quilt is heavy. But my dad only hugged two beds. ”

Lu Zhong smiled: "Your mother doesn't look at the number with long eyes. ”

Magnolia sneered: "Okay." They all said I was blind. I don't care about the head office! ”

Lu Zhong put the two quilts on the kang, and went out to continue moving, and Lu Xiaoyi put on his shoes and went to help. Yulan hurriedly said behind her: "Xiao Yi, you put on your jacket!" It's freezing outside. ”

Lu Xiaoyi said: "It's okay, I'm moving fast." Sure enough, it was fast enough, and when the words fell, she came in with a quilt, and said to Yulan with a smile: "Look, such a warm quilt, I don't feel cold at all when I hold it." ”

That being said, Yulan still grabbed her and didn't let her out without putting on a padded jacket.

"I'll do it alone, Xiao Yi doesn't have to come out." Lu Zhong said: "You open the quilt to check and check, there were a lot of people taking the quilt in the processing workshop at that time, so I didn't open it for inspection, but the master who played the cotton said that if there is a problem, take it directly to him." ”

When Yulan heard that she hadn't checked it, she quickly dismantled the nearby quilt and muttered, "This is for makeup, and there can't be a little mistake." ”

Lu Xiaoyi also helped to spread the quilt, fortunately, several quilts are white and soft, and the outer layer of the thread is also tight and meticulous, which shows that the craftsmanship of the cotton master is really good!

Eight quilts, Lu Xiaoyi's family left two beds for their own use, and the remaining six beds were added to the three couples who were about to get married, and Yulan took out six sets of brand-new quilts and quilts.

In ancient times, there was no such thing as a quilt cover, and the quilt surface, quilt and quilt were sewn together with needles and threads. In ancient times, the quilt was all traditional and festive red, embroidered with beautiful patterns such as mandarin ducks playing in the water, dragons and phoenixes playing in the water, flowers blooming rich or hundreds of sons showing auspiciousness. These patterns are embroidered by the women to be married, and the young ladies of those large families have a lot of time to embroider the dowry because they are out of labor, and the embroiderers help embroider when the marriage period is urgent. And peasant women, only after finishing the farm work, take advantage of their leisure time to embroider dowries, from clothes, hats, shoes and socks to large quilts, they have to rely on their own stitches and threads to embroider them.

The dowry is the embodiment of a woman's worth, and the embroidery on the dowry is a display of a woman's strength.

In ordinary villages like Xiaxi Village, the dowry has four shops and four covers, and there are also eight shops and eight covers according to the quality of the family. Relatives also have different makeup, most of them like to add some quilts, but the quilt is not suitable to be sent over in a white and soft way, and there must be a matching quilt and quilt to take out.

Because Chunyun's family affairs were set early, Yulan had plenty of time to embroider the quilt, Jia Wei and Su Qing's family affairs only had half a year to prepare, Yulan couldn't be busy at all, and could only find two daughters to work with.

When the moon came, the quilt of the six beds of makeup was completed.

Yulan spread out the quilt and compared the size of the quilt, and after being satisfied, she picked out Jiawei's share and placed it separately, "Send it to the big room after lunch." ”

Lu Xiaoyi asked, "Mother, don't you sew it on?" ”

Yulan said with a smile: "This is exquisite, we have to take these quilts with makeup to the bride's house, and her family will ask someone to help sew it, and it is also particular about inviting people, and it must be a woman who has both children and daughters, and the cotton thread on the quilt must be sewn to the end, and it cannot be broken or knotted." ”

There are so many exquisitenesses, Lu Xiaoyi has heard of it for the first time, but she didn't make a surprised expression, as if she had heard of it a long time ago.

Yulan pointed out: "Next year, you and Xiaoding don't want to bake cakes, just embroider quilts or something if you have nothing to do, some things are still prepared early and relieved, saving time like Jia Wei in a hurry." ”

Xiao Yi and Xiao Ding understood what Yulan meant, Xiao Yi secretly complained, she would rather scone cakes than embroidery, but Xiao Ding blushed and bowed his head silently. (To be continued.) )